Cyclops Berserker

The Cyclops Berserker was the largest and fiercest breed of Cyclops, a towering one-eyed giant that swung an uprooted tree as a club and was often loosed upon the battlefield by the Beast Lords who clung to its shoulders. Kratos broke many of these brutes through the wars of Greece, tearing the single eye from each, and faced their kind once more in the trials of Valhalla.

The mightiest of the Cyclopes#

Among the one-eyed giants of Greece, the Cyclops Berserker stood as the largest and most powerful breed, a brute far greater than the common Cyclops. Its chosen weapon was a gigantic tree trunk, torn whole from the earth and swung as a club. Such was its strength and bulk that it served as a heavy beast of war wherever the giants were set loose, a creature meant to scatter and crush whatever stood before it.

These giants were closely bound to the Beast Lords, who would summon them to the field and then haul themselves up onto the giant's shoulders. From that perch a Beast Lord took control of the Cyclops Berserker and drove it to fight with greater fury and more dangerous strokes than it would loose on its own, the rider and the beast together making a single terror upon the battlefield.

Foe of Kratos#

Kratos contended with Cyclops Berserkers across many of his campaigns. He first met them at the Ruins of the Forgotten and again near the entrance to the Palace of the Fates, where they were summoned against him by the Beast Lords. He faced them once more in his later wars, fighting one in Olympia in order to pass through the shields of Helios, and another in the Caverns of Olympus, where he used the stunned giant to help bring down a host of Cyclops Enforcers; even a corpse-risen variant rose against him upon the shoulders of Cronos.

To slay such a beast, Kratos would first wear it down, then leap upon it and stab his way up its body until he could seize and tear out its single great eye, which he added to his store of Cyclops eyes. With the Claws of Hades he could summon a Cyclops Berserker of his own, which struck out with its feet and slammed its fist upon the ground to harm the enemies around him. Long after the fall of Greece, in the trials of Valhalla, the Cyclops Berserkers appeared once again among the old beasts of his homeland, fighting much as the Ogres of the Norse realms did, their single eyes still the price of their defeat.