History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedOrigins

* VendorTrash:
** Looting containers and corpses may yield the occasional piece of junk (ranging from a bunch of grapes to golden jewelry) whose sole purpose is to be sold to a merchant. Any merchant's "Sell" interface has a special button dedicated to this exact purpose, and selling 100+ junk items in one go actually unlocks an achievement.
** Regular (blue) and rare (purple) gear quickly loses any combat value once the first legendary items begin to appear roughly one third into the story, which reduces them to Bayek's most profitable source of income from that moment forth.

* AdultFear:
** [[spoiler:The Crocodile murders Shadya by throwing her in a river with a weight around her legs in front of her mother.]]
** A side-quest has a woman mention her town's well-being was held by the local commander taking her child hostage, then later killing her. [[spoiler:Only to turn out instead he'd [[ReplacementGoldfish raised her as his own child]], with the child being so young she actually forgot her real mother.]]
** A woman whose village was attacked by bandits mentions that she's already seen her father and son die at their hands.
** Bayek's reason for revenge is three layers of adult fear. Not only being tied up and watching your child being threatened, not only being unable to stop men from attacking him, but [[spoiler:being the person to actually stab him in the heart when one of the targets redirects your thrust!]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In ''Curse of the Pharaohs'', what makes Bayek comes to Thebes is the news a Piece of Eden was found, knowing the Order won't be far behind. The Order doesn't feature in the DLC proper, but at the end, what does Bayek do with [[spoiler:The Apple of Eden]], knowing that his entire reason for coming here was to keep it out of the hands of the Order, and that the Order HAS and WILL kill for Pieces of Eden? Why, [[spoiler:Give it to Sutekh to hide. Sutekh is just some vagabond kid. Predictably, Sutekh is found murdered later in a pit full of cobras, with no sign of the Apple on him. One can easily extrapolate what happened to him.]]

* Continuity Snarl: An interesting one for VideoGame/WatchDogs, as noted above, Layla's computer features a CCTV still which appears to show Aiden Pearce shoot Olivier Garneau. In actuality in the mission in which Aiden attacks Olivier (Requiescat In Pace, a Criminal Convoy side mission), Aiden specifically knocks Olivier out, and the player recieves a mission failure if he kills him.

* NintendoHard: A New Game Plus with a fully levelled up Bayek. Even the base mooks of Siwa can utterly massacre him in a few seconds, thanks to their level being scaled with his, to say nothing of bosses, or a BossInMooksClothing.

* CrowsNestCrossover: Starting with this game, climbing to the top of tall towers and trees unlocks [[WarpWhistle fast travel]] to area in addition revealing collectibles and missions on your in-game map.

** Khemu's death scene gains a lot of context when you learn who the other three masked men are. [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain Pothinus]] is clearly trying to defuse the situation and avoid bloodshed, an approach which [[JerkAss Septimius]] is openly contemptuous of, while [[AxCrazy Flavius]] grows increasingly impatient and paranoid until he finally finds an excuse to escalate the situation.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: ''Origins'' in its cutscenes features far more violence and bloodshed than the series often has. Even combat involves a lot of blood compared to the series usual BloodlessCarnage outside of cutscenes. Somewhat hilariously, even taking falling damage will result in huge splashes of blood from Bayek, even though [[CriticalExistenceFailure as long as he survives]] he's able to keep running and jumping with no broken bones or visible injuries.

* MixedAncestry: Several characters are of mixed Greek and Egyptian heritage, with some leaning more towards one side or another.

* DualWielding: There's a whole weapon category dedicated to this: dual swords. They attack extremely fast but have short reach and [[RealityEnsues absolutely suck at blocking, especially arrows]]. To make sure everyone plays fair, your enemies also like to do this, with the one enemy type that specializes in it being among the most dangerous non-boss foes the game has to offer.

* AbsurdlyLowLevelCap: Zigzagged, in that Bayek stops leveling at 40, but still gains experience and ability points, he just doesn't level up any further. ''The Hidden Ones'' raises the level cap to 45, while ''The Curse of the Pharaohs'' further raises the cap to 55.

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Mostly averted, as aside from the bonus outfits, most of Bayek's clothing would be otherwise commonplace in the time period and location.

* HistoricalFantasy: The ''Curse of the Pharaohs'' DLC incorporates explicitly magical elements in the ''Assassin's Creed'' franchise with Bayek fighting the ghosts of Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Akhenaten, and Ramses II. And unlike previous games, there's no indication that Isu technology is at work here.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: It's ''Assassin's Creed'', so there are plenty. UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar make appearances, as does [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat, UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Marcus Vitruvius among the Romans. Among the villainous Order of the Ancients, Lucius Septimus the Gabiniani killer of Pompey, and Pothinus, the Royal Eunuch of Cleopatra's brother also make appearances]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodorus_the_Sicilian Apollodorus the Sicilian]], Cleopatra's loyal follower, is an ally of Bayek, as is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasherienptah_III Pasherenptah]], the High Priest of Memphis. The ''Curse of the Pharaohs'' DLC adds Nefertiti, UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}} and UsefulNotes/RamsesII as ghosts that fight Bayek while he is visiting the Valley of the Kings.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: It's ''Assassin's Creed'', so there are plenty. UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar make appearances, as does [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat, UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Marcus Vitruvius among the Romans. Among the villainous Order of the Ancients, Lucius Septimus, the Gabiniani killer of Pompey, and Pothinus, the Royal Eunuch of Cleopatra's brother also make appearances]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodorus_the_Sicilian Apollodorus the Sicilian]], Cleopatra's loyal follower, is an ally of Bayek, as is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasherienptah_III Pasherenptah]], the High Priest of Memphis. The ''Curse of the Pharoahs'' DLC adds Nefertiti, UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}} and UsefulNotes/RamsesII as ghosts that fight Bayek while he is visiting the Valley of the Kings.
* HufflepuffHouse: Alexandria's Jewish Quarter. In real life it was one of the most important centers of Jewish culture (it's where the Septuagint was compiled) and testimony to Alexandria's diversity and scholarship. Here it's nothing more then a place to be passed through, with the only indication it's Jewish being the name.

** Similarly, the Roman soldiers depicted in the game come across as cartoony and "Hollywood Roman". Not only do they have archers in bright red robes (at this time the only archers in the Roman armed forces would be non-citizen auxilliaries), they also have a greater variety of equipment than is historical (some run around with long spears, others are giants with large clubs).

** Cleopatra is shown [[spoiler:to have attempted to court an alliance with Pompey first, and then turn to Caesar. There is no record of her attempt to court Pompey's favour at all. The game also dramatizes her famous meeting with Caesar (being rolled into a carpet) by Apollodorous the Sicilian, as Plutarch described, but Plutarch describes that happening privately while in the game it happens in the presence of her own brother. She also immediately offers a marriage proposal to Caesar, when in reality, their relationship was controversial because Caesar was already married, and it would be hard to convince the Republic to accept Cleopatra, a foreigner, as a wife over a Roman woman of patrician stock (as Caesar's wife was at that time), and Cleopatra at the time of Caesar's death was anxious about getting her child with Caesar, Caesarion, Roman citizenship, which even Caesar, after becoming ''dictator perpetuo'', found it hard to do and too controversial to support, and in any case, his will listed his nephew Octavian, the future UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, as his heir]].

** Bayek's quote to an hesitant Caesar that 'Many have doubted Aya, and most of them had met their ends at her blade'. [[spoiler:Aya, or rather Amunet, is one of the assassins of Caesar.]]

** While exploring the Eeyoo Sekedoo Aat Isu vault, Bayek listens to a message from an unidenitifed female messenger of Khnum and Hequet that foreshadows world-changing events in the future such as the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI World]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Wars]], the Serpukhov-15 incident of 1983 and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Desmond Miles' sacrifice]].

** This is largely averted for the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks in the game who speak with period-appropriate accents.

* RealityEnsues:
** [[spoiler:The loss of their only child combined with the fact both Aya and Bayek bury themselves in their work as the Assassins' founders results in the crumbling of their marriage. The game teases that getting their revenge and finding a new purpose would bring them back together but it's not to be. The fact that Aya chooses to be buried with her husband, at least, implies they never stopped loving one another and possibly might've reconciled some time after the game's events]].
** In ''The Hidden Ones'', the group's habit of being HighlyVisibleNinja bites them in the ass when, thanks to operating in broad daylight, the Roman army finds one of their bureaus and burns it to the ground.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Overlapping heavily with PlotTriggeringDeath, Khemu is only seen in a few scenes for the game but his death at the hands of the Order of the Ancients is what led to Bayek and Aya not only going on a path of revenge but serves as the ''casus belli'' for the couple to form the Hidden Ones, the ancient precursors to the Assassin Brotherhood.

* CastingGag: Michael Nardone voices Julius Caesar, one of the most important figures in Roman and European history. He had previously portrayed Mascius in Creator/{{HBO}}'s ''Series/{{Rome}}'' which focused on the rise and fall of Caesar including the final few decades of the Roman Republic.

* CastingGag: Michael Nardone voices Julius Caesar, one of the most important figures in Roman and European history. He had previously portrayed Mascius in Creator/{{HBO}}'s ''Series/{{Rome}}'' which focused on the rise and fall of Caesar including the final few years of the Roman Republic.