God Of War's Most Overlooked Character Could Be The Villain All Along

The significance of the very start of the game, when Kratos is chopping down a marked tree, now becomes clear.

The trees with the markings on them must have been protected with a veiling spell, to hide Faye's presence from Odin and the rest of the Norse Gods. She had Kratos remove the trees and therefore disable the protection around her woods, which alerted the Gods to her presence in Midgard, and set her plan in motion. Sure enough, Odin sends his son Baldur to find her, setting off a chain of events she had long since predicted and inscribed on the Jötunheim temple wall.

Laufey wanted Baldur to come for her, however she knew that she would have to be dead by the time he arrived.

The giants have always hated Odin and the rest of the Norse Gods. Judging from the scene at the top of Jötunheim, the Giants have all been destroyed, presumably by Odin, but the temple drawings suggest that this had been foretold a very long time ago.

Could all of this be Faye and the other Giants' plan from the very beginning? Across the whole game there's zero mention of the specifics surrounding Faye/Laufey's passing, and the idea of her committing suicide in some fashion ties everything together perfectly. Hers is an act of revenge against a God driven mad by superstition and theories; the need to avenge her people painfully outweighing her love for Kratos.

As epic as the fights were in God of War 4, they didn't quite reach the level of spectacle that we saw in the first trilogy. God of War 3 culminated in the titans fighting the gods, and if they wanted to go down that route again, Kratos facing up against the Gods with any remaining Giants is definitely the way to go.

There is good reason to believe that the next God of War will focus on Fimbulwinter and Ragnarök, with Kratos and Loki caught in the middle, and all of it foretold by Faye. Though we never see her, and have only Kratos and Atreus’ interpretations of her prophetic drawings to go by, Faye is a massively instrumental character not only for 2018’s God of War, but for its planned sequels.

It’s hard to ignore what looks like that final drawing of Kratos lying dead in Atreus’ arms, as the two remark that Faye has always been right about all of her predictions so far. Anyone who knows God of War will also know that Kratos doesn’t tend to bow to prophecies, though.

They tend to bow to him.

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