Akhenaten's Apple of Eden

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Akhenaten's Apple of Eden, also referred to as the Aten, was one of several Apples of Eden, leftover pieces of technology created by the ancient Isu. This particular Apple was wielded by several Egyptian Pharaohs, and was also used to start a "curse" in the city of Thebes in the 1st century BCE.

Owners

• Isu (? – ?)
• Akhenaten (? – 1330s BCE)
• Nefertiti (? – 1330s BCE)
• Tutankhamun (c. 1332 BCE - ?)
• High Priests of Amun (? – ?)
• Nitokris (1st century BCE)
• Isidora (? – 34 BCE)
• Bayek of Siwa (34 BCE)
• Sutekh (34 BCE)

Usage

The Apple found by the Pharaoh Akhenaten seemed to have all the standard abilities of an Apple of Eden, such as illusion and apparition creation, mind control, and energy manipulation.

While in Isidora's possession, the Apple was able to conjure physical manifestations of demons from the Duat and long-dead Pharaohs who attacked anyone in their presence, as well as create an illusionary copy of Isidora as a decoy. After prolonged study of the Apple, she also learned how to hypnotically control the descendants of the Pharaoh Ramesses II.

History

Eighteenth Dynasty

During the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the Apple came into the possession of pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who associated it with Aten. Alongside his wife, Nefertiti, Amenhotep IV introduced a monotheistic religion to Egypt centered around the relic, and changed his name to Akhenaten.

Tutankhamun giving the Apple to the priests of Amun

Following Akenhaten's and Nefertiti's deaths, the Aten passed on to their son, Tutankhamun, who chose to restore the polythestic religion of his forefathers. Tutankhamun entrusted the relic to the High Priests of Amun, who kept it safe for generations.

During the reign of Ramesses II, the pharaoh, aided by the priests of Amun and the Apple, launched numerous campaigns in the Levant against the Hittite Empire.

Curse of the Pharaohs

Sutekh: "By Ra's light, I don't want it."

Bayek: "All the more reason you should take it. You better than anyone knows what it can do. Bury it and all memory of it."

—Bayek instructing Sutekh to hide the Apple, 34 BCE.

In the 1st century BCE, the Apple came into the possession of the God's Wife of Amun, Nitokris, who tried to use it to fight against tomb robbers pillaging the Valley of the Kings near Thebes. However, she was killed before she could do so, and the Apple was passed down to her daughter, Isidora.

Isidora using the Apple to enthrall Ramesses II's descendants

Circa 34 BCE, Isidora, now the God's Wife of Amun, began using the relic to take vengeance on the tomb robbers who had killed her mother, conjuring apparitions of dead pharaohs upon Thebes in the process. Eventually, the curse was lifted by the Hidden One Mentor, Bayek of Siwa, who assassinated Isidora in Tutankhamun's tomb and gave the artifact to Sutekh, a descendant of Ramesses II, so that he could hide it where no one would find it.

Later, Sutekh was killed under unknown circumstances in the Waset Desert. When Bayek came across his body at the Cobra Oasis, he found no sign of the Apple and could only pray that Sutekh had managed to hide it before his untimely demise.

Gallery

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  Nefertiti holding the Apple
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  A mural depicting the Apple being used in a ritual
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  Isidora wielding the Apple

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Curse of the Pharaohs (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide (2nd edition)