Anima and Naunet Travel to Niflheimr

Naunet and Anima are characters from my novel, 'NAUNET: The Labours of Animus'. After having completed the task assigned to them by the Eternal All-Mother Æthereona, to train Naunet in the Way of the Anima, Anima travels with Naunet to Niflheimr, the Realm of Primordial Ice. Naunet is thrilled beyond belief to travel to Niflheimr, a realm most would consider highly undesireble at best and a death sentence at worst, equivalent to hell for mortals, but Naunet being a student of Norse cosmology and myth couldn't be more thrilled. On their way past Élivágar, the rivers of poison ice stemming from Hvergelmir, the boiling spring, Naunet asks Anima and Garou all the questions she has. They pass indigenous civilian frost Jotnar families on the way as Anima tells Naunet why they have truly come to Niflheimr. In order for Naunet to stand a chance against Odin, they must liberate Fenrir, titan father of the Vargr, the wolf giants, father of all wolves including Garou. Anima reveals to Naunet that the titan Jötunn Fenrir is also Anima's half brother who was trapped in the deep dark pit of Armsvartnir by the Æsir gods under Odin's decree to delay if not prevent Odin's seemingly inevitable demise during Ragnarök. And though Odin could have easily killed Fenrir whenever he liked, thus guaranteeing the prolongation of Odin's growing supremacy beyond the 9 Realms of Yggdrasil and the Omniverse of Eon and even into Eternity itself, Odin chose not to kill Fenrir. In a dual-entendred jest of defiance against the immutable dictates of the prophetic words of the Norns, and the knowledge he had gained from Mimir, dictating Odin's inevitable demise within the jaws of the titan Jötunn Fenrir, as well as a willful and perhaps deliberately spiteful act of hubris to prove not only to himself but to all powers in Eternity, that he, Odin, had superceded all powers over fate that had preceeded him and that he had become the new arbiter of fate and could dismiss the antiquated edicts of predestined fate on a mere whim, Odin chose to keep Fenrir alive. Odin's own belief in his precognitive powers, namely his All-Seeing Eye, capable of seeing the endless infinities of possibilites and steering a path toward the desired futures of Odin's fancy combined with and fueled by his nigh-unvanquishable combination of Rune magic and Seiðr magic convinced Odin that he had attained the key to the ultimate power, guarenteeing him a monoploly of control over the very threads of fate, nearing if not on the verge of surpassing the powers of the Eternals themselves. Odin could control not just the flow of time but of fate itself to an almost Eternal extent with the combination of his three powers of the All-Seeing Eye, Rune, and Seiðr magic, thus granting him the conceit to allow the events of Ragnarök to unfold at his own expense alongside the fate of all Æsir-kind. Odin believed that through combining these three powers, Odin could uncover the truth behind all existentiality and become the Triple-Powered-Æon, a being that surpasses even the Eternals, and if he succeeded Odin would transcend into something far greater than what he ever was as a temporal god bound by time and fate. The Triple-Powered-Æon is an undefined entity rivaled in equivalence only to the omnipotence of the Super Arch Angel Metatron, the very first Æon, who thanks to the efforts of Eon and Odin is now a mere mortal. Wishing to take Metatron's place in the vaccuum Metatron left in the divine hierarchy, Odin views this as a divine test of his dreaded new powers over fate and reality against the day aforementioned oracles of old declared was once destined to be the eschaton of the gods, Odin not only believes but lives to prove he has finaly conquered fate and turned Ragnarök into the twilight of his divine supremacy over the powers of Fate itself. Naunet is stunned to hear this shocking revelation, giving her more insight into who this mysterious part-human Valkyrie nymph truly is and even more stunned at Anima's seeming insinuation to be prepared to betray Odin for her sake. Naunet then logically concludes that Anima is a child of Loki and Loka. Loka once was part of and formed a whole being with Loki as a singular Jötunn god, but seperated from the god of Mischief and took on a female form and became its own autonomous being operating completely independently of Loki. From that point on, the being that had seperated from the god of mischief of its own will became Loka, the goddess of Mischief, Anima's mother, making Anima part human and part Jötunn. Therefore, Anima goes on, they are in Niflheimr to meet Anima's half sister, Hela the Jötunn-Ásynjur goddess of Death. They must journey deep into the realm of Niflheimr into the halls of Hel, to Hela's abode in Éljúðnir, where they shall find the dreaded goddess of death and ruler of Niflheimr. Hela alone knows where Armsvartnir is located and she alone can help Anima and Naunet release Fenrir before Ragnarök.