Ezio Looks To Be Reappearing in Assassin’s Creed Hexe

Assassin’s Creed Hexe has shown up a number of times in the news recently—and not always for positive reasons—but the latest leak out of Ubisoft leaker Rogue (via u/ZamnBoii on Reddit), have revealed that Ezio, from Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations, may be making a comeback in the new game as the protagonist’s aging mentor figure. Reportedly, there are dialogue lines between Ezio and the main character, Anika, suggesting he teaches her the basics of the Brotherhood, with one line by Ezio reading “Come. Leap with me. One last time for an old man.”

A handful of gameplay details accompanied the character leak, including the ability to scale trees and jump from tree to tree using branches. The majority of the game is slated to take place in Würzburg, and NPCs will apparently be more vigilant, reporting “minor suspicious activity” immediately and intervening in some instances. This, along with what we already know about the involvement of witchcraft in the game’s story, suggests that the game will take place during the Würzburg witch trials during the 1620s and continued for six years until 1631. The protagonist herself is claimed to be a descendant of Ezio’s sister, Claudia Auditore, but the story of Hexe seems to take place over 160 years after Ezio’s debut in the franchise, so it Ezio’s return is expected to be in the form of a flashback or a ghost materialized by an Isu artifact.