 As with the video games , the comic book series is set in an alternate version of Ancient Greece , populated by the Olympian Gods and other beings of Greek mythology . The story is split between two chapters in the video game chronology ; a period before Ascension ( 2013 ) , and a later period between God of War ( 2005 ) and Ghost of Sparta ( 2010 ) . For the majority of the series , it narrates the events of the past via flashbacks with occasional focus on present events . In both , protagonist Kratos traverses Ancient Greece and the Aegean Sea on a quest for the Ambrosia of Asclepius . 
