13 years and 11 main entries means there’s a whole lot of stabbing and sneaking to catch up on when it comes to the Assassin’s Creed franchise. There’s definitely not enough time left to play everything before Valhalla arrives so here’s the history of Assassin’s Creed in eight minutes.
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00:0013 years and 11 main entries means there's a whole lot of stabbing and sneaking to catch
00:21up on when it comes to the Assassin's Creed franchise. There's definitely not enough
00:25time left to play everything before Valhalla arrives, so here's the history of Assassin's
00:30Creed in… 8 minutes.
00:33Unknown BCE
00:35So it turns out there's a race of ancient aliens called the Isu. Throughout the series
00:39they're also called the Precursor race or those who came before. They created humans
00:43on Earth and immediately enslaved them.
00:4675,010 BCE
00:49Because humans don't like being enslaved, Eve nicks what's known as the Apple of Eden,
00:54grabs Adam, and escapes. Apples of Eden are going to come up a lot, they're a type
00:59of what's known as Pieces of Eden, ancient tech artifacts created by the Isu to control
01:04humanity and do generally powerful things.
01:0875,000 BCE
01:10A solar flare strikes Earth, wiping out the Isu and most of the humans, but some humans
01:15survive and manage to build a new world anyway. Go humans!
01:20465 BCE
01:22The first known use of the hidden blade is when the assassin Darius stabs King Xerxes
01:27of Persia. Xerxes was one of the Proto-Templars, the Order of the Ancients, and Darius is the
01:32father-in-law of Cassandra, an ancestor of Origen's heir.
01:36Yet for all their power, they couldn't protect you. Not from me.
01:43431 BCE
01:45In Assassin's Creed Odyssey Mistyos, Cassandra kicks a lot of Spartans across ancient Greece
01:51and stabs people with a piece of Isu tech called the Broken Spear of Leonidas. While
01:56sailing the Greek seas with those great biceps, she nabs Pythagoras' staff, which has an
02:01Isu called Aletheia inside it.
02:0349 BCE
02:05A bit later on, Bayek and Aya murder their way through ancient Egypt as they take revenge
02:10for the murder of their son by a member of the Order of the Ancients. They form the Assassin's
02:15Brotherhood, as they decide to take on the darkness in the world and even get a logo.
02:20776 BCE
02:21Utair ibn La'ahad rediscovers the tenets of the Creed after a botched mission to steal
02:27an Apple of Eden, and makes his way through a to-do list of Templars that even includes
02:32his own traitorous master. He gets his own Apple of Eden and dedicates his life to finding
02:37out more about it.
02:391459-1524 BCE
02:42This Ezio Auditore di Firenze chap rocks up, becomes an assassin to avenge the death of
02:47his family, befriends Leonardo da Vinci, beats up the Pope, finds out about an impending
02:52end of the world, kills Templars, and then heads to Constantinople to find the keys to
02:56Utair's library, where he speaks to Desmond in the future to tell him about the end of
03:02the world.
03:031715-1726 BCE
03:04A few hundred years later, pirate Edward Kenway pretends to be an assassin after he kills
03:10one, discovers a mysterious observatory powered by crystal skulls and vials of blood, and
03:15is opened by an Isu human descendant called the Sage. He saves the day, is pardoned for
03:20his piracy, and sails home to England. Oh, and yeah, he has a son called Hatham. More
03:25on him in a bit.
03:271756-1763
03:30Not long after, an assassin called Shea Cormac becomes a Templar, when he picks up an Isu
03:34artefact and accidentally sets off an earthquake that kills loads of people, so he blames the
03:40assassins. He kills Edward Kenway's fellow assassin Adewale, and heads to Paris, where
03:45he kills a French assassin called Charles Dorian.
03:481773
03:49Edward's son Hatham turns out to be a Templar, travels to New York to gain access to an Isu
03:55temple, and while he can't get in, he ends up having a relationship and having a son.
04:00His son Raton Harkaton, or Connor Kenway, grows up hating his father and becomes an
04:05assassin to take revenge. Maybe you're sensing a theme? They don't kiss and make up, and
04:11Connor kills him.
04:131776-1794
04:14That French assassin that Shea killed earlier? That's Arnaud Dorian's dad. Arnaud becomes
04:20an assassin to avenge his death and that of his adopted Templar dad. Don't, it's too
04:26complex. And teams up with other Templar, Elise de la Serre, to uncover corruption in
04:30Paris. Of course, he ends up having a showdown with a Templar grandmaster wielding what's
04:35known as the Sword of Eden. It explodes, Elise dies, and Arnaud is sad.
04:411868
04:42Then in Victorian London, Jacob and Evie Frye battle against Grandmaster Crawford Starrick
04:48by rescuing kids from workhouses and robbing trains. They get a rope launcher from Alexander
04:53Graham Bell, discover Edward Kenway had found a Shroud of Eden and not told anyone, and
04:58they end up fighting a Templar wearing it. Spoiler, they win.
05:032012
05:04In an even worse year than 2020, in 2012 Desmond Miles is abducted and forced to relive the
05:22memories of his ancestor Altair. He gets rescued by the assassins, jumps back into the Animus
05:27to relive the memories of Ezio, and, thanks to some aliens, discovers the world is going
05:32to end.
05:33Then he finds an Apple of Eden, is forced to kill his friend Lucy because of Juno, breaks
05:38his brain, and ends up stuck in the Animus, only to find out when he gets out that he
05:42has to go to New York and relive the memories of Connor to find out how to unlock a temple.
05:47This guy really can't catch a break because when he finally does, he decides to sacrifice
05:52himself so the world doesn't end, and lets Juno the evil alien out onto the internet.
05:57Bye Desmond.
05:592013
06:00An unnamed researcher pillages the memories of Edward Kenway from within Abstergo Entertainment,
06:06only to find the head of IT is a sage looking for a host body for Juno. He fails.
06:122015
06:13Arno's and the memories of the Fry Twins come from a service called the Helix. The
06:17assassins recruit an initiate to relive the memories to discover the location of the Shroud
06:21of Eden before the Templars work it out. Unfortunately, the assassins are too late, a fight ensues,
06:28and the Templars get away with the Shroud. Oh, and Danny Wallace's Shaun Hastings
06:33stabs someone with a shock blade.
06:352017-2018
06:38Things get easier when an Abstergo employee called Layla Hassan designs an Animus that
06:42just needs DNA. She jumps through the memories of Bayek and Aya, ends up joining the assassins,
06:47and then finding the Spear of Leonidas before experiencing the memories of Cassandra.
06:56Cassandra arrives, hands her the staff, and tells her she's the Heir of Memories, whatever
07:00that means. Then Cassandra, well, dies. The staff then lets Layla experience simulations
07:06from the aforementioned Isu Alethea. Then Layla kills her friend Victoria with the staff,
07:11defeats Master Templar Otso Berg, and then asks the assassins to come get her. Time for
07:17Valhalla.
07:18Sit tight, Layla. We're coming for you, but it might take time. What are you gonna do?
07:25Until you get here, I'm going back into the Animus. There are a lot of people to say goodbye to.