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** [[Light Is Not Good|Worse than that]]. The valkyries, [[Sadly Mythtaken|universally depicted]] nowadays as [[Hot Amazon|hot amazon babes]] on [[Cool Horse|winged horses]] just there to lovingly lift up the spirits of the fallen and take them to Valhalla. Well, some sources describe them as far more than just beautiful [[Useful Notes/Psychopomp|Psychopomps]]s for the heroic dead. They helped ''make'' your heroes dead. A random arrow deflected in flight hits a chink in your armor. A broken lace on your boot makes you stumble and gives your enemy the opening to strike you down. [[Grey and Gray Morality|EtceteraEt cetera]]. All the work of the Valkyries, invisibly flitting here and there on the battlefield to screw over the finest of warriors so that Odin would have the best of the best on his side come Ragnarok. It was how the Norse answered the question [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|"why do the good die young while jerk-asses live forever?"]] It was also why the original steeds of the valkyries weren't beautiful winged horses, they were [[Beauty Equals Goodness|dark and hoary wolves]].

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Unfortunately, due to the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] deification of all things blond and blue-eyed, a disproportionate number of the "fans" of Norse mythology you'll find these days are Wotanists, a neo-naziNazi white supremacist sect who wish to return the lighter-skinned "to their ancestral religion." [[Did Not Do the Research|How these nutters would react to the fact that Norse mythology is heavily connected to other Proto-Indo-European religions]], with such concepts as a world tree and serpent being observed as far as India and Persia.