It’s not exactly the hot take of the year to say that the Assassin’s Creed series has become convoluted in terms of the narrative. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla only amplified this take, giving plenty of ammunition to critics and disgruntled former players alike to claim that these installments have lost their way. Still, the game and the story are coherent enough to have valid conversations about.
Perhaps there are some elements of the game that make absolutely no sense at all. But is it fair to believe every criticism of these inconsistencies? Or is it possible that fan theories can save the day? There’s a legitimate discussion to be had about what parts of the game are just plain, old-fashioned mistakes and what parts of the game are possibly reconciled with a fan theory. Warning: Major spoilers to follow.
10 No Sense: The Apocalypse Happened Anyway
Players are missing out on lots of details in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but one thing they won’t miss out on, unless they refuse to look up, is the beautiful northern lights when inside of the Animus. Fans are treated to Norway’s beautiful sky before the age of pollution.
The aurora borealis is there outside of the Animus as well, but it’s a lot less friendly since it’s about to kill everyone on the planet. Of course, Desmond was promised that his sacrifice stopped the world from ending, so why has this game gone back on that?
9 Fan Theory: Fate Is Real
The games in the series have beautiful open worlds, but what if the fate of each of these worlds were all one and the same? Despite the premise that the Assassins can go back in time and find out all of the answers, what if these answers are meaningless?
It’s ripped right out of Terminator, but fans have suspected that, much like that franchise, the day of the apocalypse can be delayed in Assassin’s Creed but can’t be prevented. This idea is given new life in Valhalla when Layla tells The Reader that perhaps the best way forward would have been to accept the solar flare instead of preventing it.
8 No Sense: The Order Survives By Changing Names
The Templars just can’t ever seem to die, no matter how many awesomely powerful pieces of Eden are used against them. They exist in every time period and are hunted down to extinction and yet, somehow, in the next game, they’re still there.
It’s treated as though changing names saves their lives. The Cult of Kosmos becomes the Order of the Ancients, which becomes the Templars, and all three are killed down to the very last member by various assassins. So apparently a good rebrand brings with it the power of resurrection.
7 Fan Theory: The Templars Are Decentralized
The idea is that players are constantly cutting the head off of the snake and the snake is regrowing means that fans might be right and the Templar title is nothing more than a fancy name for the human desire to seek power.
Valhalla is already dealing with plot holes and unresolved mysteries, but this explanation from the fan base bails Ubisoft out. Abstergo doesn’t have to be run by Templars or Cultists or any of that, they might just be people that, like so many others, want to be in charge.
6 No Sense: Desmond Miles Is Still Alive
Desmond Miles is back and he’s going by the name of The Reader now. After his betrayal cost him his own life and doomed the Assassins to failure, the series has tried to come up with a way to put the man in a more sympathetic light.
The problem is that he is dead and he is now meeting Layla who is alive, at least, for a little bit. So what is the connecting thread here? Can people just talk to dead people whenever they want to? Can they do it through a computer?
5 Fan Theory: Time Travel Is Coming
Fans demanding answers might look to the DLC for resolutions, but, in the meantime, they might also turn to the forums. Fans have been theorizing that time travel is coming, not just through the Animus, but in actuality.
Layla tells The Reader that it might not be too late to undo Desmond’s poor decision to sell out. And the Animus has already glitched several times to allow the user, for brief moments, to enter and interact with the worlds in the past. Maybe that’s why they can speak together; the ability exists in a timeline yet undiscovered.
4 No Sense: Basim Connects To Eivor In Animus
As even the most rookie-level fan knows, connecting to a person inside of the Animus requires DNA that descends from that individual. The program has been modified to allow computer techies to work around it, but Basim connects without any help at all.
Even if fans go with the idea that Loki and Havi are related, it’s not about obscure familial ties, it’s about actual DNA. And while fans are still asking a lot of questions about Eivor, they can be relatively certain that Eivor is not from the Middle East.
3 Fan Theory: Eivor Is Not Human
This is a creative theory in an attempt to skirt this very obvious contradiction. If Eivor is not human at all and is still of Isu origin, then anybody at all will be able to connect and see these memory sequences.
It also explains why the choice of gender is about the memory strength of the user and not making an attempt to be historically factual. There are still questions about how Odin lost his memory and became Eivor and then died anyhow, but at least this is an attempt to fix the broken plot.
2 No Sense: The Assassins Have No Goal
Rebecca and Shaun are up to something. Even when not using main characters like Layla and Desmond, they appear in other games as undercover agents within Abstergo headquarters. The entire series and spin-offs have their fingerprints all over it.
Yet, whenever something happens, Rebecca and Shaun make it clear they have no idea what to expect or what is going on. They call themselves Assassins, but they have no plans of their own and just hope that information will save them. This is made very apparent at the end of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla when they just give up their plans straightaway and do whatever Loki tells them.
1 Fan Theory: The Assassins Are The Bad Guys
Welcome to the darkest theory yet. And yet, it might be more likely than any other theory on this list. While some will argue that Eivor is the best assassin of all time, his kingmaking and aggressive tactics end up leading to the Vikings being driven out of England.
The Templars might not be good guys. They are power-hungry tyrants that abuse their authority. But what if, like true Calvinists, the developers have decided that ultimate authority, while evil, is necessary? And the assassins are merely disrupting the Templars from taking the control that humanity needs them to have?
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