Amulet of Uroborus: the gem that bent time
the time-warping relic of the Oracle Aletheia
The Amulet of Uroborus was a golden amulet set with a blue-green gem that could manipulate time and space. Stolen from the Oracle Aletheia and turned against Kratos, it passed into his hands and let him rebuild what had been broken.
The Amulet of Uroborus was a golden amulet set around a blue-green gem with power over time and space. Stolen from the Oracle Aletheia and turned against Kratos, it came at last into his own hands, and with it he could decay structures into ruin or raise the broken back to wholeness. (God of War: Ascension)
The gem of the Oracle#
The Amulet of Uroborus was a golden amulet built around a blue-green gem, able to manipulate time in a variety of ways. Its power lay chiefly in command over the age and state of things: it could decay enormous structures into ruin or rebuild them whole, raising broken pieces back into their proper places, and it could turn ruin back into form to open paths that had been closed. (God of War: Ascension)
The amulet belonged to the Oracle Aletheia, who dwelt at Delphi. From her it was stolen by the false prophets Castor and Pollux. (God of War: Ascension)
Claimed by Kratos#
Castor and Pollux turned the amulet's power against Kratos, but he defeated the brothers and claimed it for himself. He tried to heal the mortally wounded Aletheia with it, but she told him it could not mend her wounds, and he let her die in peace, though not before she revealed to him the plans of the Furies and the way to the Statue of Apollo. (God of War: Ascension)
With the amulet in hand, Kratos used its power to decay and to rebuild as he made his way onward, restoring ruined structures to clear his path. Among these, on the island of Delos, he reconstructed a structure that had earlier been brought down by the Fury Alecto. (God of War: Ascension)
The final use#
After Kratos was captured by the Furies, the Amulet of Uroborus was held by the Fury Megaera. Following his escape from the Prison of the Damned, Kratos killed Megaera and reclaimed the amulet, using it to rebuild several of the prison's structures. He turned to it one last time in the final battle, calling on its power to stop Alecto's tentacles from reaching him. (God of War: Ascension)
Frequently asked questions
- What was the Amulet of Uroborus in God of War?
- The Amulet of Uroborus was a golden amulet built around a blue-green gem that could manipulate time in a variety of ways. It belonged to the Oracle Aletheia and could decay structures into ruin or rebuild them whole, as well as slow enemies caught in its beam.
- How did Kratos get the Amulet of Uroborus?
- The amulet was stolen from the Oracle Aletheia by the false prophets Castor and Pollux, who used its power against Kratos. After Kratos defeated them he claimed the amulet, and later, after it was held by the Fury Megaera, he reclaimed it once more following his escape from the Prison of the Damned.
Sources
- GameGod of War: Ascension, Santa Monica Studio, 2013
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Aletheia: the Oracle of Delphi
Aletheia was the mortal Oracle of Delphi, a seer whose eyes granted her visions of the future and the power to pierce any illusion. When she uncovered the plot of Ares and the Furies to overthrow Olympus, the Furies tore out her eyes and forged them into the Eyes of Truth, and with her dying breath she set Kratos on the path that freed him from his blood oath.
Alecto
Alecto was the Queen of the Furies and the Goddess of Anger, the sister who ruled the trio that hunted Kratos. She mated with Ares to bear the disowned Orkos, ensnared her victims in illusion and black goo, and transformed into a monstrous sea creature before falling to the Spartan's blades.
Apollo: the Olympian who escaped Kratos
Apollo never faced Kratos in the flesh. His Flame lit the way to the Tree of Life, his Bow lay in the Underworld, and he survived the slaughter.
Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux were conjoined Spartan twins, one mortal and one a son of Zeus, who seized the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi and posed as its prophet. Acting for the Furies, they imprisoned the true Oracle and stood as the first enemies Kratos faced in his quest to be free of his rage.
Kratos
Kratos was the demigod son of Zeus who rose from a Spartan general to the Greek God of War, destroyed the pantheon of Olympus in a quest for vengeance, and then began again in the Norse realms as a father seeking to leave his bloody past behind.
Megaera
Megaera was one of the three Furies, the Physical Fury who tormented her victims with brute force and parasitic monsters. After Kratos severed her arm in an earlier clash, she tortured him in the Prison of the Damned, until his escape led to her death and the recovery of the Amulet of Uroborus.
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Aletheia: the Oracle of Delphi
Aletheia was the mortal Oracle of Delphi, a seer whose eyes granted her visions of the future and the power to pierce any illusion. When she uncovered the plot of Ares and the Furies to overthrow Olympus, the Furies tore out her eyes and forged them into the Eyes of Truth, and with her dying breath she set Kratos on the path that freed him from his blood oath.
Apollo: the Olympian who escaped Kratos
Apollo never faced Kratos in the flesh. His Flame lit the way to the Tree of Life, his Bow lay in the Underworld, and he survived the slaughter.
Castor
Castor was the mortal Gemini twin who, with his conjoined demigod brother Pollux, usurped the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi and posed as its prophet. A cruel master who slew his own slaves, he wielded the Amulet of Uroborus against Kratos before the Spartan cast him to his death.
Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux were conjoined Spartan twins, one mortal and one a son of Zeus, who seized the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi and posed as its prophet. Acting for the Furies, they imprisoned the true Oracle and stood as the first enemies Kratos faced in his quest to be free of his rage.
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Megaera
Megaera was one of the three Furies, the Physical Fury who tormented her victims with brute force and parasitic monsters. After Kratos severed her arm in an earlier clash, she tortured him in the Prison of the Damned, until his escape led to her death and the recovery of the Amulet of Uroborus.
Pollux
Pollux was the demigod son of Zeus and half-brother of Kratos, the divine half of the conjoined Gemini twins who usurped the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi. A powerful sorcerer bound to the body of his brother Castor, he was severed from him by Kratos and crushed beneath the Spartan's boot.
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The Scribe of Hecatonchires was the first mortal the Furies imprisoned for breaking a blood oath to the gods. Chained within the Prison of the Damned, he kept his sanity by writing painstaking records of the Sisters and their schemes, and his scattered pages later guided Kratos toward the truth of the Furies' corruption.
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