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To say that the human relationship Kratos has with his iconic Blades of Chaos is a complicated one is an understatement. Throughout the series, Kratos has shown his hatred for his signature weapons, despite how often he has needed them. That's the case in the new God of State of war: Fallen God prequel serial, which is proving to Kratos how much he relies on the cursed weapons.

Afterwards surviving the end of God of State of war 3, Kratos leaves Greece in search of a more peaceful life. Nevertheless, Kratos is cursed to exist followed by the Blades of Chaos. No matter how hard he tries to get rid of them, they return right to his side again any time he wakes up. Kratos has been avoiding slumber in an attempt to keep them away, to no avail.

In this outcome of Fallen God, Kratos saves a village from a big crocodile beast. Riping its head apart with his bare hands, he believes he can take on any animate being without the demand of his blades (even if his bare-fisted brawling leveled the villagers' homes). However, when an fifty-fifty greater beast, a gigantic hippopotamus, emerges from the river beside the village, his previous tactics prove useless.

Kratos laments near how he cannot be left alone past the gods subsequently all this time, channeling that rage into his fists. He leaps into the air towards the beast and punches it foursquare in the snout. Though it clearly connects, Kratos is shocked that the beast barely reacted to the full force of his fist. Information technology's mere seconds before the brute sweeps Kratos away to the mountain far beyond the village, leaving him unconscious in a crater. With such a quick and savage defeat, it's articulate that Kratos cannot fight with fists lone -- he needs the blades.

The Blades of Chaos were forged by Ares, the Greek God of State of war, and bound to Kratos when he fabricated a deal with the god. Kratos promised to serve Ares if Ares saved him and brought him victory in battle. Ares granted Kratos the victory, immediately binding the blades to Kratos' body every bit a marker of his servitude. Ares removed the blades near the cease of the beginning God of State of war game when Kratos became a threat to him. That was the terminal time, chonologically, that the original Blades of Chaos were seen before the 2018 game on the PS4.

Kratos was glad to be free of the blades, as he saw them as goose egg just a curse. Serving Ares with the blades bound to him turned him into something of a monster. Kratos's rage in wielding the blades as Ares retainer immune Ares to deceive Kratos into killing his wife and kid, something for which Kratos vowed vengeance against.

Information technology's understandable and then why Kratos would wish never to utilize the blades again, even in such dire circumstances. Though he used them in the PS4 game, this was to protect his son, Atreus. Even and so it was only as a concluding resort. When the dwarf blacksmith Brok saw the blades he was in awe of them, asking if they were a family heirloom. Kratos tells Brok they are not, and that they volition never be.

Though Kratos has accepted that it is his destiny to fight this beast, he hasn't accepted that the blades are besides a office of said destiny -- despite already beingness told then. Since Kratos clearly intends to fulfill this function of his destiny and defeat the hippo fauna, eventually he volition have to take his destiny with the blades and wield them again, however painful that may exist.

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