In a radical departure from the established chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the destruction of Asgard during a premature Ragnarök forces the Tesseract from its ancestral vault and onto a collision course with Earth centuries before the modern era. Rather than being safely recovered by Norse worshippers in Tønsberg, the artifact settles at the bottom of a lake in the territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in pre-colonial North America. Over several generations, the Space Stone’s cosmic energy bleeds into the surrounding environment, transforming a local body of water into the "Forbidden Lake", a portal to "Sky World," a vibrant pocket dimension where displaced Mohawk people have cultivated a thriving, immortal civilization powered by the stars. This divergence fundamentally alters the course of human history, removing a primary In ...