In the beginning of God of war II, kratos gets betrayed by Zeus and loses all of his godly power (and one would assume his status as a god along with it). Even though kratos eventually ends up killing Zeus and almost all other gods, god of war 2018 is mainly built around the fact that kratos is a god and atreus is a god.
Daedalus's notes say about twelve years passed from when Zeus commissioned him to build the Labyrinth to when Daedalus is imprisoned within it. Since Zeus only discovers Pandora after Kratos kills Ares, and the feeble mortal Daedalus is still alive when Kratos arrives, Kratos was the God of War for twelve years, making him about 50.
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From what can be gleaned from the God of War Ragnarök trailer, the sequel is wasting no time in picking up where the first left off, and will be finishing the Norse story of Kratos' narrative. Atreus may be older, but the nature of his identity is still a mystery and the battle against the Asgardians is still brewing.
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