Assassin's Creed Rift's Potential Baghdad Setting Explained

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Assassin’s Creed Rift is reportedly the codename for an upcoming release within the franchise. As reported by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Ubisoft is converting a DLC for AC Valhalla into a full-blown game, using Basim as the protagonist. It is not an open-world game, by all accounts, focusing on stealth gameplay and a smaller scope. In short, it sounds like a classic Assassin’s Creed game.

That’s not a guarantee it follows this same pattern, but many fans understandably hope so. While many love the open-world Assassin’s Creed games, there’s little reason Ubisoft couldn’t produce them both. If it is a return to form for the franchise, it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out from here. What’s more interesting is that Eurogamer corroborated Schreier’s report, also adding that the game will be set in Baghdad. This gives fans some clear insight into what the game could be like.

Assassin's Creed 3 Originally Had a Much Different Ending

There’s not really a whole lot for a game focused on Basim to explore. With Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, fans see him arrive in England, get trapped in Yggrasil, and his eventual freedom in the modern-day. This makes one important thing clear: this is likely an “origins” story of sorts for Basim. Not only does this logically fit the reported setting, but Basim mentions being in Baghdad as well.

While Eivor/Odin and Sigurd/Tyr’s personalities never *click*, it’s clear that Basim and Loki are one and the same. It wasn’t always this way though. Basim reveals that things for him changed after meeting Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the head of the library of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. al-Khwarizmi dies around 850 AD, roughly 20 years before AC Valhalla’s entry on the timeline. So, if Basim/Loki