Vidarr Lonestorm

Vidarr Stormsong was a half-giant of formidable stature and lineage, born from the union of the sea Avatar Vapora and Paramount Thoryn, former King of the Storm Giants. Though once shunned by his kin and known by the derogatory title “Lonestorm,” Vidarr would become the savior of his people and the restorer of Utgard’s legacy within the Abythis sea trench. He later joined The Sunsations in their final campaign against Valekith during the Battle of the Black Sun, where he perished shielding his allies from the severed shadow's temporal aura.

In death, his people bestowed upon him a new name: Stormsong, a title of kingship and reverence, marking the end of his isolation and the beginning of a renewed age for Utgard.

Origins & History

Vidarr’s birth was the result of a brief and controversial union between Paramount Thoryn and Avatar Vapora following their victory over the World Eater Serpent. Though born of two legendary figures, his existence was unwelcome among the storm giant nobility. Branded a bastard and cast out from both civilizations, Vidarr lived alone in the ruins of old Utgard, in the Abythis sea trench, surviving by fending off deep-sea horrors and meditating on the ancient songs of his father's people.

For decades he wandered the trench-lands and coral crypts of the sea floor, haunted by the stone-still faces of his people—Storm Giants paralyzed in slumber by the gaze of the World Eater Serpent. It was only after he aided The Sunsations in defeating the Serpent during the Wrath of the World Eater that these petrified giants stirred once more. Despite the death of his cursed father, Vidarr seized the moment to rebuild with the awakening of his people. He returned the severed heads of his siblings, Annam and Helgyra, to their ancestral tombs and called forth the remnant stormkin from across the drowned ruins.

According to the ancient customs of his people, Vidarr stood before his father's empty throne and sang. Not with bitterness, but with resolve. The old title “Lonestorm” was set aside. Utgard would rise again—under a new name, and a new king.

Life

Just as he lived, Vidarr ruled briefly yet valiantly. His strength of will, command of the storm, and knowledge of the sea gleaned from both Avatars and the abyss he called home marked him as a leader capable of bridging the fractured lineages of Atla and Utgard. It was in this moment of growing stability that he received Talyen’s call to arms.

Leaving Utgard in the hands of his newly awakened kin, Vidarr joined the Sunsations in their final journey to The Isle of Ember to face Malekith and his Severed Shadow. Valekith. There, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Avatars and fabled champions of Osira. His colossal form weathered waves of solar devastation, shielding his comrades as the sky collapsed and time itself unraveled.

He fought with relentless fury against the Fallen Mythar Angels, wielding a thunder-bound trident crafted from the bones of deep-sea leviathans. But when Valekith, fully merged with the eclipse, drew the sun down upon the world, Vidarr’s own body was caught between frozen time and accelerated decay. His flesh necrotized in place—one half turned to stone, the other to ash. Still, he crawled forward, attempting to cast a final barrier of wind and water over his fallen comrades, who lay unconscious beside him. In his final moments, he did not scream. He died as he lived, with resolute confidence.

Legacy

Vidarr’s body was never recovered. The remains of his armor were melted into the obsidian of the Tomb of the Twin-Spirit, leaving only a twisted pauldron engraved with the sigil of Utgard.

In Utgard, bards now sing of Vidarr Stormsong, the half-giant who sang life back into the abyss and died so the sun would not take the world. He is no longer remembered as a bastard, nor as an exile. His song is taught to stormkin apprentices, and his likeness is carved into the central spire of the rebuilt Utgardian palace—a statue standing not on a throne, but upon a bed of coral, gazing toward the surface above.

Among the Sunsations, his memory is honored in silence. No one speaks of his death. They simply recall the sound of the waves breaking upon the shores.