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You've seen it yourself, the future belongs to us now. Old gods and new be praised.
~ Aspasia, after unveiling her as the Ghost of Kosmos

Aspasia, also known as The Ghost of Kosmos, is one of the overarching antagonists of the Assassin's Creed franchise. She is the leader of the Cult of Kosmos, a proto-Templar organisation based in Ancient Greece.

She was voiced by Marianthi Evans.

Biography[]

Life in Athens[]

With Perikles as the de facto ruler of Athens, Aspasia planted herself at the heart of the Athenian intellectual community. As a socialite, she actively fostered a culture of diverse thought by hosting parties and events for renowned politicians, artists, and philosophers of the age. Far from being a passive actor, she was a tantalizing speaker who contributed to this high point of Athenian philosophy with her own brilliance.

Secretly operating as the Ghost of Kosmos, Aspasia became aware of the existence of Alexios and Kassandra, descendants of Leonidas. She acted in the best interests of the Cult and the Greek world by having the Pythia Praxithea sentence the infant Alexios to death. However, not all went according to plan as Kassandra was also thrown from Mount Taygetos, seemingly killing two birds with one stone. He was later saved from death by the Cultist Chrysis and made into the the Cult's weapon, Deimos.

At some point Aspasia understood that Deimos was impossible to be fully controlled and he gained more power and influence within the Cult. By the time of the Peloponnesian War, Deimos became de-facto leader of the Cult with the original goal soon shifted according to Deimos' ideals. Aspasia, having became disillusioned with what the Cult had become, devised various ways to bring down her order.

Meeting Kassandra[]

In 431 BCE, Aspasia hired Phoibe, an orphan girl from Kephallonia, who told her of Kassandra, now an adult having survived the fall and after become a renowned mercenary, her friend. Being informed of Kassandra's existence, Aspasia went to great lengths to assure her coming success by going so far as cover up her acts in Megaris. Having known her relation to Deimos and her lineage, Aspasia sought to make use of her skills to bring down the Cult.

Later in May, Aspasia officially made the acquaintance of Kassandra at one of Perikles' symposiums. She warned her not to drink wine that had been poisoned by Hermippos, saving her life and gaining her trust. Noticing her debate with Sokrates, she applauded her skill. She was then joined by Phoibe, who informed her that Perikles had retired early from the symposium. Aspasia thanked the girl and dismissed her. Turning to Kassandra, Aspasia told her that her actions in Megaris did not go unnoticed and she had to cover them up. However, noticing that all the eyes in the room were affixed to them, Aspasia told the misthios to speak her piece quickly. Kassandra told Aspasia that she was looking for her mother. Kassandra told her of her leads; Hippokrates in Argos, and Anthousa in Korinthia. Aspasia then told Kassandra about an Argive woman Agathe who could help and a pirate acquaintance, Xenia. Kassandra thanked her for the intel and left to get Perikles for her.

The Plague of Athens[]

During the Autumn of 429 BCE, Athens was hit with a terrible plague. Perikles became afflicted with it and was bedridden, deliriously muttering about the Parthenon. Aspasia met with Kassandra, who had just returned to Athens, having found the location of her mother. Aspasia expressed her concerns about her lover to Kassandra, revealing that his health was ailing. Saddened that he would not allow anyone to enter his chamber, she sent Kassandra in the hope that she could get through to him. During that time, Aspasia sent Phoibe to Anastasios to see about a ferry out of Athens. However, by the time that Kassandra had returned, Phoibe had not, greatly worrying both Aspasia and Kassandra. Aspasia pointed Kassandra in the direction of Anastasios' house to check on Phoibe.

After Kassandra left, Perikles went missing. Following his trail to the Parthenon, Aspasia was confronted by an angry Kassandra. Phoibe had been killed carrying out Aspasia's instructions. Surprised and overcome with sadness, Aspasia calmed Kassandra, saying her death was out of her hands. Putting aside her anger, Kassandra followed Aspasia inside the Parthenon, meeting Hippokrates and Sokrates inside. Just in time to see Deimos slitting her lover's throat while Aspasia cried out in anguish. After Kassandra dealt with the Cultist guards, Aspasia knelt by Perikles' discarded body and wept. Steeling herself, she realized that she needed to flee Athens and turned to Kassandra for help. Together, they fleed Athens aboard Kassandra's trireme the Adrestia. Hippokrates and Sokrates stayed behind to help the civilians and give Phoibe a proper burial.

Fleeing to Naxos[]

Fleeing to the island of Naxos, Aspasia sailed with Kassandra to find the "Phoenix", the alias of her mother. Aspasia noted that they would find "Phoenix" in the villa in the center of the town. Curious, Aspasia asked Kassandra what she would say to her mother once they were reunited. Sneaking past the Parian blockade set up by the Cultist Silanos, they landed in Naxos. Aspasia was present when Kassandra and Myrrine were finally reunited after seventeen years apart. Through the following months while Kassandra caught up on current events with her mother, Aspasia withdrew into herself, overcome with grief. She was visited by Kassandra on many occasions but showed no more signs of opening up.

After some time, Aspasia snapped out of her depressed state and informed Myrrine about the Cult's plan to hunt her. Telling Kassandra about the Cultist elites stationed on the island, Kassandra left them to kill the elites. Returning, Kassandra delivered a scroll written in an old dialect to Aspasia. Able to translate the script, Aspasia revealed that not only was Silanos a member of the Cult, so was a Spartan king. Aspasia then waited on the island while Kassandra destroyed the Parian blockade, as well as Silanos' trireme. After Myrrine had abdicated her position as archon of Naxos to accompany her daughter back to Sparta, Aspasia volunteered herself for the position, becoming the new archon of the island.

The Ghost unveiled[]

Six years later, after all the other members of the Cult had been eliminated by Kassandra. Aspasia traveled to Delphi in Phokis where she received a vision from the Cult's artifact about how her ideals would survive. When Kassandra found her, she revealed herself to the misthios, the mastermind behind everything. Initially shocked and angered, Kassandra chose not to kill her and Aspasia left Kassandra and the Cult behind.

Personality[]

Aspasia was considered one of the wisest women of the Greek world, considering herself a symbol of progress for Athens. But as the shadowy leader of the Cult of Kosmos, she was an ambitious and populist woman openly obsessed with the progress of humanity. Aspasia believed that the people were the true owners of the world. Aspasia was also well-versed in the art of manipulation, promising each Cultist leader that they were special and would be rewarded.

Aspasia believed in the advancement of humanity, willing to use the Greek world's own superstitions against it in order to guide society along a desired path towards the future, with the ultimate goal of moving humanity away from the construes of the past towards a rational society. Out of mistrust or merely a desire to protect her paramour Perikles, she kept him in the dark about her plans. However, she overestimated her own capabilities; after Deimos came into his own in the Cult, he began to hold ever-increasing sway and eventually became the unofficial leader of the Cult, reducing Aspasia's role to that of a figurehead position. With the Cult following their champion's example, she watched helplessly as it became more and more violent, prolonging the Peloponnesian War rather than ending it according to her original plan. Her total loss of control culminated in the death of Perikles and the ascension of Kleon in Athens, and she was forced to retreat from public life.

While Aspasia noted that people like Leonidas I of Sparta had always opposed the Cult, and that his grandson Deimos was impossible to control, she was surprised at how Kassandra was nothing like her brother, and came to believe in Kassandra's potential. She became optimistic and held hope that Kassandra could destroy the Cult that had become so corrupt, and subsequently believed they could work together to usher in a new republic, enough that she dropped her deceptions and revealed herself to Kassandra of her own volition after the final Cultist had fallen.

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Bahri dynasty: Leila

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Spanish Templars
Granada War: Tomás de Torquemada | Ojeda | Ramirez

Byzantine Templars
16th Century Ottoman Empire: Prince Ahmet | Manuel Palaiologos | Shahkulu | Leandros | Cyril of Rhodes | Damat Ali Pasha | Georgios Kostas | Lysistrata | Mirela Djuric | Odai Dunqas | Vali cel Tradat | Anacletos | Fabiola Cavazza | Cem | Dulcamara | Eveline Guerra | Kadir | Samila Khadim | Andreas Palaiologos | Hasan Pasha | Oksana Razin | Seraffo | Scevola Spina

Chinese Templars
Ming Dynasty: Zhang Yong | Qiu Ju | Wei Bin | Yu Dayong | Ma Yongcheng | Gao Feng
Republican era: Sun Yat-sen | Soong Ching-ling | Stirling Fessenden | Tatsumi | Joffre | Coxworth

Japanese Templars
Sengoku period: Francis Xavier | Alenessandro Valignano | Uesugi Kenshin | Mochizuki Chiyome

Caribbean Templars
Golden Age of Piracy: Laureano de Torres y Ayala | Woodes Rogers | Benjamin Hornigold | Josiah Burgess | John Cockram | Julien du Casse | Kenneth Abraham | Jing Lang | Hilary Flint | Lucia Márquez | Christopher Condent | Francis Hume | Mancomb Seepgood | John Barnes | Alejandro Ortega de Márquez | Alphonse de Marigot Charlie Oliver | Cuali | Felicia Moreno | Renardo Aguilar | Sylvia Seabrooke | Vargas

Portuguese Templars
16th Century: Francisco
18th Century: Manuel Pinto da Fonseca | Duarte Jorge Correia Pinto | Lourenço de Noronha

Louisiana Templars
18th Century New Orleans: Madeleine de L'Isle | Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer | George Davidson | Diego Vázquez | Antonio de Ulloa

Colonial Templars/American Templars
American Revolution: Haytham Kenway | Charles Lee | Nicholas Biddle | Benjamin Church | Shay Cormac | Thomas Hickey | John Pitcairn | William Johnson | Man O' War captain | Jack Weeks | Christopher Gist | George Monro | Edmund Judge | Coyote Man | Matthew Davenport | George Dorrance | Johann de Kalb | Eleanor Mallow | Gillian McCarthy | Federico Perez | Johann Rall | Gerhard von Stantten | Jonathan Trumbull | Victor Wolcott
Early 19th Century: Solomon Bolden | Jan van der Graff
American Civil War: William M. Tweed | A. Oakey Hall | Charles W. Sandford | Cudgel Cormac | Peter B. Sweeny | Richard B. Connolly
Late 19th Century: Alice
20th & 21st Century: Albert Bolden | Nelson W. Aldrich | Henry Pomeroy Davison | Thomas Edison | Harvey Firestone | Henry Ford | John Pierpont Morgan | Charles Norton | Ransom Eli Olds | Benjamin Strong, Jr. | Frank A. Vanderlip | Paul Warburg | Harry Dexter White | Buzz Aldrin | John von Neumann | William King Harvey | Lyndon B. Johnson | John Roberts

British Templars
Hundred Years' War: John, Duke of Bedford
Renaissance: Margaret of York | Perkin Warbeck
Golden Age of Piracy: Samuel Parris | William Stoughton | Benjamin Pritchard | Aubrey Hague | Henry Spencer | Emmett Scott | Wilson
Georgian and Colonial Era: Reginald Birch | Edward Braddock | Lawrence Washington | Samuel Smith | Emmet Scott | James Wardrop | Mrs. Carroll | May Carroll | Peter Carroll | Matthew Hage | Frederick Weatherall | Crimson Rose
Victorian Era: Crawford Starrick | Lucy Thorne | James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan | Philip Twopenny | John Cotton | Pearl Attaway | Malcolm Millner | John Elliotson | David Brewster | Rupert Ferris | Brinley Ellsworth | Reynolds | Cavanagh | Marchant | Robert Waugh | William Sleeman | Alexander Burnes | Walter Lavelle
Interwar Britain: Thaddeus Gift | Darius Gift | Ferris
21st Century: Graham Westerly

Parisian Templars
Hundred Years' War: Georges de la Trémoille | Jean d'Estivet | John II of Alençon | John II of Luxembourg | Philip III of Burgundy | Pierre Cauchon
Late-Renaissance: Alexandre de Hautecourt | François Ascair | La Morguy | Pierre de Lancre | Ermeline
French Revolution:
Radical faction: Francois-Thomas Germain | Charles Gabriel Sivert | Le Roi des Thunes | Frédéric Rouille | Marie Lévesque | Louis-Michel le Peletier | Aloys la Touche | Flavigny | Marcourt | Maximilien de Robespierre | Jean Gilbert | Denis Molinier | Duchesneau | Arpinon | Payen
Moderate faction: François de la Serre | Élise de la Serre | Chrétien Lafrenière | Comte de Choisy | Jean Burnel | Jean-Jacques Calvert | Le Fanu | Marquis de Kilmister | Magdelaine Lévesque | Marquis de Pimôdan | Julie de la Serre | Marquis de Simonon

Austrian Templars
19th Century: Julius Jacob von Haynau | Hennighan | Konstanze von Visler | Karl Mayr

Russian Templars
19th & 20th Century: Grigori Rasputin | Dolinsky | Yuri Dolinsky | Yakov Yurovsky | Yuri Petrovich Figatner

German Templars
18th Century: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
World War I: Erich Albert
World War II: Gero Kramer

21st Century Templars (Abstergo Industries, mainly)
Alan Rikkin | Warren Vidic | Daniel Cross | Juhani Otso Berg | Laetitia England | Simon Hathaway | Álvaro Gramática | Isabelle Ardant | Violet da Costa | Melanie Lemay | Dominika Wilk


Templar's Allies and Puppets
Xerxes I of Persia | Ptolemy XIII | Cleopatra | Al Mualim | Abbas Sofian | Richard I of England | Sixtus IV | Dante Moro | Paganino | Jiajing Emperor | Isabella I of Castile | Duncan Walpole | Laurens Prins | Vance Travers | El Tiburón | Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie | James Cook | Kanen'tó:kon | Jacques Roux | Maxwell Roth | Leon Trotsky


Others
21st Century: Blume Corporation

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