Aya, a short-lived yet prominent character within 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Origins, seems to have existed long before the 2017 entry hit shelves. In fact, the very first mention of the female assassin dates back to one of the series' most highly acclaimed games in Assassin's Creed II.

We recently learned that Aya was originally meant to have a much larger role in Origins until her presence was cut down to﷽ a small handful of scenes. In fact,🔴 she was planned to be the hero at one point until several Ubisoft executives at the time felt as if a woman-led action game wouldn't sell.

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This hypothesis was proven false both by other open world female-led games like Horizon Zero Dawn, along with 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The latter offered players the choice between Alexios and Kassandra, with many opting for the feminine character. Nonetheless, Aya was never made playable and she was killed off in the opening scenes of Origins.

At one point, Ubisoft had bigger plans for Aya, and had apparently been thinking about her as far back as 2009. Within Villa Auditore, the home of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a hint towards the charac🔯ter can be discovered inside of the building's Sanctuary. Among representations of other assassins from the game's lore, a statue of Aya ✤can be found.

However, you won't find the name Aya listed. Instead, t📖he statue is marked "Amunet," which is the name that Aya takes up after renouncing her identity and beginning the formation of The Hidden Ones, the faction that would later become the Assassin Brotherhood.

Still, Ubisoft had been thinking of a female Egyptian assassin long before work began on Origins. While the executives might not have had plans for a woman-led Assassin's Creed, one of👍 the devel🌠opers could have had the thought that it wasn't so crazy after all.

Despite Tomb Raider's cultural impact all the way back in 1996, some major studios still have trouble considering the idea 𒅌that their bad-as🅠s video game hero can be a woman. Luckily though, it looks as if Ubisoft and many other developers have finally come to see the light, hopefully pointing towards a brighter future.

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