Lady Death IV: The Crucible #5

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Beneath Asgard Brock toils before the forge with Frigga at his side. He has melted down Darkness, Lady Death's sword, countering the spells and then reforging it with spells of his own and some he took from an alchemist. Grim has his face swathed in bandages and helps his friend by fetching the unusual shaped mold for the sword. Brock tells him that Odin commissioned the mold but not the sword, that it was to wait until it was needed.  The new sword levitates and Brock warns them not to touch as it will bind to it wielder and he is not really sure what else as the spells he used were many and various. He takes hold of the blade only with heavy gauntleted hands and names it Nightmare.Lady Death awakens in a circular chamber surrounded by the barely alive Valkyries. Organic vein-like structures form the chamber and bind them hand and torso to the walls. Lady Death wonders why they still live and asks why Odin created them all. One of the number recites the story of their creation. He family lived during the time of Christ and  when her brother was born deformed they were cast out a witches. Her father died and she and her brother Rath were beaten by thieves and left to die, it was then that Odin came. It seems Odin choses those on the brink who refuse to die.                                                                                                                           Genocide appears in the middle of the chamber and his tentacles wrap around each of them. The chambers sides split so each is laying face up on a spike of wall facing the chaos talisman. Directly in line from them through the talisman is the Nexus, with Bedlam trapped inside.  Vex leads an army up from the pit. She accuses her father of order and planned action, citing his measured attack and the Doom Magistrates hear her words and follow her to unmake her father. Antigone questions Genocide on his motives once more and...