Editing Kaldheim (section)

===Inspiration (And Historian Grousing)===
While Norse mythology contains ''Níu Heimar'', more commonly known today as "The Nine Worlds" there isn't a full explicit canonical list leading to scholars offering different lists. Which makes Maro's claim that WotC did a 1:1 ratio and then made up their own 10th world to round it up to a multiple of five a bit strange. There are actually 10 main candidates for what realms are part of the nine realms (which leads to or supports claims that 2 on the list are the same place with different names, or that one is part of the other. For example Henry Bellows conflates Niflheimr and Helheimr, where as [norse-mythology.org] conflates Svartalfheim and Nidavellir). 

As elsewhere in Magic, dwarves are Red/White (unlike Norse mythology where they are evil little bastards). 
More directly from Norse is a loose distinction between [[Elves]] and gods, and their ability to play the tertiary antagonist and heroic sidekick roles at the same time based on how clever and/or badass the human who last talked to them is. As such, Elves continue to be Green/Black. 

The gods are mostly expies. 
* Alrund is Odin
* Valki is Loki
* Toralf is Thor