Individual Assassin's Creed games have their Wild Mass Guessing pages. If you think your guess is only relevant to one game, or one aspect of a game, or specific character like Altair or Ezio, put it on one of the following pages:
- Assassin's Creed
- Assassin's Creed II
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed: Subject Four
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Assassin's Creed: Embers
- Assassin's Creed III
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- Assassin's Creed Rogue
- Assassin's Creed: Unity
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate
- Assassin's Creed (2016)
- Assassin's Creed Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
- Assassin's Creed: Mirage
Here would be a good place to put WMGs for overarching aspects of the series.
- Olivier Garneau ...we don't want to go through the effort of coding extra Animus features just for the sake of digging up memories of people driving around in cars. There are other and more efficient ways to experience that...
- Mostly Jossed with Unity having a brief sequence set in 1944 Paris and Origins explicitly confirmed to be set in Ptolemaic era Egypt especially with Amunet/Aya making an appearance as a statue in II. If the voice-only cameo of Kiyoshi Takakura and the mention of the Japanese Assassins in Odyssey are any indication then it's likely that Japan will be the setting for the next Assassin's Creed game.
- Twelfth Century - Holy Land / Crusades
- Thirteenth Century - Egypt and Northern Africa
- Fourteenth Century - Ashikaga Shogunate in Japan
- Fifteenth Century - Italian Renaissance
- Sixteenth Century - Ottoman Empire
- Eighteenth Century - French Revolution
- Eighteenth Century - American Colonies / War for Independence
- Nineteenth Century - Napoleonic wars; Taiwan
- Nineteenth Century - New England and American Midwest
And now the Wild Mass Guesses;
- World War I. Fits well, as it had lots of intrigue that could feed into conspiracy theories (heck, it started with an assassination) and would allow for some interesting settings (you need to somehow cross no-man's land to get to your target in the other trench: how do you do it?). Could also bring in things like the Easter Uprising and Russian Revolution.
- World War I itself wouldn't work, but the Irish War Of Independance would be perfect. The protagonist is arrested after the Easter Rising and meets a master assassin in prison. He is then released and fights in the war against the Black and Tans and the Auxies.
- Semi-Confirmed. One section in Assassin's Creed Syndicate has you play as Jacob's grand-daughter, Lydia hunting spies in WW1 London.
- Gilded Age America. Immigrants, Teddy Roosevelt, Muckrakers... could be fun.
- The British Raj over India. Bonus if it involves Thugees.
- The American West- the real American west, not the Hollywood version.
- Probably not, considering the sudden surge in popularity the genre is getting thanks to Red Dead Redemption.
- Great Depression America.
- Moorish Spain.
- The 2016 movie is set at the very end of it.
- Central Europe shortly after WWII. Think The Third Man, only with more open violence.
- Sengoku-era Japan, no. Pre-Meiji Japan, yes.
- Korea at some point of the Joseon era. Admittedly, that's a lot of time to cover, but Korean history is unexplored in video games.
- America in the 1960s, with the plot exploring the Templars' involvement in the Cold War and the Kennedy Assassination.
- The Roaring '20s, with a mobster Assassin.
- South America, as there was a rumour about it a while ago. They already had one brief level set on Brazil in ACIII, maybe it was a hint of things to come? If so, I'm placing my bets on War of the Triple Alliance and the overall mid-19th century powerplay on South America.
- The Anglo-Nepalese War. Nepal is known for its mountainous terrain, and climbing high places is a big part of AC. Also, playing as an Assassin Gurkha would be cool as hell. The end would be sort of sad, though, since Nepal was historically defeated.
- Egypt during the Twenties, taking us through Cairo, Alexandria, and King Tut's Tomb (plus Piece of Eden) and featuring history's greatest Adventurer Archaeologists.
- There were rumors of Arno's saga extending into the Napoleonic conquest of Egypt. That's a bit earlier but could still work.
- They are going to an Egyptian game which is every Hollywood Epic Movie ever. Now that they have experimented (tentatively) with multiple timelines, they'll do an Egypt game where you can visit Alexandria, Cairo, Thebes and Giza but each city is set in a different time. This allows us to meet almost every famous conqueror and figure in Egyptian history in one game so Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Moses and Rameses (maybe), Cleopatra and Caesar and finally Napoleon with the French.
- Confirmed with Assassin's Creed Origins which is set in Ptomelaic era Egypt.
- The Age of Conquistadors, preferably back when the New World was still new. Because A) You can't drop Mesoamerican Assassins on us with no explanation and B) is there a more obvious Templar than Hernan Cortes?
- South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu or Boer Wars, with a Zulu assassin.
- 1920s Berlin during The Weimar Republic.
- Chicago during the Columbian World Exposition. Okay, there's really not enough there for a full game... maybe just an intro during "Jazz Age Junkies". But it's too good a setting not to use! Bonus points if HH Holmes is one of your targets.
- American Civil War: Room for both Templars and Assassins on both sides of the conflict. The Assassins would obviously get behind emnancipation and push, but there's also the fact that the ACW was the touchstone of federalization - all states controlled by a central authority - which has been the Templar goal since day one. "Brother against brother" might mean dynamic splits in both the Templar and Assassin orders, with Assassins who wish to end slavery finding themselves inadvertently fighting alongside Templars who wish to imperialize the Union. In turn, Templar slaveowners would receive unexpected assistance from Assassins who defend the rights of independent states.
- Bohemian Revolution: Gypsies versus aristocrats. Assassin's Creed on the streets of Paris, intrigue and deception in the halls of the Moulin Rouge. Secret Gypsy arts. Free-climb the Eiffel Tower!
- Great Depression: We all know those damn Templar robber barons caused the 1929 stock market crash - hell, maybe it was like the series finale of Leverage; just like when the banks failed in 2007/8, what if those fat cats caused it on purpose to steal a significant percentage of the world's wealth? Hitch a ride west with the Joad family and fight the power in California.
- English Civil War and the Commonwealth: Okay, Sean had a lot to say about the American Revolution - let's see him direct that snark at the corruption and upheaval of his own history. If ever there was a political figure that needs to be woven into the Assassin’s Creed mythology, it’s Oliver Cromwell. There is definitely an epic tale to be told, especially from the point of view of the Assassins and the Templars. Is Cromwell evil for wanting a republic rather than a monarchy? Some of his policies were definitely evil. And many people view him as a regicidal rebel rather than a patriot. Perhaps the story is one of shifting allegiances, with the Assassins helping Cromwell get into power, only to be appalled at what he does with it. And of course, it all started one Fifth of November...
- 12th Century England: This has to happen. Of course Robin Hood was an Assassin. It’s so obvious. And his Merry Men were his Assassin Brotherhood! It just fits together too well to be ignored. They could establish that the entire Robin Hood legend is based entirely on that era’s Assassin Brotherhood, and the main character could be Robin Hood himself. The battle against Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham is too perfect, because clearly John worked with or for the Templars.
- World War 2. Ubisoft will have to kick down and deliver this eventually. Visit London and stop some Nazi spies with Wintson Churchill. Fight alongside General Patton in the European Theater. Storm Normandy on D-Day! Or sneak into Berlin and assassinate Hitler himself in his very bunker! Ride motorcycles through the streets of London during the Blitz. Join paratroopers in the highest freefalls the games have ever seen. Help smuggle Albert Einstein out of Germany. Stop the Templars from getting the bomb. Attend one of Hitler’s rallies in disguise. Recruit new Assassins from all over the world. Hang out with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin when they posed for that picture on the bench. Even Ubisoft admits it's kind of cliche for video games to take place in World War II, but there’s a very good reason for it. That conflict was one of the greatest the world has ever seen. And no game will give it as much reverence or treat it with such awe-inspiring grandeur as Assassin’s Creed. And we all want to stealth-stab some god-damned Nazis!
- To add to this:
The Fall of Judea. The Real Life Game of Thrones is a fascinating mess of factions. It’s also the birth of Christianity. You’d play as one of the younger children of High Priest Yishmael Ben Elisha, who are believed to have died in Roman captivity. Whether you are an Assassin or Templar equivalent is less important than which faction you are a part of as the city destroys itself around you.
The story would start with an attempt to find a Piece of Eden known as the Choshen, which is believed to be some kind of Isu library. It ends up focusing around the Codex Judaica, eventually revealed to be the Bible itself, which is actually a code that can reveal the secret of the Numbers. The understanding is being passed down through the rite of Semicha, which is being lost. Turns out that at some point someone linked the minds of every Jewish person who would exist ever (including converts), and Semicha allows you to tap into that well of communal knowledge. (It throws the user out of the Animus when the rite occurs, briefly overpowering it. It’s described as if they thing just tried to simulate millions - maybe billions- of lives at once!’) All the arguments and debates are about preparing the mind for that knowledge dump. Then you use that knowledge to ask the Choshen the correct questions, allowing the Codex to be unlocked.
This explains why some Templars were really nice to the Jewish people (Rodrigo Borgia), while some were absolutely terrible (Tomas de Torquemada) and why the Assassins never seem to touch the issue. The Templars know that the Jewish people have a power they’ve forgotten they ever had and have been using various (ineffective) means to steal it. The Assassins know the same... and so have a tradition to leave the people alone, no matter what. Neither faction is aware that what the secret is hidden in plain sight.
It also explains why the Abrahmaic faiths took off the way they did; all three hold an actual truth, which people can sense, although they are entirely unaware of the fact that their religions are based around the source code of the Universe disguised as a religious document. (Although it does actually factor into some very vague pieces of Jewish mythology.) In other words, it is no coincidence that the Assassins were Muslims and the Templars were Christian and that there are very few Jews among either Order.
(This came out of A: wanting a game during that time period; B: a really interesting bit of Jewish mythology/theology I stumbled upon years ago; C: an explanation for why the Assassins Creed games tend to ignore European anti-Semitism, or even entire Jewish communities; D: why the Templars seem to flip flop on protecting and persecuting the Jewish people and E: why there are almost no Jewish assassins or Templars. Then I came across the Numbers and... this was the result.)
Another possibility would be a side game taking place during the run to the Constitution, focusing on Shays’ Rebellion. It would resolve Conner and Shay’s plotlines, with Shay instigating the aptly named Rebellion to push the fledgling US into setting aside the Articles of Confederation and adopting the Constitution, with a stronger Federal Government.
Connor stops the Rebellion and figures out that Shay is behind it, forcing the latter to flee the US. Connor successfully manages to include the Bill of Rights and avoids an article of Incorporation (for awhile, anyway.) However Shay has begun rebuilding the American Rite, and the end names him its new Grandmaster, with the implication being that the two will meet again in 1812 and end matters once and for all. For some reason, I see this working best as a Telltale style visual novel, with the ability to play as either Connor or Shay. (Connor‘a route focusing on learning of and tracking down the conspiracy; Shay’s route would focus on creating it, and avoiding discovery.)
I’d also like an 1812 game. As an aside, the Addams become Templars under the new American Rite. They are also deeply devoted to the US, which could lead to interesting discussions. Meanwhile, the slave owning Jefferson is an Assassin ally. More fun discussions!
Unless Ubisoft suddenly becomes willing to address anti-Semitism, there will be no WW2 game, which is a shame. That’s the one time period where they REALLY couldn’t get out of it. I’d love a WW2 game focused on Poland though. They never stopped fighting, and more Poles tried to save Jews than anywhere else. The estimates are between 100000 to over a million. We know the names of less than 10000. So I would really love a game focused on that area, where you are a partisan who gets recruited by the Assassins and Polish Templars (who are beyond pissed with their Order who, as it turns out, never actually had control of Hitler but WERE stupid enough to give him an apple. (Sage, maybe? Or follower of Juno?)) and have made a truce with their ancient enemies against an even worse foe.
They've already set up two different Modern day POV's One who played Black Flag, (And I guess Unity and Syndicate too.) and the one that Played Rouge. The one we choose will be the factor that lets us decide which side we are on. Assassins or Templars.All you have to add is some Character creation and boom you've got an Assassins Creed RPG. While still having the historic angle.While we in the present decide the future of the War.
- Actually, the protagonists of 'Black Flag' and 'Rogue' are the same person.
Abstergo Entertainment is notorious for being the Templars' Orwellian editor of history, producing media that reflects the politically correct versions of events, and as a caricature of Ubisoft itself (certain easter egg documents in the game actually imply Ubisoft was one of the companies it purchased). Meanwhile, Ubisoft does just about the same thing by producing games about ancient conspiracies and a laughably implausible fictional history that is not meant to deceive anyone - unless it serves to hide another conspiracy which may or may not be similar to the Templars', and because of the Assassin's Creed games, any leaks of it will be dismissed on the grounds of being too similar to fiction.
- It will take place in turn of the century New England she will meet a man descended who discovers he's descended from Ezio Auditore. His surname will be miles and likely William's grandfather a sequel will star William Miles in early 80's and feature the creation of The Farm.
- Cyber assassin with a eye laser anyone? Search your heart, you know it will be awesome. ~Matti23
- We've already been in a Templar's shoes in AC3 and it wasn't that bad.
- Although Juno's motives are unclear, it's likely she'll want to subjugate Templars, since they are the more powerful side in the Assassin-Templar conflict. Why not play as the bad guys who try to stop an even greater evil?
- the rumored Assassins Creed Comet is said to star a Templar though its unclear whether this character deects to the assassins or not.
- Assassin's Creed Rogue will indeed feature an Assassin that defected to the Templars
- the rumored Assassins Creed Comet is said to star a Templar though its unclear whether this character deects to the assassins or not.
- Or by, well, the Assassins.
- I'm pretty sure it's been established that the Templars were the ones behind the Kennedy assassination. Some of the supplemental material in II said that they used a hologram from a Piece of Eden to hide the gunman on the grassy knoll.
- How can it culminate in JFK's assassination if Kennedy died before the Vietnam War?
- There were political tensions in Vietnam long before Johnson officially declared war, and there were American troops stationed there (as well as a few American air strikes and naval operations) in the years before the US actually invaded the North. The game could touch on these events, with some foreshadowing about the outbreak of war towards the end.
- Well maybe Alex Mason would appear then
- Jossed the fouth game, subtitled "Black Flag" takes place in during the colonisation of the Americas as a prequel to Assassin's Creed III.
- Why not one but three vaults are in Rome (in close proximity to the ancient city no less),
- Why the Ones Who Came Before we meet have names of Roman goddesses (Minerva and Juno).
- Why their characterization matches with their roles in Roman mythology:
- Swords aren't the only legendary weapons out there. Plenty of staves and spears have worked their way into myth and legend. Since we know at least one POE was a staff, there could be others out there as well. The Green Dragon Crescent Blade wielded by Guan Yu, the Ruyi Jingu Bang wielded by Sun Wukong, the Spear of Longinus...we could go on forever.
- If we're talking about legendary swords being PO Es, I like to think Kusanagi is one too.
- Becky Fischer. Obviously a Templar.
- Barack Obama. He's going to convince everyone to give up their individuality in the Assimilation Plot. POE: Unknown.
- Shigeru Miyamoto. Because he's been running the video game industry from behind the scenes since Donkey Kong came out. POE: The Nintendo DS. The money it prints? IT'S AN ILLUSION! And he's able to pry into the POE and change its appearance every few years, leading up to it now being the prototype Nintendo 3DS. Its visions also inspire his games: he doesn't need Super Mushrooms to make the next Super Mario Bros., he has a Piece of Eden!
- Joss Whedon. Keepin' the nerds from knowin' the truth by entertaining them till they are his personal army. POE: The apple can "enslave" people right?
- Oh hell, what's the point? If you can name someone, they're a Templar (if not, they're an Assassin).
- Gene Roddenberry: Totally an Assassin.
- The Zodiac killer: Just like Ezio He recieved a pigeon from the Assassin base to kill the seemingly unconnected people because they were all Templars, also like Ezio he was never caught despite his high amount of kills.
- Guy Fawkes: Also an Assassin.
- No, he was a Templar. He was a devout Catholic and the Catholic church was run by Templars(he even fought in Spain for the Catholic side), and his goal in killing King James was to put a Catholic monarch on the throne so that the Templars would have more control over England. It had already broken away once from their control.
- In point of fact, most of the Templars shown in the series are atheists.
- No, he was a Templar. He was a devout Catholic and the Catholic church was run by Templars(he even fought in Spain for the Catholic side), and his goal in killing King James was to put a Catholic monarch on the throne so that the Templars would have more control over England. It had already broken away once from their control.
- HammerFall: Blatantly Templar propaganda. Vidic probably had "Bring The Hammer Down" playing when he raided the Assassins' hideout.
- As heavily implied by this Cracked article, Ehud of The Book of Judges.
- Marx was an Assassin, Lenin was a Templar. Marx developed the philosophy of communism as a counter to (Templar-developed) capitalism. Unfortunately, the Templars used Lenin to corrupt communism and create dictatorships.
- Probably Jossed; Marx appears in Syndicate and has no knowledge of either group, although he does give you a few missions.
- Oda Nobunaga was a Templar and Akechi Mitsuhide was a covert Assassin.
- Confirmed for Nobunaga in Assassin's Creed: Memories. It was Hanzo Hattori, however, who was the one who killed him amid the chaos.
- Todd in the Shadows is an Assassin who is against the Templar-run music industry. I mean, sure, his hoodie isn't white...but he constantly wears a hood! Like an Assassin!
- Obviously Bill Gates has the Apple, hello?
- Wouldn't Steve Jobs make more sense?
- Apple are a Templar corporation using iDevices as an extension of the Apple to control the populace.
- Simo Hahya was probably Grandmaster of the Assassins sometime in the mid 20th century.
- DO WANT.
- Hitler was likely a Templar, though he might have been removed due to the genocides, the Templars most likely not wanting to be recognized in as racists and bigots within their own organization.
- Confirmed as I remember, but the Assassins took him out.
- Robin Hood: probably an Assassin (if he's treated as a historical character in the universe of Assassin's Creed), who fights during the Crusades (at the same time that Altair is alive, no less!) and returns to find that England is now under the control of Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, both Templars.
- Claus von Stauffenberg and the other conspirators of the July 20 Plot were Assassins.
- John lassetter and the heads of Pixar were Templars, they do secretly have a POE to give them eternal life only to work by using heart crushing moments in their movies they made (Like Inside Out, Up etc.) to fuel the Audience's sadness to the Piece so they can live forever.
- First, there's the provenance of the crazy relics Abstergo is interested in, needless to say; they mention a "Christ-figure." My guess is that this is probably Jesus Christ, obviously; he wasn't so much miraculous or the Son of God as in control of these items. So...alien relics, perhaps? Also, maybe someone can submit the text pyramid and text rectangle to cryptanalysis; I didn't get the rectangle, or the square, but the pyramid...
Formatting issues, of course. Sorry about that, but...
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I'm also not sure how well I interpreted the text; scrawled with blood on concrete, then washed away does not for legibility make. I think that the messages had something to do with the Subject 16 you read about on the terminals.
- With the rectangle, start at the bottom right corner and read up. It takes a while to decipher and it helps if you write it down. Off the top of my head, the message is "they take my mind to make their plans, I spill my blood to show you the truth" or something similar. The triangle is read the same way and discusses the Templar plans to launch the piece of Eden into space to take over the world. I think.
(Sorry if I screwed up somehow and this already exists.)
(And just for anyone who may not know; while that silliness was an obvious April Fool's joke, Altaïr's costume is unlockable in MGS4.)
- Problem: Snake does not have any of Eva's DNA. Therefore, either the Japanese woman that donated the egg or Big Boss himself were descended from Altaïr.
- It sure as hell would explain Big Boss, though.
- Considering that the protagonist of AC2 is a nobleman turned assassin from 15th Century Italy (which would mean he would probably be a Catholic prior to becoming an assassin), which would make this theory plausible. To add to this (or not), he has 2 hidden blades, meaning he severed BOTH his ring fingers.
- Wrong on the non-WMG parts. Lucy was just holding her finger to look as though she was missing her ring finger as a sort of secret handshake, and Ezio still has both ring fingers (you can tell because he wears a signet ring on one hand) as a result of Leonardo da Vinci's modifications to the hidden blade he uses.
- In the mission where you get da Vinci to repair the hidden blade bracer Ezio's father had hidden away Leonardo says that he's going to have to chop off Ezio's finger. It turns out he's joking as the design has been modified to make it possible to use with all finger attached.
- Altaïr's journal states that he implemented changes in the organization to keep up both with changing times and changing Templar tactics, the arguably biggest change being to phase out the more theatric practices, such as maintaining fortress-bases, making their assassinations public for the sake of turning themselves into Memetic Badasses, and severing the finger. As Altaïr puts it, the Assassins are their creed, not their ceremony.
- However, in the Assassin Initiation ceremonies seen in AC2 and Brotherhood, new Assassins are branded on their left ring finger, instead of having it completely severed.
- Wrong on the non-WMG parts. Lucy was just holding her finger to look as though she was missing her ring finger as a sort of secret handshake, and Ezio still has both ring fingers (you can tell because he wears a signet ring on one hand) as a result of Leonardo da Vinci's modifications to the hidden blade he uses.
- Rebecca Crane went in the Animus, she joined the Assassins and her family is (assumedly) not part of the Assassins, though she might have been descended from The Ones Who Came Before still.
- Similarities are discussed on the Dexter WMG page.
- Jossed
- Alternatively, Desmond is a gamer and when he heard the name "Mario" in what is a video game he immediately thought of one thing. The Animus is known to convert language into a form that will be familiar to the user, and as a side-effect of this changed Mario's introduction into the very thing Desmond was thinking of.
- Well, the first game's manual does mention that slackers have become much better with the Animus since Abstergo switched it to video game controls. And Desmond is so good with the Animus, so you may be right about Desmond being a gamer, which adds plausibility to this guess.
- The eagle is the symbol of the resurrection? Huh?
- Scroll to Eagle Symbolism and Legends: Ancient Cultures and here.
- Oh, cool, I never knew that. TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life after all!
- Scroll to Eagle Symbolism and Legends: Ancient Cultures and here.
- Later Nathan was pulled back into the war between the two factions by Chole (who is an Assassin) in order to keep Lazarevic (A Templar but not a popular one) from getting to Shambala which was an abandoned 'testing ground' for Those Who Came Before's genetic experiments on humans. Chole was supposed to consider taking Nathan, and the Drake family lineage, back into the fold but decided that keeping him out was better for him and better for the Assassins if they ever need a wild card.
- Jossed: In Assassins Creed Brotherhood, Desmond asks Rebecca if she has ever been in the Animus. She said once. She went to a Prussian fighting in a war with guns and such, and she said to Desmond "her ancestors were boring. Nothing like yours".
- Jossed: If you look out the windows in the warehouse it seems rather okay, also if you look at the signs in said warehouse you'll see they're written in Italian. Italy being the first country exposed to Tiberium.
- Now, that'd be just sad.
...right? Well you won't be believing that when you end up in an underground facility with your ex-BFF exchanging "I knew you knew I knew you weren't an Assassin!"
This goes along with the "nothing is true" part of the Creed; essentially, everything is a lie, doubt everything. Soon you (may) end up doubting your doubtings of your doubtings and end up just wanting everything over and done with. Or end up doubting further. Although I doubt that...
In conclusion: instead of opening your mouth, continue to pretend to be the Unwitting Pawn; the true Assassins/Templars (if you swing that way) will come to you.
Of course...who knows? All this advice could be coming from a Templar...
- As of Brotherhood, this is confirmed....sorta. The Templars are still bastards, but multiplayer is a training simulation at Abstergo.
- For the purpose of clarification: A single-player campaign that has a Templar protagonist. That sounds kinda like DLC material though.
- Confirmed...although hints aside, you don't find out Haytham Kenway is a Templar until the end of his segment in 3.
- Confirmed again with Assassin's Creed Rogue with Shay Cormac as an Assassin turned Templar.
- Semi-confirmed as of Black Flag.
- That explains why they can't kill innocents.
This ties pretty well into the previously-mentioned WMG that the Animus uses mental time-travel rather than genetic memory, too. Mental time-travel is what the Yithians were famed for.
- It would explain why Desmond can see behind him.
- Western New England. Mostly cos I think that'd be awesome, but also because Desmond speaks with an accent indicative of someone of middle class background from west of Boston. And also cause his voice actor is from Connecticut.
- New Mexico (Desmond mentions it being in a desert IIRC and NM is the most desert-y place in the US this non-American troper can think of.)
- American troper here, the southwestern United States has quite a bit of desert, extending from the western parts of Texas, through Arizona and New Mexico, southern California, Nevada and Utah.
- You could keep a lot of mystical artifacts in New Mexico. Say, in an abandoned but secure area... like a military base or something.
- American troper here, the southwestern United States has quite a bit of desert, extending from the western parts of Texas, through Arizona and New Mexico, southern California, Nevada and Utah.
- According to the Desmond's Journey sidegame in Revelations and the Encyclopedia, The Farm is in the Black Hills in South Dakota.
- This was altered from my original theory. With Desmond's father now a major character, there would be little reason for Desmond to explore his dad's memories. If his mom is dead or missing, on the other hand, then there could be plenty of reason. Especially if, as other WMGs have suggested, his mother is the one with the stronger bloodline.
- But both kinds of gametes are still formed from germ cells which are segregated from somatic cells very early on in development. Genes in somatic cells are modified throughout life according to the particular cell type's needs, but germ cell genes are not.
- Anyway, Jossed by the multiplayer which is part of the canon: you can see several women among the Animus-users in the opening, and there are several female character options to choose from.
- Also Jossed by new discoveries in epigenetics: your DNA and gametes are constantly changing while you're alive.
- Also Jossed by Desmond's file in Black Flag. Altair was his ancestor on his mother's side, while Ezio and the Kenways were on his father's.
- Jossed. Desmond dies in Assassin's Creed III, making it impossible for him to kill anyone.
- The AC wiki says they're Templars, though the evidence suggesting this is circumstantial. I am currently debating this issue here, here and here. (NOTE: This has since been fixed.)
- It may not be confirmed outright, but there's lots of evidence to support it. George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, two US Presidents who were Freemasons, were confirmed to have had an Apple, and one of 16's notes indicate that it was the Freemasons who brought it across the pond, so it's certainly not a coincidence. The Freemasons were always extremely secretive, and some real-life conspiracy theories claim the Freemasons are Templars who control the US behind the scenes (lots of the conspiracy stuff in AC is based on real theories). One theory also blames the Freemasons for faking the moon landing, which was confirmed to be not fake but a Templar mission to get an Apple that was on the Moon for some reason. Too many coincidences for me.
- The Freemason ideals have many things in common with both the Assassin and Templar ideals. It's possible that both sides are infiltrated in their ranks and trying to control the organization for their own ends.
- Confirmed most of the Freemasons end up being the friends of Connor the protagonist of AC III including of course George Washington. So yay you don't have to kill him.
- Or... the other way around, since Hera/Juno was also known to flirt with other men and Zeus/Jupiter was a hypocrite who lashed out at any man who looked at her.
- If this WMG is true, does that mean that our propensity toward gaming is due to Genetic Memory?
- I guess it's confirmed, with his death at the end off 3.
- MEGA JOSSED!
- Whoa. I had a theory almost exactly like this. To elaborate on yours a bit, Eagle Vision appears as vision because it's the only way for humans to perceive it; their brains simply can't interpret the signals they're receiving any other way. If our brains were more developed, we could sense the knowledge in a different way, one that we currently have no baseline for.
- New guess: Barabus, the revolutionary freed in place of Jesus, was either a member or joined up after being inspired by JC.
- Fridge Horror: Judas, who helped assassinate Jesus, is believed by some historians to have been a Sicarius. The Templars hint that Jesus used the Apple to perform miracles. Was... was Jesus a Templar?
- No. Judas was an Assassin sent undercover to see what Jesus was up to. However he came to believe in Jesus's teachings and finally Jesus asked Judas to betray him, just like in The Last Temptation of Christ. The Templar Saul of Tarsus then converted Jesus into a religion and vilified Judas as a villain, classic AC style. I am pretty sure Ubisoft will never tackle Jesus so we'll never know in either case.
- Or maybe Jesus was a Sage. Not of Aita, but of Odin because Odin was also crucified.
- The Assassins foresaw the creation of the Animus or something similar and deliberately bred an individual descended from as many assassins as possible.
- Alternately, the more Assassins Desmond had genes from, the greater his ability to use technology from "The Ones Before".
- Actually, given that the Bene Gesserit are founded well after humans have left Earth, Desmond is the original Kwizatz Haderach who does something so epic that they spend thousands of years trying to create their own version of him.
- Bene Gesserit founded after humans left Earth? Sure, and the Hashashin were founded during the Crusades.
- Altaïr had Adha, but she was kidnapped and killed, and in the Codex in AC II he admits that he loved her. Instead, he ended up with Maria, a Templar turncoat.
- Ezio had Cristina, but she refused to come with him and died during the Bonfire of the Vanities. From the Repressed Memories in Brotherhood, it's pretty clear he loved her, and if his other relationships are anything to go by, he hasn't had anything similar since.note Revelations will most likely feature Ezio's Second Love, and probably bring an end to his storyline via the conception of Desmond's ancestor.
- Well, Ezio does meet his second love Sofia, but his children aren't conceived in the game.
- Desmond has Lucy, but Juno forces him to kill her at the end of Brotherhood. Whether she survives or not is up for debate, but she tells you "there is another." The meaning is pretty obvious. Which leads to...
- Lucy is dead and buried by the time of Revelations.
- It isn't specifically stated that Lucy is dead. They only say they've buried her, meaning she might not have been completely dead but still skin-dead enough to fool all medical devices that could monitor her lifesigns, and thus be buried alive.
- Rebecca is just as hot anyway. Plus Shaun is nowhere near the ladies man that Desmond is after absorbing the memories of Enzio. Desmond WILL get the girl in the end.
- Lucy is dead and buried by the time of Revelations.
- Most likely jossed, considering that Desmond is now dead.
- *Round of applause*
- ...Except you don't play as Desmond in that game.
- Cole McGrath.
- James Heller.
- Nathan Drake.
- Batman
- going to try and pull Grand Theft Me once Desmond unscrambles his memories.
- Some people are speculating that this is still a possibility, given the way Clay clings to Desmond for a good chunk of time before finally shoving him at the gate; the theory goes that Clay used that time to hitch a ride in Desmond's brain.
- the Desmond recordings in AC:IV reveal that Clay had passed on all his memories and experiences to Desmond (which would explain the "Lost Archive" DLC for Revelations), including Clay's time being mentored by William Miles after Desmond left. So in a way, he did sort of hitch a ride by becoming a part of Desmond, similar to the way Altair, Ezio and Connor did.
- Some people are speculating that this is still a possibility, given the way Clay clings to Desmond for a good chunk of time before finally shoving him at the gate; the theory goes that Clay used that time to hitch a ride in Desmond's brain.
- All of the above?
- None of the above, actually.
- Her entry in the in-game Database and Encyclopedia seems to suggest she wasn't. Then again, there's nothing that explicitly confirms it...
- CONFIRMED!!
- Fun theory: if this is true, then it may be possible to create some kind of biological countermeasure - a drug or a genetic treatment that makes you immune to demagoguery as well as PO Es. That would be a revolution equivalent to the invention of writing.
- Probably Jossed: in Brotherhood, Rebecca mentions having explored the memories of a Prussian mercenary who was one of her ancestors. She also said it was boring, which most likely eliminates any kind of Sweet Polly Oliver scenario.
- Perhaps the Sheikah became the precursors to the Assassins.
- (Same troper) Maybe the symbol for Hylia became an eagle when humanity was hit by the solar flare and all the documents were destroyed.
- (Same troper for a third time, I like this theory.) Obviously the Gorons, Twili, Zora, kokiri, et cetera were wiped out by the solar flare.
- Confirmed.
- They caused the uprising of Humanity because the First Civilizations were starting to figure it out. They then manipulated certain laws of physics and nature to make the cataclysm far worse than it should have been (hence why a CME- which should only cause blackouts and some auroras in the sky- led to the reversal the magnetic poles and the atmosphere).
- And the thing is, they are powerful enough where this could be true without anyone knowing, since that's the way the Pieces want it.
- Just like the [[BIONICLE Energized Protodermis]], it's the ultimate Living MacGuffin that is pulling all the strings and is the real Man Behind the Man.
- Duh.
- It's one of their assassin-superpowers, alongside Eagle Vision. It gives them a much greater awareness of their surroundings- they can see everything in the immediate area, as well as look directly behind them if they want.
- The story is that what we know of history was altered into what the Templars wanted us to think happened, and the Animus shows us the truth through the eyes of someone who actually experienced it. While that's partially true, it still doesn't mean we're seeing the events in an accurate light. Think about it: when you remember something that happened to you, is it 100% true to the objective events of what happened? Memory isn't perfect, and it lies to us. We see the historical events as Altier and Ezio remember them, but that doesn't mean they're perfect memories that depict the truth of the events.
- That's kind of the point.
- Only a bunch of humans killed em. The Doctor would not be proud. (Being genocided by a solar flare while splitting resources is no excuse!)
- He'd be more likely to be mad at the enslavers who built mind control devices than the slaves who rose up. Plus it really was the solar flare that killed them.
- If anything, The Doctor likely enabled humanity to kill off the ruling Time Lords.
- He'd be more likely to be mad at the enslavers who built mind control devices than the slaves who rose up. Plus it really was the solar flare that killed them.
- Not to mention, the time period would be just about right for The Napoleonic Wars, with all the intrigue and espionage that they entail (and we know for a fact that Nappy Bones had a Piece of Eden at some point). Plus, they've already introduced sailing ships in III—Trafalgar, anyone?
- Actually, as I recall, he states that he wished to visit Ireland when speaking with Duncan Little.
Meanwhile, the Assassins are, ideally, opposed to what Juno is doing. But they're only human; a lot of them won't be able to handle the scope of what they're up against, people like Desmond who were raised on Assassin beliefs, but don't really believe. Some of those will probably surrender willingly, joining the loyal Templars in servitude.
- Desmond didn't have a complete education and he worked exclusively in the US. Seems unlikely, if perhaps not impossible.
- He DID work in New York, which is a place where many people from different countries gather.
- Desmond didn't have a complete education and he worked exclusively in the US. Seems unlikely, if perhaps not impossible.
- Considering the overall chaos caused by the various factions and their infighting, it's likely the Assassins had an Enemy Civil War that allowed the Templars to position Napoleon as Emperor. And considering how many people Napoleon ticked off, there was probably another Enemy Civil War between the European Templars, allowing the scraps left over in the New World to gain prominence; hence, the American Abstergo group is the main Templar threat in the modern world opposed by a weaker Assassins organization.
- We'll be able to find out in the new Assassin's Creed: Unity, since it is set in France, supposedly during the French Revolution. It was a Templar movement. But some Templars did try to prevent it.
- Believe me, I was hoping for it once I heard of a game set in London. Any chance she could be Minerva? Mythologically, both characters fulfill similar roles, helping heroes out by providing advice or weapons.
- the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by Roderick Maclean, a Templar who must be killed by the player character early on, which causes Victoria to start swaying towards supporting the Assassins
- the Whitechapel murders, culminating with the assassination of a fictional female Templar, who is actually the last known victim of Jack the Ripper and was never identified in real-life, with the gruesome way she was killed in real-life being the Templars’ doing to smear the Assassins
- Montague Druitt, a real-world suspect of being Jack the Ripper, is one of your allies and, instead of committing suicide like he actually did, he was killed by Templars who then covered up his death as suicide, with the player character being a second too late to save him
The game would introduce new free-running abilities such as uncanny vertical jumps, running along walls for a short distance, and wall-jumps, the trade-off being that they draw a LOT of attention. There would also be side missions based on Sherlock Holmes stories and real British urban legends similar to the Frontiersman Tales in Assassin's Creed III, and would of course be called Mysteries.
- Alternatively, the game could make the Ripper murders a Royalist plot, with Sir William Gull as the Big Bad and Prince Albert Victor as the final target.
- Confirmed. That game is Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
Bonus points if parts of the game take place in France during the French Revolution and La Fayette fulfills his promise to show Paris to Connor...right as the people rise up and storm the Bastille.
- Further bonus points if this game also includes a sequence taking place in the Theatre Royal at Covent Garden, this time with Connor going there to thwart the historical assassination attempt of George III by James Hadfield.
- Expanding on this idea, after this troper FINALLY completed Revelations, there's in-game justification for an AC title taking place in Japan. At the very end of Revelations, Altair recalls the instructions he gave on the whereabouts of the Apple of Eden in his possession (paraphrased): "Tell them sent it to Cyprus, or Cipango, or that I dropped it into the sea." Cipango is another name for Japan. Since no one actually knew that the Apple was in Masyaf all along until Desmond's time, both Templars and Assassins may well take the whole "it's in Cipango" thing seriously, hence investigations by the Japanese Templars, later reinforced by American (and possibly Dutch) Templars as well, only for them to scour the entire country for years and never find the Apple. The Assassins don't know this either, but are actually protecting ANOTHER First Civilization site or artifact that the Templars don't know about: Yonaguni. (also directly mentioned during Altair's arc)
- Adding to this. One of the files you get in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag has Abstergo Entertainment talking about potential new settings. An ancestor from Desmond on his mother's side was involved with the Ashikaga shogunate, so it wouldn't be too far off.
- Alternatively, it could take place during the fall of the samurai with the Assassins as the samurai trying to fight off the new Templar government. It would allow for some of the new game play elements introduced in the more recent installments to be implemented and provide a nice aversion of the typical "Assassins=Ninja" stereotype.
- I knew the government was infiltrated by templars!
- Further, i guess someone wanted the human/precursor hybrids dead for their immunity to the eden artifacts.
- further, oh look, no need to free juno.
- Only possible point of disagreement: would the Assassins ever pose as gangsters? Their whole MO is to pick off those that oppress the weak. Templar mobsters, sure, but Assassin mobsters? Maybe Assassin Elliot Ness, though.
- The Assassins do ally with gangsters and pirates historically. Ezio hung out with thieves' guilds, Connor joined the Pickpocket society, Mary Reade founded the Pirate Republic. I am sure that if they were to go to the Roaring Twenties, Ubisoft will find a way to sell the Assassin-Mob alliance, like say showing how they opposed Communist unions which is true historically, and the reason why many gangsters were supported by politicians and some cops. The Communists might be the Templars here. Now I am sure that it makes zero sense that ideally the Assassins should be allied with the Communists against Templar gangsters but recent AC games like Unity and Syndicate shows that Ubisoft is a little timid these days.
- Pickpockets who make the best living they can are one thing; the Mob used kind of a "if-God-didn't-want-them-to-be-sheared-He-wouldn't-have-made-them-sheep" mentality that is characteristic of Templars. Frankly, we know the Templars will adopt an ideology without any firm convictions if it helps get them control people; maybe both the Communists and the Mob could be their own sick recruiting grounds, pitting two power-hungry jerks against each other to see who rises to the top.
- Elliot Ness would work better as an informer, a la Washington or Abberline.
- Could Jimmy Hoffa fit into it somehow?
- Nah, Elliot Ness, J. Edgar Hoover and others are all Templars for sure. Exaggerating threats of mafia influence so as to increase their power and their career. The Assassin's ties to the mob would be the speakeasies in Harlem which they run (the Harlem Renaissance is obviously an Assassin movement as the "Jazz Age Junkies" tease at the start of Unity confirms) and they also protect the gay underground in Greenwich Village. So I don't think the Assassins will be tied with gangsters or the cops. They will be allied to the people caught in the middle, persecuted by both and they will assassinate targets on both sides of the Mob and the Cops. It's what Assassins generally do, the Templars are Playing Both Sides in each conflict (in general) and Assassins kill targets on both sides, Crusader and Saracen, Byzantine and Turk, Patriot and Loyalist, Pirate and Pirate Hunter. So a Roaring Twenties game would have Assassins attacking both the Mob and the Dirty Cops.
- I've got it: a former mobster assassin and a former cop assassin unite to go after the bigger threat of Templar-backed German Bundists.
- The Assassins do ally with gangsters and pirates historically. Ezio hung out with thieves' guilds, Connor joined the Pickpocket society, Mary Reade founded the Pirate Republic. I am sure that if they were to go to the Roaring Twenties, Ubisoft will find a way to sell the Assassin-Mob alliance, like say showing how they opposed Communist unions which is true historically, and the reason why many gangsters were supported by politicians and some cops. The Communists might be the Templars here. Now I am sure that it makes zero sense that ideally the Assassins should be allied with the Communists against Templar gangsters but recent AC games like Unity and Syndicate shows that Ubisoft is a little timid these days.
- Further bonus points if this era's Assassin robes are styled like trench coats.
- The Assassins would favor Zoot Suits in my opinion.
- Alternatively, it could simply be a self-contained non-canon fighting game based on Abstergo's video game engine (e.g., the Assassin's Creed multiplayer mode) with the player characters and key Templar targets as playable fighters, with a few different costumes for each depending on what was available in the game or for how long the character was around (for example, Young Ezio and Old Ezio). It would probably work best like Mortal Kombat, with Fatalities as super moves. Destined Battles like in Soulcalibur would be a must.
- Playable characters could be:
- Ancient Assassins: possibly Darius, Iltani, Wei Yu, Brutus, Amunet, Leonius
- Ptolemaic Egypt: Bayek of Siwa
- Third Crusade: Altaïr, Al Mualim, Robert de Sable, possibly Abbas, Malik, Darim, Maria, Qulan Gal, or Genghis Khan
- Renaissance: Ezio, Rodrigo, Cesare, Yusuf, Ahmet, possibly Mario, Machiavelli, Manuel Palaiologos, or La Volpe, Shao Jun, Aguilar, Maria
- 14th Century: Jacques de Molay’s advisor, possibly Thomas de Carneillon and Jacques de Molay
- Golden Age of Piracy: Edward, Adewale (both young and old), Roberts, Blackbeard (because it would be a shame to exclude him) possibly Kidd, Hornigold, and El Tiburon, Blackbeard
- Seven Years’ War: Shay, Achilles (pre-injury), possibly Liam O'Brien, Hope Jensen, Kesegowase
- American Revolution: Connor, Haytham, Charles Lee, Aveline, Madeline de L’Isle, Washington (based on The Tyranny), possibly Ziio, Kanenkoton, Agate, Gerald Blanc (as a joke character), or Baptiste
- French Revolution: Arno, Elise, Pierre Bellec, Napoleon, Francois Thomas-Germain
- The Raj: Arbaaz Mir
- Victorian England: Jacob, Evie, Henry Green, Starrick, Jack the Ripper, possibly Lucy Thorne and Maxwell Roth
- Russian Revolution/World War I: Nikolai Orelov, Rasputin, Lydia Frye, Sergei
- Modern: Desmond, Daniel Cross, Clay (utilizing Animus-style Reality Warper powers), Juhani Otso Berg, possibly Gavin Banks, Galina Voronina
- First Civilization: Minerva, Juno, possibly Tinia (if he turns out to be more important) as final bosses. Aita could serve as the second to last boss.
- Secret Characters: Aiden Pearce and T-Bone Grady (using the ctOS to hack the battlefield), Jason Brody and Vaas, AJ Ghale and Pagan Min, all of whom can only be unlocked by completing Arcade Mode with certain characters. Now adding Takkar and Ull.
- and of course any of the Animi Avatars from the regular multiplayer mode
- Everyone should also have win quotes depending on who they fought. For example:
- Altaïr calling Al Mualim out on his treachery or apologizing to one of the other Assassins for being forced to kill them
- Ezio repeating “Requiescat in pace, you bastard” after defeating Rodrigo or Cesare
- Edward cursing Haytham for betraying his teachings and going to the Templars
- Connor remarking on avenging his mother after beating Lee or wishing that their fight had never happened with Washington
- Bellec saying something along the lines of “I should have killed you right then and there” after beating Elise
- if Vaas is included, he asks “Do you know the definition of insanity?”
- Each character would have two different outfits, wherever possible and allowing a character to fight themselves, much like in other fighting games, and would include:
- Altair in his normal Assassin robes and in his unique armor (even though Ezio is the only one shown wearing it)
- Al Mualim would have his regular black robes and possibly a white version of them based on Altair's from Revelations
- Ezio in his white robes from when he was younger (possibly accompanied by the Armor of Romulus) and the gray robes from Revelations
- Rodrigo in his red hooded robes from the second game and his papal robes
- Edward in Walpole's Assassin robes and one other, possibly in the more stereotypical pirate outfit that can be worn, or alternatively the Templar or Mayan armor
- Kidd in and out of disguise
- Roberts in his pirate outfit from later in the game and his "captive" clothes from earlier. Hell, let's throw in his John Standish costume.
- Connor in his robes and in the wolfskins and warpaint from The Tyranny of King Washington
- Washington in his presidential outfit from the main game and his royal outfit from The Tyranny
- Germain in the civilian outfit he’s first seen in and his Templar robes from later in the game
- Jacob and Evie in their respective default outfits and Master Assassin robes
- Now to ask, who should develop it? Perhaps the same team behind the Persona 4: Arena games?
- I just thought of it. What stages should be involved? I'm also thinking the backgrounds should change as the fight goes on like Killer Instinct 2013. There should be a stage for each character.
- Ptolemaic Egypt: The Great Pyramids
- Third Crusade: the training ground (Altaïr) and courtyard (Al Mualim) at Masyaf and Arsuf (Robert)
- Renaissance: a bridge in Florence (Ezio), the Vatican (Rodrigo), Monteriggioni in ruins (Cesare), Istanbul (Yusuf), Cappadocia (Ahmet), the Great Wall of China (Shao Jun)
- 14th Century: the medieval battlefield
- Golden Age of Piracy: the deck of the Jackdaw (Edward), Port-au-Prince (Adéwalé), the Observatory (Roberts), Charles-towne (Blackbeard)
- Seven Years’ War: Lisbon during the earthquake, the deck of the Morrigan (Shay), the Arctic temple (Achilles)
- American Revolution: Davenport Homestead (Connor), Fort George (Haytham), New Orleans (Aveline), Chichén Itzá (Madeline), on top of the pyramid from The Tyranny (Washington)
- French Revolution: the Bastille or Café Theatre (Arno), Versailles (Elise), the Palace of Justice (Bellec), Jacques de Molay’s tomb ( Germain)
- Victorian England: on top of the train hideout (Jacob or Evie), Buckingham Palace (Starrick), Whitechapel (Jack), the Alhambra, which catches fire during the course of the fight (Roth), the Buckingham Palace temple
- Modern: the Grand Temple (Desmond), Abstergo headquarters (Cross or Berg), Animus Island from Revelations (Clay)
- extra stages would include the Roman Colosseum, Boston, New York (especially if set during The Division), the Aquila, Belle Eqoque, World War II’s Eiffel Tower (including a zeppelin), and the Bunker if Aiden is included
- This is starting to turn less into an AC game and more of a Ubisoft mashup! May as well throw in Rayman and Sam Fisher!
- Mmm, sort of Jossed. We've seen Precursors who draw from other regional mythologies; Mercury is actually Hermes Trismegistus, the version of him popular in Hellenized Egypt. It could just be a result of I Have Many Names, though; who knows what they call each other.
The second game would include the player participating in the Battle of the Alamo (on either side, as they could succeed in either the successful capturing of the fort on the Mexican side or be one of the few survivors on the Texan side), and culminate with a battle with the Templar Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, though failing to properly kill him as he died long after the war in actual history. The third game, at the turn of the century, would involve the player receiving the Mondragon rifle, either a prototype provided by willingly provided by fellow Assassin Manuel Mondragon or stolen from him if he's a Templar, preventing the Templars themselves from using the rifle before its real-world introduction in much the same way as commandeering and then destroying Da Vinci's war machines.
- Jerusalem (Altaïr)
- Rome or Florence or Istanbul (Ezio)
- the former site of Davenport Homestead (Connor)
- New Orleans (Aveline)
- Great Inagua or Nassau (Edward)
- Paris (Arno)
- London (The Fryes)
- Why would a brutal murderer of defenceless women be an Assassin, and why would Ubisoft have you play as him?
- He wouldn't be allied with the Templars to the point that both Assassins and Templars would actually fight over who gets to kill him.
- Or, perhaps the prostitutes were working for the Templars, and the Templars made the kills more brutal to frame Jack.
- Jossed. Jack is a boss from the DLC in Syndicate. And he's an ex-ASSASSIN!
- Partially Jossed, since De Costa is working for Juno. So, she and Sigma Team seem unlikely to turn. However, the fact that they have yet to kill Berg, may point towards him helping to fight Juno later.
- After Shay successfully completed the mission Haytham sent him on by killing Charles Dorian in Versailles and retrieving the box that had been sent away from the Colonies he ended up returning to America (since the ending monologue has him explicitly refer to himself as a Templar of the American Rite) following the events of Assassin's Creed III to rally whatever remained of the Templar Rite there against Connor's rebuilt Assassins, thus bringing the two into some kind of as yet unspecified conflict. If we ever see this, it will be in the form of a game where you take turns controlling both Connor and Shay at different points in the story (thanks to a new Animus interface that can allow you to experience two different ancestors at the same point in time) and feature setpieces like a pitched naval battle between the Aquila and the Morrigan and a final battle between Connor and Shay that has you switching between the two at different points in the fight; you start as Connor, but as soon as you get Shay on the ropes, you switch over to him and now you're fighting Connor and have Shay turn the tides instead, and so on and so forth. You could call it Assassin's Creed: Nemesis, or something, and would act as a Grand Finale to both Connor (who really could use one) and Shay's stories.
- The 'Swap' won't be due to an Animus Feature, but rather because there will be two Animus running the same memories in parallel. R.L. and Numbskull will be controlling Connor and Shay respectively. Both of them racing to be the first to discover whatever First Civilization Tech/Sage Location that's associated with their battle. This will also be the finale of the Abstergo Entertainment arc.
- Alternatively, the memories take place contemporarily to each other because Desmond is actually descended from both Connor and Shay, so he has genetic memories from both at the same time. As a gameplay mechanic, this would probably be handled similarly to switching between Batman and Catwoman in Arkham City.
Syndicate reveals that the First Civilization was an old civilization that had many eras, milennium and changes. They are also Advanced Ancient Humans and towards the end they developed AI, robots and other biotechnological objects. They also invented humans and created them as robots. However, why is that the First Civilization technology mirrors real-life advancement in nanotechnology, biotechnology and applied quantum physics? Why is it that the First Civilization want to recreate The Singularity which many tech writers feel is on the horizon? The answer, the First Civilization are human beings. That is to say they are the human beings of real life several centuries into the future, and the humans we play in the games are merely the robots we built to replace us.
What we see in AC, including the historical portion, the past and the like, is merely a post-apocalyptic civilization several centuries into the future. The First Civilization are human beings after a Singularity several centuries into the future of today's 21st Century and the original robots they created were programmed with pre-singularity history, memories and emotions so as to better control them and also make sure that they wouldn't rebel against its makers. After the Solar Flare, the robots rebuilt civilization by following the unconscious pattern of their pre-set memories and so unintentionally recreated history almost exactly as how it was originally. So you have the Second Roman Empire, the Second Ancient Egypt unintentionally echoing the First Civ's original ancestry albeit with some changes to accomodate their limited programming. This explains why the AC history is like reality unless otherwise stated, why the pieces of eden and other video game stuff are everpresent to guide "humanity" and historical figures, why the Assassins and Templars manipulate and feature in every historical conflict. Also why Minerva tells Desmond that the Solar Flare happening is the true Cosmic Reset and Desmond would become the Second, or rather "Third" Jesus. Yes this is like Matrix...but bear with me.
On a meta-level this explains the relationship between AC history and true history. It works in the whole games-about-games thing which justifies the Animus. Ultimately, all characters in a game are robots so making them literally robots replaying a history that itself is a replay of real life history makes sense and justified everything in an absolutely over-the-top fashion.
- Albertus Magnus (note that, going by established timelines, he could actually potentially have met Altaïr)
- His timeline overlaps with Jacques de Molay, so unlikely, unless two Sages can exist at once.
- It is possible; it's been suggested that David Bowie was a Sage and his lifetime overlaps with John Standish's.
- Wait, that doesn't make sense. Bowie wasn't heterochromatic. One of his eyes was permanently dilated due to an injury.
- Two Sages CAN exist at the same time. Thom Kavanagh (the writer of the Letters in Black Flag) and Black Bart lived in the same time, with the former dying just ten years before Edward arrived (at which point Bart would be a teenager in Wales).
- His timeline overlaps with Jacques de Molay, so unlikely, unless two Sages can exist at once.
- Nostradamus.
- Rasputin (confirmed to be a Templar but that's not stopping him from being a Sage as well)
- A member of the Nazi party, or an original character affiliated with Nazis. A scientist Karin Magnusson was involved in studying heterochromia- maybe she was actually looking for Sages.
- St. Nicholas. His bones really did give off some kind of mana and the thugs who stole them were Templar-aligned. Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus can be in Assassin's Creed.
- Jayabaya, a former king of Java who allegedly ordained a prophecy of some sort and was also purported to be a reincarnation of Vishnu.