Beyond the reach of light, a darkness hungers.
Odin has ventured to Realms beyond Midgard in search of his lost love. But for all his knowledge and all his cunning, nothing could have prepared him for the fathomless cruelty and chaos of Svartalfheim. In the shadows, he must contend with timeless beings eager to bend his gifts to their dark ends.

And behind on Midgard he has left the younger generation to fortify a dying world. Among these, blind Hödr strives with Baldr Odinson to keep a fragile peace between tribes.

Yet what peace can they maintain, when a war is brewing between them? A war, that must mark the beginning of Ragnarök, and the end of all things …