Dagger of Brutus

"I am not a violent man, but I ready my family's heirloom dagger. I pull my toga up into a cowl and leave for the celebration."

―Brutus preparing to assassinate Caesar, 44 BCE.

The Dagger of Brutus

The Dagger of Brutus was an heirloom short blade which belonged to the Roman Senator and Roman Hidden One Marcus Junius Brutus, and was the same weapon Brutus used to assassinate Gaius Julius Caesar in the Theatre of Pompey's curia.

Following the assassination, the dagger was broken after an altercation where Brutus decided not to kill Marcus Antonius. The Hidden Ones' co-founder Amunet had it reforged with Egyptian and Roman steel, and returned the blade to Brutus after he made the decision to flee from Rome to Crete. Following Brutus' suicide in 42 BCE after losing the Battle of Philippi during the wider Liberators' civil war, the dagger was sealed away in an underground chamber in Rome alongside his armor. In 1503, the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore found the chamber and claimed both artifacts for himself.

Weapon statistics

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Gallery

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  Brutus' sketch of the dagger
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  Brutus holding the dagger

Behind the scenes

The Dagger of Brutus, a weapon in the 2010 video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, is modeled after a Roman pugio, a dagger that Roman soldiers used as a secondary weapon in the 1st century CE. In Brotherhood, enemies' hidden morale rating is reduced by 20 points whenever Ezio wields the Dagger of Brutus, which means that lower-ranked guards and crossbowmen will flee after the death of only one regular guard. Also of note is that the dagger's kill animations are unique, being more brutal and violent than other short bladed weapons in the same game, with one such animations involving Ezio stabbing the target in a frenzy in an allusion to Caesar's assassination.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Origins comic