Characters / God of War Series – Sindri and Brok

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Sindri and Brok (The Huldra Brothers)

Sindri and Brok are better known as the Huldra Brothers; they are a pair of dwarves that crafted Mjölnir and the Leviathan Axe and help Kratos and Atreus during their adventures by improving their weapons and equipment with the right materials. The two are initially shown to see each other as rivals with wildly contrasting personalities and demeanors, but at the same time also worry about one another and are more than willing to help Kratos and Atreus in their journey after the father-son duo have played a role in saving their lives and helping with their matters on a number of occasions.

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General

• Amazing Technicolor Population:
  • Brok has blue skin, however, his brother Sindri has grey skin. Sindri eventually reveals that Brok works bare-handed and that a lifetime of touching silver has made his skin turn blue. Actually, Truth in Television as argyria is a real thing.
  • This was complicated after another explanation for his skin came out; Brok actually died while making The Leviathan Axe, causing Sindri to resurrect him, leaving his skin blue as a result. This is also Truth in Television as the condition of livor mortis (albeit exaggerated as the body cannot get that blue throughout), a state upon death which the blood in a person's body stops flowing due to the lack of a heartbeat and parts of the body start to gain an purplish-blue hue not unlike Brok's skin after a prolonged period due to gravity pulling the stagnant blood towards extremities and the bottom-side of the corpse.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: During one piece of dialogue, after the insults that he throws at Sindri, Brok still inquires if Sindri looks like he eats well because he forgets to eat when he works.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Both Brok and Sindri appear to have this trait. The second Kratos appears before him with the Blades of Chaos, Brok identifies them as being made with foreign magic and works out how to repair and even upgrade them all in that first look. A more tragic example of this appears in Ragnarok, as Brok picks up on several inconsistencies with the god Tyr's advice about using a secret way into Asgard and especially how he's calling Atreus by "Loki". It ultimately ends up getting him killed while also revealing that who they thought was Tyr was actually Odin in disguise.
• The Blacksmith: Their role in the Norse-era duology is to upgrade the equipment of Kratos and Atreus and Freya.
• Both Sides Have a Point: Their argument about their weapons portray both sides as having a legitimate point.
  • In Brok's eyes, he believes that he and Sindri are not responsible for Thor's actions. Neither Brok nor Sindri made weapons with the intent to spread misery and death, they simply made their products for money and esteem. Brok believes they shouldn't end their successful business practices because of one tragedy they weren't responsible for.
  • In Sindri's eyes, he believes that their weapons are far too dangerous in the wrong hands and they contributed to two Jotnar genocides in Midgard by providing Thor with a weapon of unmeasurable power. Sindri believes they should be more cautious about who they sell their weapons to and they should end their business in arms dealing. Unfortunately for Sindri, his side of the argument is proven tragically victorious when the actions of those seeking his services result in Brok's death at the hands of Odin. By the end of Ragnarok, he makes it very clear in no uncertain terms that he is 100% done with offering weapons to anyone, openly hating all of his former allies equally for taking from him until he had nothing left.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The dwarves are regarded as irritating and annoying by Kratos and Mimir. Even The Witch of the Woods has a hard time disputing that. However, nobody denies their extraordinary abilities in resourcefulness and craftsmanship.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: They are able to slip into the Realm Between Realms to explain how they get around so easily and are never targeted by the many monsters roaming the realms. However, this ability doesn't work against dragons, to set up a boss battle against one to protect Sindri.
• Elves Versus Dwarves: According to Mimir, the Aesir were incredibly lazy while they were designing the realms and they ultimately decided that Dwarves and Dark Elves are of the same species despite their physical differences. While the elves fought themselves over the light, the dwarves stayed out of this war and found their own realm, and called it "Nidavellir".
  Atreus: So... clear this up for me... Svartalfheim means "Land of the dark elves," right?
  Mimir: Right...
  Atreus: But you said the Dark Elves have been here in Alfheim a really long time. And anyway... aren't Dwarves supposed to be from Svartalfheim? They don't look like Dark Elves.
  Mimir: Don't you think so? Then you are vastly more perceptive than the Aesir. They're the ones who apparently can't tell the difference. And they're the ones who came up with that name. Dwarves actually call their home realm "Nidavellir."
  Atreus: So the Dark Elves aren't from Svartalfheim at all?
  Mimir: Not even a bit. They're just elves of another color. Nobody knows who came first, but they all come from Alfheim.
• Fire-Forged Friends:
  • Although Kratos will be the last person in Midgard to admit it, he and Brok have developed this friendship. At first, Kratos was annoyed by Brok, and Brok's abrasive personality wasn't exactly winning Kratos over until he proved himself useful as a blacksmith. After learning that Atreus has fallen ill, Brok immediately offers to help and Kratos gratefully turns him down by saying he's already doing enough as a blacksmith. Even though Kratos turned down his offer to help; Brok went to Helheim anyway, upgraded the blades of Chaos so Kratos can escape, and he fixed the doorway to the world tree so Kratos can get to Freya much quicker so he can heal Atreus. In Ragnarök, Kratos is quick to pick Brok over Sindri to help him with a certain matter.
  • Comparatively, Atreus and Sindri have become this during the three years since they meet. Sindri has become something of a partner in crime with Atreus in his secret exploration of Midgard and is generally the first person Atreus will go to for help. Sindri is even somewhat willing to assist Atreus in battle if need be. However, their friendship begins to strain from all the secrets Atreus is keeping while still asking Sindri to help him, and eventually completely breaks after Brok is murdered by Odin disguised as Tyr, a "Tyr" that Atreus freed and brought into Sindri's home. Though Sindri ultimately helps Atreus, even during Ragnarök itself, he makes it clear that their friendship is over and done.
• Heroic BSoD: Happens to both of them in 'Ragnarök at different points.
  • Brok is devastated after realizing that he was improperly revived and has an incomplete soul. Kratos manages to help him snap out of this by asking him to bless the Draupnir spear, thus giving him some belief that his life is worth something.
  • Sindri is stuck in this state in after Brok's death, completely closing himself off from everyone he previously considered a friend and lashing out at anyone who tries to reach out to him.
• Honorary Uncles: Being friends with Faye and later on with Kratos, the brothers act as uncle figures to Atreus, with Sindri helping him to sneak out to investigate Jötnar shrines without Kratos knowing and to try to talk with Freya and overall advising and lecturing him in times of need; Atreus even tells Angrboda they are almost his uncles. After Brok's death, however, Sindri wants nothing to do with Atreus anymore. To drive the point home, Atreus says to Kratos, "I thought we were his family, too." To which Kratos responds, "We were."
• Intrepid Merchant: As the game's shopkeepers, they are somehow always one step ahead of Kratos and Atreus no matter where they go. Hell, Brok instantly sets shop in a place that got submerged in water for ages immediately after Kratos and Atreus managed to bring it above the surface and when asked how did he get there so fast, he replies "none of yer fuckin' business". For his part, Sindri is content with explaining that "it's magic".^note To be fair, Sindri later explains dwarves have a species ability to hide in the space between worlds, basically rendering themselves invisible. Given that a lot of travel is done through Yggdrasil's connection to the Nine Realms, it's not a far reach to assume they might be able to make use of this to sneak around quicker than anyone else... they just don't tell anyone.
• Leitmotif: "Huldra Brothers" becomes their main motif by Ragnarök, starting with a jovial and folksy mellody that becomes more melancholic in “Ræb’s Lament”.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • They are not proud of forging Mjölnir since Thor used it to slay nearly all of the Giants. Sindri also seems to have made this revelation after Atreus shouts at him for repeatedly trash-talking his brother and saying how great his own skills are.
  • Sindri's breakdown is implied to be tied to this. Since he was the one who resurrected Brok with an incomplete soul, Brok being Barred from the Afterlife is a fate that can be laid solely on Sindri's actions, because he wasn't willing to let his brother go to a normal death the first time. Sindri giving up on his grooming and self-care afterwards despite his Neat Freak tendencies is indicative of his self-loathing, which he copes with by focusing it at targets other than himself he can blame for Brok's Deader than Dead state, like Odin and Atreus.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Brok isn't allowed in Alfheim anymore on account of "the incident". It apparently involved "swearin', and stealin' and fuckin'". Per Sindri in Ragnarök, it mainly had to do with something called a "juicy nokken". We never find out what that is, as Kratos shuts down the question immediately when Atreus tries to ask.
  • When Atreus questions why they are called the "Huldra Brothers", Mimir explains that they got the name after the two encountered actual Huldra. Mimir doesn't further explain the details of the encounter due to the story being too explicit for the young Atreus' ears. Given that female Huldra are beautiful forest nymphs...
  • Whatever happened between Brok and Mimir. All we know is that it ended badly, and they both blame the other.
  • The cause of their initial break-up. It's never fully explained, but it's heavily implied that, after the creation of Mjolnir (and the genocide that followed), Sindri wanted to break away from using their skills for weapons, while Brok was unwilling to end a long-standing tradition due to one tragedy.
• Offscreen Teleportation: This actually exists In-Universe as a racial trait of the dwarves. See Intrepid Merchant for details. In Ragnarök it's shown on screen several times, with Sindri winking out of existence before people's eyes, though it bears mentioning he only starts doing so after Brok dies; it's implied he stopped bothering with any subtlety.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: They forged Mjölnir for Thor and both are regarded in infamy because of this. The brothers got into a feud about how to move forward from this tragedy. Sindri felt responsible for the near-genocide of the giants and believed their crafts were too dangerous in the wrong hands. Brok disagreed and believed that they weren't responsible for Thor's actions and insisted that they keep their tradition intact.
  • Sindri's partial resurrection of Brok caused the two of them to be shunned by the rest of their people, as it was something unnatural.
• Our Dwarves Are All the Same: They are short and bearded men with an affinity for craftsmanship, but they differ from modern depictions by being closer to the original myths. They lack Stout Strength; Sindri is actually very thin. They are also inherently magical, and use magic as a fundamental part of their work, both as blacksmiths and salesmen. Neither of them is a Proud Warrior Race Guy or even a Boisterous Bruiser and both don't seem to have a particular love of drinking, but they do have hints of Gold Fever (not literally though, they trade in silver). Brok's blue skin is mentioned to be a result of constant exposure to silver (with real reason being him not fully revived after dying), but it also doubles as an oblique reference to the common theory that the Dark Elves and Dwarves refer to the same beings. Different from some depictions, they also do not turn into stone when under sunlight.
• Persona Non Grata: Sindri's botched resurrection of Brok not only resulted in him getting an incomplete soul, but it also made their people shun them because it was something unnatural. Kratos and Mimir pick up on this on their way to the Forge when they notice how the other dwarves seem to avoid Brok more than them.
• Plucky Comic Reliefs: While not without moments of drama, the brothers often give moments of levity and humor with their antics and conversations throughout the Norse era.
• Quest Giver: In the 2018 game, they give several side-quests to Kratos that unlock new areas and give rewards in compensation for them looking for certain equipments.
• Secret-Keeper: They both knew Faye is a Giant, and so they constructed the Leviathan Axe at her request. Since they knew she is a Giant, they are also aware that Atreus is half-Giant for this reason. They both let out this secret after Kratos and Atreus return from Jötunheim.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sindri (pacifistic, calm and thoughtful) is the Sensitive Guy while Brok (rough, gruff and aggressive) is the Manly Man.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Maybe the reason they don't get along. Brok wears a crude-looking chest plate, is brash, prone to swearing, and has some incidents involving insulting someone in Alfheim and ploughing an elf apparently. On the contrary, Sindri wears an ornate golden armor, is quite polite if snarky, and doesn't like trouble of any kind.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • After being saved from the dragon Sindri gifts Atreus with mistletoe arrows, which ultimately breaks Baldur's immortality after he punches one of the arrowheads that was holding Atreus' quiver strap together.
  • While it gets him killed, Brok's Spotting the Thread is what begins unraveling Odin's meticulous manipulations undermining his opponents after he susses out that his impersonation of Tyr isn't adding up in front of everyone.
• True Companions: Though Brok and Sindri are initially presented as hating each other, helping Kratos and Atreus on their quest brings them back together. Though Kratos doesn't necessarily reciprocate their amicability towards him and Atreus, he doesn't necessarily deny them their kindness either, and by the end of the journey, it's clear that they've all formed something of a bond over the course of the game. Once Kratos and Atreus finally reach Jötunheim, Brok and Sindri even see them off and congratulate them on a journey accomplished, Sindri even being moved to tears. Unfortunately, the friendship is shattered in Ragnarök after Brok dies, as the grief-stricken Sindri blames both Kratos and Atreus for what happened.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: They collectively forged Mjölnir, the greatest Norse weapon ever. Kratos can also thank them for crafting the Leviathan Axe, and they massively improve on it during the course of the game. They can even improve the Blades of Chaos, despite it being a magical set of weaponry from an entirely different time period and origin they aren't even familiar with. Their skill is such they can forge with Insubstantial Ingredients. Notably, they seem to be different kinds of this trope: while Brok is excellent at the actual forging of the weapons, Sindri seems best at making them ornate and effective, as seen by the Leviathan Axe and the Blades of Chaos growing more complex in its design as it's upgraded.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • In the backstory, Brok and Sindri created Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor, which was used to commit genocide on the giants. It's heavily implied that this is what led to a falling out between the two brothers. Brok wanted to keep going, because he didn't think they should stop their life's work because of one thing that they were, at worst, indirectly responsible for. Sindri wanted to quit because he felt so guilty about it, or at least be more careful about who they sell their weapons of war to.
  • In the game proper, Sindri's mistletoe arrows are revealed to be the things that remove Baldur's immortality and Baldur's death causes the beginning of Ragnarök.

Sindri

Voiced by: Adam J. Harrington (English), Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese)^{additional VAs}Marcelo Salsicha (Brazilian Portuguese), Diomid Vinogradov (Russian)

Sindri is the meeker, more mild-mannered of the brothers. A nice and soft-spoken man, Sindri also has an aversion to the sight of blood and likes to keep himself clean at all times all the way to the point where he would rather use armored gloves when smithing than be on the vicinity of danger or a grisly sight.

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• Afraid of Blood: Sindri really doesn't like seeing the Leviathan Axe stained with blood, and much less having to touch it covered in the stuff. He's just as disgusted by the bloodied whetstone, which was wet with blood after being used to kill a Reaver. He gets over it after Brok's death.
• Agent Peacock: Sindri is a fop with a high opinion of himself but his skills as blacksmith are only matched by his brother.
• Allegorical Character: In an interview, director Eric Williams compares Sindri to The Giving Tree. "He's like the thesis behind The Giving Tree. It's always giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, until it's a stump. In that moment, when you see him at Brok's Shop with Brok on the table, you're seeing the stump."
• All Take and No Give: Sindri accuses Atreus of this after Brok's death. From his (probably justified) perspective, Atreus took advantage of their friendship time and time again to get what he wanted without much concern for how it affected Sindri, mauled Sindri while out of control as a bear, and indirectly got Brok killed (by bringing Odin disguised as Tyr into Sindri's home).
• Anguished Outburst: When Brok is killed by Odin who disguised himself as Tyr, Sindri is so mentally broken that when Atreus tries to reach out, apologize and suggest a way to help, Sindri wastes no time about how Atreus's insistence on constantly asking for the Huldra Brothers' help and resources and preventing Ragnarök to the point where he would go to Asgard and disobeying everyone left Sindri with virtually nothing and telling Atreus to get out of his sight. Later on, during Brok's funeral, Sindri is prepared to react aggressively to Kratos mentioning Brok, only to resign himself in sadness before departing without a word.
  Kratos: We were all fooled.
  Sindri: Oh, but some of us were bigger fools than others, aren't we? I gave you everything: my skills, my friendship, my home, my secrets, my treasures... and you just kept taking! And now what have I got? Not even my family. You want "sorry"? This is what sorry looks like.
  Atreus: I— What can we do?
  Sindri: We? There is no "we". There's only you. No matter what the cost. So what you can do... is get the fuck out of my sight.
• Armor-Piercing Response: After Odin's deception is revealed and Brok is murdered, Kratos tries to tell Sindri that they were all fooled, only for Sindri to coldly reply with "some of us were bigger fools than others". And he's not wrong; the fact that Kratos and Freya, who should have every reason to distrust gods, were unable to pick up on Fake Tyr's mysterious behavior before Brok is certainly saying a lot.
• Bag of Holding: Sindri has a bag on his belt that holds multiple items, some of which are taller than the bag itself, and in a quantity that clearly shows it's magical. Examples include a large axe, a bundle of arrows, and a living fish. His surprised reaction at finding said fish implies that he's been putting stuff in there for so long that he's forgotten about some of it.
• Being Good Sucks: His friendship with Kratos and Atreus was only born because Sindri was a friend of Faye and while Sindri did everything he could to help the two, the sentiment was rarely expressed or returned. After Brok's death, Sindri cuts Atreus and Kratos out of his life for exploiting his goodwill and only sticks with them so he get revenge for Brok's death.
• The Berserker: In Ragnarok, he becomes this, due to his more vengeful mindset. Notably, he forgoes his practical self defense in typical items from his magic bag and in favor of recklessly charging in with his smithing tools.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Sindri shatters the marble containing Odin's soul as revenge for Odin's murder of Brok. And before that, he didn't even hesitate to destroy Odin's War Machines despite all the Midgardian casualties it caused.
• Blaming the Victim: Downplayed, since it's clear he's just lashing out in grief and doesn't genuinely believe what he's saying, but he blames Atreus for Brok's death because he brought "Tyr" into his home, while conveniently forgetting that Odin was a Manipulative Bastard who tricked Atreus by preying on his naïveté and compassion, and that Odin's disguise had fooled everyone except Brok, Sindri included.
• Bond One-Liner: Odin refuses Atreus's plea to redeem himself by saying he'll never give up on trying to find out what comes next, forcing Atreus to trap his soul in a marble. After Sindri steals and shatters the marble holding Odin's soul, Sindri coldly quips "That's what comes next."
• Break the Cutie: Sindri snaps hard after Brok's death. He spends the rest of the game desolate because of Brok's death and spiteful at those who he feels have caused it (Odin and Atreus). It's honestly jarring to see the formerly meek dwarf looking at Kratos with such naked hatred.
• Cowardly Lion: Perpetually finicky and nervous, especially around Kratos, but when he meets Kratos and assumes he might have harmed Faye he challenges him to a fistfight even though he's flinching the whole time and clearly knows how bad an idea it is. Luckily Atreus clears things up.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Sindri's surprisingly capable in battle, even in a support role. He’ll use his Bag of Holding when he’s paired with Atreus, producing all manner of unconventional weapons to great effect. Towards the end of Ragnarok, he opts to charge in with his smithing tools and can take on Odin’s goons on his own.
  • This is also deconstructed, as a wrathful Sindri throws himself into hand to hand combat after Brok's death and ends up getting overwhelmed, requiring Atreus to transform into Björn to rescue him.
• Didn't Think This Through: Even without Odin killing him, Sindri's choice to resurrect Brok anyway after his first death with only 3/4 of his soul just condemned his brother to inevitable oblivion outside of reincarnation.
• Dogged Nice Guy: A platonic example, Sindri would give and do everything to help Atreus and Kratos in their journey but they would rarely express gratitude in the way that he hopes they would. It's only after Brok's death that everyone realises how they've taken Sindri for granted and he cuts off all contact with them.
• Everyone Has Standards: In Ragnarök. Even though he's on very sour terms with Atreus following Brok's death, Sindri is prepared to strike Thrúd for attacking the latter.
• Fatal Flaw: An odd combination of self-righteousness and being an Extreme Doormat.
  • Sindri often volunteers his assistance without any prompting if he thinks the cause is just and it's gotten to a point where everyone expects him to just go along with the plan, even when he's uncomfortable about it and wants to object to it. Similarly, he always helps Atreus and Kratos by providing gifts and supplies that they need for their journey but Kratos doesn't thank him in a way that he hopes he would. Throughout the game, he gives up his home so he can provide shelter for the protagonists, he gives up Draupnir at Brok's urging, he gets attacked by Atreus when the latter transforms into a bear and he thinks Atreus is forgiven too quickly for the attack but doesn't speak up, he houses Tyr, and Brok is killed when Tyr reveals himself to be Odin. After Brok is killed, Sindri holds everyone accountable for his death because he believes Kratos and Freya should have seen through Odin's disguise or had more hesitation in just inviting him in, and he blames Atreus because he was the one who insisted that Tyr can help the rebellion against Odin and deliberately took advantage of his hospitality. After all, Atreus knew Sindri wouldn't turn either of them away.
  • There's also his desire to be loved; Sindri doesn't really know how to handle himself alone and desires the approval of others, which is what causes a lot of his Extreme Doormat moments. This is also the reason he revived Brok in the first place, which in turn caused Brok to be Barred from the Afterlife. It's also because of this botched resurrection that the other dwarves shunned them, as it was something unnatural.
• Forgets to Eat: Brok mentions Sindri has a habit of forgetting to eat or drink while stuck in his work, though in the games proper he is seen eating in company away from his projects.
• Glamour Failure: Although dwarves' natural talent for slipping into the space between realms to become "invisible" helps them avoid trouble, dragons can still detect them regardless; this leads to Sindri becoming trapped and imperiled by Hræzlyr when she breaks out of the Mountain. Soul Eaters, a failed creation of the dwarvish enchanter Andvari, also appear to have this ability, which doomed his mining party to destruction.
• Hates Being Alone: Sindri admits to Atreus that he couldn't cope with being alone after Brok died, resulting in him resurrecting Brok, albeit rushed and improperly. Because of this, the other dwarves shunned the two of them as it was something unnatural. Ironically, after Brok's second and permanent death, Sindri isolates himself out of despair, unable to cope with the fact that his selfishness is the reason he'll be alone.
• Hates Being Touched: Being a germaphobe, he shies away from making any sort of contact with other people if he can help it.
• Hypocrite: He criticizes Kratos and Atreus for taking what’s his even though it was he himself who insisted they take more despite their visual confusion and discomfort.
• Improbable Weapon User: When Atreus becomes a playable character in Ragnarök, Sindri tags along and fills the support role that Atreus usually serves for Kratos. Since he's not a fighter, he resorts to pulling objects at random out of his Bag of Holding, including hammers, fire pots, frying pans, exploding pumpkins, and fish.
• Irony: Sindri's argument with Brok is caused by Sindri blaming himself for creating a weapon for the Aesir. Yet, Sindri's mistletoe arrows end up being the things that allow Kratos to kill Baldur, whose death causes the start of Ragnarök.
• Jerkass Has a Point: His endgame lashing out at everyone else for taking advantage of him isn't entirely unwarranted, given that he spent most of the game getting the short end of the stick in various ways, such as having the others freeload in his house, having to give up the Draupnir Ring to make Kratos's new weapon (though granted, the treasure was also Brok's and the whole thing was Brok's idea), Atreus drags him along when he goes to meet Freya, Atreus attacks him when he accidentally transforms into a bear, and the others let Odin-in-disguise into his home, which results in Odin killing Brok. He's also not wrong that no one ever bothers to ask him about these things, or to show gratitude. Notably, nobody blames him for his outburst or reciprocates his antipathy since they know how much their screwups hurt him. And while everyone is surprised that he decided to kill Odin when none of the others could bring themselves to do it, nobody says anything against it either.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Sindri tragically becomes this in Ragnarök after Brok is killed. He still assists Kratos, Atreus, and the rest of those fighting Odin, but he makes it brutally clear that he's plainly not fond of any of his allies.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Sindri demonstrates his ability to turn invisible he seemingly interacts with the camera by pushing it back when he reveals himself. An interesting note is that Kratos isn't standing in front of him when he does this. Since his ability is to move between realms, it might just be Sindri making a performance gesture rather than the idea of him having Medium Awareness.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: A dark example in Ragnarök. After Brok's death, Sindri completely loses his timid demeanor and enters the war fully intending to cause as much destruction as possible. As the realms' foremost weaponsmith with the ability to effectively teleport at will, that turns out to be quite a lot - he single-handedly destroys Odin's siege defenses, becomes the key player in ripping open the Asgardian wall, and delivers the fatal blow to Odin himself.
• Mirror Character: By the end of Ragnarok, he's essentially become the new Greek-era Kratos. Having lost his only family to something that was equal parts the fault of an asshole god and himself, he has become bitter and started to lash out at those he blames for it, ultimately focusing his vengeance on the Top God of the local pantheon.
• My Greatest Failure: The greatest regret of Sindri’s life is his bungled attempt to revive Brok after a fatal accident at the forge, an act that not only left his brother with a fragmented soul and one step above a Revenant, but doomed him to nothing whatsoever after death; a reality that comes to pass with Odin murdering Brok.
• Neat Freak: Sindri is obsessed with hygiene after a Vanir goddess told him about germs. He's no longer clean following Brok's death, even at the later's funeral, showing how much losing his brother affected him.
• Nice Guy: Sindri is much more soft-spoken and openly friendly compared to Brok. After Brok gets killed by Odin, this trait ceases entirely, turning him into into a bitter person and resenting everyone else.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Brok died while forging the Leviathan Axe, Sindri managed to resurrect him by fishing his soul out of the Lake of Souls in Alfheim. However, Sindri was only partially successful, only able to recover three-quarters of Brok's four-part soul, rendering said soul without its fylgia,- its direction. The consequence of this, apart from turning Brok blue and him not being able to be seen by the soul-speaking mermaids, is that when he dies a second time at the hands of Odin, his directionless soul can't go back to the Lake of Souls, it's just gone. So not only does this dash any hope of resurrecting him a second time, it also ensures that Brok is denied any sort of afterlife.
• No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: Sindri is seen as the most stubborn in the argument because he's ungrateful when Atreus and Brok try to reach out to him and he quickly angers himself when he makes up imaginary insults from Brok. Averted in Ragnarok, as the main characters understand their culpability in Brok's death and as such don't argue with him about it.
• The Nose Knows: In Ragnarök he mentions being able to smell Jormangandr at the Lake of Nine even though the World Serpent was hibernating under the thick Fimbulwinter ice and everyone else including Atreus believed he had left the lake ages ago.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Sindri has always been patient and understanding with Kratos and Atreus, and even when they get on his nerves, at best he gets slightly irritated and sarcastic, but never to the point of straight-up outrage. The first thing we see when Atreus is seriously thinking of going to Asgard is him and Sindri getting into a harsh argument. Sindri even walks out of the room clearly shaken, only able to grimly ask Kratos to thoroughly reason with Atreus.
  • Following Brok's death, Sindri no longer cleans himself, stops wearing gloves, and he leaves his clothes covered in blood and dirt, all representing how deeply the loss of his brother is affecting him and the despair he's wallowing in. Also, because of everyone's actions playing into Odin's machinations which resulted in him murdering Brok, Sindri becomes absolutely done being nice and patient with them, especially Kratos and Atreus. His previous sense of sarcasm and mild irritation have turned into venomous, seething contempt and hatred toward everyone he once knew closely, holding them all responsible for his suffering. However, as the answer to Brok's riddle for Mimir^*What gets bigger the more you take out? A hole. indicates in the end, the one that Sindri ultimately despises the most is... himself, for being selfish enough to resurrect Brok in the first place, potentially denying him an afterlife and alienating them among their people simply because he didn't want to be alone. In killing Odin out of revenge for Brok's death and cutting everyone out of his life, Sindri's only dug his hole of sadness and loneliness deeper.
  • As mentioned below, Sindri stops making a spectacle of disappearing into the Realm Between Realms like before, showing that Brok's death rendered him utterly unconcerned with subtlety anymore.
• Pet the Dog: Even after blaming Kratos and Atreus for Brok's death in Ragnarök, there are moments that subtly indicate that Sindri still cares for them:
  • During the climactic war against Odin, he prepares to strike Thrud for attacking Atreus, and backs off when Atreus tells him not to.
  • During Brok's funeral, he allowed Kratos to push his brother's funeral barge and allows Freya to burn it.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Brok's murder by Odin is the breaking point for Sindri and Atreus's friendship, with Sindri becoming sick of everything Atreus has put him through. Unlike most examples, they do not make up by the ending and maybe never will with Atreus leaving Midgard to find the remaining giants. Sadly, this also seems to apply to Kratos as well, as he coldly shrugs off Kratos' attempt to comfort him at Brok's funeral and gives him a seething Death Glare before taking his leave. After that he never appears in the game again, leaving that bridge well and truly burned.
• Precision F-Strike: Especially compared to his crass brother, Sindri is fairly proper and easy-going with his speech patterns. After Brok's death, Sindri harshly tells Atreus to "get the fuck out of [his] sight" after highlighting the All Take and No Give nature of their relationship and rejecting Kratos and Atreus when they attempt to apologize for their part in Brok's death. This is a demonstration of just how lost in his grief and rage that Sindri is, along with his unkempt appearance and lack of care for cleanliness.
• Rejected Apology: Atreus' attempts to apologize to Sindri following Brok's death are fallen on deaf ears as Sindri makes it clear to him that he wants nothing to do with him anymore.
• Secretly Selfish: After an accident kills Brok at the forge, Sindri recovers his soul from Alfheim but unfortunately loses his fourth piece, meaning that Brok has an incomplete soul and will be unable to return to the well of souls when he dies. Sindri resurrected him because he couldn't cope with the loss and he kept Brok's resurrection a secret.
• Shadow Archetype: By the end of Ragnarok, Sindri has become this to Kratos. Both men have suffered the loss of their family at the hands of the gods' machinations, and were at least partially responsible for the loss of their families. As such, both men were left with only vengeance keeping them going, selfishly used any means necessary to achieve that vengeance even if it meant innocent lives would be lost, and felt nothing when they finally got it. The only real differences between them are that Kratos moved forward and was able to not only make new allies but started a new family. Sindri, by contrast, truly has no one left since he is permanently banned from dwarf society for resurrecting his brother once before, and in his eyes the only people he could consider friends only wanted him for what he had to offer without caring for his feelings at all. So after he lost Brok permanently, Sindri came to hate them all, seeing them only as convenient allies just as he believes they saw him.
  • He's also become one for Freya. Both he and Freya screwed a family member over because of their own selfishness: Freya cursed Baldur with immortality so he won't die a needless death while Sindri improperly resurrected Brok after he died during the construction of the Leviathan Axe so he wouldn't be alone. Unfortunately, their actions resulted in the deaths of those family members anyway, resulting in them becoming fueled with hatred and despair. The difference is that while Freya eventually learned to let go and move on, Sindri has yet to do so.
• Skewed Priorities: After Kratos throws his axe at Sindri for asking Atreus if Brok was drunk. He was unfazed by the attack and was more offended by Brok upgrading the axe.
• Terrified of Germs: Sindri gets sick immediately if he comes in contact with something gross like blood, a dead fish, or Mimir's head. Hell, just hearing people talk about a gross topic makes him want to vomit! Apparently, this is because a Vanir goddess taught him about the existence of germs and viral illnesses, so now he's obsessed with cleanliness. He apparently threw away his previous whetstone after Brok had spat on it "To lube it up". Although this fear of tiny beings crawling all over him is given a possible second origin in Ragnarok when Sindri tells Atreus about how he retrieved the deceased Brok's essence from the Lake of Souls in Alfheim and had to endure the incredibly uncomfortable experience of having multiple disembodied souls trying to stop him from getting his brother's soul parts back, a feat he was only partly successful in as he only managed to get three of the total four, leaving Brok technically undead. Once Brok dies a second time at the hands of Odin, however, he completely grows apathetic to this as he's simply too angry to care anymore.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Justified, as Sindri is suffering a Heroic BSoD after Brok is brutally killed by Odin and is impulsively taking it out on everyone out of grief, up to and including refusing to gather dwarves to take the fight to Odin once Ragnarök begins in full. The behavior is something Kratos, Freya, and Mimir sympathize with after all they've seen.
• Trauma Button: Ragnarök implies Sindri's Neat Freak tendencies are born from this. When he journeyed to the Lake of Souls to bring Brok Back from the Dead, he was utterly swarmed all over his body by the disembodied spirits when retrieving his brother's soul from the waters, an experience he noticeably struggles to recount to Atreus when admitting the act later. Learning about the concept of 'tiny, invisible creatures' living on people from a witch later on simply focused this into an obsessive need for cleanliness in everything he does.
• Trauma Conga Line: Poor Sindri gets put through the wringer during Ragnarök. He helps Atreus look for Tyr despite knowing Kratos would get angry, gets swatted aside when Atreus gets angry and turns into a bear, is forced to give up Draupnir to help Kratos fight Heimdall, and to top it all off, Brok gets killed by Odin when it's revealed he was disguised as Tyr the whole time. It's no surprise that he becomes a bitter shell of his former self after all this.
• Unknown Rival: Surprisingly, Sindri has played a massive role in undermining Odin's entire plan since his first appearance albeit not directly. It can be justified by the fact that Odin didn't consider the dwarves a threat to his reign and was more focused on Atreus and Kratos.
  • He gave Atreus mistletoe arrows as a show of thanks for slaying the dragon, not knowing that mistletoe was actually Baldur's weakness and the thing that would break his immortality. It also deprives Odin of his best tracker and causes Fimbulwinter to come early.
  • When Atreus plans to go to Asgard, Sindri gives him a magic stone that would teleport him back to the house, which deprives Odin of his prized mask so he can look into the universal rift and also causes his disguise as Tyr to fall apart as he now had to think on the spot and was clearly lusting for the mask during his talk to Atreus.
  • Even during Ragnarok itself, he becomes the one who kills Odin after Atreus, Freya, and Kratos agree that killing Odin won't bring them peace.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Sindri obtains personal vengeance for Brok's death by smashing the stone containing Odin's soul. It's very clear that this does absolutely nothing to allieviate the pain he feels at the loss of his only family, if anything he's only left emptier in the aftermath as he no longer has a target to distract himself from having to deal with his grief.
• What the Hell, Hero?: After Brok dies, Sindri royally lays into Atreus for turning a blind eye to Odin's manipulations while in the guise of Tyr, which directly contributed to Brok's death, and in general taking his and Brok's hospitality for granted. Atreus can't even say anything back to Sindri because he knows Sindri is right.

Brok

Voiced by: Robert Craighead (English), Jun'ichi Endo (Japanese)^{additional VAs}Mauro Castro (Brazilian Portuguese), Sergey Chikhachev (Russian)

Brok is the gruff, vulgar brother, a man who is not above swearing and boasting about his many unscrupulous life experiences. Despite this, he gets along well with Kratos and Atreus and has a good heart, no matter how hard he tries to hide it.

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• Animal Motif: Brok makes a lot of references to pigs; he is also known to have poor hygiene and he has a history with various sex adventures.
• Arc Words: In Ragnarok, Brok's riddle of "What gets bigger the more you take away?" comes up a few times, and becomes narratively impactful late in the story. The answer is "a hole", in a literal sense a hole only gets bigger the more you take out of it, but this applies symbolically to Sindri's grief after Brok's death. In his pain and anger he pushes away all his friends, and focuses entirely on seeking revenge against Brok's killer Odin rather than processing his loss and learning to let go. In the end, after Odin is dead, this merely leaves Sindri more hollow and empty than before.
• Barred from the Afterlife: After Brok is killed by Odin, Atreus asks if it's possible they could resurrect him in the same way as Sindri did by fetching his soul from Alfheim. Unfortunately, Mimir says that since Brok died with only three-quarters of his soul then he's unable to access an afterlife and can't be resurrected.
• Bed Trick: Implied, according to Sindri, Brok is banned from Alfheim for introducing a "Juicy Nokken" to the elves. A Nokken is another name for a Nixie, a shapeshifting water creature from Norse Mythology. Considering how promiscuous Brok tends to be and how there was a lot of "swearin', and stealin' and fuckin'" involved. It's not hard to piece together what he did to get banned.
• Berserk Button: Sindri mentions that it isn't the best idea to ask Brok about his skin as he's very sensitive about it.
• Blood Knight: Brok turns out to be one during his tenure as a Guest-Star Party Member in Ragnarök. Get into a fight with enemies and watch him go ham.
• Brutal Honesty: Never minces words with anyone and always speaks his mind. It's one of the reasons Kratos takes a liking to him and also why he is killed by Odin disguised as Tyr.
• Dead All Along: Sindri confirms in Ragnarök that Brok was killed one day in an accident at the forge, and Sindri himself tried to steal Brok's soul to bring him back — only 75% of it could be retrieved from the Lake of Souls, and while Brok woke up like nothing had happened, the unnatural act alienated the two from the dwarf community. Brok never voiced his suspicions, but seeing the Lady of the Forge ignore him because his soul isn't intact is what finally confirms for Brok that he's been resurrected. After being stabbed by Odin, with his last breath, Brok tells his brother he forgives him but he has to let go and move on. Unfortunately, Sindri is incapable of moving on, so he ends up cutting ties with everyone and isolates himself out of despair.
• Deader than Dead: Emphasised by Mimir on the trio's journey to Tyr's temple. Whilst Sindri did successfully resurrect Brok once before, having failed to recover the "direction" part of Brok's soul; when Brok died a second time, there was nothing left behind. Not only was Brok dead forever, he was even denied a true afterlife, with Odin only simply bringing the inevitable result much earlier. Mimir even tells Atreus that if there was anything they could do to bring Brok back, they'd be doing it. But there's nothing they can do; Brok is gone for good.
• Death by Genre Savviness: Brok is killed by Odin-disguised-as-Tyr when he keeps Spotting the Thread in his act, calling him out and riling him up until Odin brutally stabs him.
• Friend to All Children:
  • Brok is crass and abrasive with Atreus, but does harbor affection for him and most of his more descriptive comments are left for Kratos and Mimir. When Atreus falls sick, Brok, upon being told of Atreus's illness, immediately offers to help Kratos with no questions asked and affectionately refers to him as "the little turd".
  • In Ragnarök, Brok gets actually irritated when Tyr calls Atreus by his other name of Loki, and condescendingly tells Tyr that Loki isn't his name. While it fuels Brok's suspicions of Tyr, his tone of voice and immediate defense of Atreus indicates he found it disrespectful to begin with.
• Good Is Not Soft: Brok's foul-mouthed and aggressive but his heart's in the right place. When Atreus falls ill Brok offers to travel with Kratos to Helheim to help find a cure, but Kratos gently turns him down, saying that he's doing enough with his smithing skills, but still arrives in Helheim to upgrade the Blades of Chaos to use the Winds of Hel. Brok also shows concern for Sindri's health, asking Kratos and Atreus if Sindri's been eating enough since he forgets to eat sometimes when he gets too indulged in his work.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In Ragnarok, when Týr finally decides to go to war with everyone and lead them to Asgard through a secret passage he knows, Brok rightfully calls him out on this due to everyone having been worried sick over Atreus's well-being after his having run off to Asgard and trying to find a way in all this time. Mimir, who bickers with Brok almost as much as Sindri, was the first to admit that Brok was right. Sadly, this would cost Brok his life once Týr reveals himself to have been Odin in disguise this whole time.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Brok is very crude, brusque and has a tendency to insult the leads and his brother. But he still cares about them and is genuinely helpful.
• Killed Off for Real: He's Barred from the Afterlife because he died without his entire soul. In a series where its protagonist has died and come back multiple times, it's hammered into the player's head that Brok is well and truly gone, and nothing is ever going to bring him back.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Though the circumstances don't exactly make it chuckle-worthy, the player is abruptly reminded that of Kratos' inner circle that he's been accumulating since the start of the game, he's the only one not in the know about Atreus' Voluntary Shapeshifting ability, resulting in him letting out a resounding "what the fuck!?" when the teenager abruptly transformed into a bear right in front of him whilst running away to Asgard.
• Nice Guy: Despite his frequent blunt vulgarity, Brok is fundamentally a kind, honest, and generous man who offers help to those that he feels are in need of it
• The Nose Knows: Brok can smell the scent of Elves, and asks if Kratos and Atreus have been to Alfheim recently because they supposedly reek of it. Later on, he's able to smell "Foreign magic" from the Blades of Chaos.
• The Pig-Pen: Brok isn't concerned with personal hygiene as he believes that his lack of hygiene makes him an effective blacksmith. His skin turned blue because he touched raw silver too many times, stating to Sindri that the gloves prevent him from hearing "What it wants to be", he also spat on Sindri's previous whetstone "To lube it up", causing Sindri to discard it out of disgust.
• Real Men Hate Affection: Brok is certainly... uncouth and is shameless about it. Brok does care about Sindri and Atreus but he'll never admit it outright. For most of the game, Brok frequently gave Atreus the cold shoulder but as soon as he discovers that Atreus has fallen dangerously ill, he immediately offers to join Kratos in his journey to Helheim. Despite Kratos gratefully turning him down, Brok goes to Hel anyway and provides Kratos with the means of escape.
• Really Gets Around: Some side conversations with or about him suggest he's very promiscuous and has engaged in a lot of debauchery across the 9 realms, enough so that he's apparently barred from Alfheim.
  Sindri: "I don't know if... Well - do you know what a 'Juicy Nokken' is?"
  Atreus: "No."
  Sindri: "Well, thanks to Brok, the elves sure do."
  Atreus: "Uh... what is a 'Juicy-'"
  Kratos: "NO."
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Brok drops a lot of curses and crude references, which is noticeable for a series that otherwise barely contains swearing. Some of those swears are in Old Norse, too. In any case, Brok drops far more than anybody else, even in front of a young Atreus.
• The Soulless: Downplayed. Brok only has three-quarters of his soul, having died in a mining accident before Atreus was born and Sindri only being able to secure three out of four of his "soul parts" from the Light of Alfheim thereafter. He isn’t aware of this until he is not perceived by the Lady, who speaks directly to the soul. It also means it is entirely likely when Odin killed him, he was Deader than Dead.
• Unexplained Recovery: When Atreus falls ill, Brok will assure Kratos that kids are tough, as he cut off his own head while he was young and is no worse for wear for it now. And that's not an exaggeration: you can see the scars on his neck from when it was reattached. Dwarves are pretty magical we guess though...

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