Assassin's Creed

[Jassassino]

Despite the lore establishing that it was Altair who fixed the blade centuries later so that it no longer required a sacrifice. Most people don't care but those little details like that really put me off of the lore even more.

Yeah I think this particularly being forgotten and/or purposefully discarded does a lot to illustrate how they've misunderstood, with later teams and their takes on Assassin's Creed, what some of the symbolism and imagery meant.

It feels like that ritual sacrifice of a finger was meant to demonstrate how the Assassins, despite having a doctrine which valued truth and freedom, were still cyclical and restricted within their very nature and because of their doctrine, representing a mirror to the Templars and their adherence to holy doctrine. The Assassin's adherence to their tradition could potentially manifest to be just as harmful, and we see that in the first game, culminating in the crazed betrayal and fall from grace of Al Mualim, and it's only when Revelations comes around that we realise Altair's modification and removal of that ritual sacrifice which we first learn about in ACII was essentially as a result of a deeper realisation and understanding of reality which comes about from his revolution and leadership of the Assassins.

I'm looking forward to getting around to playing Shadows - my partner bought me it for my birthday and I've thought it does look really fun, but honestly? Less so as an Assassin's Creed game, but another Edo Period Japanese epic.