01-04-2013, 09:48 PM
Verthandi is a goddess in Norse mythology (and in anime), so it's hard for me to think of her as a male. I prefer to think of that as a mistake, or perhaps an alternate guise or aspect. She's one of the three fates, as old as Destiny itself. She might be the same as the Greek Lanchesis.
Wikipedia says, in its article on the Three Fates: "Later in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis (Disposer), whose ineflable nature is unexpressed. Ananke (necessity) is the primeval goddess of inevitability who is entwined with the time-god Chronos, at the very beginning of time. They represented the cosmic forces of Fate and Time, and they were called sometimes to control the fates of the gods. The three Moirai [Fates] are daughters of Ananke."
Wikipedia says, in its article on the Three Fates: "Later in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis (Disposer), whose ineflable nature is unexpressed. Ananke (necessity) is the primeval goddess of inevitability who is entwined with the time-god Chronos, at the very beginning of time. They represented the cosmic forces of Fate and Time, and they were called sometimes to control the fates of the gods. The three Moirai [Fates] are daughters of Ananke."