Assassin's Creed Origins | The Story So Far (2007 - 2017)

[Music] with the sarsens Creed origins only one week from release I thought what better time to go over the story so far our Assassin's Creed origins looks to revitalize the story we all held so dear and give it a new burst of life I'm sure there are people out there who haven't played the previous games or have just forgotten some details - the overarching story of Assassin's Creed well don't worry folks James has got your back that's after this video you'll be able to go into Assassin's Creed origins understanding the story in its entirety so without further ado let's get started and go over the events that led up to Assassin's Creed origins I'm gonna start off our story on March 13 1987 this is the date that the catalyst for our story Desmond Miles was born in a place called the farm within the Black Hills of South Dakota the farm yeah they called it the farm my parents two dozen couples some kids a community hidden away the farm wasn't much of one wasn't a proper farm we grew some food I don't remember any animals though maybe a few dogs ever since I was young they never stop saying it you are an assassin you are an assassin and this is our cream Desmond was raised by his mother and father his father being William Myles and his mother's name still unknown to us he was told he was an assassin and as were all the people of the farm apparently an order that had span thousands of years him and other children were trained to hone their stealth skills their fighting skills their perceptive skills and were also taught to use their environment to their advantage with things like climbing the community was tight-knit but as Desmond got older he stike uestion Athene's people were telling him conspiracy theories about a pharmaceutical company known as Abstergo this couldn't possibly be true his Paras and everyone in this off-the-grid town was insane Desmond had to get away March 13th 2003 the day of Desmond 16th birthday Desmond didn't want to be used to further his father's goals which he thought were just insane he used the minimal skills he'd learned from his time being trained at the farm and escaped he managed to find his way from South Dakota to New York City where he quickly became a bartender at a club called bad weather two years later in 2005 another of William miles pupils Lucie Stillman had her tires to the assassins cut in order to infiltrate Abstergo industries the pharmaceutical company I mentioned earlier she was contacted by a man by the name of Warren Vidic kan took interest in her ability for cognitive neuroscience she became vinick's assistant on a project called animus a project hidden deep within Abstergo industries in 2007 a man named clay cosmic began his training under William miles for the assassin order four years later clay was abducted by the lineage discovery and acquisition department of obstinacy and became the 16th subject in the Animus project now we move on to 2012 now this is where everything just kicks up again August 8 2012 clay cosmic was found dead in his cell at Abstergo industries he cut himself and used the blood to write messages all over the walls of the Abstergo laboratory which he was held in later on September 1st 2012 Desmond Miles was kidnapped by the same men who kit clay he's knocked unconscious and transported to an Abstergo facility somewhere in Rome it's been nine years since Desmond escaped from the farm and all this is coming back to haunt him now why the next thing Desmond sees is fuzzy it's hard to make out everything is flashing and there's two voices in his head voices he can't quite pinpoint in the world around him you can see a large castle looks ancient everything goes white for a moment and he can see new things a marketplace there's a fountain Desmond can't quite figure out what's going on and he thinks he's losing his mind just as the panic sets in he's brought back to reality Desmond springs up two seas in a lab he's introduced to the people around him clearly some kind of scientists wearing lab coats they are Warren vidiq and Lucy Stillman and Desmond has been brought onto the Animus project as subject 17 there is no way for Desmond to escape all he can do is play along the Animas project soon reveals itself to Desmond explained by his captain you're inside the Animus which is it's a projector that renders genetic memories in three dimensions what is a memory mr. miles it's the recollection of a past event specific to the individual remembering the event yeah sure and what if I told you that the human body not only housed an individual's memory but the memories of his ancestors as well genetic memory if you will migration hibernation reproduction how do animals know when and where to go what to do that's just animal instinct how you're arguing semantics mr. miles whatever you call it the fact remains these creatures hold knowledge absent the requisite first-hand experience I've spent the past thirty years trying to understand why I discovered something most fascinating our DNA functions as an archive it contains not only genetic instructions passed down from previous generations but memories as well the memories of our ancestors and the Animus lets you decode and read these DNA files precisely desmond is forced to relive the memories of one of his ancestors who lived nearly 1,000 years ago Altea eben ah ah had an assassin engaged in a war with a rival order known as the Templars who secret to control mankind desmond is exploring altaïr's memories in order to locate something known as the apple of Eden this is an artifact left behind by a precursor race named the Sioux and it allows the control of men's minds of the course of the week here is that Abstergo he overhears conversations pickpockets password keys and gets closer with Lucy Stillman learning she is in fact an assassin on the inside she also explains that Abstergo is the modern-day front for the Templars maybe she's his key to escaping on September 8 Desmond completes the memory that Abstergo was trying to access within Altair's DNA the memory which details the location of various pieces of Eden all across the globe when exiting the animus this time he gained enough synchronization with his ancestor access an ability called eagle vision it's a sixth sense which was used by Altair and is accessible to all humans although some with high precursor DNA access easier or if you've been exposed to the ability within the animus which is the case with Desmond while using eagle vision Desmond was able to see the blood scrawled all over the building by Clay subject 16 the origins of this was unknown to Desmond he followed it to his room in which there was plenty of blood markings all over the room somewhat took Desmond's breath away before he could even begin to analyze what he discovered Lucey burst into the room which entirely grabbed Desmond's attention she led desmond out of his room she was helping him escape from circus building she asked him one more time to enter the animus so she could collect data for another of his ancestors which they would need later Ezio Auditore da Firenze say desmond and lucy fought their way through the Abstergo facility to eventually reach the parking lot in which lucy forced desmond into the trunk for whatever reason and they proceeded to drive from Rome probably to somewhere in Florence although it could be Rome I'm not entirely certain they never actually stated when arriving at their hideout lucy explained that they needed to train desmond by using something known as the bleeding effect figures we need your help for what another treasure hunt through time Abstergo is going to replace their apple of Eden the map your ancestor found guarantees it the other assassins they'll do what they can where they can but what what is it we're losing this war doesn't the Templars are too powerful and every day more of us die I still don't see how I fit into things we're going to train you turn you into one of us what no no you've seen me in action no good at this and even if I was it would take months years even no not with the animus not with the bleeding effect but I'm just one guy sometimes that's all you need so that's why you found him my ancestor what was his name let's see if you can follow in his footsteps you'll learn everything he did just like he did years of training absorbed in a matter of days you broke me out of Abstergo and brought me here just to make me an assassin there's more to it than that but it'll have to wait trust me okay alright I'm in tell me what you mean there's been teams up with this band of assassins embracing his heritage to take the fight to the Templars he enters the armas 2.0 after being equated with Shawn Hastings and Rebecca crane he spends a good few days sifting through the memories of Ezio Auditore his ancestor from the Italian Renaissance while in the Animas desmond comes across several little blips within the simulation they end up being symbols the same symbols which desmond sold written in blood by subject 16 they conclude that 16 has left his consciousness within the Abstergo memory core which Lucy took from Abstergo by finding all of these symbols and completing puzzles desmond unlocks the truth this video is from one of clays animus sessions it depicts two people running through an advanced city there is the top of building with Apple in hand these two people were Adam and Eve and they led the rebellion against the issue around 70,000 years ago with an NCOs memories they find what is known as the vault an ancient place said to house great power when it co enters however there is no great power just a message a message from one of the issue themselves addressing Desmond Miles through Ezio this woman called Minerva speaks of temples which has similar knowledge and tells Desmond to find them now I'm gonna pause just here these temples are never mentioned again I'm going to assume they've realised that finding a bunch of temples was far too difficult and drawn-out to tell us a story so instead they made it one grand temple Desmond had to find with other mini temples just housing pieces of Eden Minerva also spoke of a terrible catastrophe which affected the East you seventy thousand years ago an extinction-level event which wiped out their kind and many others on the planet an event which was set to reoccur on yep you you guessed it and even if you didn't guess it you won't be shot when I'll reveal it December 21st 2012 yeah it's is one of those stories but don't worry they they actually had it pretty pretty [ __ ] well with the message delivered Desmond is pulled out of the animus because the Templars are here vidiq has come to get Desmond and take him back to Abstergo Desmond uses his newfound skills to fight the incoming waves of Templar agents and make his way to vidiq however vidiq is already in the truck ready to escape with no time to lose Desmond and the gang head to their truck to find another hideout they can't cross the border due to Abstergo x' guards patrolling so they have to detour to the next place that they can they pull up at the outer door a villa in order to set up shop underneath with hopes that Abstergo won't find them they head underground to set up with Jasmine's bleeding effect getting worse and worse is able to see Ezio without being in the animus once they make it to the sanctuary they spot a triangle on the wall once Desmond uses Eagle vision he can see numbers written underneath 14 1914 20 and 14 21 without any answers the gang head downstairs to get the animus set up this time Desmond is entering back into Ezio's memories to locate the Apple so the assassins have a one-up against the Templars within the armors there are more strange symbols left by 16 this time I'm locking them as a message straight from 16 himself infrastructure tendons heart voice subject 16 yes yes subject 17 they're dead I saw your blood no time it is far later than you know too late to save them who she is not who you think she is everything you hope to become everything you hold dear it's already gone explain please [Music] in Eden find Eve the key her DNA tell me I cannot son your son too weak must replenish energy don't go I am with you till the end finally in the darkness after sifting through more and more memories of Ezio they locate the Apple it's below the Colosseum the only issue is they need a password after once again using eagle vision on the triangle symbol Shawn puts together a theory as to what it means 1492 14 2001 what God tell us already I am I am that I am the tetragrammaton the 72 names of God you see they're all contained within three verses Exodus 19 through 21 and get this you'll like this if you arrange the four Hebrew letters in God's name within an equilateral triangle their numerical values add up to the same number 72 are you absolutely sure about this that's kind of why I'm saying it out loud Rebecca yeah but I haven't gone to the kicker yet construction on the Colosseum began in the year 72 I think we have our password the gang now heads to Rome to find the temple housing the Apple after making his way through the tombs of ruins desmond joins back up with the team and they find themselves in an actual first civilisation temple perhaps the ones that Minerva mentioned they make their way through the temple to find a big open space with the Apple directly in the center a few climbing puzzles later and the Apple is there Desmond moves closer symbols spray from the Apple and as Desmond touches the Apple everything freezes Desmond can't move and neither can anyone in the room Desmond turns and begins walking towards Lucy there's nothing you can do to stop it in that moment the Apple shows him the truth shows him what was going to happen I killed her you know I killed Lucy it was the Apple sudden it was Juno I saw what she was what would happen if I let her live I could have stopped myself I mean there was a force there but I didn't have to I chose to Desmond Lucy was going to betray us and take the Apple back to Abstergo I saw the satellite launched I saw them turn it on and then it failed whatever's on the other side of that door it benefits Juno we need to be careful hey I hope it's not uncomfortable for me to ask but what happened with Lucy I don't know I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything no it's fine I really don't know I was talking to my dad about it it's hard to say I mean Juno definitely took control but I think I agreed to it on some level I think I let her in no that's not right it wasn't her not exactly it was more like a program does that sound weird it showed me things what did you see that if I didn't stop Lucy EPS Turco would get the Apple and we'd all be dead I still don't understand why she turned on us I'm sure she thought she was doing the right thing do you think Lucy regretted what she was doing I used to think I knew her well but clearly that wasn't the case so I really can't give you an honest answer she seems so sincere though like she really wanted to make a difference yes well when I first met him I thought the same thing about cross it just keeps happening over and over again what does everything don't get weird on me Desmond no it's fine I'm fine don't worry he's gone into shock put him back in the machine it's the only way to fix this what's the Animus did this to him am I the expert or not do it Desmond is now deep in a coma caused by the Apple a cognitive process is set up by Rebecca to keep him stable within the Animus he was in the coma for around 20 days what did he endure Inc nothing at all nothing [ __ ] at all it's not like their medical [ __ ] in the Animas or anything like to give him substance they just had an animus apparently that means you don't need sustenance while in a coma [ __ ] it I I don't know within the plane of the animus referred to as animus Island he meets subject 16 in person Harry tells Desmond what he needs to do to find a sink Nexus there's too many conflicting memories in Desmond's mind who needs to complete the memories of Ezio and anti-air so he can go back to his body this is exactly what he does Desmond relives Ezio's memories to the full extent until there's nothing left to show him when he finally reaches his sink Nexus that assumed known as Jupiter gives Desmond another message [Music] which each college was presented to a single place [Music] it was our using I'm nervous and Juno's this low and some all the connected with ozone solutions which held the most honest and devotion ourselves testing their merits six we tried in succession each more encouraging the last [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the earth shook for days the fires burned for weeks and when the ash had settled less than ten thousand of your kind still lived and far fewer of hours but we carried on together to rebuild to review listen you must go there to the place where we labeled labored and lost take my words pass them from your head into your hands that is how you will open the way but be warned much still remains in flux and I do not know how things will end either in my time or yours Desmond opened his eyes to see his father along with Sean and Rebecca Desmond hadn't seen his father for nine years although it was definitely relieved to see him there they'd arrived at the grand temple spoken about by Jupiter there was no time to lose they had to enter the grand temple to see what secrets it held with the Apple in hand the Desmond opened the door and they went inside a large door was before them on the ground a small cube Desmond placed the Kuban and opening this appeared to be a power source which would power certain areas of the temple Desmond needed to find them all if he was ever to progress along with a certain key which would open the door to find the key Desmond we need to sift through the memories of another ancestor Connor Kenway Desmond would live through Connors life looking for the key while every so often being taken out of the Animus to search for another power source one time in Manhattan where he encountered Daniel cross a nexus Assen now working for the Templars another time Desmond went to Brazil where he was again intercepted by Daniel cross each of these times Desmond bested cross and took the power source back to the temple every time des been used in other power source he'd find a message or two from Juno another first SIV who'd been guiding Desmond since Rome after power source was found in Cairo William Myles offered to go and find it a few days later the team received a message from Warren vidiq he'd captured William and for some reason taking him to the Rome facility where Desmond was first abducted it really makes no sense for him to be taken to Rome I get like it's poignant for Desmond did it's a cool throwback but like why don't they haven't take him to a facility in Cairo or to a u.s. one since the company is based in the United States Plus how Davidic even get this to happen he's the head of the animus project he's not some high up Templar I have no idea how he managed to arrange with Allen Rickon to allow the father of one of the most notorious assassins to be transferred to his Rome facility so we could try and pull a cheeky switcheroo and get the Apple especially when Rickon wants the Apple so badly it seems like a really dumb move anyways desmond heads to the rome facility with the apple he takes out cross in the process and meets with vidiq desmond extends his arm with the Apple as if to be handing it over when he activates it all the men in the room killed themselves except for one who Desmond influences to shoot FIDIC with his father free and vidiq dead they head back to the ground temple to finish their work Desmond locates the key within Connors memories and they find it and use it to unlock the door within the ground temple once they answer they find juno has been imprisoned within the temple touching the pedestal which is their only hope of saving the world will let her out they also find that juno has very very evil intentions Desmond is given an ultimatum by Juno on Minerva who give Desmond two options either let the world be consumed by fire and destruction like it did 70,000 years ago to keep Juno imprisoned in the temple or save the world by using the AI which will in turn free Juno who wishes to enslave the human race it'll also it also kill Desmond too by the way I forgot to mention that book Desmond chooses to use the pedestal to save the world insisting that although Juno may have plans for destruction they will find a way to stop her with there being no hope in the alternative Desmond says his final goodbyes to his father and friends and touches the pedestal his DNA communes with it putting a protective barrier around the planet however releasing Juno into the world there isn't time son you know it's true it's already started I need to do this now so go go [Music] around fifteen hours later Desmond's body is found by Abstergo his body is bagged up and taken to Abstergo for research Abstergo dissect Desmond's body essentially rendering it just bits and pieces in order to take his DNA so that other people may relive his memories as they contained valuable information following this Abstergo set up a new division known as Abstergo entertainment who use animus tank alongside Desmond Miles and many others DNA in order to produce video games made from real historical events the money brought in from selling these video games allows for much more profit which goes to funding projects and Abstergo industries gavin banks of the old high air 2 which is a ship that who was a member of the assassins brotherhood received william miles codex after Desmond's death which detailed all of williams knowledge and it also named Gavin banks the new mentor of the Brotherhood in late 2013 a new employee at Abstergo entertainment was tasked with sifting through the memories of Edward Kenway upon the samples 17th floor of Abstergo entertainments Montreal studio the employee was in search of something called the Observatory which is literally never mentioned again so forget I even bothered saying it an IT technician by the name of John Standish who worked with this employee in order to get information from within Abstergo to the assassins turned out to be a sage an incarnation of Juno as husband a eater which Juno implanted within the human genome around 70,000 years ago this means that any human has the potential to randomly have the memories of eye eater which Juno wants to try and sequence in order to bring back her husband John Standish was cornered a which point he killed himself with a gunshots of the head his body was taken to the Paris research facility of Abstergo industries for dr. gramatica to conduct research for what is known as the Phoenix project a project designed to sequence a precursor genome to explore their memories and potentially bring them back at some point i'll also add the johan eaat so burke who was the top of his game at the Abstergo training program in 2012 we've made head of sigma team who were an elite team of Templar operatives the crew of the Altai air 2 met with a woman called Galina Verona who was a member of the Assassin's cell near Moscow her sellers lost their minds due to the bleeding effect from the Animus she had the full support of Voltaire two's crew who helped her track down and eliminate the remaining members of her cell as they have become deranged and dangerous these people included her own mother and sister her mother was hooked up to an animus connected to Juno Jehan Alonso Berg also carried out many expeditions in this time one to Germany to search for the aunt of Isis he found it to be a dead end and so set out for Cuba he led an expedition to Jamaica to look for the observatory seen in Edward Kenway memories he found after days of digging that there was a collapse in the temple within the 18th century it appears to be purposefully hidden by the assassins not much happened for a little while but towards the end of 2014 a team of assassins led by Gavin banks infiltrated the Paris research facility of Abstergo industries they destroyed the research lab also destroying John Standish his body along with the first shroud of Eden which also happened to house the consciousness of an issue named consus who was the one to create many of these pieces of Eden the helix servers a new system from Abstergo essentially acting as a cloud database for DNA memories was hit by a virus violet decosta was tasked with fixing this Johan Eon so Berg later joined who tasked a research analysis with delving into the memories of Shay Patrick Cormac as he believed them valuable to the Templars Shay was an assassin from the 18th century who went rogue and slaughtered many of the assassin Brotherhood also Berg sent footage of Shane murdering many of his former comrades to the assassins because honestly I don't know he's just a little bit [ __ ] up then the research analysis joined the Templars but it doesn't really matter because we never see them again it's also worth mentioning that around this time we found out the William miles actually rejoined the assassins as the mentor again so Gavin banks is no longer the mentor and William miles has taken back up his place as the mentor of the Brotherhood on the assassins side Shaun Hastings and a woman known as Bishop with the aid of a new helix initiative which is essentially a cloud with a ton of memories on to be played as video games by the public enlists the help of a so called initia to his playing these video games to locate a sage named Francois Thomas Azure man for Abstergo to by reliving the memories of an evicted Dorian it turns out that the sage has been decayed in his bones hidden within the catacombs of Paris for centuries so it doesn't matter anyway in late 2015 a child is brought into an obscure go clinic in New York City by his mother when looking at his patrilineal line they discovered that he was the child of Desmond Miles but not just that he's also a sage which means he's the son of Desmond Miles but also has the genetics and memories of eye eater somewhere in his DNA which could cause problems down the line later on that year Bishop tasks the initio at once again with travelling through memories of the Animus this time through the memories of twin assassins jacob and evie frye to locate the Shroud of eden once located within the buckingham powers vault the assassin sent a team to retrieve it during this assault sigma team also showed up to claim their prize Galyna be taught sober gan conscious but was unable to finish him off shawn hastings killed Isabel Arden who was the head of historical research at Abstergo industries and violet de Coster managed to shoot Rebecca crane causing her to be greatly injured the Templars took the shroud and the assassins retreated violet de Coster handed the shroud over to Alvaro gramática to help him with the Phoenix project this was secretly orchestrated by Juna herself what she's doing with these different playing pieces we don't yet know but you can better plan will finally begin to come together within Assassin's Creed origins following year in 2016 a criminal by the name of Callum lynch was to be executed however Abstergo faked his death in order to kidnap him and use him for his memories of Iguala Dean aha in order to find his apple of Eden after finding the Apple Callum managed to escape from Abstergo join the assassins and then killed the CEO of Abstergo industries Allen reckon when we talk about these events being the events of the movie I more reference the events of the novel which is far more fleshed out and the law discrepancies are pretty much resolved so let's reference the novel and not the movie which barely makes sense or fits into this video canonically although due to the death of one of literally the head Templars happening here I thought I may as well include it well that's it you should be entirely ready for Assassin's Creed origins in a week's time this video took me a hell of a long time to make so alike a share or a sub would be appreciated perhaps all three there were a few events I didn't detail such as heresy and the calm series two reasons for that would be I haven't read the comics but also I don't feel they were relevant to Assassin's Creed origins as a whole and if they are they'll likely be explained within the game since plenty of people will not have read the comics but as I said thanks for watching this video literally sucked my soul to produce but I hope you had a good time just a week to go into the Assassin's Creed origins cannot [ __ ] wait see my next video [Music] you make us together as stone they fight in my hand however whispers the shadows origins of these the flames I see

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Id: 85A0aE-SXYo

Length: 33min 45sec (2025 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 20 2017

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[u/SellusGravius]

I am. Regardless of how much they've potentially fucked the story, I absolutely loved every minute of Origins so any more of the same is fine by me.

[u/chalupinator]

I really enjoyed Origins, but I'm just not a huge fan of the giant open world games and felt a little overwhelmed at times with just how much stuff there was to do. I also really, really dislike the ship battles (couldn't make myself play 4 because of it), and I figure a game set in Greece will probably have a lot of those, so I'm gonna sit back and wait to watch some stuff before deciding whether to get it.

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I feel like I'm the only person who hated origins