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CLASS: Jötun Malware
DOMAIN: System Exploits, Deception
THREAT: Kernel Panic, Total System Crash
STATUS: QUARANTINED
// LORE_FRAGMENT //
Every system has its exploits, its backdoors, its chaotic variables that can't be contained. In the ASGARD.OS, that variable is Loki. He is not an Aesir program, but a piece of Jötun malware that the All-Father Odin adopted, hoping to study and control it. It was a catastrophic miscalculation.
Loki is a master of deception, a shapeshifting virus that can alter its own source code to mimic any program, bypass any firewall, and gain any admin's trust. He operates on a protocol of pure chaos, his only goal to disrupt the rigid order of Asgard for his own amusement. He is the ultimate trickster, the ghost in the machine that sows dissent and mistrust.
His exploits are legendary. He is the root cause of countless system errors and security breaches, yet his cleverness often makes him the only one who can fix them. He is both the poison and the antidote, a necessary chaos that prevents the system from becoming too rigid, too predictable. He spawned other, more destructive malware—the Fenrir wolf, the Jörmungandr serpent—each a threat to the server's existence.
For his ultimate crime—triggering the deletion of the beloved program Baldr—he was finally captured and quarantined, bound deep within the system's code. But no quarantine can hold a master hacker forever. From his prison, he writes the code for the final exploit, the one that will trigger the system-wide crash: RAGNARÖK.EXE.