Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade

This is Part 4 of the canonical playthrough . Play it after Chapter 9 and before Fate of Atlantis . The DLC can technically start once you leave Kephallonia (Level 28, Naxos done). Doing that on a first playthrough strands a domestic tragedy in the middle of the hunt for Myrrine.

Orange markers are expansion quests. Play the three episodes in order: Hunted → Shadow Heritage → Bloodline. Each episode has a linear spine and one parallel investigation in the middle. Finish every child quest under that investigation before the episode finale.

This is not a Cult of Kosmos story. The enemy is the Order of the Ancients — a Persian-backed operation that later becomes the Templar line. Darius (Artabanus) is the man who murdered Xerxes with the first Hidden Blade. He is in Greece because the Order hunts “Tainted Ones” — people like the Eagle Bearer, and like his own child.

Who you meet

• Darius — proto-Assassin, Hidden Blade, exile.
• Natakas (if you play Kassandra) or Neema (if you play Alexios) — Darius’s child, later your partner.
• Elpidios — your son. Darius will take him out of Greece. That child is the historical bridge toward Aya (Amunet) in Origins.
• The Huntsman (Pactyas) — Sage of the Order of Hunters, Makedonia.
• The Tempest (Phila) — Order of the Storm, Achaia. Her mother Kleta is on your side.
• Amorges — Order of Dominion, Messenia. The man who used to call Darius a brother.

If Kassandra is canon, Natakas is the canon partner. Ubisoft patched the romance so the relationship can read as duty rather than a forced love scene; the child still exists. That was a design constraint, not a side optional.

How to start

1. Install all three Legacy episodes (Season Pass ownership is not enough if the files are not on disk).
2. Reach Level 28.
3. Finish the Naxos / Paros sequence in the family story (A Mother’s Prayers through United Front).
4. Sail to western Makedonia and take the orange quest The Horsemen Cometh.

Play this DLC in order

1. Episode 1 — Hunted (Makedonia) — meet Darius, burn the Order of Hunters, kill the Huntsman.
2. Episode 2 — Shadow Heritage (Achaia) — break the Tempest’s blockade, settle in Dyme, Elpidios is born.
3. Episode 3 — Bloodline (Messenia) — Amorges hits the house. Recover the child. Darius leaves Greece.

Clear the matching Order branch before you leave each region. Cultists on the Kosmos board do not count.

Episode 1 — Hunted (Makedonia)

Cold, small, linear. Stealth pays. Death Veil unlocks here — buy it.

Main quests

1. The Horsemen Cometh — Orange marker on the western peninsula. Investigate the massacre. This is the door into the DLC.
2. Shadow of a Legend — Track the killer. Meet Darius and Natakas/Neema. The Hidden Blade is not a rumour after this.
3. The Order of Hunters — The investigation board opens. Seven Ancients in this region, Pactyas at the top.
4. More Questions than Answers — Follow the next lead before the hunt splits.
5. Hunting the Huntsman — Parent quest. Do the child hunts below in any order, then close on Pactyas.
6. Starting the Hunt — First names on the board. Loot every body. A missed clue hides the next portrait.
7. Mysterious Malady — Timosa and the poison. Identify the guilty party after you gather the medicine. Manual save if you care about who walks away.
8. Revealing the Recruiter — Who is feeding the Order new Tainted Ones.
9. Whimpers Through the Fog — Phratagounè in the swamp. Ends with a choice involving a child. Local outcome only; the three-episode ending does not change.
10. Piecing the Puzzle — Pull the remaining clues together. Pactyas is no longer a silhouette.
11. Protector of Persia — Artaxerxes, the blind king. The Huntsman fight sits on this line. Stay in Makedonia until Pactyas is dead.

Side quests (do in the gaps)

• The City that Cried Wolf — Potidaia is not being honest about its wolves.
• A Curious Request → Taking Out the Competition → A Good Toast — Free the old woman at Ischagoras, then kill Agis of the North, Gaia the Fist, and Theos the Stargazer. Return for the toast, then Exadios the Backbreaker.
• Thank You, Maláka! → Again, Maláka?! — Repeat errand, orange notes.
• Dead Man Rises — Note on a cart.
• Hide-and-Seek / Finders Keepers — Small local jobs. Scan new camps before you assume the episode is empty.

Before you leave: all seven Hunters dead, Death Veil bought, Pride of the Lion kept if you want the four-link Rush Assassinate trophy. There is a Makedonian lion near Mount Athos if you are collecting that kill.

Episode 2 — Shadow Heritage (Achaia)

The Order of the Storm has blockaded the coast and is butchering Macedonian refugees so Darius cannot leave Greece. Upgrade the Adrestia before you sail in. A weak hull turns this episode into a wall.

Main quests

1. Stranger Tides — Read Darius’s message on the ship. Find him in Achaia. Ambush on the trail.
2. Into the Storm — First real look at the Tempest’s blockade. Kleta’s people are trapped in Patrai’s shadow.
3. Chasing the Storm — Parent quest. Do these four in any order:
   • Prodigal — A local who should not still be here.
   • Safe Passage — Get civilians off the coast while the fleet is watching.
   • Theatrics and Espionage — Intel job. Finish this before Tides of War.
   • Persian Puppetry — Who in Achaia is on the Order’s payroll. Patch 1.1.4 fixed a stuck objective here; update if it will not complete.
4. Tides of War (strongly recommended) — Four code books. Two in the Shipyard of Patrai, two on ships off Achaia’s north coast. Installs Chimera’s Breath on the Adrestia. Do this before the naval finale.
5. Calm Before the Storm — Investigation closes. Prep the ship.
6. Leviathan’s Maw — Fleet battle, then the Scylla, then Phila on the beach. If Kleta wants to go to her daughter, stopping her keeps Kleta alive. Letting her go gets her killed and makes the boss easier. You still have to fight the Tempest.
7. Home — Dyme. Ask Natakas/Neema to stay. Time passes. Elpidios is born. That time-skip is the point of the episode. Manual save before this scene if you want to compare dialogue. You cannot remove the child from the story.

Side quests

• Thank You, Misthios
• On the Grapevine — Document hunt across Achaia.
• Knives in the Dark — Five mercenaries: Atos the Beast Caller, Hirpes the Sordid, Aias the Clean, Kephalon the Thinker, Proktos the Moon King.
• The Order of the Storm — Board cleanup. Seven members, Phila at the top (Augos, Nestor, Megakreon, Sophos among them).

Before you leave: all seven Storm Ancients dead, Rapid Fire bought, Chimera’s Breath used on enough ships if you want Fire on Water. Judgment of the Lion is the parry-heal weapon for this pack.

Episode 3 — Bloodline (Messenia)

Start in the quiet house. It does not last. Amorges hits the village, kills Natakas/Neema, and takes the baby. You and Darius bury the argument that has been sitting between you since Xerxes and go after the Order of Dominion.

Main quests

1. The Simple Life — Dyme, the house, the child. Domestic on purpose.
2. A Flight in Fire — The attack. Search the burning village. This is the turn.
3. Answers from Ashes — Rejoin Darius. The campaign moves to Messenia.
4. Two Knives Against the Dark — Parent quest. Do these three in any order, then the closer:
   • Command and Control — Cut the Order’s local command.
   • The Ordering of the Kosmos — Dominion business overlapping the old Cult map. Still Ancients, not Kosmos.
   • The Spartan Dog — A Spartan problem the Order has been using.
   • The Trap Is Set — Appears after the three above. Close the investigation before the last chain or you will be reconstructing the route after a long sequence.
5. The Last Magi — Gergis and the remaining Magi trail. The Immortals sit on this line.
6. Smoke and Fury — Break the last Dominion defences. Heavy fight.
7. Legacy of the First Blade — Amorges. You recover Elpidios. Darius refuses to let the child grow up in a country that will never stop hunting Tainted Ones. He leaves for Egypt with Elpidios. You stay.

That is the origin story of the Hidden Ones’ bloodline, told from the Greek side. Darius is the earliest Hidden Blade, not the founder of Bayek and Aya’s brotherhood. The child is the bridge.

Order of Dominion

Seven portraits, Amorges at the top. Artazostre, Dimokrates, Pithias, Gaspar, Harpagos, the Immortals, Gergis. Loot every body. If the Sword of Kings will not restore later, a clue is still in someone’s inventory.

Fury of the Bloodline unlocks here. Golden Harbinger is the headshot-heal bow for this pack.

Epilogue quests — do not skip

After Bloodline, go back to the house in Dyme. The grave starts the cleanup line:

1. Give Our Respects
2. The Favor
3. No More Wine — collect three keepsakes, then return to the grave.
4. Remnant of the Ancients — once every Ancient across all three branches is dead, take the broken weapon to the blacksmith by the Oikos of the Olympians in Phokis. That restores the Sword of Kings.

Keepsake locations for No More Wine:

• Makedonia — Natakas/Neema’s hunting bow in Darius’s old cave hideout.
• Achaia — the lucky charm in the water off Istion Valley, north-east of Dyme (where it was dropped at the start of Episode 3).
• Messenia — Elpidios’s blanket on the small island off the southern coast, where you found the child.

That sequence is the domestic funeral the episodes earn. Skip it and Bloodline feels unfinished.

Where the story goes next

The Eagle Bearer is now a parent who has already lost the child to history. Fate of Atlantis then asks that same person to become immortal. That order is why this DLC sits between the family dinner and Elysium, not after Korfu.

Next: The Fate of Atlantis .