| abstract | - The above image seen in Pandora's Temple in God of War shows a battle between Zeus and a lone warrior. In God of War II, that lone warrior turns out to be Kratos. How Pathos Verdes III knew of the Second Titanomachy is unknown, like many other aspects of passages and statues within Pandora's Temple. Interestingly enough, Zeus isn't portrayed with a long white beard in the first game when he appears to Kratos to give him Zeus' Fury. This image is also seen in God of War II, throughout the Island of Creation. In Kratos' flashbacks, when he has Lysandra in his arms after killing her, Ares appears and tells Kratos that he had all along planned the scheme that made Kratos murder his wife and child, in order to take away the "obstacles" that could prevent Kratos' transformation into the perfect warrior, and becoming "Death itself". Years later, as a god, Kratos killed Thanatos, the God of Death, and, in the Grave Digger's own words, became "Death, the destroyer of worlds". One can conclude that, even unintentionally, Ares predicted that Kratos would somehow overcome Death.
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