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Beka might not be his name

When Bayek said "Beka would be pleased" upon recovering the book, the logical deduction would seem to be that the name of the old man is Beka. However, evidence to the contrary is that he refers to the old man only as "old man" throughout the quest. When paying his last respects to the man's dead body in the temple, he still addresses him directly as "old man", never Beka. If he knows the old man's name is Beka, why would he exclusively refer to him only as old man apart from the one moment he said "Beka would be pleased"? I therefore thought that perhaps Beka is the name or alias of a deity that Bayek meant would be pleased he was returning the holy text to the right person or that Beka is the name of the old man's daughter whose name is also unknown. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 19:40, December 15, 2017 (UTC)

I did just find out from multiple sources that Beka means "servant" or "slave" in ancient Egyptian, corresponding to "Abd" in Arabic. Some Egyptian names had Beka prefixed to the name of a deity, similar to the name Abdallah. Unlike the Arabic "Abd", Beka in Egyptian could grammatically stand alone and often was used as a shorthand for people whose given names began with that. But this itself doesn't tell us who it is other then that it's not a deity.[1][2][3]

I suppose by process of elimination it probably is the old man... Just find it so weird that Bayek would just call him "old man" in all other instances. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 19:52, December 15, 2017 (UTC)