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	However, Jupiter and Minerva feared that genetic manipulation would change humanity for the worse,<ref name="Price of Wisdom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[The Price of Wisdom]]</ref> especially since the process was later known to drive most [[Sage]]s mad with the conflicting memories,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Thom Kavanagh's letters]]: "1. On My Name and Origin"</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' ~ [[The Temple]]</ref> and so the research was locked away, but not before Juno stole it with Odin's help<ref name="Price of Wisdom" /> and modified it further<ref>{{Twitter\|KasaiKnight\|status/1337725926717747201\|Kasaix\|quote=@DarbyMcDevitt Lore question: are the Mad One and his people reborn like Aita the Sage? Every so often, coming back and rediscovering their former lives?\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1337737125677109248\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=@KasaiKnight Just once. Juno tweaked the technology further for her own use, as she hints in Jotunheim.\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}</ref> to allow her to make Sages from Aita's genetic sequence.<ref name="Twentieth" /> For facilitating the catalyst's theft and taking some for herself, the [[High Council]] stripped Juno of her title [[Mother of Wisdom]]<ref name="AnomalyBriudun">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Briudun Hill</ref> and ordered her banishment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Basilica Ruins</ref><ref name="TheReckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Dawn of Ragnarök'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>		However, Jupiter and Minerva feared that genetic manipulation would change humanity for the worse,<ref name="Price of Wisdom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[The Price of Wisdom]]</ref> especially since the process was later known to drive most [[Sage]]s mad with the conflicting memories,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Thom Kavanagh's letters]]: "1. On My Name and Origin"</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' ~ [[The Temple]]</ref> and so the research was locked away, but not before Juno stole it with Odin's help<ref name="Price of Wisdom" /> and modified it further<ref>{{Twitter\|KasaiKnight\|status/1337725926717747201\|Kasaix\|quote=@DarbyMcDevitt Lore question: are the Mad One and his people reborn like Aita the Sage? Every so often, coming back and rediscovering their former lives?\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1337737125677109248\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=@KasaiKnight Just once. Juno tweaked the technology further for her own use, as she hints in Jotunheim.\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}</ref> to allow her to make Sages from Aita's genetic sequence.<ref name="Twentieth" /> For facilitating the catalyst's theft and taking some for herself, the [[High Council]] stripped Juno of her title [[Mother of Wisdom]]<ref name="AnomalyBriudun">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Briudun Hill</ref> and ordered her banishment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Basilica Ruins</ref><ref name="TheReckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Dawn of Ragnarök'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>

	Around this time, Hildr learned of Odin's secret plan to save only himself and eight [[Æsir]] whom he trusted from death by incarnating themselves. Enraged at Odin's selfishness in letting the world burn,<ref name="AllSeeingEye">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — [[Mastery Challenge]]'' – [[The All-Seeing Eye]]</ref> Hildr vented her fury to Rah Cel'eze, then used her position as the Ring Station's Chief Guardian to appeal to the High Council to take action against Odin,<ref name="Tombs"/> having seen what they did to Juno for her transgressions.<ref name="AnomalyBriudun"/> When they failed to act in a sufficient or timely manner, she organized a Valkyrie revolt, only for her former lover and Odin's wife [[Freyja]] to leak word to Odin, who quashed the resistance.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/> Incensed that one of his most loyal servants betrayed him, he stripped away her immortality<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Mastery Challenge'' – [[The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran]]</ref> and chained her in an [[Venutius Tomb\|underground cell]] to starve to death.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/>		Around this time, Hildr learned of Odin's secret plan to save only himself and eight [[Æsir]] whom he trusted from death by incarnating themselves. Enraged at Odin's selfishness in letting the world burn,<ref name="AllSeeingEye">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – [[Mastery Challenge]]'' – [[The All-Seeing Eye]]</ref> Hildr vented her fury to Rah Cel'eze, then used her position as the Ring Station's Chief Guardian to appeal to the High Council to take action against Odin,<ref name="Tombs"/> having seen what they did to Juno for her transgressions.<ref name="AnomalyBriudun"/> When they failed to act in a sufficient or timely manner, she organized a Valkyrie revolt, only for her former lover and Odin's wife [[Freyja]] to leak word to Odin, who quashed the resistance.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/> Incensed that one of his most loyal servants betrayed him, he stripped away her immortality<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Mastery Challenge'' – [[The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran]]</ref> and chained her in an [[Venutius Tomb\|underground cell]] to starve to death.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/>

	Eventually, Minerva<ref name="AC3Modern" /> and Jupiter<ref name="AC3Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis & Speculation", pg. 308</ref> learned that Juno had sabotaged the Eye to send Desmond a message for her own ends.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – Modern day</ref> Furious at her further dishonesty and for also brewing rebellion, the two Isu attacked and killed Juno and her [[Instruments of the First Will\|followers]] in the Grand Temple.<ref name="AC3Guide" /> After Jupiter sent Desmond yet a third message,<ref name="ACRevModern" /> he and Minerva destroyed the divination sphere and sealed the dead in the Grand Temple,<ref name="AC3Guide" /> though they were unaware that Juno had survived and transferred her consciousness into the Temple's walls, allowing her to exist unharmed when the Catastrophe struck.<ref name="AC3Modern" />		Eventually, Minerva<ref name="AC3Modern" /> and Jupiter<ref name="AC3Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis & Speculation", pg. 308</ref> learned that Juno had sabotaged the Eye to send Desmond a message for her own ends.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – Modern day</ref> Furious at her further dishonesty and for also brewing rebellion, the two Isu attacked and killed Juno and her [[Instruments of the First Will\|followers]] in the Grand Temple.<ref name="AC3Guide" /> After Jupiter sent Desmond yet a third message,<ref name="ACRevModern" /> he and Minerva destroyed the divination sphere and sealed the dead in the Grand Temple,<ref name="AC3Guide" /> though they were unaware that Juno had survived and transferred her consciousness into the Temple's walls, allowing her to exist unharmed when the Catastrophe struck.<ref name="AC3Modern" />

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	Following this, the Isu began creating new vessels that could safely house a consciousness<ref name="A Feast to Remember" /> and withstand the new environment. However, the ability to transfer consciousnesses back out of the vessel could not be developed properly, requiring an unspecified "wrong" element to leave, and so this idea was also rejected, though Juno wondered if it was foolish to give up early.<ref name="AC3Modern" />		Following this, the Isu began creating new vessels that could safely house a consciousness<ref name="A Feast to Remember" /> and withstand the new environment. However, the ability to transfer consciousnesses back out of the vessel could not be developed properly, requiring an unspecified "wrong" element to leave, and so this idea was also rejected, though Juno wondered if it was foolish to give up early.<ref name="AC3Modern" />

	Seeing that humanity would survive and thrive while the Isu died out, Jupiter and Minerva began clandestinely testing a seventh experiment to have the Isu be [[Isu incarnation\|incarnated]] through humanity. Through the use of a ~~catalyst—later remembered in Norse myth only as "[[Mead of poetry\|the mead]]"~~<ref name="A Feast to Remember"/>~~—and~~ the powerful supercomputer [[Yggdrasil]], which could take and transfer Isu genetic samples, the procedure would save select Isu from the Catastrophe<ref name="Animus Anomalies">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Animus Anomalies]]: "AA_Complete"</ref> through {{Wiki\|brood parasitism}}.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis & Speculation", pg. 309</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 11\|Issue #11]]</ref> This altered an infant human host's genes by implanting Isu DNA that carried their memories,<ref name="Animus Anomalies"/> which the host would gradually awaken to as they aged.<ref>{{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1573407072850518016\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=I have always written Sages as if they were people with a severe amnesia that is slowly starting to lift. Someone who, one day, begins to remember that they were someone else for many years. And that someone else might be an entirely different person than they are today. (2/?)\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt thread on Isu incarnations and Sages.png}}</ref>		Seeing that humanity would survive and thrive while the Isu died out, Jupiter and Minerva began clandestinely testing a seventh experiment to have the Isu be [[Isu incarnation\|incarnated]] through humanity. Through the use of a catalyst<ref name="A Feast to Remember"/> and the powerful supercomputer [[Yggdrasil]], which could take and transfer Isu genetic samples, the procedure would save select Isu from the Catastrophe<ref name="Animus Anomalies">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Animus Anomalies]]: "AA_Complete"</ref> through {{Wiki\|brood parasitism}}.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis & Speculation", pg. 309</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 11\|Issue #11]]</ref> This altered an infant human host's genes by implanting Isu DNA that carried their memories,<ref name="Animus Anomalies"/> which the host would gradually awaken to as they aged.<ref>{{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1573407072850518016\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=I have always written Sages as if they were people with a severe amnesia that is slowly starting to lift. Someone who, one day, begins to remember that they were someone else for many years. And that someone else might be an entirely different person than they are today. (2/?)\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt thread on Isu incarnations and Sages.png}}</ref>

	However, Jupiter and Minerva feared that genetic manipulation would change humanity for the worse,<ref name="Price of Wisdom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[The Price of Wisdom]]</ref> especially since the process was later known to drive most [[Sage]]s mad with the conflicting memories,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Thom Kavanagh's letters]]: "1. On My Name and Origin"</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' ~ [[The Temple]]</ref> and so the research was locked away, but not before Juno stole it with Odin's help<ref name="Price of Wisdom" /> and modified it further<ref>{{Twitter\|KasaiKnight\|status/1337725926717747201\|Kasaix\|quote=@DarbyMcDevitt Lore question: are the Mad One and his people reborn like Aita the Sage? Every so often, coming back and rediscovering their former lives?\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1337737125677109248\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=@KasaiKnight Just once. Juno tweaked the technology further for her own use, as she hints in Jotunheim.\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}</ref> to allow her to make Sages from Aita's genetic sequence.<ref name="Twentieth" /> For facilitating the catalyst's theft and taking some for herself, the [[High Council]] stripped Juno of her title [[Mother of Wisdom]]<ref name="AnomalyBriudun">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Briudun Hill</ref> and ordered her banishment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Basilica Ruins</ref><ref name="TheReckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Dawn of Ragnarök'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>		However, Jupiter and Minerva feared that genetic manipulation would change humanity for the worse,<ref name="Price of Wisdom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[The Price of Wisdom]]</ref> especially since the process was later known to drive most [[Sage]]s mad with the conflicting memories,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Thom Kavanagh's letters]]: "1. On My Name and Origin"</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' ~ [[The Temple]]</ref> and so the research was locked away, but not before Juno stole it with Odin's help<ref name="Price of Wisdom" /> and modified it further<ref>{{Twitter\|KasaiKnight\|status/1337725926717747201\|Kasaix\|quote=@DarbyMcDevitt Lore question: are the Mad One and his people reborn like Aita the Sage? Every so often, coming back and rediscovering their former lives?\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1337737125677109248\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=@KasaiKnight Just once. Juno tweaked the technology further for her own use, as she hints in Jotunheim.\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}</ref> to allow her to make Sages from Aita's genetic sequence.<ref name="Twentieth" /> For facilitating the catalyst's theft and taking some for herself, the [[High Council]] stripped Juno of her title [[Mother of Wisdom]]<ref name="AnomalyBriudun">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Briudun Hill</ref> and ordered her banishment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Basilica Ruins</ref><ref name="TheReckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Dawn of Ragnarök'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>

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	*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice]]'' {{Imo}}		*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice]]'' {{Imo}}
	*''[[The World of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Journey to the North – Logs and Files of a Hidden One]]'' {{Mo\|"Ragnarök"}}		*''[[The World of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Journey to the North – Logs and Files of a Hidden One]]'' {{Mo\|"Ragnarök"}}
			*''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]''
	*''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' {{Mo\|"Toba catastrophe"}}		*''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' {{Mo\|"Toba catastrophe"}}
	*''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]''

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imported>Lacrossedeamon: so it brings us to the corrections section

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so it brings us to the corrections section

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	\|date = c. 75,000 BCE<ref name="Initiates Timeline">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Timeline</ref> (2306 [[Isu Era\|IE]])<ref name="ACSModern">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[21st century conversations\|Modern day]]: "World War I simulation"</ref>		\|date = c. 75,000 BCE<ref name="Initiates Timeline">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Timeline</ref> (2306 [[Isu Era\|IE]])<ref name="ACSModern">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[21st century conversations#Assassin's Creed: Syndicate\|Modern day]]: "World War I simulation"</ref>
	\|place = [[Earth]]		\|place = [[Earth]]
	\|outcome = *End of the [[Human-Isu War]]		\|outcome = *End of the [[Human-Isu War]]

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	\|place = [[Earth]]		\|place = [[Earth]]
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imported>Darman36: If Juno dialogue moved to 21st cen convos, must change related citations then

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If Juno dialogue moved to 21st cen convos, must change related citations then

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	The '''Great Catastrophe''',<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]] – The Empirical Truth</ref> also known as the '''First Catastrophe''',<ref name="The Essential Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]''</ref> the '''Toba Catastrophe'''<ref name="Abstergo Files Apocalypse">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]: "File.0.18\FC_Apocalypses"</ref> or '''Toba Disaster''', or the '''First Disaster''',{{Cite\|6 Jan 2025}} was a cataclysmic event during [[human]] prehistory dated to around 75,000 BCE,<ref name="Initiates Timeline"/> or 2306 of the [[Isu Era]].<ref name="~~Hoptons~~"/> The global devastation caused by a {{Wiki\|coronal mass ejection}} from the [[Sun]] saw the near-total extinction of both humanity and the [[Isu]], both of whom were preoccupied with the latter's [[Human-Isu War\|slave uprising]] at the time.		The '''Great Catastrophe''',<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]] – The Empirical Truth</ref> also known as the '''First Catastrophe''',<ref name="The Essential Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]''</ref> the '''Toba Catastrophe'''<ref name="Abstergo Files Apocalypse">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]: "File.0.18\FC_Apocalypses"</ref> or '''Toba Disaster''', or the '''First Disaster''',{{Cite\|6 Jan 2025}} was a cataclysmic event during [[human]] prehistory dated to around 75,000 BCE,<ref name="Initiates Timeline"/> or 2306 of the [[Isu Era]].<ref name="ACSModern"/> The global devastation caused by a {{Wiki\|coronal mass ejection}} from the [[Sun]] saw the near-total extinction of both humanity and the [[Isu]], both of whom were preoccupied with the latter's [[Human-Isu War\|slave uprising]] at the time.

	While the few surviving humans would attempt to understand and remember the events and the Isu by passing them down in filtered oral tales like the [[Ragnarök]] cycle of [[Norse mythology]],<ref name="View Above All">''[[Assassin's Creed Valhalla]]'' – [[View Above All]]</ref> by [[Modern times\|modern times]], the disaster was often misconceived to have been the eruption of a super-volcano that occurred at the same time.<ref name="Abstergo Files Apocalypse"/> A [[Second Disaster\|second]], equally-powerful, but ultimately less-destructive coronal mass ejection took place in 2012.		While the few surviving humans would attempt to understand and remember the events and the Isu by passing them down in filtered oral tales like the [[Ragnarök]] cycle of [[Norse mythology]],<ref name="View Above All">''[[Assassin's Creed Valhalla]]'' – [[View Above All]]</ref> by [[Modern times\|modern times]], the disaster was often misconceived to have been the eruption of a super-volcano that occurred at the same time.<ref name="Abstergo Files Apocalypse"/> A [[Second Disaster\|second]], equally-powerful, but ultimately less-destructive coronal mass ejection took place in 2012.

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	However, Jupiter and Minerva feared that genetic manipulation would change humanity for the worse,<ref name="Price of Wisdom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[The Price of Wisdom]]</ref> especially since the process was later known to drive most [[Sage]]s mad with the conflicting memories,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Thom Kavanagh's letters]]: "1. On My Name and Origin"</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' ~ [[The Temple]]</ref> and so the research was locked away, but not before Juno stole it with Odin's help<ref name="Price of Wisdom" /> and modified it further<ref>{{Twitter\|KasaiKnight\|status/1337725926717747201\|Kasaix\|quote=@DarbyMcDevitt Lore question: are the Mad One and his people reborn like Aita the Sage? Every so often, coming back and rediscovering their former lives?\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1337737125677109248\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=@KasaiKnight Just once. Juno tweaked the technology further for her own use, as she hints in Jotunheim.\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}</ref> to allow her to make Sages from Aita's genetic sequence.<ref name="Twentieth" /> For facilitating the catalyst's theft and taking some for herself, the [[High Council]] stripped Juno of her title [[Mother of Wisdom]]<ref name="AnomalyBriudun">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Briudun Hill</ref> and ordered her banishment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Basilica Ruins</ref><ref name="TheReckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Dawn of Ragnarök'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>		However, Jupiter and Minerva feared that genetic manipulation would change humanity for the worse,<ref name="Price of Wisdom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[The Price of Wisdom]]</ref> especially since the process was later known to drive most [[Sage]]s mad with the conflicting memories,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Thom Kavanagh's letters]]: "1. On My Name and Origin"</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' ~ [[The Temple]]</ref> and so the research was locked away, but not before Juno stole it with Odin's help<ref name="Price of Wisdom" /> and modified it further<ref>{{Twitter\|KasaiKnight\|status/1337725926717747201\|Kasaix\|quote=@DarbyMcDevitt Lore question: are the Mad One and his people reborn like Aita the Sage? Every so often, coming back and rediscovering their former lives?\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter\|DarbyMcDevitt\|status/1337737125677109248\|Darby McDevitt\|quote=@KasaiKnight Just once. Juno tweaked the technology further for her own use, as she hints in Jotunheim.\|image=File:ACV Darby McDevitt Sage and Isu incarnation difference.png}}</ref> to allow her to make Sages from Aita's genetic sequence.<ref name="Twentieth" /> For facilitating the catalyst's theft and taking some for herself, the [[High Council]] stripped Juno of her title [[Mother of Wisdom]]<ref name="AnomalyBriudun">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Briudun Hill</ref> and ordered her banishment.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla'' – Animus Anomalies: Basilica Ruins</ref><ref name="TheReckoning">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Dawn of Ragnarök'' – [[The Reckoning]]</ref>

	Around this time, Hildr learned of Odin's secret plan to save only himself and eight [[Æsir]] whom he trusted from death by incarnating themselves. Enraged at Odin's selfishness in letting the world burn,<ref name="AllSeeingEye">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — [[Mastery Challenge]]'' – [[The All-Seeing Eye]]</ref> Hildr vented her fury to Rah Cel'eze, then used her position as the Ring Station's Chief Guardian to appeal to the High Council to take action against Odin,<ref name="Tombs"/> having seen what they did to Juno for her transgressions.<ref name="AnomalyBriudun"/> When they failed to act in a sufficient or timely manner, she organized a Valkyrie revolt, only for her former lover and Odin's wife [[Freyja]] to leak word to Odin, who quashed the resistance.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/> Incensed that one of his most loyal servants betrayed him, he stripped away her immortality<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Mastery Challenge'' – [[The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran]]</ref> and chained her in an [[Venutius Tomb\|underground cell]] to starve to death.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/>		Around this time, Hildr learned of Odin's secret plan to save only himself and eight [[Æsir]] whom he trusted from death by incarnating themselves. Enraged at Odin's selfishness in letting the world burn,<ref name="AllSeeingEye">''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – [[Mastery Challenge]]'' – [[The All-Seeing Eye]]</ref> Hildr vented her fury to Rah Cel'eze, then used her position as the Ring Station's Chief Guardian to appeal to the High Council to take action against Odin,<ref name="Tombs"/> having seen what they did to Juno for her transgressions.<ref name="AnomalyBriudun"/> When they failed to act in a sufficient or timely manner, she organized a Valkyrie revolt, only for her former lover and Odin's wife [[Freyja]] to leak word to Odin, who quashed the resistance.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/> Incensed that one of his most loyal servants betrayed him, he stripped away her immortality<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Mastery Challenge'' – [[The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran]]</ref> and chained her in an [[Venutius Tomb\|underground cell]] to starve to death.<ref name="AllSeeingEye"/>

	Eventually, Minerva<ref name="AC3Modern" /> and Jupiter<ref name="AC3Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis & Speculation", pg. 308</ref> learned that Juno had sabotaged the Eye to send Desmond a message for her own ends.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – Modern day</ref> Furious at her further dishonesty and for also brewing rebellion, the two Isu attacked and killed Juno and her [[Instruments of the First Will\|followers]] in the Grand Temple.<ref name="AC3Guide" /> After Jupiter sent Desmond yet a third message,<ref name="ACRevModern" /> he and Minerva destroyed the divination sphere and sealed the dead in the Grand Temple,<ref name="AC3Guide" /> though they were unaware that Juno had survived and transferred her consciousness into the Temple's walls, allowing her to exist unharmed when the Catastrophe struck.<ref name="AC3Modern" />		Eventually, Minerva<ref name="AC3Modern" /> and Jupiter<ref name="AC3Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis & Speculation", pg. 308</ref> learned that Juno had sabotaged the Eye to send Desmond a message for her own ends.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – Modern day</ref> Furious at her further dishonesty and for also brewing rebellion, the two Isu attacked and killed Juno and her [[Instruments of the First Will\|followers]] in the Grand Temple.<ref name="AC3Guide" /> After Jupiter sent Desmond yet a third message,<ref name="ACRevModern" /> he and Minerva destroyed the divination sphere and sealed the dead in the Grand Temple,<ref name="AC3Guide" /> though they were unaware that Juno had survived and transferred her consciousness into the Temple's walls, allowing her to exist unharmed when the Catastrophe struck.<ref name="AC3Modern" />