Valheim Fan Theory Will Have You Never Playing The Same Way Again

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Usually, the player takes control of the hero of the story, and that seems to be the case when it comes to since the player takes control of a Viking sent by Odin after coming back from the dead. It seems as though the player is on a mission dictated by the leader of the Aesir Gods to defeat and conquer the many biomes scattered around this new land, but that isn't actually the case. Although is never overt with its lore, it is quite possible that it implies the player isn't the hero they thought they were.

The basic premise of is that the realm is a prison for the enemies of Odin; deer, fish, boars, and all. The most prominent of these enemies is The Forsaken, who the player is tasked with slaying and mounting on the Sacrificial Stones. These are essentially the bosses of the game, such as Moder, the Ice Dragon, or the Swamp's Bonemass, and their imprisonment largely explains the pre-existing cultures and societies of the prison realm, which the player has essentially come to destroy. A fan theory suggests that these actions aren't actually heroic.

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According to a theory by Khrispy-minus1 on Reddit, the player may be the bad guy.The Forsaken are attempting to re-link the realm of to the World Tree, Yggdrasil, so that they are no longer imprisoned, but it is implied that this is an impossibility since the World Tree will be destroyed before that can happen. The player is tasked with slaying the Forsaken and ensuring that this does not happen under Odin's orders. It seems like the Odin of is not the noble incarnation seen in the but rather closer to the knowledge and power-hungry trickster seen in the Norse Myths.

In the Norse Myths, Odin isn't exactly a good man, having tricked many, many individuals to get what he wanted. The Forsaken might not be evil monsters, but they do bring some structure to the strange prison