{"id":920402,"date":"2026-07-17T01:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/god-of-war-laufeys-star-just-sent-fans-on-a-scavenger-hunt\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:14:28","slug":"god-of-war-laufeys-star-just-sent-fans-on-a-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/god-of-war-laufeys-star-just-sent-fans-on-a-scavenger-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"God Of War Laufey\u2019s Star Just Sent Fans On A Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deborah Ann Woll is starring in <\/span>God of War Laufey<\/span><\/i>, the parallel story following the journey of Kratos\u2019 <\/span>late wife<\/span><\/a> Faye through the \u201cEverywhen,\u201d the afterlife for the gods. Though the game doesn\u2019t have an official release date yet, Woll has been chatting a bit about it in interviews, including one with <\/span>CGMagazine<\/span><\/i><\/a> that has fans scouring old interviews with the <\/span>God of War<\/span><\/i> team searching for confirmation that <\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i> has been part of Santa Monica Studio\u2019s plan for years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Woll and the Santa Monica team have spoken about how they\u2019d been in talks about <\/span>Laufey <\/span><\/i>for several years now<\/span><\/a>, with Woll saying she had to keep the whole game a secret for \u201cnearly 10 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Director Cory Barlog] pitched [<\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i>] to me in 2018, and they had known about it before then,\u201d Woll tells <\/span>CGMagazine<\/span><\/i>. \u201cIt\u2019s wild. Like when Cory brought me in to talk about doing <\/span>Ragnar\u00f6k<\/span><\/i> and show me the 2018 game, he already had a poster for the Laufey game with me and <\/span>a cube<\/span><\/a>. A cube that\u2019s been there since the beginning. It\u2019s deeply a part of the lore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pretty remarkable story on its own, as it often feels like the biggest companies are making up the most successful franchises as they go along. It\u2019s rare that a AAA studio gets to outline a story and see it to completion across multiple games. <\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i> has been getting some incredibly <\/span>bad-faith criticism<\/span><\/a> from some who argue that it\u2019s \u201creplacing\u201d Kratos (despite Santa Monica Studios <\/span>saying otherwise<\/span><\/a>) because of the woke agenda or some such nonsense, so while some might be skeptical of the assertion that <\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i> was always part of the plan, others have gone back to look at old interviews with Barlog that seem to imply this was, in fact, always the roadmap the studio was following.<\/span><\/p>\n

One particularly revealing interview is an <\/span>IGN<\/span><\/i> spoilercast that Barlog appeared on in 2018 breaking down the journey of Kratos and his son Atreus to spread Faye\u2019s ashes in J\u00f6tunheim. In it, he talks about how the game deliberately left threads for future games to tie up after reflecting on reveals from previous games that he felt were \u201ctoo abrupt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I kind of messed up on [<\/span>God of War II<\/span><\/i>] a lot with the reveal of Gaia being the narrator, right? Did it set it up clear enough? Did it have enough indicators prior to her sort of reaching out to Kratos [\u2026] It was a little too abrupt, and it has always bugged me. For years this bugged me because it was something easily fixed. So I thought, \u201cAll right, if I\u2019m gonna do anything now I\u2019m gonna make sure that there is always a valid sort of indicator for anything so that you could go back and you could look at it so much so that if we do a second game or a third game you\u2019re gonna go back to the first one and [say], \u2018Oh, my god, that was there.\u2019\u201d I have so many things in there that are just setups for much later and much, much later and really far later, so I\u2019m a lunatic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Cory Barlog on the importance of planning stories in advanced. He had already worked out the stories for future games well beyond Ragnarok when he was working on GoW 2018, including GoW Laufey and beyond! pic.twitter.com\/dmIHDwIsLr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 cory barlog fan account (@squarednation_) June 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The idea that <\/span>Laufey <\/span><\/i>has been part of the plan for years fits neatly with other speculation that fans have been doing since <\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i>\u2019s announcement earlier this month, such as that the game may answer some long-standing questions dating back to the 2018 <\/span>God of War<\/span><\/i>, perhaps revealing who <\/span>blew a horn to call the World Serpent<\/span><\/a> while Kratos was busy trying to save Atreus. Folks have also been wondering if some of the scenes we saw in <\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i>\u2019s <\/span>20-minute debut trailer<\/span><\/a> have <\/span>ties to moments from Kratos\u2019 games<\/span><\/a>, and if this really has been the plan from the beginning, that speculation is more than just the <\/span>God of War<\/span><\/i> fandom <\/span>\u201ccornplating\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u2019 they could be excavating the entire narrative foundation of <\/span>Laufey<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Kenneth Shepard
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Deborah Ann Woll is starring in God of War Laufey , the parallel story following the journey of Kratos\u2019 late wife Faye through the \u201cEverywhen,\u201d the afterlife for the gods. Though the game doesn\u2019t have an official release date yet, Woll has been chatting a bit about it in interviews, including one with CGMagazine that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151062,151063],"tags":[151060,151061],"class_list":["post-920402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-laufeys","category-scavenger","tag-laufeys","tag-scavenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}