Odin

"I have sacrificed much to achieve peace. So, too, must a new generation sacrifice to maintain that peace. Responsibility, duty, honor. These are not merely virtues to which we must aspire. They are essential to every soldier and to every king."

- Odin

Odin is the God of Wisdom, Poetry, War, Victory, Death, and Sorcery from Norse mythology. He is the former Chieftain God of the Norse Pantheon and the old leader of the Æsir deities prior to his retirement following the Bloodbath of Babylonia.

Overview
Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn), meaning The Furious, is considered the chief god (known as an All-Father) in Norse mythology. He is associated with wisdom, war, frenzy, knowledge, battle and death and also magic, sorcery, poetry, the gallows, healing, royalty, prophecy, victory and the hunt, and is the husband of the goddess Frigg.

Odin is often portrayed as being an eminently honorable ruler and battlefield commander, but to the ancient Norse, he was nothing of the sort. In contrast to more straightforwardly noble war gods such as Tyr or Thor, Odin incites otherwise peaceful people to strife with what is a downright sinister glee. He maintains particularly close affiliations with the berserkers and other “warrior-shamans” whose fighting techniques and associated spiritual practices center around achieving a state of ecstatic unification with certain ferocious totem animals. He is also known by hundreds of names some which includes: Wodan, Aldagautr, Biflindi, Bileygr, Draugadróttinn, Dróttinn, Fengr, Fjölnir, Forni, Grímnir, Hangi, Hávi, Jölnir and Vegtam.

He only has one eye because he bartered the other in order to drink from the well of Mimir and gain its knowledge. He had many abilities like astral projection, shapeshifting and control of the elements and weather. He also could read magic runes that no one else could since he had hung himself from the World Tree Yggdrasil while inflicting self-torture in order to gain great knowledge.

Odin is the chief god of the Norse pantheon. He and his brothers Ve and Vili killed the frost giant Ymir and built the world from his body. He is also the father of most of the gods, including Thor, Vidarr and Baldur, who was later killed by a manipulated Hod with a dart of mistletoe. He is associated with his spear Gungnir, the wolves Geri and Freki and the two ravens Hugin and Munin, and the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

Odin is given primacy over female beings associated with the battlefield, the Valkyries, and he himself oversees the afterlife location Valhalla of Asgard, where he receives half of those who die in battle, the Einherjar. The other half are chosen by goddess Freya for her afterlife location, Fólkvangr. In Ragnarok, he gets devoured by the great wolf Fenrir.

Appearance
As a god, Odin possesses the power to transform himself into numerous forms and appearances, however, there are three forms he's most often appeared: The Warrior King, the Old Traveler, and the "Prince Charming".

The Warrior
In the form of the Warrior King, Odin has the appearance of an old man in his 50s with a well-built body of a soldier, with long grey hair and eyes. A black eye-patch is used to cover his hollowed left eye.

He wears a suit of light-armor made out of Bone Steel underneath regal-looking robes, as well as carrying with him his famous spear Gungnir to use as a walking staff. His pet raven Huginn and Muninn are often seen sitting on his shoulders.

The Traveler
In the form of the Old Traveler, Odin has the appearance of an elderly man with long grey hair and a matching beard. He wears a gold and white monocle over his left eye, without the addition of the chain.

He wears a robe, which is short and blue with a gold lining on the top and bottom of the collar, the sleeves of the robe and at the front of his robes all the way down to the bottom of the robe. The rest of his robe is white with matching shoes.

He also wears a golden and black hat, which is sectioned off into five mini sections that sport either the color black or gold, the top, middle, and bottom is gold and the sections in black are below and above the middle one. The black section features blue orbs at the ordinal points: north, east, west, south etc, and between the blue orbs are red dots.

The Charmer
In the form of the "Prince Charming", Odin appears as a handsome young man in his early 20s with long white hair, styled into a big braid over his shoulder.

In this form, which he claims to be his younger appearance, he has heterochromia eyes, with his left eye being crimson-colored while his right eye - a glamour he created using Runic Magic - is a grey color.

He wears old fashion robes the colors brown, dark-green, and gold, with several gold accessories. When he first appeared to the Occult Research Club after his retirement, he wore a designer turtleneck sweater with a light-grey scarf, faded jeans, walking boots.

Personality
Odin is a patient, just, and wise deity who strives to maintain the peace between the various mythological factions within the supernatural world and is thoughtful of the lives of the innocent. Despite the numerous amount of enemies warring against him and his willingness to cause mass destruction when needed, he is compassionate enough to not seek the obliteration of the innocents of the opposing force. He is firm in his rule and does not hesitate to mete out justice on those who threaten the peace.

He is considered to be one of the wiser amongst the Chieftain deities, admired by many for his leadership, which was shown through how he had effectively led the armies of the Norse Pantheon into countless victories in multiple mythological wars through the millennia. However, in his ancient years, he realized peace is the only way to truly unite the various pantheons, factions, and species together, he became the benevolent, peace-loving, knowing and wise ruler of Asgard and guardian of the Norse Cosmology as a whole. He is dedicated to using his power for keeping the peace between his pantheon and other factions.

He is a well-known seeker of knowledge, often leaving his duties as King of Asgard to his brothers and children to discover new knowledge throughout both the mundane world and the moonlit world. Some of the most notable examples for his willingness to sacrifice in the name of new knowledge is when he sacrificed his left eye to the Well of Mimir, and when he hanged himself on the branches of Yggdrasill to create the magic runes and the Asgardian Magic System. It was because of his knowledge-seeking habit, combined with his more "perverted" habits, that led to his wife Frigg to divorce him and went back to Vanaheim centuries ago. He is also extremely cunning and sly, having a terrible habit of manipulating events to his own will in order to make sure even the worst possibilities would be beneficial to him.

While he is undoubtedly a wise and good king who cares about the peace of his pantheon, his former well-known and feared wrath would often shown. When Baldr was first accidentally killed by his twin Höðr because of Loki's trickery, he punished the jötunn by killing his sons, Vali and Narvi, and used their entrails to bind him to a slab before placing a poisonous serpent to drop its venom onto Loki's face for eternity as punishment. According to his second-eldest Týr, he also has problems when dealing with his personal problems and past mistakes, most often through secrecy, lies or by covering them up.

Another well-known traits of Odin are his lustful and perverted nature. He is extremely perverted, often harassing young women, and going to strip clubs for entertainment. He also has a tendency to make fun of his Valkyrie bodyguards about their incapability to maintain a romantic/sexual relationship, often making fun of them by calling them "the Valkyries whose age is equal to the numbers of years without a boyfriend".

History
Odin is one of the most important figures from Norse mythology, being the leader of the Æsir deities and chieftain deity of the Pantheon. During the Age of Gods, he was worshipped by the North Germanic people, including people from ancient Denmark, Sweeden, Norway, Finland, and more.

Powers & Abilities
Immense Strength: Being the former chieftain of the Norse Pantheon, as well as one of the gods responsible for killing the primordial god Ymir, Odin is an immensely powerful god whose power and authority is respected throughout the mythological world. Due to the centuries-worth lack of worship and offering, he claimed that he is much weaker now than when he was in the Age of Gods. According to Thor, despite being deemed the strongest god of the Norse Pantheon and one of the "Top 10 Strongest Beings in the World", he is still significantly weaker than Odin, which is a testament to his power.

Equipment
Gungnir : Odin's Symbol of Power and main weapon. Gungnir is a divine spear made out of mithril created by the legendary group of dark-elven blacksmiths known as the Sons of Ivaldi as one of the gifts toward the Nordic gods. It's renowned for its the powerful Seiðr magic imbued within it which allows it to warp space so that it will always lethally pierced its victims once thrown and will automatically fly back to Odin's side when call upon. It is one of the "Top 10 Greatest Divine Spears in Mythology".

Draupnir : Draupnir is the famous ring from Norse mythology that was created by the legendary blacksmiths Brokkr and Eitri. It resembles a golden ouroboros and gives off a majesty gleam. The original ring has an immense Teleportation Magic imbued within them, which allows anyone wearing it to teleport virtually anywhere and everywhere within the nine realms of the Norse cosmology. Every nine nights, eight new rings will "drip" out from the original ring, each as beautiful as the other, even though none of them possess the original power.

Sleipnir (スレイプニール, Sureipunīru): The son of the original Loki and the jötunn Svaðilfari, Sleipnir is a shapeshifter who often take the form of an eight-legged horse and acts as Odin's personal mount and secretary. In the modern age, he currently acts as Odin's and the Asgardian Royal Family's personal driver, though he would occasionally turn back into his more well-known eight-legged form and draw their carriage for special occasions.

Quotes
"A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it."

- Odin giving Thor and Loki an advice

Trivia

 * Odin’s name can be translated as either "master of ecstasy" or "master of fury, the furious."
 * Odin gained his nickname, The All-Father, because of his status as the spiritual father to all the Æsir gods, as well as his heritage: his father was an Æsir, his mother was a jötunn, and Odin himself is also known as the Vanr god, Óðr.
 * In the Elder Futhark rune alphabet, Odin is associated with the Ansuz rune.
 * The English weekday Wednesday was named after him (from Old English Wōdnesdæġ, "Woden's day").
 * This explains Odin's current human alias "Mr. Wednesday".
 * It's a reference to Odin's incarnation in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
 * It's revealed in Chapter XXX that Gaiman is one of Odin's numerous demigod children.
 * He stood in a blizzard for six days to learn how to use a smartphone.
 * He endured weeks of motivational speaking to find how to have a successful afterlife.
 * Several characters from J.R.R Tolkien's fiction were inspired by the god Odin. The appearance of the wizard Gandalf was particularly inspired by Odin's "wanderer" guise, whereas other aspects of the god directly influenced other characters such as Saruman, Sauron, Morgoth, and Manwë.
 * It's revealed in Chapter XXX that Tolkien is one of Odin's numerous demigod children.
 * Music inspired by or featuring the god includes the ballets Odins Schwert (1818) and Orfa (1852) by J. H. Stunz and the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848–1874) by Richard Wagner.
 * It's revealed in Chapter XXX that Wagner is one of Odin's numerous demigod children.
 * Many locations in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and England are named after Odin.
 * The country Sweden derived its name from Svidur, one of the many names of Odin.
 * Odin, a Swedish satellite used for aeronomical observations, is named after him.
 * Human sacrifices were made in honor of Odin, with many accounts of even kings being sacrificed.
 * Odinism is an off-set of the white supremacist movement who believe that Caucasians were made in the image of the old gods and that all other humans are beneath them.
 * Odin is one of the few gods who actually believes in reconciliation between the different factions and pantheons.
 * Odin hopes for a new future of his religion, a reference to modern Germanic Neo-pagan religions like Ásatrú, Fyrnsidu, or Irminism.