Surtr

Surtr.

Surtr is the first fire giant to emerge during the birth of the universe. Come Ragnarök, Surtr will lead his kin into battle against the Aesir and Vanir gods, the cyclical destruction of the cosmos.

History

Origins

After Ymir's own birth from the Ginnungagap, Surtr's own birth would directly follow. Hailing from Muspelheim, the extreme southern region of heat and fire, Surtr would bring heat to the young cosmos using the source that would ignite creation's own flames, the Ember Stone. Surtr was either a construct of the Ember Stone or its first ever wielder that was not human, using the near-omnipotent power of the stone's flames to create a sun and the stars out of these primordial flames.

Eventually, Surtr would begin forging a legendary fiery sword for one sole purpose: to burn down Asgard when Ragnarök comes. The sword is known as the Twilight Sword, which is made entirely out of fire and is said to be as bright as the sun itself with which the world is razed before it sinks into the sea.

Currently, Surtr and the other fire giants remain hidden in Muspelheim and will only appear when Ragnarök begins. Surtr, never sleeping and continuously honing his fiery sword, patiently waits for the time in which he would fulfill his purpose: to die in order to complete a grand cycle much bigger than himself.

Ragnarök

His particular destiny is to kill the god Freyr and to be slain by him in turn. However, his death will trigger the Ember Stone to engulf his body in flames, and said flames will still be able to destroy Asgard before the Vanir god could kill him, and from the resulting destruction the world will be born anew as the cycle continues. When Surtr is slain, his fire will spread about the Earth and cause mass global destruction only for the world to be reborn anew.