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Where It All Began was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan in 2018 through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.[1]
Description[]
The Battle of Amphipolis fresh on her mind, Kassandra brought news of all that had occurred to her mother Myrrine.
Dialogue[]
Following the Battle of Amphipolis, Kassandra met with Myrrine in the Spartan countryside.
- Myrrine: My lamb! You’ve been gone so long.
- Kassandra: Brasidas is dead.
- Myrrine: No.
- Kassandra: Deimos killed him in battle.
- Myrrine: And what of my son?
Kassandra wishing to return to the very spot she was thrown off
- Kassandra: I need to go to Mount Taygetos, where it all began.
- Kassandra: My whole life's been spent fighting and running. Running from my past, fighting to forget. I can't do this anymore.
- Myrrine: My heart was shattered on that mountain.
- Kassandra: I need to put that night behind me, once and for all.
- Myrrine: I'm coming with you.
The two headed up the road up to the cliffside, the very same place where Kassandra and Alexios were dropped from many years ago.
- Kassandra: This is where everything changed. It's like I never left.
Upon reaching the edge of the cliff, Myrrine and Kassandra found Deimos standing near the edge, looking out over Lakonia.
- Myrrine: Alexios!
Kassandra and Myrrine finding Deimos
Myrrine tried running up to her youngest son, but Kassandra grabbed her to keep her from potential harm.
- Deimos: On the edge of the world, a mother calls out to her child. Touching.
- Myrrine: Alexios, please.
Deimos turned around to address his family.
- Deimos: You use that name as if it means something to me.
- Myrrine: It's the name your father and I gave you.
- Deimos: Was that before, or after, you brought me to this mountain to die?
Myrrine trying to reason with her son
- Myrrine: It was the Cult. I tried to save you. I did everything! The priests told me you were dead.
- Deimos: And they told me you abandoned your son!
- Myrrine: Alexios, come to me. We are your family. We can go home.
- Deimos: Family? Home?
Deimos laughed.
- Deimos: My sword is my family. The battlefield is my home.
- Kassandra: I promised to bring him back, mater. But the Cult has poisoned his mind.
- Deimos: Promised to bring me back to mater did you? You didn't bring me here. Why don't you tell our mater the truth?
- Kassandra: And what truth is that?
- Deimos: That I'm the chosen one. I'm the one with a destiny. I will bring order to this world. You're nothing but a mercenary with a broken spear.
- Kassandra: You don't have a destiny. You're just a tool used by the Cult.
- Deimos: I'm glad you said that. Since we first met, I've been trying to figure out what you are to me. You're a weed. Trying to choke and destroy everything I've planted. And you know the best way to kill a weed...
He looked at Myrrine.
- Deimos: Is at the root.
- Kassandra: Alexios...
Deimos sighed.
- Deimos: When I was little, I found a lion cub trapped in a snare. My friend tried to free it. That's when I heard the deadly growl of its mother. I watched as the lioness tore my friend to bloody shreds. Even in the world of beasts, a family protects its young.
- Myrrine: I loved you. I still love you.
- Deimos: The one you love is dead. My destiny is clear. And I won't let you get in my way.
Deimos then drew and pointed the Sword of Damokles at his family.
Kassandra confronting her brother
Kassandra drew her spear, giving up on seeing any possible redemption for her fallen brother.
- Kassandra: I tried saving you once, and it cost me everything. But you, you are beyond saving. You will not survive the mountain this time.
As Myrrine fell on her knees, the two siblings then fought their final fight.
- Kassandra: I tried to save you.
- Deimos: Stop living in the past, sister. Your death is now.
- Kassandra: You've hurt this family for the last time.
- Deimos: Oh, but that's where you're wrong. The hurting has only just begun.
- Kassandra: Stay on your guard.
- Deimos: So disappointing.
The spear of Leonidas was wasted on you.
Who trained you? Mater? Pater?
You should have trained with the Cult. Would have made this fight more interesting. - Kassandra: Soon you'll be dead, and so will your precious Cult. This is for the lives you've destroyed! This is for Brasidas! And this is for Phoibe!
Kassandra killing Deimos
As the fight reached its climax, Deimos was beaten and grew weary. He slowly staggered up to Kassandra to attempt to continue fighting. This proved futile, as Kassandra dodged his attack and stabbed her brother in the neck with her spear. She then forced Deimos over to the ledge.
- Kassandra: No one will save you this time—
She looked at her brother one last time, with a pained expression on her face.
- Kassandra: —brother.
She then kicked Deimos off the the edge, sending him down the cliffs of Mount Taygetos for the second and final time to his demise.
Kassandra catching her mother
- Myrrine: Alexios!
She ran up to the edge of the cliff. Kassandra had to catch her to prevent her from falling off.
- Kassandra: Mater.
She then embraced her mother.
Kassandra mournfully told her mother that the man who was slain moments ago died as Deimos, not Alexios.
- Kassandra: That wasn't your son.
Myrrine, understanding that Alexios' fate was sealed the moment the Cult got their hands on him, apologized for making an impossible request for their family to be reunited.
Kassandra and Myrrine leave the mountain
- Myrrine: I'm sorry.
- Kassandra: I know, mater.
- Myrrine: From the moment I first held you, I knew. You're sent by the gods to protect this world, and you did.
Kassandra smiled briefly, in light of their recent tragedy.
- Kassandra: Come, let's go home.
- Myrrine: You promised you would bring him home.
- Kassandra: He was never coming home.
- Myrrine: Your broke your word. Now when I look at you, all I see is death. I want you to leave Sparta. Go!
Kassandra could only give a voice breaking response in shock to her mother's request.
- Kassandra: Leave Sparta?
- Myrrine: And never come back.
Heartbroken, Myrrine then walked away, wanting nothing to do with her only surviving child.
- Kassandra: Mater...
Kassandra tried to calmly reason to her younger brother one more time.
- Kassandra: Alexios, listen to me. You are my brother. I tried to protect you once, and I failed. I will not fail again.
Deimos angrily walked around, contemplating. He then yelled and tried to stab his older sister, only to stay his blade inches from her neck when he saw Kassandra holding her spear outstretched in her hands. Deimos looked at her, confused.
- Kassandra: This belonged to our grandfather.
Deimos walked up slowly to Kassandra. She then gave him the spear. As he held the spear in his hands, he bagin to tear up and dropped to his knees. Myrrine then ran up to comfort him.
- Myrrine: You're home now.
- Deimos: I've done terrible things.
- Myrrine: We all have, Alexios.
Kassandra knelt down besides her younger brother. Alexios looked at her with with tearful eyes, regretting the many things he did while serving the Cult. Kassandra nevertheless gave him a comforting smile, proud that her brother had found his way back into the light. She then helped Alexios back up to his feet.
- Deimos: I—
- Kassandra: I know.
Alexios nodded, assured by his sister that all was forgiven. Alexios returned the spear to Kassandra's hands, who sheathed it and placed her hand on his shoulder, leading him away from the edge.
- Myrrine: Kassandra, wait.
She hugged her daughter, grateful for bringing Alexios back from the Cult's influence.
- Myrrine: Thank you.
Myrrine ran up and hugged a confused Deimos.
- Myrrine: You're home now.
- Deimos: I've done terrible things.
- Myrrine: We all have, Alexios.
Kassandra closed her eyes, relieved that their feud was over. Deimos however, was merely feigning remorse. He then looked at his sister.
- Deimos: You can't protect anyone, can you?
He grabbed Myrrine by her hair, prompting Kassandra to draw her spear.
- Deimos: Maybe we both should have died here that day. But...
Deimos impaled Myrrine with his sword.
- Kassandra: No!
- Deimos: The gods are cruel.
Kassandra let out a tearful scream. They then proceeded to fight.
- Kassandra: I tried to save you.
- Deimos: Stop living in the past, sister. Your death is now.
- Kassandra: You've hurt this family for the last time.
- Deimos: Oh, but that's where you're wrong. The hurting has only just begun.
- Kassandra: Stay on your guard.
- Deimos: So disappointing.
The spear of Leonidas was wasted on you.
Who trained you? Mater? Pater?
You should have trained with the Cult. Would have made this fight more interesting. - Kassandra: Soon you'll be dead, and so will your precious Cult. This is for the lives you've destroyed! This is for Brasidas! And this is for Phoibe!
As their final battle came to a close, Deimos tried to land one final blow onto Kassandra. She dodged the attack before running her spear into Deimos's throat, sending him to the ground. Kassandra then forcibly ripped the spear out of her dead brother's neck. Weary from the battle, she ran up to Myrrine. In her final moments, Myrrine spoke to her daughter.
- Myrrine: From the moment I first held you, I knew. You're sent by the gods to protect this world, and you did. Always move forward, my brave Kassandra.
Outcome[]
Kassandra had a final confrontation with Deimos where their childhoods had separated.
Trivia[]
- Because of the capabilities of seeing alternate events in a memory of Layla's Animus HR-8.5 and low accuracy percentage in Kassandra's simulation, this memory has different outcomes depending on another paths chosen by the player. According to the official novelization, the canon path for this memory was that she would kill Deimos and then, having said that she was not sure if she could save her brother, Myrrine stays with her and they have dinner in Sparta along with Nikolaos and Stentor.
- In the cutscene with Alexios, Kassandra's Spear of Leonidas will appear with its original broken-wood handle, not the upgraded version the player carries.
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