To fight our modern Ragnarok under the name of Covid-19, to overcome boredom at home, we offer you an additional Yggdrasil Chronicles scenario: The Binding of Fenrir. Beware, it’s tough!

Have fun.

The Ludonaute Team

But why do we want to bind Fenrir ?

Fenrir is a wolf raised by the Aesir gods themselves who grew up at an astonishingly fast pace. He is so gigantic that only Tyr, god of war, has the courage to feed him. The Aesirs decide then to chain him in order to keep him under control and prevent him from wreaking havoc throughout the Nine Worlds… Their first two attempts were unsuccessful… While the cunning gods convinced Fenrir that it was only a game, a test of his strength, he broke through the fetters easily. For their third attempt, the gods had the dwarves forge the strongest chain ever built, which nevertheless gave the appearance of being very light and even soft to the touch. When the gods presented Fenrir with this third fetter, he became suspicious, and he refused to be bound with it unless one of the gods would stick their hand in his mouth as a pledge of good faith. Only Tyr was brave enough to do this, knowing that it would mean the loss of his hand. And, sure enough, when Fenrir found himself unable to break free of his bonds, he ripped Tyr’s hand from its arm.

Do you want to know more about the scenari of the book of sagas presented in Yggdrasil Chronicles? You are on the right page. The Book of Sagas “which sings the twilight of the Gods” takes you into the heart of Norse mythology where you will have to fight monsters, take up challenges and finally try to survive the ultimate Ragnarok! The Ragnarok campaign in the game consists in 6 acts: The assassination of Baldr, the Fimbulvert, the Managarms, the apparatus of Naglfar, the fall of the Bifrost, The final battle on the plain of Vigrid…

Ragnarok, in mythology

A prophecy says that one day, when Fenrir the giant wolf chained by Odin will be released, the Giants and the Gods will fight each other in a final battle. This will lead to the end of the worlds as we know but also to a renewal. This day will be named Ragnarök or the Twilight of the Gods… Unlike the game, the Norse prophecy cannot be avoided! The Gods and Giants, they all know that this day will come when they will kill each other. This way their lifetime goal is to push back this moment as much as possible without taking too much risks. Indeed, the Norse Gods are not immortal! So in their relentless battle against the Giants of the lower worlds of the Yggdrasil, they mostly repel them, fearing for their lives. But the forces of evil are on the march and the final battle is coming anyway…

• The Managarms (Saga 3)

The gods finally find out Loki’s trickery and punish him for the death of Baldr. They transform Vali, Loki’s son, into a wolf to devour Narve, his other son. Once dead, Narve’s guts are transformed into a rope so that Thor can tie Loki to a rock in a cave with it. The Gods, not only content for having caught Loki, charge a serpent to indefinitely spit its venom on the traitor’s face in order to inflict him horrible suffering. But Loki ends up freeing himself after years of chain and takes his revenge launching the final war against the Gods. He gathers the demons, the Giants and his own children: the dreadful serpent Jormungandr, Hel the goddess of the world of the dead and the giant wolf Fenrir. Fenrir breaks his chains and this is the beginning of the prophecy, the Ragnarok begins. Fenrir mates with an old giantess in a remote forest in the East who gives birth to a litter of monstrous wolves. One, Skoll, is constantly chasing the Sun while his brother Hati is chasing the Moon. They both end up devouring the stars which completely disappear… The consequences are very serious: the world is deprived of the clear rays of the Sun and a terrible winter starts dominating the world.

• The Bifrost’s fall (Saga 5)

The violence caused by this gathering of monsters shatters the sky in two and when the horses of the Sons of Fire run over the Bifrost, which connects the earth to the domain of the gods, the rainbow bridge ignites and collapses…

• The final battle on the plain of Vigrid (Saga 6)

Loki is looking for his old enemy Heimdall. He finds, fights and kills him but quickly succumbs to the blows and injuries made by his opponent. Tyr who once lost his right hand, sliced by Fenrir’s bite to allow the other gods to tie him up, searches for this mutilating opponent in the battlefield but Fenrir is already dead. Then, hearing the frightening howls of Garm the guardian dog of the entrance to Hell, he decides to fight him. Tyr, with his left hand, sticks his sword in his heart and kills him but quickly he also succumb to the terrible bites inflicted during the fight…

Few living things remain alive at the end of the final battle… And finally, these  surviving humans, animals or plants are wiped out by the fire launched from all sides by the flame sword of the fire giant Surt. The mountains collapse and all the seas and rivers overflow covering all the surfaces of the worlds, including the final battlefield of the gods… So we hope that you will be a little luckier than the Norse gods and that you will succeed to elude the Ragnarok prophecy.

To combat our modern Ragnarok under the name of Covid-19, to overcome boredom at home, we offer you an additional Yggdrasil Chronicles scenario: The Utgardloki’s Challenges. We warn you, it’s tough!

Have fun.

The Ludonaute Team

But who is this Utgardloki?

Utgardloki is one of the most important Ice Giants in Jotunheim. From his fortress in Utgardhall in the province of Utgard, he has always sought to unite the Ice Giants under his authority in order to overthrow Asgard but has failed so far in this area.

One day Thor and Loki go to Jotunheim. From the top of his Fortress, Utgardloki challenged Thor to complete 3 tasks:
• defeat an old lady,
• raise the paw of a cat,
• drink the mead horn to the last drop.

But Thor could not achieve any of them. As Great Master of the Illusion, Utgardloki had rigged the trials. No old lady but Elli, the personnification of old age that no one can beat. No Paw of cat but but the tail of Iormungand, the sea serpent of Midgard. And a mead horn directly connected with the ocean that Thor could not empty.

The Gods

In Yggdrasil Chronicles, you play a god Ase or Vane who have their own powers and skills. You can choose them for their abilities or for the stories and values they embody.

Freya is a Vane goddess who has been sent to Asgard, the kingdom of the Ases, at the end of the war between these two divine folks. She is the most beautiful and noblest of the Goddesses. She is dressed in bird feathers which allow her to change into a hawk. She owns a chariot pulled by two cats which respectively represent tenderness and carnal warmth. Powerful goddess she reveals the secret of Seidr, witchcraft, to Odin giving him the power to predict the future, to control life and death, love and intelligence.

Freyr is Freya’s brother, the most glorious of the Ases in spite of his Vanes origins. He has a power over the rain and the sunshine, he is the god of prosperity. He owns the Skidbladnir drakkar capable of sailing both on land and sea. This gigantic boat can transport all the Gods and the army of Asgard but when Freyr does not need it anymore, he can fold it very small so that he can put it in his pocket.

Heimdall is the keeper of the Bifrost, the Asgard’s sentry. He is aware of every little thing. He sleeps less than a bird, sees over an hundred miles by day as by night and his hearing acuity enables him to hear the grass and wool of sheep growing. He rides Gulltopp, a golden horse. It is said that when the Ragnarok comes, he will blow into the Gjallarhorn horn to warn the Asgardians and the Humans of the beginning of the final battle against the Giants.

Thor is Odin’s son. He is a mighty warrior, god of combat and martial arts, he is the strongest of Ases and men. He is armed with Mjollnir, a magic hammer made by the dwarves whose characteristic is to always return in the hands of its owner when it is thrown. In addition to his colossal strength, he is the god of thunderstorms and can unleash lightnings. To move, he owns a chariot pulled by two goats Tanngnjost and Tanngrisnit.

Frigg is Odin’s wife. With Freya she is one of the noblest goddesses of Asgard. Goddess of love, she has an extraordinary power of foreknowledge and knows the destiny of each individual without ever revealing it to them. Her magic also makes her a goddess associated with healing? Often called when the sick or wounded ones approach death, she makes the last journey sweeter and their passage into the other world more peaceful.

Odin reigns over Asgard and resides in Valhalla in which the dead heroes and the Valkyries dwell. He is the God of war and death but also of poetry and wisdom. He is armed with Gungnir a powerful spear that can cut everything. He rides Sleipner his horse with eight legs which can run faster than the wind, over the seas and the oceans. He is accompanied by two crows, Huginn and Munin which represent Thought and Memory and serve as spies and scouts.

Tyr is also a God of war, he is the one who showed the path to Odin so that he can become himself a God of war. He is the boldest of the Gods, inspiring courage and heroism in battles. He is also the God of justice, in a diplomatic way, he is the guarantor of treaties, pacts and he leads the assemblies.

All these Gods have a role to play in the Ragnarok to come… Open the book of sagas and try to survive the Ragnarok. If you want to know more about the tales and legens you will be playing in Yggdrasil Chronicles, we invite you to read the following article:

Yggdrasil Chronicles or how to survive the prophetic Ragnarok