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GOD OF WAR PLAYTHROUGH

Part 2 - The Stranger

Atreus has never ventured far from the Wildwood before. To him this is already a grand adventure and they’ve barely even begun their trek to the mountain. His excitement makes him carless and he runs out on to an old rotting suspension bridge. The bridge sways and the boards creak as he ventures out over the dark chasm below. He brims with delight as he attempts to prove his bravery by jumping up and down as if to test fate. Kratos tries to warn him but it’s too late, the fates have answered. One of the planks splinters away and Atreus falls through.

Panicked, Kratos carefully moves onto the bridge and reaches for his son, now dangling from the bridge. The bridge splits apart and both of them tumble into the darkness. A little worse for wear but for the most part ok, they find themselves in a precarious situation. With an inky black abyss to their backs and a brood of Draugr surrounding them on all other fronts, they must fight for their very lives. Blinded by seething revenge, these dead men with corrupt hearts refused the Valkyries Call to ascend to Valhalla and have been left to wander Midgard in twisted and rotten husks. But alas, even more terrifying foes wander these depths. The powerful elemental sorceresses known as Revenants who walk the knifes edge between the realms of the living and the dead.

Side by side, father and son battle the creatures and emerge from the cavernous depths. Sanctuary from the darkness is not what they find. Instead they are set upon by a group of Reavers, dangerous mortal men with hearts as dark as the beasts below. These men, cannibals, hunger for fresh meat. Kratos warns his son to stay back. “This fight is for me alone,” he says before unsheathing the Leviathan axe and cutting them down with brutal force. As vicious and dangerous as these men are, they are no match for the God of War. During the melee one of the men grabs a hold of Atreus. Using his mother’s dagger, he stabs the man in the throat.

Laying on the ground nearly in complete shock, Atreus watches helplessly as the mortally wounded Reaver desperately clasping at his throat collapses on top of him. Kratos dashes to his assistance and finds the boy solemn and distraught. The boy has just killed a man. As evil as that man may have been, that is a mark he will carry with him for an eternity. Kratos, against his very nature, attempts to comfort his son but is interrupted as the Reavers begin to rise again. Blueish gray, the colour of their flesh now, these beasts are known as Hel-Walkers. Resistant to cold these souls have travelled through Helheim and returned. Unable to use the Leviathan axe Kratos resorts to his bear hands to snuff the life out of them once and for all.

As they finally emerge from the Reaver’s encampment they can hear a peculiar sound in the distance. It sounds like an animal screaming and writhing. Soon they encounter an angry and befuddled dwarf named Brok. He’s trying to move his pack animal across a bridge but it will not move. Atreus notes the animal is scarred. A predator lay in waiting in the bushes just across the ravine. having trouble with his pack mule. It appears the animal is frightened by something waiting in the bushes up ahead. Atreus suggests scaring whatever it is away by throwing the Leviathan axe into the trees and it works. Seeing the Axe, Brok tells you it was he and his brother Sindri who crafted it for Faye and he and offers to upgrade it before you depart.

To be continued...

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