User:OdinAesir

"' I sure hope this place has a respawn system, otherwise let's play it safe alright?'""- Odin, Seeing the New World laid out beneath him."Odin, also called Odin-san by other players, is a YGGDRASIL player and the head of the Guild Aesir. He is one of the designers of the 'Heavenly Ending of Valhalla' and the creator of several NPCs that guard the guild hall, Most notably he is the creator of Ra and Dracula. Alongside his friend and guild mate Semiramis, he is seen as the ultimate authority of Valhalla and one of the mightiest of the Divine Aesir by the NPCs of Valhalla.

Once moved to the New World Odin and Aesir sought refuge with the closest large-scale power, this one being the Argland Council State, and formed an alliance that brought security to both sides. Odin is also known as Gagnráðr, a traveling scholar and healer who wanders the world performing aid in exchange for tomes and knowledge.

Appearance
Odin's character is an Aesir, and because of that his physical look has no baring on his actual abilities. Additionally as he is of the race of Aesir (a race that can only be unlocked through cash payment) his physical and magical stats are slightly higher than that of an average humanoid race. His style of clothing is very much reminiscent of the Odin portrayed in ancient myths.

He wears armour very similar to old norse battle dress and also wears an eyepatch to cover his eye (which is not a normal eye but is instead a divine class item) The eyepatch will usually glow with cold blue light, which can cool the air with a frost aura to gather frost on the area surrounding Odin.

When Disguised as the traveler Gagnráðr, Odin forgoes his normal intimidating armour for more humble commoner cloths. They are still high ranked robes so as to afford some protection but are not as notable as his battle dress. He also wears a far more modest brown leather eyepatch that masks his false eye's powers.

Personality
Odin is a very cautious and somewhat fearful individual. As he does not possess the affinity of calm collectedness that is afforded to the Heteromorphic races he is capable of feeling all of his emotions without outside stimulus. Because of this many outside of Valhalla have called Odin somewhat of a coward as he is reluctant to enter into combat situations. It is only after he learns of his amazing level of power compared to the native inhabitance of the New World that he becomes more daring, though he is still always cautious and sometimes can overcommit his forces to the point where it becomes overkill.

This is in direct contrast to his attitude in YGGDRASIL, as during the game he was constantly running all over the game world trying to discover secrets and sometimes taking risks that got him in trouble with the game developers. He is also very secretive and will keep important information even from his own guild mates if giving it up will be disadvantageous to him. This has almost gotten him expelled from his own guild twice, once for keeping a World Item secret from the guild and the other for being caught almost using that World Item for personal gain.

However he is still very caring and is incredibly loyal to his friends, more so in the New World than in YGGDRASIL as there are many consequences in the New World that were not present in the game.

As Gagnráðr he is much friendlier than he is as Odin, partially as he wants to project the 'strong leader' image to his subjects and his new allies. Odin is more than happy to help others for the smallest of costs (the cost is always new knowledge), sometimes as small as a new joke or a random fact he did not know before. He has gained a reputation amongst many villages throughout the kingdoms as the 'Miracle Worker who deals in riddles'. Usually when he reaches a large town or city he will charge them a book, it doesn't matter what kind (though he prefers general and military history) so long as it is a new book to him and his library. This has led many villages to create their own books with information about their own local histories, the flora and fauna found around their areas and many other pieces of trivia about the land around them. The only thing that has been known to anger Gagnráðr is when people try to sell him false information.

One day, in a village in the Re-Estize kingdom, a nobleman asked Odin to heal his daughter who was gravely ill, Odin healed her and demanded a book in return. The nobleman, angry at having something demanded of him, instead gave Odin a scroll containing false intelligence on the Slane Theocracy. Odin in turn, cursed the man with the same sickness that he had just cured the man's daughter of. In return to healing the nobleman Odin demanded that he be shown the library and be allowed to pick out two books of his choosing. The daughter (Who had recovered and taken control of the village while her father was sick) agreed and Odin healed them man.

As a student of history, particularly early Greek to late Roman history he is a somewhat knowledgable battle tactician who carefully plans out his attacks but much prefers to hold his forces back and only use them conservatively, especially because of the lack of a respawn system.

In the Real World
In the real world before becoming a player Odin was a university student studying in Europe, hoping to become a historian, possibly in order to escape into the past as opposed to the ruined world that the earth had become in the early 22nd century. Odin eventually became interested in DMMO-RPGs after playing several DRTSs, battle simulators that pitted armies against each other. He became very proficient at implementing strategies he found in his history classes, with his favorite being his use of the tactics of Hannibal at Cannae to win the European Championship of the game 'Age of Conquerors'.

Odin got into DMMO-RPGs thanks to a friend of his, who went by the YGGDRASIL name BALDR. He and another friend, who named her character Semiramis, became a three-man party that progressed in the game world. Eventually they met other players who then formed together to create the clan Aesir. After some time and a desire to become an official guild they completed a guild quest and became the guild Aesir.

Clan Aesir
Originally Odin, BALDR and Semiramis worked together to clear dungeons and progress their characters. They were however, one of the few mixed race parties in YGGDRASIL as BALDR played as a Heteromorphic character, while both Semiramis and Odin played as Humanoid characters. (Odin went the extra mile and purchased the Aesir race from the cash shop in order to access classes and jobs afforded only to that race) This led to a lot of targeting by rival parties looking to PK Heteromorphs. However BALDR was a first rate player and this led to the group forming a well known reputation in the area as a group that protected Heteromorphic players. Because of this both heteromorphic players and those that were friends with them joined up with the party. The group eventually became too big and the three, alongside six other players, decided to form a clan. In honor of their Norse names and the game's nordic theme they named the clan 'Aesir'.

Aesir would continue on for some time, amassing power and items as all of the player approached max level. However before long several players showed unrest. They wanted to see the full capabilities of the game's grouping system, some where especially excited about the opportunity to conquer a dungeon and make it their guild base. This would also serve to protect the clan's treasure which was starting to become too big for their inventories. The clan had even come into possession of a world Item named 'Fafnir's greed', supplied by Odin after he explored Niðavellir.

Seeing the discontent of his clan mates Odin took out a guild quest and along with his new friends the clan of 'Aesir' ended and the guild of 'Aesir' was born.

Guild Master of Aesir
In the aftermath of the formation of the Guild Aesir, as he not only picked the guild quest but was also a founding of the original three man party and the clan, Odin put in his name for consideration as guild leader, he received some opposition from from one of the other founding members; YMIR!!, but ultimately was declared guild leader.

Odin's first act was to find a suitable location to form their guild base. It was during this time that the guild was informed of a wandering dungeon by the name of Valhalla by HeimDall. Thanks to their status as max level players and the relative ease of the dungeon the guild was able to conquer it on their first try. It was after the conquest that the guild discovered the dungeon's secret.

Valhalla, unlike other guild halls, moved. The guild hall was programmed to constantly relocate itself, moving around all nine of the game's areas and never staying in one place for very long. The dungeon's movement was the ultimate reason as to why Valhalla has never been properly invaded by anyone. Even when the guild was weak, with only 700lvs for creating NPCs, the dungeon has never fallen to outsiders.

It was nearly two years into Aesir's activity that the guild gained the means that made it strong. During a raid a new player who had happened upon the guild bragged about his possession of the World Item known as Oroborus. He was immediately killed by the guild and the item was taken back with the guild to their guild base. After much deliberation the members decided that the best usage of the Oroborus' powers was to make themselves unstoppable. To do this the guild removed the level cap on their characters, allowing them to level up infinitely, this was done so that the game developers would not notice the use and reject it as they feared they would. For nearly a year afterwards the guild increased their levels, making themselves more powerful and increasing the power of their guild. The use was finally noticed by the developers when one of the players; BALDR, entered and won one of the World tournaments. The developers replaced the level cap but because of the guild's progression into the upper tier of the 300s they set the level cap for Aesir at 400. This meant that any character of Aesir, whether a player character or and NPC could reach level 400, though as their dungeon had only 700 lvs this was unlikely.

In protest for their change being undone in a game who's slogan was player freedom the guild requested some form of compensation. The developers, seeing the guild's point, gave the guild a set of riddles and clues detailing the whereabouts of Oroborus' new location. The guild would eventually find the World Item and again use it to make themselves more powerful, this time by resetting the lv limit on their guild base, allowing each player a grand total of 250,000 lvs to use. This use was never found by the developers as Valhalla was so remote no invader ever noticed it or reported it.

Trivia

 * Odin's favorite historical figure is Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a famous roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama.
 * Despite this Odin's favorite battle is the battle of Cannae. A battle where Hannibal defeated over eighty-six-thousand romans with only eight-thousand loses on his own side.
 * Odin has many books on history and battle strategy from the Real World in his library in the New World thanks to scanning those books into YGGDRASIL as decoration.
 * His greatest treasure is a copy of the Art of War by Sun Tzu.
 * Odin's biggest hobby is designing backstories for NPCs.
 * Odin helped write the settings and backstories for most of the custom NPCs of Valhalla, nearly fifty thousand of them.
 * His favorite food is german chicken schnitzel, which he learned to make in the New World.
 * Odin as a Lv 400 Aesir is immortal despite being of the humanoid race.
 * BALDR, the most powerful member of Aesir, didn't like Odin because of his duplicity.

Quotes

 * (Upon seeing the New World) ' Well this is just great, where did we end up this time?'
 * (Meeting the Platinum Dragon Lord) 'You're not an NPC, you're real... Oh my god you're real! What the F*@k is going on?"
 * (To Semiramis on YGGDRASIL's last day)  'It's the last day, might as well have some fun'
 * (Seeing a ghost for the first time in the New World) ' AHHHHHHHHHHH A GHOST! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!'
 * (Unknown) ' Fuck my life.'