Aegis

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"It is believed Minerva wore this protective outfit while in combat. There's a reason people believe she was the goddess of war!"

―Shaun Hastings' notes for the Helix initiate, 2015.

The Aegis

The aegis was an ancient armor outfit which allegedly belonged to the Isu scientist Minerva.

Owners

• Minerva (until c. 75,000 BCE)
• Michel Reuge (19th century)
• Evie Frye (1868)

History

Allegedly worn by Minerva in combat, the aegis encouraged the human belief that she was a goddess of war.

During the Peloponnesian War, the aegis featured prominently on the Statue of Athena in Athens, where it took the shape of the entire breastplate adorned with a Gorgon's head. Smaller marble statues replicated this look, but instead placed the aegis hanging near Athena's waist on a sash over her chiton.

Millennia later in July 1844, the Swiss Assassin Michel Reuge found the aegis near Bath in England and later stored it in an underground vault in London. In 1868, during the Industrial Revolution, Evie and Jacob Frye gained access to Reuge's vault and Evie claimed the outfit for her own usage.

Gallery

The Aegis model

The Aegis on the Statue of Athena in Athens

The Aegis on a marble statue of Athena

Evie Frye wearing the Aegis

Behind the scenes

In Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, when Evie wears the Aegis, the outfit flickers with visible pixel lines like a screen. In the Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game, the wearer of the Aegis is granted invisibility, a power it shares with the Mantle of Arthur in Cornwall, one of the Treasures of Britain. In Syndicate the invisibility mechanic was accessed (Evie only) through the Skill Tree and meant to represent how well Evie could blend with her surroundings.

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, the Aegis is sometimes depicted as a shield with the image of Medusa's head emblazoned on it, while other sources state that it was a cuirass. What the aegis was made of, or how and by whom, is also debated. It alternately has been described as made from the hide of Zeus' wet-nurse goat Amalthea, a device forged by Hephaistos and the Cyclopes, or even the flayed skin of a slain Gorgon.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (sculpture only)
• Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game