User blog comment:The Brave Wolf/Assassin's Creed: Origins - New Rumor May 9th 2017/@comment-5088097-20170509174549/@comment-18014300-20170511183012

SupremeAssassin, the map for Black Flag is actually not nearly 1.063 sq mi though. Many large islands are extremely reduced in size, some to the point of them being no larger than an elementary school campus. There is no way that they can possibly for a 1:1 scale despite their habit of advertising their games as such. For example, this was what they claimed about the map in Unity, and yet Paris in the video game is nowhere near on a 1:1 scale to real-life Paris; you can tell by just how landmarks had to be mis-positioned because they had to scrunch up buildings and streets.

Hm, I don't see how just because "Assassin protagonists have always been male" (with the exception of Aveline de Grandpré, Shao Jun, and Evie Frye), there shouldn't be a standalone female protagonist in a main game for a change. :-/ Personally, I would love that or for a re-implementation of a dual protagonist system. There should be diversity after all, and Ubisoft should show they're willing to take such risks.

Some notes on the setting. I know that articles have been explaining that Khenut, who is mentioned in the objective in the screenshot, is a queen of the 5th dynasty of Egypt. I wanted to note that the text doesn't explicitly say that this Khenut is a queen, so for all we know, it's a different Khenut. For another thing, the 5th dynasty was a particularly early and obscure dynasty where we have little records of the exploits of its rulers. Our idea of how the 5th dynasty was like is so paltry that it won't make any sense for the game to be set in this time period, so either this isn't Queen Khenut of the 5th dynasty or the theory that the game is going to jump through many different time periods of Egypt is true.

As for visiting ancient Greece, that will be thrilling indeed. The New Kingdom of Egypt, hosting the most famous pharaohs from Hatshepsut, to Amenhotep III, to Akhenaten and Tutankhamun to Ramses II, was contemporaneous with the setting of the ancient Greek heroic legends such as Perseus, Jason and the Argonauts, Heracles, and the Trojan War. As a result, we might have an opportunity to view these Greek myths in the Assassin's Creed light.

A minor thought I had, though I'm not a pervert I swear :P, but I had studied a little on the clothing trends of ancient Egyptians, and it seems that many ancient Egyptian women wore sheath dresses which went up just below their breasts, in other words exposing them, though I think caps were sometimes used. The ancient Egyptians did not sexualize the breasts as we did today, and nudity or near-nudity was far more acceptable, even a norm. I'm sure that Ubisoft wouldn't have nudity in the game, but I was a bit torn on my thoughts over this. On one hand, I would not want an Assassin's Creed game to stir up any controversy over it; on the other hand, I wonder if it's wrong to allow our modern views on sexuality to distort ancient Egyptian customs and societal norms, to be historically inaccurate because of our own customs, and it might be an eye-opener for how some cultural ideas we treat as universal truths is not really the case.