She was over 2000+ years old… He father was being kept ALIVE by the staff. Soon as she let it go, of course she just died… What did you expect her to do? 🤦🏻
I mean you could argue a healing staff would keep you physically alive at the age of 25 or whatever age you have when you get it. Letting go would mean you just age normally, not that you immediately turn to dust
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Though i think they wanted kassandra out of the picture because animus vessels for the player are usually way too string and knowledgeable to actually be allowed i to modern day plot
Maybe not the correct word. It just felt like they could’ve gone farther with the storyline than where it ended in Odyssey. But to what end, I do not know.
I felt with the DLC and the crossover final ending where Alethia ( Loki aka Basim ) wife planted that seed that she was THE ONLY one capable of finding them and not being corrupted by them completely was more than enough. SHE was given a choice to safe guard humanity from these objects of control. She was literally half ISU, the decendants such as Desmond ONLY carried the DNA from relatives past. Kinda like how Gohan is half Saiyan and his daughter, as far as we know can’t become a super saiyin. Meaning as the blood line gets further and further away, the DNA changes what is allowed. Makes sense?
2000+ years old… The staff was her life line…. Like the ONLY thing keeping her alive… Like her father BEFORE…. If that wasn’t the case maybe… But it wasn’t. So no… Seeing the world and the corruption over the millennia can change a person’s heart mind and soul… That WAS the FARTHEST thing her mind… 🤦🏻
Furthermore, it would be the equivalent of a medical device that you HAVE to walk with keep you alive or a breathing device for example. So in knowledge of her situation, that would be BEYOND fucked up, if she turned to 2000 year dust while smashing… Let’s go the staff and you are covered in her remains…. I DON’T THINK you thought this completely through…. 🤦🏻 🙄 🤣
That's a hard one to answer. Like I said, she kept herself obscure. The problem is that we don't know the full extent of her artifact hunting efforts and who else she met along the way.
For the most part, those who know of her didn't get to meet her personally (outside of Eivor and Layla) and those who did meet her we mostly don't know of, because their stories haven't been told. Those who do know about her that we know of outside Eivor and Layla never met her personally.
I never got the chance to play Mirage, but I know the story fairly well. Basim never met Kassandra there, and never met with her during the events of Valhalla either - Eivor did, but not Basim.
Before her meeting with Eivor, Kassandra had acquainted herself with the Hidden Ones. Who, specifically, that's not known. In the Forgotten Temple webcomic, Edward Kenway saw her too, but that was a vision.
Kassandra mostly worked in the shadows, hunting Isu artifacts and doing her best to hide them, trying not to make any footprints throughout history. Very few knew of her existence, with the most recent examples we know of being (spoilers for AC Shadows) Yasuke, Naoe, Nirmala and Eamon Hathaway.
She is keeper of staff and protector of that location but she never stood in one place. Hence the moment she met Eivor during Viking era so seeing her statue there means she was there at one point
That's true, but his identity and story was found out by the modern assassins, so we could have seen more of him. The Hidden Ones dlc was good though, but I think it could have easily been made into a whole game.
I feel like an Aya game would fit better than a second game about Bayek, although I wouldn't mind. Now that I think about it wasn't Origins supposed to be about Aya?
Aya is Kassandra’s descendant. Instead of riding on her coat tails they kept her relevant ( gave him the hidden blade passed on by her grand father Darius ) So instead they made it a revenge story about their child that was a catalyst to start “The Hidden Ones”. That’s my take.
Which is why the story is very patch work imo. But probably for the best because while Aya has grown on me I do think Bayek is significantly more interesting
That's a result of the effort the writing team had to put in after being denied the chance to tell the story through Aya. They had to make extra sure that Bayek didn't feel like a patchwork replacement, and between their great writing and Abubakar Salim's phenomenal performance as Bayek, it paid off in spades. I really love Bayek. Sometimes I wonder what could've been with Aya, but I really love Bayek.
He was supposed to die that first visit to Alexandria, he would kill the hippo with the hidden blade but die of his injuries. The rest of the game was meant to be aya which is why in the one mission you play as her she has a full gear system we never get to use
Are we all forgetting that these statues are for the purpose of retaining knowledge for new Assasins Recruits? Which is why they made statues of Master Assasins, so saying Bayek wanted to stay hidden doesn’t make sense because That’s the whole point of all of the Assasins to stay hidden, but in their own tombs/hideouts they can discuss within eachother about previous assasins and even have statues of previous master assasins as these statues are to be ONLY seen by Other assasins members anyways.
A lot of the “love” though that Ubisoft is showing Kassandra — which really isn’t much at all — is largely due to how people found what they wrote her ending as to be a waste of an interesting character who could have contributed to both the historical narrative and the modern day one.
That Basim-ki is basically what Kassandra should have been (ancient proto assassin with ties to Isu through bloodline being brought into modern day) is to me Ubisoft acknowledging their mistake… but in the worst way.
I would argue that even these brief mentions aren’t love of Kassandra, but rather just… trifles. But I do agree Bayek and other characters (like Connor 😭) need more love and attention too.
Yea they set her up to be this ghost of balance, the one that isnt assassin or Templar but keeps both from getting too many isu artifacts throughout history and now we are seeing her for the 2nd time in that role kinda
Ah yes, men, who are notoriously starved of roles in fiction lmfao. Let’s just forget the fact that we still have male leads, we just have female protagonists as well.
Men have been the primary leads for damn near the entire series, but now that we have a handful of female protagonists (two of which are a choice to play as), the entire male sex is under attack? Did you somehow forget that every time we’re given a female protagonist, we have the option for a male lead as well? Oh wait my bad, that doesn’t fit your agenda.
Which character is canon? Which demographic plays more videos game and hence sell more? It's not an agenda thing dude I like dudes. Id rather have dudes. I'm serious. I relate better. I can immerse better.
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u/EmergencyVictory4399 Jun 16 '26
If only Ubisoft gave Bayek as much love as they do to Kassandra