The trailer featured dark and mysterious imagery along with the Assassins Creed logo made of wicker, with runes or symbols appearing in rings around it, which fans had started theorizing about as soon as the trailer aired. Game Pressure followed these guidelines well (via The Loadout), with every second of the trailer scrutinized for information. Now they believe they have found all the secrets hidden within them, identifying the runes as the Magician’s Alphabet. The Alphabet of the Magi is the modern name for a variant of the Hebrew alphabet invented by Paracelsus in the 16th century, according to Omniglot – a website dedicated to language and writing systems. In translating this Magician’s Alphabet, Game Pressure has found a German phrase: “Wir arbeiten im dem tunckel um dem licht zu dienen”. This translates into English as “We work in the dark to serve the light”, a phrase that Assassin’s Creed fans should know as it is one of the franchise’s most iconic sayings. The theories surrounding Hexe’s witchcraft ties are further supported when you directly translate the “Hexe” from the game’s title into English from German to get “witch”. Reddit user Alumirus has also been hard at work translating the Wizarding Alphabet, as they note that the text inside the rings in the trailer translates to German as haus, rache and Mephisto, which in English reads as house, revenge and Mephisto. Another user responded to this by pointing out that the famous alchemist Johann Georg Faust lived in 16th century Germany and famously made a pact with the demon Mephistopheles, hence the phrase “Faustian bargain”. The German language and references to folklore and history seem consistent with the images in the trailer, and combined with the dogs that can be heard barking, it’s possible that Hexe is set during the witch hunts of 16th century Germany – maybe even and at the Würzburg witch trials. However, with no firm release date set for Assassin’s Creed Hexe yet, we’ll have to wait for more information from Ubisoft on whether these theories are correct. In other Assassin’s Creed news, Ubisoft announced that the franchise will be heading to Feudal Japan to let players experience a “very powerful shinobi fantasy” in an open-world installment coming sometime after 2023.
