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Rifts

2010-12-03T05:20:05Z

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'''Rifts''' appear to be breaks in the programming of memories within the [[Animus]], which can be seen using [[Eagle Vision]]. Each of the ten are found on key landmarks throughout [[Rome]], and conceal [[Subject 16]]'s Cluster puzzles in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''. They are the equivalent of [[Glyphs]] from ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', but instead of revealing a second [[The Truth|Truth]] video, they simply relay the message "The miracle is in the execution" along with an executable file. Accessing the file allows Desmond to go through a virtual obstacle course similar to an [[Animus Virtual Training Program]] mission, and ultimately receive a message from Subject 16.

Note that unlike the glyphs from Assassin's Creed II, the rifts are not activated simply by standing in front of them with Eagle Vision active. Ezio must actually grab the edge of the rift while Eagle Vision is active, then climb in. They cannot be accessed or hung from without Eagle Vision active.

Various hidden messages such as coded numbers and letters, music notes and morse code appear in the rifts.

For example, in Cluster 7, if you zoom in on the picture of the jet, somewhere you'll see the words "We the People" marked 1, 2, and 3, respectively. That seems to imply that all the other numbers are words from the Declaration of Independence...

==Locations==

===[[Castra Praetoria]]===
In the area where [[Octavien]] de Valois was assassinated, on the eastern wall.

===[[Rosa in Fiore]]===
On the north wall of the [[Brothels|brothel]], on the second floor wall.

===[[Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Montesant]]===
On the western tower near the left dome.

===[[Aventino]]===
On the [[Borgia tower]].

===[[Castel Sant'Angelo]]===
On the actual cylinder of the castle, on the south side where the top of the outer wall is closest to the cylinder, near a haystack, right below a circular window.

===[[Caserma di Alviano]]===
East side of the wall, on the outside of the perimeter.

===[[Acquedotto Claudia]]===
Near the small town where Leonardo frequently is located at, on the north side of aqueduct. Climb the Borgia tower to reach the top of the aqueduct.

===[[Colosseo]]===
At the very top, northern side of the Colosseo, just west of the [[View Point]]. It is on the outside wall, and to access it, Ezio must hang from the topmost ledge of the Colosseum, directly above the rift, fall and catch himself in the rift while Eagle Vision is active.

===[[Palazzo Senatorio]]===
On the back of the Palazzo, near the roof, towards the end of the free-running path.

===[[Pantheon]]===
Inside the Pantheon, on the wall right above the main entrance.
==Clusters==
==='''Cluster 1'''===

Puzzle 1: Pick out the five images of aristocrats not doing any sort of work.

[[File:Cluster_1-1--article_image.jpg]]

Puzzle 2: Move your pawn at 2E to 4E.
[[File:Cluster_1-2--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"They become increasingly aware of our existence. We can no longer rely on the divine right of the aristocracy to maintain control. We need a new system, something much more subtle."'''''

Puzzle 3: Hit A/X to "activate" the blinking red light found here:

[[File:Cluster_1-3--article_image.jpg]]

==='''Cluster 2'''===

'''''"The individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."'''''

'''—[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Adam Smith]'''

Puzzle 1: Turn the first ring left four times, the second and first rings right twice, the third and first rings left three times, and the fourth ring left four times.
[[File:Cluster_2-1--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."'''''

Puzzle 2: The first and third rings are linked, as are the fourth and first. Turn the first/third rings right five times, the second ring right five times, the third ring left four times, and the fourth/first rings left twice.
[[File:Cluster_2-2--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of the whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to it."'''''

Puzzle 3: The third ring is linked with the second, as is the fourth with the first. Turn the first ring right three times, the second ring right four times, the third/second rings left five times, and the fourth/first ring right once.
[[File:Cluster_2-3--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"A country that makes provision to increase in inhabitants, whose situation is good, and whose people have a genius adapted to trade, will never fail to be gainers in the balance, provided the labour and industry of their people be well managed and carefully directed."'''''

'''''"lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo"'''''

Puzzle 4: Move your pawn at 2F to 4F.
[[File:Cluster_2-4--article_image.jpg]]

Puzzle 5: Activate one of the two blinking lights shown below, then quickly activate the other one before your cursor fills up with red.

[[File:Cluster_2-5--article_image.jpg]]

==='''Cluster 3'''===
'''''"Missing -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... .-.. --- ... - -... -. ..- -- -..."'''''

Morse Code Translated: '''''DARKNESSLOSTNUMB'''''
__________________________________________________________________________________________

Puzzle 1: Select the area shown below (revealing a hidden Abstergo emblem).
[[File:Cluster_3-1--article_image.jpg]]

'''HIDDEN MESSAGES AND CODES IN THE PUZZLE 1 OF CLUSTER 3'''

'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White Harry Dexter White]. Remember this name.'''''

'''''"I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago" —[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes John Maynard Keynes]'''''

'''''Le Chiffre indéchiffrable.'''''

'''''''"How can I adopt a creed which, preferring ''mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the send of all human advancement?"'''

'''''Rqpgxqqeqizikxzjpzkwmczyuawmbfxqwuasmkfvpfkqsbdftnfvw'''''

'''''It would all be done in secret, the Assassins would never know until it was too late.'''''

'''''"Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoise may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system."'''''

'''Wzjwrypq ''rpquzaaqpjilfmmzj kqxamwgbwmexcdj'' '''
___________________________________________________________________________________________

Puzzle 2: Enter the symbols below as your passcode.
[[File:Cluster_3-2--article_image.jpg]]

'''MESSAGE FROM ABSTERGO INDUSTRIES'''

'''''July 22, 1944'''''

'''''Fellows, rulers, welcome.'''''

'''''I deliver this speech to you as, several floors below us, a silent revolution begins.'''''

'''''Ranny Olds and Henry Ford. As many of you know, these founders gave us the assembly line, the device we have used to control both (this indoctrinated into the worship of our money (?) ) capitalists and workers (slaves (?) ) alike. But I dream of a future in which such ugly chains will no longer be necessary. In 1910, our founders designed the Plan, it falls to us to see it through.'''''

'''''But, what of the Communists, who intend to spread the bread so thin that everyone will starve? It is our duty to (neutralise (?) ) them and their followers. We muse ensure that the continue to eat, to reproduce, to be productive members of society. That is our burden, to shepherd those beneath us through life, and we must embrace it, even if (force is required (?) ) they themselves do not.'''''

'''''H. and S. brought on the turmoil and fear necessary, now we must strike fast to ensure the development continues in the proper direction. We will appear to concede ground against the workers, remember the successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes, but soon there will be no ground we do not own.'''''

'''''In 1937, we founded this Company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.'''''

___________________________________________________________________________________________

Puzzle 3: Move your pawn at 4F to 5E, into the black knight's path.
[[File:Cluster_3-3--article_image.jpg]]

Puzzle 4: Activate one of the two blinking lights shown below, then quickly activate the other one before your cursor fills up with red.

[[File:Cluster_3-4--article_image.jpg]]
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Rifts

2010-12-03T05:16:40Z

69.251.156.76: /* Colosseo */

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'''Rifts''' appear to be breaks in the programming of memories within the [[Animus]], which can be seen using [[Eagle Vision]]. Each of the ten are found on key landmarks throughout [[Rome]], and conceal [[Subject 16]]'s Cluster puzzles in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''. They are the equivalent of [[Glyphs]] from ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', but instead of revealing a second [[The Truth|Truth]] video, they simply relay the message "The miracle is in the execution" along with an executable file. Accessing the file allows Desmond to go through a virtual obstacle course similar to an [[Animus Virtual Training Program]] mission, and ultimately receive a message from Subject 16.

Various hidden messages such as coded numbers and letters, music notes and morse code appear in the rifts.

For example, in Cluster 7, if you zoom in on the picture of the jet, somewhere you'll see the words "We the People" marked 1, 2, and 3, respectively. That seems to imply that all the other numbers are words from the Declaration of Independence...

==Locations==

===[[Castra Praetoria]]===
In the area where [[Octavien]] de Valois was assassinated, on the eastern wall.

===[[Rosa in Fiore]]===
On the north wall of the [[Brothels|brothel]], on the second floor wall.

===[[Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Montesant]]===
On the western tower near the left dome.

===[[Aventino]]===
On the [[Borgia tower]].

===[[Castel Sant'Angelo]]===
On the actual cylinder of the castle, on the south side where the top of the outer wall is closest to the cylinder, near a haystack, right below a circular window.

===[[Caserma di Alviano]]===
East side of the wall, on the outside of the perimeter.

===[[Acquedotto Claudia]]===
Near the small town where Leonardo frequently is located at, on the north side of aqueduct. Climb the Borgia tower to reach the top of the aqueduct.

===[[Colosseo]]===
At the very top, northern side of the Colosseo, just west of the [[View Point]]. It is on the outside wall, and to access it, Ezio must hang from the topmost ledge of the Colosseum, directly above the rift, fall and catch himself in the rift while Eagle Vision is active.

===[[Palazzo Senatorio]]===
On the back of the Palazzo, near the roof, towards the end of the free-running path.

===[[Pantheon]]===
Inside the Pantheon, on the wall right above the main entrance.
==Clusters==
==='''Cluster 1'''===

Puzzle 1: Pick out the five images of aristocrats not doing any sort of work.

[[File:Cluster_1-1--article_image.jpg]]

Puzzle 2: Move your pawn at 2E to 4E.
[[File:Cluster_1-2--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"They become increasingly aware of our existence. We can no longer rely on the divine right of the aristocracy to maintain control. We need a new system, something much more subtle."'''''

Puzzle 3: Hit A/X to "activate" the blinking red light found here:

[[File:Cluster_1-3--article_image.jpg]]

==='''Cluster 2'''===

'''''"The individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."'''''

'''—[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Adam Smith]'''

Puzzle 1: Turn the first ring left four times, the second and first rings right twice, the third and first rings left three times, and the fourth ring left four times.
[[File:Cluster_2-1--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."'''''

Puzzle 2: The first and third rings are linked, as are the fourth and first. Turn the first/third rings right five times, the second ring right five times, the third ring left four times, and the fourth/first rings left twice.
[[File:Cluster_2-2--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of the whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to it."'''''

Puzzle 3: The third ring is linked with the second, as is the fourth with the first. Turn the first ring right three times, the second ring right four times, the third/second rings left five times, and the fourth/first ring right once.
[[File:Cluster_2-3--article_image.jpg]]

'''''"A country that makes provision to increase in inhabitants, whose situation is good, and whose people have a genius adapted to trade, will never fail to be gainers in the balance, provided the labour and industry of their people be well managed and carefully directed."'''''

'''''"lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo"'''''

Puzzle 4: Move your pawn at 2F to 4F.
[[File:Cluster_2-4--article_image.jpg]]

Puzzle 5: Activate one of the two blinking lights shown below, then quickly activate the other one before your cursor fills up with red.

[[File:Cluster_2-5--article_image.jpg]]

==='''Cluster 3'''===
'''''"Missing -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... .-.. --- ... - -... -. ..- -- -..."'''''

Morse Code Translated: '''''DARKNESSLOSTNUMB'''''
__________________________________________________________________________________________

Puzzle 1: Select the area shown below (revealing a hidden Abstergo emblem).
[[File:Cluster_3-1--article_image.jpg]]

'''HIDDEN MESSAGES AND CODES IN THE PUZZLE 1 OF CLUSTER 3'''

'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White Harry Dexter White]. Remember this name.'''''

'''''"I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago" —[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes John Maynard Keynes]'''''

'''''Le Chiffre indéchiffrable.'''''

'''''''"How can I adopt a creed which, preferring ''mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the send of all human advancement?"'''

'''''Rqpgxqqeqizikxzjpzkwmczyuawmbfxqwuasmkfvpfkqsbdftnfvw'''''

'''''It would all be done in secret, the Assassins would never know until it was too late.'''''

'''''"Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoise may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system."'''''

'''Wzjwrypq ''rpquzaaqpjilfmmzj kqxamwgbwmexcdj'' '''
___________________________________________________________________________________________

Puzzle 2: Enter the symbols below as your passcode.
[[File:Cluster_3-2--article_image.jpg]]

'''MESSAGE FROM ABSTERGO INDUSTRIES'''

'''''July 22, 1944'''''

'''''Fellows, rulers, welcome.'''''

'''''I deliver this speech to you as, several floors below us, a silent revolution begins.'''''

'''''Ranny Olds and Henry Ford. As many of you know, these founders gave us the assembly line, the device we have used to control both (this indoctrinated into the worship of our money (?) ) capitalists and workers (slaves (?) ) alike. But I dream of a future in which such ugly chains will no longer be necessary. In 1910, our founders designed the Plan, it falls to us to see it through.'''''

'''''But, what of the Communists, who intend to spread the bread so thin that everyone will starve? It is our duty to (neutralise (?) ) them and their followers. We muse ensure that the continue to eat, to reproduce, to be productive members of society. That is our burden, to shepherd those beneath us through life, and we must embrace it, even if (force is required (?) ) they themselves do not.'''''

'''''H. and S. brought on the turmoil and fear necessary, now we must strike fast to ensure the development continues in the proper direction. We will appear to concede ground against the workers, remember the successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes, but soon there will be no ground we do not own.'''''

'''''In 1937, we founded this Company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.'''''

___________________________________________________________________________________________

Puzzle 3: Move your pawn at 4F to 5E, into the black knight's path.
[[File:Cluster_3-3--article_image.jpg]]

Puzzle 4: Activate one of the two blinking lights shown below, then quickly activate the other one before your cursor fills up with red.

[[File:Cluster_3-4--article_image.jpg]]
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Papal Guard

2010-12-03T05:13:57Z

69.251.156.76: /* Trivia */

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{{Quote| The Papal guards are basically the ultimate elite guards that we're gonna have in ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood''.|Ubisoft developer Christopher Weiler <ref name="Brotherhood Dev Diary 3">''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XoffSkVgsc&feature=channel]''</ref>}}
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The '''Papal Guard''' were elite soldiers commanded by the [[Papacy]] to serve and protect the pontiff during his tenure. By 1503, the Papal Guard protected [[Rodrigo Borgia|Pope Alexander VI]], and were commanded by the Pope's son and Papal Commander, [[Cesare Borgia]]. The sole purpose of the Papal Guards is to protect the Pope and his family with their lives.

They carry the best of all the abilities held by all other [[Guards|guard archetypes]] and can easily deflect and counter many of [[Ezio Auditore]]'s attacks.<ref name="Brotherhood Dev Diary 3">''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XoffSkVgsc&feature=channel]''</ref> They can wield matchlock firearms in one hand, with a sword in the other, making them deadly opponents in both short and long range. The Papal Guards can also wield long weapons, short weapons, and heavy weapons. A group of four or five of these enemies are dangerous and should be confronted with caution unless you are an experienced player. It should also be noted that Papal Guards are also extremely difficult to escape from, as they run faster than Ezio and will always catch up with him.

==Trivia==
*These guards were the precursor to the [[wikipedia:Swiss guard|Swiss Guard]], who have protected the pontiff since 1548.
*The Papal guards may be less skilled than Ezio, however they are considerably stronger and have a larger build, being at least a head taller than Ezio.
*The Papal guards are the most versatile and difficult enemies, possessing skills from all the guard archetypes and handling a variety of weapons. Depending on the weapon they are armed with, they are able to fight as a [[Brutes|Brute]], [[Agiles|Agile]] or [[Seekers|Seeker]].
*Although Papal guards are one of the toughest opponents in the game they aren't commonly found in Rome, and will usually appear more often in storyline missions, however a group of four Papal guards are always stationed right outside the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] in the Vaticano District, and will also attack Ezio on sight.
*By Cesare Borgia's arrest in December 1503, the Borgia had lost all their power in Rome. However, when Cesare is arrested by [[Fabio Orsini]] and the Papal troops, they still carry the emblem of the Borgia.
*[[Smoke bombs]] have no effect on a Papal guard while engaged in combat, however, the bombs function as normal if the guard is taken by surprise.
*Papal Guards run as fast as Agiles (which is faster than Ezio), hit for about 3 blocks of health, which is comparable to a Brute, dodge most attacks (though not all attacks, as Agiles do), and guard against attacks unless their guard is broken. They are also very resistant to disarms, and counterattacks usually fail. In addition to all of this, they possess a pistol similar to Ezio's that they often use when not being attacked. The pistol cannot be dodged and the only way to interrupt it is to attack the guard.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="left">
Papal.png|A Papal Guard threatens Ezio Auditore at gunpoint.
ACB papalguard.png|A Papal guard and Ezio Auditore.
Papal Guard.PNG|A Papal guard, wielding a spear.
Papal guard.jpg|A Papal guard is impaled by Ezio Auditore
Cesare_and_the_Papal_Guard.jpg|Cesare and his Papal infantry
</gallery>

==Notes and references==
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