{"id":153849,"date":"2020-12-27T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/god-of-war-loki-ragnarok\/"},"modified":"2020-12-27T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:28:58","slug":"god-of-war-what-happens-to-loki-during-ragnarok-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/27\/god-of-war-what-happens-to-loki-during-ragnarok-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"God of War: What Happens to Loki During Ragnarok | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A teaser for the next God of War<\/em><\/strong> game was released earlier this year with the tagline \u201cRagnarok is coming.\u201d When the franchise received a soft reboot in 2018, it took the original trilogy\u2019s Hellenic backdrop and replaced it with the Nine Realms of Norse mythology.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2018\u2019s God of War<\/em><\/a>, Kratos\u2019 son Atreus was revealed to have a secret name, Loki, revealing him to be the Norse god of \u201csvik\u201d \u2013 meaning deceit or betrayal. Atreus is one of the central characters in God of War<\/em> now, and it\u2019s likely Loki\u2019s role in Ragnarok will be among the most changed. However, by laying out Loki\u2019s role in the mythological Ragnarok, fans might have the best idea of Atreus\u2019 place in the upcoming game, or at least the fate Kratos and Atreus will fight to avert.<\/p>\n

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Ragnarok is set into motion in the myth by the death of Baldur<\/a>, one of Odin\u2019s sons. Baldur is killed when Loki tricks the blind god Hodr into throwing a sharpened branch of mistletoe at him during a celebration. According to some versions of the myth, Loki is banished for his role in Baldur\u2019s death, though in others his banishment occurs after he shows up at a feast and simply insults all of the gods.<\/p>\n

In either case, at some point Thor arrives and decides Loki has gone too far. He imprisons Loki<\/a> under the earth,\u00a0bound in the entrails of some of the trickster god\u2019s own children. There, a serpent drips poison onto his face. Loki\u2019s wife holds a bowl over his face to prevent the poison from touching him, but when the bowl is full and she has to let some of the poison touch Loki, his fits of pain cause earthquakes.<\/p>\n

Baldur\u2019s death is also the start of Ragnarok in God of War<\/em> \u2013 when Baldur is defeated at the end of the game, Fimbulwinter begins, the three years of continuous winter that come before Ragnarok. Though Baldur\u2019s characterization in God of War<\/em> is quite different from that in the myths and his death takes place at the hands of Kratos, the stories do have an opportunity to converge again. God of War<\/em>\u2019s secret ending<\/a> shows Atreus having a vision of Thor arriving at the end of Fimbulwinter. In most tellings, it is Thor\u2019s arrival that puts an end to Loki\u2019s fun and ends in\u00a0Loki’s imprisonment.<\/p>\n

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At the end of Fimbulwinter, the mythological Ragnarok begins in earnest. Skoll and Hati, the wolves who pursue the sun and the moon,\u00a0finally catch up with their prey and devour them. The chain that\u00a0holds back Fenrir the wolf breaks, and the World Serpent\u00a0causes the world to flood. In the myth, both Fenrir and the World Serpent are children of Loki. Though this doesn\u2019t appear to align with the God of War<\/em> timeline<\/a>, God of War 2<\/em> did see extensive use of time travel, so it\u2019s not impossible that this will still work out.<\/p>\n

With the giants on the march Loki\u00a0breaks free of his chains and\u00a0captains the\u00a0Naglfar, a mythological ship made from the nail clippings of the dead. When the giant Surtr<\/a> and his army reach Asgard, Heimdall the sentry god blows the Gjallerhorn letting the other gods know that it\u2019s time to meet on the field of their final battle, Vigrid.<\/p>\n

As the final battle of the gods and giants rages Thor and the World Serpent<\/a> kill one another while Odin is devoured by Fenrir and then avenged by Vidar. Loki and Heimdall\u00a0face\u00a0one another in battle, mortally wounding one another\u00a0before the world is destroyed by Surtr\u2019s fire and drowned by a flood.<\/p>\n

In some versions of Ragnarok, the story ends there, but in others, a few gods survive and the cycle is implied to begin anew. Among those gods are Vidar, a reborn Baldur, and Thor\u2019s sons Magni and Modi. However, Kratos and Atreus already killed Magni and Modi<\/a> in 2018\u2019s God of War<\/em>, implying that God of War<\/em>\u2019s Rangarok may not take influence from the cyclical rebirth version of the myth.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, that rebirth might not be represented by the surviving Norse gods but instead by the creation of a new pantheon, just as the series itself moved from the Greek gods to the Norse\u00a0gods in\u00a0God of War<\/em><\/a> 2018. In any case, the main\u00a0moments for Loki during Ragnarok are as follows: his is imprisoned for his involvement in Baldur\u2019s death, he escapes before the final battle, and he is mortally wounded by Heimdall.<\/p>\n

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However, Atreus is unique among the Norse gods of God of War<\/em> \u2013 his story is so closely tied to Kratos\u2019 story<\/a> that it\u2019s likely Loki\u2019s role in Ragnarok will be among the most changed or reinterpreted in the next game. If nothing else, the roles of Loki\u2019s wife and children will likely either be reframed or removed in light of Atreus\u2019 youth.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but the Jotunheim mural<\/a> at the end of 2018\u2019s God of War<\/em> has a final panel which only Kratos sees. That panel implies that at the end of Ragnarok Atreus will hold the body of a dying man, who resembles Kratos without his tattoos. It\u2019s likely that Loki\u2019s role in Ragnarok will be refitted for the story of Kratos and Atreus, but there are still a few ways it could align with the original myth.<\/p>\n

First, Thor\u2019s arrival in the God of War<\/em> secret ending may end with Atreus\u2019 imprisonment, and Kratos having to free him. It\u2019s possible \u2013 if not likely \u2013 that Kratos will also be involved in freeing Fenrir during this time. What remains to be seen is how God of War<\/em>\u2019s interpretation of Ragnarok factors into the series\u2019 overarching themes of cyclical violence. Kratos has spent years trying to escape the violence which has followed him and which he has perpetrated; if\u00a0the game’s Ragnarok departs from the myth, then it may be because Atreus has been able to\u00a0escape\u00a0fate and from the\u00a0God of War\u00a0<\/em>cycle of patricide<\/a> that has haunted his father.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0God of War<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0sequel is in development with a release date slated for 2021.<\/p>\n

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