But no, you threw it, but to what avail? For now the evil Baron and his bi-sexual wife are in possession of this piece of mirror, they found it after you fled, and have now released the Wizard Hammah from his elongated fucking session with the clone girl, and they are once again strong and undefeated. The Goddess Eostra has her powers returned to Her, yes, which is thanks to you and Hrothgar's mission to restore her handmaidens and sacred talismans, but the perversions in her magical castle of Everstein go on, her lands are being sullied and desecrated still, and the debauchery is even worse than before, as their adult sexual theme park is almost ready to be opened. But, Nano, the restoration of all this must be left in all the Goddess's hands for now. As a sisterhood, we must decide the best course of action before we act against them once more.
Now, I, The Goddess Freyja, will tell you why I asked your Goddess if I could confront you today.
Nano, Slave of Goddess Nemesis, I, Goddess Freyja am displeased and angry with you, the collared slave property of a sister Goddess. I have come here to Goddess Nemesis's dungeon domain to enact vengeance upon you. To punish you and make you suffer, as Hrothgar suffered, through your thoughtless actions.
For Slave Nano, Hrothgar still suffers. Yes Nano, even though Hrothgar my chosen Hero is now residing is Asgard, in my Hall of Volksvang, he is unhappy. He is languishing. Hrothgar is spending his days and nights in the home of the Aesir Goddesses and Gods. Yes, he serves me, he feasts, drinks and ruts his way through the many halls of Asgard, singing songs, swapping riddles and reciting sagas with all his fallen warrior comrades. But still he is unhappy Nano. He pleases me, his long golden hair and battle toughened muscles glow in the shine of my lamps and gold framed mirror and his deep voice tells me of his adoration, joyousness and reverence when I call him to my sacred ocelot-skinned bed, but I know he pines. I. the Goddess Freyja, the Norse Goddess of War, the Goddess of the living and the dead, I know he aches for his days as a fighting warrior. He needs to feel the thrusting of 'serpent breath' his death bringing sword, not just the thrusting of devotion of his Goddess.
I sense his dreams are filled with the cries of battle and glory, of defeating the foes and enemies of his Goddess. He longs to stride out again, wearing the winged helmet and bearing the raven symbol of his Goddess. But, you Nano, have doomed him to a life of pleasure, and he wasn't ready, Nano, he doesn't have the patience to be content with the Nirvana he finds himself residing in. He longs to serve me again, as a Warrior Hero, not just as a devotional stallion. Do you see, Nano? And there is a way; there is one way to return him to his status. There is a chance for you to repair and atone for the damage done to my cocksure heroic champion. But that way is dangerous. To do this service for Hrothgar will require bravery to match his. It will require the cunning and strategy and stillness of thought that your Goddess has trained you in. Are you willing slave Nano, slave of the Goddess Nemesis, to maybe even sacrifice yourself to release Hrothgar your friend from his fate?
Well, the way is this; Nano, I must tell you a little of the way of life in the Norse Goddess's lands. It is a life full of portends and mystery, of ancient landscapes and powerful forces. Not all our Goddesses are benevolent; some are vengeful. Not all our warriors are honourable; some are savage and undisciplined such is the way of the Norse. We also have Gods, who apart from the all powerful Odin are inferior in supremacy to the Godesses. Some are resentful of this; one such God is Loki, the trickster God. Of him you must beware.
To demonstrate Nano I shall tell you of one of his terrible deeds. In the Norse lands there is no number so unlucky as thirteen. Once in Valhalla, there was a feast for twelve Gods but Loki went uninvited and he played an evil game. Baldur was a favourite of Odin; he was good, but he had a weakness, yes a fatal weakness, he could be killed by mistletoe. Loki knew this but he tricked Baldur's brother Hod, who was blind, to throw a sprig of mistletoe at his brother. This Hod did, believing it to be a lucky sprig of rowan berries. Baldur died and Loki laughed and ever since then thirteen is a terribly unlucky number.
Now Slave Nano, it is possible to undo Hrothgar's fate and as you are the sole reason he resides in Asgard, you must be the only one to be sent to help him, as we Norse say, "Destiny is All." You must travel far. Far you must journey to the lands of the deepest north, to the hidden ravines and glacial mountains of the frozen forests of the far end of the earth itself. There Nano you must search for Yggdrasil, the World Tree. As you must know, Yggdrasil is the tree of life and is a huge sacred ash tree; the ash is a very auspicious and empowering tree. There are many ash trees in my lands Nano, but only one Yggdrasil. Beneath its spreading branches and ancient trunk, there, entangled within its roots is the eveil serpent Nauthiz, whose runic symbol denotes pain and constraint.. Nauthiz dwells unseen and undetected in the earth guarding and supporting Yggdrasil; but it has another function, Nano. This serpent also guards fate, for in an ancient cave, set within the earth's deepest recesses next to the roots of Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, there lives The Goddess Erda. Deep in her mystical cave Goddess Erda feeds the world's spirit from her sacred fountain; the magical waters of which nurture and create wisdom in anyone who drinks a drop of its wondrous crystal clearness.
The Goddess Erda is one of the Sister Goddesses of Fate, The Three Norns, associated with past, present and future. The Goddess Erda is the eldest; she is charged with powers to bend fate. The sisters sit and spin the destiny and doom of all Norse and it is to Erda's cave you must go Nano. Goddess Erda is willing to help Hrothgar; she has the power within her to unravel the strands of his weave of life and re-spin them, but to do this she needs an amulet, a lock of hair or some other personal possession of Hrothgar's to enable her to bend his fate, to open the door of Asgard for one moment to allow his re-entry into my war hall. But, Nauthiz guards the cave well; it is not in his interest to undo anyone's destiny. He is a jealous and vengeful creature and it will take all your fortitude to outwit him. He comes from his subterranean lair once a day, at mid-day and again during the hours of darkness to feed and prowl his domain, slithering silently through villages and homesteads in search of prey. The only facts I can tell you Nano to help your mission is a serpent will not, and dare not, touch the shadow of an ash tree; thus is his habit of emerging at noon and the dark hours. He lives beneath it but fears it's shadow, such is the sacredness of the ash tree.
In our mythology we use the earth itself and all things of nature as oracles and guidance. The sky, the ocean, the wind all have messages for eyes that see and ears that hear.
Slave Nano, although you are not a Norse man, you of all Goddess's slaves will hear and act in accordance to your training this time. The serpent Nauthiz is very fond of sagas. Perhaps he hasn't heard a saga heralding my chosen Hero Hrothgar's bravery in the battle against perversion and depravity. It may lull him and disarm him against you. Are you able to mimic a skald, a travelling teller of tales? It may entertain Nauthiz, hearing of Hrothgar's deeds.
The only help and talisman I can offer you is Hrothgar's horse, Flame-Stepper. Hrothgar's black stallion will meet with you. Do not make yourself known to him; he will be there, you will observe him, but do not acknowledge him. When the time is right Flame-Stepper will come to your aid.
It is time for you to leave Goddess Nemesis's domain now to go to my lands. You must wear the protective garments to help you pass the many perils of the dark uncharted forests of the North. You will be as a shadow-walker, a sceadugengan, unnoticed, unchallenged, unless you fall into the hands of the wild-haired trolls who inhabit the ravines and valley passes. The trolls would take you and use you as a slave, but unmercifully. There is also the cave dwarves who go about their business of gold-digging morning till night-fall and who, if they saw you, would think you had come to steal their secrets and treasures. They have caves, deep in the earth's bowels, where they torment and torture prisoners, so be on your guard Nano. They revere the God Loki and hold no devotion for any Goddess. They serve only Loki and their lust for gold. The cave dwarves who belong to the Ica tribe have the ice symbol as their rune. Ignore its message at your peril Nano. As a sceadugengan you may pass undetected as they will not be above ground during the shadow-time.
If you succeed to Goddess Erda's cave and present her with Hrothgar's amulet the Goddess will have to work her mystical powers on them. Do not be alarmed Nano, by an act you witness; we Norse Goddess's have entirely different means of invoking our wishes and demands to any you have seen before.
Goddess Erda will, if all goes well, present you with a sacred apple. This must be transported to Hrothgar in my Hall of Volksvang in Asgard for him to eat. This sacred apple will have been grown by the Goddess Iduna. It is a Golden Apple of Immortality and is associated with resurrection and eternal youth. By eating the Golden Apple of Goddess Iduna, along with the potent magic of Goddess Erda, my chosen champion will be restored to his past, his doom undone, his fate unspun.
