First
Appearance: Journey Into Mystery
#97Origin Issue: Journey Into Mystery #97
YMIR
Updated info courtesy of Dagda79
First
Appearance: Journey Into Mystery
#97
Origin Issue: Journey Into Mystery #97
Real Name: Ymir
Aliases: Auregelmir
Height: Variable, ranging to over 1000'
Weight: Variable
Eyes: White
Hair: None
Distinguishing
Features: Since Ymir is an Ice
Giant whose body continually generates intense cold, Ymir's body
is always thickly covered with snow and ice
Occupation: Monarch of the Ice Giants
Citizenship: Niffleheim, dimension of Asgard
Place of
Creation/Birth: Above the Well
of Life in the dimension of Asgard
Known Relatives: Mitra, Lir ("half-brothers"), Bori,
Mannanan ("nephews"), Morrigan ("niece"),
Atali (daughter), Ice Giants, Frost Giants (progeny),
Utgard-Loki, Loki (descendants)
Known Allies: Ice Giants, (former) Frost Giants, Storm
Giants, Sons of Satannish
Known Enemies: Thor, Odin, Vidar, Surtur, Dr Strange,
Avengers, gods of Asgard, Frost Giants, (former) Vili, Ve,
vampires of Vanaheim
Intelligence: Normal (4/10)
Strength: Incalculable (12/12)
Speed: Superhuman (6/10)
Stamina: Godlike (9/10)
Durability: Demi-godlike regenerative (12/14)
Agility: Superhuman (6/7)
Reflexes: Superhuman (6/7)
Fighting Skills: relies of brute force
Special
Skills/Abilities: none
Superhuman physical
powers: Aside from the above
listed attributes, Ymir's body continually generates intense
cold, and he can freeze anything by touching it. Ymir is
fully immortal and can neither age nor die. Ymir's body
greatly resembles ice, and although it can be shattered, he can
then mentally cause his body to reform.
Superhuman Mental
Powers: none
Special Limitations: Like all Ice Giants, Ymir's size is
dependent on the presence of cold temperatures. Of it were
not for his ability to generate intense cold, Ymir's body would
shrink and melt when exposed to intense heat.
Source of Superhuman
Powers: Ymir is the eldest and
most powerful member of the other-dimensional race of Ice Giants
Personal Weaponry: Carries an enormous ice-covered club that
may be made entirely of ice. Also can create and hurl
gigantic ice-spears.
Origin: Ymir is the oldest and most powerful of the Frost Giants, a race of enormous humanoid creatures several hundred feet tall, and covered with snow and ice, and native to the dimension of Asgard. The Frost Giants origin is lost in antiquity; however, they are known to predate the gods of Asgard themselves. In fact, during Earth's Hyborian Age (after the sinking of Atlantis and before the Bronze Age, approximately 16,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE), Ymir served as one of the most prominent gods of Earth, alongside Crom, Mitra, and others. Ymir was worshipped as a god by the people of Nordheim, a civilization composed of the human Aesir of Aesgaard in the eastern portion and the human Vanir of Vanaheim in the western portion. Ymir served as their lord of storm and war, and chief of all their deities. Ymir's domain was in Valhalla, a snowy, shadowy place that was home to soldiers slain in battle; apparently similar to the later relationship between the Mount Olympus of Greece and the otherdimensional Olympus of Zeus, Ymir's Valhalla was apparently connected to the mountains of northern Vanaheim, perhaps by some sort of portal or nexus. In any event, Ymir's daughter Atali appeared to dying combatants as the harbinger of their journey to Ymir's realm. Not surprisingly, for the Vanir, war was a sacred duty waged in the name of Ymir.
According to the old sagas of these Vanir
people, a city of vampires once established a city in Vanaheim
from which they lured animals and men to their deaths. The Vanir
people managed to serve justice to these vampires, and Ymir
himself buried the city of the undead beneath a mountain of
frozen rock. These vampires would not be freed until ages later,
when they were defeated by the warrior priest Vitellus, who
served the aforementioned god Mitra; Conan the famed Cimmerian
warrior; and a Vanir woman named Kreenara. All three brandished
the Mitran cross in one of the earliest recorded uses of the
cross against a vampire.
Earlier, during one of the Cimmerian's adventures in Nordheim, Atali had once made the mistake of attempting to lure Conan to a brutal death at the hands of two of her brothers. Conan managed to slay her siblings, and Atali only saved herself by calling to her father to spirit her away. Conan, however, still managed to snatch off a piece of her gossamer dress as evidence of the encounter.
Later, probably at some point after the Hyborian Age, Ymir was supplanted by the younger gods Odin, Ville, and Ve. They slew him, set up a new kingdom in the otherdimensional Asgard (perhaps named after the Earthly Hyborian Age Aesgaard or having a common etymological root with its name), and came to be worshipped by the descendants of the peoples of Nordheim, who, after the catastrophe that ended the Hyborian Age, became the Vikings and other Germanic peoples.
However, Ymir eventually managed to
regenerate himself. Few in number due to the heavy losses
sustained over the millennia in battle with the gods, the Frost
Giants at some point began to dwell in the frozen land of
Niffleheim north of the country of Asgard proper. Their
huge size, durability, and raw power make them the gods' most
formidable foes. Ymir is very old, but age has not
diminished his power in the least. Although intelligent and
capable of speed, Ymir is not particularly cunning or subtly
motivated. His vast physical power has enabled him to
survive and maintain his rule over his kinsmen over the
millennia. Ymir possesses the mystic ability to command ice
and snow. Whatever he touches freezes, including the air,
if he so chooses. If the ice that apparently makes up his
entire body shatters, Ymir can even cause the fragments of his
form to reassemble. Ymir had once been imprisoned by Odin
at the beginning of the age within a volcano. It is not
known how long he remained there. He was once magically
conjured to appear on Earth by the human cult of
demon-worshippers called the Sons of Satannish. Ymir and
Asgard's other great enemy Surtur the fire-demon were dispatched
from Earth when the sorcerer Doctor Strange tricked them into
pitting their might against one another. Ymir was banished to
some extradimensional netherworld. His current activities
and whereabouts are unknown.
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