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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the third game in [тогдашней] Ubisoft’s new RPG formula for the series. While fans disagree on the overall formula, there’s one thing most AC fans will agree on – Valhalla is by far the weakest of the three. One might also say that Eivor is the weakest character of the three main characters, but the Viking had something that neither Bayek nor Kassandra/Alexios had – memories of a god.
Valhalla and subsequent DLCs had major sections in which Eivor took on the role of the Norse god Odin and traveled through the nine worlds while his physical body was in a sort of trance. However, the game did not explain why Eivor had Odin’s memories at all, which confuses players a bit. Now that Valhalla is coming to an end, game writer and former Ubisoft employee Darby McDevitt explains the relationship between the Viking and the Æsir god.
Refine it now because I get a lot [вопросов]. Odin is not a separate entity within Eivor; he is not a parasite trying to “seize power”. We have simply dramatized the friction between his human self and Isu’s “previous life” which is slowly being revealed to him.
I have always written the Wise Men as if they were people with a severe amnesia that is slowly beginning to fade. Someone who one day begins to remember that for many years he was someone else. And that someone else might be a completely different person than they are today.
He went on to explain that this is not a battle once morest the forces of good and evil, but an internal struggle that the Assassin’s Creed series has been waging since the first installment. McDevitt recalled the post-assassination dialogue that Altair and Ezio had with their targets, saying that the Assassins did not speak to the ghosts of their victims, but had an internal dialogue that was dramatized in this way.
In a series where human memory is the cornerstone of everything we do, my explanation here must be much more appealing than imagining the homunculus Isu taking a jaunt through the human mind.
In short: Eivor is literally the reincarnation of Isu Odin, not the host for a second autonomous entity called Odin.
