Baldur mistook Kratos for the Giant and attacked, though Kratos momentarily bested him. Baldur is estranged from Freya due to a spell she cast on him to prevent his prophesied needless death.
The spell makes Baldur effectively invincible but comes with a side effect that inhibits all sensations. Atreus broke the spell with a mistletoe-laden arrow, and Baldur was subsequently slain by Kratos. Magni and Modi, Aesir demigods of strength and bravery, are the sons of Thor, and grandchildren to the Allfather.
They are half brothers, having different mothers, and join Baldur on his search for Kratos and Atreus. Kratos hasn't technically met Thor, the Aesir god of lightning, but his appearance in God of War is worth noting. Players are never given a good look at him, only his hammer, but Thor confronts Kratos and Atreus at their home in a post-credits scene. The sequence is played off as Atreus' dream but is heavily implied to be a prophetic vision. Until the events in God of War , Kratos managed to lead a fairly quiet life in Midgard, never attracting the attention of the gods.
Of all the Norse gods Kratos has officially met, more than half have ended up dead, which is about par for the course in God of War. In the mythology, Baldur is nothing like how he is in the game. He was well-mannered, a bright presence, elegant, beautiful.
He was also thought to be merciful, just, and kind. So, everything opposite of what he is in the game. In the mythology, though, he dies moments after discovering he had invulnerability. In the game, he went on to live with this gift for too long and considered it a curse. Perhaps that is enough to make the sanest man insane.
The smartest man alive! It's more than just a self-proclamation, though. Mimir is indeed known to be the smartest man alive. Just as he serves as an advisor to Kratos in-game, he once did the same for Odin. The main difference regarding Mimir in the game from the mythology is his beheading and resurrection. In the game, it was Kratos who beheaded Mimir at his own request, and it was Freya who brought him back to life.
In Norse mythology, Mimir was actually beheaded during a battle between the Aesir and the Vanir and it was Odin who enchanted the head back to life. Freya is a Vanir goddess who Kratos and Atreus later encounter as they roam around Midgard. She is very well-versed in magic and is an incredibly kind figure who was more than willing to assist Kratos and Atreus on their journey. It is later revealed that Freya is the mother of Baldur and it was she who laid the curse on him to protect him from a prophecized death.
Herein lies the difference between the game and the mythology. Or at least, somewhat a difference. In the mythology, Frigg was actually the mother of Baldur and not Freya.
Although many scholars actually theorize that Freya, or Freyja as she is more known in the old stories, and Frigg are one and the same beings. The game simply took this theory and went with it, but it's still quite different from how it is told in the old prose if you take away the aspects that are still in theory.
Modi and Magni, the sons of Thor, appear as bosses in the game who were tasked by Odin to hunt down "a tattooed man traveling with a child. They even go as far as mocking Atreus for his appearance and using the death of his mother as an insult. In the mythology, mentions of Modi and Magni are quite uncommon. Where they are heavily featured, however, is at the end of Ragnarok where they are believed to have been one of the few to survive the apocalyptic incident.
Obviously, this will be not the case in the game anymore as both Modi and Magni have already fallen at the hands of Atreus and Kratos respectively. Mjolnir and the hand that wields it, Thor, only makes an appearance during the secret ending of the game.
While this may be the case, mentions of the two are consistently recurring all throughout the game. Mjolnir is thought to be one of the most powerful weapons in the nine realms.
Odin was first and foremost worshipped by kings, warrior chieftains and their men. It was the requirements of these people that he could satisfy. Thor was the most popular of all the gods. He was a god of war and fertility. Thor was worshipped by most Vikings — he was the god of the people. He was comprehensible and could be trusted, in contrast to his father Odin, who could be completely unpredictable.
Loki is crafty and not to be trusted. On many occasions he cheats both the giants and gods, and plays them off against each other. Even though Loki is often up to no good, the gods still tolerate his presence.
He is sly and lies — abilities that the gods can use to their advantage. Frey is connected with fertility and a good harvest. He makes the crops in the fields grow. The boar shines like gold, and Frey rides it faster than any horse over land and through water. Perhaps it was pigs that Viking farmers sacrificed to Frey?
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