Template:Location Infobox Helheim, or simply Hel, is a major location in God of War and one of the Nine Realms of Nordic Mythology, its realm of the dead.
Description
This realm is the home of dishonorable dead and ruled by the goddess Hel and it is known for torturing its inhabitants with their own past through illusions of they're committed crimes.
Helheim is a dark realm of unyielding cold, so much that even the Aesir gods fear the realm and avoid going there at any cost. Odin himself, in fact, can't survive the realms brutal cold. Indeed, if one were to cross the Bridge of the Damned then they are trapped forever, for there is no road back.
In the aftermath of the Desolation, the corrupted malady inflicting the Nine Realms and the imprisonment of the Valkyries, Hel is overflowed with souls. Without the Valkyries to sort out the souls, the city of Helheim beyond the Bridge of the Damned is overwhelmed.
Trivia
- If you look closely when Kratos battle the Gatekeeper of Hel, you can see a giant eagle sits in this realm. It is possible that the eagle is Hræsvelgr/Hraesvelg (Old Norse "Corpse Swallower") is a giant who sits at the edge of the world, overlooking Helheim. In the form of an eagle with flapping wings, he makes the wind blow.
- Players get a much closer look at the eagle when Kratos and Atreus air-sail next to it
- According to Mimir, time moves much slower in Helheim than it does in Midgard.
- The Dishonorable dead that inhabit this realm includes those who died a criminal or of disease, mishap or even age. The Nordic culture believes that it is better to go out fighting.
- Though the cold and wind are so great within Helheim that no fire of any kind in the Nine Realms can stay alight, fire from foreign realms can remain burning. This includes the fire from Kratos's original weapons, the Blades of Chaos.
- Thus, such fire is very effective and deadly to the denizens of Helheim.
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