![]() Under Markos, Kassandra performed errands for him, occasionally helping him to settle debts that he owed. There, she was found by the merchant Markos, who took her under his wing. A storm later turned Kassandra's boat overboard and she woke up on the beaches of Kephallonia. Refusing to be found by the Spartans, Kassandra fled out to the open sea in a boat, with an eagle following her. However, Kassandra survived the fall and escaped to the beach with the spear. Nikolaos, being adherent to Spartan law, reluctantly complied and held Kassandra by her hand and dropped her down the mountain despite pleas from Myrrine. Kassandra was condemned as a traitor to Sparta by the ephors, who urged Nikolaos to execute her immediately. As a priest was about to drop Alexios, Kassandra attempted to stop the sacrifice but instead pushed the priest and Alexios to their apparent deaths. In order to prevent this, Alexios was to be sacrificed at Mount Taygetos, despite Myrrine's pleas for Nikolaos to stop it. When Kassandra was seven, the Pythia Praxithea at Sanctuary of Delphi prophesied at the decree of the Cult of Kosmos that Kassandra's younger brother, the baby Alexios, would bring about the fall of Sparta. Since then, the spear never left Kassandra's side even in her sleep, with her telling her parents that she needed it "to fight the monsters in dreams." Like other Spartan children, Kassandra also participated in the agoge, learning there about various things, including the Gortyn Code. While training in the woods near Sparta, Myrrine presented Kassandra with Leonidas' broken spear that she inherited as a heirloom. As such, Kassandra was trained to fight at a young age by Nikolaos. Owing to her lineage as being a granddaughter of Leonidas, great hopes were placed upon her to live up to the strength and valor of Leonidas. Kassandra given the Spear of Leonidas by her mother Kassandra would later gain a younger brother, Alexios. ![]() At one point, Myrrine later met and married the Spartan general Nikolaos who, despite Kassandra not being his own flesh and blood, raised her as one of his own. As a baby, Myrrine brought Kassandra to the acting Pythia, who proclaimed that the child showed a lot of promise. As such, Myrrine was left to raise Kassandra alone. ![]() Shortly after her birth, her father departed from Sparta on a quest to learn more about the Isu and the staff he possessed. Kassandra was born in Sparta, in 458 BCE, to Myrrine, the daughter of the late King Leonidas I, and the philosopher Pythagoras, whose lifespan was extended due to the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus he possessed. She said you had such promise." Kassandra: " The Pythia can't predict everything." -Kassandra discussing her childhood with Myrrine, 429 BCE. All I remember is the bottom of Mount Taygetos." Myrrine: " When I brought you to the Pythia as a baby, she never said we would live a nightmare. 1.5.2 Search for Isu artifacts through Antiquity and Middle Age.1.2.7 Fighting the Sage of the Delian League.She was also the mother of Elpidios, an ancestor of Aya, one of the co-founders of the Hidden Ones. Although raised by her step-father Nikolaos, Kassandra was the biological daughter of Pythagoras. She was the older half-sister of Alexios and, through her mother, Myrrine, the granddaughter of King Leonidas I of Sparta. For her opposition against the Cult and the Order, Kassandra is considered one of the early precursors to the Assassin Brotherhood. She later opposed the Order of the Ancients, who sought to hunt her down, due in part to her nature as a " Tainted One", and also for her allying herself with Darius. Kassandra (Greek: Κασσανδρα 458 BCE – 2018 CE), renowned as the Eagle Bearer, nicknamed the West Wind, and bestowed the title of Keeper, was a Spartan mercenary who operated in Greece during the Peloponnesian War.ĭuring her travels as a mercenary, Kassandra came into conflict with the secretive Cult of Kosmos, an organization intent on controlling the entire Greek world.
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