Last night MTV News Stephen Totilo’s staff sent me a text about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: “Go and sit by the campfire.”
We talked about the game and he suggested we check something out. Apparently, even if I had sunk in 90 hours last year’s biggest game– even though we completed all the Animus anomalies, we eliminated most of the regional stories and extended porous over the end of the game– I would have somehow missed an essential hidden scene that has serious implications for the relationship between two major characters.
Major spoilers follow for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
So the campfire. It’s not just any campfire, but specifically the one you see while exploring the modern segment in New England. And you have to stay with him after defeating the main arc of the game, apparently, once you are in Basim shoes, but still unquestionably sensitive. (Remember, following the events in the Hordafylke arc, the recent protagonist of the Layla series ends up locked in an old digital abyss. Then you control him rather than Layla the modern story of assassin’s Creed it remains, as always, utterly astonishing.)
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I reached this point in my game, so I directed Basim to the campfire. “Ah, the wonderful smell of wood smoke,” he says. “I’m glad some things never change.” Then he looked over the idyllic American country. Everything is very wonderful. Not exactly essential.
Zack Zweizen, Kotakuhe’s in the house assassin’s Creed the master of tradition, had a different experience. When he followed the same steps, he saw …
Yes, this is Eivor. Is not They want Eivor, pay attention to you, but rather an appearance, something like the ghosts of the Force in Star Wars. Look closely and you can see hints of a smile. In the the full clip, Eivor and Basim nod to each other, a recognition of mutual respect. One could reasonably go so far as to assume that Eivor, with that move, says practically, “All is well, man.”
It doesn’t matter how many hundreds of years have passed. If my brother disappeared for two years and then appeared one day with a strange man, then that strange man planned to kidnap my brother and partially dismember him, then secretly follow us. two on an adventure in search of the soul in our homeland and then revealed his secret plan all the time at the worst possible time, and then tried to kill me, I do not know I would be so forgiving.
Also, we still don’t know how the hell Eivor’s skeleton got to New England. But Eivor – either through the magical Animus technique or through the established presence of Basim in the 21st century – still seems to be around, in one way or another. And it’s not like there’s no precedent for these things. Kassandra, the protagonist of 2018 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, managed to survive to this day. (She’s dead now.) Here we hope that this will mean that Eivor, the strongest protagonist of the series from Ezio Auditore, will return.
It’s not clear why Zack saw this scene while I got stuck with a nostalgic song. I played a lot Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but there are two more major tasks I have yet to complete. First of all, I didn’t finish the Hamtunscire arc. Once I found out what was going on, I decided the eight to ten hours needed to beat him – look, I play these games at an extremely methodical pace – would have been better spent playing anything else. I also haven’t addressed any of the Asgard stuff, although it’s the first on my checklist for when I’ll finally return to the game.
Our best working theory is that you have to complete one or both segments before you can see Eivor in New England. Kotaku contacted Ubisoft about the exact parameters needed to trigger this scene.