Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Who is Basem Ben Isaac, what is the new hero?

Bassem bin Ishaq. Unless there are surprises, he will be the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the new chapter of the series that will be presented during Ubisoft Forward on September 10, 2022. An interesting character, but far from being new: in fact he appeared in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, in the chapter Rebellion Free for mobile and in a series of books and comics.

Make yourself comfortable, because now we are going to tell you everything we know about this mysterious killer. Be careful though: the following will reveal some important details about Valhalla’s history and other works the protagonist was.

early years

who smiles. This may be the origin of the name Basim, the son of the architect responsible for the construction of the Great Mosque of Samarra. Bassem was born during the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century, and grew up in Baghdad due to the exile of his father: here he frequented the library known as the House of Wisdom, and entered already at a young age, where he trained to become a master junkie.

However, in the same years, he began to become obsessed with the bios that used Yggdrasil. A behavior that made him uneasy with his allies, but that had an explanation: Bassem is actually a reincarnation of Isu, lokiwho for thousands of years used the power of this wondrous tool to allow his conscience to survive the so-called Great Cataclysm.

Once he realizes his true nature, he relives in the name of the memories of the Norse god. He discovers that Alethia, Loki’s lover, has her conscience trapped in the crew of Hermes Trismegistus. On the other hand, Odin trapped his children. Thus he sets off in search of his family and a way to avenge Odin himself, who has survived disaster just like Loki.

Meeting with Ivor

As an occultist, he dealt mainly with missions in foreign countries, before becoming head of the brotherhood in Constantinople. During this mission, he met a mysterious person named Haithemwho later became his disciple, and faced various deviations from the monasticism of the ancients.

In the year 870 he meets Viking Sigurd Styrbjornsson, a reincarnation of Isu Tyr, and decides to accompany him to Norway to follow in the footsteps of the Order of the Ancients in the region and at the same time find a way to pursue Loki’s goals. This way the meeting ends Ivorthe reincarnation of Odin, who gave him a hidden blade.

In Ravensthorpe, England, Bassem and Hytham set up headquarters for Occult and began collaborating with Sigurd and Eivor. Haitham helps Ivor in search of the ancients, while Bassem travels with Sigurd in search of the Key Salt Stone to reach Yggdrasil and awaken the true nature of his previous incarnation.

In 877, Ivor and Sigurd reached a strait in the north of Hordavilke. Here they find the ancient ruins of Isu containingYggdrasil, the Animus-like supercomputer that allowed Odin, Loki, and the other Isu to keep their consciousness alive after Isu’s extinction. Exposed to the device, he consumes in the name of Aesir’s memories and attacks his old comrades; However, he came out of the battle defeated and trapped in a dimension called Gray.

He stayed there for 20 centuries, until he could contact the killer Laila Hassan And lead him to Yggdrasil. To gain her trust, he tricks her into freeing herself and then uses the power of Hermes’ staff to regenerate her body and reunite her with Aletheia.

He then also meets Rebecca Crane and Sean Hastings and asks to meet fraternity chief William Miles. While waiting for the two killers and their mentor to return, she finally enters the Animus, searching for a way to free her children by exploring Ivor’s memories.

Bassem in Mirage

Little is known about Basem prior to his move to Constantinople and his complete transformation into Loki. Because of this, Assassin’s Creed Mirage will most likely tell us his story as a young man Mysterious Baghdadwhich also gives justification for the absence of some of the divine abilities obtained by the killers in the last episodes of the series.

Thus the rumor that the story took place between 860 and 870 in the Iraqi capital is credible, a city large enough to be divided into several accessible districts as you advance into the countryside.

absence of several RPG elements Like the multiple choice dialogues, the possibility to choose the hero’s gender and level up is also a bit simplistic due to the incomplete connection between the name and pronoun Aesir hosted by Loki. However, having an eagle’s eye wouldn’t be a problem, given that many of Isu’s descendants were able to use this power despite not having direct links with these ancestral creatures. In the same way, the existence of dream sequences has credibility, useful to know the way in which Loki showed himself, gradually taking over the body of our character.

As for the present datealternatively, it is possible to start where we left him in Valhalla: and thus could culminate in the meeting between Loki-Basim and William Miles, with twists that are difficult to predict today.

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