Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide is a non-fiction guide book to the game series and its spinoffs released on 15 November 2016.
An updated re-release which covered franchise content up to the end of the main-game storyline from Assassin's Creed: Odyssey arrived in the US on 25 February 2020 following an earlier French-language publication on 21 November 2018. The second edition also features a newly added foreword, written by brand content director Aymar Azaïzia.
The covert war between two secret organizations, the Templars order and the Brotherhood of the Assassins, has been raging for millennia. Packed with beautiful images and featuring the latest lore, "Assassin's Creed: the essential guide", explores the major characters, technology, key historical settings, and epic story of this conflict.
Encompassing the entire franchise, Assassin's Creed: the essential guide is both an ideal introduction and the perfect guide to the Assassin's Creed universe, full with facts on: