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Creatures
77 entries tagged Creatures, 77 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Jotnar: the giants Odin nearly wiped out and Jormungandr: the World Serpent of Midgard.
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3- Adrasteia: the griffin who raised ZeusAdrasteia was a nymph in the service of Gaia who, with her sisters, hid and raised the infant Zeus beyond the reach of Cronos. For shielding the child she was cursed into the shape of a griffin and imprisoned within Mount Taygetos, until Kratos and Deimos set her free.
- Aegaeon: the Hecatonchires made a prisonAegaeon was one of the three Hecatonchires, a giant of many hands who broke a blood oath with Zeus and was punished by the Furies. His vast body was transformed into the living dungeon called the Prison of the Damned, in which Kratos was once chained.
- AlectoAlecto 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.
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10- CentaurThe Centaurs were monsters of the Greek world, part man and part horse, once renowned for poetry and wine-making in the forests of Mount Pelion. When the Lapiths encroached on their woods they took up arms, and in time were recruited across Greece for their martial prowess.
- Cerberus Mongrel: the lesser hounds of the UnderworldThe Cerberus Mongrels were the weakest breed of the Cerberi, gaunt three-headed hounds that served the lord of the dead. Kratos beat them into submission across two eras of his life, riding them as living weapons and turning the fire of one upon Peirithous to claim the Bow of Apollo.
- Cerberus: the multi-headed hounds of HadesThe Cerberi were a race of fierce multi-headed hounds, most of them kept as the beasts of Hades in the Underworld. Kratos faced them across many of his journeys, from the breeders of Pandora's Temple to the Mole Cerberus that had swallowed Jason and the Golden Fleece.
- Chaurli: the tree-topped tortoise of FreyaChaurli was the giant tortoise who sheltered Freya during her exile in Midgard, carrying her home upon his back beneath the great red-leaved tree of his shell. He grew into a quiet fixture of Kratos and Atreus's journeys through the Norse realms.
- ChimeraThe Chimera was a great three-natured monster, bearing the heads of a goat and a lion and a serpent for a tail. Loosed as a minion of Olympus, it breathed fire and venom against Kratos in the temples and ruins of Greece.
- Colossus of RhodesThe Colossus of Rhodes was a towering bronze statue of the sun god Helios that stood over the port of Rhodes. Animated by Zeus to destroy Kratos, it tore through the city in pursuit of the Spartan, and its fall left him a mortal once more.
- Cursed Remains: the rising bones of the deadThe Cursed Remains were animated skeletons that rose from scattered piles of bone to fight the living. Encountered across the Greek lands, they were weak alone but dangerous in numbers, collapsing and reforming to escape a final death.
- Cyclopes: the one-eyed giants of GreeceThe Cyclopes were a race of burly, one-eyed giants of the Greek world. Once peaceful shepherds, they were dragged into the first War of the Titans and used thereafter as beasts of war in the armies of the gods.
- CyclopsThe Cyclopes were burly, one-eyed giants who fought as beasts of war across the Greek games, from Ares's siege of Athens to the fall of Olympus. In the old myth the series draws on, they were sons of Heaven and Earth whom Zeus freed to fight the Titans.
- Cyclops BerserkerThe Cyclops Berserker was the largest and fiercest breed of Cyclops, a club-wielding giant often loosed upon the field by the Beast Lords who rode upon its shoulders. Kratos broke many of these brutes across Greece and faced them again in the trials of Valhalla.
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4- Dark Elves: Alfheim's insectoid DokkalfarThe Dokkalfar nested in the dark caves of Alfheim and fought the Light Elves for the Light. Their war ran on until the days of Ragnarok ended it.
- DragonsDragons were massive reptilian predators that roamed the Norse realms, breathing fire laced with lightning and capable of flight. Several distinct kinds existed, from the six-limbed Dragons of Midgard to the wingless Drakes of Alfheim.
- DraugrThe Draugr were undead warriors who died in battle yet refused the Valkyries' call to Valhalla, condemned to roam the Nine Realms as raging husks of their former selves. They were among the most common dangers Kratos and Atreus faced in the Norse lands.
- DuraþrórDuraþrór was one of the four seasonal stags that roamed the Nine Realms, the Stag of Winter known also as the Thriving Slumber. Honored by the Jotnar, his likeness aided Kratos and Atreus on their passage through the mountain of Midgard.
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3- Einherjar: Odin's army that never diesWarriors who died an honourable death were raised again in Valhalla. Odin built them into a standing army for Ragnarok, reborn each time they fell.
- ElvesThe Elves were a race of winged, magical beings native to Alfheim, the realm of light among the Nine Realms. Divided into the luminous Light Elves and the insectoid Dark Elves, they waged an endless war over control of the Light of Alfheim.
- EuryaleEuryale was an immortal Gorgon and the sister of Medusa, who took the throne of the Gorgons after Kratos slew her kin. From her temple on the Island of Creation she sought to sacrifice the Ghost of Sparta to the Sisters of Fate, until he cut off her head and turned it against his enemies.
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2- Fafnir: the dwarf thief who became a dragonFafnir Hreidmarson was a dwarf of Svartalfheim who ranged across the realms stealing treasure and made himself a nuisance to Aesir and Vanir alike. He was turned into a dragon by something he took, most likely a Vanir mirror, and was later chained in his own plundered storeroom by the dwarven king Mótsognir.
- Fenrir: the wolf whose soul Atreus carried in his knifeFenrir was the old wolf Kratos and Atreus kept during Fimbulwinter. He died in Atreus' lap, his soul drawn into the boy's knife, and that knife later put him in the body of the Hel-hound Garm, reborn as a giant wolf who tore rifts between realms and fought at Ragnarök.
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4- GarmGarm was a soulless, near-unkillable Jötunn wolf who could tear holes between the realms and devour entire concepts of reality. Chained in Helheim by Tyr and freed by Atreus, he was at last subdued and became the vessel for the resurrection of Fenrir.
- GorgonThe Gorgons were a serpentine race of female monsters whose gaze turned the living to stone. Ruled by three matriarchs, Medusa, Euryale, and Stheno, they marched in the army of Ares and were hunted across Greece by Kratos, who claimed their severed heads as weapons.
- GulltopprGulltoppr was the personal mount of the god Heimdall, a great horned beast of Asgard the watchman tamed and prized above all other creatures. He fell in battle against Kratos in the war that came to Vanaheim.
- Gulon: the ravenous pack hunters of VanaheimThe Gulon were massive feline like canine beasts that hunted in packs through the wilds of Vanaheim, striking teeth first and fearing little. A cursed breed spat poison from its own gut, while two gentle Gulon in Alfheim pulled a sled across the desert dunes.
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9- Hafgufa: the Giant Glowing Sky Creatures of AlfheimThe Hafgufa are huge, jellyfish-like creatures Kratos frees from under the deserts of Alfheim in God of War Ragnarök. The name comes from an Old Norse sea monster said to be so big that sailors mistook it for islands.
- HarpiesHarpies were monstrous winged creatures of the Greek world, part woman and part bird or bat, that hunted in flocks across Greece and the Underworld. They served the God of War Ares and were the beasts that first carried the Blades of Chaos to Kratos.
- HarpyThe Harpies were winged monsters with the heads of hideous women and the bodies of bats or birds, found in flocks throughout the Greek world. Servants of Ares, it was they who first carried the Blades of Chaos to Kratos, and they appeared in many forms across the lands of the living and the Underworld.
- HecatonchiresThe Hecatonchires were three giants of immense strength born of Ouranos and Gaia, mightier even than the Titans they helped to overthrow. One of their number, Aegaeon, was transformed by the Furies into a vast living prison for those who broke a blood oath with the gods.
- Hoplite: the undead soldiery of the dead landsThe Hoplites were undead soldiers of the Greek world, skeletal corpses clad in the armor of Greece that fought with twin swords. Kratos cut through their ranks in Asphodel, in the depths of Tartarus, and even in the Elysium Fields, where their stronger breeds bore shields of bronze and iron.
- HræsvelgrHræsvelgr was the Jötunn ruler of Helheim, a colossal eagle perched atop the realm's tallest spire and known to the Nine Realms as Hel. Indifferent to the living and the dead alike, she sought only someone to take her place so that she might at last lay down her long reign.
- HræzlyrHræzlyr was a great dragon that made its lair in the Heart of the Mountain, the highest peak in Midgard. He attacked Kratos and Atreus on their ascent and was killed when Kratos drove his neck into a spike of crystallized World Tree sap. One of his teeth was used to imbue Atreus' bow with lightning.
- Huginn and MuninnHuginn and Muninn were a pair of ravens who served as the personal spies of Odin, flying across the Nine Realms to bring him word of all that passed. Bound to the All-Father's will and granted speech and unnatural speed, the two were among the few creatures Odin truly cherished.
- HydraThe Hydra was a colossal multi-headed sea serpent that terrorized the Aegean Sea, sinking ships and devouring sailors at the bidding of the gods. A child of Typhon and Echidna roughly the size of a small island, it was slain at last by Kratos in the service of Poseidon.
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3- Jormungandr: the World Serpent of MidgardJormungandr was so vast he encircled all of Midgard within the Lake of Nine. Thor struck him so hard at Ragnarok that he was hurled backward through time.
- Jotnar: the giants Odin nearly wiped outThe Jotnar were the oldest race of the Norse cosmos, gifted with precognition. Odin envied that gift, forged Mjolnir, and set Thor to exterminate them.
- JuggernautThe Juggernaut, once called the Elephantaur, was a towering elephant-shaped monster that walked upright and bore Persian war-armor. Met from Kirra to Delos, it stood among the heaviest beasts Kratos faced in his hunt for the Furies.
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7- ManticoreThe Manticore was a flying monster of the Greek world, a creature with a lion's face, dragon wings, and the venomous tail of a scorpion. A great female of its kind nested in Delphi, and Kratos fought and slew the beast both at the Tower of Delphi and again on the island of Delos.
- Máttugr Helson: the Bridge Keeper of HelheimMáttugr Helson, the Bridge Keeper, was a troll born and raised in Helheim and set to guard the Bridge of the Damned. Kratos slew him to claim his heart, the one ingredient that could cure the ailing Atreus.
- MedusaMedusa was a Gorgon queen who fought among the armies of Ares during the siege of Athens. Slain by Kratos at the command of Aphrodite, her severed head granted him the petrifying power of Medusa's Gaze.
- MegaeraMegaera 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.
- Megaera's Parasites: scarab brood of the FuryMegaera's Parasites were scarab like arthropods that crawled from a diseased rash on the chest of the Fury Megaera. They swarmed Kratos in the Prison of the Damned, infested prisoners and hounds into mindless thralls, and mutated the very limbs of the Hecatonchires Aegaeon before dying with their mistress.
- MinotaurThe Minotaurs were a species of towering bull-headed warriors first bred by Ares as brutes for his armies. From the labyrinth-bound Asterion of legend to the armored guardian of Pandora's Temple, they served as beasts of war across Greece and were a recurring foe of Kratos.
- Monster: the beasts of the mythic worldMonsters, also called Beasts, were the hostile creatures of the mythic world, beings that could be counted neither as mortals nor as gods or Titans. From the minotaurs and gorgons of Greece to the trolls and dragons of the Norse realms, they haunted every land that Kratos ever walked.
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2- NidhoggNidhogg was a primordial Lindwyrm who gnawed and guarded the roots of the World Tree. Made an unwitting pawn by Odin, she was slain by Kratos and Freya, leaving her six orphaned children to scatter across the realms.
- Nightmare: the floating eye fiends of the Nine RealmsNightmares, also called Mares, were floating eyeball like fiends that drifted through the Nine Realms, pelting travelers with darts of magic. Weak alone, they swarmed beside Draugr, Revenants, and Dark Elves, and the worst of them crawled inside other creatures and wore them as living armor.
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2- OgreThe Ogres were burly, savage monsters of the Nine Realms, hulking brutes with tusks and crushing strength who roamed the outskirts of Midgard. Carnivorous and fierce, they were among the most dangerous beasts Kratos and Atreus faced.
- OgresOgres were a species of burly, brutal monsters of the Nine Realms, hulking brutes of great strength and little wit. They roamed the outskirts of Midgard and were pressed into Odin's army during Ragnarök, and Kratos felled many across his Norse journey.
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4- PegasusPegasus was a great winged horse of the Greek world, gray of coat with wings wreathed in flame. Sent forth by Gaia, he carried Kratos through the skies on his second war against Olympus until the Dark Rider struck him from the air above the Island of Creation.
- PhoenixThe Phoenix was a legendary fire bird said to rise reborn from its own ashes. Within the Palace of the Fates it slept as ash in the Phoenix Chamber until Kratos rekindled it, and the great bird bore him up the Ashen Spire toward the Temple of the Fates.
- Piraeus Lion: the caged beast of the temple dungeonThe Piraeus Lion was a gigantic lion held beneath the Temple of Ares in Sparta. Released by a dissenter fleeing Kratos, the arrow-scarred beast turned its claws and stunning roar against the Spartan before it was gutted and slain.
- PolyphemusPolyphemus was a gigantic one-eyed Cyclops and a son of Poseidon. Famed in Homer for his clash with Odysseus, in God of War he appears only in the multiplayer of Ascension, bound in chains within the Desert of Lost Souls.
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9- SatyrThe Satyrs were fierce goat-headed creatures of the Greek world, half man and half goat, counted among the most formidable monsters Kratos ever faced. Once companions of revelry in the older myths, in the age of the gods they became disciplined warriors who fought in coordinated bands under their generals and commanders.
- SirenThe Sirens were female monsters whose enchanting song lured sailors to crash their ships upon the rocks. Beautiful from afar yet decayed beneath their guise, they wielded magical powers and were found in the deserts, temples, and shores of the Greek world.
- Skoll and HatiSkoll and Hati were two giant celestial wolves, sons of the archwolf Hrodvitnir, who chased the sun and moon across the sky. Cast to the heavens by Odin, their eventual catch of their prey was foretold to mark the dawn of Ragnarok.
- SkorpiusSkorpius was the Queen of the Scorpions, a vast scorpion that dwelt in the Labyrinth deep beneath Mount Olympus. Her exoskeleton was infused with onyx crystals, and Kratos slew her amid the rising cubes of the Labyrinth to claim Boreas' Icestorm.
- Soul EaterThe Soul Eaters were corrupted Ancients, golem-like beings that fed on the souls of the living and trapped them forever, beyond any afterlife. Born from a dwarven scheme gone wrong, they became a danger to every soul that crossed their path.
- Spirit: the restless dead of the Nine RealmsSpirits were the souls of the dead who could not rest until a final favor was fulfilled on their behalf, and alone among the undead they remained passive and neutral toward the living. Most lingered around the Lake of Nine in Midgard, though others were found in Svartalfheim, while Vanaheim held their fragmented counterparts, the Spectres, who kept the shapes they had worn in life.
- Stalker: the antlered hunters of the wildsStalkers were antlered, horse-bodied hunters who roamed Midgard and Vanaheim, worshippers of Skaði and masters of the hunt. Once peaceful, many turned savage with the coming of Fimbulwinter, a change Mimir blamed on Odin's meddling.
- Stymphalian Birds: the armored plague of LaconiaThe Stymphalian Birds were giant, belligerent birds armored in sharp metal feathers, native to Arcadia and infamous since the labors of Hercules. A trio of them named Ioke, Ponea, and Apate seized nests across Laconia, and Kratos and Deimos drove them out one by one before breaking them for good at the Drifting Spire.
- Surtr: the fire giant who became RagnarokSurtr was the first fire giant, born from Ginnungagap after Ymir. He gave himself up to become Ragnarok and drove his blade into the heart of Asgard.
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8- TatzelwurmThe Tatzelwurms were serpentine, feline beasts of the Nine Realms that tunneled through the earth to ambush their prey, striking with sharp claws and teeth and a venomous barb in the tail. They roamed the wilds in packs.
- The Eyes of OdinThe Eyes of Odin were spectral ravens dispatched by the Allfather to spy throughout the Nine Realms. Once human children sacrificed to Odin and transformed by his acolyte the Raven Keeper, they were freed by Kratos and returned to the Raven Tree in Niflheim.
- The FuriesThe Furies were an ancient trio of sisters born of primordial rage who hunted those who broke their blood oaths to the gods. Once fair judges, they were corrupted by Ares and set upon Kratos after he renounced his bond, until the Spartan saw through their illusions and destroyed all three.
- The Undead: the dead who would not restThe Undead were the dead returned to motion, raised by curse, godly power, or magic to serve the masters of the afterlife. In Greece they marched as soulless corpses in the armies of Ares and Hades, while in the Nine Realms the Draugr, Hel-Walkers, and Einherjar overran the living world as Ragnarok drew near.
- The ValkyriesThe Valkyries were female warrior-spirits who served Odin by escorting the honored dead to Valhalla. After Freya fell from favor, the All-Father cursed nine of them into maddening corporeal forms, until Kratos and Atreus freed their spirits and Freya reborn them as the Shield Maidens.
- TisiphoneTisiphone was one of the three Furies, the Fury of the Mind whose illusions were the cunningest and cruelest of her sisters. She summoned the creature Daimon, warped reality itself, and tormented Kratos with visions of his dead wife before he saw through her spells and broke her neck.
- TrollThe Trolls were towering, stone-skinned giants of the Nine Realms who wielded heavy rune-carved totems channeling fire, frost, or stone. Once a powerful civilization, they were reduced to a scattered remnant after a betrayal by the Aesir.
- TrollsTrolls were a race of towering, stone-skinned giants native to the Nine Realms, each bearing a heavy rune-carved totem that granted it elemental power. Once a civilization that spread across Midgard, they were betrayed and broken by the Aesir, and the scattered survivors became some of the deadliest creatures Kratos and Atreus faced on their journey.
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3- WraithsWraiths were ghostly creatures of the Greek world, eyeless and emaciated spirits with bladed arms who burrowed beneath the earth. Consumed by the rage in which they died, they attacked any living thing that came near.
- WulverThe Wulvers were ferocious wolfen beasts of the Nine Realms, immense in strength and speed, standing upright like men yet wolves in form. Cunning and savage, they hunted in packs across Vanaheim and Jotunheim.
- Wyvern: the winged predators the Vanir once rodeThe Wyverns were swift, bird like beasts of the Norse skies that could spit blasts of energy from their beaked mouths. Once the trusted mounts of the Vanir, they were enslaved by the Einherjar when Asgard occupied Vanaheim, and Odin twisted some into Bifrost charged terrors called Dodher Wyverns.