Animus
Point
Point noun - A particular and often important moment in time.
Both words in one sentence
- At one point in Assassin's Creed II, Desmond loses his focus when wondering what the plural for "animus", the machines that allow him to experiece his ancestors' lives, is.
Source: Perplexing Plurals -
Though at one point the Soulcalibur community manager noted the fuzziness of Ezio's timeline during the events of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (the incarnation used in V), suggested that it was actually time/dimensional travel instead of Soul Calibur V itself being a video game inside the Animus.
Source: Guest Fighter -
Due to how the Animus works (it only contains a person's memories up to the point where the next ancestor is conceinved), Edward's daughter we see in the credits can't be Desmond's ancestor, meaning he also at least had another child at some point after the game's events.
Source: A Man Is Not a Virgin
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