Warning! This article contains spoilers for Loki, season 2, episode 6.

Summary

• Loki's choice to become the God of Stories leads to the restructuring of the TVA into a multiversal tree manifested by the Norse World Tree Yggdrasil to save the timeline.
• The significance of the multiversal tree's iconography connects to Norse mythology, Loki's journey, and the entire MCU's story since Phase 1, as it symbolizes the branching timelines held together by Loki.
• The use of Yggdrasil as the World Tree in the MCU pays off a reference from Thor, as Loki rewrites the story by making it central to the multiverse, reshaping the entire structure of the MCU.

Loki season 2, episode 6's Easter egg-filled journey through the God of Stories' former tales on Disney+.

Eventually, Loki came to realize that in order to save the TVA, he must become the literal God of Stories. This resulted in a huge choice for Loki by the time of Loki season 2, episode 6's ending which saw him overseeing the TVA at the cost of his own freedom. In making this choice, Loki essentially restructured the TVA into something altogether new that was now manifested by a multiversal tree as opposed to the Temporal Loom. With that in mind, what is the significance of the multiversal tree's iconography, and how does it connect not only to Loki's journey but the entire MCU's story since Phase 1?

Yggdrasil: Loki's Multiverse Tree Explained

Firstly, it is worth exploring what exactly happened in Loki season 2, episode 6's ending to turn the TVA into the multiversal tree in the first place. After realizing that somebody needs to oversee the branching timelines to keep them all safe rather than He Who Remains' dedication to only safeguarding the Sacred Timeline, Loki strides out into the Temporal Loom. Loki uses his magic to crack open the Loom, wrestling the endlessly expanding branches of the multiverse using his bare hands.

Loki then travels to the throne at the End of Time with the multiverse literally in the palm of his hands and remains there, physically and magically binding the multiverse together. This manifests as a multiversal tree that links to Loki's Norse origins. In Norse mythology, the nine realms were said to be held together by the branches of Yggdrasil, the World Tree. Given Loki's new MCU title as the God of Stories, this became a literal reality with Loki rewriting the multiverse and forming Yggdrasil to hold the multiverse together in an endless tree of branching timelines.

Loki Finally Paid Off Phase 1's Life Tree Easter Egg

While Yggdrasil is important to real-world Norse mythology, it has also been mentioned in the MCU as a part of Asgardian culture. The World Tree, or Life Tree, was mentioned as far back as 2011's Thor as part of the MCU's cosmos in the same way it is described in Norse mythology. Thor tells Jane that the World Tree is what holds together the cosmos with Loki season 2, episode 6 finally paying off this reference only in a much different way.

Rather than Yggdrasil holding the realms of the cosmos together in the MCU, Loki rewrote this story by placing the World Tree as central to the multiverse. Yggdrasil is now vital to the expansion of the multiverse with Loki at its center, holding together the branches of the expanding timelines. Rather than simply being vital to the infrastructure of the cosmos as Thor once thought, Loki season 2, episode 6 has completely rewritten this tease and paid off a 12-year-old Easter egg by reshaping the World Tree into the multiverse's entire structure going forward in the MCU.