Ubisoft has said both male and female main character options in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be canon – but the game’s official prequel has picked to portray Eivor as a woman.
Dark Horse graphic novel series Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory details Eivor’s life prior to Ubisoft’s video game. A blurb, which we’ll post beneath a spoiler warning below, includes some new details about her family we didn’t know before.
It comes just a week after allegedly leaked messages from Valhalla’s now-departed creative director Ashraf Ismail claimed the game was originally planned to feature Eivor as a woman only (which is why she has a traditionally-female name). Valhalla narrative director Darby McDevitt stepped in to say the claim was not “wholly accurate” but “obviously there is more nuance to all this”.
Ubisoft has said both male and female main character options in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be canon – but the game’s official prequel has picked to portray Eivor as a woman.Dark Horse graphic novel series Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory details Eivor’s life prior to Ubisoft’s video game. A blurb, which we’ll post beneath a spoiler warning below, includes some new details about her family we didn’t know before.It comes just a week after allegedly leaked messages from Valhalla’s now-departed creative director Ashraf Ismail claimed the game was originally planned to feature Eivor as a woman only (which is why she has a traditionally-female name). Valhalla narrative director Darby McDevitt stepped in to say the claim was not “wholly accurate” but “obviously there is more nuance to all this”.Read moreEurogamer.net
