8 Historical Eras Assassin's Creed Could Still Visit

Following their defeat of Napoleon in 1815, the United Kingdom became the dominant force in the world for the next century. The sun never set on the British Empire and its naval might allowed its colonial conquests to go on unchecked. With Europe in disarray (at least until the unifications of Germany and Italy in 1871) and the United States focused on their own internal problems, only one nation dared to put up any opposition to Britain’s global hegemony – the Russian Empire.

This period lends itself to one possible Russian setting. Though they didn’t engage each other directly, Britain and Russia played ‘the Great Game’ for much of the Century in a sort of precursor Cold War. Russia feared a British conquest of Afghanistan and control of Central Asian trade, whilst Britain feared the loss of India.

The early days of the Empire present another. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great are well-known historical figures and the latter’s campaign against the Ottomans and conflict with the Cossacks are defining moments in Russian history.

The Empire’s downfall at the hands of Lenin and the Bolsheviks is a third. The assassination of the Czar in 1917 birthed the Soviet Union, which ruled as a superpower after Stalin ruthlessly consolidated his power through his purges.

Many of these could be rewritten as Templar plots to see a story around given that almost every character involved exhibits enormous moral greyness.

Climbing the Kremlin would be fun as well…