Talk:Nation leader

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From an Animus perspective

Given our IU style of writing this article is in need of some serious work. The topic is "Nation Leader", doesn’t specify which nation, so this page technically should cover heads of state from any nation in any period. But if we do that we basically lose the concept of how it applies OOU. I know I’ve been lax on my project (really struggling with the prose, guys), but I think we could solve the issue by treating this as an Animus archetype. It would allow us to focus just on how they appeared in Odyssey and exclude anyone else that would normally Ben considered a "Nation Leader" like Washington or Queen Elizabeth. I know this is a controversial proposal and that we need to be careful how far we take the concept but I think in some cases it might be necessary, especially with how convoluted the canon between games and lore is getting. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 03:36, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

I think "Nation Leader" should be treated as an Animus archetype. Since "Nation Leader" is only used in Odyssey anyway to denote each regions leader, we shouldn't apply it to other individuals like you mentioned above. Other option is to make it a "position held by various leaders of the Greek poleis during the 5th century BCE." That way it'll only be limited to Odyssey. V i l k a T h e W o l f (talk) 09:08, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

I agree, we should probably restrict this to Odyssey. - Soranin (talk) 12:06, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Right but what method do we use to restrict the topic while remaining IU? Lacrossedeamon (talk) 12:43, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Idk, something like "Nation Leader was the term used by the Animus to refer to the leaders of the Greek poleis during Layla Hassan's session"? - Soranin (talk) 12:52, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Yeah that sounds about right. We have to make clear it is only referring to the archetype within the simulation. If needs be, we could evevn have a little BtS section clarifying that Nation Leader is a term particular to that session, and analogous to other randomised "district leaders"/ Templar captains from the earlier games. — Zero-ELEC (talk) 00:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC)