

Knowing this not to be the signs of any God, Kratos began to make his way to the crash site through the city of Marathon. His shouts were answered with the sight of the sun being stricken from the sky, crashing into the ground below, darkening the Earth. With the Basilisk dead and the Persian forces routed from Attica, Kratos began to demand more of the Gods, asking if that was all they would have him do. The creature attacked Kratos, but the Ghost of Sparta was able to drive it back and collapse towers on it, weakening it so that when it tried to charge up a blast of flame at him, he was able to climb on top of its head and break the creature's jaw, causing the fire to explode in the Basilisk's own face, killing it. With their leader dead, the Persian forces began their retreat from Attica, but Kratos still had a job to do- following the Basilisk to a destroyed bridge. As the King begged for his life, offering Kratos riches and power, Kratos simply lifted a chest of the stolen gold and smashed it into the Persian's head repeatedly until he lay dead. The Persian King was strong and quick with his blade, and had access to a powerful fire magic, The Efreet, but nevertheless, the King was no match for Kratos, who disarmed him and stole his magic. After fighting through more Persian forces, Kratos came upon the Persian King (heavily implied to be Xerxes I), and the two battled. Thinking fast, Kratos grabbed a fallen Cyclops' club, and used it to bash in the monster's left eye, leaving it partially blinded. Kratos fought alongside the allied Attican and Athenian forces against the Persian Navy on the beach, using a Ballista to destroy one of their ships, but soon encountered the Basilisk, which tore through the building the Ghost of Sparta was within and attempted to devour him. When they laid siege to the Greek city of Attica, the Persian Empire released the gargantuan, fire-breathing Basilisk on the city, forcing the Gods to send Kratos in to stop the rampaging beast before it burned their city to the ground.

Despite this, Kratos does show compassion at times, especially when reminded of the daughter and wife he lost- such as his treatment of Pandora and his respect and mourning for The Last Spartan (and his Spartan brothers in general).Īfter pledging his life to the Gods of Olympus to atone for the sins he committed as the servant of Ares, Kratos began to battle against great monsters and armies. He is often cold and unfeeling towards others, and is willing to kill innocent people and men who can't fight back to further complete his goals, and shows absolutely zero mercy in battle. When he's not carving through dozens of enemies in his quest for vengeance and redemption, he's bellowing at the top of his rage-filled lungs. Kratos is an angry, stubborn and incredibly hostile individual. Enraged at Ares betrayal, Kratos swore vengeance, and pledged himself to the other Gods, hoping to remove the nightmares of his sins from his mind.
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The local oracle forever marked him as the "Ghost of Sparta", his family's ashes covering his skin for all his days. Second, in order to create a warrior with nothing held back, Ares tricked Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter, Calliope. Seeing the destruction Kratos was capable of, Ares answered his call, but with a heavy price- first, the Blades of Chaos were burned into the flesh of his arm, attaching them there forever, but allowing him to defeat the Barbarians, starting with beheading their king.

As the Barbarian King overwhelmed him, Kratos shouted out for Ares, the God of War, to give him aid. During one of his many battles, Kratos came to arms against a horde of Barbarian warriors, who brutally overpowered and slaughtered his Spartan allies.

A member of the Spartan military, Kratos was a prod and deadly warrior who rose through the ranks to become a General. Kratos is the vengeful central protagonist of the God of War franchise.
