One is a prophecy that they will betray Sigurd, and the other is All-Father Odin himself. However, Eivor is plagued by two important internal struggles. With luck, they will return in the future, complete with apocalypse-canceling info. They are keeping busy, using the Isu simulation machine to examine hypothetical timelines and prevent another oncoming catastrophe. Layla has company in the form of a mysterious figure known as The Reader, who might be Desmond Miles. Given this knowledge, Valhalla implies Basim was manipulating Layla since the events of Origins.

When she frees him, she unwittingly traps herself. When Layla enters the Isu simulation machine, she learns Basim contacted her by tapping into the internet. At the end, she receives a crash course on Desmond Miles and visits the Isu temple Eivor and Sigurd found. During the opening, Layla exits the Animus and states she found Eivor's skeleton via an anonymous tip that hints it could solve the aurora borealis problem. Nothing of note happens to Layla except during the beginning and the end of the game. Layla spends most of the game in the Animus, and only leaves to wander around the cabin. How Basim plans to bring them back is anyone's guess. Currently, the consciousness of his wife Aletheia resides in the Staff of Hermes, and his son Fenrir is hidden somewhere unknown. Moreover, Basim's monologue during the epilogue implies that, going forward, the Assassin's Creed franchise will revolve around him - either as a protagonist or antagonist - and his quest to revive his family. Thanks to context clues gleaned from an unlockable cutscene, the game reveals Basim is the reincarnation of the Isu Loki, and he thought Sigurd was the reincarnation of Odin, which explains Basim's actions throughout the game. The odds of all this happening seem infinitesimally small, but remember: Basim has studied probability since the 9th Century. When it's pressed, his mummified body falls directly on the Staff of Hermes, which restores him.

However, Basim wired the control button to the function that would release him.

He brought Layla to the Isu temple so she could decrease the intensity of the machine, creating a dangerous aurora borealis shield.

Most of Basim's character development unfolds at the end of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, when he tells Layla he used the Isu machine he's trapped in to communicate with her and study probabilities.

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