Skadi
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| Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne | Lady clan |
| Megami Tensei Online: IMAGINE | Jiboshin clan |
| Persona 3 | Empress arcanum |
| Persona 4 | Empress arcanum |
| Digital Devil Saga 2 | Deity race |
[edit] About
[edit] Mythological Norse description
In Norse mythology, Skadi was a giantess and the wife of Njord, the god of the sea. She was celebrated as the goddess of the snow and accociated with shadow in the form of nothingness. It is written that during Ragnarok, all the gods shall return to her.
When the Aesir killed her father, Thjazi she traveled to Asgard to enact revenge. The gods decided that they should repay her in some way, so they agreed to let her marry one of them, but she could only look at the feet of the gods when she choses. She desired to marry the god Baldr, as he was the most handsome god in Asgard, and so she went for the most beautiful feet, assuming they could only belong to him. However she had actualy picked the feet of the god of the wind and sea, Njord, whose feet were exceptionally clean due to the seawater. Secondly the gods agreed to make her laugh, which was a seemingly impossible task. This was not going well until Loki tied one end of a cord around the beard of a goat and the other end to his testicles. Loki and the goat began to pull each other back and forth while making loud squealing sounds, until Loki fell over into Skadi's lap, and she burst out laughing. As a final act of penance, Odin placed Thjazi's eyes into the night sky to shine as stars. Skadi and Njord had a good relationship, but they couldn’t stand each other’s living conditions (Njord liked the sea, while Skadi liked the icy mountains). Eventually they came to the agreement to live together for only a few weeks a year.
[edit] Atlus JP description
Atlus Japan suggests that Skadi (an alternative name for Cailleach) is the great mother of shadow and Winter from Celtic mythology, her name suggested to be cognate with glacia.
Her design demonstrates this interpretation, thus in Nocturne, in order to acquire her, the player needs to mutate Scathach, another Celtic goddess of darkness.
[edit] In Game
In Nocturne, she is the boss of the Red Temple at the Amala Temple. Every time you step onto a shadow in the temple, you're transported to the dark version of the Red Temple, where you have to find a pillar of light to leave the dark part. When you fight her, she says she's tired of Magatsuhi, so she'll quench her thirst with the Demi-Fiend's blood. Upon beating her, all the Magatsuhi flows from the Red Temple to the center of the walkway connecting the three temples.
[edit] Skills
Nocturne
Persona 3: Mabufudyne, Tetrakarn, Ice Amp, Akasha Arts, Absorb Fire, Niflheim
