Breaking the Order

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Breaking the Order was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.

Description

The Hidden One Hytham asked Eivor to help him eliminate the Order of the Ancients throughout England.

Dialogue

The dialogues consist of almost every Order member throughout England, with the exception of Kjotve the Cruel and Alfred the Great. Some dialogues may be found in certain quests, while other dialogues are found throughout this quest itself.

Wardens of War

HuntaLeofgifuAvgos SpearhandFrideswid

After assassinating Hunta in the Ledecestre marketplace, Eivor met him in the Memory Corridor, where he began reciting a skaldic poem.

• Hunta: My battle kennings have worn thin...
  I am no longer the reed among shields.
  The glimmer-blood, the hallowed skull-crack.

Eivor nodded, acknowledging his talent with words, and responded in verse.

• Eivor: The scourge of swan-roads.
• Hunta: The iron-throng, the lender of silvergelds ... I only wished to be a freebooter. Someone who writes their own destiny.
• Eivor: Be glad you head to Valhalla with another poem on your lips.

Eivor reached forward, taking Hunta's Order medallion, and his spirit then vanished.

After assassinating Leofgifu at Utbech, Eivor met Leofgifu, holding her side, in the Memory Corridor.

• Leofgifu: You found me out. I bow to this. But you will not unearth us all, you will not dig deeply enough. We are both a clot and cancer. We sit heavy in water, and yet we spread like a river's current.
• Eivor: Are you well?
• Leofgifu: Why would you ask such a question at such a time as this?
• Eivor: Beneath your words is something of a size unknown. A mystery. It lurks behind every frail word from your mouth.

Eivor reached forward, taking Leofgifu's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

After assassinating Avgos Spearhand in Lundun, Eivor met Avgos at an arrow training locale, in the Memory Corridor. Another apparition of Avgos then came up behind Eivor.

• Avgos: Arrows nocked!
  It's a hard thing to raise the rats of a city into warriors.
  Hook, set!
• Eivor: You raised no one. You only trapped them in their cowering fear.
• Avgos: Draw strings! First wave, fire!

Arrows flew out and hit the targets, near their centers.

• Avgos: No! I gave these men order! I gave them purpose! I showed them their common enemy!
  Anchor strings! Second wave, fire!

A second wave of arrows flew out and hit their targets again in their centers.

• Avgos: I was arrow for their rage. Without a foe to consume, we devour ourselves.

Odin walked in behind Avgos.

• Odin: He speaks true. A man without an enemy defeats himself.
• Eivor: Justify all you want, you're just a king-killer and a coward.

Eivor then spat right in front of Avgos.

• Avgos: Mighty high horse, you'd do the same if you were me.
  Aim! And fire!

A third wave of arrows flew out and hit Avgos all around and then his spirit immediately vanished. Eivor walked towards these arrows and then picked up his dropped Order medallion.

After assassinating Sister Frideswid in Lundun, Eivor, surrounded by corpses, walked towards Frideswid, who was mutilating a corpse, in the Memory Corridor.

• Frideswid: One more, that's all. I'm nearly finished.
• Eivor: That's enough.

Frideswid stood up and faced Eivor. Odin then walked into the conversation.

• Frideswid: Ah. It's you...
• Odin: For all the dead we collect, dear sister, you and I are equals.

As Odin bowed his head towards Frideswid, the nun looked around at all the corpses.

• Frideswid: Quite a charnel house. I lost count of how many. I suppose I've been greedy in my research. But not for lack of care. The Ancient Ones, the arbiters. They built us out of simple pieces. So easy to break. So difficult to mend. There must be an improvement. We should be stronger, faster, smarter. I could have fixed us. I could have made us better.
• Eivor: We are blood and bone and spirit, Frideswid. Perfect as we are.
• Frideswid: You've such beautiful eyes. Finish it ... would you?

Frideswid then handed her book of human anatomy, with her Order medallion, to Eivor. As Eivor took the items, two corpses began to drag Frideswid down. Accepting her fate, Frideswid closed her eyes and then her spirit immediately vanished.

Wardens of Law

EanbhertTataGunillaDerby

After assassinating Eanbhert in his home, Eivor met him in the Memory Corridor, where he began a brief conversation while sitting down on a bench.

• Eanbhert: If an evil man brings you biscuits, do you gift them to your children?

Eivor shook her head.

• Eivor: I would not let good food to go to waste.
• Eanbhert: I would let my children starve. A serpent's gift will always end in malice.

Eivor stood up and responded, while taking Eanbhert's Order medallion mid-response as his spirit immediately vanished.

• Eivor: Sweet from evil remains sweet. Even if it crumbles quickly in their hands.

After assassinating Tata at the Quatford's Stables, Eivor stood and met him in the Memory Corridor, where he began justifying his actions while sitting down.

• Tata: Offa told everyone he was Christian. He was not, he was one of us. He only wanted the silver and the swords for his men of Mercia.
• Eivor: And you have kept this tradition going?
• Tata: Without flinching. Without hesitating. Offa would be proud of me.
• Eivor: You must have seen one hundred summers, old man."
• Tata: It feels thus.

Eivor reached forward, taking Tata's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After assassinating Gunilla at the dock in Repton, Eivor stood and met Gunilla in the Memory Corridor, where Gunilla started talking with her back towards Eivor.

• Gunilla: We must all turn to the Order. It keeps people well-placed. It is not truth, but true power.
• Eivor: You desecrate the very purpose of life
• Gunilla: No, no, no...I place power on power. The great becomes greater. You will see.

Eivor reached forward, taking Gunilla's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

After assassinating Derby at his residence in Picheringa, Eurviscire, Eivor stood and started a brief conversation in the Memory Corridor, while Derby sat on a bench.

• Eivor: Rest easy, reeve (sheriff). Your time has come.
• Derby: Yes. Now I will be judged at the Witan of the Gods.

Derby stood up as Eivor stepped forward to his claim his medallion.

• Eivor: To Helheim with you.
• Derby: Aye. Even Helheim needs a reeve.

Eivor shook her head and reached forward, grabbing Derby's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

Wardens of Wealth

PatrickHavelokMucelGifleTatfrid

After assassinating Patrick at his smithy in Oxeneforda, Oxenefordscire, Eivor stood behind him in the Memory Corridor as he spoke aloud in a distant tone remembering his life.

• Patrick: I was building a boat... to carry my family to safety one day.
• Eivor: And what of the orphans you left behind? Do they get a boat?

Patrick turned to Eivor and replied angrily.

• Patrick: A brigade of bastards? They are the only ones left ruling England. My people were of the Hwiccan Kingdom. Now we are ruled by Christ-beaten bastards.

Eivor reached forward, grabbing Patrick's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Havelok died at his villa in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Havelok started the conversation in the Memory Corridor by walking around Eivor.

• Havelok: The first man I killed for my Order, I cried and wept after trying to hold back the tears. But I told myself I am merely acting upon a foretold destiny, navigating the whim of greater Gods. My actions are simply pebbles.
• Eivor: Pebbles that wash away in the surf, as harmless as dust.
• Havelok: Pebbles were once bedrock. As were you.

Eivor reached forward, grabbing Havelok's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Mucel was assassinated at the dock at Buckingham, a sitting Mucel started the conversation with Eivor in the Memory Corridor.

• Mucel: I served the young Æthelred. He will rise one day.
• Eivor: He is no Aelfred, from what I hear.
• Mucel: I lied to everyone. And they will never know. They will tell stories of me as a good man who served his lord.
• Eivor: Your hugr (mind) walks with a new beast.

Eivor reached forward, grabbing Mucel's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Gifle was assassinated at a bandit camp south of Britannia's Watch in East Anglia, a lying Gifle started a conversation with Eivor, who kneeled to him, in the Memory Corridor.

• Gifle: I wish my life was a carnival of drinking ale and pissing.
• Eivor: It could have been, I am sure.
• Gifle: No, we have not reached such a point. I used The Order to live a life of ale-drinking, but the price of my ale was murder. Sad really.

Eivor reached forward, grabbing Gifle's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Tatfrid was assassinated at the marketplace of Grantebridge in Grantebridgescire, a prone Tatfrid started a conversation with Eivor, who kneeled to him, in the Memory Corridor.

• Tatfrid: You won. I concede. When scops mention me, they will sing of my conquests.
• Eivor: Cowards do not get sagas.
• Tatfrid: I am no coward. In a long lost battle for Wessex, I was the victor. The scop could speak of that time. Focus on my lost honor.

Eivor responded, while taking Tatfrid's Order medallion mid-response as his spirit immediately vanished.

• Eivor: No, I'll leave your reputation as it is... here in the blood-blackened mud.

Wardens of Faith

BeneseckYohanes LoukasHeikaBlaeswith

After Beneseck was assassinated at the Brimclif Monastery in southern Suthsexe, Beneseck, sitting on a bench, started a conversation with Eivor, who walked towards him, in the Memory Corridor.

• Beneseck: I sought pleasure with the silver I received from the Order. I shared it too, with many in need.
• Eivor: Don't be blinded by the gleam of your bloodlust. Shared silver always comes at a cost.
• Beneseck: What of it? I forged good from what you call evil. Lives were improved, lives worth more than the silver that paid for them. I do not regret the lives lost for the charity gained.

Eivor shook her head and reached forward, taking Beneseck's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Yohanes Loukas was assassinated in the town of Fearnhamme in western Hamtunscire, Yohanes, looking in the distance, started a conversation with Eivor, in the Memory Corridor.

• Yohanes: I cared about my family. Just my family. I loved them more than anything.

Eivor responded as she walked around the priest.

• Eivor: And the families who fell by the Order's command. Were they not worthy of love?
• Yohanes: You are a Dane! How can you speak of the value of a life? All are ranked as less-than-the-axe to you!
• Eivor: Not true. I see honor in many people, many places.
• Yohanes: You have proved here that your compassion has a hard and brutal limit.

Eivor reached forward, taking Yohanes' Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Heika was assassinated in the market of Colcestre in Essexe, Heika, sitting, started a conversation with Eivor, in the Memory Corridor.

• Heika: These Hidden Ones, is that who you slave for?
• Eivor: I slave for none. I'm scrubbing England clean of its filth for the safety of my people.

Heika stood up and responded

• Heika: Ah, listen! Do you hear? The excuses of a mind enslaved.

As Heika laughed insanely, Eivor reached forward, taking Heika's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

After Sister Blaeswith was assassinated, Blaeswith started the conversation while facing towards the distance until she turned towards Eivor mid-response.

• Blaeswith: The archbishop never suspected my heresy. I kept secrets as I gathered believers. I appeared so pious, my eyes bled for him. But I've never felt as much love for his god. Not like I do the old Gods. The true gods. Our ancient creators.

Eivor shook her head and retorted

• Eivor: Your life was a lie, you mean? You threw your honor into the ocean.
• Blaeswith: When I told the archbishop my true belief, he was horrified. So I silenced him.
• Eivor: That silence comes for you now.

Eivor reached forward, taking Blaeswith's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

Wardens of Relics

Fulke

After killing Fulke, Eivor was seen beating Fulke's head in, while Fulke laughed like a lunatic, in the Memory Corridor.

• Eivor: Burn in your Hell!

Eivor was then forcibly retracted by Odin, as Fulke laughed and coughed at Eivor.

• Odin: Stop! You misunderstand, Eivor.

Eivor then ran back to kill her, only to be stopped by Odin again.

• Eivor: I'll eat your heart!
• Odin: She has saved your brother!

Fulke started to speak to Eivor just as a giant manifestation of a bound Sigurd appeared behind her.

• Fulke: Animals, we are. Spit and vomit, shit and soil. But Sigurd is so much more. I gave him that understanding, that gift.

Fulke then started to turn a wheel, to inflict pain onto her manifestation. The manifestation then screamed out as his eyes began to light up.

• Eivor: You gave him pain!
• Fulke: Yes! To awaken him! All that power! All that potential, locked away!

The manifestation then broke free of his bondage and screamed again in anger.

• Fulke: A god trapped within a prison of bones. The pain was necessary to free him! Behold his terrible beauty!

The manifestation then picked Fulke up and then squeezed Fulke, in mid-response, to death.

• Fulke: The beauty of the divine!

Shocked, Eivor was left paralyzed as Odin moved towards her. The manifestation also bent down to reach for Eivor.

• Odin: Hers was the great work, the highest achievement of humankind. Now you, Eivor - you must carry it forward.
• Eivor: Sigurd...

Zealots

RedwaldaEorforwineKendallColaCudberctHorsaWuffaWealdmaerWodenOsgarHeikeHrothgarCallinBeorhtsigeBercthun

After Redwalda was killed, Redwalda started a conversation, while holding his side, with Eivor in the Memory Corridor.

• Redwalda: I once served and prayed under Saint Chad of Mercia at Tamworth. I was a monk. I should stayed there.
• Eivor: Did Saint Chad die with his axe at his hand?
• Redwalda: Saint Chad will be revered for avoiding the axe. I wish I had done so myself, and not taken a path full of violent honor. The Old Gods will fade from our sight, in time. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

Eivor reached forward, taking Redwalda's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Eorforwine was killed, Eorforwine started a conversation, while lying on the ground and barely breathing, with Eivor, who kneeled to her, in the Memory Corridor.

• Eorforwine: A worm came creeping. He tore a man in two, then Woden took nine Glory-Twigs...
• Eivor: Is this a prayer? An offerring? Or a final vestige of your oath?
• Eorforwine: Only a charm I never finished.

Eivor reached forward, taking Eorforwine's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

After Kendall was killed, Eivor started the conversation, walking towards Kendall, who was sitting hunched over, in the Memory Corridor.

• Eivor: Now the trolls take you.
• Kendall: I have seen a crown on a cleaning basin. There it was. I stole it. Ran with it. Hid it. Now maggots feast on it, I am certain. Let them rule Old Albion.

Eivor reached forward, taking Kendall's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

After Cola was killed, Cola started the conversation and turned towards Eivor in the Memory Corridor.

• Cola: This is a mere moment. No one will remember it. No one. Not your name, nor mine. It all ends up the same.
• Eivor: Regret torments you?

Cola pointed, in digust, at Eivor and responded

• Cola: My only regret is losing to whatever you are. You reek of fading glory.

Eivor reached forward, taking Cola's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Cudberct was killed, Cudberct started a conversation, while lying on the ground and coughing, with Eivor, who kneeled to him, in the Memory Corridor.

• Cudberct: All of these men of God, festooned in gold and silver.
• Eivor: It is enough to make one man blind.
• Cudberct: We ARE blind of now. Lennius was our only king. He saw straight and fought alongside Arturious. We have been blind ever since.

As Cudberct passed away, Eivor reached forward, taking Cudberct's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Horsa was killed, Eivor started a conversation with Horsa, who sat on the ground, in the Memory Corridor.

• Eivor: No sunlight reaches where you are going. May you bathe in serpent skins. Your name, Frown-Hoard, Quick the Dead ... whatever it may be, is stained forever.

As Eivor kneeled to Horsa, Horsa replied

• Horsa: My name is Horsa. I left silver in the mouth of my home. Please see that it is spent well and frivolously.

Eivor reached forward, taking Horsa's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Wuffa was killed, Eivor started the conversation, kneeling towards Wuffa, who was lying on the ground, in the Memory Corridor.

• Eivor: Vilijalauss (will-less), now you die.
• Wuffa: My ... my sword is lost. Floating down a creek. I shall follow. Till I dance again, or drown.

Eivor reached forward, taking Wuffa's Order medallion, and her spirit immediately vanished.

After Wealdmaer was killed, Wealdmaer, holding his side and kneeling, started the conversation by yelling out to Eivor, in the Memory Corridor.

• Wealdmaer: Why, why, why? Lost are everyone.
• Eivor: You mostly, Argr.
• Wealdmaer: For Hretha, Eostre, and Saetere. I served the true gods. The old ones. To be killed by you holds honor! Killing holds all glory!

Eivor reached forward, taking Wealdmaer's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Woden was killed, Eivor started the conversation, kneeling towards Woden, who was lying on the ground, in the Memory Corridor.

• Eivor: No more winters for you.
• Woden: Better to die than face my lords. I hope my Maegester Magnus forgives me. For so long I looked to him for guidance, for order.
• Eivor: If your honor is slow, a true lord cannot forgive you. They cannot.
• Woden: Bah! Now I will my gaze to Woden, Tiw, and Funor. I will continue to turn until I find some forgiveness.

As Woden passed away, Eivor stated his last words to him, just as he reached forward, taking Woden's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

• Eivor: You will spin and drill yourself to a endless bottom.

After Osgar was killed, Osgar, who was lying on the ground, started the conversation with Eivor, who kneeled to him, in the Memory Corridor.

• Osgar: Offa betrayed us all in Deira. Now we crawl about for the scraps. Whatever crumbs you leave behind after your raids.
• Eivor: You wish you were a raider. A drengr.
• Osgar: Yes.
• Eivor: Farvell (goodbye), Sword-Cloven.

Eivor reached forward, taking Osgar's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Heike was killed, Heike, holding his side, started the conversation with Eivor in the Memory Corridor.

• Heike: In the Kingdom of Frisia, we honor your type, pagan. We strive as you strive to achieve the perfection of the Ancient Ones.
• Eivor: Pagan?
• Osgar: To be pagan is perfect.

Eivor reached forward, taking Heike's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Hrothgar was killed, Hrothgar, leaning hurt against a stone, started his monologue to Eivor in the Memory Corridor.

• Hrothgar: I once knew a man who cleaned all the rats in Lunden. He took his time. They loved him, and he loved them. They lived freely but came to see him for a scrub. Rats have a certain freedom, but they feed on shit. It's a coward's freedom. A Valholl for the vanquished.

Eivor reached forward, taking Hrothgar's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Callin was killed, Callin, leaning hurt against a stone, started the conversation to Eivor, who kneeled to him, in the Memory Corridor.

• Callin: I often awake in my vagrancy, shaking and sweating. I hope this stops now.
• Eivor: Farvell (goodbye). The trolls await.

Eivor reached forward, taking Callin's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Beorhtsige was killed, Beorhtsige started the conversation to Eivor in the Memory Corridor.

• Beorhtsige: In these old wolds, I used to lie down and pray that the leaves would cover me. That I could drag them over me like a blanket ... And join Cernunnos ... in a bed of leaves. Tuck me in, stranger. With a song.
• Eivor: The sound of Odin stomping on your bones is the only song you'll hear.

Eivor reached forward, taking Beorhtsige's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

After Bercthun was killed, Eivor, looking up, started the conversation to Bercthun in the Memory Corridor.

• Eivor: We sweat and toil to reach this moment.
• Bercthun: The Ancient Ones lap at my sweat now. That war-sweat the Roman God hates so much, we long for.
• Eivor: This god or that. A good feast with fresh battle milk on our brows is not something you will ever taste again.
• Bercthun: Choke on my bones.

Eivor reached forward, taking Bercthun's Order medallion, and his spirit immediately vanished.

Outcome

Eivor hunted down every Order of the Ancients member in England and recovered their medallions for Hytham.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla