Birth of the Creed

Birth of the Creed was a virtual representation of one of Aya and Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description

Aya wrote to Bayek about the future of their new Brotherhood and its Creed.

Dialogue

Two days after her assassination of Julius Caesar, Aya approached Cleopatra in a villa in the outskirts of Rome. The Queen was playing with her son, Caesarion.

• Cleopatra: Do you know what you've done? Caesarion would have sat on the throne of Rome.
• Aya: Listen to the cries on the streets. They call you a dead tyrant's whore.
• Cleopatra: I am still your Queen.
• Aya: You are a Queen of liars and snakes. I fought for you for five years. Our people worshiped you. Apollodorus died for you, for Egypt.
• Cleopatra: For Egypt? I am Egypt!

As Cleopatra was about to strike Aya, the latter flicked her Hidden Blade, but relented upon seeing Caesarion.

• Aya: Then be the ruler our people deserve, or nothing will save you from my blade across your throat. You are the last of the pharaohs.

As Aya left, Cleopatra embraced her son. A year later, Aya sat in a bureau in the Pantheon district of Rome and wrote a letter to Bayek.

• Aya: Bayek, Caesar has been assassinated. Septimius is also dead. I have founded a bureau in the middle of Rome, yet no one knows of our existence. Like Amun, we are... the Hidden Ones.

At a bureau in Memphis, Tahira was about to cut off her ring finger, only to be stopped by Bayek.

• Tahira: I believe in you.

Tahira cut off her finger, and Bayek nodded. Along with Bayek and another member of the Brotherhood, she freeran across the rooftops of Memphis.

• Aya: The irony of freedom. We are free of each other, yet it brings me no happiness. We must move forward. Remain in our tempest of blood poetry. Despite it all, we dance and they die.

They looked at a guarded building and assassinated the guards.

• Aya: From darkness we have come, and in darkness we shall stay. Humans are not meant to last forever. But this Creed will. The Creed is the only immortal thing in the world.

Inside the building, they found several children being held captive, one of them about to be killed by a woman. Before she could do so, Bayek stabbed her in the back with his Hidden Blade and slit her throat with her own knife.

• Bayek: Go home. You are free.

As the other children ran away, the child Bayek had saved remained.

• Child: I don't want to go home by myself. I am scared.
• Tahira: Should we take him to the bureau?
• Bayek: No.

Bayek knelt before the child.

• Bayek: I'll take you home.
• Aya: Let nothing grieve you beyond measure. For your life is short, and time will claim its toll. But I am no longer who I was. I have renounced all love I once had.

At the bureau in Rome, Aya finished the letter and passed it to another member of the Brotherhood. Aya walked in the streets of Rome.

• Aya: I have renounced Aya. I have killed Aya. I am now the Hidden One known as Amunet.

Aya lifted a white hood above her head, and disappeared in the crowd. In Memphis, Bayek read the letter atop a roof.

• Aya: May your victories multiply.

Senu flew onto Bayek's hand, and Bayek looked at the horizon. Inside his head, he heard Khemu.

• Khemu: Papo (Father)? Jump.

Outcome

Aya renounced her former identity and became known as Amunet. She and Bayek established the Hidden Ones, an early incarnation of the Assassin Brotherhood.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Origins