{"id":10,"date":"2022-07-21T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/?p=10"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:15:11","slug":"eldrunn-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Eldrunn: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was younger, one of my favourite books to read was <em>D&#8217;Aulaires&#8217; Book of Norse Myths<\/em>. There is an image of Loki, impish and flame-haired, that is so clear in my mind I could probably draw it from memory. The myths are told in as uncomplicated an order as possible and trace Loki&#8217;s journey from impish relative, to malicious murderer, to the bringer of Ragnarok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, I would read <em>The Eight Days of Luke<\/em> by the incredible Diana Wynne Jones and see Loki at odds with his adopted family in a contemporary setting. As the tale unfolds, it implies an endless cycle of stories repeated over and over again. Many years later, I would read the Marvel series&#8217; <em>Loki: Journey into Mystery<\/em>, by Keiron Gillen, and <em>Loki: Agent of Asgard<\/em>, by Al Ewing, and enjoy the spiralling loops of fate, destiny and time all racing against one another to be the greatest determinant of who Loki would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the MCU and a whole new adaptation of Loki, followed by more stretching of the character through the series on Disney+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this to say that this story is not really about Loki. It&#8217;s about a crazy idea I had when all these different iterations of the same god\/deity were running around inside my head. It&#8217;s about a clear beginning, a clear motive and a vague idea of what happens after that. It will certainly require me to make a storyboard replete with thumb tacks and string so that I can pretend I know what I&#8217;m doing. It will be me making a lot of stuff up and hoping that it eventually makes sense because it ultimately makes sense <em>in my head<\/em> and that, my friends, is step one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, one of my favourite books to read was D&#8217;Aulaires&#8217; Book of Norse Myths. There is an image of Loki, impish and flame-haired, that is so clear in my mind I could probably draw it from memory. The myths are told in&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/?p=10\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eldrunn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fictionforest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}