Son of Ra
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The Sunstroker, the Son of Ra[1] (died 48 BCE) was an Egyptian farmer-turned-criminal who led a group of bandits in and around Dionysias, around 48 BCE.
Biography
Sometime before 47 BCE, the man who would become known as the Son of Ra was a farmer whose farm was burned down by unknown attackers; an attack that also led to the death of his family. Thinking that all their neighboring farmers did nothing but watch and stand back, the man took on the moniker Son of Ra. Sometime after, he had created a kind of a cult around himself, its members consisting of bandits who revered Son of Ra as a god, believing in his divinity. They set up multiple camps around the White Desert Oasis; one in the ruins of a temple of the crocodile-god Sobek, where Son of Ra set up a shrine, another at the waterfalls of the lake, and a third further south.[1][2]
With the groups of bandits in these locations, Son of Ra begun to harass and burn and pillage the villages and farms on the outskirts of Dionysias in 51 BCE.[1]
Sometime in 48 BCE, Son of Ra was incarcerated by the local militia in the Dionysias Caravanserai. The local captain, Kallipos, wanted to execute him, but his superiors forbid this. From his prison, Son of Ra was somehow able to send messages to his followers, ordering them to continue their activities, targeting the Greek farmer, Bion.[1]
Working in conjunction with Zahra, a Dionysiote farmer-turned-warrior who sought to end Son of Ra's activities, the Medjay Bayek of Siwa infiltrated the fort and assassinated Son of Ra.[1]
Behind the scenes
The Son of Ra is a character in Assassin's Creed: Origins, where he was voiced by Canadian actor Kareem Tristan Alleyne.
'Son of Ra' is part of the pharaoh Tutankhamun's complete name: Nesu bity (NebkheperuRa) Sa Ra (Tutankhamun), meaning 'King of Upper and Lower Egypt (The lordly manifestations of Ra) Son of Ra (The living image of Amun)'.
The Son of Ra has some disparate elements that make him an interesting character. He is the only character in the franchise to be given a "White Room" or "Memory Corridor" confession upon his death that is unrelated either a main story or a downloadable expansion. His words on how the world would burn and how neither the Order of the Ancients nor Bayek could save it possibly forewarn of the Second Disaster. In one of the letters Son of Ra sent to his followers, he revealed knowledge not common in antiquity by mentioning how the sun "is a rock on fire";[2] this exact phrasing seems to come from a 2013 letter written by the imprisoned American cult leader Charles Manson.[3] These, plus the fact that Origins' first draft dealt with "Juno events",[4] led to speculation he was an Aita Sage.
There is a suggestion that the Son of Ra was either working with the Order of the Ancients member The Crocodile[2] or at least had the Order's blessing.[1]
Gallery
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The Son of Ra in the Memory Corridor -
The Son Ra sent to the Duat
Appearances
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Assassin's Creed: Origins – Fires of Dionysias
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed: Origins – Demons in the Desert
- ↑ "Juiceboqz" (7 June 2013). My friends write letters to Charles Manson for fun. This time, he wrote back. (transcript in comments). Reddit. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved on 14 May 2020. "The letter reads as follows:
And in the bottom, in handwriting, it says:The only way it can be is the only way it could ever be. God don't lie. It is only a lesser part of God that does not fully understand the grand dragons of Gods wings. When the world dragon is at war with itslef [sic], it has many veils, shades and shadows. Two dragons fight each other, and at no time will it let itself fully realize it is a part of a part of a greater grand dragon. Time falls in and out of the play. There is always under the bottom. There is always over the top. That is just two of three heads in the worlds words and wings of God, and never understood by soldiers or the masses. God never gives up or falls down. There is no real loss, there is no real loser. There is no real top and no real bottom. Our minds are too small to se, know, or understand that hallways of allways [sic]. The Milky Way is just a small part of the grand hallways of always and forever. The sun is a rock on fire and is one of the dragons only, and is held to you and I, and soldier of ATWA by ATWA is love for me in all ways in hallways of all as forever and beyond all but the me of inside of it. The seven heads of the Emperor of the world is beyond all but pure darkness of my dreams. The Emperor."
"Vermont has bugs that move rocks, well I say all bugs move life. We are nothing but bugs ourselves. Any time we do something for each other it's like a colony working together. That's how ATWA will work. Together. Charles Manson"" - ↑ Phillips, Tom (16 Jun 2017). Assassin's Creed Origins makes the series' past stumbles feel like ancient history. Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved on 7 June 2024.