God of War Sons of Sparta Characters: Cast & Roles

Who Are the Main Characters in Sons of Sparta?

The God of War Sons of Sparta characters reveal who Kratos was before vengeance consumed his life. Young Kratos and his younger brother Deimos lead the adventure, searching Laconia for their missing fellow cadet, Vasilis. Their search tests whether serving Sparta means following orders or standing by someone the city has abandoned.

The story unfolds during the brothers’ training at the Agoge, with adult Kratos recounting those events to his daughter Calliope. Character introductions below avoid the ending; major revelations appear in the final section.

Young Kratos

At 13, Kratos already has the ambition and stubbornness that define his older self. He wants to enter the Vanguard Circle, the highest cadet rank, which would allow him to lead his own unit.

Initially, he dismisses Vasilis rather than recognizing a classmate who needs help. That judgment gives his adventure a personal conflict beyond surviving monsters: Kratos has to reconsider what strength obligates him to do for others.

He is the main campaign’s playable protagonist, fighting with a Spartan spear and shield during a period before he acquired the Blades of Chaos.

Deimos

Kratos’ 11-year-old brother is impulsive, proud, and more willing to question Spartan authority. His determination to find Vasilis keeps the search moving when Kratos would rather focus on his military future.

Deimos challenges his brother through a simple emotional connection: what would Kratos do if Deimos were the one missing? Their disagreements make brotherhood an active part of the story, with each boy pushing against the other’s priorities.

Deimos is playable in the separate Pit of Agonies challenge mode through local co-op. The main campaign is single-player. The February 26, 2026, update added a cheat-code option for accessing multiplayer before completing the story.

Adult Kratos and Calliope

Adult Kratos narrates while serving as a captain in the Spartan Army. This is the Greek-era Kratos before his family’s tragedy, telling a childhood story to explain duty to Calliope.

Calliope listens, asks questions, and interrupts her father’s account. Their exchanges give the adventure a second perspective: the boy learning a difficult lesson becomes the father trying to pass it on.

Official page: God of War Sons of Sparta (playstation.com)

The Spartans Behind the Search for Vasilis

The Agoge’s cadets and instructors give Kratos competing examples of loyalty. Some defend the institution’s expectations; others ask whether those expectations leave people behind.

Vasilis and Lyra

Vasilis is the missing cadet whose disappearance drives the plot. As the brothers trace his steps, they learn he was still trying to find ways to make himself useful to Sparta.

Lyra is Vasilis’ mother. Her connection to the missing boy gives the search a family dimension beyond the Agoge’s concern with training and military usefulness.

Konstantinos

Konstantinos is both the Agoge’s headmaster and a sculptor. He assigns the brothers their duties and gives them enchanted busts that chronicle their adventures and help them navigate.

His response to Deimos’ questions is more complicated than a simple demand for obedience. He acknowledges the boy’s concerns about Sparta abandoning a classmate while still insisting that the brothers fulfill their responsibilities.

Amara

Amara is Konstantinos’ daughter, an Amazon, and the only girl training at the Agoge. She struggles with being treated as an outsider while remaining deeply committed to her friends.

She helps push the brothers to search for Vasilis. That makes her an important part of the decision to act, even though Kratos and Deimos carry out the journey.

Eis, Brontes, and Theophilos

These fellow Spartans show different sides of the brothers’ social circle:

• Eis is a compassionate comrade who was especially close to Vasilis. His identity also carries a connection to Kratos’ later life, explained in the spoiler section.
• Brontes is Kratos’ old rival. He prioritizes Sparta’s strength and prosperity and objects to Kratos placing so much importance on protecting Deimos.
• Theophilos is a friendly Spartan acquaintance the brothers encounter during their adventure.

Brontes is particularly useful for understanding young Kratos: both value Spartan strength, but their attitudes toward personal loyalty create friction.

Allies, Merchants, and Upgrade Characters

Several supporting characters connect directly to exploration and equipment. Remember their roles when deciding which errands to pursue or where to spend collected resources.

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Adrasteia: Travel Across Laconia

Adrasteia provides fast travel for the brothers. Once a nymph, she was transformed into a griffin by Cronos as punishment for protecting the infant Zeus.

Her role ties a practical travel service to the game’s Greek mythology setting.

Circe: Gear Upgrades and Missing Cats

Circe is the powerful witch bound to the island of Aeaea. She offers gear upgrades in exchange for help finding her cats scattered across Laconia.

Keep Circe’s cat search in mind while exploring: those discoveries connect to equipment improvements rather than serving only as background encounters.

Eleonora: Temples and Olive Offerings

Eleonora maintains the gods’ temples throughout Laconia. Olive offerings at these temples improve Kratos’ attributes and equipment.

The temples have distinct benefits:

• Dionysus, Nike, and Hestia: increase maximum health, spirit, and magic, respectively.
• Apollo, Artemis, and Demeter: improve the Dory spear, Aspis shield, and Belt of Tyche, respectively.

Bring olive offerings to the temple associated with the attribute or equipment you want to develop.

Tiberios, Petros, and the Other Helpers

Tiberios is Sparta’s practical, reserved blacksmith, responsible for making new gear for Kratos. Petros, often addressed as the Krypteia, provides combat advice and items.

The thieving Kerkopes Passalus and Acmon exchange goods with the brothers and bring humor to their travels. The Deckhand is another merchant, with a connection longtime fans will recognize: he is the younger Boat Captain from earlier Greek-era games.

For quest information, the brothers consult the Oracle of Trophonius at Lebadeia. Back at Sparta’s western gate, Brasidas supplies a more skeptical reception, refusing to believe their extraordinary exploits.

Antagonists and Named Monsters

The search takes Kratos and Deimos beyond Spartan disagreements and into encounters with cultists and mythological creatures.

The Devoted One leads the secretive cult encountered during the journey. He is a minor antagonist, giving the brothers a human opponent alongside the creatures threatening Laconia.

Other named threats include:

• Alastor: a daemon fought at the abandoned winery in the Oenus Vineyard.
• Fylaki: a malevolent ancient entity.
• Ioke, Ponea, and Apate: three Stymphalian Birds.
• Skolopendra: a sea creature encountered during the adventure.
• Koteros: a chimaeric monster central to the search’s resolution.

Koteros’ story significance goes beyond being another boss. Save the final section until you are ready to learn how the search ends.

Character Voice Actors

TC Carson returns as adult Kratos, while Antony Del Rio reprises young Kratos after previously portraying him in Ghost of Sparta. Scott Menville voices young Deimos, and Debi Derryberry returns as Calliope.

Character	Voice actor
Adult Kratos	TC Carson
Young Kratos	Antony Del Rio
Deimos	Scott Menville
Calliope	Debi Derryberry
Konstantinos	James Mathis III
Amara	Shelby Young
Eis	Jack Quaid
Brontes	David Errigo Jr.
Theophilos	Michael Johnston
Lyra	Alexa Rose
Petros	A.J. LoCascio
Brasidas	Jim Pirri
Tiberios	Chris Ansell
Eleonora	Amelia Rose Blaire
The Oracle	Kimberly Brooks
Adrasteia	Misty Lee
Circe	Zehra Fazal
Passalus	Adam Shapiro
Acmon	Allen Covert
The Deckhand	Keith Ferguson
The Devoted One	Bridger Zadina

Bridger Zadina previously voiced young Deimos in Ghost of Sparta, returning here in a different role as The Devoted One. Keith Ferguson’s Deckhand performance also revisits a familiar character at an earlier point in his life.

Major Story Spoilers: Vasilis, Eis, and Kratos’ Choice

Ending spoilers follow, including Vasilis’ fate and Eis’ identity.

What Happens to Vasilis?

Kratos and Deimos discover that Koteros killed Vasilis. The brothers slay the monster and recognize that their classmate wounded it by shooting an arrow into its eye.

That discovery overturns Kratos’ earlier dismissal of Vasilis as a weak link. The boy he judged had continued trying to serve Sparta and fought back against the creature that killed him.

The brothers bring Vasilis home. Kratos accepts responsibility for their disobedience and acknowledges his own role in pushing Vasilis away. He asks to be beaten, but Konstantinos refuses that punishment. Instead, Kratos loses his chance to enter the Vanguard Circle that year.

His choice costs him the advancement he wanted, giving Calliope a concrete example of accepting responsibility when doing so carries a personal consequence.

Who Is Eis?

Eis is short for Atreus: the Spartan comrade whose name Kratos later gives his son.

This is a connection to the Norse-era Atreus through his namesake. The compassionate Spartan belongs to Kratos’ youth, long before the father-and-son journey of the later games.

Why Does Calliope’s Flute Matter?

During the framing story, Kratos makes Calliope a wooden flute. It is the instrument associated with her appearances in Chains of Olympus, with further connections in God of War III and God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla.

Here, the flute is still a father’s gift to his daughter, created while he shares a memory of the brother and friends who shaped his childhood.