The Day After Ragnarok is starting to come together, so it’s time to begin revealing the history behind this world in ruins. We begin with the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Third Reich. The year is 1944, and Reich is crumbling under the Allied assault…but things are about to take a turn for the worse. From the text:
Patton’s death in September didn’t do it, although the wilder-eyed addicts in the Wewelsburg basement claimed that Skorzeny’s “Operation Walküre” had changed things, that the American general was “the rope of the Norns,” somehow tied to past and future in a way that others weren’t. His breaking, they swore, signaled the new Twilight. But the Bulge ground to a halt in sight of the Moselle, and Montgomery slowly pushed the Wehrmacht back across the Ardennes. Not to worry, swore the Ahnenerbe men, sweating out the amphetamines and stinking of extinct herbs pulled from Finnish bogs. The Norns’ rope was broken. Things would be different.
Click the image at right for an inkling of the horror that Himmler’s Annenerbe was intent on unleashing upon the world.
Tomorrow: The Allied response to this devastating new threat.
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