His mother was a Giantess, making him part Giant.
"No," Kratos replies, "this is your story." He isn't expressing it outwardly, but Kratos was never told about any of this by Faye, and Atreus quickly pieces it all together. RELATED: What Would Happen if God of War's Kratos Had Thor's Mighty Mjolnir? To Atreus' shock, the tapestry doesn't just show his mother wielding the Leviathan Axe his father would come to own, it shows him and Kratos meeting the World Serpent and the fight with Baldur that happened before their arrival there. Faye recorded it all on the walls, along with an ominous (and unfinished) cave drawing of Atreus cradling his father's apparently dead body. (In the world of God of War, they are not all, despite their names, actually giant sized.) The walls of the cave peel themselves back to reveal an artful tapestry showing Faye talking with the Giants of days past. Though it's been a lengthy and adventurous process, the duo manage to reach their destination after killing Freya's son, Baldur, who's been tracking the pair since the beginning of the game.ĭuring their trip to the peak, the two come across an ornate cave filled with statues of Giants, who haven’t been seen in a long time after they presumably disappeared back to their home realm of Jotunheim.
The main thread of the game concerns Kratos and Atreus taking the ashes of the former's dead wife Faye to the "highest peak in all the Realms" to watch them scatter in the sky, per her last wish. In the final moments of the game, the truth is revealed, and it opens the possibilities of the franchise up in a big way. The young and timid boy is such a stark contrast from his more gruff father that there just had to be some shoe in relation to him that the game was waiting to drop. One of the big mysteries surrounding the new God of War game has been that of Kratos' son, Atreus. The following contains MASSIVE spoilers for Sony Santa Monica's God of War.