Ought to you’ve read or been reading Ragnarok: Into The Abyss, then it’s far a must to accept as true with puzzled, even honest appropriate once, what precisely took put 1000 years within the past in particular for the reason that manhwa retains alluding to this match.
Appropriate what might maybe perhaps also be so frustrating about discovering the answer to the put up title? To delivery with, I significantly contemplated titling this put up, “The put’s Odin (in Norse Mythology, he is the king of the gods)?”
Why? This is because I chanced on myself asking that draw too time and any other time as I read Ragnarok: Into The Abyss and saw so much of the Norse Mythology characters (like Frigg and Fenris Fenrir), however no Odin. Clearly, this had one thing to fabricate with out a matter took put 1000 years within the past for the reason that goddess Freya is it appears to be like the supreme ruler of Asgard now.
With this put up, I goal to say the issues I’ve chanced on out regarding the events of a thousand years within the past. I silent haven’t accomplished reading the manhwa and the data given regarding the aforementioned match is sparse sufficient as it’s, so we silent don’t know the full significant components of what basically took put.
We first score out that Freya is it appears to be like the ruler of Asgard (the realm of the gods) now (within the say timeline of the comedian). The most effective ask is why? How might maybe perhaps she be the ruler of Asgard when, in Norse Mythology, that put is purported to be held by Odin alongside with his partner, Frigg, as his queen (yeah, I used to be asking, “The put’s Odin?” at this point too)?
Even with the manhwa being loosely primarily based fully mostly on Norse Mythology, this silent warrants an clarification in particular since we later score out that Frigg had been the queen of the gods. Why is Freya the enemy anyway? We abet listening to about her, however, up to now, I’ve by no strategy considered her and he or she’s by no strategy been formally offered. What’s the resident antagonist or unpleasant villain up to? What’s she planning?
In Quantity 1, Chapter 4 of Ragnarok, we discover out that Fenris Fenrir had been reincarnated and that her recollections had been sealed. It was handiest now that the seal had been broken, which was why she handiest started searching out out Balder now and no longer earlier than.
She it appears to be like died since she was reincarnated. Why did she die then? This clearly has one thing to fabricate with out a matter took put a thousand years within the past, however we don’t know any of the significant components.
In Quantity 2, Chapter 7, Chaos and Fenris meet up and the latter explains every thing to the venerable. Sadly, this clarification is no longer shared with the readers, which is ceaselessly too rotten.
It will most likely maybe perhaps had been very good to lastly know precisely what was occurring. As a alternative, now we prefer to notify ourselves with the summary that Chaos offers.
It sounds as if, Balder and Fenris fought with Freya a thousand years within the past. Why? What motive would those two prefer to fight with the goddess? Is that this fight 2 against 1?
The significant protagonist also adds that Balder had been killed and that his physique and soul were separated, however he was reborn as Chaos. In Chapter 8 of the same quantity, Fenris clarifies that the god wasn’t basically plain precisely because his physique and soul had been separated.
Is that this what took put with her besides? How might maybe perhaps the two notable characters lose to Freya within the event that they were working facet-by-facet? Did the antagonist accept as true with an military to attend her rep? Did no longer the two accept as true with their very receive followers and supporters to attend them beat the goddess?
In Quantity 2, Chapter 14, we’re told about yet one other match that took put 1000 years within the past, which appears to be like to accept as true with nothing to fabricate with Fenris, Balder and Freya.
It sounds as if, 1000 years within the past, fire demons significant to fracture Midgard, however they lost. This was identified as the Battle of the Gods, although why, I don’t know.
Midgard is, in spite of every thing, the mortal realm and the fire demons must had been from Muspelheim (a realm of fire that’s one in every of the many worlds in Norse Mythology).
Surt (or Surtr. He basically appears to be like in Norse Mythology as the ruler of the aforementioned Muspelheim) is the name of the one who significant to fracture Midgard, however this guy referred to as Tanat exhibits up to fight him and (surprise, surprise. Did somebody basically demand Surt to rep?) the hero wins.
Who’s that this Tanat? I searched round, however it appears to be like he is no longer a figure from Norse Mythology. Is he a mortal or a god? How was he in a put to beat the fire lord Surt? Sadly, this appears to be like to be the final time we are going to be listening to about this fire factor because quantity 3 of Ragnarok brings us attend to the events surrounding Balder and Fenris with the mention of Frigg.
Chapter 21 from that quantity says that Frigg disappeared a thousand years within the past, although why, we don’t know. And, yes, there might be silent no mention of Odin even with Frigg’s mention or her subsequent look (honest appropriate how likely is it that the very person you are speaking about will say up in entrance of you?).
So Frigg exhibits up, and, in Chapter 22 of Quantity 3, she explains a vary of issues to our resident protagonists that’s absolute self belief also for the neatest thing regarding the readers. She says that, 1000 years within the past, when Fenris Fenrir and Balder were loss of life-
Right here, I had to interrupt no matter she was announcing to position a ask to some mandatory questions. Why were those two loss of life? Ought to they even be in a put to die? They’re both gods, don’t seem to be they?
If they were combating against Freya, then why were they shedding? And why were they combating against her within the notable put (yeah, I talked about one thing like this earlier than already, however it basically bears repeating in particular for the reason that manhwa itself says this any other time and yet offers no sufficient clarification whatsoever)?
Anyway, Frigg continues her clarification to assert that she made a deal in define to place the loss of life Fenris and Balder from Hel. Let’s ignore that deal for now (it basically warrants its receive put up or no lower than it will high-tail alongside side a put up about Frigg) and transfer on to the comedian’s subsequent reference to the events that took put a thousand years within the past.
That subsequent reference brings us to Quantity 4 of Ragnarok, particularly within the story up to now piece. Most unfortunately, there is yet extra telling in this a part of the manhwa and this one honest appropriate might maybe perhaps perhaps be the worst yet. Why, you put a ask to? This is because here’s the put we discover some of what took put one thousand years within the past.
It sounds as if, Ragnarok took put on the aforementioned time, which would thus stamp the full combating that perceived to accept as true with taken put, however which does no longer stamp why Balder and Fenris fought with Freya. So, the gods, males and demons fought, however, in accordance with the story up to now, Asgard did no longer descend.
We don’t basically rep what took put although (which is past wretched and even highly frustrating and disturbing. Really, if we’re honest appropriate being told anyway, why can’t we be effectively told or no lower than shown?) since it honest appropriate says that Fenris and Balder died combating (even when beforehand, it had been established that they didn’t precisely die. Consistency, the put might maybe perhaps you be?) on the facet of those which might perhaps maybe perhaps perhaps be searching to discontinuance the age of the gods.
Even that minute tidbit warrants a couple of questions, significant of which is why? After all, Balder himself is a god, so why would he are searching to discontinuance the age of the gods?
Appropriate as to be expected, our questions are left unanswered as the ideal factor we rep is that Fenris and Balder had been reborn and that Freya is now the ruler of Asgard (yeah, we knew that already, however it appears to be like the story up to now honest appropriate has to uncover us all over any other time. Now no longer lower than it’s telling us about issues we already know and no longer revealing complete put components to us, which we must had been shown by the employ of reading the graphic unusual).
Don’t you desire we would rep a honest appropriate flashback on what precisely took put 1000 years within the past so as that it’s crystal determined for us? The put manufacture you assume Odin is? Enact you assume we are going to ever rep the answers to all our questions? What else are you able to speak about what took put 1000 years within the past within the Ragnarok manhwa?
*Notes:
– Image with added textual notify was modified by Freya Yuki primarily based fully mostly on the image by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (Public Area) from Wikimedia Commons
– Acknowledged image was chosen because it basically depicts a scene from Ragnarok in Norse Mythology
– The comfort of the pics are enlarged product photos from Amazon.com; links shown above by the employ of Amazon’s Native Taking a see Adverts widget