Every legend has been confirmed by now

Laufey God of War It arrives with a new hero and an entirely new cosmology at its core. As described by the Santa Monica studio, Everyven is the birthplace and final point where all magic returns — a great realm above the afterlife players have already known, and where gods and creatures from various mythologies come together in what seems like a coherent co-existence. Consider the main setting of this Laufey God of WarWhich makes the game the most epically ambitious entry in the franchise's history,

It's clearly a setting made for colliding traditions that have yet to share the same space, but it actually has a lot of influence on what can be found in Everyven. Based on what fans know Laufereveals, Faye wakes up unexpectedly in this strange land after her death and realizes that the plans she had in place to save Kratos and Atreus are now in jeopardy. She arrives without her full powers, without allies, and immediately learns that the area is already ruled by strange gods who are hostile to the newcomers – and that last point is the difference between what has been confirmed so far, and what Everyoneen might contain.

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Foundation: Norse mythology

clearly confirmed in mythology Laufey God of War Why its name: Norse mythology runs deepest because it dwells on the hero himself. Faye looked bigger than 2018 god of war Despite being dead before the game begins, players eventually discover that she was a Jotun, a frost monster who hid her true nature. That legacy follows him forever; It defines how every other god in the area is likely to perceive him – a giant who has arrived where only the gods go.

Santa Monica does not confirm any specific Norse deities as inhabitants of Everaven, but the setting makes their presence structurally plausible, especially later. Ragnarök. The studio has yet to reveal whether the game's story will span both the first game and Ragnarok, but fans have speculated that times are different in Everyone, making Heimdall, Thor, and Odin easy choices to throw into the mix. After all, Odin spent the entire Norse saga wondering what lies beyond the mortal afterlife, and Laufe As to the answer to that question, it is very deliberately put.

Confirmed new Pantheons

But in terms of the greatest confirmed new mythologies Laufey God of WarNumber one deals with the revelation of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, who appears to be one of the game's primary antagonists, capturing Faye early on and throwing her into captivity soon after. In actual Egyptian mythology, she is the goddess of war and the daughter of the sun god Ra—bloody-blooded, capable of causing plagues, and prone to degeneracy, usually quite destructive. She arrives at Everybody as a power broker rather than a curiosity, and the game frames her as calculated, where her co-opponent is unstable.

That co-op represents a second confirmed new mythology, one that actually draws from a tradition that mainstream action games almost never touch. Begtse is a Dharmapala – an angry god and lord of war in Tibetan mythology – and Sekhmet seems measured in his actions, Begtse is more aggressive. Traditionally, his furious violence is associated with the protection and defense of the Holy Order, a thematic thread that the God of War series had drawn earlier with Tyre. Together, Sekhmet and Begtse act as the antagonists to the Everything when Faye arrives, something neither of them likes.

Unconfirmed: Phranque, Rue, and Sword

The reveal also showcases two new friends of Fays, and they are among the most talked about elements, neither of which have clearly identifiable mythological origins. Phranque is a fast-talking, serious, gelatinous cube determined to protect both the Fae and the captured creatures of the Everyven, who is, somewhat fittingly, voiced by Jack Quaid. And attached to Rue Faye's sword is a sentient ribbon that seems to know more than she's letting on. When we meet the pair of allies, the sword is wrapped around Rue with Frank stuck inside, and gaining the trust of both friends is part of how Faye claims it as her primary weapon.

In terms of where the two might come from, the Celtic/Arthurian angle is currently the most popular read on the sword, as a popular fan theory links Rue to the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian mythology, especially if the sword eventually turns into Excalibur. That reading helped somewhat in establishing Mimir, a fan-favorite character god of warWho hails from the Norse saga, the Scottish Highlands, so Arthurian references could reasonably exist in the franchise's lore. Meanwhile, Frank has drawn on his own theories: one decently plausible is that he represents Metatron's cube, a sacred geometric symbol in Jewish mysticism tied to divine order, protection and creation, and that his cube form may not be his true form.

The Greek elephant in the room

To end at the beginning of the franchise, the strange fact is that no Greek gods have been officially confirmed for Laufey, but the premise of Everyone makes their absence even more difficult to explain. Every Olympian Kratos killed in the original trilogy — Ares, Zeus, Athena, Poseidon — has a theoretical claim to the region, and the game's timeline appears to be operating after the chaos Kratos has already experienced in Greece.

Finally, the Greek angle is haunting Laufey God of War Any unconfirmed possibility carries the most dramatic weight. Athena, in particular, spent God of War III Arguing that Kratos owed her something – and if she's been waiting at the Everaven since then, Faye carries much of the information Athena wants. Whether Santa Monica will be willing to revisit the franchise's Greek chapter remains to be seen, but the design of the Everyven makes it hard to completely ignore that conversation. Laufey God of War finally arrives.

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