Introduction
+Kratos is the main character of the video game franchise God of War. He is also a demigod and one of the sons of Zeus. If anything, his journey is full of blood and betrayals, which we’ll talk about here.
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The Ghost of Sparta
++ Ares orders Kratos to destroy the village where people worship Athena. Kratos obeys his orders and enters the temple and butchers everyone; however, Ares had secretly transferred Kratos’ wife and child to that place, and Kratos kills them while he is blinded by the power he was granted by Ares. Later, he regains his consciousness, and all he feels is regret. He killed the only two people who cared for him and loved him no matter what, and in return, he couldn’t even save them from himself. The village Oracle also curses him for his sins by making the ashes of his family stick to his body forever. With skin as pale as the moon, he gets the name Ghost of Sparta. Ares wants him to be an emotionless, ultimate warrior by removing emotional attachments. Ares succeeds in doing so as well, but Kratos leaves Ares and works for other Gods to get his revenge on Ares. We can see that Ares succeeded as he planned as he killed Ares himself. In the first game, it can be observed that Kratos questions his humanity but slowly embraces vengeance over time. +
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Zeus
+During Kratos’ pursuit to find the Oracle of Athens, Zeus grants him the ability to use his thunderbolts. Later, he disguises himself as a grave digger, and Kratos finds him digging a grave at the temple of Athens. When asked, he says that he is digging the grave for Kratos. Later, when Kratos is taking Pandora’s box to Athens from Pandora’s temple, he gets impaled by a log thrown by Ares. Kratos falls to the underworld but rejects his death and tries to climb out of it. When he reaches the top, he finds a rope that takes him back to the grave dug by the grave digger. Kratos is unaware of the fact that it was Zeus who saved him from death to kill Ares.
+When Athena tells Zeus about the rampage of Kratos, he disguises himself as an eagle and takes away as much power as he can from Kratos and transfers it to the Colossus of Rhodes. Kratos believes this is a work of Athena, and when Zeus sends the Blade of Olympus, the blade which he used to end the war between the Gods and Titans, Kratos trusts Zeus. He drains all his energy into the blade and destroys the Colossus. Again blinded by his power, Kratos mocks the Gods while getting hit by the palm of a falling Colossus and becoming powerless once again. Zeus takes the blade of Olympus and lets Kratos rot in the depths of Hades. Kratos, realizing that he had been used by the Gods once again, gives up until he is approached for help by ..
+ +Gaia
+Gaia tells Kratos about the history of Zeus and the Titans. She tells him about the Sisters of Fate who have control over the Thread of Destiny. She guides Kratos to seek the sisters’ help if he wants his revenge on Zeus. Kratos goes through the island of Sisters, encountering many people who seek them as well. Cronos, the father of Zeus and the King of the Titans, gives the last of his magic to Kratos for his quest. Atlas also gives his power to Kratos.
+When the sisters are defeated, Kratos travels back in time to the moment Zeus betrays him and challenges Zeus. He realises that he alone cannot defeat all of Olympus, so he goes back through time to get help from the Titans during the Great War. Kratos climbs Mount Olympus with the Titans and challenges the Gods once and for all. This time, Kratos stood no chance against the ruler of Olympus, Zeus threw Gaia and Kratos off the cliff. Gaia betrays Kratos and lets him fall to the underworld, telling him that this is not his battle, but it is the battle of the Titans. Later, when Kratos comes out of the underworld, he chops off Gaia’s arm and states that it is indeed his battle only, while she falls off the mountain. During the final fight between Zeus and Kratos, Gaia returns and swallows them both in the hopes of destroying them; however, Kratos kills Zeus as well as Gaia with the power he gets from Pandora’s box.
+ +Athena
+At first, she promises to erase the traumatic visions Kratos suffers from, but later, when Kratos kills Ares, she just forgives him of the sins and doesn’t do anything about the visions. Betrayed by this, Kratos goes so far as to kill himself and jumps off the cliffs, but Athena doesn’t let him and tells him that he is the new God of War. This immense power takes complete control over Kratos; he was a human no more, he was the God of War. With this responsibility, he caused chaos and battles much fiercer than the ones that occurred during Ares’ reign. Due to this behavior of Kratos, Athena seeks Zeus to prevent Kratos from becoming like Ares or destroying the Gods.
+Later, when Kratos defeats the Sisters of Fate and uses their powers to fight Zeus, Athena sacrifices herself to save Zeus. Athena told Kratos that without Zeus, Olympus will fall, and all of Olympus will try to protect Zeus for this. Late, Athena revealed that Kratos’ father was none other than Zeus in her final moments. Knowing that Kratos just killed her half-sister, who had helped him the most throughout his journey to end Ares, was too much for him to bear. However, it turned out that the sacrifice of Athena for Zeus brought her to a higher life form. She now had her own intentions to rule Olympus so she made a plan for Kratos to open the Pandora’s box again where she kept the good things of universe when Zeus had kept all the evils inside it, she guided Kratos the path to get those powers to kill Zeus, she planned to take those powers from Kratos after Zeus dies so she can be the ruler of Olympus. Skip to the part when Pandora's box is opened again, and it turns out that it’s empty. That means when Kratos opened the box to kill Ares, he got both the things sealed in it, but the power Athena had sealed in there wasn’t active until Pandora helped him and gave him Hope. With that, Kratos was finally able to kill Zeus, the ruler of Olympus. But seeing the condition of the world, the number of sins he committed, and no more purpose being left of him, he uses the Blade of Olympus and stabs himself, leaving Athena powerless and bringing an end to his suffering once and for all.
+ +Conclusion
+Throughout his journey, Kratos has sought many beings for help, but the power they gave him ends up blinding him and rendering their plan useless, and while they try to help, Kratos kills them and gets his revenge. This tendency of Kratos to get blinded by power so easily is the reason he wins or loses the battles. But in the end, with the power of hope, he is blinded no more. Hehe says, “My vengeance ends now,” and proceeds to end himself accepting the fact that he was his greatest enemy all along.
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