To be fair, this isn't the first time he's been gutted by the Blade of Olympus. And maybe he didn't walk/crawl/roll away, and someone dragged his lifeless corpse somewhere.

Also, I'm curious who Zeus was referring to at the end when he told Gaia "Perhaps you should have used your other pawn" or something like that.

Edit - Maybe Kratos has a (twin) brother! And it was he who Zeus was referring to, and also him who dragged away Kratos' corpse at the end! Then GoW4 will have co-op!!!!!!

Well Darkfire; In one of the unlockable cutscenes in the first game there was mention of Kratos' brother, and it was implied he might appear at some point as a villain. This was back before they really knew where they wanted to go with the series, so it never got used, but maybe now that the main series is over this idea will resurface in some form.

Personally I would like the series to end now, because you don't get much more closure than that, but there are definate indications of them wanting to do something more at some point. Not right away, but some time in the future.

Well, you have at least two gods that need to be dealt with plus the world is plagued with chaos. There are a few things you can do as you mention but the bulk of the story won't be as epic as GoW III is.

IIRC the entire point of this was to end all of the gods. I had figured his killing himself was an act of penance as well as a way of depriving Athena, the one last god, from any sort of power. He wanted it to be a world of Man, and that was it. Why he didn't just kill Athena, especially since he A- did it already and B- she seemed like she was vulnerable is what really befuddles me.

There's also the question of how exactly Athena and Zeus became spirit forms. It never gets explained! Horsecrap.

But yeah, in the soundtrack for God of War I there was a bonus feature after the last track like two minutes of silence in where he talks about his brother. It was meant to be foreshadowing but they never explained it once they realized Kratos getting along with anyone, let alone the gods, was not going to happen. Plus the whole Zeus=Father thing.

I just don't think they're going to bring it up again since everything - and I mean everything - has already been killed.

Athena and Artemis

Of course... There are other gods

Call me wrong on this one but I thought Artemis was just a woodlander and therefore had nothing to do with Olympus? Or maybe she was one of the fatalities of when Zeus went all batshit and started torturing/threatening the other gods?

See what I mean? God of War isn't exactly a story-heavy game.

Well seeing as Artemis killed a Titan, presumably during the war, I'm gona go with her being a God, at least in this series.

But yeah there's still a load of things to kill. Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Aphrodite, Atlas, Typhon, Deimos, that electric Titan dude, Ixion, tons of people he didn't kill whose fates were never explained. Some of them might have been killed during the last game, but we don't know for sure.

Artemis is a god and one of the 12 important ones. Well in mythology anyway

The way the game was set up made me think that killing Zeus was what ruined everyone, hence why Athena tried to protect him. So by killing Zeus every god fell automatically; Hermes and Helios and whoever were just working directly for him. Hence why those few tried to protect him from Kratos, but by the end, there are no gods?

So yeah, moral of the story God of War's story isn't very clear.

No I knew she was a god, I just didn't think she spent time on Olympus.