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Whether we’ll see Layla and The Reader again is unclear but Rebecca, Shaun and Basim are clearly our modern day protagonists for the foreseeable. That’s the next ten years of Assassin’s Creed organised… An Isu has a new body and a staff of ultimate power. Layla was apparently always destined to die in the vault, bringing him the staff of power and Aletheia, and letting him out into the universe. In fact, he speaks to Aletheia inside the staff (who he calls ‘my love’) and says that the Heir of Memories performed her task perfectly. While Basim has managed to heal himself with the staff, he is still an Isu. What has happened to Layla and was that Desmond?

Sigurd says that Basim lives but “in darkness,” where he waits for Layla to arrive more than a thousand years later. Unfortunately, while beating Basim and plugging him into the Isu simulation system seems like a great idea, it turns out that Eivor has only pressed pause on Basim rather than killed him. Interestingly, Odin specifically said in the ending of the Asgard arc that Loki wouldn’t get any of the useful reincarnation ‘mead,’ but it could be that Loki procured his from elsewhere. Odin and Tyr bound the wolf in the past, and Basim as a reincarnation of Loki is back to get revenge - he even delights at the wolf scars on 9th century Eivor’s neck. “You broke all my hopes.” It turns out that the son Basim was talking about, was the wolf son of Loki in Eivor’s Norse Isu history. “You widowed my destiny, Wolf-Kissed,” the Isu reincarnation says. It transpires that Basim is the reincarnation of Loki in Eivor’s Norse Isu past, meaning that he wants his fellow Isu dead in revenge for their treatment of his son. His campfire story wasn’t from the reality of the 9th century, it was from the eons before when they were Isu. Despite revealing a sad past to Eivor around a camp fire earlier in the main story, it turns out that the Hidden One Basim wants Sigurd and Eivor dead. drinking magical mead, in order to stay alive and be reincarnated through the centuries after their inevitable destruction at Ragnarok. This Norse version of the Isu sees Odin, Tyr and co. Confession - I had to watch the cutscene back as at the time I didn’t even realise it was him, but it’s very clearly Ezio asking ‘Who are you?’ after Gunlodr tells Odin (Eivor) what she has been doing. Just to make sure we know we are in a version of reality, we even hear the voice of Ezio Auditore coming through a broken mirror as members of the Isu send him messages in the future. Eivor is experiencing a Norse version of actual history, which means that Isu we have seen before, such as Juno and Aletheia are here too, just represented in Norse form. She is actually travelling to a time before the Isu originally fell to the Toba Catastrophe but in a Norse skin, thus Eivor is an Isu called Havi - the ancient name for Odin - and planning for the inevitable Ragnarok via a solar flare.

While it initially seemed like Eivor was just dreaming of Asgard and Jotunheim after drinking Valka’s potions, the truth is a little more convoluted. Writer Darby McDevitt hasn’t held back on any of the more fantastical elements of the AC franchise, namely that the world keeps trying to end and the only way to attempt to stop it is to keep using the technology of an ancient alien race who once upon a time enslaved humans and still keep popping up in digital and now human form. It’s worth saying now that this is the most lore heavy Assassin’s Creed in a long time and, as such, comes with bushels of Apples of Eden and brings back the Isu - or Those Who Came Before - centre stage. We’d advise powering up first as the final boss fight is a bit of a beast. This ending breakdown is going to cover the events in both the main story ending and the hidden ending in the mythical arc, so if you haven’t been back to see Valka since you first encountered Asgard, it’s time to go back to your Seer’s hut and finish the whole story. The spinning looms of the mythical Nornir have been hard at work on destinies in this one. I can’t say it will make everything crystal clear but it does help everything make a lot more sense if you have finished all of the story. The first question though, well, second after ‘WTF?!’, is whether you have also completed both the Asgard and Jotunheim stories. So if you’re left with a massive question mark over your head after the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ending, you’re not alone.