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Carpe Diem was a virtual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description[]

Bayek discovers that the Romans, led by their Captain Brutus Severus, have been meting out a cruel and torturous punishment to anyone that opposes them.

Dialogue[]

While exploring Poimen Relay in Cyrenaica, Bayek heard Ibi call to him from the side of the road.

  • Ibi: Bayek, the Medjay from Siwa? I recognize you. Please, my daughter has got herself in terrible trouble.

Bayek walked up to Ibi and talked to him.

ACO Carpe Diem 1

Bayek met a Ibi, a fellow Siwan, who ask him to help his daughter

  • Bayek: Ibi! You're far from Siwa my friend.
  • Ibi: Yes, Medjay. I could not stay there after what happened. I cried for the people we left behind.
  • Bayek: What is wrong with your girl, Apate, yes?
  • Ibi: A few months ago, she met a Greek lad. He was so earnest and idealistic... He filled her heart with rebellion. Convinced her to help him cut out the Roman canker growing in our world. They were captured attacking the fort.
  • Bayek: Apate strode the same sands as Khemu. Our ancestors shared the wahat (oasis). Where do the Romans have her now?
  • Ibi: There is a place on the road to Cyrene where they inflict the cruelest punishment. A road lined with dead rebels.
  • Bayek: Don't worry. I will bring Apate back to you, Ibi.

Bayek left Ibi and decided to investigate the nearby Kyrenaika Roman Citadel for more information. Inside an office, Bayek came across a papyrus on a desk.

Report from Brutus Severus:
Legatus Agrippa
We gave the people civilization, law, peace and this is how they repay us? With petty raids and whining about a free Kyrenaika? I almost admire these freedom fighters and their delusion that they can stand against the greatness of the Roman Army. They will learn the hard way. I've scheduled their leader Apate for crucifixion as you requested. All will see her corpse on the road to Cyrene and know we do not tolerate traitors.
Your faithful servant Centurion Brutus Severus
  • Bayek: No! Apate of Siwa? Her and Khemu would hunt together in the scrubland.

Bayek left the citadel and made his way to the crucifixion site on the road to Cyrene.

  • Bayek: This is the crucifixion site, Apate must be here somewhere.

He found Apate bound and prepared to be crucified.

  • Roman Soldier 1: This is what happens to filthy rats who betray the Republic!
  • Apate: Murder me, I don't care, but you stand no chance against Egypt.
  • Roman Soldier 2: Stealing silphium is a serious crime, punishable by death.
  • Apate: Silphion should help the people, not fat patricians in Rome.
  • Roman Soldier 1: I should cut your tongue out, that'll keep you quiet.
  • Roman Soldier 2: Be thankful Brutus Severus hasn't taken you back to the fort for his amusement.
  • Apate: Tell Severus from me, he's the legion's best cocksucker. All the guards say so. We will not bow before you, neket iadets (pieces of shit). Not in Egypt and not in Cyrenaica.
  • Roman Soldier 2: You'll scream when we hammer the nails in. They all do.
  • Apate: Death before defeat!
  • Roman Soldier 1: The fight will desert you after two days on the cross. You'll be begging us to kill you.
    Apate, if your people don't end their rampage, we'll decimate them.
  • Apate: For each of us you kill, there will be a hero in the Duat.
  • Roman Soldier 1: Vox populi my arse! You're just a few Siwan troublemakers.
ACO Carpe Diem 3

Bayek finding a captured Apate

Bayek killed the Roman soldiers.

  • Apate: Bayek of Siwa? Can that be you?

He freed Apate.

  • Apate: Bayek? Saved by my childhood hero, incredible, it has been so long.
  • Bayek: Let's get free of this barbaric place first.
  • Apate: Those neket iadets (pieces of shit) will send reinforcements. We shouldn't linger here, Bayek.

Apate and Bayek left the site and headed to the top of a hill.

  • Bayek: I feared it was you, Apate.
  • Apate: I could not stand by as the Roman contagion spread. You heard what they did in Siwa, Bayek?
  • Bayek: I saw it. You attacked the fort?
ACO Carpe Diem 4

Bayek offering to help Apate and her rebels

  • Apate: Yes. The captain of the Prasinos camp, Severus, is a psychotic butcher. Everyday finding new, sick ways to inflict suffering on our people. Then at night he goes who knows where to plot and plan. While Severus lives the rebellion is nothing but sound and fury.
  • Bayek: It was your strength and spirit that Khemu loved the most.
  • Apate: My days were filled with freedom then. Your boy and I hunted, laughed, lived. That is all I want for my children.
  • Bayek: Then I will kill the torturer, Apate.
  • Apate: Look him in the eyes and make him understand that he's a shit eater. I will gather my friends. If you attack the outpost, we'll join you.

Before leaving, Bayek spoke to Apate once more.

  • Apate: Find that shit eater. I will round up what's left of the freedom fighters.
ACO Carpe Diem 6

Apate's rebels joining the fight

Bayek reached the fort and attacked the soldiers. Apate and her allies joined the attack as well.

  • Apate: That butcher Severus must not live!
    Fortune favors the brave!

If Bayek waited until it was night, Brutus Severus together with his bodyguard would leave the camp and visit the Oracle of Apollo. There, Severus would pray to Apollo, saying the following.

  • Severus: Golden is Apollo's mantle and golden is its clasp. Grant me wisdom to see our enemies among the reeds, and strength to cut them down. I give you my faith, I give you my arm, I give you my righteousness in service of Cyrenaica. The enemies of Rome will fall before us bright one. I will punish them for you and the huntress. I prostate myself before you Apollo Phoebus, bringer of light. For I am your servant. Away, away with the wicked!
  • Bayek: The Legion is losing its greatest neket iadet (piece of shit), Severus.
ACO Carpe Diem 7

Bayek clashing with Severus

Within, Bayek found Brutus Severus and assassinated him, then recovered a note from his body.

Ave, Severus:
Ave, Severus
These freedom fighters are just farmers and women. They have raided a few of our caravans, stolen some paltry supplies, but they are a stone in Roma's sandal, nothing more. You will break them with some of our more creative torture methods. I have heard of one technique, rats in cauldrons, heated till they burrow through the victims stomach in their frenzy to escape. The screams are enough to unseat Jupiter. However, the best punishment save their leader, Apate. Crucifixion, a slow, traitor's death.
General Agrippa

Outcome[]

Bayek rescued Apate from her death and helped her attack the Roman fort, killing Brutus Severus in the process.

Behind the scenes[]

The image used for Severus' report to Agrippa is actually a compressed picture of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Gallery[]

References[]

Assassin's Creed: Origins memories
Main Quests
The Heron Assassination - Homecoming - The Oasis - The False Oracle - May Amun Walk Beside You - Aya - Gennadios the Phylakitai - End of the Snake - Egypt's Medjay - The Scarab's Sting - The Scarab's Lies - Pompeius Magnus - The Hyena - The Lizard's Mask - The Lizard's Face - The Crocodile's Scales - The Crocodile's Jaws - Way of the Gabiniani - Aya: Blade of the Goddess - The Battle of the Nile - The Aftermath - The Final Weighing - Last of the Medjay - Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another - Birth of the Creed
Side Quests
Special
A Gift from the Gods - Incoming Threat - Here Comes a New Challenger - Phylakes' Prey - Lights Among the Dunes - Secrets of the First Pyramids
Siwa
Gear Up - Family Reunion - Water Rats - Hideaway - Striking the Anvil - The Healer - Prisoners in the Temple - Bayek's Promise
Lake Mareotis
Hidden Tax - The Book of the Dead - Ambush in the Temple - Ulterior Votive - Lady of Slaughter - Birthright - Taste of her Sting
Alexandria
The Accidental Philosopher - The Last Bodyguard - Higher Education - Serapis Unites - A Tithe By Any Other Name - The Shifty Scribe - The Odyssey - Wrath of the Poets - Symposiasts - Phylakitai in the Eye - Cat's Cradle
Kanopos
Old Times - Wild Ride - Blue Hooligans - The Weasel - The Hungry River
Sap-Meh Nome
In Protest - Thick Skin - Fair Trade
Sapi-Res Nome
Conflicts of Interest - Smoke Over Water - All Eyes on Us - Lost Happiness - Abuse of Power - The Tax Master - The Ostrich - New Kid in Town - Worker's Lament - The Old Library
Giza
The Planetarium - Precious Bonds - What's Yours Is Mine - A Gift from the Gods
Memphis
A Dream of Ashes - Blood in the Water - Odor Most Foul - Children of the Streets - Taimhotep's Song - The Baker's Dilemma - Mortem Romanum
Saqqara Nome
Rites of Anubis - First Blood - When Night Falls - A Rebel Alliance
Faiyum
Murder in the Temple - Feeding Faiyum - Curse of Wadjet - Rebel Strike - The Bride - Sobek's Gold - Forging Siwa - The Sickness - Fires of Dionysias - Demons in the Desert
Faiyum Oasis
The Champion - The Man Beast - Sobek's Tears - The Jaws of Sobek - Bad Faith - Shadya's Rest - Fighting for Faiyum
Herakleion Nome
Recon Work - Loose Cargo - Reunion - Predator to Prey
Uab Nome
Seven Farmers
Atef-Pehu Nome
The Matriarch
Green Mountains
Unseeing Eyes - One Bad Apple - The Good Roman - Playing with Fire - Taking Liberty - Halo of the Huntress - Carpe Diem - Shadows of Apollo
Marmarica
His Secret Service
Kyrenaika
The Flea of Cyrene - The Lure of Glory - The Mousetrap - Founding Father - Pax Romana - Cat and Mouse - Absolute Power - Are You Not Entertained? - The Smugglers of Cyrene - Dead in the Water - My Brother for a Horse - Here Comes a New Challenger
Isolated Desert
Plight of the Rebels
Event Quests
Antique Trafficking - Bandit Raid - Control Nuisance - Gather Materials - Lost and Found - Missing Worker - Stolen Goods - Recover the Merchandise
DLC
Ambush At Sea - Secrets of the First Pyramids
The Hidden Ones
Main Quests
The Hidden Ones - The Land of Turquoise - Where the Slaves Die - The Walls of the Ruler - The Setting Sun - No Chains Too Thick - Sic Semper Tyrannis - The Greater Good
Side Quests
Klysma Nome
Rise of Shaqilat - Howls of the Dead - The Ballad of Si-Mut and Gertha - The Killer Shadow - Shadows of the Scarab
Madiama Nome
Respect Thy Brother
Arsinoe Nome
Shards from a Star
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Main Quests
The Curse of the Pharaohs - No Honor Amongst Thebes - The Lady of Grace - Cleansing Rite - Something Rotten - Soured Libations - Aten Rising - The Heretic - Blood in the Water - The King of Kings - A Pharaoh's Shadow - A Pharaoh's Heart and Name - A Pharaoh's Hemset - A Pharaoh's Ka
Side Quests
Thebes
The Theban Triad - Master of the Secret Things - Perchance to Dream
Theban Necropolis
Burnt Offerings - A Sister's Vow - Idol Hands - Drowned Tools - A Motherless Child - Unfair Trade
Thebes Nome
Crocodile Tears - National Treasures
Yebu Nome
Losers Weepers - Fish Out Of Water - Laid to Rest
Aaru
Love or Duty
Aten
Gods or Creed - The Cat - The Ibis - The Hawk
Heb Sed
Follower or Leader
Duat
Shield or Blade - A Necessary Evil - Khepri's Amulet - The God's Spark
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