The trio returns to Asgard where they meet Odin and Durkon learns the reason why he was banished from the Dwarven Lands.
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The trio has returned to the Rainbow Bridge. Odin is there, lost in thought.
Thor: Oh, hey, my dad's here.
Durkon: Lord Odin?!?
Thor: Yeah. Don't worry, he's fine. I'll introduce you.
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Thor: Hi, Dad.
Odin: Oh! Hello, Thor! I was just trying to remember why I was here.
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Thor: Well, if I had to guess, I'd say you wanted to come check in on how your dwarf prophecy was going.
Odin: My what, now?
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Thor: Dad, this is Durkon Thundershield.
Thor: He's the cleric of mine that you got exiled from his homeland like 20 years ago.
Durkon: Huh? "Got exiled"?
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Minrah: Oh! Oh! I actually know about this!
Minrah: Your friends were talking about it with Brewmaster Firuk!
Durkon: Talkin' aboot wha?
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Minrah: Odin's priest came to old High Priest Hurak with a prophecy. He said that when you returned home, you'd bring death and destruction.
Minrah: So Hurak threw you out and told you to never come back.
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Durkon: So...tha's tha reason why I was exiled?
Minrah: Turns out.
Durkon: All b'cause o' some prophecy tha Hurak dinnae ev'n tell me aboot?
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beat
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Durkon: Thar was...
Durkon: ...a reason.
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Durkon is elated.
Durkon: Thar was a reason!!
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Durkon: Ha ha!
Durkon: It weren't just some random act o' cruelty! 'E 'ad a reason, an' na ev'n tha bad o' one!
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Minrah: But...it didn't work. It seems like it might've kinda actually caused the thing he was trying to prevent.
Durkon: Aye! It was a total disaster!
Durkon: But na a random disaster!
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Durkon: Fer twenty years, I been worried Hurak had picked me by chance—
Durkon: —an' now at least I know thar were some logic ta 'is callous incompetence! Ha ha ha!
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Durkon: Woooo! Ha ha!
Thor: Wait, Dad, isn't that why you did the prophecy?
Thor: By getting him exiled, you guaranteed he would arrive here knowing what we needed him to know.
Odin: Did I? That doesn't sound like something I'd do. Sounds kinda mean, honestly.
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Thor: Yeah, but...it was something you did.
Odin: Oh. If you say so, Son. I trust you.
Odin: Spindles wind the string forward, but not back.
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Thor: So wait...was that a thing you really foresaw, or not?
Odin: Who's to say? Loops and twirls. It seems to have all worked out. It's a mango!
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Minrah: Uh, Lord Thor, is he...OK?
Thor: Sort of. Dad's had a rough time of it lately.
Odin: You know, hoops have no end, until suddenly they do.
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Thor: The last world we did, the Northerners ended up as barbarians who decided magic was dumb nonsense for fools and simpletons.
Thor: It kind of did a number on his head, since he's the god of magic and all.
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Minrah: Oh, that sounds awful!
Thor: He's getting better as he absorbs more Belief from your world. He'll be fine in a few more centuries.
Thor: Until then, he has good days and bad days.
Odin: Sure, you can boot off a floppy, but don't pull it out in the middle!
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Durkon: Fer tha first time in me life, ev'rythin' makes sense!
Thor: We, uh, probably shouldn't mention this to Durkon. I need his spirit uncrushed.
Odin: Mortal height is fun. My hands are hand-sized!
Trivia[]
- The title plays on Allfather, one of the names of Odin in Norse mythology, presumably suggesting that Odin is behaving as if he were high on drugs.
- The reasons for Durkon's banishment were explained in #1096, and more fully in On the Origin of PCs.