Fenrir vs Ravana

Monstrous wolf, son of Loki. Bound by the gods but prophesied to break free at Ragnarok and devour Odin. Represents the inevitable forces of chaos and destruction.

Fenrir was born to the trickster god Loki and the giantess Angrboda in the dark forests of Jotunheim. He was one of three monstrous siblings - his brother Jormungandr became the World Serpent, and his sister Hel became ruler of the dead. When the gods learned of these children and the prophecies surrounding them, they brought them to Asgard. Fenrir alone was raised among the gods, but he grew so rapidly and so fierce that only Tyr dared to feed him. Fearing the prophecy that he would devour Odin, the gods bound him with the magical fetter Gleipnir on the island of Lyngvi, where he will remain until the twilight of the gods.

Fenrir is the most infamous child of Loki. He grew so large and terrifying that the gods tricked him into being bound by the magical ribbon **Gleipnir** (costing Tyr his hand).

The ten-headed rakshasa king of Lanka and principal antagonist of the Ramayana. A grandson of the sage Pulastya and devout worshipper of Shiva who won great boons through austerity, Ravana's abduction of Sita brings about his own destruction at the hands of Rama.

Ravana was born to the sage Vishrava and the rakshasi princess Kaikesi, making him a grandson of the sage Pulastya. Through fierce austerities he won from Brahma a boon of near-invulnerability, which he used to conquer the three worlds before his abduction of Sita brought Rama's forces against him and led to his death.

Ravana, in Valmiki's *Ramayana*, is the ten-headed, twenty-armed king of Lanka, born to the sage Vishrava and the rakshasi Kaikesi. Through his father, he is a grandson of Pulastya, one of the mind-born sons of Brahma, giving him a partly divine lineage despite his rakshasa nature. Through prolonged, severe austerities directed at Brahma, Ravana won a boon of near-invulnerability against gods, demons, and spirits, but, in his pride, did not think to ask for protection against humans or animals, a omission that becomes his fatal weakness.