History Characters / TheOrderOfTheStickDivineBeings

[[folder:Fenrir]]
!!Fenrir

* ZergRush: [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1232.html According to Thor]], Fenrir made the goblins age fast and breed quickly because he thinks it will make them outcompete the other races. Apparently he's done this before in other worlds, and it never works out.

->'''Race:''' God
'''Gender:''': Male
'''Alignment''': ChaoticEvil (probably)

** He knows full well that Hel steals any dwarven souls that didn't die honorably, so he stretches the definition of "honor" to ludicrous extremes and made sure all dwarves knew about her bet. For instance, death from ''alcohol poisoning'' counts as "honorable" for the livers to have fought the inevitable for so long.

* VillainHasAPoint: Learning that your entire species was solely created to serve as [=XP=] fodder for the clerics of JerkassGods is ''not'' going to make you want to deal with said JerkassGods in any form of good faith, to say the least. [[spoiler:According to Thor, that's not actually the case. Goblins and other "XP fodder" races were created by Fenris because he keeps thinking that fast-breeding, fast-maturing species will out-compete all the others, but like usual, he got bored and abandoned them in favor of the more interesting monsters. Though they did get the short end of the stick in terms of resource distribution and ability to effectively get experience, the former can't be fixed by divine intervention due to the gods' rules on large-scale post-creation internvention, the goblins were no more intended to be XP fodder than any other species.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Learning that your entire species was solely created to serve as [=XP=] fodder for the clerics of JerkassGods is ''not'' going to make you want to deal with said JerkassGods in any form of good faith, to say the least. [[spoiler:According to Thor, that's not actually the case. Goblins and other "XP fodder" races were created by Fenris because he keeps thinking that fast-breeding, fast-maturing species will out-compete all the others, but like usual, he got bored and abandoned them in favor of the more interesting monsters. Unfortunately, because they're stuck in crummier lands, they can't catch up. Meanwhile, the gods can't just give them better lands because of their agreements that severely limits large-scale post-creation interventions. The goblins were no more intended to be XP fodder than any other species.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Learning that your entire species was solely created to serve as [=XP=] fodder for the clerics of JerkassGods is ''not'' going to make you want to deal with said JerkassGods in any form of good faith, to say the least.
** [[spoiler: According to Thor, that's not actually the case. Goblins and other "XP fodder" races were created by Fenris because he keeps thinking that fast-breeding, fast-maturing species will outcompete all the others, but like usual, he got bored and abandoned them in favor of the more interesting monsters. Unfortunately, because they're stuck in crummier lands, they can't catch up. Meanwhile, the gods can't just give them better lands because of their agreements that severely limits large-scale post creation interventions. The goblins were no more intended to be XP fodder than any other species.]]

** There are non-supernatural reasons for this as well. Thor ''tries'' to explain to Durkon and Minrah that trees are ''not'' trying to take over the material plane, and that he doesn't target them deliberately with his lightning bolts. However, this idea is so deeply ingrained in dwarven culture that it goes in one ear and out the other, so he gives up.

* BenevolentBoss: Defends the efforts of his followers to Hel and argues that they did their best and that that's all that matters. Hel disagrees, obviously, but it's a surprisingly understanding attitude for a probably-evil god to take. Especially noticeable because he is trying to get in Hel's good graces because he is infactuated with her, but he still admonishes her for disrespecting his followers.

* VillainousValour: He may be a villain simply by association with Hel, but he's certainly not a coward. When Thor himself enters Hel, Thrym is very ready to fight him. Remember that he's just a demigod while Thor is a full-fledged god, and it is Thor's ''specialty'' (both mythologically speaking and under most ''D&D'' rules) to vanquish frost giants.

* BenevolentBoss: Defends the efforts of his followers to Hel and argues that they did their best and that that's all that matters. Hel disagrees, obviously, but it's a surprisingly understanding attitude for a probably-evil god to take.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Tries to be an UnderstandingBoyfriend to Hel despite her having no real interest in him aside a pawn in her plan and being honest about it. He'll even try fighting Thor for her.

* VillainousValour: He may be a villain simply by association with Hel, but he's certainly not a coward. When Thor himself irrupts into Helheim, Thrym is very ready to fight him. Remember that he's just a demigod while Thor is a full-fledged god, and it is Thor's ''specialty'' (both mythologically speaking and under most ''D&D'' rules) to vanquish frost giants.

* TopGod: Dragon is portrayed as the leader of the Twelve Gods, on the same level as Odin and Marduk for their respective pantheons. However, all of the gods of the pantheon work in some level of equanimity, unlike the other pantheons.

* TopGod: Dragon is portrayed as the leader of the Twelve Gods, on the same level as Odin and Marduk for their respective pantheons.

* BlessedWithSuck: Having godlike PhotographicMemory, they can remember every single world that was destroyed and the names of everyone on them. For eternity.

-->'''Thor:''' ''(dismissively)'' Dude, she's just not that into you. You're embarrassing yourself.

* VillainousValour: He may be a villain simply by association with Hel, but he's certainly not a coward. When Thor himself irrupts into Helheim, Thrym is very ready to fight him. Remember that he's just a demigod while Thor is a full-fledged god, and it is Thor's ''specialty'' (both mythologically speaking and under most ''D&D'' rules) to vanquish frost giants. Thor treats him like a non-factor.
-->'''Thor:''' ''(dismissively)'' Dude, she's just not that into you. You're embarrassing yourself.

* DropTheHammer: Being Thor, he wields a hammer, Mjölnir. This is the reason his clerics often use one too.

-->'''Thor:''' Dude, she's just not that into you. You're embarrassing yourself.

-->'''Thor:''' ''(dismissively, walking past)'' Dude, she's just not that into you. You're embarrassing yourself.

* VillainousValour: He may be a villain simply by association with Hel, but he's certainly not a coward. When Thor himself irrupts into Helheim, Thrym is very ready to fight him. Remember that he's just a demigod while Thor is a full-fledged god, and it is Thor's ''specialty'' (both mythologically speaking and under most ''D&D'' rules) to vanquish frost giants.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Granted, he's another Cthulhu himself, and one of the codifiers of TheTrickster, but [[spoiler:he's the reason Hel could not have any mortal clerics, at the cost of instant dominion of dwarven souls who died dishonorably. But then Thor made the dwarves the most honorable society, thus denying Hel most of the dwarven souls that should have been hers. Then it turns out a Cleric following him is able to be dishonorable in whatever way they want and ''still'' count as honorable regardless as following their god is the honorable thing for Clerics to do. He scammed Hel ''twice over''.]]

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*** There are non-supernatural reasons for this as well. Thor ''tries'' to explain to Durkon and Minrah that trees are ''not'' trying to take over the material plane, and that he doesn't target them deliberately with his lightning bolts. However, this idea is so deeply ingrained in dwarven culture that it goes in one ear and out the other, so he gives up.
* GodIsFlawed: Each god of a pantheon shares a divine essence manifesting as a colored aura with others of their pantheon. Creations made by a single pantheon are ephemeral, but creations made by multiple pantheon are stronger and more stable. [[spoiler:This is also the reason why the gods are extra-vulnerable to the Snarl while their created world can contain it. Their single essence could not stand against the Snarl's ''four'' essences.]] They are also NotSoOmniscientAfterAll even when they are not getting their physique and psyche altered by mortals' belief. Thor mentions Njord, god of seas and wind, has so little focus his constructs wouldn't stay long if he couldn't merge his essence with other pantheons.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Snarl ''is'' the standard. With the exception of The Dark One because of them being LockedOutOfTheLoop, even the Evil-aligned gods are absolutely terrified of it and want nothing to do with the Snarl.

* ManOfKryptonite: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0274.html It is theorized]] that due to its origins, the gods are ''more'' vulnerable to being killed by the Snarl than mortals of comparable level would be. Though "comparable level" is a subjective term. Gods in that edition of ''D&D'' usually have at least 60 levels even before level adjustment. [[spoiler:This turns out to be true. The gods are made of only a single quiddity or "essence" or "color". The Snarl is made out of the combined quiddities of them as well as the Eastern gods'. Mortals are made out of the colors of the three surviving pantheons giving them a leg up, but they are still nowhere near powerful enough to beat this thing.]]
* MindControlEyes: The people that stare into the rift for a long period of time get purplish eyes. [[spoiler:Just ask Blackwing. Or Laurin. Oddly, it's not permanent, and it only seems to have an effect at very close range -- an entire platoon of goblins was staring straight into the rift in Azure City from an adjacent rooftop and nothing happened to them.]]

* GodIsGood: In comparison to JerkassGods, [[spoiler:despite having witnessed the creation and destruction of countless worlds before that of the Order of the Stick, some gods still voted to destroy or not destroy the world for honorable reasons]].

* SadlyMythtaken: Enforced. Burlew has stated that they have more in common with Creator/MarvelComics than actual Norse Mythology. This is {{lampshade}}d when Thor says he [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve used to be a ginger]] until that superhero comic came out.

'''Planetar:''' Lord Thor, I've been reading the description of ''control weather''... and I'm not sure it can actually DO that.\\

* ThatsNoMoon: When [[spoiler:Durkon and Minrah]] reach the Dwarven afterlife, they are standing on what appears to be a FluffyCloudHeaven around a tall tower, only for Thor to talk to them, revealing that the clouds are the fur on his boots and the tower is his leg.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never made clear exactly ''how'' the relationship with the gods works with the denizens of the [[{{Heaven}} Celestial Ream]] and [[{{Hell}} Lower Planes]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Granted, it's implied that she was ''always'' an egotistical brat, [[spoiled:but her poor diet in the current iteration of reality (filling up on empty dedications with only the barest scraps of worship from her vampire clergy) has caused her to suffer from a severe case of SanitySlippage]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: There is additional material that states they fell a few paladins for cleansing Redcloack's village, even though they are partly responsible for making the goblins XP folder.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Their presence in the story despite Xykon being mentioned as one of the oldest known and most powerful {{Evil Sorcerer}}s in the world is a subtle indicator that they might have come from a previous iteration of the mortal world. As later shown, the gods have created ''trillions'' of other world as part of their struggle to contain the Snarl]].

* BenevolentBoss: They hire Qarr because they like a go-getter and treat him and Sabine with a lot of respect for beings made of evil. (That, and Qarr is lawful and do as they say.)