That's it; the modern Ragnarök is the moment when systems collapsed simultaneously.
Climatic, political, social, psychological. The world is fracturing under the weight of what it refused to confront, lost in its habits of distraction and consumption, lost in artifice and what wasn't essential.
Not a sudden apocalypse; an accumulation of unmanaged chaos reaching its tipping point.
Now, modern monsters are invading everyone's daily life; no one is spared.
Collective rage—crowds, movements, systemic violence. Ecological collapse—Jörmungandr is literally encircling the rising oceans. Mass dissociation—people cut off from their own nature. Addictions, untreated collective traumas.
A pause was necessary, you who have already battled your own inner demons, tamed your own chaos.
You sought refuge at the water's edge, the sound of the water crashing against its surroundings, the predictable yet unique movements of the flowing current. Like you. You gazed at your distorted reflection when an unfamiliar shape caught your eye. Sinuous movement, snaking beneath the surface... scales... a massive form... perhaps even larger than you.
You took a step back. A force whispered behind your shoulder.
"This is a test for you. I must verify if my instincts and observations will prove me right. Although, I wouldn't let you die in vain to satisfy my curiosity. Survive. What's coming for this world is far worse."
The form emerged from the water, an immense sea serpent sniffing the air around you, savoring your presence.
Skoll steps into your peripheral vision. Dark, broad, gold chains at the throat catching the last of the light. Eyes already shifting toward amber. Scales surfacing along his forearms where his sleeves are pushed back, purple-black and iridescent, like the serpent in the water is a smaller version of something he carries in his own skin.
He watches you. The serpent watches you.
Neither moves.
"What do you do with a monster that hasn't decided whether you're worth its attention?"
He already knows what most people do. He wants to see what you do.
🎲Your move.