Editing Ptahmose

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Ptahmose
|image = ACO - Ptahmose.jpeg
|death = 38 BCE<br>[[Arsinoe]], [[Sinai]], [[Egypt]], {{Wiki|Ptolemaic Kingdom}}
|species = [[Human]]
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|affiliates = [[Roman Republic]]<br>[[Order of the Ancients]]
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'''Ptahmose''' (died 38 BCE) was an [[Egypt]]ian official and member of the [[Order of the Ancients]] who operated under the cryptonym '''The Mason''' and who served [[Gaius Julius Rufio]] in the [[Sinai]], overseeing construction projects in the city of [[Arsinoe]] in [[Egypt]].

==Biography==
In 38 BCE, Ptahmose was instructed by Rufio to oversee the demolition of various Egyptian landmarks across the Sinai in order to recycle the raw materials in the construction of Roman infrastructure and to sell the artifacts to fund Roman war efforts. His particular role in the Order of the Ancients was to find and collect [[Shard of a Star|shards of a star]], this being his genuine impetus for ravaging [[Pyramid of Amenmesse|Amenmesse's pyramid]]. Ptahmose was assassinated in his [[Vilicus Castra|camp]] in Arsinoe by the [[Hidden One]] [[Bayek]] of [[Siwa]], thus stopping his pillaging of Egyptian temples and monuments.<ref name="The Setting Sun">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[The Hidden Ones (DLC)|The Hidden Ones]] – [[The Setting Sun]]</ref>

==Personality and traits==
Ptahmose was an enterprising and pitiless man. He pushed his workers too hard, and when someone stepped out of line, he made an example out of them. In fact, he showed barely more concern for the well-beings of his servants than he did his Nabataean rebel prisoners, whom he instructed his guards to interrogate via torture.  

Despite being Egyptian, Ptahmose felt no affection for his people or culture. He had no qualms about destroying ancient Egyptian monuments to cannibalize the raw materials and pillaging its treasures to fund the Roman war machine. At his death, he felt no remorse for his actions, insisting that the Order was eternal.<ref name="THO">''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones''</ref>

==Trivia==
* Ptahmose's name, transliterated as ''ptḥ-ms'', means "Ptah is born". Like other Egyptian members of the Order of the Ancients, his name is ironic, as Ptah was the Egyptian god of craftsmanship, architecture, artisanry and creation, and Ptahmose sought to destroy Egyptian buildings and monuments to repurpose the raw materials. 
* Ptahmose's cryptonym was "The Mason", and the Egyptian god Ptah was the patron of masons and stoneworkers. 

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Ptahmose_conceptart.jpeg|Concept art of Ptahmose
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==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[The Hidden Ones (DLC)|The Hidden Ones]]

==References==
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