User blog comment:The Brave Wolf/Assassin's Creed: Origins - New Rumor May 9th 2017/@comment-413232-20170515212155/@comment-18014300-20170515234132

Oh my, so it would be set in the New Kingdom, the heigh of Egypt after all. Now that they say it will be follow the story of the Exodus, I'm anxious. :-/ What you said earlier, Maxattac, about having a setting where there is more room for creative freedoms is all the more relevant here. I personally think that the Exodus is, among the history of Egypt, one of the narratives that provides the least room for creativity. The entire plot is already laid out! – even if they reinterpret it in Assassin's Creed light.

I also believe that the Exodus is a delicate subject, not so much because followers of Abrahamic faiths may take offense at however it is to be depicted, but because it isn't attested in historical records or archaeology. For this reason, they would have to incorporate it into Egyptian history in a fashion that might be a bit arbitrary. We don't know which pharaoh it was who reigned during the Exodus, if it did happen, and the most popular candidate, Ramses II, is most assuredly not him, given that he was one of the most successful pharaohs, and Canaan was part of Egypt at the time! The Egyptians don't even have any account of the Exodus or enslavement of Hebrews recorded in their histories. However, it is notable that Egyptians generally did not like to record calamities in their histories or tragic events because of a superstition that doing so would give such tragedies power.

Also, up until recently, I favored the theory that the Exodus was connected with the Hyksos conquest of Egypt just before the New Kingdom, and that perhaps the Canaanites enslaved or expelled from the country were in fact Asiatic peoples leftover after Egypt had liberated their country. I'm concerned that using the Exodus account might lead to a black-and-white game in which the Egyptian government is evil and oppressive, period, because if that were the case, it would suddenly feel like I'm just playing a story in the Bible. Whether Egypt had ever actually enslaved the Hebrew people is unknown, and the scale that they practiced slavery is also unknown, only that most of its monuments were constructed not by slaves but skilled laborers.

I guess I'm just apprehensive that centering around the Exodus account could lead to too many historical inaccuracies, as much as our understanding of ancient Egypt is poor enough that Ubisoft would be able to take significant liberties with history.

Alas, the next game is in ancient Greece. On one hand, i would love the setting. On the other hand, I just feel like Assassin's Creed will never actually move beyond a Eurocentric setting, which seems to be corroborated by the fact they say that they think Japan just wouldn't make a successful game. Egypt and Turkey seems to be the furthest they'll ever stray from home. On the other hand, I do welcome a trilogy with a character, as I was disappointed with all the wonderful characters we've been introduced to whose stories we never finish.