"Before there was a god...before there was a warrior, the Oracle had foretold of The Marked One. Every past has its ghosts. Every end must first begin."
— Gaia, E3 2010 Trailer
"Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta, had taken his place amongst the Olympians as the God of War. The bloodshed, the relentless battles had finally brought him here. Ares was dead. And though Olympus beckoned, visions of his mortal existence still haunted him."
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"Kratos knew that this was not a mere vision. For with the gods, nothing was ever as it seemed. The vision of his past set Kratos in search of answers; Answers that lay in the temple of Poseidon, deep within the city of Atlantis."
— Gaia, opening narration
