Loki
Loki is the wily trickster god of Norse mythology.Though he appears to be a scheming, mischievous deity who has no real loyalties, he occupied a highly ambivalent and ultimately unique position among the gods,giants and the other kinds of spiritual beings
Loki is the son of Fárbauti and Laufey, and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr and his wife is said to be giantess Angrboda and gave birth to Hel, the goddess of the underworld; Jormungand, the great serpent who slays Thor during Ragnarok; and Fenrir, the wolf who bites off one of the hands of Tyr and who kills Odin during Ragnarok and With his proper wife Sigyn, he also has a son named Narfi, whose name might mean “Corpse.”loki also gave birth himself to the eight-legged horse sleipnir
Loki alternately helps both the gods and the giants, depending on which course of action is most pleasurable and advantageous to him at the time. During Ragnarok, when the gods and giants engage in their ultimate struggle and the cosmos is destroyed, Loki joins the battle on the side of the giants. According to one Old Norse poem, he even captains the ship Naglfar, “Nail Ship,” which brings many of the giants to their battle with the gods.When the battle for the world is fought, he and the god Heimdall mortally wound each other.
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