Hello Seekers!
Jess here - I'm back from Japan (expect that love-letter podcast to Toto toilets coming your way very soon :)
In the meanie, Here is my latest deep dive into videogames and their real-life counterparts. This week, we're loking at: Assassin's Creed Hexe (as currently titled) and the real German witch trials it world-builds around.
Plus, it's the first day of October, so it's a rather apropo subject matter.
When people think of witch trials, they almost always think of Salem but that's just one chapter in a buck longer, much darker book. Long before New England's panic, the German lands and people of the Holy Roman Empire were already in flames. Not from superstition alone but from politics, corruption and fear turned into law.
Continuing with my Occult In Videogames series, I'm delving into Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed IP and their latest annoucement of HEXE (working title).
HEXE's in-game locations have real world counterparts. A place and time where a single bishop coould (and did) sentence hundreads to a horrific fate. Where owning the wrong book of symbols could mean death. And where demons like Mephisto weren't just legends, they were written into confessions under brutal torture.
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