Assassin's Creed - The Hidden Blade's Finger Sacrifice Explained

If we think back to 2007, when Assassin's Creed came out, if you were paying attention, you may have noticed that the Levantine

assassin

s amputated the ring

finger

of their left hand so they could use the

hidden

blade

, although I have no idea why the image I use show everything. Fire with a missing

finger

on the right hand. I found it on Google Images. Probably someone within the Assassin's Creed law flipped it around the time of the Italian Renaissance, between 350 and 400 years later, this

sacrifice

is no longer necessary due to the modifications we have made. Now we tell it, if we go back to the origins of the latest installment of Assassin's Creed, when Byuk obtains the

hidden

sword, he does not immediately move his finger to show that the sword was usable without the need to amputate the ring finger of the sword hand , which shows that this sword

sacrifice

s that the Levantine

assassin

s were probably not one hundred percent necessary or was it in this video that we are going to make sense of this to explain it in a way that works and conforms to the law and general practice before to enter into this explanation.

I want to give credit to the person who brought this idea to my mind, underline AZ, underline guy, so now that the credits explain the way, let's get into making sense of this, it's not particularly confusing to be fair, as far as I'm concerned. I know, there's no real explanation given for this in Cannon, but it's something that doesn't necessarily need an explanation, since we can apply logic to come to a conclusion worth reaching for. I'll present multiple potential reasons and explain each one as we go, so let's get started first of all. let's address how byuk lost his ring finger when fighting eudorus with his ex hand, he was forced to make a fist, at which point he activated the

blade

sending it through his ring finger and into his daughter's neck, killing him, but severing his finger in the process, it was clearly an accident. mutilation which demonstrates that the hidden blade was not initially designed to require the removal of a finger, although it also proves that the blade poses a threat to the user's hand if that finger is still present.

A threat, although it is amplified when the hand is in certain positions. like a closed fist, how does this influence why Levantine assassins, for example, removed their fingers before using the sword in a way as completely barbaric as it might seem? It could be a tactical issue. It wouldn't be convenient in the heat of the moment. in a life or death situation to suddenly feel extreme pain and I think it's a no-brainer that accidentally cutting your finger in the middle of a fight checks that box to prevent that accident from happening in a life or death scenario.

It would simply be easier to remove that finger in a controlled environment, the next reason we can deduce from Assassin's Creed 2, although at this point the assassins did not continue to remove the ring finger to use the hidden blade, they still marked the ring finger. with a mark to show commitment to the Creed, so before this point it is arguable that the removal of the finger was proof of commitment to the Brotherhood to ensure the undivided loyalty of the Creed's subjects. This is possibly supported by the ending of Assassin's Creed Origins. where two heroes cut off their fingers when Byuk tried to tell her that she didn't have to do this, she simply responded with I believe in you and then cut off her finger showing her commitment to the occult.

Could this have been the birth of? that tradition then the two reasons we have at the moment are practicality and tradition and there is nothing that prevents them from going hand in hand removing the ring finger is a sign of commitment to the

creed

but at the same time Leonardo da Vinci stated that the The blade had been modified so as not to require a finger sacrifice, although require might be a strong word. I would say that a recommended finger sacrifice is probably more appropriate, which I say because by excusing his hidden blade up to the point where he lost his finger, I just want to say before I continue, a lot of people seem to think that Leonardo da Vinci modified the hidden blade so that it does not require the sacrifice of the finger to function at its maximum capacity, Altai Air did not like McGuffin, regardless, you probably want to know what this modification consisted of.

To do that, we must understand exactly how the hidden blade would be harmed by the presence of the ring finger and considering how Byuk lost his finger when making a fist, it is obvious that when the fist is closed, the ring finger is in the direct path. of the blade, this happens because when the wrist is straight and the fist is closed, the fingers protrude under the wrist, where the blade would go. So how was Ezio able to clench his fist without losing his fingers? What was this modification? The only explanation. What I think works is to raise the blade of the bracelet, having the blade further from the wrist would free it from the fingers when the hand is in a closed fist, which would limit the risks of cutting a finger while using the concealed blade, obviously it could.

Stay a commoner and just drop your hand down and then tense the right muscles and make the hidden blade stab your hand, but I don't understand why someone who is entrusted with the use of a hidden blade would be so foolish as to to do that. to our next question, if the modification to avoid finger sacrifice is so easy, why didn't someone do it before to understand that now we need to understand how a hidden blade works? Simply put, the blade is activated when a certain muscle. He flexes and presses a button so that the blade is activated by his muscles.

Basically, now it would probably be more difficult from a mechanical point to make that work if the blade is raised a little bit from the support, so how did they come up with this modification? I will say I used a piece of Eden, we know this because LT is seen using Jewell's hidden swords in the final Altai Air memories of the Assassin's Creed reveals anyway, back to the point. I think we figured out how it all works. The sword used to be closer. to the wrists in how the bracelet was designed, which resulted in the ring finger meeting the path of the blade, which explains why the blade at least had a recommended finger sacrifice until it was modified to this point, It became a ritual to remove the ring finger to show. commitment to the Creed and after the modification of the sheet this was no longer necessary, so they changed to marking the finger.

This was done to sustain the ritual of showing commitment to the Creed without needlessly amputating a perfectly good finger, so there's every reason. Unfortunately, there's nothing to explain why this became a trend among killers beyond the practical and compromise arguments we just gave, but we hope this video helped you understand why they cut off the ring finger and how. the leaf remained afterwards. modified of course these explanations are not canonical this is just me trying to explain it in the best way possible but anyway guys thank you all for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it, make sure to continue, leave a like, subscribe, share, comment.

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