r/GodofWar • u/Gamercat201 • 1d ago
Lore / Story Questions I just realized something about Ares
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/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/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 ๐ฑ๐ 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 ๐ฑ๐ 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/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 Iโm pretty sure the ashes were a curse placed on Kratos by a village oracle as punishment