So apparently you can be a gay Viking in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. You don’t have to, but you can. Just saying.
We got our first good look at Assassin’s Creed Valhalla at Ubisoft Forward, where we were finally introduced to some actual gameplay footage after being promised for several months. And then we were also told that you can swap between male and female Eivor on a whim, which means that if there’s any opportunity for romance, then that would make Eivor at least bisexual unless Ubisoft wanted to also start swapping genders of bangable NPCs.
That would be a lot of work, so they went the other route: Eivor can be gay.
This news comes from several previews that don’t drop too many spoilers, but they do drop a few, so read on at your own risk.
The situation is, Eivor is attending a wedding. Oswald, the King of East Anglia, is getting married to a huge woman called Valdis. There’s a cutscene with a very serious wedding ceremony, and then there’s an open-play scene where Eivor gets roaring drunk and has to play a few wedding minigames. Those include a drinking contest (a timeless Viking tradition) as well as an archery contest, all the while smirking as they bad mouth the king at his own wedding.
And then they decide to go one step further and shag a wedding attendee.
At some point, a male Viking shows up and gets impressed with Eivor’s drunken prowess. It’s not clear if there’s a previous relationship with this guy or if you need to succeed at the wedding games at all, but at some point, the dude just flat out asks to bump uglies.
“Aye, aye. But I could show you how to wield my… plough-sword," the Viking asks regardless of whether you’re male or female Eivor. Then you both go behind a wall and do the deed. Vikings apparently require a minimum of privacy to perform.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla arrives on November 17th. We’ll find out if there are more opportunities for drunken Viking sex then.
Source: Rock, Paper, Shotgun
