Game News Assassin’s Creed: The Hidden History of the First Civilization
Published on 08/20/2022 at 12:00
Assassin’s Creed is a real pillar of the video game universe. Sometimes reduced to an assassin adventure in the heart of history, there is much more to learn under the surface of Ubisoft’s famous games. We are talking about a hidden civilization that secretly defines the future of humanity. In this JV LORE, the editorial staff presents the history of the First Civilization.
The Assassin’s Creed license has fascinated us for fifteen years now, with carefully crafted episodes, as much in their historical coherence as in their fiction and meta-history. The latter turns out to be a real treasure hunt for which the writers disseminate clues in each new entry in the saga. This is the narrative arc of the precursors, quasi-divine beings also called Isus or First Civilization. The Isus are a race of highly advanced humanoids who populated the Earth tens of thousands of years before our era. They had the distinction of having a sixth sense called “knowledge”, in other words infused science, which allowed them to create many technologies and artifacts that we discover over the games under the name of Fragments of Eden .
In Assassin’s Creed, it was not God who created humans, but the Isus, and in order to have a lower caste in their service. Even if it is forbidden, the two castes will tend to get closer, and hybrids are born from this union. The latter will end up leading a revolution, guided by Adam and Eve, who seize the fruit of knowledge, the apple of Eden, which would then have inspired Genesis. Through the apple, Eve wishes to give humans free will, a subject at the center of the saga. A war ensues against the Isus, the liberating chaos against the liberticidal order and the liberating chaos, foreshadowing the future confrontation between the templars and the assassins. And then… comes the Toba disaster.
A new world after the disaster
The Toba disaster, a volcanic eruption, actually happened, but we’re interested in the Assassin’s Creed version of course. In the Ubisoft universe, the volcano is replaced by an equally devastating solar eruption. Three Isus, Juno, Jupiter and Minerva, see the catastrophe coming and, as it is inevitable, they start thinking about the next world. Jupiter and Minerva unite, but Juno goes it alone in an effort to enslave the survivors of the catastrophe. Minerva and Jupiter imprison her to preserve the future of the survivors.
A handful of humans and Isus survive the apocalypse, and the war is over, leading to reconciliation between the two sides. After the reconstruction, the Isus gradually disappear and become myths for the humans who repopulate the Earth. This is how religions were born in Assassin’s Creed lore. Of the Isus, there remain only temples and sanctuaries, which assassins and templars will seek in the four corners of the world and of the ages, in order to find artefacts. This meta-history developed above all on
Assassin’s Creed II
. It is then somewhat set aside by Ubisoft. It is also at this time that the license changes title: the figures give way to subtitles, like
d’Assassin’s Creed : Valhalla
in order to promote the discovery of laymen.