vilkhaeya

assassin's creed and rarely some other stuff

[sicahyart]

Oh the urge to turn gorgeous and problematic in your late twenties/early thirties

[vilkhaeya]

it is a good life we lead, brother.

[almr001]

Basim from AC Mirage

[vilkhaeya]

each time ubisoft releases a new ac game or information about the future games, i get more and more disappointed with their approach especially to the modern day story and basically putting their main characters in the trash

[vivvysstuff]

Hear me out... Hytham but he has a mullet.

[vivvysstuff]

Wasn't gonna drink t2night but I just rememberd the wasted potential of Basim and hythams relationship and Hythams part in valhalla

There ain't no way a white colonizer with the same name is more loved in this fandom

[vilkhaeya]

what im saying, could've made the story much less shit

[fridrssvardagi]

a silent hour

[hyeonoll]

mentor

[blubellrose]

Replayed Mirage recently (beat permadeath on Ultimate Assassin :)) and remembered how funny this mission is.

the fact he was tempted

Basim, who is a self-professed poetry enjoyer, pretends to not know what a stanza is because he doesn't want to help. Makira really annoyed him bossing him around so he is playing smart by playing dumb.

[vilkhaeya]

my favorite mission in mirage honestly, too funny

[blazingblacktwilight]

Basim my glorious king they could never make me hate you

[vilkhaeya]

[vilkhaeya]

not many hytham posts on here lately :(

[vilkhaeya]

[bansheeoftheforest]

The Mirage - Valhalla Books (FREE)

Ever wondered where you could find books related to the Mirage-Valhalla chronology? Wonder no more! I've collected (hopefully functional) PDFs to share for everyone who, like me, was beating their head against a wall trying to find books that seemingly are already out of print.

From oldest (assumed canonical placing) to newest:

Daughter Of No One - Maria Lewis

Set before Mirage

Master Assassin Roshan's past is revealed in the hunt along the Silk Road for a powerful mysterious artifact in this essential Assassin's Creed adventure. Cairo, 824 – In the bowels of prison, escape is out of the question. The best Roshan can hope for is a quick death. She certainly doesn't expect a second chance offered by a cloaked stranger who says Roshan is exactly what they need: Someone who can disappear, who will do what needs to be done, someone expendable... Granted her freedom, Roshan joins a crew of shady figures assembled to steal a mysterious object being transported along the Silk Road towards Persia. Roshan's otherworldly intuition proves vital as she fights to stay one step ahead of her backstabbing gang and survive the mission. For her employer holds the key to a world she can't begin to fathom: a world she might have been destined for all along.

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A Soar Of Eagles - Michael Avon Oeming (COMIC)

Set before Mirage

Years before the events of Assassin's Creed Mirage, a young Fuladh must return to his homeland to investigate political unrest that could point to a secret Order of the Ancients' stronghold. But in order to discover what's behind the chaos and violence in Adulis, Fuladh and Roshan will have to confront a more immediate danger.

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The Golden City - Jaleigh Johnson

Set after Mirage / Set before Valhalla

A young emperor's life hangs in the balance, and only the Brotherhood of Assassins can save him, in this action-packed historical adventure from the award-winning Assassin's Creed universe. Constantinople, 867 – A murderous plot is afoot. Assisted by the Order of the Ancients, the emperor schemes to assassinate his son and throw the city into chaos. In response, the Hidden Ones have dispatched Assassin acolyte Hytham to join his mentor, Basim Ibn Ishaq, to infiltrate the palace and foil the emperor's plan. But that is not his only mission... Hytham's brotherhood have entrusted him with uncovering where Basim's true loyalties lie and whether the master Assassin's personal obsessions outweigh his sense of duty. For Hytham to succeed, he must tread carefully, for Constantinople is a city of shadows, and danger hides in all of them.

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Forgotten Myths - Alex Freed (COMIC)

Set before Valhalla / Set before The Asgard Questline

Thor, Baldr, and Heimdall have discovered trouble lurking at Asgard's borders once again. A mighty fire giant from Muspelheim is threatening the land of the Æsir. In the aftermath of the raging battle, Baldr discovers that the Muspels are now massing at the gates of Svartalfheim and begins a journey to bring peace to the realms.

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Blood Brothers - Feng Zisu (MANHUA)

Set before Valhalla

Not long before the exploits of Eivor Wolf-Kissed,JarlStensson and his sons, Ulf and Björn, make their way to England at the behest of Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivarr the Boneless. Filled with excitement, confidence and bloodlust, the two brothers are eager to go to war against Aelfred the Great and his Anglo Saxon army. But they would do well not to underestimate what awaits them on those green shores...

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Song of Glory - Cavan Scott (COMIC)

Set before Valhalla

A Tale from the Saga of a Viking Warrior Blades clash in this prequel to Ubisoft's next hit video game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Written by Cavan Scott (Star Wars Adventures, Vikings), illustrated by Martin Tunica, and colored by Michael Atiyeh (The Orville, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith), Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory takes readers back to a Mid-9th Century Norway. Eivor, a Viking warrior, observes a village raided by a neighboring kingdom. Bloodshed and mayhem erupt as she seizes the attack in her own favor—but will her victory be a blessing to her clan or a terrible curse? Elsewhere, another Viking searches for a different kind of prize, one of crucible steel...

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Geirmund's Saga - Mathew J. Kirby

Set during Valhalla

Discover the epic tale of legendary viking Geirmund Hel-hide in this new novel set in the world of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Mid-9th Century CE. The Viking attacks and invasions are shattering England’s kingdoms. Born into a royal lineage of Norwegian kings, Geirmund Hel-hide sets out for adventure to prove his worth as a Viking and a warrior. A perilous journey across the sea brings him into contact with a being out of myth and grants him a mysterious ring that promises both great power and bitter betrayal. As Geirmund rises in the ranks of King Guthrum’s legendary army, he will have to use all his cunning to face the many dangers of a land ravaged by war. Fighting alongside his band of loyal warriors, his path will soon lead him into a conflict as old as the Gods themselves.

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The Sword Of The White Horse - Elsa Sjunneson

Set after Valhalla

A Celtic warrior defending her people from Viking raiders infiltrates an ancient sect to save her homeland, in this gripping original saga set in the world of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Mercia, 878. Witch-warrior Niamh discovers a new order called the Hidden Ones is seeking to establish a foothold in Lunden. Her land is already scarred by Viking raiders, bloody wars, and clashing cultures. Determined to protect what remains of her homeland, she infiltrates this new group to discover whether they stand with her... or against her. Yet when Niamh learns the Hidden Ones have stolen an artifact sacred to her people, her own loyalties are challenged. Casting aside newfound alliances and friendships, Niamh soon discovers that betrayal comes with a heavy price and it will take everything in her power—her gods willing—to survive.

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The Hidden Codex - Mathieu Gabella (COMIC)

Set after Valhalla

A secret knowledge. A forbidden weapon. England, Ravensthorpe camp, 9th century. Kidnapped by Eivor, a powerful Viking jarlskona, Edward, copyist monk, seeks to understand the reasons which pushed his brother Ecbert to commit suicide... Among the documents of the deceased, strange parchments blackened by a hermetic language were found. No one knows the provenance of this letters of occult appearance, but Edward has seen such signs before: in the workshop of Hytham, a man who had taken him under his wing. Hytham belongs to a secret order: "The Hidden Ones". An order that can offer Edward answers, and guarantee his aspirations for freedom and knowledge. For that, Hytham proposes to send him to Lunden accompanied by Niels, a young Viking warrior as undisciplined as he is promising. There, they will undergo quick training in the form of an investigation on the trail of a cult with troubling practices... Following the clues to the mysterious lands of Scotland, they will be confronted with the dangerous stakes hidden within Edward's questions...

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[blubellrose]

so glad this game isnt being shut down with dialogue like this

hang on.. basim as a pirate... saying piratey things... and mocking edward....

Basim: "instead of eagle vision, you should have PARROT vision! ... cuz ye a pirate!" (he would be proud of that one)

[blubellrose]

"Hytham knew he couldn't win, but he felt no shame in admitting he loved watching Basim move... the swords connecting their bodies like life threads." The Golden City, Jaleigh Johnson.

This is during the final fight scene between Basim and Hytham, a culmination of tension. I love how Johnson writes the fight scenes -- the drama, the emotion, how she captures Basim's toying and how hard Hytham has to work to match him.

promise when im done w exams this will come out of the WIP phase... maybe

[thepreciouspurrsian]

That moment when Qabiha places her three fingers on Basim Ibn Ishaq’s chest and tells him “We will set you free”…

She wasn’t talking to Basim at all. She was talking to Loki.

I’ve said this so many times; Basim and Loki are two separate entities. Basim is essentially a vessel for Loki. Loki’s presence stays beside him constantly. In mirage, when Basim was awake, Loki appeared as Nehal; when he was asleep, he showed up as the Djinn. And eventually, out of pure loneliness and emotional dead-ends, Basim chose to accept him. He agreed to become Loki’s ally —a body for a consciousness that exists but has no physical form of its own.

But here’s the important part… 🥺

When I was playing ac Valhalla, during this conversation between Eivor and Kassandra, Kassandra suddenly says, mid-sentence:

“Loki got bored?!”

And I swear I almost screamed. Because look!! Everyone already knows what’s going on!

Qabiha knew! And with the help of the Order, she was trying to free Loki.

Roshan knew it from the very beginning too! She understood that Basim was constantly fighting an inner duality. That’s exactly why she did everything she could to keep Loki from awakening inside him. But Loki won. And when she told Rayhan “It’s over. What we feared has happened.” this… this was precisely what she meant.

Even Kassandra, when she said that line, clearly knew what was really going on.

Now here’s where it gets interesting… 🥹

Considering that Kassandra spent her entire unnaturally long life hunting down dangerous Isu artifacts to keep them out of the wrong hands… that tells us something. Those artifacts hold immense power. And they’ve all been gathered, stored, consolidated somewhere. And Aletheia (inside the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, aka Angrboda’s consciousness…) she knows exactly where they are. Because she was always with Kassandra. Always guiding her. Always telling her what to do.

So this?

This had to be part of a bigger calculation. Part of a plan.

And now the Staff is in Basim’s hands in the modern day. See how beautifully it all connects?

At this point, all that’s left is for Basim Ibn Ishaq to finally free the Loki inside him! So that Loki can, in turn, free Angrboda, whose consciousness is trapped inside the staff.

But here’s the thing… 😭

Something deep inside me keeps whispering that Loki is using Basim. Purely instrumentally. Basim has spent almost his entire life working toward Loki’s goals, not his own. And I can’t shake the feeling that once Loki is truly free, he’ll discard Basim. He might not even let him keep the Staff.

And what does that mean?

It means Basim is shattered. Reduced to nothing. To dust. Gone. 😭

I can almost imagine Loki saying “You did your part well, Basim. This is where it ends.” ubisoft would absolutely do something like this just to rip our hearts out. 😭 (From the bottom of my heart, I truly hope Basim survives! Loki owes him a life! He owes him a real life!) And what else? Loki’s actions and the consequences they’ve had for himself, his family and the world are very much up for debate. I know many people might disagree with me but from Loki and Angrboda’s dialogues during the anomalies, I came to one conclusion: Loki is someone who would sacrifice even his own family for the sake of his pride, let alone Basim. If I’m not mistaken, this was also the core issue between Loki and Odin. I’m not saying Loki is a bad father or that he doesn’t love his family, no, but his priorities are clear: His goals > his family > Maybe Basim

Anyways, Basim says it at Eivor’s grave “I will find my children.” (already too aligned with Loki; calling them his children) And to find his children, the first step is obvious: he must free Loki and Angrboda. And let’s be honest… you can never truly trust Loki. He’s unpredictable by nature.

Even the mythological creatures in ac Odyssey (once you killed them) would leave behind a human body. Like they were never monsters to begin with.

Just people.

Just tools.

A tool to be used… and discarded later.

And honestly… it’s the same pattern we already saw with Kassandra! She was a tool too. A means to an end… just someone meant to gather all the artifacts in one place. And after she handed over the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to Layla Hassan… Well. Yeah. Exactly.

And honestly? I’m scared that might end up being Basim’s fate too! 😭 I really really hope it isn’t. Of course, by then we might get a few new characters added to the story. Who knows! But I’m extremely curious to see how Ubisoft plans to move the modern day narrative forward! 😭

In ac mirage, we even have an Iranian isu named Milad (and you know I’ve talked about him a lot before) I’m really excited and curious about that thread too!