As a quick reminder, on October 5, 2023, Assassin’s Creed Mirage was released for PC, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5. The game stars (who is not-so-secretly the reincarnation of the Isu Loki) in his early days as a member of the Assassins, long before he met the main character of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, . Unlike more recent entries, Mirage returns to the franchise’s stealth-based roots and restricts players to one city, specifically the . This setting places the game a few hundred miles from the locations of the first Assassin’s Creed, but Mirage takes place several centuries before its events. While also taking place after its events. Let me explain how this anachronistic anomaly works., So where does this leave Assassin’s Creed Mirage? The game’s main action takes place in the year 861, back when the Assassins were known as the Hidden Ones and the Templar Order was The Order, Assassin's Creed Mirage is set in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age, primarily during the Anarchy at Samarra, which was a period of extreme internal instability during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphate..