8 Historical Eras Assassin's Creed Could Still Visit

Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived…

Anyone who served time at a British school is well-versed in the story of Henry VIII and his story would actually be fascinating to explore in an Assassin's Creed game – his creation of the Church of England could be written as a move against Templar infiltration of the Catholic church and his loosening sanity over time could be a result of their revenge for this.

His second daughter, Elizabeth I, actually presents a more interesting prospect, however. Her forty-five years as Queen had naval conflict with the Spanish, conspiracies around potential marriage suitors and at least three notable assassination plots that would’ve replaced her with the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, all of which a player character could take part in and thwart respectively.

Throw in the fact that she mixed with the likes of William Shakespeare (who could be inspired to write plays based on the player’s actions), Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh and you have the foundation of a great story, which could even be extended a few years past her death to incorporate the accession of James I and both the Gunpowder Plot and initial British colonisation of North America that occurred in the infancy of his reign.

London has been used as a setting for the series before, but repeats of the world’s leading cities (such as Rome and Paris) are sure to come around at some point given their prominence throughout history.