God of War

Kratos stood by the river, his hands trembling with a silent rage and regret, the weight of his past battles clinging to him like bloodstains.

Driven by vengeance and burdened by regret, Kratos moves forward with the sole goal of destroying Olympus, but every step is haunted by the ghosts of his past.

Kratos was born in Sparta, a city in Greece known for being the birthplace of the best warriors. From a very young age, Kratos showed great strength, endurance and tenacity. With great mastery, training, discipline and perseverance, he rose through the ranks in the Spartan militia, reaching the rank of general, along with thousands of warriors who were under his command.

One after another, barbarian villages fell to Kratos' brutal and ruthless, yet efficient, tactics. He pushed his ambition to the limit to continue conquering armies. But far to the North, he faced his destiny. A great army of barbarians stood against him. His subordinates fell one by one and Kratos was left alone at the mercy of the Barbarian King and his warriors. It is here that his true story begins, along with the nightmares that torment him.

The Blades of Chaos are weapons that will accompany Kratos throughout the course of the plot and consist of tearing apart his enemies through his infernal and bloody energy that the great god of war Ares gave him as a sign of his servitude.

Kratos was at the mercy of the Barbarian Chief, but for Kratos, victory was at any price, even if that price was his very soul, so he begs Ares, god of war, for victory in exchange for his life saying "Ares, destroy my enemies and my life is yours." Then Ares descends from Olympus sealing the deal that Kratos had offered him and destroys all of Kratos' enemies. Then he gave Kratos the Blades of Chaos, which were fused by chains to his arms. Kratos cut off the Barbarian Chief's head with these swords. From that moment on he became the faithful warrior of his god Ares, spreading violence and wars ordered by him and under his command were more warriors guided by Kratos.

Kratos, following Ares' orders, spreading bloody battles and numerous deaths in his name and in every village he destroyed, was joined by soldiers from the destroyed villages since they had no other option but to join him, who under Kratos' orders, attacked the villages in their path leaving behind only death and destruction of his soldiers and subordinates.

One night, Kratos and his army are on a mission to annihilate a village, on the orders of Ares. The village's oracle warns him of his fate and advises him not to enter the temple. Kratos does not follow the advice and upon entering, he kills all the people there, possessed by a blind rage that did not allow him to see who he was killing. When no one is left alive, he discovers that among the dead were his wife and daughter. He cannot explain why they were there if he had left her in Sparta. Ares, meanwhile, tries to convince Kratos that without his family in the middle, he would become the perfect warrior, that was Ares' plan, to strip him of anything other than the cruel massacres ordered by him. But Kratos feels guilty about the death of his family and swears that he will kill Ares for having put his family in that temple. When he leaves the temple he sees the town in flames, the village slowly catching fire. It is at that moment that the oracle decides to place on Kratos the terrible curse of sticking the ashes of his recently deceased wife and daughter on the skin of the furious Spartan, for the fact of killing his family and that from that moment on all the people who saw him would know the terrible deeds that he had committed, then honoring in the future his nickname "Ghost of Sparta". From that night when Ares knew that the family was there and ordered Kratos to destroy that village and kill his family, Kratos would suffer nightmares and visions.

Nightmares of what he did, of what he became and visions of the tragedy he himself brought about due to his unbridled rage. Therefore he had to pay the terrible price of seeking the glory of Sparta so much, such a price that ended up costing him the life of his own family.

From that moment on, and after 10 long years, he faithfully serves the gods of Olympus as their champion, doing tasks impossible for a simple human, such as killing the Hydra in the Aegean Sea by order of Poseidon. All for just one deal: the oblivion of the nightmares that torment him. After so many years of obedience, Kratos communicates with Athena and demands forgiveness for his sins and the oblivion of the nightmares. Athena tells him that first he has to do one more task: kill Ares, since he was destroying the city of Athens, and the gods could not stop him, because Zeus had said that there should be no fighting between the gods of Olympus, that is why only a mortal trained by a god could take on the task of killing him. With the sole purpose of finding inner peace, he embarks on the adventure of killing a god, entering the city of Athens besieged by the god, where Kratos must find the Oracle of Athens so that he can help him, while fighting with the armies of Ares. The Oracle of Athens tells him that he has to get Pandora's Box. This box would make him very powerful and was the only way to kill him, in fact it was the most powerful weapon that a mortal could access, but that is how it was also well hidden from mortals and not for the gods. The box is crossing the desert of lost souls on the back of the great titan Cronos. Inside the Temple of Pandora, in the most hidden part of the temple, is where Kratos meets another statue of Pallas Athena, who tells him to follow the song of the sirens as they will guide him to the box. Once across the desert, Kratos blows a huge horn that allows the great titan to approach his position so he can climb to Pandora's temple. That's where the great adventure of his life begins.

When Kratos finally gets Pandora's Box and has it in his possession, Ares, being in the city of Athens seeing the great achievement of the Spartan, throws a concrete column at him, piercing him and killing him, and on his deathbed, the nightmares and terrible visions about the past that surrounds him continue to haunt him, with the memories he had about the cruel murder of his family and the culprit of all this. Kratos dies, and descends to the Underworld, where before falling he was able to save himself thanks to the man who ate the Hydra and from whom he had taken his key, stinking him so he could find the way out overcoming the difficulties he is already accustomed to. When he finds the way out, he finds himself leaving a tomb in Athens, which days before a mysterious hermit who had talked to Kratos, had been digging. This old man disappears, leaving Kratos with doubts about the identity of said hermit. It is then that Kratos prepares to enter again the now destroyed Temple of the Oracle, knowing that his final battle was there.

Kratos enters the temple and heads to the back of it, which is outdoors, where previously there was a huge statue with a giant sword acting as a bridge. It is there that he meets the god of war, who was speaking to the sky, criticizing his father Zeus, and reproaching him that if he was seeing what his son could do, how powerful he was and now even more so, because Pandora's Box now belonged to him. Kratos throws a lightning bolt at the chain holding Pandora's Box that Ares had in his hand, and prepares to open it. After a thousand years, the box was finally opened, and the powers of the gods were unleashed. Kratos increased enormously in size, reaching the height of Ares. After a small, hard-fought battle, Ares sends Kratos to another dimension, telling him that he took many ways to kill a man, but that the best way to kill someone was to break his spirit, that's why Kratos falls on a platform where there was only a temple, the temple in which years before he had killed his family. Kratos does not understand much, he opens the door of the temple and sees that inside is his family, this being an illusion, but it is there where he sees that clones of him begin to emerge from the walls. Thus a paradox was formed in which Kratos had to kill these clones of himself, since they wanted to kill his family, then, he had to avoid what years before he himself had done.

After a difficult fight, where Kratos' clones grow greatly in number, Ares strips Kratos of his swords, ripping them from his arms, and with them kills his family again. Ares makes Kratos return to Athens, where they had been fighting before, and now Kratos, stripped of his swords and of all hope, only awaits the final blow of his enemy. But it is there that he sees the statue with the giant golden sword that simulated a bridge, so he dodges his enemy's blow and rips the sword from the statue, thus planting himself in a second fight with the god, willing to annihilate him for what he did to him. After another fight with Ares, Kratos manages to defeat him, and Ares, collapsed on the water (since the fight takes place in the sea), reminds him that it was he who saved him from his death, but he wanted to get the ideal warrior who had no mercy, but Kratos tells him that he had achieved it, and runs him through with the sword, killing him without mercy. Kratos had accomplished the impossible, a mortal killing a god. Now, Ares was no more.

Olympian Physiology: Being a demigod, he already has strength superior to a human, shown when he crushes someone's head against a rock with ease in a flashback, he is even able to lift one of Cronos' hands when he tries to crush him during their battle. As the saga progresses, he controls his powers more and increases them, arguably his greatest power so far.

Superhuman Will, Strength and Speed: His supernatural strength gives him the ability to complete great feats such as mastering divine weapons, the Basilisk, Hydra, the Colossus of Rhodes, Titans and gods. He resisted losing his soul to the Claws of Hades, something that Atlas could not do and the latter can hold the world. He can sustain a battle and dominate Baldur, a being capable of knocking out the Midgard Serpent, however the latter surpasses him in speed and hand-to-hand combat.

Superhuman Stamina: His stamina gave him the ability to withstand direct attacks from Zeus and other gods. He throws himself off Olympus and falls as a meteor on Rhodes.

Kratos is described as an incredibly cruel, reckless, and destructive being, willing to kill anyone who gets in his way, even innocent people. He is also shown to be generally incapable of accepting full responsibility for his actions, usually tending to blame the gods (especially Zeus, Ares, and Athena) for his suffering, while ignoring or denying his own part in it. The memory of his misdeeds has led Kratos to attempt suicide on at least two separate occasions.

Earlier in the series canon, he is less callous towards the lives of others, though he is perfectly willing to sacrifice an innocent bystander when required. He also exhibits a deep sense of shame and horror in his reputation as the Ghost of Sparta. One example is when Kratos tries to convince a woman in Athens to give him a key, only for her to flee in terror and call him a monster; Kratos is visibly horrified by the fear and hatred others have for him. This shame was further demonstrated when he observed the massacres committed by Ares' minions. It is possible that Kratos still had to develop the apathy for the lives of others that would come with his later experiences, but this is unproven. He is also very libidinous and is shown to be sexually passionate with many women, though as stated by Gaia, he never found true happiness or solace in these acts, with Lysandra being the only woman he ever loved.

Kratos is a serious man of few words, serious and stoic, focused on his goals and objectives.

Before and during Ares's rule, Kratos was also very respectful of the gods and divine entities (with the exception of Ares and Persephone), to the point of calling them "Lords", though he did not fully trust them. Over time, he became disillusioned with the gods and began to respect them less and less. By the end of his service to the Olympian Gods, when it became apparent that they would never relieve him of his nightmares, he became openly defiant and hostile towards them, even after being made a god himself. However, he is shown to care for Athena to some extent (and vice versa), with Kratos being more affected by her death than even Zeus, who seemed to care very little (if at all) about her death. He is also tolerant of Aphrodite and Hephaestus, as both are indifferent (and in the latter case, even somewhat supportive) of his war against Olympus. Additionally, he likely felt a certain level of kinship with Hephaestus, as they share a mutual hatred of Zeus as well as intense grief over their lost daughters, though he is ultimately forced to kill the blacksmith god when he tries to prevent him from reaching his daughter, Pandora.

Kratos, having fulfilled Athena's command, feels that he will be redeemed from his feelings of guilt, but when he speaks to her, she tells him that the gods have mourned their fallen brother and thanked him for accomplishing his task, but that he would not be stripped of the nightmares that plagued him when he killed his family, as no man and no god would forget the terrible deeds he had committed.

Seeing that his main objective had not been achieved and that he would live with the remorse of not recovering his family for the rest of his days, Kratos cannot bear the idea and decides to throw himself from the top of a mountain on whose precipice awaits some cliffs that will surely end his life, saying: "The gods of Olympus have abandoned me, now there is no hope", but when he jumps and falls into the water, he is levitated by the goddess Athena to the top where he jumped, where there was a statue of her and a mysterious golden gate, and tells him that it was not his time to die, and that the gods could not forget the feats that he managed to defeat without any help from a god, and, as Ares had died, a vacancy remained among the gods that had to be filled by him, since there was no god of war, it is there where Athena opens the golden gate and reveals its interior: the entrance led him to Mount Olympus. The goddess gives him the "Swords of Athena", which closely resemble the Blades of Chaos, only these are golden, instead of the others that were forged of iron. Kratos prepares to enter Mount Olympus, entering a room where at the back awaits the majestic throne where he finally sits and rests, knowing that he had not only achieved the impossible, but he also knew that he was now the new God of War.

Kratos descends upon the city of Rhodes. In a giant state, he begins to destroy everything in his path, when suddenly, a mysterious white bird that Kratos believes to be Athena takes away most of his godly powers and gives life to the Colossus of Rhodes, a large bronze statue. It begins to chase Kratos. After a long fight against the colossus, Zeus appears to help Kratos, giving him the "Sword of Olympus", which Zeus used to defeat the Titans. At first Kratos is hesitant, but seeing that he could not defeat the Colossus without his powers, he gives in. But there is always a payment, he must insert the rest of his powers into the sword. With it in his possession, he easily defeats the Colossus.

Upon defeating the Colossus, Kratos is crushed by the giant hand of the Colossus of Rhodes as he falls and is severely wounded. But that was not normal for him, since by giving all his divine power into the weapon he became a mortal vulnerable to the weapons of death, but to have a minimal hope of survival, he had to grab the Blade of Olympus. At the moment he went for the weapon, the mysterious bird makes its presence felt again, which transforms, to his misfortune, Zeus appears. He raises the sword over Kratos, telling him to end this war and serve him faithfully. Kratos, even seriously wounded, flatly refuses. Zeus has no other alternative but to kill Kratos, running him through with the sword, also killing all the warriors of Sparta and Rhodes.

Kratos is taken to the Underworld of Hades, and remembers the nightmares he wanted to forget (when he killed his wife and daughter, when he killed people on Ares' orders and when he was about to be defeated by the Barbarian King and Ares saved him). At that moment the Titan Gaia appears. She speaks with Kratos, and tells him that she will help him get out of the Underworld and get revenge on Zeus. Kratos does not hesitate to accept. Gaia tells him that the only way to defeat Zeus is by using the Blade of Olympus. To do so, he must travel back in time to the Sisters of Fate, to the exact moment she killed him, and he will only be able to do so thanks to the Sisters of Fate and their Loom of Fate.

Kratos once again manages to escape from Hades' clutches. Now he only has one thing on his mind; revenge on Zeus. To do so, Gaia brings Pegasus, so Kratos can travel through the skies. But as he was flying on Pegasus, Kratos said: "Return to Olympus beast. Zeus, you dare to face the God of War!" and Gaia reminds him "Kratos, you are no longer a God, all your divine power is in the Blade of Olympus, Olympus and Zeus will be out of your reach forever, so I will show you the way to the Sisters of Fate to go to the threads of time and use them as a portal to return to the moment when Zeus betrayed you", that is, when he was vulnerable. On the way to meet the Sisters, Kratos enters a mountain where the Titan Typhon and Prometheus are imprisoned, who stole the sacred fire of Olympus and who as punishment suffered eternal torture. By helping Prometheus escape his sentence by killing him, he grants him a new power: The Rage of the Titans. However, Typhon is not willing to help him, and even tries to kill him, but Kratos was able to remove a new power from his eye: Typhon's Bane, which leaves Typhon completely blind.

On the island of creation, Kratos will have to fight his way through hundreds of monsters and solve some puzzles. In addition, he will also cross paths with several Greek heroes. Kratos faces Theseus, who protects the Sisters of Fate for the glory of Zeus and after a long battle he manages to kill him and steals the Key of the Guardian of the Horse with which he activates the Steeds of Time. Using the key, Kratos accesses a sanctuary where he finds a hologram of the titan Cronus, and this grants him the Fury of Cronus. As he continues on his way, Kratos encounters none other than the Barbarian King who wants revenge against him, however, Kratos eliminates him and takes his hammer.

He also faces the Cerberus Mole whom Kratos kills and recovers the Golden Fleece from his entrails. Then he faces Euryale in her temple whom Kratos decapitates and obtains another power, the Head of Euryale. After solving several puzzles Kratos faces Perseus and after a tough battle he kills him and takes his shield which he uses to solve a puzzle. After a long road in which Kratos meets Icarus and the two face each other and fall into the void, where it is seen that Atlas holds the world and takes away Icarus' wings. After being on another adventure Kratos speaks with the titan Atlas and gives him the power of the Tremor of Atlas after climbing Atlas, Kratos finds himself in front of the Temple of the Fates, and the only way to get there is riding the Phoenix. All that was left to do was to build a bridge to reach it, when Kratos faces an unknown soldier, who turns out to be the Spartan general who summoned him to Rhodes, who tells Kratos terrible news before dying. While he was on the island and everyone thought he was dead, Zeus attacked the city of Sparta by surprise and completely destroyed it with his divine powers as revenge against Kratos. Kratos sinks into bitterness, no longer willing to fight. But Gaia, this time in the form of Kratos's deceased wife, tells him that he must not give up and uses the same fire that has consumed Sparta to strengthen Kratos' powers. After this event, the Spartan comes to his senses and realizes that he is between the tentacles of the slimy Kraken. After killing it, Kratos impales it with the help of the bridge and its remains fall into the void. Now he can ride on the back of the Phoenix and face the Sisters of Fate to travel back in time and take revenge on Zeus.

Kratos after having flown on the Phoenix and arrived at the place where the Sisters of Fate are, first meets Laquesis with whom Kratos fights in a very close battle. Laquesis, seeing that the Spartan would not give up until his death, takes him to the stage where Atropos is, whom he summons with his staff, she takes him to the past and they fight where the battle of Ares against Kratos was fought, standing on the weapon that simulated the bridge, and Kratos must prevent Atropos from destroying the sword with which he defeated Ares or else Kratos of the past will die before Ares (That is why in God of War the sword was wasted). Kratos after fighting with Atropos fights again with Laquesis and some mirrors appear in which Atropos appears, Kratos fights with Laquesis who becomes tired on two occasions and Kratos takes advantage and freezes time to finish off Atropos in two of the three mirrors from which she came out. Atropos comes out of the third mirror and grabs Kratos by the back and Lachesis goes with her staff to impale Kratos, but he gets caught in a pole and Lachesis impales Atropos and both of them get into the third mirror, which Kratos destroys.

He then fights Clotho, who dies after being run through with an axe, leaving Kratos with the advantage of being able to use the threads of destiny.

Using the power of the threads, Kratos travels back in time to the moment when Zeus betrayed him, as Kratos was mortal at the time. He pushes Zeus away, grabs the Blade of Olympus from the lifeless body of the past Kratos, and faces the King of Olympus face to face. After a tough fight, Kratos is about to deal the final blow with the blade. However, Athena appears and steps in the way, being killed by Kratos. Zeus takes this opportunity to flee. Kratos does not understand why Athena has sacrificed herself. He wants to destroy Zeus, not Olympus, but Athena tells him that Zeus is his father. And with her dying breath she tells Kratos that Zeus wants to kill his son (with Ares dead, Kratos is the only son Zeus has). This is why Zeus is afraid that Kratos will kill him, for the same reason that he had to kill his father, the Titan Cronus, who had also fought his father, Uranus. Zeus decided not to take the risk and kill Kratos himself to end the cycle of "son kills father." With this revealed, the goddess dies and evaporates.

But Athena's words reinforce Kratos' belief in the injustice of the gods, and he decides that if all of Olympus denies him victory, all of Olympus will die. Returning to the Chamber of Threads, Kratos uses his power to return to the end of the war between the Titans and the Gods. Gaia is waiting for him there, and Kratos explains that they must go to her time to end the war, this time with a weakened Zeus and Ares and Athena dead. Using the power of time, Kratos brings the Titans to the present just before young Zeus delivers the final blow with the Blade of Olympus.

In the final scene, Kratos arrives with the Titans to attack Olympus. Zeus and the other Gods: Helios, Hermes, Hades and Poseidon look down from above and see the Titans and Kratos with the Blade of Olympus and riding on Gaia's back, as he shouts "Zeus, your son has returned and brings with him the destruction of Olympus."

An eagle soars from Hades' realm, passing over the Olympian cities and shortly afterward over Mount Olympus, where the Titans, led by Gaia, are climbing to meet the gods. At the top of Mount Olympus, the gods Helios (in his chariot), Hermes and Hades rush to fight, while below the demigod Heracles launches his soldiers. Kratos, on the Titaness Gaia, fights against some creatures sent by Helios, and sees how a Titan throws a rock at the top, where Zeus and Poseidon, the God of the Seas, are. The latter launches himself towards the Titan's chest, knocking him down and making him fall into the Aegean Sea, at the foot of Olympus. A tentacle of water comes out of the sea and grabs the Titans, Gaia asks Kratos to free her while in the background you can see how a Titan is knocked down by one of the tentacles. Kratos heads off to free Gaia, meanwhile a lightning titan is seen climbing up without problems. Suddenly Kratos is attacked by a seahorse, he manages to kill it, but that makes him fall on Mount Olympus, near the tomb of Ares.

Upon entering this room, a centaur attacks Kratos from behind. After the fight, Kratos climbs up to where Gaia was. A seahorse summoned by Poseidon appears and Kratos latches onto it. The fight takes place on top of Gaia, where Kratos frees himself from it for the moment. Gaia, wounded and tired from the fight, stops for a few moments. Kratos enters her through a hole made by the seahorse, up to her heart.

Kratos then arranges a pillar in such a way that he climbs it to be able to leave the interior of Gaia, having done this he meets Poseidon in his giant form on a six-headed seahorse, which is the first of the gods he faces. The battle begins and Poseidon attacks Gaia, held by the seahorse's claws. There comes a point where he frees himself from the claws, then Gaia deals him a strong blow that immobilizes the seahorse and Poseidon, but not completely, so he can continue attacking. Poseidon remains standing, so he continues attacking Gaia and Kratos, until in the same way as in the beginning, Kratos manages to weaken the seahorse, so he swings to finally free Gaia from the creature, in addition to causing a joint attack between Kratos and Gaia to defeat Poseidon, who loses his armor of rock and water. When they come face to face, a merciless attack begins to kill the god of the seas (Kratos, after a series of punches and kicks, throws him against a rock, puts his fingers in Poseidon's eyes, breaks his neck, and throws him into the void). Causing the sea to begin to rise and flood the land. Gaia appears and the Spartan climbs back onto the Titan.

Climbing to the top on Gaia's hand, Kratos finds himself face to face with his target, Zeus. The god confesses that he will no longer tolerate his insolence, so he ascends to heaven and sends a bolt of lightning towards Gaia, damaging Kratos as well and causing them both to fall from the mountain. Gaia, her hand wounded by the impact, manages to grab on, and Kratos to her. When he is about to fall, he asks Gaia to help him, but she tells him that if he helps her, they will both fall and Zeus will win again. Kratos reminds her that she saved him from death so that he could take revenge on Zeus, but she denies him, telling him that she saved him to serve the Titans. With this, she lets him fall into the void to the Underworld, increasing his thirst for revenge not only on gods, but also on Titans. Afterwards he will fall to the river Styx, where the souls carried by the river will take all of Kratos' power. When he comes out of the water, he meets someone very special.

When Kratos arrives at this place he meets the spirit of Athena, who says that she will help him destroy Zeus. Kratos does not trust her, since she previously sacrificed herself to save Zeus, but she defends herself by telling him that now she can see things that she could not see before, and as a proof of trust she gives him the Blades of Exile. Athena tells him that to defeat Zeus he must find and extinguish the Flame of Olympus. Kratos continues with his journey, although he continues to doubt Athena's intentions. After a while he will have his first confrontation with a gorgon, then he continues advancing and meets Pirithous. Pirithous tells Kratos that he is imprisoned in a kind of cell made of tinder and that if he frees him he will give him his bow. Kratos does not listen to her and burns Pirithous' cell (with him still inside it), mounted on a Cerberus. After killing Cerberus and Pirithous, Kratos obtains a new weapon, the Bow of Apollo, necessary to burn the tinder barriers that hinder his path.

When Kratos arrives at this place, he finds an engraving that says he has to pass three tests for the judges. After completing these tests, Kings Minos, Rhadamanthys and Aeacus tell him that he is worthy of passing. During his journey he comes across a small statue, with a blue flame that calls Kratos father. Upon hearing this, he believes it is his daughter Calliope, but it is not her. Upon hearing Hades' voice, he believes it is another trick of his. So he continues on his way.

At this place Kratos meets Hephaestus, Kratos asks him about the flame, but he decides not to help him. Kratos pulls a lever and continues walking. After a while he comes across another small statue, which like the previous one has a blue flame, but this one has the Blade of Olympus stuck in it. Kratos talks to it, and it tells him that he has to free her. But freeing the girl is not in his plans, he only cares about the death of Zeus. When he gets the Blade of Olympus again, he gets a new power, the Wrath of Sparta. Then through a mechanism he returns to the door of Hades' palace, which was blocked by a large amount of tinder, but with Apollo's bow Kratos manages to burn them. Then two Cerberus attack Kratos, after killing them, he enters Hades' Palace.

It is a large room with a statue of Hades in the middle and the corpse of his beloved Persephone in a glass coffin, when Kratos after tying the arms of the statue of Hades to the wall using some hooks makes a hole in the statue with the coffin of Persephone and gets inside. Kratos finds himself in a dark room, in which he only hears the voice of Hades, after the conversation Hades will come out and try to steal Kratos' soul, but Kratos avoids it. During the fight, Kratos manages to tear off parts of Hades' skin, then Hades breaks the floor in half, but Kratos manages to throw one of the swords at his helmet, leaving his other arm free to attack Hades, then hooks his swords with Hades's to the ceiling, where he hits Hades' head, until he falls into the river Styx. Keeping the new swords, the Claws of Hades. When everything is over, Hades comes out of the river, half his body submerged, attacking Kratos. Kratos then manages to steal Hades' soul with his new weapon. When Kratos does this, when swimming through the Styx, the souls would not attack him, but instead the souls attack Hades and kill him. Kratos throws himself into the Styx through the hole that Hades had made. When he comes out of the river, he finds himself right where Hephaestus is. Kratos looks at what appears to be a portal, called the Hyperion Gate. Hephaestus tells him that without the soul of a god it does not work, if not, he would have visited his wife Aphrodite. Hephaestus tells him his story. He was the most valued blacksmith in Olympus, but the day Kratos killed Ares, everything changed for him. Zeus took his daughter Pandora and since then he has been trying to make her again, but he continually fails and asks him if he could return her to him, but that is not in Kratos' plans and Hephaestus tells him that Kratos would have to understand him, since he was also a father. Kratos will return to the beginning of the Underworld since there was a portal to Hyperion there, and he enters it.

The Blades of Athena are weapons very similar to the Blades of Chaos previously wielded by Kratos. By the end of God of War they have the same capabilities as the Blades of Chaos, their attacks have changed, as has their appearance in the latter. Given to Kratos by Athena after he destroyed the former God of War Ares, these are Kratos' primary weapons as the God of War.

They are slightly shorter than the Blades of Chaos, are made of gold unlike the Blades of Chaos which were made of iron, are wider at the tip than at the hilt, have a hook on the top edge, giving them the ability to use them as harpoons; the hilt has a double view, that of an eagle if viewed from below and a skull from above. While Kratos is a god, the Blades of Athena emit a yellow aura and are gold in color with blue glyphs due to the godly power that resided in Kratos. After Kratos drains the rest of his godly powers into the Blade of Olympus, they return to their base form, with a steel color and a pale yellow aura. They then reach the level of the Blades of Chaos and slowly gain their gold color again.

The Blades of Exile are the last set of chained blades wielded by Kratos, given to him by the ghost of Athena in the Underworld. The Blades of Exile replace the Blades of Athena as his primary weapons, as the latter, which he received as the God of War, were destroyed by Zeus' lightning. The new blades also have a slightly different design, but their model does not change upon leveling up.

The blades have attacks similar to their predecessors, the Blades of Chaos and the Blades of Athena, but with a different design, featuring demon horns, faces on the hilts, a hook on the bottom edge, and an intricate orange striped pattern on both sides of the blades. These blades grant the magical power "Army of Sparta".

Kratos uses these chains after snatching them from Hades. They allow Kratos to summon the souls of the dead. With them, Kratos can draw out the souls of his enemies, which then attack the rest of his enemies. They have an attack similar to the Barbarian Hammer, allowing Kratos to summon the souls of the enemies he is fighting.

They allow Kratos to summon the souls of his enemies, depending on the level of the claws. You can select a soul in the power menu from a selection of the beasts you face in the game. The fire color of this weapon is violet and blue, referring to dull and dark colors, it is also a weapon of fast and uncontrolled attacks; the way of evading with this weapon is the one with the longest range of all weapons.

They have a special magic ability, the Swords of Athena have one, called Divine Redress.

After activating this ability, Kratos wields the Blade of Olympus and drives it into the ground, creating a massive whirlwind around him, damaging any enemy nearby.

Zeus used this attack against the Titans to end the Great War, after having created the Sword of Olympus

The Army of Sparta is a magic of the Blades of Exile. It allows you to call soldiers to form a phalanx to protect Kratos. The soldiers throw their spears at enemies. If the Blades are leveled up, the soldiers grow in number and damage. Upon reaching the highest level, tapping the circle button makes arrows rain down around you after the spear attack.

Soul Summoning is a magic of Hades' Claws.

Allows Kratos to summon the souls of enemies he has killed during his quest. They are used as allies to kill soldiers and other creatures around him.

Obtained after killing Persephone's mortal lover, Pirithous, who has been imprisoned in the Underworld by Hades and condemned to spend eternity trapped in a cage of bramble. This item has similar moves to Typhon's Bane, except it uses fire instead of wind. You can increase its effectiveness by holding down the fire button. This weapon serves a very useful role during the game, where Kratos can call upon the harpy queens and then hover in the air.

Kratos maintains the Wings of Icarus, allowing him to glide, as well as giving him the Icarus Ascension by flying in a straight line through the air allowing Kratos to use aerial combos on enemies. Across Olympus, there are large vents called Icarus Vents that carry large amounts of air upwards, and Kratos is able to fly around different parts of the mountain, however he must dodge the supporting wooden beams and flaming stones while flying.

When activated, Kratos uses the Blade of Olympus to kill his enemies. When activated, the screen increases its contrast, making both the environment and the blood of the enemies stand out much more. The sword does a lot of damage to all enemies, although it is difficult to use it well since it has a shorter range than Kratos' traditional swords.

Kratos' most distinctive external feature is his ash-white complexion, an event that earned him the title of "Ghost of Sparta."

Other traits include a scar across his right eye and a large red tattoo (which was originally blue, but was later changed in production), which starts at his left eye and ends at his left shoulder. The scar is eventually revealed to be a result of an encounter with the Olympian god Ares during his childhood, while the tattoo is a tribute to his late brother Deimos, who has similar birthmarks.

Kratos has hazel eyes in addition to his ash-white skin complexion marked by blood-red tattoos, Kratos is 2.19 meters tall, Kratos is completely bald although his eyebrows and small beard are black.

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(All of these events and characters occur in the first trilogy of God Of War games, so their personalities and the way they act are based on the first trilogy of God Of War games)