

In God of War: Ascension, Ares, the God of War, sent The Furies to capture Kratos and imprison him in a Titan-sized prison for the living damned, where he is tortured for months on end, driven insane, and constantly haunted by the visions of the night he lost everything dear to him. After being saved from death, Alrik then discovered that his beloved father had died, and so, the new Barbarian King vowed to exact vengeance on Kratos. After Alrik was defeated by Kratos and torn apart by Rocs, Hades revived him and sent him to destroy the Spartan who defied him. Hades chose Alrik, a warrior who sought to capture the Ambrosia in order to save his ill father, as his champion.Īfter which, in fear that Kratos may best his champion, Hades sent a torrent of great fires from the sky onto Kratos' army. In the comics, Hades is seen in flashbacks competing in the wager of the Gods, a contest in which Gods choose various mortals as their champions, with the goal being the capture of the healing elixir known as Ambrosia. At the end of the game he is seen with Poseidon, Helios and Hermes standing in front of Zeus, before the second Great War (when Kratos uses the Loom of Fate to rescue the Titans before they were defeated and imprisoned in the first Great War) begins. After the Titanomachy he becomes a prominent figure among the Gods as there is a statue of him in the Garden of the Gods along with Athena, Ares, Zeus, Helios, and Poseidon.

This causes Hades to turn his attention to Atlas and with his brother Poseidon coming to help him Hades is able to take Atlas's soul placing it within him thus defeating the Titan leader. He is seen fighting his father Cronos trying to take Cronos's soul until Atlas comes and uses a ground attack on Hades to save Cronos. Hades appears in cutscenes in God of War II, during the Great War, when the Gods defeated the Titans. Declaring themselves as the Olympians, Hades and his family had raged war against the Titans, engaging in what what be known as "The Great War". Hades was the first to endure this horrendous fate until he, along with the rest of his siblings, were released and saved by his brother Zeus. When it was prophesized that one of his own children would rise against him and overtake his rule of Greece, Cronos, the King of the Titans, had resorted to imprison his children inside his belly in order to keep this from happening. In the God of War Series The First Titanomachy

Symbols associated with him are the Helm of Darkness, the bident and the three-headed dog, Cerberus. The corresponding Etruscan god was Aita and the corresponding Canaanite god was Mot. The Romans would associate Hades/Pluto with their own chthonic gods, Dis Pater and Orcus. He was also called "Plouton" (Greek: meaning "Rich One"), a name which the Romans Latinized as Pluto. According to myth, he along with his younger brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans in battle and took over rulership of the cosmos ruling the Underworld, Sky, and Sea, respectively the solid earth, the long province of Gaia, was available to all three concurrently. In Greek Mythology, Hades was the first son and fourth child of Cronos and Rhea. Hades was the ancient Greek god of the Underworld and the brother of Zeus, but his name was shared with the abode of the dead.
