For several years, Deimos believed that Kratos would come to his rescue. Athena apologized to Kratos, then disappeared in a cloud of fire as well.Īres brought Deimos to Thanatos in the Domain of Death to remain there in torment, to ensure that the prophecy of "The Marked One" would never occur. Ares then disappeared in a cloud of fire. Ares then attempted to kill Kratos, but Athena quickly told him not to, as they already had who they were looking for. Kratos lunged at Ares to keep him from taking his brother, but Ares struck him down, which scarred him over his right eye. They quickly found the young Deimos amidst the chaos and took him while he trained with Kratos, though his brother attempted to stop Ares. One fateful day, Ares and Athena descended onto Sparta to take Deimos and unleashed an army of Centaurs to decimate the populace while they searched for him. Due to his unusual birthmark, the Gods feared that Deimos would be the prophesied warrior, so, they devised a plan to abduct him from his family so that the Oracle's prophecy couldn't come to pass. Long ago, the Oracle foretold the destruction of the Olympians at the hands of The Marked Warrior. Kratos and Deimos trained with the traditional spear and shield throughout their childhood, with Kratos teaching the young Deimos to remember that: "a Spartan never lets his back hit the ground."
The two brothers grew up together under the watchful eye of their mother, Callisto, in Sparta, with dreams of joining the Spartan Army when they were older. His Roman equivalent was Formido or Metus.ĭeimos was born a few years after Kratos, and bore a remarkable birthmark across his body.
Deimos was more of a personification and an abstraction of the sheer terror that was brought by war and he never appeared as an actual character in any story in Greek Mythology. He was the twin brother of Phobos and the Goddess, Enyo, who accompanied Ares into battle, as well as his father's attendants: Trembling, Fear, Dread and Panic. In Greek Mythology, Deimos (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, pronounced, meaning "dread") was the personification of terror.