The Full Story of Basim Ibn Ishaq - Part 1 (waiting for Assassin's Creed Mirage at Ubisoft Forward)

[@Growmetheus]

One of my biggest hopes to see in Mirage is William and Basim relate over their own lost sons 😭

[@thanotos3013]

If the writers are even half-way competent for a change (except Darby obv), this is going to be a FANTASTIC element of the story to explore

[@n7Andy]

I need more of William, and more of Desmond, man... After Valhalla's ending... oof :)

[@Astristul]

William from Valhalla is soo different than the one from AC3.

[@curlydead]

imagine Basim telling William about the Reader and William understanding this might be his son… Damn, man, this would be insane, but I highly doubt it

[@Basim_Ibn_Ishaq.s_wife]

I approve that! ❤

[@acelord3870]

I hope that they won't ignore the fact that Loki had three kids instead of Just Fenrir. They hyperfixate on him so much if you never got to the end of the Asgard arc you'd think he only has one kid not three

[@suzievandyk6593]

I mean Odin rode one of his kids as a horse and imprisoned and tortured another. Not a great track record as an Uncle either way

[@GameZero2]

Finally one of the best explanation videos on Ac lore.

[@AccessAnimus]

Thank you so much!

[@fire-typhoon123]

Mirage has the potential to be one of the best assassin's creed games ever. Ubisoft cannot fxck up this time.

[@im._JuAniTY]

I think they did 😢

[@fire-typhoon123]

@@im._JuAniTY yea they did.. well I'm not surprised cuz modern ubisoft has let us down time and time again

[@SpaceMarine2004]

Today I travel to Firenze! Of course I will visit the places Ezio went to already

[@vonbryan01]

Nice video while waiting for that inevitable gameplay trailer hopefully on Ubisoft forward!

[@AccessAnimus]

Thanks for watching! Only 1 month left... hopefully!

[@davidestabilini4468]

There are three possibilities for the sages… and then there’e Germain. I love how he misunderstood everything, you see shades of gray in Black Flag’s sages and then he comes, and he’s purple.

[@user-fm9ww2wk1i]

All i want is Basim to actually care about the creed and not just use the brotherhood to fulfill his personal goals. Dont want Basim to be yet another vengeful character, leave the revenge stuff for loki

[@indedgames4359]

In the free epiĺoge dlc he tells William he does care for the creed

[@-carpet-]

Basim isnt loki, loki died, basim is a clone who inherited his memories. He is shaped by his experiences as basim but also shaped by lokis experiences from the first civ. He cares about what loki cared about but also cares about everything from before he got lokis memories

[@tony___3077]

It will definitely be determined by what type of Sage he is, if he is both Basim and Loki, or if Loki has completely taken over Basim. Until this video, I had been assuming that Loki did ultimately win over Basim's consciousness since he was willing to betray Eivor in Valhalla (not something an honorable assassin would do), but that many of Basim's quirks, personality, and interests become meshed into Loki's personality, to the effect of Basim still being a part of Loki. Will be interesting to see how it plays out, the suspense is what Ubisoft if obviously playing on, and whether Basim/Loki will be a good main character.

[@mister_wide]

I hope that we will get to see something like Basim entering the animus to play his own memories and fight Loki's conciousness to take his control back.

[@karrare923]

@@-carpet-You explained that very well thank you

[@assassinscreedfan3830]

You know, in AC Valhalla dawn of Ragnarok and the forgotten saga, it is stated that baldr will be resurrected somehow. I believe, there will be a major role of baldr in future games. Although, AC Valhalla left us with so many questions than answers. Like certain characters like loki's children, reda, vidar(who apparently kills fenrir in Norse mythology) and many others. Also with questions like what was the niflheim, who were the ones before ISU, and the biggest for me is why the Norse ISU chose to be reincarnated only once instead of repeatedly reincarnated like AITA.

[@stevenyarnell]

I hope that Baldr ends up as that nice replacement endgame boss for Juno, because a video game series is not good without a PAYOFF!

[@mkmfan3197]

Yasssss classic ATA content🎉🎉

[@suzievandyk6593]

When you were talking about Basim coming to an understanding with Loki, it isnt that complicated. They practically lived the same lives. Cut off from their family at a young age, brought into a group that only cared to use them for their own benefit, the turmoil Basim experienced with Roshan is mirrored by Loki's relationship with Odin and at the end of their stories, they both chose to retaliate against their group and think of their own survival. While living such similar lives its easy to think why they would come to understand one another

[@alial-hakeem9465]

Quite informative indeed. Really exited for the continuation for this vedio. Keep it up bro. ( but slow down a little bit :) ).

[@ikraikgaming]

I'm excited to watch this :D

[@AccessAnimus]

Hope you enjoy!

[@ikraikgaming]

Love this so much. But in terms of who is the djinn, didn't the narrative director call out stating that the rumors were not true? A part of me believes it is Heimdall though he was one of writers for those poems. Oh well. I'm very excited for part 2 :D

[@curlydead]

@@ikraikgaming She did say that we are wrong about Loki being the jhin, but honestly it won’t make any sense to him being someone else, so I just think she tried to confuse the community

[@andref1260]

Hello, where is this animus-like interface from? (0:55)

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

I believe this game is going to present Basim and by extension Loki more sympathetically than in Valhalla since we are getting to see their perspective of events, since Eivor and Odin are too biased to have an accurate picture, hence Fenrir is treated as a monster rather than a Person deserving of love and hope. Fenrir was an innocent child that was left to be malnourished and deprived of his vitality and happiness by Odin, all because of his fear of his death in the battle of Ragnarök he himself caused. I also believe that Baldur is not the innocent baby boy his parents presented him as such, remember that Norse mythology has never been presented accurately by the people after the original practitioners converted to Christendom a long time ago. Also, even if we use the old depictions of the Isu by the Norse people, Baldur has been presented in earlier myths as more cruel and war-like unlike the baby boy Snorri, Frigg and Odin made him out to be. He forced Nanna to marry him and killed her brother who wanted to protect her and going from there, we can infer that he might be very cruel, especially when the forgotten saga implied him being interested in World domination as he manipulated his own parents and led to his mother's death in order to rule in the human era. Maybe Basim killed him because of that or was a victim of Baldur's manipulation, whatever the case, the comics and the update made it quite clear that he staged his death, thus making Basim's crime not as severe as Odin fans want to make us believe. They even treat the imprisonment of Fenrir as something humane and minor when Odin tortured and scarred that little boy for life and to death. Overall I hope they make this game better than Valhalla and really return to the roots, if not, Assassin's Creed is dooooomed...forever. What do you think about that? Tell me in the comments below and may the Creed follow you!

[@a.qais6697]

Well a sympathetic portrayal would be nice because last I played Valhalla he turned out to be a betrayer. Not a very heroic protagonist. Unless I misunderstood the story/lore.

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

@@a.qais6697 You did. He only betrayed Odin because his son was unfairly imprisoned by Odin and on top of that, he was tortured, which infuriated Basim enough to rebell against him in the past and plot his revenge in the human world successfully as Eivor died without her reclaiming Scandinavia as the new Odin, leaving Basim with all of his secrets and skills and the chance to bring his family back together and start anew as Humans in peace and happiness. Basim is quite heroic even with his faults, he is the best protagonist since Edward and on top of this, Mirage and Basik are the only hope for a good AC series, if it fails, I'll leave that series for good. I hope and love for Basim's future to be bright and I think it maybe will be. We have to wait and see until then, much luck from me to you and to Acess the animus and finally Basim and Mirage.

[@a.qais6697]

@Basil of Good Wishes Cool. I agree, let's wait and see.

[@hawken796]

​@@a.qais6697 you don't have to be a hero, he's an anti villian

[@dragoons292010]

So you think that Baldur will be more like Baldr from God of War?

[@adamcooper1735]

I have a strange feeling that William Miles is odin or eivor reincarnated again 🤔

[@masterpunk7205]

It won't be the first time I played as Basim, when I play Mirage.

[@DirtCobaine]

So I was thinking right. In Eivors perception he sees the Greek Gods as Jotun. Even Sutr is confirmed to be Zeus. In Jotunheim you can find Sutrs Castle. It’s a huge fortress on the Tallest mountain. That means it’s Mt Olympus. We know Minerva is Gunlodr. Basim calls the Jotun “his” people. His wife Angrboda is a Jotun. Which makes her a Greek Goddess. She is Aphrodite. Which means Basim is not only Loki, but Hermes. As Hermes is her wife. And Loki’s and Angrboda’s son Fenrir is Hermaphroditus. The Staff of Hermes literally contains Angrbodas/Minervas consciousness. I’ve looked online and I haven’t seen anyone piece these clues together. Though I’m sure people have I just didn’t have any luck finding it so I wanted to post this here to get people’s thoughts. Also the Muspels are Egyptian Gods. Suttungr is Ra. Which means Gunnlöð is Sehkmet and Sinmara is Hathor. Also his son who is Half Jotun half Muspel (Half Greek Half Egyptian) is Typhon, as Typhon is both a Greek Titan(Jotun) and an Egyptian God Set(Muspel)

[@rohit_parashar]

Damn we're finally getting close to gameplay

[@AccessAnimus]

Closer and closer!

[@Aqsticgod]

it would be nice to be able to play, or replay, the asgard part of the game without the mythical veil, that would be for an interesting game

[@AccessAnimus]

Hehe I'd love that, I always enjoy when you see the same story being told in different ways or from different perspectives. Plus, I think hardcore fans would love it!

[@htzionis]

Do what did Odin wanted to use this salvation method? Just to live (maybe) for a few more years??

[@KA9z0418]

*Assassin's Creed Mirage* *Basim Ibn Ishaq*

[@cchaybs44]

Would like to know if the Isu represent the Annunaki

[@suzievandyk6593]

Its funny how with ezio it started off as isu "sending cryptic messages to the future" for the humans(desmond), meanwhile they always had the tech to take over human minds?? Makes no sense

[@hakangokhan9434]

I think in Mirage it is William Miles who is using the animus to relive Basim’s memories hence the vial of blood Basim was going to give to William in the final chapter of Valhalla. It makes little to no sense for Basim to relive his own memories and training when he remembers it all.

[@-carpet-]

What could william or any other modern day assassin be looking for in basim’s memories that he cant just tell them?

[@hakangokhan9434]

@@-carpet- he doesn’t trust Basim. Why listen to someone you don’t trust when you can just explore their memories and relive their past. It’s clear he didn’t trust him if you played AC Valhalla the last chapter DLC. If you didn’t then you wouldn’t get it.

[@georgevirtus]

Man called a jinn "Iraqi mythology" 💀

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Somehow, I doubt Basim is on the side of good. He's always got an angle.

[@Soraviel]

Elijah Miles

[@Soraviel]

Basim (Loki)

[@PiTiDoS]

Ok

[@aussiemuser03]

I'm so curious to know if the creators of AC think that most people know this story as much as you do and without help from videos like this. Because i reckon it has got to be less than 1% of people know the story even if they're interested in it.

[@TheRahulJL]

Cause they're only interested in fancy-ass assassin gameplay without care for the story of Isu, who are the very reason the Assassin-Templar conflict came in the first place. They can't understand the fact that what is shown as 'mythological magic' is actually 'advanced science' but since the protagonists (Eivor/Kassandra) minds cannot comprehend it as such, it became stories of mythology. And the characters are living through the memories of Isu past through the stories that were told to them by humans as gods and monsters, since the Isu created them in their own self image.

[@korozom]

Much people just know the big line,, and always complain about graphics,, like how superhero fans complaining about cgi 👻👻👅👅👅

[@Astristul]

The end from Valhalla made me hate Basim/Loki, but I'm curious on how it will be in Mirage.

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Why, he is the most sympathetic character in Valhalla and you can make the case that he was the hero, not Odin and Eivor, who isn't exactly the greatest person in the world, but by no means evil unlike her predecessor Odin and his goons.

[@Astristul]

@@basilofgoodwishes4138 Odin wasn't, but Eivor is!

[@AccessAnimus]

It's going to be interesting for sure, even to just see his evolution from him as a simple human being with his own self and story etc. to what we know from Valhalla :D

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

@@Astristul Is Odin evil or Eivor? Be more precise?

[@Astristul]

@@basilofgoodwishes4138 Eivor is wiser, while Odin is arrogant.

[@47d75]

Where was it stated that Dawn of Ragnarök story took place in North Africa? Seems like you just made that up.

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Muspelheim ( A location where this story take place at and is the realm where a being called Surtur lived while we also meet Juno as Hyrrokkin) was confirmed by the devs to take place in North Africa, presumably Egypt, but then again mythology is a rather bad lens to understand the Isu though and will not grant us the full picture of context other than a veil from which we have to look at and get our information from, unless we want to look beyond that and finds out all their secrets.

[@AccessAnimus]

Yeah, Dawn of Ragnarok's main location, Svartalfheim, is never stated to be modern North Africa, but instead the "realm" of Muspelheim, the invading force in DoR, was confirmed by by Darby McDevitt to be located roughly in North Africa. It's not hinted at or mentioned in the games (yet?), but it comes from the Narrative Director, so imho it should be valid enough

[@ELDIABLO_71]

Gameplay next month at ubi forward maybe??

[@Pr1nc3X]

Definitely gonna get some gameplay

[@ELDIABLO_71]

@@Pr1nc3X hopefully bc I need to know an offical release date

[@Astristul]

Not "maybe", but 100%!

[@AccessAnimus]

Pretty much expected by everybody, along with a release date!

[@ELDIABLO_71]

@@AccessAnimus yes I just wanna know when I can play it and get my collectors edition lol

[@PChal015]

обалденно

[@JediOfTheStorm]

I know a lot of folks dislike the Apparition Assassination that Basim can do, citing it as "unrealistic"... friends in the Force, eagle vision/eye is also unrealistic. I personally like the nod to PoP, especially with the Deluxe Edition.

[@indedgames4359]

I see them aculy comiting to basim.unlike Juno. Wirh juno they had no real idea exept she wants a body and thats what the Phonix arc is about. Basim is a much clearer character as he wants his children back. And needs a body for his wife..ther mostlikely reveal Remnents of Project Phonix for her to use. Modern day needs to be simplyfied becaus the games cant give it the focus it needs.

[@ahhed15]

اني من بغداد وامن سامراء ههههههه

[@hamaguitar]

It's not Samarra, it's called Sama-raah.

[@djcurious]

Isn’t basim evil? I don’t understand why he’s the protagonist. I feel like this is gonna flop hard

[@Soraviel]

I feel like someone will end up killing Basim sooner or later, if it is Elijah then so be it (thats if ubisoft ever bring him back though 🤣)

[@n7Andy]

They really should do something with Elijah... he's a legit character in the AC universe and a pretty damn important one. No reason to be limited to comics only :)

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Elijah's story is already finished, no need to milk him to the point where his nipples turn red like his ancestor Ezio before him. Just leave him be, he already suffered enough at the hands of the Isu, he deserves a quiet and simple life.

[@kaibaskywalker2725]

I want to see basim interact with other reincarnations. I root for basim on wanting to kill all isu and Templars. He is taking revenge on a different level. Can’t believe I despised him. Now that I actually know what’s going on. I approve of where they are taking this. Loki meets aita only for Loki to kill him

[@Abdulaziz_Saud91]

"Greco-Roman" "North African" "North America" what are you even talking about????

[@arthurnogueira1949]

Each Faction control a part of the world

[@Abdulaziz_Saud91]

@@arthurnogueira1949 ok but where did North America and North Africa come from?

[@vinobear3410]

@@Abdulaziz_Saud91 Those represents various factions of ISU people. these factions were at war with one another

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

@@Abdulaziz_Saud91 What do you mean? Are you talking about the Isu or something else entirely. Be more elaborate please.

[@Abdulaziz_Saud91]

@@basilofgoodwishes4138 the isu

[@dajoker8998]

Basim looked like vass in the thumbnail

[@andref1260]

Hello, where is this animus-like interface from? (0:55)

[@AccessAnimus]

That's from an official trailer shared at Paris Games Week 2022!

[@andref1260]

@@AccessAnimus thank you

[@htzionis]

Do what did Odin wanted to use this salvation method? Just to live (maybe) for a few more years??