Case file RR-0023 · Retrospective Review · Norse tradition
Warriors said to fight without pain and without fear of blades. Some accounts read as a trained state, some as something more.
Archive verdict
Inconclusive
Norse sources describe warriors who fought in a frenzy, felt no pain and were not harmed by fire or iron. Most of that can be explained by training, ritual and exaggeration. A small number of accounts describe effects that training does not explain, which is why the Archive has not ruled the group out.
MDRI Archive · Series RR Retrospective assessments are provisional. They are made from surviving accounts, not from testing, and the Archive revises them as sources are recovered. A verdict of Consistent describes a pattern in the record. It is not a finding of identity. Issued for public information.