| “ | Talk about an exciting welcome. But even if I lost the black world tree, don’t think you can take out the second head god!! | „ |
| ~ Hel |
Summary
Hel is Loki's daughter. Unlike her siblings Fenrir and Jörmungandr, it wasn't clear which role Hel would play in the Ragnarok, which made her dangerous to Asgard and ended up making it so that Odin sealed her in Niflheim, where she became the queen of the underworld. However, as Baldr speculated in one of her reports, Odin doesn't have a reason to have spared her life if she was that dangerous. Instead, the truth is Odin had been unable to kill her. Additionally, Baldr noted that Hel possesses a noteworthy characteristic: authority over the dead in the nine worlds, the exact same power Odin has, marking her as a second head God. Odin had sent her to the underworld because he's aware that he's only the head god due to being the only one that can fulfill the position, and that given that only one head god is needed, people would likely choose the innocent Hel over the scheming and manipulative war god Odin.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 7-B | 6-A
Key: Base | With Sins of Niflheim
Name: Hel
Origin: The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown, likely older than a human lifespan
Classification: God, Giant, Queen of the Underworld, Second head god
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Ice Manipulation, Resistance to Curses, Manipulation of the souls of Niflheim | Typhoon Creation, Death Manipulation, Durability Negation and Summoning via human sins
Attack Potency: City level (Can fight against Waltraute in the crossover) | Continent level (Much stronger than before, comparable to Fenrir and Jörmungandr, can create her own world tree)
Speed: Likely Massively Hypersonic+ via power-scaling (Should be comparable to Waltraute)
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Striking Strength: City level
Durability: City level (Níðhöggr's breath launched her into a wooden wall, but she was otherwise unharmed by the attack; can fight Waltraute in the crossover)
Stamina: High
Range: At least Tens of Meters | Tens of Kilometers normally, Multiversal with Yggdrasil (only for summoning)
Standard Equipment: None notable | Niflheim's human sins
Intelligence: Average
Weaknesses: None notable | The human sin is only lethal to humans
Feats/Statements:
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Pitch black particles gathered in its gaping maw and intense pressure built up. When released all at once, the attack would contain enough firepower to rival the Baby Magnum and it was mercilessly aimed toward flesh-and-blood humans. [...] Hel seemed overcome with emotion, but she had made a few mistakes. First, Kamijou Touma’s right hand contained Imagine Breaker, so he could negate most any magical attack by holding it forward. Second, Níðhöggr’s mouth was positioned on the inn’s entrance and she was still on hands and knees between Kamijou and the entrance. Third, Níðhöggr was overly obedient to her, so it prioritized its master’s orders despite thinking that positioning was dangerous. Those three points led to a certain conclusion. “Ah.” The pitch black breath accurately struck Hel’s kneeling butt and nothing else. If someone swung a wooden spoon the length of a human spine toward someone’s butt, it might have made a similar sound. Imagine Breaker negated the raging pitch black torrent and Kamijou quickly swung his head aside to avoid a certain “projectile”. “Hbrrgbhealoghbrogbrogbrbfobfiwiefbjr!!!???” Someone flew through the air while partially bent over and their head stabbed into the opposite wall. Heivia reflexively turned around to look and saw only a round butt and legs sticking out of the wall with a long skirt spread around them like a giant flower. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Tanks being hit with Nidhoggr's breath |
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“(Seriously?) Umm, as her title suggests, Hel rules the icy underworld of Niflheim. She has direct control of all the human spirits that can’t get into Asgard and she uses them to form the army of evil spirits that opposes the gods.” “Huh? Is that really how you’re going to explain it?” complained Freyja. “Well, she may be queen of the underworld now, but she didn’t have that power from the moment she was born. It was only after that bearded head god banished her to the underworld that she gained the power to rule it as queen. So her properties and abilities before then may have been completely different.” |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Hel has control over all the human souls who don't go to Asgard |
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Niflheim was a hopeless land entirely covered in white snow and ice. It was a comfortable environment for Hel who ruled that underworld, but the same could not be said of the human souls cast into that abyss. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Hel is unbothered by the cold in Niflheim |
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At first, he thought it was the wind. Something invisible was rustling the leaves of the trees. However, it was not wind. All of the windows noisily shattered and the doors flew off their hinges and into the buildings. It was a massive shockwave that rushed along the earth in a single direction. [...] Something massive loomed up in the distance. It was so large it was easy to forget how distant it had to be and it seemed to stab deep into the shaman’s brain through his eyes and optic nerves. It was difficult to describe. The closest approximation would be a massive pitch-black tree that towered up toward heaven. The shaman had only just explained that the nine worlds of the Norse world were supported by the world tree, so what was this? What was this tree that was large enough to rival the world tree? [...] “Is that black mass the sins of the dead? The only one who could wield that…no, the only one who could wield it and remain at its ‘core’ without being torn to pieces is Lady Hel because she can directly control that sin.” [...] He stood on the edge of Bifröst, the rainbow runway the Valkyries and gods used when heading out into the outside worlds. A pitch-black vortex filled a large chunk of the expanse of land visible below the clouds. It was huge. It was simply massive. It resembled the typhoons or hurricanes seen on weather maps. [...] “What you’re seeing down there isn’t weather. You should be able to tell based on how high up we are here, but it’s too big to be a normal typhoon or hurricane. It’s over eighty kilometers across, after all.” “What are you talking about? The really bad typhoons are that big, aren’t they?” “Geh. For real!? Your world’s natural disasters are that bad!? Is your weather god on strike or something?” Freyja looked annoyed. “That’s a disaster, but not a natural one. I suppose it’s all of the sin borne by the sinners cast down into Niflheim. Each one of them may be weak, but gather them together, and you have a great torrent of power!! Sounds like a special attack, doesn’t it?” [...] “It’s the gods who judge human souls and it’s the gods’ job to overwrite those souls. You only become a sinner because a god calls you one, so the god can make good into evil or evil into good. So it would be best not to think of what you see swirling around down there as hatred or resentment. If anything, you could probably call it the ego forced onto them by a selfish god.” [...] “First, what we’re seeing are the souls of the sinners cast down into Niflheim. Second, Hel has the strongest control over those sinners. And third, no one but Hel could enter that vortex and escape unharmed.” |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Hels gathers the sins of Niflheim, creating a black typhoon/second world tree |
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“The souls sent to Niflheim will literally suffer forever. That includes everyone since the dawn of history who wasn’t chosen by Odin. Saving every single one of them and bearing all of their sins goes far beyond what a single person can accomplish. Odin is the most powerful of us all and I doubt even he could do that.” “Wait a second. But Hel-chan isn’t trying to do anything more than that, right? She doesn’t have an ulterior motive; she really is trying to save the souls that were made into sinners?” “That’s what makes this so much trouble.” Freyja put a hand on her hip. “Hel has to know she’ll burst if she tries this. But she can’t stand to see those sinners suffer, so she’s trying it despite having no chance of success.” “What do you mean ‘burst’? You mean if she fails, she doesn’t just get to rest and try again!?’ “This is why all of the virtuous gods of Asgard are panicking. If Hel explodes while bearing all of mankind’s sins, no one can begin to guess how far the damage will spread. Just to be clear, this world has been prophesied all the way up until it ends in Ragnarök, but even the prophetesses and the three goddesses of fate say they don’t know. No one knows what’s going to happen, but it’s looking even worse than the battle that will destroy the world. You can see why this is such a big deal, right?” |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Trying to purify all the sinners of Niflheim would end up with Hel exploding and possibly destroying the Norse world |
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All too twisted blackness existed before his eyes. It may have looked like a massive vortex when viewed from heaven, but it only looked like a massive wall from his perspective. He could not grasp the full scope of the black vortex or tree located ahead of him, so his eyes locked onto something else. Deep in the blackness, he saw something other than colored wind. He felt countless gazes staring back at him from beyond the sandstorm. Something prickled in his ears. It felt like insect eggs on the verge of hatching. It felt like they could burst at any moment and an uncountable number of “something” would spill out. [...] But the boy had not realized just how repulsive a thing it would be to simply stand there. In fact, the shaman probably had not known either. It was even possible that not even the gods knew despite claiming to know everything. They had called this a collection of all the sin extracted from the sinners cast down into the underworld. But it was not. Or rather, the substance swirling around Hel was indeed the concentrated form of the sin flowing from those sinners, but what peered out from within clearly surpassed that. It was not of this world. It seemed to have come from somewhere else. It was far more repulsive and beyond understanding. It seemed unlikely that anyone looking it in the eye could share their emotions with that horrible grotesque swarm. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Jack Elvan gets close to the vortex |
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What exactly is Hel? She is one of Loki and Angrboða’s three children. Fenrir is prophesied to eat Odin and Jörmungandr is prophesied to grow too large and crush the land, but no one knows what Hel will do. And because we do not know, she is viewed as dangerous. Odin sealed her in the depths of Niflheim and that is where she gained her position as queen of the underworld. [...] Odin does not have a sympathetic enough heart to have felt sorry for his young enemy and gone easy on her, so perhaps he did not actually let her live. In other words, it was not that he did not kill her; he could not kill her. [...] She is the queen who rules over Niflheim, she is the grim reaper that manages the souls of the dead, and she holds one of the triggers to Ragnarök because she is the one that orders Níðhöggr to bite at Yggdrasil’s roots so the tree will wither and the nine worlds will be destroyed. And besides these frightening facts, she also possesses another noteworthy characteristic: Hel has been given the authority to rule all nine worlds. To put it simply, that is the same authority as Odin and no one knows why this is. One theory says Odin gave her the authority because he felt sorry for her after unfairly casting her into the underworld, but as previously stated, it is highly suspect whether that god of war has a sympathetic enough heart for that. Now, let me suggest a bold theory. A grim reaper that manages the souls of the dead may sound frightening, but Odin actually possesses the exact same power. He gathers the human souls that come to Asgard and uses them to form the Einherjar army. How is that any different from Hel who rules the underworld and creates an army from the souls of the dead? And as previously stated, she has the authority to rule all nine worlds “for some reason”. So… Doesn’t this mean Hel is identical to Odin? Doesn’t this mean she is a second head god? [...] This is why Odin did not kill Hel. She has the exact same power as him, so it would come to a draw if they fought. He could not afford to make such a foolish mistake. And if he truly tried to kill her, Hel’s survival instincts could awaken the power within her. That would signal the beginning of the end for Odin. He could not let it get out that there were two head gods with the exact same power. And so he sealed Hel in Niflheim. That way, her “role” would be overwritten with the silly “queen of the underworld” title and she would forget about her power as the head god. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Baldr's report on Hel and his speculation on her being a second head god |
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Hel stood in the center of the pitch-black vortex or black tree. She had already discarded her title as “queen of the underworld” and returned to simply being “Hel”. She was aware Kamijou and the others were approaching and what they were saying. The blackness raging about her was an illness eating into her yet it had also become a part of her. It was her fingertips, her eyes, and her ears. So she had noticed the people trying to save her. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Hel's senses are linked to the black world tree |
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She called to the blackness that swirled around her and had become a part of her. The nine worlds of Norse culture were supported by the branches and roots of the world tree, but Loki had twisted those branches in impossible directions and stretched them out to the completely foreign places Kamijou, Quenser, and the others had come from. What Hel did may have been similar. However, she did not use Yggdrasil. Some who saw it may have seen it as a massive hurricane. Others may have seen it as a black tree. In other words, this second great god had created a brand new system with a brand new tree. [...] Somewhere in the world, a great mass welled up like mist. It was a colossal weapon of war that exterminated its foes with great firepower instead of the more peaceful methods of the nuclear age. After the collapse of the United Nations, a few different world powers had risen. One of those was the Information Alliance and this second generation Object was a crystallization of their military technology. [...] The black tree guided a new form in from somewhere. It was a freelance agent who had set an artificial Youkai known as a Shikigami as her hypothetical enemy and thoroughly modified her body until she could kill the Youkai that were unaffected by physical attacks. [...] Somewhere else, someone was pulled up like bubbles rising from a swamp. She was a dangerous criminal who freely massacred people like a natural disaster even after being designated a banned killer. She had reached the depths of madness in her obsession with the preservation of corpses and collected the corpses she created with a modified stun gun so as not to spill any blood. [...] A white torrent appeared that threatened to destroy the black tree itself. It was the manager who gathered together every Absurdity. This overwhelming existence had been connected to Prometheus who gave fire to man and to the Banshee said to predict people’s deaths. A certain inhumane organization even viewed her as the Philosopher’s Stone. [...] And the deciding factor was released. It was Academy City’s #1 Level 5. His power let him freely transform momentum, heat, electricity, or any other vector. He had even shown signs of taking one step beyond the realm of science and into the realm of magic. [...] “What do you think, archenemy?” “I’d say this is unbelievably Absurd, but unlike us, it doesn’t feel like the actual person has been dragged into this world. It’s more like a shadow from another world was brought here.” “Then if we defeat that, it won’t affect the original person?” [...] That was the name of a summoner who freely fought by calling in Materials, the residents of other worlds, from completely foreign places. That was the name of a boy who controlled the uppermost limits of power and the greatest blasphemies by fighting with that which lurked beyond the gods and were classified as Regulation, Divine, and Unexplored. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Hel can use the black tree to reach into different worlds and summon shadow copies of the beings living on those worlds, which are the other series written by the author |
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Neither view was wrong. It was a new world tree that Hel had created as the “other” head god. By extending its branches and roots without end, it could freely summon countless armies from outside the Norse culture made up of the nine worlds. But at the same time, it was all the sins of the people who had been sent to Niflheim. It was the brand that Odin had placed on anyone he saw as useless. The people’s backgrounds and actions were ignored, so they were simply cast into Niflheim and simply forced into an eternity of torture with no hope of salvation. It was what sent people to the underworld. It was what robbed people of all dignity. Hel was attempting to cleanse all other souls by taking it all into herself and it was overflowing into her surroundings without end. And worst of all, a certain boy had thrown himself into that vortex to save her. It was human sin, so Youkai, dragons, gods, or other non-humans may have been able to endure it. But a human stood no chance whatsoever. In other words, it was death itself. To protect Hel from anything approaching the center, it rushed toward the boy. [...] The sin had formed the black tree and been her tool, but she had not known it had enough of a will of its own to drain the boy of life. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Touching the black tree vortex would mean death for humans, and it acts automatically to eliminate any threat to Hel |
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Or rather, a bigger problem fell on top of them. Waltraute, the fourth Valkyrie sister, and Hel, queen of the underworld and second head god, crashed down like a shooting star while tearing at each other’s hair and clothes. [...] The others had no idea what these two were talking about, but fortunately, their collision with the deck did not create a giant crater in it. Instead, they tore up the ground like a plane making an emergency landing and they slid toward the others. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Waltraute and Hel crash down into the ground mid-fight |
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In this battle of gods, they teleported from point to point and the shockwaves of their clashes arrived after a short delay, but then Index muttered something. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Waltraute and Hel fight at high speed |
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Hel, queen of the underworld, cried out. She swung an arm horizontally and produced a giant sword of ice. But it looked like toothpick compared to Skíðblaðnir. It crashed into the ship on the first swing and the sinister ice that smelled of death and the underworld was smashed to pieces. Nevertheless, not a single shard fell to the ground. Their points all turned toward the sea goddess and they shot toward her from countless directions like precision guided missiles. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to a Certain Magical Heavy Zashiki Warashi’s Simple Killer Queen's Marriage - Hel uses ice magic against Rán |
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“They put a curse on the gold they use,” continued Freyja with a serious expression. “Especially when it comes to those that shirk the bill like Loki suggested he do. Even the tools we use have a dwarf curse on them. The reason we remain unharmed is because our properties as gods repels the curse. But if a human who cannot repel it was to hold them…” “…” “Loki stole some gold from the dwarf named Andvari and gave it to the human Siegfried. It became one of the reasons behind the death of that hero who even sliced the dragon Fafnir in two. The magic sword Dáinsleif is usable by human hands, but it is also said to be one of the triggers for Ragnarök. Surely you have heard the stories. It is often said that humans cannot fully use the weapons of the gods, but that is a lie. In truth, the humans cannot withstand the curse put on the weapons by the dwarves.” “Th-th-then…” Waltraute asked a question in a trembling voice. “What will happen once that boy accepts the golden tool the dwarf makes?” “Hmm.” Freyja looked straight upwards. “He’ll probably die.” [...] “It doesn’t matter what you say now! It’s too late!! That boy has already ordered that dwarf to create a golden tool. Once he received the tool from the dwarf, the curse will activate. A soul born in the human world has no way of defending against it. Even if a Valkyrie and a goddess are protecting him from afar, he cannot escape his fate. That level of protection isn’t enough. You need the protection we gods are born with to repel a dwarf’s curse!!” |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage - Gods repel curses, which is why they can use dwarven tools, which are usually cursed to the level humans might die just by holding them |
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“Um, do you know the relationship between altitude and atmospheric pressure? The higher you go, the less oxygen there is. Divine beings like us are fine, but I think a human child is in trouble if he does not have oxygen.” [...] He entered an altitude sickness-like state, but it would not end there. As he continued on, there would be even less oxygen and the atmospheric pressure would fall. As the air grew thinner, the temperature dropped due to the loss of the atmosphere’s insulation. A cold wind reminiscent of midwinter blew through the area around the boy. |
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| ~ The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage - Divine beings can survive in environments with low oxygen, low temperature and low pressure like high altitudes |
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Ice Manipulation: During her fight with Rán, Hel proved to be capable of creating a giant ice sword. When the sword was destroyed Hel manipulated all the shards to shoot them at Rán from countless directions.
- Resistance to Curses: Normally most dwarven items and weapons have powerful curses on them that can bring ruin to mortals like humans or giants, but the properties of the gods repel these dwarf curses, allowing them to freely wield or use them.
- Human Sin Manipulation/Typhoon Creation: As the second head god Hel has the ability to create an 80-kilometer wide typhoon around her out of the sins of the people in Niflheim. Due to being a huge mass made off of countless humans sins, it's practically death itself to humans in contact, though non-human beings like dragons, Youkai and gods can endure it. Additionally, Hel can use this black hurricane to form a black tree, a new world tree. By growing the branches of this world tree in directions which ignore Euclidean geometry she is able to freely summon countless armies from outside the Norse culture made up of the nine worlds. The people summoned to appear as "shadows", copies of the original beings. The shadows possess the appearance, the abilities and presumably the knowledge of the originals and will voluntarily fight for Hel. With this method, she summoned the second generation Object "Rush", Hishigami Mai, Shizuna, the White Girl, Accelerator and Shiroyama Kyousuke, who in turn summoned the White Queen. The White Queen was summoned via Kyousuke's abilities and not Hel's so she won't necessarily follow Hel's orders like the actual shadows.
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Discussions
| Discussion threads involving Hel |