As she had done before, Eivor held the amulet aloft, prompting its energy to lighten up the three Elder Futhark runes and the stylized triquetra on the door, which slid down to open.
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The All-Seeing Eye 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[edit | edit source]
Eivor decided to revisit Hildiran in order to check her progress in discovering the purpose of Odin's Eye.
Dialogue[edit | edit source]
Eivor found Hildiran in the centre of the training area adjacent to her home in Ravensthorpe, close to its Shrine of the Valkyrie.
- Hildiran: Ha! Eivor of the Raven Clan! The Eye of Odin will serve our purpose!
The Viking approached her.
- Hildiran: I have discovered the secret of the Eye.
- Eivor: What can you mean?
The old woman pulled from the ancient artifact and showed it to her while gazing upon it.
- Hildiran: It is one thing to look upon it, but quite another to listen. It will sing to you, Wolf-Kissed. It will sing of treasure.
The object emitted a faint sound.
- Eivor: You speak in riddles.
- Hildiran: Take it. Hold it close. Go to the coast of East Anglia. Once there, follow the song. You will see.
She handled the Eye to the jarlskona.
- Eivor: I am to listen to an eye with my ears. I fear you mock me.
- Hildiran: There is no mockery. Go. You will understand.
Eivor left with a smirk on her face. She then traveled to the cliffs below the fortress of Dunwic, where the sound emitting from the artifact grew stronger.
- Eivor: What is this? The Eye of Odin has found something.
She found a small abandoned encampment on the beach near the rocks. As Eivor approached a sealed crack in the cliff, the object started "singing" in a strange language.
- Odin's Eye: Dű hàsm rhobtoràs oænosôd oærhàsi (Open for the sake of one of the Chosen Ones).
(unintelligible)
(unintelligible) dű hàsm rhobtoràs oænosôd oærhàsi (...open for the sake of one of the Chosen Ones).
Eivor then used one of the oil jars in the camp to clear the barred opening. She passed through it, prompting the sounds emitted by the orb to get louder.
- Eivor: This is Hildiran's song. It gets louder as I approach its object.
Venturing into a corridor made of unusual architecture, she eventually dropped into a small pit and saw a sealed door reminiscent of the one in Freyja's Cave. Eivor held Freya's medallion aloft before the door. A faint glow came from the medallion, but it was not enough to trigger the door mechanism. Unsatisfied with the result, Eivor tried to force the entrance, pushing the stone door to no avail, as Hildiran arrived.
- Hildiran: I see you are unable to open a simple door.
The jarlskona threw the orb to the old woman.
- Eivor: Your singing stone tells me something is within. But the door will not move.
Hildiran examined the artifact.
- Hildiran: Have you still the amulet of Freyja?
- Eivor: You burden me with so much jewelry.
Eivor took the amulet out of her satchel and showed it to her.
- Hildiran: You may have fooled Freyja, but your strength is no match for Odin.
- Eivor: You mean to say that I must continue to train.
- Hildiran: New shrines of Hugrheim await you. If you like, come visit me. I have more treasures to bestow.
She handled the Eye back to the Viking.
- Hildiran: Meanwhile, keep this. There may be other hidden playthings of the gods.
The old woman left, leaving Eivor to find three more shrines. One stood at the Anderitum Hideout in Suthsexe. Another was outside Saint Guthlac's Point in Lincolnscire. The last one was on the cliffs west of Uffentune in Hamtunscire, overlooking the River Afon. These trials pushed Eivor to her limits, but she completed them all the same and fully charged the amulet.
- Eivor: The amulet should now be strong enough for me to enter Odin's Vault.
With her training complete, she returned to the entrance of Odin's Vault below Dunwic.
- Eivor: It is likely that once through this gate, there will be no way back. Am I ready for this?
- Eivor: Not yet.
(returns to choices)
With her path now unimpeded, Eivor proceeded to enter the vault, lighting up the Shrine of the Valkyrie situated in its interior, which reacted to the medallion's presence. The center dais displayed an ornate set of armor resembling that of a Valkyrie. As the Viking walked to it, Hildiran suddenly struck her with a large plank of wood from behind. The old woman approached the armor as Eivor, laying on the ground, lost consciousness.
- Hildiran: Ha! At long last!
After a while, the jarlskona woke up to find that Hildiran had donned the armor, standing before the shrine.
- Eivor: What is this?
Hildiran turned around and her eyes glowed red with the power of Hugrheim.
- Hildiran: Vengeance.
Eivor took the now glowing amulet out of her bag, with the rune Isaz lighting up red in a similar fashion.
With this, Eivor saw a fire erupt around her as Hildiran levitated above it, prompting the two of them to be transported into Hugrheim, into a fiery version of the castle above them. Within Hugrheim, Eivor donned the Paladin Armor Set she had acquired in Francia, looking around in awe as Hildiran, with axe and shield in hand, approached her from behind a wall. She stamped her axe on the ground as the Viking looked to her in a challenging manner, initiating combat with the armored old woman.
- Hildiran: I control Hugrheim now. If you die, your mind is forever lost.
Eivor's attacks with Aella's Bardiche were often consistently parried by Hildiran.
- Hildiran: You will not last long.
The only consistent way through Hildiran's defenses lay in Eivor's first duel with her, to bait out Hildiran's own strikes and parry them in turn.
- Eivor: There, Valkyrie!
After a while, Eivor weakened the old woman enough to make her vanish in retreat, gradually healing herself as Eivor ran to catch up. When Eivor left the area, various bandits appeared in front of her to slow her down.
- Hildiran: I would like you to meet my guests!
Eivor defeated the bandits, then reached Hildiran in another fiery arena further up the castle before she could fully heal.
- Hildiran: You search for your very death!
The two continued to battle each other, with Hildiran setting aside the shield in favor of a hammer.
- Eivor: Why have you turned against me?
- Hildiran: My mother, her mother, and back generations have sought you out.
Eivor once again fought Hildiran into retreat.
- Hildiran: You are resilient, Wolf-Kissed.
She ventured further into the fortress, confronting more bandits and bypassing a variety of traps. Eventually, she used another oil jar to unlock the pathway to the last arena on the tallest tower of Dunwic, where Hildiran wielded two Dane axes simultaneously.
- Hildiran: A pleasant surprise.
- Eivor: I have done nothing to you or any of your grandmothers!
- Hildiran: The blood of Valkyries flows in my veins. Blood once spilled by the One-Eyed!
After a long battle, Hildiran finally fell to her knees. She screamed in anger, dispelling the fiery illusion and assembling a frigid recreation of the castle.
Eivor donned the Rus' Armor Set, one she had acquired from her travels in Ireland, found herself in one of the fortress' ramparts, equipped with only the Death-Skald.
- Eivor: What is all this talk of Valkyries?
The voice of Hildiran echoed through the air.
An illusory Hildiran materialized from the interior of the castle, charging towards Eivor. Eivor took aim and shot her weak point, bringing her to her knees.
- Eivor: That's the spot!
Eivor quickly finished her off with a headshot.
- Hildiran: You must defeat all of me!
Eivor struck her weak spot as well and repeated the kill.
- Eivor: Perfect!
More illusions of Hildiran spawned, charging with the unrefined fighting styles of bandits and berserkers.
- Eivor: Another one!
Eivor used her bow to pick off the weak points of the illusions, finishing them with headshots as more and more of them appeared.
- Eivor: Annoying pests!
As Eivor killed the clones, she continued to try and reason with Hildiran.
- Eivor: You speak madness!
- Hildiran: You imprisoned Hildr in the cell of ice, where she died of starvation after Ragnarök.
The projections kept coming, with Eivor eliminating them over and over.
- Eivor: Too many!
Stay away!
I must thin them out!
Still more!
Will I never be done with you? - Hildiran: I attack as a swarm!
When overwhelmed, Eivor detonated the oil jars to quickly kill off some of the illusory fighters.
- Eivor: O, yes!
Surprised by death.
Eventually, the real Hildiran emerged, weakened again. She dispelled the icy illusion and created another, calling on the lush third state of Hugrheim.
Eivor found herself in one of the overgrown cells of Dunwic overlooking the sea, this time wearing naught but the Thrall's Tunic and Thrall's Breeches, and equipped with only the Hunnish Bow and her Hidden Blade. Hildiran's voice resounded in the air.
- Hildiran: Strike a blow and I will vanish as the wind, Wolf-Kissed.
Eivor climbed her way out of the room and reached the upper ramparts of Dunwic, which were filled with bandits. She started searching for Hildiran through the bushes among the watchtowers, evading detection.
- Hildiran: You are an ocean away.
You will never get me at this rate.
Eivor drew strength from the patches of blackish-purple russula and knocked her enemies unconscious with the Thorn of Slumber, approaching Hildiran's location.
- Eivor: I feel you near.
She struck the old woman with a stealth attack, who vanished out of Eivor's sight after that.
- Eivor: Crusher!
Eivor once again found Hildiran and struck her with another stealth attack, with her disappearing again.
- Eivor: Drink your own blood!
As the Viking searched for her again, she heard Hildiran's voice.
- Hildiran: My mother told the tale since I was a child. How to use the amulet, how to defeat the One-Eyed.
- Eivor: I cannot make sense of your ravings.
For a third time, Eivor found and reached Hildiran without being seen, successfully assassinating her with her Hidden Blade. Hildiran screamed, pulling the two out of Hugrheim.
Eivor woke up to find Hildiran laying on the dais previously holding the armor, weakened. The jarlskona approached the old woman, moving away from a lit Isu artifact, similar to those she had found in other vaults. Eivor noticed some pieces of rubble in the ground that had fallen from the ceiling of the vault and Hildiran was physically injured, all likely due to their confrontation.
- Eivor: It was... not entirely a dream.
She took out her axe and held it to Hildiran's throat as she got up.
- Hildiran: The fight was fought in two spheres. You have defeated me both here and in the Mind's Realm.
Eivor lowered the axe and walked across the dais.
- Eivor: But why have we fought?
- Hildiran: I wished to take vengeance for my fore-mother of countless generations ago, Hildr.
- Eivor: Revenge upon me?
- Hildiran: Untold generations of my fore-mothers lead back to a powerful Valkyrie named Hildr. She was Freyja's lover.
She pointed to the Valkyrie shrine behind her.
- Hildiran: Odin burned with jealous fury. He threw Hildr into prison where my long-ago grandmother languished for years.
- Eivor: Your long-ago grandmother was Freyja's lover?
- Hildiran: All she had left of Freyja's love was her amulet.
Eivor pulled out Freya's medallion and looked at it.
- Hildiran: With each generation, my family vowed vengeance on Odin, whom we have watched for with vigilance!
- Eivor: You take me for Odin?
- Hildiran: I did. But I was mistaken. You are far wiser than he. In defeat, I offer my loyalty.
The old woman bowed to Eivor.
- Eivor: It is a tale fit for a drunken madwoman... but I accept your pledge.
- Hildiran: I am grateful to assist you, Wolf-Kissed.
Hildiran then approached the artifact close to Eivor on the ground, which emmited the same sounds that Odin's Eye had emmitted before.
- Hildiran: No need for this ancient beacon any longer.
She smashed the object with her foot.
- Hildiran: If you wish, there is training yet to be done. Treasures to be had! Come see me to prepare or to learn more about Hildr.
- Eivor: I would like that.
Hildiran nodded. Before leaving, she gave Eivor the Valkyrie's Legacy Helm. As the two stepped away, the remains of the beacon crackled with blue lightning.
- Eivor: "Untold generations." It is a long time to carry a grudge.
Eivor examined the broken artifact on the floor.
- Eivor: Ah, I see. These objects are used as beacons.
Eivor meditated at the Valkyrie statue to revisit her battles with Hildiran, completing the final trials and maxing out the battle energy within the amulet.
Eivor then returned to Ravensthorpe, entering Hildiran's home to find Hildr's armor exposed in a corner of the room. Additionally, she found a series of notes, starting with a paper on her dinner table.
Mother's Teachings
- Darling Hildiran,
The chill of death is upon me. I leave to you our family duty, passed mother to daughter for generations extending back into the swirls of time: vengeance must come to the hated Odin, in whatever form he is found.
Your distant grandmother Hildr served as Valkyrie to the goddess Freyja. As such, she learned of Odin's plan to save himself and other Æsir gods from the devastation of Ragnarök.
Furious that Odin thought only of himself and his friends, leaving all other being in Asgard to perish, Hildr rallied the Valkyries to attack. But, betrayed by Freyja, her rebellion suffered defeat and Odin let fall his merciless justice. Hildr was sentenced to a deep, dark prison to wait for the coming end to all.
Distraught by her part in Hildr's fate, yet unable to defy Odin, Freyja arranged to deliver her own amulet as a token of past love.
Hildr wept bitter tears and had the amulet sent away to her daughter in hopes it would one day be of use.
Hold these words close, dear Hildiran, Perhaps you will be the daughter who makes Odin pay for his cruelty!
–Your Loving Mother
Eivor turned around and saw another note on a pile of blankets by the door.
Research Notes
- I have looked closely into the odd amulet passed down by my mother. I have come to believe all that Mother has tole me, and the legend that it belonged to the Freyja herself. I will use it to search for any manifestation of Odin reborn!
Almost more astonishing than Freyja's Amulet are the shrines that are hidden throughout this land. The mysterious metal that exists in these shrines is the same metal of which Freyja's Amulet is made.
What is remarkable is that the shrines increase the power of the amulet, pushing its illusionary powers beyond all understanding. One can create what appears to be a very real event which takes place nowhere but in the viewer's mind!
Eivor saw a final paper on a barrel near the back wall.
The One-Eyed Unmasked
- Word has spread that an extraordinary Norse warrior is found in England, capable of exploits of legend. I will thence to see whether this be the rebirth of the one I seek.
I have found the Norse, Eivor by name. They appear credulous—I believe I can beguile them into almost anything.
The Amulet of Freyja offers the power of illusion. I shall make this Eivor jump to my command!
I have gained Eivor's attention and trust. It was simple enough with the amulet: a meteor fell from the sky! Or so it seemed to Eivor...
All is falling into place. This Eivor trusts me! I will find Hildr's armor and use its power to crush this "Odin". What delicious irony!
After that, she talked to Hildiran on the training area, trading her battle energy stored in the amulet for the remainder of the Valkyrie's Legacy Set. Some time after, in Hildiran's home, Hildiran put all the armor pieces on Eivor.
- Hildiran: I marvel at you, Eivor! Such armor.
- Eivor: It is my honor to wear the shielding of a Valkyrie.
- Hildiran: It suits you well.
Outcome[edit | edit source]
Eivor lead Hildiran, who sought to take vengeance on her ancestor's fate, to the treasures of Odin's Vault. After an intense battle, both physical and mental, between the two, Hildiran reconciled with the Viking and pledged allegiance to her.