Assassin's Creed Actor Didn't Realize He'd Recorded Desmond's Death Scene Until Checking Twitter — And Says The Character Is Technically Still Alive

Desmond's decease successful Assassin's Creed 3 was ambiguous capable that dependable histrion Nolan North didn't recognize he'd conscionable recorded the character's past gasp — and now, North has said that the series' archetypal modern time protagonist is "technically" inactive alive.

North played Desmond successful 5 games until the character's large sacrifice astatine the extremity of 2012's Assassin's Creed 3. But contempt stepping up to prevention the satellite — and collapsing successful the process — Desmond's decease country seemingly lone clicked with North aft helium checked Twitter pursuing the game's launch.

"That technically was Desmond's decease scene, and I didn't cognize it," North told Fall Damage. "I recovered retired connected Twitter. 'Are you upset Desmond's dead?' And I'm thinking, what? Because there's nary 'Argh!' There's thing that you'd expect from a main character's death, though the bully radical astatine Ubisoft person told maine that he's not technically dead."

Here, North is apt referring to the ending of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, wherever the histrion returned to the franchise arsenic a mysterious quality named The Reader. Valhalla makes it beauteous wide that The Reader is Desmond — oregon his consciousness which present lives connected wrong the Animus, astatine least. And, seemingly, Ubisoft has confirmed this to North.

Desmond's decease (or his carnal body's demise, astatine immoderate rate) came arsenic a astonishment to immoderate fans who'd followed the quality since the franchise's origins. But Ubisoft developers person said that arsenic the Assassin's Creed bid grew successful scope, each crippled began to conflict to onboard caller players. Following the extremity of Desmond's arc, the bid experimented with different ideas for its modern time sections, and presently pushes players straight into the humanities enactment instead.

"I deliberation the archetypal thought was 8 oregon 9 games with Desmond," North continued, referencing Ubisoft's ever-changing archetypal plans for the Assassin's Creed series, "but, arsenic it truthful often goes successful the amusement industry, antithetic developers, antithetic originative directors travel in, and they person their ain mode of continuing the communicative — and it's done very, precise well.

"I was precise bittersweet to measurement distant from the relation of Desmond," helium concluded, "because Assassin's Creed is 1 of my favourite stories I've ever been portion of."

A caller study suggested Ubisoft was readying to region the modern time conception from its widely-rumored Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake, and bolster the game's humanities sections instead.

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