House of Odin

●Classification: Generalist House
●Specialization: [House-of-Houses] [Repo Work] [Hail Mary] [Endurance Work] [Fixer]
●Leader: Odin
●Notable Eidolons: Jormungandr, Fenrir, Chapacabra
●Overview:
When shit has hit the fan, the job has gone sideways, or failed completely and the blow-back is on its way, that is when the House of Odin is called. Known for executing the hardest of jobs, no matter the odds. The House is a hail-mary maker, legendary in pulling off long-shot jobs and fixing the mistakes of jobs gone wrong. One of the three founding Houses, the House of Odin, is well-regarded and somewhat feared by the other houses. Due to the fixer nature of the House’s work, this often means it must operate against the Eidolons of other houses who are trying to save their necks after a botched job. In this way, Odin has long served to keep houses in check.

The Origin of Odin:
Odin was military, a commander of a black-ops unit in a past life. He was trained to be the most lethal kind of killer, liberally modified with the most military-grade cybernetics that no one had heard of. A bear of a man with muscles of steel and the wisdom of a well-seasoned veteran, when he found himself a Ronin, a mercenary working the streets. No one knows how he left the military, how he seemingly walked away with all his confidential cybernetic modifications and knowledge, but he did, and they let him. The rumor goes that he saw the ugliest shit a man could see, lived through it, and came out the other side, and not a soul got in his way when he chose to leave, not even the top military brass. He deserved too much respect for the things he had done.

Regardless, he found himself working the streets of Budapest as Ronin, a profession he was, quite literally, built for. In a short time, he became a legend, his name struck like thunder when it was mentioned, provoking fear and awe. Somewhere in the shuffle of jobs, he rustled up two partners, the femme fatale Madonna Oriente and the enigmatic psionic witch Aiko. The Throne Breaker Three were born, and the rest is legend, myth, and maybe a little bit of history.

Odin, despite what one would think, was always the hand that held back. He approached the job carefully, like a battlefield technician, and had a powerful eye for discernment. He was often reigning in his compatriots, Madonna Oriente and her seemingly endless ambitions, Aiko and her terrifyingly destructive psionic abilities. Despite how it may have seemed, he was the balance between the extremes that ensured stability within the Throne Breaker Three. So it was inevitable then, when Madonna Oriente proposed the formation of a House of Eidolons, a mercenary guild to rival the megacorp gods and syndicate devils, that Odin tried to rein in her ambitions, only to fissure the Throne Breaker Three.

After the collapse of the Throne Breaker Three and with the newly formed House of Weeping Gomorrah and House of Autumn’s End gaining instant success and near monopolization of mercenary services, Odin realized that it was only the beginning of many Houses to come, and without a counterbalancing force they would become a monstrosity upon society. So, with some reluctance, Odin erected the House of Odin, a House to hold the other Houses in check, hold them accountable for their actions, and clean up their messes when they failed. He bestowed upon the members of his House his military discipline, shrewd tactical genius, and a dauntless steadfastness that has wreathed the House with equal parts respect and fear.

The House of Odin is the only House named after its founder, not out of some grand inflation of ego but more so out of Odin's lack of creativity. Creativity was always a skill of Aiko’s; Odin was never very good at it.