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The director already explained that each mythology is like going to another galaxy. I guess in our world it would be like going state to state

I always believed that the pantheons are indeed powerful but the influence only affects those lands who worship them.

So basically, they are technically on the same planet, but each section of the planet is home to its own dimension each housing the different mythologies with their own rules for how the world works

this video aged so well. whose ready for the afterlife of gods!

Imagine if the head gods had all met before to designate their territories and now that Zeus and Odin are dead, the other pantheons have an emergency meeting of what to do with Kratos

Kratos meeting Jesus and getting forgiven for his sins would go crazy

Devs basically explained that each land that worships a separate pantheon is basically an alternate dimension. That's like me having to hop dimensions to travel from Texas to New York.

Who’s here after watching the GOW Laufey reveal? This guy had been locked in since 2 years ago… crazyyyyy!

I spoke to Cory Barlog back at the New York Game Awards 2019 about why the other Gods don't visit or go to other realms like Kratos. This was before Ragnarok's release. He told me that the Gods are all aware of one another but have an unspoken agreement to never invade or trespass on the other's realms. Doing so marks that God who invades another realm for immediate death. But rules can be broken.

Just imagine if Kratos enters the eastern continents and having to meet people such as Sun Wukong, or Tsukiyomi

I thought this was explained at the beginning of God od War: Ascension. The primordials, beings that predate the universe, fought endlessly until their fighting spawned creation. All creation stories in this universe reference that event, hence why both Gaia and Surtr remember the creation of Earth. This is even somewhat confirmed in GoW:R when Surtr says the Blades of Chaos have power and it is irrelevant what lands they're from, because they contain Primordial fire.

6:29 "before there was something, before there was anything, there was nothing, and before there was nothing, there was monsters, here's your gold star tomato "

Well when Helios died the sun didn’t actually disappear, it was just covered up storm clouds

The developers talked about it, and Kratos even got asked about it by Mimir and Freya in Ragnarok, they asked if he could summon any of his old powers, he said he tried, and Freya said perhaps your powers disappeared along with the destruction of the land, so even with that detail in the game we can conclude that mythologies our region specific

Maybe beyond the Rift is the Lovecraftian plane of existence. If the creators said that space has not been explored yet, that means we'll be headed into Elder God territory like Azathoth. Imagine Kratos or Atreus battling Cthulhu with other pantheons helping out.

I always picture the world as a big warehouse were the gods each got space for there hobbies, odin got a tree, Zeus got building blocks, Ra got a sand box, etc

Classic Marvel Comics had over 20 pantheons in the same universe- with a pretty good explanation for this too

I’m fairly certain Cory Barlog explained it in a sense that the mythologies exist within their own geographical areas but within then they have their version of the world and cosmology.

Essentially like pocket dimension or universes inside of a multi verse. It’s also become apparent that some pantheon are aware of the other pantheons; more than likely acknowledging the info given to us by Cory himself.

Cory Barlog himself on the matter;

“The ‘actual’ god of war earths geography is the same as our real earths. The only difference between the two is that within each geographical region, there exists a version of the universe with its dimensions and earth as inspired by the prevalent mythology and local belief system of people living in that particular region”

Headcanon of mine is that the primordeal realms across all mythologies are connected. That when you go far enough in Muspelheim, you'll eventually end up in Tartaros.