In the Prose Edda, a volume of Norse mythology cobbled together out of the Icelandic oral tradition by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, Baldur’s death immediately precedes Ragnarok, an event that upends much of the world and causes the destruction of many of the gods. And his death matters, not just for the plot of this game but in the context of the mythology that the game is cribbing from in order to create its universe of gods and their worlds. He dies unfulfilled, unhappy, at the hands of the god-killer Kratos. It would be better to die than to live this way.īaldur does die. This inability to feel drove him to exact revenge on his mother. Baldur was left immortal, pleasureless and painless. When he was born, Freya learned that he was destined to die in some horrible way, so she worked her powerful Vanir magic on him so as to make him immune to everything.
He’s the product of a political marriage between Odin, head god of the Aesir, one set of Norse gods, and Freya, leader of a competing faction called the Vanir. Within God of War, Baldur’s immortality and inability to feel are explained in the context of a larger bit of lore. After all, he cannot die and he can feel no pain. Kratos is good at doling out violence, but Baldur is the perfect receptacle for that violence. Baldur is more a function than he is a character, and it’s his ability to keep returning to the fight that makes him such a powerful villain within the context of a God of War game. The game truly opens when he appears at Kratos and Atreus’s home, it’s his attack that causes Kratos to destroy the portal to Jotunheim that causes the back half of the game, and it’s his murderous rage at his mother that causes Kratos to step into the affairs of the Norse gods at the close of the game. His name is Baldur.īaldur is the fuel for God of War’s plot. This positive story happens in a context, though, of another child. This child, Atreus, is the root of a supposed sea change in Kratos, and God of War is about navigating the transition from annihilator of pantheons to educating father figure. This being of pure negativity who shuts things down with maximum violence has to mold a child into a being who can be something other than what Kratos has been.
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On November 9, God of War Ragnarok will be available exclusively on PS4 and PS5.The turn in God of War, our newest entry in his tale, is that Kratos is tasked with adding something. However, Thor – the God of Thunder who wants to avenge his sons Magni and Modi, and his half-brother Baldur – Odin, the god-King and father of Thor – is now on a path to avenge his son, Baldur The death of Baldur in the previous game has set into motion the arrival of Ragnarok, the catastrophic event that will put an end to the whole nine realms and see the deaths of many Norse gods. In that final scene, Kratos and Atreus were finally at the highest point of the world where they scattered the ashes of Fae, Atreus' mother, who died before the game's events. Baldur was killed by Kratos, the guy who has been following them throughout the game but who has yet to die, at least until his final battle with Kratos.
Kratos' and his son Atreus' journey from 2018's God of War continues. So, Santa Monica Studio and Sony Interactive Entertainment, for example, have good reasons to have faith in the game's release a month from now. We don't often hear publishers and developers declare that their games in development have gone gold. When a video game is complete and ready for mass production, it becomes gold. More than a month before its release date, God of War Ragnarok has gone gold.
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