The Everywhen in God of War: Laufey, explained

What is the Everywhen?

When Faye wakes up after her funeral, this is where she lands. The official PlayStation description calls it “the birthplace and endpoint to which all magic returns, a transcendent realm above those we've come to know.” Three things make it what it is:

• It's where gods go when they die. Mortals have their own afterlives; the Everywhen sits above them, reserved for gods and the creatures of myth.
• It's the source of all magic. Every kind of magic starts and returns here — which is why Faye's own soul powers grow much stronger once she arrives.
• It's a melting pot of mythologies. Gods and creatures from different mythologies come together — and clash.

Where the Everywhen came from

This realm ties straight back to Odin. In God of War Ragnarök, Odin was obsessed with the prophecy of his own death and with knowledge of something beyond the afterlives of mortals. God of War: Laufey is framed as the answer to the exact question that drove him: what happens to the gods when they die? The studio describes the Everywhen as either a paradise or a prison, depending on who you are — and whether you can leave.

What the place actually looks like

Forget Valhalla. Previews describe a nightmarish otherworld, not a peaceful one — beautiful and hostile at once, a “land overflowing with dangerous magic”:

• Killer flowers and masked skeletons
• Creatures rounded up and held in cages
• Bonfires of corpses
• An ominous gateway hanging in the sky

A realm of many gods

Because every mythology's gods can end up here, the Everywhen is why God of War finally mixes pantheons. The two confirmed gods Faye meets early are Sekhmet, the Egyptian war goddess, and Begtse, a war god from Tibetan Buddhism with Mongolian roots — and they appear to be working toward some shared goal. The long-rumored Egyptian God of War folded right into this multi-mythology mix.

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