Heimdall, guardian of the Bifrost Frigga Wife of Odin and mother to the gods Tyr and Thor.īalder, the norse god of beauty Tyr A god of justice and war who was also a member of the Faerûnian pantheon.įrey, the norse god of sunshine Thor A god of thunder and lightning who is the son of Odin and Frigga and the brother of Tyr. (The Norse powers, in general, paid more attention to magic performed on their plane than other deities did.) Notable Members įrigga, the norse goddess of the atmosphere Odin Leader of the pantheon and the father of most of its members. Most of the members of the pantheon shared an outlook that held that bravery was proven by the endurance of pain, and, as a result of this, in the realms of Asgard and Vanaheim, many aesir and vanir did not permit healing spells to function. Many of the pantheon's members enjoyed exploring the Material Plane in disguise as mortals. Legends claimed that the World Ash, Yggdrasil, was the true source of the power of the Norse gods and goddesses, and it was prophesied that Nidhogg would eventually gnaw through the tree's roots, leading to the fall of the pantheon. The Norse powers were served by a host of valkyries and einheriar. Bifrost was their own creation and was strongly protected. They also controlled and defended a unique means of planar travel known as Bifrost, or the Rainbow Bridge, which could connect to any location on the Material Plane. In addition to Asgard and Vanaheim, the Norse powers also controlled much of the realms of Alfheim and Jotunheim. Despite their chaotic mindsets, they were organized enough to hold the largest divine realm in Ysgard and were the most powerful group of the whole plane. This did not by any means imply that all members of this pantheon followed Odin's orders, but they all shared a unifying goal of maintaining their powerful realms on the first layer of Ysgard. To some mortals, the Norse pantheon seemed like a rowdy group of deities, relative to other pantheons, but they had a strong leader in Odin All-Father. The two groups maintained a treaty that stipulated that Frey and his sister Freya, of the vanir, must spend part of each year living in Asgard among the aesir. The two separate families had a history of feuds.

The aesir were properly the family of Odin, while the vanir were better considered 'cousins'.

However, there was a good deal of marriages and mixing of blood between the two groups of powers, and so many scholars considered both to be the collective whole of the Norse pantheon. Technically, the gods of Asgard were the aesir, and the gods of the neighboring realm of Vanaheim on the same layer were the vanir.

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