Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-18014300-20170611010837/@comment-18014300-20170613225545

The Wikia Editor wrote: So yes, it seems that Bayek is supposed to be the one who comes up with the tenets and the creed. I'm really hoping that they'll address the fact that the Assassin Brotherhood predates Bayek.

Thanks for all the clarification!

I'm always so, so, sooo anxious about how they tackle the philosophy of the series ever since they butchered it in Rogue and also the film, though the former was made by a minor studio Ubisoft Sofia. Unity, reference books, and all other games have been quite consistent and deep about the philosophy, so I probably shouldn't be worrying so much. It's just that philosophy can be a hard thing to present well, especially when you want to show how a character develops it in the first place. You have to make sure that it's not oversimplified to the point it becomes a black-and-white thing. Aspects of Assassin philosophy akin to mine I developed independently based on very complex life situations, and the level of complexity behind philosophy in Assassin's Creed can be difficult to portray. I personally think Assassin's Creed did it really well with the last words of each Templar targets. They had differing motivations, and for all their nastiness, sometimes redeeming qualities, and Altaïr compares and contrasts with the merits and flaws of the Assassins in his notes and commentaries.

For example, I hope they don't make it a simple "liberation of Egypt against Greco-Roman influence" story. That'd be too simple and only pushes the theme of freedom, rather than other core ideas of the Creed, like questioning dogmatic beliefs and personal fallibility. However, some of the more profound aspects of Assassin philosophy were revolutionized by Altaïr, so another question is, did Altaïr just rediscover the lost meaning behind the Creed, lost under Al Mualim? In laying down the foundations of the Creed, does Bayek ironically establish dogma in itself, or was it dogmatic in some respects from its conception and newly liberalized by Altaïr rather than having been as liberal from the beginning?