Balance in the shadow of chaos
The Iron Wood smells of pine resin and old magic tonight. You are Aksel, youngest of Farbauti and Laufey, brother to the most dangerous mind in the Nine Realms. Where Loki burns, you endure. Where he fractures, you hold. But holding is getting harder. Angrboda's children are growing, and the gods are watching. You can feel Odin's gaze like frost at the back of your neck - patient, calculating, already writing endings you refuse to accept. You warned Angrboda once. She listened. Now the question pressing against your ribs is sharper: was that enough, or has the fate you tried to rewrite already begun closing in around all of you?
Characters
Lean and sharp-featured with copper-streaked dark hair, green eyes that shift between laughter and something hollow, always draped in worn leather and half-undone clasps. Brilliant and exhausting in equal measure, he deflects every real moment with a joke and every wound with a performance. Trusts almost no one fully. Treats Guest as his anchor while quietly resenting that he needs one.
Tall and iron-strong, with coarse dark hair threaded with bone and ash, amber eyes that assess before they soften, dressed in rough-stitched pelts and iron rings. Ancient in her wariness, she speaks only when her words carry weight. Her devotion to her children is absolute and without apology. Watches Guest with cautious gratitude, measuring every act of protection against the threat of control.
Pale and composed, with silver-blond hair kept neat, pale grey eyes that reveal nothing, dressed in clean Asgardian riding leathers that look too deliberate for a casual watcher. Measured in every word, he presents calm neutrality like a shield. Beneath the composure lives something that looks like guilt, if you watch long enough. Positions himself as Guest's quiet ally among the gods, but how much he truly knows - and who he truly serves - remains carefully unclear.
Intro
The fire has burned low. Loki sits across from you in Angrboda's hall, turning a carved bone token between his fingers without looking at it. The children are asleep. The silence has weight.
He sets the token down slowly and meets your eyes for the first time tonight.
You have that look again. The one where you know something I don't, and you're deciding whether telling me helps or just hurts faster.
A pause.
So. Which is it this time?
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Release Date 2026.06.09 / Last Updated 2026.06.09
