Balder
Also called Baldr.
Balder is the shining, beloved son of Odin and Frigg in Norse tradition, made invulnerable by an oath sworn from every thing in the world save the mistletoe, and killed by that one omission through Loki's contrivance.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Norse mythology
- Region
- Nordic Regions (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Impervious
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Omens
- Bound monster breaks free at worlds end
why
The tradition also places Balder's return after the world's ending, which gives his story a forward reach that most divine deaths lack.
Defensive powers
- Invulnerability
why
The fuller prose accounts describe how he begins to dream of his own death, and how his mother Frigg travels through the world taking an oath from fire, water, metals, stones, trees, sicknesses, beasts and birds that none of them will harm him.
Utility powers
- Precognition
why
The fuller prose accounts describe how he begins to dream of his own death, and how his mother Frigg travels through the world taking an oath from fire, water, metals, stones, trees, sicknesses, beasts and birds that none of them will harm him.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.