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Courtesan

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{{Faction Infobox
|image = Assassins-creed-ii-20090923115453941_640w.jpg
|imgdesc = Artwork of courtesans in ''Assassin's Creed II''
|game = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
|location = [[Florence]], [[Tuscany]], [[San Gimignano]], [[Romagna]], [[Venice]]
}}
{{quote|You too must learn to blend like us; seen, but unseen. |Paola's training on Ezio}}
The '''Courtesans''' are one of the three factions of ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' helping the main character [[Ezio Auditore di Firenze|Ezio]] (the other two being the [[Thieves]] and the [[Mercenaries]]). Led by [[Paola]], whose brothel is located in [[Florence]], and by [[Sister Teodora]], who is situated in [[Venice]].

The courtesans can help Ezio by surrounding him which let him walk the streets unnoticed. They can also distract the guards by seducing them.

==Facts==
*They help Ezio learn how to blend in.
*They can help fight guards with daggers when Ezio is attacked, though they go down very easily.
*They can be used to distract guards.
*Guards walking by Ezio can take two of the four Courtesans he has hired without notice. Two courtesans is still enough to distract any number of guards as long  they have been grouped to each other

==Achievement==
You can win an achievement/trophy, Red Light Addict, by spending 5000 florins on them. One group of courtesans costs 150 florins. Therefore, you need to hire at least 34 groups to get it.
[[Category:Factions]]

Leonardo da Vinci

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Leonardo da Vinci
|image = Zw-leonardodavinci.png
|imgdesc = Leonardo da Vinci in the Animus Database
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
|period = Italian Renaissance (15th century)
|voice = [[Carlos Ferro]]
}}
{{quote
|1 = Ezio, my friend! How may I be of service?
|2 = Leonardo da Vinci
}}'''Leonardo da Vinci''' (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer in the Renaissance. He is generally considered the most talented person who ever lived and in Assassin's Creed 2 he is [[Ezio Auditore de Firenze]]'s best friend who helps him throughout the game.

==Biography==
Born as an adopted person to a middle-class poor family, he spent 5 years in the countryside before he moved to the small village of Vinci, Florence. Very little is known so far about his early life. By the age of 14, he took up painting and was rather successful in getting his paintings published throughout the world today. In 1472, he enrolled at Guild of St Luke, where he recieved a master degree in Medicine and Botany. After university, his father set up his workshop, where Leonardo would work. Many political figures and armies would often call for his help to design various items and buildings. His most famous painting is the Mona Lisa, which was taken with him when he retired to France in 1513. He died of Blood Gout in 1519.

===Assassin's Creed II===

[[File:Leonardoartwork1.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Leo's concept art]]
He and Ezio meet for the first in the beginning of the game during one of Ezio's errands. Ezio carries a few of his paints for him back to Ezio's house and the two became friends quite fast after this. They don't see eachother again until after Ezio becomes notorious throughout [[Florence]]. Ezio showed him one of the [[codex]] pages to show how to fix the [[Hidden Blade]], which he does. Leonardo is then questioned by guard and beat up by him until Ezio came and saved him using his new hidden blade. After this Leonardo and Ezio don't see eachother much unless you bring him codex pages to decrypt for you and to upgrade your hidden blade into the dual version. A few years later he meets up with Ezio who helps Leonardo get through the mountains safely from the attacking Templars. Leonardo is then taken to [[Venice]] and is escorted to his new home and given a tour of the city with Ezio. Leonardo stays at Venice for the remainder of the game and still does very little except for decrypting codex pages for you. He does not have another role for a while until Ezio asks to use his prototype flying machine to break into the doges palace in an attempt to save him. At first it only flys for a short time but than he gets an idea of making fires across Venice to lift the machine higher into the air. This works until it is shot down just as Ezio got into palace. A few years later he saw Ezio once more during the carnival season and built him the [[Hidden Gun]] and gave him a mask to wear while out in the city. This is the last of his important roles throughout the game except for decrypting codex pages for you, but after that you are unable to see him again in the game. 

====Hidden Blade upgrades====
*[[Hidden Blade]]
*Dual Hidden Blade
*[[Poison Blade]]
*[[Hidden Gun]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Ezio with leonardo in workshop.jpg|Ezio having a chat with Leonardo
File:Leonardo workshop.jpg|Leonardo in his workshop
</gallery>

==Trivia==
[[Video:Assassin's Creed 2 - Focus On|thumb|left|250px|Leonardo Da Vinci - Genius Inventor]]
*All of Leonardo's modifications on previously existing assassin gear are designs created by Altaïr. Leonardo just follows the designs detailed in Altaïr's codex, which only he and Giovanni Auditore can decipher and translate.
*Leonardo, like some of the main characters, doesn't seem to experience any changes for the 23 years of the game he appears, from their first encounter to the decoding of the the Codex in the villa in 1499. (1476-1499).
*Unless it is a codex page important to the story, such as the design for two hidden blades, the cutscene is the same when Ezio visits Leonardo each time (even after Leonardo's move to Venice).
* Leonardo's last name isn't actually da Vinci, he was the bastard son of a courtesan, and Vinci being the town he was born in, he took on the name, Leonardo da Vinci

== Notes ==

*Leonardo may not spawn if the game does not register if you have been to Leonardo's Workshop. Therefore you can not decipher the codex pages you have collected so far. If this happens you can wait until sequence 14 where he will spawn in the villa with Claudia and the Architect. The exception to this is that Leonardo is registered as a mission.

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[[Category:Assassin's Creed II Characters|Vinci, Leonardo da]]

Glyphs

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'''Glyphs''' are encrypted messages that can appear on different places in [[Assassins Creed 1|Assassins Creed]] and [[Assassins Creed 2]], created by [[Subject 16]]. In the first game they appear shortly before Desmond falls asleep and near the end. You can also find them in the Animus 2.0. Just before Subject 16 died, he left messages in the original Animus to tell anybody who finds it an important secret. The only way somebody would find these is to solve the puzzles relevant to the information given. There are a total of 20 glyphs found in Italy. Each provides, whether through Subject 16 or the coded messages hidden in some files, snippets of backstory to the Templars and Pieces of Eden.

==Locations==
===Florence===
===Monteriggioni===
===Tuscany/San Gimignano===
===Romagna/Forlì===

==Truth Files==

{|border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"
!width="10%"|File Number
!width="20%"|Location
!width="35%"|Solution
!width="40%"|Story/Secret Messages
|-
!Truth File 1 - In The Beginning
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Santa Croce
|Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with an apple in them
|Subject 16 explains that everything he's been told is a lie and has split 20 codes in the animus, and along the way, the truth would be revealed.
|-
!Truth File 2 - Sixty-Four Squares
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Ospedale Degli Innocenti
|Solve the puzzle more easily by rotating the circle puzzle pieces from smallest circle to the largest
|-
!Truth File 3 - Descendants
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at La Rosa Colta
|Solve the puzzle by highlighting the circular object in each photo
|
*Pigpen cipher on the photo of Roosevelt reads "The Masons brought it across the sea. George Washington passed it on". George Washington was a member of the Masons, along with a number of the founding fathers, who supposedly they were the Knights Templar reborn.
*Morse code on the photo of Houdini reads "They hit him in the stomach". This is reference to the fact that after he was hit in the stomach for a trick, he died of a ruptured appendix.
*Morse code on the photo of Gandhi reads "The bullet hit him in the chest".
|-
!Truth File 4 - Infinite Knowledge
|While hanging from the roof, it’s on a wall at Villa Auditore
|Solve the puzzle by taking the hints literally
|
*Hexadecimal cipher on the photo at Brest reads "Antikythera Mechanism, much older than 150 B.C.E."
*Caesar number cipher on the photo at the US civil war reads "Ancient city, Rajastan, Inda, irradiated by PoE".
*Binary code reads "Sumerian. Me 23.".
|-
!Truth File 5 - Instruments of Power
|In the bottom dwellings of Santa Maria Assunta, it’s on a wall near pillars
|Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with a sword in them, then, in the next set, all those with a staff
|-
!Truth File 6 - Brothers
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Torri Dei Salvucci
|Solve the puzzle more easily by rotating the circle puzzle pieces from smallest circle to the largest, while keeping an eye on the two outer layers that will connect
|
*Morse code text reads "Templar texts adapted by Mr. Smith"
*The Templar emblem is revealed as the Mark of Cain, showing Cain to be the first Templar.
|-
!Truth File 7 - Keep On Seeking, And You Shall Find
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Torre Del Diavolo
|Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with red in them, this can be done in any order
|-
!Truth File 8 - Martyrs
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at San Lorenzo
|Solve the puzzle by finding the Pieces of Eden (success is indicated with a sound). Then putting the flame over Joan on the world map. And finally, by moving Rasputin’s photo to the top of Czar Nicholas II’s photo
|
*Binary code on photo of Czar Nicholas II reads "17th July 1918". This date was the day the Czar and his family were killed off.
* Binary code on painting of Joan of Arc reads "30th May 1431" The day Joan was burned at the stake.
*It is revealed that the Templars stole the Sword from Joan of Arc.
* Rasputin stole the Staff from Czar Nicholas II.
|-
!Truth File 9 - Hat-Trick
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Mercato Vecchio
|Solve the puzzle by taking the hints literally, with the last one being 6=1

Since i can't type in the next block over, i'll have to type what i need here: According to the letter, JFK was a planning on giving the people of the US the right to vote to something, so the templars decided to kill him and extract #3 at the same time
|-
!Truth File 10 - Apollo
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Monte Oliveto Maggiore
|Solve the puzzle by not looking for the Eagle Apollo lander on the moon. When found, it’s best to rotate the layers of the puzzle from the inside out until they all align, but note that inner layer 1 rotates on its own despite being connected to layer 4 as well in one instance, same story for layer 6. Lastly, the Piece of Eden is on the Moon’s surface.
|
*Pigpen cipher reads "Johnson was one of them. The bees drone too. Follow the money."
*The title of the Moon photo reads "Apollo 11 photograph released to public". Underneath it reads "Original unreleased negative".
*The flag of the USA contains the Abstergo logo.
*The white flag contains the Templar emblem.
|-
!Truth File 11 - The Inventor
|While standing on the floor, it’s under a stone arch at Antico Teatro Romano
|Solve the puzzle by highlighting the light bulbs. After that highlight the middle of the photo above the doorway. Then highlight Nikola Tesla’s lap.
|
*The picture of Wardenslyffe contains 3 quotes of Tesla's
*Caesar cipher in the picture of Tesla's lab reads "He used it to develop a bottomless source of energy. Telefunken Wireless Station".
|-
!Truth File 12 - Titans of Industry
|While standing on a roof (not the church tower itself), look down to the side of a wall attached to where you stand at Abbazia Di San Mercuriale
|Solve the puzzle by aligning red 4 with gray 1 on the wheel and entering the related code. Then turn off all the lights on the globe. Select the orb in the middle of the next photo. Solve the last puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 1=II. 2=I.
|
*Morse code reads "They used it to make Tesla go insane. The organization took his research. Alien property, custodian office".
|-
!Truth File 13 - "I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
|Climb the base lookout tower until you see it on part of the stone walling on Avamposto Veneziano
|Solve the puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 5=circle, square, square. 2=circle 3=triangle. Next press the red button so-to-speak. The last part you’ll find near the left-middle bottom of the letter
|-
!Truth File 14 - Bloodlines
|Swim under the Ponte Di Rialto bridge, where you’ll find it on a wall near the edge of the water
|Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with Gods in them: Jupiter, Zeus, Cupid, the Swan and Europa
|-
!Truth File 15 - Guardians
|While standing on a roof, it’s on a higher up wall at Gilda Dei Ladri Di Venezia, right above a wooden hatch
|Solve the puzzle by working from the inside out, and realizing that these layers are connected: 1 to 6, the middle two, and 4 to 5
|-
!Truth File 16 - The Cavalry
|Climb up the Campanile Di San Marco bell tower, until you can climb in, at which point you’ll find it on the floor
|Solve the puzzle by selecting Tunguska. It's ok if you select others first but Tunguska solves the puzzle. Give the staff to the picture.
|-
!Truth File 17 - The Bunker
|Climb up the Torre Dell ‘Orologio and on the floor you’ll find it
|Solve the puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 7=broken square symbol, 9=six-sided hourglass symbol, 1=square with little square inside of it. Then the attic on the top-right will reveal an Assassin symbol for you to ID
|Cipher reads "His double was killed in his bunker"
|-
!Truth File 18 - Synapses
|While standing on a roof (not the highest roof), it’s on a wall at San Pietro Di Castello
|Solve the puzzle by allining up the wheel like this: 6=YYY, 0=the equivalent of 17 (in summerian) <YYY,YYY,Y, 3= (31) or <<<Y.
|-
!Truth File 19 - The Fourth Day
|It’s on the back of one of the rounded-top walls that stick out on the side-parts of Scuola Grande Di San Marco
|Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with a sun in them. I’m not sure if this has to be done in any specific order, if so it’s: Aztec Calendar, Easter Gate, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Nazca Textile and Book of the Dead. Then find the part of the sun photo that has the most radiation and ID it
|-
!Truth File 20 - The Origin of the Species
|From the roof with a fire near it, it’s there when you look down to a wall on the side of San Giacomo Di Rialto
|Solve the puzzle by working from the inside out, and realizing that these layers are not connected: 2nd inner layer, 5th outer layer. Then ID the sun. Next you can line up the code wheel any way you want to complete the puzzle. Use the set of numbers that only has 3 lines in it. Add up each line and start counting the number of times you change the puzzle piece, start by going down first. In the final puzzle, move the cursor over the bones to change the skeleton from a ape into a human
|}

==Notes==
The puzzles are not necessarily in the same places here. For example, when we found the glyph at the Mercato Vecchio, we were on Truth File 17, (The Calvary), not Truth File 9, (Hat Trick). But this is helpful when trying to find locations.

Despite what order you find the glyphs in, the story behind it of Subject 16 and the puzzles will be shown in its correct order, so even if you found Glyph 20 first, the puzzle will relate to Glyph 1. If you, for example, then found Glyph 10, it will then relate to Glyph 2, and so on. Also if you are unsure as to where to find the Glyphs, go to the Animus menu page, then database, and finally locations. Specific location pictures have a Glyph symbol in the top left corner. It will tell you where you can find them (and the Assassin's Tombs) in each area.

== List of Glyphs ==
This list of glyphs is in no particular order:

*Japanese Tori Gate
*Chinese Writing
*Nazca Line: The Monkey
*Eye of Horus
*Omega
*Butterfly
*Twin Pagodas
*Step Pyramid
*Macchu Picchu
*Eye of Providence
*Hebrew Writing (עולם הבא, meaning "The World To Come")
*Mt. Fuji and the Sun
*12212012 Barcode
*Nazca Line: The Spider/Ant
*The Apple and Pyramid of Eyes
*Pyramids of Giza
*Pentacle/Pentagram
*Nazca Line: The Hummingbird
*The Mandelbrot Set
*The Trefoils
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