Bayek

Bayek of Siwa is the main protagonist of Assassin's Creed: Origins.
He was the last Medjay active in Ancient Egypt and one of the founders of the Hidden Ones, an organization that would later transform into the Assassin Brotherhood, alongside his wife Aya. Bayek is the main protagonist of the 2017 video game Assassin's Creed Origins. Bayek and his wife took a leading role in the civil war between Queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII, a conflict that saw them at odds with the Order of the Ancients.
Laying the groundworks for the Hidden Ones during this struggle, Bayek and Aya formed bureaus in Memphis and Rome from which they would spread their influence throughout the Roman Republic, helping to fight for the freedom of the people against the Order's desire for control.
He is voiced by Abubakar Salim.
==Overview==
The son of the Medjay, Sabu, and his wife Ahmose, Bayek hailed from the town of Siwa, where he was viewed as a local hero. He was the last of the Medjay, an old Nubian Egyptian order which had become obsolete under the rule of the Greek Ptolemies, and as such was the respected protector of his community. In the rest of Egypt, however, he was viewed as an inconvenient relic by those in power.
He was married to an Alexandrian woman named Aya, who moved in with him during their youth, trained in the arts of the Medjay and had a son with. Unlike Bayek, Aya was an agent to the exiled queen Cleopatra, and her duty to Cleopatra strained their relationship given Bayek's misgivings about the queen. Nevertheless, their union planted the seeds for what would become the Assassin Brotherhood.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Bayek was born in 85 BCE in Siwa, Egypt to Sabu, a Medjay sworn to protect the innocent, and the farmer Ahmose. During his youth, he became friends with fellow Siwans Hepzefa and Sennfer, and later learned how to hunt from the Nubian Kensa. Around 70 BCE, Bayek met Aya, a Greek from Alexandria, whom he began a romantic relationship with despite his father's disapproval. Sabu believed that his son's relationship with Aya would corrupt his teachings due to the latter's mixed heritage, but kept his focus on teaching Bayek to become a fellow Medjay. As years past, Bayek started to teach Aya the trainings of the Medjay, and later asked her to marry him, but she refused on the ground of wanting to work in the library of Alexandria.
When Aya returned to Siwa, the mercenary Bion was tasked by the Order of the Ancients to eliminate the living Medjays, and attacked Bayek and Sabu. Bayek was nearly killed from the encounter, but Sabu saved his life at the cost of his own, and the former was nursed back to health. After reuniting with Aya, the Medjay headed home to his mother, but found that she had wounded Bion, whom revealed the person behind the order. Following this, Bayek was given the title of Siwa's protector, and later married Aya, whom gave birth to their son Khemu. At some point, the Medjay became the owner of the eagle Senu, and later eliminated the member of the order that ordered the assassination of Sabu.
===Losing his Son===
Following his father's teachings, Bayek started to teach Khemu the ways of a Medjay and Egypt's history via constellations. As the Order of the Ancients gained more power by making a puppet of the pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, they saught the entrance of the Siwa Vault to obtain an apple of Eden in 50 BCE. Believing that Bayek would know of the location to his title, the order kidnapped him and Khemu when they were hunting an ibex for the pharaoh's arrival. In the temple, Khemu gave his father a knife to escape from his bindings, which allowed Bayek to attack the group. However, during the scuffle, Bayek was manipulated by Flavius Metellus into accidently kill his son. Due to the shock, Bayek was unable to react fast enough before being knocked unconscious as the members of the order abandoned the temple.
After burying his son, Bayek and Aya were left heartbroken over the loss of their son, vowing to find the ones responsible. Though able to cope with the loss of Khemu, the Medjay was guilt-ridden for stabbing his son, as it wouldn't allow the latter to reach the Fields of Reeds. As a result, Bayek suffered countless nightmares and hallucinations and strained his relationship with Aya, whom was unable to cope with Khemu's death and started her own search for the masked men. At some point, Bayek was given the titles of the men responsible - the Heron, the Ram, the Ibis, the Vulture and the Snake, and left Siwa to hunt them down.
===Assassin's Creed: Origins===
A year into his search, Bayek managed to track down the Heron, learning his identity as Saqqara's nomarch Rudjek. Traveling to Sneferu's pyramid, Bayek battled Rudjek's bodyguard Hypatos, but knocked him out before killing Rudjek in anger. Due to his injuries he sustained in fighting Hypatos, Bayek fell unconscious, but was nursed back to health by Nefertari. Months later, Bayek battled Hypatos once again, and killed the Heron's former bodyguard in ensuing fight. Escaping the tomb and meeting with Hepzefa, the two returned to Siwa, where he learned how the Ibis was disrupting the village. The Medjay then traveled to the temple and assassinated the Ibis, bludgeoning him to death with a relic he had on him.
==Powers and Abilities==
=== Powers ===
* Eagle Vision: Bayek had a symbiotic relationship with his eagle, Senu, which aided him in reconnaissance thanks to his Eagle Vision. Unlike later Assassins such as Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and Desmond Miles, Bayek's Eagle Vision was far more literal in the sense that activating the ability allowed him to see through the eyes of Senu instead of his own.
=== Abilities ===
* Peak Human Condition: An elite law enforcer and survivalist, Bayek was in excellent physical condition, possessing strength, speed, endurance, and reflexes honed to the peak of human ability, which when paired with his combat training made him an immensely formidable man. Bayek was also an expert in Parkour, being an excellent climber and acrobat whether it be in the wilds and desert or in the urban rooftops of Alexandria and Memphis. In addition, Bayek was a skilled swimmer and diver, being able to hold his breath for several minutes with little issue.
* Gifted Intellect/Master Tactician/Leader: Bayek was an incredibly intelligent man, being well read, greatly knowledgeable of strategy and criminal investigation, and could understand multiple languages. Bayek was a keen tactician, able to track down and outsmart multiple members of the Order of the Ancients, despite the Ancients trying to keep their influence hidden. Alongside his wife, Aya, Bayek co-founded the Order of the Hidden Ones, which would later evolve into the Brotherhood of Assassins, proving his abilities in strategy and espionage. Through their efforts the Brotherhood had expanded across Africa and Asia within a few centuries, and worldwide within a millennia.
** Master Investigator/Tracker: An experienced hunter, Bayek was an extremely skilled tracker, able to follow game across the sands easily. Bayek learned to translate this skill into investigation, being an excellent investigator and detective.
* Master Assassin: Trained from a young age to hunt animals in the brush for food and survival, Bayek was extremely skilled in stealth, tracking, and game hunting, being only surpassed in that regard by his wife Aya, who was later immortalized by the brotherhood for her stealth skill. As a founder of the Assassins, he utilized a Hidden Blade for stealth assassinations.
** Master hand-to-hand combatant: Trained as a Medjay by his father, Bayek was extremely skilled in armed and unarmed combat. He was easily as lethal with his bare hands as he was with weaponry, and showed himself able to easily non-lethally incapacitate opponents while unarmed on multiple occasions.
** Master Swordsman: As per his training, Bayek was an extremely skilled swordsman, preferring a khopesh though he could utilize other swords as well without any loss in ability.
** Master Spearman: Bayek was also a skilled spear-fighter, able to use it with lethal skill and precision.
** Mace Mastery: Bayek also showed himself to highly skilled with a mace, able to use it with comfortable ease.
**Staff Mastery: He was also highly skilled in staff combat, being capable of using a scepter in such a manner with lethal skill.
** Master Archer: Bayek was an extremely skilled marksman, able to hit targets easily from great range, fire multiple arrows at once to deal greater damage at close range, and could even seemingly curve the trajectory of his arrows under certain circumstances.
** Shield Mastery: Bayek fought with a shield alongside most of his varied weaponry, and could use it with great skill and efficiency.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Bayek is a play on the hieroglyphic word for "falcon" or "vulture".
*Bayek possesses a small scar on his upper lip, a feature he shares with previous Assassins such as Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Aveline de Grandpré.
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