60 DAYS OF GAMING: DECADE ANNIVERSARY - DAY 17: Favourite Antagonist

Then: Sarevok, from Baldur's Gate

Now: Deimos, from Assassin's Creed Odyssey (yes, again. I loved that game. Sue me). Spoilers follow both for this game as well as several others (but nothing from the last 5 years).

Game developers have, on the whole, increased their game on antagonists, creating interesting characters as a foil to you much more often. Vaas, Handsome Jack, Father Comstock, Andrew Ryan, Cortana (as a promise of a villain rather than the execution of it in Halo 5), Khotun Khan, Brooke Augustine, Balder, the Second Sister, Abbie, Tinkerer and Doc Ock from the PS4 Spider-Man games and hell, most of the Red Dead 2 cast.

However, this one goes to Deimos for the exact same reasons it had gone to Sarevok last time.

And I quote from that old post:

"Sarevok is, depending on how you play the game, either your polar opposite or someone exactly or almost exactly like you. What makes this special is that you carry the same burden [...] No matter what you do though, you could be Sarevok."

This is almost entirely true for Deimos.

But for a click, the roles would be reversed. Two siblings: one chosen to be the protagonist, the other to become the antagonist. And yes, technically canon says that Kassandra is the main character and Alexios is to be Deimos, but that is canon based on the novelisation, not on everyone's playthrough (and not on mine, for that matter).

Like Sarevok and your character both carry the taint of Bhaal's seed within you, so both Deimos (whoever that is) and your character (whoever that is) carry the Isu-human hybrid blood of Leonidas' bloodline in them. It's what they do with that that sets them apart.

Their stories would be the same had both escaped mount Taygetos with their life or had both been raised and brainwashed by the Cult of Kosmos. But for a flick of fate, their paths diverged entirely, but the question plagues both the main character and, if you have any empathy, yourself: could this have been me?