Magnus hopes that his uncle had a change of heart and left a message that will help them defeat Loki. Randolph died helping Loki escape, but left instructions in his will for Magnus to carefully search the papers left behind in the mansion. After a particularly grueling training session, Magnus and his friend Alex Fierro decide to visit the house he inherited from his late uncle, Randolph. Percy is the son of the Greek sea god named Poseidon. Magnus has spent the past few months learning how to sail from his cousin’s boyfriend, Percy Jackson, in preparation for the sea voyage to Jotunheim and Niflheim. They must find the ship before midsummer, when the ice will recede enough for it to leave harbor, and prevent it from sailing. Unless Magnus and his friends can find Loki and recapture him, the end of the world could occur sooner than expected.Īll Magnus and his friends know is that Loki is somewhere on the border between Jotunheim and Niflheim, the worlds of giants and ice, preparing to sail a heavily armed ship into battle.

Loki’s escape is one of the events that is prophesied to trigger Ragnarok, the final battle between gods and giants. They were unaware, however, that the theft of Thor’s hammer was arranged by Loki, the god of evil, as part of his plan to escape imprisonment. A few months earlier, Magnus Chase and his friends - a group of warriors descended from the Norse gods - were tasked with finding and returning Thor’s hammer.

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