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Shaun Hastings

2009-12-09T19:31:39Z

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Shaun Hastings
|image = Hastings4-997ad75357.jpg
|imgdesc = The new helper of Desmond: Shaun Hastings
|faction = ''[[Assassins]]''
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
|period = 2012
|voice=[[Danny Wallace]]
}}
'''Shaun Hastings''' is a character in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''. He is voiced and modelled after [[Danny Wallace]], the British humourist. He is a historian assisting Desmond by researching and giving him informations about the Italian Renaissance. He is a sarcastic nerd character.

Through conversations in Assassin's Creed II, Desmond learns that Shaun was interested in conspiracies from an early age. Though he was unaware of the existence of modern-day [[Templars]] and [[Assassins]], he realised that there was some power-struggle going on. Shaun attempted to tell others about his findings, not realising that the Templars would want to silence him. Fortunately, [[Rebecca Crane]] "rescued" Shaun, and recruited him as an Assassin. This was somewhat unconventional, as Assassins are usually born into the order, as with [[Desmond]].

[[File:Dan2.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Explaining to Desmond about the new location...the Italian Renassiance]]
Shaun is often cynical, condescending and pessimistic. Sometimes he will have little patience to talk to Desmond, other times he will lead off into long conversations. While Shaun's annoyance is usually directed at Desmond, he does insult [[Rebecca]]'s immaturity by saying "the grown-ups are talking now" - even though she may have saved his life. During the modern segments, Shaun says that he enjoys his work researching behind a desk instead of being out in the field. In a contrast to his current job, Shaun claims that he has killed before, and it is likely that he will kill again. This other side to Shaun's personality is also shown when he explains that he would like to sit in the Animus and perform Desmond's role.

==Trivia==
* [[Danny Wallace]] (voicing the character) was contacted by Ubisoft when he went to the [[wikipedia:British Academy Video Games Awards|BAFTA video game awards]] with a friend. He has been e-mailed, then asked if he would like to be a video game character (but without mentioning which one's). He accepted and it turned out to be ''Assassin's Creed II''.
* Shaun does not seem to like Desmond very much, and constantly insults him. Shorty after he is first introduced in the game, Desmond insults him following an argument.

==Interviews==
[[Video:Assassin's Creed 2 Danny Wallace interview #1|300px|left]]

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Shaun Hastings

2009-12-09T19:30:46Z

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Shaun Hastings
|image = Hastings4-997ad75357.jpg
|imgdesc = The new helper of Desmond: Shaun Hastings
|faction = ''[[Assassins]]''
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
|period = 2012
|voice=[[Danny Wallace]]
}}
'''Shaun Hastings''' is a character in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''. He is voiced and modelled after [[Danny Wallace]], the British humourist. He is a historian assisting Desmond by researching and giving him informations about the Italian Renaissance. He is a sarcastic nerd character.

Through conversations in Assassin's Creed II, Desmond learns that Shaun was interested in conspiracies from an early age. Though he was unaware of the existence of modern-day [[Templars]] and [[Assassins]], he realised that there was some power-struggle going on. Shaun attempted to tell others about his findings, not realising that the Templars would want to silence him. Fortunately, [[Rebecca Crane]] "rescued" Shaun, and recruited him as an Assassin. This was somewhat unconventional, as Assassins are usually born into the order, as with [[Desmond]].

[[File:Dan2.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Explaining to Desmond about the new location...the Italian Renassiance]]
Shaun is often condescending and pessimistic. Sometimes he will have little patience to talk to Desmond, other times he will lead off into long conversations. While Shaun's annoyance is usually directed at Desmond, he does insult [[Rebecca]]'s immaturity by saying "the grown-ups are talking now" - even though she may have saved his life. During the modern segments, Shaun says that he enjoys his work researching behind a desk instead of being out in the field. In a contrast to his current job, Shaun claims that he has killed before, and it is likely that he will kill again. This other side to Shaun's personality is also shown when he explains that he would like to sit in the Animus and perform Desmond's role.

==Trivia==
* [[Danny Wallace]] (voicing the character) was contacted by Ubisoft when he went to the [[wikipedia:British Academy Video Games Awards|BAFTA video game awards]] with a friend. He has been e-mailed, then asked if he would like to be a video game character (but without mentioning which one's). He accepted and it turned out to be ''Assassin's Creed II''.
* Shaun does not seem to like Desmond very much, and constantly insults him. Shorty after he is first introduced in the game, Desmond insults him following an argument.

==Interviews==
[[Video:Assassin's Creed 2 Danny Wallace interview #1|300px|left]]

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[[Category:Assassin's Creed II Characters|Hastings, Shaun]]

Rebecca Crane

2009-12-09T19:28:52Z

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Rebecca Crane
|image = Rebecca_Crane.png
|imgdesc = Rebecca working on the Animus
|faction = [[Assassins]]
|appear = [[Assassin's Creed II]]
|period = Modern times (2012)
|voice = [[Eliza Schneider]]
}}
Rebecca Crane is one of the modern day [[Assassins]] introduced in [[Assassin's Creed 2]]. She redesigned the [[Animus]] and provides technical support for the device in the Assassin hide out, as well as saving Shaun Hastings' life (see [[Shaun Hastings]]). She appears to be an old friend of [[Lucy Stillman]].

==Personality==

Rebecca seems to talk and act in a rather "street" type of way, and maybe even a little tomboyish. She is polar opposite of her colleague, [[Shaun Hastings]], in the way that she is friendly and talkative. She shows great pride in her work, praising her redesign of the Animus and going as far to nickname it "Baby".

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Isu

2009-12-09T19:26:34Z

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Those Who Came Before were the ancient, incredibly advanced race who created the [[Piece of Eden]] and humanity itself. Exactly who they were, how long ago, or how they came to die out is still largely unknown. What is believed is that they were an advanced race who were worshiped by ancient cultures such as the Greeks as gods. The woman known as [[Minerva]] said they were not gods, but a race more advanced in time who "simply came before".

Minerva revealed that at some point the race created the human race, possibly as some sort of slave race as shown in [[The Truth]] video. The race appeared to use humans as slaves and used the hypnotic powers of the Apples to control them. However, this did not last forever as two humans named [[Adam and Eve]] stole the mythical forbidden fruit of knowledge described in the Bible. In truth, the two may have stolen the apple to free mankind from the oppression of their masters.

While the ancient race was more technologically advanced and powerful, humanity had the advantage of numbers. Minerva stated that both sides craved war, but they were so preoccupied with their fighting; an impending danger was approaching from the "heavens". This danger from the heavens is speculated by Shaun and Lucy.  They hypothesize that it could have been caused by a massive solar flare which would have terrible impact on the Earth's weakening magnetic field.  Also, they mentioned the geomagnetic reversal of Earth's poles as a possible cause of the destruction.  However, geomagnetic reversal is a natural affect which has occurred multiple times over Earth's history, the last of which was 0.78 million years ago.

Despite the unknown cause of destruction, humanity and the ancient race survived, as Minerva said "We built you in our image, we built you to survive" (confirming they did indeed create humanity). Both humanity and the race survived, though in dwindled numbers, and set to rebuild. As the Earth and mankind worked to recover, the race "endeavored to ensure that this tragedy would not be repeated". This lead to the creation of the temples, such as [[The Vault]] in [[Rome]], which were "built by those who learned to turn away from war".

It can at least be established that by Ezio's time the race had since died out (Minerva states that she is the last), and appear to have left the temples as a some sort of means to save the Earth in the event of another disaster.

Another theory is that Eden was a facility used by both sides of the war to survive the scorching of Earth. Adam and Eve escaping would then lead to 'the world as we know it', with the theft of the apple fitting into myth.

It would appear they have some form of precognition, or ability to predict what will happen as the Minerva told Ezio he was just a conduit and she spoke direcly to Desmond, showing she knew that Desmond would receive the message by viewing it in the Animus.  
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