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

In the end, Kratos and Atreus scatter Faye’s ashes together, her final wish fulfilled on a personal level, leaving father and son closer than ever as both family and warriors.

Faye’s ashes drift across the land, over a sea of giant corpses, and in death she is finally returned to her people.

Whatever her reasons were for concealing her true Jotün nature, she clearly wanted her husband and son to find out about it, once she was gone. We still don’t know how she died officially, but judging by the murals on the wall, everything, down to her death, was part of a much bigger plot to accelerate the coming of Ragnarök.

Perhaps her marriage to Kratos, and the birth of her son, teaching her son archery and ancient languages, and setting them on their path was all orchestrated purely for this purpose; her plan mapped-out down to the tiniest detail, and she was willing to sacrifice her own life to set it all in motion. The journey to Jötunheim gave her husband and son the strength to defeat one of the Norse Gods' strongest weapons - Baldur - and that fired the flare for the apocalypse.

God of War director Cory Barlog has described Faye as an incredibly powerful and almost omnipresent character. He confirms the reveal that the gold handprints on the trees Kratos cuts across the forests, over mountains and across lakes, guiding Kratos and Atreus on their journey, were all put there by Faye, guiding them every step of the way. Whether her intentions were familial or for wider, potentially nefarious reasons though, it's undeniable she knew exactly what she was doing.

Perhaps Faye did truly love Kratos, but it seems that her motives for choosing him as a partner were perhaps clouded by a secret plot. In a spectacular show of self-sacrifice, Faye has devised the ultimate plan to destroy all the Norse Gods once and for all, with Ragnarök.

Perhaps.

In the end, what we do learn is how much she meant to those that loved her, and whatever her reasons for keeping her secrets, we can only hope to learn more in God of War 5.

I truly believe we haven't seen the last of Laufey the Giantess.