Precursor box

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{{Item Infobox
|image = ACRG Precursor box.png
|type = [[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]]
|powers =
*Siphon other artifacts as power sources
*Decypher Isu writing and produce holograms
*Imprint memories into the mind of users
|current = *[[Ezio Auditore's box|#1]]: ''Unknown''
*[[Shay Cormac's box|#2]]: ''Gramática's lab''
|period = Prehistory
|created = [[Isu]]
|notable = *[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]]
*[[Shay Cormac]]
*[[William Sleeman]]
*[[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia Nikolaevna]]
*[[Álvaro Gramática]]}}
The '''Precursor boxes''' are ancient artifacts created by the [[Isu|First Civilization]], capable of interacting with other [[Pieces of Eden]] to accomplish amazing feats.

Once powered by lightning, one box was able to decypher the First Civilization language written in the [[Voynich manuscript]], giving the location of the Seismic Temples.<ref name="ACRG"/> Using the [[Koh-i-Noor]] to power another box, the Templars used the artifact to translate the writings in the [[Amritsar Temple]] to locate the emplacement of other Temples.<ref name="ACCI"/>

Combined with [[Staves of Eden]], the boxes also demonstrated to have the ability to imprint the memories of someone into another individual, like in 1918 when [[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]] ended up with the memories of [[Shao Jun]].<ref name="ACCR"/>

==Known boxes==
===Ezio Auditore's box===
[[File:ACE-V 10.png|thumb|left|250px|Ezio handing the box to Shao Jun]]
By November 1524, one Precursor box was in the possession of the retired [[Italy|Italian]] [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], in his villa in [[Tuscany]]. The [[China|Chinese]] Assassin, [[Shao Jun]], who had traveled there seeking Ezio's advice on resolving the problems in her homeland, was given the box and told that it would aid her. Ezio stated that she should only open it if she were to lose her way.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]''</ref>

[[File:ACCC Zhang Yong box.png|thumb|250px|Zhang Yong with the box]]
Upon returning to China, Shao Jun used the box as bait to lure [[Gao Feng]], one of the [[Eight Tigers]] to her. She assassinated him but the box itself was taken by [[Yu Dayong]]. Eventually Shao reclaimed the box, assassinating Yu. Shao Jun entrusted the box to her shifu, [[Wang Yangming]] who took it to have someone help them study the box. However before he could do that [[Zhang Yong]] murdered him and took the box for the Templars, finally sending it out of China to other Templars.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China]]''</ref>

Eventually, the box ended up into the hands of [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Templar]] [[Francis Cotton]]. After Cotton's death, his appointed successor, [[William Sleeman]], took possession of the box and launched in 1841 a campaign to find Precursor Temples in India by using the box. In order to power it, he stole the [[Koh-i-Noor]] from the Assassins. However, his efforts were countered by Assassin [[Arbaaz Mir]] who recovered the stolen artifact and despite discovering a new Temple, in [[Herat Temple|Herat]], William had to flee with the box.<ref name="ACCI">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]''</ref>

[[File:ACCR RF (9).jpg|thumb|left|250px|The box and the Staff shard interacting]]
Decades later the box was now in possession of the Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]], who in 1918 and along with his family was prisonner of the Bolcheviks in [[Yekaterinburg]]. Sent by the Brotherhood to recover the artifact, [[Nikolai Orelov]] was confronted to the Templars who had infiltrated theranks of the [[Red Army]] and also coveted the box. Infiltrating the house where the Romanovs were kept, Nikolai witnessed their murder but reached [[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Princess Anastasia]], who was holding the box, in time to secure the artifact.<ref name="ACCR">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>

However, as Nikolai was taking the Precursor box from Anastasia's hands, the [[Staves of Eden|shard of the Staff]] around his neck and the box interacted, and the girl was somehow imprinted with the genetic memories of [[Chinese Assassins|Chinese Assassin]] [[Shao Jun]]. Suffering from a kind of [[Bleeding Effect]], Anastasia became overwhelmed by Jun's skills and memories and the older man decided to take both her and the box to the Brotherhood in [[Moscow]].<ref name="ACCR"/>

Once in Moscow, the pair reached to the Assassin [[Sergei]], who took the box and promised Nikolai that they would keep her safe while discovering what the box had done to her. Nikolai then found out by eavesdropping on some Assassins' conversation that they didn't care about Anya's safety and that Sergei only wanted to uncover the box's secrets, and also that the procedure that they were planning to do on Anya was most likely going to kill her. Nikolai ultimately managed to rescue Anya, but left the box behind.<ref name="ACCR" />

===Shay Cormac's box===
[[File:De Fayet's Last Stand 7.png|thumb|250px|right|Adéwalé handing the box to Bastienne]]
By 1735, another Precursor box had wound up in the possession of the [[France|French]] Templars, who were transporting it on aboard a [[Man O' War|galleon]] to [[Port-au-Prince]], to be given to [[Bastienne Josèphe]]. However, the fleet transporting the artifact was attacked by the Assassin [[Adéwalé]], who retrieved the parcel that contained the box from the [[Templar Admiral (1735)|Templar admiral]]. In July 1737, after two years of working alongside her, Adéwalé eventually handed the artifact to Bastienne.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – ''[[Freedom Cry]]''</ref>

By November 1751, both the Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript were in the possession of [[François Mackandal]], Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood in [[Haiti|Saint-Domingue]]. Using the artifacts, Mackandal discovered the existence of a First Civilization Temple near Port-au-Prince and sent his subordinate, [[Vendredi]], to investigate it. Unbeknownst to Mackandal, the Temple was part of a system that held the [[Earth]] together.<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>

Vendredi activated the Temple's machinery, causing a massive [[1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake|earthquake]] which destroyed Port-au-Prince and the surrounding region. After the disaster, [[Master Templar]] [[Lawrence Washington]] stole the Precursor box and manuscript from Mackandal's camp and took the artifacts with him to [[Virginia]], where the Templars studied the artifacts in an attempt to learn how to use them.<ref name="ACRG" />

[[File:One Little Victory 6.png|thumb|left|250px|Shay holding the Precursor box]]
[[Shay Cormac]], a member of the [[Colonial Assassins|Colonial branch]] of the Assassin Order, assassinated Washington in search of the box in 1752. However, the box was already in possession of the Templar [[Samuel Smith]], while the manuscript had been entrusted to [[James Wardrop]], another noted Templar. In 1754, Shay had managed to track Smith down and assassinate him, with the help of a fellow Assassin, [[Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye|Chevalier de la Vérendrye]]. Shay recovered the Precursor box from Smith and delivered it to [[Benjamin Franklin]], who was confident conducting electricity through the box would activate it.<ref name="ACRG" />

With Shay and [[Hope Jensen]]'s assistance, Franklin succeeded in powering the box, which projected a view of the Earth and displayed locations of several First Civilization sites, one of them being [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]. The box was subsequently given to [[Achilles Davenport]], the Mentor of Colonial Assassins, who kept it secure at the [[Davenport Homestead]], the Assassins' primary base of operations in the [[British Empire|British]] colonies.<ref name="ACRG" />

[[File:ACRG Shay Dorian.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Shay stealing the box from Dorian]]
In 1759, Hope managed to replicate Franklin's experiment and discovered another First Civilization Temple hidden in the Arctic. After the ordeal, Chevalier de la Vérendrye was tasked with hiding the box, and decided to ship it away from the colonies.<ref name="ACRG" />

By December 1776, the box was in the possession of the [[French Assassins]]. Having switched sides to the Templars twenty years before, Shay learned of this and traveled to [[Paris]]. Rescuing Franklin from a group of criminals, Shay enlisted his aid in entering the [[Palace of Versailles]], claiming to have a business meeting there. After a meeting in the palace, the Assassins entrusted the box to [[Charles Dorian]]. Having made his way inside, Shay assassinated Charles and took the box from him, reclaiming it for the Templars.<ref name="ACRG" />

[[File:ACCR Alvaro box.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Álvaro Gramática holding the box]]
In February 2014, the Assassins [[Harlan Cunningham]] and [[Arend Schut Cunningham|Arend Schut]] stole this box from an [[Abstergo Industries]] facility in [[Rotterdam]]. Abstergo's [[Sigma Team]] led by [[Juhani Otso Berg]] engaged the Assassins in combat, forcing them to leave the artifact behind.<ref name="ACRG" />

In 2015, Laetitia England assigned Juhani Otso Berg to deliver the box to Álvaro Gramática’s top secret lab, so he could use it for Project Phoenix.<ref name="ACCR" />

==Trivia==
*It was incorrectly believed by the Templar [[John Harrison]] in 1742 that Shao Jun's box was recovered by the Assassins and remained in the possession of the [[Chinese Assassins]] for about a hundred years after Jun's death. It was believed that they sent it to {{Wiki|Acapulco}} with the {{Wiki|Manila galleon}}s.<ref name="ACRG" /> Curiously, Harrison was unaware that the artifact was in Templar hands at the time.<ref name="ACCI" />

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACRG Precursor Box - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of the Precursor box
Fiat Lux 7.png|The Precursor box being used
Fiat Lux 6.png|The box displaying a map of the Seismic Temples
The Escape China (2).jpg|The box used to lure the Chinese Templars
ACCI Enemy Revealed (2).jpg|Sleeman using the box and the Koh-i-Noor to find Temples
ACCI Rescue (5).jpg|Kaur and Sleeman fighting for the Artifacts
ACCR RF (17).jpg|Anastasia being imprinted with Jun's memories
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:Pieces of Eden]]

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