{"id":211283,"date":"2021-03-09T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/assassins-creed-altair-maria-unity-arno-elise\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:01:29","slug":"comparing-assassins-creed-altair-and-maria-to-ac-unity-arno-and-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/09\/comparing-assassins-creed-altair-and-maria-to-ac-unity-arno-and-elise\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Assassin’s Creed Altair and Maria to AC Unity Arno and Elise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em><\/strong> has both mainline and spin off games that introduce players to a wide variety of characters, all coming from different time periods, backgrounds, and personalities. However, with a common thread being the Creed they find themselves part of (more or less, as more recent Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em><\/a> games don\u2019t feature the traditional assassin role), players are bound to find some similarities between different protagonists and their stories. Every character\u2019s reason for joining the Creed (or the Hidden Ones, depending on the time period) is unique, but some stories bear a resemblance too close to deny.<\/p>\n

That being said, of course no parallel is perfect and the similarities will give way to differences, too. Two stories that similarly parallel each other are that of Altair Ibn-La\u2019Ahad and Maria Thorpe of Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> and Assassin\u2019s Creed Revelations<\/em> compared to Arno Dorian and Elise de la Serre of Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/em><\/a>. Both male leads ended up falling for Templar women and sought to redeem themselves in the eyes of those they let down. These Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> characters are all unique in their own ways, but have some common threads too.<\/p>\n

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In the Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> series, there are few romantic storylines that are spread across multiple games like Altair and Maria\u2019s. Assassin\u2019s Creed Bloodlines<\/em> really goes in-depth into how the two characters continue to get to know each other and fall in love, but it\u2019s not really as romantic as it seems. In fact, Maria is still a Templar<\/a> and actively fights against Altair for the majority of the game, causing him to capture her and keep her prisoner.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s during their time together that they get to understand each other on a deeper level, though Maria does evade him a few times. Their \u201clove story,\u201d if it can be called one, definitely isn\u2019t very romantic and could probably be likened to Stockholm Syndrome. Toward the end of Bloodlines is when Maria denounces the Templars and ends up helping Altair, but part of her leaving the Templars is because its leader, Armand Bouchart, never liked her and even accused her of working for the Assassins<\/a>, even when her loyalty was only to the Templars.<\/p>\n

Maria fights Bouchart before she gets injured and Altair takes over, and later remarks she\u2019s done with the Templars and wants to travel. Altair says he\u2019d like to accompany her and she later agrees to travel back to Masyaf with him. Their romance didn\u2019t start until after she relocated with him, and it wasn\u2019t much later that they married and had their two children. During this time, Maria also decided to join the Assassin Order, though not everyone accepted her.<\/p>\n

The two had a happy life together, but Maria was always wary of Altair<\/a> keeping the Apple of Eden and tolerated it for a while before voicing her disagreement. It wasn\u2019t until the murder of their son Sef that things really went downhill, especially because their other child Malik was accused of committing the crime. In the end, Maria\u2019s feelings about the Apple of Eden were correct, and she ultimately died because of Altair\u2019s use of the Apple.<\/p>\n

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Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/em>\u2019s Arno and Elise have a similarly complicated relationship, though it\u2019s not akin to Altair and Maria\u2019s possible Stockholm Syndrome situation. As a child, Arno\u2019s father, an Assassin, was killed and he ended up living with and being raised by Francois de la Serre, the Grand Master of a French faction of the Templar Order<\/a>. Elise was Francois\u2019 daughter and Arno\u2019s dearest friend, and though they were raised together, they never viewed each other as siblings.<\/p>\n

For some, it may be a little strange that two children who were raised in the same household and regarded as siblings would eventually turn their relationship romantic, but for others it\u2019s not as issue. The main issue for their relationship was actually their class differences, which limited how often the two could see each other. Still, their love endured until the death of Francois de la Serre, which Arno unknowingly played a part in<\/a> by not delivering a note to him in time. After this, Elise blamed Arno for her father\u2019s death, with Arno blaming himself as well.<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t until much later that they rekindled their relationship, though they were on opposite ends of the field with Elise being a Templar and Arno having joined the Assassins. However, in Unity<\/em> they ended up acknowledging their common goal of finding the person who killed Francois, as he meant a great deal to both of them. Where Arno was driven by a desire to right his wrong, Elise was more bloodthirsty<\/a> and just wanted vengeance for her father.<\/p>\n

Her vengeance would be her downfall, as she decided to pursue and fight the new Grand Master, Francois-Thomas Germain, by herself. Though she was technically winning their sword fight, Germain was wielding the Sword of Eden which became unstable and threw her backwards into a stone column. Arno rushed to her side, but it was too late – Elise was already gone.<\/p>\n

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Clearly both sets of couples had some interesting circumstances that put them in each other\u2019s lives. Altair and Maria had no intention of becoming romantically involved at first but eventually fell in love with each other. Arno and Elise, on the other hand<\/a>, had a classic \u201cchildhood friends turned lovers\u201d trope, though they did have the added layer of literally being raised together. It seems both Assassin men had a penchant for Templar women, though Maria did denounce the organization before becoming romantically involved with Altair.<\/p>\n

Both women were inadvertently killed by Pieces of Eden, though their lovers had differing levels of involvement in their deaths. As for individual characteristics, Altair and Arno both sought to right a wrong<\/a> they either actually caused or blamed themselves for. Maria wasn\u2019t as impulsive as Elise – where Maria died trying to intervene, Elise died because she didn\u2019t listen to Arno and went after Germain alone.<\/p>\n

Altair, Arno, Elise, and Maria all have their own individual personalities and motivations, but when it comes to their romances, it seems these duos have more in common than meets the eye.<\/p>\n

Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/strong><\/em> is available now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n

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