Assassin's Creed Mirage | Lore Breakdown/Ending Explained

so the ending of Assassin's Creed Mirage throws a lot at you and it might leave you wanting for context if you haven't recently played Valhalla or read the secret Crusade that's the novel that details Al A's life introducing this tomb beneath alamut as well as the devices that it houses so in this video I'll be explaining bassam's identity The alamut Vault and its contents and finally rashan's decision as well as our last chronological appearance in Val's final quest if one of those three specific segments interests you I've time stamp the video but that's enough Preamble Bassam if you played Valhalla you'll likely remember the mythical arcs avore is troubled by recurrent visions of Odin who insists that she pursue a more personal Glory often at the expense of the people that she cares about when she uses a hallucinogenic to interrogate her Visions avore takes on the perspective of Odin and in these hallucinations she comes across various allies and Associates of hers also layered in Norse myth bassam's Norse equivalent is Loki a god known for his underhanded schemes Loki and Odin are frequently at Arts they're very different personalities one disagreement they have relates to Destiny a great catastrophe called Ragnarok is for told and when Odin desperately tries to subvert his fate Loki admonishes him telling Odin that the more one resists their Destiny the more certain it becomes it's for told that when Ragnarok comes Loki's son fenri will be the one to kill Odin and in response Odin does all that he can to protect himself from the boy and his cruel actions are pretty much absolved because their society resents fenry a bastard child mothered by a member of a different social cast to Loki and Odin avo's Norse filter characterizes fenri as a mangy wolf he truly is seen as an Abomination and above all a threat when Odin finally resolves to imprison the boy for Life Loki is set against Odin and obsesses over his revenge ahead of Ragnarok Odin obtains a technology that would reincarnate he and his peers in new bodies for following the disaster Loki infiltrates this process and joins their party of reincarnates his last known words are AOW to find Odin on the other side of Ragnarok it gradually becomes clear that avo's hallucinations are real memories cloaked in a familiar aesthetic Odin and Loki were ISU not Gods but a humanoid precursor race who engineered and ruled over humans before a great catastrophe called Ragnarok in ail's Visions led to their eventual Extinction but that's far from the end of these esos has planned the memories of Loki and Odin and his peers resurface once and only once in human hosts called sages though the initial process is a success a Sage's recollection of their past life is never so simple just as avore rationalized her Ancient Memories by transposing her religious beliefs onto them Bassam also processes his past with something contemporary to his culture the genic so why don't these ISU memories resurface cleanly well bassum and aore aren't ISU they're otherwise normal 9th century humans lacking the terms to really understand and follow something as foreign and bizarre as this layered ISU history there's an idea in cognitive science that analogy is Central to problem solving that more complex ideas can be simplified and made more digestible only by explaining why one familiar idea is analogous to the complex new idea built into to Norse paganism and Islam there are accessible figures icons and narrative tropes that are analogous to those of the less accessible ISU what we see is basically a translation from one language to another using religious metaphor what mirage's third act entails is basically bassam's stripping back of the metaphor nowal and the genie have been with Bassam for a long time but until now he's only understood those two things in a fairly literal sense a friend and a nightmare they actually personify Loki's memories and Loki's torture everything that Bassam imagines Nal does is his own doing early in the game a kid from anbar job tries in justess to steal bassam's pouch Nal clucks this looks to Bassam and then he responds and all of these dialogues between the two are basically inner conflicts externalized as a dialogue between two different personalities you'll notice that nahal being representative of Loki is always a dissenting voice when it comes to the hidden ones who would have Bassam Killers past kill Loki nahal is always pushing Bassam closer to the truth and when he covers it she essentially dies and becomes one with Bassa with Loki's repressed memories Uncorked there's no longer use for the metaphor this unraveling occurs when Bassam discovers at some point as Loki he was imprisoned and tortured the genie survives as an expression of Loki's torment see this very intentional cut here ISU torturer and ISU victim become the genie and Bassam respectively who exactly the torturer is we don't know I doubt that it's Odin because he acts mainly out of concern for himself and he lacks the implied sadistic quality of the torturer and also it' just be a pretty significant detail to ommit from valhal but really I think the torture's identity is beside the point while some future story May well fill in that Gap what really matters here is the broader picture of torment and this snowball of rejection that is constantly rolling downhill with Loki suffering some perhaps unjust slight responding to said slight only to be kicked down again and further ostracized alienation is a key theme in Loki's story and I think what this memory summarizes and communicates to bassim is that estrangement this constant in Loki's life and that's really going to resonate after being turned on by the person he looked up to the most who brought him in to a new family these alienating memories of lokis likely inform some of bassam's Lone Wolf sensibilities that we see in Valhalla in Mirage he's very warm and patient whereas in Valhalla bassam's Charisma is more often used to manipulate than to genuinely Comfort or consern soul and one last thing that does need clarification here is that Bassam and Loki are not one and the same Bassam still has agency over his decisions and he like avore with Odin responds to Loki in his own way in ail's case there's a Defiance of Odin and all that he stands for avore initially denies that there's anything true in what she sees sigot on the other hand takes on an opposing delusion he Embraces his memories of tear and begins thinking of himself as a deity now the ISU weren't gods and neither is sigur but I'd say that the idea at least affirms a lot of the right things for sigur him being a bit of a neurotic and insecure leader bassam's relationship with his Sage memories lies in the sober middle he's the most truly self-aware the misconception I see a lot is that Bassam is just the host body of Loki this evil corruptive force who at some point just did away with the mind of the boy from Samara but bassam's Awakening is just that Loki's memories resurface and Bassam feels them as if they were his own the loss of fenri is felt deeply and Bassam seeks retribution in killing Odin's reincarnate avore but on the other hand it's evident that Bassam has memories and passions completely independent from Loki he loves his home and in the present day Bassam expresses an Earnest love for the creit mirage's Bassam is never replaced in any real sense he's only made aware of his own nature and the repressed memories floating around his head everything Bassam does going forward he does of his own own valtion now for the delivering of these memories The alamut Vault was likely always something that Mirage was going to involve this is very old untapped law that relates to alair and ETO few locations were more ripe for a game of so many narrative hes now the reason this may be news to some of you is because alamut wasn't introduced in a game generally if you're lost on an important plot Point there's an Assassin's Creed coloring book or door stop you've been too neglectful to pick up but alamot isn't actually from something super obscure it was introduced in the secret Crusade that's the novel that details Al's life stitching together every game involving alair with some completely new chapters you might remember one memory in Assassin's Creed Revelations that sees alair and his wife Maria returning to Massa after seeing to duties in the East abass has usurped control of the Brotherhood and bastardized the Creed beyond recognition when alair lashes out at a bass Maria is fatally stabed following this alair Exiles himself to alamut an assassin stronghold east of Massa here he spends years in study of the apple one day it directs him to a vault containing circular ISU artifacts known as memory seals these devices can record and then render one's memories at the welder's convenience in his Decades of study alair becomes aware of a second impending catastrophe and he understands if only vaguely that a prophet will convey the messages necessary to prevent it alair leaves his Apple beneath Massi F in a grand Library the library's five keys are memory seals each one embedded with an important memory that the prophet could in some way learn from luckily for Sarah bolu mirage's narrative director secret Crusade is very vague about the Vault and its content I think it's literally just a paragraph possibly kept intentionally nondescript so that future writers had the flexibility to do something like introducing scores of memory seals as opposed to just the six that Al a makes use of dozens of them L the walls of the Vault and this makes sense the ISU knew a catastrophe was incoming for years before it actually happened and as it became less likely to be subverted more ISU took to preserving their messages and even consciousnesses in various forms and it's my guess that this message was left by Loki for himself as a stark and quite literal wakeup call for his reincarnate after Nal but actually Bassam activates the seal and Witnesses Loki's torture Bassam is able to banish the genie and accept his identity setting him on course to eventually avenge fenry this is the exact thing that Loki would want and it feels like a characteristic move of such a calculating man but of course that's not a sure thing that's just my theory because there's no clear perspective here this memory could well belong to the torturer or an unlocking associate we don't know who these people are or what they wanted from Loki if there even was an end goal there's not really a lot to speculate on the torturer dagger resembles the is dagger that Bassam can claim from The Oasis fault but that doesn't tell us much we know he's an ISU and the lack of detail makes me more sure of my theory because the memory isn't of any apparent practical use and we're just left with the emotional content of it all I think this was meant as a splash of cold water from One Life to the next though if that even is the case it's not as easy as Bassam simply reclaiming the seal this whole game Springs into action over its theft but why do the order of the Ancients want it and why do the hidden ones take on so much heat to keep it from them well the order of the Ancients are ISU supremacists they're interested Less in the influence they cultivate than the access that said influence grants them to ISU knowledge and Technology the endgame of their ideology would be a world in which the ISU are reincarnated and made rulers of the earth something their ideological successors the instruments of the first will attempted to realize over the mid-2010s and supremacy of any kind is of course an affront to the hidden ones who were concerned primarily with freedom progress gained by the order is progress lost by the Brotherhood this is why rashan and Kaba both seek Out The Seal at the beginning of the game because it would further the order's understanding of the ISU and so would a look around bassam's head bassam's accidental activation of the seal is witnessed by Abu abdalah and then explained to his mother Kaba who if you miss the flavious moment is this order's leader Kaba implies that Bassam is special for being able to gauge the seal though the order never really get their hands on it they understand what bassam's activation of the memory seal means the ISU designed the pieces of Eden as exclusive technologies that the human DNA couldn't commune with due to ISU human crossbreeding they developed a contingent of humans who had enough ISU DNA to activate pieces of Eden this is why Altier ETO and Desmond could each activate the apple of Eden for example they each had an unusually high concentration of ISU DNA and we know from the House of Wisdom assassination that the order understands at least fundamental isub biology Fazil has drawn graphs of the triple helix DNA strand a quality unique to the ISU so it's fair to assume that the order understands how the activation of ISU artifacts typically works and that Bassam houses precious ISU DNA they may possibly even be onto a sage status if Loki did leave the seal for himself then maybe he made its contents accessible only to him we don't really know in any case Bassam is a person of Great Value to the order and something of a liability to rashan she insists that Bassam kills his past and grounds himself in the cause in part because that would be conducive with hidden one Doctrine and seemingly her own transformation into a hidden one but also because she's likely wary of what Awakening and ISU Consciousness could do to a hidden one it could invoke feelings of betterness and Authority that are misaligned with their mission in rashan's eyes this Revelation is of no benefit to Bassam and what we see in response to its explanation is an overprotective rashan who is unusually Hasty in her killing of Kaba later when she loses her fight with bessam rashan leaves the Brotherhood but does eventually pick back up her fight with the order of the Ancients rashan is the quest Giver of the sole side quest in valhalla's Final Chapter set around 20 years or more after Mirage begins rashan enlists ail's help when she sets out to Kill Order member alila who stationed in England now this quest released a few weeks after mirage's big reveal so it's got a few teasers that I'd assumed Mirage would elaborate on rashan speaks about how she picked up the blade again after years of painful absence and we Now understand why she left the hidden ones but what she retrieves from alila is a scroll it's described as the future a seed to plant in Jerusalem now the Mind jumps to ac1 and the 11 Brotherhood the language used here a seed to plant makes it sound as if rashan l some kind of foundation for the formation of the Assassin Brotherhood in that region but this isn't given a definitive answer it could have to do with the Temple of Solomon or anything really this one is just left vague next month a novel based on rashan's earlier years releases and that may feature an epilog of some kind that explains this mystery but that's my analysis of the ending of Assassin's Creed Mirage this game leaves a lot up to interpretation so much is left vague so if you've got anything to add please go for it I did just upload an entire series recap so if anything here doesn't quite track there's a good chance it's in there but otherwise that's it thank you guys for watching leave a like if you enjoyed and if you didn't maybe let me know why thanks again and I'll see you all next time

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Length: 15min 15sec (915 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 14 2023