God of War: Tales of Another World

Tales of Greece: Spartan Life & The Hot Gates of Thermopylae

As fimbulwinter kept raging on, managing Faye's garden was becoming more difficult, Kratos would need to find a way to make the garden and any home grown crops able to grow in winter. This was rather difficult seeing as fimbulwinter would last 3 entire winters, the garden may be lost in a few weeks, Atreus looked visibly despaired as one of the last things left by his mother might soon die off. He looked towards his father hoping he would have some answers.

Atreus: Father, isn't there anything that can save moms garden?

Kratos: There is nothing we can do.

Atreus: But-

Kratos: There. Is. Nothing. We. Can. Do.

Atreus: So you're just giving up?

Kratos: No. I simply lack the knowledge to help.

Mimir: I have an idea, Fimbulwinter only seems to affect midgard, why not see if Brok and Sindri can make us something to keep the garden warm?

Kratos: I have heard from farm hands in my youth say that volcanic soil is very fertile.

Atreus: Then we can get some from Muspelheim, to help save her garden.

Kratos: But what if it cools, and all our efforts would have been in vain.

Mimir: I though spartans never accepted defeat.

Kratos: Fine, we will talk to the dwarves. To see if they can provide a solution.

Atreus: Good.

Determined to preserve Faye's garden they went to Brok and Sindri's shop to ask for solutions. Once out of the portal Atreus rushed over to them eagerly.

Sindri: Oh, hello there, what can we help  you with?

Atreus: We need help preserving mother's garden from the winter, we heard volcanic soil might help but we want to make sure.

Sindri: Hmmm, volcanic soil can be helpful but if it's just about keeping the plants from succumbing to the cold maybe lighting a few torches with unyielding cinders and smoldering embers might help.

Kratos: We have plenty left over.

Sindri: Good, but you'll probably need specialized torches and a way to light them.

Atreus: Special how?

Brok: We's gonna need a few hearts of ancients and greater crests of flame, to help and preserve the heat from the embers and cynders.

Kratos:  We have plenty of spare as well.

Sindri: Great, we'll get to work. it wont take us long.

After a few moments the torches were done, Kratos took them and went through the portal back home after Atreus said goodbye. They both soon placed the torches around the garden in places where the heat from them would conduct evenly, once done Kratos used to flames of the blades of chaos to light them. The smoldering fires gave off a strong warmth melting all of the ice in the garden luckily the flames did not disperse or worse, scatter onto the garden. At ease knowing that Faye's garden was safe from the elements they wend back home and worked on mending the disrepair. However a though circled around Atreus's mind for a bit.

Atreus: Father, when Mimir said Spartans don't accept defeat what did he mean by that?

Kratos: In my home we were raised and trained to be warriors, to fight for the glory of our kingdom, accepting defeat or surrender even in the face of death was unacceptable. Our lives centered around loyalty to the state and military, at 7 summers of age Spartan boys entered a rigorous state-sponsored education, military training and socialization program. Known as the Agoge, the system emphasized duty, discipline and endurance. Although Spartan women were not active in the military, they were educated and enjoyed more status and freedom than other Greek women. Because Spartan men were professional soldiers, all manual labor was done by a slave class.