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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7922347" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Well, don't leave us hanging.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think this is a drastic misreading of Norse mythology. To the extent that the Jotun are made of alignment, the alignment that they are made of is Chaos. The Jotun represent primal Chaos, the substance of change. The Norse myths tell of a cycle of destruction and rebirth that mirrors the changes of the seasons but in a grand manner. The Jotun themselves were wiped out in a primal apocalypse that left only two of them to renew their whole race. The story of Ragnarok echos this reoccuring cycle, and it is not a story of destruction but rebirth. After the fire of the fire giants sweeps the land, it isn't desolate - it blossoms green again like a forest after a forest fire. The Jotun are fighting a war against foes, not trying to destroy the universe. And who is there to "punish" them? They "won", albeit with great loses themselves. The Aesir and Vanir survivors of that war, meet afterwards on the ruins of Valhalla, and like old soldiers recount the times past. This isn't cast as a war between good and evil, per se, but as a mega-scale tribal war such as the Norse themselves experienced.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then by all means lets stick to Xenomorphs and Jotun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7922347, member: 4937"] Well, don't leave us hanging. I think this is a drastic misreading of Norse mythology. To the extent that the Jotun are made of alignment, the alignment that they are made of is Chaos. The Jotun represent primal Chaos, the substance of change. The Norse myths tell of a cycle of destruction and rebirth that mirrors the changes of the seasons but in a grand manner. The Jotun themselves were wiped out in a primal apocalypse that left only two of them to renew their whole race. The story of Ragnarok echos this reoccuring cycle, and it is not a story of destruction but rebirth. After the fire of the fire giants sweeps the land, it isn't desolate - it blossoms green again like a forest after a forest fire. The Jotun are fighting a war against foes, not trying to destroy the universe. And who is there to "punish" them? They "won", albeit with great loses themselves. The Aesir and Vanir survivors of that war, meet afterwards on the ruins of Valhalla, and like old soldiers recount the times past. This isn't cast as a war between good and evil, per se, but as a mega-scale tribal war such as the Norse themselves experienced. Then by all means lets stick to Xenomorphs and Jotun. [/QUOTE]
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