God of War: Laufey has apparently been around since the God of War series was rebooted in 2018, and possibly even before that, a new interview has revealed.

The information is coming from a pretty reliable source: Laufey herself, Deborah Ann Woll, the actress who played Kratos’ wife in Ragnarök. Laufey, or Faye, as she was normally known, played a big part in both the 2018 game and the sequel, God of War: Ragnarök, despite being dead in both of them. Naturally, being dead meant Deborah Ann Woll had limited screen time in the sequel, relegated to flashbacks.

God of War: Laufey fixes that as we take on the role of Jotunn warrior and original owner of the Leviathan axe. And according to her, the concept for the game has been around for nearly a decade.

 “Oh my God, I can’t tell you. I still pinch myself. You know, again, I’ve known about this for nearly ten years, and I haven’t been able to talk about it,” exclaimed Woll when Backlot Magazine asked her about the game during an interview.

Surprised, the interviewer asked about it being ten years.

“Nearly. He pitched it to me in 2018, and they had known about it before then,” she said.

Woll explains that when Cory Balrog brought her in to discuss doing Ragnarok and show her the 2018 game, “…he already had a poster for the Laufey game with me and a cube.”

Her wording suggests Woll may have been brought into the God of War fold as early as 2018, the same year the reboot was released, although her role as Faye would not be seen publicly until God of War Ragnarök in 2022.

She adds that the cube has “been there since the beginning” and that it’s “deeply part of the lore.”

“This is, we now know we’re allowed to say, going to run concurrently to 2018 [God of War]. And so all of the mysteries and the little hints and clues, the questions, the lingering, you know, ideas that you have from that Norse saga, we’re going to answer a lot of that, or we’re going to expand upon it. “

If you need some extra convincing, one of the long-running mysteries of the 2018 game is who blew the horn to summon the World Serpent while Kratos was carrying an ill Atreus to Freya for help. Theories have ranged from Baldur to a time-travelling Kratos, because of course they have. But with Laufey now confirmed to run alongside the events of the 2018 game, Faye herself suddenly feels like a much more plausible answer.

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In hindsight, quite a few details surrounding Faye, her knowledge of the future, and some of the stranger loose ends in the 2018 game were left deliberately open. Based on Woll’s interview, that may not have been because Santa Monica forgot to answer them, but because the studio already had plans to come back and fill in those gaps later.

As for God of War: Laufey, the most interesting part of that whole game is how it’s set in an afterlife for the gods, meaning Laufey might find herself encountering some familiar faces.