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quote: Originally posted by Beerrider:
I may be a romantic, but the alternative what if idea I had was:
Odin the all-father would probably have know what was to happen and thus decided to give his son the greatest if of all - immortality.
(the reason would have been his own soon-to-arrive demise due to lack of faith, he had to rely on Shadows powers with the weather.)
Remember the silver coin he needed on the tree, makes you think:P.
But it still is one of the best books I´ve read this far.
Or maybe Shadow became a god who survives on the belief of the gods-like a god of the gods, as so many of them liked him and helped him even though he was just a human.
well, I have to say that Odin wasn't about to give Shadow a damn thing that wasn't useful to himself, and an immortal Shadow did not mean happy time for him. the idea that Shadow survived on the belief of the gods is interesting. not entirely sure that I agree, but it definitely bears further investigation. woe is me, now I must read the book again! ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and
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by the intended thing I ment that Odin is the All-god so he must have known what would happen to Shadow. Tough I must say it is far fetched, but when dealing with gods I´d say that they would calculate so carefully that Shadow surviving could have been no accident/coincidence(spelled it wrong I bet). What I belive was chance was that His wife got a rejuvenating water and went after Loki instead of dying in front of S and S staying to mourn him. Analysing books is like shaving a polar bear - It´s just wrong.
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but he's not the all-god, he's the all-father, and there's no indication that he is omniscient. an omniscient god is, as far as I know, pretty unique to judeo-christian beliefs and would not be an applicable concept to the norse pantheon. you'll find a lot of information about him through Wiki if you want to understand his nature better. ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and
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Yeah sry my bad about that, Odin has never been one of my many obsessions, but it just seems odd that a god of that caliber messed up that big by accident and NG (as much as it seems to me from reading some of his stories) Would like to use every aspect of a certain idea and then twist it so tough I have no explanation or .... I still think that we shall have to wait for future Shadow stories. The book is never finished, we ourselves create this book by analysing it and giving different angles to it. Anywhoo, it is great that you have taken it to be your responsibility to take a tour along the wonderful roads of The American Gods.
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