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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