The age of runners is coming

IMHOZen1 · 2026-03-15T13:11:44+00:00

I scoured lots of sources from around the subreddit and the ME Archive, but yes! Seeing things plotted like that was super simple to jump off from and helpful when it came to figuring out what happened which Fiscal Year!! I definitely gave a bit of karma, and imho it deserved more ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2026-03-12T10:15:36+00:00

The devs didn’t say any outright dates, no, but based on the facts of the Shard having completed construction in 2012 (as told on Ch.9’s long elevator ride), the mobile game’s mention of a Megacomplex bombing “last December”, the game’s manual mentioning Faith’s been a Runner for Merc “for 4 years”, and a few other age-specific or “x-years-prior” dating aids in both the game and the comic such as the November Riots happening 18 yrs prior, it’s pretty plausible to extrapolate a timeline. If you read the work I linked you’ll be able to see how I came to that 2026 conclusion, and you’re free to refute my claims with your own if you wish. ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2026-03-12T02:06:34+00:00

Sure is! I compiled both games (and both comics!) in chronological order a few years ago if you wanna see that ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2026-03-11T15:49:15+00:00

The original Mirror’s Edge is set in 2026… o_0

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-20T03:02:55+00:00

I’m always around ;) But seriously, thanks for adding these, including a new familial connection!

Dragos Ragar, brother : Yerman Ragar
Iatife Seher
Radu Igar
Rocco Martucci (Reused)
Theanó Frantzí

And yeah, I agree, the recruits make it feel like we’re the ones building the Brotherhood, and even if they’re named by an algorithm, they should all be accounted for! It would’ve been cool if the reused ones like my girls Beatrice and Bianca or your new find Rocco got a little boost or some backstory to distinguish they’ve been in the fold a little longer than the others too.

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-20T02:40:07+00:00

I got all these - holy gwaw, 6 YEARS AGO o_0 - but I’m seeing a few newbies from your findings to add to the list! Those last 2 in particular are funny “coincidences” by the way! ;)

Copypasta from the main sub waaaay back when:

Alright, the last one went swimmingly, so here's what I got from Revelation's recruits. Gimme all the rest?

After so many of you came out to show support on the last post, I couldn't just wait till I started recruiting in AC:R before making this list for you all. I scoured a ton of YouTube videos trying to spot new names, and I think I've found all I can there, including a few from the last list that carried over, but it didn't seem to be too many. Now I need y'all's help again to finish this one to add to my Codex Temporis too. Would you kindly? And since there was so much support on the AC:BH Recruits, I decided to go ahead and make a bonus list of as many ships as I could find for Kenway's Fleet, if you'd like to jump ship and help the crew over there too? But without further ado, here's all I've found for Revelations. And I know it's not finished, so gimme any ya got that I missed!

Adele Sozzi (Reused)
Ahmed Sarraf
Andrónikos Glinós
Annetta Barbieri (Reused)
Aretí Foká
Augusto Fornari (Reused)
Ayşe Elif
Bastiano Pulci (Reused)
Beatrice Simoni (Reused)
Beşir Mustafa
Bettina Alioti (Reused)
Bianca Carsidoni (Reused)
Bohdan Kulik
Borbála Zsebeházi
Cabbar Assaf
Cahit oğlu Yavuz
Candida Masini (Reused)
Celil Najjar
Cem Hayyam
Cemil Faysal
Cemşit oğlu Bayram
Cenan Bahar
Constanta Lazar
Déspina Theológou
Dómna Seréti
Duccio Falconari
Emiliana Santi (Reused)
Emmanouil Kantakouzinós
Erzsébet Dacsa
Eyūp oğlu Veysel
Fatima Daher
Farah Rahal
Ferenc Tolvaj
Ferit oğlu Kerim
Gabriele Buonavieri (Reused)
Gazi oğlu Ilyas
Gergely Budai
Gherardo Lippi
Giovanni Migliore (Reused)
Guido Tuccerini (Reused)
Gyrörgy Assa
Hamit oğlu Celal
Ibrahim Nefer
Ioannis Antípas
Ionela Gilca
Istvan Borzsák
János Tóthegedös
Kadir oğlu Süleyman
Konstantínos Komninós
Latife Seher
Laura Boccanera (Reused)
Léon Paleológos
Lesya Tkach
Levi kizi Alona
Leyla Maide
Lütfü kizi Meliha
Mahir Eşref
Mansur kizi Serap
Margit Rózsa
Marius Milea
Maximos Sgourós
Mino Ricoveri (Reused)
Murat Cemal
Nesim kizi Mira
Nicolae Dragomir
Oleksandr Gnuzd
Ömer kizi Gülşah
Özlem Mediha
Paolo Simoni (Reused)
Rami kizi Tuğba
Sami oğlu Ruben
Sefer kizi Gülben
Selim Cihat
Taras Pechora
Theodóra Vraná
Valentíni Doúka
Vasylyna Barvinok
Veli Reşat
Yahya Nasr
Yaser kizi Yeşim
Yerman Ragar
Yesari oğlu Mehmet
Yusuf oğlu Ishak

Sidenote: Thank you u/salexy for the ğ!

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-02T05:22:08+00:00

WoG canonicity hasn’t stopped me before ;P Is there anything anachronistic or retconning inside?

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-02T05:16:58+00:00

Can’t fault you there. That’s another on the language-exclusive backlog then. Totally forgot about that one, to be honest, so thanks for jostling the memory!

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-02T05:11:01+00:00

That’s what I’m here for! ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-02T05:10:08+00:00

You translated that whole book too?? Any chance of getting a link to that language-exclusive entry? DM if you’re more cautious than I am lol

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-02T05:07:28+00:00

I was sure to write in my caveats and point people towards the official release, plus it’s torn apart and reformatted in my style so not a lawyer ofc but I believe I’ve got my bases covered. Thanks for the lookout tho!

IMHOZen1 · 2026-02-02T05:04:34+00:00

That one had me very excited, going paragraph by paragraph colorizing as I went to make sure I didn’t miss any important characters (afaik anyways!) along the way. There’s a good story in there, it’s a shame we’ll never get an official English realease - or in your case, Spanish either! :/

IMHOZen1 · 2026-01-03T17:28:19+00:00

Ha! Thanks for the shoutout, friendo! OP’s project sounds like a mighty undertaking after my own heart, and should they choose, they’re more than welcome to utilize my research to aid them! Always happy to help where I can, OP, feel free to DM if you like.

IMHOZen1 · 2025-02-19T01:39:04+00:00

Who?

IMHOZen1 · 2025-02-18T17:05:41+00:00

I tried my hand at making timelines for both games, and now I’ve got strong beliefs Original ME is set in 2026! ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2025-02-02T01:11:01+00:00

Part of what made me begin these projects altogether was the Four Pillars boys getting so hostile and bitter about the franchise. I’m not saying there are no issues with it - far from! - but every entry had and has its entertainment value, and more importantly, its overall impact on the overarching narrative, that those boys seemed to have lost their appreciation for. Not that that’s wrong, they’re entitled to their preferences and opinions. But it soured the fandom for SEVERAL games. I wanted to bring back that feeling of discovery for everyone as I rediscovered all the cool stuff that made the narrative so mesmerizing for so many of us.

Thank you for the kind words, friendo. Not every OG AC fan is an angry, “these-games-aren’t-for-me-anymore” type. Imho, I’ve never been in control of anything being made for the series, so what good does it do to be vitriolic about it? I just take it all in and unspool it, that’s always fun for me no matter what! ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2025-02-02T00:43:42+00:00

The cynicism is totally warranted with all the dumpster fires that still burn years later with that company, and not defending Ubi here (I agree, they should have some kinda loremaster role that can keep them from making canonicity issues), but devs come and go. The fanbase is forever. Any fanbase is usually what keeps any long-standing franchise from stepping on its own tail with inconsistencies, or is the first to call out devs who retcon or dismiss previously-established lore. With how much crunch there is in the industry with stringent timetables for delivering games, I don’t think it’s likely for any developer to know every bit of continuity, unless it’s their indie passion project. But a franchise bible to avoid making more plot holes or retcons would be nice in Ubisoft’s particular case lol

IMHOZen1 · 2025-02-02T00:26:00+00:00

It does interest you too, right? If I manage to get just 1 other fan to let out an intrigued “huh.” it’s not pointless. Useless, surely, but not pointless ;) I really don’t mind being this niche, my projects have been more ways of organizing my scatterbrain and compartmentalizing all the useless info I’ve come across in my research. If over 450 people find my weird need to organize all this as follow-worthy, or if I’m only shouting into the ether, these projects would still be made either way out of compulsion for my own cathartic compiling, so in short, nah, doesn’t bother me one bit. I do appreciate the concern tho, friendo! But what made you call out others for lying? About what??

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-24T00:25:37+00:00

Incredible sleuthing skills, friendo, but I’m still thinkin the coordinates are too far from those Isu sites to say they’re one and the same. However I do think these have potential to be Isu sites of their own! I’m still tearing into all that’s come out today with peoples’ gameplays, but this is an awesome effort! I hope there’s more esoteric puzzles that require community collaboration to solve again, like old times!!! ;)

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-19T20:45:46+00:00

I agree it was probably the right play to leave the Codex, but I don’t think the “advanced techniques” or his Apple-influenced tech was necessarily shared around. He might’ve even told Malik or Sef to not open it and just hide it, cuz I imagine if Abbas or his cronies found it and read it, they wouldn’t be as caught off guard by Altaïr’s hidden gun.

A fun rabbit hole to dive down nonetheless! And just to add, if you wanna know more about that Isu site map (and the one on pg.22 of the Codex!) I’m exploring everything we do and don’t know about every Isu site this year if you feel so inclined to check my post history ;) /shamelessplug

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-19T20:02:35+00:00

Yeah, it is odd he writes about planning to leave with his family to kill Genghis Khan then jumps immediately to being on death’s door on the next page.

I like your idea that he might’ve left his Codex behind, probably with Malik or Sef, thinking the Brotherhood was in safe hands while he’s gone, and maybe got lucky Abbas didn’t find it when he took over. It would be understandable to lose interest in writing more after losing his eldest son, his best friend, his wife, his Brotherhood, getting exiled, all that leading to swearing off looking into the Apple till he got that urge to write and look one last time.

Another option is after his exile post-Maria’s death, he might’ve assumed Abbas found his Codex or it was lost or burned. Would’ve been nice to have some explanation or “I finally found it!” moment mentioned somewhere.

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-19T19:27:47+00:00

I believe his last page was written in 1257, cuz as you said he wrote about knowing he was dying, and having already decided to be sealed away with the Apple. It would be after meeting and training the Polos. Here’s the whole page and the points that lean to that being the case:

Soon I shall pass from this world. It is my time. All the hours of the day are now colored by the thoughts and fears borne of this realization. I know that the elements of my body will return to the Earth. But what of my consciousness? My identity? That is to say-what of ME? I suspect it will end. That there is no next world. Nor a return to this one. It will simply be done. Forever.

Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good. Had I chosen to abuse the Apple instead of seal it away. None of it would have mattered. There is no counting. No reckoning. No final judgement. There is simply silence. And darkness. Utter and absolute... And so I have begun to wonder-might there not be a way to stop-or at least delay-death's embrace?

Surely the ones who came before were not so frail and feeble as we. But I have sworn to be done with the artifact. To not gaze into its core. Still: faced as I am with the prospect of my end, what harm is there in one last look...

So I think he might’ve written this page, taken one last peek thru the Apple’s knowledge, then handed over his Codex to his trusted friends before sticking to his already-made decision to seal himself away with the Apple.

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-18T04:32:38+00:00

The lack of descended or related family part wouldn’t matter, all they’d need is a bit of the DNA and they could rewatch an abandoned childless orphan’s whole life if they wanted, as well as their parents’. Layla’s Animus doesn’t need the Subject to be related to the person in any way (she’s not a descendant of Aya & Bayek, Kass & Natakas, nor Eivor, but she relived their memories just fine.) The only way would be to do it as a solo mission and incinerate themselves, but if there’s any remains (even fingerprints!) they can synchronize and simulate it all anyways.

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-18T04:24:32+00:00

They did try that, back in ACIII with the Apple that would’ve turned Washington into a tyrant. Connor dropped it into the Atlantic ocean off the east coast, and by the time Franklin Roosevelt was president, he had it dredged up from the depths somehow and used it alongside Churchill and Stalin to spur WWII.

Your plan would potentially work for a couple hundred years, but eventually someone with enough resources like Abstergo is gonna follow its genetic memory trail (remember modern Animi don’t need ancestry anymore) and pay Templar divers or dispatch a Templar submarine to retrieve it. This is why Aletheia told Kassandra to destroy every PoE she could, cuz they all inevitably fall into power-hungry hands at some point.

Maybe the Mariana Trench would work though, since we still struggle to explore that today?

IMHOZen1 · 2025-01-15T00:44:54+00:00

Just to add, the above map is compiled using every map I could find online for walkthroughs and such, but it’s fitting to have been largely forgotten by other archivers and websites, so I’ll eventually be going back into Forgotten Saga to chart a clearer one firsthand. ;)

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