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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the third game [тогдашней] Ubisoft’s new RPG formula for the series. While fans disagree on the general formula, there is one thing most AC fans will agree on: Valhalla is by far the weakest of the three. It could also be said that Eivor is the weakest of the three main characters, but the Viking had something that neither Bayek nor Kassandra / Alexios had: memories of a god.
Valhalla and subsequent DLCs had main sections in which Eivor assumed the role of the Norse god Odin and traveled through the nine worlds while his physical body was in a kind of trance. However, the game didn’t explain at all why Eivor had Odin’s memories, which confuses players a bit. Now that Valhalla is drawing to a close, game writer and former Ubisoft employee Darby McDevitt explains the relationship between the Viking and the god Æsir.
Refine it now because I get a lot [вопросов]. Odin is not a separate entity within Eivor; he is not a parasite trying to “take power”. We simply dramatized the friction between his human self and Isu’s “past life” slowly being revealed to him.
I’ve always written the Three Kings as if they were people with severe amnesia that slowly begins to fade. Someone who one day begins to remember that it was someone else for many years. And that someone else might be a completely different person than they are today.
He went on to explain that this is not a battle against the forces of good and evil, but an internal struggle that the Assassin’s Creed series has been waging since the very first installment. McDevitt recalled the post-assassination dialogue Altair and Ezio had with their targets, saying that the Assassins did not speak to the ghosts of their victims, but had an internal dialogue that was dramatized in this way.
In a series where human memory is the cornerstone of everything we do, my explanation here must be far more tempting than imagining the homunculus Isu taking a trip through the human mind.
In short: Eivor is literally the reincarnation of Isu Odin, not the host of a second autonomous entity called Odin.
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