Bonus Chapter: Freyya's Complete List on her Mantling Ritual, as well as answers on where she got this information
The first event in a Mantling Ritual is always the most important since it's what initially connects the two timelines. Basically, the main characters of each timeline need to have inherently similar motives, personalities, and/or circumstances.
The main characters for the Mantled Event and the present is Drakavar & future Haalfrin, and the Ant Queen & present Haalfrin respectively.
Obviously, Mantling future and present Haalfrin requires no effort, since they're the same person. The problem is drawing a connection between the Ant Queen and Drakavar. How are those two people similar?
Answering this question is actually really hard, since not much is known about Drakavar.
The gods' name for Drakavar is "Elshi-rothe" - "the Hungering Demon". Not much is known about Elshi-rothe's past or future, and the few people who DO know something have either been silenced, or their memories have been altered.
The gods want information on Elshi-rothe to be kept a secret precisely because of Mantling Rituals. Drakavar is such a powerful, Significant being (as Significant as Mora himself) - so powerful that Mantling Rituals with her life events as a base are extremely powerful and dangerous.
Normally, Mantling Rituals merely influence luck, but Rituals with Drakavar's life as a base are like decrees from the heavens, dictating that something WILL happen.
An example of this is if a thief Mantles a successful heist made by a god, he'll merely be blessed with some good luck. Guards might be a little laxer, and the darkness a little deeper. However, if somebody were to Mantle a successful theft that Drakavar made, then the thief would be guaranteed to get what he wants. Rather, the thief wouldn't be able to fail even if he tried.
It's like there is no luck anymore; only certainty.
Now, think about all the things Drakavar has done before. She's stolen, murdered, enslaved, obliterated, and claimed all power for herself. What kind of disasters would come about if people knew enough about her life to Mantle these things?
Yup. The gods have good reason to keep Drakavar's life a mystery.
There's another reason why nobody knows much about Drakvar. Mora himself zealously keeps the greatest of the Yiirkin on a constant watch keeping all prying eyes and unwanted time travelers away from anything and everything to do with Drakavar's timeline.
Nobody really knows for sure what Mora is hiding there, but what they DO know is that he doesn't want ANYONE interfering with her life - especially her childhood.
Hence, even with the existence of time travelers and scryers, Drakavar's life and the timeline around her is completely dark to the rest of the universe.
What, then, does Freyya have to work with when Mantling Drakavar? The only thing she has is the shared visions written in Haalfrin's Names. Sure, Freyya herself is a goddess, so she can see more in the visions than him... though it doesn't amount to much about Drakavar, except for a few key snippets into her personality.
Thus, Freyya is largely left to rely on rumors and passed-down stories circulating among the gods.
They say that Drakavar seemed to appear out of nowhere.
They say Drakavar once made war on the gods.
They say that she created the dragons by giving her blood to humans and reforming them after her own image.
They say that she grew greedy and sought to devour the gods, so she had her dragons spread out and make bloody, fiery war across the universe.
They say that Mora - the God of Creation himself, had to step in and banish her to some strange, isolated dimension, where she's imprisoned even now.
...This is really everything that Freyya knows about Drakavar. It all makes Drakavar feel more like a character in an old myth than a real person, so Freyya isn't quite sure how much of this she's supposed to believe.
Still, it's all she has to work with.
With this in mind, Freyya had written the first step of the Mantling Ritual:
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Step 1:
1. Drakavar seeks to devour everything in her limitless hunger.
1. The Ant Queen seeks to devour everything too.
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Freyya does know that all dragon's get Name Powers when they grow more horns, yet all of these Name Powers are exactly the same. The 4th Horn gives dragons the ability to never stop growing larger and stronger with age. The 5th Horn allows them to spend mana to revive less powerful dragons, so long as the bones and soul is intact.
( ( Note about the 4th Horn ability: a 4 Horned dragon who's lived forever would be able to beat a 7 horned dragon since their power NEVER stops growing. ) )
Since Drakavar is obviously a dragon too, the part in the stories describing her assaulting the gods with "an endless tide of resurrecting dragons" is probably true. Since she's the strongest dragon, then she'd naturally be able to revive any dragon.
Thus, Freyya had made sure to pick the Ant Queen for this ritual, since the Queen is also able to spend mana to revive her "children".
Step 2:
2. Drakavar sends an endless legion of dragons after the gods on all the worlds – dragons she can revive without limit with her Name spells.
2. The Ant Queen also has an endless legion of her kin that she can use her Name spells to endlessly revive with.
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Step 3:
3. Drakavar is halted by the gods, but she quickly tears their strongholds apart.
3. The Ant Queen is also halted by the humans, but she overruns the Threshold.
Freyya knows this much about Drakavar simply because she's seen more in Haalfrin's visions than he has.
To be more specific, Haalfrin has only seen Drakavar fighting the gods, the gods being defeated, and himself being destroyed. Freyya, however, saw much more; she saw most of this climactic battle; she saw every face who was obliterated, and she saw every move Drakavar made.
Hence, Freyya also knows enough about the final war to know that Drakavar ends up tearing the great city of Alastheim apart - the capitol city of the gods, and the greatest center of Divine Power on the World Tree.
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4. Future Haalfrin traps Drakavar in a battlefield with his Syl Name with a barrier that can only go down once he's been defeated. Drakavar is forced to fight him before she gets to what she wants.
4. Present Haalfrin trapped the Ant Queen with his Syl Name with that same barrier. The Ant Queen knows she can only be free to devour everything once he's dead.
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5. Haalfrin goes to great effort to evade Drakavar and make her expend energy and time to chase him and his armies.
5. Haalfrin evades the Ant Queen and seeks to make her waste mana during a long battle of attrition.
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6. Haalfrin calls on all the warriors, soldiers, and champions of the past to help fight Drakavar.
6. Haalfrin advances his Reh Name and learns to summon soldiers from the Death Realm.
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7. Drakavar discards her army and fights alone.
7. The Queen learns to fight without depending on an army.
Freyya is still unsure of how she's going to make the Queen fight on her own. She's just hoping that Fate will correct this on its own... though if it doesn't, then she'll have to get creative.
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8. After 3 years, Drakavar eradicates Haalfrin's armies for good, and she personally slays him.
8. After X years (3 years, 30 years, 300 years, 3,000 years?), the Ant Queen defeats Haalfrin.