Appearing in "The Blood of Dawn!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Solveig (First appearance; dies)
- Redcomb (chicken)
- Growler (dog)
- Frigga (Cameo)
- Huginn
- Muninn
- Grid (Mentioned)
- Fenris Wolf (Mentioned)
- Norns (Mentioned)
- Loki (Mentioned)
- Hela (Mentioned)
- Ymir (Invoked)
- Fafnir (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Giants of Jotunheim
- Storm Giants
- Mountain Giants (Mentioned)
- Asgardians
- Asgardian-Storm Giant Hybrids
- Asgardian-Frost Giant Hybrids
- Vanir (Cameo)
- Wolf Gods
- Ravens
- Dwarves
Locations:
- Asgard
- City of Asgard
- Asgard Mountains
- Vidar's Farm (First appearance)
- Jotunheim
- Horvald's Castle (First appearance)
- Niffleheim (Mentioned)
- Hel (Mentioned)
- Muspel (Invoked)
Items:
- Mjolnir
- Gungnir
- Vidar's Staff (First appearance)
- Solveig's Golden Waistband (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The Blood of Dawn!"
Three Storm Giants named Horvald, Grolf, and Aslak are trekking through a valley in the Asgard Mountains when they come upon a farm occupied by the woman Solveig. She reveals the farm is Vidar’s and they seek petty revenge against him by slaughtering the farm animals due to his reputation as the son of Odin. Solveig tries to stop the giants but they kill her and take her golden belt from her corpse.
Vidar returns from a hunt and encounters the corpse of his wife. Enraged, he heads to Asgard to seek an audience with Odin. Vidar arrives amidst a raucous banquet and suggests he is unwelcome but seeks a boon from his father. Thor is angered at his lack of restraint and seeks to fight him but is rebuffed by Odin who sends Thor and Hoder, a blind seer who can envision who killed his wife, on a mission of vengeance.
During their trek, Vidar becomes impatient at Thor’s lack of urgency and seeks his own path on a couple of occasions. On one such occasion, he encounters Thrunhild, the wife of the storm giant Horvald. She has stolen Solveig’s golden belt brought home by Horvald and is wearing it when Vidar spots her. Thinking she is responsible for his wife’s death, he kills her in a rage before the storm giants arrive and reveal the truth. A fight ensues but Vidar is captured by the storm giants.
At the camp of Thor and Hoder, Hoder detects the trouble Vidar is in and Thor rushes to his aid. Thor arrives at Horvald's Castle and fights the giants but their spears set the castle on fire, and they attempt to flee in fear. Thor saves the chained Vidar and they flee together while Hoder uses Vidar's Staff to prevent the giants from lowering the drawbridge to escape the castle. Thor destroys the drawbridge with Mjolnir upon arrival and Vidar seeks to enact his revenge on the giants but Thor stays his hand and they afterward return to Vidar’s farm. Vidar asks Thor to pay his respects to Odin but Odin appears and gives his blessings to Vidar.
Appearing in "Island in the Sky!"
Featured Characters:
- Inhumans of Attilan
- Winged Inhumans/People of the Sky
- Kylus (Death)
- Cheiros (Death)
- Aerivar the 18th
Other Characters:
- Uatu
- Human farmers and sheperds
- Red Raven (Origin revealed)
- Invaders (Cameo)
- Human Torch (Cameo)
- Namor (Cameo)
- X-Men (Cameo)
- Cyclops (Cameo)
- Marvel Girl (Cameo)
- Iceman (Cameo)
- Angel (Cameo)
Races and Species:
- Watcher
- Humans
- Inhumans
- Winged Inhumans
- Bat-winged Inhumans (and other non-white-feathered) (Death)
- Humans
- Atlantean hybrid (Cameo)
- Mutants (Cameo)
Locations:
Items:
- Red Raven's Wings (First appearance chronologically)
Vehicles:
- an airplane
Synopsis for "Island in the Sky!"
This story introduces the winged inhumans who desired and seceded from Attilian after increasing tensions with the inhuman populace who did not share their specific Terrigenesis of human appearance with wings. They were first provided the own "Aerie" connected to Attilain proper but chose to separate completely when even that accommodation failed to appease the winged inhumans. They subsequently purged all winged inhumans without feathered avian wings except Cherios who had bat wings, as they considered all other wing forms as undesirable to their gene pool. Upon leaving Attilian they terra formed some land to provide farming and agriculture and stayed hidden until a human airplane crashed on the sky island with one lone infant survivor who eventually became Red Raven, via mechanical wings resembling Cherios' wings in his honor.