While using Thera's Bane, Kratos did not stagger when he was hit by attacks from enemies but remained vulnerable.
Thera's Bane could kill weakened enemies by burning them the same way that the Efreet did in God of War: Chains of Olympus.According to Plato, the same eruption sank Atlantis. Thera was the name of an island in Greece that was north of Crete that was devastated by a volcanic eruption in the 15th Century.