When it came to the Bill of Rights, James Madison also took a page straight from the Enlightenment playbook when he included such basic personal liberties as the right to freedom of speech, religion and assembly. Despite the very real problems with religion – and my own historical skepticism toward it – I don’t subscribe to that view. “The real cancer that afflicts the planet is capitalism and hierarchy,” he wrote. After being spiritually reunited with both Lysandra and Calliope in his psyche in God of War III, Lysandra aided Kratos in forgiving himself for his crime. Lysandra – Kratos’ first wife. The Body Burner was the first warrior to die while seeking Pandora’s Box. The Body Burner – Featured in God of War (2005), he granted Kratos passage into Pandora’s Temple. The character is voiced by Martha Marion in God of War (2018) and Misty Lee in Ragnarök and its DLC Valhalla.

She returns in Ragnarök as a resurrected shield maiden who allies with Kratos and Freya in the attack on Asgard, where she finally reunites with Mímir and ultimately survives Ragnarök. In Ragnarök after freeing the Lyngbakr-learning that Mímir had imprisoned the whale-like sea monster-Kratos writes in his journal, remorseful of what he had done to the boat captain. In Ragnarök’s DLC Valhalla, Kratos finds the Boat Captain’s key again in his trials in Valhalla, and also has a trial upon his boat (recreated from Kratos’ memories), and Kratos tells Mímir about the Boat Captain. In 2018’s God of War, the Boat Captain’s ship somehow ended up in the Lake of the Nine in Midgard, which Kratos found via a treasure map; it mentioned the key that Kratos took from the captain and his subsequent death in the Hydra. Resurrected by Hades, Prince Alrik learned that he had become King after the death of his father. Barbarian King Alrik – The former ruler of a horde of barbarians.

A former princess in Fjöturlund, Sigrun experienced several tragedies that led to the loss of her family and her lover Helgi, which drove her to join the Valkyries as redemption. Sigrun – Acting Queen of the Valkyries in God of War (2018), she was only able to be summoned at the Council of the Valkyries once the other eight had been defeated and their helms placed on their respective thrones. In Ragnarök’s DLC Valhalla, Sigrun is present when Freya and the Valkyries confront Kratos and Mímir for entering Valhalla, though her relationship with Mímir had strained after he rejected her romantic advances. Sigrun is later penalized by Valhalla after saving Kratos and Mímir from a punishment, weakening her connection to the land, and this makes her re-evaluate her desires and she decides to step back from her duties to rediscover herself through traveling the world alone, but promises to eventually return to Mímir. She and Mímir became lovers, but they were separated after both Mímir and Sigrun became trapped by Odin.

Odin appointed her as the Valkyrie’s resident historian. After Odin cursed the Valkyries, Sigrun hid them throughout the realms before being freed by Mímir, Kratos, and Atreus. Deimos – The younger brother of Kratos, featured in Ghost of Sparta. Mark Deklin as an adult and Bridger Zadina as a child in Ghost of Sparta. Callisto – The mother of Kratos and Deimos, featured in Ghost of Sparta. Deimos, however, was killed by Thanatos, who was killed in turn by Kratos. Before dying, Callisto advised Kratos to find Deimos. King passed away at age 89. As respected and influential as musicians can be, King was not a “rock” guitarist so to speak, but you’d be hard pressed to find a musician on this list who wasn’t in some way impacted by the smooth, soulful “King of the Blues.” A man who could do more with one note than most musicians could do with a thousand, King was the anchor around which the blues community was rooted, and his absence will be sorely felt moving forward. The Jewish God is an individual, and a speaking one.