
She reveals that Zeus will never stop trying to kill him, because of a recurring Greek prophecy that the current king-god will be overthrown by his son. but Athena gets involved in the resulting brawl, leading to her death. After a game's worth of adventures, Kratos uses the Loom to travel back to the moment of his death and manages to escape with his life. Kratos escapes Hades with the help of the titan Gaia, who tells him to travel to the Island of Creation, where The Hecate Sisters work the Loom of Fate and can change his destiny. Zeus takes matters into his own hands by stripping Kratos of his godhood and slaying him.
Kratos, now the new god of war, leads his Spartans in a bloody conquest of Greece, heedless of the mutterings of other gods who think he's out of control.
God of War II was released for PlayStation 2 in 2007. Athena saves him, however, and says she has a consolation prize for him: with Ares dead, there is an empty throne on Mt. Kratos, despairing, re-enacts the game's opening scene. Athena, unfortunately, was only speaking literally - she forgives Kratos' sins, but she cannot take away his personal guilt or end his recurring nightmares. After a long, arduous journey, including being killed but escaping from Hades, Kratos succeeds at his labor. In return, Athena offers him absolution for his Dark and Troubled Past, in which he served Ares as a Blood Knight and was manipulated into slaying his beloved wife and daughter. In this extended flashback, Kratos is charged by Athena with the task of killing Ares, the God of War, who has declared war on Athens to do this, he will have to dungeon-crawl through the Temple of Pandora and find Pandora's Box, which contains in it the power to kill a god. Kratos begins by declaring that "The gods of Olympus have abandoned me" and flinging himself over the tallest cliff in Greece the rest of the game details How We Got Here. God of War was released for PlayStation 2 in 2005.