Which Greek island is the starting region in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey?

Kephallonia is the starting region in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

The 2018 role-playing game begins on Kephallonia, where the player’s chosen mercenary lives before the wider journey across the Greek world. Odyssey allows the player to choose Kassandra or Alexios as the playable character, so the island is a more fixed identifying detail than the protagonist’s name.

Kephallonia is based on the real Ionian island of Cephalonia, although the game uses the historical form Kephallonia. The opening area introduces exploration, dialogue choices, combat, contracts, and the game’s broader mercenary system.

Other famous Greek locations appear later, including Athens, Sparta, and several islands. That large map can make players remember a later destination rather than the starting region. Crete, Rhodes, and Delos are all associated with the ancient Greek world, but Kephallonia is the opening area in Odyssey.