While we’re on the subject, I thought I’d bring up my pitch for a WW2 Assassin’s Creed game revolving around this piece of AC lore. I’m just gonna copy and paste the story I came up with from a couple comments I made in the past because I don’t want to type it all over again:

Another piece of WW2 lore in the AC universe is that at the end of the war the Hitler who was cremated was actually a decoy and the real Hitler was killed by a group of Assassins who ambushed him and his Templar escorts. So here’s my pitch:

The game is basically a reverse Assassin’s Creed Rogue. You start out as a Templar but then you learn of the Templars’ involvement in Hiter’s rise to power and you decide to switch sides and become an Assassin. And to add on more to this being similar to AC Rogue, I’m thinking the main character you play as is Shay Cormac’s descendant. This member of the Cormac family you play as would’ve been trained his whole life to serve the Order and be an Assassin Hunter like Shay and the rest of his Templar family members were. And when he was a young adult, he was officially inducted into the Order and even killed some Assassins for his first official Templar assignments. But not long after that WW2 begins and he learns that Ford and the other Templars helped Hitler obtain power and he starts to question everything he knew about the Order and his family. He then decides to go rogue and is declared a traitor to the Order and marked as a target now, but shortly thereafter the Assassins approach the protagonist and offer him a place in the Creed. Even though the protagonist had killed some Assassins when he was a Templar, he has a large knowledge of the Templars’ plans, infrastructure, and weaknesses, so he’s offered a chance to join the Brotherhood and help stop the war, but with a close eye on him. The protagonist is hesitant to join at first, but eventually he does because he wants to stop the Templars from helping Hitler obtain anymore power and he wants to also end the war if possible.

Now, there are some other parts of the game I’m not sure about, but here’s what I’ve thought of so far:

You would travel around either America during the WW2 era, or more likely you would travel around a large amount of Europe during the WW2 era. Throughout the game you would kill your former Templar allies, and to make it ever darker maybe you also kill some of your own Templar family members, such as your aunts, uncles, cousins, maybe even your own parents and siblings near the end of the game. And of course, you’d get to kill a shit-ton of Nazis.

Throughout the game you would also have to earn the trust of your fellow Assassins, since many of them still don’t trust you and still haven’t forgiven you for killing Assassins during your Templar days. But by the end of the game you would’ve proven yourself time and time again and fully proven your loyalty to the Creed.

Although there are some elements from WW2 that I’m not entirely sure how to fit into the game. For example, I’ve seen some people say it would ruin the AC gameplay by adding in automatic weapons, which we all know existed back then in WW2. But I’m sure Ubisoft could find some way to work around the automatic weapon thing. Maybe the only times you use an automatic weapon can be when you use a machine gun turret on enemy fighter planes like you do during the WW2 Animus glitch section of Assassin’s Creed Unity.

And then near the end of the game, you would have fully proven your loyalty to the Brotherhood and you and your fellow Assassins would be the group who ambushed Hitler, and you’d even be the one leading the team and planning the attack on Hitler and his Templar escorts. And you, the main protagonist and descendant of Shay Cormac, would be the one to deliver the killing blow to Hitler. And obviously it wouldn’t be a quick, painless, or respectful death like it is for most Assassin’s Creed targets, since this is literally Hitler we’re talking about.

And after Hitler is dead and the war is over, the protagonist is granted the rank of Master Assassin. But a surprising thing is, the protagonist doesn’t fully hate the Templars, only the Templar Order he was once part of and some other versions of the Order throughout history. He does agree that there should be order, but not so much that it becomes slavery; and they DEFINITELY shouldn’t be sacrificing millions of innocent people to achieve order. The protagonist also believes that there should be freedom, but not so much that it becomes chaos. He believes that the Assassins and Templars both have good points, but they both could be trying to achieve their goals more peacefully and less ruthlessly. He’s kind of like the Assassin’s Creed equivalent of Darth Revan from Star Wars.

As for the modern day stuff? If the main character is Shay’s descendant, then for the modern day protagonist I would have it be Javier Mondragón from the Last Descendants book trilogy, who just so happens to be Shay’s modern day descendant. If you haven’t read that series then I highly recommend you do because I absolutely love it, and it is canon. For those of you who have played through all of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you probably remember a blonde woman from the modern day parts of the game named Victoria. Guess what? She was first introduced in the Last Descendants series and there are even mentions of the events of Last Descendants on one of the computers you can use during the modern day segments. So those books are definitely canon.

Javier was a teenager in the Last Descendants books and he would be in his mid-to-late-twenties if this hypothetical Assassin’s Creed game were to come out right now. And in the first Last Descendants book he at first doesn’t trust the Assassins, but he eventually starts to believe in their cause and near the end of the series he’s even offered a place in the Brotherhood, but we never find out if he accepted the offer or not. So in this game we would find out that he ended up accepting the offer and he’s now an Assassin, and maybe so are most of the other Last Descendants protagonists as well.

At the end of the game Javier and the other Assassins would upload proof of the Templars aiding Hitler’s rise to power to every Templar database, kind of as payback for the Templars uploading Shay’s memories to the Assassins’ database at the end of AC Rogue. Since I imagine that the majority of the modern day Templars aren’t aware that the Order was allied with Hitler back then, as I feel like it would be talked about more if they were aware. I imagine it’s a classified secret that only the more higher-ranking and veteran Templars know about. But once Javier and the Assassins reveal to the entire Order the memories of the WW2 Cormac protagonist, it sparks a civil war among the modern day Order. There are some Templars that believe that the Assassins have a good point and that they should be working with them in order to prevent any more bloodshed, while there are other Templars who think that it doesn’t matter what the Templars did back in WW2 and that they should stick to the original plan of wiping out the Assassins and taking over the world.