Amidst allegations of sexual abuse and other improprieties at Ubisoft, claims of former CCO Serge Hascoët?s and the marketing department?s disdain for female characters have been reported. Such accusations state that though there were teams who wanted their projects to exclusively feature women in leading roles, Hascoët and Co. forced male counterparts into the equation. Allegedly, the reasoning hinged on the evidently false belief that female-led games don?t sell. Fans have since pondered whether Assassin?s Creed Valhalla?s Eivor was a product of similar creative interference. This apparently isn?t the case. Eivor was indeed created with both male and female counterparts in mind.
Darby McDevitt, AC Valhalla?s Narrative Director, laid the speculation to rest in response to a recent Reddit thread. On a post theorizing that Eivor was initially designed as a female character, McDevitt divulged that both the female and male versions always sat at the forefront of this particular AC entry. McDevitt noted the following:
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