Jötunn Physiology

The power to possess or have traits of a Jötunn. Variation of Transcendent Giant Physiology and Norse Deity Physiology.

Also Called[]

God-like Giants
Jǫtunn/Jötnar/Jǫtnar Physiology
Norse Giant Physiology
Risi Physiology
Transcendent Troll/Thurs Physiology

Capabilities[]

The user either is or can transform into a Jötunn from Norse mythology. They were generally seen in surviving iconography or in the modern-day portrayals as giants with earthen physiques. However, some Jötunn were creatures of different physiologies, such as Fenrir or Jörmungandr.

Applications[]

Decelerated Aging
Divination
Divinity (Were divine to some degree; especially in the case of Loki)
- Deity Soul/Monster Soul (Varies as some Jötunn were not deities or monsters, but instead giants)
Disaster Manipulation (Fenrir or Surtr)
Supernatural Beauty or Supernatural Ugliness (Varies between Jötunn)
Large Size (Varies between Jötunn)
Magic
Size Manipulation (Varies between Jötunn - Some were humanoid in the case of Loki whereas others were utterly massive)
Old God-Patron God

Jötunn[]

A-M[]

Ægir

Angrboða
- Sorrow Embodiment
  - Sorrow Manipulation
- Supernatural Reproduction (Helped birth Fenrir, Hel and Jörmungandr)
- Transcendent Mage Physiology (the witch of the Ironwood)

Aurgelmir/Ymir
- Authority/Archetype: Causa Sui (The first being to ever exist)
- Mystical Body/Nature Embodiment (through his death; Nature grew from his body, and he possesses no power over any embodiment he became)
  - Earth (Midgard)/Land, Heaven, Ocean, Plant Kingdom/Forests & Sky Embodiment (Blood, Bones/Skull, Brains, Eyebrows, Flesh & Hair)
  - Flood Creation (everywhere once he died)
  - Nature Spirit Physiology and Prime Source (Created things like mountains and the land, sky, etc with blood, bones/skull, brains, eyebrows, eyes, toes, fingers, flesh & hair)
- Omnificence Genesis, Alpha Reality, Universe Creation/Multiverse Manipulation (His body created the universe, stars, planets and the entirety of the cosmos)
  - Life Creation/Genesis Creation (Giants)
    - Spawning (Everything)
- Prime Being (Father of the Giants)
  - Alpha Physiology/Alpha Reality (The first being outside of Auðumbla)
  - Giant Lord Physiology and Primordial Giant Physiology (The first Giant)
- Primordial Ice Manipulation (He had complete control of ice as a giant)

Bergelmir
- Cold Manipulation
- Ice Manipulation

Fenrir/Fenrisúlfr
- Absolute Size Inducement (Was at least as large as the Sun)
- Aspect Manifestation (Sköll who ate the Sun is argued by some scholars to be another name for Fenrir)
- Deity Consumption (Consumed Odin at the end of Ragnarök)
  - Consumption Empowerment (Consumed Tyr's hand and was amplified by it)
- Absolute Strength , Power Level Infinitum, immunity to Binding, Absolute Separation and can also use
- Cold Manipulation (in some myths)
  - Cold Energy Manipulation, Molecular Deceleration, Absolute Freezing, Freezing (From his mouth)
- Fire Generation (from his eyes & mouth)
- Destruction Embodiment
  - Apocalypse Aspect Manifestation
  - Calamity Embodiment
  - Destruction Empowerment (Ate the sun and moon by using his sons, Hathi and Managarmer)
  - Meta Disaster Inducement (Fenrir's mouth is as large as the skies or heavens and his body stretches to the very earth)
  - Killing Instinct and Divine Slayer (Slayed the supreme deity in Norse mythology)
- Absolute Combat (able to best Odin in combat)
- River Deity Physiology often the source of a river.
- Transcendent Canine Physiology (God of Wolves)
  - Divine Beast/Divine Monster/Giant Monster/Warg Physiology
    - Powerful Bite (Bit the sun and Odin)
    - Predator Instinct and Uniqueness (As the God of wolves)

Gerðr
- Earth Manipulation (Earth and its female personification)
- Fertility Manipulation (Mother of Thor)
  - Fertility Inducement
- Light Aura
  - Light Generation
- Plant Manipulation (The earth)
  - Plant Growth
- Supernatural Beauty
  - Enchanted Allure (Enchanted Odin)
  - Mesmerizing Presence

Hel
- Cemetery Lordship (Patron of Graves, & She haunts cremation grounds)
  - Cemetery Empowerment
  - Guardianship (howes'-warder)
- Death Aspect Manifestation (Controller of those who didn't die in battle)
- Death Lordship (she represents death, the horrors of slaughter & decay)
  - Meta Death-Force Manipulation
    - Age Manipulation (Controls the age of those in Helheim)
    - Disease Manipulation
  - Death Inducement
    - Kiss of Death
    - Unrestricted Murdering, Decomposition Manipulation, Rot Inducement and Necrosis Inducement (She can murder virtually anyone)
  - Necromancy (Can revive the souls of those she killed)
    - Resurrection
    - Undead Manipulation
  - Necroscience
- Transcendent Undead Physiology
  - Supernatural Beauty & Ugliness (Half of her body is living, & the other half is dead/hideous)
  - Transcendent Ghost Physiology (myth possibility; Dís)
  - Undead Pulse
- Underworld Embodiment (a very late myth interpretation of "personification")
  - Helheim Lordship
    - Afterlife Border
    - Absolute Storage (all the souls within her realm)
      - Soul Manipulation (Can control all souls within her realm)
    - Afterlife Transport/Afterlife Traveling
    - Ice Manipulation (in her realm)
      - Esoteric Ice Manipulation
        Dark & Death Ice Manipulation
    - Underworld Manipulation (Helheim in most sources is incredibly cold)

Jörmungandr
- Absolute Strength
- Big Bounce Inducement (When lifted in cat form)
- Calamity Embodiment (By compressing/uncoiling around Midgard)
  - Disaster Inducement (Threatened the entire earth)
  - Perfect Storm
- Ghost Mode
  - Invisibility/Intangibility/Imperceptibility
- Illusive Appearance
  - Illusory Power Replication
    - Illusive Power
- Jörmungandr Physiology (All abilities listed)
  - Divine Slayer (Slayed Thor)
  - Primordial Dragon/Giant Physiology
  - Ultimate Acidic Poison and Omnipoison (His venom destroyed Thor)
- Nigh-Absolute Immortality (All but invulnerable to the strongest blows)
- Ouroboros Physiology
- Paradox Existence
- Tidal Wave Generation
  - Flood Creation

Kari
- Weather Manipulation**
  - Air Manipulation***
    - Air Generation****
  - Snow Arts***

Loki
- Absolute Illusion (He can create illusions of virtually anything he wants)
- Fear Masking
- Fire Manipulation, Fire Generation and Archetype: Hearth Deity (In most surviving sources, he is said to be the god of fire and the hearth)
- Magic Deity Physiology (Immensely skilled in magic)
  - Magic
    - Dark Arts/Spell Casting, Curse Manipulation ((Should be able to curse beings)
      - Decoy Creation (Can create decoys of himself with his magic)
      - Invisibility
- Immunity to Absolute Senses, Omni-Precognition, Omni-Detection, Omni-Protection (Killed Heimdall)
- Supernatural Reproduction (With Angrboda)
- Trapping Intuition
  - Binding (Could likely bind gods such as Thor)
    - Inevitable Event Creation (Was an indirect reason for Ragnarök)
    - Net Creation (Created the fishing net)
- Deceiver Deity Physiology
  - Trickster (Tricks virtually anyone he comes up across with very few exceptions such as Thor)
  - Enhanced Thievery (Helped ruin Mjölnir's design by making the handle short)
  - Enhanced Intelligence/Supernatural Wits (In the Lokasenna, he insults literally everyone including even Thor with flytings, or ancient insults)
    - Intuitive Aptitude/Tactical Analysis
  - Magicians Intuition
  - Shapeshifting/Omnifarious (Can shapeshift into literally whatever he wants)
    - Animal Mimicry - (Particulary horse, salmon, and falcon (Thor killing him caused all salmon to have no tails)
    - Gender Transformation
  - Supernatural Charisma and Persuasion (Persuades Fenrir and Jörmungandr to help fight in Ragnarök)

N-Z[]

Narfi
- Moral Manipulation (God of Wrongdoings & bad deeds)
- Transcendent Undead Physiology (limited)
Norns - Skuld, Urðr & Verðandi
- Almighty Law Creation (Creator of all laws)
  - Author Authority (Effective authors of existence)
- Absolute Death Inducement (Could kill anyone with a mere whim)
- Divine Conduit (to Yggdrasil)
- Fate Embodiment (All)
- Future Embodiment (Skuld)
- Guardianship (Of all lives)
- Knowledge Deity Physiology, Omni-Precognition, Future Borrowing (All, knowledge of the past, present & future)
  - Nigh-Omniscience (The smartest beings in Norse mythology and the original controllers of the runes)
    - Absolute Wisdom (Via having runes and surpassing Mimir in terms of knowledge and wisdom)
- Life-Force Manipulation (Controlled the fates of all gods and men)
- Meta Fate Manipulation (Stanza 20 of the Poetic Edda describes that three norns (Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld) "come from" the well, here described as a "lake", and that this trio of norns then "set down laws, they chose lives, for the sons of men the fates of men.")
- Past Embodiment (Urðr)
- Present Embodiment (Verðandi)
- Rune Manipulation (The runes' original controller)
- Seer (Oracles)
- Thread Manipulation (Threads of fate)
- Time Manipulation (Controller of time through threads of fate)
- Transition Manipulation (Controlled the transitions of all men and gods, including even Surtur)

Óðr
- Insanity Inducement (Frenzy)
- Inspiration Manipulation

Rán
- Death Inducement
  - Drowning
- Net Creation
  - Soul Trapping (in her net)
- Ocean Embodiment
- Transcendent Merfolk Physiology(myth possibility)

Skaði

Surtr
- Absolute/Multiverse Destruction (His flames destroyed the entirety of the nine realms at the end of Ragnarok)
  - Omnicide
    - - Divine Slayer (Destroys all of the gods)
- Banishment (supposedly removed Adam & Eve from Eden in post-Christian beliefs and myths)
- Calamity Hell (Causes "hell on earth" in every realm)
- Chaos Deity Physiology, Chaos Derivation, and Primordial Chaos Manipulation (Is the true and final enemy of Norse Mythology)
- Destroyer Deity Physiology (limited)
- Giant Lord/Primordial Giant Physiology
  - Alpha Physiology (of the Fire Giants)
  - Giant Manipulation (Fire Giant)
- Fire Deity Physiology
  - Primordial Fire Manipulation and Primordial Fire Generation (His flames)
    - Absolute Burning
  - Volcano Deity Physiology and Volcanic Lordship (Had control over volcanoes)
- Muspelheim Lordship and Guardianship (protector of Muspelheim)
  - Authority (Fire Giants)
- Power Level Infinitum (Via his sword)
- Primordial/Divine Weaponry (Twilight Sword)
- Nova/Primordial Light Generation (His sword shines as brightly as the sun)
  - Absolute Swordsmanship
  - Pyrokinetic Sword Proficiency

Sköll & Hati
- Air Walking and Absolute Size Inducement (Were large enough to eat the sun and moon)
- Aspect Manifestation (Sköll who ate the Sun is argued by some scholars to be another name for Fenrir)
- Deity Consumption (Ate Sun and Moon)
- Hatred Embodiment (Hati)
- Lunar Consuption (Hati who ate the Moon)
- Solar Consuption (Sköll who ate the Sun)
- Treachery Embodiment (Sköll)
- Warg Physiology

Thrym
- Earth Manipulation
- Giant Physiology
- Jotunheim Lordship
  - Authority (Earth Giants)

Útgarða-Loki
- Absolute Illusion (His illusions were complete)
- Earth Manipulation (As a giant, he had a "heart of stone" according to the Eddas)
- Giant Physiology (Was a giant)
  - Shapeshifting (Was able to turn in other beings such as a woman in the Prose Edda)
- Meta Magic (Could outwit Thor with magic and was likely equal to Loki in this aspect)
- Supernatural Wits (Could outwit Thor)

Associations[]

Limitations[]

Deity Consumption/Divine Power Absorption/Divine Power Negation/Divine Power Immunity/Divine Slayer (They were mostly killed by the Aesir)

Known Users[]

Anime/Manga

Jötunn (Highschool DxD)
- Fenrir
- Jormungandr
- Surtr
- Surtr Second

Cartoons/Comics

Frost Giants (Marvel Comics)
- Laufey
- Loki Laufeyson
- Farbauti
- Ilse
- Hanar

Folklore/Mythology

Jötunn (Norse Mythology)
- Ægir
- Angrboða
- Aurgelmir/Ymir
- Bergelmir
- Fenrir/Fenrisúlfr
- Gerðr
- Hati
- Jörmungandr
- Narfi
- The Norns
  - Skuld
  - Urðr
  - Verðandi
- Óðr
- Rán
- Skaði
- Sköll
- Surtr
- Thrym
- Útgarða-Loki