A list of characters encountered during travels across the world of Ancient Greece in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. For characters that can be romanced, go to Assassin's Creed: Odyssey — Love Interests.
Many of these characters are Walking Spoilers and their entries feature a lot of in-game details that are not hidden behind spoiler tags. As most of these characters are tied to the main storyline, read at your own risk.
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Sparta
Leonidas
King Leonidas
The former Spartan King of the Agiad dynasty, during the Persian invasion of Greece. Also the former wielder of the Spear of Leonidas, and the grandfather of Kassandra and Alexios.- Authority Equals Asskicking: King of Sparta and a frontline fighter, he led the forces of Sparta against the Persian troops. Even after his death, he's a tough old man.
- Brain Uploading: He, or a copy of him, is part of Aletheia's simulation of the Elysian Fields. Neither he or the Eagle Bearer act like he's any different from the real thing.
- Cool Old Guy: He is shown to be quite visibly aged but that doesn't make him less of a badass when he faces down the Persians at Thermopylae.
- Defiant to the End: Chooses to fight to the last, even with thousands of arrows flying all around him.
- The Dreaded: Persephone panics when she hears the Eagle Bearer has recruited him for the resistance, so much so she tries to persuade them to kill him for her.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: He and three hundred Spartans (and a few others) fought against the Persian forces, at the cost of their lives. Leonidas specifically is the last of his force to die, and even takes out the guy who kills him.
- Face Death with Dignity: He already knows Persephone has asked the Eagle Bearer to kill him. In fact he doesn't even attempt to stop you.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Leonidas was responsible for saving Greece from Persian domination as well as being the grandfather of Alexios and Kassandra through his daughter Myrrine and her husband Nikolaos / The Wolf of Sparta. Additionally, his spear becomes the primary weapon of the Eagle Bearer (either Alexios or Kassandra).
- Historical Domain Character: The historical King of Sparta who defended the Pass of Thermopylae against Persians and died in battle doing so.
- Intro-Only Point of View: Playable for a few minutes at the beginning of the game, giving players a taste of the game's mechanics, a few hours before they'll have a chance to use those abilities themselves, before dying.
- Last Disrespects: The game mentions that after his death, the Persians tried claiming his corpse, but the remaining Spartan forces weren't having it.
- Long-Dead Badass: He's been dead for decades by the time the Eagle Bearer is running around.
- Modest Royalty: His residence in the Elysian Fields is a copy of the same little house the Eagle Bearer grew up in, despite his being the king of Sparta.
- Taking You with Me: He uses the last of his energy to kill the Persian who kills him.
- Uneven Hybrid: He's got a good amount of Isu DNA in there, which he was aware of.
- Wrecked Weapon: When he had the spear, it was an actual spear. His death meant the spear-head got broken off. The Eagle Bearer even razzes him about in when they meet in Fate of Atlantis.
Archidamos
King Archidamos II
One of the two kings of Sparta, alongside Pausanias.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: He is a Spartan King after all. At one point the Eagle Bearer walks in on the two kings fighting as a form of debate. Archidamos wins.
- Historical Domain Character: He was one of the two Kings of Sparta during the early parts of the war; in fact, some call the first part of it the "Archidamian War" after him.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly turns out to be one, despite numerous mentions of how traditional he is and how he holds a grudge against Myrrine for breaking his nose. He treats the Eagle Bearer and Myrrine with some degree of respect and gives them a task of actual value to determine if they should become Spartan citizens again. And should they fail to gather enough evidence to expose Pausanias as a Cultist and have to kill him, Archidamos takes the murder in stride and listens calmly to the new evidence being presented by someone he had just exiled minutes beforehand. His moniker is even "Archidamos the Peaceful".
- Red Herring: He's presented as the less personable King who seems to have a grudge against Myrrine and the Eagle Bearer. Unlike his peer Pausanias, who laments the tragedy of the Eagle Bearer's execution, he openly supports it to their faces and demands the less reasonable request to earn back citizenship. On top of this, he wears a golden wreath similar to that worn by the Cult Sages. All this is obviously pointing toward him being the corrupt King... to obfuscate the fact that Pausanias is the actual Cultist.
- Would Hurt a Child: Supported the elders in their decision to throw the Eagle Bearer's sibling off of Mount Taygetos and the execution of the Eagle Bearer for trying to stop it.
Pausanias
King Pausanias
One of the two kings of Sparta, alongside Archidamos. See his entry in The Cult of Kosmos. Myrrine (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Myrrine / Phoenix
Voiced by: Maria Syrgiannis (English)note
King Leonidas' daughter, Alexios and Kassandra's mother, and Nikolaos' wife.
- Action Mom: Daughter of Leonidas, born and raised in Sparta, and a mother of two. She joins her elder son/daughter in battle several times, and in the pursuit of conflict with the Cult of Kosmos.
- Ambiguously Bi: She was married to Nikolaos and had a child with Pythagoras, and there are implications that she may have been involved with Xenia in the past and that she may currently be in a relationship with her female general Timo when the Eagle Bearer finds her again on Naxos.
- Amicable Exes: Though she left him after the (assumed) deaths of their children, Myrrine surprisingly doesn't seem to hold much anger towards Nikolaos for the whole mess. In the Golden Ending, they even sit down and have dinner with their kids together.
- Cool Old Lady: She's the mother of two adult children, but still very capable in a fight and has defended an entire island from multiple attacks in the past. By the end of episode 2 of Legacy Of The Lost Blade she becomes a grandmother, too.
- Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: While Myrrine is not as feminine as, say, Aspasia, Kassandra is considerably more of a tomboy than her mother—whether she's the Eagle Bearer or Deimos.
- Give Him a Normal Life: Not by abandoning the Eagle Bearer, but by raising them with a mother's love instead of detached stoicism like Pythagoras wanted her to.
- Heroic Lineage: She is the daughter of King Leonidas, who valiantly and defiantly held off the Persian army at Thermopylae at the cost of his life. She also inherited the Spear of Leonidas, and bequeaths it to her elder child. Leonidas, and by extension Myrrine and her two children, have Isu ancestry as well.
- Historical Character's Fictional Relative: She is the fictional daughter of King Leonidas. It's unclear if her mother was Leonidas' real life wife, Queen Gorgo, or if she is the result of some affair.
- Meaningful Rename: After losing both of her children in one night and exiling herself from Sparta, she started going by "Phoenix," symbolizing her intent to rebuild her life from ashes.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Averted, although she thought she had for many years, and it affected her greatly. She can also actually outlive one of her children, if the Eagle Bearer kills Deimos and Myrrine doesn't die trying to save them.
- Patriotic Fervor: She still considers herself Spartan, even after everything that happened and spending twenty years away. She makes a pretty stark contrast with the Eagle Bearer, who is still ''very'' pissed off over it.
- Parents as People: Like her former husband, she struggles between her identity as a Spartan and as a mother. Unlike him, though, being a mother ultimately won out. However, twenty years following the tragedy of losing her children, she still considers herself a Spartan and holds true to their cultural beliefs... for better or for worse.
- Pirate Girl: After losing her children, she spent some time working as a smuggler for Xenia.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: As Archon of Naxos, she personally leads the battle against Paros' navy. She's also daughter of a King of Sparta.
- Small Parent, Huge Child: She's fairly petite and her adult son and daughter both tower over her with double the muscle.
- Super Breeding Program: Myrinne agreed with Pythagoras's idea to combine their Isu-descendant bloodlines, resulting in the Eagle Bearer. The Cult of Kosmos also planned to abduct her and turn her into a broodmare to make more Tyke Bombs like Deimos.
- Thicker Than Water: She has endless faith in The Power of Family, particularly where her youngest child is considered. If the Eagle Bearer tries to argue Deimos is too far gone to be saved, she'll be appalled and argue fervently in their favor. Even upon hearing that Deimos just killed family-friend Brasidas on the battlefield, she doesn't hesitate in worrying about their wellbeing and still firmly insists on trying to save them. In the bad endings, she will also either be killed by Deimos trying to break up the fight, or will cut ties with the Eagle Bearer for failing to save them when they promised to.
- Uneven Hybrid: She has an elevated level of Isu lineage in her bloodline compared to the typical humans of the time. Her children inherited this (and at least one is a bloodline confluence from another Uneven Hybrid).
Nikolaos
Nikolaos / The Wolf of Sparta
Voiced by: Elias Toufexis (English)note
One of Sparta's greatest generals, Myrrine's husband, and the protagonists' father.
- Already Done for You: If you spare him, he turns up again later in the main quest, having just killed one of the four Athenian champions you need to assassinate in the Boeotia arc.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear whether he was the biological father of Deimos or not. His words in Megaris seem to lump both of the children as not being his, yet no other dialogue suggests that Pythagoras and Myrrine had any other children together besides the Eagle Bearer.
- Amicable Exes: He and Myrrine don't seem to hold any hard feelings about the conflict that broke up their marriage. If spared, in Boeotia the Eagle Bearer will tell him Myrrine has been ruling Naxos, which prompts him to muse fondly that it "sounds like her". In the Golden Ending, they'll even sit and have dinner together alongside all their kids.
- Archnemesis Dad: To the Eagle Bearer, ever since he threw them off a cliff. It is possible to spare him and rebuild their relationship, though.
- The Atoner: If spared, he goes on a personal redemption quest and will help you out later in dealing with Stentor.
- Cool Helmet: He has a custom helmet with a statuette of a wolf on it. You get it after dealing with him.
- Faking the Dead: If spared, he fakes his death and goes into hiding to do some serious soul searching. This ends up creating a major rift between the Eagle Bearer and Stentor, which can potentially lead to the latter's death if you don't encourage Nikolaos to reconnect with him.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: An option for the player. If spared, the Eagle Bearer will forgive him for his failure to protect them and their sibling. They will even be friendly to him and resume calling him pater, but they will never hesitate to bring up that it happened.
- Honor Before Reason: He chose to uphold the traditions of Sparta before the concerns of his family, which leads to its collapse. Because of this, he is still highly respected in Sparta while the rest of his family is publicly disgraced.
- Honor-Related Abuse: To regain his honor, he cast his eldest child off a cliff as punishment for them pushing a priest off the same cliff while trying to save their infant sibling.
- I Am Not Your Father: He reveals that he is not the Eagle Bearer's biological parent.
- My Greatest Failure: He privately considers his unwillingness to defy Spartan law to protect his children to be his biggest mistake.
- Offing the Offspring: He stood by when the prophecy dictated that his younger child must die, and, although he was clearly torn about it, he dropped his elder child off the cliff himself after they killed a priest trying to save their sibling.
- Old Soldier: He's still fighting in the Peloponnesian War despite having three fully-grown children.
- Parents as People: He truly loved his children despite the choices he made later, and was willing to act as a father to the Eagle Bearer despite there being no blood-relation. He's shown to have struggled deeply to choose between his duties as a father and to the culture that shaped him, and ultimately chose Sparta over his children—a decision which seemingly haunted him until his eldest child reappeared decades later. The game neither fully endorses nor fully disavows the player killing him.
- Red Baron: He's known as the "Wolf of Sparta" for his strategic prowess. The Cult projected that he could have taken Athens in at most two months after taking Megaris, which is why they had to eliminate him to draw out the war.
- Rejected Apology: Another option for the player. If they choose to kill him, the Eagle Bearer will stab him with the Spear of Leonidas while he's in the middle of attempting to apologize for his betrayal.
- The Stoic: He's pretty quiet and introspective.
- Tragic Keepsake: Upon getting their home in Sparta back, Myrrine will note that the rabbit skull from the Eagle Bearer's first hunt—once displayed in the house—is strangely missing. She theorizes that Nikolaos must have taken it after the Eagle Bearer reappeared recently, and though it's never confirmed if she's right, no other explanation for the missing skull is offered.
- Would Hurt a Child: His children were a baby and a pre-adolescent respectively when he allowed the death of one and personally dropped the other off a cliff. He wasn't happy about it then, and isn't now.
Stentor
Stentor
Nikolaos' adopted son and a Spartan officer serving under him, adopted after the Eagle Bearer and their sibling were seemingly killed.- Annoying Younger Sibling: Amusingly, Stentor can share this trait with Deimos in the ending where the entire family is reunited; the two of them get into a wrestling match during a family dinner while their older step-sibling, step-mother, and father look on.
- Cruel Mercy: If he challenges the Eagle Bearer during the Conquerer quest chain and loses, they can spare his life by walking away instead of finishing him off. Disgraced and kicked out of the Spartan army, he becomes Stentor the Fallen, a low-ranking mercenary just like all the others you've met and probably killed before. For someone as fanatically adherent to The Spartan Way as he is, this is very much a Fate Worse than Death.
- To add even further humiliation, you can then press him into service aboard the Adrestia.
- Deadpan Snarker: In one of the endings to the Family questline (where Nikolaos and Stentor are the only ones alive), the Eagle Bearer will ask Stentor to pass the wine jug. He downs the entire thing before declaring that they're out.
- The Fundamentalist: He's an even more fanatical adherent to Spartan law than Nikolaos, with absolutely no capacity to think outside of its rigid boundaries. Naturally, this puts him at odds with the Eagle Bearer, especially if you choose dialogue options critical of The Spartan Way.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: If you kill Nikolaos and subsequently fight Stentor, he'll have a large scar across the left side of his face in Boeotia, most likely a result of said fight.
- Happily Adopted: Is very openly happy to be Nikolaos' stepson.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Possiblynote . When he turns on the Eagle Bearer after the conquest battle in Boeotia, he accuses them of having stolen his chance at a normal life.
- Jerkass Has a Point: The Eagle Bearer had valid reasons for it that he doesn't sympathize with even slightly, but it's hard to argue that killing Nikolaos didn't genuinely ruin his life as he claims.
- Replacement Goldfish: He says quite bluntly that he was adopted to replace Nikolaos' original family, who dishonored him. He's actually not that bothered by this, and uses it as motivation to continue to impress his adoptive father.
- Sibling Rivalry: An unconventional example, as he grew up believing his step-siblings were long dead, but he immediately clocks the Eagle Bearer as a rival to his father's attention and pretty quickly freezes over for it. The Golden Ending also features him and Deimos getting into a scuffle over dinner.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality:
- When the Eagle Bearer first lands in Megaris, the first thing he does is thank them for clearing the Athenian blockade before demanding to know who they are and what they want. While he is admittedly condescending about it, he accepts their offer to help conquer the region for Sparta and assures them that the Wolf will personally thank them if they do. Before the conquest battle itself, he thanks them again for their efforts and wholeheartedly agrees that they've earned their place amongst the Spartans, and that he looks forward to fighting by their side. He freezes them out again after the battle when Nikolaos asks to speak to the Eagle Bearer alone, possibly worrying that he has a rival for his father's attention, and after that is pretty much just a straight-up Jerkass since you (possibly) killed his father, so it's very personal.
- In most endings he survives, he remains snarky and stuck up, but will join the Eagle Bearer's crew on the Adrestia all the same.
- Uriah Gambit: When the Eagle Bearer encounters him in Boeotia, he blames them for the death of the Wolf of Spartanote , and makes no attempt to disguise that he's sending them after the region's most powerful warriors in the hopes that they'll be killed. He's pretty miffed when the Eagle Bearer succeeds and ultimately decides to just kill them himself.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He is desperate for Nikolaos' respect and trust, especially in the Spartan tradition of war. Because of this, he has a poor opinion of his adopted father's original family, who are disgraces in the eyes of Sparta.
- What a Piece of Junk: If he becomes a lieutenant on the Adrestia after the conclusion of the Family arc, he has this opinion of the war galley in the literal sense of the trope, deeming it terrible. Depending on whether you have kept up with upgrading her, he may not be completely wrong.
- You Killed My Father: If you kill Nikolaos, he'll walk in on you just as you're leaving and try to kill you for it. And even if you do spare Nikolaos, he still believes that you killed him since Nikolaos fakes his death and goes into hiding in this scenario, prompting him to turn on you after the Battle of Boeotia unless you convinced Nikolaos to reconnect with him earlier.
Brasidas
Brasidas
Voiced by: Stewart Scudamore (English)note
A Spartan commander who befriends the Eagle Bearer in Korinth.
- The Atoner: Becomes this when he remembers his war crime in Hades. Even moreso if he accepts his fate to serve the dead in Hades for all eternity rather than get a warrior's rest in Elysium.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: His introduction has him and the Eagle Bearer killing more than a dozen men this way.
- Big Damn Heroes: Comes out of nowhere to save the Eagle Bearer in a burning warehouse full of the Monger's men.
- Bittersweet Ending: Both outcomes to his underworld storyline. If he stays in Hades he has a chance to atone for his past by reuniting families torn apart by war but will never see paradise. If he reaches Elysium he has to carry his sins both metaphorically and literally, knowing that he may not deserve to be there.
- The Butcher: As revealed in the DLC, Brasidas ordered and torched a village that was allied with the Athenians, earning him the moniker "Brasidas the Butcher" among the village's survivors. When Brasidas learns this action, Hades, who had known all along, also calls him "Butcher" to taunt him.
- Heaven Seeker: After he's sent to Hades he's told that he can reach Elysium by facing that which defeated him in life. He's since been preparing to face Deimos again.
- Historical Domain Character: Based on the historical Spartan general Brasidas
, who was celebrated for his actions in the first phase of the Peloponnesian War, and is remembered by Plutarch as a notable Greek figure. - Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: As he uses a spear, he does this to people. Deimos later kills him by impaling his head on his own spear.
- When he faces the Bane of Brasidas in the underworld he has to walk past a couple dopplegangers of himself impaled the same way. According to Hades it was Poseidon's idea.
- Mirror Match: When he faces Deimos again in the underworld Deimos turns around to reveal his own face.
- Only a Flesh Wound: Subverted. The first time he fights Deimos at the Battle of Pylos, he gets stabbed and flung to the burning ground in the middle of the battlefield. The next time you see him, he's mostly fine save for a small leg wound and pretty much raring to go for the next round with Deimos. The real life Brasidas was in fact injured in the Battle of Pylos before dying in the Battle of Amphipolis.
- Refusing Paradise: Depending on how his underworld sidequest goes he can, despite earning his place in Elysium, decide to stay in Hades to atone.
- Token Good Teammate: He's this for most of the Spartans in the game, as he's the most consistently helpful to the Eagle Bearer. The Fate of Atlantis deconstructs this as being a good team-mate in a society of warriors still meant he ordered and participated in war crimes all in the name of being a "good Spartan".
- The Worf Effect: He's introduced in a cutscene that shows him to be every bit as badass as the Eagle Bearer. He's later swatted aside by Deimos in the Battle of Pylos with some lasting injuries and even later effortlessly killed by Deimos in a few seconds without landing a blow at the Battle of Amphipolis.
Testikles
Testikles
Sparta's several time Pankration champion, set to compete in the Olypmics.- The Alcoholic: The only time that the Eagle Bearer interacts with him personally, he's completely, absolutely wasted from several amphora's worth of wine. This might also explain why he needed to be moved to the remote island he's training in, after assaulting five men and a bull on the way to buy fruit at the market.
- Bear Hug: Tries to give one to the Eagle Bearer upon their arrival at the Olympic Games. The Eagle Bearer smoothly dodging the attempt directly results in Testikles stumbling off the pier and being eaten by a shark.
- Black Comedy: His entire character arc is an exercise in black comedy, from the Eagle Bearer's first encounter with him to its undignified end.Eagle Bearer: Testikles hasn't even been digested yet and you're already asking me to replace him?
- Butt-Monkey: He turns up in the Underworld in the The Fate of Atlantis DLC, covered in bite marks from the shark that killed him, confronts the Eagle Bearer over a magical flower, and is promptly eaten again by a couple of hellhounds. What we learn of his life before that also doesn't paint the picture of someone who's used to things going his way, and any misfortune that befalls him is exclusively Played for Laughs.
- Covered in Scars: The version the Eagle Bearer meets in the Underworld simulation is covered in shark bites.
- Dumb Jock: An Olympic Champion, twice the size of the Eagle Bearer and thrice as broad, with but a fraction of the intelligence.
- Epic Fail: The game itself considers his whole life this, outright calling him "an abject failure in life and in death". What interactions the Eagle Bearer has with him don't make it difficult to see why.
- Fratbro: He's big, he loves to party, he's so drunk that he occasionally pukes, and he loves shouting his own name along with "SPARTA!" like it was his favorite sports team whenever he gets the chance.
- No Indoor Voice: He bellows every single word he says, his allegiance to Sparta especially."SPARTA! WOOO!"
- Noodle Incident: Somehow, a simple errand of his to buy fruit at the market involved Testikles beating five men and a bull to a pulp, which led to his trainer exiling him to a remote island until the day he would compete in the Olympic Games. As mentioned above, his alcoholism and below-average intelligence may have had something to do with it.
- Optional Boss: When he turns up in Tartaros looking for the Asphodel flower the Eagle Bearer just picked up, telling him the truth results in a Boss Battle. However, since Testikles is dumb as brick, lying to him instead is immediately accepted by him, and he's eaten again by the local wildlife seconds later.
- Pluralses: Speaks like this sometimes. Given his recreation in Alethiea's simulation also does it, it's not a condition of his being drunk, just dumb.
- Tempting Fate: One of his few lines in Tartaros is about how nice it is there because nothing wants to eat him. Cue the hungry hellhounds and a Gory Discretion Shot that spatters the Eagle Bearer with blood.
- Theme Naming: He has a brother named Testiklos (who was available as a temporary mercenary contract). Likes his brother, Testiklos is a tough nut, though apparently smarter than his brother.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Due to being completely hammered when the Eagle Bearer meets him, their conversation soon gets interrupted by Testikles barfing on the ground between them, only to continue as if nothing happened. It doesn't exactly help to endear him to the Eagle Bearer.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Upon arriving at the Olympic Games, he accidentally falls of a dock, and gets eaten by a shark.
Lysander
Lysander
A Spartan general.
- Foil: To his Athenian counterpart, Demonsthenes. Lysander is loud, brash, rude and angry, the stereotypical Spartan.
- Heroic Lineage: Claims descent from Herakles, and that this therefore makes him more worthy to rule Sparta than the current kings... though obviously not while he's in earshot of them.
- Historical Domain Character: Lysander was a prominent Spartan involved in the Peloponnesian War.
- Jerkass: At his better moments. Of which there aren't a lot. Even casual attempts to strike conversation with him will be angrily rebuffed most of the time.
- Quest Giver: Like Demonsthenes, he sends the Eagle Bearer on quests to acquire polemarch seals from across Greece.
- Up Through the Ranks: He started off as a helot, which is part of the reason he's got such a massive chip on his shoulder.
Athens
Perikles
Perikles
Voiced by: Chris Pavloo (English)note
A prominent Athenian general and statesman, as well as the elected strategos of Athens.
- Despair Event Horizon: When the plague in Athens occurs, Perikles feels that he has failed Athens and his friends couldn't shake him out of his despair.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Perkiles succumbed to the Plague of Athens in 429 BC during the Peloponnesian War. In the game, he is brutally killed by Deimos.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: At the time he appears in the story, Perikles is being ridiculed by Kleon as a Dirty Coward for refusing to meet the Spartan army head-on in battle. Many people in Athens, particularly the working poor, are also losing faith in Perikles' leadership. It's especially jarring because Perikles was, at one time, responsible for building Athens into a center of power in Greece, making the city effectively the capital of the Delian League.
- Hates Being Alone: Inverted. He actually prefers to be alone when not working in the Athenian government, having quite enough of crowds after work.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: Perikles is framed in the game in contrast to Kleon as a kind of peaceful figure. In actual fact, Perikles was one of the primary instigators of the entire war. He repeatedly advocated Athenian expansion, colonization, settlement across the entire Greek world, and he also welcomed and justified the war with Sparta as a just war because the Spartans refused arbitration as part of an earlier deal (which historians are still divided as to whether this was Perikles being disingenuous or him being correct).
- Historical Domain Character: He is the same person in history who made Athens into a true center of civilization in Greece, built most of the structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon, and fostered democracy in Athens as a solid method of government.
- Just the First Citizen: Despite being the head of the state of Attika, he was not a King as he would be in any other Greek state. Sokrates calls him such in his eulogy to all those who fell in the effort to break the Cult's hold. Historically, he was known as this as well, making him at least the Trope Codifier.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Aspasia kept him ignorant about the Cult of Kosmos for his own safety.
- Man of the City: He considers the prosperity and safety of Athens to be his foremost duty. It was for this reason that he commenced architectural projects that were responsible for the construction of buildings such as the Parthenon. Under Perikles' governance, Athens grew into a powerful city whose influence can be felt all over Greece.
- Slashed Throat: He suffers one at the hands of Deimos inside the Parthenon.
- Unwitting Pawn: Aspasia uses him to influence Athenian society to her desires.
Aspasia (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Aspasia / The Ghost of Kosmos
Voiced by: Marianthi Evans (English)note
The lover and partner of Perikles and an Athenian hetaera. She was also the original leader of the Cult of Kosmos before Deimos took over.
She's also one of the tour guides in the Discovery Tour; her tours are mostly centered around Athens.
- Ambiguous Situation: At the end of the game, she claims to the Eagle Bearer that she only did what she did to unite the Greek World under Perikles to start an era of peace. However, given that she's an Unreliable Expositor as well as the fact that if the Eagle Bearer calls her out on this, she drops any and all kindness and tries to kill them, there's a good chance this is all a facade.
- Big Bad Friend: She is the leader of the Cult of Kosmos but she gradually learns to genuinely like, maybe even love, the Eagle Bearer. The Eagle Bearer can choose to reciprocate and allow her to walk away from their confrontation.
- Behind Every Great Man: She influences Perikles behind the scenes.
- Born in the Wrong Century: She wants humanity to eventually be guided by knowledge, reason, and wisdom rather than by the faith, honor, and patriotism prominent in her time. This train of thought can be considered quite modern by today's philosophical standards.
- The Chessmaster: Through the Cult, she has controlled all sides of the Peloponnesian War.
- Consummate Liar: So much so that her own Cultists call her out on it.
- Faux Affably Evil: Though her affability sounds genuine during her Motive Rant at the climax, if the player chooses to call her out on her bullshit, it's revealed to be a ruse to get the Eagle Bearer to spare her.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Her story about having lost her power to Deimos is only remotely convincing if you happened to wait until defeating every other cult member to get to Deimos. It is, however, entirely possible to defeat Deimos with more than half of the cult still intact. Meaning, if you finished the Family Questline earlier, it comes across as extremely dubious that she's accusing your sibling—who is either long dead or has spent the past several months chilling on the Adrestia minding their buisness—of usurping her power in the cult.
- Gorgeous Greek: This is one of the requirements of being a hetaera.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: She is a likeable public figure in Athenian society and has friends in almost every corner of Greece. Despite this, she keeps her identity as the Ghost of Kosmos well-hidden.
- Hidden Villain: Her true identity will only be revealed once you clear out all of the other cultists from the chart.
- High Class Callgirl: She is a hetaera, a professional companion who provides intellectual discussion and sex to chosen high-end clients. Her association with these clients has also given her a long list of contacts throughout Greece who provide her or her associates with aid or information if needed.
- Historical Domain Character: The same courtesan and socialite from ancient Athenian society suggested to have influenced Sokrates and one of the few Athenian women recorded by history.
- In Love with the Mark: She originally earned Perikles' trust with the intention of eventually killing him. Instead, she fell in love with him and also decided that more could be gained by influencing him. Over time, his idealism led her to believe less in the philosophy of the Cult. At least, that's what she claims.
- Insane Troll Logic: She claims her goal was to unite the Greek World. But her methods to do so involved starting a war, the one thing that divides humanity the most.
- Karma Houdini: You can choose to let her walk rather than kill her on the rationale that she's long since abandoned the Cult as well as the fact that the Cult is essentially destroyed by the time you find out about her.
- The Man Behind the Man: As the leader of the Cult of Kosmos, she basically guides the actions of an entire group of manipulators to achieve the overall goal of bringing order and unity to all of Greece.
- Manipulative Bastard: Through Perikles and her various contacts in Greece, she influences Athenian society and politics. She has also used the Greek religion to manipulate people all over the country.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Despite being the leader of the Cult of Kosmos, she has no combat ability. Which explains how she's long since been defanged by Deimos who ruled through fear of their strength.
- Older Than They Look: You wouldn't believe that Aspasia is 48 years old at the time of the game.
- Parental Substitute: She loosely serves as one for Phoibe, who serves her as an errand girl. Unfortunately, it doesn't last.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Possibly towards human history. Aspasia's belief in unity through reason might have eventually been given some foundation by Alexander the Great, who was once taught by Aristotle, Sokrates' philosophical descendant.
- Sole Survivor: She is the only surviving member of the Cult of Kosmos when her identity is finally uncovered.
- Visionary Villain: She envisions a future when humanity is united by reason rather than faith and under the wise leadership of a philosopher king.
- We Can Rule Together: She tries to pull the Eagle Bearer over to her side when she's confronted at the end of the Cult arc. Interestingly, the Eagle Bearer is the first to flirt with her in that very same conversation if the player elects to do so, which means the whole thing seems to at least start out on some mutual foundation.
- Zero-Effort Boss: If you choose to kill her, she completely averts Boss in Mook Clothing and goes down in a single hit.
Kleon
Kleon the Everyman
An Athenian general who is a rival to Perikles. See his entry in The Cult of Kosmos. Sokrates
Sokrates
Voiced by: Daniel Matmor (English)note
A leading Athenian philosopher who befriends the Eagle Bearer and becomes an ally in their quest against the Cult of Kosmos.
- Big Damn Heroes: Attempted by him and Barnabas, who try to spring the Eagle Bearer from jail armed only with a rake and a stick. Only to find The Eagle Bearer broke out already.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: When he's put on trial (under the Cult's influence), the Eagle Bearer goes to some of Delphi's philosophers and asks them to help. They are reluctant, because they can't stand Sokrates and his insufferability (though the Eagle Bearer can persuade them to help anyway, just not for Sokrates's sake).
- The Gadfly: The historical Socrates was the Trope Namer, and his game depiction lives up to it. He is extremely fond of proposing, discussing, or setting you on intentionally difficult and controversial subjects and topics, such as the worth of the life of a political prisoner about to be executed. However, he doesn't tell you said prisoner is a violent extremist. He's also fond of arguing the exact same points as his opponent, only using different words to make it seem different.
- Happily Married: To Xanthippe, something the Eagle Bearer only finds out after knowing him for several years. Though they apparently bicker frequently, Sokrates explains that it is because they bicker that he's happy. He likes having a wife who's willing to argue with him.
- Historical Domain Character: The founder of Western philosophy, and key figure of Athenian culture and society.
- In the "Sokrates's Trial" quest chain, a young boy by the name of Aristokles appears. Those who know their Greek history will know who he's more famously known as (even before the boy reveals it himself): Plato, student and fan of Sokrates.
- Historical Beauty Upgrade: Sokrates was proverbial for being quite ugly and being judged poorly for it. The game's version looks rather good looking, resembling Mark Addy in Game of Thrones for some reason.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: The famous Socratic problem notes that the impression and ideas we have about him come from the writings of Plato and Xenophon, and are as such heavily filtered by them. The game mostly sticks to Plato's version, since the latter's version is a more shifty character, and in one moment was even implied to be a pimp of sorts.
- Insufferable Genius:
- Has shades of this in his dealings with other people. He knows he's more intelligent than anyone else in the room and doesn't make a lot of effort to be subtle about it. Depending on your dialogue choices, the Eagle Bearer can either roll with it or get annoyed fast. Much of this stems from other characters taking his questions as his opinion rather than thought experiments, and thus wind up confused that he seemingly has so many different contradicting opinions at once. Through dialogue choices the Eagle Bearer can either get annoyed fast or, if the player catches on, roll with it and engage with him.
- In the "Sokrates's Trial" quest chain, this gets turned on its head as the Pythia tells him that he's the wisest man in Greece. This confounds Sokrates as he knows that he knows nothing. The attempt to figure out this contradiction has him becoming unusually modest in his dialogue during the quest chain.
- Proverbial Wisdom: A variation. Rather than speaking in proverbs and riddles, he is known for asking tricky philosophical questions in order to guide people to wisdom. Pretty much Truth in Television, as the real historical Socrates was also like this.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: After Kleon takes power in Athens, Sokrates vows to aid the Eagle Bearer in stopping him and the Cult of Kosmos, even if it means going against Athens' interests in the war. His part in swaying Athens' opinion against Kleon is to conduct a debate that enlightens the citizenry to its complicit guilt in a proposed massacre of the revolting city of Mytilene.
- Stalker without a Crush: He frequently turns up exactly where the Eagle Bearer happens to be all over Attika (and even Delos) so that he can ask them moral and philosophical questions.Sokrates: Kassandra/Alexios! What chance that we should meet here.
Kassandra/Alexios: It doesn't really feel like chance... - Trickster Mentor: Sokrates largely serves as this to the Eagle Bearer. He never tells them exactly what to do or what to think but leads them on to make them take a decision by themselves.
- Truth in Television: Four times over, in the "Trial of Sokrates" quest.
- He's confused by the Oracle of Delphi saying he was the wisest man in the world, which is what got the historical Sokrates started, since he felt he knew nothing and sought out the most knowledgable men in Greece to prove it... only to turn out to be better at arguing than them.
- He burns his writing since he disapproves of the practice.
- Much to the Eagle Bearer's horror, he compares his wife to a horse (lovingly, mind you). Actual Sokrates did that too.
- In Athens, he's very much The Friend Nobody Likes. While he's respected for his intellect, he's also seen as very frustrating to talk to, and it takes a lot of convincing by the Eagle Bearer to get the other philosophers to support him during his trial. Sadly, this is a big reason why his later trial ended with a death sentence.
Alkibiades
Alkibiades
Voiced by: Tyrone Savage (English)note
A student of Sokrates and the adopted son of Perikles.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: Hinted at. During the Olympics questline, he drinks some wine which has been poisoned. Everyone else has dropped dead, but Alkibiades manages to hold on long enough for the Eagle Bearer to find a cure.
- Affectionate Nickname: Calls the Eagle-Bearer Lexi/Kassie. His friends call him Allie.
- Amazon Chaser: He lusts after Kassandra specifically because of her physical prowess.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: He's first encountered organizing an orgy in the middle of a party, involving men, women, and at least one goat (though he insists it was just "watching").
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: One of his missions has him ask the Eagle Bearer to escort a general home, whereupon thugs ambush and try to kill the guy, on Alky's orders. Should the player actually save him (tougher than it sounds), it's implied Alkibiades just has him murdered later anyway.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He acts like a Lovable Sex Maniac whose only focus is sex and pleasure, but he's actually an extremely cunning politician capable of intricate schemes. In the novelization, he also wins first place at the races in the Olympics (Kassandra wins second).
- Damned by Faint Praise: Some fans have called Alkibiades the most trustworthy politician in Ancient Greece. Whether you've studied history or played his missions... that's not saying much for anybody.
- Double Entendre: Nearly every other sentence out of his mouth.
- Everyone Has Standards: While he is ambitious and manipulative, Alkibiades opposes Kleon's tyrannical rule of Athens and the efforts of the Cult of Kosmos.
- Friends with Benefits: With the Eagle Bearer, if the player chooses to sleep with him. Unlike the other romance options, he offers them multiple opportunities to sleep with him, albeit just for the fun of it, without any romantic feelings being involved. His final questline has him noting that his prospective wife, Iris, knows this and supports an open marriage.
- Gorgeous Greek: He's an exemplar of the classic Greek Pretty Boy standard.
- Historical Domain Character: Alkibiades would ultimately become the most pivotal figure in the Peloponnesian War, proverbial for his back-and-forth switching of sides from Athens and Sparta, whose dark reputation ultimately led to his mentor Sokrates' death, on account of association. His cleverness, hedonism, and promiscuity are historically known.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: At the end of his quests, he winds up engaged to a woman who is seeking to use him for her own ends, much as he's done to the Eagle Bearer. If they tell him as much, he's actually overjoyed.
- Hot for Teacher: He is Sokrates' student, and relentlessly pursues him, to no avail.Alkibiades: Now, dear teacher, I think you should whisk me away for our private lesson.
Sokrates: I'm afraid I haven't had enough wine for that, Alkibiades.
Alkibiades: Then someone fill his cup! - Lovable Sex Maniac: He often flirts and has sex with both men and women. There is also more than one opportunity for the Eagle Bearer to accept his propositions.
- Manipulative Bastard: Most of his quests involve tricking the Eagle Bearer into socially damaging or arranging the death of a political enemy of his through the guise of seemingly benign requests. When pressed for answers as to why he keeps lying, he claims to be trying to protect the Eagle Bearer from information that could harm them.
- Pet the Dog: He helps a woman being persecuted by an abusive husband out of Athens. The Eagle Bearer is amazed that the woman sees Alkibiades as entirely benign, and even more so when Alkibiades admits that he helped that woman for no further political gain but out of "the goodness of his heart and gods curse anyone who doubts that"..
- Really Gets Around: Going along with his status as a Lovable Sex Maniac, he often references many different people who he has slept with.
- Smarter Than You Look: Comes off as a vapid, sex-obsessed fop, but his quest-line shows he has good knowledge of Athenian law and how to subvert it and manipulates the Eagle Bearer into eliminating his political rivals.Alkibiades: It's time everyone sees a more serious Alkibiades — the Alkibiades I've only shown glimpses of in the past. One day, you'll see everything I was working toward, and you'll know you helped make it happen. Attika and lands far beyond will thank you, even if they don't know your name.
- Troll: One of his quests involve delivering to a Spartan Commander a casting of a penis (specifically, Alkibiades'), along with a message saying that it's what the commander's wife enjoyed. Alkibiades has the Eagle Bearer say the "gift" is from a specific Athenian commander.
- With Friends Like These...: Alkibiades' errands seem simple and obvious on surface but if often leads the Eagle Bearer to be ambushed by assailants or having to infiltrate heavily guarded forts, and almost always having the Eagle Bearer risk their life because of some weird scheme of his.
- Young Future Famous People: You meet Alkibiades during the first leg of the Archidamian War, well before the later stages where he became the central figure of the war, and most controversial man of his age.
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
A comedic playwright and friend of Sokrates.
- Historical Domain Character: Some of his plays (e.g. Lysistrata) had survived to modern times, and he did mock Kleon in them.
- Jerkass: He's kind of an obnoxious ass, repeatedly addressing the Eagle Bearer as "it" when they first meet.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Like Sokrates, he aids the Eagle Bearer in bringing down Kleon's regime and fighting the Cult of Kosmos even if it requires breaking the law or hurting Athens' war efforts. His contribution to addressing the Kleon problem is to write a play that's a comedic hatchet job to Kleon's reputation.
Demosthenes
Demosthenes
An Athenenian general who asks the Eagle Bearer to intervene in the war effort.
- Combat Pragmatist: He acknowledges that sending the Eagle Bearer out to shank polemarchs isn't exactly sporting, but he doesn't care.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Part of his motivation is just to get the other generals to acknowledge his methods work, dammit!
- Foil: To his counterpart, Lysander, being calm, reasonable, and mostly personable with the Eagle Bearer.
- Historical Domain Character: Like his Spartan counterpart, he was a real promiment Athenian general during the war.
- Real Men Love Jesus: He'll be found by the statue of Athena at the Pathenon, wondering what her take on the siege of Athens would be.
- Surrounded by Idiots: His opinion of the other generals, who he regards as too unwilling to take any sort of risks at all, when they at war.
- You Are a Credit to Your Race: Demonsthenes is pretty open about how he barely regards the Spartans as human at all, describing them as having "animal cunning" to the Eagle Bearer's face, prompting a You Know I'm Black, Right? moment. He shrugs it off by saying they're exceptional. With some work, they might one day be worthy of Athenian citizenship.
Kephallonia
Markos
Markos
Voiced by: Damon Papadopoulos (English)note
A swindler and hopeful winemaker who took in the Eagle Bearer when they were a child.
- But Thou Must!: His final quest gives you a dialogue option to refuse helping him any longer with his harebrained schemes, but taking it simply loops back to the same outcome of helping him anyway.
- Catchphrase: "Everybody benefits!"
- The Friend Nobody Likes: No one really likes him, due to his general laziness, greediness, and propensity to cause trouble with his schemes. Or at least no one openly admits to liking him. The player is even given the option to refuse to hug him before leaving him ostensibly forever. Even when the Eagle Bearer meets old friends from Kephallonia, they have nothing good to say about Markos.
- Indy Ploy: Fancies himself a planner, but his ideas tend to be spur-of-the-moment decisions, or just vague objectives he has no idea how to accomplish.
- Insistent Terminology: On Kos, he works with a woman he insists is his mother. The Eagle Bearer points out he said his mother was dead. Markos claims she's just so close she's like his mother.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Markos is prone to poor decision, is nothing but trouble, and manipulative, but he genuinely cares for the Eagle Bearer and was willing to take in the street urchin, and does the same for Phoibe. He also lends money to people he knows will have trouble paying him back (especially knowing he'll need the money) because he can't stand seeing their family starve.
- Kill the Creditor: His plan to settle his debt to the Cyclops is by having the Eagle Bearer kill him.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Shows shades of this, where he ignores the advice of the qualified personnel running the vineyard he bought, and just does as he pleases.
- Large Ham: Seems to be physically incapable of talking quietly.
- The Load: Which, depending on the player's choice, the Eagle Bearer can eventually point out - none of his schemes ever benefit anyone, least of all himself.
- Lovable Coward: A lot of his schemes involve violence or force, which he passes off on the Eagle Bearer rather than do himself.
- Never Lend to a Friend: He's not paid back the Eagle Bearer for a loan they gave him. He even insists that sending you off on a debt collecting job is their money waiting for them with that specific person.
- Parental Substitute: He raised the Eagle Bearer after they fled from Sparta.
- Red Baron: Becomes known as the "Con of Kos" after his short stay there.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: If the player flat-out refuses to do his last quest on Kos, and leave him to the mercy of the Cerberus brothers, he runs off, never to be seen again.
- The Scrooge: He never actually pays anyone back for anything ever. A contact on Kephallonia even expresses surprise when the Eagle Bearer pays her in his stead.
- Too Dumb to Live: His shortsightedness regularly leads to him making decisions that no sane person would even consider, like borrowing money from Kephallonia's brutal underworld boss despite knowing he can't pay him back. If not for the Eagle Bearer's reluctant support, Markos would've dug his own grave decades ago.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Compared to his charge, the Eagle Bearer, Markos is rather irresponsible, unreliable, and whimsical. Some people even wonder how the Eagle Bearer ended up becoming more reliable than their caretaker.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He quietly disappears from the game after the conclusion of his minor quest chain and is never seen or heard of again.
Phoibe
Phoibe
Voiced by: Olivia Lebedeva-Alexopoulou (English)note
An orphan who idolizes the Eagle Bearer and works for Markos.
- The Artful Dodger: Phiobe is quite assertive that she can take care of herself. She later proves this when she successfully smuggles herself into Athens, and becomes leader of a band of thieving orphans, until Aspasia takes her in as a servant.
- Death of a Child: She's killed by cultists during the plague in Athens.
- Disney Death: The Cyclops kidnaps her and leaves her reposed against a pillar, identically to how she died in life, for the Eagle Bearer to find. Thankfully, this time it didn't stick, and she's able to return to Elysium to reunite with her parents.
- Kill the Cutie: She's a sweet, care-free kid and surrogate little sister to the protagonist whose death is among, if not the, most affecting in the game.
- Little Stowaway: She stows away on a ship to get to Athens after the Eagle Bearer leaves Kephallonia.
- Mugging the Monster: After arriving in Athens, she joined a gang who tried scamming Aspasia, the most powerful woman in Athens. Even more so given she's also the head of the Cult of Kosmos. Fortunately, Aspasia decided to give her a job.
- Quest for Identity: When you find her in the Underworld, she'd forgotten her past life after being tricked into drinking Lethe's water by the Cyclops. The questline that follows has you help her recover her memories by finding her eagle carving.
- Replacement Goldfish: She ends up filling the spot for Markos that the Eagle Bearer occupied when they were young when they leave the island.
- Street Urchin: Is one, as her parents died some years prior. Markos takes her in when the player ends the prologue.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- She led Elpenor's men to find the Eagle Bearer.
- If you side with her in the "Blood Fever" sidequest, her idealism ends up dooming Kephallonia to the plague.
The Cyclops
The Cyclops of Kephallonia
Voiced by: Marvin Kaye (English)note
A one-eyed money lender and crime boss who holds sway in Kephallonia.
- Berserk Button: Do not make any reference, or vague allusion to him resembling a certain one-eyed, Grecian monster of myth.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Tries to drown Barnabas for saying the words "One-eyed Monster." Barnabas wasn't even talking about him.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone, even his men, calls him "The Cyclops." Though in a twist, he violently hates the nickname and any comparison to cyclops of myth. He tries to drown Barnabas when he overhears him say "one-eyed monster," and Barnabas wasn't even talking about him! The player is never given the chance to learn his actual name.
- Evil Debt Collector: He'll kill you, your adopted child, and that child's Street Urchin friend if he's not paid.
- Large and in Charge: He's a "Brute" type enemy, so he's about 50% taller than most people, and twice as broad.
- Loan Shark: What he is. He'll go after friends, relatives and acquaintances if he's not paid back.
- Named After the Injury: Is called "Cyclops" because he's missing one eye. The game allows you to steal his fake eye, shove it up a goat's rear end, kill the dude, retrieve the eye (unlocking an achievement) and then sell it for a high price.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "The Cyclops." Though not as strong nor as dangerous as the actual cyclops you can fight late in the game, he still very much is violent, brutal, and all too willing to kill people who earn his ire.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: In the Underworld, he burns down entire villages of lost souls searching for Phoibe, abducts her, and then leaves her seemingly-lifeless body exactly the same way she died in life, just to hurt the Eagle Bearer.
- Psychopathic Manchild: His reaction to having his Berserk Button pressed is rather childish, albeit violent. He's not insulted, he's wounded, and fights back like a schoolyard bully.Eagle Bearer: [as though talking to a small child] Did he say Cyclops? Did he hurt your feelings?
The Cyclops: I don't like it when people call me that! - Starter Villain: He's the first antagonist the player must deal with in order to leave Kephallonia.
- Would Hurt a Child: He sends his men after Phiobe to get Markos to pay him back.
- In death, he wipes Phoibe's memory, kidnaps her, and has her seemingly killed to get back at the Eagle Bearer.
Others
Aletheia
Aletheia
See her entry in Those Who Came Before. Artaxerxes
Artaxerxes
Voiced by: Alkis Kritikos (English)note
A blind Persian beggar in Megaris who asks the Eagle Bearer to describe various landmarks they have seen, in exchange for which he will reveal his life's story.
- Cool Old Guy: He's pretty open about who he is, and is otherwise a chill old man who muses about the gods, and man's cruelty to man. He also speaks of his friendship with Themistokles, who led the Greek City States against his father and grandfather and was later ostracized (Exiled) from Athens over politics. Themistokles' words of his homeland is what pushed him to want to "see" Greece. He's also courteous and friendly to the Eagle Bearer, a grandchild of Leonidas, who was also one of his family's enemies.
- Cycle of Revenge: He wants nothing to do with it, but he does note that honor dictates the Eagle Bearer should kill him to avenge Leonidas. It's up to the player to let Persian assassins kill him, or save him as there's no honor in killing a peaceful blind man.
- Friendly Enemy: He became a close friend of Themistokles, whom he saw as a father figure. He's also friendly to the player despite them being Leonidas' grandchild.
- Historical Domain Character: If you know your game lore and Persian history, it's pretty obvious who he is. The name of the quest "Prince of Persia," his own name, along with his early mention that Darius, the historical assassin who killed Xerxes and Darius of Persia also tried to kill him make it abundantly clear he's Artaxerxes I of Persia, Xerxes I's son, long before the reveal comes around.
- Interface Spoiler: The subtitle reveal his name before he actually gives it (After the third landmark), which can spoil the surprise if one knows their history. See Historical Domain Character above.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: At the end of Legacy of the First Blade, the Eagle Bearer can find a note in an Order hideout stating that Darius hadn't tried to assassinate him - the Order just made it look like he did because no matter what they tried, they couldn't convince Artaxerxes around to being a Puppet King for them.
- Mythology Gag: His quest line is called Prince of Persia, after Ubisoft's other big franchise.
- Noble Fugitive: He's the rightful heir of the Persian throne, but he was deposed by his brother Darius II, and now lives as a beggar.Eagle Bearer: You don't look like a king.
Artaxerxes: That's the point. I'm hiding. -
Pre-Order Bonus: His quest is a Pre-Order DLC. - Riches to Rags: From Emperor of Persia to a blind beggar in Greece.
Pythagoras (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Pythagoras
Voiced by: Anthony Skordi (English)note
The legendary mathematician, philosopher, and occultist. Also the Eagle Bearer's biological father.
- The Chessmaster: The entire reason he fathered the Eagle Bearer is so he'd have someone strong enough to fight the Cult and protect Atlantis.
- Darwinist Desire: He chose to have children with Myrrine specifically because she is also descended from a line with particularly high amounts of Isu DNA.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: He dies in his child's arms after giving the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to them.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Historically speaking, he died at the age of 75 well before the Battle of Thermopylae. By contrast, his Odyssey counterpart dies after handing over the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to the Eagle Bearer.
- Elderly Immortal: He's immortal because of the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, but looks like an old man, presumably because he was already old when he found the staff.
- Final Boss: If you choose to fight him, he's the last boss of the final storyline.
- Historical Domain Character: The legendary geometer himself, whose name still is associated with a principal theorem of triangular geometry. He's known for a host of other philosopical ideas as well. His mathematical pioneering ties into the Isu philosophy of "Equations of Reality".
- Immortality: Thanks to Hermes' staff, he's still alive despite being 150 years old.
- Lack of Empathy: His reaction to the Eagle Bearer being angry about being abandoned by him is to basically go "Whatever" and treat it as them as being overly emotional.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He reveals to the Eagle Bearer that he is in fact their real father.
- Mortality Ensues: He dies after giving up the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus.
- Motive Decay: He started out wanting to seal Atlantis away forever so that nobody could use the Isu knowledge stored within against humanity. By the time the Eagle Bearer finally hands him the tools to carry out this plan, he's become obsessed with studying said Isu knowledge instead and requires a whole lot of convincing (of the verbal or the violent kind) to stand down.
- Optional Boss: If the Eagle Bearer attempts to take the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus from him by force, Pythagoras fights back with the full power of his Isu artifact and becomes the most challenging boss in the game. Avoiding the fight requires nothing but choosing the non-violent dialogue option.
- Parental Abandonment: He had no intention to stay and raise his children, leaving that to Myrrine as he sought only to propagate their bloodlines.
- Passing the Torch: He seeks to have the Eagle Bearer take over the role of defending Atlantis.
- The Stoic: He views emotions as a weakness. He expected Myrrine to teach her children to be less emotional.
- Super Breeding Program: He's got a high amount of Isu DNA, like Myrrine. It's why he sought her out to further their bloodline and create children with strong Isu genes. Myrinne consented... and so the Eagle Bearer came to be.
- Uneven Hybrid: He had an elevated level of Isu heredity compared to the typical human at the time.
Skoura
Skoura
The former champion of the Pephka Arena, now hosting the fights and looking for a new champion to rise to the same fame as him.- Death Seeker: His daughter has been dead for years, he's been hosting the fights waiting for someone to finally put him out of his misery.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: He was never truly able to escape the fighting and the bloodshed of war.
Darius
Darius
Main Game Appearances: Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Voiced by: Michael Benyaer (English)note
Born Artabanus, a Persian proto-Assassin in the fifth century BCE who killed both Xerxes the Great and his son Darius, who were members of the Order of the Ancients.
He finally makes an in-game appearance in Assassin's Creed Odyssey in the DLC, Legacy of the First Blade, seeking the Eagle-Bearer to recruit them and others like them into the fight against the Order of the Ancients.
- Ancient Tomb: His tomb is located in the Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy.
- Badass Cape: Wears a long white cape, and even as an old man, he's capable of taking out dozens of skilled Spartan and Persian warriors, and fighting evenly with the Eagle Bearer.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: He was the first known user of the Assassins' iconic Hidden Blade (episode 2 of Legacy of the First Blade reveals he made it himself). Unlike the more recent Assassins, his Blade was actually meant to be worn on the outside of the forearm rather than the inside.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Historically, Darius was slain by Artaxerxes after he briefly ruled Persia as a Regent for two years. In Odyssey, he lives well into his 60s to 70s and presumably dies of natural causes.
- Dual Wielding: If he must fight, rather than just shanking someone from behind, he wields two swords.
- Famed In-Story: The Assassins regard him as one of their most famous members.
- Fish out of Water: Darius has spent his life fighting, killing, and being on the run. Simple day-to-day interaction can be a little beyond him, as shown when he tries to make casual small talk in an optional conversation with the Eagle Bearer.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: He was not only the inventor of the Hidden Blade and the leader of a proto-Assassin resistance group in Ancient Persia that killed Xerxes, but he becomes the adoptive parent of Elpidios, the son of the Eagle Bearer and the ancestor of Hidden Ones co-founder Aya otherwise known as Amunet from Assassin's Creed Origins.
- Hero of Another Story: When the Eagle Bearer meets him, he's been at the assassination business for decades, though he doesn't have a great deal of stories he's willing to share. He also suggests he was at the Battle of Thermopylae, and witnessed Leonidas fighting first-hand.
- Historical Domain Character: The historical Artabanus was either a vizier or chief bodyguard to Xerxes the Great, and was involved in a conspiracy that ended with both he and his son Darius dead, and Artabanus himself personally killed via sword either in battle or as an execution by Artaxerxes I of Persia, who then ascended to the throne.
- Historical Hero Upgrade:
- An in-universe one as it appears the modern day Assassins actually have no relationship to Darius whatsoever. While he killed Xerxes the Great with a Hidden Blade, Bayek and Aya only received the self-same blade via Cleopatra as a present. "Legend of the First Blade" reveals that he belonged to an Assassin-like order dedicated to fighting the Order of the Ancients in Persia.
- Apart from that, it's believed Artabanus just murdered Darius and Xerxes in the name of personal ambition, when instead it was in the name of defending freedom.
- Also, he supposedly killed Darius, son of Xerxes and crown prince of Persia. The end of "Legacy" reveals he never actually killed Darius, who lived out his life in Greece.
- I Work Alone: His attitude when the Eagle Bearer meets him. His child points out this isn't necessarily the best attitude to have when you're no longer a young man.
- In the Hood: Wears a costume with a hood like other Assassins.
- Let's You and Him Fight: At the beginning of the Legacy DLC, he attempts to stealth-kill the Eagle Bearer and ends up being the first boss fight until Natakas/Neema (Determined by the opposite gender of the Eagle Bearer) intervenes.
- Long-Dead Badass: Is long dead by Ezio's time.
- Made of Iron: At the beginning of Legacy episode 3, two of the Order's hired killers beat him up. Bearing in mind, he's pretty elderly. But it doesn't keep him down for long.
- The Mentor: To the Eagle Bearer's son Elpidos.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: He felt the best way to deal with Order was to kill everyone involved, including any Puppet King they had, and any kid they had who might have potentially joined them. Amorges disagreed.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: More than once, the Eagle Bearer can come across a pile of corpses left by Darius's wake.
- Precursor Heroes: He predates the Hidden Ones, the Precursor Heroes themselves to the Assassins, but his Hidden Blade became that of Bayek and inspired the use of the weapon for millennia to come. He also began the practice of recruiting warriors with Eagle Vision — who he calls Tainted Ones — into the fight against the Order.
- Professional Killer: Like most Assassins.
- The Remnant: Led an Assassin-like organization against Xerxes, but thanks to some of the flaws in their operational habits and a betrayal, he's the only one left by now.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: He likes pulling these on the Eagle Bearer.
- Stern Chase: Killing Xerxes, and then trying to kill his son Artaxerxes, meant he and his family had to go on the run, the Order pursuing them the whole way. Come episode 2, they've taken up the chase again.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: In episode 2 of the DLC, he has developed into this as his surviving child settles down with the Eagle Bearer.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: His eyes are a very vivid gold color, a sign of his Isu DNA. His children and grandson inherit it.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With the Eagle Bearer, for part of episode 3, since each blames the other for Natakas / Neema's death.
- That Man Is Dead: He used to be known as Artabanus. He's very firm on the fact that guy is dead now.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Amorges, the current head of the Order, until he tries killing Xerxes's son. Amorges joined the Order, and hunted Darius across Persia.
Spoiler Character
Elpidos
Main Game Appearances: Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
The son of the Eagle Bearer who was raised by Darius in Egypt to protect him from the Order of the Ancients.
- Beta Outfit: The teenage Elpidos wears a white robe with a red sash which will later be adopted by most branches of the Assassin Brotherhood as the standard uniform.
- Child of Two Worlds: He was born Spartan but was raised Egyptian by his grandfather Darius.
- Heroic Lineage: Not only is he the descendant of Leonidas and the Eagle Bearer's son (as well as being Darius' grandson) but he's the ancestor of Aya/Amunet from Origins.
- Living MacGuffin: As a scion of two powerful Isu bloodlines he's the target of the Order of the Ancients.
- Raised by Grandparents: He would go on to live with his grandfather Darius in Egypt.
- Superpowerful Genetics: He's the product of what is effectively a Super Breeding Program and is born with great potential and power which he would pass on to his descendants.
- Walking Spoiler: Basically his entire existence becomes this to those who haven't played Origins especially since he is related to Aya from that game.
