Light Elves Were the Bad Guys All Along (God of War Theory)

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[ArchangelRafa]

Honestly they attacked us first. I mean the king could have talked to kratos, but nope. So get bent dark elves

[theorangelantern]

It's best to go with what Mimir tells us: that both sides basically think they're the ones in the right.

[D_MEISTER]

The light elves always creeped me out with their design, they’re going to have a big part in the next game.

[buggytheprophet]

White elves most definitely enslaved dark elves, they fought back, then Kratos pulled a reverse Abraham Lincoln

[coladict]

The two elf factions have been at war for generations. We saw that the dark elves take no prisoners and just execute everyone. They even attack us visitors without provocation, unlike the light elves. I find it more likely that the light elves might be experimenting with draugr, and that the Dark Elf King is only telling us what he believes. As Mimir told us, both sides believe they're the rightful keepers of the light, and it is their moral duty to keep it from the other side.

[barton]

They did attack kratos first so I can't blame him, they got in his way.

[stonecoldku]

I had a theory that The Dark Elves had teamed up with Odin and that's how they got control of the Light. The reason that Odin wanted the Light under control was that you would need the Light of Alfheim to get rid of the Black Breath on the mountain. The Black Breath is a corruption of magic and we know that, Odin took the magic he learned from Freya and used it to serve his own means. So Odin put the Black Breath on the mountain to prevent people from climbing it. Why would he do this? For two reasons, one so no one could get to the last known bridge to Jotunheim, perhaps if there were any Giants left hidden in Midgard, that they wouldn't be able to use the bridge and be stuck in Midgard and two, so no one could get to Mimir.

So Odin allied himself with the Dark Elves to give them control of the realm and the Light. The only thing they would have to do is to keep someone from reaching the Light and keep it under control. Therefore keeping someone from being able to get rid of the Black Breath. Now that Kratos and Atreus have released the power of The Light and gotten rid of The Black Breath, Odin's wrath will be coming down on them and perhaps on The Dark Elves for failing in their job. So that is the "Grave mistake" that the Dark Elf spoke of. Odin's retribution.

[guynamedalex]

I always thought it was interesting how the dark elf king kinda "talked" to us multiple times before we fought him. Maybe he was trying to tell us something.

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[lurb]

Like kratos said when we entered Alfheim we don’t know what happen in the events before we only seen the end of the war so I think the dark elves where the good guys and we just didn’t know it but I could be wrong

[endangeredspecies]

The light elves had an outpost in midgard. That’s a red flag that they are secretly conquerors.

[Mert-A-L]

BUT, why would the Dark Elves care about the humans that much? It is a sound theory but it seems like the motive for the Dark Elves is missing.

[SDSXellan]

"Don't worry, it's not raid shadow legends"

Best

[sergiomendoza]

The fact that you’re still finding plausible theories so long after this games release is a testament to how much detail the devs at Santa Monica put in the game. Which leads me to believe that at this point you’ve definitely nailed some of these theories right on the head. I seriously hope you’re right when ragnarok finally comes around if that is the official title of the next god of war.

[Pubk]

So.... in the mythology, a Draugr is basically an undead body without a soul. In other words, the soul has already moved on, and the body is reanimated. This happens because the body was not buried with proper funeral rites.

It’s the Hel Walkers that are souls returning to the body.

Now, you might be right about the Light Elves sacrificing people to the light. It’s known that The Light is basically the deity of all the elves. In fact, one of the Lore Stones in Alfheim says “From the light we are born and to the light we return. The light is the river of souls, transforming us, consuming us, transcending life and death. The light is the truth. The light is all.”

The way the Norse afterlife works, if a soul goes to Hel for a time, it’s not permanent. Eventually, they will complete trials within Hel, whereby they regain the right to live again. When this happens, it is the light of Alfheim that transports the soul back to Midgard, granting that person a new life. Basically, reincarnation.

What the game insinuates is that Tyr (or maybe the Giants) figured out how to harness the Light of Alfheim and use it for travel, since it is, in fact, the light that transports souls from Hel back to Midgard to begin a new life.

[DansterMan]

I feel there isn’t good or bad in this situation. Kratos tried to warn Atreus that they don’t know anything about the conflict between the elves and they only involved themselves because the dark elves were hostile and preventing them reaching the light of alfheim, the whole reason they were there.

I personally think the King only tried to communicate with them after his defeat because he thought they were possibly allies to the light elves from the beginning. The truth actually being that they could’ve avoided conflict with the Dark elves altogether.

Now the likely outcome is Kratos will cause both races to go extinct because he cannot avoid being involved against powerful forces.

[Hazearil]

Guess it fits within the story of GoW4: normally the Norse gods are protrayed as good and the giants as evil, but they turned that around. We also normally would assume light is good and dark is bad.

[cassex]

Please continue with this type of content you’re the only YouTuber that has gone into the lore and unanswered questions of god of war

[warofgodnarok]

There goes kratos again doing something good only to have something bad happen afterwards

[kekwokeson]

Hot take counter theory: what if the oppressors the dark elf kings refers to to are in fact the Aesir? We know already that Odin is mad obsessed with control and dominance, and as we see in-game the light elves are definitely not warriors. So what if by putting control of the light and rule of Alfheim in the hands of the light elves, we effectively hand over the realm to Odin on a silver platter?

Makes more sense to me than some broad assumptions about light elves being sinister and secretly evil based entirely on conjecture jussaiyan.