Cyclopes: the one-eyed giants of Greece

Apollo: the Olympian who escaped Kratos

Apollo 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.

Artemis

Artemis 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.

Atlantis

Atlantis 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.

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.

Cyclops

The 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.

Gaia: Mother Earth, betrayed by Kratos

Gaia bore the Titans, hid the infant Zeus from Cronos, and allied with Kratos against Olympus. He ran the Blade of Olympus through her heart.

God of War Timeline: every major event from the Primordials to Valhalla

The full in-universe chronology of God of War, from the war of the Primordials and the fall of the Titans to Kratos's life in Sparta, his war on Olympus, and the end of the Aesir at Ragnarök. The games give almost no calendar years, so events are ordered by story sequence and grouped into eras, with notes wherever the games' own placement is vague.

Hades' Helm

Hades' 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.

Hecatonchires

The 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.

Monster: the beasts of the mythic world

Monsters, 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.

Ouranos: the sky god Cronos castrated

The first ruler of creation fathered the Titans on Gaia and banished his monstrous children. His son Cronos castrated him and took the throne.

Polyphemus

Polyphemus 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.