Alrund

Alrund's History

Alrund is the god of Wisdom and the Cosmos from Kaldheim. He sometimes disguises himself as the human Asi.

Alrund appears as an bald, old man with one eye and a grey beard. He has a Cosmic raven, Hakka, who flies into all realms to collect knowledge. Depending on his mood, Alrund wavers between distinct personalities. When he's pondering something important, he is distant and speaks only in insufferable, maddening riddles. But when he's happy and relaxed, he is excellent company: an accomplished storyteller and entertainer who loves a good feast.

Alrund was born wise, but that meant he was wise enough to know that he didn't know everything. So, in his youth, he undertook a quest to become the wisest being in all the realms. When the Cosmos monsters came into being, all the secrets of the world—including events that had not yet happened—were locked away inside their minds. By making every Cosmos monster submit to him one by one over the course of centuries, Alrund was able to take their secrets from them. Much to his disappointment, this long quest did not make him truly omniscient, enlightening as it was. Kaldheim still holds secrets he hasn't learned.

While Alrund was on his quest to fight every Cosmos monster, he discovered an orphaned baby in a giant eagle's nest on Axgard. Alrund adopted the baby as his son and named him Halvar, but he was too preoccupied with his quest to take the boy back to the Gods' Realm at the time. He left the boy as a ward of the dwarf king for twenty years, until he remembered to come back for him as promised.

Alrund lived with Cosima for many years, and they had three children together: Toralf, Birgi, and Kolvori. Jorn is Alrund's brother.

Hurrik, the founder of the Beskir clan, once saved the god's life. As thanks, Alrund gifted the Feltmark to Hurrik and his descendants, who include Sigrid, and gave them his protective blessing.

In disguise as a mortal named Asi, he joined up with Inga Rune-Eyes and the planeswalker Kaya to hunt an extremely dangerous monster that already had caused destruction on the plane. This turned out to be none other than Vorinclex, one of New Phyrexia's praetors. Reaching the forest of Aldergard, the party engaged Vorinclex who almost managed to defeat them if not for Alrund revealing himself and using his magic to create a mystical barrier between Vorinclex and Inga's people; the praetor left Bretagard, with Kaya soon following.

Alrund instructed Kaya, Tyvar and the leaders of the human clans that the Sword of the Realms must be given to Halvar, so that the god of battle could end the Doomskar provoked by Tibalt.