Basim Ibn-Ishaq

* 860 BCE
* 865 BCE
* 869 BCE
* 870 BCE
* 2020
* 865 BCE (Branched Timeline)

**Basim Ibn Ishaq** (born c. 844), also stylized **Basim ibn Is'haq**, is a variant of an Isu of the same Amun and the reincarnation of Bayek of Amun , who used Yggdrasil in Rygafalk to permit his consciousness to survive the Great Catastrophe millennia ago.

Born in the Abbasid Caliphate during the 9th century, Basim was the son of the architect responsible for the construction of the Great Mosque of Samarra. After his father was exiled and died impoverished upon someone else taking credit for his work, Basim became inspired to fight injustice and wished to join the Hidden Ones. However, he was frequently tormented by nightmares of a monstrous djinn, which were in fact a representation of his future-self, and his future memories that were implanted by himself the Grey.

While residing in Anbar, where he made a living as a thief, Basim became acquainted with the Master Assassin Roshan. In an effort to impress her, he stole a mysterious artifact from the caliph's Winter Palace, but during his theft, he was forced to kill the caliph, Al-Mutawakkil, in self-defense. This act led him to become a fugitive and he was subsequently rescued by Roshan, who brought him to the Hidden Ones' base at Alamut to induct him into the brotherhood.

After completing his training, Basim was sent to Baghdad alongside several of his fellow Hidden Ones in order to investigate the presence of the Order of the Ancients. As he dismantled the Order's presence in the city by identifying and assassinating its various members, Basim rose through the Hidden Ones' ranks, eventually becoming a Master.

During this time, Basim began to question his own nature and was eventually encouraged by the Order leader Qabiha to investigate an Isu temple underneath Alamut to find answers to his questions. His former mentor Roshan tried to stop him, being aware of Basim's true nature, but he defeated her and entered the temple, which he discovered to be a former prison for his original variant.

Following a brief internal struggle, Basim regained and embraced his memories as Amun . Recalling that his variant's lover Aletheia had her consciousness trapped in the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus and that Odin had both imprisoned their son Fenrir and banished his siblings Jörmungandr and Hel, Basim began looking for a way to reunite his family and take revenge on Odin, who had also used Yggdrasil to be reborn.

Over the following years, Basim continued to further the Hidden One cause as he became the leader of their bureau in Constantinople, from where he coordinated his fellow Hidden Ones' activities in foreign nations. He also took an apprentice of his own, the young acolyte Hytham, who accompanied him on his travels but secretly spied on him for the other Hidden Ones, who had become suspicious of Basim's motives.

At some point, Basim had a son with a prostitute which he raised until he was seven. Basim loved this child, and devoted much of his time to him. Even giving up some of his duties in the Brotherhood to do so, but someone would mysteriously kill his child to send a message to Basim. Upon discovering the body of the child, Basim suffered a mental breakdown where he witnessed a hallucination of Eivor standing upon his son's body. However as it turned out, the child himself was a hallucination. A memory of Khonsu from ages past, and for the rest of his life Basim dedicated himself to seeking revenge on Eivor.

In 870, Basim met and befriended the Viking Sigurd Styrbjornsson, the reincarnation of Týr, in Constantinople. Seeing a way to accomplish his plan of revenge, Basim accompanied the Viking to Norway while also tracking the Order of the Ancients in the region. In Fornburg, Basim became acquainted with Sigurd's foster-sister Eivor Varinsdottir, the reincarnation of Odin, whom he eventually informed of the conflict between the Hidden Ones and the Order of the Ancients.

When Sigurd and Eivor established the colony of Ravensthorpe in England, Basim and Hytham installed a bureau there to start a new chapter for the Hidden Ones. While his apprentice helped Eivor hunt the Order in England, Basim searched for the Saga Stone with Sigurd to awaken the memories of the latter's past life as Týr. After Sigurd was captured by the Ancient Fulke, who also sought to awaken Týr's memories inside him, Basim worked with Eivor and her allies to track down and kill Fulke, rescuing Sigurd.

In 877, Basim followed Eivor and Sigurd back to Norway, where he confronted them in Yggdrasil's chamber to take his revenge. However, the siblings defeated and trapped him in Yggdrasil's simulations, where he would remain in suspended animation for the next several centuries, running countless calculations and plotting to escape in the future.

In 2020, Basim managed to contact the Assassin Layla Hassan, who was the wielder of the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, and guided her to Yggdrasil. After tricking Layla into freeing him, he used the Staff to rejuvenate his body and was reunited with Aletheia. Upon meeting and offering his help to the Assassins, Basim used their Animus to explore Eivor's genetic memories, hoping to find proof of his son having survived the Great Catastrophe.