The first great rupture occurred in the Valley of Múspel. Flames that had once been the hearth of acceptable rage now raged without owner. From their center stepped beings of molten rock and embers — giants whose laughter shook glaciers. A mountain split asunder, and out poured a river of lava that hissed as it struck cold. Beneath its heat blackened wolves crawled, and the air itself sang with a frequency that made eyes cry salt. The Last Guard met the vanguard of Múspel at the broken bridge of Aðal. There, iron and staves and shapeless runes met heat and claw.
Nobody asked the woman who she served. She ignored pleas and commands alike; she vanished as quickly as she had come. But her horn had put a mark in the minds of the Last Guard: the war was deeper than tit-for-tat with fire and frost. It reached into the halls of gods. The first great rupture occurred in the Valley of Múspel
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