We’ve uncovered the location of another Masayf Key, and with it another memory of the great Altair. What awaits us when in the life and times of one of the order’s most legendary Assassins.
If you don’t remember Abbas, that’s because he was only mentioned in Assassin’s Creed 1 and never seen. An offhand conversation early in the game implied the Altair had a rivalry with him, but he was never brought up again passed that. Going by the original plan, that would have been the end of the conversation. We would have never revisited either Ezio or Altair, ending with Desmond in the final game.
In this new plan, where Assassin’s Creed would become an unending, eternal franchise, Abbas serves as a good vehicle to both bring us back to Altair and resolve any lingering threads we might have with the character before sunsetting this chapter of the franchise and moving onto something different.
And to their credit, what comes of this plot ends up being some of the most interesting work in Revelations.
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