This confirms the past games were not retconned in overall scale. " Poseidon was the God of All Seas, but now he is dead.".Retcons are lazy ways out to continue a story." " Why would we (retcon the previous games)? This is the continuation of the saga.It can't be claimed that the games got retconned either, since the senior director of art and animation at Sony Santa Monica, Bruno Velazquez, has gone forward to say: This already proves we can't handwave everything from the past six games as "just Greece". The idea of independent cosmologies, however, fits in perfectly fine with what the Greek Pantheon of God of War showed: a vast plane, with a gigantic mountain where the Gods live towering over the entirety of it, and a dark and murky realm far larger than the upper world existing many miles beneath everything, not to say with an entire universe right above it created by primordial deities. If that were the case, the contradictory creation myths would not be able to operate independently of each other, as he explicitly claims is the case. All of their creation myths hold true around their region, with it being separated by “geography”.Īs we progress with this section, the meaning of geography within the God of War universe will become more clear, but this should already make it apparent that it is not as simple as literal regional borders delimiting each pantheon. Each of these dots would show the number of mythologies that existed at the same time. They all deal with the creation myths around their region - it’s just separated by geography.”Īs Cory Barlog states, the God of War mythology could be better summarized as being similar to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, except you’d have to wrap it up around the Earth. You sort of wrap that around the Earth, and in any given moment, all of those mythological belief systems existed. That image shows the universe with all its individual galaxies - and each galaxy is a representation of a mythology. “The way I see the mythologies (in God of War) is kinda like that Hubble telescope image.In order to start going into more detail about how it works, we will first link an interview with Cory Barlog regarding Kratos and where he found himself at, which is the first piece of evidence to suggest this interpretation before we dive further into the game's lore and cosmology: GOD OF WAR MYTHOLOGY TVA short explanation, and I apologize for linking TV Tropes, is that the God of War cosmology evokes this trope: from the outside, it seems small, but from the inside, it is not. To summarize everything right off the bat, the cosmology established in the new game is that each of the pantheons that exist within the God of War universe do indeed inhabit an allocated area within the planet Earth, but within the borders of said area, they somehow still contain entire realities and universes within. The cosmology established by the new game is, in fact, considerably more complicated than just that. Afterall, one could easily say that, by the virtue of the existence of each pantheon within their own area on Earth, our multi-continental ratings or any feat higher than country-level would be effectively retconned or reduced in scale to just Greece or Norway. Fantastic Pantheons and How They CoexistĪ common complaint raised by those who may look into the franchise is the presentation of different pantheons.This blog will serve as a guide for the cosmology presented in the game series. There is also the fact that there are a load of misconceptions rampant about the new Norse games, such as potential "downgrades" because of the existence of multiple pantheons, severe misunderstanding of the nine realms and what they entail, and etc. 3.1 Word of God: The Meaning of GeographyĪs I have been pestered to present this blog for a while, as well as the fact I myself really wanted to get it done with, I decided to scramble and restart my stagnant work on this.3 Fantastic Pantheons and How They Coexist.
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