History Characters / GodOfWarSeriesNorseMonsters

* SmashMook: They do nothing but relentlessly attack Kratos until eithe he or they are dead, making them exceptionally danerous in battles with multiple threats at once.

* SamusIsAGirl: Kratos mistakenly called them boys when he's trying to comfort them and has to be corrected by Freya.

* UnseenNoMore: She was only mentioned in scrolls in the previous game, and is a full on boss battle here.

* MookPromotion: Much like Gullveig in the last game, she is a more powerful version of the revenants.

* BonusBoss: She doesn't have to be fought to progress the narrative, being an option to the player after all of Odin's ravens are freed.

* BonusBoss: All five dragons encountered in the game are optional. Three are found in the optional Crater region of Vanaheim, one is a part of the Raven Keeper’s boss fight, and the final one is [[GuideDangIt frozen in stone on a beach in Svartalfheim and only able to be freed by a specific item that is in an obscure corner of Midgard that can only be accessed with a different item gained halfway through the game.]] The only dragon met in the main story, [[spoiler:in Asgard during Ragnarök]], isn't directly fought against, with Kratos destroying the pillar it was on and [[spoiler:Fenrir]] quickly killing it instead.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Though none of their actual names are displayed, these dragons come with rather intimidating epithets instead: “The Crimson Dread,” “The Corpse Eater,” “The Ash Tyrant,” “[[BonusBoss The Everlasting]],” and “The Pale One”

* BonusBoss: All three Drake encounters are located in optional areas.

* TheSpook: Where do they come from? What do they want? Even Kratos and Atreus don't know, and the ingame bestiary lampshades this.

* MookPromotion: The Hateful is a much stronger draugr that can be fought multiple times as a BonusBoss in Draugr Holes in ''Ragnarök''.

* MetamorphosisMonster: They are first born as the small and tailed Wretches, use gasses to grow into the taller and slim Grims, and eventually become massive Bersgras, with some of the latter also sprouting out new Wretches and restarting the cycle. Curiously enough, Mimir tells the entire tranformations happens in just a moon cycle, which he attributes to just how much of those monsters are made out of sheer Svartalfheim gas.

* OldDog: At the beginning of ''Ragnarök'', he's incredibly sick due to complications by his age, and can barely eat or move on his own without help from Atreus. Having to put him to sleep is a heart-wrenching moment for the poor kid.

* MoreDespicableMinion: As bad as Odin was, he did have some good qualities to him (such as his love for Thor's mother). The Raven Keeper, on the other hand has no such qualities and [[spoiler:it was her idea to have thousands of children hanged]]. It's telling that Kratos himself was visibly disgusted by what she had done.

* WeHaveReserves: Einherjar are unable to die permanently, and will return to Valhalla to fight over and over again, making a long-term war against them impossible.

* AnimalisticAbomination: A gargantuan eagle with multiple sets of wings that is capable of freezing an entire realm with his wing beats alone. She’s so powerful in this regard that she managed to drive away even the likes of the Aesir, something that not all creatures can proudly hold a claim to accomplishing.

* BadassAdorable: A colossal, immortal wolf who can create portals across the realms on the go and kill a dragon in seconds. He's also the [[BigFriendlyDog biggest and sweetest boy]] imaginable, acting more like a cuddly pet than the BeastOfTheApocalypse.

** And were one to not see it upon getting on the ship, there are angles in your 2nd visit to Helheim before you get on the ship where you can see he has two distinct wings on one side.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: They don't have any footwear whatsoever. Granted, it's not needed seeing as they hover above the ground.

* TheDreaded: Being a powerful voracious giant immortal magical hound who can tear though the borders between Realms and who once ''ate a season and a word from existence'', everyone is pretty terrified that Atreus freed it.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Subverted, he was an average wolf but became a Hel-lhound after Atreus put his soul in Garm.

* BadassBaritone: The World Serpent's deep, powerful voice almost makes Kratos sound like a choir boy in comparison.

''Norse Era:'' [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesNorseGods Gods]] ([[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesOdin Odin]] | [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesThor Thor]] | [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesMimir Mimir]] | [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesBaldur Baldur]] | [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesFreya Freya]]) | [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesJotnar Jotnar]] | [[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ([[Characters/GodOfWarSeriesSindriAndBrok Sindri and Brok]]) | '''Norse Monsters'''-]]]]]

Large, bipedal dragons that make up a number of the game’s overworld boss encounters, especially in the crater area of Vanaheim.

* PoisonousPerson: Well, Poisonous crocodile dragon creature. One of the Dreki's that DualBoss Kratos and his ally in the sidequest emits a black toxic smoke from its body instead of lightning.

* OurWyvernsAreDifferent: They resemble many classical depictions of wyverns, lacking forelegs and being bipedal while also being smaller and more agile than most dragons fought in the games; according to its bestiary entry, unlike the more reptilian-looking drakes and dreki, wyverns in ''God of War'' are actually members of the dragon family.

* DualBoss: Two Dreki attack Kratos and his companion in Vanaheim during a {{Sidequest}}.

The Hel-Hound that is said to guard over Helheim's gates and whose howl will announce Ragnarök. He is able to tear though realms and has a voracious hunger that he was chained up till Atreus frees him, causing Garm to rampage once again.

* MirrorCharacter: Both Mimir and the Lyngbakr were chained for centuries, which is why he regrets what he did so much -- thus, Mimir blames himself for being unable to make the creature go away and swim freely due to it getting used to its chains. However, Týr points out how Mimir doesn't blame Kratos for not being able to save the rest of his body from Odin's imprisonment, meaning that mitigating someone's pain the way you can is better than not changing anything at all.

Enormous flying jellyfish-like animals from the deserts of Alfheim. Atreus overheard the pain of one that got stuck in a canyon, and Kratos and his allies can go further into the realm in order to free it.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In Norse legends, the Hafgufa was a [[MonsterWhale whale-like]] SeaMonster said to be the largest in the ocean, so big that it swallowed ships, whales and anything else around and [[TurtleIsland its nostril and lower jaw got mistaken for two massive rocks emerging from the sea]] by Örvar-Oddr's crew. In the game, Hafgufas are jellyfish-like instead, and inhabit the skies of Alfheim rather than Icelandic seas.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Subverted, he was an average wolf but became a Hel-lhound after Atreus put his soul in Garm.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: He goes from the dying old pet of a retired god of war and his son to a titanic and completely immortal BeastOfTheApocalypse with AbstractEater abilities, thanks to Atreus's Jotunn soul magic.