The Asgard visions arrive properly in this session and the game splits itself in two. Present-day England, ninth-century Norse mythology, Layla Hassan in the twenty-first century. Valhalla has always been asking what meaning survives across time. Now it makes the question structural.

Odin is not a god here. He is a man with foreknowledge of his own death looking for a way around it. Eivor watches from inside his memories and begins to understand that the fear she carries is not hers alone. It is older than Norway. It is older than the blade.