Blades of Chaos Plot Hole (God of War Lore)

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[juliusquizeo]

Kinda poetic how he kills his family the first time he wields the blades and now the second is to save the only family he has left.

[ThisIsFlight]

It’s rather simple really: after killing Zeus and committing suicide Kratos could be cursed by Athena to forever carry the blades of chaos. These blades were to forever be a reminder of his past.
Btw - wasn’t it in the books already? There was a fragment about him being unable to throw the blades away since they always returned

[LPeck]

It was said, that the Blades of Chaos would always be with him no matter what. He tried, and tried again to cast them away. Yet the blades always found its way to him. A curse to bare forever. At this point he accepted that fate, and kept them hidden under the floorboards of his house in Midgard. He couldn't cast them away, ever, yet he could hide them close by without seeing them and being constantly reminded of them.

[Victor_Nova_]

I heard at one point the answer was that he was cursed and still attached to the Blades of Choas, so whenever he tried to discard or get rid of them, they would reappear with him the next day. So he could've left the Blade of Exile behind, but the BoC still followed him, haunting him.

[darthnihilus]

There's a comic that explains why he has the Blades of Chaos. It also tells a bit about what he did between killing Zues and meeting Faye

[jaysontrivino]

The clay pot in tyr's temple shows kratos holding the blades of exile though.

[GodlyODB]

I’m pretty sure the books said that the blades were always in his possession and he can never be rid of them.

[OverLord]

My theory: the blades of chaos appears in the Helheim vision because they didn't wanted to model the blades of Exile.

[merikmalhads]

I feel like he cast aside Athena's blades after he figured out that she was manipulating him the whole time. Also the blades of chaos in that scene have two possible explanations. The first one is more of a developer issue that modeling a completely new asset just for the misty outline of weapons in a certain scene. The second one is that Helheim is not revealing the past but playing on Kratos's personal recollection in which he sees the blades of chaos as the symbol of fury he left that day. Those blades mean far more to him personally so in his own memory a small detail like that could easily have been swapped and Helheim created a hybridized memory to torment Kratos more from that

[missingpassword]

The blades of chaos are seared to his soul, in the cutscene where Kratos begs for saving it says they are burned never to be removed from him, the reason he "doesn't" have them in his fight with ares is because it was an illusion as the blades reflect his very soul but still have a physicality presence which can be used and hidden away, hence why they are always engulfed in fire when he's brain boiling mad

[ra-eesdaniels]

"no magic in all the nine realms can create a blaze"
Kratos : makes a fire with his blades to make 'n ship fly.

[mattyr]

Helhime shows you images to torture you so he has the blades of chaos in the illusion as they are a symbol of his suffering

[Mert-A-L]

Kratos was hallucinating ever since God Of War 1 and thought he had new weapons, but it was the Blades Of Chaos all along.

[MK-fzil]

Also, in God of war 3 when Kratos beat Zeus to death, he wasn't wearing the golden fleece, but the vision in Helheim shows it on his arm

[ygorschuma]

I remember reading somewhere the Blades of Chaos being bound to Kratos, no matter how much he tried, he could never get rid of it, he arrived ashore in Midgard, and the Blades were beside him, and although he tried to throw them in the ocean, it would simply return to him.

[typicalsoup]

Imagine Ragnarok starts off showing how Kratos got to midguard

[NemoEtNihil]

This never bugged me, since I always thought of Kratos' various blade sets as the Blades of Chaos anyway, just different aspects of them. It'd be interesting if forthcoming games provide a clear in-lore explanation as to why he has the Blades of Chaos again, but unless that happens, I just take it as a minor retcon.

[atanaschristov]

Yeah there is a big hole, but I think Santa Monica did the right think, when they chose the Blades of chaos for God of war 4.(Bro, he killed his family with these blades...that was so emotional scene).

[clxix]

The "Kratos dismissing the blades of chaos" is actually vague enough that you could still read it as they are the same items, just given an upgrade, he was just dismissing what they used to be. With Ragnarok, it is now implied that the blades are made with a form of primordial fire, like a universal ingredient used in all mythologies, which helps explain why they would revert to that form when Greece was destroyed since the BOA and BOE where basically just special costings given to the weapons that crumbled away as the magic of Greece crumbled. You can even read the effects of fimblewinter as having done the same at the start of Ragnarok reverting the blades to their base form. As for the vision in helheim, it could be that the magic is just showing the blades for what they actually are, or since it's drawing from kratos's memory, he's just misremembering the fight since he's so used to having the blades of Chaos

[loganhaun]

in the comic (where kratos is traveling the world with the blades) he throws them away repeatedly however, every time he fell asleep they returned to his person