Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey has finally released to much anticipation. This is especially true because Assassin’s Creed: Origins was such a good game and a departure from the previous titles. It offered the player far more freedom than ever before, a huge Ancient Egyptian landscape to explore and mechanics that borrowed a lot from The Witcher 3 while keeping what the made the Assassin’s Creed games so appealing at the peak of their sales.

The biggest appeal for the series is it allows gamers to explore incredible historical recreations of different time periods. Since the s🦋eries began fans have been hopi🅠ng that that series would find a way to travel back to ancient times.

Origins fulfilled the hopes of the fans and even exceeded expectations with a story that showed gamers the beginnings of the Brotherhood and the Prot-Templars known as The Order of the Ancients. This time Odyssey takes players even further back in time by 400 years to show us the earliest connections between The ܫPieces of Eden and the♛ First Civilization.

There is a lot of real history that connects Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt over hundreds of years and the Assassin’s Creed series has found more ways to connect them to its own lore. Here we take a look at some of the events in the lore that link Odyssey and Origins through novels, comics, and its two biggesꦍt games yet.

20 The Cult Of Kosmos (Proto-Templars🦋) Got St🌞arted

In the Assassin’s Creed universe, one of the earliest Templar-like orders before The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 was the Cult of Kosmos. They are the antagonists in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and operated in the shadows just like the Order of the Ancients did in Assassin’s Creed: Origins.

It is likely that The Cult of Kosmos was the very same proto-Templar order that helped Xerxes I rise to power i♈n Persia to fuel their ambitions of taking complete con꧟trol over Greece.

19 The First Assassin And T🐻he Hidden Blade

Those who played Assassin’s Creed: Origins will remember when the lead▨ character Bayek received the Hidden Blade from Cleopatra.

That weapon would then become synonymous with the Assassin Brotherhood which began in Origins.

However, Bayek was💯n’t the first Assassin to use the Hidden Blade as the same blade that Cleopatra handed Bayek was also used by Artabanus who later changed his name to Darius. Darius used the signature weapon to assassinate Xerxes I the Persian emperor. DLC based the First Assassin and the Hidden Blade was announced by Ubisoft as part of its season pass.

18 The Babylonian Br🐻otherhood

The Order that the famous Assassin Iltani belonged to became known as the Babylonian Brotherhood. They are considered a precursor to the Assassin’s Brotherhood. Much like the Order of the Ancients in Assassin’s Creed: Origins and The Cult of Kosmos in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey was to the Templars.

They were a sort of Proꦍto-Brotherhood and many of their beliefs and practices were passed down🐎 to their later incarnations. They shared the same goals in stopping the Proto-Templars from using the Pieces of Eden to control empires and kings.

17 Herodotus' Lost Book ꦬ

Herodotus was a Greek historian and is often referred to today as the Father of History. In 440 BC Herodotus wrote a chroni🌳c💜le of nine books recording the events of the Greco-Persian Wars, politics, religious practices, and ancient cultures.

In Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Herodotus is said to have written another book chronicling Kassandra’s adventures during the Peloponnesian War. Unfortunately, the book was lost until it was discovered by Layla Hꦺassan in 2018.

16 Aesop’s Fables And Socrates ♏ 🅷

Aesop’s Fables which were also known as Aesopica were a collecti🅠on of fables that were sourced to a slave named Aesop. The collecti🌞on of stories were said to have been created by Aesop between 620 and 564 BC.

Historically, Plato suggested that his teacher Socrates turned Aesop's fables into verses to help make more sense of the contradictions in the writing. Similarly, in the Assassin’s Creed universe, it is suggested in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations that Socrates who has a significant role in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey was the true author of the fables.

15 ꦗ The Legacy Of Hercule💮s

Hercules in Greek mythology was the demi-god son of Zeus and a human woman named Alcmene. In Assassin’s Creed lore Hercules – also known as Herakles – is the son of the Isu scientist Tinia who is also referred to as Jupiter and Zeus🌞 in Greek and Roman cultures.

Hercules was also responsible for stealing the Apples of Eden in his Twelve Labours.

In Assassin’s Creed: Origins Bayek obtained the weapon known as Hercules’ Gladius in the Egyptian city of Heraklion. Hercules doesn’t just have connections in Odyssey and Origins but to Ercole Massimo from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, this could potentially mean the some of the planned DLC for Odyssey will date even fu🔜rther back.

14 Mykonos The Island That Hercules Built 𒀰

In Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Kassandra – or Alexios depending on who you play as – will visit the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea. According to Greek legend Mykonos was built from bodies of fallen giants that were defeated by Hercules. It’s 𝔉possible these giants were descendants of the Isu or their machines.

In Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey the island of Mykonos is important because it is go♉verned by a member of the Cult of Kosmos known Podarkes. Podarkes is a powerful Greek strongman that is determined to hunt down the Misthios’ family.

13 𓃲 The Enigmatic Sphinx

In addition to being able to scale the Pyramids, The Great Sphinx of Giza was one of the key attractions and landmarks in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. 𒁃However, even though the Sphinx is mostly associated with the Ancient Egyptians, the mythical creature is linked to several ancient cultures.

In both Greek and Egyptian cultures, they were looked upon as powerful guardians to tombs and temples. As a result, the Sphinx appears in both Origins and Odyssey setti🐭ng up puzzles and riddles for ꧋Bayek and Alexias/Kassandra.

12 ꧑ Layꦯla Hassan The Modern Day Link

Layla Hassan is the modern day protagonist from Assassin’s Creed: Origins and even though her story only accounts for a small part of the game’s narrative it’s still very significant. More importantly, Layla is what connects the two games more so than her ancestors. Origins focused on the beginnings of the Brotherhood and Odyssey ties series’ lore to the First Civilization and🐼 the Piec😼es of Eden.

After the events of Origins, Layla agreed to work with the Brotherhood while her former employers Abstergo the modern day Templars try to capture her. However, when the game begins she is not a member of the Assas🐽sins.

11 ♑ The Misthios Are Precursors To The Assassins

The Misthios in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey are Greek mercenaries that consisted of Ka♔ssandra and Alexios. In ad🦋dition, because of the code that they followed and their opposition from the Cult of Kosmos they became the precursors to the Assassin Brotherhood.

The events tဣhat led to Kassandra and Alexios t𓂃aking the path of the Assassin were prophesied by the Oracle of Apollo. The Oracle foresaw that Alexios would bring about the downfall of Sparta and that he was to be thrown off Mount Taygetos.