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'''Amanai Cave''' is a cave in the hills flanking the northeast side of [[Siwa]], [[Egypt]]. During the Ptolemaic dynasty, the | '''Amanai Cave''' is a cave in the hills flanking the northeast side of [[Siwa]], [[Egypt]] near the house of [[Hepzefa]]. During the Ptolemaic dynasty, the [[farmers]] of Siwa heavily depended on its springs for fresh water. | ||
In | ==History== | ||
In their childhood, the [[Medjay]] [[Bayek]] and his future wife [[Aya]] would often visit the Amanai Cave.<ref name="ACO Water Rats">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Water Rats]]</ref> | |||
== | In 48 BCE, bandits seized control of the cave and its fresh water spring as a means of extorting money from the people of Siwa, who desperately relied upon it for agriculture.<ref name="ACO Water Rats" /><ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''</ref> Notwithstanding this, they would assault anyone who came near their camp, both to rob them and to affirm their power. To dissuade intervention by the local authorities, they planned to turn them away through bribery.<ref name="ACO Water Rats" /> At a lost, the villagers then appealed to their [[Medjay]] [[Bayek]] for aid by sending a message to his close friend Hepzefa.<ref name="ACO" /> True to his duty, Bayek launched an attack on the bandit camp in the cave, single-handedly slaying all eight of the brigands and returning free access to the spring back to the people of Siwa.<ref name="ACO Water Rats" /> | ||
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*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' | *''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' | ||
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Amanai Cave is a cave in the hills flanking the northeast side of Siwa, Egypt near the house of Hepzefa. During the Ptolemaic dynasty, the farmers of Siwa heavily depended on its springs for fresh water.
History
In their childhood, the Medjay Bayek and his future wife Aya would often visit the Amanai Cave.[1]
In 48 BCE, bandits seized control of the cave and its fresh water spring as a means of extorting money from the people of Siwa, who desperately relied upon it for agriculture.[1][2] Notwithstanding this, they would assault anyone who came near their camp, both to rob them and to affirm their power. To dissuade intervention by the local authorities, they planned to turn them away through bribery.[1] At a lost, the villagers then appealed to their Medjay Bayek for aid by sending a message to his close friend Hepzefa.[2] True to his duty, Bayek launched an attack on the bandit camp in the cave, single-handedly slaying all eight of the brigands and returning free access to the spring back to the people of Siwa.[1]