Cronos: the Titan who ate his children

Adrasteia: the griffin who raised Zeus

Adrasteia 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.

Ares: the god who made Kratos a killer

Ares 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.

Athena: from Kratos' guide to his enemy

Athena 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 world

Four-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.

Blade of Olympus: Zeus' god-killing sword

Zeus 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.

Body Burner: the cursed keeper of Pandora's Gate

The 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.

Centaur

The 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.

Clotho

Clotho 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.

Cursed Remains: the rising bones of the dead

The 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 Greece

The 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.

Cyclops Berserker

The 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.

Demeter

Demeter 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.