Khan and his crew had been stranded on the planet of the frost giants Jötunheim for several months while they try and fix the malfunctions of their rundown ship. Khan and his crew had been engaged in battle with an enemy ship of unknown origins the crew of the unknown ship possessed rather advance technology wrecking Khan's ship's main core system.

Once at Jötunheim Khan and his crew were received harshly by the Frost Giants guards who believed they were an enemy fleet in relation with the Asgardians who they had been having conflicts with for many years and they were closing in on a war between the two planets.

Khan and his crew were ready to fight off the guards when the princess of the Frost Giants stepped from behind them and made direct eye contact with Khan who was enchanted by her looks and gave his people to hold off their attack.

The Frost Giant princess Athera picked up an interest in Khan and also hold off her guard's attack. Khan introduced himself and explained their misfortune encounter they had with the unknown crew who damaged their ship and explained they were only looking for a fitted planet with advance enough technology to fix up their ship.

Athera who was very much interested in the foremen's captain invited them to stay as guest and order the guards to take back the guest ship to the castle and attempted to fix it with their most advance and renovated technology. Athera took Khan by the arm as they made their way back to the castle making her intention rather clear. Which thrilled Khan because he had the same ideas towards her. Once a the castle Athera explained to her father what had happened to khan and his people and begged him to help him which was rare because helping other civilizations and people was not in the nature of the Frost Giants. Athera's people were known for enslaving people and being ruthless towards others planets different from his own. Which was a factor he and khan understood each other on very well and formed an unusual friendship between their people. After months of living with the frost giants and interacting with them Awaiting for their ship to be fully repaired by them which of course took longer than they would of expect it since the frost giants were a few millenniums behind Khans people but they built strong ties while they resigned among them and made across of going out there into space joining forces to conquers civilizations. While khan lived with the frost giants he got romantically involved with Athera the kings daughter and soon got pregnant with his child. During the last months of their stay the tensions between the frost giants and the asgardians got worst and soon after a war between the two planets broke off. Loki Athera's and Khan's son was soon born after the war started and lived with his parents inside the castle's underworld city where the royal family took refuge for the first year of his life but soon after the child's first birthday the underworld was broken into by Odin's forces and his family was slaughter. Athera was able to hide Loki behind a secret passage within her and khan's bedroom while Khan attempted to fight off Odin. Unfortunately Athera was discovered by one of Odin's guards as she locked away the passage where her son laid and was slaughter where she stood. Enraged by Athera's death Khan severely beat up Odin nearly killing him when a guard came in and stung him taking him in as a prisoner but as he was being transported to the asgardian fleets to be taken back to asguard he awoke and freed himself fleeing leaving Loki behind just to be discovered and taken in by Odin.