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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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00:00 13 years and 11 main entries means there's a whole lot of stabbing and sneaking to catch
00:21 up on when it comes to the Assassin's Creed franchise.
00:24 There's definitely not enough time left to play everything before Valhalla arrives,
00:28 so here's the history of Assassin's Creed in…
00:32 8 minutes.
00:33 Unknown BCE
00:35 So it turns out there's a race of ancient aliens called the Isu.
00:38 Throughout the series they're also called the Precursor race or those who came before.
00:42 They created humans on Earth and immediately enslaved them.
00:46 75,010 BCE
00:49 Because humans don't like being enslaved, Eve nicks what's known as the Apple of Eden,
00:54 grabs Adam and escapes.
00:56 Apples of Eden are going to come up a lot - they're a type of what's known as Pieces
01:00 of Eden - ancient tech artefacts created by the Isu to control humanity and do generally
01:06 powerful things.
01:08 75,000 BCE
01:10 A solar flare strikes Earth, wiping out the Isu and most of the humans, but some humans
01:15 survive and manage to build a new world anyway.
01:18 Go humans!
01:20 465 BCE
01:22 The first known use of the hidden blade is when the assassin Darius stabs King Xerxes
01:27 of Persia.
01:28 Xerxes was one of the proto-templars, the Order of the Ancients, and Darius is the father-in-law
01:33 of Cassandra, an ancestor of Origen's heir.
01:36 "Yet for all their power, they couldn't protect you.
01:41 Not from me."
01:42 431 BCE
01:45 In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Mistyos, Cassandra kicks a lot of Spartans across ancient Greece
01:50 and stabs people with a piece of Isu tech called the Broken Spear of Leonidas.
01:55 While sailing the Greek seas with those great biceps, she nabs Pythagoras' staff, which
02:00 has an Isu called Aletheia inside it.
02:03 49 BCE
02:04 A bit later on, Bayek and Aya murder their way through ancient Egypt as they take revenge
02:10 for the murder of their son by a member of the Order of the Ancients.
02:13 They form the Assassin's Brotherhood as they decide to take on the darkness in the
02:17 world and even get a logo.
02:20 776 BCE
02:21 Utair ibn La'ahad rediscovers the tenets of the Creed after a botched mission to steal
02:27 an Apple of Eden, and makes his way through a to-do list of Templars that even includes
02:32 his own traitorous master.
02:34 He gets his own Apple of Eden and dedicates his life to finding out more about it.
02:39 1459-1524 BCE
02:42 This Ezio Auditore di Firenze chap rocks up, becomes an assassin to avenge the death of
02:47 his family, befriends Leonardo da Vinci, beats up the Pope, finds out about an impending
02:52 end of the world, kills Templars, and then heads to Constantinople to find the keys to
02:56 Utair's library, where he speaks to Desmond in the future to tell him about the end of
03:02 the world.
03:03 1715-1726 BCE
03:04 A few hundred years later, pirate Edward Kenway pretends to be an assassin after he kills
03:10 one, discovers a mysterious observatory powered by crystal skulls and vials of blood, and
03:15 is opened by an Isu human descendant called the Sage.
03:18 He saves the day, is pardoned for his piracy, and sails home to England.
03:22 Oh, and yeah, he has a son called Hatham - more on him in a bit.
03:27 1756-1763
03:29 Not long after, an assassin called Shay Cormac becomes a Templar when he picks up an Isu
03:34 artefact and accidentally sets off an earthquake that kills loads of people, so he blames the
03:40 assassins.
03:41 He kills Edward Kenway's fellow assassin Adewale, and heads to Paris where he kills
03:45 a French assassin called Charles Dorian.
03:48 1773
03:49 Edward's son Hatham turns out to be a Templar, travels to New York to gain access to an Isu
03:55 temple, and while he can't get in, he ends up having a relationship and having a son.
04:00 His son Raton Harkaton, or Connor Kenway, grows up hating his father and becomes an
04:05 assassin to take revenge.
04:07 Maybe you're sensing a theme?
04:09 They don't kiss and make up, and Connor kills him.
04:12 1776-1794
04:15 That French assassin that Shay killed earlier?
04:17 That's Arnaud Dorian's dad.
04:19 Arnaud becomes an assassin to avenge his death and that of his adopted Templar dad - don't,
04:25 it's too complex - and teams up with other Templar, Elise de la Serre, to uncover corruption
04:30 in Paris.
04:31 Of course, he ends up having a showdown with a Templar Grand Master wielding what's known
04:35 as the Sword of Eden.
04:37 It explodes, Elise dies, and Arnaud is sad.
04:41 1868
04:42 Then, in Victorian London, Jacob and Evie Frye battle against Grand Master Crawford
04:47 Starrock by rescuing kids from workhouses and robbing trains.
04:51 They get a rope launcher from Alexander Graham Bell, discover Edward Kenway had found a Shroud
04:56 of Eden and not told anyone, and they end up fighting a Templar wearing it.
05:00 Spoiler, they win.
05:03 2012
05:07 In an even worse year than 2020, in 2012 Desmond Miles is abducted and forced to relive the
05:22 memories of his ancestor Altair.
05:24 He gets rescued by the assassins, jumps back into the Animus to relive the memories of
05:28 Ezio, and, thanks to some aliens, discovers the world is going to end.
05:33 When he finds an Apple of Eden, is forced to kill his friend Lucy because of Juno, breaks
05:37 his brain and ends up stuck in the Animus, only to find out when he gets out that he
05:42 has to go to New York and relive the memories of Connor to find out how to unlock a temple.
05:47 This guy really can't catch a break because when he finally does, he decides to sacrifice
05:52 himself so the world doesn't end and lets Juno the evil alien out onto the internet.
05:57 Bye Desmond.
05:59 2013
06:00 An unnamed researcher pillages the memories of Edward Kenway from within Abstergo Entertainment,
06:06 only to find the head of IT is a sage looking for a host body for Juno.
06:10 He fails.
06:11 2015
06:12 Arno's and the memories of the Fry Twins come from a service called the Helix.
06:17 The assassins recruit an initiate to relive the memories to discover the location of the
06:21 Shroud of Eden before the Templars work it out.
06:24 Unfortunately, the assassins are too late.
06:27 A fight ensues and the Templars get away with the Shroud.
06:30 Oh, and Danny Wallace's Sean Hastings stabs someone with a shock blade.
06:35 2017-2018
06:37 Things get easier when an Abstergo employee called Leila Hassan designs an Animus that
06:42 just needs DNA.
06:43 She jumps through the memories of Bayek and Aya, ends up joining the assassins and then
06:47 finding the Spear of Leonidas before experiencing the memories of Cassandra.
06:55 Cassandra arrives, hands her the staff and tells her she's the Heir of Memories, whatever
07:00 that means.
07:01 Then Cassandra, well, dies.
07:03 The staff then lets Leila experience simulations from the aforementioned Isu Alethea.
07:08 Then Leila kills her friend Victoria with the staff, defeats Master Templar Otso Berg
07:13 and then asks the assassins to come get her.
07:16 Time for Valhalla.
07:17 "Sit tight Leila.
07:18 We're coming for you but it might take time.
07:19 What are you going to do?"
07:20 "Until you get here."
07:21 "I'm not going to wait for you."
07:22 "I'm not going to wait for you."
07:23 "I'm not going to wait for you."
07:24 "I'm not going to wait for you."
07:25 "Until you get here, I'm going back into the Animus.
07:30 There are a lot of people to say goodbye to."
07:32 "I'm not going to wait for you."
07:48 (upbeat music)

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