I suppose there had to be at least one person here who thought that.
[Ivar may not have been a bad person, but he was self-aware enough to know that he wasn't terribly good either. No one as brutal and vicious as he was could be.]
That depends on what sort of gift it is.
[He chooses his words very carefully, not wanting to offend the god of mischief. A gift from the god was nothing to sneeze at. But he's heard enough stories to know that sometimes those gifts came from the left hand instead of the right, a curse more than a blessing. The Norse gods could be terrific assholes sometimes even to their most devout followers.]
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[Ivar may not have been a bad person, but he was self-aware enough to know that he wasn't terribly good either. No one as brutal and vicious as he was could be.]
That depends on what sort of gift it is.
[He chooses his words very carefully, not wanting to offend the god of mischief. A gift from the god was nothing to sneeze at. But he's heard enough stories to know that sometimes those gifts came from the left hand instead of the right, a curse more than a blessing. The Norse gods could be terrific assholes sometimes even to their most devout followers.]