Ares (Isu)

## Ares

God of War, Bloodlust, Battlelust, Bloodshed, Violence, Cannibals, Masculinity, Murder, Courage, and Civil Order

## Identity, Naming & Whereabouts

### Title(s) (Japanese)

* 鳴の神
* 雷の神
* 嵐の神
* 挌闘の神
* 強さの神
* 奉献の神
* 空の神
* 戦争の神
* 神聖なの神
* 嵐の主
* オーディンの息子
* アスガードの王子

### Title(s) (Hepburn)

* *Raimei no Kami*
* *Kaminari no Kami*
* *Arashi no Kami*
* *Kakutō no Kami*
* *Tsuyo-sa no Kami*
* *Hōken no Kami*
* *Sora no Kami*
* *Sensō no Kami*
* *Shinseina no Kami*
* *Arashi no Omo*
* *Ōdin no Musuko*
* *Asugādo no Ōji*

### Title(s) (English)

* God of War (formerly)
* God of Bloodlust
* God of Battle Lust
* God of Bloodshed
* God of Violence
* God of Cannibals
* God of Masculinity
* God of Murder
* God of Courage
* God of Civil Order
* Son of Zeus
* Prince of the Gods
* Prince of Olympus

## Personal Status

### Relative(s)

* Gaia (great-grandmother) †
* Uranus (great-grandfather) †
* Cronus (grandfather) †
* Rhea (grandmother)
* Oceanus (great-uncle) †
* Hyperion (great-uncle) †
* Aegaeon (great-uncle) †
* Gyges (great-uncle) †
* Cottus (great-uncle)
* Aphrodite (great-grandaunt/sister-in-law/lover)
* Zeus (father) †
* Hera (mother) †
* Hades (uncle) †
* Poseidon (uncle) †
* Hestia (aunt)
* Demeter (aunt)
* Hephaestus (brother) †
* Alcliedes (half-brother) †
* Athena (half-sister) †
* Hermes (half-brother) †
* Apollo (half-brother)
* Artemis (half-sister)
* Persephone (half-sister) †
* Peirithous (half-brother) †
* Pollux (half-brother) †
* Perseus (half-brother) †
* Minos (half-brother) †
* Rhadamanthus (half-brother) †
* Aeacus (half-brother) †
* Hercules (half-nephew) †
* Theseus (cousin) †
* Triton (cousin)
* Pegasus (cousin) †
* Alecto (lover) †
* Phobos (son)
* Orkos (son) †
* Kratos (son)
* Deimos (son) †
* Lysandra (half-daughter in law) †
* Calliope (half-granddaughter) †
* Faye (half-daughter in law) †
* Atreus (half-grandsom)

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (Foreign)

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**Ares**, is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *HCoW* series created by Jade Raymond and Kaname Fujioka. He was an Isu who was later revered as the bloodthirsty, but original god of war in Greek mythology.

"*Flesh that burns, bones that break. But to break a man's spirit, is to truly destroy him. I have taught you many ways to kill a mortal, yet you have no idea what a true monster is, Kratos!*"

—Ares.

## Appearance & Biography

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### Appearance

Ares appears as a warrior god. He wears a brown sleeveless tunic, shoulder pieces with cerberus faces built into them, and has bracers and boots with chains on them. His boots go up to his knees. He has long hair and a beard, which seem to be made of fire. He can grow bladed spider legs from his back.

* Hair Color: Brownish Blode
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Gray
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Being the god of war, violence and bloodshed, Ares is cruel, sadistic, and violent, as seen by his caring only about spreading chaos and conflict across the world. According to Zeus, Ares only feels joy when destroying cities and nations. Ares is also extremely greedy and power hungry, as exemplified by his desire to destroy his father, so he can replace him as the new king of gods and the ruler of Olympus.

However, all his attempts to overthrow Zeus failed. He was even arrogant to the point of openly calling out Zeus and challenging his rule. Ares also considered love for one's family a weakness, which is evident by how he tricked Kratos into murdering his family, as he believed they hindered his servant from becoming a great warrior. He would later learn the hard way that he should have been careful with his expectations for Kratos, who slaughtered Ares in turn once he became aware of his machinations.

This shows that Ares never cared much for his own kin, as he plotted to kill his father Zeus and disowned one of his sons Orkos after he could not meet Ares' expectations. His relationship with his mother Hera and brother Hephaestus was unknown as he was not shown despising them. Ares envies his sister Athena, as she was favored by Zeus and was always trying to prove himself as superior to her in every way, such as creating the perfect warrior for example.

Eventually, his hatred and jealousy for his sister makes him attempt to destroy the sacred city, Athens; however, he was stopped and killed by Kratos, with the support of Athena herself.

## Abilities and Powers

As the original God of War, Ares possessed a formidable arsenal of superhuman and magical abilities - all in correlation with combat and warfare, as these were his spheres of influence. As an Olympian prince and firstborn son of Zeus, his powers were considerably stronger than lesser gods. Befitting his name, Ares was a mighty fighter and one of the most powerful Olympian Gods, possibly equal to or even exceeding his uncles in power who were second only to Zeus himself.

Ares was powerful enough that he easily eclipsed Persephone and all of the Furies in might, as evidenced by Kratos being able to defeat them with powerful but relatively simple magic artifacts and weaponry, whereas Kratos needed Pandora's Box, a much stronger power in comparison, in order to at least face the God of War on equal footing.

### Powers

* **Pocket Dimension Creation/Manipulation**: Ares was able to create physical pocket dimensions with stars and a galaxy that he could control completely, even appearing as a disembodied state and being able to bat Kratos around from every direction. Ares demonstrated that during his battle with Kratos, where he trapped him in inside his own dimension, where he was forced to protect his family, for Ares to kill after all, and almost broke his spirit. Confirmed within the GOW 2 game to be a real physical dimension as seen within the Sisters of Fate fight, thus proving that it wasn't within his head. This is also seen in the GOW 2 novel, which shows him being physically teleported away. it should also be noted that it's never directly stated that he created it either.
* **Enhanced Senses**: Ares was able to sense how Kratos retrieved Pandora's Box while being dozens of miles away from the Desert of Lost Souls.
* **Immortality**: As a god, Ares was innately immortal; neither aging beyond his prime nor succumbing to mortal frailty such as disease or impotence of any sort. He could not be slain by earthly weapons; only divine forces and weapons such as the power of Hope, Blade of the Gods or other immortals such as Titans could slay him.
* **Superhuman Strength**: As a God of War and Zeus's firstborn son, Ares has immense levels of godly strength, which allows him to be able to crush buildings effortlessly, make the ground shake by stomping and fight with Kratos after he was strengthened by Pandora’s Box on equal terms.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Ares possesses incredible durability as a God of War. During his battle with Kratos, he withstands an immense amount of punishment from him including being impaled his own back protrusions which only infuriated him more. Ares also shows to be very resistant even against divine weapons like Blade of the Gods although he was ultimately killed with said weapon.
* **Power Bestowal**: Ares was able to grant the chosen warrior with a large variety of abilities and weapons, a power common among the Gods. It was he who gave Kratos his original blades, the Blades of Chaos. He also granted the Redeemed Warrior, if he chose to follow him, the highest amount of attack power as well as the ability to empower their weapons with fire to burn enemies.
* **Pyrokinesis**: Ares possessed the ability to manipulate fire, in every way possible. Ares was able to infuse it in his weapons, throw fireballs from his hands, and ignited people at will. Ares often used that ability to kill those who opposed him. Ares also used it in an aesthetic way, as his hair and facial hair were made of fire.
* **Astral Projection**: Ares was able to project an image of himself out of the fire to communicate to Kratos after the Spartan killed his family.
* **Shapeshifting**: As an Olympian, Ares was able to alter his appearance at will. He did that however to a small extent as the change of his hair was altered between *God of War: Ascension* and *God of War*.
	+ **Size Alteration**: Ares was able to alter his size, and often increased it to titanic proportions, as he did during the Battle of Athens.
	+ **Transformation**: Ares was able to sprout large, spider-like protrusions from his back that could be used in combat to hit and impale his enemies. Based on the fact that his statue in *God of War: Ascension* bore those "claws", it is implied that this was a trademark feature of the War God.
* **Telepathy**: Ares was able to talk to people through their minds, without physically getting involved with his target. He can even do this after creating his pocket dimension as he used it to mentally taunt Kratos.
* **Telekinesis**: Ares was able to move objects and people with his mind and did that on a massive scale. Ares used the ability to rip the Blades of Chaos from Kratos' arms, and, during the Battle with the Barbarians, lifted people in the air and broke them in half.
* **Teleportation**: Throughout his battle with Kratos, Ares was able to teleport all around the area very quickly.
* **Geokinesis**: Ares would occasionally summon enormous volcanic rock structures to try to harm Kratos.
* **War Embodiment**: As the original God of War, Ares was the embodiment of War itself and was able to draw power from it. In combination with his other abilities, Ares was able to lay waste to huge armies with little to no effort. When he died, Ares' body exploded like a nuclear bomb.
* **Weapon Creation**: During his final fight with Kratos, Ares has shown the ability to materialize various weapons such as a gigantic war hammer, an axe, and a sword, all of which were enveloped in flames.
* **Underworld Control**: Ares seems to have limited power over the forces of the Underworld. He crafted the Blades of Chaos from the deepest layers of Hades. Furthermore, the vast majority of Ares' army was made of undead monstrocities, hinting that he has limited necromancy.
* **Monster Control**: Ares could control over a vast legion of monsters which served as the backbone of his army. In conjunction with his undead troopers, he was able to command Harpies, Minotaurs, Gorgons, and Cyclops.
* **Enhanced Marksmanship**: As a god of war, he possessed a greater level of marksmanship as he was able to perfectly hurl a large pillar from Athens to the far-off Pandora's Temple in the Desert of Lost Souls to fatally impale Kratos.

### Physical Abilities

* **Master Combatant**: As an Original God of War, Ares was the most imposing and skilled warrior of Olympus, surpassed possibly only by his father and uncles. He has mastered all weapons used in the war including sword, axe, war hammer and his back spider-like blades which coupled with his godly powers and physical prowess makes him even more formidable. Even after Kratos gains power from Pandora’s Box, Ares proved himself to be an extremely hard adversary, fighting with the Ghost of Sparta on equal terms most of their battle and at one point nearly killed him despite ultimately losing to him.

## External links

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