Ouranos: the sky god Cronos castrated

Cronos: the Titan who ate his children

Warned that his own children would depose him, Cronos swallowed each at birth. Rhea hid Zeus, Zeus deposed him anyway, and Kratos finished him.

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

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.

Greek Gods

The 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.

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.

Hyperion

Hyperion 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.

Iapetus

Iapetus 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.

Island of Creation: cradle of the Greek world

The 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.

Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne 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.

Nyx

Nyx 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.

Oceanus

Oceanus 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.