Well, I'm no battle strategist. I leave that work to the scholars. But in the time I recently called home, our nations were at war with the beastmen. At their head was a vile, dark being we called the Shadow Lord, though in truth he was, at one point, one of us. Hatred had turned him into a beast made of a vast abyss of evil.

I've also witnessed similar accounts from those who made pacts with Odin in my world.