During his quest, Kratos met the living key to the Box's protection, Pandora, who strongly believed that Hope was the core force that let the living keep on living. She advised him to seek out Pandora's Box once more, in order to use the power of Hope that she believed it still contained against Zeus. Apart from unknowingly using it to slay the God of War, Kratos was not able to use Hope's power again until he had forgiven himself for his perceived sins.Īfter his fall from Mount Olympus during the beginning of the Second Titanomachy, Kratos encountered Athena's Spirit in the Underworld. From the time of the end of God of War to the end of God of War III, Hope was trapped behind layers of guilt. However, Kratos had actually consumed the power of Hope to gain the strength to defeat his former master. In God of War, it was believed that Kratos had absorbed the evils of Pandora's Box in order to defeat Ares. As a safeguard, she placed Hope - a power great enough to kill a God - inside the Box with the myriad evils. Long ago, when Zeus sealed the evils of the Titanomachy within Pandora's Box, Athena feared that the box would one day be opened and release the dark forces that it held. It did not abandon humans and, as such, stayed with them. Curiously opening the box, she released all of the world's evils pride, wrath, lies, anger, hate, despair, arrogance, envy, vanity, lust, fear, misery, greed, etc.Īt the bottom however, underneath all the evils that poison/influence/corrupt the hearts, minds and souls of the humans, there was hope. In the Legend of Pandora, Pandora simply could not resist the temptation of what was inside Pandora's Box. Hope freed to mankind by Kratos in God of War III. It was originally possessed by Athena before she placed it into Pandora's Box to counteract the Evils, but later went to Kratos and then was freed to mankind by his sacrifice.

Hope is a blessed power and the 'most powerful weapon in the world' according to Athena, powerful enough to kill any god, even Zeus himself.

It is what we fight with when all else is lost.

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