Norse · No. 033
Sigurd Fáfnisbani, Dragon-Blood Taster
Real myth
One drop of dragon's blood and he understood the speech of birds.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Category
- Monster
- ATK
- 2850
- DEF
- 2300
- Level
- 8
- Type
- Warrior
- Element
- Fire
- Constellations
- Sun · Hammer
The myth
After killing Fáfnir, Sigurd roasted the dragon's heart for Regin. Testing whether it was done, he burned his finger, put it in his mouth, and with the dragon's blood on his tongue he began to understand the speech of birds. The birds, titmice in the Fáfnismál, remarked that Regin meant to betray him and that the hero should eat the heart and keep the gold. Sigurd killed Regin, loaded the hoard onto Grani and rode away. In German tradition, Siegfried bathes in the dragon's blood and becomes invulnerable except for one spot on his back.
Why it has this power
A level 8 Epic, reached only by fusing Sigurd with Fáfnir: the hero who took in the dragon's strength. ATK 2850 and DEF 2300 make him the strongest warrior you can fuse in the fjord. His element shifts from Light to Fire, for the roasted heart and hot blood. Sun and Hammer remain the same.
Did you know
Wood carvings from Hylestad church in Norway show Sigurd roasting the heart and sucking his thumb.
Connections
- Born from the fusion of: Sigurd the Dragonslayer + Fáfnir, Warden of the Cursed Hoard
Where to get it
- Campaign drop: Kaelmyr, Devourer of Pantheons (The Void Between Mythologies) — grade A: 17%
- Born from the fusion of: Sigurd the Dragonslayer + Fáfnir, Warden of the Cursed Hoard
Sources
- The Story of the Volsungs, ch. XVIII: Of the Slaying of the Worm Fafnir — William Morris & Eiríkr Magnússon (trad./trans.)
- The Poetic Edda: Fafnismol — Henry Adams Bellows (trad./trans.)
- Sigurd Fåvnesbane — Store norske leksikon