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Drowned Tools was a visual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description[]

Bayek met a farmer whose harvest had been affected by the Curse of the Pharaohs.

Dialogue[]

While in the Theban Necropolis, Bayek came across a farmer being tortured by soldiers.

  • Torturer: Your taxes are long overdue Halakuf.
  • Halakuf: Tell Tychon I will find his money! I just need one good harvest, the curse...
  • Torturer: Curse...? Pharaohs returned from the dead? Nothing but tales to frighten feeble-minded infants.
  • Halakuf: No! I have seen him, the Pharaoh who walks, please!

Bayek approached the soldiers.

  • Bayek: This man speaks the truth. Stop, or I will stop you.
  • Torturer: Ha! A would-be hero! You gurgle like a water cow. Come any closer and we'll tear your tongue out.
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Bayek speaking to Halakhuf

Bayek ignored the torturer's threat and killed the soldiers. He approached the farmer.

  • Bayek: He won't extort you again, neb (sir).
  • Halakuf: Halakuf, please. You struck them down for their cruelty! Why does the Pharaoh not punish them? They pick over our bones like vultures!
  • Bayek: You cannot pay your taxes?
  • Halakuf: We cannot pay because we cannot work. And now Sobek is angry with us, he sent the Pharaoh to flood the fields closest to the great river.
  • Bayek: You have seen the one who walks?
  • Halakuf: A waking nightmare, an abomination. My brother, fell at the King's deathless gaze. I ran, I was a coward.
  • Bayek: Your brother would not want you dead. Show me the fields, we will find the source of your suffering in honor of your kin.
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Bayek following Halakhuf around the fields

Bayek followed Halakuf as he made rounds around the fields.

  • Halakuf: I have always paid my due. But with the curse, many have left. Their fields lie fallow.
  • Bayek: These charms, have they not protected you?
  • Halakuf: Symbols mean little daubed on the walls of empty houses and hearths. But we do what we can or we starve.
  • Bayek: And now Sobek is angry with you?
  • Halakuf: I work the fields everyday, pray for a bounty. Instead he sends the Deathless King. Where he walks a flood gushes forth. A flood that washed my tools away.
  • Bayek: Into the Great Silt River.
  • Halakuf: And any who venture in feed his gnashing children. A tragedy, we cannot weather. And without pickaxes we cannot bring water to the fields. The Pharaoh may as well have taken me with my brother. Wheat ready to be harvested. But without our sickles it will wither and die.
  • Bayek: I will recover your tools, Halakuf. I do not fear Sobek's weath.
  • Halakuf: I believe it! You would scare the bull off his cow. Thank you, seni (friend).

Bayek set off to the fields where crocodiles had settled in. After killing the crocodiles, he dived under and recovered one of the pickaxes.

  • Bayek: They will be happy to get these back from the silt waters.

Bayek resurfaced and headed to another field, occupied by hippopotami. After killing the animals, he recovered a sickle near a hut.

  • Bayek: Keen as a blade.
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Bayek finding the tools

Bayek then recovered another sickle near a tree.

  • Bayek: The tools of an honest farmer.

With all of the tools recovered, Bayek remarked on his deed.

  • Bayek: Halakuf and his people can bring in their harvest.

Bayek returned to Halakuf with the tools.

  • Bayek: Your tools, a little weathered, but still strong and sharp as Sobek's teeth.
  • Halakuf: A wonder! I was wrong... the wards we painted, did not stop who walks they brought you. An eagle amongst vultures.
  • Bayek: Take care of yourself and your people, Halakuf. Honor your brother with a fine harvest!
  • Halakuf: May you be seated before a thousand loaves, neb.

Later, Bayek returned to Halakuf to see how the harvest was progressing.

  • Halakuf: You saved our livelihood, gave us real hope. The curse has a foothold here no longer.
  • Bayek: Your brother would be proud.

He also talked to other workers on the farm.

  • Farmer: We will bring these fields back to life. Honor Halakuf's brother with beer and bread!
  • Farmer: Working on these fields is a blessing, a blessing you gave us.
  • Farmer: The fearless one, who braved the silt river. Without you our fields would lie barren.

Outcome[]

Bayek helped Halakuf to recover the tools needed to restart the farm and harvest.

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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