When I saw in the demo that his sons bow had lightning ability I wondered if the game is set before Norse mythology even existed. The Norse god of War is Odin. Maybe instead of Kratos fighting Odin, we see him dominating the realm of Valhalla and become Odin himself through the course of the game, while his son will be earning some sort of hammer...
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







