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Characters / Codex Equus: Jotunn Pantheon

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Here is a list of characters from the Jotunn Pantheon.

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Jotunn Pantheon

The Jotunn are to other Giants what Giants are to "Tinies" — even the scrawniest and weakest among them rival mountains in size... and that's just the mortal Jotunn. Jotunn deities can be as hard and unforgiving as the frozen lands they hail from.
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    General 
  • The Clan: Due to the sheer size of Jotunnheim, the Jotunn Pantheon(s?) are actually quite big, so large in fact they are subdivided into various subpantheons in the form of clans of Jotunn gods tied together by blood or adoption, holding dominion/influence over their own piece of the lands and its mortal Jotunn/non-Jotunn kingdoms. The Jökull-Titanna clan which Elske and Astrid belong to are merely one such clan out of potentially hundreds if not thousands others.
  • The Marvelous Deer: The Jotunn are essentially Giant Deer, and the Jotunn pantheon is no exception.
  • Swallowed Whole: Much like their mortal cousins, Jotunn deities have a tendency to devour mortals and even entire realms, though the more benevolent members of the bunch only do it to evil realms as a method of Pay Evil unto Evil.

Jotunnheim/Niflheim Deities

    The Grand Elders of Jotunnkind 

Jökull-Titanna Clan/Sub-Pantheon

    General 
  • The Clan: The Jökull-Titanna Clan/Sub-Pantheon is fairly large, consisting of a main family consisting of a dozen major gods (including Astrid and Elske) and hundreds of other members related by blood or adoption, presumably organized under their own families and groupings. And Jökull-Titanna, while fairly notable, is merely one example out of many, many other clans/sub-pantheons around which the divinity of Jotunnkind are organized in their vast Giant Lands of Jotunnheim, Niflheim and Muspellheim.
  • The Ghost: In addition to Astrid and Elske, they have at least a dozen other close brothers and sisters related fully by blood, but so far they are not shown or even mentioned by name, only noted to exist in terms of what they do and relation to other gods.

    Hrothgar Jökull, the Endless Winter 

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental

Portfolio: Sailors, Warriors, Plunder, Conquest, Winter

Rank: Titan/??

"One cannot truly count yourself victorious until you have conquered adversity, won a worthy prize and unleashed your might like a winter blizzard blanketing the lands."

Hrothgar Jökull (his entry here) is the Jotunn god of Sailors, Warriors, Plunder, Conquest, and Winter, and is the father of Astrid Titanna and Elske Titanna.

Loved and feared in equal measure by his family, his servants, his worshippers and his peers. A renown hero, fair ruler and loving parent, but also a brutal conqueror, ruthless warrior and domineering autocrat, Hrothgar is held as an exemplary Jotunn deity, embodying both the best and worst of mortal and divine Jotunnkind with his particular domains, and demonstrates in the depths of his character and long list of deeds the depths of Jotunn culture, mindsets and power in its myriad variations.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Embodies Sailors, Warriors, Plunder, Conquest, and Winter.
  • Berserk Button:
  • Big Eater: Partly due to his plundering greed and partly due to his domineering and conquering personality, he like other Giant deities love to devour those smaller than he is, with literally everyone smaller than he is potentially on the menu. It's explicitly stated that MILLIONS had been fed to his hunger, that he disciplined his wayward children/grandchildren by swallowing them and keeping them inside his belly as 'Time-Outs', and even devoured and sealed away one of his Fallen brothers, who likely rivals him in size. Of course his army/kingdom/land/pantheon chomping appetite is expected as a Jotunn deity, and is rivalled and even surpassed by other Giant deities mentioned previously and implied.
    • It is said that in his initial conquests of the lands that he would call home and dominion, nearly a QUARTER of the entire mortal population of the region, both Tinies and Giant, disappeared down his gullet with all other living things he consumed (to say nothing of those crushed and frozen as well). He also swallowed so many flights and packs of Wyverns, Frost Dragons and Lindwyrms that it was said he consumed two-thirds of the Draconic population in the area, and ate nearly a third of the local gods both Jotunn and non-Jotunn. All this demonstrates just how unstoppable a Jotunn divine like him would be like to those who don't match them in scale and strength: He was a force of nature with ravenous appetites who could/had ravage(d) lands and feast(ed) upon whole populations in the same way a storm, a tidal wave, an epidemic or a vermin swarm could sweep through whole regions, scouring them clean of life.
  • Bigger on the Inside: Expected of a Jotunn and a god among them to hoof, but apparently Hrothgar's insides are big enough to have a Physical Heaven and a Physical Hell, both fully-functional and staffed, installed inside for all the mortal beings Hrothgar's eaten so he can keep them within him forever without violating the Primeval Laws prohibiting barring souls from their rightful afterlives. He also consumed/sealed one of his wayward brothers, several Jotunn divine rivals/enemies and even his own scions (mostly as disciplinary time-outs), all of whom likely have similar sizes/proportions to him.
  • Blood Knight: Is a god of warriors who revels in raiding, dueling and battle. Pushed to his limits he could end up becoming The Berserker and a One-Man Army who could carve his way through whole ranks of foes without stopping.
  • Book Dumb: He's actually quite intelligent and cunning. He just channels those traits towards fighting and battle instead of intellectual pursuits, leading to this trope, although that is not exactly looked down upon in Jotunn culture.
  • Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: He was absolutely FURIOUS when he heard that Flœrð slept with his beloved love goddess daughter Elske Titanna after they dated behind his back, tearing through Jotunnheim and the rest of the Nine Realms out looking for him. He even besieged Hoygard by himself and threatened to literally tear up and inside-out the divine-realm of the Hoyklan Deer Pantheon to find him, though luckily High King Kaldr managed to talk him down.
  • Byronic Hero: Hrothgar is considered a war hero and a well-renowned Jotunn divine clan/sub-pantheon patriarch, and his character is notably multifaceted. Some who admire him sees him as a well-meaning, fair, stern-but-loving family-stag and god who expects much from his children and worshippers but rewards and respects them greatly when they pull through. Others who abhor him (and not getting crushed/eaten/frozen) sees him as a ruthless, brutal, uncompromising plunderer, conqueror and tyrant who is old-fashioned, unable to stand dissent, indulges in and even embodies very nasty aspects, character and domains of Jotunnkind. He broods over past wrongs both deep and petty, sticks to his own beliefs and honour code to the point of stubborness, often wants things does his way consequences be damned, but in the end, fights for what he's right and just wants the best of his family and even the world. In the end, he's very difficult to truly categorize — some might even argue he is "too big to judge", both literally and metaphorically.
  • Cannibalism Superpower: He acquired several domains after devouring the gods who previously possessed them. Given how many gods he ate, it's most likely the ones he have are those he felt most needed or comfortable enough with using and thus trained and developed them, since possession does NOT imply mastery, while the rest are left with the gods he swallowed and kept imprisoned in his endless innards to be siphoned for more divine power.
  • Collector of the Strange: Thanks in part to his domain of sailing, he's an avid collector of ships over the ages — as in, literally whole ships, which given his size are practically toy-sized. He likes collecting them so much in fact that he goes out of his way to get them in every way possible — from putting an order for one of every ship the Fillydelphia shipyards in Equestria produces (much to the shock, panic and confusion of everypony that day) to interrupting a bona-fide naval battle between two mortal Jotunn clan-kingdoms and their Tinies vassals' armadas off his lands' shores just to plunder the flagships and other ships from each fleet, eating the crews when they shoot at him in panic and throwing the whole orders of battle into utter chaos. He's also very, very protective of his collection - damaging a vessel in his possession or disrespecting ships is a surefire way of ABSOLUTELY pissing him off.
  • Control Freak: Shows a tendency towards this, being a Jotunn warrior god and clan/sub-pantheon patriarch who is used to getting his way and forcing the issue with literal force if disagreed. His force of personality meant even his children can have difficulty disagreeing and pushing back, and the reason why he loved his wife Sigurn Titanna is because she can stand her ground in his presence and help rein this tendency in.
  • The Conqueror: One of his domains is in conquest, whether in the traditional sense with militant expansionists or simply overcoming foes, obstacles and adversity. His boons and blessings give those with strength, endurance, wits and even just the luck to succeed. He himself overcome his shortcomings in his youth and grew to strength and size, making him respect those who can do the same. He himself when he came of age and became sufficiently accomplished went off to carve his own dominion in Cervidia in an epic campaign of conquest where he crushed, devoured or froze every single mortal and divine opposition in his way until he (and his newly wed mate and co-conqueror Sigurn) rule over the lands he and his clan call home and influence over today.
  • Depopulation Bomb: While Giants in general and their deities can be this trope, especially for the Jotunns and their deities, Hrothgar shows us just how much they could be this trope in all its awe and horror. A Big Eater like the other Giant deities, he feasted upon entire populations who resisted his conquests, raids and domination and devouring by himself whole armies, kingdoms, lands and pantheons (his initial conquests ended with a quarter of the conquered lands' population going down his gullet, including two-thirds of all the draconic races and a third of all the gods). Meanwhile many more are crushed or frozen beneath his titanic hooves or frozen solid with his power as he quite literally reshape the landscape and climate on a whim, sometimes without noticing those crushed or frozen are even there.
  • The Dreaded: FEARED in his lands and sphere of influence as much as he is revered. His servants, thralls and worshippers bow in his presence, and a mere raised eyebrow or glance is enough to send those caught in his gaze trembling in utter terror. Considering his status, personality and deeds, that is unsurprising.
  • Endless Winter: His lands are locked in perpetual winter because he wishes it so, helping him earn his nickname/title of 'the Endless Winter'.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Hrothgar's entry is considered one both in-universe and out for Jotunn deities and Jotunnkind in part, as he is considered an above-average traditionalist who exemplifies both the best and worst aspects of Jotunn mortal/divine characters and cultures, as well as their sheer might and menace. He shows not only how the average Jotunn deity tick, but also just how unstoppable they are for everyone who smaller and less powerful, give or take a few exceptions.
  • Friend to All Children: Downplayed, since his fierce demeanour and appearance scares them, but he's notably opening up to his daughter Elske Titanna's adopted Tinies children in her domain when he got convinced to play with them on occasions he visit, and later on discover they love stories of his adventures and accomplishments. Although still quite patronizing and haughty, he's actually coming around with thinking of them as his adoptive grandchildren, since he IS technically their adoptive grandfather.
  • Good Parents: Although stern and uncompromising, even brutal and ruthless, he is a loving parent to his children as he is a fair Top God to his followers and worshippers.
    • He loves his daughters dearly, especially Astrid (a war goddess who takes after him) and Elske (a kind and gentle Love Goddess who he is protective of). He also respected his sons, even if they did not follow his expectation (like his second son, who became an artisan instead of a warrior like him), and takes the initiative to patch things up with those whom he had a strained relationship (like his third son, who is implied to embody many of his worst parts and reigns over the hell-realms under the clan/sub-pantheon's control).
    • He also love and respect the bastards he sired with others other than his beloved consort Sigurn Titanna, adopting them into the clan and treating them equally as his children-of-blood, doing the same for Sigurn's own bastards.
    • He is said to be developing a soft-spot for Elske's adopted Tinies children, who are his adopted grandchildren as technically he is their adoptive grandfather. He found that they love stories of his adventures and accomplishments and despite still being quite patronizing and scary to them he took time to regale them his epic tales on the occasions he visit Elske's realm.
    • Hrothgar's own divine parents were also this to him, loving him despite him initially not living up to their expectations, but were immensely proud of him once he did and even surpassed them.
  • Happily Married: Hrothgar is this with Sigurn Titanna the [Untranslated], a former rival Jotunn goddess who initially bickered with him over the conquests of the lands they would call home but gradually grew to admire and attract to each other. The point they finally realized they had fallen in love and decided to get hitched was when they started a final duel to decide who gets the land at sunset - and woke up at sun-rise the next day to discover they apparently stopped fighting at some point and started getting it on right in the middle of a Tinies city, which they wrecked and used during their intimacy.
  • Hero of Another Story:
    • Was the one who defeated Cryomortis, Dread-King of the Frost Dragons in ages past, who is apparently immensely powerful and terrible. When Cryomortis' resurrection was imminent, Hrothgar dispatches both Astrid and Elske to prevent it or failing that, destroy him for good. Elske succeeds, albeit unintentionally.
    • We get snippets of his many victories in his entry where he defeated many other foes, including among others a Fire Jotunn conqueror god, a sea god, a winter god, the 'untouchable' khan of a Wyvernflight, a depraved Lindwyrm chieftain, countless monsters and mortal realms...
  • Hidden Depths: Despite being very clearly a brute in both appearance and behaviour, Hrothgar is smarter and deeper than he looks. He is very skilled and intelligent in combat, making him a Genius Bruiser, and taught all his divine children how to fight. He has interests and hobbies outside his perchance for combat such as collecting ships and fishing, to the point of willing to shrink down to helm them so he could sail them and go fishing. He's also a loving father beneath his authoritarian and hard-flanked attitudes who is willing to put aside his pride to do right for his consort and children. He also has a deep sense of justice which allow him to recognize evil when he sees them (such as seeing his daughter Astrid's unwanted admirer for who he is when Hrothgar finally meets him and helps her pummel him), and willing to go very far to see them punished.
  • I Am a Humanitarian: Given his size and natural Big Eater tendencies, he has little to no reservations devouring whole nations worth of mortal Jotunns, as well as his fellow divine Jotunns and even his own clan members, though it's usually only done if they had done something bad enough to warrant it, like one of his brothers who had Fallen to evil, corrupt and evil realms no one want around, rival Jotunn deities competing for dominion over the same lands, and naughty young children/grandchildren whom he swallowed and kept in his belly as a disciplinary 'time-out'.
  • An Ice Person: His domain of Winter is considered his signature power, being by heritage an Ice Jotunn divine who later augmented his powers further by absorbing the domain of a Winter god. He is said to have absolute control over the ice, snow and winds of winter in his territories, and his power is such that the whole lands are locked in eternal winter. His abilities include raining icicles and hails the size of buildings and boulders, creating divine-enchanted blue-ice weapons and armour from thin-air, and creating snow storms and blizzards so cold and powerful whole lands would be frozen in ice.
  • I Love You Because I Can't Control You: The reason why he and Sigurn fell in love: both of them were evenly matched against each other in battle, and neither will back down against each other no matter how domineering and forceful they are. They more they confronted each other and fought to a stalemate in their squabble over the lands they wish to conquer the more they grew attracted to and admiring each other, until in their final fight they just stopped fighting half-way through and got busy. It was not long before they called a truce and then married.
  • In Love with Your Carnage: Hrothgar fell in love with Sigurn in part because his rival turned love was a furious force to match his own. When Sigurn went ballistic on a misogynistic Jotunn kingdom for their crimes against females and slander against her and her divine daughters, Hrothgar is said to be "utterly enraptured" by her whole kingdom-flattening/eating rampage.
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Hrothgar fights with a shield called 'Fyellbryter'. The somber story behind its origins has it being a memento from his fallen older brother whom he looked up to (whose demise he quietly blamed himself for and help drive him into becoming an overly-protective if still good parent). The funny story behind its name (which means 'Mountain-Breaker') came from the time of his early conquests, with him ramming a mountain with it and crumbling it to pebbles, taking with it a city which sits at its top. His followers and raiders ended up grumbling in disappointment that they didn't get to plunder the place and enthrall its populace with everything buried under the rubble, much to Hrothgar's own embarrassment. It's enchanted to be able to project a magical shield around the user that makes him/her practically imprevious to damage for a brief period of time, and following 'certain events' is enchanted against 'Doom' hexes or curses.
  • Men Are Tough: Considered an alpha male and the epitome of Jotunn malehood by his worshippers in the lands under his influence and domination. He's big as a mountain and certainly tough and brutal as one.
  • The Mentor: While his daughter Astrid Titanna trained many Jotunn 'Falkyrs' and sovereigns in fighting and battle, it was Hrothgar who taught her and her siblings how to fight in the first place.
  • Loophole Abuse: The 'Primeval Laws' of Equus prohibits, among other things, denying souls from entering their rightful afterlives, and Hrothgar himself follows it like others both out of fear of punishment by the Grand Primevals, but also in part due to also finds such an act abhorrent. Yet his nature as a Jotunn deity and his domains makes him want to keep those he ate and trapped in his belly his forever, even after they perish inside of him. His solution is simple: Exploit his own body's Bigger on the Inside nature to install fully-staffed and recognized heaven-realms and a hell-realms inside his innards. That way when those he ate die they would still get their rightful rewards without leaving his body. It's implied a lot of Giant deities also have similar arrangements to get around the Primeval Laws and he's not the first one to pioneer this idea.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: One of the darker aspects of his character, stemming from his nature as a Jotunn deity and his domains, involves him willing to inflict the same evils upon those who had committed great wrongs in his eyes that even he cannot tolerate. And apparently he and fellow Jotunn gods had a tendency of going into Disproportionate Retribution when it happens by returning those atrocities back unto the evildoer several more folds.
    • Gluutus Luustus Gargantus, one of his most infamous foes, was a Lindwyrm chieftain who committed many terrible atrocities and is noted to be quite depraved. Enraged by his horrible deeds, dark legends claimed that upon defeating him Hrothgar took his time to indulge in 'threefolds' worth of depravities back upon the Lindwyrm chieftain before finishing him off.
    • Hrothgar was as outraged as every other Jotunn deity was when he heard of Surtr's atrocities and his cahoots with the Shadowed Ones, and gave Astrid his blessing to put him down. When he encountered a surviving pack of Surtr's demigod spawns after 'Final Ragnarok' pillaging his lands, he was reportedly so apoplectic that he took to the field to dish out payback and apparently did... things the details of which were considered too brutal and vicious even by the in-universe authors to publish, with the only hint of what might they be that whatever they were, it left the pack so broken and brutalized that they begged for death, which he subsequently granted by devouring them all.
  • Plunder: One of his domains is plunder, which he got by eating a Fallen deity with that domain and acquired divine powers revolving around it. He could siphon power from opponents he targets to replenish his own exhausted strength and also repair his weapons and armour by magically-draining the area of metal and other materials, making him dangerous opponent in a prolonged battle of attrition. He has an instinctive ability to gauge the objective value of things he sees as well as their necessity and desirability in relation to him and others, allowing him to know what to loot and when to loot them. He can magically draw every valuable item in an entire area towards himself and fill them into his personal plunder sack (which is said can never be fully filled). Suffice to say, he is a patron of plunderers and raiders and his followers are granted boons granting similar abilities.
  • Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The darker aspects of his domains over Plunder, Conquest and Warriors, which combines with Jotunn divine mindsets predisposing towards force, dominance, avarice and gluttony leads to this trope. It's mostly on the pillage part and freezing instead of burning, but it's also implied he and his followers did quite a bit of the first part as well given the mention of him having many a Royal Harem which (at least early on) draws its members mostly from conquered foes and tributaries.
  • Really Gets Around: Coming as an 'alpha male' and being a handsome and muscular Jotunn deity, before he met his future wife he slept with many mortals and divines. His naturally ends up siring many 'bastard' children whom he also adopted into his clan. He also kept harems of gods and mortals alike, using defeated foes, damned shades and willing worshippers to sate his lust, either by himself or sharing with his beloved wife and clan/sub-pantheon matriarch Sigurn Titanna in passionate intimacy.
    • A story/myth of uncertain accuracy held as truth by many Jotunn mortal sovereigns ruling in his region has him bedding no less than FIFTY princesses of a Jotunn king, all in a single night. Those sovereigns draws their legitimacy via claiming descent from him and one of those princesses.
    • Hrothgar's parents are also implied to be this, and apparently didn't hold back on telling about their sex lives to Hrothgar and his siblings.
  • Royal Harem: He kept harems over the course of his conquests and rule, whom he, his wife, his family and his exalted servants shares to sate their passions both before and after he married. Although the early ones are drawn from his conquered foes, the modern ones usually made of damned shades as part of their eternal punishment, or willing worshippers who wishes to please them and are rewarded greatly for their services. This is apparently normal for ruling Jotunn gods of various divine clans/sub-pantheons, with variations between more prudish patriarchs/matriarchs and more decadent ones.
  • The Stoic: Stated to be a stern god of few words, but is capable of great love to his family and great wrath to those who cross him.
  • Worf Effect: On both the applying and receiving end.
    • A collection of draconic races - Wyverns, Frost Dragons and Lindwyrms - poised one of the greatest challenges to him and his forces in his early conquests of the lands in Jotunnheim which he would come to dominate, but once he took out their strongest and most dangerous members, the rest fell quickly, with nearly TWO-THIRDS of their entire population single-hoofedly devoured by him. It's saying something about his might when flight after flight of these mighty reptile beings, each capable of burning and pillaging whole cities and kingdoms by themselves, end up becoming little more than morsels to feed his hunger.
    • He respects Sekra the Indomitable as a great conqueror, having faced the Crypta Empire with other mortal and divine Jotunns during the Third Age and actually found themselves sent reeling by their powerful magic and superior strategies, which impressed him to no end.
  • Wowing Cthulhu: With him being the one who was impressed. When the Giant of Light Svetlo, who crashed on Equus centuries ago, and Astrid Titanna both fell in love, Svetlo proposed to Hrothgar that Svetlo hunt down, slay and bring back one of his lands' most dangerous giant monster by himself in order to prove his worth and earn the right to court Hrothgar's daughter. Impressed by his approach, Hrothgar gave him the go-ahead, and still remembers him respectfully even after he left Equus to return to his people.

    Sigurn Titanna, the (WIP) 

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental

Portfolio: Homemakers, Mothers, Fertility, Warriors, Queens

Rank: Titan/???


Queen Sigurn Titanna is the Jotunn goddess of Homemakers, Mothers, Fertility, Warriors, and Queens, and is the mate of Hrothgar Jökull and the adoptive/biological mother/matriarch of the Jökull-Titanna clans.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Jotunn Deer goddess who embodies Homemakers, Mothers, Fertility, Warriors and Queens.
  • Big Eater: She, together with her divine daughters, devoured much of Jotunn kingdom's population in retribution for their cultural misogyny and blasphemous slander against her and them.
  • Close to Home: It's safe to say that as a Jotunn goddess of Homemakers, Mothers, and Queens, she does not tolerate gender-related bigotry on both sides. At all.
    • Mistreating females in general, as well as slandering her and her daughters (both divine and mortal) for being 'lesser' than their male counterparts, will get her on the war path. She once leveled a entire mortal Jotunn kingdom for their extremely misogynistic practices and sentenced the unrepentant survivors to eternal thralldom to her and her divine daughters as punishment. She also temporarily recruited the female victims as her Valkyries so they can inflict well-deserved retribution upon their abusers, whether they be family or spouses from arranged marriages.
    • On the other hand, she is also enraged whenever her husband and her adoptive/biological sons are emasculated and treated as 'lesser' compared to their female counterparts. When she discovered that several mortal Jotunn queendoms were abusing their males and promoting female dominance to completely misandric levels, she gave both Hrothgar and her sons her blessing to conquer, plunder, and raze the Queendoms to the ground as a divine sanction for their crimes. The surviving Queens, Princesses, and nobility were reduced to unwilling concubines and servants, while the rest were devoured.
  • Defeated and Trophified: To the Tinies she sanctioned for various slights and transgressions, she has a habit of hanging the fortresses or cities containing the rulers and survivors of the lands she flattened and devoured like baubles from a golden chain which she hung around her divine form's antlers, reducing them to living trophies as punishment for their crimes. She also kept even mortal Giants in cages which she wore like jewelry.
  • The Dreaded: She has a similar reputation as her mate and co-ruler Hrothgar, though for different reasons. After Sigurn Titanna destroyed a misogynistic Jotunn kingdom for mistreating their females and blasphemously slander her and her divine daughters, the other mortal Jotunn and non-Jotunn subjects/worshippers of the divine clan became so terrified of facing her wrath that all realms and cultures in their lands never again even remotely entertain notions of males and females being anything other than equal. On the plus side, this made mortal nations of their lands among the most socially egalitarian in Jotunnheim.
  • I Love You Because I Can't Control You: The reason why she and Hrothgar fell in love: both of them were evenly matched against each other in battle, and neither will back down against each other no matter how domineering and forceful they are. They more they confronted each other and fought to a stalemate in their squabble over the lands they wish to conquer the more they grew attracted to and admiring each other, until in their final fight they just stopped fighting half-way through and got busy. It was not long before they called a truce and then married.
  • Mama Bear: Gods help you if you do anything to hurt or demean her children, be they her literal divine/demi-divine ones or her metaphoric mortal ones. She'll probably just eat/crush/toy with those gods you call for help as she'll eat/crush/toy with you for your transgression.
    • A Jotunn kingdom within the sub-pantheon's area of influence made the mistake of not only mistreating their female Does, but also twisting the legends of the divine clan to reflect their misogynistic culture, portraying Sigurn Titanna and her daughters as being inferior and subservient to Hrothgar Jökull and their brothers. Enraged by their misogynistic oppression and slander against her and her children, she has Elske Titanna evacuate the female Does, innocent children and what few males who did not condone their society's misogyny, before going on a rampage with her divine daughters and 'Valkyries' exalted servants which leveled the entire kingdom, crushing its cities and devouring most of the remaining, misogynistic male population. The survivors, including those of the ruling royals and nobles, were sentenced to become her and her divine daughters and half-daughters' thralls and toys - to be forever mistreated as they mistreated their Does like their slaves and playthings.
  • Pet the Dog: When Sigurn leveled a misogynistic Jotunn kingdom for their mistreatment of their Does and their slander against her and her daughters, she let the princess daughters of the high king join the ranks of her exalted 'Valkyries' to make up for destroying their homeland and for the abuse they went through, as well as letting them a night and a day to pay back all the mistreatment they went through upon their father, their brothers and the consorts they were originally arranged to be married to whether they like it or not. It's implied the princesses were the ones who caught Sigurn's attention with their pleas for deliverance and led to her discovering how the misogynistic kingdom were mistreating their Does and slandering her and her divine daughter, leading to her leveling the whole place in furious divine retribution.
    • In that same incident, she also let Elske, her love goddess daughter, evacuate all the female Does, the innocent children and the few male Stags who did not condone their society's misogynistic culture before she went on her divine rampage, showing if nothing else she doesn't hold those innocent of any wrongdoing accountable for the crimes of their fellows.
    • Later, she had some of the wicked and unrepentant male survivors converted into toys for her youngest daughters, complete with dollhouse in at least one case.

    Astrid Jökull-Titanna, the Maiden of Victory 

Classification: Ethereal

Portfolio: War, Strength, Victory

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"I'm big, you're small. That means I'm in charge, even if I wasn't a goddess who eats castles for fun.

Astrid Titanna (her entry here) is the Jotunn goddess of War and Victory. Boisterous and combative, she is always itching for a fight against whoever is unfortunate enough to be in her way. Countless monsters, mortal realms, and demons have fallen to her; be it under her hooves, in her belly, or by her obsidian battleaxe Hellsbane. Anyone who will listen—willing or not—will be regaled with tales of her conquests...even terrified prey she is about to devour.

Despite seeming immature and arrogant, Astrid does not neglect her duties. Prayers for victory by righteous warriors are promptly answered, whether or not they are Jotunn, and she has extensive knowledge of battle tactics and combat techniques.
  • Action Girl: She is a War Goddess, after all...
  • Amazonian Beauty: Astrid sports an athlete's lithe, muscular frame—fitting for a warrior.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Jotunn Deer goddess who embodies War, Strength, and Victory.
  • An Ice Person: Astrid can use Hellsbane to summon ice and freezing winds.
  • Big Eater: If Astrid isn't stepping on, sitting on, or chopping up foes with her axe, she's eating them. She's eaten entire kingdoms for lunch, along with countless monsters and even minor gods.
  • Blood Knight: She's always ready for a good fight or rampage, and loves dominating the battlefield. This is stated to be rare among other war gods, who tend to be stoic and taciturn.
  • Cool Scars: She's gained quite the collection of them from her millennia of battle, and loves showing them off. They can even change in severity depending on her mood.
  • Doting Parent: She's extremely proud of her hybrid demigod son, Lysets Far, and would constantly brag about his accomplishments to anyone who wants to hear, including the incident where he hunted down and killed an evil Giant of Light warlord.
  • Giant Foot of Stomping: Fond of crushing foes underhoof.
  • Large and in Charge: Astrid revels in her gigantic stature, and always makes sure everyone knows just how small they are compared to her.
  • Noodle Incident: She once have had enough of Flœrð, the Maker of Mischief's mischievous antics and tried to bonk him on the head with the flat of her axe. Unfortunately Flœrð had already buttered up the handle of her divine axe, and it flew from her grip to smash through the roof of their clan's great house and bonk her FATHER'S head instead, shattering his favourite helmet. She was grounded, had her axe confiscated, barred from eating anyone for a century, and is still embarrassed over the whole thing to even talk about it.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: She's lithe while Elske is plump, bombastic and combative where her sister is shy, modest, and gentle.
  • The Strategist: Beneath her boisterous attitude, Astrid has a wealth of knowlege in battle tactics and combat methods, inspiring these in her worshippers. However, she disdains maneuvers involving deception like feinged retreats (calling them "a bunch of damned cheating!") and forbids her worshippers from employing them.
  • Weapon Specialization: Wields a giant divine axe to chop up her foes whenever she's not simply crushing or eating them. It can also summon storms, and in her free time Astrid likes to chop the tops off mountains with it.

    Elske Jökull-Titanna, the Maiden of Love 

Classification: Ethereal

Portfolio: Love, Affection, Passion

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"And that is why love conquers all. Being gigantic helps, too. Oh, and sorry about the mountain. And the other mountains. I need to watch where I sit..."

Elske (her entry here) is the Jotunn goddess of Love, Affection, and Passion, and Astrid's little sister.

In contrast to Astrid, Elske is more demure, affectionate, and gentler, regally dressed in pink robes and soft furs... but that doesn't mean she's a weakling among her people. As a love goddess in the Jotunn pantheon, Elske has unmatched magical empathy, capable of inspiring the most stoic people into showing their goodwill; killing creatures that thrive solely on negative emotions; rendering emotion-manipulating magic completely useless; and stirring up romantic feelings in mortals. And physically, due to being a Jotunn, she's quite capable of dealing with enemies that bother her, either by giving them a stern talking to, or by stomping and/or sitting on them... literally.

Like most Giants, Elske can devour entire realms, though in her case, it mainly applies to those that have proven themselves to be utterly irredeemable. This is related to another aspect of her character - her motherly compassion. Elske is very fond of children and often has them taken away to safety before she devours the corrupted society they're born in, either by herself or with the help of her devotees. Once everything has been eaten, she takes the children to her divine realm, where the children are immune to harm, and looks after them as their adoptive mother. One of the games she plays with them is the "Seat/Belly Sprint", where the children run across a large cushion that Elske prepares to sit/lie down on. Those who avoid being squished by her wins, though thanks to living in a divine realm, all child participants are physically unharmed.
  • Achievements in Ignorance: Elske defeated a Necromancer and his resurrected evil dragon minion that her father once killed... by talking it to death. According to legend, she was so fascinated upon seeing her first dragon that she began peppering it with questions, eventually causing said dragon to commit suicide by throwing itself into a volcano to get away from her. As for the Necromancer himself, he found the circumstances of his defeat so hilarious that he continued laughing even after being devoured. When Astrid arrived and found nothing (she had been dawdling by gathering mortal heroes along the way), she was so angry that she "invented all the profanities used by modern Deer and Jotunns that day". To her credit, Elske felt somewhat embarrassed by it.
  • All-Loving Hero: She's so gentle and compassionate that she inspired religious orders (such as the "Children of Elske") and the construction of temples where she stomped/sat on her enemies. Among the divine Jotunns, some have decided to adopt her merciful approach.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Jotunn Deer goddess who embodies Love, Affection, and Passion.
  • Ass Kicks You: How she usually deals with enemies in her homelands. Elske's plump body causes her to accidentally wrecks her surroundings by sitting on them. While she is often embarrassed by this, Elske has done it on purpose on occasion - once, she came into conflict with Propagare's cultists, who attempted to sow hatred and distrust among the mortal Deer realms so that both of them would fall into war as the god of Propaganda planned. When Elske arrived, she smashed one army flat, then sat down on the other while explaining to the mortal Deer citizens of their divine deception. Elske would (proudly) claim later that she had done it on purpose. In a more hilarious example, Elske's plumpness is used in a children's game called the "Seat/Belly Sprint" - those who are not flattened by her belly or her rear end wins, though all the children participating in it are unharmed due to the divine nature of Elske's realm.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Elske is much friendlier and gentler than her older sister, and loves children...but she is still a gigantic goddess who has happily eaten entire kingdoms off the map when sufficiently provoked.
    • She once stopped a war Propagare had provoked by casually crushing both cities' armies (one she stomped, the other she sat on) before revealing the truth. When Propagare's cultists tried to flee, Elske crushed each and every one of them under her hooves. Slowly. Finally, Elske induced a wild spree of love and passion that had mortals making love in the streets. The mayors of both cities ended up legally married to their desks.
    • Elske completely flipped the buck out when Khakiston tried to get at her through her adopted Tinies children, which ended up with her growing to truly titanic-size and flattening Khakiston in response (and Astrid as well, since apparently she also wasn't being nice to them)
  • Big Beautiful Woman: While she's a plain and plump-figured doe by divine Jotunn standards, she's still regarded as insanely beautiful by mortals.
  • Big Eater: Being big and hungry enough to swallowing whole lands comes with being a Giant deity, especially one for the biggest races of Giants on Equus, although even by Jotunn standards Elske takes this up a notch.
    • Deconstructed. Being a Jotunn deity, being a Big Eater is a given, but Elske's appetite is even more prominent than Astrid's. It's also mentioned that Elske loves eating sinful villains, corrupt kingdoms, and wicked pantheons. It's implied her appetite gave Elske her plump figure, and (to her embarrassment) caused her a lot of trouble by getting herself stuck between mountain passes and making craters whenever she lies down flank- or belly-first.
    • A recent drabble suggests she also apparently ate many non-villainous people and places - worshippers who love her so much they want to stay with her forever, poor refugees with nowhere else to go, helpless good kingdoms in need of protection, daring adventurers who want to brave the unknown and gods seeking sanctuary from various troubles. Some of them had settled down and even thrived inside her body to the present, which is very possible thanks to her and other gods Giant or otherwise being Bigger on the Inside.
  • Bigger on the Inside: As noted above, being a Giant deity who have consumed whole lands and kingdoms, Elske's innards must be practically bottomless in order to put them all away, which wouldn't be surprising on account of the spatial-distortions which comes with being both a Giant and a Deity.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Invoked by Elske. As shown with the Propagare cultists, getting slowly crushed underneath a Jotunn goddess's foot is not fun. Though in Elske's case, it may be a Pay Evil unto Evil, showing what happens when mortals give in to hatred.
  • Detect Evil: Justified. Being a love goddess with powerful empathy, Elske can sense hatred and malice within mortals, describing those feelings as "a rot on mortals' hearts". She also has an incredible sense of empathy that can pierce even the deepest stoicism or self-deception.
  • Eating Solves Everything: As noted under the Big Eater trope, this is how Elske solves a LOT of problems. Whole kingdoms of mortals becoming too corrupted? Eat the whole place down to bedrock. Worshippers and refugees seeking sanctuary? Swallow them and let them settle in the depths of her innards. Boyfriend Floerd needing to hide from her family for sleeping with her?? Keep him nice and comfortable inside her belly where her family will never suspect. It comes at a cost to her figure.
  • The Empath: She's described as having powerful empathy, which is fitting since her portfolio revolves around Love. She can sense hatred and malice, seeing them manifest as rot on mortals' hearts, and is so powerful that she could see even the feelings of mortals who have covered their emotions under a deep layer of stoicism, inspiring them to do good deeds. Her mere presence repels/kills creatures that thrive on negative emotions and render emotion-manipulating magic completely null. As a Love Goddess, she inspires romantic love in others, though it's more impassioned compared to the tamer Cadance.
  • Friend to All Children: Elske adores children and would never even think of hurting one. Whenever she deals with a sinful city/kingdom/land, she always makes sure to rescue the innocents, especially children, before devouring the place. After the feasting, she takes the children to her personal realm for cuddles and pampering.
  • Good Hurts Evil: One of Elske's applications of her empathy is repel/kill Emotion Eaters who specifically rely on negative emotions for sustenance.
  • Good Parents: She acts like a loving mother to the mortal children she takes to her realm after devouring the sinful places they used to live in.
  • Happily Adopted: The children she often takes in come from cities, kingdoms, and realms that have fallen to incredible sin and corruption. Elske makes up for the loss of their families and homes after crushing/eating them by becoming their adoptive mother.
  • Height Angst: Being a divine Jotunn, she often finds herself accidentally wrecking mountains and making craters if she's not careful. Being very plump-bodied as the result of her unrestrained eating habits doesn't help much.
  • Just Eat Him: Elske's solution to the problem of many, many evils (to the detriment of her figure). Given her status as a Jotunn deity, that's considered unsurprising.
  • Love Goddess: Elske is one, since she has powerful empathy and all of her divine domains involve Love in some form. Though unlike Cadance, who inspires tame affection, Elske inspires the hot-blooded romance variety, invoking such passion in mortals that they tend to get completely caught up in the moment... until it wears off, that is.
  • Mama Bear: As she adopts Tinies children and loves/dotes on them dearly, trying to harm them is one of the few things that will truly set her off in a rage and a brutal stomping of whoever dare do such a thing. Khakiston learnt this the hard way. Astrid also once received the same treatment for apparently not being nice to the children - she would later admit that she deserved getting belly-flopped by her own sister.
  • Meaningful Name: "Elske" is Norwegian for "love", which fits since she's a Jotunn love goddess.
  • Motor Mouth: She's quite chipper and talkative, to near-Pinkie Pie levels. See Talking the Monster to Death for how far she can take chatter.
  • No-Sell: Magic that manipulates a person's emotions is rendered completely useless in her presence, due to her being The Empath.
  • A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: On a large scale. After she wiped out a group of Propagare cultists and their forces, she used her empathy to spread love in the region, getting rid of the hatred and distrust that Propagare was trying to sow among mortal Deerkind in order to start a war. Everyone celebrated Elske's victory, likely with wild parties, and ended up marrying each other at random at the drop of a hat. When everyone woke up the next morning with hangovers, nobles were mortified to discover they married peasants, while mayors found they were legally wedded to their desks.
  • Power Nullifier: Her empathy is so great that those who can manipulate emotions with their magic are left completely powerless in her presence.
  • Swallowed Whole: It's mentioned that as a divine Jotunn, Elske is no stranger to eating mortals (and gods!), but she especially loves devouring sinful places. Though she does take care to evacuate the children herself or have her devotees do it for her before the eating occurs.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: A hilariously literal instance: on a mission to hold off a resurrected evil dragon, Elske was fascinated at meeting such a legendary monster...and peppered the beast with questions and quips even as he spewed ice at her and tore the landscape with his claws. The dragon grew so tired of Elske's fangirling that he threw himself into a volcano to get away from her. The Necromancer who summoned the dragon promptly laughed himself to death, finding his own defeat hilarious!
  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: While Elske loves devouring sinful cities and kingdoms, she makes sure all the children are out first by evacuating them herself, or having her devotees do it. She makes up for the loss of their original homes by carrying the now-orphaned children to her divine realm, where they are immune to harm, and looks after them as their adoptive mother.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Her aforementioned empathy can make even the most self-loathing mortals realize this and discover love.

    Princess Brynhildr Titanna, the Young Valkyrie 

Classification: Elemental/Ethereal

Portfolio: Love, Princesses, Shield Maidens, Death

Rank: Godling


One of the younger divine daughters of Hrothgar and Sigurn, Brynhildr is a bundle of innocence and joy, although rumours abound of her nature, something which she retained from a previous life...
  • Children Are Innocent: Being one of the younger divine daughters of Sigurn and Hrothgar, she acts like any child her age, mortal, divine or otherwise. She loves both of her parents dearly, and is overjoyed as any child when she receives new toys for her birthday.
  • Large Runt: Being a child godling, she's naturally this compare to her older siblings. She's also a Jotunn divine, meaning that she's still big as small mountains.
  • Reincarnation: She is rumoured to be the reincarnation of a famous 'Valkyrie', an exalted champion who once served the head of one of the previous Cervidian Deer Pantheons.

Fire Jotunn Deities

    General 
  • Playing with Fire: As indicated by their species name, Fire Jotunn specialize in fire magic.

    Surtr Muspellson, the Swathy One 
See his folder here.

    Surtr's Father 

Classification: [TBA]

Portfolio: Destruction, Parental Deity (Adversai)

Rank: Preeminent


Surtr's mysterious father, who had a romance with Adversus the Adversity Primeval, and it is from their union was born Surtr and his siblings. He was the one who banished Surtr from the real Muspelheim after his various rampages and crimes all across Equus came to light, and also inflicted a Mortality Phobia on Surtr as a warning and part of the punishment.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Asked Surtr one that would forever haunt him until the day of his defeat and death: "WHAT WILL YOU DO?"
  • Breaking Speech: Delivered one to Surtr just before he banished him, effectively foretelling/cursing Surtr's own doom at his and his victims' hooves. Surtr did not take this well.
  • Curbstomp Battle: Inflicted one on his own son Surtr when the latter attacked him in a fit of rage. It only took one swinging blow from his own sword to reduce mighty destructive Surtr to a battered wreck. It was Surtr's worst ever defeat in battle up until the events of 'Final Ragnarok'.
  • Disappointed in You: A tragic example. After years of trying to redeem Surtr, only to realize that his wayward son would never change no matter what he did, he would start regarding Surtr with deep resignation and pity, even as he delivered a Curb-Stomp Battle to his son after the latter tried attacking him. His final moments with his son consisted of him teaching Surtr a final lesson on mortality before exiling him from the real Muspellheim realm forever; the narration notes that facing his father's disappointment, combined with receiving a Breaking Speech after his defeat, traumatized Surtr so badly that he developed a Mortality Phobia.
  • Divine Parentage: He's the father for the Fire Jotunn sub-pantheon branch of the Adversai, a group of deities sharing a mother in Adversus who follow their parents' philosophy that destruction and death are to be used as constructive forces that ultimately pave the way for evolution, improvement, and rebirth. Surtr is his oldest son and child, as well as the most powerful of his brood, but follows none of the Adversai's modus operandi in favour of just destroying everything to sate his need for carnage.
  • The Dreaded: Justified; he's implied to be such an incredibly ancient and powerful Destroyer Deity that he's closer in years to the Grand Primevals, who are similarly ancient, powerful, and feared themselves. For one, his mere presence immediately caused the mortal Fire Jotunns to back away or flee the area entirely when he arrived. Even Surtr, his oldest son through Adversus, fears him for not only utterly defeating him with one hit, but reminding him of what he would later fear most: His own mortality. And ever since their confrontation, Surtr has been leaving behind trails of destruction in an attempt to get rid of this fear and prove his father wrong. And even during their very brief fight, Surtr was quickly reduced to panicking and begging for mercy after he was struck down and his sword broken with one hit.
  • Interspecies Romance: At one point, he got into a loving relationship with Adversus, the Grand Primeval goddess of Adversity and Misfortune, and sired the Fire Jotunn branch of the Adversai through her. The oldest and most powerful of them was Surtr.
  • Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his son, Surtr, who would become and go down as a minion of the Shadowed Ones as well as one of the nastiest and most monstrous Fire Jotunn divines, he behaves more like his lover, Adversus, the Grand Primeval of Adversity. He too, destroys things and serves as an "adversary" for both mortal and divine heroes, but he genuinely wants all of sapientkind to grow and advance because of their struggles, and disapproves of those who destroy because they enjoy the suffering they inflict upon their victims.
  • Noble Demon: Had hints of this. He is an ancient and terrifying Destroyer Deity like Surtr, but even he greatly disapproved of what his psychopathic eldest son was doing, and banishes him from the real Muspelheim when Surtr finally goes too far.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: He is described in terms of being something of a walking apocalypse. Nightmarishly poetic narrations spoke of how he is wreathed in conflagrations that could scour continents, how his steps could shatter lands, how his wrath could annihilate entire empires, how his very breath could spell the death of millions. To say that this is not a guy you want to mess with is an Under Statement.
  • Playing with Fire: He showed up with his form wreathed in a continent-scouring firestorm.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivered one to Surtr after his crimes come to light. While the contents of the exchange is not known, it apparently involved Surtr's father seeing pass all the base and crass motives behind Surtr's veneer of justifications, deconstructing all of his reasonings and exposed Surtr for who he really is - a petulant, psychopathic child. And this was BEFORE the Breaking Speech that inflicted Surtr with a Mortality Phobia.
  • Ultimate Blacksmith: Hinted to be this. The sword that he put Surtr in his place with was in the process of being forged by him and was only half-finished. It's likely he also taught Surtr and his other children how to forge and maintain their own weapons.
  • Worf Effect: With Surtr on the receiving end. To note: Surtr is an implacable juggernaut of destruction who could (and had) wipe out entire lands and pantheons For the Evulz, killing/burning/eating everything in his path with relative ease. When Surtr attacked his father in a fit of rage, Surtr's father literally ONE-SHOT him.

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