Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Hidden Ones Bureaus Hide A Great Series Callback

Between Man with a punch, baseball man, and several nods to popular fantastic franchises, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is essentially the Metropolitan Museum of Easter Eggs. But the best surprise – or at least the one that will delight fans of the series the most – doesn’t appear until late in the game.

Spoilers follow for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Once you’ve installed Ravensthorpe, around 10 hours after starting the game, you’ll be able to develop a whole host of new buildings. The creation of the Hidden Ones office will give Hytham, the junior Hidden One, a chic new office. Since this is a video game, it will reward you with a mission: to hunt down six Codex Pages, located in various off-service Hidden Ones offices in England. As the name suggests, these offices are all off the beaten track. But finding them is worth it, as it will trigger an Easter Egg with Bayek of Siwa, the player character of Origins of Assassin’s Creed.

Each Hidden Ones office offers a mix of platforms and environmental puzzles. A combustible ability, like the Searing Powder Trap, can help bring down all stone barricades, but it’s not essential. There is almost always a jar of flammable oil somewhere nearby and a convenient path that will allow you to transport it to the barricade without a problem. (Whether or not you set yourself on fire by blowing up the barricade is another matter.)

In other words, once you find a hidden desk, you probably have the means to complete it. They are located in:

• Ledecestre, in the north-eastern part of town
• Lunden, just outside the east wall
• Colcestre, by the southern ramparts
• Jorvik, near the theater to the southwest
• In the middle of a forest in the middle of freakin ‘nowhere in southwest Glowecestrescire
• Wincestre, west side, directly south of Saint-Pierre church

Once you’ve rounded up the six codex pages, return to Ravensthrope and speak to Hytham. He’ll offer some heartfelt thanks – honestly offensive for a task that can last the length of a sprawling role-playing game – and mention that Reda, the supplier of black market goods, has some old writing. This is where things get real.

When you ask Reda about the script, he’ll casually reply, “Oh, that old junk? Yes, it’s just a short letter from one Hidden One to another.

Insist on him to find out how he got his hands on it, and he will say, “A friend gave it to me to keep it.” Bayek was his name. Egyptian compatriot. Very kind. ”(One wonders how old Reda is. Bayek’s exploits took place largely in the Ptolemaic era, over two thousand years ago, when Valhalla takes place in the late 800s.)

After your conversation with Reda, he will draw the curtain on the left side of his tent, revealing a podium with a letter on it. Whoever played Origins of Assassin’s Creed Will immediately recognize it as a love letter written by Bayek to his wife, Aya. Neither are mentioned by name, but the clues – that it’s written on papyrus; that it mentions several members of the Egyptian pantheon; that he discusses the nascent beginnings, the origins, if you will, of the Hidden – is a dead collective gift. And it’s not just a disposable piece of in-game text. It’s read aloud by Abubakar Salim |, the performer behind Bayek.

Oh, yeah, and you get some smooth, sleek armor (the aptly named Hidden Ones set) to knock out every office in Hidden Ones. With two rooms equipped, you’ll gain increased Assassination damage, provided you stay in cover for 10 seconds or more. Equip all five pieces and you’ll improve your head damage. The gear is aligned with the Raven skill tree, so you’ll see even more stat bonuses if you’ve invested heavily in those nodes. There’s also a dagger – Suttungr’s claw aligned with the wolf – which increases your critical damage with each hit.

It’s good equipment, but the Easter egg is the real price. According to our highly scientific methodology, Origins of Assassin’s Creed is the best Assassin’s Creed Game. Personally, this is my favorite game in the series – a reinvention of what Assassin’s Creed Maybe it didn’t sidestep the fundamentals, all shrouded in a wall of emotion from a narrative featuring some of the strongest characters since Ezio’s three-game getaway. Hearing Bayek’s voice was instantly transportable. Who knew that the Library of Alexandria was only a stone’s throw from the cobbled lanes of old Londinium?

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