The Mystic War
Of being made relevant to more than themselves.
This led to an uneasy hesitance. What would Realms do, when their prestige among the humans was threatened or usurped?
For eons, the tension was a mood in the room, a shadow or sparks of thunder and light. Some Realms banded together, others drifted. Some ceased to be worshipped at all. Left to their own, their Realms dimmed from their majesty, until they were either absorbed or drifted to a sickly end of a dying branch.
The Conflict
Prelude
Among the children of Thor Odinson & Sif, was born a screaming, premature infant the night of Baldr's death (See: Son of Abel).
Out. Send the brothers out.
At Mimir's behest, Odin Borson bundled up his infant grandson and his adolescent brother Magni Einridsen, and cast them out of Ásgard. Raised in Midgard, Modthi grew in anger and upset. He soured at every Bløt and scorned the worship of his kin in the Norselands.
In 778 AD, a Frankish Priest and his fellows crashed upon the shore, after being caught in a wild and unnatural storm. Bricius became friend and compatriot to the lonely Aesir, and then the unthinkable.
Bricius converted Modthi to the Theosian way of Christianity. Modthi revoked his name, and took up Raynar Einridsen. Arguably the first of the Mystic War, the skirmish which ensued between Magni and Raynar was vicious, and shook the foundations of the world.
Blessed of the Theosians, Bricius pushed Magni back, and fled with Raynar and their companions. Raynar awoke to the blessed chorus of angels, who sent him upon a path to the Byzantine Empire.
Raynar met Ares Mars Olympia, rebellious Olympian and the adopted Aesir & Vanir dubbed Tyr. Firmly in the Theosian corridor between the Bogatyrs of the Caucasus, the Theosians, the Hellene, and the Fae, Magni caught up with his brother.
This battle, fought by multiple Realms, conflagrated into the Mystic War.
Outcome
Aftermath
It remains an ironic sort of fitting that the war was begun by the Brothers Thorson, and so ended. The birth of Raynar's son Caleb Mauthisen finished it. We had our Judge.
The Mystic Truce began around the Altar of the Axis Mundi, as goddesses from the Realms took turns to feed the tiny godling. As they cared for the child, they talked. Through these conversations, women engaging with women, the push for peace took place.
Most called for Ares to take Kingship of Midgard, as he and Jase were the gods who longest and most viscerally inhabited the Middling Plane. Jase walked the world as a carpenter and mason, but Ares? He was commander of armies, warmonger and the champion who quelled the Fae Lord Finnegan's rage.
All which remained was Ares' maddening crown, but he would not take it.
"I will not be my father's son." He set his weapons upon the Altar, reinstated his mother Hera as Queen of the Hellenes and went home to his spouse Aphrodite and their lover.
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