Hermóðr

Spoiler🔸Immortalized from Dynasty on November 3, 2023
🔸(Don't let the bottom row fool you, he's been in my pack since he was a pup on May 17, 2023 and was born or "created" on May 3, 2023 I think because apparently it gets reset when you bring them back from the dynasty. I would've immortalized him before but I didn't have the GC to retire him from the breeding male role early so he had to die🥲)
🔸Ended his studding career with 1,109 pups bred. He gave me some damn good puppies. Good job, bud. You're such a good boy<3
🔸Bought at the Trading Center on May 17, 2023 for 2000Spoiler

🔸T* Biform
🔸9 Event Markings (T3)
🔸Lunisolar Eyes
🔸Piebald
🔸x3 Duorum
🔸9th Gen
🔸NIB
200 OR
1

Pronunciation: Hair-móh-der link

ᚼᛁᚱᛘᚢᚦᛦ

"The favour of the highfather we seek to find,
To his followers gold he gladly gives;
To Hermóðr he gave helm and mail-coat,
And to Sigmund he gave a sword as a gift."

Hermóðr is the son of Óðinn, and the messenger of the Norse gods. He rode to Niflheim to beg Hel to release his brother Baldr, who had recently died.

Hermóðr appears distinctly in section 49 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning. There, it is described that the gods were speechless and devastated at the death of Baldr, unable to react due to their grief. After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the Æsir who amongst them wished "to gain all of her love and favor" by riding the road to Hel. Whoever agreed was to offer Hel a ransom in exchange for Baldr's return to Asgard. Hermóðr agrees to this and set off with Sleipnir to Hel.

Hermóðr rode Odin's horse Sleipnir for nine nights through deep and dark valleys to the Gjöll bridge covered with shining gold, the bridge being guarded by the maiden Móðguðr 'Battle-frenzy' or 'Battle-tired'. Móðguðr told Hermóðr that Baldr had already crossed the bridge and that Hermóðr should ride downwards and northwards.

Upon coming to Hel's gate, Hermóðr dismounted, tightened Sleipnir's girth, mounted again, and spurred Sleipnir so that Sleipnir leapt entirely over the gate. So at last Hermóðr came to Hel's hall and saw Baldr seated in the most honorable seat. Hermóðr begged Hel to release Baldr, citing the great weeping for Baldr among the Æsir. Thereupon Hel announced that Baldr would only be released if all things, dead and alive, wept for him.

Baldr gave Hermóðr the ring Draupnir which had been burned with him on his pyre, to take back to Odin. Nanna gave a linen robe for Frigg along with other gifts and a finger-ring for Fulla. Thereupon Hermóðr returned with his message.

Hermóðr is called "son" of Odin in most manuscripts, while in the Codex Regius version—normally considered the best manuscript—Hermóðr is called sveinn Óðins 'Odin's boy', which in the context is as likely to mean 'Odin's servant'. However Hermóðr in a later passage is called Baldr's brother and also appears as son of Odin in a list of Odin's sons.

Notable Offspring:
🔸Piebald: x54
🔸Biform: x15
🔸Other T3/T*: x13
🔸Spontaneous Blindness: x1

Original Look: link
Total Studding Profit:
12,900
10

Currency Spent on Customization:
3 for Pose Variant: Relaxed
20 for Early Retirement of Previous Stud
500 for Aging Crystal
1500 for Claw Applicator [Duorum] (TC)
💧500 for Base Applicator [Biform]
💧80 for Skin Applicator [Duorum]
💧80 for Nose Applicator [Duorum]
💧200 for Eye Applicator [Lunisolar]
💧250 for Markings Applicator [Biform] (Wild Stripes)
💧250 for Markings Applicator [Penumbra] (Gleam)
☄️200 for Markings Applicator [Abomination] (Pulse)

At 5 years old, Hermóðr has bred 608 pups!
At 7 years old, Hermóðr has bred 978 pups!