"'A Ragnarok situation,' he said. (p. 717)
Manse Everard applies Norse mythological terminology in a completely different context. Conflict between groups of time travellers in a mutable timeline is comparable to the last war between gods and giants at the end of the world. Even worse, if the Exaltationists defeated the Time Patrol, then they would wage:
"'Battles through time, a chaos of changes - I wonder how much flux the space-time fabric could survive.'" (p. 718)
"'How does it feel knowing you may have saved the universe?'" (p. 719)
Is space-time a "fabric" or just a set of relationships between events? But those events can become discontinuous and chaotic in the Time Patrol universe.
The three great discoveries of my teens were that:
Romulus was supposed to be descended from Aeneas, making Rome the second Troy;
the Buddha was not a strange god but a compassionate man;
the Norse pantheon was destined to die in the Ragnarok.
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