The 10 GREATEST Assassin's Creed Plot Twists
Élise is a Templar
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“Assassin’s Creed Unity” (2014) If you DID play through “Rogue” before “Unity”, you already knew that Arno’s father was an Assassin. But it’s not immediately clear that the man who takes Arno into his home, François de la Serre, is a Templar. And not just any Templar – the Templar Grand Master. Arno and Élise’s secret courtship seems to abruptly end when Arno is wrongly sent to prison for de la Serre’s murder, only for him to get trained up as an Assassin. When they reunite, we find out not only that Élise has always known about her father’s position as a Templar, but that SHE’S a Templar herself, and WAS the heir to the Grand Master title.
Deimos
“Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” (2018) At the beginning of “Odyssey”, both Kassandra and Alexios fall from the top of Mount Taygetos, a huge peak in Sparta. Not only is either of them surviving this a plot twist in and of itself, but they actually BOTH survive. While Kassandra spends most of her childhood from then-on in Kephallonia, a western Greek island, she later discovers that her brother Alexios has been taken into the Cult of Kosmos. He’s been raised to be their violent, brutal enforcer, Deimos. Finding out that he’s alive and had fallen so far, becoming a deadly foe throughout the game, was a great twist.
Lucy is an Assassin
“Assassin’s Creed II” (2009) Yes, we know that ultimately, Lucy Stillman was a triple agent who’d betrayed the Assassins. But we’re not sure Ubisoft had thought of that when they introduced the twist that she’s an Assassin at the very start of “Assassin’s Creed II”. She was kind but quiet throughout the first game and implied to be an ally, only to reveal herself as a highly-trained, no-nonsense Assassin operative when she busts Desmond out of Abstergo in the sequel. It’s easily one of the best openings in gaming, set up throughout the previous game, and even the revelation at the end of “Brotherhood” doesn’t really ruin its impact.
You’re in a Machine
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“Assassin’s Creed” (2007) The bane of every “AC” fan’s life is the modern-day storyline. While they can be enjoyable from time to time, in general, they’re messy and take you out of the fun, historical story you’re actually enjoying. But back when the first game released, nobody really knew that the Animus was going to be the framing device, and that the premise wasn’t just a romp through the Crusades, but a story with two main characters. Aside from a few glitchy visuals, the trailers gave none of this away, and indeed, subsequent games also haven’t drawn attention to their modern-day plots in the bombastic trailers.
Two Endings
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“Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation” (2012) To-date, “Liberation” is the only “Assassin’s Creed” game that is, in its entirety, a fictional product of Abstergo Entertainment. Other games, like “Black Flag”, have you working for Abstergo to go through raw Animus data, while Liberation is the end result of that process. As such, the game has been ‘edited’ in certain places, making Aveline and the Assassins look bad as a way to spread pro-Templar propaganda through the players of Abstergo’s games. “Liberation” dropped two twists on players: first, that Aveline decides the Assassins are wrong and that she’s going to leave them, and second, that that was all a lie and the game has another, TRUE ending to show you what actually happened.
Everybody is an Assassin
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“Assassin’s Creed II” (2009) The audience knows that the strange organization Ezio’s father was a part of was the Assassin Brotherhood, but he himself doesn’t truly realize this until close to the end of the game. His quest to hunt down his various targets, like the Pazzi Conspirators and Rodrigo Borgia, is generally fuelled by a desire for personal revenge rather than a belief in the creed. Then, while Ezio fights to steal the Apple of Eden from Rodrigo, his allies all appear and lend their aid. We find out that everyone – the courtesans, the thieves, and Uncle Mario – has been an Assassin this whole time, and Ezio is finally inducted officially into the Brotherhood.
Basim is Loki
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“Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” (2020) If you have an ear for voice actors and played the Asgard sequence early, you will have realized that Basim, the Master Assassin who’s been guiding Sigurd the whole time, is the Isu reincarnation of Loki. But it was still a great plot twist when he follows Sigurd and Eivor into the Isu Vault at the end of the game to finally get his revenge on Odin. The bigger twist, however, is that the whole situation was engineered by Basim, luring Layla Hassan to the Gray, all so he could steal the Staff of Hermes from her and bring himself back to life. In the process, Layla joins Desmond Miles as a digital ghost.
Minerva Talks to Desmond
“Assassin’s Creed II” (2009) Did this one give you chills? At the end of “Assassin’s Creed II”, Ezio infiltrates the Isu chamber underneath St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and encounters an Isu hologram, the first Isu hologram we witness in the whole franchise. This one is Minerva, the Roman equivalent of Athena, and she talks to Ezio about the looming 2012 catastrophe. At least, we THINK she’s talking to Ezio, until she turns to the camera and addresses Desmond directly. We finally got a look at the creators of the Pieces of Eden and they were just as powerful as we’d been led to believe, able to successfully predict the existence of the Animus and Desmond Miles.
Al Mualim is the Villain
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“Assassin’s Creed” (2007) The Old Man of the Mountain, Al Mualim is the Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, the one responsible for demoting Altaïr but then guiding him back towards his true path. In assassinating his targets, however, Altaïr uncovers a conspiracy, and that the Assassins have been secretly fighting against the Templar Order to seize control of the Apple of Eden, using the Crusades to further this goal. Not only that, but Al Mualim goes rogue, and wants to use the power of the Apple to control all the sides and put an end to the conflict – and, subsequently, all free will. Altaïr must then defeat Al Mualim and take over the Brotherhood himself.
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“Assassin’s Creed III” (2012) All the pre-release material suggested that “Assassin’s Creed III” was going to focus on Connor, a Native American protagonist who played an integral role in various key events during the American Revolution. But then, players were treated to an hours-long introduction where they play as a totally different character, Haytham Kenway, son of Edward Kenway, though we hadn’t met him yet. We go through the motions of performing an elaborate assassination in a theater, travelling to America, making friends and allies and fighting against the redcoats. And then, the game drops on you that Haytham isn’t an Assassin, you’ve been playing as a Templar this whole time, establishing the powerful, colonial branch of the Order.
