ASSASSINS CREED VALHALLA

Once again, I call upon the power of fan art to deliver what I need.
By Jordan Ramée  on December 14, 2021 at 12:31PM PST

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is in its second year of post-launch content, which kicked off with the franchise’s first two Crossover Stories and follows up with a 35-hour Dawn of Ragnarök expansion in March. The Crossover Stories see Valhalla’s Eivor meet Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Kassandra. Now, you may be wondering how it’s possible for a Greek mercenary in 458 BCE to meet a Viking warrior in 878 AD. Well, explaining that is a pretty major spoiler for Odyssey’s campaign. So if you haven’t beaten Odyssey yet and plan to, turn back now–spoilers ahead.
In Odyssey, Kassandra (look, she’s the canon protagonist so we’re using her name–we don’t care if you played as Alexios) discovers she’s the daughter of Pythagoras, an Isu. After helping her father protect Atlantis, Kassandra is given his staff, a powerful Piece of Eden called the Staff of Hermes. Those that hold it are immortal for as long as they remain in contact with it.
Odyssey ends with Kassandra gifting the staff to Layla (the modern-day protagonist of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla) in 2018–revealing that Kassandra has actually been alive through every single Assassin’s Creed game to date, including Eivor’s conquest of England in Valhalla. In theory, Kassandra could have crossed paths (or blades) with every Assassin’s Creed protagonist and we just haven’t seen it yet.

There are two Crossover Stories: Those Who Are Treasured and A Fated Encounter. Those Who Are Treasured is Kassandra’s story, which sees the mercenary trying to find her purpose after being alive for over 1000 years. A Fated Encounter sees Eivor travel to an island where the inhabitants are being plagued by nightmares.
All of that is immaterial however. What’s most important is the fact that both my Kassandra and Eivor are big flirts. So there’s only one clear question to ask: Will there be any sort of attraction between Kassandra and Eivor, and can I as the player push a flirty, possibly even romantic, agenda.
“There’s tension,” Ubisoft Quebec associate creative director Clémence Nogrix told me when I asked about flirting between Eivor and Kassandra. “I don’t necessarily mean romantic, but there is tension.” She further clarified that there’s no explicit flirting available between Kassandra and Eivor, but the two can forge a connection through a bit of a rivalry–both protagonists have a bit of an ego after all, and both take pleasure in outwitting and teasing other people.