Characters / Assassin's Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones

Main Character Index

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A list of characters belonging to the Hidden Ones in the historical portion of Assassin's Creed Origins.

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The Hidden Ones

In General

We sharpen our blades... And pull what hope is left from this foul earth.

Main Game Appearances: Assassin's Creed Origins | Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic) | Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Other Appearances: Assassin's Creed: Rebellion | Assassin's Creed: Dynasty

"Now our enemies are hidden behind crowns, working in the shadows of Kings and Queens. Who are the ones working in the shadows for the people? We are."

— Bayek of Siwa

The original incarnation of the Assassin Brotherhood. For more details of its incarnations through the ages, see here.

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• Benevolent Conspiracy: Their purpose is to counteract the evil conspiracy formed by the Order of the Ancients.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: They are very much a secret organization that chooses to keep itself hidden from the public.
• Fingore: Initiates willingly cut off their ring finger in order to better use the Hidden Blade as well as a sign of loyalty to Bayek, despite the fact that he actively tried to dissuade them from it.
• Good Counterpart: Of the Order of the Ancients, working to help the common people.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: As co-founder of the Hidden Ones with Aya, many of Bayek's traditions such as the Leap of Faith and using a white object (a feather up until after Altair's time) to sop up the blood of targets were taken up by later Assassins.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: In their early years, they were often brazen with their activities, assassinating targets in broad daylight to send the message that no-one is beyond their reach. And then this backfired, leading to their Roman members being hunted by Mark Antony, and their Sinai bureau being burnt to the ground, with the Hidden Ones there having to go into hiding. After that, Bayek and Amunet decide on a more discrete method of operation.
• In the Hood: Most but not all Hidden Ones wear beaked hoods especially Bayek, Tahira and (initially) Amunet.
• La Résistance: Originally formed from various people resisting Ptolemy's regime. After Caesar's death, they start assisting one in Sinai.
• Meaningful Name: The Hidden Ones of course work in the shadows to not just take down the Order of the Ancients but for the freedom and liberty of all mankind.
• Multinational Team: The Hidden Ones have Egyptian, Greek, and Roman members operating throughout the known ancient world from the Sinai Peninsula to the eternal city of Rome.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: While their initial goal is to protect the people anyway, it isn't until the events of Sinai that Bayek and Amunet codify the tenet of "stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent".
• Precursor Heroes: The first organized incarnation of what would become the Assassin Brotherhood.
• Skeleton Motif: The Assassin symbol is indeed derived from the underside of an eagle skull, in particular the one on Khemu's pendant, when Bayek finally discarded it.
• Start My Own: After being betrayed by Cleopatra and learning how big the Order of the Ancients truly is, Bayek and Aya gather their allies to form their own organization to fight the Order and to protect the free will of the people.
• Unperson: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla reveals that Bayek and the other Hidden One founders chose to purposely invoke this by leaving no mention of their names, save for Amunet, and not for lack of trying on their part. Bayek even makes a point of signing his letter to Amunet written in his waning years with "The Hidden One" rather than his actual name.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Both Bayek and Aya question as to whether killing their son's murderers will satisfy them. It doesn't and it only draws them further apart as they see a world filled with corruption.

Bayek of Siwa

Bayek of Siwa

Main game appearances: Assassin's Creed Origins | Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (simulation only) | Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (voice only)

Other appearances: Assassin's Creed: Desert Oath | | Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic) | Assassin's Creed: Rebellion | Assassin's Creed: Freerunners

Voiced by: Abubakar Salim (English)^note Other Languages: Dmitry Polyanovsky (Russian), Jun Fukuyama (Japanese)

"You may not be a king, Bayek. But history follows you."

The last of the Medjay, Bayek of Siwa fights against the mysterious Order of the Ancients to protect Egypt.

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• Action Dad: Father of a young boy and an Experienced Protagonist at the start of the game. Sadly, his son dies early and he spends the rest of the story seeking to avenge him.
• All-Loving Hero: Provided you're not against him or harming innocents, Bayek will help and defend you. Demonstrated during a quest in Curse of the Pharaohs when he runs into worshippers of Akhenaten. Bayek really dislikes the long-dead pharaoh for his attempts to get rid of the gods, but still helps the worshipers without a word against their pharaoh.
• Amicable Exes:
  • They become this at the end of Origins. Their commitment to the Creed leads to their marriage ending over the grief of their lost child, and Aya leaves to establish Assassin bureaus across the Mediterranean.
  • Valhalla features a letter written by Bayek to Aya in their later years, and Bayek is clearly still deeply in love with Aya, despite them parting ways, as he ends the letter such:
  "Take care my love, my Iset, My Northern Star. Even in my waning years I am still your Osiris. Let our Horus live on beyond us. I think of you often my Jewel. At sunrise, at twilight, at new moon and full, when rain falls and the breath of Amun rides across my neck. I remember you kissing me just there. And I will take this feeling to my tomb."
• Aura Vision: Surprisingly averted; Bayek is actually lacking of the games' usual Eagle Vision. He does have two substitute abilities, though - viewing the world through Senu's eyes helps to locate targets, while a system-assisted 'Animus Pulse' serves the Notice This function at ground level.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Several times through the game, Bayek manages to take in details around the scene and reconstruct events from there.
• Baritone of Strength: Speaks with a deep, commanding voice, and he's a skilled and powerful warrior.
• Battle Couple: He and Aya fight alongside one another on some missions, and they happen to be married.
• Beard of Sorrow: At the beginning of the game, he wears a long beard and his hair is grown out, likely as a result of his son's death.
• Beta Outfit: His modified Medjay uniform would become the basis for Assassin’s robes for millennia to come. He gets a proper Assassin (Hidden One) outfit in the ''The Hidden Ones” DLC.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Bayek may simply be one of the nicest protagonists in the whole series. He's beloved by his friends and the people of his hometown, he's good with children, and generous to anyone in need. But when the bad guys get under his skin he is the most visibly furious of any of the series protagonists yet. For instance, during the death scene of the Ibis, who calls him "Bayek of Nothing, Father to Nobody", he beats the man's head in with his own Piece of Eden while screaming.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Wields a Hidden Blade on his left arm, that in fact was the very same one used by Darius to kill King Xerxes I of Persia.
• Bully Hunter: While on paper the Medjay are deticated to protecting Egyptian society, Bayek extends this code of honor to all people, protecting humanity regardless of race or religion. Point in fact, he has slain multiple corrupt Egyptians to protect innocent Greeks and Romans, several of whom he later befriends, in spite of said colonizers being hated as invaders and oppressors by the native Egyptians. This arguably set the precedent of equality of justice and kindness in the Brotherhood of Assassins centuries later.
• The Cameo: Makes a voiceover appearance in Valhalla as Eivor reads the letter he sent to Amunet warning her to destroy the pages of the Magas Codex wherever she finds them due to their danger of compromising the Brotherhood by identifying her by name.
• Captain Patriotic: In a sense, he's an Ur-Example of this trope in the Assassin's Creed universe since he is not only a Medjay who embodies the values of old Egypt and seeks to uphold these dying traditions during the final years of the Ptolemaic dynasty but he's a kindhearted hero that carries a shield not too dissimilar to Captain America.
• The Chosen One: During at least two different points in the story, Bayek's coming is apparently foretold - first by the seer in Memphis, and by the Oracle of Apollo over in Cyrene. Curse of the Pharaohs adds two more examples, his dealing with the Pharaohs, and his acquiring a specific sword. The hand of Those Who Came Before in these events might have something to do with it.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Bayek is characterized as deeply religious unlike other Assassins, who were agnostic or atheistic, even in historical periods where religion was otherwise very important in the lives of many people. His departure words to his targets has him say that the afterlife awaits them instead of "rest in peace" like Ezio did. Also, while all Assassins would form families themselves later in their lives (a given, since they'd need to have descendants), Bayek is already a father at the start of the story. Although since the new Animus no longer implies descendants, and that Bayek and Aya split up at the end of the game, it's unlikely that he's sired any other children.
• Crisis of Faith: Heavily downplayed, but a sidequest in The Curse of the Pharaohs DLC, the latest in Origin's chronology, depicts a hallucination of Bayek's telling him that a desire for peace and justice unites all human beings and to both give up his guilt over abandoning his religious duties as Medjay to become a Hidden One and acknowledge that all human beings have the Creed within them.
• Cultured Badass: Has at least some knowledge of Herodotus, dryly referring to him by his title "the Father of Lies" during his time in Memphis.
• Dark Is Not Evil: A thematic association. Throughout Curse of the Pharaohs, Bayek is associated with Anubis, but is the same person he was before, and he's eventually assured that he "works in the dark, to serve the light".
• Decoy Protagonist: There's a strong argument to be made that Bayek is this, with Aya as the game's real protagonist. Bayek's journey is mostly one of revenge and dealing with his grief. It's Aya who gets the lions share of the character development, first putting her trust in Cleopatra (while Bayek is suspicious) and having that trust betrayed. While Bayek is the one to create the Brotherhood, it's Aya who lays down the creed and shapes it into what it will become in centuries to come, and makes it leave Egypt. Bayek outright calls her the order's mentor. This view is further backed by Aya having originally been planned as the game's main character, only for Bayek to take the role as Ubisoft marketing did not feel confident in a female protagonist.
• Deuteragonist: After he founds the Hidden Ones, his story's importance shifts, with more importance placed upon Aya's transformation into Amunet and the heightened animosity toward Egyptian and Roman politics.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: During the course of Curse of the Pharaohs, Bayek travels into what might be the afterlife, finds several pharaohs, and defeats their ghosts. This includes Akhenaten, who was worshipped as a living god in his own city.
• Dual Wielding: Bayek can equip twin sets of swords for quick short ranged attacks at the expense of defense.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Throughout Curse of the Pharaohs, Bayek is told that he has earned forgiveness for what happened with Khemu, and when his time comes will enter the Field of Reeds with Aya.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Common folk aside, Bayek pretty much hates damn near everyone in the Order of the Ancients (except for Taharqua/The Scarab and Khaliset/The Hyena), especially Berenike/The Crocodile and Flavius Metellus/The Lion.
• Experienced Protagonist: Unlike earlier Assassins who happened to be in their teens and early 20s starting out, Bayek is already an accomplished warrior in his mid-30s.
• Famed In-Story:
  • By the third act, Bayek of Siwa has started gaining a reputation around Egypt, as he learns when he runs into Tahira.
  • By The Hidden Ones, Bayek's fame is such that a street musician is singing about him. Bayek and the Sinai Hidden One's fame being too great leads to their Bureau being attacked.
• Fingore: Bayek loses his left ring finger during a struggle with Eudoros in which the Hidden Blade accidentally triggers and slices it off, later forcing him to cauterize the wound. At the end of the game, Tahira cuts her own finger voluntarily despite Bayek trying to dissuade her. This presumably began the tradition for Assassins for the next millennium.
• Friend to All Children: Due to the loss of his son, Bayek has a soft spot for all children. This comes up several times through the game. In the epilogue, he takes the time after an assassination to escort one of the kids he freed back home personally, as the boy is too afraid to go on his own. It is also part of his motivation to form the Brotherhood.
  Bayek: And I promise for all the sons of Egypt I will be the father I was not that day in Siwa
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From the Templars' perspective, he was certainly this trope personified. He was a small-time Medjay from Siwa who posed no threat whatsoever to them until after the death of his son Khemu. This motivated him to not only go on a quest for vengeance alongside his wife Aya, but he eventually becomes the co-founder of the Hidden Ones, the original incarnation of the Assassin Brotherhood.
• Good Wears White: Bayek frequently wears white grab in both his default and Hidden One outfits. He's also by and large, a very good person towards everyone except the Order of the Ancients.
• Good Is Old-Fashioned: The Medjay are considered little more than an inconvenient relic by Egypt at large, but Bayek is a good guy.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He's got some scars about the face, which the Phylakitai use to identify him.
• Groin Attack: He's the target of a darkly funny example when the grieving widow of one of the Ancients he killed suddenly shows up out of nowhere and knees him in the balls while he was talking to someone else.
• Happily Married: To his wife, Aya, though it's been slightly strained by her loyalty to Cleopatra, and later her refusal to go back to an ordinary life.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Bayek is seen wielding the khopesh (pictured to the right), shotel, and Roman spatha.
• Heroic Neutral: While Bayek does care about other people elsewhere, his primary concern is with keeping Egypt safe from internal and domestic threats. It's Aya who actually has the idea to spread the Hidden Ones throughout the world, and it's part of why they decide to break up at the end of the game.
• Highly-Visible Ninja:
  • Both subverted and justified; his default outfit is not at all atypical for the time period and location he lived in and the fact that he's a Medjay means he wants to get noticed by the people. Of course there are his various optional outfits which are about as conpicious as the outfits can get.
  • Gets played more straight in the Hidden Ones DLC, where his Hidden One outfit sticks out quite a bit.
• Honorary Uncle: Bayek encounters many children in his journey, all who refer him as Uncle Bayek. This is Truth in Television in countries like Egypt where the children refer to their elders as aunt or uncle, even if they are not blood related, as a sign of respect.
• Human Notepad: Has the names of his targets tattooed on his right arm. Painfully removed one by scarring himself with the tip of an arrow.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: While he can have a maximum of two melee weapons, two bows, about fifty arrows and a handful of support items ready at all times, there's no limit to how many weapons, items and crafting components Bayek can carry as loot, with no explanation given where he puts all that stuff. This explicitly includes all his mounts. Yes, even the three war chariots.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: In the cinematic trailer he kills a mace-wielding soldier about to kill him by shooting him in the throat with an arrow fired from his bow, using his feet. In the game proper, he can headshot enemies with a bow in midair, which actually unlocks an achievement and has a special skill dedicated to it that slows down time while he's aiming in free-fall.
• I Want Grandkids: In one of the stone circle flashbacks, Bayek tells Khemu that he hopes for lots of grandchildren.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: He can optionally pet cats if they come near him (and they will - cats swarm around Bayek automatically).
• The Last of His Kind: He's one of the last surviving Medjay in the Ptolemaic era of Egypt.
• Legendary Weapon: Bayek's Hidden Blade is the one used to assassinate Xerxes four centuries prior. "Legendary" is also the name of the highest of three equipment tiers, most of which are weapons, so in the late game, he'll probably run around with one or two dozen legendary weapons in his Hyperspace Arsenal.
  • Assassin's Creed: Odyssey puts a bit of doubt on that claim, as Darius' Hidden Blade is completely different from Bayek, being a wide triangular blade that extends from over the back of the hand. It's possible Bayek's weapon is based on Darius' and the two got confused for one another in the intervening centuries.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Bayek may be having supernatural experiences with the gods and his son (or Isu/First Civilization given the game's premise) or he may just be going crazy due to grief over the Offing the Offspring incident. Gets even more insane in Curse of the Pharaohs, to the point even Bayek is uncertain as to what the hell he's just been through (most afterlifes can't exactly be entered into on foot, after all).
• Meaningful Name: Bayek is a play on the hieroglyphic word for "falcon" or "vulture".
• Multi-Melee Master: Bayek can master multiple types of weapons, including axes, polearms, hammers, dual blades, his fists, staves, and a sword and shield.
• Nice Guy: He's a genuinely kind, noble, good-hearted man, who takes his role as protector of Egypt seriously. He also has a wry sense of humour and a large soft spot in caring for the children in need he comes across. The only time he ever truly raises his voice is when confronting the Order of the Ancients and their supporters.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He doesn't care about Cleopatra's quest for a throne anywhere near as much as Aya does, and outright tells her this to her face.
• Offing the Offspring: A completely tragic variant since he accidentally kills Khemu when one of the Ancients dodges his knife and drives it into his son's chest.
• One-Man Army: He wipes out entire enemy camps by himself throughout the game, and that's just for starters.
• Our Founder: Alongside her husband Bayek, Aya/Amunet is the co-founder of the Hidden Ones and especially their modern day successors the Assassin Brotherhood.
• Outliving One's Offspring: One that’s realized in the most tragic way possible, setting off the events of the game. When the Order of Ancients captured Bayek and his young son Khemu, they brought him to an Isu vault hidden beneath Siwa, with Flavius threatening to destroy Khemu’s heart to bar him from the afterlife. He not only goes through with it, he forces Bayek himself to deliver the killing blow.
• Papa Wolf: Harming a child is one of Bayek's pet peeves and he will make sure whoever is responsible for it will die the most painful death imaginable.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When killing The Heron.
  Bayek: Sleep? I never sleep. I just wait. In the shadows. And I will kill you all! Everyone who sniffed the air that day in Siwa!
• Real Men Love Jesus:
  • Bayek is very devout in his faith in the Egyptian pantheon and keeps dropping references to Egypt's idea of the afterlife and beyond, and sees his quest as a means to help his son reach the "field of reeds", the heaven-like afterlife. This also puts him in a stark contrast to previous games' protagonists, who tended to be atheistic or agnostic such as Altair and Arno.
  • Blasphemy is one of the few things besides harming children that really gets an emotional rise out of Bayek.
  • Several of his quests involve facing people who are performing blasphemy (making the holy crocodiles of Sobek sick, or killing sacred crocodiles in Krokodilopolis to use their mummies for smuggling). In a similarity to the other more agnostic or atheist protagonists, Bayek also regularly faces and opposes priests who exploit religion for their own gain. The main difference is that Bayek sees their actions not just as an injustice, but as an insult to his faith.
• Red Baron: Known as the Crazy Siwan in Krokodilopolis, thanks to his stay in the arena, the Sword of Apollodorus in Sais, and a kid he saves in Giza takes to calling him "The Bandit Killer". And for good measure, a kid in Cyrene names him "The Flea of Cyrene" after making him leap from tall buildings several times.
• Religious Bruiser: In stark contrast to player characters in other games released before Origins, Bayek is deeply pious when it comes to his religion.
• Revenge: Desires revenge against the Order of the Ancients for the death of his son about a year before the game's events.
• The Sheriff: Although he predates the actual trope by centuries, Bayek does fulfill this role as the protector of a small village that is far away from the reaches of civilization. He even frequently rides a horse just like an archetypical Western lawman.
• Small Steps Hero: In-between hunting down his child's killers, Bayek stops to help rescue people from hippos, impress kids, guard a rich man's daughter as she goes shopping, and generally helps people whenever he can.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: Not only can Bayek swim underwater, but fight underwater as well.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He doesn't express the attitude, but there are several side-missions where Bayek is easily exasperated by some of the lunatics and weirdos he runs into.
• Together in Death: He and Aya were ultimately buried next to each other after death, as per Egyptian custom.
• Tragic Keepsake: The Eagle Skull pendant he wears belonged to Khemu. He discards it at the end, as a show of how he moved on. Its impression in the sand would become the Assassin Brotherhood's emblem.
• Trash Talk: Does occasionally deal in trash talk while fighting bosses.
• Uneven Hybrid: He's got some Isu DNA in there, but it's the smallest amount shown in any playable character so far, to the extent he could be taken for a Badass Normal. The only power he gets is seeing through the eyes of animals, and the Animus Pulse ability (which by its name ties more to Layla than to Bayek). It also means he's unable to No-Sell Apple created illusions like Altair or Ezio could.
• Walking Armory: Bayek is a good example of this, after Arno and the Frye twins downplayed this trope. In addition to his Hidden Blade and other tools, he goes into battle with 2 weapons load-outs, a shield and 2 bows, along with assortments of darts, grenades, and other items.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He hates snakes and says this word for word during the "Curse of Wadjet" quest.
• Would Hit a Girl: Story-wise he kills Khaliset and Berenike, and in the sidequests that have him facing women in combat, he shows no hesitation at all.
• Wrestler in All of Us: His unarmed Overpower move is a dropkick.

Senu

Senu

A female Bonelli's Eagle that serves as Bayek's partner.

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• Action Pet: With an upgrade, she can attack and stun targets when controlled, and will randomly do so of her accord own during combat to help Bayek. She will also attack wildlife when Bayek is hunting, and she's fully capable of taking out animals many times her size in one hit.
• Animal Eye Spy: Bayek can see through Senu's eyes. It's clarified that he can see through many animals' eyes, but Senu is the one he uses the most regularly and strongly.
• Animal Jingoism: Snakes are the only predator Senu will attack of her own accord. She is also very aggressive towards snakes if any are near Bayek. This makes sense as birds of prey often hunt snakes in the wild.
• Big Damn Heroes: When Bayek is buried to his neck in sand and left for dead by the Scarab, Senu attacks a nearby horse so that it'll pull him out.
• Noble Bird of Prey: Senu is evidently the origin of the Assassin Brotherhood's eagle fixation and namesake of the later Assassins' Eagle Vision, aiding Bayek in his missions.
• Undying Loyalty: Doesn't matter where Bayek goes; she'll stay with him no matter what, even managing to help him out in the afterlife in Curse of the Pharoahs.

Aya of Alexandria

Aya of Alexandria

Main game appearances: | Assassin's Creed Origins | Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Other appearances: Assassin's Creed: Desert Oath | Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic) | Assassin's Creed II (statue only) | Assassin's Creed: Rebellion

Voiced by: Alix Wilton Regan (English)^note Other Languages:Polina Shcherbakova (Russian)

"You and I are pledged to violence, now and always."

Bayek's wife and a fellow Assassin, who is deeply loyal to Cleopatra. While she was trained alongside Bayek, she is not a Medjay.

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• Action Girl: Not only is she a co-founder of the Assasin Brotherhood but she kick just as much ass as her husband even going toe-to-toe with Lucius Septimius / The Jackal, the leader of the Roman Gabinani.
• Amicable Exes:
  • They become this at the end of Origins. Their commitment to the Creed leads to their marriage ending over the grief of their lost child, and Aya leaves to establish Assassin bureaus across the Mediterranean.
  • The Hidden Ones DLC shows there's still a lot of affection between the two, even if neither will act on it. Aya invites Bayek to visit her in Rome.
• Ancient Tomb: Her tomb was supposedly located in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, Italy. This is not her real tomb, as it turns out she was buried next to Bayek in Egypt in the cave where the two would meet as teenagers to date without Aya's father knowing about it.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: She is the player character in various segments, including Naval missions.
• Battle Couple: She and Bayek fight alongside one another on some missions, and they happen to be married.
• Big Damn Hero: She saves Bayek from his crucifixion during The Hidden Ones.
• Been There, Shaped History: As with many Assassins, she is a personal aide to Cleopatra and the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt given her heritage. She's also responsible for the assassination of Julius Caesar on the steps of the Roman Senate alongside her fellow Hidden Ones Brutus and Cassius.
• The Cameo: At the end of the Legacy of the First Blade DLC for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Aya makes an appearance as she is revealed to be a descendant of the Eagle Bearer (canonically Kassandra) after her son was brought to Egpyt.
• Canon Character All Along: She is Amunet, first introduced in Assassin's Creed II.
• Child of Two Worlds: She is a woman of Greek and Egyptian descent living in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which gave her a good deal of knowledge on both cultures.
• Color Motif: In the main game, her outfit has the typical Assassin whites. By The Hidden Ones, the colors have gotten a lot darker, showing that while Amunet is good(ish), she's not as nice as most Assassins.
• Cool Crown: She's seen wearing an Egyptian-style metal headdress by the time of the The Hidden Ones.
• Demoted to Extra: in Curse of the Pharaohs, she doesn't appear, only getting a voice-over at the beginning of the story.
• Deuteragonist: She is playable for a few missions and is the one to kill both Septimius and Caesar. Furthermore, while Bayek comes up with the idea for the Brotherhood, he seems intent to keep to Egypt alone, with Aya/Amunet being the one to take the fight against tyranny to Rome and gain more like-minded allies, and ultimately go global.
• Dual Wielding: During segments when you control her, she is restricted to a set of twin blades.
• Expy: Her facial design and hairstyle make her look a lot like Sitara from Watch_Dogs 2; which considering that they more or less take place in the same universe brings up a lot of interesting possibilities.
• Famous Ancestor: Aya is actually the descendant of the legendary Greek king Leonidas of Sparta, the renowned philosopher Pythagoras, and Xerxes' assassin Darius through the Eagle Bearer's son Elpidos.
• Fingore: In the ending, it's shown that she sliced off her ring finger, likely to accommodate her Hidden Blade.
• Foil: While Bayek is intent on gaining vengeance for Khemu's death so as to allow him to ascend to the Field of Reeds and escape the Duat, Aya's concerns are more focused on the here-and-now. While she does care about burial customs and has some semblance of religious nature, she is more concerned with the destruction of the Order of the Ancients, rather than single-mindedly seeking to bring peace to Khemu. This is best shown when, in their final conversation, she tells Bayek "the gods are dead."
• Fragile Speedster: When playable, she can hit fast, but with her equipment set and lacking Bayek's abilities, she doesn't hit very hard and can't take a great deal of hits.
• Freudian Threat: Before putting her blade to Septimus' throat she has it pointed blade first at groin level.
• Good Is Not Nice: During one quest, Aya and Bayek are investigating who has poisoned an Apis bull. As Bayek returns from investigating, Aya is talking with the temple maidens, and informs them that she will kill whoever did it. Since they are the guilty party, trying to allay suspicion, they immediately become very afraid.
• Good Wears White: Like her husband, Aya frequently wears white outfits, save for in The Hidden Ones where she swaps out her white garb for a darker look.
• Happily Married: To Bayek at the start of the game, though it gets tested in the course of the game.
• Heroic Lineage: She's a descendant of Pythagoras, Leonidas, and the Eagle Bearer through their son Elpidios, and Darius, his grandfather.
• Hot-Blooded: She's much quicker to anger than her husband and threatens to kill people who piss her off.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She throws herself fully behind Cleopatra at first, even when she's shown to be callous and cruel from the outset, and Bayek is less taken with her. Surprise; Cleopatra screws the pair of them over. Franchise lore says she does get her revenge later as Amunet.
• Horrifying the Horror: During The Hidden Ones, she explains that Octavian scares her. And this is before he made himself Emperor of Rome.
• Improbable Weapon User: Assassin lore says Aya killed Cleopatra with a snake. The Assassin's Creed: Origins comic reveals she let Cleopatra peacefully poison herself in exchange for smuggling her son Caesarion to safety.
• In the Hood: Wears a white hooded cloak she takes from a member of the Senate when going to infiltrate the Curio and assassinate Caesar. Afterwards, she incorporates the hood into her standard outfit as Amunet.
• Legendary in the Sequel: She will become Amunet and part of the Assassins Hall of Fame by Ezio's time.
• Love Cannot Overcome: Her commitment to fighting the Order of Ancients runs contrary to Bayek's concern solely for the condition of Khemu's soul. They also both admit that they are only going through the motions, but that seeing the other only brings back painful memories of Khemu's death. And it's not even likely that she knows that Bayek wielded the blade that (accidentally) killed their son.
• Meaningful Rename: At the end of the game, she renames herself Amunet "the Hidden One". Amunet is also the Egyptian goddess of air and invisibility. The name means "the female hidden one" or "one who is hidden".
• That Man Is Dead: She sacrifices her name and identity as Aya in exchange for Amunet, even stating that she's symbolically killed Aya.
• The Mentor: She is proclaimed as a mentor for the Roman Hidden Ones by Bayek by the end of The Hidden Ones DLC. She is also the one who begins the tradition of Assassins Mentors wearing black.
• Origin Story: Aside from the origin of the Assassins, Origins shows the origin for Amunet, the killer of Cleopatra.
• Our Founder: Alongside her husband Bayek, Aya/Amunet is the co-founder of the Hidden Ones and especially the Assassin Brotherhood. She's also honored by the Brotherhood with a statue at the Assassin Sanctuary in Monteriggioni, Italy.
• Overrated and Underleveled: During the moments where you control her in the main game, upgrades made as Bayek do not carry over. This along with her being restricted to a set of level-scaled Dual Swords means that she is objectively weaker gameplay-wise.
• Retcon: As it turns out, Amunet is buried in Egypt instead of St. Mark's Basilica in Italy, leaving the question as to who is in that sarcophagus when Ezio opens it more than a millennium later.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulls a textbook example as her very last on-screen action during the epilogue.
• That Man Is Dead: As Aya dives herself further in establishing the Hidden Ones, she throws away the life she once had with Bayek including her name. From then on, she declares Aya dead and renames herself as Amunet.
• Together in Death: Despite she and Bayek parting ways after forming the Hidden Ones, Amunet eventually returns to Egypt and is buried alongside her husband in the same tomb.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Whereas her husband never deviates from his friendly, helpful and amicable behavior, Aya becomes colder and colder the farther the story progresses. In the end she's icy and merciless who, by her own admission, ditched all love and affection in her life to devote herself completely to her new role as a shadowy killer in service to the greater good.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She mellows out slightly by the time of "The Hidden Ones", and is able to have a friendly and casual conversation about Rome with Bayek.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: As she tells Bayek:
  Aya: To protect Egypt, I would kill a thousand priests.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Cleopatra, since she is her devoted supporter at the start of the game, but later on, Aya as Amunet assassinates her former friend.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Despite being ordered by Cleopatra to assassinate Ptolemy if she runs into him during the Battle of the Nile, she finds herself unable to do so even when she has him dead to rights as he's escaping on a boat. Of course, at that moment Aya's dilemma between duty and morality is solved when two crocodiles attack his escape boat and kill him. That said, she's still visibly horrified by the whole thing.

Marcus Junius Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus

A Roman Senator and Assassin in the first century BCE, Brutus was assigned to plan the assassination of Consul Julius Caesar, who was being manipulated by the Templars. Plagued by visions of a cavern throughout his life, he discovered them beneath Rome, which was the location of Juno's Temple. Originally a lore character in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood as part of the Lairs of Romulus, he becomes a supporting character in Origins.

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• Armor of Invincibility: In Brotherhood, his personal suit of armor serves as the game's best armor.
• The Cameo: He appears very briefly in the ending of Origins.
• Devious Daggers: The Dagger of Brutus, which he used to kill Caesar and was later recovered by Ezio Auditore on the latter's journey to hunt down Cesare Borgia.
• Did Not Think This Through: As Mark Antony points out to Aya, murdering Caesar - a man loved by the general population of Rome, not to mention the head of state - in broad daylight was a profoundly stupid decision. Brutus was counting on it sending a message, doing things "the Roman way", rather than Aya's slightly more sensible suggestion of killing him in private.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Is given visions of the Burning of Rome after discovering the Colosseum Vault.
• Driven to Suicide: He killed himself after the Hidden Ones were forced to leave Rome and his army was defeated. His fellow Hidden Ones tried to use The Shroud to bring him back to life, but all it did was reanimate his body for a few minutes, with him saying nothing, before dying again.
• Groin Attack: As the one to land the final blow on Caesar, he stabs him in what seems like the nether regions.
• Historical Hero Upgrade:
  • Brotherhood and the wider lore wholeheartedly embrace the Hollywood History notion that Brutus killed Caesar to preserve the Roman Republic and prevent the Empire embracing the Good Republic, Evil Empire context. In truth, the Roman Republic was a corrupt oligarchy that brutally murdered reformers, Brutus himself as per Cicero was a corrupt Loan Shark who extorted high interest loans from the poor and sent goons to torture them to make them pay up, and his assassination and betrayal of Caesar happened not because he was becoming a King but because his reforms, such as redistributing public land to veterans and other initiatives, were taking effect and becoming permanent.
  • In the finale, Brutus tells Caesar that he wants to establish a Rome of peace, justice, and land for the people. "Land for the people" was in fact the policies of Caesar and his populare faction, which Brutus and his cohorts wholeheartedly opposed.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He is horrified after killing Caesar, who had only stopped resisting the attack when he saw Brutus approaching. His shame caused him to hide away his armor and weapon in a secret vault under Rome.
• Uneven Hybrid: The fact that he could interact with First Civilization technology indicates that he had traces of First Civilization DNA.

Pasherenptah

Pasherenptah

High Priest of Memphis, originally one of Cleopatra and Apollodorus's allies. Bayek's actions saves his wife and Memphis which earns Bayek his loyalty.

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• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has some prominent scars about the face.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The Lizard's actions have led the citizens of Memphis to believe he's somehow gotten them cursed.
• High Priest: He's a priest of Ptah and High Priest of Memphis.
• Historical Domain Character: Based on Pasherienptah III, the high priest of Memphis from 76 — 41 BCE.
• Hufflepuff House: Gets the least amount of screentime and development of the Hidden Ones. Even the quests in Memphis are more to do with his wife than him.
• Tragic Stillbirth: His wife miscarries three times in one year, and by the fourth they're worried that another failure will kill her as well. The miscarriages turn out to be from the Lizard poisoning her food.

Phanos the Younger

Phanos the Younger

Aya's Greek cousin. A poet who writes plays denouncing Ptolemy's regime.

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• Hero Secret Service: Introduced as keeping Aya in hiding from the Phylakes and acting as her liaison to Bayek.
• Life of the Party: His parties are clearly quite the thing, which even impress Bayek.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: An in-universe version. His plays just have the names changed slightly, to prevent his rivals from trying to murder him.
• Warrior Poet: Literally a poet, and he rushes along with Bayek to fight guards trying to stop his play.

Phoxidas

Phoxidas

A Greek mercenary captain from Athens originally hired by Aya to lead her to Pompey Magnus to seal an alliance between him and Cleopatra.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Aya eventually takes to calling him "Phox" after they've spent a couple years working and fighting alongside each other.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He sure loves his sea battles and makes sure everyone knows it.
• The Captain: Of his ship, though he lets Aya take command as he's impressed by how she's mastered sailing.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. He volunteers to pull a You Shall Not Pass! on an Order fleet so Bayek and Aya can get Cleopatra to Rome while his ships are getting hammered into submission, but he shows up again alive and well later in the game.
• In Harm's Way: Phoxidas is a wealthy man with a whole private fleet to his name who could've retired ages ago, but he continues to sail the seas and engage in pitched battles because that's where he feels most alive.
• Large Ham: His default mode of communication. Especially during naval combat.
• Lovable Rogue: He's a mercenary, but he's constantly impressed by and supportive of Aya.
• Made of Iron: Takes a fire arrow to the shoulder during the battle for Rome, yanks it out and treats it as little more than an inconvenience while he keeps on shouting orders and cussing out his enemies.
• No Indoor Voice: Understandable for a trireme captain since the only way to relay orders to everyone back then was to shout them, but he keeps up this volume even when he's talking to someone who's standing an arm's length away.
• Non-Idle Rich: As mentioned above, he prefers to actively support the Assassins' cause over resting on his laurels and riches back home.
• Only in It for the Money: His original motivations.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's basically Shay Patrick Cormac's quartermaster Christopher Gist from Assassin's Creed Rogue, only with a different accent and on the other side of the Templar-Assassin War.
• Thinking Out Loud: He's prone to say whatever is on his mind, and doesn't really care who he is speaking to or in the presence of. This includes Cleopatra, who the people of Egypt consider a living god. Fortunately, she doesn't mind.
• Unexplained Recovery: While sailing Cleopatra to Alexandria, Phoxidas' ship is attacked by a Gabiniani fleet and he stays behind to allow Bayek and Aya to take Cleopatra to safety and is last seen taking an arrow to the chest. Two weeks later, he is still alive and doesn't appear to be badly injured.

Tahira

Tahira

A friend of Bayek back in Siwa. She has since left the oasis and is now tracking Romans who are poaching the native wildlife of Egypt. Later head of the Sinai Bureau of the Hidden Ones.

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• Ascended Extra: Unlike the rest of the original members of the Order in Egypt, Tahira only appears in a set of side missions and can be easily missed. She appears in the Hidden Ones DLC as one of the main supporting characters.
• Character Death: She dies of the burns she suffers during the attack on the Sinai bureau.
• Fingore: She is the first to cut off her own finger as a show of loyalty to Bayek.
• Forest Ranger: Fulfills the role, staying in the wild to defend the sacred wildlife from Roman hunters.
• Kill It with Fire: When the Romans raid the Sinai Bureau, a burning column collapses on Tahira, severely injuring her. By the time she receives medical treatment, she is beyond saving.
• The Lancer: Takes this role for Bayek once Aya departs from Egypt in the ending.
• Mauve Shirt: She dies in the DLC during the raid on the Sinai bureau. She's a named character with just barely enough presence to register as a character the player knows so her death has impact but doesn't really affect or derail the plot too badly.

Shaqilat

Shaqilat

A woman in the Sinai region who Bayek meets after the Hidden Ones have been established.

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• Dual Wielding: Carries a pair of khopeshes in fights.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Her outfit is primarily white with a red sash on the waist. In other words, Assassin garb.
• Just Like Robin Hood: She's been raiding Roman sites and taking their money in her one-woman crusade against them. She just tends to be a bit more murder-y than Robin Hood.
• Leap of Faith: How Bayek ends her recruitement mission. Later on, she can be found in the Hidden Ones' new mountain hideout, mentioning she's still practicing pulling it off without bruising.
• Mama Bear: One particular target of hers is the Romans running a child-slavery ring. Bayek finds evidence of her work in the form of a lot of dead Romans.