History of Forseti Baldurson
The Presiding One
Forseti Baldurson was born on the Nibiru planet in the Shomer universe before the emergence of the Chronoverse. He is called “The Presiding One” or “President” and is the son of Yaāṣab Leubh and her beloved, Baldur Odinson. He is seen as the god of justice and reconciliation in the anals of the Norse.
He was often seen holding a golden axe and standing upon his well crafted boat. He was also worshipped by the people of Frisians as Fosite. To them he was considered a god of order, reconciliation, and law, as well as commerce and the sea. He is very skilled in mediation and is in contrast to his fellow god Týr, who “is not called a reconciler of men.”
The Tragedy
In one of the stories about Fosite, King Karl Martel having conquered Frisia, demanded that their lawspeakers write down their laws in a codified form, for his official review. Due to legal disagreements, the twelve lawspeakers cannot comply. After being asked several times, and being unable to produce a written law code each time, King Karl poses them the odious choice: be executed, become slaves, or be placed in a strong ship with no oars or rudder, and cast adrift on the sea.
Thinking that the last choice represented the least terrible choice, they elect to be set adrift. The twelve men drift aimlessly for some time, arguing over what if anything they can do now to better their situation, when a thirteenth man appears in the vessel, as if from nowhere, with a golden axe over his shoulder.
He proceeds to direct the assembly in the creation of a code of laws, and when done, he uses the axe itself to steer the ship to land saving the lawspeakers, and then he hurls the axe into the land. Where the axe falls, a spring bubbles forth, and from that moment forward, the tradition has it, the spring and the island have been sacred to Fosite, with whom folklorists have identified the thirteenth man. The mysterious figure then disappears.
