This page will attempt to construct a history of the Assassin Order prior to Basim's history, the page contains a mix of original and canonical information.
Story[]
First Period[]
Darius, the proto-assassin[]
Originally an elite member of the Persian army, he left his role to devote himself to the assassination of Xerxes. After this he left Persia for Greece where years later he met and collaborated with Kassandra, and in his final years he lived in Egypt where he stayed with his son's family.
After moving to Greece, his companions returned east and settled in Babylon.
Bayek of Siwa[]
After the events of Assassin's Creed Origins, Bayek founded the Hidden Ones and they spread from North Africa to Judea. In 31 BC Bayek came into contact with the Sons of Darius, who asked the Egyptian brotherhood for help in saving Babylon from the Order of the Ancients. While in Babylon, Bayek develops a relationship with the daughter of the former mentor Atrahasis, with whom he had a son. In 17 BC, feeling that his end was near, he left Babylon to return to Siwa, where he died three years later.
During his lifetime Bayek gave rise to various Hidden One groups, the largest among them being those led by Soris in Judea and that of Keba in Carthage.
Aya of Alexandria[]
After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Aya became the first mentor of the Roman brotherhood, during the following years she often traveled to Greece, Anatolia and Egypt. In 30 BC she last met Cleopatra, to whom she gave poison, Cleopatra asked to take her son and take him with her. In the following 15 years she remained in Rome, and then definitively returned to Siwa, leaving Caesarion in command of the brotherhood. In Siwa she met Bayek after more than 20 years. In 14 BC Bayek died and later Aya in 9 BC.
In her life she gave birth to the Roman and Greek brotherhoods, and according to some also to the Gallic one.
Second Period[]
Osahar of Babylon[]
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Caesarion of Alexandria[]
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Soris of Yamu/Makarios of Gaza[]
In 34 BC at the age of 23, Soris receives from Bayek the task of founding a group of the Occult in Judea. A task he accomplished by working between Gaza and Jerusalem for 68 years until his death in 35 AD. A year earlier in 34 AD Soris had been blind for sixteen years now, and could not move from Gaza and in that year a preacher arrived who spoke of a certain Jesus of Nazareth, hearing him speak some of the Hidden Ones of Gaza led this man to Soris when when he arrived he said nothing and laid his hands on his eyes and he began to see again. After this he was baptized and took the name Makarios.
Third Period[]
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Rites[]
The Brotherhoods of the Hidden One then subsequently called Assassins were divided into three different rites:
- The Chaldeic Rite: Also known as the Babylonian Rite, it was the first rite to be created. The ritual is characterized by the presence of the blade hidden on the upper part of the wrist, the use of the blade in this way excluded the amputation of the finger. They were also the first to use the hidden double blades. The rite, however, was assimilated by the Coptic Rite when Bayek was replaced by his son Osahar.
- The Coptic Rite: Also rarely known as the Hellenic Rite, it was founded by Bayek and Aya in 47 BC in Egypt. It was the most present rite in Africa and subsequently also in the Middle East, after the assimilation of the Chaldeic rite while in Europe it is only in the Iberian peninsula, it is characterized by the amputation of the ring finger of the secondary hand. The rite ceased to exist when Altair returned to Masyaf after being in Europe to the members of the Latin rite, there Altair discovered the possibility of not amputating the finger, in addition to that he took various things and created a unique rite.
- The Latin Rite: Rite founded by Aya in Rome in the months following the assassination of Julius Caesar, unlike the Coptic rite, the ring finger is not amputated but is branded with a red-hot iron which imprints the symbol of the brotherhood. The initiate is equipped with the hidden blade only after having passed the initiation which makes him a real member of the brotherhood, while when he is still an apprentice he uses his own short blade or a dagger to hit the targets. It is the rite most present throughout Europe while in Asia only in Anatolia. After abandoning Masyaf, Altair went to Nicosia on the island of Cyprus where he encountered the Latin Rite and merged it with the Coptic Rite creating a universal rite. in fact the mentor of Cyprus was the first who applied the new rite first starting the end of both the old rites.