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tyrannuspitch · 1 year

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okay so bor's victory over the dark elves and asgard's subsequent rise to power happened precisely 5000 years before the events of the dark world, because the convergence happens every 5000 years.

so, give or take half a decade... the events of all three thor films take place when the asgardian empire is EXACTLY as old as the (optimistic) length of an asgardian lifespan. RAGNAROK comes when the empire has reached the limit of A PERSON'S longevity. that's interesting.

#space viking tag #i do think there will be an asgardian *kingdom* going back much further #and some attempts at expansion pre-war-with-svartalfheim #(like asgard itself was originally expansion from vanaheim right?)#but this is like. asgard as greatest-power-in-the-nine-realms #like odin portrays the fall of svartalfheim as a beginning. it seems almost like a creation myth in some ways...#which may something to do with why they're willing / even encouraged to talk about asgard committing genocide in that specific instance #destruction and creation idk #and mythologising it as justification but also to confine it to a mythological era. ?#meta #s: t2 #th: childhood + immortality #th: war + apocalypse

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