A.D. 893 in Iceland. Thor Odinson, God of Thunder, rescues the villagers from a marauding frost giant and celebrates with meat, mead, and women. That night the villagers are shocked by the discovery of a dismembered corpse washing ahore. The head is that of a foreigner, a Native American, with an expression of sheer horror on his face. Thor recognizes him as a god. The Thunder God commands a funeral pyre be raised while he determines to discover who would slaughter a god….
The Present Day on the planet Indigarr: a little girl prays to Thor for relief from a drought which has devastated her world. The God of Thunder hears and sends a rainstorm to that barren planet. He soon arrives in person and enjoys their hospitality. He regales the children with his tales of the glories of Asgard but when an elder assumes that these are mere fantasies, Thor learns that Indigarr has no gods of its own. Thor sets out to find an answer to this mystery and finds the sky palace home of the gods to be completely deserted. He searches every building and finds nothing but long-unused weapons and utensils, plus books of the exploits of the gods. He is about to leave when he spies a chained building. Entering he finds the corpses of the gods, hung from hooks like so much meat, with the signs of being methodically tortured—and he makes the connection with his discovery in Iceland all those centuries ago. He is attacked by a vicious guardian creature, a guardian and he recognizes the work of Gorr the God Butcher….
Many millennia from now, Thor Odinson sits in the empty halls of Asgard, the last survivor of the Norse Gods. Aged and weary, he prepares for one last battle against the invaders, the Black Berserkers of Gorr, determined to face his fate like a god….