I Need a Hero

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

Description

After Kassandra helped the Spartans win Megaris, a Commander was eager to strike against the Athenians, yet a certain Athenian commander barred his triumph.

Trivia

The name of the memory is a reference to Bonnie Tyler's song Holding Out for a Hero, the chorus of which begins with the words "I need a hero."

References

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey memories

Odyssey
Prologue
Battle of Thermopylae
Episode 1
Another Day, Another Drachmae
So It Begins - Debt Collector
A Debt to Pay
(A Fight with Talos) An Eye for an Eye - Fancy Guests - Penelope's Shroud - The Big Break
Episode 2
The Wolf Hunt
Learning the Ropes - Equal Employment Opportunity Program - A Journey into War - The Athenian Leader - (The Missing Map - Portion Control - Hunting Hyrkanos - Crumble and Burn - One Man Army - The Athenian Treasure Trove) - The Final Push - The Wolf of Sparta
Episode 3
The Wolf and Snake
Onwards to Phokis - The Wolf's Fate
Of Visions and Visionaries
Consulting a Ghost - The Truth Will Out
Beware the Snakes
Snake in the Grass - The Serpent's Lair
Episode 4
An Old Enemy and a New Ally
Memories Awoken (Hull, Yeah! - Upgrade the Spear)
The Road to the Symposium
Welcome to Athens - A Venomous Encounter - Escape from Athens - Ostracized - Perikles's Symposium (Drink Up - Oil and Love)
Episode 5
A Perscription for Discovery
First Do No Harm - The Priests of Asklepios (Enough is Enough - Written in Stone - A Heart for a Head) - Speak No Evil - The Doctor Will See You Now - A Herald of Murder - Ashes to Ashes
Land of the Lawless
To Find a Girl - To Help a Girl - Follow That Boat - Port of Lawlessness - Monger Down
Pirate Hospitality
Island of Misfortune (Red in the Wreckage - Lost and Found - Recruitment Drive - We're Not Thieves - We're Treasure Hunters - A Chest Full of Drachmae)
Episode 6
Rising from the Ashes
Abandoned By the Gods (A Growing Sickness) - And the Streets Run Red - Athens's Last Hope
Episode 7
The Reunion
A Mother's Prayers - Catching Up
Paradise Lost
Death and Disorder - Quarry Quandary - Going Down - The Paros Blockade - Unified Front
Home is Where my Mother is
Home Sweet Home (Bully the Bullies - One Bad Spartan Spoils the Bunch) - Kings of Sparta
Olympics
Delivering a Champion - The Contender (Barnabas Abroad) - The Long Game - Pankration
The Cult and the Archon
To Kill or Not to Kill - Judge, Jury, Executioner (White Lies and Blackmail - Gluten Free - Breaking Bread - Fourth-Degree Burns)
Paint it Red
The Conqueror - The Fall of Deianeira (Sibling Revenge)- The Last Fight of Aristaios - The End of Drakon (Brewing Love - The Stolen Steed) - The Last Hunt of Nesaia
The Cultist King
A Bloody Feast - The Battle of Pylos
Episode 8
Uprising
Doing Time - The Resistance
Public Opinion
An Actor's Life for Me - A-Musing Tale - Unearthing the Truth - The Knights
Battle of Amphipolis
We Will Rise
Episode 9
Homecoming
Where It All Began - Dinner in Sparta
Epilogue
We Remember
Hunt the Cult of Kosmos
From the Shadows
The Delian League - The Eyes of Kosmos - The Gods of the Aegean Sea - The Heroes of the Cult - The Peloponnesian League - The Silver Vein - The Worshippers of the Bloodline - A Fresh Start
Between Two Worlds
A Family's Legacy - The Gates of Atlantis - Ancient Revelations - Atlantis Destroyed
A Place of Twists and Turns
Myths and Minotaurs - Of Minotaurs and Men (Blood in the Water - Full Circle - Recollections) - Seeking Answers - He Waits
The Last Riddle
Lore of the Sphinx - Awaken the Myth
Tunnel Vision
A God Among Men - Left to Dye - Stairway to Olympos
Shadows of Serpents
Romancing the Stone Garden - Love's Long Shadow - A Slithery Plea (Hard to Artemis - Heavy is the Spear - Keys to Happiness?) - Writhing Dead

World Side Quests
Abantis Islands
Once a Slave
Argolis
Death Comes For Us All
Greece
Athena, Ares, Me - Besieging Bandits - Cave Crusader - Chain of Possession - Fortress Fallout - Lacerated Leaders - Property - Stealing From the Poor - Thieving from Athenians - Zealot's Cache
Kephallonia Islands
Lumbering Along - In the Footsteps of Gods - Hungry Gods - Shark the Vagrant - Mercenary Work - A Small Odyssey - A Ship Came Sailing
Korinthia
Escort Service
Kythera Island
Idiot Hunt - Purple Pain - Takes Drachmae to Make Drachmae
Lakonia
A Legendary Hunt - Training Days - Brothers in Arms - Not My Mother's Daughter - A Treasury of Legends - Sacred Favors - A Godless Blight - End of the Day
Lokris
Family Values - Confiscated
Messara
Catch and Release - The Lost Arkalochori Axe - Flowers for the Dead - Gortyn Out of Hand - Fang for Your Buck - Revenge Served Cold - It's Complicated - Bare It All - Civil Unrest - Say That Again!
Naxos Island
The Writing's on the Wall
Pephka
The Grand Minotour - Bravely Ran Away
Petrified Islands
Chip on Your Shoulder - Hostage Situation - Caged and Enraged - Clothes Make the Daughter - The Elixir - Revenge of the Wolf - Shroud of the Bear - Son of a Fisherman - Waiting for Galarnos - Qamra, Medicine Woman
Phokis
Crewless - Photios's Pre-Tirement - Age is Just a Number
Pirate Islands
Making Friends - Heart of Stone
Silver Islands
Trouble in Paradise - Call to Arms - Hades, Meet Podarkes - "M" for Murder - Grin and Bear It - A Night to Remember
Southern Sporades
Dead or Alive - The Con of Cons

Character Side Quests
Agapios
Death and Taxes - Freedom Isn't Free (Dagger to the Heart - Wasn't Born the Kingfisher - Blood and Water - The Taxman Cometh) - Sharp Tongue - The Kingfisher and the Robin
Alkibiades
Handle with Care - Designated Rider - Rock Hard - Across the Border - Happily Ever After?
Barnabas
A Pirate's Life
Daughters of Artemis
The Daughters of Artemis - The Goddesses' Hunt - (Kallisto the Bear - The Erymanthian Boar - The Hind of Keryneia - The Kretan Bull - The Krokottas Hyena - The Lykaon Wolf - The Nemean Lion) - Artemis's Request
Demosthenes
Creating Opportunity - The Wise Warrior - In the Midst of Chaos - Swift as Wind - Last Request - The Final Battle
Drakios
Call to Arms - The Great Contender - Legend No More
Eppie
A Life's Dedication - Language of the Ancients - Chasing Phantoms - Origins of a Ritual - The Tribute - Keep the Faith
Eritha
I, Diona - Place in the Kosmos (All Bonds Will Break - Atoll Order - Pick Your Poison - The Handmaiden's Story) - In a Rush - By the Fates
Heitor
A Friend in Need... - Heitor's Gonna Hate
Hippokrates
The Hunting Party - Let My Patients Go - Inheritance Insurance - Too Much of a Good Thing
Kleon
For the People - He Who Stops - The Liberator
Kyra
Kyra with a Cause - Bleeding Hearts and Stolen Money - Goddess of the Hunt
Leiandros
Minotour De Force - The Pre-Trial of Accuracy - The Pre-Trial of Endurance - The Pre-Trial of Strength - Cashing In On the Cow - What Lies Below the Surface - No More Bull
Lykaon
Helping a Healer - Sins of the Past - The Unkindest Cut
Lysander
Ambition - Only Fools Want War - Rise Through the Ranks - The Cost of War - Know Your Enemy - Nemesis
Markos
A Business Opportunity - Old Friends, Old Problems - Farm in Flames - Markos's Fate
Mikkos
Tough Love - Have You Seen My Mikkos? (Doctor's Pet - Indulging Just a Little - School of Hard Knocks) Retribution
Odessa
A Family Ordeal - The True Story
The Olympics
Throwing the Bet - Gutter Runner - The Drachmae of Romance - Kallipateira
Phidias
The Message, the Stick, and the Artist - Art Leading Life - (The Kytheran Statue - The Samian Statue - The Thasian Statue) - Pieces of the Puzzle - Journey's End
Phoibe
The Blood Fever
Roxana
Sparring with Roxana - Archery Practice - Foot Race
Skoura
They Just Want Cruelty - Heroes of the Arena
Sokrates
Citizenship Test - Witness Him - Free Speech - On a High Horse - A Life's Worth - The Sokratic Method
Thaletas
The Thaletas Way - Paint the Sand Red - Hearts of War
Xenia
Birds of a Feather (Rumored Feather Location) - Sacred Vows (Rumored Bracelet Location) - She Who Controls the Seas (Rumored Conch Shell Location) - Throw the Dice (Pan's Flute - Apollo's Lyre) - Priceless Treasure

Tombs and Ancient Stelae

Tomb of Alkathous - Tomb of the First Pythia - Artemision Tomb - Mycenaean Tomb of Ajax - Tomb of Eteokles - Pheidon's Tomb - Agamemnon's Tomb - Giant Heroes Burial Ground - Alkaios Tomb - Tomb of Brizo - Tomb of Polybotes - Tomb of the Forgotten Hero - Tomb of the Daughter of Atlas - Waterfall of Styx - Tomb of the First Champion - Destroyed House of Oinomaos - Tomb of Orion - Tomb of Eurypylos - Parmenon Tomb - Abandoned Tomb - Tomb of Orpheus - Stony Sepulchre

Impact Side Quests
Another Wolf Another Day - Begging for Revenge - Competing Admirers - Dare to Desert - Effects of the Dead - Falling on Deaf Ears - Fight Fire with Fire - Grieving Widow To Be - Honey Eyes - Infantile Revenge - Left for Dead - Merciful Gods - Positive Change - The Real Killer - Rightfully Mine - Rival Lovers - Sent by Brasidas - There Goes the Neighborhood - Trouble Follows - Wasted Devotion

Timed Side Quests

A Midsummer Nightmare - Always Vengeance - Ares Isn't Known for Forgiveness - Art of War - A Stolen Offering - Bad Romance - The Beggar's Fate - The Branded Runaway - Broken Promises - Catch Her in the Barley - Change Can Be Taxing - The Charlatan's Amulet - The Child Lives - The Con Woman at the Fountain - Cultibility - Curses and Cures - Dances with Witches - The Decorated Dagger - Dirty Deals - Disappearing Act - Discretion and Accessibility - Every Time You Speak I Just Die - False Idols - Family Trinkets - Feed The Abyss - Feverish Deserters - A Foolish Errand - From the Heart - A Full Bladder - Goats and Ghosts - Goddess of the Hunt - The Gods Have Plenty - The Gods Need No Gold - Have Your Cake - Hungry Soldiers - The Hunter Remains - I Heard She's Bad Live - I Need a Hero - Injured on the Job - Keep On Deserting - Knife in the Dark - Love Letter Blood Letter - Lying On Your Resume - The Marauders' Lesson - Memorial Murder - Miners' Strike - Mistaken Identity - Morality Issues - More Drachmae More Problems - No Time for Scouts - Not Just Decoration - Olive Wreath - Pilfered Hecatomb - Plagues, Sharks, and Other Good Times - Precious Bridle - Precious Jewels - Protected in Death - Rage of a Spartan - Recovered Relic - The Rent Is Too Cursed High - Thought and Deed - Save the Forest - Shop Talk - Spoiled Meats - Spy Hunt - Spy vs. Friend - Tainted Sacrifice - Thieves Bandits Bastards - To Die For - Travel Restriction - Tummy Troubles - Under Geared - Wipe Them Out - Witchy Wolfen

Message Board Quests
Bounties
Bounty on an Athenian Leader - Bounty on an Athenian Ship - Bounty on Athenian Ships - Bounty on an Athenian Soldier - Bounty on Athenian Soldiers - Bounty on a Bandit - Bounty on Bandits - Bounty on a Daughter of Artemis - Bounty on a Follower of Ares - Bounty on a Mercenary - Bounty on a Merchant Ship - Bounty on Merchant Ships - Bounty on a Politician - Bounty on a Spartan Leader - Bounty on a Spartan Ship - Bounty on a Spartan Soldier - Bounty on Spartan Soldiers - The Bright One - The Lightning Bringer
Contracts
Ares and the Savages - Arrows of Destruction - Ashes to Ashes - The Athenian Weapon - Athens's Fury - The Bandits of Misfortune - Battlefield Victories - Beating the Hammer - The Belladonna Kiss - Better on Foot, but Dangerous on the Sea - The Big Game - Blades of Justice - Bleeding Blue - Blood Money - Blood Muscles - Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Bloody Beasts - The Bloody Land - Blue Tears on the Sea - Brutal Force - Burn the Black Flag - Burn Their Future - Burned Hopes - Burned Men and Broken Skulls - Burning Booty - The Call of Death - The Call of Democracy - The Call of Nature - Cannibal Annihilation - Champions of Athena - Charged Vengeance - Chests of Glory - Children of Athens - Clear the Land for Athens - Cursed Gold - Cursed Lands - Dangerous Courage - Dangerous Fangs - Daughters of Death - Dead Archers, Healthy Sparta - Dead Scouts for Healthy Sparta - Deadly Precision - Depleting Forces - Depleting Spartan Forces - Destroy the Supplies - Destroying Feasts - Dining in Hell - Dying Sea - Fear of Arrows - The Fear of Arrows - Fire at Will - Flat Muscles - For Spartan Glory - For the Blue Banner - Forced Acquisition - Forced Starvation - Empty the Stocks - Great Cleansing - High Ranks of War - Hitting the Weak - Hoplites of Chaos - Horrors of War - The Illusion of Peace - In flames, It Disappears - Inside Threat - Killing Order Givers - Killing the Blues - Lakonian Vessels - Lawless Hearts - Leading Forces - Little Fists of Rage - Masters of the Sea - Muscles of Power - The Naval Problem - No Future for the Hungry - No More Red - Ocean Threat - Open Season - Out for Blood - Out of Here - Paint the Land Red - Paint the Ocean Blue - Paint the Ocean Red - Plague of Villainy - Poison in the Air - Poisonous Land - Poor Don't Fight - Raging War - Red Fire - Red Grudges - The Red Harvest - The Red Orders - Red Sails, Dead Sailors - A Red Sea - Red Skies - Red-Tainted Gold - Red Tears on the Sea - Remove the Vermin - Rooting Out Spartan Forces - Safeguarding Trade Routes - Savage Requisition - Shadow Forces - Shedding Ares's Blood - Sparta's Wrath - The Spartan Attempt - Spartan Blood - Spartan Fury - Spartan Futility - Spartan Heads - Spartan Heights - Spartan Orders - The Spartan Payback - Surprise Bankruptcy - Spartan Territories - Starve the Enemy - Starving the Beast - Steel and Fire - Supplies Lower than Demand - Target of Choice - Athenian Archers - Target of Choice - Athenian Marksmen - Target of Choice - Athenian Strategoi - Target of Choice – Spartan Brutes - Target of Choice - Spartan Hoplites - Target of Choice - Spartan Strategoi - The Taste of Flesh - The Terror of Ares - To Clear the Ocean - To Hell and Back - Top Source of Problems - Where Feathers Fall - War for the Sea - Watered Down - Waters of Fate - Weakening the Enemy - Weeding Out Athenian Forces - When the Weak Fall - Wilderness at its Best - Wrath of Hephaistos - Wrecking Athenian Forces
Naval
I'd Bet On the Pirates - Of Sharks and Spartans - Party Supplies - Skull and Bones - Up for Grabs

The Lost Tales of Greece
The Show Must Go On
Setting the Stage (A Sophisticated Tipple - Everyman's Drink) - Evening the Odds - The Curse of Fame - The Hedonistic Method - Showtime
A Divine Intervention
Test of Judgment - Test of Character - Test of Faith - Test of Adaptability - Test of Courage
The Image of Faith
The Measure of a Man - Bad Weed - Down From On High - The Wild Hunt - Chicken or Egg - A Matter of Faith
The Daughters of Lalaia
A Gathering Storm - Sharp Lessons - Daughters of Artemis and Daughters of Aphrodite - Learning the Land - The Ore of Aphrodite - The Best Defense - Blood for Aphrodite
A Poet's Legacy
Praxilla's Admirer - Lyre Lyre - Repairing the Lyre - Praxilla's Legacy
A Brother's Seduction
Prodigal Son's Return - Honoring the Dead (Bloody Libation - Dressing up for Charon) - Career Orientation - Wounds of Days Gone By - Moving On
A Friend Worth Dying For
Odyssey Into the Past (Beware the Siren Call - To Be Nobody - Wine for the Swine) - Daddy's Home - Demeter's Fire
The Heir of Memories
The Heir of Memories - Finding Theras - Three Symbols Entombed (Agamemnon's Symbol - Eteokles's Symbol - Orion's Symbol) - Phidias' Murder
One Really, Really Bad Day
Righting a Wrong - A Town in Need, Indeed (A Horse, of Course - Ajax on Fire - The Blind Blacksmith) - Here Be Pirates - There Can Be Only One
Every Story Has an Ending
Letter from Home - Regrets - Followers of Truth - Family Values - Defense of Samos - Moving Forward
Old Flames Burn Brighter
Where We Left Off - Runaway - Unplanned Parenthood - A Night in Tegea
Sokrates' Trial
A Sokratic Mess - Finding One's Voice - Persuasion Check - Deposition Opposition - You're Such a Sokratease

DLC
The Blind King
Prince of Persia
Secrets of Greece
The Dunce Conundrum - Another Kind of Poetry
Those Who Are Treasured
A Great Escape - No Rest For the Misthios - Not All Treasure Should Be Found - A Message Delivered - Power Corrupts All - A New Horizon
Miscellaneous
A Kind of Treasure Hunt

Legacy of the First Blade
Hunted
Main Quests
The Horsemen Cometh - Shadow of a Legend - More Questions than Answers - Hunting the Huntsman (Starting the Hunt - Mysterious Malady - Revealing the Recruiter - Whimpers Through the Fog) - Piecing the Puzzle - Protector of Persia - The Order of Hunters
Side Quests
The City that Cried Wolf - A Curious Request - Taking Out the Competition (Agis of the North - Gaia the Fist - Theos the Stargazer - A Good Toast) - Thank You, Maláka! - Again, Maláka?! - Dead Man Rises - Hide-and-Seek - Finders Keepers
Shadow Heritage
Main Quests
Stranger Tides - Into the Storm - Chasing the Storm (Persian Puppetry - Prodigal - Theatrics and Espionage - Safe Passage - Calm Before the Storm) - Leviathan's Maw - Home - Order of the Storm - Knives in the Dark (Atos the Beast Caller - Hirpes the Sordid - Aias the Clean - Kephalon the Thinker - Proktos the Moon King)
Side Quests
On the Grapevine - Thank You, Misthios - Tides of War
Bloodline
Main Quests
The Simple Life - A Flight in Fire - Answers from Ashes - Two Knives Against the Dark (Command and Control - The Ordering of the Kosmos - The Spartan Dog - The Trap Is Set) - The Last Magi - Smoke and Fury - Legacy of the First Blade - Remnant of the Ancients - The Order of Dominion
Side Quests
Give Our Respects - The Favor - No More Wine

The Fate of Atlantis
Fields of Elysium
Main Quests
The Isu Beckon - Trials of the Keeper - Welcome to Elysium - A Lover and A Fighter - Dark Horse - Sudden and New - The Keeper and Key Maker - The Keeper and Kyros - The Keeper and the Flame - The Keeper, a Killer - Good News - Have Another Drink - Popular - Dead Kings and Pretty Things - Persephone's Little Birds - A Life for a Life - The Beacons Are Lit - No Good Deed - The Rebellion's Uprising - A Growing Perception - Give 'Em Hades
Side Quests
Free Their Minds, the Rest Will Follow
Torment of Hades
Main Quests
The Second Calling - Guardian of the Gates - The Underworld's Fallen Guardians - Pay the Ferryman - Beyond the Veil - The Next Lesson - Labors of the Keeper
Side Quests
Lost, but Not Forgotten - A Young Warrior's Ghosts - Undoing What's Been Done - The Warrior, the Eagle Bearer - A New Lease on Death - Arms of Atonement - The Snake Sheds His Skin - Death Before Dishonor - A Cursed Sickness - Home is Where You Make It - Death-Light Robbery - I Don't Belong Here - The Weight of Sparta - Kill Me Once, Shame on You - Fallen from Grace
Judgment of Atlantis
Main Quests
The Last Call - Welcome Home - Burden of Leadership (Crowd Pleaser - Rebel Scum - The Atlantean Patient) - A Complete Education - Wisdom of the Ancients - The Fate of Atlantis
Side Quests
Rightfully Yours - Lighten Up - The Birds and the Bees - In Dreams - Most Adamantly - Blood Gets In Your Eyes - Fire Amid the Water - Good From Far, Far From Good (Sixth Sense of Sympathy - Through the Cracks) - Deadly Little Secrets

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