God of War Ragnarok - The Hidden Story of the Berserker King EXPLAINED! All Hidden Lore

[@youngmasterzhi]

In case you are wondering how Hrólf’s kingdom fell after overthrowing and killing Aðils (by literally slicing his ass apart, no joke), according to the Hrólf Saga Kraki, Skuld (half-elf Norn sister of Hrólf) convinced her husband king Hjörvarðr to lead an army against Hrólf. Over the three years, Skuld assembled an army of warriors, elves, criminals and even her own norn sisters. Using her seiðr magic, she hid her rebel army under a magical cloaking spell, allowing them to arrive at Lejire during the Yuletide celebrations undetected, with their weapons hidden within their wagons Upon ambushing the berserkers and King Hrólf, a battle ensued, in which Bödvar in his giant bear spirit form would fend off Skuld’s mixed army, but was interrupted by Hjalti who thought Bödvar was avoiding the battle in the hall. Thanks to Skuld’s resurrection magic, her revived army was able to defeat and kill King Hrólf and his berserkers (except Vöttr, who sworn vengeance for his king later on)

[@Somegoy]

Kratos is legitimately the leading authority on vengeance. Corner office, brass nameplate, the whole shabang. Definitely one to listen too. Just ask Baldur....oh wait.

[@ashtonchane6126]

How about Freya? She’s still alive, and actually heeded his guidance and wisdom.

[@KoPLeaderKiactu]

Shiieet. Ask fucking Ares.

[@FreshCoastDon.007]

Mimir: You've come a long way from when first met ya, brother. Kratos: I have had good counsel since then. Brother. What a bro moment. I would have hoped the camera could pan out and you could see Freya smiling at the two at how far they have come.

[@PR1ME98]

“I am an authority on the subject, you would do well to listen” Best clapback in the game in my opinion.

[@ArmoredG]

"He's not a king, just called himself one after he killed the previous king" -Smartest Head Alive You can kill the king but not be the king

[@youngmasterzhi]

Unfun fact: Hrólf Kraki killed King Aldis by literally shoving a sword up his ass. During Hrólf and his berserkers’ escape through the Fýrisvellir swamp from King Aldis’ Swedish troops, Beigadr offered Hrólf a horn full of stolen gold, which he used to spread a trail to distract and slow down the pursuers and King Aldis As King Aldis bent over to retrieve the dropped gold, Hrólf took this opportunity to attack and kill the king through his buttocks.

[@lashonnakennybrew4847]

The Berserkers are the strongest and hardest things to fight bigger and taller these damn things are hard to kill put down I see why the Berserker King wanted to have them

[@landismithCOJ]

The known story of the Berzerker King: The boss fight made me Berserk.

[@kross4998]

I remember on my first playthrough when I first got the spear I started the battle with Hardrefill the Callous. I was playing on the normal difficulty but this fight still took me like a hour and a half to get though! Glad to see now that it was supposed to be end game stuff 😅

[@landonletterman831]

Take solace, or despair: Someone out there has figured out how to walk up and flat stump this enemy in the span of a heartbeat, or I've never seen or performed a "speed run"

[@andrewogunmokun9309]

Glad you’re back

[@ltmatthewakj2466]

I thought GOW Ragnarok storytelling has ended. Glad you still continue it

[@iLLWiLbar91]

Kratos and Mimir’s brotherhood is my favorite part of the series

[@MightyCaullie]

12:44 I laughed my ass off hearing this quote from Mimir I just find him describing Beigaðr The Feared as a "heinous bastard" hilarious for some reason along with Kratos writing about how he went on a whole swear filled rant about him afterwards

[@milacruz3970]

I mean, I got teary when Kratos called Mimir "brother" what awonderful game.

[@GOWFSWR]

I always wondered how they just magically appeared like in Midgard for an example we all been in the lake of nine so when and how did one showed up in front of the alfheim tower and the kings gravestone is where veithurgard entrance once stood.

[@milacruz3970]

My best guess is that they seem to have a connection with Helheim, so since fimbulwinter started, maybe they come from there?

[@martinc8965]

@@milacruz3970 Maybe, 3 years passed with Hel being overpopulated, that opened the possibility of a threat greater than a Hel walker, or maybe the hilt itself brought them back, but it's not really them, it's just a projection of them based on their cruelty. As they were in life, their cruelty personified as Mimir says, Skofnung carried with him the ghosts or souls of those Berserkers after all, and Mimir says that as soon as he obtained the hilt. About the tombs it could be explained that they were always there, only that they were in very ancient places and at that point in the history of Nordic mythology, inaccessible, but in the case of the Midgard tomb, before it was a frozen lake everything was under water, including very ancient places, forgotten cities that even Mimir himself said he did not know, as he said in gow 4, and others that were more familiar like the place where the body of Sigrun's brother was, and according to her that was YEARS ago. , that tomb could have suffered the same fate as those places, having been created in a place that suffered from the collapse caused by the world serpent. Other berserker tombs were also in very ancient places like in the deserts of Alfheim, or in Niflheim, so the Berserkers died a long time ago, maybe long before Faye even created the axe, and that was years ago, and For some reason the Norns made the characters run into Skofnung on purpose. Perhaps in the hope that Kratos would be distracted by the hilt, and due to his curiosity would die from a berserker, since Freya said that they did not want Kratos to find them, and during that entire mission the Norns sent monsters in order to kill him, it may be that they had the same intention with the berserkers.

[@Dtown1996]

Ragnarok should’ve been broken into a 3 part series

[@bjc3321]

It actually does cuz maybe in thw next game we will still see the norse pantheon, maybe the story changes but we would still be in norse mythology, but thats just my guess

[@triadwarfare]

And have it as paid DLC? No.

[@Killgore-ip2yq]

I felt it could have been redundant. But I totally understand you're opinion.

[@jamsywamsy]

Not gonna lie. I feel cheated. I thought I was going to ACTUALLY find out what Hrolf and his berserkers did to make Mimir hate them so much, but instead it's just telling us what we already knew.

[@JNJNRobin1337]

yeah its mostly really a scenecomp with misleading title and additionals like. text reading, but generally not all that major extra

[@rhondaaaliyah7481]

Yeah same. Maybe they're saving it for the next game??

[@superhaven3647]

Funny how Kratos wiped out Hrolf and his berserkers so that Denmark can make way for Skjoldr the idiot.

[@Jainka1]

Lejre is a county on Zealand, or Sjælland if you will. Pretty nice place. The town of Lejre itself is the second largest town in the county. King Rolf, is known as Rolf Krake in Danish. There's a place called "Sagnlandet Lejre" which is basically an outdoor museum of how people lived back then, from the Stone age to just a few centuries ago. So I highly recommend you visit. :)

[@2chaskell]

man hearing kratos call mimir brother back feels so good

[@frankwil21]

What a character arc

[@Truejota]

Just looked up gameplay I was hoping it was weapon but it’s ability is pretty cool

[@xMiketheManx]

Me too. I didn't want it spoiled so I found out by actually beating him. I was hoping for an actual weapon, but the sword does do a lot of damage. Definitely helped in the fight against GNA.

[@jlev1028]

I guess you suddenly remembered you missed something after 6 months.

[@Pygmyer]

All this is is clips of the gameplay without anything added to it :D

[@Kiingers]

Alldeez??

[@sean117xx]

Made me shit my pant fighting this on give me gow

[@travisvanalst4698]

The Berserkers made no sense. They were harder than Thor and Odin. In 2018, the Valkyries make sense to be harder than Baldur because they are Odins handpicked warriors to ship battle hardened individuals to Valhalla. They are the ultimate soldiers of Odin. Just another reason Ragnarok was a terribly written and directed game.

[@manningfilan]

So is Hrolf Kraki a real king?

[@vihuynhquang5204]

Usurper King is the right term

[@Normal_Arkplayer_]

Mmmmmm baldr please backstory lol

[@talon-xq6qh]

Baldur was blessed with invulnerability to all threats physical or magical

[@joanamariedavid5166]

Harklangr is like Samson from the Bible then, his strenght comes from his hair?

[@daddybagadonutsjr.1154]

3 things I’d have liked to see with these berserkers. 1. It would have been nice if while on sled or boat, Kratos or Freya would ask Mimir about each berserker and he’d tell us about them. 2. If there were different ways Kratos would kill the berserkers. Like it depending on which weapon we’d have equipped. I’m thinking if we had the blades a swift decapitation (kind of like how he killed the barbarian king in the first game) and with the spear, perhaps a brutal thrust into the chest and then a quick spear through the face. (Yes I put a lot of thought into this comment) 3. Probably my favorite. I would have loved to see Mimir be recognized by each berserker and be taunted/mocked by each. Nice little addition to the fight and it shows us truly how much Mimir hated these warriors.