Odin Explains How He Lost His Eye - Mimir Tells the Truth - God of War Ragnarok

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  • Odin Explains How He Lost His Eye - Mimir Tells the Truth - God of War Ragnarok
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Komentáře • 333

  • @JarvisBaileyVA
    @JarvisBaileyVA Před rokem +449

    I appreciate Mimir's lesson on pathological liars to Atreus

    • @Mulluns
      @Mulluns Před rokem +61

      And after playing both games, Mimir was by no means exaggerating about the lengths Odin went to just to lie. "If he tells you the snow is white, he's lying."

    • @stephenking5852
      @stephenking5852 Před 10 měsíci +7

      To tell lies is to control reality.

    • @TheAcidicMolotov
      @TheAcidicMolotov Před 9 měsíci

      Pathology refers to not being able to control it, i think he lies as a tool

    • @TheAcidicMolotov
      @TheAcidicMolotov Před 8 měsíci

      @Office_Dwight way to ruin the fun

    • @TheAcidicMolotov
      @TheAcidicMolotov Před 8 měsíci

      @Office_Dwight that was it

  • @finnheisenheim8274
    @finnheisenheim8274 Před rokem +1388

    It is kind of humiliating for the god of knowledge to lose his eye because he tripped on mushrooms.

    • @DarsiPadilla
      @DarsiPadilla Před rokem +192

      It's still superior over Marvel Studios's Sam Jackson Nick Fury losing his eye to a stupid alien cat.

    • @jordanloux3883
      @jordanloux3883 Před rokem +29

      Eh, it's how most cults start.

    • @opticfloyyyd
      @opticfloyyyd Před rokem +38

      It’s kinda the best they could do cuz in the mythos, Odin looses his eye willingly to mimir to obtain knowledge

    • @dellmaxson2184
      @dellmaxson2184 Před rokem +15

      Not really he lost his eye cup he was high, then looked through the crack in space.
      Keep in mind all Asgard gods we fight in the game have some form of healing.
      So if Odin had plucked out his own eye, like mimir said in god of war 2018, Odin's eye would be back by now.

    • @TookieKnows
      @TookieKnows Před rokem +15

      I believe Mimir. His stories also go on to say that Odin took Mimir’s eye so he knew he was tricked. That makes more sense to me game-lore wise

  • @lachlancarter1707
    @lachlancarter1707 Před rokem +578

    Supporting Mimir's version of how Odin lost his eye, Odin not only pointedly removed Mimir's Left eye when imprisoning him (which would have been on his right side) as a sign that he'd not actually been fooled by his trick once he came off his high, he also casually chides one Asguardian that there better not be any mushrooms in the food when showing Atreus around Asgard the first time, implying he's so upset over the incident that he's banned mushrooms as a foodstuff in Asgard.
    Ironically, In this video Odin 'does' say one thing we can be mostly certain is the truth- that he's consumed with the need to know what comes next and a fear of there being nothing for him after his passing, which is exactly the fate that befalls him through his own actions.

    • @Dubs22005
      @Dubs22005 Před rokem +8

      who knows maybe athena still saves odin's soul or whatever that higher plane is
      there are specualtions that we will meet the meta of creation and the most ancient evil - demiurge there

    • @arta.xshaca
      @arta.xshaca Před rokem +1

      Doesn’t make sense plus Mimir lies a lot about Odin.

    • @lord_man_king
      @lord_man_king Před rokem +29

      @@arta.xshaca what?
      Says who, Odin?
      Or are you referring to Odin's bottom girl, Heimdall?

    • @infotainment6830
      @infotainment6830 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Dubs22005Ahh I see we have a fellow student of Gnosticism here, I think that’d be a great place to end the story, a false god controlling everything. Who knows if they’ll do it but it would be fitting as that is what we as a humanity are likely facing according to many modern oracles

    • @Aqua311
      @Aqua311 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@Dubs22005 I thought that his soul was destroyed when Sindri shattered the orb, so that he would meet the same fate as Brok: oblivion.

  • @IchbinX
    @IchbinX Před rokem +408

    "Power over reality."
    This is exactly why some ppl are perpetual liars. I had a friend who was just like this. Nothing malicious, but everything was a micro-lie, just to prop up his life. To be better than it actually was.

    • @DeathMessenger1988
      @DeathMessenger1988 Před rokem +22

      Exactly. GOW-Odin is the same as MCU-Thanos, every version of Athena and virtually every God ever. Like Mimir said, what matters to them is "being right". As in, fundamentally in the right about and intrinsically superior to everything in reality, no matter how many have to suffer and die for that to happen, no matter how much antithetical to common sense, morality and true wisdom. Causing countless tragedies and unimaginable suffering so they can convince themselves and everyone that they are RIGHT incarnate by destroying or subverting everything that contradicts them.
      It's the epitome of narcissism: enforcing one's solipisism as some kind of natural, unquestionable and inescapable cosmic law. The wet dream of every zealot dictator and wannabe-revolutionary, the mindset of people like Hitler, Stalin, the Kim Dynasty, the Chinese Communist Party, Pablo Escobar and Twitter.

    • @deadcool3227
      @deadcool3227 Před rokem +10

      Like one of those things where if you say something enough times or believe it hard enough it will come true

    • @KTM_Trooper
      @KTM_Trooper Před rokem +2

      Pathological liars... i have a frnd who i am close with... he lied little lies to maybe make himself look better or escape from teachers punishments and id back my boy up... so it rubbed off on me and i started lying little lies myself... one day i realized it was bad for me and stopped i still do some white lies here and there but the bigger lies have stopped... my frnd has also stopped but he doesnt have the extent of control i have... i find myself lying each day these days but its mostly to avoid annoyance which hopefully stops in the future

  • @Erricane
    @Erricane Před rokem +788

    The fact that Atreus was able to read Greek, Chinese and Egyptian hieroglyphs is really impressive. Mimir wasn't kidding about his talent for languages. And to learn this much for being so young is more than extraordinary. I wanna believe that Atreus is Theuth, the Egyptian god of writing in the story Socrates knew from. Like I imagine him adopting this name while in Egypt.

    • @puedenllamarmeDarkStar
      @puedenllamarmeDarkStar Před rokem +38

      well, he's already Loki, and Kratos is Farbauti from the myth about Loki's origin when he's already greek, so maybe
      but I don't think we would see Atreus in Egypt as a main character, one of the points GoWR had to cover for the norse saga to be in just two games, acording to Cory Balrog, is that Atreus had to leave, so maybe we have to wait a few more mythological sagas to see father and son having adventures again

    • @Erricane
      @Erricane Před rokem +18

      @@puedenllamarmeDarkStar Never said I wanna see Egyptian myth. If anything, what I wanna see is a game solely focus on Atreus and I'd love to see him going to Chinese mythology and adopt the name Sun Wukong.

    • @puedenllamarmeDarkStar
      @puedenllamarmeDarkStar Před rokem +6

      @@Erricane well, you may be lucky, it seems the director of GoWR says next saga will be chinese

    • @Erricane
      @Erricane Před rokem +6

      @@puedenllamarmeDarkStar If you're relying on the six animation Týr is doing, stop it. People immediately assume that was the case. Eric Williams said nothing about Týr hinting the next installment. All he said is that there was a reason why he does those animation. It could be story-related more than project-related. But that may not be the case either. So until Santa Monica themselves say something, best not assume. Because Kratos has already taught that in 2018.

    • @puedenllamarmeDarkStar
      @puedenllamarmeDarkStar Před rokem +1

      @@Erricane I don't know where does that point of yours come from, but relax, still China is one of the most probable myths to be the next saga, and Týr has an army of statues in his temple, an obvious reference to Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army

  • @matthewriley7826
    @matthewriley7826 Před rokem +434

    Surprised Atreus didn’t bring up the mystic well incident with Odin. Would be good to see his reaction if he was lying.

    • @thehandsomeone8369
      @thehandsomeone8369 Před rokem +86

      I guess Atreus didn’t want to piss Odin off and stay on his good side until Atreus got the info he needs.

    • @thomasIjichi4183
      @thomasIjichi4183 Před rokem +3

      mystic well incident?

    • @dreademperor2094
      @dreademperor2094 Před rokem +19

      @@thomasIjichi4183 Mimir told Odin that if he wanted a drink from the well he had to remove an eye, which he proceeded to do after being told this and then took a drink from it and saw visions, but it was really just water filled with mushrooms

    • @kevinescobar370
      @kevinescobar370 Před rokem +67

      @@dreademperor2094 no mimir told Odin the well water would give him visions and whatever odin saw convinced him he had to gouge out his eyes but mimir restrained him before he could remove his remaining eye and when odin sobered up mimir told him the eye was the price of the knowledge he got from the well

    • @dreademperor2094
      @dreademperor2094 Před rokem +8

      @@kevinescobar370 thank you for the correction

  • @thehandsomeone8369
    @thehandsomeone8369 Před rokem +514

    Makes sense he’d lie about the eye. Pretty embarrassing for the mighty king of the Aesir to tell some young kid how he got tricked by a goat man into drinking from a well full of shroom water and gauged out his own eye while on a bad trip.

    • @welkingunther5417
      @welkingunther5417 Před rokem +22

      Yeah, I think anybody would lie about it, cause that's mighty embarrassing

    • @BoredOuttaMyMind
      @BoredOuttaMyMind Před rokem +48

      It’s a habit of his to control the truth. You can see it even earlier with Heimdul; he didn’t know about how the walls of Asgard were made

    • @thebluerock6048
      @thebluerock6048 Před rokem +3

      So mimir tricked Odin...well Odin trust mimir and mimir betrayed him right? That’s what it sounds like. Odin blamed mimir for an item being stolen from him as well and turns out it was brok and sindri...lol...are little kids playing GOW that they can’t put two and two together? Why do we feel bad that mimir was punished again?

    • @jbags4195
      @jbags4195 Před rokem +16

      @@thebluerock6048 because odin's a scumbag and you should feel bad about anybody being imprisoned within a tree for over a hundred years, that's an insane punishment for most things let alone tricking an evil god into drinking shroom water, it's insane you're actually even questioning that

    • @thebluerock6048
      @thebluerock6048 Před rokem +2

      @@jbags4195 so you would befriend somebody just to fuck them over because of what they’re known for? That doesn’t sound weird to you?

  • @slushyslushslushbruh
    @slushyslushslushbruh Před rokem +107

    I like how both games have a story of a god getting high. Odin got high when Mimir tricked him in to trippin on shrooms, Freyr wanted to impress someone he liked but thought getting high while looking for bifrost light to impress said girl ended up with him unintentionally getting elves to worship him... and then leaving

    • @squashmallow2006
      @squashmallow2006 Před rokem +7

      And the Greek pantheon got high on the evils and fears that were contained in Pandora's box lol

  • @jazz265
    @jazz265 Před rokem +60

    I actually forgot about Mimir's account of how Odin lost his eye when Ragnarok came. Re-watching it with Odin's account of how it happened in mind makes it even funnier especially when Mimir's version is the more likely one.

    • @LaCazaLP
      @LaCazaLP Před rokem +5

      Its also more "lore accurate" since in the original Myth Odin sacrificed one of his eyes (or both not sure anymore) for knowledge.

  • @jedblack7234
    @jedblack7234 Před rokem +15

    Mimir's life lesson about liars. Always listen to the Smartest Man Alive.

  • @Profile__1
    @Profile__1 Před 5 měsíci +15

    I _hate_ that Odin seems so chill and calming to hang around when he talks with Atreus. He seems like such a wise and scholarly mentor around Atreus, and knowing that it's all just some lie to manipulate him just fills me with dread. I hate that it _works_ on me, honestly, and I almost don't wanna hate Odin even if he's a scumbag.

    • @ashardalondragnipurake
      @ashardalondragnipurake Před 5 měsíci

      or you can only see the evil in a man with good intentions because freyas manipulation works so much easier on you

    • @androkguz
      @androkguz Před 4 měsíci

      He's extremely well written. On a totally different league of villainous writing above Zeus

    • @JR-96283
      @JR-96283 Před 13 dny

      Odin is Atreus’s biological father .

  • @CHRISTOPHERBAKEWELL
    @CHRISTOPHERBAKEWELL Před rokem +27

    2:50 I must wonder, if that voice he heard was real. Then perhaps that entity prodded him down the path of war, and is the true villain.

    • @leyrua
      @leyrua Před rokem +3

      I kind of wonder if it didn't even know he was there in the first place. Like, he was eavesdropping on a conversation between two higher beings (who didn't even notice him) through a crack in their kitchen wall. The reason he hasn't heard their voices again is because they've since moved their conversation to the living room.

  • @aydenwalters6688
    @aydenwalters6688 Před rokem +50

    I’ve been listening to a bunch of theories about the tear. Some hint at Athena being in a higher state of being since she died selflessly. Notice how she’s green and so is the tear. Maybe the voice that spoke to Odin while he was sleeping was ATHENA

    • @X9Killbot
      @X9Killbot Před rokem +1

      Best one I saw was a reddit post about how the tear leads to Pleroma

    • @EnderMB
      @EnderMB Před rokem +8

      There are probably parallels between the rift, and the ideas of theosophy, similarly to the Monad and "Truth" in Fullmetal Alchemist. Odin wanted to see the truth, and as retribution it took his eye.
      It would tie into the theme of GoW nicely, in that the gods of all mythologies are corrupted by the same goal, power over their own fate.

  • @KamalAdnanTheFirst
    @KamalAdnanTheFirst Před rokem +72

    I looked up what language Atreus said from the mask and I found out it was Greek... huh.

    • @stylishmusic4012
      @stylishmusic4012 Před rokem +32

      I believe Athena was behind that rift and mask.

    • @Showgingah
      @Showgingah Před rokem +8

      They did say the language wasn't from that of the Nine Realms. It could have been from another land, or maybe something beyond all of them.

    • @connorbrown4241
      @connorbrown4241 Před rokem +15

      @@stylishmusic4012 I really wish they would have planted more of a seed to show that for the sequels because I agree. And even if it's not the case I think it would be such a good tie in and way to continue the series. Athena manipulating Odin is genius.

    • @markedelylumbao1609
      @markedelylumbao1609 Před rokem +13

      Wait could it be remnants of the effects of Pandora's box? From a broken realm in greece. Magical RADIATION. I mean zeus got mad with but whiff, Odin too I guess?

    • @BlueHooloovoo
      @BlueHooloovoo Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@stylishmusic4012 I don't think they'd tease Athena in the previous game and not do anything more with it. We know she's still around given the ending of GOW3. Manipulating people is her MO.

  • @DarsiPadilla
    @DarsiPadilla Před rokem +18

    I personally believe that Odin saw the Plot Hole; but his hesitation drove him to find resources that may allow him to potentially last longer in seeing the Tear. It was there that Mimir would offer the Shrooms.

  • @Ghost_gc
    @Ghost_gc Před 6 měsíci +14

    The fact that the mask itself has inscriptions in greek automatically points this plot to athena, only she didn't reveal herself as such. Respecting to the loss of odin's eye, we aren't certain wich version is true, but i know for a fact that it wouldn't be the first time a greek deity accepts eyes as offerings.

  • @unknown81000
    @unknown81000 Před rokem +60

    The main cause of Odin's villainry is existential crisis

    • @thyentertain369
      @thyentertain369 Před rokem

      Infinity stones

    • @CHRISTOPHERBAKEWELL
      @CHRISTOPHERBAKEWELL Před rokem +5

      I must wonder, if that voice the he heard was real. Then perhaps that entity prodded him down the path of war, and is the true villain.

  • @ncrnmcn
    @ncrnmcn Před rokem +176

    If Mimir gave odin shroom infused waters that made him get visions, then is he responsible for odin's madness then🤨🤣

    • @aayewhyy
      @aayewhyy Před rokem +2

      Yea

    • @adamsirin7249
      @adamsirin7249 Před rokem +5

      The writing in the game is piss poor.

    • @isaiahgeorge906
      @isaiahgeorge906 Před rokem +30

      No, he ain't. If you pay attention to the details, Odin has been insane from his very beginning.

    • @charles9489
      @charles9489 Před rokem +6

      @@adamsirin7249 omg thank you, I've been saying the very same thing But it seems the God Of War fanboys don't want to admit it.
      The gameplay stellar as usual but the story sucks. I like the characters and portrayal mostly, but damn the story is too inconsistent.
      I believe both sides are lying to make the other look bad.

    • @charles9489
      @charles9489 Před rokem +1

      @@isaiahgeorge906 so you're quicker to believe that, then by that logic Atreus is insane as well. Cause he saw knowledge in that tear in reality.
      So Odin was lying about that too?

  • @apjtv2540
    @apjtv2540 Před 5 měsíci +19

    An interesting detail is that, in Mimir's story, he said he "managed to restrain him before he finished the job". So Odin may have actually lost his eye to this rift, which further reinforces the lesson about Odin - despite all his knowledge, he never actually learns.
    He literally nearly gouged out his own eye in a fit of mushroom induced madness, and yet he still didn't learn restraint, and still ended up losing that eye to yet another pursuit for knowledge.

  • @alexjamesmalcolm
    @alexjamesmalcolm Před 6 měsíci +5

    I had never heard these conversations between Atreus and Mimir. I had remembered Mimir's story but just thought it was a plot hole but it's much more satisfying knowing that the incongruency is due to Odin's lier nature.

  • @gaggledweasel2579
    @gaggledweasel2579 Před rokem +5

    Thanks for the great content as always brother!

  • @matthewcasing7329
    @matthewcasing7329 Před rokem +6

    Keep uploading love the vids!!

  • @jaysilverhood1264
    @jaysilverhood1264 Před rokem +44

    so the well thing was more him "attempting" to rip out his eyes, the real story was the rift's light blinded when he tried to peek into it.

    • @BoredOuttaMyMind
      @BoredOuttaMyMind Před rokem +36

      Possibly. But more than likely, he just didn’t want to admit to his mistake with the mushrooms. It’s been shown through a couple other instances that, when he has been tricked or fooled in some fashion, he’ll alter the history of his mistake into something else to cover it up

    • @bendavidson1210
      @bendavidson1210 Před rokem +4

      @@BoredOuttaMyMind He IS a god though, and a powerful one at that. I have a hard time believing he wouldn’t be able to heal and restore his eyeball if it was physically ripped out. Especially considering Tyr was able to regrow an entire arm after having it ripped off.

    • @abdullahyusof4739
      @abdullahyusof4739 Před rokem +8

      @@bendavidson1210 then again, Hermes wasn’t able to regrow his legs and Heimdall was only able to restore a bifrost version of his arm after Kratos blew it up so either Tyr has some knowledge of transplanting limbs (not surprising given his travels) or it’s a power specific to him

    • @kagato23
      @kagato23 Před rokem +11

      @@bendavidson1210 gods are creatures of circumstance, of actions having meaning. If odins eye had been lost to some accident, it’d have been easy to heal. But he GOUGED IT OUT HIMSELF. That is harder to heal, because it was something he did himself. Those changes take. Especially as he continued to blind himself to the true to see a vision he desired. A narrowing of sight.
      If he had actually listened to Atreus, I think he’d have been able to heal it in time.

    • @AnonKiesura
      @AnonKiesura Před rokem +3

      more he likely didn't want to risk loki being able to use the rift without the mask. he knows from his "vision" he needs the mask, but if loki looks in and finds out all the information odin wants, well... then loki has no need to help him and will likely know odin's intent to betray him.

  • @archie2038
    @archie2038 Před 6 měsíci +30

    I think Odin's story makes more sense... It doesnt look like a gouged out eye, rather a burned out one. Also why didnt it heal? He's a god, it should have healed right back if the reason for the trauma wasnt uniquely magical in nature that it would stop the eye from healing.
    Then again Mimir too doesnt seem to be lying. Both stories could coexist - first Odin trips on Mimir's mushrooms, sees visions and gouges out an eye, it heals, and then because of those visions he grows insane enough to try to look inside of the rift and that's when he loses his eye for good.

    • @CaptainPrincess
      @CaptainPrincess Před 5 měsíci

      honestly through all the healing powers of gods I dont think weve ever seen a god actually grow back something once fully removed
      I think godly healing is really just human healing on a freaky fast scale cause humans can also regrow skin tissue and close wounds, given enough time and medicine, but cant actually restore any organs or limbs once removed
      even heimdall couldnt grow his arm back he just sort of sprouted a magic one
      as for why it looks burned and not gouged, they maybe cauterized the wound or something and whatever parts of his face got torn or cut was what healed, who knows
      butchea I dont think theres been a precedent for a god actually growing anything back that I can remember

    • @nnightkingj
      @nnightkingj Před 5 měsíci +5

      Just because he's a god doesn't mean he can't sustain injuries. If he pulled his eye out it's gone for good just like Heimdall just couldn't regrow his arm

    • @catastrophic_music
      @catastrophic_music Před 4 měsíci

      @@nnightkingj well he reformed it as bifrost i think but i don't think that it'd be considered regrowing.

  • @jailcatjones3250
    @jailcatjones3250 Před rokem +32

    I love that Loki's mask from "the mask" makes an appearance

    • @mapoking5087
      @mapoking5087 Před rokem +8

      Yeah, the one and only mask movie, nothing after that.

    • @Droski-Boutta-Bag
      @Droski-Boutta-Bag Před rokem +2

      @@mapoking5087they’re more than one mask movie bro

    • @Droski-Boutta-Bag
      @Droski-Boutta-Bag Před rokem

      @@mapoking5087 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_the_Mask

    • @baccaismemebob2603
      @baccaismemebob2603 Před rokem +3

      @@Droski-Boutta-Bag shhhhhh no there isnt

    • @65firered
      @65firered Před rokem

      @@Droski-Boutta-Bag No there isn't. There's no Terminator movie after Terminator 2 either.

  • @lucasrackley250
    @lucasrackley250 Před rokem +2

    Mimir just described a career politician.

  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini Před rokem +5

    Spitha is Greek, but why is that important ? Dionysus was the Greek god of theatre (masked theatre), wine (like the one influencing Thor), and accounts say he arrived in Greece as a foreigner. He is also a dying and rising god, who communicates the dead (Athena and Faye). This could all be related to him.

  • @masterd_flabz7043
    @masterd_flabz7043 Před 5 měsíci +1

    The crack leads to Edge City, where the mask eventually falls in the hands of Stanley Ipkiss

  • @goth9ever
    @goth9ever Před 5 měsíci +4

    Both stories are true. Odin gouged out his eye in front of Mimir, but it regenerated like Tyr's arm, then he looked into the crack and lost it forever because green magic is weird.

  • @jordanloux3883
    @jordanloux3883 Před rokem +30

    Good thing Mimir didn't show Odin the trick where he takes his thumb off, or the coin behind the ear.

  • @monsterkid4937
    @monsterkid4937 Před 5 měsíci

    3:34 anybody who have dealt with liars and narcissists. This hits home hard

  • @Bo-Dog
    @Bo-Dog Před rokem +3

    Odin was geeked on shrooms tea and ripped his own eye out🤣🤣!

  • @chrispy_091
    @chrispy_091 Před rokem +31

    Doesn't this directly implicate Mimir in literally every atrocity Odin did after he got those vsions?

    • @charles9489
      @charles9489 Před rokem +9

      Lol exactly, the story in this game is jus bad.
      It's either Mimir is lying, or Odin tells some truth.

    • @thebluerock6048
      @thebluerock6048 Před rokem +5

      They want to make Odin the sole bad guy here when there’s multiple bad guys...

    • @barisbal7782
      @barisbal7782 Před rokem +1

      depending on your belief on how long the mushrooms has effected him.

    • @squashmallow2006
      @squashmallow2006 Před rokem +17

      Yeah it does. Mimir literally explained all of his involvement in enabling Odin, initially, but over time, due to his own guilty conscience, Mimir stopped enabling Odin and tried to contain him. Another thing about pathological liars, they'll often piece together two totally unrelated incidents and make it a coherent plot.
      Odin's obsession with the mask had absolutely nothing to do with the shroom tripping. But he figured he could use those stories together to make him look more sane.

    • @aclosh2983
      @aclosh2983 Před rokem +4

      It is implied that Odin was crazy even before that

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead4750 Před rokem +7

    I think the real lesson is dont secretly give someone drugs, let them know ahead of time, otherwise you end up strapped to a former Greek god's backside while said former god ferries his son around the countryside like any good father

  • @shadedias5563
    @shadedias5563 Před rokem +3

    Odin: Lost my eye looking for answers...
    Mimir: He was tripping balls it was HILARIOUS!!

  • @AnchorOfTime
    @AnchorOfTime Před 5 měsíci

    A Mystic well of Knowledge

  • @jamesstark7685
    @jamesstark7685 Před rokem +23

    Odin heard a voice i think that was athena.

    • @jaysilverhood1264
      @jaysilverhood1264 Před rokem +3

      by the primordials... you could be right

    • @eggxecution
      @eggxecution Před rokem +3

      @@jaysilverhood1264 or not because that happed long ago when athena was still alive so it's an unknown force

  • @stepanpazderka5497
    @stepanpazderka5497 Před 5 měsíci

    I think the whole rift thing will be explored more in future GOW games. Maybe it’s the “Higher plane” to which Athena descended, something above all pantheons and all worlds.

  • @markzosemsuello4016
    @markzosemsuello4016 Před rokem +15

    Imagine atreus knows the truth about odin loss his eye.. when odin show his loss eye to atreus, atreus already knows that he is lying.. and trying not to laugh

    • @charles9489
      @charles9489 Před rokem +6

      If so, it then begs the question why would Odin stop Atreus from looking into the rift. Odin wanted knowledge why wouldn't he want Atreus to look into the rift especially since at the end of the game he offered loki the mask to look into said rift.

    • @charles9489
      @charles9489 Před rokem +3

      Jus admit it, the story is poorly thought out.

    • @cyberrunner6529
      @cyberrunner6529 Před rokem +3

      @@charles9489 kratos character development is still far better than 99% of fictional characters

    • @thebluerock6048
      @thebluerock6048 Před rokem +1

      @@charles9489 “why would Odin stop Atreus from looking into the rift”
      THANK YOU OMG. It’s like we’re surrounded by ignorance. Thank you so much these other comments are just so ughhhhhhhhhh

    • @drinkiceteaable
      @drinkiceteaable Před rokem +6

      @@charles9489 Because if he let atreus look into the rift without the whole mask then he would've either died or hurt himself badly. That was literally the whole point of why Odin was looking for the pieces of the mask, so he could look into the rift without getting hurt or dying. At the end of the game, the mask was whole so yeah, odin was trying to egg Atreus to use it.
      There was some weird shit Odin was spouting at the end about how "only the champion of the Jotnar could look into the rift with the mask" which came out of nowhere which did give me an immersion breaking pause of "where did that come from? Was this said before?" but the question you're asking has an obvious answer.

  • @judefitzsimons6777
    @judefitzsimons6777 Před 5 měsíci

    I get its necessary for oden to have lost his eye this way to drive the story forward but odin in norse myth actually gave his eye up willingly to access the knowledge in mimirs magic well

  • @haziqhaziq5550
    @haziqhaziq5550 Před rokem +50

    I like to imagine the other aside of the rift is the truth that actually they are all inside the game GOW😂. Kinda like rick and morty.

    • @matthewriley7826
      @matthewriley7826 Před rokem +16

      Eh, there’s enough fourth wall breaks in todays media. No need to add to the list.

    • @nunchaks700
      @nunchaks700 Před rokem +1

      I thought the same thing

    • @aymanbhr4436
      @aymanbhr4436 Před rokem +1

      The rift is actuallly ginungagap, the great void.

    • @EricLeCrennSanchez
      @EricLeCrennSanchez Před rokem +1

      I imagine it’ll have more to do with other pantheons in the GOW universe

    • @X9Killbot
      @X9Killbot Před rokem

      @@aymanbhr4436 We see Ginnungagap tho and it is not neon green.

  • @user-tm6hg9xu2v
    @user-tm6hg9xu2v Před 5 měsíci

    I believe Atreus is an avatar like figure so whenever the next game comes out Depending on if it’s heavy kratos gameplay or Atreus gameplay his rage form might change with location and his powers may tailor in reference to the gods in that area

  • @williamantonio9743
    @williamantonio9743 Před rokem +8

    Or maybe Odin wasnt lying and the mushrooms was potent enough to made Odin misremember things.

  • @SammyEdgeINC
    @SammyEdgeINC Před měsícem

    The Mask reminds me of The Mask, the one with Jim Carry, in the 2nd movie (yes the bad one) they say that Loki made the mask.

  • @iona2225
    @iona2225 Před rokem +13

    Wait a glowing green mask that has some affiliation with Loki?
    ... Jim Carry DLC?

  • @johnozzmond9728
    @johnozzmond9728 Před rokem +2

    I'm inclined to say he's actually telling the truth. Tyr regrew an arm. Not a stretch for Odin to regrow an eye. And I don't doubt Odin would use the incomplete mask to look into the crack, and that it would have consequences

  • @remini255
    @remini255 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Mimir: Can’t you be honest about anything
    Odin: The last time I was honest I lost an eye

  • @zildjianabuser
    @zildjianabuser Před rokem +4

    If Odin’s eye didn’t get damaged by the rift, why not just let Atreus look into it?

    • @Bowiiihowdy
      @Bowiiihowdy Před 5 měsíci

      Maybe both happened. He got high on the shroom water injured the eye. It healed then he looked into the crack

  • @a-10warthog72
    @a-10warthog72 Před rokem +1

    Funny how Faye just showed Kratos death in the mural to force Atreus into going with Odin for knowledge to prevent it.

    • @adorp
      @adorp Před 6 měsíci

      Buy Atreus didn't see that part of the murals.

  • @antonydandrea
    @antonydandrea Před 5 měsíci

    The mask of loki from The Mask

  • @RitsuSakuma69
    @RitsuSakuma69 Před 2 měsíci

    3:36

  • @HenriqueRLima-vz7ny
    @HenriqueRLima-vz7ny Před 5 měsíci

    Assuming both are true, I imagine Odin glimpsed at the rift and never felt the same, especially that eye. Then Mimir's shrooms pushed that experience back to the surface and he couldn't handle it.
    He could reasonably weave the narrative into correlating what he saw in that rift and the loss of his eye. But really what drove the actual eye-pulling-incident was Mimir's shrooms, so he also internally blames Mimir and takes one of his eyes as revenge.

  • @ashwolf2006
    @ashwolf2006 Před rokem +20

    Odin probably peaked "accidentally" at a women's lodge and they poked his eye out.

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega Před rokem +3

      Mineta: I understand your pain

    • @modest_spice6083
      @modest_spice6083 Před rokem

      ​@@Abdega He done anything in the latest arc yet?

  • @ugn154
    @ugn154 Před 5 měsíci

    My assumptions for the sequel to this game is that, whoever gave that mask to Odin, and whoever that voice was, will come back to see if they're plan succeeded. They'll be disappointed that the realms didn't succumb to darkness and destruction and that Odin died not fulfilling what they had planned for him.
    Whoever is behind the whole mess, clearly knew how obsessed Odin would become with the seeking of truth. They're probably a deity that surpasses Odin in both power and knowledge, who probably either wanted to conquer these realms or learn about them through subterfuge. Also, wether they surpassed Odin in power or not, it is a clever move to get rid of the most powerful deity in a subtle and hidden way while weakening in the process, even his kingdom was in shambles, the nine realms falling into disarray because of one man's obsession. Truly a clever move.

  • @madwolfgarton9997
    @madwolfgarton9997 Před rokem +1

    What is in the rift though?

  • @joshuabenitez3260
    @joshuabenitez3260 Před 5 měsíci

    What if they are both telling the truth? What if the vision Odin had from the mushrooms about the All Truth is where he looked into it and even that was too much to bear. So he cut off his eye.

  • @Luffy-is-King
    @Luffy-is-King Před 6 měsíci +1

    Mimir said Odin was NEVER fool by the mystic well trick. So why did Odin drink that water if it was useless? Also, it is possible that Odin lost an eye looking into that tear. Because he would have gotten his eye back if it was just torn out.

    • @TheSpinkels
      @TheSpinkels Před 5 měsíci +4

      Fooled by the well enough to take a drink, but not fooled at all by Mimir's bullshittery afterwards telling him it was for some higher purpose he lost the eye.

  • @shubham30999
    @shubham30999 Před rokem +1

    Seems like Athena got to Odin too....huhh

  • @randomContentHere93228
    @randomContentHere93228 Před rokem +1

    I thought that crack was gonna lead into a new mythology

  • @ashardalondragnipurake
    @ashardalondragnipurake Před 5 měsíci

    freya really is a monster tainting so many peoples vision of odin

  • @ktskis1680
    @ktskis1680 Před rokem

    Obsidioni spitha translates in greek to obsidian spark

  • @N1k4_Gr1v
    @N1k4_Gr1v Před 5 měsíci

    Remember what Mimir said "If he tells you, snow is white. He's lying"

  • @conmaxanhle123
    @conmaxanhle123 Před rokem

    Bloody hell. Odin still fking high from mushroom with that weird ass mask

  • @xcarnage3936
    @xcarnage3936 Před rokem +1

    Didn't Odin sacrifice his eye in exchange for learning to read runes while hanging upside down from a tree for like a week or something?

  • @wayofthecobra8750
    @wayofthecobra8750 Před rokem

    so the mask was greek? anyone have further information on this

  • @pforgottonsoul
    @pforgottonsoul Před rokem

    so does that mean the mask was one of those "visions"

    • @williamborom9943
      @williamborom9943 Před rokem

      No, it was not. Right focus, wrong question. What you should be asking is whose voice was it that told him of the mask? My best guess is it MIGHT have been Athena.

  • @jeremiahscott2032
    @jeremiahscott2032 Před rokem +10

    Imagine if Jim Carrey had a cameo in this lol

  • @magicalhats
    @magicalhats Před rokem +1

    And then Odin says that Mimir never tricked him with those hallucinogenic mushrooms and let Mimir think his plan worked. Or was you think that was also a lie from Odin and just embarrassed that it did work and tore out his eye?

    • @X9Killbot
      @X9Killbot Před rokem +1

      Personally, it would take a lot to mark a god permentally. SO I believe Odin's version of the story here. Also having lie about EVERYTHING is kinda boring. The best lies have truths in them.

    • @mookiebetts_50mvp35
      @mookiebetts_50mvp35 Před 2 měsíci

      When did he say tht?

  • @xgaming2427
    @xgaming2427 Před rokem +4

    So let me get this straight. All Odin wanted was to open the crack so he could learn about the secrets of life and death?

    • @buntado6
      @buntado6 Před rokem +9

      People's sympathy comes from everyone being afraid of that yeah, but you must remember how that fear led him to treat lives as trash. Nothing, not even his family had worth to him if he didn't solve that mystery, so what could one expect from him if he had that answer? Would the existence of an afterlife ease his guilt, thinking all the suffering he caused wouldn't be the definitive end, maybe even find ways to manitupalte the way afterlife worked in his benefit? Or it would only drive him to an unhinged nihilist rampage where nothing matters because everything will end?

    • @adorp
      @adorp Před 6 měsíci +1

      His goal was justified, just like Kratos's goal of killing Zeus.
      The means...

  • @mandinhapicles
    @mandinhapicles Před rokem

    Stanley Ipkiss be like:

  • @Complete_Stranger7050

    Odin lost his eye when he saw in that rift that he's gonna be added in fortnite

  • @Influx27
    @Influx27 Před 5 měsíci

    Mimir seems more than dubious, if for no other reason that he has tree branches poking through his brain.

  • @thedarkforce9596
    @thedarkforce9596 Před rokem +4

    No Odin ended up trying to look through a Gloryhole and got poked in the eye by a Willy

    • @jordanloux3883
      @jordanloux3883 Před rokem +3

      It's why the giants had to die

    • @grandcanyon-fu9zt
      @grandcanyon-fu9zt Před rokem

      @@jordanloux3883 he killed them due to superiority complex and poisoned his son's mind with bad influence

  • @askjeevescosby2928
    @askjeevescosby2928 Před 6 měsíci

    What if kratis retired and became santa claus. "Press O to eat cookies"

  • @aayushchaudhary2501
    @aayushchaudhary2501 Před 5 měsíci

    2:55 maybe the voice was athena

  • @Galvatron64
    @Galvatron64 Před 5 měsíci

    Odin is probably lying but I think it would be interesting if the developers find a way to make both versions true somehow

  • @mahmoodm5897
    @mahmoodm5897 Před rokem

    Do you guys remember that freya bewitched him in to not saying bulders weakness mybe odin did the same he bewitched mimir to say this stuff to make odin a fool remember when he disguised himself as tyr he said to atreus that odin will only clues your mind maybe he did this so pepole underestimate him since his a manipulator.
    Sorry bad English

  • @UnholyWrath3277
    @UnholyWrath3277 Před 5 měsíci

    I really hope they dont ever go the lords of shadow route and have that voice actually be satan

  • @patrickpatacsil8161
    @patrickpatacsil8161 Před 6 měsíci

    DID THEY EVER EXPLAIN THIS!?!?! THE CRACK THE MASK

  • @suebsgaming3770
    @suebsgaming3770 Před rokem

    hi

  • @bourne2crimson397
    @bourne2crimson397 Před rokem

    George Santos joke, anyone? 😆

  • @1990rable
    @1990rable Před rokem +7

    i wanna know whats behind the rift hmmmmm

    • @fishgiovaana8441
      @fishgiovaana8441 Před rokem

      Unfortunately u wont

    • @matthewriley7826
      @matthewriley7826 Před rokem +2

      Athena might too.

    • @1990rable
      @1990rable Před rokem +2

      @@fishgiovaana8441 LOKI WHAT DID YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :DDDDDDDDD

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega Před rokem

      A little goblin who pokes the eyes of people who look into it

    • @Zoras88
      @Zoras88 Před rokem

      Green wiregrid

  • @efaristi9737
    @efaristi9737 Před rokem +1

    That really make Odin look like a gullible fool rather than the god of wisdom and knowledge.

    • @arta.xshaca
      @arta.xshaca Před rokem

      The story is so shitty. They made so much new things yet stuck to the freakin Mimir well myth. Fuckin idiot devs

  • @kerrymurphy6990
    @kerrymurphy6990 Před rokem

    Does Odin's mask actually exist in Norse Mythology?

    • @Alphapkmn
      @Alphapkmn Před rokem +5

      Not to my knowledge… although to be fair, the only source we HAVE was from AFTER the region’s Christianization.

    • @eggxecution
      @eggxecution Před rokem +2

      I have a theory that that mask is from another mythology. What if there is another god that cause his/her powers to leak across different worlds which caused a rift. Would be another game one day I hope we'll get answers from this. I'm vedy curious about what's inside that rift.

    • @jynxed66six54
      @jynxed66six54 Před rokem

      @@eggxecution it was athena, the mask is written in greek. shes the voice odin heard leading him to it

    • @yourmum69_420
      @yourmum69_420 Před rokem +1

      it's from the Mask with Jim Carey

    • @sangun123
      @sangun123 Před rokem +1

      @@yourmum69_420 lol thats what my mind went to immediately since in the movie they say loki created the mask but looking it up now, thats not based on any real mythology and in fact the comic it's based on doesnt even call it loki's mask, the jsut made it up for the jim carrey film

  • @deadmanexperience724
    @deadmanexperience724 Před rokem +1

    He will turn green probably if he wear the mask and move like a cartoon too and Whatever he want become

  • @wolfbane7497
    @wolfbane7497 Před rokem +16

    So it's Mimir fault for him finding the mask

    • @SuperHongTay
      @SuperHongTay Před rokem +12

      Odin found the mask on his own. Mimir doesn't even believe the mask works

    • @wolfbane7497
      @wolfbane7497 Před rokem +10

      @@SuperHongTay yeah but it was because of his well of mushrooms that he had these visions to hunt for the mask

    • @nasheomirro8102
      @nasheomirro8102 Před rokem +1

      @@wolfbane7497 imagine whats beyond the other side is actually the god of drugs, it gave odin a vision when he was tripping out of his balls

    • @randomcenturion7264
      @randomcenturion7264 Před rokem +1

      The God of Drugs
      Slaanesh: You rang 😏

    • @wolfbane7497
      @wolfbane7497 Před rokem

      @@randomcenturion7264 khrone: " get out of here you slut

  • @ouroboros0000
    @ouroboros0000 Před rokem +1

    Joke: Odin peek into the riff that is actually a peep hole into Isis' bath house in Egypt Heaven. So Isis poke him in the eye, blinded him but not before he caught sight of the most wondrous of wisdom in Egypt.

  • @Souphover
    @Souphover Před 6 měsíci

    FUCK MY LIFE

  • @ConvoLooted
    @ConvoLooted Před rokem

    Oh shit, what if Mimir is lying? Like really think about the context in which he was speaking when he mentioned power over reality.

    • @zildjianabuser
      @zildjianabuser Před rokem

      I honestly think he was. I don’t trust Mimir after playing the second game.

  • @originalamerican9396
    @originalamerican9396 Před rokem

    So basically everything is Mimir's fault because he thought it would be funny to get Odin high and Odin had a very bad trip.

  • @markedelylumbao1609
    @markedelylumbao1609 Před rokem

    All that complaint about liars and their percieved power over reality by lying and Mimir puts Odin under his... using mystical cocktail of mushrooms. Ok then. Granted he was a prick so...

  • @X9Killbot
    @X9Killbot Před 5 měsíci

    Not going to lie. I like Odin's story better.

  • @Thecutekirby
    @Thecutekirby Před rokem

    didn't Odin lose his eye from hanging from the world tree to gain knowledge?

    • @taddad2641
      @taddad2641 Před rokem +1

      that mgiht have been from the original myth. the story chagnes thigns around, takes advantages of 'plot holes' and such.
      its two disconnected incidents here it seems.

    • @yourmum69_420
      @yourmum69_420 Před rokem

      no, he gave it to Mimir in return for letting him drink from the well of knowledge

    • @archangelmichael9415
      @archangelmichael9415 Před rokem

      That's a different pursuit of knowledge and according to the myths, this is how he gained knowledge of the runic scripts.

  • @castorvolk
    @castorvolk Před rokem

    no he doesn't. he lies to aterus. mimir tells you how he lost his eye in first game.

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga Před rokem

    Still not as embarrassing as Nick Fury getting his eye scratched out by a cat. DON'T @ ME. They say it was really an alien? I don't care, it was a cat.

  • @tahaimran21294
    @tahaimran21294 Před rokem

    Unlike everything else, Odin has no reason to lie about this... Mimir seems a bit suspicious because of this. What reason could he have to keep the information about the Rift from Atreus and Kratos prior to Fimbulwinter?
    Mimir actively seems like he's diverting Atreus and Kratos from the ideas Odin might be chasing. Yes Odin has sacrificed his humanity to attain knowledge, but... That doesn't mean something of value isn't there behind the Rift.
    Or perhaps, Mimir knows what's behind it, and that it could pose a danger to all realms and that diverting Kratos and Atreus is the only way to protect them. Either way, since I heard the Novel was narrated by him, it feels like Mimir knows much more than he lets on

    • @ThanatorRider
      @ThanatorRider Před 9 měsíci +1

      Answer this: which story makes you respect Odin more? One makes his desperate quest for knowledge look like it’s coming up against something real and forbidden and powerful, an almost heroic quest. The other makes him look like a desperate fool and a dupe.

  • @SuperUniverse
    @SuperUniverse Před rokem

    If I have t compare zeus and odin.
    Zeus is more powerful.
    it took kratos hope to defeat him and enough brutality

    • @squashmallow2006
      @squashmallow2006 Před rokem

      To be fair, if Atreus were around then, he woulda just needed to get close enough while Zeus was distracted and injured, and use his soul magic and trap him in a marble.

  • @KATTALNUVA3
    @KATTALNUVA3 Před rokem

    I can't stop thinking how hilarious it would've been if Mimir's assessment of the mask had been correct.
    Think about it. Odin was either drunk or higher than a space shuttle, invests all this time and effort into a wooden mask, it does nothing, and then he feels like a total jack*** afterwards.

  • @TheMajinTrunks
    @TheMajinTrunks Před rokem

    Thanks for the video.
    Needed an example of how insanly stupid the writing of Ragnarok is. And this fits perfectly!

  • @wittandomen1
    @wittandomen1 Před 6 měsíci

    I am confused. So... if we believe what the games tell us, Mimir drug a Odin, wich put an idea of the Unknow into his mind, wich make him begin all the events who end in Ragnarok? I mean... maybe i read into this in the wrong way, but basically, Odin is an idiot, yes, but Mimir is the F%&# bad guy XD
    Then again, maybe im looking at this wrong

    • @JR-96283
      @JR-96283 Před 13 dny

      Odin is Mimir. Mimir is still trapped in a tree but he’s trapped at the bottom roots of Yggdrasil where no one would go to because of the creature guarding the roots.