- Their essences being connected seems like more of a voodoo doll-type thing.
- Odin creating their stats tells us nothing about how comparable they are.
- Valkyries having specialisations is relevant to the point you're making, but still argues against the proposal you outline in the OP. It says that valkyries are exceptional in one area, but comparable in the rest. Yet from the OP, you're trying to scale the maneuverable one to the defensive one's defense; which is the exact one point they shouldn't be comparable. From this quote, if another one of the valkyries (say, the attack-focused one) had a durability feat, I'd be fine scaling that to Waltraute, however....
- This quote has Waltraute saying she can take out the other 8 valkyries in an 8v1. I kinda feel like this goes against the point you're making. Either way this seems pretty low on information, I think the conclusion of this confrontation would be the most important part.
- I don't understand the point of this armour removal quote.
1. & 2. Those points belong together. It's not quite a Voodoo thing, as there is the difference that it's not an effect forced from the outside, but something happening due to their nature. As I understand it they were created from the same essence by Odin as a set of 9 and with specific stats in mind. They would only be super different if Odin had made one of them much stronger than the rest, but given how they are treated equally and considered the same, I don't think that's the case.
3. They shouldn't be equal, but still comparable. If the specializations were such gigantic boons that they are not remotely comparable (much more than 10x from each other for example) then Waltraute, as the speed focussed one, should have a huge speed advantage on the rest, due to that being her specialization. But in practice, her sisters are said to be able to hit her if they got close. And that's also where the quote you mention in 5. comes in. Even Waltraute, the speed specialized one, is not so fast that she could disengage her sisters armor with the armor removal tool.
If we want to further quantify this look at Gerhilde. Her specialization is to use 10 lightning spears, where her sisters use 1. So that's a quantifiable advantage of times 10, which is pretty much in the ballpark I'm arguing for.
4. She can only do that, because the multi-tool is an anti-Valkyrie device (to say it carefully). She wins the battle by just activating the secret Valkyrie-binding function of the device to instantly restrain her sisters. So I don't think that's relevant to the debate. Without it, her sisters indeed would have got her, despite her speed specialization.
Waltraute grinned and unfolded one of the blades from the multi-tool knife.
Specifically, she unfolded the unwanted new function the dwarves had added with the extra gold.
As soon as she did, a large number of tentacles squirmed out while completely ignoring the law of conservation of mass.
“……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………What?”
Brynhildr was left dumbfounded and Waltraute said, “It seems the dwarves put in a little too much effort on this one. A Valkyrie caught by these things will supposedly pass out and foam at the mouth.”
“Nn…nn…nwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?!?!?”
Please wait a moment…drool.
“Hm.”
Waltraute pressed the button on the tool’s handle to stop the housewife-pleasing function at the last second. The widowed eldest sister and the other single women were left bound by those slimy objects wrapped all around their bodies.
“You should be thankful this is a love comedy. If it was an erotic novel, this would have gone beyond simply binding your arms and legs.”
“Ha…ha ha.”
Brynhildr laughed weakly after that close call.
The Einherjar she controlled could not act with their commander gone.
“It does seem there is nothing more we can do. We admit defeat. But you are in a dilemma as well, Waltraute.”
Also, part of the issue with trying to reason out vague modifiers from stuff like this, is that different series can have vastly different barriers for what constitutes a blitz/one-shot/no-sell. Maybe she can't be 2x weaker, maybe she's 100x weaker but insurmountable gaps reside around 1000x.
None of this really lends itself to a specific tier though.
- Beyond mortals means it's at least 9-C.
- Gods can do something in fights with valkyries, so they'd be as strong as baseline valkyrie dura once we come to an agreement on that.
- Odin being astonished by Waltraute approaching doesn't give us anything concrete.
- Thor getting beaten-up by Waltraute in a "battle of thunder" might scale his dura to Spears of Destroying Lightning, but if it does, then Waltraute wouldn't be able to get SS from this interaction.
Maybe we could just wait for this first thread of conversation to disentangle itself?
It should be noted that Einherja are also mortal souls, but I suppose that ultimately circles back to Valkyrie durability as well.
I will also add that Waltraute IMO shouldn't be weaker than the horse she rides.
That special white horse was not as simple to handle as a normal one. There was no way she could hand that boy of the human world the reins of a rough horse that was known to easily throw off your average god.
Also one more quote I found regarding Waltraute beating Odin.
Waltraute decided the item’s abilities were too much for her to give it back to the boy for the time being.
“This is a difficult issue,” she admitted. “But it is the job of a wife and a god to meet the expectations of her husband and believer. I have no choice but to do something rather reckless.”
“Meaning?”
“I will talk this over with Odin after beating him to a pulp.”
And only one final problem remained.
After making sure a sobbing Odin declared a truce, Waltraute left the heavenly hall of Valhalla. As she did, she spotted an evil god entering.
