Talk:Cave paintings

Meaning
I wasn't quite sure whether this belonged on the article, but I felt it important to put it somewhere as there's been discussion recently about the meaning of the cave paintings' story and the identity of the Sky Woman on a member's blog (which I can't comment on anymore for some reason?). So I figured I'd pick the talk page - maybe a blog of my own would've been better, but ah well.

Anyways, I contacted James Nadiger, one of the scriptwriters on Assassin's Creed: Rogue, on Tumblr (I loathe Twitter's character limit lol) regarding this, so here's a link to his response. It's really Susan Patrick who provides an answer, but it's the same to me. The gist of it is that the Legend of the Sky Woman (the version that appears in the game) appears to have been written primarily to resonate with Templar ideals. Which makes sense since we're playing as Shay.

There's no confirmation that the Sky Woman is identical to Juno, as Kain, I think, proposed in the member's blog. Many of the elements in the story can, in my opinion, be tied to events within the franchise (the glowing apple tree made me think of the Seismic Temples, the Sky Woman's general role - bringing order in a chaotic world - in combination with her nature as a god is evocative of Juno, the Evil Spirit and Good Spirit can be interpreted as the Assassins and the Templars, depending on your point of view, and the Evil Spirit being banished to a cave underground made me think of Juno in the Grand Temple, etc.). However, these are just my musings; canonically, all we can say about the story is that a Templar could appreciate the story because it resonates with their own ideals, I think. 16:18, February 23, 2015 (UTC)