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Welcome to part 3 of the story of Kratos. If you haven’t already,
go and check out parts 1 and 2 which are already published on the channel.
Continuing on.
Though he had been raised to godhood, visions from his horrific past still haunted Kratos.
These visions catalyzed Kratos into embarking on a journey to the temple of Poseidon
to learn more about his younger years. Athena counseled against this, but Kratos disregarded
her advice and set out anyway. Kratos sails to the island of Atlantis where the temple is located,
but he is waylaid by the sea monster, Scylla; and the two of them battle multiple times before
Scylla is put down. Kratos finds his mother, Callisto, at the temple of Poseidon. She tries
to tell Kratos who his real father is, but she’s transformed into a fearsome beast, forcing Kratos
to kill her. With her dying breath, Callisto instructs Kratos to travel to Sparta and seek
out Deimos, his long lost brother. Kratos agrees to do this, but before leaving Atlantis, he frees
the titan Thera, whose release causes the Methana Volcano to erupt, which consumes the island.
In Sparta, Kratos learns that he must travel back to Atlantis, now a sunken ruin,
to descend to death’s domain and find his brother. This information is revealed to Kratos by the
spirit of his child self, who also gives him the weapons he used while he led the Spartan army.
Kratos enters the underworld and frees his brother, who is not only ungrateful,
but is also outraged and vengeful that it took so long for him to be rescued.
Deimos attacks Kratos, but Thanatos intervenes and transports Deimos to the Suicide Bluffs,
the same bluffs Kratos previously dove off of to try and kill himself.
Kratos saves his brother, and the two of them team up against Thanatos. Deimos dies,
and then an enraged kratos kills Thanatos. With his last tether to the mortal world now severed,
Athena tells Kratos he is now ready to truly become a god. She then places her hands on his
temples as if she’s about to bestow even greater power upon him, but Kratos pushes her away, vows
revenge against Olympus, and then walks through the portal back to his divine fortress. Athena
apologizes after Kratos has left, calling him brother, which shows Zeus to be Kratos’ father.
The story picks back up with the Spartan army laying waste to the city of Rhodes.
Kratos dives down from his celestial fortress and then, manifested in his huge godform, crashes into
the ruined city to deliver the death blow. The nightmares that tormented him had yet to abate,
so he used conquest to distract himself from the torturous visions that afflicted his mind;
but with each city that fell, the wrath of Olympus grew. Athena confronted Kratos to warn
him that she would no longer be able to shield him if he continued on his path of destruction,
but Kratos rebuffed her warning, shrugging her off and turning his back on her.
Down in Rhodes, Kratos squashed people and leveled buildings. But then a mysterious
eagle circling the city flies past Kratos and saps him of a portion of his power,
imbuing and animating a colossus - the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven ancient wonders of
the world - with it. Kratos is then offered the blade of Olympus, which was the weapon
Zeus used to win the great war, the cataclysmic battle between the gods and the titans
in the ancient past. Kratos uses the weapon, but he is only able to do so after he pours the
rest of his power into it. The Colossus falls, but Kratos is gravely wounded in the process.
Zeus, who previously masked his identity by taking the form of an eagle,
reveals himself to Kratos and gives him one last chance to repent and prove loyal to Olympus.
Kratos rejects this offer. This infuriates Zeus, who runs Kratos through with the blade of Olympus
and then uses the awesome weapon to scour the Spartan army from the face of the earth.
The sinuous clutches of hades reached forth from the deep dark to drag kratos to the underworld.
But his journey through the infernal depths is interrupted by the Titan Gaia. She tells Kratos
that she’s been watching over him his entire life, and that the titans will support him in his war
against Zeus. She then instructs him to find the sisters of fate - for they have the power to alter
time - and then heals his wounds and infuses him with renewed vigor so that Kratos can fight his
way back to the mortal world. Astride Pegasus, who was waiting for Kratos where Zeus killed him,
Kratos sets out for the Island of Creation, where the Fates can be found.
On his way, Kratos comes across prometheus, who, trapped in his human form, is condemned
to an eternity of torture for returing fire to mankind. Kratos then kills Prometheus,
releasing him from perpetual anguish, and absorbs the dead Titan’s power.
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