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 in 847 CE, Rosta bore Varin a child, Eivor.[3]
Unfortunately, their happiness did not last. Eight years later, the Order of the Ancients member Kjotve the Cruel raided their village of Heillboer in Rygjafylke as they were swearing allegiance to the Raven Clan's 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 his axe. Kjotve immediately reneged on his word, picking up the axe and using it to slay 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
Varin first appeared in the first issue of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory, were his 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 swing Varin's own axe into his skull.
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory (first appearance) (appears in flashback(s))
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
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
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