God of War category
Concepts
13 entries tagged Concepts, 13 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at God of War: the divine title and Primordials: the First Beings in Existence.
- Norse Mythology: the North Germanic myths behind God of War's Nine WorldsNorse mythology is the body of North Germanic myth the God of War saga draws its Norse era from, built around Nine Worlds flanking the sacred tree Yggdrasil and a cosmos made from the flesh of Ymir.
- Astral Form: the higher existence of the godsThe Astral Form was a rare state in which a god existed without a physical body, appearing as a higher, transcendent version of themselves. Only Athena and, briefly, Zeus ever achieved it, and each reached it by a different road, she through selfless sacrifice and he through the evil of Fear.
- Baldur's Curse: the spell of invulnerabilityBaldur's curse was a spell of protection that Freya wove around her son to cheat a prophecy of his pointless death. It made Baldur impervious to every wound, whether dealt by weapon or sorcery, but it stripped him of all physical sensation, drove him into madness, and left mistletoe as its single fatal flaw.
- Hope: the greatest weapon in the worldHope was a blessed power strong enough to kill a god, hidden by Athena at the bottom of Pandora's Box as a counterweight to the evils sealed there after the Great War. Kratos absorbed it without knowing when he opened the Box to slay Ares, awakened it through forgiveness to destroy Zeus, and released it to mankind on the point of the Blade of Olympus.
- Mythology: the many faiths of one worldIn the world Kratos walked, mythology was not belief but fact. Every body of myth that mankind told was true within its own land, from the Olympians of Greece to the Aesir of the north, with the gods of Egypt, Persia, and lands further still holding dominion over their own corners of the earth.
- The World: the many lands and mythologies of one earthThe World was the whole of creation known to gods and mortals, a single earth upon which many mythologies coexisted despite their contradictions. Each region held its own gods, monsters, magic, cosmology, and afterlife, from Greece and the Norse domains to Egypt, Persia, and lands known only through rumor and relic.
- The AfterlifeThe Afterlife was where 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' travels 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.