Found: Book based on Norse mythology, featuring rune magic, and antagonists that seem like a stand in for Christianity
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Main character is a young girl who can use magic by shaping her hands but into runes; at the very beginning she forms a rune and looks through the resulting gap in her fingers, allowing her to see peoples auras/the trails they leave as they move around. She does this to try to find her friend, another magic user who comes through her town every once in a while (he turns out to be Odin, although this is obvious because of his description) who taught her to use her abilities. She describes his aura as colored kingfisher blue.
Odin at several points forms his fingers into a rune that extends a blade of his mental power from said fingers.
She (and other people/animals, including a local pig) was born with a birthmark in the shape of a rune, and stigmatized because of it as magic is agains the law/socially unacceptable. It is later revealed that those born with the birthmarks are Norse gods reborn or reincarnated.
Her town, and presumably most places, has a local church that follows a major religion that seems to be a stand in for puritanical Christianity, and this religion is against magic. At the end, it turns out that Mimir is behind the creation of the church and has been orchestrating a secret plan to kill Odin the whole time, and is essentially the main antagonist.
Near the town is a large mound (with a massive horse design on it, I believe) that is associated with magic, and has a passage in it to what I remember as the underworld. Odin is blinded when he enters, as another character placed a rune on the entrance that effectively flash-banged him.
At one point the main character awakens a group of people, referred to as “the sleepers” or “the sleeping ones” or something like that, to ask for their help. They have been sleeping there for a very long time, perhaps centuries, and include Freya and other gods.
Thank you for your help and let me know if you have any questions!
Main character is a young girl who can use magic by shaping her hands but into runes; at the very beginning she forms a rune and looks through the resulting gap in her fingers, allowing her to see peoples auras/the trails they leave as they move around. She does this to try to find her friend, another magic user who comes through her town every once in a while (he turns out to be Odin, although this is obvious because of his description) who taught her to use her abilities. She describes his aura as colored kingfisher blue.
Odin at several points forms his fingers into a rune that extends a blade of his mental power from said fingers.
She (and other people/animals, including a local pig) was born with a birthmark in the shape of a rune, and stigmatized because of it as magic is agains the law/socially unacceptable. It is later revealed that those born with the birthmarks are Norse gods reborn or reincarnated.
Her town, and presumably most places, has a local church that follows a major religion that seems to be a stand in for puritanical Christianity, and this religion is against magic. At the end, it turns out that Mimir is behind the creation of the church and has been orchestrating a secret plan to kill Odin the whole time, and is essentially the main antagonist.
Near the town is a large mound (with a massive horse design on it, I believe) that is associated with magic, and has a passage in it to what I remember as the underworld. Odin is blinded when he enters, as another character placed a rune on the entrance that effectively flash-banged him.
At one point the main character awakens a group of people, referred to as “the sleepers” or “the sleeping ones” or something like that, to ask for their help. They have been sleeping there for a very long time, perhaps centuries, and include Freya and other gods.
Thank you for your help and let me know if you have any questions!
