https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/1/17905618/assassins-creed-odyssey-civilian-death

“Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent” is one of the tenets of the Brotherhood of Assassins.

But Assassin’s Creed Odyssey takes place some centuries before those rules existed at all. It stands to reason that accidentally side-swiping civilians in the middle of a heated battle isn’t a game-over condition.