![]() ![]() Pothinus eventually stopped Septimius and reminded him of Flavius' plan: to besiege the harbor and trap Caesar and Cleopatra inside the royal palace. When Caesar sent emissaries, they were captured at the southern garrison in Alexandria, where Septimius tortured one of them and hoped to make him betray Caesar. In response, Pothinus and Septimius led Ptolemy's forces against Caesar. Caesar was swayed by Cleopatra to side with her over Ptolemy, causing Septimius and the Order to flee. However, they were foiled by Cleopatra, who was smuggled into Alexandria and the royal palace with the help of Apollodorus, Aya and Bayek. The Order had hoped that this would help Ptolemy to secure an alliance with Julius Caesar, allowing them to expand their operations. With the help of his fellow Gabiniani, Septimius slew and beheaded the general, bringing his head back to Ptolemy in Alexandria. Īt the same time, Pothinus, learning of Pompey's arrival in Egypt, sent Septimius to kill the general before he could come to Cleopatra's aid. Venator arranged for several of his men to infiltrate Cleopatra's palace in Herakleion, but Bayek and his wife Aya were able to foil the attempt, and Venator and his men were killed. He paid his subordinate, a fellow Gabiniani named Venator, drachmae for his own pleasure and for arming his men. In 48 BCE, Septimius and the Gabiniani launched an assassination attempt on Cleopatra, the estranged sister, wife, and rival claimant to Ptolemy, the Order's puppet. Attempted assassination of Cleopatra Īfter the incident at the Vault, Septimius and the Order believed Bayek dead, not knowing that he had in fact begun to hunt them down out of revenge for his son's death. Around the same time, Septimius and his men also captured the Nubian tribeswoman Kensa, but she eventually escaped. ![]() However, Flavius grabbed him and redirected the knife into Khemu's heart, killing him, before knocking Bayek unconscious. With the help of Khemu, Bayek was freed from his bindings and acquired a knife, trying desperately to fight off his captors. ![]() Septimius threatened Bayek, telling him that he would never see Khemu again unless he unlocked the Vault before their return. The interrogation was interrupted by the arrival of Ptolemy, and several members of the Order left to distract him. Medunamun showed him the Apple, but the Medjay did not, in fact, know anything about the Vault. Septimius held Khemu as a hostage, suggesting that Pothinus try his method of calmly asking for Bayek's help. Chenzira led the soldiers to Halma Point, where Bayek was defeated in combat and knocked unconscious, after which he was brought inside the Temple of Amun and before the Vault door. They had their soldiers capture Chenzira, a friend of Bayek's son Khemu, and convinced the boy and his mother Rebecca that they only wished to speak with the Medjay. However, the temple priests refused to help them, and they decided to capture the local Medjay Bayek, hoping he would know how to unlock the Vault. While Ptolemy's intention was to appoint Medunamun as oracle of Amun there in order to better control the remote, dissident town, the Order sought to unlock the vault beneath the Temple of Amun with the Apple of Eden in their possession to achieve the "power of the gods", hoping to subdue and control Egypt by establishing a New World Order. That year, he and his fellow members Medunamun, Flavius Metellus, Pothinus and Rudjek travelled with the envoy of pharaoh Ptolemy to the remote oasis village of Siwa. Septimius amongst the Order members holding Bayek and Khemu hostageīy 49 BCE, Septimius had been inducted as a member of the Order of the Ancients, taking on the cryptonym "The Jackal". If the vault isn't open when we return, you'll never see him again." ―Septimius to Bayek, 49 BCE. After the pharaoh died of an illness in 51 BCE, Septimius became one of the members of the inner circle, serving as an advisor to the late pharaoh's son and successor, Ptolemy XIII, along with Pothinus, Ganymedes, and the boy's tutor, Theodotus of Chios. Septimius also became acquainted with several powerful men at Ptolemy's court, including Pothinus, Achillas and Ganymedes. Septimius soon became fond of his adopted country, and when he first arrived in Alexandria, he fell in love with the city and a local woman named Nebetia, whom he married. He and the Gabiniani were eventually tasked with protecting the royal family. In 55 BCE, he was permanently stationed in Alexandria as a tribune of the Gabiniani, a group of 2,000 Roman legionaries led by General Aulus Gabinius who were initially sent to Egypt to restore the Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes (Cleopatra's father) to the throne. In 67 BCE, he served with Pompey in the general's campaign against pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. Septimius was the model of the Roman legionary, being strong, imposing, and athletic. 1.3 Attempted assassination of Cleopatra.
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