Deep within the boundless core of the Nordic Universe, beyond the reach of stars and the song of creation, there lay an unspeakably vast and ancient being, its form incomprehensible to mortal or divine minds alike.
Its body was a writhing ocean of shadows, its skin a tapestry of darkness studded with countless eyes that blinked and mouths that whispered in tongues that predated existence itself.
For centuries since it was left here, it had slumbered, coiled within the abyss like a forgotten god, dreaming of the end of all things, until, without warning, it twitched.
A ripple passed through the void, a disturbance, a vibration that did not belong anywhere in this universe.
The being stirred, its innumerable eyes flickering open one after another, casting pale and malignant light upon the fabric of the cosmos.
Something foreign had entered this cosmos, something powerful, something that did not belong to the Norse order of creation.
