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Sword and the Ring 1 Near Future Each passage presents a particularSince the dawn of the Nine Worlds, the gods of Asgard, led by all wise Wotan, have enjoyed prosperity and power. Wotan's noble house of Aesir rules the heavens and all Middengaard, the realm of men and monsters; yet on this peaceful stage will be wrought curses, war, treachery and ultimately, disaster. The two faced trickster Loki, once a blood brother of Wotan, seeks to spawn an unholy dynasty to rival the Aesir, while gold stolen from the River