History Characters / AssassinsCreedOdysseyTheGreekWorld

* RedHerring: 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... [[spoiler: to obfuscate the fact that Pausanias is the actual Cultist.]]

* SiblingRivalry: 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 GoldenEnding also features him and [[spoiler: Deimos]] getting into a scuffle over dinner.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Her story about having lost her power to [[spoiler: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--[[spoiler: 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.

* KillTheCutie: She's a sweet, care-free kid and surrogate little sister to the protagonist [[spoiler: whose death is among, if not ''the'', most affecting in the game.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: 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. [[spoiler: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]].

* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: While Myrrine is pretty tough in her own right, Kassandra is considerably more of a tomboy than her mother--whether she's being the Eagle Bearer or Deimos.

* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: While Myrrine is pretty tough in her own right, Kassandra is considerably more of a tomboy than her mother--[[spoiler:whether she's being the Eagle Bearer or Deimos.]]

* AmicableExes: Though she left him after the [[spoiler: (assumed)]] deaths of their children, Myrrine surprisingly doesn't seem to hold much anger towards Nikolaos for the whole mess. In the GoldenEnding, they even sit down and have dinner with their kids together.

* PirateGirl: After losing track of her children, she spent some time working as a smuggler for Xenia.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Her story about having lost her power to [[spoiler: 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--[[spoiler: 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.

* OldSoldier: He's still fighting in the Peloponnesian War despite having two fully-grown children.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: [[spoiler: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 step-father look on.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: 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 ([[LockedOutOfTheLoop possibly]]) [[YouKilledMyFather killed his father]], so [[ItsPersonal it's]] ''[[ItsPersonal very]]'' [[ItsPersonal personal]].

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: You get the last clue to uncovering her identity after you deal with Deimos, but even if you finish the Family arc before the Cult arc, the Eagle Bearer will be shocked that she's the Cult's leader when she's confronted.

* BadassBaritone: Has a very deep, authoritative voice heavy with the weight of his age.

* TheGadfly: Again, much like in real-life, 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, [[spoiler: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.

* GreaterScopeParagon: 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 [[spoiler:the Eagle Bearer and the ancestor of Hidden Ones co-founder Aya otherwise known as Amunet from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'']].

* ManOfTheCity: 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.

* SuperBreedingProgram: Myrinne agreed with Pythagoras's idea to combine their Isu-descendance bloodlines, resulting in the Eagle Bearer. The Cult of Kosmos also planned to abduct her and turn her into a broodmare to make more TykeBombs like Deimos.

* TruthInTelevision: Three times over, in the "Trial of Sokrates" quest.

** In Athens, he's very much the FriendNobodyLikes. 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, [[KangarooCourt this is a big reason why his later trial ended with a death sentence.]]

** Much to the Eagle Bearer's horror, he compares his wife to a horse (lovingly, mind). Actual Sokrates did that too.

* BladeOnAStick: She wields a spear as her WeaponOfChoice.

* BigBadFriend: She is the leader of the Cult of Kosmos but she gradually learns to genuinely like, maybe even [[UpToEleven love]], the Eagle Bearer.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: 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.

* AdultFear: His wife and all but one of his children were killed by the Order, despite his efforts to protect them.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: [[spoiler:At some point in life, he ordered and participated in an attack on a village, where he killed a local man and attacked his pregnant wife who tried to protect her husband. His action killed her unborn child and later she was hung on a tree anyway. This action earned him the moniker "Brasidas the Butcher" which he forgot about completely in his time in the underworld, which amuses Hades into tormenting and twisting a man of honor in the hope of going to Elysium while noting that when confronted with the memory of his crime, his honor would lead him to remain in Hades out of remorse.]]

* UriahGambit: When the Eagle Bearer encounters him in Boeotia, he blames them for the death of the Wolf of Sparta[[note]]whether this is true depends on your choice[[/note]], 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 [[spoiler:and ultimately decides to just kill them himself]].

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: He's the product of what is effectively genetic engineering and is born with great potential and power which he would pass on to his descendants.

* TheRedBaron: Becomes known as the "Con of Kos" after his short stay there.

* HappilyAdopted: He becomes the godchild to Darius in Egypt.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: He's the product of what is effectively genetic engineering and is born with great potential and power.

* YouAreACreditToYourRace: 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 YouKnowImBlack moment. He shrugs it off by saying they're exceptional. With some work, they might ''one day'' be worthy of Athenian citizenship.

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: He was born Spartan but was raised Egyptian by his adoptive father Darius.

* HeroicLineage: Not only is he the descendant of Leonidas and the Eagle Bearer's son but he's the ancestor of Aya/Amunet from ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]''.

* BadassBeard: Had a goatee; by the time of ''Assassin's Creed Odyssey'', he's grown it into a full beard.

* MixedAncestry: He is half-Greek and half-Persian.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Though her affability sounds genuine during her MotiveRant at the climax, if the player chooses to [[ShutUpHannibalcall her out on her bullshit]], it's revealed to be a ruse to get the Eagle Bearer to spare her.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: She hoped to use the Cult to unite the various Greek nations, but was ultimately disappointed with how they act largely for their own selfish benefit. Aspasia also thinks poorly of members who have [[BelievingTheirOwnLies become obsessed with the Cult's mysticism]] because of her personal belief in enlightened reason. The last straw for her is when Perikles is murdered by Deimos, which results in Aspasia deciding that the Cult is a lost cause.