Okay, let’s be clear here, Ratatoskr is the biggest asshole in ANY pantheon. Bigger than Zeus. Shocking, I know. Let’s delve into his lore and understand why.
So there’s a tree named Yggdrasil, it’s a beautiful tree, an amazing tree, it is the physical manifestation of reality in Norse mythology, holding the nine realms along its branches.
There is a dragon named Nidhoggr at the very bottom, underneath the roots, and a giant nameless eagle at the top.
And then there’s Ratatoskr.
Ratatoskrs role could be considered the messenger of the gods, or just another denizen of Yggdrasil, it’s never made explicitly clear whether he only delivered messages between the eagle and dragon only or was a general messenger. Point is he’s an asshole.
You see he alone could traverse the branches like it was a sidewalk, crossing the realms and going anywhere he chose, for awhile he carried messages between Nidhoggr and Nameless Eagle *CAW* and all was well. Then one day he was like “NOPE,” and decided to throw some shit into the fan.
He scurried his ass to the top and told the Nameless Eagle that Nidhoggr was like “You’s a bitch”.
Nameless Eagle was insulted, flabbergasted and hurt that his buddy would say such a thing and in anger sent Ratatoskr to the dragon angered told him to inform Nidhoggr “Yo mommas so fat not even the world tree could hold datass”.
INSULTED beyond all reason that his buddy was gettin’ all hostile he sent Ratatoskr back up with a challenge: “Fight me”.
Ratatoskr came back down with “lmao get on my level, scrub,”.
So Nidhoggr vowed he would and as he sent the messenger up with another insult, he began to gnaw on the roots of yggdrasil, intent to have it crash down, freeing him to fight his ex-bff Nameless Eagle in the process.
Now gnawing on the roots of reality has some unintended side-effects, like say… weakening the impossible ribbon of Fenrir? Slowing Sol and Mani as they make their rounds across the earth… breaking the bonds that hold Loki in his personal hell underneath a snake that drips blinding venom into his eyes. In short, Ratatoskrs actions caused Ragnarok.
Ratatoskr was a shitthrower, firestartin’ trolling asshole. At least Zeus brought heroes into the world and ended the Titans reign.
Ratatoskr? He contributed nothing to society, he was an asshole.
He was a fucking squirrel.
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