"I am Loki, whose whim brought Asgard crashing down. I am Loki, whose tongue was an anvil where the sharpest lies were forged. I am Loki, and I have things to say that you must know. I am Loki, who you must not trust."

This is the story of Loki. A story between drafts in the process of being rewritten. Loki wanders the world performing the All-Mothers missions, earning his rewards--old crimes forgotten. Parts of the story erased. The story is in flux. Gaps form in the narrative through which a new story may be written.

Loki himself is not an Asgardian, but is actually the son of Laufey, the deceased monarch of the Frost Giants, the ancient enemies of the Asgardians. Loki utilized time-traveling magics to play a hand in his own origin. While Odin's father Bor battled Frost Giants, he followed a wounded one to a powerful sorcerer awaiting him. In actuality, this was a future incarnation of Loki in disguise. Knowing he could not match Bor for raw power, catching the Asgardian unaware, Loki turned him into snow. Bor's son, Odin, came along just in time to watch the last of his father blow away on the wind, begging Odin to seek means for his liberation. Years passed and Odin did not attempt to save his father, instead leading Asgard according to his own vision. Bor attempted to convince his son to free him until finally promising Odin that he would no longer be bothered if Odin took in and raised the son of a fallen king as his own.

Not a week later, Odin led the Asgardians into battle against the Frost Giants and killed their king Laufey in personal combat.  After slaying Laufey, Odin found a small Asgardian-sized child hidden within the primary stronghold of the Frost Giants. The child was Loki, and Laufey had kept him hidden from his people due to his shame over his son's small size. Odin took the boy, out of a combination of pity and because he was the son of a worthy adversary slain in honorable combat, and raised him as his son alongside his biological son Thor.

Growing Up

Throughout their childhood and into adolescence, Loki was resentful of the differences in which he and Thor were treated by the citizens of Asgard. The Asgardians valued great strength, tenacity, and bravery in battle above all things and Loki was clearly inferior to his foster brother Thor in these areas. However, Loki's gifts lay in other areas, most notably sorcery. Loki possessed a natural affinity to command great magical forces and hoped to somehow use these powers to become the most powerful god in all of Asgard and in time to destroy Thor.

When Thor turned eight years old Odin gave a gift to the young Thor.  Odin had a magical hammer created, an amazingly powerful one - Mjolnir. Loki was jealous, and he showed his first signs of evil. He interfered with Mjolnir while it was still being made-he caused the handle to be made too short. As a boy, he wanted Mjolnir's power which would someday be Thor's and often tried to steal it.

As Loki grew to adulthood, his natural talent for causing mischief would manifest itself and earned himself a nickname as the God of Mischief. Loki is well known for cutting off the long, golden hair of Thor's love, Sif. He was forced by Thor to restore it. Loki then enlisted two dwarves to do so, but when he refused to pay them, they made new, black hair out of nothing.

However, instead of playing harmless pranks, his deeds grew steadily more malicious and his lust for both power and revenge was apparent to all those around him. In time, his nickname grew from being a playful and mischievous trickster god to the "God of Evil".  Over the centuries, Loki would try to seize Asgard and to destroy Thor on many occasions. Odin, who had long tolerated Loki's attempts, magically imprisoned Loki within a tree called the Room Without Doors. Loki would eventually free himself from his prison and his thirst for power and vengeance became even more consuming than it had ever been, if that were even possible.

There Came A Time When Earth's Mightiest Heroes...

Loki and Thor would clash more and more times, sometimes with Loki confronting Thor directly and sometimes using various pawns in order to achieve his ends. Among Loki's more well known henchmen was the human criminal Carl "The Crusher" Creel, whom Loki would use his sorcery to transform into the superhuman criminal known as The Absorbing Man, who himself would prove to be a formidable adversary to Thor over the years. Loki would even go so far as to attempt to turn Odin against Thor and to steal Thor's enchanted hammer, Mjolnir, all of which failed.

Loki's schemes would eventually come to include Earth itself and these schemes would often draw some of Earth's superhuman heroes to defend Earth and, often, Asgard itself. Loki was able to manipulate the Hulk into wreaking havoc and, accidentally, would lead to the formation of the Avengers. To make matters worse, Thor would be one of the founding members of the superhuman team and often found himself undone by them, many times, even when it seemed that his goals were within his grasp.  However, despite Loki's loathing for Thor and Odin, Loki would help to defend Asgard from destruction from Surtur and his fire demons. However, this was only because Surtur's goal was to destroy Asgard and Loki sought only to rule it.

RAGNAROK

It has been prophesied that Loki will lead Asgard's enemies into the "Eternal Realm" and aid them in destroying it in a final conflict known as Ragnarok, or sometimes referred to as "The Twilight of the Gods".  Loki fulfilled the prophecy of leading the enemies of Asgard against the Asgardians. This battle consumed all who participated in it and it was revealed that the cycle of the birth, lives, and death of the Asgardians was a continuing cycle presided over by beings known only as "Those Who Sit Above". Thor, was able to put an end to this continuing cycle.

After Thor returned, he started a quest to find the other Asgardians. After finding Heimdall and the Warriors Three he steeped up the search. Heimdall guided him to the southwest where dozens of humans were being jailed by the Destroyer.  Loki had collected all of his former Asgardian allies, and Thor fell for the trap, restoring them all to their full power. Loki himself has been reborn as a female. She claims to have no more plans now that Ragnarok is over. Time will tell if her schemes to rule have been truly set aside.

Having told Balder that she will never lie again, Loki proceeded to win the Asgardian's trust by revealing that he, like Thor, is a son of Odin. Balder didn't believe, but once he was told it was true by Thor himself, he has come to think of Loki as a trustworthy confidant.

Infinity Gems

Halsretrix War

Loki was kidnapped by the Adversary and placed in an area of the Phoid Void along with other individuals in hopes to delay the Halsretrix Formula from being activated. Loki has learned he has a role to play in the Halsretrix War relating to Lokai Westway but is unsure what it might be until he is rescued by Eddie the Titan who reveals to him that the two of them had a fraction of there divinity stolen long ago by Westway. Determined to retrieve it they ally themselves with the Doctor who promises them revenge against Westway. 

When the Skrulls attacked during the Secret Invasion, she managed to goad a mob of Asgardians into thinking that Beta Ray Bill was a Skrull imposter.

DARK REIGN

Loki has allied himself with Doctor Doom, Magneto, Emma Frost, Norman Osbourne, and Namor to form the Dark Cabal. A group that wants to see a new world order and is working together to create it.

The Doctor appears before Loki informing him that at long last he has put in motion the plans to retrieve Loki's stolen divinity from Westway. Having obtained the Ring of All he plans to give it to Lokai Westway to drive him mad and throw him in the past. Weakened and confused the three of them would go after him in time. 

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