Another possibility is that the king presented in the game and the one in the comics rule together, because the city of Sparta was a diarchy with two kings ruling at the same time. Another possibility is that the king in the comic is the predecessor of the king in Ascension. The King shown in Ascension is not named and is most likely not the exact King who appears in the comics, as they don't look alike (though this may be a continuity error).When Kratos was on the verge of victory over the Furies, Tisiphone changes into the form of the King once again, telling him that he's unworthy of being called a Spartan. He kicks Tisiphone off the balcony, dispelling her illusion. Kratos believes what he is seeing at first, until he sees Tisiphone's ring on the king's finger.

The King appears as a kind, elder figure, bearing old battle scars, and gives condolences for the loss of Kratos' brother. Kratos would later recount this story to Mimir and Freya during God of War Ragnarök.Spartan King as seen in Tisiphone's illusionĭuring one of Kratos' flashbacks, which are actually mind tricks played by the Furies, Tisiphone fools Kratos by disguising as the King of Sparta, and honors Kratos for his service as his best general.This is a common twist in Greek mythology, were trying to stop an oracle's vision from becoming truth only causes its eventual completion a famous example being Oedipus. To stop Ares, she helps Kratos, which allows him to break his blood oath and eventually become the God of War, to later destroy the Olympus. Aletheia prophesied the Olympus's destruction at the hands of the God of War, believing the vision to be about Ares (since he was in fact planning to take over the Olympus).Adrianne Barbeau, the voice actor for Aletheia, also voiced Hera in God of War III.The name of the Oracle of Delphi was actually Pythia. In Greek Mythology, Aletheia was the name of the Goddess of Truth.Aletheia was known to the Romans as Veritas. Parmenides, among other Greek philosophers, used the term to personify truth. The word Aletheia is the Greek and Ancient Greek word for truth.Precognition: Aletheia's eyes gave her visions of the future, as well enlightened her on the plans of Ares.This makes her immune to the illusions cast by the Furies. Illusion Awareness: Aletheia was able to see through illusions and even dissolve them.After the defeat of the Gemini twins at the hands of the Spartan warrior Kratos, she told the ash-skinned warrior of a way to be free of his bond to Ares, in the cursed city of Delos, before dying of wounds accidentally inflicted on her in the battle between Kratos and the twins.īeing the Oracle of Delphi, Aletheia was blessed with the eyes of Truth, which have the following abilities:

After which, she was imprisoned by Pollux and Castor, who asked for tributes in return for an audience with her. Before reaching Zeus, the Furies had her eyes, the source of her powers, brutally ripped out of her skull and transformed into a weapon that could wipe out any illusion, the Eyes of Truth, in order for all evidence of the devious plot to be rendered useless. After discovering a plot by Ares and the Furies to overthrow Olympus, she and her beloved attempted to stop them by alerting Zeus of this. The Greeks derived this place name from the verb, pythein, which refers to the decomposition of the body of the monstrous Python after it was slain by Apollo.Īletheia was Orkos's lover, and she resided in the temple of the oracle. The name 'Pythia' derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi. It has often been suggested that these vapors may have been hallucinogenic gases. Her oracular powers appeared to be associated with vapors from the Kerna spring waters that flowed under the temple. The Delphic oracle was established in the 8th century BC, there is evidence that Apollo took over the shrine from an earlier dedication to Gaia. The Pythia was widely credited for her prophecies inspired by Apollo. The Oracle of Delphi, commonly known as the Pythia, was the priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, beneath the Castalian Spring.

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