God of War category
Gods
74 entries tagged Gods, 74 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Odin and Zeus.
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9- AmphitriteAmphitrite was the Olympian goddess of the sea and the wife of Poseidon. A chamber and a great statue were dedicated to her deep within Pandora's Temple.
- Aphrodite: Hephaestus' wife, lover of AresAphrodite was married to the smith Hephaestus but had no love for him. In myth she took Ares as a lover, and in the games she gave Kratos Medusa's gaze.
- Apollo: the Olympian who escaped KratosApollo 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.
- Ares: the god who made Kratos a killerAres tricked Kratos into slaughtering his own wife and daughter to bind him as a weapon. Kratos killed him at Athens and took his place as God of War.
- Ariadne: the Cretan princess who became a goddessAriadne was a princess of Crete, daughter of King Minos, who gave Theseus the thread that carried him out of the Cretan maze. Taken from the hero by Dionysus, she was raised to godhood as his wife, while the man she once saved gave the rest of his life to the hope of winning her back.
- ArtemisArtemis was the Olympian Goddess of the Hunt, daughter of Zeus and twin sister of Apollo. When Ares besieged Athens, she turned the beasts of the wild against his armies, and later gave Kratos the Blade of Artemis, a weapon she had wielded against the Titans, to aid him in the conquest of Pandora's Temple.
- Athena: from Kratos' guide to his enemyAthena set Kratos against Ares to save Athens, then turned on him when his reign grew worse. She died taking a blow meant for Zeus, and named Kratos his son.
- Atlas: the Titan who holds up the worldFour-armed general of the Titans and the strongest of them. Kratos condemned him to carry the world on the Pillar of the World, then took his help.
- AtroposAtropos was the eldest and cruelest Sister of Fate, the cutter who ended every life with her razor claws. She dragged Kratos into his own past to undo him, but the Spartan turned her sisters against one another and sealed her within a shattered mirror.
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3- Baldur: the god who could feel nothingFreya's spell made Baldur invulnerable but stripped every sensation from him, and a century of numbness drove him mad. Kratos killed him beside Thamur's corpse.
- BoreasBoreas was the Olympian God of the North Wind, Storms, and Winter, who led the Chariot of Helios across the sky as the Devouring One. Awakened by Kratos to find the captive Sun God, he lent his name and his frozen power to shrines, weapons, and beasts scattered across the snowbound reaches of Greece.
- BragiBragi was one of the Aesir of Asgard, the god of poetry in Norse myth and husband of Idunn. He never appears in the games, but Mimir names him among the drunken Aesir who jeered as Freyr burned, the insult that helped start the First Great War.
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3- CharonCharon was the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across the River Styx, a servant of Hades and Persephone. When Kratos came to his docks still living, Charon refused him passage and cast him into Tartarus before the Spartan returned to kill him.
- ClothoClotho was the youngest of the three Sisters of Fate, the spinner who began each life and decided who would be born. Dwelling in the Loom Chamber of the Palace of the Fates, she warned Kratos against tampering with destiny, and when he defied her she became the only sister he killed in the flesh.
- Cronos: the Titan who ate his childrenWarned that his own children would depose him, Cronos swallowed each at birth. Rhea hid Zeus, Zeus deposed him anyway, and Kratos finished him.
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2- DemeterDemeter was the Olympian Goddess of the Harvest and Agriculture, a sister of Zeus and mother of Persephone. She held dominion over plants and grain, and her grief at the abduction of her daughter by Hades brought barren winter upon the earth.
- Dionysus: the Olympian god of wineDionysus was the Olympian god of wine, fertility, festivity, and revelry. Known for his lack of fidelity, he stole the love of Ariadne from the hero Theseus and set in motion the chain of grief that bound Theseus to the service of the Sisters of Fate.
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4- EosEos was the goddess of the dawn, sister of Helios and daughter of the Titan Hyperion. When her brother vanished and the world fell to endless sleep, she sent Kratos to find him, her own powers fading with the missing sun.
- Erebus: the Primordial of DarknessErebus was the Primordial entity of Darkness, one of the first deities born from Chaos in the Void and the brother and consort of Nyx, the Night. His dark mists filled the deep hollows of the earth, his name clung to the netherworld of the dead, and later writers counted the ferryman Charon and the Fates among his children. His own end was never recorded.
- ErinysErinys was the goddess of vengeance and death, daughter and messenger of Thanatos. She hunted Kratos across Greece after the fall of Atlantis, killing Spartans as a warning, until he slew her in the Mounts of Aroania.
- Eros: the Primordial of Love and DesireEros was the Primordial entity of Love and Desire, one of the first beings to come out of Chaos in the Void before the world took shape. He embodied the force that brought new life into the young cosmos. His name was still invoked in the age of Kratos, though his own fate was never recorded.
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4- Fjorgyn: the giant earth goddess Odin truly lovedFjorgyn was a Jotunn goddess of the earth, one of Odin's wives and the mother of Thor. She died under circumstances that remained a mystery, and her loss left the All-Father broken for ages and cast a long shadow over Asgard.
- ForsetiForseti was the Norse god of justice and reconciliation, son of Baldur and a member of the Aesir royal family. Paranoid and watchful, he uncovered the truth of Heimdall's death and set the Valkyries after Atreus.
- FreyaFreya was the Vanir goddess of love, war, and magic who married Odin to end the Aesir-Vanir War and was cursed to remain in Midgard. Once the Witch of the Woods, she aided Kratos and Atreus, swore vengeance after the death of her son Baldur, and at last turned her wrath on Odin himself.
- Freyr: Freya's twin, killed at RagnarokFreyr led the Vanir resistance against Odin from a camp in Vanaheim. He died holding back the fire giant so that his allies could escape Asgard.
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4- Gaia: Mother Earth, betrayed by KratosGaia bore the Titans, hid the infant Zeus from Cronos, and allied with Kratos against Olympus. He ran the Blade of Olympus through her heart.
- GnaGna was the Vanir goddess of swift travel and Freya's former handmaiden, who pledged herself to Odin and rose to become the final Queen of the Valkyries. Loyal to Asgard until death, she fell at last to Freya's blade in Muspelheim.
- Gods: the ageless rulers of the worldGods were a race of ageless humanoids with magical powers who ruled over the lands of the world and were worshiped by the mortals beneath them. They gathered in distinct pantheons, from the Olympians and Titans of Greece to the Aesir and Vanir of Scandinavia, with still others reigning in distant lands.
- Greek GodsThe Greek Gods were the pantheon that ruled over Greece across three generations, the Primordials, the Titans, and the Olympians. Once the masters of mortals, monsters, and the natural world, they were brought to near extinction by Kratos in his war of vengeance against Olympus.
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12- Hades: the god whose soul Kratos tore outEldest son of Cronos, Hades ruled the Underworld and held life and death in balance. Kratos turned the Claws of Hades on him and ripped his soul out.
- Heimdall: the watchman who saw every attackHeimdall's foresight let him read minds and dodge any blow, until Brok worked out it could be overwhelmed. The Draupnir Spear got past it, and Kratos killed him.
- Hel: Goddess of the Dishonored DeadHel was the foretold daughter of Loki and Angrboda, the figure Norse myth makes goddess of the dead and ruler of Helheim. In the age of Kratos she remained unborn, though the giants had long recorded her destiny among the children of Loki who were fated to shape the end of the Aesir.
- Helios: the sun god Kratos beheadedKratos once saved Helios from the Titan Atlas. Years later he tore the sun god's head from his body and carried it through Olympus as a lantern.
- Hephaestus: the smith who made the BladesHe forged Pandora's Box for Zeus and the Blades of Chaos for Ares, and lost everything for it. Kratos killed him in the Underworld, defending his daughter.
- HeraHera was the Olympian Goddess of Marriage and Queen of the Gods, the sister and wife of Zeus and mother of Ares. Embittered by her husband's affairs and her withering garden, she set Hercules against Kratos before the Spartan snapped her neck and the world's flora died with her.
- Hermes: the swift god Kratos crippledHermes taunted Kratos through a long chase across Olympus. The Spartan cornered him, severed his legs at the knee and took the winged boots for himself.
- HestiaHestia was the Olympian Goddess of the Hearth, Fire, and Family, the firstborn child of Cronos and Rhea. A virgin goddess who tended the royal hearth of Olympus, she never appears in the games, but in the God of War II novelisation she voices her contempt for the destruction Kratos and his Spartan armies brought upon the worshipers of the gods.
- HildisviniHildisvini was a Vanir god, master archer, and advisor to Freya. Exiled to Midgard in the form of a boar, he was first encountered as Freya's wounded companion before later returning to his human shape to join the resistance against Odin.
- Hodr: the Blind GodHodr was an Aesir god of Asgard, the blind god of the old Norse myths. He was remembered in the lost pages of Norse myth as one of the gods who witnessed the great war between the Aesir and the Vanir.
- Hoenir: the silent god of the AesirHoenir was the Aesir god of silence, indecision, mystery, and avoidance, a kind but simple minded young god who needed constant care. Odin sent him to Vanaheim under the guise of a cultural exchange, and the Vanir families welcomed him as one of their own. When Hoenir learned that the All-Father had sent him away out of disgust, he took his own life.
- HyperionHyperion was the Titan of the Sun and Light, who embodied the sun before his son Helios took it over. He fell with his kind in the great war and was chained in Tartarus, and the gates that bear his name still cross the world.
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4- Magni: Thor's eldest son, killed by KratosMagni was Thor's firstborn and Odin's favoured grandson. He hunted Kratos and Atreus with Baldur, and Kratos buried an axe in his skull at Thamur's corpse.
- MnemosyneMnemosyne is the Titaness of Memory, a daughter of Gaia and Ouranos and, in Greek myth, the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus. In the novelization of God of War II she is one of the Titans banished to Tartarus, watching beside the River Lethe as Gaia saves the fallen Kratos.
- Modi: Thor's second son, killed by AtreusModi lived in the shadow of his brother Magni. After Magni died, Thor beat him nearly to death for cowardice, and Atreus stabbed him in the neck.
- MorpheusMorpheus was the Greek God of Dreams, a power of night who ruled the Realm of Dreams. When Helios was torn from the sky, he seized his chance to cast the gods and mortals into slumber and wrap the world in black fog, retreating only when Kratos returned the sun to the heavens.
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5- Nemesis: the goddess of retributionNemesis was the Greek goddess of retribution and revenge, who enacted punishment upon those who fell to hubris before the gods. Though she never appeared, the weapon called the Nemesis Whip was named for her and forged as an instrument of vengeance against Zeus.
- NikeNike was the Olympian goddess of victory, daughter of the Titan Pallas and the water goddess Styx. Though she never crossed Kratos' path in the flesh, her likeness was honored across Greece in statues, carvings, and murals raised to celebrate triumph in war.
- Njörd: Vanir god of the sea and king of VanaheimNjörd was the Vanir god of the sea and a great leader of his people, father of Freyr and Freya and grandfather of Baldur. He fought in the Aesir-Vanir War, losing his wife Nerthus to the sons of Thor and his daughter Freya to a marriage with Odin.
- Norse Gods: the pantheon of the Nine RealmsThe Norse Gods were the pantheon that ruled over Scandinavia, the lands known in their own cosmos as the Nine Realms of Yggdrasil. Divided into the warlike Aesir of Asgard and the nature-bound Vanir of Vanaheim, they counted among the most powerful races of the realms and were held to be the protectors of Midgard and humanity.
- NyxNyx was the Primordial of Night, one of the first beings born from Chaos and the sister-consort of Erebus. From the darkness she brought forth a host of lesser primordial gods, drawing her cloak of night across the Greek heavens before withdrawing to her own world of eternal gloom.
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4- OceanusOceanus was the elder Titan of the world-girdling ocean, whose waters Poseidon took from him. Defeated in the Great War yet never imprisoned in Tartarus, he rose again during the siege of Olympus only to be cast down by Hades.
- OdinOdin was the King of the Aesir and ruler of the Nine Realms, the All-Father who slew the first giant Ymir to found Asgard. Obsessed with knowledge and terrified of his own prophesied death, he waged war across the realms and orchestrated the events that brought Ragnarok to his doorstep.
- Olympians: the gods Kratos killed offZeus led the third generation of Greek gods to victory over the Titans. Kratos then destroyed almost every one of them, and Greece fell with them.
- Ouranos: the sky god Cronos castratedThe first ruler of creation fathered the Titans on Gaia and banished his monstrous children. His son Cronos castrated him and took the throne.
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3- Persephone: the queen who wanted it overForced into marriage with Hades, Persephone set out to end the Greek world and herself with it. Kratos struck her down at the Pillar of the World.
- Poseidon: the sea god who drowned GreeceBrother to Zeus and Hades, Poseidon was second only to the King of Olympus. Kratos gouged out his eyes and broke his neck, and the seas swallowed Greece.
- PrometheusPrometheus was the Titan of forethought and the creator of mankind, who defected to the Olympians in the Great War. When Zeus withheld fire from mortals, Prometheus stole it and was condemned to have his liver devoured each day until Kratos granted him death.
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12- ThanatosThanatos was the primordial God of Death, an entity older than the Olympians who ruled the Domain of Death and imprisoned Deimos for years. When Kratos came to free his brother, Thanatos killed Deimos before the Spartan destroyed the God of Death.
- The AesirThe Aesir were one of the two tribes of Norse gods, natives of Asgard known for their war-like nature and their hunger for knowledge. Descended from the slain primordial Ymir and ruled by Odin, they claimed dominion over all creation, waging genocide upon the Jotnar and war upon the Vanir before their fall in Ragnarok.
- The Nornir: the Norse goddesses of fateThe Nornir were the three Norse goddesses of fate, Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, who dwelt at the hidden Well of Urd. The Norse counterparts of the Greek Sisters of Fate, they offered cryptic wisdom to those who reached them and insisted that no such thing as destiny truly existed.
- The Sisters of FateThe Sisters of Fate were three Primordial sisters who held absolute power over time and the destiny of every mortal, god, and Titan. Loyal to Zeus, they stood between Kratos and the Loom of Fate, until he slew them and seized the power to change his own past.
- The Vanir: the gods of nature and magicThe Vanir were one of the two tribes of Norse gods, natives of Vanaheim known for their bond with nature and their mastery of the magic called Seidr. Equal in the long war against the Aesir, they outlasted their rivals and gave the survivors refuge after Ragnarok.
- Themis: Titaness of Justice and Goddess of LawThemis was the Titaness of Justice, the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom, a daughter of Gaia who held the oracle at Delphi before Apollo and sided with Zeus in the war against the Titans. In God of War she is only a name and a colossal statue near Delos.
- Thor: Odin's enforcer, killed by OdinOdin ordered Thor to wipe out the giants of Midgard with Mjolnir. When Thor finally refused to fight, his father ran him through with Gungnir.
- ThothThoth was the Egyptian god of the Moon, wisdom, writing, and judgment, and a son of Ra. During Kratos' wandering through the deserts of Egypt, Thoth pursued the Ghost of Sparta in many forms, insisting that no man or god could outrun his destiny.
- Thrud: Thor's daughter, heir to MjolnirThrud was the daughter of Thor and Sif who dreamed of joining the Valkyries. After Odin killed her father at Ragnarok, she claimed Mjolnir for herself.
- Titans: the elder gods Zeus cast downBorn to Gaia and Ouranos, the Titans ruled the Golden Age under Cronos until Zeus buried them in Tartarus. Kratos later raised them one last time.
- TyphonTyphon was the storm Titan, youngest child of Gaia and fathered by the abyss Tartarus. After his Giant brothers fell to Zeus, he challenged the King of the Gods and was sealed within a frozen mountain, where Kratos later blinded him to claim his power.
- Tyr: the god of war who chose peaceTyr was the Aesir god of war who turned to peace and built the Temple in the Lake of Nine. Odin imprisoned him, faked his death, and took his face.