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Having looked closely at what was written in the Gameinformer magazine, here is some information written in it about Bayek:

"Assassin's Creed players have been mulling over several critical questions for a decade. Where did the assassins come from? How did the brotherhood's rituals and traditions form? The newest entry in the series puts players in the role of the man who can best provide the answers: Bayek, the man who will eventually form the assassin brotherhood."

A bit later, we're told this:

''"He's on a mission that will eventually lead to the formation of something that has tenets and a creed," Ismail adds. "He's not an assassin right now. He's building toward it, but the whole point of this is how does the creed, how do the assassins come to be. The idea is that it's not one day they decide to do it. It's a journey. It's a journey that brought them there, and it's a progressive thing that he's going through. It's things he learns through doing his quests, through meeting different people, through understanding the world he lives in and what's happening to his world."''

So yes, it seems that Bayek is supposed to be the one who comes up with the tenets and the creed. I'm really hoping that they'll address the fact that the Assassin Brotherhood predates Bayek.

We already know, for example, that the Assassin insignia was already widespread among the various branches by that time, with the Persian, Babylonian, Chinese and Roman Brotherhoods all having their own distinct variations of the insignia.

In fact, the Egyptian Brotherhood has existed since at least the 2nd century BCE, because the Rosetta Stone (issued in 196 BCE) was stated to contain "sensitive information" concerning the Assassins.

I'm also curious on how they'll implement the Hidden Blade, assuming that they plan to include it at all. It would necessarily have to involve the removal of Bayek's ring finger and would not be useful in combat. I suppose they could just as easily say that the knowledge of the improved Hidden Blade got lost over the centuries until Altaïr rediscovered it, but that just seems overly convenient and kinda lazy in terms of handwaving it away.