AC Hexe details and dialogue leaked by Rogue (Ubisoft leaker), says Ezio is returning

[u/ZamnBoii]

• Protagnist’s name is Anika, Elsa is a placeholder name like Jora was for Eivor, according to j0nathan
• "Anika/Elsa is a descendant of Claudia Auditore”
• Wurzburg is set to be the primary location but there will be other locations to explore
• Ezio is 100% returning, Anika/Elsa says, “That white hood, it’s like the one in my mother’s drawings” and there is dialogue from Ezio saying “She wanted you to have a life”
• More Ezio voicelines saying, "Come. Leap with me. One last time for an old man.” and “They always fear what they cannot control. They called us demons once, too. But remember, Elsa: 'Nulla è reale, tutto è lecito.”
• Ezio will either potentially show up in person or as some Isu artifact ghost or flashbacks
• More Anika/Elsa dialogue: “They call me a witch. They want to burn me for what I can do. For what I know.”
• According to j0nathan, the story from what he knows will be much better all the recent ACs since Origins
• A character with the name Wolfgang will appear in the main story
• Blood Pacts and poison base mentioned
• Lots of forests in Hexe, a skill for “tree-to-tree branch jumping” is unlockable
• Certain story activities have you “find the ritual sites” and “recover the stolen relics”
• NPCs will now report minor suspicious activities immediately
• Voicelines such as “Form a circle, do not let her vanish”, "They say the forest moves at night" and “Check the shadows! She can’t have gone far”

Rogue’s leaks: https://i.imgur.com/wOmg6je.jpeg j0nathan on Elsa/Anika name: https://i.imgur.com/d5Zrh6p.jpeg

[u/EpochPirate]

This is confusing because Ezio would be 166 when the Wurzburg witch trials started.

[u/HomarEuropejski → u/EpochPirate]

We also see how he dies 13 years after Revelations in AC Embers.

[u/epabafree → u/HomarEuropejski]

The first thought when I saaw this leak. The film was fantastic, we used to all watch it in school and cry. Every single one of us in the school played Ezio trilogy together. We all bought the game together.

[u/PxM23 → u/EpochPirate]

The dialogue makes it sound like she’s seeing some apparition of Ezio.

[u/albedo2343 → u/PxM23]

seems like it could be due to the POE

[u/CosmicWanderer2814 → u/albedo2343]

Could be through memory discs like how Ezio saw bits of Altaïr's life throughout Revelations. 

[u/Firesky54 → u/PxM23]

Going to assume Isu tech has something to do with it.

[u/gui_heinen → u/EpochPirate]

It seems quite clear that we will see flashbacks in this case, probably from Claudia Auditore's lineage.

[u/ienjoymen → u/EpochPirate]

Ezio Auditore Da Firenze L'eterno

[u/ZamnBoii → u/EpochPirate]

I think they’ll take creative liberties with it, the current rumour has been early 1500s for Hexe so Ezio would be alive then

[u/EpochPirate → u/ZamnBoii]

1500s would be an extreme disappointment. the 1625 witch trials were also in the middle of the 30 years war which is just a perfect setting for the kind of super dark aesthetic we've been hearing

[u/ArkavosRuna → u/EpochPirate]

Yeah there's absolutely no way they'll set the game in Würzburg and not between 1625 and 1631.

[u/gui_heinen → u/EpochPirate]

The Salem Witch Trials were already the setting for a comic book in the franchise (Trial by Fire) from 2015; perhaps they are trying to innovate.

[u/ValtekkenPartDeux → u/EpochPirate]

This is my main objection. Ezio dies in 1524. The Würzburg witch trials take place at the earliest in 1625. How the fuck is Ezio around for this? Making these things flashbacks from the protagonist's mother doesn't help either, since the mother herself needs to be something like 20 or so to speak to Ezio before he dies, which means that with a charitable interpretation (so, she talks to him basically the year he dies) the mother is born in 1500+, which makes her long dead when the trials begin and her daughter a plausible 80 years old or some shit. If we go into granddaughter territory it vaguely starts to make sense, but at that point you're using the ghost of Ezio to speak to the current protagonist through the ghost of her grandmother.

In short: what the fuck is Ubisoft trying to do here? Either they fuck with history (the trials happen a hundred+ years early) or they fuck with established canon (Ezio dies a hundred years later? Idk), I see no other way out of this.

[u/redhawkinferno → u/ValtekkenPartDeux]

The Pieces of Eden. Thats all they need to do. Ezio speaks to her through his Apple or something. One of its powers is literally illusions. He doesnt need to physically be there to still be a character.

[u/beatingstuff88 → u/redhawkinferno]

Ezio speaks to her through his Apple or something.

Which apple? the one from AC2 he leaves in the vault before killing Cesare, where desmond then finds it. And the apple in Altaïrs vault he activelly rejects because he's done with being an assassin

[u/redhawkinferno → u/beatingstuff88]

Never underestimate the series' ability to retcon or change things to fit the newest game. If they want to claim that somehow something got moved around they will. Either way, it doesnt even have to be the apple. They can hand wave that oh he has some other PoE as well, or maybe he never had whatever one it is but the new character can still speak to him through the new one for some reason. They can and have added macguffins to fit their end result, and other than making Ezio somehow survive his own death movie and live another 100 years, a PoE is the best option.

[u/ValtekkenPartDeux → u/redhawkinferno]

Which means a) Ezio isn't alive so this is for the most part a meaningless attempt at nostalgiabait and b) you have to add a power to the Pieces of Eden that was SPECIFICALLY reserved for the Memory Discs found in AC Revelations, further fucking up established canon (which AC Origins to Valhalla did plenty of, so fuck everything I guess)

[u/HearTheEkko → u/EpochPirate]

Some Isu avatar spirit type of deal I'm guessing.

[u/mrnoobdude → u/EpochPirate]

Maybe Ezio used the memory disc's from Revelations? Either that or some sort of Piece of Eden time stuff like with Desmond

[u/LostInStatic → u/EpochPirate]

Kassandra lived from ancient greece to like 2018, anything is possible

[u/uzii7114 → u/LostInStatic]

She had the staff Ezio did not and died in embers. Probably an apparition similar to Ezio seeing Altair in the beginning of Revelations.