Saturday 3 November 2012

Ymir


Ymir (also known as Ymer or Yme) was a frost Giant and the largest creature that has ever existed. He was created from the ice of Niflheim and heat of Muspellsheim. While he slept, smaller frost giants spawned from his body forming the Jotnar race. A male and a female spawned from the sweat of his left armpit, and a six-headed son was conceived by his two feet.

When you look into the sky, what you see is the inside of Ymir's skull which the Gods placed as a dome over their creation. The clouds are pieces of his brain, the mountains are made from his bones, the earth from his flesh, the trees from his hair and the sea from his blood.

I made the surface of his body less smooth than I usually make my characters, as his main function in the story is being building material, therefore I wanted him to look a little bit "unfinished".

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