Modern day · 2017 · playing as Layla Hassan
Layla Hassan
In this chapterAbstergo researcher Layla Hassan finds Bayek's mummy in Egypt and secretly extracts his DNA to use in an Animus.
Layla, who works for Abstergo, finds Bayek's remains and uses an Animus to relive his life, later adding Aya's. Her work reveals First Civilization structures and a role she may have in preventing an apocalypse. William Miles invites her to join the Assassins. She refuses to join but agrees to travel to Alexandria with him.
Layla acts as a new protagonist for the modern story after Desmond, a researcher who wants answers more than a side. The modern-day frame turns Bayek's story into history that matters to the present.
What unfolds
- Later, she finds Aya's remains and synchronises both memories.
- William Miles invites Layla to join the Assassins; she declines but agrees to go with him to Alexandria.