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| “ | But a man you trust with anything... can take everything. | „ |
| ~ Basim recalling Odin's betryal to Eivor. |
Basim Ibn Ishaq, also stylized Basim ibn Is'haq, is one of the overarching antagonists of the Assassin's Creed franchise.
He is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Alfred the Great) of the 2020 action-adventure video game Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and the main protagonist of its 2023 prequel Assassin's Creed: Mirage.
He is a Master Assassin, former member of the Hidden Ones and current member of the Brotherhood of Assassins. He is also the reincarnation of the Isu Loki, who's personality effectively consumed Basim's own.
He is voiced by Carlo Rota, who also voiced Majid Sadiq in Splinter Cell: Blacklist. In Mirage, he is voiced by Lee Majdoub, who also plays Agent Stone in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series.
Overview[]
Basim was a Master Assassin of the Hidden Ones branch located in Constantinople, known to the Norse as Miklagard.
Basim met and befriended Sigurd and traveled back with him to Norway to spread the teachings of the Hidden Ones and combat the influence of the Order of the Ancients in Norway and England.
He was originally presented as a mentor figure to Sigurd and Eivor, but it was revealed much later that he was in fact the reincarnation of Loki, one of the Isu.
Unlike Sigurd or Eivor, Basim had inherited his previous incarnation's memory and sought vengeance upon Odin for killing Fenrir.
He is also the mastermind behind the Viking's invasion against England, in an attempt to destroy the Order of the Ancients, forcing Alfred the Great to keep the Order around to protect his land and people.
Biography[]
Past[]
As Loki[]
Loki comes from a species called the Isu, who were highly advanced race of humanoids and was part of the sub-division of the Æsir, which would find itself rooted into German mythology.
He would marry a woman named Sigyn but started to have affairs with the Dikastes and Angrboða due to being dissatisfied with his marriage. The Dikastes would have Loki's children, Hel, Jörmungandr, Fenrir, and the latter was imprisoned by Isu Odin.
Angered that Odin imprisoned his child on what he claimed was false grounds and later caused his death, Loki tricked Höðr into killing his brother Baldr with a mistletoe arrow.
When Loki and Angrboða learned that Juno, Minevra, and Jupiter were planning another method to creating Yggdrasil for salvation, he decided to use the Isu technology for his plans. Before going through his plans of using the Yggdrasil, he had Angrboða's mind be transferred into the Staff of Hermes.
During the Great Catastrophe, Loki went to the Yggdrasil and placed himself into the computer among many of last to be placed into the ancient computer, thus allowing himself to be reincarnated. As eons went on, in legends, Loki's former persona became known as the god of mischief and being associated with stories involving Norse mythology.
As Basim[]
Basim Ibn Ishaq was the reincarnation of Loki, who was an Isu and member of the Æsir, and inherited the memories of the Norse god of mischief himself.
Basim was the son of artifact who was exiled after someone took the credit of his work, the Great Mosque of Samarra. Basim's father and other family would die, and he became a member of the Hidden Ones at a young age. In his admission to Eivor about his past years later, Basim added that he also fell in love and subsequently had a child only for said child got taken away by one of his close friends, resulting him to make himself mysterious and become distrustful and paranoid.
The aforementioned detail however, later revealed to be about Odin's betrayal during his previous life as Loki — the mania resulted from both the will of his past incarnation Loki merged with Basim's own.
Basim would become a master assassin of the Hidden Ones, and around 870, was stationed in Constantinople and had his acolyte's complete missions. He befriended the Viking Sigurd Styrbjornson, as he believed that Sigurd was a reincarnation of Odin.
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla []
Traveling to Norway, Basim, joined by his apprentice Hytham, worked with Sigurd to spread the teachings of the Hidden Ones and stop the Order of the Ancients' influence. Meeting Sigurd's adoptive sister Eivor Varinsdottir, Basim told her of the Order and witnessed the Raven Clan's escape from the rule of Harald Fairhair by moving to England. Around that time, Basim gifted Eivor Ammon's Hidden Blade which she quickly mastered despite Hytham's initial doubts. While helping Eivor and the Raven Clan, Basim started to tell Sigurd that he was a reincarnated God and would set up trying to have the Vikings invade England so he could destroy the Order of the Ancients. In 877, Basim traveled to the Yggdrasil with Eivor and Sigurd, and when he realized that Eivor is Odin's reincarnation, Basin would turn on Eivor which to take action over his Son's fate and his relations to Odin to which the latter would not know about, Though Basim wounded Sigurt and be left crippled, Basin would then probed by the Yggdrasil by both Eivor which would be then activated by Sigurt in an attempt stop the process of the machine which then lifted Basin's body which ceased all motion to be trapped mentally in "the Gray" which Sigurt then remarks Basin would be trapped for now before leaving his unaffected body in the crypts below, to be buried by years to come.
Basim would eventually return to the real world in 2020 after running through calculations. At the time, he learned about the sacrifice Desmond Miles made in 2012 where the Assassin activated the global aurora borealis device and prevent the Second Disaster, creating a protective shield around Earth thus saving it. However, it also resulted the planet's magnetic field to strengthen beyond normal proportions, resulting in several anomalies his peers had to stop. Thus, he guided Layla to Eivor's remains in order to relive her memories and with it, Yggdrasil's location, culminating to their meeting in The Grey. Basim them taught Layla how to slow down the machine that was causing all the anomalies, allowing her to restore the Earth's magnetic field to its proper strength and effectively saved the planet. But by doing so, she freed Basim who then took Staff of Hermes Trismegistus (which she needed to shield herself from the radiation in Isu complex surrounding Yggdrasil) to restore himself and left, leaving her taking his place in The Grey.
Afterwards, he joined Layla's Assassin cell members despite their protests about Layla's sacrifice; Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings. After the two left to bring their Mentor William Miles to him so they can deal Templar Order threat, Basim was left alone in their cabin. He took his time reading books Shaun had gathered in his research of Norse culture and mythology, some of which based on lives of Asgardian Isu members. Visiting Eivor's grave, he mused how he managed to outlive Odin and his reincarnated self and now able to continue the search for the fate of his children. He also relieved Eivor's memories in Animus and learned how the Viking's connection with her past life Isu Odin worked different than his and his past self Isu Loki.
Following an extended Animus session, he suffered a bleeding effect where he exchanged smiles with an apparition of Eivor as they got cozy in the campfire together.
After completed relieving Eivor's memories, William remotely accessed Basim's Animus simulation for their "face-to-face" meeting in which they agreed to work together in exchange of the former Hidden One's blood sample so his genetic sequences could be parsed thus allowing the Assassins to relieve his memories for useful information against Templar Order. Basim complied, musing that William was in for "quite a ride", before leaving the cabin to clear his mind. Outside, he had another Bleeding Effect-induced hallucination, this time of Eivor and Odin discussing the Great Catastrophe.
Assassin's Creed: Mirage []
More details about Basim's past were finally revealed. The manner memories of Isu Loki returned to him were accompanied by manifestations of two apparitions which haunted him throughout his youth; a djinn and a young girl named Nehal.
Personality[]
Little is known about Basim prior to him fully transforming into a reincarnation of Loki. Even before he became a proper Sage of Loki, he still had all of Loki's inner desires. He shared in Loki's deep commitment to the pursuit of scholarly activities and hungered for uncovering more knowledge and wisdom.
During his time being trapped inside Yggdrasil, he spent his time studying the calculations over and over again to determine the best paths to take for his next plots.
By the time of the 21st century, his repeated studies of calculations and Loki's memories had made him capable of understanding how to modern human societies functioned and how their equipment functioned, particularly the Animus.
Like his original predecessor, Basim valued loyalty and kindness towards his kin. He was loyal to Sigurd's clan, despite knowing his true status, and showed them his kindness and loyalty throughout their time together in England.
He only became antagonistic towards the Raven Clan after realizing that Eivor is actually Odin's reincarnation. Basim even displayed a vengeful and determined side which he inherited from Loki.
Upon discovering Eivor's true status, he goes into a manic state, rambling on about his family's pain caused by Eivor, much to Eivor's confusion. He fought with great ferocity and tried to play every dirty trick to gain the upper hand on her.
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Trivia[]
- Basim is an Arabic name meaning "one who smiles", derived from بَسَمَ (basama) meaning "to smile". His nasab ibn Ishaq means "son of Ishaq" with Ishaq, the Arabic form of Isaac, meaning "laughing".
- Due to being a mentor figure who is later revealed to be the main antagonist, Basim's role is a reminiscent to Al Mualim in the first Assassin's Creed installment.
- Although Basim shares the role as one of the main antagonists with King Alfred. Basim is arguably the main antagonist, as he is Evior’s archenemy, secretly posing as Evior’s mentor and vowing revenge on her for murdering his son, while King Alfred is only the main antagonist, because he was the one who created the Templar Order, making him overall the overarching antagonist of the entire series.
- Unlike Eivor and Sigurd with Odin and Tyr respectively, Loki is Basim's dominant personality to the point that they're pretty much one and the same. It's implied he was this way long before meeting either of them, as Basim tells Eivor that he changed after a meeting with al-Khwarizmi in Baghdad.
- Unlike his mythological counterpart where he and Heimdall killed each other, Loki's Isu counterpart that later became Basim won the fight without much trying; he assassinated Heimdall shortly after the latter completed uploading his consciousness into Yggdrasil before doing the same. Not only this resulted Heimdall's reincarnated self-Rig Reidarasson somehow born decades prior to his fellow Asgardian Isu came to being, but also Loki managed to locate reincarnations of his nemesis' fellow reincarnations in addition of regaining his past self's identity after his rebirth as Basim.
- Basim is the second assassin of the series to serve as the main antagonist, the first would be Achilles Davenport.
External Link[]
- Basim Ibn Ishaq on the Assassin's Creed Wiki
- Basim Ibn Ishaq on the Heroes Wiki
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