Editing Asser (memory)

{{Era|Memories|ACV}}
{{IncompleteMemory}}
{{Memory Infobox
| image = ACV Asser Memory 1.png
| description = 
| appearance = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]''
| type = World Event
| previous = [[Aelfred's Jewel]]
| next = [[Mildberg the Miracle Legs]]
| source = [[Eivor Varinsdottir]]
| location = [[Wincestre Seminary]], [[Winchester|Wincestre]], [[Wessex|Kingdom of Wessex]]
| date = 870s
}}
'''Asser''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Eivor Varinsdottir]]'s [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]], relived by [[Layla Hassan]] in 2020 through the [[Animus|Portable Animus HR-8.5]].

==Description==
A man searches for a sign from [[Christianity|God]].

==Dialogue==
Eivor entered a small [[church]] and saw a man peering over a paper on a lectern illuminated by the light from the window above.
*'''[[Asser]]:''' ''Send me a sign, O Lord. Illuminate my true path. For you are the shepherd and I am the lamb who follows your lamp.''
*'''Asser:''' ''Your meaning is unclear, God of Gods. Please, there must be some other purpose for my life!''
*'''Asser:''' ''You are the light of the world. So do these rays mean something?'' 
*'''Priest:''' ''You have not left the church in days. The stench offends even God's nose.''
*'''Asser:''' ''I have been looking at his scripture for hours. God is giving me a sign. If only I could see it... see his light.''
*'''Priest:''' ''A sign? God in Heaven. Give him a sign. Set him on his true path. Far away from me.''
*'''Asser:''' ''Yes! Illuminate me, O Lord. Illuminate me!''
[[File:ACV Asser Memory 2.png|thumb|250px|Eivor speaking to Asser on his concerns]]
Eivor approached Asser.
*'''Eivor:''' ''What troubles you?''
*'''Asser:''' ''God will speak to me, I know it. He will show me my true path. Send me a sign, O Lord. Illuminate my true path. For you are the shepherd and I am the lamb who follows your lamp.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''God's light will show him his true path? Maybe I can illuminate the lecterns somehow to cease his prattling.''
Eivor read the paper Asser was reading.
:'''Pious Text:'''<br>''If you make God the utmost delight and pleasure of your life, He will provide for you what you desire most.''
Eivor read the papers on two other lecterns further along the wall.
:'''Priest's Writings:'''<br>''My God, whom I praise, do not remain silent, for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with their lying tongues.''
:'''Calming Psalm:'''<br>''Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your rightful judgements...''
[[File:ACV Asser Memory 3.png|thumb|250px|Eivor blocking the windows with the shelves]]
Eivor then went outside the church and climbed up scaffolding to the windows above, where two of the windows were blocked. She first blocked the window over the lectern he was reading.
*'''Asser:''' ''Lord, your light falters! Please do not forsake me. Is the tenebrous pall of darkness my fate?''
Eivor unblocked the middle window. Asser excitedly moved over to another lectern, only this one had no paper.
*'''Asser:''' ''Another ray! Is that the sign? An empty lectern? Do you mock the hollow rattle of my soul, Lord?''
Eivor then unblocked the last window and listened to him from outside.
*'''Asser:''' ''Wait! This is it. It must be.''
*'''Eivor:''' ''That should do it. His God has spoken to him at last, with my divine intervention.''
*'''Asser:''' ''His words? Does He mean... that I should become... a writer? Psalm 119? Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. And then? Of course... the unfolding of your words gives light and—
Eivor re-entered the church.
*'''Asser:''' ''My path is clear. I must throw off the shackles of brotherhood. I will dedicate my life to glorifying God, through another. My account must be one of the utmost grace, exhaustive, immortalizing the great acts of the prodigal [[Alfred the Great|Aelfred]]. Thank you, Lord, I will write a blessed {{Wiki|Life of King Alfred|manuscript}} praising Aelfred and his great works.''
Asser ran out of the church.
*'''Eivor:''' ''So, I have set him on a path to glorify Aelfred? That pompous [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]]? I hope his writing reeks as much as he does.''
[[File:ACV Asser Memory 4.png|thumb|250px|Eivor speaking to Asser in his study]]
Sometime later, Eivor found Asser within the [[Witan Hall]] in his study and spoke to him.
*'''Eivor:''' ''Asser, is it? How is your writing faring?''
*'''Asser:''' ''Who are you? An admirer? Can it be true, that so soon upon my path, God has sent me adulation? I have only just begun to walk in Aelfred's footsteps. But please read my scribbles. Enlighten yourself about our great king.''
Asser gave Eivor an annotated manuscript.
:'''Annotated Manuscript:'''<br>''In the 849th year of our Lord's incarnation, Aelfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons, burst forth from the loins of his {{Wiki|Osburh|mother}} (too much?) at the royal vill of {{Wiki|Wantage}}, in [[Berkshire]]. Wantage receives its name from Berroc Wood, because of the box trees (will people find this interesting?) His mother was named Osburh, an extremely devout woman, noble in mind, noble also by birth. (Needs a better start? on {{Wiki|It was a dark and stormy night|a dark and stormy night}}, a woman screamed?).''
*'''Eivor:''' ''Thank you, I am sure it will be... informative.''

==Outcome==
Through some meddling, Eivor inadvertently convinced Asser to write a biography on Alfred.

==Behind the scenes==
Although there are two other papers Eivor can consult which hint at two different options for Asser, they are positioned such that only the one citing Psalm 119 can be illuminated for him. There is therefore only one outcome for this sidequest. Asser's immediate reaction to the illumination of Psalm 119 has a tendency to bug, such that these lines fail to play, but the completion of the quest alongside his closing line "''My path is clear...''" will still trigger upon re-entering the church or moving on its rooftops.

Asser's note inquiring how Alfred's biography alludes to the infamous opening line in {{Wiki|Edward Bulwer-Lytton}}'s 1830 novel ''{{Wiki|Paul Clifford}}'', which reads:<blockquote>''It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.''</blockquote>

==References==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]''
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