The Greek World, otherwise known as simply Greece or The Universe to its inhabitants, is the world that falls under the ancient Greek creation by the Primordials, the world of the Greek Gods, demigods, mortals, monsters, and other creatures dwelling there. It is where the first saga of the God of War series takes place, until after Kratos' revenge on Olympus in God of War III where the world was left in ruin and almost all the Olympians and Titans were killed in the madness. After Kratos' departure to the Nine Realms, it is believed to be recovering with the mortals now living without the gods due to the power of Hope released to them.
It is divided into three major regions: the living world where the mortals dwell, the Underworld which houses the souls of departed mortals along with the imprisoned Titans, and Mount Olympus where the Olympians ruled over all of Greece until their demise. Notable cities and places include Sparta, Athens, Crete, Atlantis, Attica, Marathon, Troy, Kirra, Delphi, Delos, and Rhodes. Unseen, other cities/regions exist, such as Normandy, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and more.
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The Greek world of the God of War series is based on the mythology of ancient Greece, and also some parts of ancient Greek history.
The world is an alternate version of the world (despite popular belief, it's the entire world) populated by the Olympian gods, Titans, and other Greek mythological beings. It is devoid of any other mythological gods, as Ares was able to terrorize Egypt without resistance, and had domain over all wars over the world, like in Japan. The events occurred in the series are equivalent to crucial moments in the BC era and mythology such as the sinking of Poseidon's kingdom, Atlantis, Hercules performing his twelves labors, or Jason and the Argonauts searching for the Golden Fleece. However, rather than follow the actual points in time when the events would occurs, the series follows its own chronological order of when they would happen.
This alternate universe (and the Earth itself) was created as a result of the war between the Primordials.
It's the home world of Kratos, the main protagonist of the series. Consisting of many city-states during the time period, Kratos' city is Sparta. The opposing city-state of Athens lies northeast of Sparta and is the place where the fates of Ares and Kratos are decided.
Marathon, Rhodes, Crete, and Attica also appear in the series. This sets the events of God of War II and the Second Titanomachy. The highest mountain in all of Greece is Mount Olympus, or Olympus for short. If is the home of the majority of Greek Gods and is ruled by their king, Zeus.
Below the surface lies the Underworld and Tartarus, where the Titan God, Atlas, holds the upper land with its hands after the destruction of the Pillar of the World.
With the world being fraught with powerful warriors, heroes, gods, and monsters, cases of the supernatural are very much real. There have been cases of mystics items of powers, traveling between other planes of realities, and even the acquiring of magical powers or interaction with supernatural forces. The diverse powers wielded by the Greek Pantheon was known abroad in other lands, as commented by Mimir.
The world was ultimately brought to ruin after Kratos violently murdered several prominent Gods of the Greek Pantheon. Their deaths triggered a series of cataclysmic events that killed the majority of mortals living there and made it largely uninhabitable. Kratos is currently the only known survivor. However, it is suggested that Greek citizens, survivors of Kratos's cataclysmic rampage remained on Greece. Centuries later, at the Vault of Týr's Temple, Kratos found an amphora depicting him in his years as the dreaded Ghost of Sparta. On the back of this amphora, it is depicted a building, resembling much like many of the Greek styled buildings, being constructed, or reconstructed. This would mean that, after Kratos stabbed himself to unleash the Hope, preventing it from ending in Athena's hands, the Greek survivors obtained enough willpower to survive in that world, and therefore, rebuilt their civilization for themselves, by themselves. Hope may have given the souls of the Underworld both redemption and new life as well, allowing them in aiding their fellow Greeks. The survival of the Greek World would later be confirmed by Týr, who explained there were survivors in Greece that eventually rebuilt the world, as they spoke of Kratos' act of ripping Helios' head off.
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- The general God of War Greek cosmology of a three-tiered universe (the sky above, the earth in the middle, and the underworld below) is largely derived from the real-life Homeric view of the cosmos (which dates from the 8th century BCE). Homer and his contemporaries believed the sky formed a solid, vaulted dome ("firmament") over the disc-shaped Earth. It was confirmed by Steve Caterson (Art Producer) on the documentary Unearthing the Legend that the God of War world is flat and that it has edges.
- While God of War: Ascension shows an image of a round Earth, contradicting the earlier portrayals of a flat planet, it was later revealed by an animator that it was merely an easter egg to another series and that it had nothing to do with God of War.
- Travel between this realm and others is possible, as demonstrated by Týr and Kratos in God of War (2018), possibly the Barbarians in God of War, and possibly the Persians earlier on in God of War: Chains of Olympus, although Persia may be simply a part of Greece (the likely answer, as the Greek universe also contains Japan and Egypt).
- According to Freya, since Kratos is unable to call upon any of his Greek magic, the land of Greece was dead, because magic is bound to the earth itself.