Ragnar's conceptual authority was the Law of the Matron's Husk.
At its core, the law dictated that ice was not merely frozen water, but a predatory, maternal entity seeking host bodies to incubate within. When invoked, the law treated Ragnar as a vulnerable child, encasing him in a living, protective, absolute womb, while simultaneously treating any aggressor as a host organism meant to be bled dry and fed upon.
This allowed Ragnar to shed near-perfect, lifelike ice surrogates in a fraction of a millisecond. These shells acted as false wombs that absorbed large amounts of kinetic force, confused the spatial senses of attackers, and totally obscured the king's true position. Because each ice surrogate perfectly mimicked Ragnar's unique biological signature down to the subatomic level, even the God of War could not immediately distinguish between the real user and a newly gestated husk.
Worst of all was the retaliation mechanism.
