Atlantis artifact

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The Atlantis artifacts were Precursor relics created by the Isu for use in the Olympos Project. There are four known artifacts: the Prize of the Medusa, the Prize of the Sphinx, the Prize of the Cyclops, and the Prize of the Minotaur.

History

The Atlantis artifacts were used by the Isu for the Olympos Project to create hybrid beasts and imbue them with great superhuman powers and energy based abilities; these hybrid beasts were the basis behind some of the monsters in Greek mythology. During the 5th century BCE, the misthios Kassandra found and slew these hybrids, taking their Atlantis artifacts back to Atlantis on behalf of her father Pythagoras and using them to seal off the Gateway there but also unknowingly activating Aletheia's recorded messages inside.

Functionality

"They corrupt the minds of lesser people and possess a will to defend themselves."

―Pythagoras

The artifacts were capable of transmutating humans who touched them into hybrid beasts, which gave birth to various myths of fantastical beasts in ancient Greece, including Cyclopes, gorgons, the Sphinx, and the Minotaur. When the artifact was active, it appeared as a glowing part of the hybrid beast's body. Because of the transformative effects on any human who touched any of the artifacts, the monsters of myth seemed to survive beyond their mythological deaths.

When the hybrid beasts were slain, the power of the artifacts left the bodies, rendering them as naught but desiccated corpses. While this might be taken to indicate that the artifacts were able to elongate human lifespan far beyond its normal limits, this was also the case with the last Writhing Dread, Ligeia, who had been possessed but for a relatively little while. Due to Kassandra's Isu heritage as a descendant of her Spartan grandfather King Leonidas I, an Isu-human hybrid, she was able to resist the artifacts' powers.

Behind the scenes

Atlantis artifacts are Isu technology introduced in the 2018 video game Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Although they look similar to the Apples of Eden seen throughout the Assassin's Creed series, the artifacts themselves are not Pieces of Eden. Despite this, the 2nd Edition of Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide (2nd ed.) categorizes the artifacts as Pieces of Eden.

In the memory "Guardian of the Gates" from Torment of Hades, the second installment of Odyssey's three-part downloadable expansion The Fate of Atlantis, Kassandra experiences Aletheia's simulation of the Underworld and recovers the Prize of Cerberos after killing Cerberos. Later, in the memory "The Fate of Atlantis" from the expansion's final installment Judgment of Atlantis, Kassandra experiences a simulation of Atlantis and recovers the Prize of the Hekatonchires from the slain Hekatonchires. However, due to both beasts' natures as simulations, it is unknown if they or similar creatures were ever part of the Olympos Project proper, and by extension, if their respective Prizes were actual Atlantis artifacts.

Gallery

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  The Writhing Dread's active artifact
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  The Writhing Dread's inert artifact
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  The Sphinx's active artifact
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  The Sphinx's inert artifact
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  The Cyclops' active artifact
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  The Cyclops' inert artifact
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  The Minotaur's active artifact
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  The Minotaur's inert artifact
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  The Writhing Dread activating its artifact
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  The Sphinx activating its artifact
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  The Cyclops activating its artifact
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  The Minotaur activating its artifact

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey