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205 entries tagged Greek Era, 205 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Kratos and Zeus.
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23- Acmon: the brains of the thieving KerkopesAcmon was one of the Kerkopes, a pair of thieving monkey-like brothers who dwelt in the Laconian Woods. Blue-furred and long-suffering, he was the wilier of the two, and he crossed paths with the young Kratos and Deimos during their search through Laconia.
- 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.
- Aeetes: the king of ColchisAeetes was the king of Colchis, a son of the sun god Helios and the father of the sorceress Medea. The Golden Fleece came to rest in his kingdom as a gift of gratitude, and its theft by Jason of the Argonauts cost the king his daughter, his son, and the greatest treasure of his house.
- 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.
- Aletheia: the Oracle of DelphiAletheia was the mortal Oracle of Delphi, a seer whose eyes granted her visions of the future and the power to pierce any illusion. When she uncovered the plot of Ares and the Furies to overthrow Olympus, the Furies tore out her eyes and forged them into the Eyes of Truth, and with her dying breath she set Kratos on the path that freed him from his blood oath.
- AlrikAlrik, the Barbarian King, was the leader of the Barbarian horde from the east and one of Kratos' oldest enemies. His assault drove Kratos to pledge his soul to Ares, beginning the Spartan's tragedy, and his hatred outlasted even death.
- 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.
- Amulet of Uroborus: the gem that bent timeThe Amulet of Uroborus was a golden amulet set with a blue-green gem that could manipulate time and space. Stolen from the Oracle Aletheia and turned against Kratos, it passed into his hands and let him rebuild what had been broken.
- Ancient EgyptAncient Egypt was a distant southern land, home to the Egyptian gods and to a civilization both old and advanced. Known as the River Empire and the Land of the Pharaoh, it touched the saga of Kratos from the wars of Greece to the treasures of the Norse realms.
- 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.
- Aphrodite's HandmaidensAphrodite's Handmaidens were two mortal women who served and attended the Goddess of Love in her chamber upon Olympus. Among the few mortals who showed no fear of Kratos, and they stayed in her chamber while plague spread across Olympus.
- 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.
- Arms of SpartaThe Arms of Sparta were the spear and shield Kratos carried as a mortal general before he served Ares. The Last Spartan kept them in his absence and returned them to him during the search for Deimos, after which Kratos gave them to his brother and left them at his grave.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Athens: Athena's city, besieged by AresAres laid siege to Athens out of hatred for his sister Athena. Kratos was sent to save it, and killed Ares there to become the new God of War.
- AtlantisAtlantis was the great sea-faring city of Poseidon, home to his mightiest temple and guarded by the monster Scylla. It was where Kratos found his dying mother Callisto, and his battle there sank the ancient city beneath the waves.
- 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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12- Ballista: siege engine of the Greek worldThe ballista was a great crossbow of the Greek world, fixed to the ground or mounted on a moving platform and built to hurl huge wooden bolts against ships and city walls. In the hands of Kratos, these engines sank a Persian warship, drove off the Basilisk, struck the Colossus of Rhodes, slew Pandora's Guardian, and knocked the sun god Helios from the sky.
- Barbarian Hammer: the weapon of the Barbarian KingThe Barbarian Hammer was a massive spiked warhammer wielded by Alrik, king of the Barbarians, with the power to summon Cursed Souls from the Underworld. Kratos took it for his own after crushing Alrik in battle.
- Blade of ArtemisThe Blade of Artemis was a great curved sword once wielded by the Goddess of the Hunt to slay a Titan. Bestowed upon Kratos during his war against Ares, it carried him through that campaign and beyond before returning to its mistress.
- Blade of Olympus: Zeus' god-killing swordZeus forged the Blade of Olympus from the heavens and the earth to banish the Titans to Tartarus. It could kill gods and Titans, and it killed Zeus himself.
- Blade of the GodsThe Blade of the Gods was a colossal sword forged by the gods, set into the ground outside Athens as a footbridge to a great statue of Athena. Grown to the size of a god, Kratos wrenched it free and used it to kill Ares, claiming the mantle of God of War for himself.
- Blades of AthenaThe Blades of Athena were the chained blades the goddess Athena bestowed upon Kratos when he became the God of War. They served as his primary weapons during and after his reign on Olympus, until they were ruined in the River Styx and reforged into the Blades of Exile.
- Blades of Chaos: chained to Kratos' armsThe Blades of Chaos were forged in the Underworld for Ares, who seared their chains onto Kratos' forearms. They burn with the fire of Tartarus.
- Blades of ExileThe Blades of Exile were a refashioned form of the Blades of Athena, the third and final set of chained blades that Kratos wielded in Greece. Created by the astral form of Athena from his ruined weapons, they carried him through his last war against Olympus.
- Body Burner: the cursed keeper of Pandora's GateThe Body Burner was the first mortal to enter Pandora's Temple and, by his own account, the first to die there. Cursed by the gods for his failure, he kept watch year after year on the cliff beyond Pandora's Bridge, burning the corpses of every challenger who followed him, until Kratos passed his gate and carried Pandora's Box out of the temple.
- Boots of Hermes: the Winged Boots Kratos Cut from Hermes in God of War IIIThe Boots of Hermes are the messenger god's winged greaves, which Kratos takes by cutting off Hermes's legs in God of War III. They let him sprint, dash and run on certain walls, and they are one of the few things Zeus fails to take from him.
- 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.
- Bow of ApolloThe Bow of Apollo was a fire-imbued bow named for the sun god Apollo. Kratos took it from Peirithous, the doomed lover of Persephone, who was imprisoned in the Underworld within a cage of brambles.
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18- CalliopeCalliope was the beloved daughter of Kratos and Lysandra, a gentle and innocent child of Sparta. Killed by her father during a frenzy contrived by Ares, she found rest in the Elysium Fields, only for Kratos to be forced to abandon her there to save the world.
- CallistoCallisto was a Spartan woman and one of the many mortal lovers of Zeus, mother of Kratos and Deimos. Kept hidden in Atlantis and cursed by the King of the Gods, she died at her own son's hands while trying to name his father.
- CastorCastor was the mortal Gemini twin who, with his conjoined demigod brother Pollux, usurped the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi and posed as its prophet. A cruel master who slew his own slaves, he wielded the Amulet of Uroborus against Kratos before the Spartan cast him to his death.
- Castor and PolluxCastor and Pollux were conjoined Spartan twins, one mortal and one a son of Zeus, who seized the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi and posed as its prophet. Acting for the Furies, they imprisoned the true Oracle and stood as the first enemies Kratos faced in his quest to be free of his rage.
- 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.
- CeryxCeryx was a demigod son of Hermes and a messenger of Olympus. Sent by Zeus to halt Kratos' pursuit of the truth behind the assassination of Argos, he fell to the Ghost of Sparta.
- 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.
- 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.
- Claws of HadesThe Claws of Hades were chained weapons wielded by Hades, god of the Underworld, who used their magic to tear the souls from his enemies. Kratos stole them in battle, claimed the god's own soul with them, and carried them as a means of ripping and summoning the souls of the dead.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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7- DaedalusDaedalus was the master craftsman of Athens who built the great Labyrinth for Zeus in return for the promise of his lost son Icarus. Driven to madness in years of servitude and chained within his own creation, he was crushed when Kratos set the Labyrinth turning, and died grateful at last to be free.
- Dark Rider: the Warrior of DestinyThe Dark Rider, called the Warrior of Destiny in the novelization, was the leader of the Griffin Riders who guarded the skies around the Island of Creation. Armed by the Sisters of Fate with the Spear of Destiny, he intercepted Kratos on his flight to the island and died in a duel fought on the back of his own Griffin.
- Deimos: the brother Kratos failed to saveAres and Athena seized Deimos as a boy because his birthmark matched the prophecy of the Marked Warrior. Thanatos crushed him at Suicide Bluffs.
- 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.
- 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.
- Desert of Lost Souls: the wasteland east of AthensThe Desert of Lost Souls was a vast, monster haunted desert far to the east of Athens, the place where Zeus condemned the Titan Cronos to wander with Pandora's Temple chained to his back. Kratos crossed its sands in his quest for Pandora's Box, and there Ares struck him down with a pillar hurled from the ruins of Athens.
- 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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8- Eis: the Spartan who gave Atreus his nameEis, also called Atreus of Sparta, was a Spartan Agoge cadet who fought alongside Kratos and was known for his good nature even in the worst of times. He sacrificed himself in battle, and years later Kratos named his son after him.
- EleonoraEleonora was a Spartan temple maiden charged with the care of the interconnected temples of Laconia. Born to a family bound to that service, she tended the shrines of the gods and questioned the path her duty had denied her.
- 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.
- EpimetheusEpimetheus was a Titan of Hindsight and Afterthought, cast down to Tartarus after the Great War. He marched on Mount Olympus during the second Titanomachy and was slain by Poseidon.
- 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.
- 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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14- 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.
- Gauntlet of ZeusThe Gauntlet of Zeus was a colossal gauntlet forged by Hephaestus and used by Zeus to chain the Titans in the depths of Tartarus. Recovered by Kratos from the Temple of Zeus, it became the weapon with which he slew Persephone.
- God of War (2005) Story Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe whole story of the first God of War in order, from the Hydra in the Aegean to the death of Ares at Athens. Then the ending in plain terms: why Kratos jumped from the cliff, why Athena saved him, and how he ended up on Ares's throne.
- God of War II Story Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe whole story of God of War II in order, from Zeus's betrayal at Rhodes to the Titans climbing Mount Olympus. Then the ending in plain terms: why Athena died, what she told Kratos about his father, and how it sets up God of War III.
- God of War III Story and Ending Explained: Plot SummaryThe whole story of God of War III in order, from the Titans' climb up Mount Olympus to the death of Zeus. Then the ending in plain terms: why Kratos drove the Blade of Olympus into himself, what Athena wanted, and where that trail of blood leads.
- God of War: Ascension Story ExplainedThe plot of God of War: Ascension in story order, from Kratos breaking his blood oath to Ares to the deaths of the three Furies and Orkos. Plus how its ending sets up the rest of the Greek saga and where it sits in the timeline.
- God of War: Chains of Olympus Story ExplainedThe plot of Chains of Olympus in order, from the Persian attack on Attica to Kratos holding his daughter in Elysium and letting her go. Then the ending explained: what Persephone wanted, why Atlas holds up the world, and where it leaves Kratos.
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta Story ExplainedThe plot of Ghost of Sparta in order, from Kratos's visions of his mother to the death of his brother Deimos in the Domain of Death. Then the ending explained: the marked warrior prophecy, Athena's apology, and why Kratos leaves at war with Olympus.
- 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.
- 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.
- Golden FleeceThe Golden Fleece was a powerful golden armlet that had once belonged to the Argonaut Jason. Worn by Kratos, it could turn aside and reflect any attack, from a Gorgon's stone stare to a blow from the Blade of Olympus itself.
- 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.
- Grave DiggerThe Grave Digger was a mysterious old man who dug graves outside the Temple of the Oracle in Athens and aided Kratos in his darkest hours. He was in truth Zeus, the King of the Gods, watching over the Ghost of Sparta in disguise.
- 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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17- 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.
- Hades' HelmHades' Helm, known also as the Helm of Darkness and the Cap of Hades, is the helm of invisibility that the Cyclopes forged for Hades in Greek myth. In the games Hades wears a flaming horned helm, and the hero Perseus turns invisible with a magic helm in his duel against Kratos.
- 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.
- Head of Helios: the Severed Lantern Kratos Carried in God of War IIIThe Head of Helios is the sun god's own head, torn off by Kratos in God of War III and carried as a lantern. It lights dark places, uncovers hidden paths and chests, and blinds anything it shines on, Cronos included.
- 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.
- 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.
- HerculesHercules was a son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, a demigod who had completed twelve labors to atone for killing his family. Consumed by jealousy of his half-brother Kratos, he named the killing of the Ghost of Sparta his unofficial thirteenth labor and died for it in the Forum of Olympus.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- How Did Kratos Become the God of War?Kratos became the God of War by killing the last one. After ten years serving Olympus, he used Pandora's Box to grow to a god's size, killed Ares with the Blade of the Gods, and was given his empty throne. Decades later he took the title again in the north.
- 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.
- 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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6- IapetusIapetus was a Titan of the first generation, son of Ouranos and Gaia, and the father of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He fought against Zeus in the war of the Titans and was cast into Tartarus when the Olympians prevailed.
- IcarusIcarus was the son of the inventor Daedalus, who fell to his death and was driven mad in the Underworld. Decades of crude repairs let him graft wings to his own flesh and escape, and he sought the Sisters of Fate to undo his fate, until Kratos tore the wings from his back at the Great Chasm.
- 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.
- Is Kratos Immortal?Kratos is a god, so he won't die of age or illness, but he isn't unkillable. He has been killed more than once and come back, and he has survived things that should have ended him. Here is what the games show about how hard he is to kill.
- Island of Creation: cradle of the Greek worldThe Island of Creation was the place where all life in Greece began, lying at the very edge of the world. It became the seat of the Sisters of Fate and one of the most heavily guarded places known to man, until Kratos broke through its defenses, slew its guardians, and left it in ruin.
- Ixion: the kin-slayer bound to the wheelIxion was the king of the Lapiths of Thessaly and the first mortal ever to slay his own kin. Pardoned by Zeus and welcomed to Olympus, he repaid the gods by lusting after Hera, and for that treachery he was bound to a winged wheel of fire. In the age of Kratos his ruined body hung chained in the prison of the damned.
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4- Kraken: the sea beast of the Island of CreationThe Kraken was a giant meat-eating sea monster, an octopus-like horror of armored tentacles and a fanged maw. One rose against Kratos on the Island of Creation after the death of the Last Spartan and nearly crushed him before he impaled her through the mouth, while in the Norse realms a hatchling of the same breed lived as the pet of the dwarf Durlin.
- KratosKratos was the demigod son of Zeus who rose from a Spartan general to the Greek God of War, destroyed the pantheon of Olympus in a quest for vengeance, and then began again in the Norse realms as a father seeking to leave his bloody past behind.
- Kratos' Throne Room: the seat of the God of WarKratos' Throne Room was the chamber on Mount Olympus from which the God of War watched over every conflict in Greece. First the hall of Ares, it passed to Kratos for the years of his reign, and its throne returned to him long afterward in Valhalla as the symbol of an office he had to decide whether to reclaim.
- Kratos's Wives: Lysandra and FayeKratos has had two wives. Lysandra, his Spartan first wife, died by his own hand in a temple Ares sent him to burn. Faye, the giant Laufey, married him in Midgard, raised Atreus and planned her own funeral. Here is each marriage, how each ended, and how they shaped him.
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3- LahkesisLahkesis was the middle Sister of Fate, the measurer who determined the length and course of every life. Loyal to Zeus, she barred Kratos from the Loom of Fate and fought him alongside her sister Atropos before being trapped within a shattered mirror.
- Land of Morpheus: the Realm of DreamsThe Land of Morpheus was the realm of the Greek God of Dreams, a parallel world of eternal night where imagination and reality converged and time ran distorted. Mortals knew its touch through the curse of the living sleep, and when Helios was torn from the sky, Morpheus nearly seized permanent power over gods and men.
- LysandraLysandra was a Spartan woman, the first wife of Kratos and mother of his daughter Calliope. Unafraid of his savagery and the voice of reason against it, she was slain by Kratos' own hand during a blood frenzy engineered by Ares.
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12- 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.
- Medea: the sorceress of ColchisMedea was a sorceress and priestess of Hecate, a princess of Colchis born of the bloodline of Helios. Her craft won Jason the Golden Fleece, and her jealousy later destroyed his household, driving the Argonaut on the doomed voyage that ended on the Island of Creation.
- 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.
- MidasKing Midas of Phrygia was a mortal cursed with the golden touch, by which all he laid hands upon turned to gold, his own daughter among them. Kratos found him weeping in the Canyons of Sorrow and cast him into a river of lava, turning the king and the stream alike to solid gold.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mount Olympus: Zeus' seat, torn downThe golden mountain became the seat of the gods after the first Titanomachy, and none but a god could set foot on it. Kratos brought the whole thing down.
- 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.
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5- Nemean CestusThe Nemean Cestus were a pair of great metal gauntlets shaped as snarling lion heads, named for the Nemean Lion that Hercules slew in myth. Kratos tore them from his half-brother in battle and used them to shatter both the demigod and the rare stone called Onyx.
- Nemesis WhipThe Nemesis Whip was a weapon of paired chains tipped with claw-like daggers, crafted by Hephaestus from the Omphalos Stone. Intended to kill Kratos, it was instead turned against its maker and wielded by the Ghost of Sparta.
- 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.
- 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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6- 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.
- 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.
- Omphalos Stone: the rock Cronos swallowed instead of the infant ZeusThe Omphalos Stone is the stone swapped for the newborn Zeus and swallowed by Cronos. Kratos cut it out of the Titan's stomach in God of War III, and Hephaestus forged it into the Nemesis Whip.
- Oracle of Athens: seer of the besieged cityThe Oracle of Athens was the mortal seer of Athena's city, gifted with foresight and the power to read the memories of any being. During the siege of Athens she alone held the secret of how a god could be killed, and she set Kratos on the road to Pandora's Box.
- OrkosOrkos was a Fury, the half-god son of Ares and the Fury queen Alecto, made Oath Keeper after his father disowned him. Seeing the injustice of Kratos' blood oath to Ares, he aided the Spartan against the Furies, and in the end begged Kratos to grant him an honorable death so both might be freed.
- 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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22- Pandora: the living key to Pandora's BoxHephaestus made Pandora as the living key to Pandora's Box, and Zeus hid her in a labyrinth. She gave her life in the Flame of Olympus to reach it.
- Pandora's Box: the power to kill a godHephaestus forged Pandora's Box from the Flame of Olympus to hold the Evils of the Great War. Opening it let Kratos kill Ares, and loosed the Evils on the gods.
- Pandora's Box: the vessel of Olympus's evils and the power of HopePandora's Box was an artifact forged by Hephaestus on Zeus's order to contain the Evils unleashed by the Titanomachy. It was the only means by which a mortal could gain the power to slay a god, and it carried within it the hidden power of Hope.
- Pandora's Temple: The Vault of Pandora's BoxPandora's Temple was a vast trap-laden temple built upon the back of the wandering Titan Cronos to house Pandora's Box and keep it from the enemies of Olympus. After failed attempts by countless heroes, Kratos became the only mortal to reach the Box within.
- Passalus: the younger of the thieving KerkopesPassalus was one of the Kerkopes, the pair of thieving monkey-like brothers of the Laconian Woods. Orange-furred and as child-like as he was monkey-like, he was the simpler of the two, content to follow his brother's lead through their endless petty schemes.
- Pathos Verdes IIIPathos Verdes III was the mortal architect chosen by the Olympian gods to raise Pandora's Temple upon the back of the bound Titan Cronos. Driven mad by grief and zeal, he turned the temple into a maze of lethal traps before taking his own life and cursing the gods he had served.
- 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.
- PeirithousPeirithous was a demigod of Thessaly who descended into the Underworld to claim Persephone and was condemned by Hades to eternal suffering. Caged behind brambles, he bargained the Bow of Apollo for his freedom and burned to death at Kratos' hand.
- Pelias: the king of IolcusPelias was the demigod king of Iolcus, a son of Poseidon who feared the claim of his nephew Jason and sent him across the sea to fetch the Golden Fleece. The quest failed to rid him of his rival, and on Jason's return the sorceress Medea turned the king's own daughters into his executioners.
- 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.
- Perses: the Titan of DestructionPerses was the Titan of Destruction, a great being of lava and rock who rose with Gaia in the Second Titanomachy. He crushed the sun god Helios against his own chariot before Kratos drove the Blade of Olympus into his eye and cast him from Mount Olympus.
- PerseusPerseus was a Greek demigod hero, a son of Zeus and half-brother of Kratos. Driven mad by his imprisonment on the Island of Creation, where he sought the Sisters of Fate to revive his lost love Andromeda, he was slain by Kratos.
- Petros: the Krypteia of SpartaPetros, known to most only as the Krypteia, was a Spartan special operative who hunted alone and unseen across the Laconian lands. He crossed paths with the young Kratos and Deimos on Mount Taygetos and pressed upon them his own brutal philosophy of war.
- 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.
- Pillar of the WorldThe Pillar of the World was a great column in the Underworld that held up the Greek world and kept it from collapse. Partly broken in the battle between Kratos and Persephone, it became the eternal burden of the Titan Atlas.
- 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.
- PolluxPollux was the demigod son of Zeus and half-brother of Kratos, the divine half of the conjoined Gemini twins who usurped the Temple of the Oracle at Delphi. A powerful sorcerer bound to the body of his brother Castor, he was severed from him by Kratos and crushed beneath the Spartan's boot.
- 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.
- 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.
- Poseidon's PrincessPoseidon's Princess was a mortal noblewoman held in bondage as the unwilling concubine of the Sea God. Freed from her chains by Kratos during his assault on Olympus, she was used and then crushed in the workings of the god's chambers.
- 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.
- 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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3- RheaRhea was a Titaness, the wife of Cronos and the mother of the first six Olympian gods. When her husband devoured their children one by one, she hid her sixth child away and gave Cronos a stone in his place, setting in motion the war that would end the reign of the Titans.
- RhodesRhodes was the great harbor city of ancient Greece and home of the legendary Colossus. It was the last city-state to fall in Kratos' Spartan conquest, and the place where Zeus betrayed him with the Blade of Olympus.
- River Styx: the river of hatred beneath GreeceThe River Styx was the great river of the Greek Underworld, a barrier that killed the living on contact and carried the souls of the dead toward judgement. Charon ferried across it, the Path of Hades bridged it, and Kratos crossed, fell into and finally swam it more times than any mortal.
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10- 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.
- Second TitanomachyThe Second Titanomachy was the war Kratos set in motion against the Olympian Gods, when he led the Titans up Mount Olympus to take his vengeance on Zeus. It ended with the death of nearly every god and Titan and the ruin of Greece.
- Shield: where Kratos got his shield, and the six that came before RagnarökKratos got the Guardian Shield from his departed wife, handed down with the Leviathan Axe. Shields entered the series in Chains of Olympus in 2008 and became swappable gear in God of War Ragnarök.
- Siege of RhodesThe Siege of Rhodes was a Spartan assault on the Greek city of Rhodes, waged under Kratos during his reign as the God of War. It was at Rhodes that Zeus stripped his son of divine power and struck him down, the betrayal that began Kratos' war against Olympus.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sparta: Kratos' city, razed by ZeusSparta raised Kratos, worshipped Ares, then took Kratos himself as its patron god. Zeus destroyed the city in revenge for the Spartan's defiance.
- SpartansThe Spartans were the warrior people of the city of Sparta, a hardened army whose ruthless discipline made them feared across Greece. Under Kratos, their greatest general, they conquered city after city, and they remained loyal to him long after he rose to become the God of War.
- Spear of DestinyThe Spear of Destiny was a magical weapon belonging to the Sisters of Fate, held in reserve for emergencies. Kratos claimed it from the Dark Rider on the Island of Creation, taking up a weapon the novelization says could kill Zeus himself.
- 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.
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23- Tartarus: the abyss that caged the TitansTartarus was the deepest pit of the Underworld, and in Greek myth one of the first beings. Zeus bound the Titans there, and Kratos killed Cronos in its depths.
- 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 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.
- The ArenaThe Arena, also called the Forum, was a small coliseum at the edge of Mount Olympus where the gods watched and joined in battle. Hercules commanded it for his own amusement, and within it Kratos slew his half-brother.
- The Argonauts: the crew that carried the Golden FleeceThe Argonauts were the company of Greek heroes who sailed under Jason aboard the Argo and took the Golden Fleece out of Colchis. Their last voyage brought them to the Island of Creation, where the monsters of the Bog of the Forgotten killed every one of them and a Mole Cerberus swallowed the Fleece.
- The CaptainThe Captain was the leading sailor of a fleet that sailed the Aegean Sea in the Greek era, swallowed by the Hydra King when his ship was cornered at sea. Kratos retrieved a key from him and let him fall to his death, a casual cruelty that haunted the Spartan for the rest of his life.
- 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.
- The Elysium FieldsThe Elysium Fields were the part of the Underworld where the souls of the good and pure dwelt, a paradise that held the Pillar of the World. There Kratos was reunited with his daughter Calliope, and there he was forced to give her up again to stop Persephone.
- 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 Labyrinth: the prison Zeus built for PandoraThe Labyrinth was a shifting maze of stone cubes raised inside Mount Olympus by the Athenian craftsman Daedalus at the command of Zeus, built for the sole purpose of holding Pandora away from the Flame of Olympus. Its heart hung from the Chain of Balance and the Three Judges of the dead served as the final latch of its lock.
- The Last SpartanThe Last Spartan was a young Spartan commander loyal to Kratos, the only mortal to survive the destruction of Sparta by Zeus. He kept the Arms of Sparta for his absent lord and later died at Kratos's own hand in the Palace of the Fates, neither warrior knowing the other in the dark.
- The Scribe of Hecatonchires: the mad chronicler of the FuriesThe Scribe of Hecatonchires was the first mortal the Furies imprisoned for breaking a blood oath to the gods. Chained within the Prison of the Damned, he kept his sanity by writing painstaking records of the Sisters and their schemes, and his scattered pages later guided Kratos toward the truth of the Furies' corruption.
- 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 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 UnderworldThe Underworld was the realm of the dead in Greece, a hellish landscape below the living world where the River Styx carried mortal souls to their rest. It was ruled by Hades until his death, and Kratos descended into it many times across his Greek campaigns.
- 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.
- 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.
- TheseusTheseus was a Greek demigod, son of Poseidon and former hero-king of Athens, celebrated for slaying the Minotaur. Worn down by old griefs, he gave himself to the service of the Sisters of Fate as Keeper of the Horse Key, guarding the Steeds of Time until Kratos cut him down to claim the way forward.
- 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.
- 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.
- TitanomachyThe Titanomachy, also called the Great War, was the long war between the Titans led by Cronos and the Olympians led by Zeus for mastery of Greece and all mortals. It ended in victory for the gods and the imprisonment of the Titans.
- 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.
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8- What Happened to Kratos's Brother?Kratos's younger brother Deimos was taken from Sparta as a boy by Ares and Athena, held for years in the Domain of Death, and killed by Thanatos soon after Kratos finally freed him. Here is the whole story from Ghost of Sparta, and how it still weighs on Kratos in Ragnarök.
- What Happened to Kratos's Daughter?Kratos killed his daughter Calliope by accident, in a temple Ares tricked him into raiding. Her soul went to Elysium, where Kratos found her years later and had to leave her again to save the world. Here is her whole story, from Sparta to Valhalla.
- Who Is Kratos's Father?Kratos's father is Zeus, the king of Olympus. Athena tells him with her dying breath at the end of God of War II. His mother was the mortal Callisto, which made Kratos a demigod, and the secret shaped the whole Greek saga.
- Why Did Kratos Kill Helios?Kratos killed Helios because the sun god stood with Zeus, lied to him about the Flame of Olympus, and had something Kratos could use: a head that shone like the sun. Here is what happens in God of War III and why it plunged Greece into darkness.
- Why Did Kratos Kill His Family?Kratos killed his wife Lysandra and daughter Calliope by accident, in a blind rage, because Ares had secretly put them in the temple Kratos was attacking. Here is how it happened, why Ares did it and what it cost both of them.
- Why Did Kratos Kill Zeus?Kratos killed Zeus for revenge. Zeus betrayed him at Rhodes, stripped him of his godhood and killed him, all because he feared his son would overthrow him. Here is how the feud built across three games and how it ended.
- Why Is Kratos White? The Ashes on His Skin ExplainedKratos is white because his skin is covered in the ashes of his wife and daughter. A village oracle bound them to him after he killed his family, and they never came off. Here is the curse, the name it gave him and why he is still pale in the Norse games.
- 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.