As a hypothesis, Athena has been infected with the evil power of greed, made him want to become the new ruler of Olympus, replacing Zeus. Tr convinces Atreus that maybe he is the "Champion" of the Jtnar, irritating Kratos. Since childhood, Persephone has lost the life she longed for, she was kidnapped by Hades with help Zeus, forced to marry Hades, and must care for the dead in the Underworld once and for all. Kratos, realizing what has happened, commands Fenrir to return to Midgard. She returns to Freyr's camp soon after and reconciles with his brother too. However, he was tolerant of Aphrodite (not even he could withstand the charm and beauty of the goddess of love & sex and eventually falls prey to her appeal by having sex with her if player chooses) and Hephaestus since they are both indifferent (and in the latter's case, even somewhat supportive) to his war on Olympus. He can carry numerous equipment or weapons and take them out just by reach into it while thinking about the chosen item. Kratos and Atreus will need some powerful items to fight the Norse gods. Kratos climbed back into Gaia's hands, and the two of them managed to reach Zeus who had been waiting for their arrival. Because, of course, being a god (or a demi-god) comes with superpowers. He uses the Claws of Hades to channel Necrokinesis and call the Cerberus Mongrel to his side and also uses his Blades of Exile to summon fallen Spartan warriors to fight alongside him (with the Army of Sparta ability). It is also revealed that Faye originally wanted to name their son Loki, but Kratos preferred Atreus, which was the name of an honourable Spartan Comrade. Upon reaching Gra's shrine, it is revealed to an amused trio and a shocked Tr that Gra, the sorceress, lied about the Ragnark prophecy to Odin; instead of all nine realms being destroyed together, a "Champion" will unite the realms against Asgard and only the Aesir realm will be destroyed through warfare. Even Odin himself fears Kratos' might, attempting to first create a truce and resorting to threatening Atreus' life when they faced off in Svartalfheim, only being willing to fight him after Kratos had been weakened by the battles of Ragnark and even so, Kratos played a crucial role in defeating the All-Father and ending his reign of terror along with Freya and Atreus. The girl's name was Pandora and she understood a lot about Kratos. When he defeated the Persian King, he begged for mercy, Kratos lethally slammed his head against a large treasure box. He didn't realize that Kratos had regained his focus and immediately attacked him from behind, stripping the Nemean Cestus from his hands. Cronos didn't seem to care, and allowed Kratos to climb to Pandora's Temple to claim Pandora's Box. But the Stranger refused and starts taunting Kratos about his kind and claim he's like some coward hiding in the woods. Kratos was laying her on many bunch of logs, and then Kratos begins burning her, carrying to the afterlife by the hot flames. These iconic weapons . God of War Ragnarok finally answers the question of why Kratos can't use all the magic and abilities that he learned during his time in the Greek pantheon. So, the Eyes of Truth that Kratos is currently looking for is Aletheia's eyes. Kratos then returned to Olympus, enraged towards all at the Gods. It is possible that he realized that by causing so much suffering to Greece, he no longer deserved to be king of Olympus and all of the destruction that was caused was because of his own actions was due to himself, not to Kratos. Ares, noticing Deimos' strange birthmarks, decided to invade Sparta with an army of centaurs and take him to Thanatos, the God of Death. Before breathing his last breath, the Spartan soldier placed his hope on Kratos. Kratos showed humanity when he attempted to stop Pandora from sacrificing her own self. After Kratos' son heard his decision, Atreus was upset, arguing towards it. the two enemies then started a tug of war. The God of Dream- Morpheus then takes advantage of this situation to put the Gods of Olympus to fall into a deep sleep and began to spread a black mist over Greece. Another city is ready to fall! Kratos makes a guest appearance in the PS3 golf game, However, there are some rather odd similarities between, Kratos is one of the playable characters in the multi-franchise fighter. It is here that the motive behind Athena's push for Kratos to kill Zeus begins to be revealed. Kratos later encounters Gaia again in the City of Olympia, where she appears to have been further pushed back from Olympus by her injury and is now hanging onto a cliff edge. Kratos could deliver powerful slams and smashes, and also summoned legions of souls. By throwing his aunts and uncles into Tartarus, he betrayed all Titans just because of the sins of one. She was aware of the role he and their son would play regarding Ragnark. He refers to Sindri and Brok as the dwarves and the blue one respectively, Mimir as head, Freya as woman and his own son as boy. The Hyperion Gate nearby was the gateway to the residence of Aphrodite, wife of Hephaestus, and because of that, Hephaestus became a little sad and decided to tell a little story about her. After the fall of Ares, the Blades were never seen again, but Kratos was soon granted the similar Blades of Athena. Kratos revealed his troubled past, and that he and Atreus should both learn from all of these experiences and not to repeat their own past mistakes. In the world of God of War, a place where gods are real and involve themselves in mortal lives, Kratos, a former soldier-turned-god, manages to live one of the bloodiest and most storied lives of them all.Embarking on a conquest to destroy the Greek gods themselves seemed an impossible task, yet Kratos has done it. Kratos arrives in the Domain of Death, a dark realm that lies between the lands of the living and world of the dead. When Atreus asks why the rune looks different, Sindri explains that it had to be reforged. Sensing that the mysterious person could be dangerous, Kratos tells his son to hide under the base, which at first, at the time tells his son not to go there, but with no choice, the base was the place Kratos could think of for his son to hide. Kratos and Atreus reach the top, noticing all the dead giants. They bonded during their journey and now both were willing to protect each other from any threat. Along the way, they are confronted by a vengeful Freya, but they eventually make amends. The same is true of his younger brother Deimos. Kratos accepts the offer, and with a new blades unique given by Athena which is now named Blade of Athena, Kratos occupies the throne of the Gods War, making himself as the new God of War. However, his distrust for divine beings remains intact, opting to avoid interaction with the Norse Gods whenever possible, even when they (like Freya) try to befriend and help him. This article contains lore based on real-life sources of the Greek mythology as introduced from the God of War Greek era. On the subject of being the son of Zeus, youd think Kratos would have inherited the power of Electrokinesis, or the manipulation of electricity, from the God of Thunder and Lightning. He is a very brave and utterly fearless warrior who is not afraid of any enemy regardless of strength, numbers and even species, which makes him able to stand up to people, monster and even immortals alike. His strength seems to fluctuate according to the situation that requires it. Atreus, still angered over the insults recklessly shoots arrows at him before showing early signs of sickness again. Also, the chains themselves would not follow Kratos with the Blades of Chaos, as he did not have them on at all during most of God of War 2018. However, the tattered remains of the Spartan skirt he wore in the original games remains under his new, default clothing in God of War (2018). However, Ares tricked Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter in a fit of rage, in the hopes that . Finding himself back in the city of Rhodes, Kratos commands the last Spartan warrior (also left alive) to return to Sparta City and prepare for battle. A boulder knocked down the Statue of Athena, making Hermes, who was perched, frightened to see Kratos approaching him slowly. Acquiring all of the Relics also gets you the Silver trophy "Collector." And so, he lives with his wife and the two were having a very happy together. Lysandra was Kratos' first wife. Because he's not ready yet, Atreus still find the deer. Not only does he know how to fight with them, but he also displays an incredible degree of mastery, whether hes wielding blades, an axe, a sword, or something else. On one such scholar, Kratos beat him while ordering him to "die with honor". When he asked Athena to get rid of the nightmare that had been haunting him, Athena informs that the Gods have kept their promise to forgive Kratos' sins, however they never promised to free him from his nightmares. Taking Perseus' shield, Kratos uses it to open access to the lowlands, where he realized that to reach the Palace of Fates, he had to cross a great chasm. After retrieving the heart and returning to Freya's home, the two briefly discussed how the cure would only be temporary and that in order to heal properly, Kratos would need to tell Atreus the truth about his nature as a God. Brok stays in Freyr's camp to meet up with another Dwarf, Lunda. By the time they were finally home, Kratos picked his wife's ashes and put her inside the bag, so he and his son could later on prepare to spread her ashes on the highest mountain, while his son already went inside the house. Kratos believes that fate is a lie, however he is unaware of the Marked Warrior prophecy, which predicted his destruction of Olympus and the Gods exactly. At the same time, however, Kratos struggles with the fact that Atreus is becoming independent, not knowing how to react to this since, as he stated to Mimir, "Spartans are taught discipline". Tom Regan Apr 20, 2018. Pandora herself is the only human created from the hands of Hephaestus, and now in despair, although sure that Pandora is still alive, Hephaestus tries to recreate her many times. In God of War: Ascension, his earliest canonical appearance, he genuinely mourns the death of Orkos and the Delphic Oracle, even giving Orkos a decent funeral pyre. Utterly shocked in pain and now on the verge of madness, a desperate Heimdall used his anger as well as his mastery of Bifrst to actually construct a new arm from the stump of the one he just lost, at the cost of excruciating pain. A weapon given to Kratos by Hephaestus after Kratos gave him the Omphalos Stone. It can both cause a cough which led to his sickness. Across the entire Greek saga, Kratos' only major goals were to kill Ares, discover the source of his visions that eventually lead him to finding Deimos, and killing Zeus. He, along together with the Spartan army carried out an attack on a city, and this action made the Gods more angry, so in the midst of the struggle, Kratos is attacked by Argos, Hera's pet, the Goddess of Marriage who is the sister and wife of Zeus. The third and final time he has been seen happy or smiling so far, is during a cutscene in Ascension, when he is under the illusion of The Furies, where they place him in an illusion where he is back inside his home in Sparta before he killed his wife and child. Kratos battles Thor once again, but Thor is killed by Odin for refusing to kill Kratos. The Stranger, then, purposely, hits Kratos to try agitating him. These hallucinations taunted Kratos, saying that he was pretending to be something he is not, and that he would always be a monster. Even though he doesn't believe in Eos' promise because it has been given many times a false promise by the Gods, Kratos still follows Eos' advice to awaken Helios' fire horse that would lead him to where Helios was being held, because after all, in Helios' absence, the world will become completely dark and everyone in it will sooner or later die. While climbing the mountain, Poseidon joined the fight and tried to pull the Titans off the mountain. Final Fantasy XVI. Angry, Kratos throws the Oracle away from him, asking him not to read his memories recklessly. Learning that the main ingredient needed to treat Atreus was in Helheimwhere the ice magic of the Leviathan Axe was useless due to the unyielding cold of the realm as no enemy can be killed with such weaponKratos retrieved the Blades from their hiding place and grimly rebound their chains to his forearms in order to use them once more. Without his father's signal, Kratos was infuriated at him first, but then calms himself and teaches his son an lesson about hunting. The only other person to best Kratos in direct combat was Zeus, though this was because Kratos lost almost all of his godly powers and was nearly crushed flat by the hand of the Colossus of Rhodes, so Zeus got an easy strike against him. Through the use of fear, he controls Kratos mind and traps him inside his own mind (God of War Wiki). Apparently, Zeus had planned all of this, he deliberately made Kratos release his God power in order to force Kratos to surrender and submit to him. Throughout most of the Ascension series (particularly after his betrayal by Ares), Kratos is incredibly cruel, reckless, and destructive, willing to kill anyone who gets in his way, even innocent people. Unlike with shadow manipulation, which was talked about earlier, he doesn't need a weapon to do so; in this case, Kratos unlocks the ability after obtaining the Primordial Fire, which powers up his Sun Shield. However, he does not carry one in any of the side games. She even saved Kratos when he was a child from Ares when they took Deimos, and asked Kratos for forgiveness afterwards, showing that while she thought she was protecting Olympus from the marked warrior prophecy, she had some regrets in doing so, even calling him "brother", showing that she was aware of his relationship to Zeus. She is the mother of Atreus, and the deceased wife of Kratos. The fight was brief as they shared world weariness and soon after got to know one another and eventually fall in love. Deimos (Greek: ) was the younger brother of Kratos, both being the sons of Zeus. He escapes, declaring war on Kratos. When in reality, Icarus had already fallen into the Underworld because Kratos tore a second the wings. Kratos also tries to release the Helmet of Darkness, Hades' helmet that can create terror, but his attempts only made Hades angrier, and he responded by devastatingly bashing him on the ground, creating a large hole. For that, he tried to crush Kratos' body, but managed to fight back by blinding Cronos using Helios' head beam. For example, he tried to dump them in the ocean but the sea itself rejected them and destroyed his boat. It is located in a desert called Desert of Lost Souls. Unable to defeat Cronos head-on, Kratos used his wits and skills and managed to avoid Cronos but instead damage parts of his body. The return of the Blades of Chaos in God of War (2018) is an unforgettable moment that helps tie the Nordic Saga to the original games. Hercules remains the only God Kratos actually tried to dissuade from fighting against him and the only divine sibling Kratos openly acknowledged, besides Deimos. Betrayed once again, Kratos falls into the River Styx and is nearly drained of his strength consumed by the souls of the dead. Once Kratos discovered the truth, that Freya was Baldur's mother and he was going to kill her to punish her for all the pain she caused, Kratos tried to stop him. Zeus, however, weakened Kratos and tricked him into abandoning his godly powers into the Blade of Olympus, which Zeus used to kill Kratos. They meet up with an angry Sindri in his and Brok's former forge, and the Dwarf ends his friendship with Atreus. The third time was in God of War III, when he fell in the River Styx, one of the rivers of the Underworld. Relics are a new item that you can use in God of War Ragnarok. 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