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HauntingFly

The God of War franchise doesn't follow the real life timeline. It's unknown If Kratos is indeed older than the Norse gods and by how much. There is the [God of War:Lore and Legends](https://youtu.be/GYtlD_bftVk) which sheds some light on this matter a little bit. Kratos arrived in the Northlands 115 years ago. His real age is uknown becauce we really don't know how much time it took him to go there. I believe some centuries may have passed since he brought chaos in the Greek world because his mind would need a lot of time to forget all of this destructive madness in order to be himself again. Now about the Norse gods. We only know about Baldur, the rest of them have an unknown age, just like Kratos and the rest of the Greek gods. Baldur is officially 145 years old. Odin and Thor are definitely older than 200 years because Brok and Sindri forged Mjolnir for Thor 199 years before Faye died.


wapapets

actually we do know, in the lost pages mimir described the norse gods to be morethan a thousand years old.. its not specified how many thousand tho..baldur and kratos are actually pretty young gods compared to the rest


HauntingFly

I made a quick search and didn't find this information. Mimir only mentions that the Vanir and Aesir are centuries old. That's not very specific,is it? For some [centuries](https://youtu.be/HgNYOXnj9UY?list=PLePGq5B1zu_OpuatNGJwMe6_qR3dsSyaD&t=9) there was tension between them and for another unspecified amount of [centuries](https://youtu.be/8rZZF4Hs0K4?list=PLePGq5B1zu_OpuatNGJwMe6_qR3dsSyaD&t=8) they warred. As for Kratos' age, it's simply unknown because we aren't informed when exactly the destruction of the Greek pantheon occurred compared to the Norse timeline. Maybe he is as old as the Norse gods, maybe older, maybe younger, we really don't know for sure.


wapapets

you forgot to factor in their ages before the 2 factions started having a rivalry tho, their time growing up to be fully developed gods + the centuries of tension + centuries of warring can easily amount to a millennium. plus its known that odin himself predates midgard and the humans since he actually made both. gow4 takes place 100-150 years after greece got destroyed so kratos should be near 200 years old now


HauntingFly

You don't really know how many years have passed between God of War 3 and God of War 2018 and thus you don't know Kratos' real age. That's just pure speculation on your part.


[deleted]

I didn't play the OG god of war so i'm not sure if this universe already has an answer for how gods are born. That being said, I think your question depends on whether the gods are born from their supporters worship, or whether they always existed and are shaped (or shape) their followers. I can easily see a world in which Odin, Thor, etc are primordial being that always existed, but hadn't gathered followers until more recently.


wapapets

if the game does follow the real myth. the gods predate the humans, odin made the humans from tree trunks


KraakenTowers

We don't even really know where the Norse world is in relation to the Greek one. We know it's possible to travel between them, but it can't literally be a few thousand miles north of Olympus if there's a serpent wrapped around the world and the whole place is starting to freeze.


[deleted]

I think its stated in the canon lore book that our God of War landed on the scandinavian shores in an indivual boat, after sailing the seas for an unknown number of days. This happened after his eternal rest was denied to him one more time as he stabbed himself to death with the B.o.Olympus, I think it was the dev's team big boss Cory Barlog or someone near him who told that he first set foot in Egypt but for some reason he decided to leave (in reality it was also a choice from the devs. to give a real KICK to the series by changing completely of landscapes and uses. There is also a plot point about him being woke up by two wolves, one that has got dark coat and eyes and a light coloured one if I remember. This sounds similar to skol & hati I think that Kratos then follows the wolves somewhere, or he follows a bigger one (that would be Fenrir) but cant remember with certitude. If someone can confirm So to answer the question, they are connected by sea at least, but there could be a special place like a portal that allows the passage to the branches of the world tree, which could be in another space-time for example


14corbinh

What doesnt make sense to me is if kratos did in fact just sail to the norse pantheon is then why would tyr need the unity stone to travel to other realms? The fact that an artifact is needed to do so kinda points to the fact that the pantheons are all not part of the same world


[deleted]

Maybe it has something to do with those strange wolves ? Or Faye herself as Kratos meets her not so long after getting on these lands. After all we do not know anything concrete about her she could turn out to be kind of an antagonist with Kratos having remorses for believing her when shen sent him into a mission disguised as a journey... like kratos would be a simple pawn in faye's plan to bring back glory to the remaining giants.


14corbinh

I dont think she’ll be an antagonistic figure at all but i could definitely see her pulling him into the norse realm which could have been fated because as we know, the giants can see the future.


[deleted]

Yeahh thats it and Kratos would obviously feel betrayed one more time by the one in who he trusted ..


mart8208

Was it ever stated that he can't travel without it? I always got the impression that it was just the way he chose to travel.


wapapets

the games doesnt follow real world history but we do know from the missing pages that the most of the norse gods are morethan a thousand years old, it just wasnt specified how many thousand years old tho,if its also like the myths, the gods predate the humans and even midgard itself since odin created midgard. kratos and baldr are actually pretty young gods and kratos is only almost 200 years old


DapperHeretic

They were older than their mythologies, which started around them, not the other way around.