GIANKRATOS
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Well, that might be because God of War is a very badly written series. I mean, the "no warring among Gods" rule doesn't even make sense within the first game. Ares violated that rule by attacking Athena's city. But he didn't suffer any consequences except the gods indirect retaliation of launching Kratos at him. Il
So if they have no higher power they need to answer to and the gods are self governing, and Ares has broken the cardinal rule, then I don't see why they can't just decide to amend their own rule of nonviolence in the name of self defense. It's like they have some kind of incomprehensible rule of pacificism among each other.
But whatever. Let's be nice to the series and just assume that there was a difference between beings who are born gods and beings who are made gods. Kratos is the latter and his Godhood can be taken away of he does it of his own will. Which is how zues got his out of him. He maybe couldn't do that with Ares. Or maybe Ares just wasn't so hopelessly stupid as to pour his Godhood out of his body at the behest of someone he knows to be his enemy.
Man, Kratos is dumb.
I always intended that rule as the gods cannot fight each other like "personally". So Ares is abusing that rule an thus attacking Athena's city without fear of direct repercussions from the gods themselfs and that's why they send a demigod to fight him.
I think Kratos is the new god of war to all intent and purposes after he ascended to mount Olympus, no matter his origins. And i think the godhood of Ares could be taken away too, but he was probably aware of these tricks.
To be fair Kratos didn't knew that Zeus was his enemy, he thought Athena was the enemie. So he trusted Zeus that took advantage of the situation and betrayed him.
Maybe Kratos isn't the smartest of all, but he is being manipulated by the greek gods who are known for they're tricks. What i mean is that he isn't being tricked by the first person that crosses the street.