Kratos climbed back into Gaia's hands, and the two of them managed to reach Zeus who had been waiting for their arrival. A useful ability when you have to face, e.g. Its led him to do unspeakable things that he will forever have to live with. For all the other gods that Kratos killed in God of War 3, he only attacked them out of either self-defense (in the case of Hephaestus and Cronos, as they attacked him without warning, despite the fact he was not seeking to kill them at all), constant provocation (Hera and Hermes taunting Kratos so much that he snapped from anger), or after being forced to fight, such as by Hades ambushing him, and Poseidon also hunting down Kratos. n order to get the Skull of Keres which is the key to the gate of the Domain of Death, Kratos must first confront the shadows of his past. As Atreus took the knife from her own mother, Kratos insisted that it was his to keep. Wounded and exhausted from the battle, Brok and Sindri encounter Kratos, who asks them for help going back to his home since Odin is still with Atreus and Mimir. Removing the blade from his body, Athena leaves Kratos to die. As a form of gratitude for serving the Gods of Olympus for ten years and even helping them defeat Ares, Athena saves Kratos' life and offered him the now vacant throne of the God of War. Unfortunately for Kratos, Atreus, despite his compassionate nature appears to have inherited his father's impulsiveness and tendency towards rage. But his attempt to kill Zeus was thwarted by Athena who suddenly came to attack, begs Kratos to stop. Many of the creatures, gods and other people Kratos has killed across his lifetime after killing his family were not deliberately acts of Kratos looking for a fight. He was close consumed but managed to fight back by tearing the Chaos Beast's upper jaw, instantly killed him. And the way to do that is by destroyed the Chain of Balance that connected the Underworld to the Olympus Mountains. Hades reappears from within River Styx. At that instant, Mount Olympus started to shake and when the Gods looked down, they saw a very terrible sight. Kratos was a captain of a Spartan army. From gaming trends to the latest blockbuster anime, DualShockers keeps you ahead of the curve. A younger Kratos would have simply attempted to kill Baldur on sight upon trespassing on his home, yet older Kratos is extremely restrained and actively avoids combat whenever possible. He created a treaty which would give Odin a wife- the goddess Freya. To date, Kratos has canonically died a total of three times in the franchise. Perhaps what Kratos' breaking point that truly made any happiness or positive feelings he possibly could have had vanish is when his brother, Deimos, was killed. Insulted by the mortal's defiance, Ares prepared to kill the young Spartan but was stopped by Athena. When he learned of Sparta's destruction at Zeus' hand, Kratos was devastated and angrily demanded that Zeus come down and face him. In the middle of the voyage, Athena appeared and tried to prevent Kratos carry out the mission, saying that everything Kratos saw was only a dream. After this interaction, Kratos gained a newfound respect for Freya and vowed to never forget how she helped his family. 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. He is shown to love Atreus just as he loved Calliope, Lysandra, and most likely Faye. He then directs the eye's light beam Apollo went to the lantern and went there to get the Eyes of Truth. As they are leaving, Kratos gives Atreus a drink of the wine from the vase he took earlier before drinking some himself explaining the origins of the wine. He vowed to bring about the gods' downfall for what they did. Kratos denied doing anything wrong to Hephaestus, but by opening Pandora's Box he had. At first, Freya refuses to help Kratos due to his resentment towards deities, but when Kratos tells her the situation, Freya changes her mind and lets them in. On the way, an exhausted Kratos after taking such a dangerous journey fell from the horse. With the tower restored, the duo plus Mimir lock Jtunheim in, but Mimir realizes that the travel crystal is missing. Even in death, and when attempting suicide, the visions still haunt Kratos. In fear that Kratos would defeat his champion, Alrik, the Barbarian King, Hades sent a torrent of fire through the sky. With Poseidon's death, the oceans unleashed a flood that was so devastating, where it created a tsunami swept across Greece. A god who won't stop until the Earth's populace, Amazon and outsider alike, lies murdered in a battlefield grave." The character is a god or goddess of war. The chains themselves that he has used on his various chained weapons seem to either all be the same original chains, or various sets of chains he would swap out for each weapon. Kratos, being a demi-god, isnt destroyed by the river, but the souls attack him and leave him badly weakened. For that, the two of them once again engaged in a fierce battle and Alrik summons the souls of the dead, including the soul of the ship's captain who always has bad luck. It is also a divine sword so powerful that it allowed Zeus to defeat the Titans in the Titanomachy. Lord Kratos, also known as "The Ghost of Sparta" and by the Gods of Olympus as "The Cursed Mortal" or "The Fallen God", is the titular character and the main protagonist of the God of War video game franchise. It can command the power of the winds to create powerful tornadoes and gusts as well as vacuums to destroy its foes. Asgard's forces attempt to sever their link to other realms to thin out Kratos' forces, and Atreus and Sindri opens a secret passage in Asgard's wall. Tr is dismayed by the revelation, and they return home. For instance, some of his most powerful enemies, Ares and Zeus, are masters of illusion and use their powers against Kratos. 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. Whatever her intentions, Athena asks Kratos to give up the power he claims from Pandora's Box but Kratos told the truth, he didn't find anything in Pandora's Box, the box was empty. Mimir explains that Tr used the travel rune to follow his own path, hence why he was able to travel to other lands, in the realm between realms. He understood why Baldur was going to kill Freya but warned him that vengeance would not bring him peace and was forced to fight and kill Baldur to protect Freya. After returning to Midgard the duo make their back to the Mountain and dispel the Black Breath. There, Kratos saw his wife, Lysandra, but then he is immediately awakened by Orkos, a working oath keeper under the Furies, that all of this is just an illusion created by The Furies for weakens Kratos' mind. This article contains lore based on real-life sources of the Greek mythology as introduced from the God of War Greek era. Along their own journey, they are confronted by the sir god Baldur, the brother of Thor whose sons are Modi and Magni. Enraged, Kratos breaks free, and punches Thor with his full god-like might, and broke Thor's tooth and the satisfied God of Thunder departs, claiming "[I'll] be seeing 'ya.". It can both cause a cough which led to his sickness. But unbeknownst to Kratos, Ares had chosen him to be his champion in the wager of the Gods. Mimir, Freya, Tr, Brok, and Sindri all discourage him from going to Odin, but he runs away. They want to dispose of the boy who would one day rise up against him. He also noted that as the Valkyries are so strong, they are useful for his and Atreus' growth in skill. Kratos then left the Underworld. However, while the Spear was forged, Brok realizes that the Lady doesn't see her because his restored soul is incomplete. Kratos then took his brother's lifeless body to an already empty grave prepared by none other than the grave digger. The death of the Spartan warrior makes Kratos blinded by anger, he considers Zeus as a coward and challenged him to come down to meet him. Walking further, Kratos enters the Temple of Thanatos and for the first time in a long time, he reunites with Deimos. She warned him that if Zeus were to discover that Kratos was alive, he would hunt him down and kill him, and then Hades would collect his soul and make sure that Kratos was forever tortured. Although he failed to kill Kratos, he succeeded in killing many of Kratos' men, including Captain Nikos. Kratos (or Cratos) is the son of Pallas and Styx. Mimir explains this is because the serpent hates Thor. Many people were killed by Kratos because they were arrogant and refused to let him go forward (such as Theseus and Perseus who had several verbal warnings from Kratos to just walk away and they would be spared death), or attacked Kratos out of their own desire to get revenge on him for wrongdoings he committed against them, such as later on when Hades is ambushing Kratos, or Cronos trying to kill Kratos, even though Kratos did not lift a finger or show any desire to battle Cronos. For that, Hephaestus begged Kratos to save his daughter. Eventually, Cronos captured Kratos and ate him. Things began to get worse between Kratos and the Stranger, as the first fight between the two them gets physical and it worsens more as Kratos lost his patience with the mysterious man, and punches him effortlessly in the face. Kratos however ignored Athena's warning, thought nothing could stop him. Athena replied that Kratos still doesn't fully understand, so he asks Kratos to step back, but immediately hearing this, Kratos becomes furious and destroys the statue of Athena, before then continue the journey to the city of Sparta. Still haunted by the visions of his mortal past, and against the advice of Athena, Kratos than embarked on a long quest to find his mother, Callisto, in the city of Atlantis. Kratos rushes home via boat to retrieve his old Blades of Chaos (which have been there for 50 years) while being goaded and taunted by Athena about his past that he'll always and forever, will be, a monster. Because of this, he started destroying its foundations from within, and in the end, succeeded in conquering the golden statue of Colossus. Armed with the insights he got from Aletheia, Kratos traveled all the way to Delos Island in search of the Eyes of Truth. Kratos attacks Poseidon blindly, grabbing him by the neck and beat him relentlessly, before then slamming and throwing him against a boulder. On the island of Delos, he is merciful enough to push an innocent man out of the way of an incoming spear, whereas he would have most likely just let him die in later games. Like the Tortoise, Kratos remains steady and determined to defeat him and becomes the winner between the two. He tried to kill Kratos as punishment for his suffering, and also to avenge Gaia who was supposedly dead. But even though Helios was dead, his head could still emit intense sunlight. One day, he got a vision of her mother, Callisto, being held captive in the Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis. Over time, Atreus starts to become arrogant and cocky after learning of his godhood which deeply concerns Kratos. Kratos, realizing what has happened, commands Fenrir to return to Midgard. He washed up ashore with the blades next to him. After telling the Huldra Brothers of their trip to the Norns, Brok suggests that in order to overwhelm Heimdall's prediction ability, the duplicating ring Draupnir will have to be modified into a spear that detonates its duplicates on command. Although free of his oath to the god, he was flooded with different memories of killing his family. They are a pair of chained blades that were fashioned by the God of War, Ares. When in reality, Icarus had already fallen into the Underworld because Kratos tore a second the wings. Trapped from the inside of his own mind and tormented by all of the memories on his dark past, Kratos is helped by the Spirit of Pandora to forgive himself. Hearing this, Kratos plans to use Icarus' wings to cross the great abyss, but Icarus resisted and both of them fell into the abyss. The only power that can be used to subdue Gods is the power stored in Pandora's Box. He would also despise Kratos for killing Poseidon and his niece Athena. But the power of hope is buried deep within Kratos, trapped in guilt. Athena appeared and asked Kratos to bring Pandora's Box back to Athens City and opened it there to conquer Ares. While it is not directly stated that his nightmares have gone, it can be safely assumed that Kratos still has visions and nightmares of when he killed his wife and child, seeing as how Athena refused to remove his visions at the end of the first God of War. But reality says otherwise, Kratos' power frightened Theseus and summoned a herd of monsters. Hermes (Greek: ) was the Olympian God of Travelers, Messengers, Thieves, Commerce, Sports, Athletics, and Speed. His actions within the Norse realm were also predicted by the Jtnar race long before he ever arrived, showing that predetermined destinies are actually true and Kratos has been unwittingly fulfilling prophecies all of his life. The endless nightmares he was also tormented with further caused him to fall into a state of total mental anguish and anger, as he felt haunted by every waking moment. Ratatoskr grants travel access to Kratos and Atreus to Helheim. But the Island of Creation is home to the Sisters of Fate, so it won't be easy to enter it. The loss of his brother left an indelible mark on Kratos, as he vowed to never falter again. Not caring about Zeus' warning, Kratos decided to go see Hephaestus to ask about the labyrinth Pandora meant. He also tries to ignore the God's warnings at first, viewing him as more of a pest than a serious threat, and so Kratos only attacks opponents with incessant insults and provocation. He showed regret and remorse in her death, showing that he still loved her. Another son of Odin, Thor will feature heavily in God of War Ragnark as one of Kratos' most challenging adversaries. 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. Along with his troops, Hercules attacked Kratos using the Nemean Cestus, a weapon he obtained after successfully defeating the Nemean Lion. Waking up from that strange dream, Kratos finds the Blade of Chaos back at his side. 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