Just finished the Curse of the Pharaohs, and, while I found the whole experience to be jaw dropping and overall exciting, the ending lacked one thing for me: Khemu.
Alright, maybe I missed something in the story, or maybe I am not reading it right, but Bayek was in the afterlife, why hasn't he even tried to see Khemu even once in that time? I honestly
wished we'd get one final goodbye from Bayek to his son. It would have been a truly emotional experience!
Discuss, my friends! If I missed something in the lore, let me know. But right now, feeling really disappointed at a missed opportunity between Khemu and Bayek. Maybe the AC team has something more up their sleeves?
I think he's not there because this isn't really the afterlife.
It's inconsistent with AC lore for the ancient Egyptian afterlife to be true. Everything the lore has told us from AC2 and Brotherhood through Project Legacy and beyond is that humans are mistaken when they think they've encountered gods in history. Instead, the lore said, humans had met the last Isu survivors or seen Isu transmissions in tombs, and thought they had seen gods. What we see in COTP are contained bubbles of a sort of paradise, but they're only a paradise for the pharaohs inside them and I think that's important. The other people are guards and slaves.
Remember in AC3, how Desmond discovered that Juno, Minerva et al had only died in their corporeal forms; that the temples with a kind of Isu computer technology, and that they had found a way to encode themselves into that circuitry and live on? That was Desmond's dilemma; let Juno out, knowing that she had discovered a way to be reborn in a new body, or allow the world to suffer crushing damage. Whenever we've met Isu, their clothing and weird head-dresses are very pharaoh-like in style. The illustrations that the Isu have been showing to us to explain their history since AC2 looks very much like the hieroglyphics at the tomb sites throughout Origins.
I think that's what these bubbles of paradise are, and I think the pharaoh demigods we fought were in fact Isu.
We only find one case in these afterlives of a person actually joining a loved one, and really she was simply misassigned (computer glitch?) and Bayek put them back together. We encounter other people who are puzzled that they cannot find their loved ones. Well, maybe nobody really does
But the religious ideas happen to fit pretty well with the circumstances in which these dead people find themselves, so that's how they rationalise it.