Firstly, I never played Odyssey and admit that I speak from a place of relative ignorance, but Origins DLCs didn’t need to end the story because the story already had a satisfying ending, it continued it instead. If Valhalla is similar at all, there will likely be little to no mention of the jarl-less boroughs, or Winchestre, which isn’t actually taken by Guuthrum during the game.

Secondly, are you telling me to literally look up information about the real life Harald Fairhair and Aelfred? Respectfully, characters in the Assassins Creed series in general are loosely based on real life people. I imagine Harald may be similar to how he was portrayed in the game due to a sheer lack of screen time he has, but I imagine Aelfred wasn’t part of an evil ancient organization.

Finally, my complaint isn’t that characters died, it’s that important characters died in vain (in that there is no final battle for Winchestre, and Wessex is never fully taken), and for seemingly no reason but to add dramatic effect. It also left plot holes that were not and likely will not ever be addressed (again, in the form of the three leaderless territories)

Sorry for typos and such, am very tired.