God of War: Chains of Olympus
2008 video game
God of War: Chains of Olympus is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Ready at Dawn for the Playstation Portable. The plot follows Kratos as he unravels a plot which will result in the death of all things, mortal and god alike.
Dialogue
edit- Kratos: What evil have you wrought on this city, Persian?
- Persian King: Evil? It is not evil that I bring, Spartan. I bring the might of the Persia and the Sacrament of Purification. As we speak, my basilisk cleanses this land so that it may embrace the glory of the Persian Empire.
- Kratos: Olympus has sent a message, and I am here to deliver it.
- Persian King: Then, you are just a messenger. So take this message back to your little gods: It will take more than a pathetic Spartan to stop the power of the empire!
- Persian King: Please... Please, spare my life and I will give you all that you ask!
- Kratos: You have nothing I want, Persian.
- Persian King: Take my kingdom, my women, my gold.
- Kratos: I won't take your riches, but I will take your life!
- Kratos: Is this all you would have me do?! Is there nothing else?!
- Charon: You chose your path, Ghost of Sparta!
- [After Kratos returned to Charon's ship with the Gauntlet of Zeus equipped]
- Charon: You again.
- Kratos: The walls of Tartarus would not hold Atlas, and they would not hold me either.
- Charon: The gods have obviously taken pity on their slave.
- Kratos: You underestimate me, Charon. This time I will not be so merciful.
- Kratos: Calliope! Calliope, where are you?
- Narrator: Kratos looked, but his daughter was nowhere to be seen. In the middle of the room sat a graceful figure - a figure he recognized all too well: Persephone, wife of Hades, and queen of the undead.
- Kratos: Where is my daughter, witch?!
- Persephone: [sternly] Choose your words carefully, Ghost of Sparta. You address the goddess of the Underworld. Your daughter is well. She lives among the pure souls in the Elysian Fields.
- Kratos: Lead me to her!
- Persephone: Have you forgotten, Kratos? The Olympians need you. They slumber at the hand of Morpheus.
- Kratos: I have faithfully served the gods, yet they do not give me what I ask! I grow weary of their demands.
- Persephone: The gods on Olympus failed me too, Kratos. I was betrayed by Zeus and tricked by my husband Hades. Now I am to stay in the Underworld as queen of the dead, to serve the fallen, and care for them as my own children.
- Kratos: Persephone! I demand to see my daughter!
- Persephone: As you wish. If Calliope is your true desire, I can help you. But be warned, Ghost of Sparta: the world of man will suffer because of your choice.
- Kratos: I care little for the world and its suffering! Where is she?!
- Persephone: If you are to see your daughter again, you must become worthy of Elysium. Cast your weapons at the Forsaken Tree, and let it release the evils of your past. Only then will you be free of your sins, and be granted passage through the Divine Gates.
- Kratos: Calliope!
- Calliope: Father?
- Kratos: My child!
- Calliope: Why did you go?
- Kratos: I am here now, child, and I will not leave you again.
- Persephone: I have watched over you pathetic mortals for a thousand years, and it is always the same. Serving yourself before the needs of others has always been your flaw. But no matter, for now you serve my purpose. It is time for all that came before to end. The Titan will fulfill his role and finish what I have started. I released Atlas.
- Kratos: You?
- Persephone: As you were pathetically disarming yourself, Atlas completed the task I set him out to do. With the power of the sun in his hands, it is only a matter of time before he destroys the Pillar that holds the world... and Olympus with it.
- Kratos: [shocked] But why?
- Persephone: Do you think it was my choice to wed a man I did not love? Live a life I did not choose? I was betrayed by the very gods that once saw me as their own. But no more. Once the Pillar is destroyed, the world will revert into chaos.
- Kratos: And what is to become of you?
- Persephone: I will have my peace, and be free from this miserable existence. I will perish, but it is my choice.
- Calliope: Father? What's happening? I'm scared...
- Persephone: In your selfish choice to be with your daughter, you have caused her ruin.
- Kratos: No...!
- Persephone: Elysium falls too, Kratos. She will perish.
- Kratos: NO! I will not let the gods take her from me again--! [he charges at Persephone, but she sends him backward with a wave of her hand]
- Calliope: [running to Kratos] Father...
- Narrator: The choice was clear to him, yet impossible to make. To stay with his daughter meant the end of the world and the end of her. To stop Persephone and Atlas would mean forsaking his daughter forever. While his hatred and anger for the gods grew ever stronger, he knew there was but one thing to do.
- [After Kratos has slaughtered many souls in Elysium to regain his power as the Ghost of Sparta]
- Calliope: No! Father, no! [heartbroken, starts to cry]
- [Kratos looks at her and for a moment, looks regretful]
- Narrator: At that moment, Kratos knew his destiny was not with Calliope. The Fates were never that kind.
- Persephone: Spartan witness the end!
- Persephone: Your suffering will never end, Ghost of Sparta.
- Atlas: Perhaps you believe the Olympians will help you. But I ask... where are your gods now, Kratos? Why do they not come to your aid?
- Kratos: I do not need the aid of the gods! But my path is now clear to me. I will serve them, and they will keep their promise to free me from my past!
- Atlas: I ask you, Spartan - what good is the promise of an Olympian?
- Kratos: [in a slightly broken voice] It is all I have, Atlas!
- Atlas: We will meet again, Spartan. The Fates have deemed it. One day, you will regret what you have done here.
- Narrator: The mighty Atlas was left enchained. Cursed to forever hold the world on his shoulders. A greater penance than Zeus himself had placed upon the Titans. The fate of Atlas had been sealed, and the goddess Persephone was no more. Kratos had saved mankind, but that mattered little to him. By forsaking his daughter, he had abandoned the only person he ever cared for. What he had long sought and finally found was now forever lost. As the sun chariot rose higher into the sky, and the might of Helios shone once again on the world, Morpheus retreated to the shadows. Kratos gained little satisfaction from his victory. With years of servitude in front of him, he would need to confront his past and fight to reclaim the humanity he lost, on the day his dark legend was born.
- [Having returned the sun god Helios to the sky, Kratos loses consciousness and plummets from the heavens towards the earth]
- Narrator: The dire toll of his relentless battles finally caught up with him, as Kratos fell from the chariot to the earth. Was this sacrifice too much for one to bear? Even for the man who was known as the Ghost of Sparta?
- [Just before Kratos slams into the ground, an invisible forces catches him and sets him gently on the ground. Two gods appear and remove his weapons]
- Helios: He has again served us well, Athena.
- Athena: He is a remarkable mortal.
- Helios: He is weak. Shall we help him?
- Athena: He'll live. They must.
