Norse · No. 016
Northgale Serpent
A MYTHENOR creation — Theme: Original theme: a wind serpent, linked to the eagle-giant Hræsvelgr, whose wings make the wind in myth.
It flies without wings, borne on the wind it blows itself.
- Rarity
- Common
- Category
- Monster
- ATK
- 1750
- DEF
- 1200
- Level
- 5
- Type
- Serpent
- Element
- Wind
- Constellations
- Feather · Leviathan
The myth
In Norse myth the wind has a known source: in the poem Vafþrúðnismál, Odin asks where it comes from, and the giant answers that Hræsvelgr, a giant in the shape of an eagle, sits at the end of heaven, and the beating of his wings blows the wind over men. Serpents, for their part, live in the sea or beneath the roots of the world tree. No source speaks of a serpent that flies without wings. The Northgale Serpent is a MYTHENOR creation that imagines Hræsvelgr's wind taking on a body.
Why it has this power
A level 5 Common with ATK 1750 and DEF 1200, the highest attack among the common serpents. Wind element, under Feather, the constellation of flight, and Leviathan, that of the great serpents. It is fast and aggressive, but its low guard leaves it open to traps.
Did you know
The name Hræsvelgr means corpse-swallower, and he appears in the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda.
Connections
- In Thorvald Blackkeel's deck
Where to get it
- Daily Offering: 0% per pack (Common 64% per card)
- Welcome Pack: 0.97% per pack (Common 70% per card)
- Traveler's Pack: 0.88% per pack · 5.2% in the themed pack (Common 64% per card)
- Bronze Reliquary: 0.86% per pack · 5.1% in the themed pack (Common 62% per card)
- Silver Reliquary: 0.67% per pack · 4% in the themed pack (Common 49% per card)
- Golden Reliquary: 0.46% per pack · 2.7% in the themed pack (Common 33% per card)
- Daily Showcase: Shows up on about 0.69% of days · 150 gold
- Craft with card dust: 40 dust
- Crossing of Myths: Can be offered as a reward during a crossing (the card stays in the crossing deck).
Sources
- The Poetic Edda: Vafthruthnismol — Henry Adams Bellows (trad./trans.)