Ragnarök: Destiny of the Gods

Learning about the mystical worldview of the Viking age Norseman has never been so easy and fun before. Now it is available for all humans residing in Midgard. There is no need to sacrifice an eye like Odin for this sacred knowledge, it‘s just one click away.

Ragnarok –Destiny of the Gods is a new and unique edutainment card game, designed to make learning about the culture, mythology, and society of the Viking age Norsemen easy and fun.

This new card game is the intellectual work of Reynir A. Óskarson a passionate researcher of Viking-age culture, society, and history. He was born and raised in Iceland, where this culture has been preserved better than perhaps any of the other northern lands.

The goal was to design a tool that made learning about the culture, mythology and society of the Viking age Norsemen easy and fun. The author’s vision was to create something so engaging that you would learn something new even by accident. Norse mythology can be a complex subject to understand with all its characters and intertwined story-lines, to say nothing of the misconceptions from popular movies, television series, and comics.

The deck of cards contains sixty-five cards, representing most of the beings found in Norse mythology, some of them unexpected and peculiar. Each card holds a text telling the Saga specific to that being, and the general statistics of the being along with character trait points representing combat abilities, magical abilities, influence and mobility. All this information is taken directly from the ancient texts.

This deck is meant for all young to old, educated to the less so on the subject of Norse mythology. There are six different games to be played with this deck, all of them dependent on your knowledge of the Norse myths. The easiest games for those not familiar with the myths and the more difficult games for those who are very knowledgeable about the myths. The more you play the more you learn the easier it is for you to play the more difficult games.