Atreus - having become more egotistical and impatient since learning of his Godhood - is easily goaded into stunning Kratos with a lighting arrow and attacking Baldur head-on. Beating Kratos, he is shot through the chest and head by Atreus, which he simply shrugs off. Later, after Kratos, Atreus, and Mimir (now a decapitated, reanimated head thanks to Kratos freeing him) return to the top of the Mountain and attempt to enter Jotunheim through the gate there, Baldur attacks them. Baldur, Magni, and Modi subsequently left to try and find Kratos and Atreus elsewhere.
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Mimir refused to answer Baldur's questions regarding Kratos and Atreus, pointing out that Baldur had both nothing to threaten him with nor the authority to free him from his suffering. The fight culminated with Kratos snapping Baldur's neck and tossing him into the open gorge, seemingly killing him.ĭue to his invulnerability, Baldur survived and was next seen with his nephews, Magni and Modi (Thor's sons) attempting to interrogate Mimir, a God that Odin had trapped in a tree at the top of the Mountain.
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The two continued on with a brutal and exhausting battle that literally cracked open the ground beneath them. As the Ghost of Sparta was about to strike again Baldur took him by surprise and delivered a strike that sent him flying through the air and over his house. Baldur was disappointed despite Kratos's great power, he still was not able to make him feel pain. Baldur finally received the response he was looking for from Kratos and was punched in the face, sending him flying back. Baldur immediately was hostile towards the Spartan, taunting him and goading him into a fight, stating he knew who he truly was.
On Odin's orders, Baldur, tracked Kratos to his home in Midgard. He grew to hate his mother for what she had done as well as his place in life as he could no longer feel the world around him. Years of not being able to feel turned Baldur cruel and uncaring. This spell, however, had a horrific, and unintended, side effect on Baldur as it took all sense of feeling from him such as pain, feelings of pleasure and even joy. Due to this and her love for him, Freya cast a spell on Baldur which made him invulnerable to any type of harm. A prophecy foretold Baldur would die a needless death which would in turn begin the events of Ragnarok. He was described by Freya as a happy child and was to be known as the god of light due to his loving nature.
He was voiced and motion-captured by Jeremy Davies, who also portrayed Malcolm Dreyfuss in Sleepy Hollow and John Deegan in the Arrowverse.īaldur was born to Odin and Freya in Asgard, the half brother of Thor and Tyr. He was also Kratos and Atreus's archenemy. He is sent with his nephews, Magni and Modi, by his father, Odin, to hunt down and kill Kratos and his son Atreus as Odin believes them to be the bringers of Ragnarok, searching for the cure of his curse that his mother placed on him. He is Odin's best tracker and is a vicious fighter as he is unable to feel pain or be harmed due to his curse his mother placed on him. He is the Norse God of Light and the son of Odin, the Allfather of the Aesir and the estranged, Freya the Vanir goddess who is the former queen. ~ Baldur's last words before his final demise.īaldur, initially known as " The Stranger", is the main antagonist of the 2018 video game God of War. ~ Baldur to Kratos and Atreus for freeing his curse. I've never felt more alive! Ironic, isn't it? You've done what even the Allfather himself could not.