Dark Horse

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Dark Horse was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.

Description

After letting some time pass after their poor first meeting, Kassandra decided to pay Persephoone a visit.

Dialogue

Kassandra entered Persephone's throne room atop Pheraphassa Point, the highest peak of the Asphodel Fields. Persephone called to her from her throne.

• Persephone: I didn't get a good enough look at you back there. Now I see why my guards had trouble with you.
• Kassandra: Well. They weren't exactly easy.
• Persephone: I'm sure they aren't what mortals like you are used to. You must be someone special.

I'm flattered.This isn't what I expected.

• Kassandra: Thank you, uh, your majesty.
• Persephone: A simple "Persephone" will do just fine in my realm. Formalities are for the boring—isn't that what they say?

• Kassandra: You're acting pretty nice for someone who just tried to kill me.
• Persephone: Consider that a misunderstanding. It isn't every day I see a new face in my realm, much less one as lively as yours.

• Kassandra: So Elysium belongs to you.
• Persephone: After the rude introduction I gave you, I can't blame you for not knowing—let me apologize. Ros can attest. Usually he's the one that does the biting.

Ros barked.

• Persephone: He would want you to forgive me, too. Tell me your name. Let's begin again—on the right foot, this time.

I forgive you.I'll think about it.

• Kassandra: No hard feelings. My name's Kassandra.

• Kassandra: I tend to take attacks against me personally.
• Persephone: I understand your mistrust, but I want to be friends. This place is paradise, after all. There's no room for enemies.
• Kassandra: This place is beautiful. I'm Kassandra.

• Persephone: Then I give you my official welcome, Kassandra. Let me tell you what's customary around here. This place is mine. I know every flower, every face. I alone let them in. But there's something here I don't want.

Kassandra stepped forward to inspect the giant pit in the center of the throne room.

• Kassandra: You mean me.
• Persephone: No. There's a beast loose in Elysium, and it belongs to Hades. If it gets to him that his "wife" stole one of his immortal mounts, it'll be a disaster. But I didn't steal it. I won't go near the things—they brought me down here in the first place. No, someone wants me to look bad, and I need that horse gone.

(Asked "How do you feel about Hades?")

• Kassandra: The Hades? I'll take it you aren't a happy couple.
• Persephone: He's tried, of course, to bond with me. But what can he expect out of a prisoner? Love? That's just stuff of legend.

(Asked "Who would frame you?")

• Kassandra: You think someone would do this to you?
• Persephone: It's highly unlikely the thing got in here on its own. I have to remember Elysium is my paradise—not everyone else's.

(Leave – "I'll go find the horse.")

• Kassandra: I'll see if I can find the horse for you. What does it look like?
• Persephone: You'll know it when you see it, trust me. Not only is the beast immortal, but he is terrifying.
• Kassandra: Horses don't scare me. Has anyone seen him lately?
• Persephone: I heard screams coming from the Asphodel Arboretum—perhaps he's scaring civilians. Bring it to my stable boy, the Jockey of Artemision. He'll know how to send it galloping back to the nightmare it came from.

Kassandra nodded and took her leave.

Kassandra traveled to the Asphodel Arboretum. Ikaros located the horse's likely hiding place in the main building.

• Kassandra: That looks like a good place for a horse to take shelter.

As she approached the arboretum, she heard a commotion.

• Mortal Man: Ah! Get away from that beast!
• Kassandra: Wonder what's wrong with them.

Kassandra found an open window on the building's south side and climbed in. She found the horse in the care of a single blind old man.

[Dialogue, couple tabbers, either leave the poor blind old man with his only friend and immediately return to Persephone, or take the horse. Two routes, then dialogue before returning to Persephone.]
[Final dialogue with Persephone. Three tabber options: Gave horse to Jockey for auto-response, lie, or simply say "taken care of." Latter options lead to covering tracks with the Jockey. Tabber within tabber of bribing 1000 drachma (useless in Elysium), or the straight choice.]
[quest over]

Outcome

Kassandra resolved Persephone's issue with Orphnaeus, the horse from the Underworld. She either left Orphnaeus with Mulios, or claimed the horse and brought it to the Jockey of Artemision or Adonis' rebellion.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Fields of Elysium