Editing Alera

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{{Spoilerhd|01 March 2023}}
'''Alera''' is an [[Assassins|Assassin]]. She was the partner of [[Colm]]<ref name = "Chapter 01">''[[Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book]]'' – Chapter 1: The Animus</ref> and the current partner of [[Joey]].<ref name = "Chapter 06">''Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book'' – Chapter 6: Stopping the Cult</ref>

==Biography==
In the 2020s, Colm brought Joey, who had found part of an [[Isu]] [[Vejovis' dagger|artifact]] and was pursued by [[Templars]], to a basement filled with servers connected to an [[Animus]], where Alera was waiting. She gestured for Joey to get on the Animus, explaining that he would experience the lives of certain people whose memories they'd extracted from various individuals. Joey recalled that "animus" was latin for "mind", and Alera was seemingly impressed, adding that it also meant spirit, conciousness, courage and even anger. Joey laid down on the machine as Alera started it, placing Joey into the role of someone who had contact with that same artifact long ago.<ref name = "Chapter 01"/>

Joey resurfaced from the Animus to the voice of Alera saying they had to pull him out because their technology was a little temperamental, a statement punctuated by a shower of sparks erupting above her. She barely flinched, already accustomed to it, before leaving to get a new fuse. She returned to the room to hear Joey ask about [[Isu script|symbols]] on a paper Colm had given him which she informed him were from an ancient language, before replacing the fuse.<ref name = "Chapter 02">''Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book'' – Chapter 2: Training</ref>

The next day, as Joey arrived, Alera threw him a metal cilinder, which he managed to catch, impressing even her and making Colm and Alera share an alarmed look, suspecting he was showing signs of the [[Bleeding Effect]]. Joey managed to figure out that the blade was taken by the Hidden Ones to London and Alera was worried that they only had one avaliable memory in London even close to the time.<ref name = "Chapter 03">''Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book'' – Chapter 3: Following the Trail</ref>

On those memories, there was an encounter with an Isu called [[Vejovis]] and Joey asked if Colm or Alera knew who he was, to which Colm responded that they had no records of an Isu with that name but Alera mentioned they had one under "V". Colm proceeded to say that Vejovis was not to be trusted, with Isu objectives far beyond their understanding. Alera told Joey to get some rest and, while heading out, Joey saw an hallucination and responded to it.<ref name = "Chapter 03"/>

The next morning, Alera and Colm discussed Joey's symptoms the next morning, stopping when he walked in the Animus chamber. Alera mentioned they would send him into the memories not of someone in Damascus, but into the memories of an Assassin at [[Masyaf]] and that he should try and ignore the instructions his host was given and head to Damascus to find The Hideout. Joey asked how could he change things so drastically, and Alera replied that if things went to plan, he wouldn't have to, before starting the Animus and sending Joey into the memories of [[Faisal]].<ref name = "Chapter 04">''Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book'' – Chapter 4: Deceiving the Assassins</ref>

Joey relived the memories just fine but, at a point where Faisal saw his own reflection, Joey was so startled that he lurched upwards and out of the Animus, for he saw Faisal with Vejovis' face. Colm asked Alera if it was a glitch, with the systems bleeding over from one simulation to another, but she responded that it didn't work that way and that if Joey saw Vejovis, it meant he was there. Colm pondered if that meant Faisal was a Sage and Alera explained to Joey what that meant, including that the simulation could have confused Faisal's genetics with Vejovis' which would explain the identical face. Joey asked if [[Malcolm]] was a Sage and Alera said that it was likely before Joey informed them that the blade went to [[Constantinople]] and he was going to rest.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

The next day, Alera greeted Joey with warmth, to which he responded agressively before apologising, to which Alera said it was okay because the Animus tended to seep into one's mind the more it's used. At that point, Colm entered the room, saying that Joey was suffering from what they called the [[Bleeding Effect]], the memories he'd been reliving blending into his own. The Assassin pair had hoped that by keeping the memories with each host as short as they could, there wouldn't be any time for it to happen, remarking that it was unprecendented in its speed. Joey didn't know what to do, with Alera saying it was imperative they find the missing blade.<ref name = "Chapter 05">''Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book'' – Chapter 5: A Hidden Tomb</ref>

From the next memory he relived, Joey discovered that the blade was in the [[Venice vault|vault]] beneath the [[Basilica di San Marco]], announcing it to Colm as he came out of the simulation.<ref name = "Chapter 05"/> Soon after, Alera learned that the Templars were coming for them and deduced that Joey had betrayed them, not suspecting Colm due to having worked with him for a long time. She held a gun to Joey's forehead, announcing the Templars were coming and starting to pull the trigger, only for Colm to throw a hard drive at her head, allowing Joey to strike her with a roundhouse kick. Colm asked what she had said to him, pinned the blame of the uncoming Templar attack on her before saying they needed to head to Venice as soon as possible.<ref name = "Chapter 06"/>

Alera managed to get herself to the vault, now knowing who the traitor was. Joey managed to keep Colm's attention on him for long enough for Alera to come in and assassinate him. With the threat averted, Joey put the two halves of the blade together, causing a blinding flash of light to erupt. After Joey said Vejovis' name out loud, a hologram of the Isu appeared, congratulating Joey on bringing the two parts of the dagger together and making it possible for him to become corporeal again. Alera tried to attack the hologram but Vejovis made Joey swipe at her before revealing that he was one of his Sages, and that by reliving the memories of his other Sages and connecting the blades, Vejovis' being would bleed into Joey's before long. To stop this process from happening, Joey tried to separate the blades, shattering one half of it, and destroyed the part of the pedestal that the hologram was coming from. After that, Joey and Alera decided to leave before the Templars got there, with Joey taking the intact half of the blade.<ref name = "Chapter 06"/>

As they left the basilica, Alera offered Joey a job with her, which he accepted.<ref name = "Chapter 06"/>

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book]]''

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