10 Times Assassin's Creed Contradicted Its Own Lore

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're looking at times Assassin's Creed games went against

00:09their established lore.

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00:30The Isu Vaults

00:40The Templars and the Assassins spend their time fighting over various Isu artifacts,

00:45and sometimes trying to find the locations of Isu buildings.

00:50Accessing the Grand Temple is the main plot thread of Assassin's Creed 3, after all.

00:55But particularly in the Mythology Trilogy, we see vast Isu ruins just out in the open,

01:01especially the complex Medusa lives in on Lesbos.

01:05This begs the question, how the hell did both the factions lose the locations of these places?

01:11Bayek and Aya created the Brotherhood, but did they not leave a record anywhere of the

01:16enormous Isu ruin in the middle of the desert, for instance?

01:19Etzio too apparently wrote nothing down, because they needed to use the Animus to find the

01:24vault underneath the Roman Colosseum that he'd already visited.

01:28It's just confusing when you think about it.

01:35The Cult of Kosmos

01:45The story behind Kosmos is all over the place.

01:48First, we have no idea who Kosmos is at all.

01:52Whether this is just a name pulled out of thin air, or whether it correlates to an Isu.

01:57It descended from the Cult of Hermes, who was an Isu, but they got tired of him and

02:03went their own way.

02:05It's also completely distinct from the Order of the Ancients, though both groups inexplicably

02:10really wanted Xerxes to take control of Greece.

02:13As well as that, it's never explained why the cult is so intent on keeping the war going,

02:19or what its overall aim is.

02:21Aspasia says that it wants to control the war to one day unify Greece, encouraging democracy.

02:27But the cult has lost its way so thoroughly that Aspasia manipulates Cassandra into killing

02:33all of its members.

02:36Eve

02:48We really thought the Adam and Eve storyline would be much more important after seeing

02:53that video at the end of Assassin's Creed 2, but that wasn't the case.

02:58She didn't really reappear as a figure until Liberation, when Aveline used the discs she'd

03:03been collecting to see glimpses of Eve's time leading the human rebellion that overthrew

03:08Isu rule.

03:09Many think that Ubisoft keeps hinting that Adam and Eve will become important again,

03:14with some even thinking that Evie Frye was somehow related to her, but it just hasn't

03:19come up.

03:20It's a shame, because who wouldn't want a game tying up those loose ends?

03:31Connor and the Colonies

03:40This one is a huge mess, a consequence of Ubisoft going back to add the story of Rogue

03:46as a prequel to Assassin's Creed 3.

03:48Firstly, it's unusual that Connor never mentions Shay at all, nor does Shay come back

03:54when Connor starts systematically murdering every single Templar.

03:58Again, this is forgivable, since Rogue was written later.

04:03But Connor is also mentioned in Rogue itself, with Charles Dorian gloating to Shay as he

04:09dies that Connor has already taken the Americas back for the Brotherhood.

04:13Except, Shay assassinates Charles in 1776.

04:17Connor was active at this time, but he hadn't finished the Templars off, Hatham didn't

04:23die until 1781, and Charles Lee not until 1782, years after this happens.

04:30Charles really has nothing to brag about.

04:43The Father of Understanding

04:49This mysterious figure was regularly invoked by the Templars as part of their mantra, but

04:54just who is he?

04:55From what we know, the title came from the Isu, and was at one point held by Jupiter,

05:01though we don't know the requirements needed for someone to be granted it.

05:05It later attained godlike reverence, with the Templars practically worshipping the Father

05:10of Understanding.

05:12And then they went and revealed that Julius Caesar was the Father of Understanding, though

05:16it's still not clear whether the later Templars knew that Caesar had claimed the title, and

05:22whether they ended up worshipping his memory centuries later, or if it's all still about

05:27the title itself.

05:35Unity's British Accents

05:44There was some controversy over Altair's American accent during the first game, which

05:49was quickly altered by the time he turned up in Revelations.

05:53Since then, AC protagonists have had the accents of the place they're from, with the exception

05:59of Unity, in which the French characters all have British accents.

06:03This was despite the cast themselves not being British and mainly being French Canadian.

06:09The explanation for this is that the Animus was translating everything, but this is the

06:14only game in the franchise where the characters have the wrong accent.

06:18So did Unity use a completely different type of Animus to the other games?

06:22The real world explanation for this was that Ubisoft claimed people were used to hearing

06:26British accents in period pieces, which is again, bizarre, since all the games are period

06:33pieces.

06:45The Grey

06:54We thought we understood The Grey when its concept was developed in Black Flag.

06:59It's a digital realm where Juno's consciousness, at least, has been living for.

07:03It seems like a pretty difficult process for an Isu to put their consciousness in there,

07:08since for a while, Juno was the only one who'd managed it.

07:12We later found out that the Aesir had a supercomputer designed to keep them in a virtual afterlife,

07:18but the Bossim, aka Loki, has been trapped in The Grey.

07:22What does this mean for The Reader though?

07:25The Reader is what remains of Desmond Miles after his death in AC3, but it's not clear

07:31how his sacrifice actually landed him here.

07:34Is it hard to get into The Grey, or can it just happen by accident?

07:47Eagle Vision

07:56We know that Eagle Vision changes because game design trends change, but lore-wise,

08:02this only generates inconsistencies.

08:05Eagle Vision is intended to represent the supernatural sixth sense that many assassins

08:09have, a consequence of their higher proportion of Isu DNA.

08:13Technically, the sense is knowledge, which is why it gives you additional information.

08:18But in Origins, Eagle Vision was ditched in favor of an actual eagle flying around, and

08:24by the time of Valhalla, it wasn't an eagle at all.

08:26It was a raven, while Eivor did still have the Odin Sight ability as well.

08:32In Shadows, it's looking like the bird mechanic is gone completely, replaced with

08:36another iteration of detective mode.

08:39The Apple on the Moon

08:44Before the Great Catastrophe, one of the main Isu plans to avert it and save themselves

08:50was to put a dozen Apples of Eden into the sky to control humanity, making them imagine

08:55the threat of the solar flare away and defend the Earth.

08:59This alone makes almost no sense, but one of those Apples ends up on the Moon.

09:04The Templars later manipulate JFK into launching the Apollo program, which is all so that they

09:10can go to the Moon and get this Apple.

09:13But if you know anything about outer space, you know that the Moon is very far away.

09:18In fact, when the Moon is at its furthest from Earth, all the other planets could fit

09:23in a line in the space between.

09:25Putting something on the Moon on purpose is hard enough, even for the Isu, but apparently,

09:31putting something there by mistake is easy.

09:35Lucy's Betrayal

09:44This plot point is just one contradiction after another.

09:47Though it was eventually explained in a DLC for Revelations that Lucy Stillman had become

09:52disillusioned with the Assassins and was working with the Templars, it's still hard

09:57to believe.

09:58She'd already infiltrated Abstergo as a double agent and then killed no small number

10:03of them while busting Desmond out.

10:06So for her to have switched allegiances for good, fans just didn't want to believe it.

10:11But if the rumors are true, all of this came out of a behind-the-scenes dispute with Kristen

10:16Bell, who played Lucy, and they resolved it by killing her off.

10:21So there's no real evidence for this either.

10:24If it isn't true, and somebody at Ubisoft decided that killing Lucy was the best thing

10:28for the plot, they made a very bad call.

10:37Let us know in the comments any plot inconsistencies you've noticed.

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