Okay, so you wanna know if Kratos ended up in Midgard after God of War 3? Alright, buckle up, ’cause I’m gonna walk you through how I figured this one out. It was a bit of a deep dive, let me tell you.
First things first, I remembered the ending of God of War 3. Kratos, pretty much destroyed everything in Greece, right? Then he stabs himself with the Blade of Olympus. At first, I thought that was it, end of story. But something always felt off. He just… vanished.
So, I started digging. My initial thought was that if he did survive, where would he even GO? The obvious assumption is the underworld, right? Like that quote says, “When Kratos died, he appeared in the Underworld next to the Titan Gaia.” But wait a minute, that’s if he died. And did he really die?
That’s when I started looking for clues outside of the immediate aftermath of his self-inflicted wound. I mean, the very existence of the Norse saga tells us something big happened between Greece and Scandinavia.
I then rewatched the end credits scene. Notice how you don’t see Kratos’s body? Just the Blade, and then a trail of blood leading off the cliff. That screamed “he’s alive!” to me. Alright, Kratos survived, now where the heck did he go?
My next step was crucial: connecting the dots. I focused on these key observations:
- Kratos disappears after stabbing himself.
- He clearly is alive in the Norse games.
- There’s a HUGE time gap between the Greek and Norse eras.
So, here’s what I pieced together. Somehow, and this is the part where the details are still a bit fuzzy, Kratos survived his self-inflicted wound. My working theory is that he either had some latent power we didn’t know about or the act of releasing Hope scattered the divine energy inside him, somehow saving him but severely weakening him in the process.
Then I looked at some fan theories, they gave me a few hints and ideas.
Like, if he survived, maybe he took to the sea in search of someplace new.
Maybe he spent years just wandering and lost.
The “how” he got to Midgard is still up for debate and head-canon, but the “did” he get to Midgard is, to me, a resounding YES. The Norse games are canon. They tell us, without a shadow of a doubt, that Kratos made it. The whole journey is what shaped him into the more stoic, if reluctant, father figure we see raising Atreus.
Bottom line: I don’t have all the answers, and there are definitely gaps in the story between God of War 3 and God of War (2018). But, piecing together the ending of God of War 3, the existence of the Norse saga, and a little bit of logical deduction, it’s pretty damn clear to me that Kratos DID find his way to Midgard. The journey itself? That’s a story for another day, and likely filled with even more bloodshed and self-discovery.
Conclusion
So yeah, that’s how I figured it out. It was a fun little thought experiment, and it definitely made me appreciate the story even more. What do you guys think? How do YOU think he got there? Let me know in the comments!
