"And The Game Begins Anew"

This book is dark magic and I love every word.

1. It's a story about cycles, hope turned to hopelessness turned to hope and round and round it goes.
2. It's also about complete Id, the insanity of pride and arrogance and the corrupting nature of power.
3. It's a story riddled with offences, wrongs, humiliations and subsequent ploys for vengence.
4. It's a story about two wolves, Vali the false-righteous murderer and Fenir the herald of the apocalypse.
5. Finally, it's a story about two sets of outcast children and their outcast father a trickster for tricking sake and quite possibly a psychopath. Still he is not an imbecile as most of the Gods appear to be especially Thor.

I imagine this is how the humans of old felt about their Gods. How to please the Gods but with sacrifice of flesh and bone? Boy are these bloodhounds trying to trick their way through everything and they are bunch of gorgeous, otherworldly narcissists always finding loopholes, always trying to one up each other and prove they are the strongest or can sing the best or can fish the best. They rejoice in bloodshed and raid and search out things to destroy with a "take no prisoners"kind of gusto.

⦁What, if any, is the real difference between the Giants and the Gods?

Fenir's rage was entirely their fault and so many other things leading up to the bloodred death of everything.

Reading through each god-tome, the deceit, trickery, wily, sneaky and downright strange nature of the gods makes sense when you look at it from the eye of the All-father - if Ragnarok is the only thing to fear and really it is just the end of the world, then everything inbetween is to be experienced at full capacity no room for if, ands buts or maybes.

⦁But all of this is necessary for rebirth, a second chance and from the blood and fire comes something new and fresh (if Ragnarok goes according to plan). If this isn't Gaimanesque through and through - yeah, I don't know what is.