Assassin's Creed 3 Was Originally Supposed To End The Series On A Spaceship

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Even to die-hard fans, Assassin's Creed's lore can be pretty out there. There are ancient cults, digitized consciousnesses, and a precursor alien race that seeded human life on Earth. But because the series initially had a lot to do with the Knights Templar and other historical religious sects, Assassin's Creed became the subject of study for a Belgian academic.

Lars de Wildt, a researcher at the Belgian Catholic research university KU Leuven, recently published a paper on Assassin's Creed and how Ubisoft liberally spattered religion throughout the series. The paper largely sticks to his thesis of how Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience, but there's one footnote that reveals how Assassin's Creed has wildly diverted from its initial plans to stop at a trilogy.

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For example, Assassin's Creed 3 was supposed to end the series with the two protagonists taking off in a spaceship to colonize a new planet.

"The original plan was pieced together based on interviews by me with AC's original creator Patrice Désilets and AC3's creative director Alex Hutchinson,” writes de Wildt in a footnote that could have become a paper unto itself. "It has been echoed by others in the industry and was publicly hinted at by voice actor Nolan North on a panel at Metrocon 2015. Briefly put, the third game would end with a resolution of the conflict in the present day, with Desmond Miles taking down Abstergo using the combined knowledge and skills of all his ancestors, including AC1's Altair and AC2's Ezio."

To top the whole thing off, Desmond and Lucy would have left Earth during the 2012 apocalypse to start a brand-new civilization "as Adam and Eve."

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