Varin
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Varin (died c. 855) was the husband of Rosta and father of Eivor.
History
At the age of nineteen, Varin and his lover Rosta stacked cairns on a high cliff near the fjord of their village.[2] The two were later married and by around 847 CE, Rosta bore Varin a child, Eivor.[3]
Unfortunately, their happiness did not last. Nine years later, the Order of the Ancients member Kjotve the Cruel raided their village of Fornburg in Rygjafylke as the Raven Clan was swearing allegiance to King Styrbjorn of Fornburg. Warning Eivor to stay inside the longhouse, Varin lead his clan to battle and dueled Kjotve as the raiders began their attack.[1]
Varin proved no match for Kjotve and was quickly overcome. As Kjotve's men set the village ablaze and began killing the wounded, Rosta was apprehended by a raider in her effort to help her husband. With Rosta's life as leverage, Kjotve offered Varin a chance to spare the village if he surrendered. Against his wife's protests, Varin knelt in submission and tossed aside an-shaven Kjotve behead. Kjotve immediately reneged on his word, picking up the axe and using it to decapitate Varin. Hoping to avenge Varin, Rosta rushed at Kjotve, only to make it paces from him before her captor launched a throwing axe into her back, killing her.
Kjotve kept Varin's axe, and despite his command to leave no survivors, Eivor survived the attack[1] and was adopted by Styrbjorn, who raised her alongside his own son, Sigurd. In 872, she recovered Varin's axe after defeating one of Kjotve's soldiers, Rikiwulf, before he could kill her crewmate Bragi in a blood-sacrifice.[4]
Behind the scenes
In the first issue of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory, Varin's death is depicted with a bearded Kjotve impaling him through the chest with a sword. This conflicts with the same events in the memory sequence "Prologue" from Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, which instead has a clean-shaven Kjotve beheading Varin. Further, this discrepancy cannot be Eivor imagining the details of her father's death, as she was present at the raid and saw both her parents' ends.
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory (appears in flashback(s))
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (appears in flashback(s))
Gallery
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Varin's death in Song of Glory
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Prologue
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – East Cape Peak
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Seas of Fate
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Honor Bound