#if i was playing this i would want an option to bitchslap dag to next year

[teecupangel]

Oooohhh. Yeeesss to all the additions, especially to Eivor’s children being Aelfred’s other three children. Not only that, by making Eivor a mistress, her very existence is expunged from the records as well.

Suggestion to the Aesir Ending’s secret ending version:

Let’s change the sequence of events. Eivor leaves Ravensthorpe because Aelfred tells her that he will not attack Ravensthorpe if she leaves and they convert to Christianity. Eivor wanted to fight for their freedom but seeing how most of their allies have already been swayed to Aelfred’s side, she reluctantly agrees to protect her people.

In the Sigurd romanced ending, Sigurd had already died a few years back and Eivor leaves Ravensthrope under the care of their oldest child (if it’s a son, he uses a variation of Sigurd’s model with Eivor’s hair color). She says goodbye to everyone with a heavy heart.

In the normal Viking ending, she passes the leadership to someone new. It’s implied to be her child but never confirmed if she did not romance anyone. If she did romance someone, there will be a line of “Take comfort and pride that you are our child. (name of partner) and I believe you will be better than I could ever be.” or something similar.

When she gets to Vinland, Odin has already been whispering to her, telling her how, ultimately, she had failed in protecting her people and how this came to pass because she had rejected him.

If she did romance someone that’s not Sigurd, Odin’s words will be quieted by Eivor’s partner who touches her arm and tells her everything will be alright as long as they are together. Eivor will smile at that and agree.

If she romanced Sigurd, it would be Sigurd’s voice who quiets Odin’s words and Eivor would feel Sigurd’s hand on her back, gently pushing her as he tells her that he will always be by her side, no matter where it may lead them.

If she did not romance anyone, Odin’s words will be cut off by the voices of Eivor’s parents who tells her that they are proud of her and that they know she will be fine. Eivor takes a deep breath and nods at that.

The ending for this one would be more ambiguous and, when the credits start, the song “When Horns Resound” starts to play. Then… when the song finishes, there’s a beat of silence before Odin suddenly speaks in the silence “Oh, Eivor. We have all the time in the world now. How long do you think you can keep pretending you do not hear the truth I speak?” then the credits will continue as if nothing happened.

Better to temper our expectations. This is… Ubisoft we’re talking about.

Oh, yeah, we can make a Villi variation. Either we can set him up as more or less the same path as Randvi who has additional scenes that will decide if Villi follows Eivor to Alamut if it’s the Hidden One ending or an altogether alternate ending that ends with Eivor leaving Ravensthorpe and joining Villi instead,

Dag? Uuuuuhh… Because the Dag romance option was meant to be a joke-romance option? Like, if you did romance Dag, the game would cut you off from all other romances and it still ends up with Dag wanting Eivor’s head anyway. I wasn’t like thinking of some kind of a reconciliation arc for Dag. Although, if we did, wouldn’t that mean he would side with Eivor when it comes to Sigurd’s confrontation scene?

I’m 35% into Valhalla and I need to vent a bit I have such a… Love/hate thing for this game???  I mean. From the “Mythology set” it would be my second-favorite, after Origins

(Which is an undisputed leader for the perfect mix of lovely world, lovely protagonists, and heart wrenching story which - most importantly - ties in to the Assassin lore)

Valhalla gets #2 after Origins for a very simple reason: while I may have issues with Eivor (not the writing; I find them pretty fleshed out, but for the moments when story decides to sod your dialogue choices and defaults to prideful hothead), I did not click with Kassandra, whom I decided to start Odyssey with. A little over 15% in, and I switched to Valhalla. I fully intend to see if Alexious would click better, after I’m done with Valhalla

(and just to clarify: I’m playing the “Let the Animus decide” option for Valhalla, co Eivor is female in main parts of game)

Now. One thing I have to mention: I’m a completionist and I’m easily sidetracked by non-mainline quests. Which means that, while I’m doing main plot quests in power level order and I’m only on Oxenefordscire Arc right now, I have a lever 5 settlement and 200 power for Eivor. Which means, I am at this point invested in the role playing aspect of game

And had a lot of time to tinker Eivor to my preferences Now, the thing I am having issues with: I have, as I mentioned, a love/hate situation for Eivor. I*like* how I got them acting at this point, and am managing to rock, more or less, the Hidden One aesthetic and behaviors now. Which yeah, comes with its own issues since you can’t really join the Brotherhood Point is, my Eivor isn’t going in guns blazing. They also aren’t going to get into your face and will consider other options if it’s beneficial for the situation. Even if it doesn’t exactly go with the “Dane” attitude to the problem Which makes the moments where the game goes more linear a problem Case in point, the start of Oxenefordscire. And the dialogue with Sigurd and Basim hit me right into the face. Because my Eivor isn’t going to toss accusations straight at Basim after seeing them act so odd. Not after having spent time running errands with Haytham and exploring old bureaus. The more likely option they’d entertain would be that someone got to both of them But instead, you have Eivor going all “Odin and Loki” in this situation - without any obvious reason?? I mean it would make sense if you play Eivor as the more aggressive type, but I did not. This kind of defeats the purpose for giving us the option to tune Eivor’s behavior - and in a scenario where, subjectively, Sigurd is the one acting more sus than Basim!  (Subjectively because, at this point, one can either see Sigurd as being influenced by sus Basim who has Agenda OR, as Sigurd being unreasonable and Basim appeasing him to avoid confrontation) Anyway. I’m hoping there will be some shifts further on because this has been frustrating me something awful Moreso than Dag being forced as a critic on Eivor while I’m busy running Eivor around and securing us alliances, and making exactly zero claims at being a Jarl (And I did get a bit spoiled beforehand, so with how the entire Dag situation is supposed to play out? I feel like I’ll be feeling all “sod it, I quit, peace out” by the end but without actual ability to do it. Would have been lovely if there was an option to at least have a talk where you seriously consider joining Hidden Ones but alas) …This is going to get frustrating won’t it. RPG but not quite. I’d say they should have kept RPG elements at Origins level - at least when it comes to dialogue / personality. Call me spoiled but my basis for good RPG dialogue-pick comes from Bioware’s Star Wars games / Dragon Age series. And those won’t fit into Assassin’s Creed, unless we are talking Alternate Universe / Modern Time line game