Ash

Ash is Eve’s sister and Ryan’s cousin, who infrequently appears at conventions

## History

Sometime after bringing an end to the reign of the Gods of Olympus, Kratos awakens to find himself denied of the comforts of death, and instead cursed to walk the Earth as a severe punishment for his deeds. Soon, the Blades of Chaos return to him, and he attempts to throw them into the sea, only to find them somehow mysteriously returned to him after he sleeps. Hoping to escape from his past to at least find some kind of solitude in a new eternal way of his punishment, Kratos sets sail to new lands, again attempting to rid himself of the Blades. When Kratos reaches ashore, he passes out, and when he awakens, he finds the Blades waiting for him once again. He discards them once again before coming across a big village, where he is met by the Inhabitants with fear.

He soon learns from an old man that he is the legend known as the Ghost of Sparta and the God of War. Kratos soon realized that this big village is called as the “Land of the Pharaohs”. The man warns Kratos that he cannot escape his destiny, but Kratos simply knocks him out aside and walks off. Kratos continues walking, and also sleeplessly trying to avoid the Blade’s return. As days turn into more months, Kratos eventually succumbs to his own slumber, and awakens all again to find the Blades of Chaos before him. Refusing to allow his past to keep up with him, Kratos again leaves the Blades behind and continues his trek, being taunted by various animals along the way who warned him of his destiny that lies ahead. Once again, Kratos is overcome by exhaustion and passes out, finding Athena waiting for him in his dreams.

The goddess tells Kratos that the two of them are not yet fully through with each other, and instructs him to return to his home and “fulfil [his] purpose”. Kratos then calmly awakens, as he is unsurprised to find the Blades of Chaos returned to him once again. However, Kratos is surprised to find the old man from the village now before him, who instructs him to pick up the Blades to prepare for battle, as “the hour [he] will be needed is fast approaching”. Kratos defiantly throws the Blades aside again and continues walking, eventually reaching the same village he left months ago. While Kratos is confused at how he circled back to the big village, he is soon distracted by the villagers, who are again fearful, but not of him this time.

Instead, they beg for his help in fighting the giant known as the “Chaos Beast”, which soon attacks the village. The villagers, and the old man, surmise that their prayers to the Gods let summoned Kratos. Angered at the thought of the Gods controlling him once again, Kratos is bitter to help. The villagers run to escape the beast, and Kratos turns to find that the elderly man has vanished, as the creature advances towards him. Kratos gives in and fights the Chaos Beast, defeating it with his bare hands. Afterwards, the villagers return, but tremble in fear once again, running off while screaming of a “monster”. Kratos, confused as the Chaos Beast is dead, turns to see the old man once again, who claims that the threat has not yet been defeated.

He turns, and that a much larger Chaos Beast emerges from their village. The villagers beg Kratos to help them once again, but wanting to be left alone, he again simply walks away. The beast follows him, and an annoyed Kratos gives in, lunging at the monster to attack. The giant creature simply shrugs him off, sending Kratos crashing to the ground below, where the impact knocks him unconscious. In his dreams, Kratos finds Athena once again, this time accompanied by Thoth, the Egyptian God of Wisdom, and the two tell Kratos that he still must fulfill his own purpose as it was written, instructing him to finally takes the Blades of Chaos, Kratos tries to deny his fate, but Thoth, revealing himself to be the old man as well as the talking animals, simply tells him to save the poor villagers.

The god and the elderly old man further tells him that the Former God of War that much like in his homelands, in the Land of the Pharaohs, his destiny is already written and cannot be avoided. Kratos reluctantly succumbs to their reasoning and picks up the Blades, awakening back in his battle, which he continues, finally emerging victorious and slaying the big Chaos Beast. Exhausted from the battle, Kratos now passes out once again, and Thoth states that his purpose in the Land of the Pharaohs is complete, and his own path will carry him to a another land where he will walked to them as well. Kratos, frustrated that he is still a slave to fate but now knowing that there’s nothing he can do about it, simply grabs the Blades of Chaos, and continues walking, forced to relive his own nightmares in his mind as he journeys towards his destiny: another new land- Norse.

#### **Chapter Two**

Decades later, Kratos has found his way to the land of the Norse Gods, where he meets a woman named Faye whom he marries and settles down with in a home in the “Wild Woods” region of the Midgard realm. The pair soon have a child, who Kratos gives the name “Atreus”, after a Spartan soldier he respected alongside long ago, and he decides to keep his status as a demigod a secret from the boy. Hoping to learn to control his rage, Kratos frequently ventures out into the woods, where he is attacked by the animals inside. Honing his anger, he learns to refrain from fighting back, and instead simply deflect their attacks. However, he soon learns from a large Troll that he still doesn’t have full control over his emotions.

One day, Faye leaves to go hunting, leaving Atreus and Kratos at home. Kratos instructs Atreus to stay behind and chop wood as he heads off to find another “challenge” for his rage control. He soon comes across a giant bear attacking an old man, and Kratos fails to control himself, violently killing the bear before walking off, blaming the old man for setting off the events that led to him losing control. He leaves him for dead, returning home as another group of men watch him pass through an illusionary wall cloaking his home. Kratos returns to find Atreus playing with toys instead of chopping the wood, but before he can scold the boy, the group of men arrive and begin to speak to Kratos in their tongue, which he cannot understand.

Atreus now translates and reveals that the men have come to take revenge on Kratos, blaming him for their brother’s death. Kratos denies killing anyone, claiming that he only killed a beast, before the men transform into bear-like creatures themselves and engage in battle. Kratos defeats the creatures, killing one threatening Atreus with the axe the boy was to use to cut the wood. When another man threatens to go bring the rest of his clan to the house, Kratos chases him, bringing Atreus along. Frustrated at losing the man’s trail, Kratos begins to feel his rage boiling inside, but he is able to control it, just as he tries to teach Atreus to control his own fear.

Atreus suggests that the pair visit the “Old Seer”, who may know more about the clan of Beast Men. Kratos agrees, and Atreus leads the way. Once they arrive at her hut, Kratos speaks with the Seer, who reveals that the men are known as “Berserkers”, who receive their strength from their own fury, focusing it through a totem they worship. Kratos asks the location of the totem, and the Seer only states that she can reveal the location through a ritual she must perform. Kratos and Atreus wait outside for her answer, and she soon shows them the way to the totem, warning Kratos that he must control his own anger in order to defeat the Berserkers. Kratos leaves Atreus with the Seer and journeys to the Berserker’s camp, where he finds their sacred totem.

While Kratos tries to sneak past the sleeping Berserkers to destroy their idol, one awaken and alerts the rest, as they transform into their bear-like forms. Kratos’s rage immediately burns white-hot, and he attempts to fight the horde, only to find their own strength surpassing his. Finding himself unable to use his brute strength alone, Kratos remembers the Seer’s words and centers himself, controlling his rage and thinking quickly to destroy the totem, transforming the Berserker’s back to their human forms, who he is easily able to kill before burning their encampment to the ground. Back in the Seer’s hut, the old woman gives Atreus a mysterious knife, telling him he must use it soon.

Before he can ask what she means, a Berserker arrives in the hut and attacks the Seer. Kratos arrives shortly after, and snaps the man’s neck, instantly killing him. As she lays dying, the Seer asks Kratos to take care of her remains, before warning him that while he is able to defeat his enemies with ease, one day he’ll have to conquer himself. Kratos exits the woman’s hut, and he and Atreus build a funeral pyre for the Seer’s body. As they walk back home, Kratos tells his son, as well as himself, that from now on, he will handle the fighting from their next and newer adventures on the forest or towards the woods.

## Relationships

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