User blog comment:Wagnike2/Assasin's Creed Fantasy Setting/@comment-71.46.64.56-20121115141800

How about the late 5th and early 6th centuries? The time of King Arthur and Camelot?

Events: Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. Building of Camelot and forming the Round Table. Finding and recruiting the Knights of the Round Table. Merlin's trickery that led to Arthur's birth and rise to the throne. Morgana and Mordred's battles against Camelot. The finding of Excalibur. Merlin and Morgana could be first civ people still alive, or just people with pieces of eden.

Actors: Arthur (possibly the main character, played by the players), Merlin, Morgana, Mordred, Uther Pendragon, Gwenevere, Lancelot, various other Knights of the Round Table.

Locations: Camelot, anywhere in England or Europe as a whole.

Why: How could this not be a perfect setting for an AC game? Who's a templar and who's an assassin could be a major plot-point? The player could be Arthur Pendragon, or maybe just a background character that helped Arthur create Camelot. Maybe Merlin was/is a First Civ person who didn't like the others, worked against them. Maybe Uther was a templar and all that Merlin did was to create Arthur to be trained as a new Assassin. Morgana could be the First Civ person sent after Merlin the Betrayer.

We could play through the forming of the Round Table and the creation of Camelot as a stronghold for freedom and peace. As the last bastion of non-templar holdings in Europe or some-such.

The Arthurian legend has always had a special meaning for me. I would absolutely love a game like AC in this setting. It would probably, rapidly, become one of my favorite games of all time. Especially if it was well-written and designed. Lots of potential here, imho.