Assassins Creed Valhalla - What Did You Do Today Spoiler Edition

So my knowledge of the timeline is not exactly perfect so I was trying to get a little thrown for a loop going on and figuring out what was going on and who. Even in the 9th century I see they are still called 'the Order of the Ancients' and the Assassins are the 'Hidden Ones'. I am also uber surprised just how many targets there are in this game. For some reason I was under the impression that this would not be as much of a focus in this game...and with I think Jor mentioned 45 targets it seems I was wrong. . though seems they also combined the mercs and the Cult of Kosmos from last game basically into the same tab so it will remain to be seen how many of these targets actually has a quest associated with them.

I am getting an uber sense of corruption vs...well non corruption in this game. It was not exactly a good look to have our protagonists get kicked out of Scandanavia for horrible reasons or forced to flee. While I do understand their perspective, having a new leader rise up to claim your land is not always a comfortable subject...Eivor and Sigurd make no bones about taking other people's lands from other people. Of course I suspect that this might be the point.

Speaking of corruption though getting mega vibes of that from the little we saw out of Layla. Her look, her demeanor, her smoking, her looking at the Staff of Hermes with a very foreboding air, almost like she resented the thing and it was like looking back at her... yea.

And of course I also can't help but think that Basim and the Hidden Ones don't have an ulterior motive themselves in all this, I mean stop the Order, keep the world free...nice objectives...but I know the Assassins have not always been on the up and up themselves and the look that passed between Basim and Sigourd before the former suggest they head for England was...interesting to say the least. And then there is Valka's prophecy so yeah...I suspect that Eivor could become more and more disillusioned by things and have to fight against corruption going on in their own ranks. Of course the big questions is can this game's limited role playing, which does seem maybe a tad better then Odyssey's...does these things justice.