The Complete History of Assassin's Creed in 8 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.