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| “ | What do you even know of godhood? In your lifetimes, has anyone ever worshipped you? Ever prayed to you? Can you even imagine that kind of love?! No! You don't care about mortals. You don’t care about anything beyond yourself. Beyond the monster who kills without cause! You fear what you can never even hope to understand. Is it any wonder that your boy is in no rush to come back to you...? | „ |
| ~ Odin to Kratos; his most infamous quote. |
| “ | You've ruined EVERYTHING! Everything I worked for! Everything I KILLED for! I just wanted answers! | „ |
| ~ Odin's breakdown when he realized that everything was lost. |
| “ | I have to know what happens next. I will never stop. | „ |
| ~ Odin's last words, as he rejected Atreus' plea to become better. |
Odin, also referred to as the All-Father, is the main antagonist of the Norse era in the God of War franchise.
He was the vicious King of the Aesir and served as the high-ranked God of Wisdom, Poetry, Magic, Frenzy, War and Death, ruling over the Norse pantheon and the Nine Realms. He was the former husband of the Giant Fjörgyn and the goddess Frigg, the father of Thor and Baldur as well as the grandfather of Magni, Modi and Thrúd.
As the ruler of Asgard, he held absolute authority upon the Valkyries and the Einherjar led by Gná, while loyal followers such as his left-hand Heimdall and the Raven Keeper acted respectively as his herald and high priest. The self-proclaimed All-Father built his millenial reign in the blood of the Jötnar, an enlightened race he deeply envied and whose arcane wisdom and secrets he had long coveted for himself. As the Giants foretold his demise come Ragnarök, Odin was hell-bent on finding answers that would allow him to change his fate and achieve his ultimate goal; becoming one with the source of infinite knowledge.
Obsessed with the control of fate and prophecy, the Raven King committed himself to the vilest practices at the expense of his kingdom and own family. His depravity and relentless pursuit for knowledge naturally made him the arch-nemesis of Kratos, Atreus, Freya, Syndri and Mimir, who defied destiny and went against the odds to put an end to Odin's madness and free the Nine Realms from his nefarious influence.
He was portrayed and voiced by Richard Schiff, who also played Toby Ziegler on The West Wing and Harper Dearing in NCIS. While impersonating Týr, he is voiced by Ben Prendergast, who also portrayed Grady Lovell as a werewolf in Wolf Man.
Personality[]
| “ | Ruthless? Barbaric? Heartless, that's Odin! In fact, we would do well to sit here in silence for the next few moments and reflect on Odin's capacity for cruelty. | „ |
| ~ Mimir speaking about Odin. |
Behind the fine facade of wisdom and friendly behavior presented by Odin lies a psychopath obsessed with control and knowledge. Taking advantage of his unassuming and feeble appearance, he is first and foremost a master manipulator and a pathological liar pulling the strings from behind the scenes, hell bent on getting what he desires no matter what the cost. His paranoia coupled with his extraordinary cleverness make him a formidable threat to virtually anyone in the Nine Realms.
Very early on, Odin showed supremacist ideas when he turned on his own creator, the Giant Ymir. Murdering him in cold blood with the help of his brothers Vili and Vé, he did so on the self-righteous belief that the Aesir had divine right to rule upon all the other races, and claimed for himself the title of All-Father. In Ymir's blood, he then deliberately let nearly all the Giants drown, leading to their near first extinction and demonstrating genocidal tendancies as well.
And genocidal he was, for Odin would be responsible for the second extinction of the Giants when he personally asked the Huldra Brothers to make the most powerful weapon the Nine Realms have ever seen. When Mjölnir was finally given to Thor, Odin personally commanded his son to find and kill every Giant, forcing the survivors to forever leave Midgard and go into hiding in Jötunheim. The Jötnar had indeed refused to share their secrets with the All-Father, and the later sought retribution out of sheer pettiness.
His hatred and fear of the Giants was the result of his paranoia and his need to stay in control of his fate. When the Jötnar foresaw Odin’s demise come Ragnarök, the All-Father’s pride would not allow him to accept his death and he came to see the Giants as a dangerous threat not only to his rule, but to himself as well. Even his fellow Aesir were not safe either from his wrath, as Týr and Mimir would both suffer the consequences for their alledged sympathies with the Giants.
Petty and proud, Odin was also a notorious drunk prompt to mental breakdowns and terrifying outbursts of rage when things didn't go his way. Genuinely revelling in the suffering of others, he personally tortured the Smartest Man Alive for 109 winters, day after day in many creative ways to the point that Mimir claims it's not the way of living towards his presence. Before Mimir, it was the huntress Skaði who was tricked into killing her own father just for having refused Odin’s affections, and she died alone out sheer grief. His last wife Freya would also ultimately experience the full extent of Odin's wrath when she dared to stand up to him.
When Freya broke off their marriage, Odin felt deeply betrayed and this act of betrayal led him to not only punish her, but also curse her Valkyries into hostile monsters out of pure spite for her treason. He would also strip away of her power and wings and have her be banished to Midgard. This act alone caused Freya to feel nothing but hatred towards Odin and it would only grow further from how the All-Father treated their son, Baldur. The All-Father desecrated her memory and made sure that everything Freya had ever known would suffer because of her affront. Caring nothing for peace, he subdued Vanaheim and let the Vanir believe that Freya had deliberately abandoned her own people to save herself.
Showing no qualms about meddling with the laws of nature itself, Odin used the souls of children sacrificed by their own parents in his name to his own benefit. While his partner-in-crime, the Raven Keeper, gathered up the souls for him, Odin experimented on them, twisted them and turned the souls into useful assets: Odin's ravens were born. Unable to find peace and forever bound to the All-Father's will, they would be his eyes and ears across the Nine Realms.
According to Mimir, Odin was yet not unable to feel compassion and love for others. He was deeply in love with his wife, Fjörgyn, even though he despised her kind. Her death affected him greatly, so much that it led Odin to fall into depression and feel loneliness. Mimir stated that his relationship with Freya was very much similar to his with Fjörgyn, treating her in a protective and loving manner, so much that he fulfilled many of her wishes such as giving the Valkyries some measure of their own freedom. Mimir even lost count to how many promises he fulfilled for her. Freya herself also supports this by stating while their marriage was primarily to maintain peace between the Aesir and Vanir, she tried to make it work and for a time, they were happy together.
Odin has also shown to be incredibly manipulative when he "befriended" the Jötunn seeress, Gróa, only to kill her in cold blood and steal her library so he could learn more about the prophecy of Ragnarök. His relationship with Baldur demonstrates his more manipulative side further. While he considers Baldur to be his finest tracker, he was very much willing to toy with his emotions by promising to remove his curse for him if he succeeded in killing Kratos and Atreus. Otherwise, he would not hesitate to break said promise. Though he later tells Kratos that he was upset over Baldur's death, he admits it was only due to his value as a pawn of his, not out of genuine love and concern for him. Likewise, he views Magni and Modi the same, except he holds them with much less regard than Baldur, deeming them to be useless.
Initially, he appeared to have a good relationship with his son, Thor, placing his trust in him to fulfill the various tasks given to him. He even entrusted Thor the task of destroying the entire Jötnar race by himself, believing he is strong enough to do so. However, in truth, he has been forcing Thor to commit these crimes that have ultimately taken a toll on Thor's mental state, driving him into grief, depression and alcoholism. Odin sees Thor as nothing but his brute enforcer and tends to ridicule him for it, seeing his worth as someone whose only task is to kill whoever he tells him to. His labeling of Magni and Modi as worthless was to reinforce the negative self-esteem Thor had, since if his children were worthless, then so must he. When Thor decided to turn against him, Odin did not hesitate to kill him for it, showing how very little he cared for his son in the end.
He strongly disliked his son Týr the most, however, as he saw his pacifist nature as unfitting for an Aesir. Because of his affiliation with the Jötnar, Odin imprisoned him as punishment, showing that he was very intolerant towards even his own family. Odin's contempt for his son was expressed through his impersonation of him, portraying Týr as a broken shell of man who had lost his warrior spirit from his years as Odin's prisoner, leaving behind a pacifistic coward.
His son Heimdall, he treated with superficial respect, as his powers, especially mind-reading, were considered valuable by the All-Father. While Odin's emotional abuse against Thor was overt, his manipulation of Heimdall was much more subtle; Odin knew how desperate Heimdall was for approval, so gave him assignments that he dutifully fulfilled. However, no matter how well Heimdall did, Odin only gave the bare minimum of acknowledgement, and sometimes giving backhanded compliments, thereby keeping his son urgent to try again.
Odin exploited emotional insecurities of his obedient sons, Thor and Heimdall, while also driving them to become bitter rivals, which motivated Heimdall to undertake further missions for the All-Father; Thor's self-loathing and brutish demeanour meant he couldn't undertake tasks that required stealth, thus he lacked the need for attention like his brother, however, the rivalry ensured that they would never become allies, thereby never become a possible threat to Odin. Despite the usefulness of his sons, Odin considered them as nothing but tools for his ambitions, ultimately he would discard them without care or guilt, as he was willing to "trade" Heimdall's death for the dying Brok, and Thor, when he considered him "broken," (reflecting his view of him as an item) due to refusing to obey anymore, he kills him without mercy, albeit hypocritically claiming he "didn't want" to murder him.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Gungnir was the symbol of Odin's treachery.
Odin is the King of the Aesir, the wisest and oldest among them. After a lifetime studying and learning the secrets of the Nine Realms, the extent of his knowledge was such that it made him an exceptionally gifted magician, full of tricks up his sleeves. All these traits resulted in Odin becoming, by far, the most powerful god in the Norse world, both Aesir and Vanir, and one of the most powerful beings in the entire franchise. He, along with his brothers, were able to kill Ymir, the first Giant and progenitor of all life, and used his body to create the universe. He also overpowered Tyr and killed Thor with a single strike. Furthermore, he held his own against Kratos, Atreus and Freya simultaneously.
- Immortality: As a God, Odin is immortal, having lived for millennia and invulnerable to ageing or diseases, despite having an elderly appearance. Only divine weapon, other Gods, or extremely powerful beings like Freya, Thor, Kratos, Fenrir and Surtr can harm or even kill him. Like every being in the Nine Realms, he is vulnerable to having his soul extracted from his body, which is how Atreus was able to contain Odin's soul in a Jötunn Marble before Sindri smashed the marble, sending Odin's soul to Helheim.
- Superhuman Strength: Despite his frail and unassuming appearance, Odin possessed a tremendous amount of superhuman strength, surpassed only (albiet slightly) by Thor and far greater than that of Heimdall, Baldur and Týr. His strength was even enough to rival that of Kratos, being able to physically push him away when he impaled the Leviathan Axe on his shoulder, free himself of Kratos's grip and briefly push him to his knees before Atreus and Freya attacked him simultaneously. He is slightly weaker than Thor in terms of strength.
- Superhuman Durability: Odin was shown to be extremely durable as he was able to survive a clash with Ymir, the first being in existence and the most powerful of the Frost Giants. He was able to take numerous attacks from Kratos, Atreus and Freya.
- Superhuman Speed: Odin uses witchcraft in order to enhance his own speed. He is then able to project himself at lightening speed towards his enemies, or merely to stay out of their reach.
- Magical Manipulation: Odin was an extremely powerful user of Seiðr magic. He was believed to be the only one of the Aesir to use magic. His magic was so potent and powerful that he was even able to surpass the power of the Vanir who taught him. This combined with his mastery of magical forces made him an extremely formidable foe. Odin has even experimented with newer variations of magic and learnt magic from others. These magical practices include the old magic of the Jötnar as well as the Seiðr magic of the Vanir, which he learnt from his former wife Freya, a highly efficient and experienced sorceress in her own right. His mastery of Bifröst was such that Odin was totally immune to its effects, a feat that not even Heimdall could perform.
- Curse Enchantments: He's able to cast various powerful curse, enchanting Freya to never leave Midgard or harm others. The spell was too much for Freya to handle despite her own highly stated Vanir abilities. He even created an extremely dangerous corruption of Magic called the Black Breath, which could only be dispelled by the Light of Álfheimr.
- Elemental Manipulation: Odin was allegedly able to control all forces of nature. In addition to the Bifröst from which he draws much of his power and to Seiðr magic he learned from Freya, the All-Father possesses Cryokinesis, Geokinesis, Photokinesis, Pyrokinesis, Telekinesis and Umbrakinesis.
- Raven Summoning: As the Raven God, Odin is able to summon icy ravens to observe and gather information from across the realms.
- Einherjar Creation: He was even able to harvest the Souls (hugr) of deceased mortals from Valhalla to create Einherjar and greatly expand Asgard's military forces.
- Memory Absorption: Odin was capable of absorbing the memories of people he chooses via magic. One of his most vile deeds was the absorption of Gróa's knowledge of Ragnarök after having murdered her in cold blood.
- Shapeshifting: Odin was able to shapeshift into Týr during his deception and infiltration of Kratos' allies so that they unknowingly reveal to him the secrets which the Jötnar kept from him as well as learn of their plans.
- Protection Magic: Odin was capable of casting a powerful protection magic which rendered the tree Mimir was bound to, invulnerable to damage. However, he could never figure out how to cast Baldr's curse upon himself as well. He was able to use a similar spell to prevent realm travel to Svartálfheim, Vanaheim and Asgard.
- Teleportation Ravens: Through his pet ravens Huginn and Muninn, Odin can teleport across any realm or any areas within a few moments. He does not require the real travel mechanism of Týr's temple to accomplish this.
Skills and Abilities[]
- Genius-level Intelligence: Even without his powers, Odin's most prominent ability is genius-level intellect. Even Mimir, the smartest being alive that rivalled him in all the Nine Realms, acknowledged and feared his cleverness, saying that he is almost as clever as he believes himself to be. His knowledge of the nine realms makes him appear to be omniscient.
- Torture Methodology: According to Mimir, Odin is a master of torture and always comes up with newer, creative and experimental forms of torture, which makes Mimir fear being tortured by him. Mimir even went as far as to say that he would rather be killed than tortured by Odin ever again.
- Manipulative Charisma: Even those close to him never underestimate Odin's wits, which allow him to manipulate and persuade anyone with no difficulty. He uses his charisma, grandfatherly charm and sense of humor to disarm people.
- Deductive Analysis: From having heard the prophecy of Ragnarök, he was able to figure out that Kratos and Atreus will play a very important part in it.
- Master Strategist: He was even able to deduce that given Nidhogg's radically protective behaviour regarding Yggdrasil's roots, he can use her to safeguard the spell he put on Freya that binds her to Midgard. He even deduced that he could tap into Valhalla's nearly infinite number of deceased people and use them as an endless supply of superhuman soldiers for the Asgardian military.
- Occult Knowledge: As a collector of scholarly and mystical knowledge, Odin is well aware of the occult secrets of all of the Nine Realms. He is even aware of loopholes and can create newer and more dangerous variations of magical power. While not possess the capacity for languages that Atreus possesses, Odin was able to use his occult wisdom to help decipher the clues on the Mask.
- Masterful Acting Talent: Tangential to his skills at manipulation, and combined with his shape-shifting powers, he is able to perfectly imitate a completely different person. In the form of his son, Týr, he is "rescued," ingratiating himself in Kratos' group. Any shortcomings in his performance, he is able to convince others it is merely trauma. His performance is so convincing that Mimir and Freya, who know Odin best, remained unaware of the subterfuge until Odin himself breaks character and reverting to his true form.
- Political Authority: As the ruler of the Norse Pantheon, Odin is a supreme monarch who is obeyed without question by many across his realms of influence, thus even without facing others directly he can command entire armies to do his will.
- Master Combatant: As the oldest Aesir god, he excels in all forms of offensive and defensive combat abilities, armed and unarmed, having forged in centuries worth of battle training and experience. He is particularly proficient in fighting with the spear Gungnir, as demonstrated when battling Kratos, Atreus and Freya during Ragnarök.
- Spear Mastery: Although Odin heavily relies on his magical powers in battle, he remains exceptionally skilled in close quarters combat, especially when using Gungnir, having notably used it to kill extremely powerful beings such as Ymir and Thor himself. His spear attacks are aggressive and superbly choregraphed, Odin favoring dexterity and precision over brute force.
Gungnir is imbued with many battle enchantments.
Vulnerabilities[]
- More Powerful Beings: Despite his immense power and being seemingly unkillable, Odin is vulnerable to beings of great power. Despite the fact that Kratos, Atreus, and Freya were all weakened from their battles in Ragnarök, they were still ultimately able to overpower Odin in a fierce battle. Odin was previously unwilling to get into a direct confrontation with Kratos when he was at his prime either. In prophecies, it was believed that powerful beings like Surtr and Fenrir (in Garm's body) can kill him as well.
- When Odin's soul was contained in a Jötunn Marble, Odin becomes vulnerable to mortals as well. This was seen when Sindri smashed the marble containing Odin's soul, denying him any form of afterlife.
- Vulnerability to Magic: Despite being a master of magical forces, Odin was briefly overpowered by Freya's magics and when subdued him with a binding spell, and had his soul extracted from his body by Atreus's soul magics, effectively neutralizing him.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Ymir † (great-grandfather)
- Auðumbla † (great-grandmother)
- Búri (grandfather)
- Borr (father)
- Bestla (mother)
- Vili (brother)
- Vé (brother)
- Fjörgyn † (first wife)
- Thor † (son)
- Melli (son)
- Nine daughters of Aegir (lovers)
- Heimdall † (son)
- Gunload (lover)
- Bragi (son)
- Hodr (son)
- Grid (lover)
- Vidar (son)
- Hrodr (lover)
- Týr (son)
- Rind (lover)
- Vali (son)
- Hermod (son)
- Freya (second wife)
- Baldur † (son)
- Sif (daughter-in-law)
- Magni † (grandson)
- Modi † (grandson)
- Thrúd (granddaughter)
Allies/Servants[]
- Thor (formerly)
- Sif (formerly)
- Heimdall
- Týr (formerly)
- Baldur
- Magni
- Modi
- Thrúd (formerly)
- Raven Keeper
- Gná
- Hrist and Mist
- Sigrun (formerly)
- Huginn and Muninn
Enemies[]
- Kratos (arch-nemesis)
- Atreus (former protégé turned arch-nemesis)
- Freya (former wife turned arch-nemesis)
- Mimir (former advisor turned arch-nemesis)
- Brok (victim)
- Sindri (killer, vengeful brother of Brok)
- Durlin
- Laufey
- Surtr
- Jörmungandr
Victims[]
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Indirectly[]
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Appearances[]
- God of War – The Lost Pages of Norse Myth (mentioned only)
- God of War (mentioned only)
- God of War – The Official Novelization (mentioned only)
- God of War: Lore and Legends (mentioned only)
- God of War Ragnarök - Myths of Midgard Storybook (mentioned only)
- God of War Ragnarök (first appearance)
- God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla (mentioned only)
Quotes[]
| “ | I know you're in here somewhere you silver-tongued little s-it! | „ |
| ~ Odin to Mimir, knowing he's in Kratos' home. |
| “ | I know you. God killer. What is it that you want from me? Is it a God of War you came to find? | „ |
| ~ Odin to Kratos, guised as Týr. |
| “ | Know what drives me? What I really want? I want answers. | „ |
| ~ Odin to Atreus. |
| “ | Everyone's got me all wrong. You think war drives me? Or power? Wealth? Naw. Never have. Know what drives me? What I really want? I want answers. Same as you. See, mortals have it easy. When they push up against life's big questions, they can look to us to give them meaning. Divine comfort. We both know that's a sham. But when we have questions? Why are we here? To give meaning to mortals while living without it ourselves? No. We're more than that. | „ |
| ~ Odin to Atreus. |
| “ | DO YOU NEVER SHUT UP?! | „ |
| ~ Odin stabbing Brok, revealing that he was impersonating Týr all along. |
| “ | Now, now. Wasn't part of the plan, but if he dies, we are square for Heimdall. And honestly, you got a bargain. | „ |
| ~ Odin to the group after mortally wounding Brok. |
| “ | I didn't want this. I did... not.. want this. | „ |
| ~ Odin killing Thor after the latter stands up to him. |
| “ | And Thor? That one's on you. You turned him against me. You turned them ALL against me! | „ |
| ~ Odin blaming Kratos for Thor's death. |
| “ | Why did you do that?! What was it all for?! YOU CHOOSE TO BE NOTHING?! [...] You've ruined everything! Everything I worked for! Everything I killed for! I just wanted answers! | „ |
| ~ Odin's breakdown. |
| “ | What did you call me? | „ |
| ~ Odin when Mimir called him "All-Fucker". |
| “ | Odin: This was our chance, Loki! I could have had my answers! I could have learned the truth! You took that away from me! I could have made things better. We could have made the Nine Realms better! Atreus: This was never about the Realms, or me! It was about you! Odin: You've destroyed everything... my home! My family! My kingdom! Atreus: YOU did those things! YOUR choices! You killed your own son! Odin: It wasn't my choice... I had no choice... Atreus: There's always a choice! You have to stop. You can choose to be better. Odin: ...No. I can't. I have to know what happens next. I... will never stop. Atreus: Why'd you have to say that? |
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| ~ Atreus' hopeless attempt to reason with the unrepentant Odin even in the latter's final moments. |
Trivia[]
- As the king of most of the Norse Gods, Odin is the Norse equivalent to Zeus who also the king of the Gods in his own realm. Both of them share many similarities:
- Both are kings of their own realms, and they ruled their respective domains with an iron fist.
- Both are extremely paranoid toward anything that they considered a threat to their reign, even their own sons.
- Odin is much like Zeus and Cronos; both are paranoid toward anything that they considered a threat to their reign, even their own sons. Odin imprisoned Týr after he had suspected him plotting with the Giants to overthrow him, while Zeus killed Kratos out of fear of the Marked Warrior prophecy, and Cronos tried to consume his own sons in fear of a prophecy. The difference, however, was Týr never thought of overthrowing Odin and only prevented him from accessing Jötunheim, whereas Kratos had intentions of vengeance against Zeus for killing him and previously torturing his mother and brother and for betraying him.
- Both betrayed their own progenitors in a cruel way. Zeus imprisoned almost every Titan for eternity because of his desire to rule over the mortal world, while Odin killed his own great-grandfather Ymir and almost every of his Jötnar descendants under a self-righteous belief that he and his brethren are superior to every race in the Nine Realms and deserved to be such.
- Both imprisoned and tortured their former allies cruelly for what they perceived as a disloyalty towards them. Prometheus was sentenced by Zeus to have his liver eaten by a giant bird for eternity after he gave the mortals the fire of Olympus. Meanwhile, Mimir was bound to a tree and tortured every day for 109 years by Odin after he tried to convince him to stop his cruel campaign against the Giants.
- Both imprisoned loyal sons for perceived failures, as Zeus trapped Hephaestus in Hades due to Kratos gaining Pandora's Box, and Odin trapped Týr as the latter sealing Jötunheim and his peaceful ways were seen as failures to the Aesir cause.
- Both are destined to die at Kratos' and his families' hands. Zeus was destined to die at the hands of the Marked Warrior, who was Kratos himself, whereas Odin was ultimately destined to die at the hands of Kratos and his allies during Ragnarok.
- Both requested one of their children to kill powerful beings. Odin commanded Thor to kill the Jötnar, while Zeus ordered Kratos to kill Ares.
- Both are afraid of Kratos, while Zeus was afraid of him because he was the one destined to destroy the Gods, the Greek Pantheon and his killer, trying everything in his power to stop him and put an end to the circle of patricide, only to be killed by him; Odin, on the other hand, is afraid of him because of his actions involving Ragnarök, accelerating its coming because of Baldur's death, killing also his two grandsons Magni and Modi, who were prophecied to survive even after Ragnarök and his important role for his own demise.
- There are also contrasts between Zeus and Odin:
- Zeus presents himself as immensely powerful and imposing, whereas Odin hides his power, acting as a frail old man.
- Zeus directly commands his peers and children, while Odin subtly gives suggestions, manipulating his family into believing they are following their own decisions.
- Zeus married once but took many lovers, whereas Odin was married twice and was faithful to them during the marriages.
- Zeus openly acts elitist and dismissive of others, while Odin outwardly acts friendly and performs acts of seeming generosity.
- Zeus became more evil because of being corrupted by the evil of Fear, whereas Odin was free from any disturbing factors.
- Zeus and Odin both blamed Kratos for the destruction of their realms, for which Zeus wasn't entirely wrong, but Odin was projecting.
- Perhaps a difference more for Kratos, as in Greece, Kratos had left a trail of destruction, having no living allies, thus forcing him to fight Zeus alone (albeit, powered by Hope), but a more mature Kratos in Midgard had far more restraint and could be considerate, thus Kratos, Atreus, and Freya fought together against Odin.
- When facing their respective deaths, Zeus seemingly accepts the fault of his own actions, which led to Kratos' rebellion and the systemic destruction of Olympus. Conversely, Odin adamantly refused to acknowledge that his obsessive thirst for knowledge, his need for control and wanton cruelty towards others are what ultimately led to Ragnarok.
- In nearly all the murals Odin appears in, he is riding his mythological mount, Sleipnir. This is odd, seeing as Sleipnir in the Norse Mythos, is the offspring of Loki and Svadilfari who was the stallion who helped the disguised Jötunn build the walls of Asgard.
- Despite being Loki in this universe, it's unlikely that Atreus is the mother of Sleipnir, seeing as the horse was alive thousands of years before even the World Serpent's first appearance, being with Odin when he and his brothers slew Ymir.
- Another piece to support this claim is that in the Prose Edda, Loki distracted Svadifari from his task of helping the builder complete the wall in time by taking the form of a mare and the intercourse that followed produced Sleipnir. In the God of War universe, however, Hrimthur was able to complete the wall in time and gain an audience with Freya.
- The final battle against Odin is the only one in the whole series where the four main protagonists unite their forces against a single foe. While Odin was desperately fighting for his own survival, Kratos, Atreus, Mimir and Freya rightfully fought him as an evil that had to be defeated once and for all.
- In an ironic twist of fate, Odin's efforts to prevent Ragnarök and his death from occurring could be argued to be the very reason to it, as this led many inhabitants in the nine realms to be very hateful toward him and his brethren, including the Vanirs, the wolf Fenrir, and the Giants.
- Odin's efforts to learn more about Ragnarök and control it only caused him to lose more control of it at the same time. Odin's interferences altered Magni and Modi's fate from surviving Ragnarök to dying before it begins, likewise, Odin's interference also caused Baldur to die earlier than expected and cause the beginning of Ragnarök 100 years earlier than predicted. The new tapestry indicates that Odin changed the series of events by nearly committing a Jotünn genocide, which caused the surviving Jotnar to receive a new prophecy about a Jotünn who'd avenge the Jötnar by starting Ragnarok. In brief, Ragnarök was always going to happen despite Odin's efforts.
- As of the events of God of War, Odin is responsible for the desolation of five of the Nine Realms, those being Midgard (through his corruption of the Valkyries), Niflheim (by intervening in Ivaldi's creations), Asgard and Vanaheim (through the Aesir-Vanir war) and Jotunheim (through Thor's genocidal campaign).
- Odin made his first and only appearance in God of War Ragnarök, but is the main antagonist with the most screen time in the whole series.
- For a long time during the game's production, Odin was originally not impersonating Týr, who really would have been rescued in Svartalfheim. The idea suddenly came to the game's director and it was written into the story from there.
External Links[]
- Odin on the God of War Wiki
