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The background and history of Basim Ibn-Ishaq
Category: Stories
STATISTICS:
Real Name: Basim Ibn-Ishaq
Isu Name: Loki
In other mythologies: Hermes (Greek) , Seth (Egyptian)
Species: Immortal Æsir originally, later reincarnated Immortal Human (as long in possession of the Staff of HermesTrismegistus)
Parents (as Æsir) unknown
Parents as reincarnation (mortal father who was an architect)
DOB: Unknown, but was active during 9th Century
Friends (before Ragnarök): Tyr, Freya, Thor
Enemies: Odin (or Havi)
JOB: Master Assassin (previously), none (present day)
Height: 6 ft, 2 in
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Build: Lean and muscular
Tattoos: A few Viking tattooes
Attribute: Missing left hand ring finger
Weapon Of Choice: Scimitar, hidden blade (later broken)
Powers and Abilities:
Shapeshifting (as Isu Æsir)
Illusion Creator (As Isu Æsir)
EARLY LIFE:
Loki has his origin in Asgård, where he was living in harmony with the other Æsir. However it wasn't truly mutual and it all started going downhill after the gate to Jotunheim was opened and the giants, their skin colour blue, started pouring in. It was a ruse so Loki could smuggle his son Fenrir, a black wolf cub that turned out to be growing rapidly in size. Because of his fear of wolves, seeing his own fate at Ragnarök to be killed by a wolf, Odin has ordered every wolf to be captured.
Because of his actions the other gods lost trust in him, except for the Asgardian warrior Lady Sif, However, there was nothing going on between them since Loki there and then was hoping to be reunited with the mother of his child. Then the world was about to go under Loki still managed to sneak into the vault where the final solution of their survival was about to take place. Killing one of the participants and allowing his DNA to be transferred the world reached its end.
In the debris the world was rebuilt but most of the gods had perished, Loki among them. Centuries past when he was finally reborn and learned that he had kept his memories of his former life in a distant past. Just like his father Loki, or Basim Ibn-Ishaq, was a human, without the powers he had as an Isu or Æsir. But that way he could work undected among the humans, knowing that somewhere out there was the other suriving descendents of his kind.
Unaware that Lady Sif was reincarnated too Loki was spending a lot of time in the library of Baghdad, learning all that had happened between then and now. As he grew older Basim joined the Hidden Ones, an order that was founded in Egypt by Bayek and Aya and that in the future was to be changed to assassins. He was a member of the Abbasid Caliphate and operated during the 9th Century, working primarily with foreign nations on the Brotherhoods behalf. It was the information about a Norse visiting Constantinople, who was having the same pattern on his neck as Basim which lead him to seek him out.
The Norse was going by the name Sigurd Styrbjörnson, accompanying him to Norway along with the Hidden One Acolyte Hytham. Once returned to Norway Sigurd introduce the two Hidden Ones to his sister Eivor Varinsdottir, who lost her parents Rosta and Varin at the age of nine. Basim know, despite the fact that the same pattern on his hidden underneath a scar caused by a wolf attack, hence the reason Eivor is called Wolf-Kissed by her clan.
A gift is given to Eivor and it is a weapon used by the Hidden ones, called a hidden blade. However, instead of wearing it underneath the forearm as intended the female Viking don’t want to hide such a beautiful craftsmanship. Both Basim and Hytham lack the ring finger on the arm with the hidden blade. It was a way to show commitment to the creed and Basim didn’t say anything about her joining the Hidden ones.
As Sigurd, after being abducted by a group known as the Order of the Ancients, and a woman known as Fulke, who claims that Sigurd is a God, or reincarnation of a God, but she is not aware of which. It turns out that Sigurd is Tyr and Eivor is Oden reincarnated but neither was aware of their previous life as Isu. They only get fragmented visions. Traveling to Norway Basim follows and show his true nature, attacking Eivor from the shadows.
A machine in the shape of a tree is activated by Sigurd and Basim end up in a simulation that lasts for about a millennium. In the meantime the world change; the order of the ancient become known as the Templars and the Hidden Ones renamed themselves Assassins after the word hashashin. Layla Hassan is the current Isu descendant, a former Templar working for Abstergo Industries and became an assassin, and took over after the demise of Desmond Miles, who sacrificed himself to save the world from a fatal solar flare.
Ever since 2012, where Earth was supposed to be destroyed, the shield protecting Earth started to cause Earthquakes and had to be checked upon. Traveling to Norway Layla, who was in possession of Loki’s staff which she got from the Greek misthios Kassandra, also with Isu DNA, gets trapped in a dimension where her predecessor Desmond has been, trying to solve the upcoming crisis with a second catastrophe.
Basim is released and since it has been so long his body is wizened and haggard. However his staff Hermes Trismegistus return his body to its former glory and he sets out to see what happened to the world in his involuntary absence. The thought of findijng anyone from his past is believed by him to be highly unlikely and Loki managed to find Eivor, the reincarnation of his arch enemy Odin, buried somewhere in North America. Eager to learn what has happened he locates what remains of the assassin order and asks for a meeting with William Miles, father of Desmond.
To his surprise it wasa meeting face to face. Instead William used a similar way to enter the simulation of Ravensthorpe where Eivor Varinsdottir had been the Jarlskoma for so many years. While waiting Basim had witnessed, being the one behind the wheel ever since Layla Hassan took his place in the Yggdrasil chamber in Norway.
Axxesding the Animus terminal in the simulation Basim was able to locate five locations of memories with future eventswhere Eivor Varinsdottir wax heading it turned out that she was going to leave England for Vinland. The very så was place where the cabin housing the Animus in year 2022. It surprised him that his mentor leading the Hidden Ones in Baghdad had travelled all this way just to see the death of a blonde woman hiding in a place south of Ravensthorpe, Ravensburg, where Roshan moved in for the kill.
After seeing William off and watched Odin with his reincarnation Eivor Basim went inside the cabin. Walking over to the table with the laphr draw some of his blood and inserted it into a machine. .
//What happens after is still unknown so roleplay will pick up here.
Some information taken from https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Basim_Ibn_Ishaq and I do not claim to be the original writer.
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