If you’ve made it to the very end of the main story path in God of War Ragnarok then you’re bound to have a few ideas about the location and theories for what comes next for Kratos and Atreus. There are a lot of clues dotted throughout the two Norse Saga God of War games, so we’ll set everything we have out for you to mull over.
Obviously, it’s impossible to talk about a God of War Ragnarok sequel without talking about the story from the first two games. If you haven’t played them to the main story ending then you might want to stop reading now to avoid finding out what happens.
AdvertisementFor everyone that’s still around, we’ve also included a video for the Ragnarok ending below to remind you what happens in the final battle. It’s the best point to continue from, because it’s where everything else left off.
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The well established God of War Ragnarok sequel theory
If you take things back to the ending for the first game in the Norse Saga, the agreed course of action for the series after God of War Ragnarok was a transition to Egyptian mythology for the sequel. The references to Tyr’s travels had a lot of Egyptian hints to them and this is still a contender for what comes next, so we’re keeping it in the maybe pile for now.
AdvertisementThe ending above leaves things pretty open in terms of a destination for the next game. However, the Egyptian references weren’t a big part of GOWR, so it’s possible that this has either been put on the back burner or Santa Monica Studios is trying to cover its tracks a little.
The biggest negative for the theories around Egypt came from Ragnarok game director Eric Williams who stated in an interview that the real Tyr gave a clue for the location of the sequel. We’ll cover that in more detail in the section below, but needless to say it doesn’t point to the Egyptian pantheon of gods.
The other destinations theory
AdvertisementEven before the comments from Eric Williams, there was always a lot of chat about other possible locations based on their rich deity collection. Japan, India, China and South America were all alternatives to Egypt, but the hints from Williams has narrowed things down a little.
What he actually said is that Tyr’s actions in the endgame, after you rescue him from Niflheim, are a clue to the destination for the God of War sequel. You’ll find Tyr in various locations throughout the realms once he’s free and he’s performing different actions in each.
In Svartalfheim you can see him kneeling in front of the Lyngbakr, in Vanaheim he’s doing a martial arts dance with traditional flute music in the background, in Midgard he’s staring up at the sky, in Alfheim he’s doing something similar looking up at the Hafgufa offspring in the sky, in Helheim he’s doing more spiritual exercises looking up at the giant bird Hraesvegir, and in Muspelheim he’s sitting cross-legged looking out on the Spark of the World.
From these, we can rule out South America and give Egypt a bit more distance. India gets a little nod because of the potential that the moves are based on Yoga, China is the same with Kung Fu, but Japan is probably the biggest contender with Tai-Chi and other martial arts in the frame. The flute music in Vanaheim sounds more Japanese than anything else, so that’s our best idea from the list of location theories for the God of War sequel.
All three have a rich mythology with an assortment of gods, creatures and monsters to build a story around. In India, there’s Shiva, Ganesh, Vishnu and Brahma; in China there’s Pangu, the Jade Emperor and Sun Wukong; and in Japan there’s Amaterasu Ohomikami, Ebisu, Hachiman (the Shinto god of war), Junshi (the god of provocation), Raijin (god of thunder and lightning and the inspiration for Mortal Combat’s Raiden), and Ryujin (the dragon god of sea and storms, and the inspiration for Ryu from Street Fighter).
They’d all work well for a future location for the God of War franchise, but it’s hard to look at the Japanese list and and not see the gaming heritage and potential. Japanese locations are pretty popular at the moment with the likes of Ghosts of Tsushima and Sekiro, so the portents are mounting.
Multiple pantheon ideas
AdvertisementAnother interpretation of the Tyr hint is that the Ragnarok sequel will jump around multiple Pantheons with the hunt for the rest of the giants. There’s no reason why they’d all necessarily be in one location, and if anything it makes sense from a hiding from Odin point of view to scatter, rather than all of the giants being together.
The negative to this is that it’s could end up being a bit too busy and fragmented in terms of the potential story and it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to building to a big god ending. It would also tick off a lot of them in one go, cutting off the potential for later sequels by covering a number of them in one game.
Another way of looking at this, though, is that it could be used to give us a taster of the other panteons as Atreus and Angrboda track down the other giants. This would act as a teaser for later returns with more dedicated stories for each, so its not entirely off the table.
More God of War Ragnarok sequel ideas and theories
The big question in terms of the God of War Ragnarok theories is whether or not it will be an Atreus solo story, will his dear old dad and pals get in the mix too. Maybe there will be more than one sequel with Atreus doing his thing with Angrboda and Kratos, Freya, Mimir and Tyr doing their own quest.
If that isn’t enough, there was a lot more in Ragnarok about the past actions of Faye, which leads to its own theories about the point of this. One idea is a prequel game that shows what happened with Faye when she confronted Thor, or how she helped the giants get away, or dealt with the arrival of a certain war god from afar.
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