Assassin's Creed Mirage's Jinni May Not Be [SPOILER], and That's a Game Changer

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MAJOR SPOILERS AHEADAssassin's Creed Mirage will take players to Baghdad and put them into the shoes of a younger Basim. They'll get to see how he became a Master Assassin prior to the events of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and many fans are looking to gain insight into how Basim and Loki become one. To be fair, it's never clear throughout the game if Loki has entirely dominated Basim prior to the attack on Eivor, if Basim shines through sometimes, if it's Loki the entire time, or any other number of possibilities. Players know, in some way, just as Eivor is an Isu Reincarnation of Odin, Basim is an Isu reincarnation of Loki. By modern times, it definitely appears to be Loki in the driver seat, but that still leaves a lot of questions.

When Basim performs an assassination in Assassin's Creed Mirage's reveal trailer, he is seen in a dark realm filled with smoke and dust and a human-like figure climbing up out of the ground. Many theories suggested that this djinn, or jinni, is Basim's way of understanding Loki's consciousness creeping into his own. In fact, Basim has a history of visions like this, and he joins the Hidden Ones to learn the truth behind them. This theory about jinni being Loki makes perfect sense and is an interesting scenario to see unfold, but according toAssassin's Creed Mirage's narrative director Sarah Beaulieu, this theory is incorrect.

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Beaulieu recently shared that she's seen a lot of theories regarding the jinni, but says none of them is true. This would imply then that the leading and most popular theory about the jinni being Loki is not true, with Beaulieu adding a tease that she and the «jinni became good friends along the way.» This