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However, his look has never been so close to how he’s presented in the original Norse mythology. Ragnarok’s Thor has red hair, and he has been often described as fat and crude. He won’t be the kind of Thor depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though, with rippling abs and flowing, blond hair. Thor is seeking revenge after Baldur’s death in 2018’s God of War, together with Freya. The wolf, son of Loki, bites him so he can escape the gods. In Prose Edda, he’s described as valiant, and victorious.” In the game, he still has both his hands, even though he loses one because of Fenrir. Both descended from Indo-European deywós, ‘god of sky/sun’. “His final name is an evolution of Proto-Germanic Tiwaz, and the same term is used in Latin ‘divus’. “Originally, he had to be a key figure in Germanic mythology,” Pagani continues. His central role throughout God of War Ragnarok isn’t surprising at all, though. In Prose Edda, Tyr ‘is not considered a facilitator of reconciliation among people’, which is something you could have guessed, since he’s a god of war.” “Even the idea that the mind is key to preventing war is totally invented by the developers. “Mythology itself tells very little about Tyr,” Pagani says. In a tweet, the Californian studio added that “Tyr believed the mind, not might, was key to preventing war and chaos,” but his actual depiction in myths is rather different. Flaming eyes and Egyptian-like tattoos are Santa Monica Studio’s additions, too. However, Edda and other source materials “don’t have particular references to Tyr’s height,” according to Pagani, even though he looks even taller than Kratos (around 7 feet) in the trailer. Fans have instantly linked the new character to Resident Evil Village’s Lady Dimitrescu, a tall lady who set the memes on fire early in 2021. Tyr seems very, very tall in the latest God of War Ragnarok trailer. Tyr is not the new Lady Dimitrescu, actually “Most likely, it’s a matter of different traditions about his origins.” “Loki is seemingly the son of a giant, but one of the poems considers him one of the Æsir gods, too,” Pagani explains. It’s an interpretation of Edda, the Old Norse sacred books, which tend to be quite ambiguous.
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The 2018 game’s dramatic finale reveals that Atreus is actually a giant from Jotunheim - a giant called Loki.
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Kratos and Atreus trying to stop Ragnarok is not the only bit of poetic license Sony Santa Monica takes with the classic tales. “They can slow those events down, but can’t escape them.” The PlayStation Showcase trailer sees Kratos and Atreus discussing their chances of stopping Ragnarok, but Pagani states that is not possible at all.
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So, Ragnarok means ‘fate of gods’ and from that you can easily understand that Ragnarok are a series of catastrophic events pouring chaos on Earth, and marking the end of an era and the beginning of another.”
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‘Ragna’ is instead ‘reginn’’s plural possessive form, meaning ‘(divine) power’. The original Icelandic term, rök, is a tantum plural and means ‘destiny’ or ‘judgment’. “We’re used to talking about Ragnarok as a singular term, but it’s actually plural. “The term itself can be used to describe a very cold winter but, in a mythological sense, it’s more about a winter of exceptional magnitude acting as a presage for Ragnarok’s beginning,” Pagani explains. Who knows, maybe it’s their presence in the Norse world that triggers it? According to the prophecies (and the latest God of War trailer), Fimbulwinter is what leads to Ragnarok.
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Ragnarok, a world-ending calamity, is about to befall the story of Kratos and Atreus. Stop reading if you haven’t completed the game, unless you’re cool and you don’t care about spoilers. This article contains God of War (2018) spoilers. We spoke to Roberto Luigi Pagani from the University of Iceland to have a deeper look into those characters and, ultimately, into how Ragnarok influences the series moving forward.
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Their saga continues when God of War Ragnarok releases in 2022 for PS4 and PS5, with new characters and myths that will be explored as part of the franchise’s icy new path. God of War’s soft reboot saw the series exploring Norse mythology, leaving behind a past of slaying Greek gods to follow the story of a now long-bearded Kratos and his son, Atreus.