List of Deaths

This is a list of deaths in the God of War series organized by game. Each death is listed under the game in which it is first mentioned.

Greek Era

Prior to God of War: Ascension

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Archimedes	The Furies	Madness.	Driven insane by the Furies for breaking his blood oath to Apollo.
Architect's Sons	N/A	Unknown.	Died during the construction of Pandora's Temple.
Pathos Verdes III	Himself	Suicide.	Crazed by the death of his family while constructing Pandora's Temple.
Danaus	Alrik	Decapitation.	Killed by Hades' champion in the Wager of the Gods.
Danaus' Tribe	Barbarians	Various.	Part of the Wager of the Gods.
Therans	Spartans	Various.	Part of the Wager of the Gods.
Herodius	Kratos	Head pierced with the Sword of Valor.	Killed by Ares' champion in the Wager of the Gods.
Pothia	Kratos	Cut in two with the Sword of Valor.	Killed by Ares' champion in the Wager of the Gods.
Kerosians	Spartans	Various.	Part of the Wager of the Gods.
Captain Nikos	Hades	Burned by Hades's firestorm.	Part of the Wager of the Gods.
Cereyon	Kratos	Strangled underwater.	Killed by Ares' champion in the Wager of the Gods.
Ajax	Hades or Rocs	Torn apart by the Rocs or the Arms of Hades.	Part of the Wager of the Gods.
Alrik's Father	Hades	Illness.	Disease sent forth by Hades to win the Wager of the Gods.
Alrik	Kratos and Rocs	Torn apart by the Rocs.	Resurrected by Hades to get revenge on Kratos.
Atreus of Sparta	Unknown	Died in battle saving his fellow Spartans.	Kratos names his son after him in his honor.
Alrik	Kratos	Decapitated by the Blades of Chaos.	Kratos empowered by his blood oath to Ares.
Barbarians	Ares	Various.	Killed by Ares' power due to Kratos' blood oath.
Lysandra	Kratos	Brutally slaughtered with the Blades of Chaos.	Went to Elysium Fields after death.
Calliope

God of War: Ascension

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Castor and Pollux	Kratos	Kratos causes Castor to fall to his death. Kratos crushes Pollux's skull underneath his boot after being severed from his older brother.	They were gifted with shared immortality by Zeus after Pollux requested that the god save his brother Castor from dying.
Aletheia	Kratos, Castor, and Pollux	Succumbed to injuries from the fight between Kratos and Castor and Pollux.	Previously the Oracle of Delphi; reunited with her lover Orkos in death.
Aegaeon	Kratos and Megaera	Died from Megaera's death	Punished for breaking his oath, freed from torment upon death.
Megaera	Kratos	After a brief struggle, Kratos stabs Megaera in the chest and tosses her off the Hecatonchires. Kratos then dives down after Megaera and, just as the pair smash against a lower platform, he drives his blades into Megaera's chest, killing her instantly.	One of the three Furies.
Tisiphone	Kratos	Kratos breaks her neck.	One of the three Furies.
Alecto	Kratos	Kratos impales Alecto in the chest with his Blades of Chaos. He then bisects her and her remains quickly disintegrate.	One of the three Furies.
Orkos	Kratos	Allowed Kratos to kill him by stabbing him in the stomach.	Son of Ares and Alecto; reunited with his lover Aletheia in death.

God of War: Chains of Olympus

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Eurybiades	Persian Army	Succumbed to his wounds.	Presumed.
Persian King	Kratos	Head bashed with treasure chest.	Kratos gained the King's power, the Efreet.
Basilisk	Kratos	Jaw pulled together, causing it to explode.	The Persian's beast during the Attica invasion.
Charon	Kratos	Head smashed with the Gauntlet of Zeus.	Ferryman of the Underworld.
Persephone	Kratos	Smashed to death with the Gauntlet of Zeus.	Wanted to destroy the world. Corpse appears in God of War III.

God of War

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Hydra King	Kratos	Kratos killed the beast by driving a ship's mast through it's main head.	Had been resurrected by Athena.
Hydras	Kratos	Head exploded.	Cause by the King's death.
Medusa	Kratos	Decapitated	Head used by Kratos on his journey.
Pandora's Guardian	Kratos	Impaled with a ballista.	A 20 foot tall undead minotaur.
Kratos	Ares	Impaled Kratos with a large broken pillar.	Fought his way out of the Underworld.
Oracle of Athens	Ares' Army	Presumably succumbs to her injuries.	Unconfirmed.
Ares	Kratos	Stabbed through the chest with the Blade of the Gods.	Kratos empowered by Pandora's Box.

Between God of War and Ghost of Sparta

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Giant Arachnid	Kratos	Head pierced with the Blades of Athena.	Trap of the path to the Ambrosia.
Gyges	Kratos	Burnt with Apollo's Flame.	Kratos destroys the Ambrosia.

God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Callisto	Kratos	Stabbing.	Transformed into a monster by Zeus. Put down by Kratos.
Scylla	Kratos	Head drilled with a Archimedean Screw.	Sent by Poseidon to stop Kratos.
Erinys	Kratos	Backstabbed with the Blades of Athena.
Dissenter	Kratos	Impaled with the Blades of Athena.
Deimos	Thanatos	Crushed against the side of a cliff.
Thanatos	Kratos	Impaled in the chest with the Blades of Athena.

God of War II

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Colossus of Rhodes	Kratos	Power drained from the Blade of Olympus.	Brought to life by Zeus.
Kratos	Zeus	Stabbed in the stomach by the Blade of Olympus	Fought out of the Underworld via the help of Gaia.
Dark Rider	Kratos	Stabbed with the Spear of Destiny.	Leader of the Griffin Riders.
Theseus	Kratos	Head smashed in Horse Keeper Key door.
Captain	Kratos	Stabbed three times or slammed into the ground.	Summoned by The Barbarian King.
Alrik	Kratos	Head crushed in with his Barbarian Hammer.
Argonauts	Mole Cerberus	Mangling.
Euryale	Kratos	Decapitation.	One of the Immortal Gorgon Sisters who wanted revenge on Kratos for killing Medusa.
Perseus	Kratos	Stabbed with his own sword, then impaled by a hook.
Icarus	Kratos	Fell into the Underworld.
Last Spartan	Kratos	Stab wound, died of blood loss.	Last of the Spartan Army.
Kraken	Kratos	Impaled in the mouth with the extendable bridge.
Atropos	Kratos	Erased from existence.	Trapped inside magic mirror, then destroyed.
Lahkesis	Kratos	Erased from existence.	Trapped inside magic mirror, then destroyed.
Clotho	Kratos	Head impaled by the Thread Cutter.	The only one of her sisters who wasn't erased from existence.
Athena	Kratos	Impaled with the Blade of Olympus.	Accidentally killed by Kratos when trying to save Zeus.

God of War III

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Poseidon	Kratos	Neck snapped.	Death caused a cataclysmic flood that engulfed the entire world and almost killed all of humankind.
Kratos	Gaia	Fell from Gaia's back into the River Styx.	Fought out of the Underworld via the help of Athena's spirit.
Peirithous	Kratos	Burned alive by Cerberus.	Kratos collected the Bow of Apollo.
Hades	Kratos	Soul ripped with the Claws of Hades.	Death caused the souls of the Underworld to run rampart.
Helios	Kratos	Head ripped off.	Death caused the sun to be veiled by dark clouds and rain. Head used by Kratos for light and to stun enemies.
Perses	Kratos	Stabbed with the Blade of Olympus.
Hermes	Kratos	Legs cut off with the Blades of Exile.	Death caused a plague that killed human, animal, and plant life. Boots taken and used by Kratos.
Hercules	Kratos	Face mutilated and destroyed with his Nemean Cestus.
Poseidon's Princess	Kratos	Crushed to death by a crank.	Poseidon's sex slave. Uncertain if she's truly royalty or not.
Cronos	Kratos	Forehead stabbed with the Blade of Olympus.
Hephaestus	Kratos	Impaled with anvil.	Kratos had no ill towards Hephaestus' betrayal, stating that he would have done the same thing to protect his child. Gained the Nemesis Whip.
Hera	Kratos	Neck snapped.	Death caused all plant life to wither and die.
Daedalus	Kratos	Blood loss.	Killed by the Labyrinth's activation.
King Minos	Kratos	Onyx shard destroyed.	Death freed the Chain of Balance.
King Aeacus	Kratos	Onyx shard destroyed.	Death freed the Chain of Balance
King Rhadamanthus	Kratos	Onyx shard destroyed.	Death freed the Chain of Balance.
Pandora	Herself	Sacrificed herself into the Flame of Olympus.	Spirit aided and guided Kratos in his psyche.
Gaia	Kratos	Heart pierced with the Blade of Olympus.	Dissolved into dust.
Zeus	Kratos	Beaten to death.	Death caused the world to be plunged into chaos.

Norse Era

Prior to God of War (2018)

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Ymir	Odin, Vé, and Vili	Stabbed.	Murdered by his great-grandsons. Midgard formed from his flesh.
Bergelmir	N/A	Natural causes.	Died peacefully surrounded by his people.
Aurvandil	Thor	Unknown.	Tricked by Thor into going in a quest to Vanaheim. Death concealed by Odin.
Gróa	Odin	Strangulation.	Killed by Odin for refusing to tell the Allfather about her visions.
Thamur	Thor (accidental death)	Fell on his own chisel.	Body briefly controled by Freya to interfare with Kratos and Baldur's fight.
Fjörgyn	Thor	Unknown.	Implied to have been killed either directly or indirectly by her son Thor.
Týr	Odin	Unknown.	Killed by Odin for plotting with the Jötnar.
Skaði	N/A	Natural causes.	Froze to death cradling her father's slain corpse.
Laufey	N/A	Unknown.	Died shortly before the events of God of War.

God of War (2018)

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Notes
Mimir	Kratos	Beheaded.	brought back to life as a head by the Vanir goddess Freya just hours after his death.
Magni	Kratos	Kratos buried his axe into Magni's skull.	A son of Thor. Thor always favored him over his brother Modi.
Máttugr Helson	Kratos	Impaled with the Blades of Chaos.	Bridge Keeper of Helheim. Heart removed to save Atreus' life.
Modi	Atreus	Stabbed and pushed down into a chasm.	A son of Thor. Considered a coward by his father, he was beaten to a bloody pulp after it was discovered that he had fled from battle and allowed Magni to be killed.
Baldur	Kratos	Neck snapped.	Invulverability curse removed by mistletoe wound.
Eir	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Geirdriful	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Gondul	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Gunnr	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Hildr	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Kara	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Olrun	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Rota	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.
Sigrun	Kratos	Wings torn off.	One of the cursed Valkyries, she is the stand-in Queen of the Valkyries and a member of the council. Soul freed after death.