Assassin’s Creed Mirage has left more questions than it’s given answers, especially towards the end of the game. The way that the story was set up, from what we already know about Basim in Valhalla to the lore we got in the game detailing his back story.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage Ending is still damn confusing for someone that hasn’t finished or played Valhalla or knows the back story of Assassin’s Creed in general.
So today, we’re gonna be explaining the ending of Assassin’s Creed Mirage. What happened to Basim at the end of the game and obviously with giving you some Spoilers? What happens now?
Assassin’s Creed Timeline Explained
So let’s give a bit of context in the Assassin’s Creed timeline as to where Assassin’s Creed Mirage is in fact, set. So Assassin’s Creed Mirage is set 9 centuries after Assassin’s Creed Origins, at a time when the assassins are still known as the Hidden Ones.
Basim is first met as the hidden one in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, where he follows the Raving clan in their Viking invasion of England with motives of his own. As a conclusion to his journey, his identity as the reincarnation of an ancient God is revealed and this is Loki.
While Assassin’s Creed Mirage explores Basim’s back story as a young thief growing up in 9th-century Baghdad and offers new keys to understanding the character, the game narrative could be fully appreciated without prior knowledge of the franchise’s context as well.
This is really important because it also means that in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, you don’t need to understand what happened in Valhalla. You don’t need to understand what happened before this game. This is his own stand-alone story, its own stand-alone game, and you can just make theories and context from what you’ve seen and understood from this game. So for those that think that you really need to know everything, you don’t.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Recap
For those that haven’t played Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, let’s just catch up a little bit as to where the game left off where essentially we are in that game, and where we are in this game. There’s a timeline as to where these Assassin’s Creed games essentially take place. Valhalla is a couple of years in front of Mirage. Mirage is, of course, in between Origins and Valhalla.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla tells the story of Sigurd and Ivar, two Viking warriors who decided to leave Norway for England in search of a place to settle with their clan. Basim, who met Sigurd in around 870 as it was operating the hidden ones in Constantinople decides to follow them, accompanied by his young apprentice Haithem.
As Sigud and Basim travel together across those new kingdoms, investigating mysteries from an ancient and long-gone civilization, Basim uncovers a truth that he is suspected of about Sigurd and Ivar. In fact, Sigurd happens to be the reincarnation of the Norse god Tyr Here and Ivar of Odin, the All-Father.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s narrative also reveals the actual identity of Basim as the reincarnation of an ancient God, which we know is Loki.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage Ending Explained
At the end of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Basim enters the chamber and there we see a machine. Inside this machine was what was perceived to be Nehal. However, it was really another part of Basim. Nehal was the side of Basim that he resisted and the reflection of who he once was in a previous life.
Nehal is the one who pushes Basim to ask questions and get the answers that he deserves throughout the story. However, throughout the section of the story in the cut scenes we see Nehal throw the disc that we talk about from the beginning of the game and it again shows this hologram that we saw at the start of the game, but it doesn’t make any sense.
This hologram shows someone in this machine being pulled out by a guard who looks to be in some form of prison. And then it cuts to this being on the floor, being Basim and the thing over him that Ginnie. I’ve tried to translate the text by the person who was speaking after. I believe this was Basim or a part of Basim inside this machine, which we’ll get to in just a moment. We’ll refer to it as a machine for the moment.
What Was That Machine At The End?
So, what is this machine that I keep referring to here? What has Basim found, and why was Nehal or part of Basim as we keep saying inside this machine? So I believe this machine is something called the Idrasil. Now, the Idrasil is referred to as the world. It’s an ancient supercomputer that was built by the Isu as an intended 7th solution to the great catastrophe.
Now bear with me on this: what is the great catastrophe, you ask? Who were the Isu? Well, in a very, very short and efficient summary. Basically, a massive extinction act that happened; whether it was a natural disaster or not it wiped out nearly everyone on the planet Usu or human. This brings us to the topic of the Isu and what are they.
Who Are The Isu?
Well, the Isu are an ancient and highly advanced species of humanoid beings who were active on Earth during the eponymous era several millennia before the rise of even the most efficient human civilization. The Isu were responsible for the creation of the pieces of Eden, powerful artifacts and weapons that augmented their already superhuman abilities and as well forming the human race itself.
This technology that we see, the Idrasil is Isu technology. This was created by the ancient Civilization Way before humanity themselves. So that will explain why in this ridiculously early time in Baghdad they have this technology around the world, just for a better context.
The order has found this and is trying to understand it. Don’t know how it is they think it may be gods that have done it, but of course, really it’s the Isu. I hope this is starting to make a bit more sense to a couple of different people and also how these things are getting where they are why they found it and why there’s this different technology in these different times.
Basim And Loki Are Now One
As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, Basim was always known throughout the story of Assassin’s Creed Vahala as the reincarnation of the Isu God Loki, who used the Idrasil to permit his consciousness to survive the great catastrophe millennia years ago.
This is why we see part of Basim in the Idrasil when he opens the Chamber because it’s Loki inside. Basim himself was reborn and born in 1835 CE. Is Loki was born millennia ago? Basim is a reincarnation of Loki. However, part of him remained in the Idrasil, and this part was represented as Nehal in the game, but really, this was Loki, and they emerged together towards the end.
This is also a reason why the Basims eagle at the very end of the game didn’t recognize him, flew past his face, and scratched him just below the eye. He had no clue who he was, because Loki and Basim, their souls connected together and merged together. Is it starting to make a little bit more sense now?
Anyway, he was pulled out of the Idrasil by a guard, and he was killed. This guard was the Ginnie in Basim’s nightmare. The thing that haunted Basim from a previous life throughout the game.
In a previous life, Basim was held captive here at this very place as a prisoner, and this memory, this prison, this place haunted him since then, and that was the Ginnie that we’ve seen throughout. It all festered in darkness, and his dreams masked as the Ginnie to haunt and to follow.
But now Basim has faced his past, his pain, and he’s embraced it. Basim lost part of himself in a previous life. That other part was reincarnated as Nehal and trapped in the Idrasil, which of course, is Loki. But now he knows the truth, he is whole again, and he remembers.
