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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Life as Kassandra's companion=== | |||
[[File:Debt Collector - Kassandra and Ikaros - Assassins Creed Odyssey.png|thumb|250px|Ikaros meeting the young Kassandra]] | |||
Ikaros was the oldest and dearest friend of [[Pythagoras]], who sent Ikaros watch over his daughter Kassandra.<ref name="Gates of Atlantis">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[The Gates of Atlantis]]</ref> In 451 BCE, after the girl was cast down from the top of [[Mount Taygetos]] by her adopted father [[Nikolaos]], Ikaros landed beside her at the mountain's base amidst piles of [[human]] bones. He remained by her side when she fled from [[Sparta]] by [[boat]] and washed ashore on [[Kephallonia]].<ref name="Debt Collector">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[Debt Collector]]</ref> | Ikaros was the oldest and dearest friend of [[Pythagoras]], who sent Ikaros watch over his daughter Kassandra.<ref name="Gates of Atlantis">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[The Gates of Atlantis]]</ref> In 451 BCE, after the girl was cast down from the top of [[Mount Taygetos]] by her adopted father [[Nikolaos]], Ikaros landed beside her at the mountain's base amidst piles of [[human]] bones. He remained by her side when she fled from [[Sparta]] by [[boat]] and washed ashore on [[Kephallonia]].<ref name="Debt Collector">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[Debt Collector]]</ref> | ||
Forming a close bond, Ikaros often operated alongside Kassandra during her career as a famed ''misthios'' to the extent that her epithet was "the Eagle Bearer".<ref name="ACOd">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]''</ref> Due to their connection, many considered Ikaros to be the "eagle of [[Jupiter|Zeus]]", as eagles were the sacred animals of the Greek god.<ref name="So It Begins">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[So It Begins]]</ref><ref name="Big Break">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[The Big Break]]</ref><ref name="Trouble in Paradise">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[Trouble in Paradise]]</ref> When Kassandra decided to leave [[Greece]] in 420 BCE to fulfill her duty as the Keeper of the [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], Ikaros accompanied her on her new journey<ref name="A New Horizon">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] – [[Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories]]'' – [[A New Horizon]]</ref> until his eventual death from natural causes. | Forming a close bond, Ikaros often operated alongside Kassandra during her career as a famed ''misthios'' to the extent that her epithet was "the Eagle Bearer".<ref name="ACOd">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]''</ref> Due to their connection, many considered Ikaros to be the "eagle of [[Jupiter|Zeus]]", as eagles were the sacred animals of the Greek god.<ref name="So It Begins">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[So It Begins]]</ref><ref name="Big Break">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[The Big Break]]</ref><ref name="Trouble in Paradise">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[Trouble in Paradise]]</ref> When Kassandra decided to leave [[Greece]] in 420 BCE to fulfill her duty as the Keeper of the [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], Ikaros accompanied her on her new journey<ref name="A New Horizon">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] – [[Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories]]'' – [[A New Horizon]]</ref> until his eventual death from natural causes. | ||
==Legacy== | ===Legacy=== | ||
By 405 BCE, when Kassandra traveled to [[Delos]] to help the Spartan forces in removing the region's two Athenian commanders Phaidos and Straton, she fondly remarked that she missed Ikaros flying around overhead.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR]]'' – [[Hunting the Bow]]</ref> When Kassandra met [[Layla Hassan]] at the [[Gateway to the Lost City]] in 2018, she mentioned that Ikaros had long since passed away.<ref name="Modern day">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> | By 405 BCE, when Kassandra traveled to [[Delos]] to help the Spartan forces in removing the region's two Athenian commanders Phaidos and Straton, she fondly remarked that she missed Ikaros flying around overhead.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR]]'' – [[Hunting the Bow]]</ref> When Kassandra met [[Layla Hassan]] at the [[Gateway to the Lost City]] in 2018, she mentioned that Ikaros had long since passed away.<ref name="Modern day">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center"> | <gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center"> | ||
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ACOD So It Begins 8.png|Ikaros and Phoibe | ACOD So It Begins 8.png|Ikaros and Phoibe | ||
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Ikaros (died 5th century) was a male golden eagle who served as a companion to the Spartan misthios Kassandra during the 5th century BCE.
Biography
Life as Kassandra's companion
Ikaros was the oldest and dearest friend of Pythagoras, who sent Ikaros watch over his daughter Kassandra.[2] In 451 BCE, after the girl was cast down from the top of Mount Taygetos by her adopted father Nikolaos, Ikaros landed beside her at the mountain's base amidst piles of human bones. He remained by her side when she fled from Sparta by boat and washed ashore on Kephallonia.[3]
Forming a close bond, Ikaros often operated alongside Kassandra during her career as a famed misthios to the extent that her epithet was "the Eagle Bearer".[4] Due to their connection, many considered Ikaros to be the "eagle of Zeus", as eagles were the sacred animals of the Greek god.[5][6][7] When Kassandra decided to leave Greece in 420 BCE to fulfill her duty as the Keeper of the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, Ikaros accompanied her on her new journey[8] until his eventual death from natural causes.
Legacy
By 405 BCE, when Kassandra traveled to Delos to help the Spartan forces in removing the region's two Athenian commanders Phaidos and Straton, she fondly remarked that she missed Ikaros flying around overhead.[9] When Kassandra met Layla Hassan at the Gateway to the Lost City in 2018, she mentioned that Ikaros had long since passed away.[10]
Skills
Ikaros' reconnaissance ability was of great help to Kassandra during her travels. In addition to this, Ikaros helped her also by attacking those who had targeted her, and by distracting Kassandra's human enemies at her bidding. He gave Kassandra literal Eagle Vision, as she saw through his eyes. If Kassandra was hunting, Ikaros would occasionally sweep down to get a kill of his own.[4]
Behind the scenes
Ikaros is a companion animal for the player character in the 2018 video game Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. He functions almost exactly the same as Senu in the 2017 game Assassin's Creed: Origins, with the sole exception being that he can hurt and even kill humans on his own,[4] unlike Senu.[11]
Ikaros shares his name with Ikaros, a figure in Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun against his father Daidalos' advice and fell to his death.[12]
Although Kassandra could summon Ikaros during her time in Aletheia's simulations of Elysium,[13] the Underworld,[14] and Atlantis,[15] Hades, and Elysium, no explanation has been offered for how this is possible given that Alethia is not known to have also owned a bird with whom she shared senses.
Gallery
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Ikaros and Kassandra -
Ikaros and Phoibe -
Ikaros on Kassandra's arm -
Kassandra petting Ikaros -
Kassandra scratching Ikaros -
Ikaros biting Kassandra -
Ikaros attacking a soldier -
Ikaros harassing a mercenary -
Ikaros in flight
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey novel
- Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide (2nd edition)
- Assassin's Creed: Where's the Assassin? (non-canon)
- Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR (mentioned only)
References
- ↑ The natural life expectancy of a golden eagle is around 30 years. As Ikaros is first shown meeting Kassandra in 451 BCE and is implied to have been Pythagoras' companion for at least a few years before that, this would mean that when he was last seen alive in 420 BCE, Ikaros was nearing the end of his life.
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Gates of Atlantis
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Debt Collector
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – So It Begins
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Big Break
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Trouble in Paradise
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories – A New Horizon
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR – Hunting the Bow
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Modern day
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins
- ↑
Icarus on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Fields of Elysium
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Torment of Hades
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis
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