“Loki was interested in things because he was interested in them, and in the way they were in the world. He was neither kind nor gentle, not anyway when he inhabited the world of myth. In the folktales he was a fire demon, mostly benign, providing warmth for hearths and ovens. In the world of Asgard he was smiling and reckless, a forest fire devouring what stood in its path.”
- A. S. Byatt, Ragnarok: The End Of The Gods.