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	*'''Desmond:''' ''Cute.''		*'''Desmond:''' ''Cute.''
	*'''Rebecca:''' ''Can I ask you about the Bleeding Effect? Any recent flashes? Any memories resurfacing?''		*'''Rebecca:''' ''Can I ask you about the Bleeding Effect? Any recent flashes? Any memories resurfacing?''
	*'''Desmond:''' ''Yeah, the usual things. Ghost images of [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad\|Altaïr]] or [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze\|Ezio]] a few times day. Nothing intrusive, just brief moments. They pass quickly, almost without me noticing. Like a figure in the corner of my eye. Or remembering a dream from the night before. I did have one extended hallucination a few days ago. It was Ezio. He was older, [[Escape (Revelations)\|around the time]] he left [[Cappadocia]]. He was standing on the deck of a [[ship]]. Alone. And through him, I could feel an intense... regret. Or guilt. And it felt to me like he'd had a.. ~~lost~~ of faith. In himself, in the Creed. Like he couldn't keep it up. Couldn't stay true to his ideals. And as I watched him, I thought, "Is this the moment he decided he was done being an Assassin?" It felt like it. Anyway, most of my visions have been brief. Lasting just a few seconds. They're like... complete memories of small moments that appear suddenly out of nowhere, fully formed. it's a strange feeling.''		*'''Desmond:''' ''Yeah, the usual things. Ghost images of [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad\|Altaïr]] or [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze\|Ezio]] a few times day. Nothing intrusive, just brief moments. They pass quickly, almost without me noticing. Like a figure in the corner of my eye. Or remembering a dream from the night before. I did have one extended hallucination a few days ago. It was Ezio. He was older, [[Escape (Revelations)\|around the time]] he left [[Cappadocia]]. He was standing on the deck of a [[ship]]. Alone. And through him, I could feel an intense... regret. Or guilt. And it felt to me like he'd had a.. loss of faith. In himself, in the Creed. Like he couldn't keep it up. Couldn't stay true to his ideals. And as I watched him, I thought, "Is this the moment he decided he was done being an Assassin?" It felt like it. Anyway, most of my visions have been brief. Lasting just a few seconds. They're like... complete memories of small moments that appear suddenly out of nowhere, fully formed. it's a strange feeling.''
	*'''Rebecca:''' ''Okay. Anything else?''		*'''Rebecca:''' ''Okay. Anything else?''
	*'''Desmond:''' ''I'm starting to see [[Ratonhnhaké:ton\|Connor]] now too, Though I hear his voice more often than I see him. I'm sure that will change. Oh yeah, and yesterday... just before bed, I had [[Edward Kenway\|a memory]] on [[Nassau\|a beach]] in the [[Caribbean]]. With a [[Republic of Pirates\|bunch of sailors]]. Or maybe they were [[Piracy\|pirates]]? I don't know. No idea.''		*'''Desmond:''' ''I'm starting to see [[Ratonhnhaké:ton\|Connor]] now too, Though I hear his voice more often than I see him. I'm sure that will change. Oh yeah, and yesterday... just before bed, I had [[Edward Kenway\|a memory]] on [[Nassau\|a beach]] in the [[Caribbean]]. With a [[Republic of Pirates\|bunch of sailors]]. Or maybe they were [[Piracy\|pirates]]? I don't know. No idea.''

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	\|-\|Isu Messengers I=		\|-\|Isu Messengers I=
	Rebecca,<br><br>Before we meet at the site, I want you to see these.<br><br>Last week, I reviewed the logs from my time with Bayek and came across some old notes. In the "years" I explored Cleopatra's Egypt, I stumbled across six Isu temples, most of which were buried beneath pharaonic tomb sites. Each temple contained an Isu message clearly meant for one with the ability to read genetic memories. I was the lucky one. I don't believe they were intended for Bayek himself, as he seemed wholly unaware of the messages as they played. They may have been encoded in a way that only someone with an Animus could see them.<br><br>It's been a few years since I last heard these messages, so my memory is foggy. But the notes I scribbled down have a clarity that I trust. Might be something to all this. I don't know. Often I grasp outside of my area of expertise. I am enthusiastic but often wrong. Let me know if something else strikes you.<br><br>Layla<br><br>*<br><br>Message 1 (Excerpt):<br>"Layers upon layers of reality, each bledding into the next. Which is real, and which is not? What if none are real? What if everything you know is false? We ran thousands of [[Calculations\|simulations]], searching for the right version, searching for Desmond. Each one of them felt real. But there's no way of truly knowing, is there? Not for sure. Anything can be simulated, and finding the answer could mean erasure."<br><br>Teasing the Assassin maxim "Nothing is true..." Must be careful not to confuse truths with facts however, a language game you will always lose. Though we may stumble in our attempts to interpret it, the [[Earth\|world]], the universe, reality, what have you, it is always "out there". I believe that, simulated or no.<br><br>We could imagine a dozen nested simulations, and each one, on the level of itself, would constitute a full reality. {{Wiki\|Stephen Wolfram\|Wolfram}}, via {{Wiki\|John Horton Conway\|Conway}}, {{Wiki\|A New Kind of Science\|suggests}} that the universe is a {{Wiki\|Cellular automaton\|giant cellular automata}}.<br><br>And further, there is a point where the difference between simulated and real is meaningless. If the universe were a simulation, what would it matter? The simulations qua simulation itself would be weal, and therefore everything within it would be real within the confines of the simulation.<br><br>Say a scientist were able to simulate pain by inducing only a few neurons to fire, no physical harm. "I am in pain!" the subject says. "No, you only believe you are," says the scientist. This is meaningless, as is this: "You thought you were in pain, but you were mistaken."		Rebecca,<br><br>Before we meet at the site, I want you to see these.<br><br>Last week, I reviewed the logs from my time with Bayek and came across some old notes. In the "years" I explored Cleopatra's Egypt, I stumbled across six Isu temples, most of which were buried beneath pharaonic tomb sites. Each temple contained an Isu message clearly meant for one with the ability to read genetic memories. I was the lucky one. I don't believe they were intended for Bayek himself, as he seemed wholly unaware of the messages as they played. They may have been encoded in a way that only someone with an Animus could see them.<br><br>It's been a few years since I last heard these messages, so my memory is foggy. But the notes I scribbled down have a clarity that I trust. Might be something to all this. I don't know. Often I grasp outside of my area of expertise. I am enthusiastic but often wrong. Let me know if something else strikes you.<br><br>Layla<br><br>*<br><br>Message 1 (Excerpt):<br>"Layers upon layers of reality, each bledding into the next. Which is real, and which is not? What if none are real? What if everything you know is false? We ran thousands of [[Calculations\|simulations]], searching for the right version, searching for Desmond. Each one of them felt real. But there's no way of truly knowing, is there? Not for sure. Anything can be simulated, and finding the answer could mean erasure."<br><br>Teasing the Assassin maxim "Nothing is true..." Must be careful not to confuse truths with facts however, a language game you will always lose. Though we may stumble in our attempts to interpret it, the [[Earth\|world]], the universe, reality, what have you, it is always "out there". I believe that, simulated or no.<br><br>We could imagine a dozen nested simulations, and each one, on the level of itself, would constitute a full reality. {{Wiki\|Stephen Wolfram\|Wolfram}}, via {{Wiki\|John Horton Conway\|Conway}}, {{Wiki\|A New Kind of Science\|suggests}} that the universe is a {{Wiki\|Cellular automaton\|giant cellular automata}}.<br><br>And further, there is a point where the difference between simulated and real is meaningless. If the universe were a simulation, what would it matter? The simulations qua simulation itself would be weal, and therefore everything within it would be real within the confines of the simulation.<br><br>Say a scientist were able to simulate pain by inducing only a few neurons to fire, no physical harm. "I am in pain!" the subject says. "No, you only believe you are," says the scientist. This is meaningless, as is this: "You thought you were in pain, but you were mistaken."<br>[[File:ACV Isu Messengers I.png\|250px\|center]]
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	\|-\|Isu Messengers II=		\|-\|Isu Messengers II=
	Message 2 (Excerpt):<br>"No surprise. You were designed to have boundaries, after all. And one cannot speak of that which one cannot conceive. The Code. Equations that define life. They are nestled deep within every star, and every mote of dust. Every second that passes is a word, a symbol. All part of an intricate yet simple language existing within the framework of time itself. Is is the one rule which applies to us all. Immutable, inescapable."<br><br>We know this: humans were the instruments of an earlier species, the Isu. Resist the temptation to say superior. Different. They were better suited to some tasks, ill-suited to others. Possessed of a mind that we cannot know. But that does not get us anywhere. What is it like to be an Isu? What is it like to be a bat?<br><br>The implication that the Isu could "read" time is interesting, but if humans could read time, would it necessarily be in the same manner and for the same purpose? Whether constructed, or evolved, or a little of both as wee are, we cannot be said to have been "built" to achieve the same ends. A round disk on its edge is a wheel; on its side, a plate. How we use something can determine its value and its perceived purpose.		Message 2 (Excerpt):<br>"No surprise. You were designed to have boundaries, after all. And one cannot speak of that which one cannot conceive. The Code. Equations that define life. They are nestled deep within every star, and every mote of dust. Every second that passes is a word, a symbol. All part of an intricate yet simple language existing within the framework of time itself. Is is the one rule which applies to us all. Immutable, inescapable."<br><br>We know this: humans were the instruments of an earlier species, the Isu. Resist the temptation to say superior. Different. They were better suited to some tasks, ill-suited to others. Possessed of a mind that we cannot know. But that does not get us anywhere. What is it like to be an Isu? What is it like to be a bat?<br><br>The implication that the Isu could "read" time is interesting, but if humans could read time, would it necessarily be in the same manner and for the same purpose? Whether constructed, or evolved, or a little of both as wee are, we cannot be said to have been "built" to achieve the same ends. A round disk on its edge is a wheel; on its side, a plate. How we use something can determine its value and its perceived purpose.<br>
	[[File:ACV Isu Messengers II.png\|250px]]		[[File:ACV Isu Messengers II.png\|250px\|center]]
	\|-\|Isu Messengers III=		\|-\|Isu Messengers III=
	Message 3 (Excerpt):<br>"Break the code. Break the node. These walls tell of a tragic story. A story we transcribed on our structures, on our artifacts. A story we could not alter. A mystery, defying us, in plain sight. We tried. Our scholars and scientists. Poets and physicists. Bright minds. Rebellious hearts. They all tried so hard to bring about change. They... We all failed. None could change what we discovered, the stories written into the walls of these rooms. The reader has no power. He is but an observer. But the author... the author invents the future. The author owns the future."<br><br>The Toba catastrophe, a super-volcanic event paired with a mass-coronal ejection, was the beginning of the end for the Isu. It changed the earth's environment, lowered its available oxygen levels, and generally fucked things up. The Isu never recovered. By our estimates, the last remaining Isu died just a century after the catastrophe. From that point forward, humans—their creation—ruled the roost.<br><br>This disaster was not unforeseen. Isu scientists had known about their impending doom for years, perhaps decades, before the catastrophe occurred. To protect themselves, they worked feverishly to find a solution. Six methods they tried, but due to a toxic combination of hubris, political infighting, and bad luck, all six failed. The final method proved the most promising and was nearly complete when tragedy struck. It was this method that Desmond Miles revived when he saved the world from a second solar flare in December 2012.<br><br>This voice laments the compounded failures of their species to save themselves, bit the truth is broader than that. They, with Desmond, saved us. Success deferred.<br><br>Then this message, break the code, break the node. Insistent, and very puzzling.		Message 3 (Excerpt):<br>"Break the code. Break the node. These walls tell of a tragic story. A story we transcribed on our structures, on our artifacts. A story we could not alter. A mystery, defying us, in plain sight. We tried. Our scholars and scientists. Poets and physicists. Bright minds. Rebellious hearts. They all tried so hard to bring about change. They... We all failed. None could change what we discovered, the stories written into the walls of these rooms. The reader has no power. He is but an observer. But the author... the author invents the future. The author owns the future."<br><br>The Toba catastrophe, a super-volcanic event paired with a mass-coronal ejection, was the beginning of the end for the Isu. It changed the earth's environment, lowered its available oxygen levels, and generally fucked things up. The Isu never recovered. By our estimates, the last remaining Isu died just a century after the catastrophe. From that point forward, humans—their creation—ruled the roost.<br><br>This disaster was not unforeseen. Isu scientists had known about their impending doom for years, perhaps decades, before the catastrophe occurred. To protect themselves, they worked feverishly to find a solution. Six methods they tried, but due to a toxic combination of hubris, political infighting, and bad luck, all six failed. The final method proved the most promising and was nearly complete when tragedy struck. It was this method that Desmond Miles revived when he saved the world from a second solar flare in December 2012.<br><br>This voice laments the compounded failures of their species to save themselves, bit the truth is broader than that. They, with Desmond, saved us. Success deferred.<br><br>Then this message, break the code, break the node. Insistent, and very puzzling.<br>
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	\|-\|Isu Messengers IV=		\|-\|Isu Messengers IV=
	Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?		Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?<br>
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	\|-\|Isu Messengers V=		\|-\|Isu Messengers V=
	Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.		Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.<br>
	[[File:ACV Isu Messengers V.png\|250px]]		[[File:ACV Isu Messengers V.png\|250px\|center]]
	\|-\|Isu Messengers VI=		\|-\|Isu Messengers VI=
	The Message 6<br>"The next chapter is unstoppable. And yet, the greatest revolutions sometimes originate from the confines of impossibility, do they not? Reality is a simulation. Break the code. And in so doing, escape the inescapable. The Animus was humankind's first unconscious attempt to explain what it could not see. understanding genetic memories, an eye into history. Your Animus is different. As is the mind that imagined it. It could escape the code. It could make that leap and make possible a decision that defies the order of the things that are."<br><br>It is ridiculous to imagine that I could change the nature of reality "out there" from within the confines of an Animus, a simulation within this so-called simulation. But I believe I understand what this voice is telling me. My Animus is endowed with the ability to suggest alterations to days long past. But from any moment in time, I can extrapolate what MIGHT have been. Calculations of time. I am not confined to what was, but what could have been.<br><br>Yes, history is real, facts do matter. But from any moment in time I choose within the Animus, I can interrogate the memory. I can ask the world what if? What if Bayek and [[Amunet\|Aya]] had stayed together? What if [[Khemu]] had not been murdered? I can suggest these hypotheticals and watch how they unfold. Why would I want to? For knowledge, for a better understanding of what tragedies were avoided? It remains to be seen.<br><br>I am, in a sense, a reader of the calculations. As the Isu were in days past. Perhaps one day I will be able to harness this talent to see into the future. To predict, to correct, to avoid. That would be worth something.<br>[[File:ACV Isu Messengers VI.png\|250px]]		The Message 6<br>"The next chapter is unstoppable. And yet, the greatest revolutions sometimes originate from the confines of impossibility, do they not? Reality is a simulation. Break the code. And in so doing, escape the inescapable. The Animus was humankind's first unconscious attempt to explain what it could not see. understanding genetic memories, an eye into history. Your Animus is different. As is the mind that imagined it. It could escape the code. It could make that leap and make possible a decision that defies the order of the things that are."<br><br>It is ridiculous to imagine that I could change the nature of reality "out there" from within the confines of an Animus, a simulation within this so-called simulation. But I believe I understand what this voice is telling me. My Animus is endowed with the ability to suggest alterations to days long past. But from any moment in time, I can extrapolate what MIGHT have been. Calculations of time. I am not confined to what was, but what could have been.<br><br>Yes, history is real, facts do matter. But from any moment in time I choose within the Animus, I can interrogate the memory. I can ask the world what if? What if Bayek and [[Amunet\|Aya]] had stayed together? What if [[Khemu]] had not been murdered? I can suggest these hypotheticals and watch how they unfold. Why would I want to? For knowledge, for a better understanding of what tragedies were avoided? It remains to be seen.<br><br>I am, in a sense, a reader of the calculations. As the Isu were in days past. Perhaps one day I will be able to harness this talent to see into the future. To predict, to correct, to avoid. That would be worth something.<br>
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	*Rumored to be a powerful and deadly hand-to-hand weapon.		*Rumored to be a powerful and deadly hand-to-hand weapon.

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	Translation:<br><br>What was true is untrue<br>What was done is undone<br>It is a war, not a rebellion<br>All are summoned to fight		Translation:<br><br>What was true is untrue<br>What was done is undone<br>It is a war, not a rebellion<br>All are summoned to fight
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	This tablet was found in [[Chang'an\|Xi'an]], [[China]].<br>		This tablet was found in [[Chang'an\|Xi'an]], [[China]].<br>

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	A series of notes written by [[Shaun Hastings]] and others which were pinned around the [[cabin]] that Layla and the others were staying at in early-to-mid 2020, as she relived the [[Genetic memory\|genetic memories]] of the [[Vikings\|Viking]] [[shieldmaiden]] [[Eivor Varinsdottir]] of the [[Raven Clan]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]''</ref>		A series of notes written by [[Shaun Hastings]] and others which were pinned around the [[cabin]] that Layla and the others were staying at in early-to-mid 2020, as she relived the [[Genetic memory\|genetic memories]] of the [[Vikings\|Viking]] [[shieldmaiden]] [[Eivor Varinsdottir]] of the [[Raven Clan]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]''</ref>

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	''AKA Aelfred Rex, [[Alfred the Great\|Aelfred the Great]]. What do we know about him? Famous for his holy vision of uniting [[Heptarchy\|all]] the [[Kingdom of England\|Kingdoms]] of [[England]], one country under one rule. Sort of like a {{Wiki\|United Nations}} of England maybe. Or just England.<br><br>He never saw this vision come to pass, though he laid the foundation for it. Too busy fighting Vikings. Strangely, [[William Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]] never wrote a play about Alfred and the Vikings. Missed opportunity, that. "Now is the summer of our peace and calm / Made clamorous winter by this loon of Jorvik."''		''AKA Aelfred Rex, [[Alfred the Great\|Aelfred the Great]]. What do we know about him? Famous for his holy vision of uniting [[Heptarchy\|all]] the [[Kingdom of England\|Kingdoms]] of [[England]], one country under one rule. Sort of like a {{Wiki\|United Nations}} of England maybe. Or just England.<br><br>He never saw this vision come to pass, though he laid the foundation for it. Too busy fighting Vikings. Strangely, [[William Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]] never wrote a play about Alfred and the Vikings. Missed opportunity, that. "Now is the summer of our peace and calm / Made clamorous winter by this loon of Jorvik."''
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			''Eivor has spent quite a lot of time with Basim now, and together with [[Hytham]], it gives us a clearer picture of the [[Hidden Ones]] in the 9th century. They are recognizable to us as [[Assassins]] in all but name, which makes me think they evolved quite naturally into [[Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins\|what we know]] from [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad\|Altaïr]]'s [[Third Crusade\|time]]. The word Assassin comes from the Arabic word for "Hash-Smokers". It may be the Hidden Ones adopted this epithet as a mark of pride more than anything. Turning an insult into a mark of pride.<br><br>Curiously, I do remember one passing reference in some of the old literature about Hytham being one of the first Assassins back in England after the exodus around 430 AD. I should contact our [[London]] [[British Brotherhood of Assassins\|Bureau]] for [[Edward Kenway]]'s papers. Had he read about this early Assassin? Is that why he named [[Haytham Kenway\|his son]] as he did? It seems likely.''
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	''Eivor has spent quite a lot of time with Basim now, and together with [[Hytham]], it gives us a clearer picture of the [[Hidden Ones]] in the 9th century. They are recognizable to us as [[Assassins]] in all but name, which makes me think they evolved quite naturally into [[Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins\|what we know]] from [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad\|Altaïr]]'s [[Third Crusade\|time]]. The word Assassin comes from the Arabic word for "Hash-Smokers". It may be the Hidden Ones adopted this epithet as a mark of pride more than anything. Turning an insult into a mark of pride.<br><br>Curiously, I do remember one passing reference in some of the old literature about Hytham being one of the first Assassins back in England after the exodus around 430 AD. I should contact our [[London]] [[British Brotherhood of Assassins\|Bureau]] for [[Edward Kenway]]'s papers. Had he read about this early Assassin? Is that why he named [[Haytham Kenway\|his son]] as he did? It seems likely.''
	\|-\|The Yggdrasil Chamber=		\|-\|The Yggdrasil Chamber=
	''Layla has located a new Isu [[Temple (Isu)\|Temple]], the [[Yggdrasil]] Chamber, for lack of a better term. She's in there now, searching for a way to slow it down and return the world to some sense of normalcy. Many pieces now fall into place and a theory emerges: In 2012, [[Desmond Miles]] managed to activate a network of Isu Temples and [[Global aurora borealis device\|devices]] in such a way that it amplified the Earth's magnetic field, one that shielded us from the [[Sun\|mass coronal]] [[Second Disaster\|ejection]] that should have dealt civilization a fatal blow. But in the 8 years that have passed, it appears this magnetic field is growing stronger, and now the cure to what ailed us becomes the disease. The magnetic field that saved us threatens us all over again. But what is driving this increase? This Yggdrasil machine—a simulation device not unlike our [[Animus]], but perhaps fed on [[calculations]], not memories—seems to be in an "overclocked" state, for lack of a better term. What is the cause of this?<br><br>Only Layla can tell us for sure. So many questions. I eagerly await her return.''		''Layla has located a new Isu [[Temple (Isu)\|Temple]], the [[Yggdrasil]] Chamber, for lack of a better term. She's in there now, searching for a way to slow it down and return the world to some sense of normalcy. Many pieces now fall into place and a theory emerges: In 2012, [[Desmond Miles]] managed to activate a network of Isu Temples and [[Global aurora borealis device\|devices]] in such a way that it amplified the Earth's magnetic field, one that shielded us from the [[Sun\|mass coronal]] [[Second Disaster\|ejection]] that should have dealt civilization a fatal blow. But in the 8 years that have passed, it appears this magnetic field is growing stronger, and now the cure to what ailed us becomes the disease. The magnetic field that saved us threatens us all over again. But what is driving this increase? This Yggdrasil machine—a simulation device not unlike our [[Animus]], but perhaps fed on [[calculations]], not memories—seems to be in an "overclocked" state, for lack of a better term. What is the cause of this?<br><br>Only Layla can tell us for sure. So many questions. I eagerly await her return.''
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	\|-\|Note Regarding Kassandra (Rebecca)=		\|-\|Note Regarding Kassandra (Rebecca)=
	''This must be a first. Eivor actually met Kassandra. This means that Layla, as an [[animus host]], met a previous animus host in the simulation. Could Layla have noticed anything odd in the Animus brought on by Kassandra's sudden appearance.<br><br>Not only that, but could the Staff have sensed Layla's presence as its current Keeper? I have so many questions for her.''<ref group="note" name="note2">Which of the following notes appear depend on whether Layla or Basim was using the Animus to experience the Isle of Skye arc. It is unclear which if not both are canon.</ref>		''This must be a first. Eivor actually met Kassandra. This means that Layla, as an [[animus host]], met a previous animus host in the simulation. Could Layla have noticed anything odd in the Animus brought on by Kassandra's sudden appearance.<br><br>Not only that, but could the Staff have sensed Layla's presence as its current Keeper? I have so many questions for her.''<ref group="note" name="note2">Which of the following notes appear depend on whether Layla or Basim was using the Animus to experience the Isle of Skye arc. It is unclear which if not both are canon.</ref>

Darman36: /* The Messengers */

2026-07-21T20:09:41Z

The Messengers

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	Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?		Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?
	[[File:ACV Isu Messengers IV.png\|250px]]		[[File:ACV Isu Messengers IV.png\|250px]]
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	~~<tabber>~~
	\|-\|Isu Messengers V=		\|-\|Isu Messengers V=
	Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.		Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.

Darman36: /* Videos */

2026-07-21T20:09:08Z

Videos

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Darman36: /* Packing for Greece */

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Packing for Greece

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	*Passed down from Leonidas I to his grandchild. (AR)		*Passed down from Leonidas I to his grandchild. (AR)
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	\|-\|Staff of Hermes Trismegistus=		\|-\|Staff of Hermes Trismegistus=
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Darman36: /* Desmond Miles */

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Desmond Miles

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	\|-\|Last Emails from W. Miles to D. Miles=		\|-\|Last Emails from W. Miles to D. Miles=
	Date: August 12th 2015<br><br>[[William Miles]]' final messages to his son Desmond.<br><br>Miles Senior was in [[Cairo]] when Abstergo found him. Looks like Subject 17 busted him out of our [[Italy\|Italian]] facility a few days before he died.		Date: August 12th 2015<br><br>[[William Miles]]' final messages to his son Desmond.<br><br>Miles Senior was in [[Cairo]] when Abstergo found him. Looks like Subject 17 busted him out of our [[Italy\|Italian]] facility a few days before he died.

Darman36: /* Who Is Aletheia */

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Who Is Aletheia

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	[[Hermes Trismegistus\|Hermes]]<br><br>We don't know about this Isu, except that he was one. The Greeks and Egyptians both worshipped him. His special followers called themselves [[Hermeticists]].<br><br>The god Hermes (particularly in the form of Hermes Trismegistus) was all about magic and alchemy, and his staff is the inspiration for the caduceus.<br><br>In theory, he met Pythagoras and [[Divine Science: Chapter 2 – Kyros of Zarax\|gave him]] his staff.<br><br>LH: We're betting a lot on that theory. We've extrapolated that the staff is the key to the Isu "equations of reality" theory.<br>Based on the information we got in Egypt, the Isu are convinced that understanding the mathematical rules of the universe is the basis to changing it.<br>AR: Are you convinced?<br>LH: I'm convinced it might be true. And that's enough to make that staff very powerful and very, very dangerous.		[[Hermes Trismegistus\|Hermes]]<br><br>We don't know about this Isu, except that he was one. The Greeks and Egyptians both worshipped him. His special followers called themselves [[Hermeticists]].<br><br>The god Hermes (particularly in the form of Hermes Trismegistus) was all about magic and alchemy, and his staff is the inspiration for the caduceus.<br><br>In theory, he met Pythagoras and [[Divine Science: Chapter 2 – Kyros of Zarax\|gave him]] his staff.<br><br>LH: We're betting a lot on that theory. We've extrapolated that the staff is the key to the Isu "equations of reality" theory.<br>Based on the information we got in Egypt, the Isu are convinced that understanding the mathematical rules of the universe is the basis to changing it.<br>AR: Are you convinced?<br>LH: I'm convinced it might be true. And that's enough to make that staff very powerful and very, very dangerous.
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	\|-\|Slide 5: Aletheia=		\|-\|Slide 5: Aletheia=
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	Rebecca,<br><br>Before we meet at the site, I want you to see these.<br><br>Last week, I reviewed the logs from my time with Bayek and came across some old notes. In the "years" I explored Cleopatra's Egypt, I stumbled across six Isu temples, most of which were buried beneath pharaonic tomb sites. Each temple contained an Isu message clearly meant for one with the ability to read genetic memories. I was the lucky one. I don't believe they were intended for Bayek himself, as he seemed wholly unaware of the messages as they played. They may have been encoded in a way that only someone with an Animus could see them.<br><br>It's been a few years since I last heard these messages, so my memory is foggy. But the notes I scribbled down have a clarity that I trust. Might be something to all this. I don't know. Often I grasp outside of my area of expertise. I am enthusiastic but often wrong. Let me know if something else strikes you.<br><br>Layla<br><br>*<br><br>Message 1 (Excerpt):<br>"Layers upon layers of reality, each bledding into the next. Which is real, and which is not? What if none are real? What if everything you know is false? We ran thousands of [[Calculations\|simulations]], searching for the right version, searching for Desmond. Each one of them felt real. But there's no way of truly knowing, is there? Not for sure. Anything can be simulated, and finding the answer could mean erasure."<br><br>Teasing the Assassin maxim "Nothing is true..." Must be careful not to confuse truths with facts however, a language game you will always lose. Though we may stumble in our attempts to interpret it, the [[Earth\|world]], the universe, reality, what have you, it is always "out there". I believe that, simulated or no.<br><br>We could imagine a dozen nested simulations, and each one, on the level of itself, would constitute a full reality. {{Wiki\|Stephen Wolfram\|Wolfram}}, via {{Wiki\|John Horton Conway\|Conway}}, {{Wiki\|A New Kind of Science\|suggests}} that the universe is a {{Wiki\|Cellular automaton\|giant cellular automata}}.<br><br>And further, there is a point where the difference between simulated and real is meaningless. If the universe were a simulation, what would it matter? The simulations qua simulation itself would be weal, and therefore everything within it would be real within the confines of the simulation.<br><br>Say a scientist were able to simulate pain by inducing only a few neurons to fire, no physical harm. "I am in pain!" the subject says. "No, you only believe you are," says the scientist. This is meaningless, as is this: "You thought you were in pain, but you were mistaken."		Rebecca,<br><br>Before we meet at the site, I want you to see these.<br><br>Last week, I reviewed the logs from my time with Bayek and came across some old notes. In the "years" I explored Cleopatra's Egypt, I stumbled across six Isu temples, most of which were buried beneath pharaonic tomb sites. Each temple contained an Isu message clearly meant for one with the ability to read genetic memories. I was the lucky one. I don't believe they were intended for Bayek himself, as he seemed wholly unaware of the messages as they played. They may have been encoded in a way that only someone with an Animus could see them.<br><br>It's been a few years since I last heard these messages, so my memory is foggy. But the notes I scribbled down have a clarity that I trust. Might be something to all this. I don't know. Often I grasp outside of my area of expertise. I am enthusiastic but often wrong. Let me know if something else strikes you.<br><br>Layla<br><br>*<br><br>Message 1 (Excerpt):<br>"Layers upon layers of reality, each bledding into the next. Which is real, and which is not? What if none are real? What if everything you know is false? We ran thousands of [[Calculations\|simulations]], searching for the right version, searching for Desmond. Each one of them felt real. But there's no way of truly knowing, is there? Not for sure. Anything can be simulated, and finding the answer could mean erasure."<br><br>Teasing the Assassin maxim "Nothing is true..." Must be careful not to confuse truths with facts however, a language game you will always lose. Though we may stumble in our attempts to interpret it, the [[Earth\|world]], the universe, reality, what have you, it is always "out there". I believe that, simulated or no.<br><br>We could imagine a dozen nested simulations, and each one, on the level of itself, would constitute a full reality. {{Wiki\|Stephen Wolfram\|Wolfram}}, via {{Wiki\|John Horton Conway\|Conway}}, {{Wiki\|A New Kind of Science\|suggests}} that the universe is a {{Wiki\|Cellular automaton\|giant cellular automata}}.<br><br>And further, there is a point where the difference between simulated and real is meaningless. If the universe were a simulation, what would it matter? The simulations qua simulation itself would be weal, and therefore everything within it would be real within the confines of the simulation.<br><br>Say a scientist were able to simulate pain by inducing only a few neurons to fire, no physical harm. "I am in pain!" the subject says. "No, you only believe you are," says the scientist. This is meaningless, as is this: "You thought you were in pain, but you were mistaken."<br>[[File:ACV Isu Messengers I.png\|250px\|center]]
	[[File:ACV Isu Messengers I.png\|250px]]
	\|-\|Isu Messengers II=		\|-\|Isu Messengers II=
	Message 2 (Excerpt):<br>"No surprise. You were designed to have boundaries, after all. And one cannot speak of that which one cannot conceive. The Code. Equations that define life. They are nestled deep within every star, and every mote of dust. Every second that passes is a word, a symbol. All part of an intricate yet simple language existing within the framework of time itself. Is is the one rule which applies to us all. Immutable, inescapable."<br><br>We know this: humans were the instruments of an earlier species, the Isu. Resist the temptation to say superior. Different. They were better suited to some tasks, ill-suited to others. Possessed of a mind that we cannot know. But that does not get us anywhere. What is it like to be an Isu? What is it like to be a bat?<br><br>The implication that the Isu could "read" time is interesting, but if humans could read time, would it necessarily be in the same manner and for the same purpose? Whether constructed, or evolved, or a little of both as wee are, we cannot be said to have been "built" to achieve the same ends. A round disk on its edge is a wheel; on its side, a plate. How we use something can determine its value and its perceived purpose.		Message 2 (Excerpt):<br>"No surprise. You were designed to have boundaries, after all. And one cannot speak of that which one cannot conceive. The Code. Equations that define life. They are nestled deep within every star, and every mote of dust. Every second that passes is a word, a symbol. All part of an intricate yet simple language existing within the framework of time itself. Is is the one rule which applies to us all. Immutable, inescapable."<br><br>We know this: humans were the instruments of an earlier species, the Isu. Resist the temptation to say superior. Different. They were better suited to some tasks, ill-suited to others. Possessed of a mind that we cannot know. But that does not get us anywhere. What is it like to be an Isu? What is it like to be a bat?<br><br>The implication that the Isu could "read" time is interesting, but if humans could read time, would it necessarily be in the same manner and for the same purpose? Whether constructed, or evolved, or a little of both as wee are, we cannot be said to have been "built" to achieve the same ends. A round disk on its edge is a wheel; on its side, a plate. How we use something can determine its value and its perceived purpose.<br>
	[[File:ACV Isu Messengers II.png\|250px]]		[[File:ACV Isu Messengers II.png\|250px\|center]]
	\|-\|Isu Messengers III=		\|-\|Isu Messengers III=
	Message 3 (Excerpt):<br>"Break the code. Break the node. These walls tell of a tragic story. A story we transcribed on our structures, on our artifacts. A story we could not alter. A mystery, defying us, in plain sight. We tried. Our scholars and scientists. Poets and physicists. Bright minds. Rebellious hearts. They all tried so hard to bring about change. They... We all failed. None could change what we discovered, the stories written into the walls of these rooms. The reader has no power. He is but an observer. But the author... the author invents the future. The author owns the future."<br><br>The Toba catastrophe, a super-volcanic event paired with a mass-coronal ejection, was the beginning of the end for the Isu. It changed the earth's environment, lowered its available oxygen levels, and generally fucked things up. The Isu never recovered. By our estimates, the last remaining Isu died just a century after the catastrophe. From that point forward, humans—their creation—ruled the roost.<br><br>This disaster was not unforeseen. Isu scientists had known about their impending doom for years, perhaps decades, before the catastrophe occurred. To protect themselves, they worked feverishly to find a solution. Six methods they tried, but due to a toxic combination of hubris, political infighting, and bad luck, all six failed. The final method proved the most promising and was nearly complete when tragedy struck. It was this method that Desmond Miles revived when he saved the world from a second solar flare in December 2012.<br><br>This voice laments the compounded failures of their species to save themselves, bit the truth is broader than that. They, with Desmond, saved us. Success deferred.<br><br>Then this message, break the code, break the node. Insistent, and very puzzling.		Message 3 (Excerpt):<br>"Break the code. Break the node. These walls tell of a tragic story. A story we transcribed on our structures, on our artifacts. A story we could not alter. A mystery, defying us, in plain sight. We tried. Our scholars and scientists. Poets and physicists. Bright minds. Rebellious hearts. They all tried so hard to bring about change. They... We all failed. None could change what we discovered, the stories written into the walls of these rooms. The reader has no power. He is but an observer. But the author... the author invents the future. The author owns the future."<br><br>The Toba catastrophe, a super-volcanic event paired with a mass-coronal ejection, was the beginning of the end for the Isu. It changed the earth's environment, lowered its available oxygen levels, and generally fucked things up. The Isu never recovered. By our estimates, the last remaining Isu died just a century after the catastrophe. From that point forward, humans—their creation—ruled the roost.<br><br>This disaster was not unforeseen. Isu scientists had known about their impending doom for years, perhaps decades, before the catastrophe occurred. To protect themselves, they worked feverishly to find a solution. Six methods they tried, but due to a toxic combination of hubris, political infighting, and bad luck, all six failed. The final method proved the most promising and was nearly complete when tragedy struck. It was this method that Desmond Miles revived when he saved the world from a second solar flare in December 2012.<br><br>This voice laments the compounded failures of their species to save themselves, bit the truth is broader than that. They, with Desmond, saved us. Success deferred.<br><br>Then this message, break the code, break the node. Insistent, and very puzzling.<br>
	[[File:ACV Isu Messengers III.png\|250px]]		[[File:ACV Isu Messengers III.png\|250px\|center]]
	\|-\|Isu Messengers IV=		\|-\|Isu Messengers IV=
	Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?		Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?<br>
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	Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.		Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.<br>
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	The Message 6<br>"The next chapter is unstoppable. And yet, the greatest revolutions sometimes originate from the confines of impossibility, do they not? Reality is a simulation. Break the code. And in so doing, escape the inescapable. The Animus was humankind's first unconscious attempt to explain what it could not see. understanding genetic memories, an eye into history. Your Animus is different. As is the mind that imagined it. It could escape the code. It could make that leap and make possible a decision that defies the order of the things that are."<br><br>It is ridiculous to imagine that I could change the nature of reality "out there" from within the confines of an Animus, a simulation within this so-called simulation. But I believe I understand what this voice is telling me. My Animus is endowed with the ability to suggest alterations to days long past. But from any moment in time, I can extrapolate what MIGHT have been. Calculations of time. I am not confined to what was, but what could have been.<br><br>Yes, history is real, facts do matter. But from any moment in time I choose within the Animus, I can interrogate the memory. I can ask the world what if? What if Bayek and [[Amunet\|Aya]] had stayed together? What if [[Khemu]] had not been murdered? I can suggest these hypotheticals and watch how they unfold. Why would I want to? For knowledge, for a better understanding of what tragedies were avoided? It remains to be seen.<br><br>I am, in a sense, a reader of the calculations. As the Isu were in days past. Perhaps one day I will be able to harness this talent to see into the future. To predict, to correct, to avoid. That would be worth something.<br>[[File:ACV Isu Messengers VI.png\|250px]]		The Message 6<br>"The next chapter is unstoppable. And yet, the greatest revolutions sometimes originate from the confines of impossibility, do they not? Reality is a simulation. Break the code. And in so doing, escape the inescapable. The Animus was humankind's first unconscious attempt to explain what it could not see. understanding genetic memories, an eye into history. Your Animus is different. As is the mind that imagined it. It could escape the code. It could make that leap and make possible a decision that defies the order of the things that are."<br><br>It is ridiculous to imagine that I could change the nature of reality "out there" from within the confines of an Animus, a simulation within this so-called simulation. But I believe I understand what this voice is telling me. My Animus is endowed with the ability to suggest alterations to days long past. But from any moment in time, I can extrapolate what MIGHT have been. Calculations of time. I am not confined to what was, but what could have been.<br><br>Yes, history is real, facts do matter. But from any moment in time I choose within the Animus, I can interrogate the memory. I can ask the world what if? What if Bayek and [[Amunet\|Aya]] had stayed together? What if [[Khemu]] had not been murdered? I can suggest these hypotheticals and watch how they unfold. Why would I want to? For knowledge, for a better understanding of what tragedies were avoided? It remains to be seen.<br><br>I am, in a sense, a reader of the calculations. As the Isu were in days past. Perhaps one day I will be able to harness this talent to see into the future. To predict, to correct, to avoid. That would be worth something.<br>
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	Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?		Message 4 (Excerpt):<br>"Linear continuity is a simulations that allows for variations. Within the linear continuity, there are nodes. Chokepoints. Moments where algorithms converge the flows of superposed possibilities to a single moment where only one absolute truth is possible. Paths are fluid, continuous. Nodes are static, changeless. And the {{Wiki\|wave function}} {{Wiki\|Wave function collapse\|collapses}} the paths into notes which branch out. Again, and again, and again. Can you feel the wave collapsing, trying to course-correct Desmond's act of defiance? The incoming node needs the world to end. The algorithms have been carving the flow of possibilities towards that end for over one hundred years now. Collapse the wave."<br><br>Well outside my area of expertise. Must contact someone who knows this shit better. But what it seems to be saying—the structure of spacetime the universe is built in such a way that certain events of clusters of events are compelled to occur. A bottleneck through which spacetime flows, and one nearly impossible to avoid There is something about this catastrophe, the one Desmond averted in 2012, that compels it to return, indifferent to out fear or pain. It is a tidal wave, rippling across the sea of space. It crashed once against the dike, and that stopped it for a time. But the seas rears back for another strike, and another, and another.<br><br>That gives some clarity to what is happening now, all around us. But it remains unclear how to change it. Especially from within an Animus, a simulation within a simulation?
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	\|-\|Isu Messengers V=		\|-\|Isu Messengers V=
	Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.		Message 5:<br>"Reality is a mathematical model which gets solved over and over again by the observer. Your thoughts are computations. And they render this world for you to call your own. Not all processors are alike. Different brains produce different realities. The variations go from the subtle to the drastic. Your mind defines how much you can taste. How much you can feel. How much you can understand. Perception defines perspective. We designed you and made sure to engineer your senses so you could perceive just what we needed you to. Neither more nor less. There are parts of time we preferred you to remained blind to. It was a necessity."<br><br>If we could suddenly "see" time, that would not guarantee the same perception the Isu possessed. Let us speak of time as an entity, if we may. Let us say that time is a perceivable fact in the same way light is a perceivable fact. The ability to "see" this fact in no way guarantees sympathetic view. There are creatures stumbling around this earth that read light differently than we do, and for different purposes. Humans see in a {{Wiki\|Visible spectrum\|well-known spectrum}}, {{Wiki\|ROYGBIV\|ROY G BIV}}.<br><br>This sense of color is confined to the {{Wiki\|Cone cell\|three cones}} we possess. Yet nocturnal creatures see with a different scope, for a different purpose. Night-stalking, [[hunting]], lurking. The evolved in concert with their needs are and now constrained by them, as are we. Light is only a fact seen askance and used differently by different species. To suggest that we might read time, is to imply we have a specific use for time.

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	Date: August 12th 2015<br><br>[[William Miles]]' final messages to his son Desmond.<br><br>Miles Senior was in [[Cairo]] when Abstergo found him. Looks like Subject 17 busted him out of our [[Italy\|Italian]] facility a few days before he died.		Date: August 12th 2015<br><br>[[William Miles]]' final messages to his son Desmond.<br><br>Miles Senior was in [[Cairo]] when Abstergo found him. Looks like Subject 17 busted him out of our [[Italy\|Italian]] facility a few days before he died.

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	[[Hermes Trismegistus\|Hermes]]<br><br>We don't know about this Isu, except that he was one. The Greeks and Egyptians both worshipped him. His special followers called themselves [[Hermeticists]].<br><br>The god Hermes (particularly in the form of Hermes Trismegistus) was all about magic and alchemy, and his staff is the inspiration for the caduceus.<br><br>In theory, he met Pythagoras and [[Divine Science: Chapter 2 – Kyros of Zarax\|gave him]] his staff.<br><br>LH: We're betting a lot on that theory. We've extrapolated that the staff is the key to the Isu "equations of reality" theory.<br>Based on the information we got in Egypt, the Isu are convinced that understanding the mathematical rules of the universe is the basis to changing it.<br>AR: Are you convinced?<br>LH: I'm convinced it might be true. And that's enough to make that staff very powerful and very, very dangerous.		[[Hermes Trismegistus\|Hermes]]<br><br>We don't know about this Isu, except that he was one. The Greeks and Egyptians both worshipped him. His special followers called themselves [[Hermeticists]].<br><br>The god Hermes (particularly in the form of Hermes Trismegistus) was all about magic and alchemy, and his staff is the inspiration for the caduceus.<br><br>In theory, he met Pythagoras and [[Divine Science: Chapter 2 – Kyros of Zarax\|gave him]] his staff.<br><br>LH: We're betting a lot on that theory. We've extrapolated that the staff is the key to the Isu "equations of reality" theory.<br>Based on the information we got in Egypt, the Isu are convinced that understanding the mathematical rules of the universe is the basis to changing it.<br>AR: Are you convinced?<br>LH: I'm convinced it might be true. And that's enough to make that staff very powerful and very, very dangerous.
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