Odin, King of the Gods, dispatches the heroic warrior Heimdall and Valkyrie captain Uschi to eliminate a mysterious infestation of draugr - the living dead - in the proud realm of Vanaheim. Yet his home is not as Heimdall remembers it. Anti-Asgardian sentiment is rife, and the arrival of just two warriors from Asgard to deal with the draugr only incenses the people further. With rebellion growing in Vanaheim, Heimdall must investigate this conspiracy and the undead, even if it pits him against his own people, to preserve the peace of the Realm Eternal. (W) Richard Lee Byers