Well found!
It will work if the story calls for it to work. This will give the party a dilemma: do they go after Gontula or Greg?
Looks like Greg’s dead.
I have never seen this come in any D&D game and I truly doubt it would be a factor here, but in the original Nordic religion, when the Valkyrie choose someone as worthy, he would go to Valhalla only half of the time. The other half would be sent to Freya and her after-life field, Fólkvangr. What happens then is really, really vague
which is probably why you don’t hear about it much any more.
I was thinking - it had to be Belkar, didn’t it? Any of the others would have noticed him dropping the shield and exposing his chest, and hesitated. But not Belkar. He didn’t notice, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have cared.
Belkar is also the only one with a real stake in the battle.
As for Hilgya resurrecting him, perhaps she might want to do that just to kill him herself. Revenge isn’t as satisfying if someone else does the job.
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And Belkar’s to blame, halfling you give rangers a bad name…
(I’m not sorry)
No, I think all of them were fully committed to the outcome of the fight oh wait you meant it literally…
I see what you did there. In fact, we ALL saw what you did there. Do you have anything to say for yourself, young man ?
I’m no expert, but I was given to understand that they mostly went to Valhalla and fought “mock” battles every day to stay sharp for Ragnarok, with lots of eating and drinking afterward.
A few might prefer to dally with Frigg’s ladies in waiting. Maybe this was on an occasional basis. Probably to minimize PTSD.
I find it odd to think that Odin should have to double recruitment goals for Ragnarok just to have half of them hang out with his wife…
Only that it’s been a long time since anyone’s called me “young man”. Otherwise, I regret nothing.
Correction. I regret not being able to work “steak” in there without possibly someone accusing me of being a homophone.
Nope, it was 50-50. Whether it was at random or there is some selection criteria is unstated.
And the boys in Valhalla got to play with the Valkyries when their day is done.
There’s a “Valhalla-Back Girls” joke in there somewhere, but I can’t quite get it…
As far as I know the only reference is in the Grímnismál (Sayings of Grimnir) where Odin disguised as Grimnir lays out the arrangement of the norse worlds and the halls of divers gods.
taken from voluspa.org
That it was written down at all suggests some amount of widespread belief but it’s entirely possible that there were any number of beliefs about what happened to people after they died. I don’t know how specific D&D is about afterlifes but I am doubtful they or Burlew care too much about hewing to this level of detail.
The details vary from one setting to another in D&D. In the Forgotten Realms, for instance, you go to the realm of the deity you worship, regardless of alignment, and if you don’t worship any deity at all, you get stuck spending eternity as a brick in the Wall of the Faithless. Of course, Stickworld is its own setting, so the Giant gets to decide his own rules.
We don’t know all of the details, but it appears that people who don’t worship any particular god (like Roy) go to the plane corresponding to their alignment, and people who worship a god and are the same alignment as their god go to their god’s realm (which is part of the corresponding alignment plane). It’s not yet known what happens to someone who worships a god of a different alignment: Would Thor-worshipping, Chaotic Good Haley go to the same place as Thor-worshipping, Lawful Good Durkon, or the same place as Banjo-worshipping, Chaotic Good Elan?
“Eh, tha cat’s prob’ly fine.”
Notice he didn’t say anything about the bird…
Maybe the raven too? Nah, that’s asking too much.
I CARRY MY FISTS IN MY HEART.
I’m pretty sure nobody in my D&D group reads OotS, so I am immediately stealing this.