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🔮ODIN “THIRD CHIEF OF THE AESIR, GOD OF WISDOM, MAGIC, DEATH, DIVINATION, WAR, AND POETRY; THE ALL FATHER, OATHBREAKER ” 👑
- Being the demigod of Odin is both the most awesome thing but also the worst thing. You have a lot to live up to and when people find out you’re the child of Odin, they expect you to live up to being his kid. Especially since he’s been more or less been AWOL for a while so any appearance of his kids are expected to represent him symbolically.
- They expect you to be wise, powerful, and strong just like Odin, again adding to the whole bit of “representing him symbolically” bit but try as you might, you’re still half-god of Odin and your experiences are only measurable so there will be times you always feel (made) short.
- Waiting in Valhalla for Ragnarok leaves plenty of time for you to spend, alongside all the battle combat training to keep yourself sharp. If you have the desiring burn to pursue knowledge, congrats! That is a trait from Odin, who is a seeker of knowledge; though you’re probably not going to be hanging yourself from the World Tree for 9 Days and Nights to discover the secret of the Runes.
However, if you have the equivalent experience of Odin standing in a blizzard for 6 days to learn how to use a smartphone, then that’s pretty much it.
Your pursuit and seeking of knowledge feeds you insistently and good thing you’re half-god because once you’re interested in learning something, you’re going to be spending literal consecutive days to learn as much as you can.
Though that’s probably not unheard of for neurodivergent individuals.
- As Odin’s child, there is a higher chance of you being able to learn and use Magic, as Odin is the God of Magic. This is greatly helped by the use of Runes, however, despite Odin’s greatest achievement of discovery of the Runes, that part isn’t passed onto you so you must learn how to use the power of the Runes in your pursuit of Magic.
- The Rune for Odin, Ansuz ᚨ is either one of the first Runes you learn about or feel drawn to as it calls out to you. It might’ve been a hit or miss a few times as Ansuz means God as it refers to Odin’s breath; as a gift to humanity for live and being able to understand one another.
As your rune, especially as a child of Odin, it symbolizes and helps you communicate and you have good speaking skills, as it is the rune of communication and of spoken word as you carefully piece together what you say before you speak it out loud. This is also supported further that Odin is a god of poetry, being able to not only speak beautifully and persuasively, but also write it in such a manner too.
- The Runes are also useful and are powerful enough in your hands, that you can use divination through it. If you also inherited the power of prophecy and foresight like Odin, you can become a Vala - a seer- to see the future with runes, alongside cast spells if you have magical talent.
- You might have a higher chance or likely know a second language at minimum. Paired with Odin’s connection with communication and seeker of knowledge, learning another language comes more easily to you; though still filled with challenges as you learn to understand the words and sounds behind the language, as well as how it is written, and the culture and history behind it all.
- Though there is also a chance you could just see past, present, and future but that power is probably rare for how powerful it is and you might not be able to access other talents as easily; whether it's because you’re spending your time to refining and understanding this power, or because this is a very great and powerful gift.
- You have the penchant for being sneaky and being basically a trickster, you’re either fueled because you know something people don’t and like to use it to your advantage, or for the sheer fun of it all.
- Considering Alex Ferro is able to shiftshape because of their godly parent Loki, and Odin is able to shapeshift himself (which he uses to his full advantage), I can imagine that this is also a trait possible to children of Odin. There is however a difference as Odin’s shapeshifting has always leaned itself to disguising himself as different people.
So if you do inherit the power of shapeshifting, it's only limited to people. Maybe you can shapeshift yourself into someone else but it comes with much more difficulty, maybe requiring deep knowledge about that face you’re donning, or maybe because that seems more to fall onto Loki’s aspect than Odin who shapeshifts to mask himself then trick others.
- As a god of War, being able to wield weapons comes almost like instinct to you. Although you may have a preferred weapon that is true to your soul, you have the talent in using what you have to fight and you are able to understand its potential to properly fight and protect. If you find yourself being drawn to the spear, you’re definitely Odin’s kid but he would approve any weapon you choose. Just if you use a spear, don’t stab yourself in the side with it.
- Have you ever fed a murder of crows before and a few times? That’s a part of being Odin’s kid. You have a love for Corvids, but particularly Ravens and they are particularly drawn to you. While it is best to have a Raven much like Father Odin, other corvids are also drawn to you like Crows as a second, followed by bluejays or magpies.
Others included rooks, jawdaws, other kinds of kays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. You may be very successful in training and befriending the corvids who drop by for snackies and return with shinies.
- The song “Passerine” by The Oh Hellos, seems fitting given the connection with the Ravens.
- You have definitely used or have no problem using Bluetooth functions because of Odin’s connection with the Runes and the logo for Bluetooth is based on the Norse Runes “Hagall” ᚼ and “Bjarkan” ᛒ.
Funny enough, you manage to make a rune with the Bluetooth logo and it works like a Bluetooth hotspot. Now how will you use it further? Who knows! Maybe you can figure it out, I’m not the one who is Odin’s kid.
Though if you figure that out, be prepared for some spending time with Odin because he’ll want to know all the mysteries and sorcery behind it and that’ll last for days; much like trying to teach an adult who isn’t as adept at technology.
- If Corvids aren’t your biggest thing, then surely it’s the wolves, and by extension dogs, and further down Canines. You’re definitely a dog lover and you can’t help patting every dog you meet and give them all the love and pets for being the best doggos in the world.
If you had a wolf phase at some point in your life, or still are, congrats, Odin would be very proud that you appreciate these wonderful doggos. You definitely carry around dog and bone treats for these canines as a result.
(And going back to corvids, the dog treats are also very good for them too so double bonus!)
Odin can be considered a Death God and considering the Einherjar are under Odin’s eternal army, which are composed of those who have died with bravery during a challenge or fight where they’ve saved others, it's sufficient to say necromancy may appear as one of your abilities.
While you cannot command an army of ghosts immediately to your will, or revive the dead (both also include the Einherjar), you probably can see ghosts and communicate with them better than most. If you’re part of the living, this ability also extends to being able to pick out Einherjar that are walking around in the Nine Realms, particularly with their golden aura.