8 Hidden Secrets In Assassin's Creed Mirage
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VOICE OVER: Aaron Brown
WRITTEN BY: Caitlin Johnson
Baghdad is full of hidden secrets for players to discover! For this video, we're looking at Easter eggs and hidden objects in “Assassin's Creed Mirage”. Our list includes The Hidden Place, Darius's Blade, Treasure Hunter Outfit, Kitab al-Azif and more!
Script written by Caitlin Johnson
Welcome to MojoPlays, and today we’re looking at Easter eggs and hidden objects in “Assassin’s Creed Mirage”.
You probably heard about this one already, but in case you haven’t spent much time in the menus of “Mirage” trying to find a way to turn chromatic aberration off, this interesting graphical option is included. You can add the, as Ubisoft describes it, “iconic color filter” used frequently in “Assassin’s Creed 1” – it’s mostly reminiscent of Acre, since Jerusalem and Damascus used different color grading to Acre’s washed-out grays and blues. And if you’ve got the points, you can also buy Altaïr’s outfit for Basim through Ubisoft Connect. It’s a great call-back to the franchise’s origins, but you may not want to keep it turned on the whole time or you’ll miss out on how bright and vibrant Baghdad is.
After Basim’s first official assassination in Baghdad, he reunites with Nehal, who tells him she’s looking for a hidden place where she believes she’s seen the symbol from the Isu relic before. You get vague directions to go to the Northern Oasis, which you can do right away, finding that buried under the water is a passageway into an Isu ruin. This is where you’ll find a collection of three Isu artifacts, a dagger, sword, and suit of armor, the latter of which is one of the best items in the game. You’ll need to have collected all ten “Mysterious Shards” to get the three items, but it’s definitely worth doing – if only for the outfit giving you a buff that creates chain-lightning when you perform air assassinations.
You could have very easily missed this cat completely if you decided not to pet it, but if you DO pet it, you’ll be treated to a very unusual Easter egg. As the camera pans around Basim, you’ll see that the cat has a distinct, black nose; the marking looks just look the symbol of the Assassin Brotherhood. But this isn’t JUST a reference to the logo, it’s actually a real-life fan’s cat who looked just like the one in-game. When the cat died, somebody contacted Ubisoft with a picture and asked for him to be put into the series. It looks like Ubisoft obliged, and the cat is immortalized forever in the streets of Arabia. If you want to find him yourself, he spawns near Dervis’s hideout in Anbar.
While exploring Alamut at the beginning, be sure to read all the notes you find littered around. One of them, found near Rebekah, talks about the first hidden blade. Long-time fans will know that the first hidden blade was made by Darius, who assassinated the Persian king Xerxes; Kassandra meets him in one of the DLCs for “Odyssey”. A Greek Assassin has sent Roshan the original sketches of Darius’s blade. There’s another note about hidden blades, too, in the Karkh Bureau. This letter to Rebekah talks about an Assassin in Constantinople who has decided to wear two hidden blades, and who apparently didn’t even mind that he had to cut off a second finger. It wasn’t until Leonardo da Vinci changed the design for Ezio that the blades could be worn without the loss of a finger.
If you find all eighteen of Dervis’s Artifacts, you’ll be rewarded not only with resources, but also a unique outfit. It didn’t take long for people to put together that this outfit is a reference to one Indiana Jones wears in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, when he and Sallah find the Map Room in Cairo, leading them to the Well of Souls. Basim doesn’t need to raid any tombs to get this outfit – that’s reserved for the Isu treasures – but it does bear a resemblance. Considering the first game in the franchise featured the Ark of the Covenant, it wouldn’t be surprising to see another subtle nod to Indiana Jones in “Mirage”.
In one of the Tales of Baghdad, Basim finds a young boy stuck near the top of a viewpoint, having climbed up and gotten stuck. Not only was there a side mission in “Valhalla” that was also about a boy getting stuck on a ledge after climbing to impress his friends, but this boy is actually a character FROM “Valhalla”. He never says his name, but it’s clear as day that this is Hytham, Basim’s apprentice who sets up a bureau in Ravensthorpe and sends Eivor to hunt down the Order of the Ancients. Basim shows Hytham how to perform a leap of faith, and Hytham picks it up immediately, saying he dreams of joining the Hidden Ones.
When Basim is sent to investigate the House of Wisdom, he discovers that Fazil, the Great Scholar, is a member of the Order. In Ahmad’s workshop, Nehal leads him to a large diagram on the wall showing Adam and Eve and the triple helix DNA structure of the Isu – hundreds of years before DNA was identified. But what exactly IS Fazil’s “Great Work”? For our money, it’s an early Animus, one so dangerous that it seems to kill the test subjects Fazil is using, while allowing the Order to live out genetic memories of the First Civilization. Fazil is aware that the First Civilization exists, talking about them in his lecture, and part of the “Great Work” looks like an oversized Apple of Eden.
In Jajaraya, you’ll find the “Reap from the Ruins” enigma, featuring illegible writing and a drawing of what is clearly Cthulhu. Basim follows the map to the ancient ruin of Seleucia. While there, be sure to explore the area and find all the notes left by a scholar. If you use a firepot to blow up the hole in the ground, you’ll then find the Kitab al-Azif, a secret lost book that won’t show up on the map, which is, of course, the Necronomicon. Finally, follow the map to the Y-shaped tree behind the ruins to get the Eldritch Talisman, and then take the book to the House of Wisdom to get the Monstrous Talisman, which both look like Cthulhu. In H.P. Lovecraft’s “History of the Necronomicon”, he explains that the book was originally compiled by Abdul Alhazred in 8th century Arabia.
Let us know in the comments which of these you found!
8 Hidden Secrets in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Welcome to MojoPlays, and today we’re looking at Easter eggs and hidden objects in “Assassin’s Creed Mirage”.
Iconic Color Filter
You probably heard about this one already, but in case you haven’t spent much time in the menus of “Mirage” trying to find a way to turn chromatic aberration off, this interesting graphical option is included. You can add the, as Ubisoft describes it, “iconic color filter” used frequently in “Assassin’s Creed 1” – it’s mostly reminiscent of Acre, since Jerusalem and Damascus used different color grading to Acre’s washed-out grays and blues. And if you’ve got the points, you can also buy Altaïr’s outfit for Basim through Ubisoft Connect. It’s a great call-back to the franchise’s origins, but you may not want to keep it turned on the whole time or you’ll miss out on how bright and vibrant Baghdad is.
The Hidden Place
After Basim’s first official assassination in Baghdad, he reunites with Nehal, who tells him she’s looking for a hidden place where she believes she’s seen the symbol from the Isu relic before. You get vague directions to go to the Northern Oasis, which you can do right away, finding that buried under the water is a passageway into an Isu ruin. This is where you’ll find a collection of three Isu artifacts, a dagger, sword, and suit of armor, the latter of which is one of the best items in the game. You’ll need to have collected all ten “Mysterious Shards” to get the three items, but it’s definitely worth doing – if only for the outfit giving you a buff that creates chain-lightning when you perform air assassinations.
Catassin
You could have very easily missed this cat completely if you decided not to pet it, but if you DO pet it, you’ll be treated to a very unusual Easter egg. As the camera pans around Basim, you’ll see that the cat has a distinct, black nose; the marking looks just look the symbol of the Assassin Brotherhood. But this isn’t JUST a reference to the logo, it’s actually a real-life fan’s cat who looked just like the one in-game. When the cat died, somebody contacted Ubisoft with a picture and asked for him to be put into the series. It looks like Ubisoft obliged, and the cat is immortalized forever in the streets of Arabia. If you want to find him yourself, he spawns near Dervis’s hideout in Anbar.
Darius’s Blade
While exploring Alamut at the beginning, be sure to read all the notes you find littered around. One of them, found near Rebekah, talks about the first hidden blade. Long-time fans will know that the first hidden blade was made by Darius, who assassinated the Persian king Xerxes; Kassandra meets him in one of the DLCs for “Odyssey”. A Greek Assassin has sent Roshan the original sketches of Darius’s blade. There’s another note about hidden blades, too, in the Karkh Bureau. This letter to Rebekah talks about an Assassin in Constantinople who has decided to wear two hidden blades, and who apparently didn’t even mind that he had to cut off a second finger. It wasn’t until Leonardo da Vinci changed the design for Ezio that the blades could be worn without the loss of a finger.
Treasure Hunter Outfit
If you find all eighteen of Dervis’s Artifacts, you’ll be rewarded not only with resources, but also a unique outfit. It didn’t take long for people to put together that this outfit is a reference to one Indiana Jones wears in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, when he and Sallah find the Map Room in Cairo, leading them to the Well of Souls. Basim doesn’t need to raid any tombs to get this outfit – that’s reserved for the Isu treasures – but it does bear a resemblance. Considering the first game in the franchise featured the Ark of the Covenant, it wouldn’t be surprising to see another subtle nod to Indiana Jones in “Mirage”.
Young Eagle
In one of the Tales of Baghdad, Basim finds a young boy stuck near the top of a viewpoint, having climbed up and gotten stuck. Not only was there a side mission in “Valhalla” that was also about a boy getting stuck on a ledge after climbing to impress his friends, but this boy is actually a character FROM “Valhalla”. He never says his name, but it’s clear as day that this is Hytham, Basim’s apprentice who sets up a bureau in Ravensthorpe and sends Eivor to hunt down the Order of the Ancients. Basim shows Hytham how to perform a leap of faith, and Hytham picks it up immediately, saying he dreams of joining the Hidden Ones.
The Great Work
When Basim is sent to investigate the House of Wisdom, he discovers that Fazil, the Great Scholar, is a member of the Order. In Ahmad’s workshop, Nehal leads him to a large diagram on the wall showing Adam and Eve and the triple helix DNA structure of the Isu – hundreds of years before DNA was identified. But what exactly IS Fazil’s “Great Work”? For our money, it’s an early Animus, one so dangerous that it seems to kill the test subjects Fazil is using, while allowing the Order to live out genetic memories of the First Civilization. Fazil is aware that the First Civilization exists, talking about them in his lecture, and part of the “Great Work” looks like an oversized Apple of Eden.
Kitab al-Azif
In Jajaraya, you’ll find the “Reap from the Ruins” enigma, featuring illegible writing and a drawing of what is clearly Cthulhu. Basim follows the map to the ancient ruin of Seleucia. While there, be sure to explore the area and find all the notes left by a scholar. If you use a firepot to blow up the hole in the ground, you’ll then find the Kitab al-Azif, a secret lost book that won’t show up on the map, which is, of course, the Necronomicon. Finally, follow the map to the Y-shaped tree behind the ruins to get the Eldritch Talisman, and then take the book to the House of Wisdom to get the Monstrous Talisman, which both look like Cthulhu. In H.P. Lovecraft’s “History of the Necronomicon”, he explains that the book was originally compiled by Abdul Alhazred in 8th century Arabia.
Let us know in the comments which of these you found!
