History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedMirage

*** A note that Basim can find is proposing the creation of a Hidden Ones' bureau in or near Jerusalem. Part of [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed the original game]] takes place here.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The gameplay reveal shows, as is tradition (well, [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey usually]]), that Basim wields the traditional Hidden Blade under his arm, even if he has to remove his ring finger to do so.

** In the first trailer:
*** The Hidden One outfits hew pretty close to the Levantine Assassin outfits seen in [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first game]].
*** Basim does the classic feather wipe to his target's bloody throat after assassinating them.

* ContraltoOfStrength: Roshan speaks with a distinctly raspy voice in the Gameplay Walkthrough, and she's a deadly Master Assassin.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Hytham, Basim's [[MasterApprenticeChain apprentice]] in ''Valhalla,'' appears as a young boy who idolizes the Hidden Ones. He can be found in a Tale of Baghdad where he boasts to his friends that he can climb a tower, but can't bring himself to jump down until Basim performs a Leap of Faith first. Basim then tells Hytham to seek him out once he's old enough.
* EndOfAnAge: The developer breakdown describes the game as the beginning of the end for the Hidden Ones and the start of the Assassin Brotherhood, as well as the same for the Order of the Ancients becoming the Knights Templar (which retroactively applies this to the Order in ''Valhalla'').
* EvilDetectingDog: [[spoiler:After Basim awakens his lost memories and changes, Enkidu rejects and attacks him]].
* {{Fingore}}: The first trailer depicts the moment Basim cut off his ring finger and became a Hidden One, though it cuts away at the actual finger-severing part. In-game, this happens as part of Basim's initiation ceremony, and the player is given a button prompt to do the deed.
* FlashStep: Assassin Focus, shown during the gameplay reveal, is an ability that allows Basim to quickly snap from target to target in a chain of rapid stealth kills, with the movement between targets being shown as if Basim is teleporting. Word of God states that Basim is ''not'' actually teleporting; the Animus just represents Basim's speed when taking down his targets through the skipping.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the start of a Bazaar mission, Roshan states that memories are only there to distract you. [[spoiler:This is exactly what Basim does at the end of the game by unifying with Nehal: he awakens his past memories as Loki, which completely derails his "Basim" viewpoint and any noble goals he may have had with the Hidden Ones]].

* {{Interquel}}: The first trailer takes place 20 years before ''Valhalla'', placing the Animus portion of the game between ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]'' and ''Valhalla''.

* OurGeniesAreDifferent: At the end of the first trailer, after Basim assassinates his target and the scenery shifts to the Memory Corridor, a shadowy figure appears that the developer breakdown identifies as "The Djinn", and serves roughly the same purpose that Eivor's visions of Odin did in ''Valhalla''. [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k7ekv/what-are-jinn-arab-spirits From a mythological perspective]], Djinn are as varied as other folkloric beings like Yokai, and modern scholars state [[EldritchAbomination "you can't understand jinn"]]. As such, the idea of a Djinn as a dark, tormenting figure isn't that unusual.
* {{Prequel}}: The first trailer shows off Basim Ibn Ishaq in his days as a Hidden One before meeting Sigurd and Eivor in ''Valhalla'' 20 years later.
* PromotedToPlayable: The reveal trailer shows that Basim, a NPC in ''Valhalla'', becomes the main playable character in this game.

* CallBack: During one investigation you can encounter a merchant from Greece, who says "Malaka!" twice. This is an expletive popularized by the player character in ''Odyssey''.

** Alamut having a First Civilization cache underneath was first established in ''Revelations'' as the source of the Memory Disks Altair used as the keys to his Vault under Maysaf. [[spoiler:Fittingly it's where Basim gains back his memories as Loki at the end of the game]].

** One of the pre-order bonuses for the game are cosmetics themed around ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', referring to the original ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' starting development as a ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' game in the wake of the Sands of Time trilogy's success.

** One of the letters Basim can read in Alamut has a Greek Hidden One mention Darius as being the first user of a Hidden Blade, which he refers to as Xerces's Bane.