Lore Check: Váli

June 15, 2015 Alex Montoya Lore Check 0

This week’s entry in the Jefferson Knights roster for Mutants & Masterminds is the team’s first real threat, Váli son of Loki. In the first adventure he had found his daughter, Norra, and pursued her through a portal created by her brother to Midgard, specifically Jefferson Heights. Although, the team managed to banish him back to Hel, he’s not that easy to get rid of, and the Knights will no doubt have to deal with him soon enough!

VALIName: Váli

Identity: Public

Occupation: Criminal

Age: Immortal; apparent age 26

Height: 5’10”

Weight: 183

Hair: Black

Eyes: Yellow

Base of Operations: None

Group Affiliation: None

Known Abilities

Váli is an Æsir and one of the few survivors of Ragnorok. Since then, he had become a thief and an assassin, collecting an impressive list of both victims as well as treasures. As a side effect of being transformed into a wolf, he retains the ability call upon the descendants of Fenris to aid him. Among his artifacts are the Spear of Odin, armor fashioned from the scales of the Midgard Serpent, and daggers forged from the teeth of Sutur and Ymir.

Background

Váli is the son of Loki and one of the few survivors of Ragnorok. He had an affair with Elenorra, who was the wife of his childhood friend. She left Váli after she learned she was carrying his child. Once he found out he insisted she leave her husband, but Elenorra refused.

Enraged, he banished the entire family to Hel using a stolen artifact from Odin’s vault, and began lashing out against a world he grew increasingly frustrated with. Once he was caught, the Æsir decided to tie his punishment along with his father’s; they transformed Váli into a wolf, forcing him to kill his brother Narfi, whose entrails were used to bind Loki.

Váli is one of the few survivors of Ragnorok and was the first to pick the carcass of the fallen Æsir, claiming several treasures for himself. After the gods of old perished, he decided to find Elenorra in Hel and claim his lost child.

Personality

Váli is intelligent, resourceful and a highly skilled thief and assassin. Surviving Ragnorok has left him with a sense of destiny and purpose and he believes that this purpose is somehow tied to Elenorra and his children and will let nothing stand in the way of achieving his glorious purpose.

Váli blames all his misfortunes on others and seeks recompense for those crimes against him. As an assassin, he takes special delight in those rare opportunities to kill a surviving Æsir or their descendants. His love for Elenorra is the only light he holds on to, next to the hope of winning his daughter’s love.

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Alex hasn't done anything worthwhile with his life. He's a great disappointment to his family and friends (even his dog looks at him with shame). Despite his many, many failures and general lack of any redeeming qualities, we took pity on him and let him in here at the Gamer Nation (I don't think we'll ever get rid of that lingering smell now). They say every group of "hotties" needs to keep an ugly friend around to make them look better and It seems that keeping this poor wretch around really does the trick!

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