Layla takes the newly found DNA of Aya and Bayek and puts it into her own modified Animus, much to the distaste of Abstergo. Although she doesn’t end up looking for any, she gets distracted by her own snappy one-liners and some mummified corpses. Introducing Layla Hassan, a researcher for Abstergo tasked with searching for Isu artifacts. Layla Hassan, replacement Desmond ( Source) The last one was Desmond and we all know how well that went for him. There hasn’t been a consistent future present protagonist for four games. Gone are the faceless protagonists of the last 4 games. Aya leaves for Rome, takes Bayek’s abandoned necklace as the new symbol of the assassins, and that’s it. Following this, Bayek and Aya take down the Order and save the day but unfortunately, not their marriage. Then Cleopatra sides with Julius Caesar and by extension the Order, abandoning Bayek and Aya in the process. They spend the game teaming up with Cleopatra to topple Ptolemy III to replace him with Cleopatra as Pharaoh. Bayek is just along for the ride, and he sure doesn’t enjoy it. She pushes Bayek to pursue the Order, and she starts the Brotherhood of Assassins. Aya should have been the main character as she is the main driving force of the game. The story of Bayek and the Order of the Ancients is only important as far as it’s an introduction to the O R I G I N S of the templars and Assassins. The leader being Ceasar’s lieutenant Flavius, The Lion. The Heron, The Ibis, The Crocodile, etc etc. It is a reasonably sized group, each having an animal-based moniker e.g. Sound familiar? That’s because they’re proto templars, templars before the revelation of Christianity and all that. The main antagonistic force is the Order of the Ancients, they’re after the pieces of Eden to control the world. She’s the O R I G I N S of something bigger. Aya is fierce and has a strong sense of justice, wanting something more for the world. Bayek is soft and fatherly, seemingly being a Medjay as a means to an end rather than because he likes killing. Their marriage doesn’t make it to the end of the game, and it’s shown very well through their characterisation. Bayek wants this to end so he can get closure, and Aya wants to fight the good fight and focus her whole being on it. They’re out to take out a cult for killing their son.Īs the player, you can empathise with grieving parents, and it has a very real effect on their relationship. Set in 49 BCE you play as a mercenary/soldier, Medjay Bayek, who is working alongside his wife, Aya. Origins takes us back further than any game prior. A Tale as Old as Time Bayek and his son Khemu ( Source) After a year break, the expectations were high, they’d taken time to go in a new direction. Was this the end of the Assassins? Nope, October 2017 came with the release of Assassin’s Creed Origins for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. E3 2016 came and went with no news of a new Assassin’s Creed coming. After the collectively bland releases of Unity and Rogue along with the markedly better Syndicate, Assassin’s Creed went dark.
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