User blog comment:IceFireWarden0/Asgard- Expectations For Rick's Norse Mythology Series/@comment-122.167.21.143-20130401081639/@comment-2239213-20130701180902

Actually, Loki wasn't the 'god of evil', he was just an especially crafty trickster god and was more chaotic neutral than anything else. The reputation for evilness came about because most of the myths were written down by Christians who insisted on applying their own beliefs to everything (for example, there is some evidence that they made up the story about Loki killing Baldur out of whole cloth, along with another, probably older, story where Baldur died in a fight over a girl which had nothing to do with Loki). In fact, if you try to see Norse mythology in terms of good and evil you're barking up the wrong tree since it's actually more about order vs chaos, which isn't the same thing at all.

With that in mind, I predict that Loki won't be the villian (although the characters might think he is at first), if only because it'd be something that most readers wouldn't expect.

I'd also hazard a guess that if Riordan does go with the demigod idea again then there's probably going to be quite a few of Loki's kids around since out of all the Norse gods he was probably the one who was the best known for that sort of thing (and he wasn't always the father either). There are even stories where, unlike most gods in those sort of situations, he actually stuck around for a few years after his kids were born, which has some interesting possibilities.