Sage

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[[File:The Sage's Buried Secret 5.png|thumb|250px|A Mayan statue of a Sage's head in underground Tulum]]
'''Sages''' are [[Humans|human]] reincarnations of [[Aita]], a member of the [[First Civilization]], and the husband of [[Juno]].

Sages are born normally with their own personality and memories, but they also possess the memories of Aita. They bear a strong physical resemblance to Aita, and possess a distinctive combination of {{Wiki|anisocoria}} and {{Wiki|heterochromia iridum|heterochromia}}.

After Aita, who had volunteered and died after being placed within a First Civilization machine in an attempt to save the world from a [[Toba Catastrophe|solar flare]], Juno sought to somehow save him, so that they might reunite some day. To this end, Juno later manipulated the genetic code of human DNA, implanting a hidden trigger that would randomly activate and alter the genetic makeup of the individual, changing their appearance and imbuing them with Aita's memories.

A Sage's blood is required to open the passage to the [[Observatory]], hidden in [[Long Bay]], [[Jamaica]], through inserting it into a [[Blood vials|blood vial]]. The [[Mayans|Mayan]] civilization and [[Taíno]] people worshiped the Sages, and the Mayan ruins in [[Tulum]], [[Mexico]] contained a statue resembling a Sage's head.

Known Sages include the carpenter and explorer [[Thom Kavanagh]], the [[Piracy|pirate]] [[Bartholomew Roberts]], and [[John]], an [[Abstergo Entertainment]] employee.

Sages have been recorded all throughout human history, in numerous regions around the world. According to [[Bahlam]], an [[Assassins|Assassin]] and the father of [[Ah Tabai]], there had been at least eight recorded Sages by the late 1600s - although several [[Abstergo Entertainment]] researchers later concluded that the real count was likely much higher.

==Gallery==
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A Man They Call The Sage 3.png|Bartholomew Roberts, one of the Sages
AC4 John Bunker.png|John, a Sage living in the 21st century
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== Trivia ==
* Thom died in 1706 and Bartholomew was born in 1682. This means that multiple sages can exist at the same time.
==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
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Thomas Kavanagh, Jr.

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'''Thom Kavanagh''' (1652 – 1706) was a [[Boston]] native and a [[Sages|Sage]], a reincarnation of [[Aita]]. At an early age, he discovered that he was different from other people, and struggled with his condition for his entire life. This amplified itself once Kavanagh became caught up in the struggle between the [[Assassins]] and the [[Templars]].

==Biography==
===Early life===
Thom Kavanagh was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1652, to middle-class parents Elizabeth and Thomas Kavanagh. From an early age, Thom was distinguished from other children, in both appearance and behavior - by his account, he was often the subject of much wonder and speculation to both his parents and other adults he came in contact with.

Thom was also afflicted with strange visions of "[[First Civilization|shining beings]]" from another time; visions that began when he was four years old and subsisted throughout his entire life. The most common of these apparitions involved a woman he called "[[Juno|his beloved]]" and [[Minerva|two]] [[Jupiter|others]], who all spoke of ways to avert a coming [[Toba catastrophe|crisis]].

At fourteen, Thom was apprenticed to a master carpenter by the name of [[Jonathan Davenport]], a [[Slavery|slave]] owner, who would later provide good reference for Thom during his travels in the [[Caribbean|West Indies]].

Eventually, Thom felt that he was too different from others to be comfortable living with them, and decided that his best chance was to go out to sea and find his true calling. He left Massachusetts in 1670.

===In Jamaica===
Thom traveled south from Boston, making his way down the coast and through [[the Bahamas]], experiencing the adventures and hardships of a sailing life. During his travels, his visions increased in number and intensity, and he began hearing voices outside of his reveries. During this time he also had a revelation regarding "The Code of Lyfe", or human genetic make-up, which he noted as having no precedent in modern philosophy.

Carrying a letter from Davenport, Thom was able to secure a job with the famous [[Peter Beckford]] the Elder, a [[Sugar plantation|plantation]] owner in [[Jamaica]] who had amassed a fortune through his business. Thom worked with him for an unknown amount of time, until the arrival of the Templar [[Laureano de Torres y Ayala]] to Beckford's estate in 1673. In his first meeting with Torres, Thom immediately sensed something amiss. When Torres asked to meet with him over dinner, claiming that he "looked like a man his colleagues had been seeking for a long time," Thom declined the offer and locked himself in his room. He then fell into another reverie, one that was more intense than most that had come before.

When he awoke, it was to the sounds of battle outside his window. The Assassin [[Bahlam]] made his way to Thom's room, shot him with a potent [[Sleep darts|sleep dart]], and took him to the Assassin stronghold at [[Tulum]], where he awoke days later.

===The Observatory===
Thom spent some time living with the Assassins in Tulum, learning that he was one in a long line of men known as Sages, a select few who had the power to locate and open a hidden complex known as the [[Observatory]]. This explained the Templar's eagerness to find Kavanagh, as well as his multiple visions and memories. When he asked if Bahlam would "steal away his memories as well," Bahlam told him that the memories were Thom's alone, and the choice to share them was his. After several days, Thom informed Bahlam that he planned to leave Tulum and search for the Observatory; Bahlam and his son [[Ah Tabai]] helped him gather supplies for the journey before they parted ways.

Over a year later, Thom located the Observatory in [[Long Bay]], Jamaica, and spent the rest of his life there living with the compound's [[Taino]] [[guardians]]. He died late in 1706 and was buried a short distance away.

He wrote [[Thom Kavanagh's letters|messages]] detailing parts of his life and sent them via bottles to the sea. Between 1715 and 1722, those messages were eventually recovered by the [[Piracy|pirate]] and eventual Assassin [[Edward Kenway]]. The last of these bottles was placed over Kavanagh's grave near the Observatory after his death.

==Trivia==
*Kavanagh was mentioned in a conversation between Kenway, Torres, [[Woodes Rogers]], and [[Julien du Casse]], when du Casse commented that "It [had] been forty-five years since anyone has seen a true Sage," meaning that Torres met Kavanagh in the year 1670. This would also mean that Thom could not have been working for Beckford for very long before leaving with the Assassins.
* Thom died in 1706 and Bartholomew was born in 1682. This means that multiple sages can exist at the same time.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
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