Editing Ragnarök

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|prev=[[Human-Isu War]]
|next=[[Assassin-Templar War]]
|conc=[[Great Catastrophe]]
|name=Ragnarök|date=75,000 BCE (2306 [[Isu Era|IE]])<ref name="CheatingFate">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Cheating Fate]]</ref>|place=[[Asgard]]<ref name="CheatingFate"/>
|result=Extinction of the [[Æsir]] and [[Vanir]]
|side1=Æsir<ref name="CheatingFate"/>
Vanir<ref name="CheatingFate"/>
|side2=
*[[Jötnar]]<ref name="CheatingFate"/>
*[[Muspels]]<ref name="Reckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – [[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>
*[[Hel]]'s armies<ref name="ForgottenSaga"/><ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – [[The Forgotten Saga]] – [[Floating conversations]]''</ref><ref name="EchoesOfHistory">''[[Echoes of History]]: Ragnarök'' – Episode 5: Ragnarök, Twilight of the Gods</ref>
|commanders1=[[Odin]]†<ref name="CheatingFate"/>
|commanders2=Loki†<ref name="Reckoning"/><br>Hel†<ref name="EchoesOfHistory"/>
|forces1=
*''[[Einherjar]]'' army
*Odin's trusted eight
|forces2=
*''Jötnar'' army
*Muspel army
*Loki's children
}}

'''Ragnarök''', also known as the '''Twilight of the Gods''',<ref name="Wiki">{{WP|Ragnarök}}</ref><ref name="EchoesOfHistory"/> was a major battle fought by the [[Æsir]] and ''[[einherjar]]'' against the combined forces of the [[Muspels]], ''[[jötnar]]'', the souls of the unworthy dead, [[Loki]], and his three children, [[Fenrir]], [[Jörmungandr]], and [[Hel]]. It occurred right as the [[Great Catastrophe]] struck the [[Earth]] during the [[Isu Era]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – [[Cheating Fate]]</ref> The event was largely caused by the actions of the [[Isu]] [[Odin]], who stole the [[mead of poetry]] from ''jötnar'' custody<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – [[A Feast to Remember]]</ref> and then killed the Muspel warlord [[Surtr]].<ref name="Reckoning"/> Following the Great Catastrophe, it was remembered by the [[human]]s as a cataclysmic cycle that destroys the world so it can be started anew. For the [[Norse people|Norse]], Ragnarök represented an approaching ultimate battle that results in the death of many of [[Norse mythology|their gods]], including Odin and [[Thor]], as well as the rebirth of the world through submersion into water.

==Mythology==
{{Quote|It's a common mythology around the world. First a cataclysmic event occurs. It could be a great flood. It could be fire. But it wipes the slate clean, and, afterward, the survivors are left with a purified new world. That's a part of Ragnarök people sometimes forget. The cycle starts over.|Sebastian Monroe's observations on Ragnarök, c. 2016|Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods}}
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events prophesied in the ''{{Wiki|Völuspá}}'' poem from the ''{{Wiki|Poetic Edda}}''. In it, a {{Wiki|Seeress (Germanic)|völva}} recites information to Odin, seeing a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major gods—[[Týr]], [[Freyr]], [[Heimdall]], and [[Loki]] among the casualties—the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors, {{Wiki|Líf and Lífþrasir}}. Ragnarök is an important event in Norse mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory throughout the history of Germanic studies.<ref name="Wiki"/>

==Prelude==
Among the [[Isu]] who [[Calculations|predicted]] or were warned of that the [[Great Catastrophe]], a number of them saw it as the culmination of Ragnarök for their species. When [[Fenrir]]'s birth was seen as a key part of making the cataclysm a certainty, his father Loki smuggled the boy into the Æsir city of [[Asgard]], fearing the ''[[jötnar]]'' the boy was born into would kill him. However, the [[Nornir]] had warned the Æsir leader Odin of Fenrir's role in his own death at the onset of Ragnarök and, while he kept his blood bond with Loki not to harm the child, Loki's inability to trust him and their respective machinations helped ensure that the Great Disaster came to pass.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – {{Cite|8 Apr 2022. Memories needed}}</ref>

==Legacy==
When [[Desmond Miles]] averted the [[Second Disaster]] in 2012,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> former [[Templars|Templar]] and [[Instruments of the First Will|Instrument of the First Will]] member [[Isaiah]] saw it as an attempt to circumvent the end of the next Ragnarök cycle. Affronted, he tried to use the [[Trident of Eden]] to bring about the world's destruction so he could position himself as ruler of what came after. His plot was undone with help from [[Minerva]] around 2016 during the [[Ascendance Event]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]'' – {{Cite|8 Apr 2022. Chapters, more detail needed}}</ref>

== Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[The Way of the Berserker]]'' {{Imo}}
**''[[Wrath of the Druids]]'' {{Imo}}
**''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' {{Imo}}
**''[[Mastery Challenge]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[The Forgotten Saga]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Discovery Tour: Viking Age]]'' {{Io|painting}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Forgotten Myths]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Echoes of History]]'' {{Mo}}

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