![]() Atreus kills the wounded Modi, earning the ire of Kratos, who says there was no need to kill the clearly defeated foe. They're attacked by Modi, who Kratos bests. Kratos goes into Nordic hell, slays the troll and revives Atreus, then finally tells his son that they're both gods. Because Helheim is ice cold, rendering his ax useless, Kratos retrieves his Blades of Chaos from under their Midgard shack. To save his son, Kratos has to travel to Helheim and retrieve a troll's heart. In the scramble, Atreus faints and goes lifeless. Kratos and Atreus do battle with Magni and Modi, a showdown that leaves Magni dead. The solution is for Kratos to stop hiding their divinity from Atreus, but Kratos doesn't heed the warning. Meanwhile, Freya revealed that Atreus is sick is because he's a god who thinks he's a mortal. Baldur is invincible because Freya, having seen a prophecy that Baldur will one day die a needless death, put a spell on him that makes him impervious to pain, or any other sensation. We find out that Freya is the ex-wife of Odin and the mother of Baldur. Mimir reveals the Witch of the Woods to actually be Freya, a goddess. Sony What kinda crazy stuff are we talking about? A bunch of crazy stuff happens in between all of this, and you should know about it all.įreya after Kratos kills Baldur. They manage to achieve this and are able to reopen the portal to the Land of the Giants. To get it, Kratos and Atreus travel inside the belly of the last giant, the world serpent Jormungandr. Mimir has another solution, but it requires them to retrieve his other eye, which is actually a Bifrost that permits interrealm travel. Another brawl breaks out, and the portal is destroyed. Unfortunately, just as they get the portal all set up, Baldur reappears and spoils the party. With Mimir's help, Kratos and Atreus gather the equipment needed to reconstruct the portal into Jotunheim. From then on, Mimir's head dangles from Kratos' waistband as he provides all sorts of history and exposition about the Nordic realms. He proposes an obvious solution, getting Kratos to decapitate him. Mimir says that he knows a way in, but that his body is trapped. Sony How do Kratos and Atreus get into the Land of the Giants? Those giants, having faced genocide at the hands of Thor and Odin, blocked all travel there. The highest peak is actually in Jotunheim, the Land of the Giants. Mimir reveals that where they're standing is not the highest peak in the nine realms. He's Mimir, the so-called smartest man alive and former righthand man to Odin. After they vanish, Kratos and Atreus chat with the tree prisoner. When they get there, they find Modi and Magni, sons of Thor and grandsons of Odin, questioning a one-eyed man who's stuck in a tree. She helps guide them through black mist blocking the ascent to Midgard's peak. They soon meet The Witch of the Woods, a kind lady who nurtures the local wildlife. ![]() The Blades of Chaos are conspicuously absent, as Kratos and instead wields the Leviathan ax, a weapon given to him by Faye. Kratos is uneasy about his son joining him - Atreus has a strange illness that often makes him weak - but allows it anyway. So Kratos and Atreus go off in search of the highest peak in the land, but with Baldur following them for unknown reasons. Kratos names him Atreus, after a Spartan soldier Kratos battled alongside many years prior. ![]() She teaches him to open up his heart, and the two have a boy together. After that time, he meets a woman called Faye. He lives in solitude for 75 years, according to the comics, during which time he works on his anger issues, trying to purge himself of the memories that still haunt. ![]() He finds himself in the northern Norse lands. That allows him to move beyond the Land of the Pharaohs.Īfter his detour through Egypt, Kratos walks and walks and walks. He wakes up, grabs his Blades of Chaos and slays the beast. Between Thoth and Athena, who has a habit of appearing to Kratos in visions, Kratos is convinced to not run away from his destiny. The old man reveals himself to be Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. He manages to kill one, but the other, larger one knocks him unconscious. He's confronted by the Chaos Beasts, but refuses to use his Blades of Chaos. Kratos is still a massive downer at this point and says he just wants to be left alone. He meets an old man who tells Kratos that he's the answer to the locals' prayers: They've been threatened by two Chaos Beasts, and destiny has sent Kratos there to slay the fiends. Kratos wants to leave his old ways behind, but is tormented by the unshakable Blades of Chaos. ![]()
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