Saga of Balder the 'Peaceful'

I’m not entirely sure if this counts since we don’t really know anything at all about Wotan or the Keraxe kingdom, but I decided to write a story about how I imagine Wotan and his sons, specifically his fifth son.

I should note a couple of things though; first of all, I personally headcanon that “Wotan” is just the name outsiders of the Keraxe Kingdom use to refer to him as, as Odin in mythology has over 170 god damn names. Though, I still tried to go in the direction of not calling the characters by their most well-known name, as with Hlorrithi and Gullintanni (Though couldn’t really find any other names for Baldr, Viðarr, and Höðr that wasn’t just an anglicized version of their name).

Additionally, I tried to write it in the style of a poem in the Poetic Edda, which means I also tried to include ‘kennings’, which is kind of like a poetic way of referring to something (for example, “battle-sweat” is a kenning for blood, and “bane of wood” is a kenning for fire)

Anyway, enough of my ramblings, here’s the Saga of Balder the ‘Peaceful’

Forgot to mention, feedback and criticism would be very appreciated!

Kratos would very much beg to differ regarding Baldur’s “peacefulness”.