Thor

Thor is a big man, a very big man. At just over 6 and-a-half feet tall and weighing in at over 300 pounds the thunder god is back with a vengeance.

Working as a military strategist and leader of an elite special forces squad he was chosen to keep order amongst the scientists and statesman of Ymir on its multi-century journey through the stars.

Instrumental in the quashing of the Vanir rebellion shortly after Ymir landed on Earth, he and his men would go on to combat the giant machinery created by the dwarves that laid waste to the northern valleys of the Ginnungagap.

With his mighty Mjolnir, an etheric high energy plasma cannon, Thor fights the increasingly prevelant and dangerous machines before they can invade Midgard or steal technology from Yggdrasil.

Thor is a bit of a drunk though, and many a victory is celebrated till dawn with his squad, comprised of Aesir and Vanir warriors.

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Freyja

Freyja is a powerful central figure to the Ymir storyline. Her influence has stood through time, Ragnarok, and the degradations of a rebuilding society. She is worship and revered as a bringer of wisdom and goddess of the home and hearth.

Most villages have at least a small building dedicated to her. Though the worship of Odin is equally far spread it is less common on a daily level.

Freyja, originally an up and coming student member of the Aesir race, held knowledge of gravitic mechanics and had an ability to apply high energy mathematics that was said to rival Loki.

As the calamity that drove the Ymir builders from their home world was discovered and the Ymir Project was spurred forward she became increasingly resistant to utilizing her knowledge or sharing it with others. She began to find wisdom and even a form of personal salvation in Hoenir. And, radically she swapped her genome from the Aesir to Vanir type.

Odin, who had been courting her for some amount of time was appalled and in a less than symbolic gesture (Freyja had already said no) he called off their supposed coupling.

Freyja was said to have known many technologies and techniques of both the Aesir and Vanir and her synthesis of the two could have brought about even more wonders, but she refused her knowledge to anyone.

After Ymir’s Landing she was often isolated and spent large amounts of time amongst the humans working on common small problems and seemingly ignoring the growing division between Odin’s utilitarian utopia and the natural drive of the human will.

Her death during the course of Ragnarok remains largely a mystery. Legends say that she was present to wrap her arms around her brother Freyr as he fell at the hands of Surt. But stories have a habit of changing over time and even eye witnesses have been known to skew a detail or two…