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  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • KRATOS: I pledged an oath in blood, and now my home, all

  • that I loved, is gone.

  • Pain is all I have left.

  • [SHOUTING]

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • ARIEL LAWRENCE: Kratos, before he became what he is today,

  • the God of War, he was a captain in a Spartan army, and

  • he kind of rose up through the ranks and became a general.

  • He was facing off against the barbarian army.

  • His army was outnumbered.

  • He calls up to Ares, and he says, destroy my enemies and

  • my life is yours.

  • And in that instant, Ares shows up.

  • And he has two harpies bring up the Blades of Chaos.

  • So the Blades of Chaos were forged in the pits of Tartarus

  • by the smith god Hephaestus.

  • They're bloodthirsty.

  • Like, these blades almost have a soul to them.

  • [GRUNTING]

  • TODD PAPAY: The original character was a Spartan with a

  • short sword.

  • BRUNO VALAZQUEZ: But we wanted to have something that was

  • unique, and something that was more spectacular.

  • TODD PAPAY: One of the biggest things that we've always tried

  • to do with the series is make the player feel empowered.

  • ERIK SAN JUAN: Charlie Wen, our original concept designer

  • for Kratos, had gone through many, many iterations.

  • He's doodling on this napkin.

  • After all these beautiful paintings, Charlie made so

  • many of them.

  • I mean, you guys can look at all the books and the history,

  • but it all starts from a napkin.

  • We wanted to kind of have some dynamic range with his weapon.

  • So he would throw his blades out, but we were wondering,

  • how's he going to get them back?

  • Influenced by a game called "Rygar" that we really liked

  • back then, and saw that his weapon was

  • attached to a chain.

  • And we said, well, let's just try to do that.

  • And then we did that times two, and it felt really good.

  • TODD PAPAY: He becomes a ballerina, ballerina

  • of death with them.

  • Everything that you're doing always wraps

  • around those blades.

  • ARIEL LAWRENCE: Those blades will stand the test of time,

  • in terms of a weapon.

  • KRATOS: There will be only chaos.

  • RICHARD FURRER: My name's Richard Furrer.

  • I have a love affair with steel.

  • I've made maybe 200 swords, and I'm happy

  • with three of them.

  • If you look at the whole pantheon of blacksmithing, the

  • real art of the tool maker is never as

  • exemplified as with a blade.

  • If you're off, if you built it wrong,

  • someone's life is at risk.

  • Before they could pull the useful iron from a rock, if

  • they wanted anything made out of iron, they would have had

  • to have used meteorite falls.

  • So they'd have the space rock, the Heaven metal that they

  • would forge into shape.

  • And Aristotle wrote about this.

  • The Spartan sword that we're making today is a

  • later period Spartan.

  • We're crafting a blade from raw material.

  • We're taking a bloom, and we're forging it out into a

  • functional weapon.

  • [CLANGING]

  • RICHARD FURRER: Then we take it to a blacksmith's forge.

  • With two bellows, just like the Greeks used.

  • We need to pull it together into a solid bar, and we do

  • that through repeated heating and forging, and some forge

  • welding, meaning we're joining the

  • individual pieces together.

  • [CLANGING]

  • RICHARD FURRER: From there, it gets refined by hammering.

  • So we force it into the shape we want it to be in.

  • We heat the blade up to roughly 1,450 degrees

  • Fahrenheit, and then we cool it.

  • We have very little time to cool.

  • A matter of seconds.

  • This tool of death is born in this quench.

  • Taking off the rough edges, giving it a keen edge, a

  • proper hilt.

  • And then, then it can go off into the world and do what it

  • was made to do.

  • Back in the day, it would have been to defend and further the

  • ideals of Sparta, and it had to do that very well.

  • [GRUNTING]

  • PETER THOMAS: My name is Peter Thomas.

  • I started with the Japanese Kyokushin karate, later on

  • drafted into Thai boxing and Western boxing, as well as Jun

  • Fan Gun Fu and Jeet Kune Do.

  • [GRUNTING]

  • This is what we would call a short sword in today's world.

  • And again, this is usually roughly about 19 inches in

  • length, but the blade is about 15 inches.

  • This was used for one major thing, and that was for close

  • quarter combat.

  • Pretty much to kill or to be killed with

  • this type of sword.

  • The Spartan warriors were so physically fit, and so intense

  • and so feared, that they weren't even allowed in the

  • first Olympic Games.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • PETER THOMAS: The fighting posture and the stance of the

  • Spartan warrior was very similar to a Western boxer.

  • They also have horizontal strikes that come here to head

  • level, neck level.

  • And also horizontal strikes that come down to the body.

  • And they would have thrusts that go inward.

  • They also have thrusts that go to the well of the neck.

  • A lot of cuts would go low as well, down to the femoral

  • artery, and come upward, like an uppercut in boxing.

  • There's a famous quote by a Spartan poet and a warrior,

  • and it goes something like this.

  • "Do not be in love with life when you're a fighting man."

  • And that just goes to show what kind of lifestyle that

  • these men had.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

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