Close to the Secrets
Magister Lyrics

Mujushin Kenjutsu

Theres a bunch of stuff that isnt as "secret" but they are moments where if you check out something someone has said, you can actually find it. I found the pit where Ragnar was killed, someone else's unfortunate situation (vague b/c spoilers) amongst other stuff. This is a great start. The way they changed how exploration points are marked and the way they reward curiousity should definitely be continues. Things like that are what keeps a game alive. RDR2 did this masterfully and AC Valhalla learned a few things since Odyssey. I hope they continue to evolve in this direction even without Ashraf heading things.

Mitchell The Pixel

Makes me want a game set during that period... Imagine reliving the story of the 5th century hidden ones leading up to ac valhalla. 😁

William T

My thoughts exactly. This was my favorite map so far. I spend lots of time just wandering around lol

goldiamondawareness

Assassin's Creed: Hidden Ones 1

Simon Hewitt

Totally agree. I'm really interested in how it appears that the Assassin's in Britain left for Cologne. Would love to see how they set up there

Sebastian

@Gamer 210 The closest we got to that was origins since there are romans in that game and you go to Rome at one part, but late into the empire I would like to see since in origins we only saw the Roman republic I’m pretty sure

ChimeraKait

That's so cool. I myself thought I solved the puzzle when I found it. Triangulating the two towers nearby towers led me a bit off the correct path to a couple of trees; of which when viewed from the bird above formed an X on the spot. My reward for climbing the tall one was a nice shiny piece of opal, so I thought that was it. I'll have to go back and poke around the area. Nice find.

“We will willingly
eat those who are dominant
But I’ve failed - Vitus”
I think it’s meant to be a haiku! I don’t think anyone’s mentioned this side of it yet, a coded message by a 5th century Assassin, written in old Latin, that when translated directly in Google Translate to English, gives a perfect haiku! I’m in love with how Darby hid the best lore so deeply, it rewards us nut jobs willing to keep spelunking till we uncover it all!

EpiXauce

Magister Vitus said eat the rich

Dylan Carroll

Kudos, to some master level puzzle solving. I'm wholeheartedly impressed by the the devs and your dedication to detail. I did notice the 2 triangles during open world exploration with the the understanding that nothing is random but had not idea as to how they fit into larger narrative of the game.

Access The Animus

Thank you very much sir!

We were as surprised when we found out ourselves!

Ron Johnson

Extremely well done video. That type of attention to detail is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Jeff Volckhausen

Just amazing! Game has great hidden gems like this.

Thank you!

Tate Alexander

There's actually a really cool reason that the encoded message was written on a leather strip. The strip would have been wrapped around a wooden rod and then written on. A messenger would then carry the strip to its designated recipient who would have held a rod of equal size. They would then wrap leather around it and be able to read the message. This method was originally used by the Spartans to encode their messages during the Peloponnesian war.

Jose Austin

Thanks to you I found it I found the first two Roman numerals but it never dawned on me to Triangulate it and if you look close in the map there’s actually a small “dot” where the well is at

Voodoo Boss

I enjoyed this and I wish more mysteries like this would be unveiled in the game.

John Paul Ogena

i already found that tomb by accident and i just said “oh there’s a dead guy” then i just left.

Justin D.

Same

Alex

Boring

Salomo

Now this is awesome
Ok now im gonna pay extra attention to those hints in game. As long as they dont have a "gavin" in there like rdr2.
Btw did you discover that when you go back to start areas where arcs took place there is a cutscene depending on your choices.
You get it via letters but doesnt trgger a map marker.
So far i found:
Spoiler alert!



-Grave of ceolwulf
-Visiting and comforting his father afterwards triggers cutscene.
-Coronation of Aelderman Gaedric at Cyne Belle and the escape of the main anatoginist of the arc when you choose to spare her Gaedric will tell a short tale of how she became meek and washed clothes ans became a nun only to escape..
-Bisshop Deorlaf and what has become of his district after your departure.

Chris W

I got letters and meant to check these out but i never got round to doing so, have run around but never found the main characters again to trigger these cutscenes, aside from, Lunden. Stowe and Ereke invite you back to see how theyve changed things, go to the governors palace and you can talk with a few people from the story arc

Jára Herzig

Well, that's really cool, thanks, I didn't know about this!
I hope we get something about the identity of the 5th century Mentor as well

Access The Animus

You're welcome! That was indeed pretty secret - and especially untracked!

Roman Gabryś

Thank you for that video. I;m a fan of the series and like this kind of stuff.
Maybe you will be interested with solving next mystery which is not widely known if I'm not mistaken.
The glowing triangles described here on forum. I found them too and really curious what they are
https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/86009/used-odin-sight-and-3-little-triangles-from-odyssey-revelation-sight-popped-up-pic-included?lang=en-US

Shaggy

I stumbled upon the well while exploring, had no clue who/what it was. Thanks for this it help solve that mystery for me.

Axel Gustafsson

This is the kinda stuff I'd want more of

The deciphered verse reminds me of the credo of The Addams Family: "Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc" or "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us." Perhaps a nod from an Ubisoft writer who's an Addams Family fan?

Michael Coughlan

Didn't catch this, love how you guys find these cool details

MAP

Remember people: anyone that says "AC isn't about Assassin's anymore" has serious brain damage and isn't worth talking to. This game is great.

Sam

In a way they aren't completely wrong, the gameplay these days is more centered around warrior stuff instead of the classical stealth assasin thing, so it kinda killed the feel we had with Ezio, who had the truest ac games ever

William T

I am sure there must be other hidden stuff given the size of the world map. If not now then hopefully in the future with game expansions. Of all the AC games so far this world map is my favorite

Tia Vaylik

Really enjoyed this! Thank you!!!!

Retr0of

Wow, I was wondering what happens to him, now I know thanks

Broken Bridge

What a sad end for this man known as Vitus. I wonder "What if" the Hidden Ones stayed in England after the Romans left. Would that have made a difference.

Carlos Alberto Fernández Velez

England had the darkest of the High Middle Ages as no mayor city was spared from the Roman withdrawal and it wasn't romanised enough as it was mostly colonised by veterans and active militias. We know who Clovis was for the Frankish Kingdom. We have the Breviary of Alaric (Lex Romana Visigothorum) for the Visigoths which came to Spain. We have detailed history of the conquest of Italy by the Lombards. What we don't have are accounts of Arthur or Uther Pendragon nor their campaigns agaisnt the Angles, the Saxons and/or the Jutes.

Broken Bridge

@Adalaide Kahless---Perhaps.

Adalaide Kahless

Or the locals would have killed the hidden ones for meddling.

Broken Bridge

@Gamer 210---Things sure would've been interesting. And maybe the Order of the Ancients wouldn't have had it so easy in England.

Gamer 210

Wow. That’s a great question. What do you think??

Brock Van Wagoner

wow, there is no way id be able to solve that. i had no idea it was even in the game.

xandercorvin

These mysteries are one of the reason I love the AC games.....

Imran Mohammad

Very good video man
I wanted to learn more about Master Vitus your vidéo answer that question thanks

Assassin Justin

Love the nod to the AC Sisterhood movement. As soon as I saw Sebastos and Maya in the game while I was playing, I knew who it was a nod to. Well done!

Chad Bennett

It would've been cooler if you would've taken more time to pinpoint the location of the well

Uncle Mikes Miracles

Best creed story. Well done brother

Leo K [Rogue]

Legendary.

David Matos

Nice video man! Very interesting.

Jeremy Robinson

Really great thanks for that

Jonathan Ruiz

Wait, what's the sisterhood thing??

This is so awesome

Scorpio_Mars

With there was a one handed sword and not just a greatsword

Roman Roque

That’s dope but what did you ended up getting after doing this ?

LASHINGS UK

This is getting me hyped for the new content tomorrow

LASHINGS UK

okay more accurately just compatibility for Yule festival 😅 i'm still excited for the december content, either way

LASHINGS UK

@Access The Animus The Title Update 1.1.0 includes the Yule Festival, information on ubisoft website

Access The Animus

Tomorrow is just the patch with the fixes and updates! The new content should be further along the week(s?)

JDM

Cool, but pointless.
They could have put a trophy on it cause it requires so much time.

Leiarenee

Isn’t the Roman V a U? So his name is Uitus, like “Wheat-uss?” That’s how I read his name. And I randomly discovered this tomb not even realizing what it was, this video is awesome 👏 👏

jflamen PS4

It is why W is pronounced double U

Noob Gaming

Nope ☺️ the U was written as V, and V.. well as a V ahaha. But in this case, as you can see, the name is “Vitus” so the V is V and U is a U. In ancient Latin you could see this name wrote like “VITVS”, but in latin scholastic version this letter change isn’t use (it would be a mess ahahahah)

youssef kassabi 2017

You guys are awsome

Uncle Mikes Miracles

If you find anymore secrets post it. Wish had time to solve and discover these gems

Access The Animus

We'll try and do that!

Kenz Graphics

I accidentally found this location last saturday and i dont know why. lol

Sergio M. Urbizu

I found the towers with the roman numbers and I was like hmmmmm

Tim Horn

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of it

Phil Langston

Should go back to Rome there are lots of stories that can be told, can start the store as a forced slave to Rome family becomes a gladiator leading to the brotherhood but idk it’s just an opinion

Hussein Mahmoud

Wow I never thought of that

Alaniata

hol up. you can break through that shit with arrows?!

DJsevens

This is awesome the dude narrating sounds like hytham lol

heyyo titties

Cool Easter egg

Green Wolf

very cool stuff

Snehashis Das

brilliant

RAY JR

I love the story but I cant read all those pages while I'm playing. There is alot. I wish it read it to you like red dead redemption so you could just click and move on and listen.

RAY JR

@iconsay I guess your right lol. I didn't even notice because I dint even click half if em.

iconsay

that would be neat but canonically these letters are in latin and Eivor says in the end of the game she doesnt understand a word of it so who would be reading it?

Claudia Rosi La gioia del fiore

Gg bro I didn't know😀❤

kyblue32

Very cool

Aresx300

Nice and cool

Texerz YT

Guys I got ac syndicate and ac unity in my library waiting to be played. Which one should I play first. I briefly tried ac unity before on console and it was mega buggy but never played syndicate. I just want to know what's the better game according to you guys.

Texerz YT

@Access The Animus yea I'm finishing up valhalla with a lil over 100 hours of gameplay. Definitely missing the assassin part of the game but a shit ton of content nonetheless. that's why I want to play unity/syndicate. I'll install unity then thanks

Access The Animus

In terms of story you should play Unity first and Syndicate afterwards.

Unity was a bug hell when it was released, but the tons of patches have made the game much more stable (it's sad it still has some bugs though) and Paris in our opinion is still the best city recreated in every AC game ^^

Syndicate on the other hand is a much lighter story than Unity and also more light-hearted. If you enjoy the British accent and Victorian culture that's your game ^^

Another pro, both games very much deal with Assassins and Templars, with is a rarity these days :P

Ads Mith

Never done unity o got it ready aswell but syndicate is dope asf

goldiamondawareness

are there a y other quests like this I the game?

SimplyStimulating

Nice

Lord Vortex

I know, I am bit late or really late in this case lol but I still commented all the same.

Will Not

Lol rndmly found the well

Justin D.

Kinda boring. Finding clues, finding a hidden tomb and its just for a letter that basically says, " I failed, my bad." Typical Ubisoft. Either it's a game so bugged it's broken, or you put in hours of legwork for...... A letter. I will never disgrace my TV or PlayStation with another Ubisoft piece of crap ever again.

Titular Hero

Anyone else feel like this whole thing might be a metaphor for ubisoft and all their higher ups being fired for all the sexism that darby has sneaked into the game

Seca

Magister vitus is a traitor right?

Ryan Cox

Thus 😂😂😂

Sharona Arthy

Abtergo a movie was made about you company but of course the assigns won on

T- 1000

they are actually called assassin's

TheGeechman

Not at this times, they are still hidden ones

gestucv olonor

I'm not sure that message translation is right, but I'm no latin expert.