A Gift from the Otherworld
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A Gift from the Otherworld was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Basim Ibn Ishaq in 2020 through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description
Eivor receives a mysterious craftsman in Ravensthorpe.
Dialogue
Greeting the stranger
A red-haired man called out to Eivor near an occupied tent in Ravensthorpe.
She looked to him, not recognizing his face.
- Eivor: Do I know you?
- Everold: You were too young to remember me but I stayed with your household many years ago.
The bearded guest turned to a nearby wooden cart, withdrawing an ornamented horn from it and handling it to the jarlskona.
- Everold: This is for you.
An amazed Eivor took the object, recognizing it from her visions of Odin's time in Jötunheimr.
- Eivor: The Mead Horn of Suttungr! How is this possible? Can you conjure things from dreams?
- Everold: It's only a model. I fashioned it from a story, told to me by your father. But since he's dead, I offer it to you.
She inspectioned the horn closer, reminiscing.
- Eivor: It is exactly like I saw it... in my head... as Varin described it to me. Have you made other things from stories?
- Everold: Only if the storyteller is very good. Your father was. He would have made a good skald.
- Eivor: Could you do it from dreams or visions? Bring something into this world from another?
Valka, who was passing near them, stopped to hear the conversation.
- Everold: Not all dreamers speak, and fewer yet speak clearly. Seers talk too much and cloud your vision with--
The distursted volva interrupted the craftsman.
- Valka: What's this about bringing things into this world from another?
He turned to Valka, with a simle on his face.
- Everold: Hmmm. More like imagining it into our world. When I have the image, its design speaks to me in a language I do not know and yet understand.
Eivor showed the horn to her friend.
- Eivor: This is Suttungr's mead horn, Valka. From Jötunheimr. As Varin described it to him.
- Valka: I do not like the business of trafficking in visions, but if it revives good memories of your father, there may be value in it.
The seer now addressed Everold.
- Valka: I will bring you a potion that will let Eivor dream and speak clearly. If you take advantage, your death will be painful.
- Everold: Nah, you need not go to so much trouble. You could give me the recipe--
- Valka: I will bring you a potion.
She then turned to Eivor, talking so that only the viking could hear what she would say.
- Valka: Do not dig too deeply. We do not know the true cost of this.
- Eivor: There'll will be no cost to the gods. You heard him. He does not take things from their realms. He imagines them, then crafts them.
The volva looked away, preocuppied.
- Valka: Not the cost to the gods. To you.
With this, the seer walked away, prompting Everold to draw Eivor's attention again.
- Everold: I will get the workshop ready. Come by when you want to get started.
After some time, Eivor returned to the site, finding a building constructed in place of the tent. She entered it, encountering a room full of various items the carftsman had previously reproducted, including pieces of green silica and a drawing of the dwarven city of Eitri, in Svartálfaheimr. The jarlskona then approached a bedside table, grabbing the vessel that contained Valka's potion laying on top of it and sitting on the bed. Once Everold joined by sitting on a stool, she drank the concoction while he spoke jokingly.
- Everold: You'll be safe in my care. Valka has promised that any harm you suffer will be visited upon me tenfold.
- Eivor: She is protective of her people.
As the potion began to take effect, her words started getting distant.
- Eivor: But I must exact a promise from you. You must not speak of this to anyone... whatever happens...
She laid her head on the pillow.
- Everold: I swear upon my life, I will not speak of this to any but you.
Eivor fell asleep as he finished talking, beginning to relive the memories of Odin's journey to retrieve Baldr's consciousness from Hel's guard in the heart of Niflheimr.