Cookies help us deliver our Services. 30 when she was born, and 38 when she died. Although Calliope was younger than Atreus is, I think. Here’s how I reached that answer. So till Gow 3 he must have been in his late 40s to early 50s. like normal aging does. Now we can take that to mean it's been that long since Tyr died or at least the last time he used it, possibly due to Jörmungandr appearing, raising the water level and hiding the temple. God of War 2 takes place at least 12 yrs after 1. I just dug up the calculations I did, and can now make precise statements on the age of Kratos, with an error range of only 4 years. So if we were to make kratos as young as possible he would be about 1350 years old as when he got to Scandinavia he spent 5 decades with his wife faye before she passed. God of War won Game of the Year 2018. Very old, he will get a walking stick next game. After an hour or so I have deciphered how old kratos is. He can age a little bit, within reason, but it's an incredibly slow process, and doesn't seem to affect his physical abilities, bone structure/density, lung capacity, muscle mass, cartilage, etc. For shame, fans. This is well within the reasonable range of Barlog's statements, taking place in the AD's but taking place over 250 years before the Viking age. So we can deduce that he is 40 years old in the first game. While it’s never been outright stated as to how old Kratos is, there’s enough evidence to reach an estimate. I figure Kratos is functionally immortal unless killed, which I'm not even sure can happen. [This is in line with Barlog's statements of "about 1000 years" passing between GOW3 and GOW4]. We can then assume he spends a couple of years in this position before selling his soul to ares. I also think Kratos aged a lot when he thought he was a mortal, and then stopped aging so much once he became a god/found out he always was one. Well Kratos has served the gods for 10 years by the time of the first god of war and his daughter was around 10ish I think can't remember exactly, so really he'd be about 50 by the time of the original god of war (that's if the devs did their history properly and did follow historical Spartan men being allowed to marry after finishing the Agoge), How did you get that Kratos has been in the Nordic region for that long? Add Caliope's age at death to 30 and that's roughly when Kratos would start the events leading to the first game. But how old was Lysandra when he took her unawares in the night Probably 15. So first of all kratos existed at the time of the poet homer before the classical age of Greece in the 8th century BC. God of War is a third person action-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. So Kratos can be around 22-23 years old in this game. However, I saw a thread a while back that echoed a feeling I got when playing the game in that Kratos is in fact Tyr. Nice speculation regardless. Kratos is obviously active military when he calls on Ares, and he has a young daughter. They may not have the amount of ranks then as we do now, but still, general at 20? Similar to how Atreus was all sick and shit until he realized he was a god and now he's all set to be an immortal, If Spartan people can get wives at age 30, Calliope died at age 8, And in Gow: Ascension he must be at least 38. Spartan men were able to take a wife at around age 30, when they were considered Spartans and were done with military training. We know he can survive falls from any height, and can take a serious pummeling from his foes (as evidenced by Baldur, Zues and the like), so killing him is exceptionally hard, if not impossible to do. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. What do we not know are in the same universe? Now, to answer your question about Kratos aging, it doesn't seem like he can die of old age. By my estimates, he’s at least 200 years old. Press J to jump to the feed. If we were to make him as old as possible he would be just under 1550 years old as the game takes place before 700 AD. Daedalus's notes say about twelve years passed from when Zeus commissioned him to build the Labyrinth to when Daedalus is imprisoned within it. Therefore we can assume that if this is true, Kratos will end up being MUCH MUCH older by the time his story ends. He was still in the Nordic land, just not spending much time with his son. It is this rage that drives Kratos forward in all of his quests. Ten years of service makes Kratos around 38 when he becomes the God of War. So your theory is that he took almost a 1000 years to get from gow3 to gow4? This subreddit is dedicated to discussion of the games and sharing news about them. It is said that he served ares for 5 years and then seek ways to kill him for another 5. When he released the contents of Pandora's Box at the end of three and tried to kill himself again, I think whatever was in that box made him full blown immortal, which is why we see that he crawled off after running himself through. He is the son of Pallas and Styx.Kratos and his siblings Nike ("Victory"), Bia ("Force"), and Zelus ("Zeal") are all essentially personifications of a trait. His current chronological age is probably at least a couple hundred years old. I have deduced that GOW 4 takes place after 500 AD as that’s when elder futhark runes, which are seen continuously throughout the game, completed it’s alphabet. I think it's also worth noting that the World Serpent being sent back in time was only possible due to Thor hitting him so hard, not through some type of object and the only magic that is linked with time is the Vanir temporal magic that Mimir talks about when you're making your way up to Thamur's hammer, but that magic was only used to freeze time rather than reverse it. So with the temple being 'asleep' for 150 years, the vase has been there for the same amount of time, possibly longer, So this is showing that Kratos is at the very least 150 years old. I think he was 38 when Calliope died. After the 3rd game kratos travels to Scandinavia and in the 4th he is living comfortably there. Getting back to his age, I think you are pretty close...I'd bet he is around 200. Now later on in the game when Kratos and Atreus are making their way through Tyr's temple they find themselves in his treasure room and we see various artefacts from various realms and lands including a Greek vase with Kratos on it. Kratos served Ares for ten years and when he decided to stop serving him (after death of his wife and child). New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. This isn't totally impossible because the World Serpent did some time travel shenanigans during Ragnarok and has shown a willingness to help Kratos. We don’t know the eaten of aging of demigods, so previous to gimme becoming a god we don’t know. If one wonders how the estimation of his GOWIII age is done, this summarizes it succinctly: Spartan men were encouraged to marry once they turned 20, but could not live with their families until they left the active military at age 30 (if they had no wife by the age of 30, they were required to get married by law). More that, gods age normally up until a certain point, then they just stop when they reach whatever determined age it is and assume their final form - Kratos shouldn't change from this current state at all any more, at least not directly from signs of ageing in any capacity. But then, we don’t know the rate of aging of demigods. He'll catch a few wrinkles and grow some gray hairs, but Grandpa Kratos can still blast your ass into another dimension. Excellent work. He's pretty much ageless, being a god. Spartan men are supposed to marry around 20, to which they might produce a child, but they are only allowed to live with their family around 30. It’s stated in the first game that kratos was the youngest captain in the spartan army, which means at minimum he is 30 years old at this point as that’s the earliest age a Spartan could graduate. like normal aging does. Well that’s my guess anyway. God of War is a third person action-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. I am on the side that thinks time shenanigans will play some part in the coming games, still not sure about Kratos being Tyr theory (some part of me kinda doesn't want him to be Tŷr, but rather Tŷr being an example to Kratos of there actually being 'good gods'). Like all the pregger gals back then. Now, to answer your question about Kratos aging, it doesn't seem like he can die of old age. Therefore, we can estimate that God of War 4 took place in 534/535 AD; We can also roughly correspond the date at the end of God of War III to the historic destruction of Sparta via cataclysmic earthquake, which happened in the year 464 BC. After Kratos became a god, he became functionally immortal: no disease nor aging. Or posting anything related to GOW really. Therefore, Kratos is roughly 27 when he makes his deal with Ares. It’s stated in the first game that kratos was the youngest captain in the spartan army, which means at minimum he is 30 years old at this point as that’s the earliest age a Spartan could graduate. Now, to answer your question about Kratos aging, it doesn't seem like he can die of old age. The reason him and boy aren't very close is because Kratos was always away hunting and stuff. His anger over Ares’ betrayal in the original God of War was what drove him to conquer Pandora’s Temple. He can age a little bit, within reason, but it's an incredibly slow process, and doesn't seem to affect his physical abilities, bone structure/density, lung capacity, muscle mass, cartilage, etc. Ten years of service to the gods he is in his early 30's for the first Gow game. So age seems kind of useless in the context of what Kratos is. I also hope that if they do go down the whole time travel route that they don't over do it and don't over complicate things. Seems like Kratos was like "hey you're a good warrior and so am I. Press J to jump to the feed. Though, it could be argued that the blood of Zeus can muck up … Kratos can easily find himself as among the oldest DC characters there are. Born in the Greek city-state of Sparta, Kratos is the demigod son of Zeus and a mortal woman named Callisto, although he would remain unaware of who his father was for most of his life. In Greek mythology, Kratos (or Cratos) is the divine personification of strength. At the very least Kratos has been in the Nordic land for about 11, 12 or 13 years as Atreus seems to be around this age. Factoring in calculations on Kratos's age at the end of GOWIII based of earlier info (see footnote if you care for this), this places him squarely between the ages of 1047 and 1051. Since he still looks in his fifties in the ps4 game even though he's over 1000+ years old, I bet it'll take some thousands of years for him to look as old as Zeus. You have to remember that "dying" in God of War isn't canon (save for the times that Kratos is legit killed by Zues and Ares) so you have to assume he has completed all of his quests from God of War to God of War in "one" life. So I think Kratos will use this magic to stop the sun and moon and cause the sun and moon to be swallowed. So he's around his 50s in 3 as u said. That's why him and Atreus aren't very close. The real-life historic event that provides the basis for Fimbulwinter (which happens at the end of the game) started in 535 AD. Seems to me Kratos is just arriving. Since Zeus only discovers Pandora after Kratos kills Ares, and the feeble mortal Daedalus is still alive when Kratos arrives, Kratos was the God of War for twelve years, making him about 50. After an hour or so I have deciphered how old kratos is. So first of all kratos existed at the time of the poet homer before the classical age of Greece in the 8th century BC. The first trilogy takes place over the span of a year so he is still in his early 40s by the end of the 3rd game. Now we know Kratos is a god and is more or less immortal when it comes to being killed, especially that he still seemingly has Hades' soul, but it seems he can still age and so that brings up the question can he die due to age or is him aging due to Kratos himself wanting to live as a mortal and kind of letting himself age? The near-complete destruction of Greece, for example, is likely to have warped the history of Europe beyond recognition. Using irl timeline is kinda wonky since we don't even know if they're in the same universe. This means that roughly 999 years has passed between the end of GOW3 and the end of GOW4. like normal aging does. He didn't seem very close to Faye either. I made a comment making an estimation of his age, and the year that GOW III takes place. From there we could assume the years that pass until the end of GOW3. God of War won Game of the Year 2018. By the end of God of War 1 we can suppose he is at least in husband late 20s. He's pretty much ageless, being a god. Let's bang.". New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. He can age a little bit, within reason, but it's an incredibly slow process, and doesn't seem to affect his physical abilities, bone structure/density, lung capacity, muscle mass, cartilage, etc. It was never revealed how old Kratos was in the original games and it's also never revealed how many years have passed since the end of GoW3 and the start of GoW'18, but it's clear it's been quite some time with Kratos being considerably older. That is probably as close as it gets, but I think that the history of the GoW universe is sufficiently different from ours that parallels cannot be drawn. GOW 4 takes place in the pre Viking era which is 500 BC to 700 AD. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. 2018’s God of War stated that Tyr’s Temple had been submerged for 150 years, inside of which a vase had depicted Kratos’ time as the Ghost of Sparta. I don't see how anyone could become an actual general at 20. Or posting anything related to GOW really. He's pretty much ageless, being a god. This subreddit is dedicated to discussion of the games and sharing news about them. He'll catch a few wrinkles and grow some gray hairs, but Grandpa Kratos can still blast your ass into another dimension. This links to my theory that temporal magic will help Kratos cause ragnorok as Mimir said that the magic can freeze time and thus the sun and moon from moving, but it couldn't stop Sköll and Hati, so they stopped using it as one of the signs of the beginning of ragnorok is that the two wolves will finally catch and swallow the sun and moon, darkening the skies. He likely kills his family when he is 28. In the digital comic it shows Kratos learning and training to control his anger by fighting wolves without actually fighting them, he tells Atreus about this so he wasnt a total stranger to him and also in the comic, Faye is still alive and shows her and Kratos were quite close and even in the game you can tell he cared deeply for her, I mean then entire plot of the game is Kratos and Atreus taking her ashes to the mountain because they BOTH loved her, so it's fair to say it wasn't just meet Faye, fuck, boy is born, then Kratos leaves the land only for him to return when Faye dies. When we first use the realm travel room in Tyr's temple with Faye, she says that the temple has been 'asleep for 150 winters'. While we don't know how long he served Ares, his daughter doesn't age appreciably. And hey, why all the complaints of old Solid Snake and not old Kratos?