In the darkest hour of Japan’s feudal Kamakura period, Sweyn Ironside, the immortal son of a witch and a viking, carved himself a bloody reputation as a soldier of fortune among the samurai. Doomed to walk the mortal plane of Midgard until the time of Ragnarok, this avatar of death had plenty of time to slaughter his way into legend. Upon growing bored of godhood, Shiroi Shinigami, the White Reaper, settled in for a deep slumber beneath Himeji castle.