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There was a man I knew of long ago... His stories were brief and purposeful.

Kratos

Aesop was a Greek storyteller. Author of many popular fables that were shared all across Greece.

In real life[]

Aesop (/ˈiːsɒp/ EE-sop or /ˈeɪsɒp/ AY-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales associated with him are characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters.

Previous to the God of War Series[]

At some point during its time in Greece, Aesop met Kratos and shares many of his fables with him and other Spartans, who remembers them as purposeful.

In the God of War Series[]

God of War[]

Spending time in the boat, Atreus ask his father if he knew a story to pass the time. Kratos then tells him an stoic version of "The Tortoise and the Hare". Atreus quickly notices that he hadn't told many stories.

Later, Kratos tells Atreus:

  • "The Horse and the Stag"
  • "The Two Frogs" retold as a frog and his son
  • "The Thief and his Mother"
  • "The Young Crab and his Mother" that Atreus interrupted and guess the ending
  • "The Woodcutter and the Trees"
  • And "The Scorpion and the Frog", where Atreus notices that the nature to do harm of a scorpion is like gods' own nature.

Trivia[]

  • "The Horse and the Stag" bears an striking similarity with Kratos' deal with Ares as he can be seen as the horse who lost his freedom, Alrik as the stag, the horse's enemy, and Ares as the hunter who helped the horse but never released it.

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