Assassin's Creed Odyssey is here and you might have forgotten what happened in
the last 500 games. Let's get you caught up right now. Assassin's Creed is about
the Brotherhood of Assassins which was founded in 47 BCE in Rome to oppose the
Templar Order. The Templars want to find magical artifacts to brainwash humanity
and bring "peace." The Assassins would rather have autonomy.
So they're fightin.' They're fightin' for all time.
During the Renaissance an artifact called the apple of Eden is discovered
by a fuckboy named Ezio. His dad and brothers are murdered which sucks but
then he gets to become an Assassin which rules. Templars are also looking for the
Apple and they want to use it to open a vault that's underneath the Vatican and
the Pope's staff is also a piece of Eden and the Pope is a Templar and Ezio has
to punch the Pope a lot but oh no when they open the vault there are no pieces
of Eden in there. Instead there is a hologram of a being named Minerva who it
turns out was part of a pre-human race also called the Isu which stands for
Iowa State University. The hologram people created humans and
used them as slaves by mind controlling them using the apples of Eden and then
they went to war with each other and then there was a gigantic solar flare
that almost wiped out everyone on the planet so that is all the exposition we
get from Minerva. Ezio's Apple ends up in a vault in the temple of Juno. REMEMBER
THAT NAME! Years later in the modern day a loser
named Desmond is kidnapped by a company called Abstergo and forced to reenact
the lives of his ancestor, Altair and Ezio, who both encountered apples during
their lifetimes. He finds out that Abstergo is just a front for the
Templars and they're using him to track down where the apples and other cool
artifacts ended up. Abstergo's evil deeds are made possible by the Animus, a big
old device that lets people relive history. In the early games you could
only relive the lives of people that were directly related to you but sci-fi
hand-waving technology getting better, later you can relive the life of anyone
that you have a DNA sample from. By being in the Animus so much Desmond starts to
be affected by the Bleeding Effect — essentially Ezio's skills are
bleeding into him and he can now use Assassins' eagle vision and also parkour
but eagle vision is the relevant thing here. He starts to see hidden messages
that say the world is gonna end in 2012. The messages claim that Abstergo is
gonna launch a satellite, like with an apple in it, and they'll brainwash
humanity and make them docile but I don't think that that ever goes anywhere.
Desmond is rescued by the Assassins. They figure out that there's going to be
another massive solar flare and the world might end so they all go to the temple
of Juno to grab that apple. On the way there
Desmond runs into hey a precursor named Juno who is very very negative about
mankind in general. He's gotta stop the world from ending! And then they all go
off to the Precursors' Grand Temple. Inside the Grand Temple: Juno is back
baby and she tells Desmond go ahead activate this thing and save the world
and then Minerva's like actually if you do that you'll die and Juno will be free
to go and take over the world which is what she's literally always wanted to do.
Desmond commits a very brave act of self-sacrifice and activates the thing
and dies and people have never gotten over it. Guess what we're not done!
because Abstergo desecrates Desmond's corpse and takes his DNA and here's
where everything gets super meta. Abstergo, which again is the Templars
have started making Animus GAMING consoles so that everyday GAMERS can
find Isu artifacts in their history simulations. It's Ubisoft. Meanwhile
there's another group of people called the Sages who are reincarnation of the
precursors. Juno's husband is one of these and he tries to get a human body
to put Juno in so that she can walk around and stuff but she is still too
weak she can only go online which is what hell is. Sages have their own damn
agendaaaaaaAAAAAAA.
Templars and the Assassins then have a scuffle over an artifact called
the Shroud which can make people immortal. The Templars want to use it to
give Juno a body and they win that scuffle so they have the shroud now but
Juno has her own plans for the shroud.
(I'm not quite sure what they are). The modern-day
storyline now follows a woman named Layla Hasan who was working for Abstergo
but she used an Animus without permission and they got super freaked
out and tried to kill her but because of the bleeding effect she
killed them. She's taken in by the Assassins and she's going to continue
her research into history by going to ancient Greece. Done! Now you know
everything you need to know going into Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Layla Hassan
will be your entry point into that game and who knows where Juno is cuz she
didn't really show up in the last one. And every time some sci-fi weirdness
happens you can just smile and nod.
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