Usually, the player takes control of the hero of the story, and that seems to be the case when it comes to Valheim, since the player takes control of a Viking sent by Odin after coming back from the dead. It seems as though the player is on a mission dictated by the leader of the Aesir Gods to defeat and conquer the many biomes scattered around this new land, but that isn’t actually the case. Although Valheim is never overt with its lore, it is quite possible that it implies the player isn’t the hero they thought they were.