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There are, understandably, a lot of rumors swirling around about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey at the moment with regards to its setting in time and place. It’s widely accepted at the moment that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is going to be set in Ancient Greece.
The short clip shown of the game certainly seems to suggest it will be set in Ancient Greece; not only because we have what looks like a Spartan soldier properly 300-ing what could be an Athenian soldier off a cliff, but also because the end of the trailer shows the symbol often seen on Spartan shields, with the iconic Spartan helmet beneath it.
Is this Sparta?
According to
So what’s going on then? How can a game be set hundreds of years before and still be called a sequel?
Well, if we’ve learned anything from Assassin’s Creed it’s that chronology doesn’t really mean much. You don't need to be going forward in time to continue to tell a story.
I’ve been doing some conspiring that makes me feel absolutely certain that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will be a sequel to Origins, simply in the thematic sense that it will continue to tell how the ideas and tools of the Assassin’s brotherhood were formed, rather than that it will be a direct chronological continuation.
Sequel not sequential
It’s the Spartan symbol at the end of the announcement trailer that got me wondering. There’s no denying that it’s the symbol of Sparta, but it also looks like the top of the Assassin’s insignia, which, in turn, looks like the point of a hidden blade.
If you see the curved based of the official Insignia as an eagle in flight, as I did, you’ll probably start to see where I’m going with this.
Left: Assassin's Insignia
Right: Assassin's Insignia sans eagle
While Assassin’s Creed Origins showed us the dawn of the brotherhood’s Eagle Vision, I’m sure Odyssey will take us further back in time to tell us the origin story of the hidden blade.
In Assassin’s Creed Origins, Aya gives Bayek a hidden blade which she says that once belonged to an assassin called Darius.
Darius appeared in Assassin’s Creed 2 when Ezio’s uncle showed him statues of the figures behind the formation of the Brotherhood. We see a statue of Darius alongside Amunet (who we now know to be Origins’ Aya) and find out that he assassinated the Persian King Xerxes during the Greco-Persian wars using the hidden blade Aya has in Origins.
The hidden blade tale
The time of Darius’ use of the hidden blade would perfectly fit with the proposed ancient Greek setting of Odyssey and although it would be taking us backwards in time, it would continue to tell the story of the ideas and tools that came together to create the Assassin’s Brotherhood.
We saw where the origins of Eagle Vision came from with Bayek, which could make up the wing-like base of the Assassin insignia, now we could see the origin story of the hidden blade which tops it.
And, given Odyssey would therefore pre-date the origin story of Eagle Vision it would explain why this is the first game we’ve seen for the series that doesn’t have the fully intact Assassin’s insignia.
Or, I might need a lie down before I go full Dan Brown. Regardless, knowing next to nothing about a game before it’s release is one of the most exciting parts of it.
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of Charlie in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia because Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was announced and I don’t know how to take news at face value and wait patiently to hear more.There are, understandably, a lot of rumors swirling around about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey at the moment with regards to its setting in time and place. It’s widely accepted at the moment that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is going to be set in Ancient Greece.
The short clip shown of the game certainly seems to suggest it will be set in Ancient Greece; not only because we have what looks like a Spartan soldier properly 300-ing what could be an Athenian soldier off a cliff, but also because the end of the trailer shows the symbol often seen on Spartan shields, with the iconic Spartan helmet beneath it.
Is this Sparta?
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, sources close to Ubisoft have said that the game is a direct sequel to Origins but to include these ancient Greek figures and the Spartans, we’d have to go to a time hundreds of years before the story of Origins. Interestingly, Kotaku’s Jason Schreier
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there are also sources who have played the game who say that it’s set hundreds of years before it.So what’s going on then? How can a game be set hundreds of years before and still be called a sequel?
Well, if we’ve learned anything from Assassin’s Creed it’s that chronology doesn’t really mean much. You don't need to be going forward in time to continue to tell a story.
I’ve been doing some conspiring that makes me feel absolutely certain that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will be a sequel to Origins, simply in the thematic sense that it will continue to tell how the ideas and tools of the Assassin’s brotherhood were formed, rather than that it will be a direct chronological continuation.
Sequel not sequential
It’s the Spartan symbol at the end of the announcement trailer that got me wondering. There’s no denying that it’s the symbol of Sparta, but it also looks like the top of the Assassin’s insignia, which, in turn, looks like the point of a hidden blade.
If you see the curved based of the official Insignia as an eagle in flight, as I did, you’ll probably start to see where I’m going with this.
Left: Assassin's Insignia
Right: Assassin's Insignia sans eagle
While Assassin’s Creed Origins showed us the dawn of the brotherhood’s Eagle Vision, I’m sure Odyssey will take us further back in time to tell us the origin story of the hidden blade.
In Assassin’s Creed Origins, Aya gives Bayek a hidden blade which she says that once belonged to an assassin called Darius.
Darius appeared in Assassin’s Creed 2 when Ezio’s uncle showed him statues of the figures behind the formation of the Brotherhood. We see a statue of Darius alongside Amunet (who we now know to be Origins’ Aya) and find out that he assassinated the Persian King Xerxes during the Greco-Persian wars using the hidden blade Aya has in Origins.
The hidden blade tale
The time of Darius’ use of the hidden blade would perfectly fit with the proposed ancient Greek setting of Odyssey and although it would be taking us backwards in time, it would continue to tell the story of the ideas and tools that came together to create the Assassin’s Brotherhood.
We saw where the origins of Eagle Vision came from with Bayek, which could make up the wing-like base of the Assassin insignia, now we could see the origin story of the hidden blade which tops it.
And, given Odyssey would therefore pre-date the origin story of Eagle Vision it would explain why this is the first game we’ve seen for the series that doesn’t have the fully intact Assassin’s insignia.
Or, I might need a lie down before I go full Dan Brown. Regardless, knowing next to nothing about a game before it’s release is one of the most exciting parts of it.
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