Iapetus

Iapetus was a Titan of the first generation, born of Ouranos and the earth-mother Gaia. In the myths he was the father of the world-bearer Atlas and of the brothers Prometheus and Epimetheus, and like his kin he shared in the defeat that consigned the Titans to imprisonment. Within God of War he appears only in the novelization of God of War II. (Theogony; God of War II (novel))

Lineage and the war of the gods#

As a child of Ouranos and Gaia, Iapetus belonged to the elder generation of Titans who came before the Olympian gods. In the old accounts the Titans joined their brother Cronos in the overthrow of their father, and when Cronos in turn came to be challenged, they stood against the rising power of Zeus. The Titans were defeated and cast into Tartarus, and Homer pictures Iapetus and Cronos sitting together in its depths, cut off from sun and wind. (Theogony; Bibliotheca; Iliad)

In the novelization of God of War II, Iapetus is among the banished Titans, with Hyperion and Themis, who look on when Gaia saves the fallen Kratos and offers him an alliance against Zeus. When the Titans were at last drawn out of Tartarus to wage a second war upon Olympus, Iapetus did not take his place among them. He was not seen marching with his kin, and his fate beyond his imprisonment was never recorded. (God of War II (novel); God of War II; God of War III)