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Frost Giants (offsprings, relatives, and descendants):
Atali (daughter; estranged),
Bergelmir (grandson; deceased),
Nal (granddaughter-in-law; deceased),
Utgardia (granddaughter; deceased),
Angerboda (great-granddaughter; deceased)
Laufey (great-grandson; deceased),
Loki (great-great-grandson)
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History
I gave birth to all the giants in the Nine Realms. Birthed the ancestors of the mighty gods which all mortals have revered. But now, this is how my own seedlings repay me? Keeping me locked within my provenance, thinking they can prosper without my providence? How ungrateful!
- — Ymir
- — Ymir
Early Years
Born several million years after the Big Bang and the earliest lifeforms in the universe were cultivated on some barren wastelands by the wandering Celestial Gardeners, Ymir was born in the blistering realm of Niffleheim as the oldest and most powerful of the Ice Giants, an extra-dimensional race of enormous humanoid creatures that also originated from this so-called "land of the dead." The monumental size, durability, and colossal strength of the Ice Giants, as well as their descendants, the Giants of Jotunheim, made them formidable foes and sometimes situational allies to the diverse deities of Asgard, Vanaheim, and Alfheim for over hundreds of millennia.
Ymir was the progenitor of the entire family of humanoids in the neighboring planet known as the Giants of Jotunheim, although he differed considerably in appearance from many of his current descendants, considering that his race was known as the Ice Giants, and his offsprings began to evolve in various environments outside Niffleheim during Ymir's lifetime of spreading his legacy across various planets and celestial bodies that would eventually be recognized by its civilized residents as the Nine Realms. The later generations of Ymir's race, most notably the Frost and Storm Giants, could not generate cold without an external source, and were not covered with ice and snow.
Nonetheless, the great size of the Giants was dependent on cold temperatures, and members of the later generations of Frost Giants, unable to create coldness from their own bodies, would shrink in size if exposed to sufficient heat or worse, melt them to death if the heat is extreme enough such as the surface of a star or cosmic radiation released by a magical or advanced weapon, something that Ymir would first encounter during his later encounters with powerful civilized beings which mortals on other plants would begin revering or fearing as gods in their culture of histories and mythologies, like cultures of the Midgardians or Earth's humans.
Cold-Hearted Crusades
Ymir was among the oldest known beings in the Nine Realms of the Asgardian cosmology, as it was bound by the concept of a mystic constellation called the Yggdrasil or the World Tree, but he was still younger than the Supreme Fire Giant of Muspelheim, Surtur. Approximately thirteen millions of years ago, a series of solar storms that was ignited from Muspelheim during the Great Billion Years' War had struck into the location that would become Niffleheim. Tons of ice from Niffleheim, the neighboring otherdimensional realm of ice and cold. It was said that in time the warm air from Muspelheim caused these tons of ice over the realm to boil dormant Celestial Seedlings scattered by a group of Gardeners into a warmer, yet relatively cold liquid that sparked the creation of a being, one that would grow into the first Ice Giant: Ymir. Another being appeared from the ice, the enchanted cow-like creature called the Audumbla. Audumbla sought nourishment from the microorganisms within the ice of Niffleheim itself, and Ymir subsisted on the liquid Audumbla was producing until he grew as enormous as the towering mountains where the giant was born into.
When his first descendants became less and less suited to living in Niffleheim due to its sporadic climate conditions, Ymir migrated to Jotunheim, which he populated with a diverse range of Giants for the next hundreds of thousands of years, although it was not the end for his goal to spread his seed across the realms in spite of his growing rivalry with other gods, such as the Asgardians, the Vanir, and his polar opposite during his prime: the Supreme Fire Lord Surtur and his Fire Demons from Muspelheim, the fiery realm that was responsible for giving life to Ymir and the other inhabitants of Niffleheim. At some point during the peak of the Earth or Midgard's Ice Age, early humans in the Paleolithic Age began to worship Ymir's, his first daughter and son, Laufey as deities. When their presence were beginning to threaten all life on Earth with a longer Ice Age, the young Asgardian god and warrior Odin Borson and his brothers Ve, Vili, and Cul Borson fought a war with the Ice Giants and defeated Ymir.
According to Asgardian legend, Odin created the Earth and sky from Ymir's corpse, although the truth was, most of Ymir's body was obliterated and melted into the earth during the last years of the Ice Age, leading for some worshippers to document how Odin's heroic actions had given humanity the chance to eventually start civilization in the first place because the wrath of Ymir had ended. Since the disappearance of Ymir into the the unknown, one of his great-grandsons, the fearsome Laufey, took over the leadership of the Frost Giants, who, unlike Ymir and his ancestors, had waged a war against humans in hopes of taking over Earth when Jotunheim began to crumble after hundreds of thousands of years.
The Final Winters of Ymir
As some beings are enchanted by the galactic-wide magic of Yggdrasil, Ymir would survive and recover in his eternal slumber on Niffleheim. Centuries later, Ymir's great-grandson Laufey would meet his fate at the hands of his own son, Loki. This incident allowed Ymir to try and reclaim his leadership in Jotunheim, but his attempt to do so in the next decade would turn out to be a little more difficult than even the mightiest Ice Giant would've anticipated. Around the final months of 2023, Hela was able to find a newfound ally for her invasion of Asgard in the form of her distant neighbor back in Niffleheim: Ymir. The Goddess of Death was able to convince the Lord of the Ice Giants alongside a large faction of his descendant Jotunn Giants to find new and more vast habitable homes to expand and conquer for his race aside from the dying planet of Jotunheim, as long as Asgard remains in power under her rule and Niffleheim under Ymir, strengthening their partnership.
However, after witnessing the danger that Hela's nigh-immortal and invulnerable monster Mangog had posed to the rest of the cosmos because it actively feeds on sin and hatred, both Ymir and Surtur, the Ice Giant's olden archnemesis and another major player who allied himself with Thor and sought to oppose Hela's restless sieges, respectfully settled for a battle to the death not only against the larger creature, but towards Hela herself. Once more embodying Ragnarök alongside his polar opposite, Ymir and Surtur battled every powerful adversary who dared to stand in their way, although Mangog had absorbed Surtur's blast and deflected it at Ymir until the Ice Giant would slowly melt to his death, a fate that he did not seem to regret in his final moments, for he was able to die a glorious demise amidst Ragnarök and allow his kin to continue thriving once the Mangog was taken out.
The flood from Ymir's essence would overflow the realm's Sea of Mist and unleash a tidal wave that submerges most of Hela's undead army and her allies into the depths of an Asgard that is mostly underwater. But the final battle wages on until Surtur would prove to win the war on the heroes' side, fulfilling Ragnarök by delivering the final blow of Ragnarök by driving his Twilight Sword down into the core of the planet after the most of Asgard's inhabitants have fled to safety. Thor and the Asgardians would witness the implosion of their home planet, but hope for them lives on as they venture to Earth, their new home.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Primordial Ice Giant Physiology: Ymir possesses vast superhuman strength, greater than that of any other Frost or Ice Giant. He is extremely long-lived, and possibly immortal. His body greatly resembles ice in various ways, and if it was not for his ability to generate intense cold from his body, Ymir would melt when exposed to high temperatures. Ymir's body is extraordinarily resistant to injury, and although it can be shattered into smithereens, Ymir can cause the fragments of his form to reassemble as long as he is within an icy environment. Ymir continually generates extreme cold from his body in a mystic fashion. If he so chooses, Ymir can cause anything he touches, including the air, to freeze.
- Atmospheric Flight
- Limited Levitation
- Cosmic Awareness
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Durability
- Skin Hardening
- Ice Healing
- Frost Immunity
- Cryokinesis
- Blizzard Breath
- Blizzard Blasts
- Cryokinesis Inhibition
- Weather Manipulation
- Size Manipulation
- Immortality
- Supernatural Regeneration
- Nigh-Absolute Reincarnation
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Abilities
- Experienced Combatant
- Vast Ancient Knowledge
Strength level
Class 130+
Weaknesses
- Extreme High Temperatures
- Relatively Inferior Combat Experience
- Vulnerable to Superior Magical Attacks
Paraphernalia
Equipment: None known.
Transportation:
- Storm Spire
- Extra-Dimensional Teleportation (formerly)
- Extra-Dimensional Teleportation (formerly)
Weapons:
- Cryokinetic-Generated Club
- Storm Spire (formerly; destroyed)
Notes
- While Ymir is believed by most incarnations of mythology to be the forefather of most gods in the Nine Realms, it turns out that he is not directly or closely related to the Asgardians. However, one of Ymir's unnamed granddaughters, named Utgardia, is the common ancestor from which the Aesir, the Vanir, and their related species have descended and diverged from the Giants of Jotunheim millions of years in the past before establishing their own societies across the realms.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Thor Vol 1 16
Trivia
- Ymir was never truly bothered by Hela's presence when she was first banished into Niffleheim by Odin, originally believing that the souls that reside in Hel would end up driving her mad enough that she'd take her own life and was confident that she wouldn't be able to vanquish him if she ever tried.
- However, when he learned and witnessed that Hela was becoming the Asgardian Goddess of Death by enhancing her powers through necromancy and dark magic, Ymir became respectful and wary of her that he established a form of diplomacy with her, one that Hela had surprisingly accepted since she also realized that neither of them were able to truly kill each other and rather, they could benefit from each other.
See Also
- Appearances of Ymir (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Ymir (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Ymir (Earth-61615)
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