In the city of Sparta, two Gods, Ares and Athena, raided the city in the hopes of capturing Deimos, a boy suspected of being the Marked Warrior because of his strange birthmarks. After Deimos was captured, his brother Kratos, who failed to rescue him, vowed never to falter again. In honor of Deimos, Kratos adorned a tattoo on his body, made in the exact image of Deimos' birthmark. As time passed by, Thanatos, God of Death, had deduced the Marked Warrior was not Deimos, but was in fact, Kratos, the ashes of his wife and child being the prophetic mark. Deimos' and Thanatos' death saw the secret die with them, until the enigmatic Grave Digger - Zeus in disguise - discovered the truth.