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Caroling in Lambeth: An Assassin's Creed Tale

So, this is definitely outside what I had originally intended this blog for, but since it's sort of just become a general place for me to post my thoughts, I figured it would work for sharing this Assassin's Creed fanfiction I wrote for the Mentor's Guild Creedmas 2018 Secret Santa project . I've written a decent amount before, but have never dipped my toes much into fanfiction, outside of an Attila the Hun historical fiction "book" I wrote when I was eleven. The more things change, the more they apparently stay the same. So please forgive me if this breaks any tenets of fanfiction that I may be unaware of (and apologies in advance for my undoubtedly cringey attempts at Victorian British dialogue)! This is the specific prompt I worked on for this piece:  "A female Principal character (from any game) doing a good deed for something (like a holiday gifting)." ____________________________________________________________________________

The Stories We Live: How Brotherhood of Venice Could Expand

We've learned a ton about Brotherhood of Venice since our last article , but perhaps one of the most intriguing things is how the series is handing its expansions. Predictably, some of the units seen at Spiel showed up in an upcoming expansion titled Roma . However, far more interesting in my opinion is the newly announced Modern Day expansion ! Seeing how popular the game is via its Kickstarter campaign , and knowing how I'm always looking for more of the games that I love, I can't help but wonder what might come next for this title.  Here are just a couple of thoughts on how Brotherhood of Venice might continue to expand as a epic tabletop game. Continuing the Renaissance Line Given how the base game is clearly based on Assassin's Creed II 's aesthetics while Roma seems to be more based on Brotherhood , I can't help but think that the most logical place to go next would be something based on Assassin's Creed Revelat