Fangwild

Connections

• Bödvar was once lost here (rescued by Ember)
• Dusk escaped Aelfheim into the great Fangwild forest; the Guardian of the Fangwild (Ember?) fell to his ambush, after which Dusk styled himself the new Lord of the Fangwild; he gathered the power of the forest and schemes to overthrow both Aelfheim and Asgard
• Ember is "the Fangwild's daughter," since she hunted in there for thousands of years and guarded it from itself (also protecting the bordering worlds from the eldritch wood); she was the only mortal to see the center of the Fangwild; with Ember gone into Valhalla, the Fangwild has slipped into madness
• Ragnir hunted here and the forest's neighboring lands; in the years after Ember's disappearance, the eldritch forest descended into chaos, opening to new world for Ragnir to ravage, growing his hoard to massive proportions; as the forest grew more mad however, he journeyed to Asgard to find Ember so she could go back and restore the forest's heart
• For a time, Teros carved out a place here, shouldering aside a wyvern and a hobgoblin clan
• Yumiko saved her village (Aoku, Japan) from the wolves and corruption coming from a twisted forest called "Kiba, The Fang" by the locals, severing the forest's connection with her world

Context

There is certainly a lot to unpack here about this mysterious realm. What we can gather from all these pieces is that the Fangwild is some sort of connecting hub to many other worlds, including Aelfheim, Asgard, and earth (or Midgard, if you prefer). These three worlds are part of the nine-world cosmology of Norse mythology. The thing connecting all nine worlds is the World Tree, Yggdrasil. As a matter of reference, I will list all nine worlds connected by Yggdrasil here:

Midgard: earth, world of humans and other earth creatures)
Asgard: world of the Aesir tribe of gods, including Odin and his Valkyries in Valhalla)
Vanaheim: world of the Vanir tribe of gods, including freya, Frey, and Njord)
Jotunheim: world of giants
Niflheim: world of ice
Muspelheim: world of fire
Alfheim: world of elves
Nidavellir/Svartalfheim: world of dwarves (and probably dark elves)
Hel: world of the dead and the goddess Hel

Although there are many clear connections between this cosmology and Brawlhalla lore, we shouldn't consider it the whole of the Brawlhalla universe, because other pantheons are known to exist (Apollo is mentioned in Jhala's lore, and Zariel comes from the celestial court of Paladium). Based on the descriptions we have of the Fangwild, I would say it doesn't just connect the nine Norse worlds, but many universes. The possibilities are infinite.

What other things do we know? The people of the Japanese village of Aoku called the place Kiba, which is translated as "fang." It is apparently very hard for both Ember and Ragnir to find their way back to the Fangwild from Asgard. Perhaps the two are no longer connected, for some reason. A result of the Elven wars, perhaps?

The Fangwild is sometimes called the "eldritch forest," which is interesting. The word "eldritch" is often used in some horror sub-genres (especially Lovecraftian horror, as seen in Call of Cthulhu), but in general terms it means "weird and sinister or ghostly." The paths of the Fangwild are also said to be "ever-changing." It has threatened to corrupt any world or universe it touches (as seen in Yumiko's lore). The Fangwild is just...a weird place. People can get lost or even twisted by this forest. Ember's lore (which gives some of the greatest insight into this place) goes into more detail when talking about the very center of the Fangwild:

"No mortal has seen the center of the Fangwild. The magic is too dense, the peril is too deep. Not the elves who live on the edges of the Fangwild [so, Aelfheim, probably]. Not the adventurers and fools who brave the forest in search of paths to other universes. Not the ghouls and beasts drawn in by the call of magic. No mortal but Ember."

The Fangwild doesn't appear to be evil, per se, but a wild, chaotic force that needs a guardian to keep it in check. The implications of Ember's absence from the Fangwild could be catastrophic. If there were ever to be any sort of story created for a novel, film, or even an in-game story mode, I could definitely see this Fangwild corruption to be a possible universal threat that could involve everyone.