Soon the gods knew from the prophet's prophecies that the fate of Olympus would be controlled by "marked warriors" in the future, so the gods were looking for such "warriors" everywhere. Unfortunately, Deimos had a very obvious birthmark, so one day, when the teenage Kratos was training with Deimos, the god of war Ares and the goddess Athena considered him a "marked warrior" His younger brother Deimos was kidnapped. Kratos failed to rescue his brother and injured his right eye. Later Ares sent Deimos to the abyss of hell. Many years later, in memory of his younger brother, Kratos painted his body with a mark similar to his younger brother's (which coincided with the prophecy). This is also the reason why Kratos now has a scar on his right eye and red stripes painted all over his body. [From PSP "God of War: Ghost of Sparta"]
Later, Kratos became a general of Sparta, and at the same time met the woman he loved his whole life, Lysandra, and married her. . Unexpectedly, their first child was covered in pus when he was born. According to Spartan rules, sick babies had to be thrown into the abyss as soon as they were born. In order to save his daughter's life, he followed the divine instructions and set off to the Well of Asclepius to find the fairy fruit that could cure all diseases. In addition to the difficult geographical environment and ferocious monsters and beasts along the way, Kratos also encountered other warriors seeking fairy fruits. They all came because their tribesmen or family members suddenly suffered from serious diseases, and were guided by the gods of their respective beliefs. One of them was He is the barbarian prince who changes Kratos' future. There was only one fairy fruit, and six teams of people fought fiercely for the fairy fruit. Little did they know that they were just chips selected by the gods for a meaningless gamble. The gods participating in the gambling include Ares, the god of war, Hades, the king of the underworld, Poseidon, the king of the sea, Helios, the sun god, Artemis, the moon and hunting goddess, and Hermes, the messenger of the gods. The six gods each selected a mortal warrior, quietly spread disaster to his hometown and then guided him to find the fairy fruit. Kratos was the warrior chosen by Ares. In this bet, with the obsession of saving his daughter, Kratos had to abandon his Spartan soldiers to kill all competitors in pursuit of the fairy fruit. In the end, Kratos grabbed the fairy fruit from the barbarian prince and cured his daughter. The barbarian prince killed by Kratos was used as a bargaining chip for Hades but was released from hell by Hades afterwards. When he was resurrected and returned to his hometown, he found that his father had died of illness. From then on, the barbarian prince was promoted to the king of the barbarians and vowed to repay Kratos. The price of blood! [From the comic "God of War" (past timeline)]
Afterwards, the Spartans who served Ares, the god of war, invaded everywhere for the glory of Sparta. Kratos also fought everywhere and never lost. But one day, when Kratos led his troops to capture the territory of the Eastern Barbarian King, he was ambushed by the Barbarian King and the entire army was wiped out. When Kratos died in the battle, he asked Ares for help (which can be understood as signing a contract). In exchange for a contract with a huge price), Ares gave him the Blade of Chaos. After gaining strength, Kratos killed the barbarian king and saved his life, thus becoming Ares's lackey. Soon after, Ares set up a trap to make Kratos kill his wife and daughter with his own hands in order to make him work for him without any worries (or become a pure warrior), which completely hit Kratos. Since then, Kratos and Ares have broken up, and Kratos has also suffered an indelible nightmare: killing his beloved with his own hands. The white color on Kratos' body was formed by the ashes of his wife and daughter attached to his body at that time. [From PS2 "God of War"]
In order to eliminate the nightmare in his heart, Kratos worked hard for the gods for 10 years. During this period, he helped the Greeks fight against Xerxes' attack and other deeds. In the process of serving the gods, one day the sun disappeared, and the god of sleep appeared and spread darkness across the earth. All the gods would fall into a deep sleep, so the gods handed over Kratos' mission to retrieve the sun god Helios. After Kratos' exploration, Kratos finally found in hell that the Sun God was bound by Atlas of the Titan family. However, in hell, Kratos saw his long-dead daughter Calliope, and then he knew that this was the conspiracy of Queen Persepher, who deceived her out of hatred for her parents (Zeus) and sent her to hell to marry her. Hades, the king of Hades, retaliated for this act of marrying, so he released Atlas, who was supposed to be imprisoned in hell, to capture the sun god in order to destroy the world. At the same time, the Queen of Hades warned Kratos that if he dared to stop her, he would never see his daughter. When Kratos learned that once the Pillar of the World was destroyed, the Elysian World where his daughter lived would also collapse. In order to prevent his beloved daughter from disappearing like this, Kratos made the painful choice to say goodbye to his daughter, and took up arms again to kill the Queen of Hades and save her. He killed the sun god and gave Atlas a more cruel punishment: supporting the earth. At this time, the Sandman's power also faded, and the gods passed the crisis. Due to physical and mental exhaustion, Kratos fell from the Sun God's carriage. Just when he was about to fall to the ground, God came to rescue him, and Athena's explanation was: This man will still be useful in the future.... [From PSP "God of War: Austria" Chain of Limpis"]
So, the sacrifice of one's life continues, and of course the nightmare has not gone away. While Kratos was traveling by boat in the Aegean Sea, he was attacked by the Hydra, a nine-headed monster. Kratos struggled to kill the monster. At this time, Kratos could no longer bear it. The gods had promised him that they would relieve him of the nightmare, but after so many experiences, the gods still did not respond. However, Athena had a new oracle: Ares, the god of war, was attacking her. In the city-state of Athens, in order to avoid a melee between the gods, Athena sent the mortal Kratos to deal with Ares, and told Kratos that if he succeeded, he would be relieved of his nightmare.
Kratos later learned that the way for mortals to kill gods is to use the power of Pandora's Box. Later, when Kratos went to the Pandora Temple to find the magic box, he was plotted by Ares. However, after he crawled out of hell and opened the magic box, Kratos killed Ares. When Kratos asked Athena to relieve the nightmare, he was rejected. He was frustrated and decided to commit suicide. However, the gods did not let him die and made him the new God of War. [From PS2 "God of War"]
After Kratos became the new God of War, there are still a group of die-hard believers of Ares in the mortal world. They are trying to find the legendary fairy fruit to resurrect Ares. In order to prevent this from happening, Kratos came to the long-lost Well of Asclepius alone and planned to destroy the fairy fruit tree. Who knows that the island where the fairy fruit tree grows is actually Guges, one of the hundred-armed giants. He originally waited here for many years for the fairy fruit to mature and regain his life. But Kratos took the fairy fruit away and the fire caused by the melee also burned it. Only stumps of the giant's hundreds of arms remained. The giant regarded Kratos as his enemy and wanted to kill him, but now that Kratos has divine power, he used the flames of the sun god to burn the giant's entire body and the fairy fruit tree. [From the main timeline of the comic "God of War"][1]
Although he became a god, Kratos was always attracted by some fantasy of the sea city Atlantis. Kratos ignored Athena's obstruction and decided to go to Atlantis to find out. There Kratos saw his mother and learned about his life experience and clues about his younger brother. However, his mother was cursed and turned into a monster and was killed by Kratos. At this time, Kratos was filled with grief and anger. To the extreme, we must find our last relatives. Later, Kratos struggled to find his brother in the abyss of hell, but it didn't go well because this was the territory of the God of Death. After a period of brotherly recognition, the two brothers finally worked together to kill the God of Death, but the younger brother died in the battle. In the end, Athena decided to lift Kratos' nightmare, but Kratos refused. After several betrayals by the gods, Kratos decided to make the gods pay the price. [From PSP "God of War: Ghost of Sparta"]
After that, Kratos relied on the power of the God of War to help his people conquer territories everywhere. The gods, who were deeply dissatisfied, sent various monsters to stop him. In the process, Kratos was framed as the murderer of Hera's pet, the Hundred-Eyed Giant, and the real murderer escaped under the cover of Hades. Kratos pursued the murderer to no avail, but accidentally killed Ceryx, the son of Hermes, who came to hold him accountable. [From the mobile platform "God of War: Betrayal"]
Kratos's unrestrained abuse of private power finally made Zeus intolerable. He was afraid that Kratos' power would surpass his own, so he planned to kill him. In the underworld of hell, there was a voice calling him, that is Gaia, the mother of the earth. Gaia has been paying attention to Kratos for a long time. She resurrected Kratos and told him to change his destiny and go to the three sisters of Destiny if he wanted to defeat Zeus. After all the hardships, Kuiye finally came to the three sisters, killed them and rewrote history. When he almost killed Zeus, Athena appeared to stop him and was accidentally killed by Kratos. Zeus took the opportunity to escape. Before she died, Athena told Kratos: Zeus was his biological father, and Zeus wanted to get rid of Kratos because he was afraid that his son would surpass him. At the same time, I hope Kratos will not seek revenge from Zeus. But Kratos had made up his mind and returned to the Holy War era through the "time machine" of the three sisters, summoning the failed Titan family to his era to launch a general attack on the Olympus gods. [From PS2 "God of War 2"]
The war began. Kratos, who had already cooperated with the Titans, met Zeus, but Zeus struck first and knocked Gaia and Kratos off Mount Olympus. In the face of crisis, Gaia abandoned Kratos to protect herself. It turned out that Gaia was just using him before. But Kratos came back from death again and met a higher form of Athena. Athena tells Kratos that the way to kill Zeus is the Holy Fire of Olympus. Later, Kratos went through great pains to find the Holy Fire, and found that Pandora's Box was hidden in the Holy Fire, and Zeus appeared at the same time. It turns out that Zeus injected all the evil in the world into the magic box to make it very powerful, and Athena secretly injected the power of hope into it. After that, the box was tightly hidden in the Pandora Temple, until Kratos first Open it. The power of fear released from it infected Zeus, and the power of hope was passed on to Kratos. In the end, Kratos used the power of hope to kill Zeus who betrayed him (in fact, Kratos used the power of hope to kill Ares back then). At the end, Athena appeared, and it turned out that this was all a conspiracy set by Athena. She asked Kratos for the power of hope and became the true Lord God. But Kratos chose to commit suicide and left the power of hope to mankind. But in the final scene, we can find that Kratos stood up again after committing suicide. The place where he fell was a large phoenix pattern (which may also indicate the rebirth of the phoenix) and a pool of blood, which means that Kratos Si's story is not over, it may just be the beginning.
[From PS3 "God of War 3"]