It is more cheerful then Hel's domain. I mean the goddess Hel, not the Christian Hell. [Thanks to Athelstan, she knew the names sounded similar, and she was willing to bet Stan was more familiar with the latter.] Hel was forced by Odin to give shelter and board to those who die of sickness and old age. Her world is dark, grey and always winter; the only good thing about it is that she waits for the god Baldr to return to her domain, and so she always has a table set with food and blankets for shelter.

By all accounts, not the worst place to end when a person dies, but it was no where near as grand as Valhalla.]

[His other question caused her to look down. Of all the stories she was told growing up, this one scared her the most.] It is called Twilight of the gods. There will be three years of terrible winters, and summers were the sun doesn't shine at all, and families and clans will fight and destroy eachother from within. The fire giants will storm Midgard and the giant wolf Fenrir will free himself from his chains. Odin, his warriors and the gods will storm out of Valhalla to fight in a last stand against the Giants, the Wolf and World serpent Jörmungandr. If the gods loose, the giant Surt will blot out the sun, the wolf Skoll will swallow the moon, and the entire world will be covered in water and darkness.

[The end of all things, that was what they feared. For all her people believed in Fate, there was still hope that..somehow, the world would not end in such a manner.]