Crocodile

Crocodiles are large carnivorous, aquatic reptiles with a tough hide, long snout, and a heavy tail. Native to the Caribbean and Africa,Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagAssassin's Creed: Origins the crocodile resembles its relative, the alligator which chiefly inhabits the Louisiana Bayou.Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
It is a ferocious animal known for violent, apparently unprovoked attacks on humans.
==History==
===1st century BCE===
Widely endemic throughout Africa, crocodiles were historically a common sight along the Nile, ranging as far north as Lake Mareotis where they made their lairs along its banks. They were at times a menace to the Egyptians living along those shores; in 48 BCE, a group of crocodiles trapped a drunken Greek man, Klaudios, at the top of a half-submerged, broken column off the island of the Lost Crypt. The creatures, anxious to devour Klaudios, were all slaughtered by the Medjay Bayek of Siwa as he came to rescue Klaudios.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Hidden Tax Despite the inherent danger of gathering crocodile eggs, the venture was considered worthwhile, as the eggs were valued due to their observed medicinal properties, and one egg was worth 12 drachmae.
Despite the danger they posed, and even because of it, Egyptians worshiped crocodiles mainly in the form of the god Sobek; the most significant place of worship was the city called Krokodilopolis by the Greeks in the Faiyum Oasis. Another place of worship to Sobek was at the temple in , south of the city of Aswan. The waters surrounding it were filled with crocodiles and at one point, after the Hidden One Khepri defeated Order of the Ancients member The Medicine and her guards, they enetered the temple and devoured the corpses found there while Khepri left.Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book – Chapter 2: Training
===9th Century===
In 824, near Fustat, a young thief working under collector Dervis, Roshan went out onto the Nile towards a rarely used felucca, in order to obtain a small wooden box from one of her personal stashes. However, she monitored the waters carefully for any crocodiles. While obtaining the box, she wades through the water but startles one with her foot. Nervously, she evades it and makes her way towards a cattle farm. Fortunately, while she escapes the crocodile, the nearby farmers attack and push back the creature back into the river, leaving Roshan to leave unnoticed.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Eighteen - Fustat, 824
===18th century===
In the early 18th century, the pirate Edward Kenway hunted crocodiles in the West Indies for their leather, which he used to craft a holster for his pistol and a pouch for his rope darts. Around the same time, Alonzo Batilla acquired a crocodile headdress, as the animal symbolized new beginnings and new potential to the natives of the West Indies.Assassin's Creed: Pirates
Crocodile meat is also consumed as a form of exotic food. In 1725, Edward Kenway hunted crocodiles in the swamp near Zhang's village in order to provide food to the villagers as gratitude for letting him and John Young take refuge in the village.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple
==Gallery==
ACO Crocodile lair.png|A crocodile lair in Ptolemaic Egypt
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 
*Assassin's Creed: Pirates
*Assassin's Creed: Origins
*Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book
*Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One
==References==
Category:Animals
Category:Egyptian mythology