- Kassandra: I need more than a name.
- Natakas: She's earned it.
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Shadow of a Legend
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Shadow of a Legend was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description
Kassandra tracked down a trail of bodies left behind near Potidaia.
Dialogue
After helping Natakas and the civilians, Kassandra headed op hill, following the trail of bodies and blood left behind.
- Kassandra: They left none alive...
She investigated a body.
- Kassandra: They didn't deserve this. They bodies lead towards the river...
Kassandra approached the river, finding bodies of several Spartan soldiers.
- Kassandra: Dead Spartans. And more up the river... I need to find who did this.
Kassandra headed up stream.
- Kassandra: How do Persians know who I am?
As she headed up, she found more bodies, this time of the Persian soldiers she encountered earlier.
- Kassandra: Clean kills... These Persians didn't see it coming.
Kassandra headed further up, finding two more dead Persians near a construct.
- Kassandra: Guards. Must be on the right path...
Kassandra climbed up the construct and found the body of the Order Elite.
- Kassandra: The Elite Guard. Someone got to him before me. Someone skilled.
As Kassandra approached the body, an individual jumped down and attacked with a sword. Kassandra blocked the attack with her gauntlets as they both fell down the collapsed hole into an abandoned sanctuary. As she recovered, she turned to the hooded individual.
- Kassandra: Who are you?
The Individual drew out his blade on his right hand and turned around. The individual attacked Kassandra, leading her to defend herself.
- Kassandra: That blade...
Kassandra and the individual exchanged several blows.
- Kassandra: Not bad.
Darius performed numerous feats of agility.
- Kassandra: Malaka.
As the fight came to a draw, Natakas arrived.
- Natakas: Father, no!
- Unknown: Natakas! What are you doing?
- Natakas: This is the Eagle Bearer!
- Kassandra: That's your father?!
- Unknown: The Eagle Bearer...
The man withdrew his blade.
- Unknown: We have to leave, Natakas. More soldiers are coming.
The man left as Natakas approached Kassandra.
- Natakas: Our hideout is below the Rock Arch. Find us there.
Natakas left the hideout, followed by Kassandra.
- Kassandra: Who are these people?
Following Natakas' advice, Kassandra traveled to their hideout below Rock Arch. As she entered, she heard a commotion.
- Natakas: You attacked the Eagle Bearer. She could have killed you.
- Unknown: Enough. It's over.
- Natakas: Every time I think we've escaped...
- Unknown: They're the Order.
- Natakas: I know.
Kassandra reached the hideout.
- Natakas: It's not the first village they've hit. The Order's presence here is increasing.
- Unknown: Even more reason to keep to the shadows.
- Natakas: And let innocent lives be lost?
- Unknown: Innocent lives were lost.
- Natakas: You can't do everything yourself.
- Unknown: We have to be careful, Natakas. You know that.
Kassandra approached them.
- Kassandra: Burning villages, Persians commanding Spartan soldiers, getting ambushed by an angry old man. I am not in a good mood. Answers. Now.
- Unknown: How did you find us?!
- Natakas: I told her.
- Unknown: Any more secrets you want to share?
(If players choose "What is happening here in Makedonia?")
- Kassandra: You must know what's going on here.
- Natakas: The Persians you saw commanding the Spartans—
- Unknown: The Order of the Ancients. A powerful secret group who have controlled Persia across the reign of countless kings.
- Kassandra: Secret organization... Few of those going around.
(If players choose "Tell me about yourself.")
- Kassandra: I asked you this before when you tried to kill me. Who are you?
- Darius: Darius.
- Darius: There have always been people who lust for power and control. And there have always been people who oppose them.
- Kassandra: And which are you?
- Darius: Let me tell you a story of the great King Xerxes... it was many years ago. In Persia...
In a flashback, Xerxes's convoy were travelling through a valley. A number of individuals launched an attack on the convoy from the cliffs, causing them to stop.
- Persian Elite Guard: To the king!
The attackers clashed with Xerxes' men, who easily overpowered them.
- Xerxes: Nothing. Your deaths mean nothing. The Order cannot be stopped.
A guard put down his sword and mask, approaching Xerxes from behind. Revealing himself as Darius, he drew his hidden blade and stabbed Xerxes in the neck.
- Darius: Yet for all their power, they couldn't protect you. Not from me.
Darius released his blade. Xerxes clutched his wound in vain before bleeding to death on his throne. The scene turned to the present.
- Darius: They've been after us ever since.
- Kassandra: You're telling me an old man in the middle of nowhere Makedonia killed the god-king Xerxes. Maláka.
- Darius: Believe what you want, Eagle Bearer.
- Kassandra: It's not every day you meet someone with such a story to tell.
- Darius: It's not every day I tell it.
- Kassandra: But the Order—they're here now. Burning down villages and killing innocent people. What are they looking for?
- Darius: Not us. We were safe here. The Order of the Ancients lost our scent long ago. No... The Huntsman is hunting you. You and your kind. The Tainted Ones.
Darius picked up a scroll and walked over to Kassandra. He extended it to her.
- Darius: And now you have a choice to make. Fight them or disappear.
Kassandra accepted the scroll as Darius walked away.
- Natakas: Father...
Outcome
Kassandra's investigation of the trail led her to come face to face with Darius, Natakas' father. She later learned from them of the Order of the Ancients, who came to Makedonia to eliminate individuals like her.
