Article by Warren Woodhouse
Neither the Assassins nor Templars are correct, I’ll explain but be prepared for a TL;DR. Sorry for the spoilers.
The Assassin’s Brotherhood and the Knights Templars have been at a very long and dragged out war against each other for eons, with neither side giving up.
Let’s say if you get to the end of the story of AC Valhalla, you’ll come across the glowy people cutscene, these two people are important as they’ve saved the world in a way, past and present. Desmond sacrifices himself in AC3 and Layla sacrifices herself in AC Valhalla, Layla has become the Mother of Wisdom and Desmond has became the Father of Understanding. If you’ve read the cave paintings in AC Rogue, the Mother of Wisdom is also possibly the Sky Woman in those cave paintings. Here’s another one I’ve noticed when playing on AC Liberation a few years ago, realised that Eurdito is Latin and it means Truth, as in literal truth. The Animus machine is also a time machine to some capacity, but how?
Both parties are right and wrong in their methods and teachings, neither fully understand the truth other than one person entirely: Ezio Auditore de Firenze, in AC Revelations he spoke across thousands of years to leave a message behind for Desmond in the future. Is it possible that Ezio is a conduit in all of this?! Is it possible that Desmond could finally find the answer to stopping the world from being obliterated? Who knows… with Ubisoft, it could all be for nothing and yet they leave these stories behind to intrigue those like me and you, especially those who have had the patience to read this far.
Some of the historical events have been slightly altered.
Interestingly, Otso Berg mentioned in AC Rogue that he went in the Animus once and found out that one of his ancestors was a Viking raider and part of a raiding party who raided Lindisfarne Priory in the 9th Century, funnily enough is when AC Valhalla takes place, yet we receive no DLCs nor any references in the game relating to or regarding Otso’s story. Developer oversight during AC Valhalla, perhaps?
Anyways, thanks for reading guys and gals.
