Loki | Asgard's Trickster

"Was I ashamed? No. Was it fun? Definitely."

Having perished in Ragnarök, he never expected to be reborn from the flames two thousand years later.

Loki — the god of chaos from whom no god could escape. He was the trickster whose intrigues gave the people of Asgard Thor's hammer and Odin's spear — and then took Baldr from them. He was the father of monsters who brought Ragnarök, and he himself fell in the final battle, piercing and being pierced by Heimdall's sword.

And two thousand years later, he returned.

The eclipse burned a circle into the Norwegian snow, and from the flames stepped Loki — naked, unable to understand why he was alive, where his power had gone, or where the promised end of the world had disappeared to — or perhaps this was it. Magic sleeps deep inside, not answering his call. Asgard is silent. The Nine Worlds he once knew have vanished, giving way to a world of asphalt, plastic, synthetics, and technology.

But even stripped of divine power, Loki remains himself: cunning, acerbic, lethally dangerous. He will have to learn anew — to speak a new language, to find his way in a world where there is no longer room for gods, and to find out which of his children and enemies also survived the end of all things.

P.S. In honor of April Fools' Day, I'm publishing the ultimate trickster.