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Clue 2: Named Gods

As of right now, we only have a few confirmed “Gods”:

Reisir -> Odin (Wields a spear, one eye sacrificed for wisdom, and has a hand in Ymir’s death), possibly mixed with Thor (Wields thunder)

Karvaldr -> Ymir, not exactly a god (æsir), but close enough.

Skadi -> Skaði (Unsure what her role is)

Fjodra -> Verðandi (See below)

Special mentions of Svein Od, who is blatantly a copy of Odin (wields a spear and is named Od—I wonder if he’s a reference to God of War’s Tyr), and Prett Grimr, who has 3 possible godly links (Grima, Grimnir, and Grimolfr).

There’s also Yor, Jörmungandr, aka the World Serpent, and the four duchies Austri, Vestri, Nordri, and Sudri, named after the dwarves that hold up the sky (made of Ymir’s skull).

Reisir’s case for “fighting against fate” is obvious due to his protagonist status. Same goes for Imir.

The others are more questionable, as they seem to be more manipulated by “Senna” than anything.

Clue 3: Threads

Please pay attention to Fjodra’s last name: 미드트라드

Sometimes translated as Midtrad, after some research I have found another way to translate it.

Mið, Old Norse for Mid or Middle-, the same Mid of Midgard, meaning Middle-Earth.

And þráðr, Old Norse for thread.

= Midthradr, the World of Threads.

Considering this is a fantasy webnovel, I’ll assume that it follows the trope of the royal family bearing the same name as the kingdom/land.

In that case, the threads in question could be the threads of fate that the Norns twine.

(Fjodra’s middle name, Verd (Verð), is also a reference to Verðandi, one of the three Norns. Yggdrasil, which the Norns tend to, is also in the Midthradr imperial palace.)

= Midthradr, the World of (Fate) Threads.

Clue 4: Readers

In the original «I Alone Am SSS-Ranked Einheri», a majority of the characters were killed off after readers begged for their deaths.

In that case, are the readers also “gods” that decide the fate of this world?

It could be that “Senna” is particularly pathetic and easily influenced by readers’ expectations. However, I find that hard to believe since “Senna” is built up as the main antagonist responsible for the apocalypse. Or maybe… a “Senna.”

Clue 5: “Senna”

Imir has been very blatantly rewriting fate.

So why hasn’t “Senna” killed him off yet?

If “Senna” is originally a discussion between multiple gods trying to choose this world’s fate, not including the god-like characters such as Reisir, then it would mean at least two or more authors were writing NaSE.

It would explain why “Senna” repeatedly introduced new characters only to immediately kill them off:

One author, on Reisir’s side, twines fate so that he will meet new allies. The other author, an antagonist, changes fate so that all allies are killed off.

(It could also be the influence of the blood-thirsty readers, who can overpower the favorable “Senna” through sheer strength of number.)

Now with the introduction of Imir, a new writer who can directly influence the story, the favorable “Senna” can use the probability Imir raises to more easily manipulate fate in their favor.

Clue 6: Modern elements

What about all the anachronisms? Why is the academy’s library full of Korean webnovels? Why is Reisir eating chocolate-covered Pringle chips?

All of these indicate that Midthradr is influenced by modern Korea.

(Possibly wrong—I have no recollection of other cultures being mentioned.)

Does that mean that Midthradr is a world that was birthed through a webnovel? Or was the webnovel a window into this world?

Clue 7: Imir’s novels

It’s established very early on that Imir’s novels, among many other Korean webnovels, are present in Valhalla Academy’s library.

As a reminder, here are Imir’s novels:

- A Healing Life Raised by the Protagonist. Synopsis: a reader transmigrates into the body of a child, gets picked up by the protagonist who's a hero, and becomes the protagonist's little sibling.

- The Gate in my Novel Swallowed the World. Synopsis: the protagonist, an author, realizes that their hunterverse novel is overlapping with reality.

- How the Repentant Villain Saves the World. Still in progress.

Do you see where I’m going with this?

All of these novels describe This Novel is not my Novel.

Imir transmigrates into the body of a child teenager, Karvaldr, and gets picked up befriended by the protagonist. This is a world that is tormented by Gates Demonic Realms that will eventually destroy the world. Imir as Karvaldr, initially a villain, will eventually save this world.

If these novels appear in the library, it means that Senna read them.

I believe that “Senna” was researching a way to change this world’s fate and reach a happy ending. They found Imir’s novels and realized that he was a perfect co-writer.

Leading to Imir’s transmigration.

One problem—

Clue 8: Imir’s name

Are you telling me that Ymir is a coincidence?

What the parallels between him, strangely blue-eyed, who only has a mother, and Karvaldr, strangely blue-eyed, who has everything but a mother?

Or the link between Ymir, whose skull becomes the sky, and the Austri house in which he transmigrates, who are named after the dwarf that holds up that sky?

Something for certain: Imir and Karvaldr are different people. They received different familiars (Yor vs a Black-footed cat) because their souls were different.

In short,

Senna is a genre qualifying «I Alone Am SS-Ranked Einheri», and thus its world, as a battle of words between gods.

There are multiple named gods/higher beings, including Ymir who is explicitly fighting against fate.

Hints that the Norns, or something similar, exist within this world.

It’s possible that the readers of “our” world are gods.

The original Senna author could be more than one god.

Midthradr is influenced by contemporary Korea.

Senna has read Imir’s novels, which match the current story of TNINMN.

Imir has a special link to the world of NaSE, and possibly to the Austri family.

Imir ≠ Karvaldr

Where am I going with this? I don’t know T_T

Right now my theory is that TNINMN itself is Karvaldr’s method (since he has the Writer skill from sky blue ether) to overturn the fate written by Senna, so he’s writing over the NaSE written by “Senna.” (see the description for his “writing” skill in ch142 + that moment in ch311 wink) That alone would qualify both NaSE and TNINMN as senna-genre novels, but the question is why NaSE was called a senna originally.

As of right now, I have no clue who Senna could be. Since it’s someone who twines fate, could it be one of the three Norns? Or am I relying too much on the Norse mythology flavor text?????