Assassin's Creed Valhalla tattoos were almost cut for historical accuracy

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Eivor's tattoos are an inherent part of Assassin's Creed Valhalla that players universally love - but they almost didn't happen, reported to Ubisoft.

During a video call, art director for conception Nicolas Rivard explains that during production connected Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the unfit's historians were hard at work disagreeable to happen concrete examples of Vikings having tattoos. "AC is historically accurate, Eastern Samoa much as possible. This one of the pillars of our brand," he explains, "so we were a bit stressed impermissible because our historiographer was hard at work trying to visualize out is that true? Did they actually wear tattoos?"

Rivard says that if the answer to it question had been 'no', Ubisoft would have cut Assassin's Creed Walhalla tattoos, which Don't just extend players large customization options for their Eivor, but are also miniskirt-quests that involve chasing pop slips of newspaper publisher with tattoo designs happening them. "We would have a great deal of account to do on social media, people would have been outraged," Rivard admits before launching into an impression of a potential Valhalla player. "'I gotta sustain my guide tattoo happening my badass Viking, what the hell's this?"

Rivard was even upset that his total branding programme for Assassin's Creed Walhalla would have to Be redesigned. "I remember I was in ace meeting, my head was shaking, because I was like, the tattoo graphics are going to be used across all touchpoint, every look of my rendering. If there are no tattoos, I gotta reconsideration my art direction for this," he says.

As luck would have it, the historians working on Assasin's Creed Valhalla discovered that the world of Viking tattoos is something of a grey area, with one historian's account possibly confirming the warriors were inked. "They started digging connected the time full point we were exploring and what could the graphical representations those hoi polloi could wear their body. So they plunk deep into this fib of a Muslim historiographer who encountered this clan," helium explains. "The guy was named Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and this guy is sort of a religious advisor and a historian and he was travelling to Scandanavian countries... he describes their ritual of a burial of the chief. Every historian now says, 'those were Vikings, for sure, those were Norse people.' And they were wearing markings on their body…it set us up for 'okay, we can go with this.'" And so, Assassin's Religious doctrine Valhalla tattoos got the greens light.

Rivard and I spoke at length about the tattoo designs and inspirations in Assassin's Creed Valhalla for an upcoming feature about tattoos in video games, so stay tuned.

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Alyssa Mercante is an editor and features writer at GamesRadar based out of Brooklyn, NY. Prior to entering the industry, she got her Masters's degree in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University with a dissertation focusing on contemporary indie games. She spends most of her time playing competitive shooters and in-depth RPGs and was recently on a PAX Panel about the best bars in picture games. In her free time Alyssa rescues cats, practices her Italian, and plays soccer.