God of War - What You Need to Know! (Original Saga Story Summary)

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With the upcoming God of War for PS4, we see series protagonist Kratos taking on a new
mythological foe, so we here at Suggestive Gaming figured now would be a good time to
go over Kratos' first set of opposition: the greek pantheon.
So strap yourself in, because this is What You Need to Know about the entire original
God of War saga, from start to finish.
Our story begins with the Primordials, the very first beings to come into existence,
fighting for control of their creation, Earth.
This war ravished the world, and eventually the three Furies were born from the rage and
power of the battle.
The Furies were then tasked to honor oaths between the various beings of Earth.
Their first victim was the Hecatonchires, Aegaeon, who had broken an oath to one of
the first Gods, Zeus.
To make an example of Aegaeon, the Furies petrify his body into The Prison of the Damned
for anyone who dared to break an oath in the future.
Eventually the Furies began to take guidance from the God of War, Ares, who convinced them
to join him in a siege on Olympus.
Believing their forces to be too weak, the queen of the Furies, Alecto, birthed a son
with Ares hoping to create a powerful warrior.
This warrior, Orkos, proved to be a failure in Ares' eyes, and was disowned; however,
the Furies decided to use him as their oath-keeper.
With Ares still in search for his warrior to help take over Olympus, Zeus hears of a
prophecy foretelling his death at the hands of one of his sons, a 'marked warrior'.
Ares is tasked to find and dispose of this threat.
Ares discovers Deimos, a young Spartan who bore a birthmark all over his body, and storms
the city to capture him.
During the kidnapping, Deimos' brother, another young Spartan by the name of Kratos,
attempts to stop the God, but he is struck down, leaving a scar over his right eye.
Ares attempts to kill Kratos for this, but his sister, Athena, the goddess of war, convinces
him to spare the boy.
Deimos is then taken to the god of death, Thanatos, to prevent the prophecy and protect Zeus.
Kratos, tortured by his inability to save his brother, vows to never fail like that
again, and tattoos a replica of Deimos' birthmark on himself in remembrance.
Kratos' rage and pain remained with him as he became a leading member of the Spartan
army, eventually marrying a Spartan woman named Lysandra, and the two have a daughter
whom they name Calliope.
Calliope unfortunately contracts a plague, which infects her skin and causes the Spartan
authorities to decide for her to be thrown into a chasm and left to die.
Kratos then sets off to find the cure for her disease, a mysterious element with exceptional
healing abilities called Ambrosia.
Unbeknownst to Kratos, the Gods had a wager in which they selected various heroes whom
they believed would first obtain the Ambrosia.
Kratos was chosen by Ares, likely due to their prior run-in in which Kratos displayed his
resilience and bravery.
After battling the other Gods' selected heroes, Kratos fights a climactic battle with
an army of Barbarians and their leader Alrik, who was trying to retrieve the Ambrosia to
heal his own father.
Kratos eventually bests Alrik, and captures the Ambrosia, but at the cost of many of his men.
Upon returning to Sparta, Kratos heals his daughter, and the King of Sparta bestows on
him the title of Captain.
As captain of the Spartan army, Kratos leads his men to many victorious battles, often
slaying scores of enemies with an increasing hunger for power, despite the wishes of his
Eventually, Kratos comes across a familiar enemy, the barbarian king Alrik who still
blames Kratos for his father's death.
Kratos and his army are no match to the rebuilt Barbarian army, and Kratos, moments away from
death at the hands of Alrik, calls out to Ares in desperation.
Ares, seeing a candidate to overthrow Olympus, accepts Kratos's offer of loyalty, and kills
the Barbarians in exchange.
He then gives Kratos the Blades of Chaos, symbolizing his servitude to the God of War.
Under Ares' loyalty, Kratos slays many innocents, razes villages, and spreads chaos in the name
of Ares.
Under Ares' influence, Kratos slowly loses his humanity with every battle fought for
the god.
Soon, Kratos is tasked to raid a village of Athena's followers due to Ares' jealously
of Athena, whom their father Zeus favored.
There, he encounters an oracle, who warns Kratos of dark things awaiting him inside
the city's temple.
Kratos ignores this warning, and enters the temple, blindly slaughtering those inside.
However, afterwards, Kratos comes to realize that those inside the temple were none other
than his beloved wife Lysandra and daughter Calliope.
Ares reveals that he had transported them there secretly in order to sever Kratos's
human ties and create the perfect warrior.
Kratos leaves the bodies of his family inside the temple to burn, and as he exits, the oracle
curses him, binding the ashes of his wife and child to Kratos's skin, forcing him
to wear another reminder of his failures, and turning him into the Ghost of Sparta.
Kratos then renounces his allegiance to Ares, and breaks his oath, causing the Furies to
hunt him down and torture him with endless illusions.
Kratos then finds himself trapped in an illusion of his former home in Sparta.
Orkos appears before him and helps him break the illusion using Lysandra's necklace and
ring.
Orkos then convinces Kratos to seek out Aletheia, the Oracle at Delphi.
He finds the Oracle captured, but is unable to prevent her from being mortally wounded.
Before her death, she informs Kratos that the only way he can be free of his oath to
Ares would be to slay the oath's enforcers: the Furies.
Kratos returns to Orkos who informs him of Ares' true intentions all along to use him
to overthrow Zeus.
With this knowledge, Kratos travels to Delos to slay the Furies.
Upon his arrival, however, he is ambushed and captured by them, and they proceed to
torture him in the Prison of the Damned.
After two weeks of torture, one of the Furies leaves an opening for Kratos to exploit and
escape his imprisonment.
After various battles and illusions, Kratos is able to outsmart and outfight the Furies,
slaying all three of them.
After the death of the Furies, Kratos returns to his home in Sparta where he finds Orkos,
who reveals to Kratos that while he killed the Furies, they transferred Kratos' oath
to him, keeping the bond with Ares' intact.
Orkos hands Kratos his blade, and asks him for an honorable death in order to permanently
end Ares' hold on them.
Kratos complies, killing Orkos, and burning his home with the former oath-keeper's body still inside.
No longer under servitude to Ares, Kratos dedicates his life to serving the Gods of
Olympus as their trusted warrior.
After defeating an invading Persian army for the Gods, Kratos appears before them to ask
for his next task, suddenly, however, he sees the Sun fall from the sky, enveloping the
world in darkness.
Kratos follows the last trace of light he can see to the Temple of Helios.
After speaking to Athena, Kratos concludes that Helios had been captured, allowing the
God of Dreams, Morpheus, to entrance other Gods into a deep sleep, allowing him to take
control of Greece.
Inside the temple, Eos, Helios's sister, tasks Kratos to awaken her brother's Fire
Steeds in order to find him.
In return, she promises to relieve Kratos of his nightmares, which haunt him in the
form of a melody his daughter used to play on her flute.
He does this, and the steeds take him to Helios's location: the Underworld.
There, he meets, Charon, the ferryman on the River Styx, who ultimately denies Kratos passage,
as it is not his time.
Kratos engages him, but is knocked unconscious and thrown into Tartarus, the darkest depths
of the Underworld where the Titans had been chained by Zeus.
Upon waking, Kratos witnesses Atlas's chains broken, and the Titan missing.
Kratos fights his way through Tartarus, eventually climbing out to confront Charon once again.
After defeating him, Kratos uses his ferry to follow Helios's light down the river
Styx to a temple.
There, Kratos sees his daughter upon the shore.
He followers her inside, but instead finds Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld.
Persephone reveals to Kratos that he can meet his daughter once again, and she is now residing
in the Elysium Fields.
Persephone tells Kratos that to see his daughter again, he must make a sacrifice; to give up
all of his weapons and powers given to him by the Gods.
Kratos does this, transferring his powers into the Forsaken Tree, and regains his humanity.
He reunites with his daughter, but the reunion is interrupted by Persephone, who reveals
her true intentions.
She reveals that it was her who released Atlas, whom she tasked with destroying the pillar
that holds the Earth.
She intends for this to kill everyone, including herself, to free her from her imprisonment
by Hades as his wife.
Kratos painfully makes the decision to give up his ability to see his daughter and re-gain
his weapons from the tree.
Doing this, he once again becomes the Ghost of Sparta, and against his daughter's wishes,
takes off to stop Persephone.
Kratos finds the Queen at the base of the pillar, and she carries him to the top.
There, the two engage in a final battle.
During this battle, Persephone attempts to confuse Kratos and convince him to return
to Elysium to be with his daughter.
Kratos resists this, however, and Persephone orders Atlas to take care of him.
Atlas does not get this chance, however, as Kratos chains the Titan to the ceiling of
the Underworld and returns to Persephone, besting her in battle and killing her.
Her body explodes, destroying the pillar and leaving Atlas the only thing holding the world
together.
Atlas, though defeated, taunts Kratos, as he remains a slave to the Gods.
Kratos accepts this fate, as he can only hope that serving the Gods will cause them to free
him from his nightmares.
Atlas then predicts to Kratos that they will meet again before Kratos leaves to return
Helios to the sky.
Weak, and now knowing that his sins will never allow him to see his daughter again, Kratos
falls from the chariot, landing on a cliff overlooking the Aegean Sea.
Some time after waking, Kratos is sent into the sea to kill a Hydra and return peace to
the waters.
After doing so, he is approached by Athena, who asks Kratos to save her city, Athens,
from her brother Ares, whose army is currently advancing.
Kratos, seeing an opportunity to get revenge on Ares, agrees on the condition that the
Gods free him of his nightmares once and for all, as well as offer him a chance at redemption.
Kratos enters Athens to find the town's Oracle, who tells him that in order for the
mortal to defeat a God, he must seek the power of Pandora's Box, which is locked inside
a Temple, constructed on the back of the Titan Cronos, who Zeus cursed to wander the Desert
of Lost Souls for eternity.
Kratos makes his way to the temple, encountering a mysterious grave digger on the way.
Inside the temple, Kratos solves several puzzles in order to find Pandora's box.
However, Ares senses this, and throws a pillar from Athens, impaling Kratos and killing him.
Ares then arrives and steals the box as Kratos dies and returns to the Underworld.
However, with help from the grave digger, who refers to Kratos as “my child”, he
is able to climb from Hades and return to Athens.
There, he opens Pandora's box, and gains the power to confront Ares.
After a battle, Ares tortures Kratos by forcing him to relive his family's death at his
hands.
Kratos resists this, however, and Ares is forced to strip the Blades of Chaos from Kratos's
Arms, and kills the illusion of his family in front of him.
Freed from the illusion, Kratos finds a nearby sword being used as an ornamental bridge,
and uses it to kill the God of War.
The Gods praise Kratos for killing the rebelling Ares.
Kratos then asks Athena to finally free him of his nightmares.
Athena then finally reveals to Kratos that while she can forgive his sins; his nightmares
will stay with him forever.
Kratos, feeling abandoned by the Gods, climbs back to the cliffs overlooking the Aegean
Sea, and feeling death as his only escape, throws himself off.
However, Athena stops him at the bottom, claiming that there is now an empty throne upon Olympus.
Kratos then enters a portal, and claims his throne as the new God of War.
Still haunted by his memories, Kratos decides to explore his past, against Athena's wishes.
He makes way to the Temple of Poseidon, in Atlantis.
Poseidon attempts to stop Kratos, but he defeats his defenses and reaches the city.
There, Kratos finds, much to his surprise, his mother, Callisto, dying on the ground.
She reveals to him that his father is the one who brought her there, and that his brother,
Deimos is still alive, but does not have much time.
Before dying, she tells Kratos to seek out his brother in Sparta.
Kratos then departs Atlantis, but not before encountering the Titan Thera, whom he frees,
destroying the city in a flood.
Kratos returns to Sparta, but on his way, encounters and kills Thanatos' daughter
Erinys.
Upon his arrival to the city, he is praised by its inhabitants, led by a young Spartan
who gives Kratos his arms from when he was the commander of the Spartan army.
Kratos goes to the Temple of Ares, and after encountering a spirit-like version of his
younger self, he learns that he must return to Atlantis to find Death's Domain.
Upon returning, however, Kratos is stopped by a statue of Poseidon, inhabited by the
God, who warns him that he will pay for sinking the Kingdom of Atlantis.
Kratos avoids the statue and makes his way through the ruins of the city, eventually
coming across the Grave Digger once again, who cryptically warns Kratos not to alienate
the Gods.
Kratos then finds the Gateway to Death's Domain.
Inside, Kratos finds and frees his brother, who becomes enraged at him for seemingly forgetting
about him for all this time.
Thanatos arrives and intervenes, capturing Deimos and bringing him to the same cliff
Kratos attempted to kill himself from.
Kratos saves his brother, and the two reconcile.
Kratos gives Deimos his arms, and the two fight Thanatos together.
During the battle, Thanatos kills Deimos, and Kratos avenges his brother by finally
killing the God of Death.
A broken Kratos then carries his brother up the mountain, where the Grave Digger has prepared
a grave for him.
Kratos ponders what he has become, and the Grave Digger answers, “Death...the Destroyer
of Worlds”.
Athena appears before him and attempts to elevate him to a full God.
Kratos stops her, however, and returns to Olympus, claiming that the Gods will pay for
what they have done to Kratos and his family.
As he leaves, Athena mythically refers to him as “brother”.
The Grave Digger then buries Callisto next to Deimos, and proclaims upon a third grave
that “now, only one remains” as Kratos returns to his throne and plans his next move
against the Gods, leading his Spartan army to conquer Greece.
After launching this attack, Athena pleads with Kratos to stop.
He claims to owe her nothing and turns his back on her to assist his army in the town
of Rhodes.
There, he spots an Eagle, whom he believes to be Athena in disguise, who robs him of
his godly abilities, and instead infuses them into the Colossus of Rhodes, who comes to
life and tries to kill Kratos.
Zeus arrives and offers Kratos the Blade of Olympus, which he once used to win the Great
War between the Gods and the Titans.
Zeus urges Kratos to infuse the blade with his remaining godly powers, which renders
him mortal again, but allows him to destroy the Colossus from the inside.
Upon doing this however, Kratos is crushed by the Colossus's severed hand.
Determining that he must retrieve the Blade of Olympus to get his immortality back, he
slowly makes his way over to it, only to be stopped by Zeus, who reveals himself to be
the Eagle that stole Kratos's power, in an attempt to kill him to stop him from overthrowing
Zeus like he did Ares.
Zeus then stabs Kratos, killing him.
While he is being dragged into the Underworld once more, the mother of the Titans, Gaia,
saves him and reveals that Cronos, Zeus' father, ate all of his children in an attempt
to stop a prophecy that he would die at the hands of one of his sons.
Zeus' mother, however, hid him on an island that was actually Gaia.
Gaia raised the boy, but he grew vengeful and eventually sought to defeat the Titans,
which he did using the Blade of Olympus.
Gaia offers Kratos help to exact revenge on the king of Olympus.
Gaia gives Kratos the magical horse Pegasus, and he escapes the Underworld to find the
Sisters of Fate in order to change his past and kill Zeus.
Kratos flies to the Island of Creation, and after besting several powerful foes, including
a risen Alrik, he comes across Icarus, whom he strips of his wings, plummeting below the
Earth and landing upon Atlas.
Originally refusing to help Kratos, still holding begrudgement over his imprisonment
at the Spartan's hands, Atlas is eventually persuaded to help him kill Zeus.
Atlas helps Kratos return to the surface, where he awakens the Phoenix and flies to
the Temple of Fates to meet the sisters.
There, he expresses his wishes, but the fates deny him passage.
Kratos then confronts the two youngest sisters, Lahkesis and Atropos, who attempt to take
him back to his battle with Ares and force him to die by the God's hand in the past.
He avoids this effort, and traps the sisters in a mirror, then destroying it to seal them
away for eternity.
Kratos then makes his way to the oldest sister, Clotho, who operates the Loom of Fate.
Kratos kills the final sister, and takes control of the Loom to change his fate.
He turns the thread of fate back to his death at the hands of Zeus, and saves his past self
by reclaiming the Blade of Olympus before Zeus has a chance to.
The two then engage in a battle, until Zeus stuns Kratos with a lightning storm.
Kratos plays possum and pins Zeus before driving the Blade of Olympus into the God's chest.
Before he can kill him, however, Athena appears and intervenes to protect Olympus.
Zeus attempts to escape, Kratos lunges at him with the blade, and Athena sacrifices
herself by jumping in front of it, saving her father.
Kratos asks Athena why she would do this, and she reveals that she did it to allow Zeus
to stop the cycle of sons killing their fathers, finally revealing that Kratos, is in fact
a son of Zeus.
Vowing to destroy Olympus, Kratos returns to the Loom, and turns time back all the way
to the Great War.
He calls out to Gaia and they return to Kratos's time, where an injured Zeus is calling on
his fellow Gods to kill Kratos.
The Titan army, led by Kratos, then storm Olympus, with the intent to win the Great
War once and for all.
The Titans and Gods wage a very intense and bloody battle, as Poseidon begins to take
on Gaia.
Kratos draws him into Gaia's grasp and is able to weaken him, eventually knocking him
onto a platform and beating him before gouging his eyes out and snapping his neck, killing
him and flooding the entire world.
Kratos and the Titans then make it to the top of Olympia and confront Zeus, who, anticipating
their arrival, hits them with a blast of lightning that damages Gaia and knocks her and Kratos
off the mountain.
Attempting to hang on, Kratos is then betrayed by Gaia, who lets him fall as he is no longer
a use to them now that they have reached Zeus's Throne.
After falling once again to his death, Kratos makes his way through the River Styx, lamenting
that he was used as a pawn by both the Gods and the Titans.
He then reunites with a reformed Athena, who is willing to help Kratos from her “new
level of existence”.
He then realizes the goal of his final quest: extinguishing the Flame of Olympus in order
to finally defeat Zeus.
To do this, however, he must find Pandora, the child of Pandora's Box's namesake.
Kratos makes his way through Hades and eventually finds Hades' palace, and the dead body of
Persephone.
Hades arrives, and the two battle before Kratos defeats the God, sealing his soul into his
own weapons.
Kratos then escapes Hades through a gate, and encounters Helios, whose head Kratos proceeds
to rip off.
He then encounters Hermes, who he kills, and later his own half-brother Hercules, whom
he also kills.
Kratos meets with Aphrodite and her husband Hephaestus in order to find their daughter
Pandora.
Hephaestus refuses to lead Kratos to her, however, and reveals that after Kratos opened
Pandora's Box, Zeus became overcome with Fear and forced Hephaestus to reveal to the
creation of the key to the box, which later took on a life of its own as a girl whom he
named Pandora.
Zeus then took Pandora and banished Hephaestus.
Kratos urges Hephaestus, who tasks him with retrieving the Omphalos stone in order to
make a weapon to allow Kratos to find Pandora.
In his attempt to find the stone, Kratos comes across Cronos, who assumes he has tried to
kill Gaia, and attacks him.
Kratos fights Cronos, and eventually frees the temple from the Titan's body before
he eats Kratos.
Inside his stomach, Kratos retrieves the Omphalos stone, and cuts his way out and kills Cronos
once and for all.
Kratos confronts Hephaestus, who he reveals was trying to send him on a suicide mission.
Hephaestus attempts to feign innocence before trying to kill Kratos instead.
Kratos shakes this off and kills him by impaling him on his own anvil before heading off to
retrieve Pandora.
Kratos's quest takes him to the Gardens of Olympus, where he finds Hera, the wife
of Zeus, drunken and belligerent.
After making his way through the Gardens, Hera confronts Kratos once again, insulting
Pandora and causing Kratos to lash out and snap her neck, causing all plant life to die.
Kratos makes it to the Labyrinth, and finds Daedalus, the Labyrinth's architect, trapped
inside.
Daedalus claims that Zeus promised him that he would have his son, Icarus back, once he
completed the Labyrinth.
Kratos reveals that Icarus was, in fact, dead, before activating a trap and killing the architect.
Inside the Labyrinth, Kratos finds Pandora, and takes her with him.
In the Flame of Olympus's Chamber, Kratos raises the Labyrinth to access Pandora's
Box.
However, Kratos refuses to let Pandora sacrifice her life, as he does not want to cause her
death as he did his own daughters.
She chooses to embrace her fate however, and breaks free, only to be stopped by Zeus.
Zeus mocks Kratos for showing care for Pandora as if she was his own, and tosses her aside
before engaging in battle with his son once again.
During the battle, Pandora attempts to run into the Flame in order to put it out, before
Kratos grabs her to stop her.
Pandora pleas with Kratos to let her seal her fate, and Zeus provokes him by telling
him not to fail Pandora like he did his own family.
Kratos reluctantly lets her go, and the Flame of Olympus is extinguished.
In the wake, Kratos opens Pandora's Box once again, only to find that it is now empty.
Zeus mocks his son again, and the two meet outside and gaze upon the destruction Kratos
has caused.
The two are interrupted by Gaia, however, and she tries to kill them both.
The two then enter a wound in Gaia's chest, and fight beside her heart, draining the life
out of it.
Kratos, powered by the heart of Gaia, then impales Zeus into it with the Blade of Olympus,
finally killing both Gaia, and his father, Zeus.
Awakening upon a broken Earth, Kratos finds Zeus' body and retrieves the Blade.
However, as he tries to leave, Zeus' spirit attacks Kratos and drains him of his anger
and willpower, replacing it with fear and loss, the forces that plagued his father.
Trapped in his psyche and once again being tortured by his memories, the spirit of Pandora
appears and helps Kratos abolish these torments through Hope.
Kratos returns to the physical world and forces Zeus' spirit back into his body.
Kratos then charges him and beats him to death with his bare hands, finally killing him and
destroying Olympus for good.
Afterwards, Athena appears once more and congratulates Kratos, asking him to turn over the power
he found inside Pandora's Box so she could finally give it to mankind.
Kratos laments that the world is destroyed, and anything she would have to give would
be useless.
Moreso, the Box was empty, and Kratos believed Pandora had died in vain, simply another casualty
in his quest for vengeance.
Athena reveals to Kratos that when the evils of the Titans were first sealed into the box,
she placed the most powerful weapon in the world beside them to counteract them; the
power of Hope.
Athena had initially believed that when Kratos opened the Box for the first time, all of
its evils had transferred unto him, and Hope was lost, when in actuality, the evils went
to the Gods on Olympus, and Hope was buried deep in Kratos under his pains.
Only upon forgiving himself was the power able to release inside of him.
Kratos, realizing he has nothing left to live for, impales himself with the Blade of Olympus,
freeing the power of Hope into the mortal world.
Athena is angered by this, and tells Kratos that she is disappointed, to which he responds
with a final laugh before she removes the blade, leaving him to die.
Sometime later, we see the mural where Kratos' body once was now abandoned, with nothing
but a trail of blood leading to the great sea that now enveloped the world.
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