True. They do have some decent time Hax, that's potent enough to stop the sun and moon from shrieking across the sky (hopefully Kratos gets his hands on this and gets interplanetary range)
Right now the Norse mostly invest in runic stuff and armors and using whatever they can to create the wackiest shit they can find but they need to be creative about it and have to try hard, with Ivaldi straight up requiring the mists of Niflheim to make the marvels that threatened gods. They also seem to like spatial-related hax very much for some reason.
Meanwhile, in the case of the Greeks, it was the humans who made marvels of engineering that could straight up be called steampunk-ish to a degree and it still paled to what the Gods could actually do in their spare time just for kicks, especially when even the worst of their weaponry rivals the strongest Norse weaponry. Not only that, they focus their magic to be as much about combat as possible, they don't try to be creative, they just will their magic to do whatever they want to do. Power null? Yeah sure go for it. Fashion Pantheon-destroying weapons that can absorb, power null and filter? You got it! **** around and find out with souls however you wish? Yeah why the hell not. Forge new lands just by saying "Pop into existence you miserable slobs" and shit? Donezo.
Go on a horny spree? Ouch.
Yes. Do the Norse Gods even have concept Hax so far?
Not as far as I can tell.
An interesting analysis. I'm not sure who has more skill and experience in battles. But I feel like I'd prolly say the Norse gods, as I feel like the Greek gods went longer unchallenged, whereas the Aesir seem to always be at war.
Kinda have to disagree there, the Greek Pantheon's very beginnings were very violent, the Primordials literally popped out of Chaos and immediately went into war with each other for God knows how long, and even then the real fun hadn't begun yet, it truly began the moment Cronos chose to literally cut his father's balls off, and that's where things started to go downhill for them. The Titan War is also another, where the Titans and Gods fought for centuries and it took Zeus to build the Blade of Olympus to finish the job at the last leg of the fight.
Contrary to popular belief, Zeus's rule did not go unchallenged, but Athena had to take most of the brunt because Ares literally couldn't stand her, so he set up proxy wars on other places to destabilize Olympus as a whole, then there's the issue of the Egyptian and Persian pantheon being at odds with the Greeks, and of course, who can forget Persephone trying to bring down Olympus as a whole? But of course, the ultimate menace in the long run would be Kratos himself, who shared the exact same goals as Ares to go to war with Olympus, but whereas Ares only wished to become the new ruler, Kratos sought to literally burn it down to ash, which he did, and he sacrificed himself by choosing his humanity over his godhood.
But to bring it back to Hax, I got faith in Odin. A God of Magic must have some decent Hax.
He has to. Man literally power-nulled one of the strongest Vanir (And by extension possibly one of the strongest foes in the Norse pantheon surpassing all the Valkyries combined) into not even being able to take her own sword out from her back. It's just a paper-weight for her at this point.
And honestly I feel like Odin is the smartest character in the series, so I guess we could give him that
Definitely, given just how much information he's amassed over the centuries.
