Scepter of Alexander the Great

The Scepter of Alexander the Great^[1] was a Piece of Eden, a piece of leftover Isu technology and one of several known Staves of Eden in existence. This particular Staff was notably wielded by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, who used its power to establish his Macedonian Empire.

Owners[edit | edit source]

Isu (until 75,000 BCE)^[2]
Alexander the Great (until 323 BCE)
Flavius Metellus (47 BCE)
Cleopatra (47 BCE)
Flavius Metellus (47 BCE)
Lucius Septimius (47 BCE)
Order of the Ancients (c. 44 BCE)

History[edit | edit source]

By the 4th century BCE, the Staff was in the possession of the Order of the Ancients, who later entrusted it to their ally, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great,^[3] alongside another artifact: the Trident of Eden.^[4] Using the two Pieces of Eden, Alexander was able to become an undefeated military commander and establish one of the largest empires in the ancient world.^[3]

Eventually, the proto-Assassin Iltani infiltrated Nebuchadnezzar II's palace in Babylon, where she poisoned Alexander, resulting in his empire's collapse.^[5] His body was interred alongside his Staff in a tomb in Alexandria, the city he had founded in Egypt following his conquest of the land and which became the capital of Ptolemy I Soter's new Ptolemaic Kingdom after Alexander's death.^[6]

In 47 BCE, following the Battle of the Nile, the Order of the Ancients' leader in Egypt, Flavius Metellus, took the Staff from Alexander's sarcophagus,^[7] after the entrance to the tomb had been unlocked earlier by the Medjay Bayek and his wife Aya.^[8] Flavius then presented the Staff to Queen Cleopatra during her coronation as Pharaoh of Egypt, as a sign of the Order's alliance with the new ruler.^[9]

After taking back the Staff, Flavius traveled to Siwa with fellow Order member Lucius Septimius. There, the two combined the Staff with an Apple of Eden to access the Isu vault hidden beneath the village's temple and activate its holographic map mechanism. Having discovered the vault's contents, Flavius later took the Apple with him to Cyrene^[10] while Septmius left with the Staff for Rome.^[11]

While Bayek hunted down Flavius and recovered the Apple,^[10] Aya pursued Septimius to Rome. On 15 March 44 BCE, Aya confronted and defeated Septimius at the Theatre of Pompey, where she demanded to know the location of Alexander's Staff. The dying Gabiniani only revealed that he had given it to the Order in Rome before succumbing to his wounds.^[11]

During the 19th century, the British Templar Alexander Burnes searched to no avail for Alexander's Staff in Afghanistan.^[12]