The Complete History of Assassin's Creed in 8 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,

00:29 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.

00:43 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

01:51 and stabs people with a piece of Isu tech called the Broken Spear of Leonidas.

01:56 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.

02:14 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

02:22 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 CE

02:42 This Ezio Adetore de 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 CE

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.

03:25 More on him in a bit.

03:27 1756-1763 CE

03:30 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 CE

03:50 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.

04:13 1776-1794 CE

04:15 That French assassin that Shay killed earlier?

04:17 That's Arnaud Dorian's dad.

04:20 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 1868-1870

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.

05:01 Spoiler, they win.

05:02 "Dame Evie Frye."

05:05 "Sir Jacob Frye."

05:07 "Race you to the train."

05:10 "You're on."

05:11 2012

05:12 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 Then 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.

06:12 2015

06:13 Arno's and the memories of the Frye 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.

06:56 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.

07:04 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, I'm going to be here."

07:21 "I'm not going to let you go.

07:22 I'm going to be here."

07:23 "I'm not going to let you go.

07:24 I'm not going to let you go.

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 let you go."

07:48 [music]

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