Location from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment
Realm of the Norse gods, one of the Nine Worlds connected by Yggdrasil the World Tree. Home to the Aesir and seat of the All-Father's throne, linked to Midgard by the Rainbow Bridge.
Asgard exists simultaneously as a physical place and a concept — the realm eternal, home of gods who are also aliens, depending on which scientist you ask Reed Richards that question. The air carries the weight of saga: every hall has witnessed oaths sworn and broken, every courtyard has seen the clash of divine weaponry. The great hall of Valhalla echoes with the songs of the honored dead. Odin sits upon Hlidskjalf, a throne from which he can observe all Nine Worlds, and the weight of that omniscience has made him cunning and ruthless in ways that trouble his sons. The Warriors Three drink in taverns where the mead is brewed from golden apples. The scent of ancient metal, burning forges, and the sharp ozone of cosmic energy permeates everything. Asgard has been destroyed and reborn — Ragnarok is not a single event but a cycle, and the Asgardians endure it with the grim fatalism of people who know their mythology is also their biography.
A vast golden cityscape built atop a flat plane of land floating in a starlit void, defying mortal concepts of geography. Towering spires and domed halls of burnished gold and silver rise above walls of gleaming uru-reinforced stone. The Bifrost — the Rainbow Bridge — arcs from the city's edge across the cosmic void to a crystalline observatory. Waterfalls cascade off the realm's edge into infinite space. The architecture is monumental, built for beings who measure their lives in millennia.
Also known as: the Realm Eternal, the Golden Realm, home of the gods