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	And that is when Inez first saw a Piece of Eden. Even out of the bag, it didn't look like much. It didn't look, like, you know, the [[Holy Grail\|Grail]] or anything. Or, if it did, it was the Grail {{Wiki\|Indiana Jones\|Indy}} found. What was like this thing? It was a small box made of wood, once finely inlaid but weathered to the point of being paintless. A wooden box. It looked old but worthless. She said as much.		And that is when Inez first saw a Piece of Eden. Even out of the bag, it didn't look like much. It didn't look, like, you know, the [[Holy Grail\|Grail]] or anything. Or, if it did, it was the Grail {{Wiki\|Indiana Jones\|Indy}} found. What was like this thing? It was a small box made of wood, once finely inlaid but weathered to the point of being paintless. A wooden box. It looked old but worthless. She said as much.

	Royce smiled. He held it in between his palms as if communing with it. "{{Wiki\|Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\|Fortune and glory}}, [~~[w:c~~:indianajones~~:Short Round\|~~kid]]. Fortune and glory."		Royce smiled. He held it in between his palms as if communing with it. "{{Wiki\|Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\|Fortune and glory}}, [https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Short_Round kid]. Fortune and glory."

	"Please, Royce," Reiko said.		"Please, Royce," Reiko said.

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	\|Author=Massimiliano Castellani<br>Andrea Macchi		\|Author=Massimiliano Castellani<br>Andrea Macchi
	\|Cover_Artist=Antonio De Luca<br>Quadra Studio (Federica Costantini, Mauro Alocci, Andrea Tentori Montalto)		\|Cover_Artist=Antonio De Luca<br>Quadra Studio (Federica Costantini, Mauro Alocci, Andrea Tentori Montalto)
	\|Publisher=[[CMON ~~Games~~]]		\|Publisher=[[CMON Limited]]
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	'''''Animus Handbook''''' is the first of three books comprising the ''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' published by [[CMON ~~Games~~]]. It serves as the {{Wiki\|tabletop role-playing game}}'s core rulebook and contains instructions for carrying out a session, including one example of playing and four sample sequences. Also in the rulebook is information on the [[Assassin's Creed (series)\|series]], with an overview on topics such as the [[Assassins]], the [[Templars]], and the [[Isu]]. Alongside this, there is also a modern day narrative told through files scattered throughout the book.		'''''Animus Handbook''''' is the first of three books comprising the ''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' published by [[CMON Limited]]. It serves as the {{Wiki\|tabletop role-playing game}}'s core rulebook and contains instructions for carrying out a session, including one example of playing and four sample sequences. Also in the rulebook is information on the [[Assassin's Creed (series)\|series]], with an overview on topics such as the [[Assassins]], the [[Templars]], and the [[Isu]]. Alongside this, there is also a [[Modern times\|modern day]] narrative told through files scattered throughout the book.

	==Introduction==		==Introduction==

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	;1129 CE		;1129 CE
	*At the ~~{{Wiki\|~~Council of Troyes ~~(1129)\|Council of Troyes}}~~, the [[Knights Templar\|Order of the Knights Templar]] is publicly recognized. [[Hugues de Payens]] is the first public [[Grand Master of the Templar Order\|Grand Master]].		*At the [[Council of Troyes]], the [[Knights Templar\|Order of the Knights Templar]] is publicly recognized. [[Hugues de Payens]] is the first public [[Grand Master of the Templar Order\|Grand Master]].

	;1257-69 CE		;1257-69 CE

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	The alarm neutralized and the [[Lockpicking\|lock picked]], [[Inez]] opened the door to the warehouse. She'd taken off her [[leather]] jacket, covered in pins and chains and other things that might jangle the lone security guard awake. Maybe this score would get her off her friend's couch. The crates were piled high to the ceiling, lost in bright fluorescence, stacked like a very neat child's building blocks. She took the small flashlight out of her pocket and recited the aisle and tier where the box she was supposed to take sat. This was a rental facility, or so she was told, and light on security. Turned out to be anything but. She'd scaled the shelf to the fifth tier, about twenty feet up, her shoes gripping the shelf below. She found the box. It looked like a pen case but small, which was good because Inez wasn't big. In her head, she hummed a punk tune from the night before and for a moment, reconsidered how much she'd drank as her stomach turned while looking back down. Also, there were two men walking down the aisle between the shelves. They hadn't seen her yet, but she could tell they weren't rent-a-cops. It was the {{Wiki\|submachine gun}}s that gave it away.		The alarm neutralized and the [[Lockpicking\|lock picked]], [[Inez]] opened the door to the warehouse. She'd taken off her [[leather]] jacket, covered in pins and chains and other things that might jangle the lone security guard awake. Maybe this score would get her off her friend's couch. The crates were piled high to the ceiling, lost in bright fluorescence, stacked like a very neat child's building blocks. She took the small flashlight out of her pocket and recited the aisle and tier where the box she was supposed to take sat. This was a rental facility, or so she was told, and light on security. Turned out to be anything but. She'd scaled the shelf to the fifth tier, about twenty feet up, her shoes gripping the shelf below. She found the box. It looked like a pen case but small, which was good because Inez wasn't big. In her head, she hummed a punk tune from the night before and for a moment, reconsidered how much she'd drank as her stomach turned while looking back down. Also, there were two men walking down the aisle between the shelves. They hadn't seen her yet, but she could tell they weren't rent-a-cops. It was the {{Wiki\|submachine gun}}s that gave it away.

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	"Really impressive, Royce," Inez said and then everyone, including Royce, laughed.		"Really impressive, Royce," Inez said and then everyone, including Royce, laughed.

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	"Really impressive, Royce," Inez said and then everyone, including Royce, laughed.		"Really impressive, Royce," Inez said and then everyone, including Royce, laughed.

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	;JANUARY 1943 CE		;JANUARY 1943 CE
	*A Brotherhood cell reaches [[Abbey of Saint Bertin\|Saint Bertin]]. The Seneschal Templar Heinz Müller, leading a platoon of [[Wehrmacht\|German soldiers]], is tearing the Abbey apart, looking for something hidden beneath it.		*A Brotherhood cell reaches [[Abbey of Saint-Bertin\|Saint Bertin]]. The Seneschal Templar Heinz Müller, leading a platoon of [[Wehrmacht\|German soldiers]], is tearing the Abbey apart, looking for something hidden beneath it.

	;FEBRUARY 1943 CE		;FEBRUARY 1943 CE

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	The alarm neutralized and the [[Lockpicking\|lock picked]], Inez opened the door to the warehouse. She'd taken off her [[leather]] jacket, covered in pins and chains and other things that might jangle the lone security guard awake. Maybe this score would get her off her friend's couch. The crates were piled high to the ceiling, lost in bright fluorescence, stacked like a very neat child's building blocks. She took the small flashlight out of her pocket and recited the aisle and tier where the box she was supposed to take sat. This was a rental facility, or so she was told, and light on security. Turned out to be anything but. She'd scaled the shelf to the fifth tier, about twenty feet up, her shoes gripping the shelf below. She found the box. It looked like a pen case but small, which was good because Inez wasn't big. In her head, she hummed a punk tune from the night before and for a moment, reconsidered how much she'd drank as her stomach turned while looking back down. Also, there were two men walking down the aisle between the shelves. They hadn't seen her yet, but she could tell they weren't rent-a-cops. It was the {{Wiki\|submachine gun}}s that gave it away.		The alarm neutralized and the [[Lockpicking\|lock picked]], [[Inez]] opened the door to the warehouse. She'd taken off her [[leather]] jacket, covered in pins and chains and other things that might jangle the lone security guard awake. Maybe this score would get her off her friend's couch. The crates were piled high to the ceiling, lost in bright fluorescence, stacked like a very neat child's building blocks. She took the small flashlight out of her pocket and recited the aisle and tier where the box she was supposed to take sat. This was a rental facility, or so she was told, and light on security. Turned out to be anything but. She'd scaled the shelf to the fifth tier, about twenty feet up, her shoes gripping the shelf below. She found the box. It looked like a pen case but small, which was good because Inez wasn't big. In her head, she hummed a punk tune from the night before and for a moment, reconsidered how much she'd drank as her stomach turned while looking back down. Also, there were two men walking down the aisle between the shelves. They hadn't seen her yet, but she could tell they weren't rent-a-cops. It was the {{Wiki\|submachine gun}}s that gave it away.

	This is what she got for taking a job proffered at a party in {{Wiki\|Wicker Park, Chicago\|Wicker Park}}. Way too artsy a crowd for her. She held her breath, tried very hard not to swear, and waited for the men to pass. When they did, she cat-climbed down to the concrete floor, crept around the end of the aisle, and saw them in front of the door she'd opened. The door she hadn't closed all the way because... hangover. About 400 pounds of muscles nullified that exit. She'd have to find another way out.		This is what she got for taking a job proffered at a party in {{Wiki\|Wicker Park, Chicago\|Wicker Park}}. Way too artsy a crowd for her. She held her breath, tried very hard not to swear, and waited for the men to pass. When they did, she cat-climbed down to the concrete floor, crept around the end of the aisle, and saw them in front of the door she'd opened. The door she hadn't closed all the way because... hangover. About 400 pounds of muscles nullified that exit. She'd have to find another way out.
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	It was that "we" more than anything else that stopped Inez, though she didn't love the idea of having those. What did he call them, Templars? Yeah, of having them on her again. Finally. She said, "Who are you? The [[thief]] fairy? You come out of the sky and bless the wicked?"		It was that "we" more than anything else that stopped Inez, though she didn't love the idea of having those. What did he call them, Templars? Yeah, of having them on her again. Finally. She said, "Who are you? The [[thief]] fairy? You come out of the sky and bless the wicked?"

	He smiled, like maybe he was exactly that. "I'm Royce."		He smiled, like maybe he was exactly that. "I'm [[Royce]]."

	He gestured for her to follow him, and she did, carefully. The fluorescents slung from the ceiling of the garage made all white people look dead, Inez thought, and they made this Royce look doubly so. "You said 'we'. Is that the {{Wiki\|royal we}} or do you have an invisible friend?"		He gestured for her to follow him, and she did, carefully. The fluorescents slung from the ceiling of the garage made all white people look dead, Inez thought, and they made this Royce look doubly so. "You said 'we'. Is that the {{Wiki\|royal we}} or do you have an invisible friend?"
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	Inez stood in bare room inside a building she hadn't ever noticed before in the city. It was as if the building didn't want to be seen, so boring and average that it faded into the background. She and four other "recruits" stood at the edge of a large, dojo-like mat. A black, muscular woman stood in the center. Her name was Doria, and she had serious eyes. Inez had seen eyes like that before in some of her less-savory contacts. Eyes that burned like cigarette coals through a napkin. She kept her hair scalp-short for fighting. Inez hoped that wasn't part of the deal she'd made on acceptance here.		Inez stood in bare room inside a building she hadn't ever noticed before in the city. It was as if the building didn't want to be seen, so boring and average that it faded into the background. She and four other "recruits" stood at the edge of a large, dojo-like mat. A black, muscular woman stood in the center. Her name was [[Doria]], and she had serious eyes. Inez had seen eyes like that before in some of her less-savory contacts. Eyes that burned like cigarette coals through a napkin. She kept her hair scalp-short for fighting. Inez hoped that wasn't part of the deal she'd made on acceptance here.

	"Templars are our enemy. By joining us, they become your enemy. Anyone who has second thoughts should leave now. Not all of you will live to see the end of the year," said Doria.		"Templars are our enemy. By joining us, they become your enemy. Anyone who has second thoughts should leave now. Not all of you will live to see the end of the year," said Doria.
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	He looked around at the other recruits, met Inez's eyes. Inez shook her head. The man turned back. "I think you'll kick my ass."		He looked around at the other recruits, met Inez's eyes. Inez shook her head. The man turned back. "I think you'll kick my ass."

	She smiled. "You're smarter than you look, Iowa." She pointed at Inez. "You, scrawny girl. Come here." Inez stepped forward with caution.		She smiled. "You're smarter than you look, [[Iowa]]." She pointed at Inez. "You, scrawny girl. Come here." Inez stepped forward with caution.

	"You think you can take her?" Doria asked Iowa as she pointed at Inez. The guy laughed. "Yeah, probably."		"You think you can take her?" Doria asked Iowa as she pointed at Inez. The guy laughed. "Yeah, probably."
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	As it happened, the car she took cover behind also carried a Templar. Bad luck. No way to know. He came out of the driver's side door with an old {{Wiki\|Uzi}}. Inez popped back over the hood, showing the smallest profile she could. He fired. So did she. Her bullet landed in his throat. His bullets pinged off a support column behind her, ricocheted, and lodged a fragment in her right leg.		As it happened, the car she took cover behind also carried a Templar. Bad luck. No way to know. He came out of the driver's side door with an old {{Wiki\|Uzi}}. Inez popped back over the hood, showing the smallest profile she could. He fired. So did she. Her bullet landed in his throat. His bullets pinged off a support column behind her, ricocheted, and lodged a fragment in her right leg.

	She heard covering fire from Royce's and Iowa's weapons. Reiko appeared at her side and nodded at the wound. "Need help?" Inez nodded in return as if she'd just been asked if she'd like breakfast in a fine hotel restaurant. She let Reiko help her up and they three-legged it to the stairs where Iowa was holding the door open.		She heard covering fire from Royce's and Iowa's weapons. [[Reiko]] appeared at her side and nodded at the wound. "Need help?" Inez nodded in return as if she'd just been asked if she'd like breakfast in a fine hotel restaurant. She let Reiko help her up and they three-legged it to the stairs where Iowa was holding the door open.

	He flipped Inez over one of his big shoulders like a sack of potatoes. Royce was last, reloading his submachine gun as he hit the door. "We're out of here," he said.		He flipped Inez over one of his big shoulders like a sack of potatoes. Royce was last, reloading his submachine gun as he hit the door. "We're out of here," he said.
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	*Romulus and Remus fight to the death due to the brothers' irreconcilable views about [[Rome]] and the Sword of Mars. Romulus kills Remus and becomes the first ~~{{Wiki~~\|king of Rome}}.		*Romulus and Remus fight to the death due to the brothers' irreconcilable views about [[Rome]] and the Sword of Mars. Romulus kills Remus and becomes the first [[Roman Kingdom\|king of Rome]].

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	*A Brotherhood cell moves through ~~{{Wiki\|German military administration in~~ occupied France ~~during World War II\|occupied France}}~~ on the trail of suspicious Templar activities.		*A Brotherhood cell moves through [[occupied France]] on the trail of suspicious Templar activities.

	;JANUARY 1943 CE		;JANUARY 1943 CE
	*A Brotherhood cell reaches ~~{{Wiki\|~~Abbey of Saint Bertin\|Saint Bertin}}. The Seneschal Templar Heinz Müller, leading a platoon of [[Wehrmacht\|German soldiers]], is tearing the Abbey apart, looking for something hidden beneath it.		*A Brotherhood cell reaches [[Abbey of Saint Bertin\|Saint Bertin]]. The Seneschal Templar Heinz Müller, leading a platoon of [[Wehrmacht\|German soldiers]], is tearing the Abbey apart, looking for something hidden beneath it.

	;FEBRUARY 1943 CE		;FEBRUARY 1943 CE

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	*A Brotherhood cell moves through {{Wiki\|~~Vichy~~ France\|occupied France}} on the trail of suspicious Templar activities.		*A Brotherhood cell moves through {{Wiki\|German military administration in occupied France during World War II\|occupied France}} on the trail of suspicious Templar activities.

	;JANUARY 1943 CE		;JANUARY 1943 CE

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