Aita

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"Aita will never see his own faults. In fact, he'll simply start from the beginning and try again."

―A scientific assistant's observations on Aita.

Aita
Biographical information
Species	Isu
Political information
Affiliations	Illuminat

Aita was an Isu scientist and the husband of Juno. A member of the Illuminat caste and one of his civilization's brightest minds, Aita created the Observatory on the island that would later be known as Jamaica and functioned as an overseer of the Pieces of Eden. However, his pride made him disregard ethical scientific protocols, and when it was discovered that he had acted on a theory of his and conducted illegal genetic experimentation on humans and their DNA, he was stripped of his caste position and banished from Atlantis.

During the waning years of the Human-Isu War, Aita volunteered to participate in his wife's controversial attempt to save their species by transferring his consciousness into another body. The experiment failed and Aita's mind became brittle, trapped in his own body. Unable to heal him, Juno embarked on a quest alongside Odin to acquire a mysterious Isu innovation called "the Mead" in order to create Sages of Aita, before consensually euthanizing him herself. This act ended up immortalizing him through continuous reincarnations over the millennia.

Biography

Aita began his work as a scientist by helping develop the Wings of Hermes, making the teleportation device safer for use. Under the school of Consus, he helped develop new and advanced medical technology still used in Atlantis quite some time later. However, Aita also did a number of experiments with human subjects, such as one that involved eight human subjects which were kept their entire lives in captivity underground so they would not know anything of the outside world. That particular experiment ended with one subject killing the others and escaping. Due to Aita's refusal to stop human experimentation, Poseidon banned him from Atlantis, forcing him and Juno to return to Feyan.

After the outbreak of the human rebellion in 2296 Isu Era, Aita helped Juno, Minerva, and Jupiter sort through the solutions given to them at the Grand Temple in order to prevent the Great Catastrophe, which he was able to do until the fifth solution was tested. After their first four attempts at preventing the Great Catastrophe failed, Juno and the others sought to save their race by means of smaller proportions. The fifth solution was to change their physical bodies by transferring their minds to other vessels, using mechanical and human bodies as test subjects. Pleading with her husband to help her, Juno managed to persuade him to volunteer for the experiment.

After his mind was transferred into a machine and through to a human body, Aita's mind swiftly deteriorated; while his body would survive, his mind became brittle and catatonic. With enough will, he asked his wife to end his suffering, though she would spend the next months finding ways to help him. She eventually devised by enlisting the help of Odin to steal the "Mead", an experimental solution for the Great Catastrophe which was deemed to dangerous, from Jupiter's Vault. With Odin's success of the heist, Juno took a sample for Aita, knowing the price for this would be the loss of her freedom for eons. She was able to use the "Mead" to somehow distribute Aita's genetic code into the human genepool that would eventually result in the births of children with Aita's genetic code and psyche, giving him a form of immortality. After revealing her intentions to him, she complied with his wish and stabbed him in the heart.

Legacy

Throughout the next millennia, Aita was reincarnated in the bodies of various humans known as Sages, all of whom had his memories while a select number shared identical facial features with their progenitor. The 17th century carpenter Thomas Kavanagh, Jr. was unable to make sense of his dual memories until he arrived at the Observatory years after he began experiencing them. François-Thomas Germain, an 18th century Parisian silversmith, also experienced these visions as well, though it is unknown if the pirate Bartholomew Roberts or the 21st century computer technician John Standish experienced similar confusion. Abstergo research posited other five potential sages.

During the Peloponnesian War, Spartan misthios Kassandra interacted with simulations created from the memories of Aletheia. In the simulation of Atlantis, she uncovered kidnapping of humans that were traced back to an experiment called the "Olympos Project." In the experiment chamber, she discovered found test tubes containing replicas of the Minotaur, the Cyclops Brontes, the Writhing Dread, and the Sphinx, among other deformed creatures. Aita, the scientist leading the Project, talked to her while she found the kidnapped humans. Aita entered the room and Kassandra reminded him of Poseidon's law forbidding experimentation on humans and threw her spear at the Isu in anger, but discovered it was just a hologram. Aita then left her with the choice of freeing the prisoners or seeing his greatest achievement at the cost of the humans' lives.

After making her choice, Kassandra returned to Poseidon to inform him of her discovery. However, their conversation was interrupted by Aita and his wife Juno, who explained that they had created the hybrid beasts to help in a future war against humanity as Poseidon was more preoccupied with the Great Catastrophe. The couple then stated that they had considered using Kassandra as a template for their hybrids, but seeing her as too human, they created the Hekatonchires and released it to suppress any future rebellion. While Poseidon restrained Juno and Aita, Kassandra went to face the Hekatonchires and killed it.

Personality and traits

A hologram of Aita, in a human body, and Juno

Aita, like many members of the Isu, seems to have been disappointed and even disgusted with the human race as a whole; this opinion passed to his reincarnations, and was evidenced in the Abstergo employee, John, and in Bartholomew Roberts to a lesser extent. Aita, like Juno, also believed that humanity should revert to slaves as they were millennia before. This belief was shown by various of his reincarnations, some of which shared the same ideology as the Templars, even joining their ranks, while others elected to join the Instruments of the First Will, a religious cult who worshipped Juno and sought to return humanity to her stewardship. ^{[citation needed]}

Aita seems to be intent upon reuniting with Juno, harming and manipulating others into doing his bidding, most of which is aimed at manifesting Juno into physical form so that they may be together. Aita's death likely fueled Juno's resentment towards humanity, and her desire to subjugate the world once more. ^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

Head models of Aita

Behind the scenes

In Etruscan mythology, Aita was the name for the underworld, as well as the corresponding anthropomorphized deity, borrowing elements from both Hades in Greek mythology and Pluto from Roman mythology. In this regard, Etruscans depicted Aita as a bearded male wearing a wolfskin cap.

In some of his incarnations, Aita was seen wearing a portrait necklace depicting an unknown woman, presumably Juno.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed III (first appearance) (Appeared as a hologram)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis (simulation only)
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (mentioned only)
  • Dawn of Ragnarök (indirect mention only)