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Odin

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The Aesir gods respect Odin because of his great wisdom, which he worked very hard to get. At the beginning of the world, he even gave up one of his eyes in exchange for a drink from a wisdom-well. Odin may be missing an eye, but thanks to that sacrifice, he can see in his mind everything that happens in the past, present, and future. Odin's wisdom is what makes him such a good king.

Basic Information

Name	Odin
Nickname	The Big Cheese, Wise Guy, the War God, Woden (Anglo-Saxon), Wotan (Old High German), Wotanaz (Proto-Germanic)
Sex	Male
Current city	Asgard

Work & Education

Occupation

King of the Aesir Gods
God of War, Battle, and Victory
God of Wisdom, Knowledge and Poetry
God of the Hunt

Family & Friends (& Enemies)

Parents	Bor and Bestla
Siblings	Two brothers, Vili and Vé Sworn blood-brother, Loki
Children	With Frigg, sons Balder, Hod, and (possibly) Hermod With Jord, a son, Thor With the giantess Grid, a son, Vidar (slayer of Fenrir wolf) With Rind, a son, Vali (avenger of Balder) Adopted sons: all the slain Vikings that populate Valhalla
Friends	The Valkyries, who choose the best of the slain Vikings for my hall
Enemies	Fenrir-Wolf, who will kill me during Ragnarok (I may only have one eyeball, but I can see the future) Loki, who killed my son, Balder (though he did give me my horse, Sleipnir)

Relationships

Relationship status

Married to Frigg
Lover to the giantess Jord
Lover to Freyja (secretly)

Favorites

Quotations	"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully." – Thomas Fuller "Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon "No man was ever wise by chance." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca "Only the dead have seen the end of the war." – George Santyana "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." – Stephen Hawking
Books	Anglo-Saxon poetry, including Beowulf and The Wanderer When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman If We Must Die by Claude McKay The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Harry Potter series (I see myself in Dumbledore) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink Poetry magazine
Music	I love Sam Cooke, A Change Is Gonna Come The Eagles, Hotel California Joan Jett, I Love Rock N' Roll Tchaikovsky Richard Wagner Sergei Rachmaninoff
Movies	Lord of the Rings

Activities & Interests

Likes

My awesome hall Valhalla, where I host the slain Vikings
My silver hall Valaskialf, from which I can watch the entire world Gladsheim, the hall from which I preside over Asgard and appoint the Diar, or Twelve Judges
Gungnir, my magical spear of the finest dwarvish craftsmanship
Draupnir, the gold ring that produces eight new gold rings every ninth night
My eight-legged horse, Sleipnir
Huginn and Muninn, the ravens of thought and memory
My wolves, Freki and Geri

Groups

Kings of the Gods
Wise Men
War Leaders
Sacrificial Lambs
Big Cheeses of Asgard
World Creators
Mensa

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