God of War category

Concepts

7 entries tagged Concepts. Every entry is sourced from the God of War games, their in-game lore, or the official reference material.

The AfterlifeThe Afterlife was the realm to which the dead passed, called the Underworld among the Greeks and Helheim among the Norse. Existing as physical places as much as spiritual ones, the various afterlives were ruled by powerful gods who judged the dead and shepherded their souls, with a different realm awaiting those who died within each mythology.
Demigod: the mortal children of the godsDemigods were the offspring of a god and a mortal, half-human and half-divine. Mortal yet possessed of superhuman strength and the fighting prowess of a god, the worthiest among them could rise to godhood. Kratos himself was one such demigod before he claimed the throne of war.
God of War: the divine titleThe God of War was a title held by a deity unmatched in battle, wielding peerless combat skill and brutal godly power. It passed from Ares to Kratos in the Greek age, while the Norse realms knew their own God of War in Tyr.
Immortal: the deathless beings of the realmsImmortality marked the gods, titans, and certain great creatures of the Greek and Norse worlds, who could not die by age or disease. Yet it was never true invulnerability, for sufficient power could still bring even the mightiest of them down.
Primordials: the First Beings in ExistenceThe Primordials were the first beings to come into existence at the dawn of creation, ancient cosmic forces who predated the Titans and Olympians of Greece and the Jotnar, Aesir, and Vanir of the Nine Realms. From their wars and unions the worlds themselves were formed.
Prophecy of LokiThe Prophecy of Loki was the giants' carved mural foretelling Atreus' role in Ragnarok and the fall of Asgard. It predicted Kratos and Atreus' journey with uncanny accuracy, including Kratos' death, a fate he ultimately averted by choosing to change.
The Cycle of PatricideThe Cycle of Patricide was the repeating doom by which the son of a deity rose to slay his father, only to fear the same fate from his own children. It bound the Greek pantheon from Ouranos to Zeus, and its shadow fell again upon the Norse gods.