

Kratos eventually locates his ailing mother, Callisto, who attempts to reveal to him the identity of his father. After a series of confrontations, Kratos kills Scylla. Despite Poseidon's best efforts to prevent Kratos from reaching his city, including sending the monster Scylla, Kratos reaches Atlantis. Still haunted by visions of his mortal past, Kratos decides - against the advice of the Goddess Athena - to explore his past and travels to the Temple of Poseidon, located within the city of Atlantis. Years later, Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta, has defeated and killed Ares and taken his place as the new God of War on Mount Olympus.

Taken to the Domain of Death, Deimos is imprisoned and tortured by the God of Death, Thanatos. Athena stops Ares and tells him they only came for the Marked Warrior, not to take the boy's life. Ares prepares to kill the young Kratos for attacking him. Kratos attempts to stop Ares but is swept aside and scarred across his right eye by the violent Olympian. Ares sieges a village of Sparta and interrupts the childhood training of Kratos and Deimos, with Athena on hand to watch over him, and kidnaps Deimos. The Olympian Gods Zeus and Ares believed this warrior to be Deimos, brother of Kratos, due to his strange birthmarks. The Oracle foretold that the demise of Olympus would come not from the Titans but by a Marked Warrior, a mortal.
