What it is
Odyssey takes place before either formal order and follows Kassandra or Alexios through a Greek world shaped by war, family and Isu artifacts. Its choices are player-led, but later canon uses Kassandra as a key anchor.
Codename Jade is set in Qin China between Odyssey and Origins. It is listed as an announced mobile chapter, so the guide does not invent unreleased plot outcomes.
The Isu framework is most useful when it explains why memory and artifacts matter without replacing human history. Their technologies give later factions objects to fight over, but the series' conflict remains about what people choose to do with inherited power.
The Isu past is powerful because it is incomplete. Later groups project their needs onto artifacts and memories, which means the ancient world becomes a mirror for current desires to predict, command or escape human uncertainty.
The short version
- Isu artifacts predate the Assassin-Templar conflict.
- Odyssey is a pre-Brotherhood story, not a story about the later Creed.
- Jade belongs to the ancient historical range but remains unreleased.
- Pieces of Eden amplify human ambitions, which is why the Isu past creates consequences long after the people who made the artifacts are gone.
The story in 6 steps
- Step 1
Meet the artifacts
Power begins as technology mistaken for divine authority.
- Step 2
Follow the family conflict
Odyssey frames legacy through bloodline and choice before it becomes an order.
- Step 3
Place Jade carefully
Its Qin setting is confirmed; unreleased story is not treated as canon.
- Step 4
Move to Egypt
Origins explains how resistance becomes the Hidden Ones.
- Step 5
Treat power as inherited
Begin with the artifacts' legacy, then follow how each era turns that legacy into a new argument about freedom and control.
- Step 6
Resist technological determinism
Treat every Piece of Eden as a test of its user: extraordinary tools change what is possible, but they do not absolve anyone of responsibility.
Where to go next
Games set here
- Assassin's Creed →Altaïr is demoted after breaking the Creed and must investigate nine targets across the Levant.
- Assassin's Creed II →Ezio enters the hidden war after members of his family are executed through a political conspiracy.
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood →After Cesare Borgia attacks Monteriggioni, Ezio moves to Rome and turns a personal defeat into a campaign to rebuild the Brotherhood.
- Assassin's Creed Revelations →Ezio searches for keys to Altaïr's library while supporting the Ottoman Brotherhood and confronting a Templar succession plot.
- Assassin's Creed III →Ratonhnhaké:ton, known as Connor, joins the Assassins to defend his people as the American Revolution reshapes the colonies.
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag →Edward Kenway steals an Assassin identity for profit and becomes entangled in the search for the Observatory.
- Assassin's Creed Origins →Bayek and Aya pursue the masked group responsible for their son Khemu's death and discover a wider Order shaping Egypt.
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey →Kassandra searches for her fractured Spartan family while dismantling the Cult of Kosmos during the war between Athens and Sparta.
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla →Eivor leads the Raven Clan from Norway to England and builds alliances needed to sustain a new settlement.
- Assassin's Creed Shadows →Naoe and Yasuke investigate the forces reshaping their lives during the violence and political consolidation of late Sengoku Japan.