Boreas

Boreas was the Olympian God of the North Wind, Storms, and Winter, who led the Chariot of Helios across the heavens. Greater than his brother wind gods, he was known as the Devouring One, and his frozen power was woven through the snowbound corners of Greece that Kratos crossed in his quests.

The Devouring One#

Boreas was the eldest of the four wind gods and the most powerful by far, the god of the north wind, of storms, and of winter. Where his brothers Notos, Euros, and Zephyros remained minor, Boreas held a place of true prominence, leading the Fire Steeds of Helios as an entity rather than as a horse among them. Known as the Devouring One, he had a shrine raised in his honor among the snowy heights of the Mounts of Aroania, and a stone likeness carved at the Palace of the Fates that stood not only for the north wind but for ice, cold, snow, and winter alike.

Awakening the Sun Chariot#

When Helios vanished and the world was swallowed in darkness and the Black Fog of Morpheus, Kratos awakened Boreas. The god led the Chariot of Helios to where the Sun God himself was being held, deep in the Underworld, guiding the Spartan toward the captive deity.

Relics of the north wind#

Through the snowbound reaches of Greece, the cold power of Boreas marked weapon, shrine, and beast. Within the ice caves of the snow mountains lay the Shrine of Boreas, where Kratos could claim the Horn of Boreas, and among those same peaks dwelt the Dredge of Boreas, a minotaur-like beast that bore its young, the Boreas Spawns, upon its back. In the Palace of the Fates, Kratos took up the Hail of Boreas and used it to open a doorway carved in the god's image, reaching the spire where the Sisters of Fate resided. Later still, after slaying Skorpius within the Labyrinth, the Spartan claimed Boreas' Icestorm and used it to activate the great maze and its workings. Boreas and the horse gods of the winds were also said to have driven the Chariot of Helios through the sky during the final battle, before the Chariot was crushed, Helios slain, and the Fire Steeds destroyed with him.