Valhalla

Its thatching was laid with golden shields after the fashion of a shingled roof.

So also says Tyldofur Afinn that Valhalla was thatched with shields.

On their backs they let beam, sore battered with stones, Odin's hall shingles, the shrewd seafarers.

In the hall doorway, Gylfi saw a man juggling with lances, having seven in the air at one time.

Odin is called Allfather because he is father of all the gods.

He is also called Father of the Slain because all those that fall in battle are the sons of his adoption.

For them he appoints Valhalla and Vingolf, and they are then called champions.

He is also called God of the Hanged, God of Gods, God of Cargos, and he has also been named in many more ways after he had come to King Geirrodur.

I'm sorry, they don't take their bodies to hell.

They take their bodies to Valhalla.

Hell will come and claim some sometimes, but some of the Valkyries could be traveling throughout the Megaverse, and you could be one such Valkyrie if you like.

I really like that term, the choosers of the slain, and that's a really cool idea.

And that can be bad for making friends.

Because if a friend playfully jokes with you, you're going to be like, I'm going to chop your head off.

We also have Warriors of Valhalla.

This is another template you can apply to another OCC.

For the safety of the Allfather it was surrounded by a roaring river and by a high picket fence, and there was a great courtyard within.

The glory of Gladtime was its wondrous hall, radiant with gold, the most lovely room that time has ever seen, Valhalla.

The Hall of Heroes was the name of it, and it was roofed with the mighty shields of warriors.

The ceiling was made of interlacing spears, and there was a portal at the west end before which hung a great grey wolf, while over him a fierce eagle hovered.

And there were many heroes in those days.

This was the reward which gods gave to courage when a hero had gloriously lost his life.

The Valkyries, The nine warrior daughters of Odin brought his body up to Valhalla on their white horses that galloped the clouds.

There they lived forever after in happiness, enjoying the things that they had most loved upon earth.

Sigi his name shall be.

From him shall spring heroes who will fill Valhalla, my own hall in Asgard, with heroes against the day of our strife with the giants, with Surtr of the flaming sword." For long Odin stayed in that silent place communing with his silent son, with Vidar, who with his brother would live beyond the dwellers of Asgard and who would bring into another day and another world the memory of the Aesir and the Vanir.

For long Odin spoke with him and then he went across the wilderness where the grass and the bushes grew and where that horse grazed in readiness for the sudden journey.

He went toward the seashore where the Aesir and the Vanir were now gathered for the feast that old Aegir, the giant king of the sea, had offered them.

Valkyries, choosers of the slain, they were named.

Those who were chosen on the fields of the slain were called in Asgard the Einherjar.

For them Odin made ready a great hall, Valhalla, the Hall of the Slain, it was called.

Five hundred and forty doors had Valhalla, and out of each door 800 champions might pass.

Odin is not the all-father alone, but the god of battle, Valfadur, as well, and as such is worshipped by bloody sacrifices.

Instead of the peaceful afterlife in Midgard, men looked forward to Valhalla, where those who die in battle shall feast with Odin.

There their pastime shall be to fight with each other from dawn till mealtime, when they ride back to Valhalla and sit down to drink.

Those who die of sickness or old age shall go to hell.

The murderers and those who forswear themselves to Naglfar.

In poetry, Erik's death became something great.

The old Norse poem the Eriksmell, composed in honour of a fallen Erik, imagined the doors of Valhalla opening at his approach.

Odin heard the thunder of a king's arrival and sent heroes to welcome him.

The gods themselves prepared for Bloodaxe.

They were winged and cherubic a little bit like Mercury.

But either way, Odin had a role in leading people to Valhalla.

So they seem to have fudged it that way.

Hmm.