He then ate all of his children, one by one, as they were born. When his sixth child, Zeus, was born, Rhea decided that she could no longer continue bearing children only to have them eaten. She swaddled a rock in a baby's cloth and gave that to Cronus instead. He gladly ate it while Zeus lived on. When Zeus grew up, he approached his father as a stranger, and gave him a drink that made him throw up his siblings, who as immortal gods had survived in Cronus' stomach.
Once Zeus and his brothers and sisters were free, they decided to go to war with him and his Titan siblings. Cronus did not lead this war, for he was already defeated, so his nephew Atlas, led the forces of the Titans.
However, the Titans lost the war against the Gods when they freed the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes at Gaia's urging. Different versions of Cronus' punishment exist. Rhea left Zeus on the island of Crete where he grew up.
Fearing Kronos would hear Zeus' crying, Rhea sent Nymphs to make noise so loud, Kronos would never hear him. She had also sent a goat named Amaltheia and a few other nymphs to tend to him and they raised him deep within a cave. Once he grew to a formidable age, he was nearly ready to combat Kronos. Zeus married the goddess of prudence, Metis, for he needed her good advice.
Zeus gained a position as Kronos' cubbearer; he gave Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine to drink some sources say nectar. Kronos thought it would make him more powerful, but to his surprise, he instead vomited his children. Enraged by their father's cannibalism, the six gods then declared war on Kronos. The three most powerful gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, went down to Tartarus and freed their uncles, the Elder Cyclopes and Hekatonkheires. In gratitude, the beings allied with the gods; the Elder Kyklopes forged the brothers powerful weapons; Zeus a lightning bolt, Poseidon a trident, and Hades a helm, which granted the wearer invisibility.
For ten long years, the gods waged a brutal war against the Titans, slowly conquering their realms, and forcing them into Mount Othrys. On the final battle, the Hekatonkheires razed Kronos' palace on Mount Othrys, and Zeus sheared Othrys' peak with his lightning bolts, toppling Kronos from his throne.
The Titans were defeated and chained. He had no plan of letting it happen and he swallowed Poseidon , Hades , Hestia , Hera , and Demeter at the very moment they were born, not even checking whether it's a boy or a girl.
Rhea became mad and bore Zeus in secrecy and gave her husband a stone in swaddling clothes to swallow. Cronus continued to believe that he was safe from the prophecy. Meanwhile, Zeus grew up and came to free his brothers and sisters. He mixed his elixir into his father's drink who later vomited all of his children. They then all supported Zeus and rebelled against their father and the titans.
Soon after a war broke out and Cronus acted recklessly with too much pride. He thought they would overcame the Olympians with ease because they were bigger and stronger. But he forgot his own arrogance towards others who joined Olympians in the war. Some of these were Hecate , Prometheus , Epimetheus , and Metis. But above all, re-imprisoning Hekatoncheries and Cyclopes after decapitating his father was decisive because when Zeus released them from Tartarus, Olympians had gained the upper hand in war.
Cronos encounters Kratos in Tartarus. After Hephaestus , The Olympian Blacksmith God, "allies" himself with Kratos against Zeus he tasks the Spartan with retrieving the Omphalos Stone from Cronos' stomach, with which he can fashion a weapon for Kratos that "will give you the retribution you so rightly deserve. The Titan revealed that after Kratos used Pandora's Box to kill Ares , Zeus became consumed with fear and banished Cronos to the Pits of Tartarus so that the Titan would be tormented for all eternity.
He blames the Spartan for his torment. Kratos defends that he was tasked by the Gods to kill Ares; Cronos retorts that he did so only because of his need for vengeance but now vengeance comes to him.
Cronos tries to squash Kratos, despite the latter claiming that he now fights against Zeus. When the Titan attempts to crush Kratos between his massive fingers, Kratos uses Solar Flare to blind him. Cronos still tries to squash him, but Kratos manages to maneuver his way around Cronos' body, tearing one of Cronos' fingernails off. Cronos eventually catches up with Kratos, and swallows him whole. After being swallowed by Cronos, and falling down his throat to his stomach, Kratos located the Omphalos Stone , before he used the Blade of Olympus to slice his way out, causing him intense pain and spilling out his intestines.
Cronos desperately tries to cover his wound while Kratos emerges from his stomach with the item. Cronos then pleads for his life, saying that since Kratos had what he came for he should just leave Cronos be.
Ignoring the Titan's pleas, Kratos climbed up Cronos' chest, and shattered a piece of Cronos' shackles, which impaled him through the jaw, causing him extreme pain.
Cronos desperately attempted to remove his chains from his jaw, before being left immobile cursing his situation. Kratos then walked over Cronos's face and prepared to stab him in the head with the Blade of Olympus. In one final act of defiance, Cronos cursed Kratos stating "I should have expected this from a coward such as yourself!
A coward who kills his own kin! However, Cronos had turned on his own offspring centuries before by imprisoning them in his stomach, making his condemnation rather hypocritical. The Spartan ignored him and stabs his forehead, lethally wounding him. Cronos then slowly collapsed on the ground and died. Cronos, much like his son Zeus, was very power hungry and paranoid, as he destroyed his father Ouranos, only so he could replace him as the new ruler of the universe, but became deeply afraid of his own children, fearing that one of them would overthrow him, swallowing any of his children moments after they were ever born.
However, he seems to care for his titan brethren, unlike his son Zeus, who hardly cared for any Olympian, though only after being infected by the evils as he was ready to kill Kratos for supposedly killing his mother Gaia.
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