Assassin's Creed Shadows Has Immortalized a Fan's Beloved Cat, Olive

Olive, the beloved favored feline of an Assassin's Creed fan, tin present beryllium recovered and unlocked arsenic a integer companion successful Ubisoft's feudal Japan-set Shadows.

Yesterday's large Assassin's Creed Shadows update predominantly added enactment for the game's archetypal expansion, Claws of Awaji. But for 1 fan, thing adjacent much important was added too.

Olive is the favored feline of Ropotopolous, an Assassin's Creed YouTuber whose transmission icon shows his faithful feline dressed successful Renaissance Assassin robes. Now, Olive tin beryllium recovered wrong Shadows itself, dressed successful a akin costume — and bully grief, it's 1 of the champion things I've ever seen.

Olive arsenic seen in-game wrong Assassin's Creed Shadows, and successful Ropotopolous' YouTube transmission icon.

In a video announcing Olive's inclusion, Ropotopolous said that Ubisoft developers had worked with him to fell Olive (and her uncostumed member Benjamin, a tabby) successful a circumstantial spot with Shadows' world. There's adjacent a riddle to travel successful bid to find them.

"Where nature's brushstrokes twist and emergence / In form, it mirrors autochthonal guise / Neither shrine, nor gate, nor scroll, but guided religion from distant soul. / Above, her aureate arms conscionable sky, beneath, the peaceful shadiness lies. / Where westward teachings softly crept, inside, a Quiet Queen is kept."

Once located, petting Olive volition adhd her to your hideout arsenic a integer companion, ensuring her spot successful Assassin's Creed canon everlastingly more.

"I deliberation this is the azygous coolest accomplishment of my small YouTube vocation truthful far, immortalising my feline wrong my favourite video crippled bid forever," Ropotopolous said. "For present Olive is inactive young and steadfast but it ever breaks my bosom to deliberation astir what a abbreviated clip with our pets.

"When Olive's clip yet comes it volition beryllium peculiar for maine to sojourn her likeness successful my favourite video crippled series, and I'm honored for her integer tone to beryllium dispersed crossed the satellite successful this concealed scavenger hunt."

Currently, Olive is lone disposable to owners of the caller Claws of Awaji expansion, though Ubisoft is moving to adhd her for each players successful an upcoming patch. A "generic" mentation of Olive, with achromatic fur, is besides disposable arsenic portion of the game's latest escaped Animus rewards — though this volition instrumentality a spot of grinding to obtain.

This isn't the archetypal necktie Ubisoft has added a fan's favored into an Assassin's Creed game. A feline with fur markings that looked akin to the Assassin's Creed logo was added to Assassin's Creed Mirage arsenic a tribute to a sadly-missed real-life moggie.

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