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Hela Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/4/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Warning these caches are located on wild wetlands, be aware of the dangers that you might encounter such as: Alligators, cottonmouths, rattlesnakes, spiders, wasps, evil micro ants, sink holes, heat stroke, saw grass and a nice variety of poisonous plants. Please take all the nesesary precautions in order to make this a safe and fun journey.

These five caches are intended to be done on a single trail one after the other, please use the way points given as it is one of the safes route that you could take, it looks a lot easier to cross East to West from the main lake trail, but this way you will encounter water that is over 5ft deep therefore increasing your chances to come across an alligator, so please use common sense while entering the realm of Asgard.

Welcome my brave mortal I am most pleased to see you have continue your journey through the land of the god and now I welcome you to the Asgardian forests a magical place full of dangers as well of wonders, this is the domain of Hela goddess of the dead and the underworld, guard your souls and minds while passing by ad she might be lurking nearby.

Hela was born ages ago to parents whose names have not been revealed. Legend has it, however, that Hela was born in Jotunheim, the other dimensional land of the giants, one of the "Nine Worlds" of Norse mythology, to the Asgardian god of mischief, Loki and the sorceress- giantess, Angrboda, but this most certainly has to be the Loki of a previous incarnation of Asgard. It is known that the Asgardians have been trapped in repeating cycles of Ragnarok, and that Hela has survived at least Ragnarok that had occurred. The three Asgardian goddesses of fate, the Norns, are said to have warned the Asgardian gods that Hela would prove to be a great danger to them.

It is known that Odin, ruler of the Asgardian gods, decreed that Hela become goddess and ruler of the spirits of the Asgardian dead on the day of her maturity. These spirits dwell in the other dimensional realms of Hel and Niffleheim, two more of the Nine Worlds, both of which Hela rules. However, Odin himself directly rules the souls of Asgardians end their human worshippers who died in battle as heroes, and had the palace of Valhalla built in a distant section of Asgard, also known as Valhalla, to house them. Hela has sought for ages to bring more Asgardian souls under her control, and especially longs to possess the souls of Odin and his son Thor. In recent years, when Odin's attention had strayed from the rule of Valhalla, Hela tried to annex that realm to her own, hoping to consolidate her power over all of Asgard's dead.

Eventually Odin grew aware of her ambitions and opposed them. Hela finally withdrew to her own realms, and Odin reestablished his control over Valhalla. Asgard continues to rule Valhalla to this gigantic ship, Naflgar, said to be made of the fingernails of the dead. Hela planned that when Naflgar was finished, she would send an army of the dead to Asgard in it to destroy the gods. However, the Executioner destroyed Naflgar as it neared completion.

It is said that should the forces of evil in the Nine Worlds ever succeed in destroying Asgard, Hela and her army of the dead will be at their side. Indeed, after Thor replaced the fallen Odin as Ruler of the gods of Asgard, Hela followed Loki into conquering Asgard and Valhalla. Thor meanwhile realized the recurring cycles of Ragnarok were initiated by the mysterious They Who Sit Above In Shadow and ended the cycles as Asgard fell to Hela.

Although events have already come into pass to restore Asgard to its glory, it has not been shown whether Hela will survive this destruction of Asgard as she had the last one. Her present fate is as such unknown.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Arne gur evire bs qrnq haqre gur gerr bs fbeebjf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)