
After obtaining it from inside of Jörmungandr, who inadvertently swallowed it when he ate Thor's statue, they are attacked by Baldur again, but Freya intervenes in an attempt to protect her son. Returning to Midgard, Mímir realizes there is another way to reach Jötunheim, but he needs his missing eye. Desperate to protect him, Freya had cast a spell on Baldur that makes him immune to all physical and magical threats, but also makes unable to feel any joys of life, causing Baldur to resent his mother. Atreus foolishly picks a fight with Baldur, who then proceeds to destroy the portal to Jötunheim and throw the group into Helheim.Ītreus makes amends with Kratos, and while escaping from Helheim, they discover Baldur is Freya's son. At Midgard's peak, they are ambushed by Baldur. Atreus then becomes increasingly arrogant on their journey, and he murders a weakened Modi, despite Kratos ordering him not to. Atreus is cured, and Kratos tells him he is a god.

After retrieving the heart, he has a haunting vision of Zeus. Kratos returns home to unearth his old weapons, the Blades of Chaos, and is haunted by Athena's spirit. Freya instructs Kratos to retrieve the heart of a particular troll in Helheim however, his Leviathan Axe is useless there. Kratos fends him off, but Atreus collapses ill due to a mental contradiction of a god believing himself to be mortal. After Kratos kills Magni, Modi flees, but later returns and ambushes them. While searching for the components to open Jötunheim's portal, Kratos, Atreus, and Mímir's head are attacked by Modi and Magni. Kratos immediately distrusts her, but both Freya and Mimir warn him to tell Atreus about his true nature as a God, which Kratos keeps a secret from him. He instructs Kratos to cut off his head and have it revived by the witch, revealed to be the Vanir goddess Freya. Mimir, however, knows of another passage. Mimir also reveals that the highest peak of all nine realms is actually in Jötunheim, but access there has been blocked off by Odin and Thor. Upon vanquishing the mist and reaching Midgard's peak, Kratos and Atreus find out the Stranger who attacked them is alive and has two henchmen, the sons of Thor, Magni and Modi at his side, interrogating an imprisoned man, revealed to be Mimir.Īfter they leave, Kratos and Atreus confront Mimir, who reveals the Stranger as Baldur, an Aesir and son of Odin who is the paranoid All-Father and king of Asgard.

After running into impenetrable black mist which can only be extinguished with the Light of Alfheim, they receive aid from the Witch to use the Bifröst in order to travel to Alfheim and secure the Light. Reaching the Lake of Nine, Kratos and Atreus encounter the friendly World Serpent, Jörmungandr, the last remaining giant.
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They also meet the Dwarven Huldra brothers, Brok and Sindri who upgrade their weaponry throughout their journey, and a mysterious but friendly Witch of the Woods, who also provides help in her own way after they save her boar, which Atreus accidentally shot. Kratos and Atreus soon encounter many hurdles in their journey and fend them off.

After seemingly killing him, Kratos reluctantly takes Atreus with him and begins their journey. Kratos is soon attacked by a mysterious stranger with godlike powers, and who cannot feel anything physically. However much to Kratos' disappointment, Atreus proves his incompetence and lack of focus, making Kratos reconsider taking Atreus in his journey. Kratos and Atreus prepare a funeral pyre for her, mourn her death and soon go on a hunt as per Kratos' desire. The game begins after the death of the Jötunn warrior Faye, Kratos' second wife and Atreus' mother, whose last request was for her ashes to be spread at the highest peak of the Nine Realms. Many years have passed since Kratos, a Spartan warrior and former Greek God of War, took his vengeance against the Greek Gods, and he now lives with his young son Atreus in ancient Norway in the realm of Midgard.
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In order to teach his son, whose mother (and Kratos's second wife) has recently died, how to survive in such a world, Kratos must master the rage that has driven him for many years and embrace his newfound role as a father and a mentor. Having survived his final encounter with his father Zeus, Kratos has since travelled to Midgard in Ancient Norway and now lives with his young son Atreus in the world of the Norse gods, a savage land inhabited by many ferocious monsters and warriors. Many years have passed since the titular God of War, Kratos took his vengeance against the Olympian gods.
