God of War

Introduction

God of War is an action-adventure Hack n' Slash video game series loosely based on Greek mythology, created by David Jaffe and developed by Santa Monica Studios. Known for its genre-defining, spectacle-heavy combat gameplay, grand, detailed scenery and set pieces, epic boss fights, and intense violence, God of War, has been among the most popular PlayStation series since its release.

The series' story centers around the central protagonist, Kratos, a brutal and tormented Spartan warrior, tricked and tortured by the Olympian God Ares, who was forced to serve as a champion for the Gods, fighting wars and slaying beasts in their names, while trying to escape the horrors of his past. Ultimately, Kratos turns against Ares and later against the rest of the Olympians and sets on a path of bloody vengeance against them.

The series contains the following games:

God of War (2005, PlayStation 2) - The original game. It follows Kratos, tired and in despair after 10 years of servitude and suffering, being given his final mission by the Goddess Athena: Slaying Ares. To do so, Kratos is forced to travel towards the Temple of Pandora, where no living man has returned, to obtain the mythical Pandora's Box, which contains the power to kill a God. If Kratos is capable of doing so, he shall be forgiven by the Gods for his past sins and released from his torment and visions.

God of War II (2007, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3) - The follow-up. Kratos, now the God of War, bloodlusted and mad, leads the Spartans into a worldwide conquest, leading the other Gods to conspire against his ways. Betrayed, stripped of his Godhood, and killed by Zeus, Kratos falls to Hades, only to be allied with the Titans, who resurrect him and give him power. Kratos must head towards the Island of Creation, home to the Sisters of Fate, to change his destiny and kill Zeus.
God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008, PSP, PlayStation 3) - A prequel set many years before the original God of War. Kratos, working as a Champion for the Gods, sees himself amidst a world of pure darkness resulting from Helios, the Sun God, has disappeared and Morpheus taking over. Led by Athena, he journeys across Greece and ultimately descends into the Underworld to save the world.
God of War III (2010, PS3) - The last game of the main trilogy. Now alongside the Titans in a new Great War against the Gods of Olympus, Kratos is betrayed again, this time by Gaia. Enraged, he proceeds on a rampage against all Gods and Titans, slaughtering all who stand in his way and bringing the end of the world as a result.
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2010, PSP, PlayStation 3) - An interquel set between God of War I and II. It expands greatly on Kratos' backstory, introducing the character of his brother, Deimos. As the God of War, Kratos goes on a journey to re-encounter his brother. This game acts as a bridge between God of War I and II, justifying Kratos' more reckless and violent self at the beginning of the second installment.
God of War Ascension (2013, PlayStation 3) - Chronologically the first game of the series, it is set six months after the event named Kratos the Ghost of Sparta. In it, Kratos fights against the three vicious Furies, immortal sisters who torture Oathbreakers so that he may end his Blood-Oath to the God Ares.

The series also contains a six-issue Comic Book Miniseries, a canon cellphone video game titled God of War: Betrayal, and novelizations of the first two games.

God of War (2018, PlayStation 4, PC), or God of War 4 as many people call it, is the sequel to God of War 3. Kratos, now an older man, a father, and a widower, resides in the Norse realm of Midgard with his son Atreus on a personal journey to spread his late wife's ashes on the highest mountain in all of the land. During this journey they are attacked by servants of Odin and forced to defend themselves.

God of War Ragnarök (2022, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5) is the sequel to God of War (2018), marking the conclusion of the Norse Saga. It continues the journey of Kratos and Atreus who, after killing Baldur, train for three arduous years during Fimbulwinter, as the two find a way to stop Ragnarök, a cataclysmic event that threatens to bring about the end of all the Norse realms, as they are constantly confronted by Odin, Thor and other Æsir gods and foes.

Power of the Verse

Greek Portion

God of War is one of fiction's most powerful interpretations of Greek Gods. Although the verse might initially seem like a country or continental-scale verse at most, the feats hidden in the series' lore put the Top and God-Tiers far above the Earthly range.

Even while being the mere General of Sparta without any boosts or without his demigod powers, Kratos is capable of facing off against Large Building level sized creatures and slaying them in combat, as well as easily disposing of the random fodder in the verse who have Small Building level, with some higher-level fodder possessing City level feats. As a Demigod, he scales to Continent level+ and Multi-Solar System level feats.

The series contains a series of Primordial Deities, who created the universe itself as a result of their war, and the God-Tier Olympians and Titans have not only defeated some of the surviving Primordial deities but also have performed Universal feats, such as Atlas, who holds up the Cosmos above his shoulders, the universe-holding World Pillar, among other feats that put the God Tiers at Low Complex Multiverse level, Primordial Magics being the one and the same across all pantheons.

Speed-wise, combat speed can go from Hypersonic because of fodder Harpies being able to fly from Rhodes in Greece to Mount Etna in Italy in less than 4 minutes, to Infinite, because of the feats performed by the Primordials, Helios, and the Sisters of Fate. Several characters possess impressive hax, such as Mind Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, illusions, petrification, time manipulation, dimensional manipulation and more.

Norse Portion

The verse gets a boost in attack potency and durability with the introduction of the Norse Pantheon of the series. With the size of the Nine Realms, feats such as Thor and the World Serpent shaking all nine realms during their feat, Surtr creating all the stars and destroying the Asgardian branch of Yggdrasil, shaking the tree to its roots, the second fight between Thor and the Serpent splintering Yggdrasil, a construct that transcends time and space altogether, housing a higher-dimensional space that houses the Nine realms, as well as housing another higher-dimensional energy force in the form of the Light of Alfheim, and Ymir's feats of flooding all of creation as well as creating the nine realms, as well as affecting the higher-dimensional space they are suspended in, as well as the tree, solidly land the verse on the Low Complex Multiverse level range, with those feats scaling to Kratos, who has become somewhat weaker than he was in his prime.

Additionally, the Norse Mythology portion of the franchise also contains yet another multiversal entity, that being the World Tree Yggdrasil, which is Low Complex Multiverse level which on its own is no slouch given its very broken abilities and "hax" to boot.

Important Blogs

God of War Explanation Page

God of War Magic System Explanation Page

The attack potency and lifting strength of the Python: 7-B (32.56166826 megatons of TNT) and Class T lifting strength (6.0867214e+12 kg) (Scales to Manticores and other higher-level Greek fodder enemies, Greek Demigod Kratos, other demigod-level characters and the Redeemed Warrior)

The attack potency and lifting strength of the Redeemed Warrior swinging the Atlas Hammer: 6-A (3.65327629063 petatons of TNT) and Class Z lifting strength (2.77e+22 kg) (Scales to the Redeemed Warrior, other demigods and demigod-level characters, and Greek Demigod Kratos)

Speed of the Pegasus (Mach 24.4228026) (Scales to the Pegasus, and to the fodder beings of Greece, mostly Harpies, Ravens, Griffins and Manticores, who can all fly at these speeds and engage in aerial combat at these speeds, as well as the Spartans, who can fight on par with these creatures very easily)

Speed of Lightning of Zeus and Speed of Kratos viewing lightning in slow-motion: Relativistic for the Lightning of Zeus (0.23190597 c) (Scales to Redeemed Warriors), FTL (6.586 c) (Scales to Kratos, the Gemini Twins Castor and Pollux, and the Furies)

Atreus's arrow-firing speed in God of War Ragnarok: Massively FTL (272.683978 c)

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Profiles

Greek Myth Characters

Marked Warriors

Olympian Gods

Titans

Primordials

Mortals & Demigods

Sisters of Fate

Furies

Others

Norse Myth Characters

Aesir

Vanir

Jotnar

Valkyries

Other

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Discussions

Discussion threads involving God of War

General Discussion

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