Update Thread 37 vs. Freddy vs. Jason vs. Predator

[Mamorien]

By the afternoon, when A Thing of Vikings updated, I was already distracted with Bare Squadron stuff. Oops.

King Magnus's attempts to free himself from Einar Thambarskelfir's control were, at first, tentative and uncertain.  Einar controlled the structures and systems of government, and had made himself into a bottleneck through which all correspondence and control had to be directed.  Magnus also did not have access to the full text of many treaties and laws.  Einar additionally had waged a specific campaign of corruption throughout Magnus's teen years in attempting to weaken Magnus's work ethic in order to make him easier to control, a campaign that is believed to have resulted in the birth of Magnus's bastard daughter, Ragnhild, when Magnus was in his mid-teens.

However, in the aftermath of Magnus's marriage to Ruffnut, Einar began to realize the depth of his miscalculations and reacted poorly.  On the one hand, he now had dragons to help enforce his policies.  On the other hand, he had to deal with Queen Ruffnut, which he was reported to have described later on as a challenge that would make the hardiest man quiver in his boots in trepidation, especially when combined with her brother.  Furthermore, it was becoming obvious to him just how poorly he had understood Hiccup Haddock's basic personality…

Also, Heather explains why she doesn't want anything shockingly direct done to her harassers, Astrid's parents take shockingly direct action against an outbreak of class conflict in Vedrarfjord, and Snotlout Sigurd gets a shockingly direct reaction from his priestly tutor. The first edge of the sword is bared, and it is, of course, Your Side...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/30625665

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/36...Of-Vikings