The only reason it can kill Baldr is due to the nature of how he gained his invincibility. His mother, Frigg, after receiving a prophecy that harm shall befall Baldr, made all things in creation swear an oath to her in which they shall do no harm to her son; all except for mistletoe, as Frigg neglected to ask it, believing it to be too small and innocent of a thing to bother making it swear an oath against doing harm.
Loki, knowing this, tricked their cousin Hodr, into throwing a spear made of a mistletoe branch at Bladr as he was boasting about his newfound invincibility in celebration of avoiding the prophecy.
I like the implication that everything is sentient enough to swear oaths and choose whether or not to harm someone so that means mistletoe made the decision to kill Baldr in this story. Kind of a dick move mistletoe.
I was hoping that people would understand the background story and think that it was absurd that I would equivocate the slaying of Baldr with the ability to kill a werewolf, lol.
I would not have brought up Baldr in conversation had it not been for the like me being aware of the mythology.
But you do also have to admit that if we were in some sort of scary movie and my dumbass picked up a twig of mistletoe and looked you dead in the eye and said if it can kill a god, it can kill a werewolf and stabbed the bad guy werewolf and he fucking died from it, that would be funny as shit.
The irony of choosing that myth…
The only reason it can kill Baldr is due to the nature of how he gained his invincibility. His mother, Frigg, after receiving a prophecy that harm shall befall Baldr, made all things in creation swear an oath to her in which they shall do no harm to her son; all except for mistletoe, as Frigg neglected to ask it, believing it to be too small and innocent of a thing to bother making it swear an oath against doing harm.
Loki, knowing this, tricked their cousin Hodr, into throwing a spear made of a mistletoe branch at Bladr as he was boasting about his newfound invincibility in celebration of avoiding the prophecy.
I like the implication that everything is sentient enough to swear oaths and choose whether or not to harm someone so that means mistletoe made the decision to kill Baldr in this story. Kind of a dick move mistletoe.
“Underestimate me, will you?”
I was hoping that people would understand the background story and think that it was absurd that I would equivocate the slaying of Baldr with the ability to kill a werewolf, lol.
I would not have brought up Baldr in conversation had it not been for the like me being aware of the mythology.
But you do also have to admit that if we were in some sort of scary movie and my dumbass picked up a twig of mistletoe and looked you dead in the eye and said if it can kill a god, it can kill a werewolf and stabbed the bad guy werewolf and he fucking died from it, that would be funny as shit.
On further thought, it would also be funny if I stabbed him with it. It had no effect whatsoever, and then he immediately murdered me.