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⚡THOR “GOD OF THUNDER, LIGHTNING, STORMS, CONSECRATION, STRENGTH AND BRAVERY, FERTILITY, SACRED GROVES AND TREES, THE PROTECTION OF MANKIND” 🔨
- The man, the myth, the legend! Congrats, you’re the child of the great and almighty Thor! Much like being a child of Odin, being a child of Thor has its own social pressure and expectations on you for how important, powerful, and popular he is. As awesome it is to be his kid, there’s a lot riding on you from the get-go.
- All children of Thor all share the same attributes and temperament of their father: being temperamental, being brave and courageous, and prideful to say the least. These traits are not strictly good or bad as your temperamental nature allows you to balance these traits according to your logic and situation, bravery and courage: to face things and challenges even if you’re afraid, and pride: to have a sense of self-respect, dignity, or in value.
They all exist within you, some more and some less, have confidence in yourself and walk forward.
- Being a child of Thor tends to lean towards more physical acts, including how you fight. You tend to move first before thinking second; though it's not necessarily that you don’t think either when you move. Your body instinctively will move first based on your instincts and will, and your mind is catching a close second as they move in tandem.
- If you have the burning need to help others or tendency to help people, you’re reflecting Thor with being a protector of Mankind, especially with needing to act with your body, you often can be seen lending a hand to others.
- On the other hand, you are also someone who doesn’t quit or sway easily much like Thor. Once you’re involved, you’re ride or die (well the latter may work better if you’re an Einherjar and within Vahlalla- you get the point). This makes you a reliable person to count on when things are tough, but on the other hand, this can make it a liability to yourself and others if you get into deep trouble and when things become dangerous.
- Regardless there is an innate strength to a child of Thor, whether it's physical, mentally, or spiritually.
- Your rune is the Thurisaz ᚦ that represents Thor. It is reconstructed as ‘thorn’ and means ‘giant’, and symbolizes masculinity, courage, and empowerment; as well as protection, strength, and power to confront and overcome challenges. It is a powerful rune to use and acts as a physical symbol for followers of Thor that are etched into jewelry. It is also your mark as a child of Thor.
When used in divination, or carrying it as a good luck charm, it serves as a warning to the people involved, allowing it to warn you of danger lurking nearby or intense change is upon them. As well being used as a general talisman to enhance protection and strength.
If you are capable of using a bit of Rune Magic, the Thurisaz rune is useful to be used as an emergency bomb as it releases a discharge of destructive power.
- The Thurisaz rune that is etched onto your weapon is also useful as a child of power, you can resonate with it and use it together in battle to add to that destructive power. However, if you already have immense strength, especially when you’re already training, the rune may not be entirely needed.
- If you’re really capable of using Rune magic, the Thurisaz rune can be used alternatively to create thorns as it also means ‘Thorn’’; whether to create a wall of thorns to block any enemies or used defensively- like the thorn that defends the plant, or to be used in an offensive way, it all depends how well you use it.
Adding to the fact Thor is a fertility god, and of sacred groves and trees, the ability to manipulate Thorns adds to this- so it is within your realm as a demigod of Thor.
- Contrary to belief, I don’t think you will have the innate ability to control thunder and lightning, despite Thor being the god of lightning and thunder. It is probably a skill that can be inherited by his children, but it’s not guaranteed. If you do, well more power to you. Quite literally.
I’d imagine having Thor’s power of lightning and thunder is going to be a tough power to harness and control, and oftentimes it comes out as loud and powerful blasts much as if Thor’s hammer was bringing down thunder and lightning strikes. Perhaps with the help of Rune magic with the Thurisaz rune you may be able to achieve this.
- It’s not unheard of for a child of Thor being born on a Thursday as the weekday’s name is named after him; hence the likelihood of being born on a Thursday and that weekday being your lucky day.
- As a child of Thor, you might be partial towards the use of a hammer as a weapon for its hefty, large swings of power (duh) but you might also be partial towards the use of a staff that allows both long and close range formats of combat. You could probably use a long handled hammer as a compromise if you have the arm strength.
- You absolutely are not as great at long range weaponry otherwise like archery, seafaring warfare as the opposite. However, if you are though, like Thor’s son, Thrud, it's entirely opposite and you’re not great at more physical direct combat. A tit for tat.
- Regardless, there is still a need to smash things and its not uncommon to see you think about the idea of hitting something to solve your problems. Sometimes it does work and sometimes it doesn’t, like Lars Alhstrom instinctively grabbing a fire extinguisher to smash the windows to save the passengers from drowning.
The impulse or need is mitigated with other forms of constructive use of hitting; like woodworking, blacksmithing, or baking (hey, have you seen people hit and slam big balls of dough? Or cracking and breaking cookies and nuts to make them into a crumble?)
- Speaking of weapons, whether it's by your mistake or by sheer coincidences, you have a habit of missing items. Just like Thor losing Mjolnir more than once, you have the same affliction which can be either annoying or stressful as Hel more than once.
- The ingrained fear or distaste of Snakes is also a part of being Thor’s demigod, as he is fated to fight, kill, and be killed by Jormungandr. Unfortunately, you’re also more susceptible to Snake venom so it's best you don’t go anywhere near or touch venomous snakes.
Maybe even venom of other creatures but they won’t kill you immediately, but the effects are definitely harder than the average person.
- On the other hand, snakes are just a part of your life somehow so due to sheer exposure, while you may not be the biggest lover of snakes, your distaste may be more amicable and mostly neutral where you can appreciate the snake but you do not want to be near one if given the option.
- You probably feel more favourable to having tattoos, especially incredibly meaningful ones, and probably had thought of having one at some point; reflecting how Thor has meaningful tattoos of Sif, his two sons Magni and Modi, and the serpent Jormungandr. You learn to satiate the need or have fun with temporary tattoos.
- Goats are going to be part of your life. You have no idea how and whether you have good or bad feelings towards it, it doesn’t matter because somehow they just exist in your life. This reflects Thor’s own two goats Tanngnjóstr/Otis and Tanngrisnr/Marvin who pull his chariot and are routinely killed and eaten by Thor every evening, and returning back in the morning.
If you were there to witness the meme wave of “screaming goats” and remixes like goat screaming with Taylor Swift’s “Red”, then that also counts as it pops up in your head every so often like a groundhog. Congrats and Sorry depending how you feel on it.