Story beats · 8

1. 01The vault at Siwa

   Masked men force Bayek to the sealed door beneath the temple. Khemu dies on his father's blade in the struggle — the wound the whole series grows from.

2. 02A list of masks

   The Heron, the Ibis, the Crocodile, the Scarab: Bayek works through the Order of the Ancients one mask at a time, each kill buying a name for the next.

3. 03Alexandria and Aya

   In the great city Bayek finds Aya — hunting the same men from the other end, and already sworn to a queen in exile.

4. 04Cleopatra's blade

   The Medjay and his wife become the exiled queen's killers, clearing her path back to the throne while the Order props up her brother.

5. 05Dismissed at the door

   Cleopatra wins — and keeps Caesar, Flavius and Septimius closer than the people who bled for her. The revenge and the politics stop pointing the same way.

6. 06The Apple opens Siwa

   Flavius takes the vault's Apple of Eden and turns Bayek's home into a proof of concept. Bayek follows him to Cyrene and finishes the list's true head.

7. 07The Ides of March

   Aya kills Septimius, then stands with Brutus and Cassius in the Senate. History calls it politics; she calls it the Order losing its king.

8. 08The Hidden Ones

   Bayek and Amunet found a creed on everything the masks taught them: hide in plain sight, never compromise the brotherhood, kill only with reason.

Characters

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  Bayek of Siwa

  The last Medjay — protector of a pharaoh-less Egypt

  protagonist
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  Aya

  Bayek's wife, Cleopatra's blade, later Amunet of Rome

  protagonist
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  Cleopatra

  The exiled queen the Medjay put back on the throne

  ally
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  Flavius Metellus

  Caesar's man, the Order's Lion, wielder of the Apple

  antagonist
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  Lucius Septimius

  The Jackal — Aya's mirror and final target

  antagonist
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  Apollodorus

  Cleopatra's fixer and the hunt's quiet patron

  ally
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  Khemu

  Bayek's son — the wound that starts the creed

  ally
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  Layla Hassan

  Rogue Abstergo researcher in a homemade Animus

  modern
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  William Miles

  The Assassin who recruits her

  modern

OppositionOrder of the Ancients

Modern frameLayla Hassan

Pieces of Eden

• Apple of Eden (Siwa vault)
• The Siwa vault

Connections

• Assassin's CreedFaction

  The Hidden Ones become the Brotherhood — by Altaïr's century the bureaus Bayek founded have a fortress and a name.

• AC MirageFaction

  Basim is initiated into the same institution nine centuries on — tenets, bureaus and hidden blade all trace to Bayek and Aya.

• AC OdysseyFaction

  The Order of the Ancients inherits the Cult of Kosmos' playbook: rule through puppets, profit through chaos.

In game · 6 shots

Trailer

YouTube · loads on play

Introduced to the series

• Full RPG reboot — levels, loot, gear rarity
• Hitbox-based combat (no paired animations)
• Senu: aerial recon as a core verb
• Discovery Tour

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