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Matthew J. Kirby describing the Trident of Eden's shaft in Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants

🆓Zero-ELEC🆓 (@ZeroELEC) on Twitter "@writerMattKirby About Last Descendants: We see where and how Isaiah got the Prongs of the Trident but it is never explained where and how he got the shaft. Is it technically a Staff of Eden? Was Abstergo already in possession of it?"
Matthew J. Kirby (@writerMattKirby) on Twitter "@ZeroELEC Good question. The staff wasn't actually a part of the artifact, similar to the staff in Raiders of the Lost Ark that was used with the amulet to find the location of the hidden tomb."
🆓Zero-ELEC🆓 (@ZeroELEC) on Twitter "@writerMattKirby Thanks for answering! Interesting that the staff was just a staff. A very apt comparison. Makes me wonder if, like in Raiders, there were some specifications for the staff proper, or if the shape and make of the staff itself was irrelevant..."
Matthew J. Kirby (@writerMattKirby) on Twitter "@ZeroELEC I definitely have thoughts about that, but it seemed to slow the pace down a bit when I tried to explain those details. I imagined that Isaiah had found written and/or visual depictions of the Trident in ancient historical sources, and he had used those (cont)"
Matthew J. Kirby (@writerMattKirby) on Twitter "@ZeroELEC to recreate the staff. The reason I didn't take time to explain that is because I'm not sure how critical the staff would actually be, since the prongs of the Trident could work independently of one another."

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