So let’s talk about all of that, and hopefully puzzle out what it all means.
So, what on earth happened at the end?
Let’s break it down bit by bit.
Remind me who Qabiha is and what her role was?
It’s for this reason she attempts to reason with Basim before she in turn is stabbed by Roshan.
What was that hologramatic Isu CD-ROM?
So yes, the same CD-ROMs that Basim sees here are the ones Altair collects, centuries later.
Why did Roshan and Basim fight over whether to kick off the vault?
And what were Qabiha’s plans?
Doesn’t Roshan witholding information contradict the Assassins (or Hidden Ones) being all about free will?
This is something explored in various other games, and makes Roshan an interesting figure here.
Mirage’s ending offers something of an inversion of the typical Assassin versus Templar roles.
What else do we know about Roshan?
And what happens to her afterwards?
Stitch your shattered pieces into a whole.
Pour your pain into the brotherhood… Come home to us.
No more than a man.
But no less than our brother."
Let’s move on.
What was the machine thing Basim discovered in the vault?
So what was Basim’s jinni?
Basim states that the jinni was a physical manifestation of his past trauma, brought on by this imprisonment.
The understanding of what the vault was lets him reconcile with this trauma, apparently freeing him from it.
And someone who also meets several of his fellow Isu later in life?
It’s either a small world, or there may be some magical mystery Isu hand-wavey stuff going on.
How does this fit with what we saw of Basim in Valhalla?
Basim’s pledge to hunt them down certainly strikes a villainous note.
- but he’s also now on his path to becoming Valhalla’s main antagonist.
Are there any other Easter eggs for Valhalla players?
It’s worth making sure you’ve completed all of the game’s Tales of Baghdad missions.
Lastly then, what’s the deal with Nehal?
So, is Loki evil?
Is Basim now evil too?
Perhaps it’s easiest to say that the Basim at the end of Mirage ischanged.
I think that’s everything - though what was that I saw about a leaked post-credits scene?
A further spoiler warning here, for narrative elements in Mirage file’s but not (yet) viewable.
(Eurogamer asked Ubisoft for comment about this, but the publisher is keeping schtum.)
