Background information of Assassin's Creed (contains spoilers)
Category: Stories

The Isu civilization originated about 77000 years ago. They were an advanced species that was standing taller than the humans which they, like God, created in their image. They existed in several mythologies and religions, Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian and Mayan, worshipping them as gods.

However the humans one day revolted against their creators. The hybrids Adam and Eve stole one of the Isu artifacts that in present day was called Pieces of Eden. They came in different shapes and forms, unearthed throughout the ages. Unfortunately a disaster was to occur and the decade long war between the Isu and humans was postponed due to a approaching disaster.

The disaster was known as the Toba catastrophe. The Isu struggled with finding a solution, but to no avail. Juno, Minerva and Tinia, found 6 strategies but none was going to save the world from destruction. In the aftermath the humans and the Isu, the latter in less numbers, put their grudges aside and started to rebuild.

In the year of 2012 the descendant of several assassins, Desmond Miles, is kidnapped by Abstergo, a modern company that is in real an ancient order founded long ago in Egypt. Around the same time the Hidden Ones is established by the Egyptian Bayek. The death of his only son makes him seek out the ones behind it.

Desmond was related to a particular line of assassin’s, all possessing something known as the sixth sense, as a result from crossbreeding between humans and Isu after the catastrophe. The young Desmond didn’t want to live isolated from the world outside and left the farm where the rest of the former Hidden Ones, was staying outside the grid.

His escape led him to New York and started working as a bartender. Until Abstergo found him and forced him to help them locate the piece of Eden. The Animus was created by the Isu civilization and with it Desmond relived the life of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. In the end the Templars found what they was looking for.Lucy Stillman, an assassin, her ties to the assassins deliberately severed, managed to get Desmond to safety or so it was intended.

The next ancestor whose memory Desmond was reliving lasted from birth to death of the Italian assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The Templars was behind the death of his father Giovanni and brothers Petruccio and Federico. Escaping Florence Ezio ends up in Tuscany, where his uncle Mario teach him to fight and he kill everyone behind the demise of his father and brothers. Underneath the Vatican he, as a Isu descendant he, With two isu artifacts as well as his lineage Ezio access a vault. There he trigger a hologram of Minerva, who use him as a conduit so she could speak to Desmond and instruct him what to do in order to save the world.

After Ezio Desmond is reliving the life of another Isu ancestor. Connor Kenway, son of the Templar Haytham Kenway, in turn son of the pirate Edward Kenway. Ratonhnhaké:ton, his mother a Native American, whose tribe 7guarding the Isu temple in the region. Several centuries before the Indians had an encounter with the Norse Viking Eivor, who was looking for her father and mother’s killer, Gorm Kjötveson, who possessed a piece of Eden and it was returned to the natives.

Learning where to go Lucy Stillman turned out to be a Templar. Underneath the Colosseum where Ezio had left the piece of Eden, Desmond all of a sudden found himself unable to control his body, since Juno knew that she couldn’t allow her plans to fail. With the hidden blade strapped on his lower arm, Lucy was killed and it caused Desmond to end in a coma. His body was still connected to the Animus and what he learned from his ventures in the Animus as Connor, causing him to wake up knowing what to do.

In the grand temple Desmond dies, or at least his body. His mind lives on in the Grey, where Juno was trapped before Desmond’s choice to save Earth sets her free. The next isu descendent to pick up where Desmond left off is the former Templar Layla Hassan. Her ancestors were the Egyptian Bayek, the Greek misthios Kassandra and Eivor, the later an Isu reincarnation of Odin.

Basim is the reincarnation of the Norse god Loki. However it wasn’t what his brothers and sisters wanted. He was also holding a grudge against Havi or Odin for what they did to his son Fenrir. I retaliation he killed Odin's son. As the Norse Isu gods decided to transfer their DNA to human embryos Loki managed to kill Heimdall and take his place.

Thus Loki is reincarnated as Basim Ibn-Ishaq, the son of an Architect who constructed the Great Mosque of Samarra..He had kept the memories of his previous life.  It was after learning from a fellow Hidden One about a visiting Norse named Sigurd Styrbjörnson, that happened to bear the same mark on his neck indicating that it was another Isu incarnation.

Befriending Sigurd Basim traveled to Norway in the company of another Hidden One, Hytham, where they met the reincarnation of Odin, Eivor, who, along with Sigurd. Her mark is hidden underneath a scar she received from when her family was killed..Neither siblings had the same memories as Basim of their previous life. It is revealed in a vision that the daughter of another Isu incarnation,Valk'a's mother Freya, ending up.in the distant past of Asgard and Jotunheim.

Eivor's brother Sigurd, who adopts her after her parents death, brings Basim and Hytham to Norway where he gives his sister a hidden blade. Basim helps with subduing England and it isn’t until Sigurd, or Tyr, as he is a reincarnation of, travels to Norway, where another Isu location is discovered. A machine similar to the world tree Yggdrasil traps the siblings in a simulation of Valhalla.

Upon leaving Basim attacks and thanks for keeping him distracted Basim is trapped to the Yggdrasil and isn’t released until 1000 years have passed and by none other than Layla Hassan who gets attached to Yggdrasil and meets Desmond. Thanks to dropping the staff of Hermes Trismegistus his wizened body is returned to its former self and Basim find Layla’s accomplices Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, who was along the ride since Desmond escaped Abstergo.

From here on everything is up to the imagination of the writer, aka me. Interested in writing? Do not hesitate to ask