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Power

Geokinesis Superhuman Strength Superhuman Durability Omniscience Superhuman Stamina Regeneration Telepathy


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Birth and Early Days

Being one of the Primordials, Gaia was a descendant of Chaos . Together she and the other Primordials created the Grecian universe. Wishing to survey their work, they made the Island of Creation , where all life would begin. The first to be born was Gaia, who would become the mother of the earth. Ouranos, the Primordial god of the sky and lord of the heavens, joined with Gaia and giving birth to Pontus, the Elder Cyclopes , the Hecatonchires , and the Titans .
In this ancient age at the beginning of time, Gaia and Ouranos ruled the primordial cosmos, ever expanding as their Titan children take over new and old domains. Ouranos was a cruel father and husband, of his offspring he permitted only the Titans to walk the Earth, while his elder sons, the monstrous and mighty trios of Cyclopes and Hecatonchires were discarded into the primordial abyss Tartarus , for this was the only place where the Skyfather wouldnt be able to look at them.
Gaia refused to accept this, and in her despair she took the council of Hyperion ,  the eldest and wisest of her Titan sons, who suggested that the only way to free his older siblings would be to shatter the dimensional barriers that separate the World of the Immortals from the dark and fiery Underworld , which would merge the two. The Earth Mother knew what had to be done and pulled herself and Hyperion into a domain beyond Ouranos ever-present ears, into the presense of the Primordial Fire , one of the first powers of nature that sprung from Chaos, the flame that will spawn all others.
She bestowed it on Hyperion, making him the Titan of the Sun with the power to merge the Abyss with the Earth and make the way for her childrens freedom. However, it wouldnt be her eldest son to free them all from the Tyrants grasp at his mothers behest, but the youngest, Cronos the Titan of Time and the Harvest, who alone had such great hate for his sire and hunger for power that would outmatch his fear of the all-powerful Skyfather.
In a terrible battle, resembling the Primordial clashes before the creation of the world the mighty Cronos slain and usurped his father and assumed the Lordship over the Cosmos himself, as the Golden Age of Titan rule began. Little did he know that it was doomed from the start as the new King, in a fateful decision refused to free his siblings from the Pit and honour his mothers only request.


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Personality

Gaia was once a caring and loving Titan, helping anyone no matter the cost. She even cared for and nurtured Zeus, when the young god was hiding from his father Cronos . However, after the Great War , when all Titans were punished for the crimes of one, Gaia's heart became filled with hatred for Zeus and the Olympians. She became so obsessed with vengeance that she started to rebel against the Sisters of Fate themselves, manipulating Kratos as a pawn and then, discarding him and anyone else who dared to cross her path, only seeking to exact her revenge against the Gods of Olympus.


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Powers

Omniscience: Gaia can be considered to have omniscience since she is narrator of the games. Omnipresense : Throughout Time and Earth, aswell as chtonic realms like Tartarus, Hades, Elysium and the Domain of Death or the Seas and the Skies, she was able to follow Kratos journey anywhere he went. Geokinesis: As the primordial and personification of the earth, Gaia has absolute control and manipulation over rocks and plants of the world. Her mere breath causes mountain ranges to rise and continents to move. She was able to open the Earth and let Kratos escape the Underworld . Her embodiment of the Earth goes so far that she can effortlessly spy on Zeus throne chambers on Mt. Olympus , for wherever there is dirt and rock, there is Gaia. Acausality : Was unaffected by Kratos altering the timeline in God of War II , is immune to any temporal paradoxes as are all the Greek dieties . Knew of Kratos and the future events several thousand years before they came to be. The Titans also consider Time itself to be meaningless. Prophecy : As the first oracular diety, Gaia has the power of pre-cognition and divination. She predicted that the Titans shall one day rise and be freed by a champion . Fate-Defiance : Though bound to her Thread of Fate just as the rest of the Titans and Gods for ages, Gaia was able to defy her and Kratos' decreed fate with her intervention during his descent into Hades, with the Sisters being outraged when it happened. Her defiance continued throughout her mentoring of Kratos from Rhodes to the very Temple of the Fates. She laughed at the Fates, as they failed to end her meddling. At one point Lahkesis , being briefly panicked cut her Thread, which just absorbed it like wet mud. It is likely that her alliance with Kratos, which caused their Threads to intertwine made her share his total defiance of Fate and Destiny, though her initial intervention was entirely her own choice. Conceptual Embodiment: She represents the Earth and Nature, as she suffers from Kratos cataclismic rampagne. Gaia is stated to be "the quintessential Earth Goddess, Earth Mother", as she stands for the Earth she also does for Motherhood, the struggle between old Earth-based matriarchal beliefs and the newer patriarchal systems based on the Heavens and Skyfathers. Incorporeality : Her Titan state is merely a physical avatar of her true self, which exists as the embodiment of the Earth and as a formless spirit. This seems to have shielded her from being confined to Tartarus like her offspring, as she is the Earth and cannot be seperated from herself. Superhuman Strength: As a Titan , Gaia has superhuman strength. She was able to damage Poseidon 's elemental form with a single punch. Superhuman Durability: As a Titan, Gaia had superhuman durability. She could survive multiple attacks from Poseidon and his Hippocampi . However, she was taken out by a single Thunderbolt from Zeus , with her hand breaking off. Power Bestowal: Gaia is able to bestow great power to those in her favour. As she did with Hyperion , when she granted him the Primordial Fire and so she did again eons later with Kratos, whom she granted the Rage of the Titans , along with a later empowerment through the Fires of Sparta. Telepathy: Gaia seems to have the power to communicate throughout time as she was expecting Kratos during the first Titanomachy even though it was centuries before his birth. She was able to interfere in Kratos visions and stop them outright and talk with people in their minds, like with Kratos or imprisoned Titans like Atlas and Thera . Healing Factor: Gaia possesses considerable regenerative abilities, as she was able to grow back the hand Kratos chopped off of her. She also was able to heal and close Kratos wound from the Blade of Olympus , aswell as bring him back to full fitness. An act of power that Kratos appreciated and saw as proof of Gaia's worth of as an ally against Olympus. Immortality: As a Primordial , Gaia is immortal.

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Greek Mythology

In Greek mythology , Gaia (Γαîα) was the primordial goddess personifying the earth. She was an ancient chthonic deity and was considered the Mother Goddess of all life. Gaia is also known as Mother Earth . Gaia created Ouranos but later Ouranos (Roman: Caelus) and Gaia created the starry sky. Together they created the elemental Titans, amongst others the world ocean Oceanus , the pre-Olympic sun Hyperion (" The High-One "), Iapetus (father of Prometheus ), Rhea , Mnemosyne ("Memory"), Phoebe ("Light") and Tethys (wife and sister of Oceanus, mother of the world rivers). After they were born, Cronos , the wily, youngest, and most terrible of her children, who hated his sire, was asked by Gaia to punish Ouranos for sending the Cyclops and Hecatonchires to Tartarus. Wielding a flint sickle, Cronos castrated him and threw his testicles into the sea, it's foam creating Aphrodite. After that, Cronos would rule the world until he was overthrown by Zeus and his siblings. Other Titan-born creatures came from Gaia such as the Hecatonchires and the dragon Python .
Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra .


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In the God of War series

In the God of War series , Gaia is the narrator for all of the games from the Greek era but has only actually appeared in God of War II and God of War III . She is portrayed as being made of earth, covered head to toe with trees, and fuller in shape reminiscent of the Venus of Willendorf , though in Greek Mythology she was essentially the Earth itself.