Hey, y'all!
I know this isn't my traditional "Harry Potter" fanfiction, but this plot bunny has been gnawing at my brain for a long time and demands to be published. It's mixing the 2011 "Thor" movie and the 1998 animated movie "The Prince of Egypt", an idea that came from watching a few YouTube videos casting Loki as Rameses and Thor as Moses and realizing how the roles should actually be switched if this story was to be told properly.
I'll be using Egyptian and Israeli history theories, Norse mythology, and the Bible along with these two movies to create this story, so if anything confuses you, PLEASE let me know so I can clarify it for you. PLEASE let me know if I should continue this story - I really want to know what you think!
As always, read, REVIEW, and enjoy! Thanks!
-Owlix
Prologue: The Creation of The Father Land
In the beginning, there was nothing but Chaos and Darkness. Chaos and Darkness married and created their son, Ymir, by mixing Chaos's venomous blood and Darkness's icy blood. Ymir was a simple, childlike man who only truly needed his wife Auðumbla to keep him happy, as long as he was fed. His wife bore him a son and a daughter, who went on to create a race of giants who could survive in the deathly cold void that existed.
For a time, this family was content. Not truly happy, for they knew no true sadness, but content.
But then, Auðumbla found something amazing – a man encased in the ice that formed their world. No one knew where he'd come from or how long he'd been there, but they did know that he was as large as Ymir and beautiful to behold, with skin as white as the snow they saw around them. Seeing only his beauty and none of his potential danger, Ymir and his family carved the mystery man out of the ice and coaxed him to wake.
He said his name was Buri, and he was welcomed into the family as Ymir's brother. He married a beautiful giantess with icy skin as soft as falling snow whose name was Bestla. In time, she gave him three strong sons named Odin, Vili, and Ve. These three boys were the best of both their parents: Ymir's strength and size, Bestla's magic and cunning, Ymir's beauty, Bestla's intelligence.
Not long before these sons were to change from boys into men, their mother died, and much of the evidence of her sudden death seemed to point towards her kinsman, Buri. Of course, he had nothing to do with it, for he was too simple to want someone dead. The true culprit was another giant who had wanted Bestla for himself and hated Ymir for allowing Buri to wed her. He allowed his hatred and jealousy to flood through him, as was unfortunately common for giant-kind, and slew his beloved using poison and made it look like Ymir would have ordered it.
Whether Ymir was the culprit or not, it did not matter for the damage had been done. Buri and all his household now felt that Ymir was a kinslayer and oathbreaker, and they all thirsted for revenge, especially Bestla's three sons, who had loved her faithfully. Buri removed himself and his household from Ymir's presence and raised his sons to be cunning warriors and promised them an afterlife in golden halls if they fell in battle. Soon, the entire household adopted Buri's philosophy of a gleaming golden hall that would welcome all who had led valiant lives and had died gloriously in battle. They began to call this hall "Valhalla" and saw this as their most desired afterlife.
When Odin, Vili, and Ve became men, they plotted to get revenge for their mother's murder. They saw that Ymir and his household had become complacent, as if they'd completely forgotten their crimes against the House of Buri and had moved on with their lives. This made the Bursons murderously angry, and they soon could not hold back their anger. They and their bravest warriors fell upon the House of Ymir one night, slaughtering all in their path. The Bursons themselves went straight for Ymir and eventually ended up tearing him apart with their bare hands. Vili and Ve were lost in the battle, leaving Odin to finish their plan for revenge.
Using the combined powers of Vili and Ve's lingering magics, as well as his own, Odin used Ymir's body as a sacrifice to create an entirely new realm.
Out of Ymir's flesh, Odin created dry land.
Out of Ymir's blood, Odin created seas and rivers.
Out of Ymir's bones and teeth, Odin created stone and mountains.
Out of Ymir's skull, Odin created the sky.
Out of Ymir's brains, Odin created the clouds.
Soon, all that was left of Ymir were his eyelashes. Out of those, Odin created a wall of compressed air around the realm that would burn anyone who was trying to forcibly enter it, especially the giants, who ran much colder than one would expect.
As a final insult, Odin created two trees, which brought forth a man and a woman who looked more like Odin with their white skin and light-colored hair and eyes. He taught these two how to create others like them, and soon the world was populated with a people who were in Odin's image.
Odin called this realm "Midgard", after Asgard, the golden realm that he and his father created after Ymir's death.
The remains of Ymir's house called this realm "the Father Land" and swore that one day they would return to claim what was theirs.