Dagger of Brutus

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{{Quote|I am not a violent man, but I ready my family's heirloom dagger. I pull my toga up into a cowl and leave for the celebration.|Brutus preparing to assassinate Caesar.|Scrolls of Romulus}}
[[File:Daggerbrutus.png|thumb|right|250px|The Dagger of Brutus]]
The '''Dagger of Brutus''' was a weapon that belonged to the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] senator and [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Marcus Junius Brutus]], hidden away in an underground chamber in [[Rome]] alongside Brutus' [[Armor of Brutus|armor]] until its recovery in 1503.

==Usage==
It is heavily implied in the [[Scrolls of Romulus|Romulus Scrolls]] that the dagger was the same weapon Brutus used to [[Assassination targets|kill]] [[Gaius Julius Caesar]].

The dagger was made available after collecting all of the keys and scrolls from the different [[Lairs of Romulus]], and was found in the same underground chamber as the Armor of Brutus. It was the best [[Short blades|short weapon]] available to the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] during his time in Rome during the 16th century.

==Weapon statistics==
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|style="text-align: center;"|Damage
|style="text-align: center;"|Speed
|style="text-align: center;"|Deflect
|style="text-align: center;"|Cost
|style="text-align: center;"|Availability
|-
|style="text-align: center;"|5
|style="text-align: center;"|5
|style="text-align: center;"|5
|style="text-align: center;"|N/A
|style="text-align: center;"|Collect 6 Scrolls of Romulus
|}

==Trivia==
[[File:Dagger of Brutus sketch.jpg|thumb|A sketch of the Dagger of Brutus]]
*The Dagger of Brutus was modeled after a Roman {{Wiki|pugio}}, a type of dagger used as a secondary weapon by Roman soldiers during the 1st century CE.
*Whenever Ezio wielded the Dagger of Brutus, enemy [[morale]] was reduced by 20 points, which meant that lower ranked guards and [[crossbowmen]] would run away after the death of only one regular guard.
*The dagger's kill animations were unique, and differed from those of other short bladed weapons that Ezio could wield, in that they were more brutal and included more violent stabbing animations, another reference to the death of Caesar.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed: ]]all''
[[Category:Short blades]]
[[Category:16th century weapons]]

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