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Vidar is the stranger of the party in "Vale of Odin". Most of the heroes know each other, even grew up together and two are married, and so their foibles and strengths are acknowledged, but Vidar is thrown into the mix as they travel.

A man of the wilderness, Vidar follows game across the Vale of Odin, trapping and hunting for a living and selling the pelts when he visits the major hubs of civilization. He has noticed that the game across the island has run scarce and the effects of famine widespread. He had no idea why, but will learn that after travelling with Bjorni on his mission. Vidar is spontaneous, often reckless - a wild spirit - antidote to the rooted values of the rest of our civilized heroes.

Vidar is a man who runs between the natural order and civilization. He not completely wild, since he depends on coin and services from civilization. The theme of barbarism rising above civilization, the ancient ways finding resurgence and the balance of nature are large themes of the novel series. A key idea of Vale of Odin is that that even old cultures were once reformations of older beliefs, traditions being reworked into newer, perhaps more fulfilling ways in the name of progress. The heroes pagan norse beliefs are the reformations of older, germanic originated forms of worship, and those reformations of even older ones, back and back in time. In my novel, the twist is that the ancient religions, or the Villains anyway, are proto-Lovecraftian dark gods territory; Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu and so on, who are struggling for their own resurgences, corrupting mankind to act as servants to bring them about.

Vidar is depicted with his twin bearded axes, which usually only see action when he meets bandits and angry towns guards. As any trapper might, he wears the products of his trade, here wolfskin clothes for warmth and a deerskin flask. His padded armour is "store bought."

Description
Vidar is the stranger of the party in "Vale of Odin". Most of the heroes know each other, even grew up together and two are married, and so their foibles and strengths are acknowledged, but Vidar is thrown into the mix as they travel.

A man of the wilderness, Vidar follows game across the Vale of Odin, trapping and hunting for a living and selling the pelts when he visits the major hubs of civilization. He has noticed that the game across the island has run scarce and the effects of famine widespread. He had no idea why, but will learn that after travelling with Bjorni on his mission. Vidar is spontaneous, often reckless - a wild spirit - antidote to the rooted values of the rest of our civilized heroes.

Vidar is a man who runs between the natural order and civilization. He not completely wild, since he depends on coin and services from civilization. The theme of barbarism rising above civilization, the ancient ways finding resurgence and the balance of nature are large themes of the novel series. A key idea of Vale of Odin is that that even old cultures were once reformations of older beliefs, traditions being reworked into newer, perhaps more fulfilling ways in the name of progress. The heroes pagan norse beliefs are the reformations of older, germanic originated forms of worship, and those reformations of even older ones, back and back in time. In my novel, the twist is that the ancient religions, or the Villains anyway, are proto-Lovecraftian dark gods territory; Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu and so on, who are struggling for their own resurgences, corrupting mankind to act as servants to bring them about.

Vidar is depicted with his twin bearded axes, which usually only see action when he meets bandits and angry towns guards. As any trapper might, he wears the products of his trade, here wolfskin clothes for warmth and a deerskin flask. His padded armour is "store bought."