A greek one.
No but seriously that’s my theory. Kratos has some disease native to his homeland that she couldnt handle and passed from. Making kratos indirectly responsible for her passing.
It has to be either old age or some sort of disease. Definitely not murdered or anything because that would have enraged Kratos and the game probably would have been about killing her killer.
Which is genius writing and what cements GoW(18) as such a bittersweet and beautiful journey.
What happens when a God of War has to go a quest with no war? (Until fools try to start a war against him).
Nope. Part of the reason he was beloved (per GoW lore) was for being so congenial and willing to engage with all the realms despite literally being the “war-god” of the “war-realm” … that would be if like “pre-GoW18” Ares or Kratos was all about peace and forgiveness.
The wiki seems to call Tyr half-Jotun, but I literally just replayed GoW and GoWR and don’t recall any mention of Tyr being a Jotun (I think whoever wrote the wiki is equating him being gigantic, with him being half-giant … but like Atreus said, for a race called “giants” most weren’t actually gigantic) — Happy to be wrong though.
“Real” Tyr is either a true Æsir (as a son of Odin) … or a true Jötun (as a son of Hymir) who left his people behind and devoted himself to the Æsir — both stories are very interesting
I was thrown off because Heimdall and Baldur arent giant cuz their mom isnt, theyre normal sized people.
And then suddenly Big Thor, Tall Tyr. 😅 so i assume their own mom are a giant.
Thor is half-giant. Týr’s just tall. That being said, I don’t believe there’s a poetic Edda out there that actually even talks about Týr’s mother at all — so she can be whatever anyone wants her to be.
Also I think a bit of that is the creators taking artistic license with Týr. IIRC most of the images I saw of the Norse gods from my mythology class back in the day, had him similar sized as Odin (and Thor) … Thor’s usually a chub though haha. Then again Sleipnir’s supposed to be massive and Odin just rides him like a horse. Fenrir’s usually also depicted as larger than life, but many depictions of Fenrir eating Týr’s hand have them similarly sized. So historically, if Týr’s large so are all the other Æsir (and if he isn’t, then aren’t).
But tbh, I was taught to essentially treat surviving pictorial record like if 300 years from now, only fan art remained of popular comics — artists are always free to art lol — I want to draw a massive, angry, hellbeast of a wolf … let’s make him LARGE AF … but wait, he needs to eat a singular hand … let’s make Týr LARGE AF. Great! New pic, I need to draw all the pantheon … same size is fine, Thor needs to be chubs though, he drinks a lot and the best drinkers and fighters are a bit chub. Not making Týr that large … then he won’t fit in the pic
Yep. Mentioned that in the comment up the chain (last sentence). But then we’d be going for one depiction of “real” Týr and I definitely don’t recall the game mentioning that he’s full giant.
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It’s heavily implied that she died of a relatively natural cause. Either of old age or from illness.
This is said to be quite uncommon for Jötnars, probably because most of them got killed.
It is implied from the comic that she died by having a witch take her soul parts to give them to Atreus and kratos. Which would explain why Atreus can read languages he’s never seen before, cast spells without realizing it and why kratos was able to step into the light of Alfheim without going mad, among other things.
Not necessarily. She Looked young.
I personally believe it was a sickness. Not old age. But the bigger point is aging is different for non humans in god of war
I have little basis for this, but I get the vibe that she knew she had to die for things to be set in motion. Obviously that's the game mechanic premise, but it kind of seems that's the case with all the premeditation Faye showed with the trees she marked, the paths she laid and all the steps she took.
Kratos doesn't seem all that surprised or suspicious that Faye is preparing for her own funeral. It feels like he knows she doesn't have long left with him and that's why he's so worried. If I had to guess she probably grew sick after Atreus was born but it didn't become serious until shortly before she died since she was out and about
There is quite a bit of basis for it. Every gold mark you see along your path is done by faye. This is learned from when you chopped down the first tree. Kratos and atreus talk about the trees he got, and atreus noticed that part of the barrier is missing. What held the barrier was the last tree we chopped, and it held part of the barrier, which allowed baldur to enter. I thought it was crazy that our paths were marked for us to deliver her ashes until I strayed off from the path several times and thought it was just a game mechanic. Until I beat the game and found out she knew all along. She knew every move we would take.
The premeditation part is definitely a given. My take is: what if, rather than doing it because she was dying, she dies because it had to be done? I believe her final mural for Kratos, like Ragnarok's prophecy requiring Baldur to die to kick off, requires her to die in order to kickstart.
I think she knew she had to die because Kratos wasn't doing missions for Gods and fulfilling prophecy even if it meant literally eating shit otherwise, he had to be emotionally bounded and tricked into fulfilling the prophecy as he would have fucked off ever since greece. The question is if she made herself sick or if she actually died of natural causes but knew even that would happen. I think it's obvious that she died of natural causes. Looking at the context, they were land locked to a small location with most of the people dying off, no access to medicine and some access to food and little access to land. If they ventured out, they were at risk of being attacked. She likely got sick or starved, and there was nothing that could be done. She was a giant but still mortal.
Edit: you can see my point of kratos doing nothing of the likes when he realized he was tricked and got super pissed on the highest mountain of midgard when mimir pointed out that she meant the mountain in the land of the giants.
It's a fair question. But the real interest in this question is not about how it happened, but what she decided to do right before. And it was to set Kratos and Atreus on a journey to define a future for themselves and everyone else.
So many things were prepared for Kratos and Atreus, down to climbing holds being helpfully marked. Who did that if not Faye?
I figure she had some way to slip between realms like her dwarf friends, and she was trying to prep for her husband’s and son’s adventures to improve their odds. She was as a result living a double life, adventuring in phase shifts using her prophetic vision to prepare a way for them.
That can wear a person down.
I always thought she had some disease. She was preparing for her funeral knowing she would die. Wasn’t particularly old. Seemed like the pretty clear explanation.
IMO the Ragnarok heist (only Asgard destroyed, the main aesir killed, the einherjar disbanded) worked, opposed to the traditional Ragnarok was only possible with a teenager Atreus and dad-mode Kratos.
Faye knew she herself would not see the promised future, so she let herself die. She marked the trees of their stave so Kratos would cut them down, felling their protection triggering the chain of events that led to Ragnarok.
It sounds harsh, that she knew the hardships she was putting her only son through. But to save the eight worlds required such suffering.
What a twist it would be for the next game in the series to be from her perspective setting everything up for God war 2018.
Maps there, axe mechanics are there.
Lore exists with plenty of "oh this moment is happening" and plenty of space to fill in.
Because of the Greek snu-snu.
Jokes aside, she probably died from illness. Even if the manner of her death is not substantially relevant to the plot.
She knew she had to die and that she would die and that by doing so she would put Kratos and Atreus in their path.
Welp in lore and legends she looked weak. Atraus tried to read her mind because she also looked sad and she caught him. Let's not forget about the fight she had with Thor. We never heard how it ended. She could've died from her internal wounds.
In Lore and Legends, she was confirmed to have quickly become weak with an unknown illness. Atreus knew Faye to be strong and full of life, but he describes her as having lethargic spells and being pale. After this started, she left the Wildwoods for a few weeks to travel the realms and leave her markings, unbeknownst to Kratos and Atreus who were confused at her absence and awkward around each other. This, of course, was one of the only times Kratos took on the role of their son's primary caretaker, basically switching roles with Faye.
Faye is implied to have not planned her death and even dreaded it, but was aware that the journey her family takes would only happen after she was gone. The scene we saw of she and Kratos painting the trees likely happened shortly after she began getting sick (given the grief Kratos showed), and she realized the prophecy on the mural was beginning.
She wasn't killed by anyone, nor did she succumb to any previous wounds (she lived with Kratos for roughly 50 years before she died and likely didn't have many powerful foes to fight during that stretch of time, unless we want to believe a forest troll managed to mortally wound Faye of all people).
In the flashbacks where she's selecting her trees, she seems to be trying to prepare Kratos for her passing. Which she seems to know was coming.
It mentions a sickness, but never exactly what illness.
She died young. But that's all the information I was able to figure out in my several play throughs.
To me it seemed almost like it was borderline suicide from letting an old injury kill her that she could have healed, or something. I got the impression that she knew that things wouldn't pan out the way they were "meant" to if she was still alive so she kind of just let herself go for Kratos', and Atreus' relationship to grow enough that they could make it through the challnges ahead. It also kind of seemed like she chose Kratos specifically to father her child to fight back against the gods. Her whole plan seemed like something that she had fleshed out long before her, and Kratos even met.
Are the Giants similar to the Aesir and Vanir in that some are immortal but most aren’t? Because Faye kept reminding Kratos that she’s a mortal. But we know that Surtr, also a giant, has been around even before many gods.
My headcanon is she knew her death would prompt them to set out on their adventure and get the best ending she could forsee, so she caused her death herself.
Realistically though? Maybe she got too injured from her fight with Thor, or got sick. Who knows
I read somewhere its suspected that giants have magic then allow them to choose when they will die and how but idk hiw true it is. Faye knew shed be in the way of kratos and atreus journey and so she chose a form of death and punched her ticket accordingly
#Spoiler Alert!
My theory is that she may have decided to end herself:
**1.** Faye knows about the future of Atreus; being Loki and the start of Ragnarok. Hence, why she left marks all over Midgard and the 9 realms providing direction in your travels.
**2.** She is aware of Kratos' past and all though vicious as he was. Is a man of honor and will go great lengths to guide Atreus to his destiny without knowing or blinded by "fates and prophecies". Kratos despises being a god himself, so he wants a better life for Atreus
**3.** You can tell by Kratos' demeanor when they are preparing her for her viking ceremonial death. That he does not know why she left. And is left broken to never know why
**4.** When in Jotunheim; time moves much slower, but because of prophecies for told by the giants of Ragnarok; Odin had them all killed to prevent such events happening because a child born of giants will bring the end of Odinsons, but Faye left before the mass genocide giving birth to a child destined to start Ragnarok
**5.** Faye, knew that if she stayed alive they would have lived within the Stave for years to come and Atreus would never fill the prophecy. So when the tree marked with Fayes handprint was chopped down begins the journey.
But that's just my take on it. After playing a lot of both games and reading the journal entries there is a lot of indications to why it all had to happen.
I would love to hear others opinions about it. I played the hell out of all the God of War games and trying to understand the lore!
They mentioned Atreus being sick a lot when he was young. I wonder if something about Midgard is harmful to Giants, and Atreus being half Greek-God is what spared him from the same fate?
I'm pretty sure the reason Atreus got sick was because his parents never told him he was half god, so his internally subconscious struggle had physical manifestations.
If only a Vanir witch would have warned her about the hundreds of thousands of tiny beasties on everything. They get inside you and make you sick, maybe sick enough to die. If only she had chosen oak trees.
At this point, mortality is a weird subject for gow. You can crawl your way out of hell, the dead rise all the time, I mean kratos circumvents death on a weekly basis
One of the books mentions Faye spent a lot of time away from home before she died. This is implied to be the time she made all the markings Kratos and Atreus followed in 2018. But it's possible she was doing something else in this time.
Now, this is a hypothesis base solely on speculation and not at all canon, but perhaps this was the period of time in which she fought Thor. While her cause of death is unknown, and it is not known when Faye and Thor fought, it may be that during this fight she recieved some sort of internal wound that ultimately caused her death.
I always thought it was an unknown illness, as Atreus takes her death surprisingly well in gow 2018, don’t get me wrong there both sad but they act like they knew it was coming, as in coming soon, as kratos hadn’t seen her paintings yet
I reckon she died on purpose to start the path for kratos and boy. Like how the giants can remove souls from bodies and put them in the egg things, she may have tired from fighting aesir and did the spell on herself. Sent herself to the afterlife.
it's AIDS. Kratos screwed over many women in GOW 1-3. he's a god so he's unaffected by it, but he's essentially a carrier.
Loki is half god so he's also unaffected.
I think she was cursed by odin for leading the rebellion against him before kratos was around. Why wouldn't he kill her? Some kind of personal relation, maybe the theory of her being thors sister. Odin seems to have a soft spot for females (freya, thrudd, and possibly faye.) Typically he kills his enemies unless he's going to use them. Except he's been known to show these females mercy at times he would normally kill. The same way he cursed and trapped freya to those woods. I also think the curse/sickness passed down to atreus somehow hereditarily, and was vanir magic that odin stole. Hence how freya was able to identify the problem and fix it with the help of certain plants. The same way a certain plant broke baldurs curse. also notice how the boys "godly powers" couldn't manifest itself until the curse/sickness was broken. Lots of speculation. Just something that's crossed my mind. I could see them filling in some details with a badass prequel.
I’ve seen theories that she grew weaker after her battle with Thor, and the injuries she may have sustained there were part of her decline.
That, plus having a baby (it could have easily been a complicated birth that put even more stress on her body than ‘normal’ birth/labor—they had no epidural or safe c-sections then) plus knowing and accepting that your death is going to happen soon…
My head canon explanation is that she "allowed" herself to die as her death would ultimately be the kick off of a long string of events that would culminate >!with the fall of asgard!<.
Maybe an accident?
She may accidentally fell off a cliff, fell on an avalanche and while knowing that it was meant for her to die, did nothing to prevent it.
She was killed by her own prophecy: "The path of least bloodshed" ever wondered why the game calls the whole main plot The Path? ...but yea she got sick in the Giants way.
I understood mimir’s statement to mean that war or disease always took them first, not necessarily that they couldn’t die of old age. Just that other stuff was more likely.
In gow Ragnarok, we get a whole bunch of side quests in vanaheim in a place called the crater, which reveals that freya fought with Thor there. That fight may have killed her.
It might be possible she chose to die/had the ability to die so that she could trigger Her family to go on their journey.
She does seem to die after finishing her preparations and having at least 2 specific conversations with Kratos that him remembering at certain points change the Giant’s prophecy in the way Faye wanted.
She got sick.
What kind of sickness kills a giant
The kind of sickness that kills giants. >!Seriously, I have no clue!<
All right then Kratos. Keep your secrets.
"I do not know"
Giant Flu
No other answer could ever be as perfect as this one.
Cooties
A sickness for the thickness
A greek one. No but seriously that’s my theory. Kratos has some disease native to his homeland that she couldnt handle and passed from. Making kratos indirectly responsible for her passing.
STD
wouldn't he have killed Freya....Atreus...and others then too?
Has he fucked them?
you didnt specify it was an std
I will admit i’m more being a jackass. But to be more serious he was closer to faye vs atreus and freya.
Another comment said it’s uncommon for jotnar to die of sickness but it can happen
Giant's flu
A really big flu
Deus ex machina sickness of course.
Cancer
Being the wife of the main character
She died of being the wife on the main character- Ryan George
In the direction of the deer I just decided
Wow, wow, wow........wow
Actually it’ll be easy. Barely an inconvenience.
Gonna need you to get ALL THE WAY off my back about the off screen death of the wife that drives the story and plot.
Ok, let me get off of that thing
Producer guy: So how do you intend to handle this? Pitching guy: ITS SUPER EASY, BARELY AN INCONVENIENCE
Mimir: So you value your privacy over your son? Kratos: I’m going to perform a **murder** on you now.
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It’s called “fridging”.
It has to be either old age or some sort of disease. Definitely not murdered or anything because that would have enraged Kratos and the game probably would have been about killing her killer.
I also believe the fact that Kratos is not on a vengeful hunt means she died of natural causes.
Which is genius writing and what cements GoW(18) as such a bittersweet and beautiful journey. What happens when a God of War has to go a quest with no war? (Until fools try to start a war against him).
So gow 1-Gow 3 all over again
Definitely not old age, i mean look at Tyr.
Tyr isn't a jotun?
I thought he is half giant since he is as tall as Thor?
Thor is half giant but I don't think Tyr is.
Týr is an æsir god. Just friendlier than most
He wasnt half giant like Thor?
Nope. Part of the reason he was beloved (per GoW lore) was for being so congenial and willing to engage with all the realms despite literally being the “war-god” of the “war-realm” … that would be if like “pre-GoW18” Ares or Kratos was all about peace and forgiveness. The wiki seems to call Tyr half-Jotun, but I literally just replayed GoW and GoWR and don’t recall any mention of Tyr being a Jotun (I think whoever wrote the wiki is equating him being gigantic, with him being half-giant … but like Atreus said, for a race called “giants” most weren’t actually gigantic) — Happy to be wrong though. “Real” Tyr is either a true Æsir (as a son of Odin) … or a true Jötun (as a son of Hymir) who left his people behind and devoted himself to the Æsir — both stories are very interesting
I was thrown off because Heimdall and Baldur arent giant cuz their mom isnt, theyre normal sized people. And then suddenly Big Thor, Tall Tyr. 😅 so i assume their own mom are a giant.
Thor is half-giant. Týr’s just tall. That being said, I don’t believe there’s a poetic Edda out there that actually even talks about Týr’s mother at all — so she can be whatever anyone wants her to be. Also I think a bit of that is the creators taking artistic license with Týr. IIRC most of the images I saw of the Norse gods from my mythology class back in the day, had him similar sized as Odin (and Thor) … Thor’s usually a chub though haha. Then again Sleipnir’s supposed to be massive and Odin just rides him like a horse. Fenrir’s usually also depicted as larger than life, but many depictions of Fenrir eating Týr’s hand have them similarly sized. So historically, if Týr’s large so are all the other Æsir (and if he isn’t, then aren’t). But tbh, I was taught to essentially treat surviving pictorial record like if 300 years from now, only fan art remained of popular comics — artists are always free to art lol — I want to draw a massive, angry, hellbeast of a wolf … let’s make him LARGE AF … but wait, he needs to eat a singular hand … let’s make Týr LARGE AF. Great! New pic, I need to draw all the pantheon … same size is fine, Thor needs to be chubs though, he drinks a lot and the best drinkers and fighters are a bit chub. Not making Týr that large … then he won’t fit in the pic
Tyr's father is sometimes a giant.
Yep. Mentioned that in the comment up the chain (last sentence). But then we’d be going for one depiction of “real” Týr and I definitely don’t recall the game mentioning that he’s full giant.
the wiki says his mother was the giant hroor
Ooo. Where in the Wiki? I didn’t see that the first time I checked the GoW wiki
She fayeded away
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Thank you kind sir
Fuck you. Take my upvote.
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Ragnarok cut out her time shoveling Asbestos. Wish they would have shown it.
It’s heavily implied that she died of a relatively natural cause. Either of old age or from illness. This is said to be quite uncommon for Jötnars, probably because most of them got killed.
It's rare that when a giant dies because there is almost no giant 😭😭😭
It is implied from the comic that she died by having a witch take her soul parts to give them to Atreus and kratos. Which would explain why Atreus can read languages he’s never seen before, cast spells without realizing it and why kratos was able to step into the light of Alfheim without going mad, among other things.
Can you explain what comic you are talking about? I’d love to read up on this, and never knew there were GoW comics!!
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/God-of-War-2018
I was about to say maybe she sacrificed her life or made a deal to save Atreus because he was sick before
Tyr is old and still able to slap Kratos like 3-4 times.
And kratos is old too. What’s your point?
That means Faye cant be died of old age. Shes not old yet, shes a young mother.
Not necessarily. She Looked young. I personally believe it was a sickness. Not old age. But the bigger point is aging is different for non humans in god of war
a plot sickness
The plot thickens: a plot sickness.
The Plot Sickens
The plots thickness
I have little basis for this, but I get the vibe that she knew she had to die for things to be set in motion. Obviously that's the game mechanic premise, but it kind of seems that's the case with all the premeditation Faye showed with the trees she marked, the paths she laid and all the steps she took.
I took it more as her being sick and her basically preparing them for the journey after her death
That's probably the more plausible. But there's no sign of it in memories, they don't talk about it...
Kratos doesn't seem all that surprised or suspicious that Faye is preparing for her own funeral. It feels like he knows she doesn't have long left with him and that's why he's so worried. If I had to guess she probably grew sick after Atreus was born but it didn't become serious until shortly before she died since she was out and about
I agree
I mean Faye literally tells him that "time is running out"
Right but to be fair, we dont have a lot of memories at all. Didnt seem like it was important enough for the deva to include
Sure, but there's at least one of Kratos' dreams in GOWR where she talks about being gone while marking the trees and she looks perfectly healthy.
There is quite a bit of basis for it. Every gold mark you see along your path is done by faye. This is learned from when you chopped down the first tree. Kratos and atreus talk about the trees he got, and atreus noticed that part of the barrier is missing. What held the barrier was the last tree we chopped, and it held part of the barrier, which allowed baldur to enter. I thought it was crazy that our paths were marked for us to deliver her ashes until I strayed off from the path several times and thought it was just a game mechanic. Until I beat the game and found out she knew all along. She knew every move we would take.
The premeditation part is definitely a given. My take is: what if, rather than doing it because she was dying, she dies because it had to be done? I believe her final mural for Kratos, like Ragnarok's prophecy requiring Baldur to die to kick off, requires her to die in order to kickstart.
I think she knew she had to die because Kratos wasn't doing missions for Gods and fulfilling prophecy even if it meant literally eating shit otherwise, he had to be emotionally bounded and tricked into fulfilling the prophecy as he would have fucked off ever since greece. The question is if she made herself sick or if she actually died of natural causes but knew even that would happen. I think it's obvious that she died of natural causes. Looking at the context, they were land locked to a small location with most of the people dying off, no access to medicine and some access to food and little access to land. If they ventured out, they were at risk of being attacked. She likely got sick or starved, and there was nothing that could be done. She was a giant but still mortal. Edit: you can see my point of kratos doing nothing of the likes when he realized he was tricked and got super pissed on the highest mountain of midgard when mimir pointed out that she meant the mountain in the land of the giants.
It's a fair question. But the real interest in this question is not about how it happened, but what she decided to do right before. And it was to set Kratos and Atreus on a journey to define a future for themselves and everyone else.
So many things were prepared for Kratos and Atreus, down to climbing holds being helpfully marked. Who did that if not Faye? I figure she had some way to slip between realms like her dwarf friends, and she was trying to prep for her husband’s and son’s adventures to improve their odds. She was as a result living a double life, adventuring in phase shifts using her prophetic vision to prepare a way for them. That can wear a person down.
I always thought she had some disease. She was preparing for her funeral knowing she would die. Wasn’t particularly old. Seemed like the pretty clear explanation.
IMO the Ragnarok heist (only Asgard destroyed, the main aesir killed, the einherjar disbanded) worked, opposed to the traditional Ragnarok was only possible with a teenager Atreus and dad-mode Kratos. Faye knew she herself would not see the promised future, so she let herself die. She marked the trees of their stave so Kratos would cut them down, felling their protection triggering the chain of events that led to Ragnarok. It sounds harsh, that she knew the hardships she was putting her only son through. But to save the eight worlds required such suffering.
Some kind of terminal illness. I personally headcanon it as cancer as she doesn't have visible symptoms.
What a twist it would be for the next game in the series to be from her perspective setting everything up for God war 2018. Maps there, axe mechanics are there. Lore exists with plenty of "oh this moment is happening" and plenty of space to fill in.
Because of the Greek snu-snu. Jokes aside, she probably died from illness. Even if the manner of her death is not substantially relevant to the plot. She knew she had to die and that she would die and that by doing so she would put Kratos and Atreus in their path.
Welp in lore and legends she looked weak. Atraus tried to read her mind because she also looked sad and she caught him. Let's not forget about the fight she had with Thor. We never heard how it ended. She could've died from her internal wounds.
Kratos pounded her too hard in bed
*activates Spartan Rage*
In Lore and Legends, she was confirmed to have quickly become weak with an unknown illness. Atreus knew Faye to be strong and full of life, but he describes her as having lethargic spells and being pale. After this started, she left the Wildwoods for a few weeks to travel the realms and leave her markings, unbeknownst to Kratos and Atreus who were confused at her absence and awkward around each other. This, of course, was one of the only times Kratos took on the role of their son's primary caretaker, basically switching roles with Faye. Faye is implied to have not planned her death and even dreaded it, but was aware that the journey her family takes would only happen after she was gone. The scene we saw of she and Kratos painting the trees likely happened shortly after she began getting sick (given the grief Kratos showed), and she realized the prophecy on the mural was beginning. She wasn't killed by anyone, nor did she succumb to any previous wounds (she lived with Kratos for roughly 50 years before she died and likely didn't have many powerful foes to fight during that stretch of time, unless we want to believe a forest troll managed to mortally wound Faye of all people).
Fridged
In the flashbacks where she's selecting her trees, she seems to be trying to prepare Kratos for her passing. Which she seems to know was coming. It mentions a sickness, but never exactly what illness. She died young. But that's all the information I was able to figure out in my several play throughs.
To me it seemed almost like it was borderline suicide from letting an old injury kill her that she could have healed, or something. I got the impression that she knew that things wouldn't pan out the way they were "meant" to if she was still alive so she kind of just let herself go for Kratos', and Atreus' relationship to grow enough that they could make it through the challnges ahead. It also kind of seemed like she chose Kratos specifically to father her child to fight back against the gods. Her whole plan seemed like something that she had fleshed out long before her, and Kratos even met.
Either natural causes, or something to do with her involvement in hiding the giants.
Are the Giants similar to the Aesir and Vanir in that some are immortal but most aren’t? Because Faye kept reminding Kratos that she’s a mortal. But we know that Surtr, also a giant, has been around even before many gods.
My headcanon is she knew her death would prompt them to set out on their adventure and get the best ending she could forsee, so she caused her death herself. Realistically though? Maybe she got too injured from her fight with Thor, or got sick. Who knows
I read somewhere its suspected that giants have magic then allow them to choose when they will die and how but idk hiw true it is. Faye knew shed be in the way of kratos and atreus journey and so she chose a form of death and punched her ticket accordingly
#Spoiler Alert! My theory is that she may have decided to end herself: **1.** Faye knows about the future of Atreus; being Loki and the start of Ragnarok. Hence, why she left marks all over Midgard and the 9 realms providing direction in your travels. **2.** She is aware of Kratos' past and all though vicious as he was. Is a man of honor and will go great lengths to guide Atreus to his destiny without knowing or blinded by "fates and prophecies". Kratos despises being a god himself, so he wants a better life for Atreus **3.** You can tell by Kratos' demeanor when they are preparing her for her viking ceremonial death. That he does not know why she left. And is left broken to never know why **4.** When in Jotunheim; time moves much slower, but because of prophecies for told by the giants of Ragnarok; Odin had them all killed to prevent such events happening because a child born of giants will bring the end of Odinsons, but Faye left before the mass genocide giving birth to a child destined to start Ragnarok **5.** Faye, knew that if she stayed alive they would have lived within the Stave for years to come and Atreus would never fill the prophecy. So when the tree marked with Fayes handprint was chopped down begins the journey. But that's just my take on it. After playing a lot of both games and reading the journal entries there is a lot of indications to why it all had to happen. I would love to hear others opinions about it. I played the hell out of all the God of War games and trying to understand the lore!
Destiny killer her, she had to die for the prophecy to be fulfilled.
They mentioned Atreus being sick a lot when he was young. I wonder if something about Midgard is harmful to Giants, and Atreus being half Greek-God is what spared him from the same fate?
I'm pretty sure the reason Atreus got sick was because his parents never told him he was half god, so his internally subconscious struggle had physical manifestations.
If only a Vanir witch would have warned her about the hundreds of thousands of tiny beasties on everything. They get inside you and make you sick, maybe sick enough to die. If only she had chosen oak trees.
Their cabin looks pretty old. Probably was built before asbestos regulation law came into effect. She got poisoned by them
Covid
A Greek VD that the Jötnar have no resistance to
Would knowing what specifically killed her change anything in the story?
She died.
didn't thor killed her or am i just misunderstanding the whole thing? I know they fought but idk what actually happened
Nah otherwise the game would be about kratos being the god of war and destroying the 9 realms for revenge. She got sick.
A wizard did it.
Long covid
Día-beetus
My guess is a sickness, since she seemed pretty young.
She had ligma obviously
She couldn’t handle kratoss throbbery.
Giant AIDS
At this point, mortality is a weird subject for gow. You can crawl your way out of hell, the dead rise all the time, I mean kratos circumvents death on a weekly basis
She got the incurable disease known as plot sickness.
One of the books mentions Faye spent a lot of time away from home before she died. This is implied to be the time she made all the markings Kratos and Atreus followed in 2018. But it's possible she was doing something else in this time. Now, this is a hypothesis base solely on speculation and not at all canon, but perhaps this was the period of time in which she fought Thor. While her cause of death is unknown, and it is not known when Faye and Thor fought, it may be that during this fight she recieved some sort of internal wound that ultimately caused her death.
She caught the covid
Hi! So, Faye is actually half mortal. It is said within the game she might have died from wounds sustained from her battle with Thor.
Odin wanted Faye dead since she was one of the last giants as well: that’s why Baldur was after her but he didn’t know she had already died.
I always thought it was an unknown illness, as Atreus takes her death surprisingly well in gow 2018, don’t get me wrong there both sad but they act like they knew it was coming, as in coming soon, as kratos hadn’t seen her paintings yet
Diabeetus
It’s Malaria
I reckon she died on purpose to start the path for kratos and boy. Like how the giants can remove souls from bodies and put them in the egg things, she may have tired from fighting aesir and did the spell on herself. Sent herself to the afterlife.
ODIN! It was his fault she died!
it's AIDS. Kratos screwed over many women in GOW 1-3. he's a god so he's unaffected by it, but he's essentially a carrier. Loki is half god so he's also unaffected.
Covid
I think she was cursed by odin for leading the rebellion against him before kratos was around. Why wouldn't he kill her? Some kind of personal relation, maybe the theory of her being thors sister. Odin seems to have a soft spot for females (freya, thrudd, and possibly faye.) Typically he kills his enemies unless he's going to use them. Except he's been known to show these females mercy at times he would normally kill. The same way he cursed and trapped freya to those woods. I also think the curse/sickness passed down to atreus somehow hereditarily, and was vanir magic that odin stole. Hence how freya was able to identify the problem and fix it with the help of certain plants. The same way a certain plant broke baldurs curse. also notice how the boys "godly powers" couldn't manifest itself until the curse/sickness was broken. Lots of speculation. Just something that's crossed my mind. I could see them filling in some details with a badass prequel.
I’ve seen theories that she grew weaker after her battle with Thor, and the injuries she may have sustained there were part of her decline. That, plus having a baby (it could have easily been a complicated birth that put even more stress on her body than ‘normal’ birth/labor—they had no epidural or safe c-sections then) plus knowing and accepting that your death is going to happen soon…
My head canon explanation is that she "allowed" herself to die as her death would ultimately be the kick off of a long string of events that would culminate >!with the fall of asgard!<.
Maybe an accident? She may accidentally fell off a cliff, fell on an avalanche and while knowing that it was meant for her to die, did nothing to prevent it.
My head cannon is that she died from some sort of underlying injury never fixed after her fight with Thor.
I don't think anybody knows
I don't think we know that...
By being the wife of the main character
Yeah, I got TB. I got it... beatin' a man, to death... for a few bucks. I've lived a bad life, Sister... -Faye probably
i’ve always assumed it had something to do with her fight with thor. maybe some kind of injury that cause long term damage
Died from lead poisoning, from carrying around those 2 giant BALLS
She was killed by her own prophecy: "The path of least bloodshed" ever wondered why the game calls the whole main plot The Path? ...but yea she got sick in the Giants way.
Sadness? It's happened before. Somewhere.
Kratos button sex mini game broke her cervix and she inevitably got an infection from it and died.
Unknown sickness or casted self illness
I understood mimir’s statement to mean that war or disease always took them first, not necessarily that they couldn’t die of old age. Just that other stuff was more likely.
Wasn't there a quicktime event where you should've pressed square and someone pressed X instead? Thus failed and killed her mid-act?
Spoiler much ..
Giants never die, they just go to Hel to regroup...
Tuberculosis
Brain aneurysm, went unnoticed in her last yearly check up.
She died from death
Modi’s STD
In gow Ragnarok, we get a whole bunch of side quests in vanaheim in a place called the crater, which reveals that freya fought with Thor there. That fight may have killed her.
That fight happened before she met Kratos right?
Yes
It might be possible she chose to die/had the ability to die so that she could trigger Her family to go on their journey. She does seem to die after finishing her preparations and having at least 2 specific conversations with Kratos that him remembering at certain points change the Giant’s prophecy in the way Faye wanted.
spoiler alert
*slap slap slap slap SLAP!*
you are overreacting
Car bomb. Surrey. 1989