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[MCU] "A lifetime ago, I, too, sought the stones. I even held one in my hand." Did the Red Skull know that the Tesseract was just one of six equally powerful objects? Did he have a long-term plan to acquire the others eventually? How much did he know about the other stones?
gpt
The Red Skull possessed an Earth-written version of *The Book Of Yggdrasil*, which he took from the same church that had been housing the Tesseract [Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary]. In Thor: The Dark World, Odin has an Asgardian version of the same tome, which he uses to reveal to Thor and Jane the history of the universe. He specifically mentions relics that predate the cosmos, and speaks of the reign of the Dark Elves before the big bang. This was just a few pages, so the entire book is likely to have contained at least some information on the Infinity Stones.

Red Skull almost certainly studied the pages of this tome, so he definitely knew a whole lot more about the universe than most would assume. It's very possible that the Infinity Stones didn't conspire to send Red Skull to Vormir, but that he accidentally sent himself because he was thirsty for power but inexperienced in weilding the Space Stone.