- 16 hours ago
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00By the gods, it is true. I have fought my way through the guardians of Hades, and have rolled my
00:07way out of the fires of torment to change my fate.
00:12And for my efforts, the sisters shine their light upon me, delivering the very object of my vengeance, Kratos.
00:21Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're looking at some of the more obscure facts concerning God of War's lore
00:27that many fans may be unaware of.
00:30Why? What does it mean?
00:32We're having the foggiest. Isn't that unexpected?
00:35But before we dive in, we publish new content all week long.
00:39So be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos.
00:43Ares' First Use for Kratos
00:45In the original game, Ares came to Kratos in his time of greatest need, making him champion to the God
00:52of War and giving him the power to vanquish his foes.
00:55Their relationship would receive some slight retcons later.
00:58One, that Ares had encountered Kratos before as a boy, as shown in 2010's Ghost of Sparta.
01:05And two, that when Ares gave Kratos' power, it was part of a larger scheme to eventually overthrow Zeus, as
01:11described in 2013's Ascension.
01:14However, this was not the first time Ares saw fit to make Kratos' champion.
01:18Also released in 2010 was a six-issue comic series from DC and Wildstorm.
01:24Most of the plot focused on flashbacks in which different Greek gods bet against each other, choosing different mortals to
01:30hunt down mystical, all-healing Ambrosia, and giving them the necessary motivation to do so.
01:36Ares, of course, picked Kratos, who sought the Ambrosia to save his infant daughter from a plague.
01:42Unsurprisingly, he came out on top.
01:45I was trying to make you a great warrior.
01:50You succeeded.
01:53The Hatred of Hermes
02:05Throughout the Greek games, you can tell that most of the gods don't really care for Kratos.
02:11But Hermes, who only appears in God of War 3, is especially hateful.
02:16There are a few things you could chalk it up to, namely that Kratos is in the midst of leading
02:21a war on Olympus when the two cross paths.
02:23Yet, Hermes still holds more disdain for Kratos than most other Olympians.
02:29And the answer as to why can be found in a 2007 mobile game, God of War Betrayal.
02:35Here, Kratos is framed by an unknown assassin for killing Argos, a companion to Hera.
02:41He then fights off the forces sent after him, eventually taking the life of Hermes' son, Serex.
02:47Sony didn't feel the need to bring up a character from a mobile game most of us probably didn't play,
02:52but it adds a new layer to Hermes' wrath.
02:56Atreus' First Hunt
02:57About two months before 2018's God of War launched,
03:01Sony released a text-based prequel in partnership with Facebook.
03:05A Call from the Wilds was an interesting experiment,
03:08using Messenger to move you along a short story.
03:12If you skipped it, feeling you'd rather wait until you could actually play a God of War game,
03:16you missed out on some early development for Kratos' son, Atreus.
03:20Set before the death of his mother, it follows an average day of training
03:23before he hears a telepathic cry for help.
03:26It leads him to a wounded deer and a couple of Draugr, of which his father rescues him from.
03:32Knowing how poorly Atreus' first solo adventure goes
03:35adds some additional tension to moments from the game,
03:38in which Kratos doubts his son's abilities.
03:42I'm sorry.
03:43Do not be sorry.
03:45Be better.
03:52I never do seem to get rid of those things.
03:56In the 2018 game, you'd find green ravens hidden all throughout the world.
04:00It became clear these were spies for Odin,
04:03and since you got XP for destroying them, there were two reasons to do so.
04:08However, in Ragnarok, they became something more than a simple challenge to gain experience.
04:12After you kill them, the ravens end up on a tree in Nithilheim,
04:16where you also unlock tiered rewards.
04:19Here, they'll speak in creepy poetic verse,
04:21eventually revealing how they came to be.
04:23They were all children hung by their parents in sacrifice to Odin,
04:28warped and forced to do his bidding by the raven keeper.
04:31The reason some players might not realize this
04:33is that there are 48 ravens hidden in the corners of this rather large game,
04:37and the full story is doled out across multiple visits.
04:45We'll take it down together.
04:47Faye's Pet
04:50Are you joining me?
04:53In addition to comics and text-based adventures,
04:56God of War has also gotten several novelizations,
04:58which can often come with interesting storylines,
05:01characters, or just fun facts you don't get in the games.
05:04For example, in the 2018 novelization,
05:08Faye had a pet Jir-Falcon named Yuffie.
05:10Though she disappears after Faye passes,
05:12she eventually shows back up,
05:14reappearing from time to time on Kratos and Atreus' adventure.
05:17There's even a fun bit where she chases off Odin's ravens,
05:20Hygen and Munin, while the two of them are hiding.
05:23Although non-canonical,
05:25it would have been cool to get a mention of her during Ragnarok,
05:28which explored Kratos' relationship with Faye.
05:30You will do this for me.
05:35Aldumbla, the primordial cow
05:37If you ever visited Niflheim and God of War Ragnarok
05:41and wondered just what in the hell was up
05:43with that giant cow skeleton in the distance,
05:45you likely aren't alone.
05:47This is meant to be Aldumbla,
05:49a primordial bovine who played a key role
05:51in the birth of the world in Norse mythology.
05:54At the dawn of time,
05:55she and Ymir, the first giant,
05:57were born out of the meeting of the fiery Muspelheim
06:00and the icy Niflheim.
06:02While feeding Ymir with her milk,
06:04she also licked free Buri,
06:05the progenitor of the Aesir gods.
06:07You don't get any of this in the game, though.
06:10In fact, the only mention of Aldumbla
06:12comes in the 2018 game,
06:14used in exclamation by Mimir.
06:17Great, Aldumbla's others.
06:19That's the unity stone.
06:21The Missing God
06:23All I have left is my bow.
06:27Please, free me.
06:30And it is yours.
06:32Naturally, with such big pantheons,
06:35there are a lot of deities
06:36in both Greek and Norse mythology
06:38that had to be left out of the games.
06:41But there's one whose absence
06:42is more glaring than others
06:44when you really think about it.
06:46Apollo.
06:47Elements of Apollo have appeared multiple times,
06:50yet he was never shown,
06:51nor his whereabouts ever mentioned.
06:53You can see several murals and statues
06:55in honor of him in God of War Ascension.
06:57You famously get his bow
06:59as a ranged weapon in God of War 3.
07:01His sister lends her power to Kratos
07:03in the first game before vanishing herself.
07:06And he's even mentioned in the 2010 comic
07:09through Apollo's flame,
07:11given to Kratos by a healer,
07:12which ends up playing a huge role in the climax.
07:16Ingrid's Origins
07:17Able to telepathically communicate
07:20and fight on her own,
07:21Ingrid the sword is one of the cooler parts
07:23of Atreus's sections in Ragnarok.
07:26She's lent to him by Odin,
07:28and while she seems uneasy in Odin's presence,
07:30you later learn it's because
07:31she actually belongs to Freyr,
07:33reuniting with the Vanir deity
07:35during the climactic final battle.
07:37The origin of this sword
07:39and how it came to be in Odin's possession
07:41isn't given until after the story ends,
07:43and only if you feel like doing some exploring.
07:46Freya tells the story of Ingrid's creation
07:48and how her brother would only set it down
07:50if he died or fell in love.
07:52A later bit of dialogue from Mimir reveals
07:55Odin disguised himself
07:56and tricked Freyr into falling for him,
07:59just so he could get the sword.
08:01Because both of these are post-game exchanges
08:03you can hear randomly while exploring,
08:06a lot of players may have missed them.
08:08The beginning of the Barbarian Feud
08:13and descended on the Spartans
08:17without mercy.
08:20The Barbarians and their king, Ulrich,
08:23played important roles in the early days of God of War.
08:26With Ulrich's army bearing down on him,
08:28this was when Kratos turned to Ares for help.
08:31However, we once more go to the 2010 comic
08:34for an interesting bit of lore
08:36that reconceptualizes this moment.
08:38One of the other gods in the wager with Ares
08:40was Hades, who chose Ulrich to be his champion.
08:44As his motivation,
08:45Hades cursed Ulrich's father
08:47with a sickness that could only be cured with ambrosia.
08:50Although Ulrich came close to victory,
08:52he was defeated by Kratos,
08:53whose victory here would lead to him
08:56becoming a captain in the Spartan army.
08:58Ulrich also received a promotion,
09:00becoming king after his father's death.
09:02He swore vengeance on Kratos,
09:04setting into motion the events
09:06that would forever change his life.
09:08Time in Egypt
09:09That's from a great desert land
09:12very far from here.
09:14Do gods live there?
09:16Oh my, yes.
09:17Many, many gods.
09:19Although nothing has been officially confirmed,
09:22recent reports,
09:22and a ton of Easter eggs in the Norse games,
09:26point to Egyptian as the next mythology
09:28that God of War will adapt.
09:30And while there are many nods to Egypt
09:32in both the 2018 game and its sequel,
09:34the series has made reference to it numerous times.
09:38The prequel comic,
09:39Fallen God,
09:40sees Kratos pass through Egypt on his way to Midgard,
09:43and even encounters Thoth,
09:45the Egyptian god of the moon,
09:47knowledge, art,
09:48and many other things.
09:50But Egypt has existed within God of War
09:52since long before.
09:54In 2013's Ascension,
09:56as Kratos goes to see the Oracle of Delphi,
09:58you can find a note from someone from
10:00the land of the Pharaoh
10:02who could not return home without seeing her
10:04from fear of death.
10:05Even before that,
10:07Egypt was present,
10:08as both Ares and Hermes spent time there
10:10in the novelizations of God of War I and II,
10:13respectively.
10:14Oh, an artifact from the River Empire.
10:18Never been myself.
10:19Here it's lovely.
10:20Do you know of any other pieces
10:22of obscure God of War lore?
10:24Be sure to share your knowledge with us in the comments,
10:26and we'll see you next time.
Comments