What Happened to Kratos After Ragnarök?

Kratos survived Ragnarök. After the fall of Asgard he let his son Atreus leave to find the scattered giants, and stayed in Midgard to rebuild the Nine Realms with Freya and Mimir. In the Valhalla epilogue he faces his Greek past and agrees to be God of War again, this time as a god of hope. (God of War Ragnarök; God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla)

He didn't die#

The 2018 game ends with Kratos spotting a hidden panel in the giants' mural that seems to show Atreus holding his dying father. He keeps it to himself, and he goes into Ragnarök sure he won't come out. (God of War (2018); God of War Ragnarök)

The war goes his way. Kratos leads the realms against Asgard, beats Thor and spares him, and with Atreus and Freya brings down Odin. Asgard burns and they escape. The full story is in the Ragnarök ending explained. (God of War Ragnarök)

Afterwards, Angrboda shows them a painting by Faye revealing that she had destroyed part of the giants' prophecy so her husband and son could make their own choices. Behind it Kratos finds one more mural. It shows him alive after Ragnarök, revered by the people of the realms. He had spent two games getting ready to die, and the future he finds is one where he leads. (God of War Ragnarök)

Letting Atreus go#

Atreus tells his father that he wants to leave the Nine Realms and look for the giants who scattered, whose souls he carries. It's the hardest thing Kratos is asked in the whole saga, and he says yes. He hugs his son and gives his blessing, and Atreus leaves as Loki, the name his mother chose for him. The story behind that name is in why Atreus is called Loki. (God of War Ragnarök)

The game doesn't say where Atreus goes, or whether he finds any giants. (God of War Ragnarök)

Valhalla: becoming God of War again#

The free Valhalla epilogue picks up soon after. With the old order gone, Freya asks Kratos to sit on her council as its God of War. He keeps putting off an answer, because the title stands for everything he tried to leave behind in Greece. (God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla)

An unsigned letter brings him and Mimir to Valhalla, which tests anyone who enters using their own memories. Kratos's memories drag him back to Greece again and again. At the summit he meets the real Tyr, alive after years as Odin's prisoner, who questions him about Ares, Helios and Pandora and makes him own those memories instead of burying them. (God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla)

At the end, Kratos opens a door and finds his younger self, the pale, furious Ghost of Sparta, on the throne of the God of War. He tells him what he got wrong, but he also owns the sacrifice that younger man made to give the world hope. Then he takes the throne himself and agrees to join Freya's council as a God of War who can also be a god of hope. (God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla)

Where his story stands now#

That is the last thing that happens to Kratos in story order so far. Valhalla leaves open what Freya's council will do, where Atreus is, and whether the mural of Kratos as a beloved leader comes true. (God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla)

The next main game moves the focus to his wife. God of War Laufey stars Faye, who wakes after her funeral in the Everywhen, an afterlife where gods of many mythologies meet, and finds that the plans she made to protect Kratos and Atreus are at risk. (First look at God of War Laufey)

It's due on PlayStation 5 on 16 February 2027. Sony hasn't said how much Kratos himself will appear. (God of War Laufey pre-orders)

For the whole arc from Sparta to Valhalla, see the God of War story explained. (God of War Ragnarök; God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla)