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| “ | I just want my daughter back...Please?! | „ |
| ~ Khaliset's last words before his death. |
Khaliset (c. 80 BCE – 48 BCE), also known as Hyena, is a supporting antagonist in Assassin's Creed: Origin. She is a former member of the Ancient Order. At one point, she betrayed her order to use artifacts of the ancient Isu race to revive her daughter.
She was voiced by Mouna Traoré.
Biography[]
Past[]
Little is known about Khaliset's past, other than that she was born in 80 BCE to a native Nunbianse Egyptian. At some point, she entered into a relationship with an unknown partner, which resulted in her becoming pregnant and giving birth to a daughter named Eshe. However, for unknown reasons, Eshe died, leaving her mother devastated.
Joining and betraying the order[]
At some point, Khaliset joined the Order of the Ancients. Some time later, the Order commissioned her to scour the desert day and night, searching for crystalline minerals called silicas in the ancient tombs of Giza. She searched for these crystals day and night, searching the entire desert for silica, and at one point Khaliset found the silica. This mineral possessed special properties that could power the technologies of the divine race known as the Isu, considered by the Egyptians to be the "precious tears of the gods," and to power the machines the Order sought.
When Khaliset discovered that the silica she was supposed to bring to the Chantry could be used to revive humans, she betrayed the ancient order by keeping the silica for herself. Following this betrayal, her former ally from the Order of Taharqa, known as the Scarab, wrote her a letter expressing his concern about the rise's connection to the Chantry. Despite this, she wasn't overly concerned and began investigating unknown symbols in the depths of the Pyramid of Cheops, where she discovered an Isu sanctuary. There, she began to place the sarcophagus of her daughter Eshe, hoping to revive her using Forerunner technology. However, before she could do so, she had to sacrifice humans.
Khaliset, during the beginning of the ritual, brought kidnapped ordinary people to the pyramid, then slaughtered them one by one with her ritual sacrificial knife. After killing the victims, she intended to use their blood to perform the ritual. She summoned Osiris and carved the Isu inscriptions found in the chamber into her daughter's sarcophagus, believing them to be the key to her resurrection. Before the ritual could begin, however, Bayek of Siwa, one of the Order's enemies, arrived at the chamber seeking the hyena.
Confrontation with Bayek and Death[]
After Bayek arrived at the pyramid where Khaliset was, she sensed his presence and, hiding, began threatening him in a dark voice that if he didn't leave the pyramid, he would die gruesomely. Despite the threats, Bayek felt unfazed and continued on his way, reaching the Isu Chamber beneath the pyramid. Bayek explored the chamber containing the remains of Khaliset's rituals and discovered to his horror that the former member of the Order of the Ancients, after kidnapping people, had begun brutally killing people to perform the ritual. Then, when he opened her daughter's sarcophagus, Khaliset attacked Bayek with an arrow, accompanied by three hyenas.
In a rage, Khaliset utters to Bayek a deep hatred, claiming the person in the sarcophagus is her daughter. She believes she is not dead, but merely unconscious and yearning to awaken from the afterlife. She accuses Bayek of disrupting the resurrection ritual. Bayek tells her that she cannot be resurrected and that everything she does is merely her own doing. Despite his words, she ignores him, believing herself a good mother, shooting him with her arrows. After constant back-and-forth, Bayek evades her attacks and charges at her, hoping to defeat her once and for all. However, Khaliset manages to disorient Bayek with her smoke bomb and escapes through a secret passage, giving chase, where Khaliset escapes from the pyramids. As Bayek and Khaliset emerge from the pyramid, a sandstorm suddenly erupts, with Khaliset rallying in her favor.
Khaliset, thanks to the sandstorm, can use it as cover to blind Bayek from ambush arrows. She also sends her three hyenas to wound Bayek before the final battle so she can somehow kill him. When the final fight between Khaliset and Bayek begins, she repeatedly uses her smoke bombs to open additional doors before killing him, but Bayek manages to defeat her, mortally wounding her despite the ongoing storm. A dying Khaliset, with the last of her strength, tells Bayek that she regrets not bringing her daughter back to life and begs Osiris to unite her with him. To which Bayek tells her that what was found is not meant for mortals, and when she dies, her hyenas pounce to devour Khaliset's body.
External Link[]
- Khaliset on the Assassin's Creed Wiki
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