Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the twelfth major installment and the twenty-second release in the Assassin's Creed series, and a successor to the 2018 game Assassin's Creed Odyssey
INTIAL RELEASE DATE November 10, 2020
As a young child, Eivor was forced to witness the death of their parents at the hands of the rogue Viking warlord Kjotve the Cruel. Eighteen years later, an adult Eivor continues their pursuit of Kjotve to take revenge on him. While their latest attempt fails, Eivor is at least able to recover their father's axe. Upon touching the axe, Eivor experiences a vivid vision of Odin. Curious about the vision, Eivor consults the local mystic Valka. Valka induces another vision in Eivor that shows Sigurd missing an arm before a giant wolf attacks both him and Eivor. Valka interprets the vision as a prophecy that Eivor will eventually betray Sigurd, which Eivor remains skeptical of. King Styrbjorn of the Raven Clan, Eivor's adoptive father, chastises Eivor for a continuous hunt for Kjotve, which risks open war their clan has no chance of winning alone. Sigurd, Styrbjorn's son and Eivor's adoptive brother, then returns from a two year raiding expedition, bringing riches and a pair of mysterious foreigners, Basim and Hytham of the Hidden Ones.
Sigurd presents Eivor a gift he received from Basim and Hytham, a Hidden Blade. The siblings then begin a campaign to take down Kjotve once and for all. After retaking a village from Kjotve's forces, Eivor and Sigurd are met by King Harald, who offers his support in eliminating Kjotve. With Harald's reinforcements, Sigurd leads an assault on Kjotve's stronghold. Basim and Hytham reveal to Eivor that they followed Sigurd to Norway in order kill Kjotve themselves, but agree to let Eivor do the deed. Eivor kills Kjotve in a duel and seizes Kjotve's fortress. In light of their victory, Eivor, Sigurd, and Stybjorn travel to Harald's kingdom for a clan gathering, where Harald announces his intention to unite all of the clans of Norway into a single kingdom united under his rule. Styrbjorn pledges fealty to Harald, which makes Sigurd furious. He and Eivor take their loyalists in the Raven Clan to leave on an exodus to England, where they can found their own kingdom free from Harald's rule.
Eivor, Sigurd, and the Raven Clan settle in an abandoned Viking camp in Mercia and dub it Ravensthorpe. In order to secure their position, they decide to make alliances with the local Viking clans and Saxon kingdoms. Basim and Hytham also reveal that the Order of Ancients is present in England, and enlist Eivor's help in eliminating the Order's agents. Eivor also experiences visions reliving Odin's attempts to avert Ragnarok, with Odin and the Aesir drinking a magical mead that will ensure their souls will be reincarnated as humans after Ragnarok. Eventually, Sigurd, after recovering an Isu relic called the Saga Stone, begins to believe himself descended from the gods. However, Sigurd is captured by Fulke, an Order agent who is convinced Sigurd is an Isu descendant. Eivor and Basim track Fulke to her stronghold and kill her, but not before she tortures and maims Sigurd, leaving him traumatized and missing his right arm.
