The Immortal Thor

Thor, now the All-Father, is troubled by new threats and looks to his past for answers. To bring those old memories back into focus, he calls on his Skald of Realms and asks for a tale from his youth.

The story goes back to a quest taken by young Thor and young Loki, far beyond Asgard. The outcome of that journey decides the fate of all the Realms. Young Thor must face the tricks of the Utgard-Loki, with every living thing at stake. It is a tale that has been told twice already and is now told a third time.

There is a danger in the telling. The Skald who tells it is acting in the aspect of Thor's enemy, and so the story can twist back on itself. If Thor falters while hearing it, the tale can reach a new ending, one that was never part of the memory.

The book is a mythic fantasy comic story that moves between the old Asgard of Thor's youth and the present, with a story inside a story at its centre. The tone is epic and ominous, and the stakes are the Realms themselves. A tale that could be turned against its listener gives the book a sense of threat that runs from the first page.