Freya (God of War)

Freya is a major character of the Norse Era of the franchise. She is the Norse Goddess of Love, War, Beauty, Fertility, Childbirth and Magic who is the former wife of Odin and the estranged mother of Baldur.
She aids Kratos and Atreus in their quest to reach Jötunheim, teaching them about the Nine Realms and helping Atreus with his illness, and even helping Kratos come to terms with his murderous past. She also develops a maternal bond with the Atreus and becomes one of the only living beings Kratos genuinely cares for, but her alliance with them is broken when Kratos kills Baldur to protect her from his retribution, only for Freya to swear vengeance upon him.
Three years later in Ragnarök, while initially trying hard to kill Kratos, she slowly begins to lose her desire for revenge until their journey in Vanaheim where she finally forgives him and abandons her desire to kill her son's murderer. From that point on, she then becomes Kratos' assist character in Atreus' place until the end where she permanently replaces him post-game.
She is voiced and motion captured by . In the Japanese version, she is voiced by Kikuko Inoue.
==Biography==
===Background===
Freya is the daughter of Njord, the Vanir God of the seas, and an unnamed mother, and is also the sister to Freyr. Being the leader of the Vanirs during their war against the Aesir, after years of fight, Mimir, Odin's advisor gave a solution for the fight between the two factions, Freya and Odin would marry each other, she agreed to marry Odin to stop the bloodshed, and bring peace between the two sides though she never forgave Mimir for doing that. In addition by this time, she had become the leader of the Valkyries, a group sworn to protect the realms, and lead the dead to Valhalla. With Odin, she showed him her magic, and he began to experiment; using it for unjust purposes.
She would have a child named Baldur, whom she cherished more than anything as her marriage to Odin became more strained due to her husband's greedy lust for knowledge. Learning of a prophecy that would kill her son, she decided to cast a spell of invulnerability onto Baldur, making him feel no pain from injuries. The spell worked too well, as he wasn't able to taste or feel anything, and demanded to have it spell taken away. Despite his plea, she stated that it couldn't be removed and told him that he would thank her in the long run, but he attempted to kill her before leaving in resentment. Baldur would continue to find a way to break the spell, as Freya lied to him on how to break it through mistletoe.
Eventually, Freya would break off her marriage to Odin due to his cruelty, and Norse Gods becoming violent, notably Thor killing giants mercilessly. Angered that the marriage was broken, he cursed the goddess to never be able to leave Midgard or harming any living creature. In addition, he took away her wings, leaving the Valkyries to deal with Odin and later become corrupted. This event was not taken well by others, who saw that Freya had a warrior spirit, as she was left in isolation.
Before breaking off her marriage to Odin, Freya was told by the guised as a mortal jötunn Hrimthur the secret weakness in Asgard walls that he put, in preparation for the downfall of the Aesir in Ragnarök.
Despite being alone, Freya would befriend Chaurli, a giant turtle where she would reside near the Lake of the Nine. In addition, she also befriended a boar that was actually an amnesiac God who was stuck in that form.
===God of War (2018)===
Under the command of Kratos, Atreus shoots a boar god named Hildisvíni, landing a successful hit. Atreus chases after the boar only to get lost and meet a horrified Freya, not knowing that the boar was her friend. Kratos arrives in time and helps Freya heal Hildisvíni, resulting in success. Afterwards, Freya gives Kratos and Atreus a marking that will hide them from anyone who might make the father and son's journey difficult. Freya gives Kratos and Atreus a safe way out through the cave directly below her woods, and the two leave.
Freya reappears when Kratos and Atreus encounter Black Breath, a corrupted form of magic not even Freya can dispel, requiring the Light of Alfheim to break through. The trio make their way to Týr's Temple to travel to Alfheim along with reawakening the realm travel room after being dormant for so long. The trio make their way to Alfheim where Freya is suddenly sucked away from Alfheim and back into Midgard, and isn't seen again for a while, Atreus worried that she may be dead.
Kratos and Atreus return to Freya, with Atreus happy to find out that Freya is not dead, requesting that she revives the head of Mimir. Freya, noticing Atreus's mistletoe arrows, demands that he hands them over to her despite being a gift from Sindri. Freya proceeds to burn the arrows, telling him that if Atreus finds anymore mistletoe arrows, he must destroy them. Freya allows Atreus to take her arrows in his place, having no need for them anymore. Under Kratos and Atreus's request, Freya revives Mimir using the old magic, proceeding to spit in his face for inadvertently getting her trapped in Midgard. Mimir also reveals that the "Witch of the Woods" was the goddess Freya, resulting an enraged Kratos to ask Freya why she didn't think it was important to tell him she was a goddess, leaving the house with Atreus.
At some point in the game, Atreus falls into a coma after using the Spartan Rage due to being too young to withstand and control the Rage. A terrified Kratos returns to Freya's house to cure Atreus from the illness, who proceeds to turn her back on Kratos. However, the moment Kratos mentions Atreus being ill, she immediately lets him in, needing the heart of the Bridge Keeper in Helheim to cure Atreus. Kratos returns to Freya with the heart, where she is thankfully able to cure Atreus from his coma.
After the second fight with Baldur, Kratos and Atreus witness an illusion of Baldur being cursed with not being able to feel anything in Helheim, where despite Baldur's pleas, Freya refuses to lift the curse, claiming that she is not able to remove the curse at all, eventually vanishing. Freya reappears once again, in which she searches for her son, Baldur after several years of not seeing him. After recently finding out about Freya selfishly keeping Baldur's curse, reluctantly speak or stand near her. Baldur suddenly appears from out of the water, surprised to see his mother after over a century. Freya, still aware of how angry Baldur is, tries to work something out with him but he refuses and approaches Freya. Kratos steps in, warning Baldur that he will not have any peace from getting revenge on his mother based on past experiences. Baldur ignores Kratos's advice and continues to approach Freya, seeming ready to attack Freya. Kratos pushing Baldur and the two begin to fight for the third time. At some point in the fight, Freya ensnares Kratos in vines to prevent him from attacking Baldur, the latter throwing a boulder at Freya. Atreus steps in and guards his father, not wanting him to get hurt despite Baldur's warning.
Baldur punches Atreus in the chest and inadvertently punches the tip of the mistletoe. An ecstatic Baldur happy that he is finally able to feel after over a century of devoid of any feeling. Freya, however, is horrified by this event and reanimates the frost giant, Thamur, to stop the fight between Kratos, Atreus, and Baldur. The fight finally comes to an end when Atreus calls the World Serpent tell kill the reanimated giant. Freya convinces Baldur to have forgiveness for her so that they can build a new and better relationship, which Baldur turns down. Freya even allows Baldur to choke her to death, which he proceeds to do. Kratos intervenes and snaps Baldur's neck, killing him for good. Enraged, Freya swears vengeance on Kratos for the death of her son, calling him an animal and will never change his cruelty and rage. This inspires Kratos to share his story of how he killed his father to Atreus. After hearing Kratos' story, Freya holding the corpse of her son, leaves in silence and is never seen again.
Apparently, while Kratos and Atreus were in Jötunheim spreading the ashes of Faye, Freya visited Brok, Sindri and Mimir, asking them where she can find her warrior spirit.
===God of War Ragnarök===
Freya returns in the sequel, still seeking vengeance against Kratos for killing her son. and it reveals its not the first time she attacked Kratos, Kratos tries not to hurt her because she helped them in their journey and cured Atreus. eventually, Kratos knocks her of his sledge and succeeds to get away from her. later, Atreus plans to reason with her and tells her that he and Kratos will fight and kill Odin, believing that Freya will help them because she also wanted to do the same thing. But Freya is still mad at them and throws Atreus away with her magic.
Later, Freya wears valkyrie armor and wings to kill Kratos and when she found him she fought with him in attempt to kill him. Kratos didn't know that it is Freya who is fighting with him because she was wearing a mask. During the fight, Kratos recognizes that it is Freya, she takes off the mask and places a blade on his throat, reminding him that he will suffer agony and violation from her when he killed her son, But Atreus interferes as he transforms into a bear to save his father, Kratos calms Atreus not to hurt her and reminds him that she was an ally to them and she helped them in the past, Freya also calms down and thinks that Kratos can actually help her getting rid of the curse that Odin placed on her which prevents Freya from leaving Midgard(that's why she was unable to come with Kratos and Atreus to alfheim in the previous game). Kratos accepts to help her.
Thay travel to Vanaheim with Brok and there they reunite Freyr (Freya's brother). Freyr guarded Vanaheim with several monsters and and creatures along with deadly plants, Kratos has to go through them to reach the curse and break it. 
In their way, Kratos then then tells her about his brother deimos and his tragic backstory, and tells her that ares tricked him into killing his own wife and daughter, which makes freya feel bad about him. 
Eventually, thay make their way to the spell but before breaking it they fight Nidhog, a creature who protects the roots of the world tree which holds the curse. Freya breaks the curse, now able travel to the other realms, means that kratos is no longer needed, but thanks to their long talk she realizes that kratos isn't the enemy, it's Odin.
After reconciling with Freyr, Freya joins Kratos in returning to Sindri and Brok's house, where she joins Kratos, Mimir, and Tyr in scolding Atreus for thinking of cooperating with Odin. After Atreus runs away to Asgard, Freya and Kratos decide to seek out the Nornir, the Fates of Midgard, to discern how to retrieve Atreus. To face the Nornir, they have to go through trials filled with hallucinations of their past, with Freya having to go through the horrifying ordeal of being confronted by Baldur all over again. Finally reaching the Nornir, they are given the confusing revelation that there is no true prophecy, and that whatever the Nornir predict is not set in stone: they taunt that Baldur suffered a senseless death because of how Freya raised him, rather than because of fate. Upon learning that Heimdall is "fated" to kill Atreus, Kratos ignores their warnings and departs with Freya.
After reuniting with Atreus, who caused havoc in Helheim by releasing a giant Garm, they learn about the mask he recovered, which Odin is trying to get his hands on. Learning Freyr was captured by the Aesir, Freya joins Kratos and Atreus in rescuing him, though it comes at the cost of Freyr's friend Birgir, who sacrifices himself to stop an attack by dragons. Freya takes an injured Freyr to be healed in the aftermath.
After Kratos is forced to kill Heimdall, making Ragnarök inevitable, Freya and the rest of the group agree that their best option is for Atreus to head to Asgard to finish reassembling the mask. Atreus does so, and upon returning to the refuge gives the mask to Týr, who claims to know a secret path to Asgard. Just as they are preparing to leave, however, Brok calls Týr's claims into question and confronts him over it: to everyone's shock, Týr fatally stabs Brok in anger and reveals himself to really be Odin in disguise, grabbing Atreus as a hostage. Freya tries to angrily confront her former husband, but is forced to break off from the confrontation to try to heal Brok, and Odin manages to escape with the mask. Despite Freya's best efforts, Brok dies in Sindri's arms, leaving the entire group crestfallen at how they were deceived by Odin.
Galvanized by Brok's death, the group reaffirms that they will fight Odin themselves. During their confrontation with Odin, Freya uses her Valkyrie powers to force him to kneel before her, getting revenge for his role in her son's fate and his abuse of her during their marriage. After Atreus destroys the mask and transfers Odin's soul into a stone, he hands it off to Kratos, who in turn offers Freya the chance to destroy it and get her revenge. Freya, having learned from her experiences with Kratos that revenge will not be the cure for her suffering, refuses, only for a vengeful Sindri to destroy it himself. Surtr soon begins destroying Asgard, and despite Freya's protests, Freyr sacrifices himself to allow her and the others to escape.
In the aftermath, Atreus finds Freya in Midgard, who thanks him for his actions and accepts him as part of her family, giving him back his necklace as a sign of his warrior spirit. After Kratos and Atreus separate, she and Mimir agree to help him in rebuilding the Nine Realms in the aftermath of Ragnarök. From then on, Freya becomes Kratos' traveling companion in much the same way as Atreus. They investigate a prison in Vanaheim where they are shocked to find the real Týr, still alive and oblivious to Odin's deception. They also find Birgir alive and help him get back home. They return to Sanctuary Grove, where Freya uneasily apologizes to Chaurli, having neglected him in her quest for revenge: Birgir offers to take care of Chaurli in her stead while she helps Kratos.
Freya is present for Brok's funeral, helping Sindri by using one of her arrows to set his pyre aflame. Learning that Gná, Odin's replacement for her as Valkyrie Queen, has survived the battle in Asgard, she and Kratos set out to hunt the dangerous enemy. Finding Gná in Musphelheim, the two battle and eventually subdue her. 
After Asgard's destruction, Freya, Kratos and Mimir found a prison in Niflheim where they discovered the real Tyr (Freya's former stepson). Freya and Mimir realized the prison is where Odin imprisoned those who he impersonate as well kept his prisoners alive in order to assume their appearances. Freya offer shelter and food for Tyr but the only for the Norse God of War declined and wanted to be alone for a while. 
==Personality==
Initially, Freya is very friendly and hospitable towards Atreus and even towards Kratos despite the latter's open distrust of virtually everyone and hatred for godly beings. It is implied that Freya sees herself in Kratos and that this is why she decided to help him, although she also teases "or maybe I just like you".
It is unknown which of these answers is true, but she is shown to care for Atreus, both as a friend and as a mother-figure of sorts. She occasionally scolds Kratos for keeping his past a secret from Atreus, and for distrusting divine beings despite being one himself. However, she understands his distrust due to the past actions of divine beings like the Aesir. She possibly reminded Kratos of Athena, which was why he was reluctant to trust her at first and not open with her as well.
However, like other villainous or morally dubious deities in the series, Freya has a darker side which made her worse than she appeared to be. Behind her maternal side is a selfish, vindictive being as well as representing the worst of manipulative and narcissistic parent. When hearing of her son's fated death, she placed a curse on him that would make him immune to death and pain, yet cut him off from all his other physical sensations, all to feel secure in knowing Baldur wouldn't die. Even after Baldur begged her to lift the curse and seeing the agony her son was in, she refused, even claiming that there was no way to lift the curse. This selfish mindset of willing to put her son's life over his happiness caused him to endure over a century of agony. While she mostly hid these worst side of hers hidden from her allies Kratos and Atreus, the father and son notice this when she shown panic upon the sight of a number of mistletoe Atreus carry and later, seeing an illusion of Baldur's sad history with Freya at Helheim in which Mimir had trouble in recalling the full story about it.
This is because Freya placed a discrete spell on Mimir when she resurrected him, preventing him from speaking about Baldur's weakness and of her connection to him. Even when admitting to Kratos that she let her needs and fears come before her son, she still refused to change herself or lift the spell, and when Baldur was finally able to feel again, while he was euphoric in regaining his senses, Freya was horrified that the spell was broken, not caring that her son was happy to feel again. In the end, Freya's greatest desire was to keep her son alive, never feeling even a sliver of remorse for her actions or apologizing to her son despite seeing how much Baldur suffered and unable to truly see her own errors, not even with Baldur's attempt to kill her.
Kratos eventually resorted to kill Baldur in order to save Freya, earning Freya's hatred in the process. She swears vengeance against Kratos for killing Baldur, even though her son was hellbent on killing her and would have forced Kratos to kill him anyway right afterwards. She was perfectly willing to sacrifice herself if it meant Baldur would live, something that Kratos himself understands.
She scolds Kratos, calling him an animal and saying he will never change, inspiring Kratos to tell his terrible and murderous past to Atreus. After picking up her son's body, she looks back at the two, hinting that despite her hatred for Kratos, she respected him for admitting his past, and at least hopes that his child will not meet the same fate as his own.
With the intent of reclaiming her Valkyrie powers, it is clear that Freya has not given up her drive for vengeance and won't likely let it go. In fact, she relentlessly attacked Kratos to get her revenge once she weakened Odin's bewitchment on her that she regained a fraction of her Valkyrie powers and (later) wings. As vengeful as she had become, Freya fortunately doesn't stoop as low as evil deities Kratos vanquished since she retained some affection towards Atreus (the worst thing she does to the young man during their secret meeting being confiscating his Mistletoe necklace) and eventual inner conflict in her later attempt on Kratos' life which became apparent when Ghost of Sparta calms Atreus down when the latter resorted to turn into a nearly out-of-control bear as their fight escalated further, latter which reminded her of her own behavior as a parent from watching how Kratos cares for his son. She eventually buried her hatchet with Kratos after the latter assisting her in fully undoing Odin's binding magic that restrained her powers, being reminded of the All-Father's mistreatment on both her and her people as well as learning more about Kratos' own past quest of vengeance. At this point, Freya acknowledged that resentment she had toward Kratos won't likely go away, but nonetheless stated that Odin being the one who deserved her hatred. Her change to better even best displayed upon having Atreus presented her the soul stone containing Odin's soul; rather than destroying it as expected, Freya refrained herself from doing so because she had since understood vengeance won't bring her the peace she sought, leading vengeful Sindri does her a favor instead.
Freya hates Mimir under the falsely belief that he broke her marriage with Odin just to end the war between the Aesir and Vanir but instead made the war even worse. It can be inferred that this hatred lessened somewhat after aforementioned conclusion regarding Odin.
==Appearance==
Due to her godhood, Freya's youthful appearance belies her true age. Despite her son Baldur's claims that it had been at least 100 years since the two were last together and the fact that she fought in the Aesir-Vanir war which lasted for centuries, Freya has the appearance of a tall and beautiful woman in her late 30's. She has long back-length reddish chestnut hair tied in a near the end with some beaded and two long braided locks that fall to her shoulders. At the beginning of the game, she wears a light brown dress with animal skins and has faded tattoos on her arms. Towards the end of the journey, she is seen wearing a much more regal outfit; a dark brown leather dress with intricate runic patterns and gold inlaid into the lower part of dress. She also wears a bright orange shirt and her tattoos are no longer faded. According to Mimir, her fertile beauty was one of the reasons Odin agreed to marry Freya.
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==Trivia==
*Her Greek equivalents are Hera and Aphrodite.
*It's unknown how she knew Kratos' name even when he didn't introduce himself to her. It's possible that she knew the legend of the "Ghost of Sparta" from Tyr's journeys to other realms which is supported by her recognition of Kratos being a God from another land.
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