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Karnilla the Norn Queen is a sorceress and the Queen of Nornheim (one of the Asgardian provinces) within the Marvel Comics Universe. She has been depicted as an enemy of Asgard, an ally of Loki, and love interest of Balder the Brave.

In her debut appearance, Karnilla saves Balder the Brave from being assassinated by Loki; justifying this action by saying that, like everything that existed in Asgard (with the exception of mistletoe) she had promised to protect Balder. She then lends magic to Loki using the Norn stones.

Later, she accidentally grants the supernatural power intended for Loki, to the Wrecker. Then allying with Loki, and tricking Sif into animating the Destroyer. During this plan, she becomes romantically attracted to Balder. She declares her love for Balder, but is spurned. Heartbroken, she pits Balder against the ''Legion of the Lost''. She tries to tempt Balder to renounce his service to Odin, and then capture Balder. She then saves Balder and the Warriors Three from the Thermal Man.

Karnilla casts a spell that wakes Odin in time to defeat Infinity. She succeeds in forcing Balder to renounce Odin and serve her instead, but it's not long before she releases him from her service. With Loki, she creates Durok the Demolisher to battle Thor.

Additionally, she allies with Thor against Mangog and Igron. She and Balder then defend Asgard against an assault of animated suits of armor. They then battle the Enchantress and Executioner, but are defeated by Kroda the Duelist. She later battles Loki to save Balder.

After a while, she is rejected again by Balder, who had given up his career as a warrior on returning from the dead. Undaunted, she abducts Balder and his new beloved, Nanna. Karnilla forces Balder to agree to marry her, in order to save Nanna's life. With Loki, she later releases a Snow Giant to battle Thor, but she then betrays Loki and is defeated by him. She then seeks Balder's forgiveness for Nanna's death.

Karnilla reveals the location of the Rose of Purity to the Enchantress. Subsequently, she joins Loki and Tyr in an alliance against Odin. Later, she is petitioned by Balder to join forces with Asgard against Surtur.

Karnilla then schemes to keep Balder with her in Nornheim. However, she eventually comes to regret her actions after realising that she had truly fallen in love with him. She is then captured by Utgard-Loki and the Frost Giants, who torment and humiliate her by cutting her long black hair down to a flat top and forcing her to be their slave. She is returned to Nornheim after being rescued by Balder and Agnar

She later saves Balder from the forces of Seth. Some of her subjects which had been turned to stone are then returned to life, although still stone. Karnilla joins a resistance force against the death-goddess Hela. Her allies include the Warriors Three, the wolf-prince Hrimhari, various troll races and the mortal New Mutants. They accomplish their goal of saving Odin from death at the hands of Hela.

Following the ''Fear Itself'' storyline, Karnilla begins to prepare an attack on the now-Earthbound Asgard. Her first assault intends to replace Thor (killed by the Serpent with a wound that created a rift in time and space) with a new thunder god Taranus (really a disguised Ulik), with the memories of all Thor's allies being altered so that they remember Taranus rather than Thor, save for Loki.

Karnilla comes to the defense of Asgard when Hela's armies of the dead threaten it. Provided by Wikipedia