Niflheimr

The world of mist and ice, one of the two primordial realms that existed before creation. Older than the gods, older than time, Niflheimr was always there—a condition as much as a place.

At its heart flows Hvergelmir, the bubbling cauldron, from which eleven rivers called the Élivágar pour north into the void. The dragon Níðhöggr gnaws at the root of Yggdrasil that extends here.

Niflheimr is not merely a landscape. It is the cold, the dark, the fog that existed before anything else and will remain after everything ends. In some traditions, the realm of the dead (Hel) overlaps with or is contained within Niflheimr.