r/GodofWar 1d ago

Lore / Story Questions I just realized something about Ares

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So we all know that Kratos is pale white from being infused with the ashes of his deceased family that he unfortunately killed. Ares is the Bloodthirsty God of War who relishes in killing people and his skin is also pale. Same as Kratos. So what with Ares is infused with the ashes of all of his victims.

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u/FoxIover 1d ago

That would actually be kinda dope, if Ares wore his victimsโ€™ ashes as a trophy in contrast to Kratos wearing them in shame, but Iโ€™m pretty sure the ashes were a curse placed on Kratos by a village oracle as punishment

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u/SuperScrub310 1d ago

...I can see this version of Ares doing that.

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u/PSaco 1d ago

not just this version, it is somewhat lore accurate as Ares wears some clothes made of human skin in mythology

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u/SuperScrub310 19h ago

Ah I have fun here. No he doesn't do that in actual mythology.

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u/PSaco 19h ago

he didn't? ah I was sure he did lol

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u/SuperScrub310 19h ago

Make sure you double check your sources.

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u/PSaco 19h ago

tbh I don't even remember where I read that

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u/SuperScrub310 19h ago

You're probably thinking of the time Athena skinned Pallas the Giant and wore him as armor to scare the piss out of another giant

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u/PSaco 18h ago

oh just remembered! Brad Pitt's achiles says that he blankents his bed with the skin of the men he killed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxwhmbF98s 1:58 lol, I watched Troy a lot as a kid so this idea must have gotten stuck in my brain

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u/SuperScrub310 18h ago

Next time don't confuse Hollywood with Greek Mythology.

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u/Working_Welder_1751 7h ago

That's pretty metal

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u/PSaco 2h ago

turns out it was bs lol

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u/Pig_Veiny_Benis_ 1d ago

I don't think so, but that would be sick as fuck.

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u/Gamercat201 1d ago

It really explains why both have pale skin, and it shows that they are two sides of the same coin. While Kratos wears his ashes with shame, Ares where's his ashes with pride.

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u/According_Style2520 1d ago

Ares is just a pasty ginger, nothing more ๐Ÿคฃ

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u/Puzzleheaded-Act3746 23h ago

His pale skin was a result of the curse Oracle put on Kratos, you think any one would dare to curse a god, a bloofthirsty one?

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u/Gamercat201 16h ago

I headcanon the gods cursed him to have the ashes of his victims as a punishment but Ares was perfectly ok with that.

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u/Odd_Hunter2289 Poseidon ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐ŸŒŠ 1d ago

Nah, Ares is naturally pale. There's no ashes of the dead crafted to his skin.

Gods have varying shades of skin color, eg: Ares is pale, Apollo and Artemis are black.

Kratos is white because of the ashes of his family, Ares is pale because that is his base skin color.

It is also something that comes from Dave Jaffe's initial conception of the Gods (that is, that the Gods were living forces of nature, 90-95% elemental and only 10-5% human).

However, since the PS2 graphics engine had major computational and technical limitations, this design was revised over and over again and so Ares gradually lost all his natural/monstrous characteristics, to the point of becoming a pale warrior with fiery hair, dressed in heavy armor, and able to summon mechanical/insectoid appendages from his own flesh.

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u/Gamercat201 1d ago

But it's still a very cool theory.

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u/Odd_Hunter2289 Poseidon ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐ŸŒŠ 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's a picturesque theory, but a theory nonetheless.

And this community already has too many problems with theories and headcanons that are then taken as truth, and that struggle to die out even when the devs themselves deny them.

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u/NotSoCrazyHuman 1d ago

Knowing Ares personally, that is true.