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My version of the norse god Heimdall.
The myths call him the whitest of gods and another myth states that anything that bathes in the waters Urdarbrunnir (well of fate) turns pure white and says swans are white because of swimming there which got me thinking, theres another myth that says heimdall sees the future what if he;s the "whitest of the aesir" because he's bathed in the waters of fate and thats why he can see the future. It's just an idea but thought it'd be fun to try drawing my heimdall with pure white skin.

The title and whats going on with his fingers is a reference to how my heimdall was made, the myths say he is the son of 9 virgins, the daughters of aegir, this sounds confusing but I thought one possible explanation is that they made him with a spell, each of the nine sisters added a lock of their hair to the spell and 7 of the colours of the hairs went into heimdall's hair, while the gold haired mother's hair is the reason for his gold teeth (Another thing the myths say he has) and a grey haired mother gave him his grey eyes.

In my nine worlds there are magical constructs which are creatures made entirely of magic to serve a purpose, and these are very susceptible to magic. (Humans are actually techically a kind of magical construct but oe that was bound to the wooden forms of Askr and Embla that were carved by Durin, and thats why we;re so very suceptable to magic.)
Heimdall is not a normal magical construct though, since he had the DNA of his mothers added to his magical form he is actually somthing half way between a construct and a jotun. Because he has the magic weilding jotun element this is what makes heimdall so powerful, he is not at all susceptible to magic and instead as a creature of magic but with control of it magic has barely any effect on him, he can see magic on others and so is never fooled by shapeshifting (unfortunatly for Loki) and this is why he is so very good at shapeshifting, his form isn't really all that fixed.

In this picture he is unraveling the magic of his fingers slightly as he questions whether or not all this makes him not a real person. though he did grow from a baby which a pure construct would not, he never really felt that he counted as a person, something that was not at all helped by his Mothers and grandmother using him as their weapon to help them in their quest to drown all sailors.

And if you actually read all that you deserve a medal :XD:
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1581x2252px 592.47 KB
Make
SAMSUNG
Model
SAMSUNG ES28 / VLUU ES28
Shutter Speed
1/256 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
5 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Aug 2, 2016, 4:19:06 PM
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xtcgm's avatar
I was "off the net" when you submitted this to "The-Gods-Themselves".
I have sent a request to submit it.