Going North.

[crossoverqueen]

Odin showed up a couple days ago.

So I'm getting ready for class, and a man in a hat with an eye-patch shows up and says, "So you are the bear's wife."

Naturally I freak out and go "HOLY SHIT, ODIN?"

And he tells me, "Look to the north for your answers, bear-wife. The west is green and your home, but you will not find them here because you are

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[anonymous]

Your spiritual life is getting quite busy! I don't know how you manage to juggle everything! Three gods are enough for me, with the occasional one or two popping in for a lesson here or there. You must have a lot of control on your Otherworld walks.

I do have to ask, though, and please don't take offense. But, why do you think that the Irish gods are so afraid of Loki and what he'd do? They're warriors in their own right, strong ones, and from what I know of them from myth and UPG, they don't seem the type to back away without good reason.(I mean, they defeated Balor and armies of Fomorians!)

[crossoverqueen]

Well, at least the bear-wife thing isn't going to start for a while, so there's that.

As for the Tuatha De treading so lightly around Loki: He's responsible for the end of the world in Norse myth, he has very few attachments to the rest of the Norse pantheon, and he gives this huge "chaos" vibe that none of the Tuatha De seem to like. With so many of the Irish gods adherent to order and stability, they might be viewing him more as one of the Fair Folk than another god.

Being powerful warriors doesn't necessarily equip them to deal with the chaos that Loki can cause.

And as my UPG states, he's just not very NICE.

[anonymous]

I suppose that does make sense! But that leads me to a second question:

What do you see as the relationship between the Folk and the gods? A lot of people I've met believe that the folk are related to the gods. Descended from or such.

From what I gather here, you treat them like a separate race that have always been around causing mischief. I don't recall, off the top of my head, any myths with the Folk AND the gods together to base "historical" perspectives off of them.

(But then again, I haven't finished reading everything.)

[crossoverqueen]

The folk are definitely very similar to the gods, but in spite of the former being less powerful, they're pretty much unpredictable.

Gods are usually a product of human reasoning or need, so they can understand humans and relate to them pretty well, even if they aren't physical beings. (...Most of the time? Aside from the usual "sending messages through animals/events," one of my friends may have met one of their own gods in person, on the physical plane.)

According to Aengus, the Folk just.. ARE. Even if they take human form, they're not human AT ALL, and it seems they're purely spiritual. The gods are usually either manifestations of human drives/needs/wants or personifications of the world, so all of them are rooted in the physical plane.