Hi all,

For the longest time, I've wanted to write about the Norse God, Vidar, who killed the wolf Fenrir and survived Ragnarök, but with the twist that the heroic act caused him to become a werewolf. At the same time, I also wanted to write an urban fantasy about my own city, Antwerp, weaving Belgian/Dutch folklore and myths into the story.

This year's ONC has inspired me to combine these ideas into one novella: After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one during a full moon). The morning after a particularly rough transition, the young teenage girl who normally wastes her days on the skatepark across the street enters his shop, fervently looking for a book on the legend of Brabo and Antigonus. As she struggles to pay, she reveals that the giant has disappeared from the statue on the town square. At the foot of the fountain now lies a body that has been dead for three hundred years.

Prompts chosen:

(25) The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice. (*)

(60) Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate.

(*) To fit the plot I have in mind, the young farm apprentice will become a bookstore "apprentice"