Fans think they've already discovered the setting of Assassin's Creed Hexe
Ubisoft has only just revealed Assassin's Creed Hexe, a spooky take on the series offering some substantial Blair Witch vibes, but players think they already know where it'll be set.
The trailer for Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe sees a camera pan down through a murky forest, while raised voices and barking dogs are heard in the background. Eventually, the scene settles on an Assassin insignia bundled together out of sticks, hanging from a branch by a length of string. The background then disappears, replaced by something that looks suspiciously like a summoning circle, confirming the name 'Hexe' (pronounced hex-ay').
We work in the dark...That's all we can say for now about Assassin’s Creed Codename HEXE.#AssassinsCreed pic.twitter.com/01YM9uXtr8September 10, 2022
That's pretty much all we know about the game right now, beyond executive producer Marc-Alexis Cote's description of it as "a very different type of Assassin's Creed game." That's led some fans to speculate that we're getting a full-fledged horror experience, while others think Hexe might be VR-first. Either way, however, some players think they've already cracked the game's setting.
Over on Reddit (opens in new tab), user Comrade_Jacob says that the name immediately reminded them of 1922 Swedish silent film Häxan, an early docu-drama about the history of witchcraft. Other players have pointed out that 'Hexe' is the German word for Witch, which seems to all-but lock down a Germanic setting for the new game.
Other players have dived deeper still, noting that the script used in that summoning circle is 'Magi', which was created by a 16th-century Swissphilosopher. A fan translation (opens in new tab) claims that the text simply reads 'We work in the dark to
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