Arno

This Tuesday, Ubisoft released a new trailer for Assasin’s Creed Unity, which highlighted a new Templar character named Elise. The trailer had Arno Dorian, the new protagonist of Unity, free running his way through Parisian rooftops towards a public execution in order to stop Elise from being beheaded. According to Ubisoft, she is a central character in the new game’s story, and has been described as a young noblewoman keen on establishing herself within the Templar order amidst the chaos of the French Revolution. The trailer has Elise and Arno teaming up to fight off soldiers that surround their position following Elise’s rescue. While there appears to be a bit of opening tension between the two characters it seems that both will end up fighting alongside each other during the narrative of the game. However, the most notable aspect of Elise’s focus in the new trailer is the wave of controversy that has followed Ubisoft after a developer claimed that creating female character models for multiplayer would double the workload of