Vejovis' dagger

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Vejovis' dagger is a Piece of Eden in the shape of a double-bladed dagger. It was part of a resurrection plot by the Isu Vejovis to reincarnate into successive Sages.

Owners

Complete

• Vejovis (? – ?)
• Ianthe (5th century BCE)
• Cadmus (5th century BCE)
• Joey (November 2022)

First blade

• Order of the Ancients (5th century BCE – 1st century BCE)
• Habibah (1st century BCE)
• Khepri (1st century BCE)
• Hidden Ones (1st century BCE – c. 9th century CE)
• Stowe (c. 870s)
• Templars (? – 1189)
• The Hideout (1189)
• Faisal (1189)
• Giulia (1480s)
• Joey (November 2022)

Second blade

• Cadmus (5th century BCE – ?)
• Joey (November 2022)
• Colm (November 2022)
• Joey (November 2022 – present)

History

Peloponnesian War

The dagger was housed in the Isu vault on the Greek island of Kephallonia up until the 5th century BCE. Ianthe, a member of the Order of the Ancients, located the entrance to the vault but could not get it open, instead hiring Cadmus, a mercenary, to retrieve the treasure from it. Cadmus unlocked the door and made his way through the vault, coming up to a room with a circular podium. A hologram of an Isu woman appeared and addressed Cadmus and a "spectator", explaining that the item up ahead must be kept safe.

The Isu also mentioned a person she called "The Connection", saying that his actions would lead to the destruction of all should the Piece of Eden should into his hands, and urging Cadmus to split the item into two pieces and to take the fragments far away. The hologram faded and Cadmus stepped forward to a metal container, unlocking it and revealing the dagger. Cadmus picked it up, carefully using some material to not directly touch the item before sliding it into his pouch.

Cadmus was betrayed by Ianthe and his men, who assaulted him and took the dagger. Cadmus managed to track them in a nearby town and decided to attack their leader, but Ianthe saw the mercenary and ran away. Cadmus caught up with him easily enough and jumped on top of him but not before the man managed to draw the dagger, with one blade pointed towards him and another towards his attacker. Cadmus managed to shift his body enough that he was injured, but not fatally so, while the other blade fatally wounded Ianthe.

Cadmus retrieved the dagger, just in time for a blade to be thrown towards him by one of the other men. While defending himself with the dagger, it split in two, one half in Cadmus' hands and another flew to embed itself on the face of a mercenary. The remaining attacker went to his fallen companion, tore the blade from his eye and ran for the docks, Cadmus going after him. He jumped to a moving ship which Cadmus tried to reach but could not, falling into the water. Cadmus' half of the dagger was eventually placed into a puzzle box, while the other half eventually arrived in Egypt.

Ptolomaic Egypt

By the 1st century BCE, the blade had been acquired by Habibah, another member of the Order of the Ancients, who kept it in a golden chest where she had also kept other trinkets away from others in her Order. After she was assassinated by the Hidden One Khepri, she asked her killer to take the blade, to which Khepri complied. When Khepri was later tasked with establishing a foothold for the Hidden Ones in the area where Baghdad would eventually be founded, she brought the blade with her.

Middle Ages

From Baghdad, the blade was taken to England by the Hidden Ones although it at some point fell into the hands of another Order of the Ancients member, The Connection, who collected blades from fallen Hidden Ones. He would send the blade to Syria prior to his death in the 870s, where it would eventually end up in the hands of the Templar known as "The Hideout" during the Third Crusade.

In 1189, The Hideout was tasked to smuggling the blade out of the Levant and roped in the Assassin Faisal, who pretended to have betrayed his Brotherhood, to do so. Faisal took the blade from Damascus to Beirut and then to Constantinople, where it was housed in the Hagia Sophia until it was plundered in the early 13th century and taken to Venice. In the 1480s, it was discovered in a hidden vault beneath the Basilica di San Marco by the Assassin Giulia, who hid it in a chamber further in the vault at the request of a hologram of Vejovis.

Modern times

In November 2022, the puzzle box containing Cadmus' half of the dagger was solved by Joey, a guard at the museum the box was in. With the blade, Joey interacted with a black stone monolith of Isu origin, triggering a vision of a possible future, where a man named Malcolm used the complete dagger to control a tribe of people and almost kill a man for defying him.

A group of heavily armed Templars caused an explosion in a part of the museum, looking for Joey and the blade, but Joey managed to escape with the help of Colm, an Assassin. Colm, his partner Alera, and Joey then worked together to try and find the missing half of the dagger, with Alera and Colm doing research while Joey relived the memories of people who had interacted with the blade: Cadmus, Khepri, Alva, Faisal, and Giulia.

From Giulia's memories, Joey discovered that the blade was in the vault beneath the basilica and announced it to Colm upon exiting the Animus simulation, not knowing that Colm was in contact with the Templars who wanted the Piece of Eden for themselves. Alera presumed Joey had sold them out and attempted to kill them, but Colm attacked her and pinned the blame of the incoming Templar attack on her before saying they needed to head to Venice as soon as possible.

At the vault, Colm revealed himself as the Templar ally, kicking Joey off the platform they stood on and sending them into the emptiness below, though Joey managed to hold on without Colm noticing. While Colm attempted to unlock the case, Joey attacked him from above, but Colm managed to block the attack with the half of the dagger Joey had originally found. A loud noise from the entrance caught Colm's attention and allowed Joey to charge him. Colm, however, managed to overpower Joey and ordered them to solve the puzzle and open the case where the blade was. Joey complied, moving away from the opened case when it was done, keeping Colm's attention on themselves long enough for Alera to come in and assassinate him.

With the threat averted, Joey put the two halves of the blade together, causing a blinding flash of light to erupt. After Joey said Vejovis' name out loud, a hologram of the Isu appeared, congratulating Joey on bringing the two parts of the dagger together and making it possible for him to become corporeal again. Alera tried to attack the hologram, but Vejovis made Joey swipe at her before revealing that they were one of his Sages and that by reliving the memories of his other Sages and connecting the blades, Vejovis' being would bleed into Joey's before long. To stop this process from happening, Joey tried to separate the blades, shattering one half of it and destroying the part of the pedestal that the hologram was coming from. After that, Joey and Alera decided to leave before the Templars got there, with Joey taking the intact half of the blade.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book