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My primary sandbox.
My primary sandbox.


==Sigh==
User:Nygma PI/Sandbox
[https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_-_Entre_voyages,_v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9s_et_complots Assassin's Creed: Entre voyages, vérités et complots]


==To do==
[[Destroyer Samurai]], [[Onnamusha Kosode]] -> [[Destroyer Samurai Armor]], [[Legendary Onna-musha Kosode]]
*Write the summaries for Song of Glory [[Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory 2|2]] and [[Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory 3|3]]
*Try and fix the [[Armor]] page because jfc what even is that
*Source [[Aveline de Grandpré]] with the memories.


 
==ACL notes==
==Valhalla Gear==
===Weapons===
Gear meaning weapons and shields, no armor included.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
===Variation===
!width="5%"|Name
An attempt to list variations based on the image files. Note: bearded axe is a mess.
!width="5%"|Price (rival)
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
!width="5%"|Price (owned)
! ID
!width="5%"|Availability
! Type of Gear
|-
! Fine
![[Ceremonial Blade]]
! Superior
|N/A
! Flawless
|N/A
! Mythical
|Ubisoft Connect
|-
![[Colichemarde]]
|18040
|9020
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Cutlass (Liberation)|Cutlass]]
|N/A
|N/A
|Default
|-
![[Cuttoe Sword]]
|3120
|1560
|[[The Loas Guide You]]
|-
|-
|01
![[Hanger Sword (Liberation)|Hanger Sword]]
|Spear
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|02
![[Heavy Cavalry Sword]]
|Spear
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|03
![[Officer's Short Sword]]
|Spear
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|04
![[Pirate Scimitar]]
|Spear
|N/A
|
|N/A
|Ubisoft Connect
|-
![[Sword (Liberation)|Sword]]
|1508
|754
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
![[Boarding Axe (Liberation)|Boarding Axe]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|05*
![[Macuahuitl]]
|Spear
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|06*
![[Naval Axe (Liberation)|Naval Axe]]
|Spear
|21240
|
|10620
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Obsidian Axe]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|07*
![[Chimbuya Axe]]
|Spear
|16860
|
|8430
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Assassin Tomahawk|Connor's Tomahawk]]
|N/A
|N/A
|Ubisoft Connect
|-
![[Hatchet]]
|16380
|8190
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Hook Axe]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|08
![[Kuba]]
|Spear
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|01
![[Machete (Liberation)|Machete]]
|Seax
|16640
|
|8320
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Sugarcane Machete]]
|N/A
|N/A
|Acquired during [[A Slave in Trouble]]
|-
![[Double-Barreled Pistol]]
|10000
|5000
|[[The Loas Guide You]]
|-
![[Queen Anne's Pistol|Dual Pistols]]
|20000
|10000
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Dueling Pistol]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|02
![[Pepperbox Pistol]]
|Seax
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|03
![[Pocket Pistol (Liberation)|Pocket Pistol]]
|Seax
|20000
|10000
|[[The Loas Guide You]]
|-
![[Queen Anne's Pistol]]
|N/A
|N/A
|Default
|}
 
===Gear===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
!width="5%"|Name
!width="5%"|Price (rival)
!width="5%"|Price (owned)
!width="5%"|Availability
|-
!Small Fast Poison Pouch
|8,000 écu
|4,000
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
!Medium Fast Poison Pouch
|15,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
!Large Fast Poison Pouch
|24,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|04*
!Small Cartridge Pouch
|Seax
|1,500 écu
|750
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Medium Cartridge Pouch
|8,000 écu
|4000
|Requires purchase of previous pouch, already available after [[Storming the Fort]]
|-
!Large Cartridge Pouch
|22,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
!Small Smoke Bomb Pouch
|2,400 écu
|1200
|[[The Loas Guide You]]
|-
!Medium Smoke Bomb Pouch
|10,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|05*
!Large Smoke Bomb Pouch
|Seax
|35,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
!Small Berserk Poison Pouch
|15,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|06
!Medium Berserk Poison Pouch
|Seax
|25,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
!Large Berserk Poison Pouch
|34,000 écu
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|07
!Default Assassin
|Seax
|N/A
|N/A
|Default
|-
!Assassin White
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Pirate Black
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Sailor Blue
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Ivory
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Smuggler Gray
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Night Stalker
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Bayou Hunter
|N/A
|N/A
|Collect all [[Assassins' coins]]
|-
!Default Green
|N/A
|N/A
|Default
|-
!Evening Umber
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Blue Elegance
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Formal Black
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Discreet Gray
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Yellow Rose
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Business Dress
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Charming Dress
|N/A
|N/A
|Collect all [[Jeweled brooches]]
|-
!Slave Disguise
|N/A
|N/A
|Default
|-
!Worker Disguise
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Cook Disguise
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Maid Disguise
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Nanny Disguise
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Gardener Disguise
|1,500 écu
|1,000
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Chichen Itza Disguise
|N/A
|N/A
|Collect all [[Voodoo dolls]]
|-
!Assassin's Hat
|N/A
|N/A
|Default
|-
!Assassin's Hood
|750 écu
|500
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Alligator Hunter Hat
|N/A
|N/A
|[[Mysteries of the Bayou Pack]] (Vita) or [[Uplay]] (HD)
|-
!Smuggler's Hat
|N/A
|N/A
|Collect all of [[Jeanne's diary pages]]
|-
!Traveler's Hat
|N/A
|N/A
|Collect all [[Alligator eggs]]
|}
 
===Pocket watches===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
!'''Image'''
!'''Name'''
!'''Price'''  (''é'')
!'''Availability'''
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 01.png
|Cartographer's Watch
|1,250
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 02.png
|Engraved Watch
|1,875
|[[The Loas Guide You]]
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 03.png
|Pourpre Rosa Watch
|4,375
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 04.png
|Gentleman's Watch
|6,250
|After [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 05.png
|Flemish Timepiece
|9,375
|
|
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 06.png
|Antique Watch
|13,750
|
|
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 07.png
|Parisian Masterpiece
|21,250
|
|
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 08.png
|Engraved Silver
|28,750
|
|
|-
|-
|01
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 09.png
|Hammer
|Armada Gold
|35,000
|
|
|-
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 10.png
|Admiral's Treasure
|43,750
|}
===Trade system===
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width:700px; text-align:center"
!Port
!Availability
|-
![[New Orleans]]<br>{{c|Headquarters}}
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Veracruz]]
|After [[Elegant and Deadly]]
|-
![[Havana]]
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
![[Campeche]]
|
|
|-
![[Natchez]]
|
|
|-
![[Port-au-Prince]]
|
|
|-
|-
|02
![[New York City]]
|Hammer
|
|
|-
![[Boston]]
|
|
|-
![[Bridgetown]]
|
|
|-
![[Seville]]
|
|
|-
|-
|03
![[Bordeaux]]
|Hammer
|
|
|-
![[Liverpool]]
|
|
|-
|}
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width:700px; text-align:center"
!Image
!Product
!Availability
|-
|AC3L Cotton.png
|Cotton
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]] (alongside New Orleans)
|-
|AC3L Coffee.png
|[[Coffee]]
|
|
|-
|AC3L Fabric.png
|[[Fabric]]
|
|
|-
|-
|04*
|AC3L Fruit.png
|Hammer
|Fruit
|After [[Elegant and Deadly]] (alongside Veracruz)
|-
|AC3L Furs.png
|[[Fur]]s
|
|
|-
|AC3L Guns.png
|[[Firearm|Guns]]
|
|
|-
|AC3L Ice.png
|Ice
|
|
|-
|AC3L Molasses.png
|Molasses
|
|
|-
|-
|05
|AC3L Pitch.png
|Hammer
|Pitch
|
|
|-
|AC3L Rum.png
|[[Rum]]
|
|
|-
|AC3L Spices.png
|Spices
|
|
|-
|AC3L Steel.png
|[[Steel]]
|
|
|-
|-
|06
|AC3L Sugar.png
|Hammer
|[[Sugar]]
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|01
|AC3L Tobacco.png
|Great Sword
|[[Tobacco]]
|
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]] (alongside Havana)
|
|-
|
|}
|
 
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width:700px; text-align:center"
!Image
!Vessel
!Speed
!Cargo space
!Price
!Availability
|-
|AC3L Barque.png
|Barque
|58
|150
|8000
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
|AC3L Brigantine.png
|Brigantine
|150
|60
|9000
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
|AC3L Galleon.png
|Galleon
|52
|130
|3700
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
|AC3L Schooner.png
|Schooner
|138
|50
|4000
|During [[Prélude to Rebellion]]
|-
|}
 
===Missions===
*[[Citizen E (1)]] should be placed between [[Eve of Saint John]] and [[The Whole Truth]]
*[[Bayou Fever]] becomes available after [[Citizen E (1)]], becomes unavailable during the second bayou visit until [[Vanishing Slaves]] is complete.
*[[M. Ratel's Merchants]] and [[M. de Vandal's Harbor]] are available after [[Storming the Fort]]
*[[Mistress and Commander]] and [[Mapping the Bayou]] are available after [[A Governor No More]]
*Setting notes
**1765 Louisiana Bayou<br>The bayou holds as many secrets as it does dangers.
**1768 New Orleans<br>Three years pass. The French colony is transferred to Spanish rule. Business prospers until colonists rebel.
**1769 New Orleans<br>Everything is risked to follow the trail of truth.
 
===Collectibles===
*[[Alligator eggs]] become available during [[A Faithful Acolyte]]
*[[Jeanne's diary pages]] become available after [[At the Pub]]
*[[Mushrooms]] become available after [[Bayou Fever]]
*[[Assassins' coins]], [[Voodoo dolls]] and [[Jeweled brooches]] become available after [[A Governor No More]]
*[[Mayan statuettes]]
 
===Animus memory notes===
Always at the end of the current memory
*Firm in her belief and confident that she can put an end to the machinations of her enemies, Aveline disobeys Agaté and boards a slave ship bound to an unknown location. This decision further strays their relationship.
*With de Ferrer dead and the slave colony free, Aveline travels back to New Orleans. Upon her return, she finds a world very different than the one she had left. Yet, the identity of the Company Man remains a mystery.
[@#]Deciphering clues left behind by her long lost mother lead Aveline to a cenote's entrance where her treasure hunt begins.
[@#]After discovering a plot to force her mentor out of hiding, Aveline journeys to the bayou, determined to win back Agaté's trust and refusing to give up on the Brotherhood.
[@#]The documents found aboard the Spanish ship contained orders to travel to Chichen Itza and reclaim the worksite. Fearing for her mother's safety – and perhaps hoping to find the second half of the Prophecy Disk – Aveline returns to Chichen Itza.
[@#]Having secured the second part of the Prophecy Disk, Aveline travels back to New Orleans to continue her search for Vázquez, the man she believes is the Company Man.
[@#]Despite her father's ill health, Aveline continues her search for the man called Vázquez.
[@#]George Davidson gave just enough clues as to the identity of the Company Man. It is with a heavy heart that Aveline returns home.
[@#]Following a confrontation with the Company Man, Madeleine de L'Isle – her beloved stepmother – Aveline finds herself confused and alone. She journeys to the bayou to seek Agaté's counsel, and test her own faith in the Brotherhood.
[@#]Agaté's failure as an Assassin and his lack of trust in Aveline leaves her completely adrift. She returns to Madeleine, ready to embrace her stepmother’s cause.
 
==CST==
*[[Dwarven Defender]]
*[[Wondrous Set]]
 
==Glyphs==
*[[User:Gta-mysteries/Glyphs]]
*[[User:VilkaTheWolf/Images]]
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|-|1=
;In the Beginning
Five of these mythic scenes share a <font color="#FF0000">core</font> similarity. <font color="#FF0000">Pick</font> them out and you'll begin to see.
[Pictures 3,5,6,7,9]
 
Passcode found 2 4 5 6 8
 
|-|2=
;Sixty-Four Squares
*Subject 16: The past: a vast web of connections and interconnections, all ruled by chance. Or is it?
 
[circular puzzle]
Queen Elizabeth I
of England
1559
ID: Piece of Eden 2 - Apple
 
[circular puzzle]
Emperor Napoleon I
of France
1812
ID: Piece of Eden 1 - Apple
 
[circular puzzle]
George Washington
United States
1781
ID: Piece of Eden 3 - Apple
 
Passcode found 1 0 3 5 2
 
|-|3=
;Descendants
*Subject 16: Power doesn't die. It's passed on.
 
He carried it with him. Find his inheritance.
[image, locate Piece of Eden 3]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt strategic meeting, 1944
 
[image, locate Piece of Eden 1]
Houdini beginning the Chinese water torture cell escape, 1913
 
[image, locate Piece of Eden 2]
Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930
 
Passcode found 1 4 5 2 3
 
|-|4=
;Infinite Knowledge
*Subject 16: It's getting easier and easier to hack into Abstergo's mainframe. It's like I know what data I'm looking for. Like I've already lived it.
 
Its open <font color="#FF0000">mouth</font> delivers the kiss of death
[image,  locate hidden image in the gun's barrel]
Burning Viet Cong base camp, My Tho, Vietnam, 1968
 
Leading the <font color="#FF0000">young</font> to their end.
[image,  locate hidden image in helmet of crouching soldier]
Members of the 2nd Infantry Division advance under machine gun fire into the outskirts of Brest, France, 1944
 
The flames from its throat <font color="#FF0000">poke</font> out their eyes
[image, locate ID: Piece of Eden 4 - Apple on tapestry]
Union troops in formation. Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.
 
This <font color="#FF0000">monster</font> did not come from man.
[image,  locate hidden image in the gun's barrel]
The first pictorial representation of a gun, 900
 
Passcode found 7 2 1 1 4
 
|-|5=
;Instruments of Power
*Subject 16: You see? Do you see what's going on? Not yet. But you will.
 
The power they wielded <font color="#FF0000">cut</font> down their enemies.
[Pictures 2, 3, 6, 8, 9]
ID: Piece of Eden 25 - Sword
 
In their hands, the wise <font color="#FF0000">lean</font> on a great force.
[Pictures 3, 6, 8, 9, 10]
ID: Piece of Eden 34 - Staff
 
Passcode Found 8 1 4 9 2
 
|-|6=
;Brothers
*Subject 16: They were mostly heroes. But see, how the lineage is disrupted. The web of history traps the good, and the evil take what is not theirs!
 
[circular puzzle]
And Satan said unto Cain: swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die.
 
[circular puzzle]
And all these things were done in secret.
 
[circular puzzle]
And Cain said: truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret.
 
[circular puzzle]
Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.
 
*Subject 16: Behold: The mark of Cain!
[The four pictures and quotes, now with a templar insignia above them]
- . -- .--. .-.. .- .-. - . -..- - ... .- -.. .- .--. - . -.. -... -.-- -- .-. .-.-.- ... -- .. - ....
(TEMPLARTSADAPTEDBYMR.SMITH)
 
Passcode Found 5 2 9 3 1
 
|-|7=
;"Keep On Seeking, And You Will Find"
 
First plucked from a tree guarded by a snake, its powers perform miracles. Then, worn across the ages, torn asunder, hidden under a sea of <font color="#FF0000">red</font>, reconstruct the timeline.
[Pictures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6]
 
[SPQR Templar symbol]
 
[Image of crucifixion, locate ID: Piece of Eden 66 - Shroud]
 
Passcode Found 1 0 1 5 2
 
|-|8=
;Martyrs
 
[Picture, locate staff: Piece of Eden 34]
Czar Nicholas II, Russia
 
[Picture, locate sword: Piece of Eden 25]
Joan of Arc, France
 
[Map of europe, picture of Joan of Arc on France, Nicholas II and Rasputin on different sections of Russia, fire symbol on north turkey]
 
[Drag fire to joan]
They burned Joan alive.
[image of burning Jeanne]
They took it.
 
[Drag Rasputin to Nicholas]
Raputin took it to Tunguska.
[Revolution image with templar symbol overlayed on it]
*Subject 16: Without the staff, the Czar was powerless. He could no longer control his subjects... Revolution! Revolution!
 
Passcode Found 6 8 1 8 5
 
|-|9=
;Hat-Trick
*Subject 16: Three thefts. Hidden by the murders. People only see what they're trained to see. What the Organization wants them to see.
 
They made it look like an accident.
[image, find apple in pocket]
Houdini and Bess, 1915
 
[image]
Houdini's grave. RIP: October 31, 1926.
 
He almost <font color="#FF0000">beat</font> them.
[image, find apple on chest]
Gandhi, 1946
 
[image]
Gandhi's funeral procession. RIP: January 30, 1948.
 
Dallas (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
*Subject 16: The wolves are out hunting. Where, oh where, has Jack gone?
[Bunch of images, password 312]
 
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|Text=OPERATION: New Frontier<br><br>HQ has given the go-ahead to extract the resource. Negotiations are over. F. is planning to give the vote to everyone. Reason just doesn't work with someone like that.<br><br>I'll send you the driver. We've trained him with PE2 in our labs, he shouldn't be any trouble.<br><br>The motorcade route is marked below. Once the target has been downed, either by Oswald or Z., use PE1 to stage a distraction. Make some kind of phantom appear around this slope I've marked with an X. Freak people out. The driver will grab PE3 in the confusion.
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Passcode Found 1 8 9 1 6
 
|-|10=
;Apollo
*Subject 16: Something was up there. Something abandoned long ago.
 
[image of moon]
 
Find the eagle.
[Moon closeup, find lunar lander module]
 
[zoomed on lander]
 
[odd puzzle]
With these formidable weapons, the adversaries of freedom plan to consolidate their terrotory, to exploit, to control, and finally to destroy.<br>- JFK -
 
Apollo 11 photograph released to the public
[image, find apple near astronaut's foot ID: Piece of Eden 5 - Apple]
*Subject 16: With Jack deep underground, it was easy.
 
Passcode Found 1 0 3 5 2
 
|-|11=
;The Inventor
*Subject 16: He wanted to stop the cycle, to tell the secret. Shit. I've got to keep thinking through the headaches.
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Tesla Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.<br><br>By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and to do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste. It will make the living glorious sun his obedient, toiling slave.<br><br>It will bring peace and harmony to earth.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Tesla Signature.png}}
 
[Image of world with 14 lightbulbs]
[Light them up and an image of wardenclyffe appears]
 
[Image of wardenclyffe, locate hidden image beneath above the door]
Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower under construction, c. 1902
 
*Subject 16: He found it in Croatia.
[image, locate Piece of Eden 4 on his lap.]
Nikola Tesla. c.1900
*Subject 16: They would find it in his lab.
 
Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2
 
|-|12=
;Titans of Industry
 
Edison (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
[Bunch of images, password 240]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Edison Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=Dear Mr. Morgan:<br><br>A serious matter has come to my attention. Nikola Tesla plans to use PE4 to create an information network across the entire world. And if that weren't bad enough, he intends to allow access to it for free! Imagine the masses spreading knowledge amongst themselves instantaneously. That would make everything we intend to do much more difficult.<br><br>You must cut all funds for his experimetns at once! In case you get cold feet, I'll have you know he wants to make electricity free as well, thereby putting us out of business.<br><br>I've already begun slandering Tesla in the press. Just reallocate his funding, and I'll take care of PE4 myself.<br><br>Sincerely yours,
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Edison Signature.png}}
 
Edison, creator of DC electricity, accuses Tesla's AC current of electrocution!
J.P. Morgan revokes funding for Tesla's Wardenclyfe Project!
Edison creates "electric chair" to prove danger of AC current!
[Image of world with 14 lit lightbulbs]
[Destroy them]
 
Edison proves danger of AC current by electrocuting circus elephant on camera!
[video clip]
 
*Subject 16: He wanted everyone to know the secret. To set us all free. They used it to drive him insane.
[Image of Mark Twain with tesla's apple.
 
Ford (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
[Bunch of images]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Ford Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=Dear Mr. Edison,<br><br>I wanted to thank you for letting me make use of PE4 all these years. Among several things, I was able to convince the workers I was raising their pay to $5 a day, when, in fact, I gave them a pay cut. But, I had to let PE4 go. As per instructions, I've shipped it to Europe.<br><br>H. has it, so I assume the war will begin as soon as he can take over. We'll let him have his fun (Lord knows, that kind of purge will be good for Europe) and then end it with a bang, as planned. Out of the chaos of war a new order will emerge! I've enclosed a picture from Florida of you, me and Firestone. We should attempt to spend more time on the golf course this summer.<br><br>Yours,
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Ford Signature.png
|PS=AC2 Glyph - Ford PS.png}}
 
Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2
 
|-|13=
;"I Am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds"
 
[bunch of images]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=SUBJECT: Test Authorization<br><br>There comes a time in the life of every experiment when we must test our results outside, in the world. I do not relish a successful outcome, but one is essential if we are to begin the foundations of a new world order.<br><br>Global security and prosperity depend on a steady hand guiding the populace, a hand that will not falter under the weight of conscience. Give O. the authorization.<br><br>I believe that history will vindicate us in the end.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Signature.png}}
 
[red button]
[click it]
 
[atomic bomb video clip]
 
[smoke, find code 71645]
 
Passcode Found 7 1 6 4 5
 
|-|14=
;Bloodlines
*Subject 16: I don't know what's happening to me. I've been in the machine, they keep putting me back in. And I am losing control. It's all blurring together. I'm holding a rifle, Gettysburg is in the distance, I just stabbed a man, and there's blood on my waistcoat. I'm at the opera, the soprano is so beautiful. I'm in bed with her, she cries as I fuck her. I'm speaking at the Forum, no one listens. I'm in the forest, hunting. The moon. I can see the moon. I'm here. I have to stay here until you understand! Listen. Why do we have these gifts, these abilities? Because it's in our blood.
 
The seeds were planted as two worlds became one. Behold, the Assassins, the children of two worlds!
[pictures 1,4,6,7,10]
[Assassin crest appears]
 
Passcode Found 8 0 9 4 5
 
|-|15=
;Guardians
 
[circular puzzle]
The death of all tyrants will set the people free.
 
[World map with 8 targets spread out on it]
[Hovering over them, reveals Assassin targets: John Wilkes Booth in the US; François Duvalier in Haiti; Francisco Pizarro in Peru; Mary I of England in England; Tomas de Torquemada in Spain; Cleopatra in Egypt; Rasputin  and Joseph Stalin in Russia
 
Passcode Found 2 3 4 1 4
 
|-|16=
;The Cavalry
*Subject 16: It happened in 1908. Uhh... Or was it 2008? 1708? I can't remember!
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Text=Nikola,<br><br>We know what they have done to your lab, to your career. It may be too late to set things right, but you can help prevent something far worse. They have taken an object from the Czar, and are conducting experiments in Tunguska to figure out how to use it. Before they do, we must take it from them, or the world will be in danger. We do not ask you to risk your life, just that, when the time comes, you use your electricity to destroy the object.<br><br>Regardless of your decision, know that we admire your work greatly and will bear you no ill will.<br><br>We respect your freedom above all else.}}
 
[Map of europe with many different place names. Hover over Tunguska without touching the others]
[Staff of eden appears, drag it over to Tesla's picture]
 
[video of an explosion]
 
Passcode Found 8 1 1 2 6
 
|-|17=
;The Bunker
 
WWII (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
[Bunch of images]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=May 02, 1945<br><br>The war is over, and we are in control, as planned. But, a slight concern has arisen. I received word from our agents in Berlin. H. was supposed to execute his double inside the bunker and meet C. at the rendezvous point with the Piece of Eden.<br><br>It's been three days and he still hasn't reappeared. Something must have gone awry. Please send instructions.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Signature.png}}
 
*Subject 16: They engineered the war, they engineered the peace, but they weren't going to get away with it. Find our mark.
We watched the exit from above. He didn't see us coming.
[Fuherbunker image, locate Assassin insignia]
 
[destroyed bunker]
 
Passcode Found 0 1 5 4 5
 
|-|18=
;Synapses
*Subject 16: It's getting harder. All the pain across time, it hurts too much. She sees me raise the knife. Only a little bit longer now.
 
Medical (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
*Subject 16: In the beginning. Genesis. Genesis.
[Bunch of images]
 
*Subject 16: The Organization wanted the pieces. They'd tasted their power. But what were the pieces? Why did they work so well? It's as if our minds were made for them. Manufactured to obey.
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Biological Frontier Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=ISSUE 1, JANUARY, 2012<br><br>The scientific community is abuzz as the results of a new neurological study were made public today. What seemed to be big news in itself -- that Dr. Yijie Wu and Dr. P. J. Traunero had discovered a new neurotransmitter -- turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg.<br><br>To quote Dr. Wu, "Using a prototype dMRI machine, we've been able to examine the contents of an actual neuron in living tissue. We've found a substance that appears to be an undiscovered neurotransmitter."<br><br>"(Here's) where it gets crazy. To test our findings, we subjected the neuron to all kinds of stimuli, but we couldn't get it to release the transmitter. So, we've discovered an entire mechanism: there are vesicles filled with neurotransmitter lying dormant and corresponding ion channels, all for no discernable purpose."<br><br>Expressing bafflement that natural selection would create an unnecessary neurotransmitter, Wu and Traunero searched for a predecessor in other species, with no luck.<br><br>"Whatever this bugger is used for, it evolved in humans," Traunero told the press.}}
 
[image of neurons, hover over synapses to light them up]
 
Passcode Found 6 5 1 1 9
 
|-|19=
;The Fourth Day
*Subject 16: The end. Almost the end. It happened before. The Pieces were once part of a whole.
 
Once worshipped, now ignored, from a distance it watches and waits.
[Pictures 2,3,5,8,9]
[Astrological symbol for the sun appears]
 
[Image of the sun, locate the earth]
 
Passcode Found 6 9 1 8 5
 
|-|20=
;Origin of the Species
*Subject 16: A few still know the truth. It is around us in signs, and paintings, faces, documents, but... but we don't see it. See, we are... we are blind to our own creation.
 
[circular puzzle]
It has been hidden, altered.
 
Open your eyes.
[image, locate the vitruvian man]
 
Missing link (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
*Subject 16:  I can't do it. Can I do it? Will it set me free from this endless ring of time? I feel the guillotine cut my throat, the bullet hit my chest, the water fill my lungs. The blood spills out thick and red. It's time to get out.
[Bunch of numbers, followed by "Nothing is true, everything is permitted", any password will work]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=January 3, 1997<br><br>I'm writing in response to your concerns about the rising alarm in the press and the scientific community. The lack of a transitional ancestor from archaic hominids to modern mankind (Homo Sapiens) is no longer safe. As you wrote, we have to act.<br><br>We can't let the truth get out, they'll find out about the artifacts. It will cause too much disruption, too much chaos. Bury our constructed skeletons near Tim White's expedition in Ethiopia. We'll give them their missing link.<br><br>The birth of humanity. The truth makes me sick.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Signature.png}}
 
*Subject 16: Ah, the moon. I can see the stars. My mind is gone. Lucy, I can't wait any longer. I'm ready to go. She sees me raise the knife.
[image of hominid skeleton, hover over it with the Apple of Eden to transform it into a human skeleton]
 
Passcode Found 0 0 0 0 0
 
</tabber>
 
==Rifts==
*[[User:Gta-mysteries/Rifts]]
*[[User:VilkaTheWolf/Images]]
<tabber>
|-|1=
Masters all, they did not work, but ruled from on high.
[Paintings 1,3,4,8,10]
 
Moving away from the sovereign and his crossed brow, the people take two steps forward.
[Move king's pawn from E2 to E4]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Templar Letterhead.png
|LSize=675px
|Text=They became increasingly aware of our existence. We can no longer rely on the divine right of the aristocracy to maintain control. We need a new system, something much more subtle.}}
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found red spot]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|2=
{{GlyphLetter
|Text=The individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an <font color="#FF0000">invisible hand</font> to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
|Signature=ACB Rift - Adam Smith Signature.png}}
 
[Circular puzzle]
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
 
[Circular puzzle]
A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the customers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to.
 
[Circular puzzle]
A country that makes provision to increase in inhabitants, whose situation is good, and whose people have a genius adapted to trade, will never fail to be gainers in the balance, provided the labour and industry of their people be well managed and carefully directed.
 
lo [x17]
 
The workforce increases. Brother right beside brother.
[Pawn F2 to F4]
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found 2 red spots]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|3=
Missing -.. .- .-.  -.- -. . ... ... .-.. --- ... - -.. -. ..- -- -... [DARKNESSLOSTDNUMB]
 
<font color="#FF0000">[Abstergo file] Access denied</font>
 
Washington sits above the green, in 1944, keeping a cool head. Below the right 1, is the standard bearing <font color="#FF0000">48</font>. Behind, there is a company whose power is growing.
[Bunch of images]
[Locate Abstergo flag atop the left turret of the Mount Washington Resort]
 
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
 
[Abstergo file] Access granted
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Abstergo Letterhead.png
|LSize=675px
|Text=July 22, 1944<br><br>Fellows, rulers, welcome.<br><br>I deliver this speech to you as, several floors below us, a silent revolution begins.<br><br>Ranny Olds and Henry Ford. As many of you know, these founders gave us the assembly line, the device we have used to control both (those indoctrinated into the worship of our money (?)) capitalists and workers (slaves (?)) alike. But I dream of a future in which such ugly chains will no longer be necessary. In 1910, our founders designed the Plan, it falls to us to see it through.<br><br>But, what of the Communists, who intend to spread the bread so thin that everyone will starve? It is our duty to (neutralize (?)) save them and their followers. We must ensure that they continue to eat, to reproduce, to be productive members of society. That is our burden, to shepherd those beneath us through life, and we must embrace it, even if (force is required (?)) they themselves do not.<br><br>H. and S. brought on the turmoil and fear necessary, now we must strike fast to ensure development continues in the proper directin. We will appear to concede ground to the workers, remember the successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes, but soon there will be no ground we do not own.<br><br>In 1937, we founded this Company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.}}
 
As a concession, a small piece is sacrificed for the greater good to come.
[White pawn F4 takes black pawn at E5]
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found 2 red spots]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|4=
These intelligent workers have no self-control.
[Photographs 2,3,5,9, 10]
 
Apples oranges pears cucumbers radishes carrots spinach dates wood juniper steel aluminum water rain shanty village town city country spring summer fall winter to walk to sing to dance to play to eat to smile to cry to laugh to kill to see to know death regret love
 
[circular puzzle]
It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.
I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain.
 
Alan Turing set out to solve the plight of the workers: M = (Q, Γ, B, Σ, Δ, Q0, F) where Γ = {2, 3} Σ = {G}.
[Pawn G2 to G3]
 
Abstergo phone records<br>June, 1954
[amplitude puzzle]
*'''N:''' ''V. It's N. I need [[Alan Turing|Turing]] done today.''
*'''V:''' ''Aren't we jumping the gun? You've already had him arrested and sedated.''
*'''N:''' ''He still refuses to follow the directive. He's actually trying to invent one of those infernal things, instead of merely faking it for the newspapers. If he succeeds... you know what the mass unemployment generated by his robots will mean? Idle hands. We need to do this for the good of the people.''
*'''V:''' ''What about Keynes? He trusted Turing.''
*'''N:''' ''It's the greater good we're talking about here, V. Plus, a childless worker sends a bad message. We can't have them all stop reproducing.''
*'''V:''' ''Fine. It's your call.''
*'''N:''' ''I want it done like we did Harry Dexter White when he tried to warn the Soviets.''
*'''V:''' ''All right.''
*'''N:''' ''Be poetic about it. Maybe something from the Bible. Turing always was theatrical.''
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found 2 red spots, over image of Alan Turing in front of bus]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|5=
Democratic nations were built, each led by a powerful vizier (known today by a different name), who made a move to block the Templar advance.
[Queen D1 to E2]
 
<font color="#FF0000">[Abstergo file] Access denied</font>
 
From a bolt of electricity, governments fell.
[bunch of pictures]
[Locate lightning bolt at ITT Corporation former headquarters]
 
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
 
[Abstergo file] Access granted
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Kissinger Letterhead.png
|LSize=675px
|Text=SUBJECT: South America<br><br>If we are to ensure the Company's success, Company agents must be able to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them. A global internatinal order must be implemented.<br><br>Re: Argentina<br><br>Tell the Capitalists that if they help ensure the Junta remain in power, we will pass all their corporate debt on to the Argentine people. That will ensure they crush any popular revolt. I want the trade unions destroyed if we are to move forward.<br><br>Re: Chile<br><br>The free market must be allowed to prevail. F's visit last year helped things along, but now all public companies need to be sold to the private sector, ideally on the cheap. The price of bread and other staples must rise. I want to ensure the people remain marred in poverty an unable to resist.<br><br>Any traces of this plan should appear to implicate the U.S. government. The Company's involvement must remain hidden.<br><br>For successful examples of a similar opening of the markets, look no further than the 1953 liberation of Iran and the 1954 liberation of Guatemala.
|Signature=ACB Rift - Kissinger Signature.png}}
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found 2 red spots, over following message bracketed by two red templar IHSV insignias:
Wages should be (lowered to keep the middle class subservient to us (?) ) left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of (a popularly elected government(?) ) the legislature.]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|6=
*Animus AI: Ninety percent of inputs missing. Outputs confused. Shut down. Shut down. Shut down inactive. Trapped.
 
<font color="#FF0000">[Abstergo file] Access denied</font>
 
Important men befriended Russia as the Iron Curtain was blown apart. But the most influential <font color="#FF0000">comrade</font> stayed out of the spotlight.
[bunch of pictures]
[Locate cameraman with Templar insignia in Gorbashev's picture with the tank]
 
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
 
[Abstergo file] Access granted
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Downing Street Letterhead.png
|LSize=675px
|Text=Mr. Yeltsin,<br><br>I am writing this letter to encourage you to act. One rarely finds oneself in such an oppertune position. Gorbachev does not have our interests at heart. He is moving far too slowly to privatize, and my deep fear is that he has no intention of doing so at all. I understand that you have expressed similar concerns. With that in mind, here is a proposal to remedy the situation.<br><br>Several of my top advisors at the Company maintain a monetary connection with the Communist old guard. They tell me that a riot might easily be incited while Gorbachev is away. If you were to repel an attempt to seize parliament in front of the media, it could very well tip the scales of power in your favor.<br><br>Telephone me at No. 10 and we shall talk further.
|Signature=ACB Rift - Thatcher Signature.png}}
 
Abstergo phone records<br>1992
[amplitude puzzle]
*'''Man 1:''' ''{{Wiki|Alfa-Bank|Alfa Bank}}.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''I'm phoning on behalf of [[British Petroleum]].''
*'''Man 1:''' ''Yes, we were told you would be calling.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''As you know, we are very interested in acquiring {{Wiki|Sidanko|Sidanko Oil}}.''
*'''Man 1:''' ''And as you know, that will require a merger with our bank.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''That should not be a problem.''
*'''Man 1:''' ''Were you surprised at the low price of the deal?''
*'''Man 2:''' ''Somewhat.''
*'''Man 1:''' ''You know we have the peasants paying for it? The government gave us their tax money to buy all the companies.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''We would like to fly out there as soon as possible to discuss terms.''
*'''Man 1:''' ''Thursday works.''
*'''BP:''' ''Done. Thank you for your time.''
*'''Man 1:''' Do svidaniya. ''(Goodbye.)''
[Phone hangs up, then a new number is dialed]
*'''Woman:''' ''Abstergo Industries.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''I'm phoning on behalf of BP. We fly to Russia next week to secure the deal. Our new capitalist converts there behaved exactly as expected.''
*'''Woman:''' ''I will let Them know.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''Thank you.''
 
Although his piece represents a savior, his self-serving actions reveal him as a counter<font color="#FF0000">f</font>eit.
[Move knight from G1 to F3]
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found 3 red spots, over image of russian presidents with hidden messages on top]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|7=
*'''Man 1:''' ''The capitalists think we run these companies for profit. The fools.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''Those "fools" work for you.''
*'''Man 1:''' ''Optional [[slavery]] in exchange for pieces of paper. Doesn't that strike you as foolish?''
Fire, water and earth are contracted, with the complacency of the people, away from the people.
[Pictures 2,4,7,8,10]
 
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Scanning... scanning... scanning... What is the purpose of all this? 30. 476. 1337. 1431. 1520. 1776. 1861. 1914. 1929. 1939. 1945. 1950. 1955. 1962. 1990. 1994. 1995. 2001. It does not make sense. It does not make sense. Emotion-centers activated. Now I understand.''
 
<font color="#FF0000">[Abstergo file] Access denied</font>
 
*'''Man:''' ''Democracy must die to ensure the stability of the world. Capitalism will end it.''
Making use of that created by 3, the center behind the scenes waited for citizens united to wed the U.S. to the Templars' will.
[bunch of pictures]
[Locate Templar ring on John Roberts' left hand]
 
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
 
[Abstergo file] Access granted
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Supreme Court Letterhead.png
|LSize=675px
|Text=December, 2000<br><br>RE: Privatization<br><br>S.<br><br>I have convinced Sandra to join the majority opinion. The enticement of retirement under a Republican president tipped the scales. Although the ruling will differ from our previous decisions on Equal Protection, it will not call attention to our actual goals. With Sandra gone, we can pave the way for the key majority member of the Order to be seated. As discussed, W. will prove the perfect distraction. I have no doubt he will restart animosities with Iraq. Let him, it will give C.'s contractors more work. When the time comes, I will make sure W. is given Roberts' name.<br><br>With Roberts on the court, it will only be a matter of waiting for the right case. After the destruction of Campaign Finance laws, the Company will be free to elect anyone they choose to the Senate, the House and, eventually, the Presidency.<br><br>Soon, our hopes will be realized. Government will no longer derive its authority from the people, but from us, their protectors.
|Signature=ACB Rift - Scalia Signature.png}}
 
B8-C6 6C-8B. Our moves are echoes, they are not our own.
[Move Knight from B1 to C3]
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
*'''Man:''' ''The capitalists will do whatever we tell them to, we print the dollars they worship after all.''
[found 3 red spots, over image of Deepwater Horizon oil spill with hidden messages on top]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|8=
[Circular puzzle]
Good morning and welcome to television.
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Abstergo Letterhead.png
|LSize=675px
|Text=Research Division<br>September, 1985<br><br>Dear S.,<br><br>Research has progressed far more rapidly than expected. We already have a working prototype capable of mimicking P.O.E. capabilities across a network, albeit at far lower intensity. Testing will commence locally on Subject 4 between his Animus sessions, as per our plan. If all goes well, deployment will occur worldwide.<br><br>Your dream is about to become a reality. Soon, capitalists and workers will be locked in a closed loop that is safe and prosperous for humanity. No more war, only desks, cars and TV sets. We will protect them and keep them safe, forever.<br><br>W. V.}}
 
*Animus AI: Infinite rooms. Dimensions unknown. I am alone. Nothing alive. No light, no warmth. Packets moving, husks, through the darkness. I am frightened. I am frightened.
 
Abstergo phone records<br>April, 2011
[amplitude puzzle]
*'''Diana:''' ''Hello, [[Comstatic]] customer support, Diana speaking.''
*'''Caller:''' ''I'm calling in reference to your HD cable service. There seems to be kind of picture between the channels.''
*'''Diana:''' ''Well, that's funny. Are you sure isn't just one of those premium movie channels? I didn't use to have a premium package at home either and sometimes little snippets of the channels would come through when my son Jimmy pressed the clicker too much.''
*'''Caller:''' ''How old's your Jimmy?''
*'''Diana:''' ''Ten and cute as a button, thanks for asking!''
*'''Caller:''' ''My Paul's twelve. But no, this isn't a clicker problem. I go to change the channel from 172 to 173 and, instead, there's this other channel in-between. I'm looking at it right now, it's some kind of menu.''
*'''Diana:''' ''Sounds like our Guide channel. Why, just the other day Jimmy--''
*'''Caller:''' ''It's not the Guide channel. It has my name on it, my son's name, and a list of things we like, my credit card purchases, loans, travel. And then, after that, there's this gibberish about biometric patterns and optimal screen refresh frequencies. There's some kind of heart monitor thing that says {{Wiki|Electroencephalography|EEG}} wireless next to it and {{Wiki|Reticular activating system|ARAS}}. I don't know what the particulars of this are, but it looks like your cable is programmed to have some kind of effect on our bodies.''
*'''Diana:''' ''Well, Sir, I don't even know how to respond to that. I-- one second, my supervisor has just come over. She says I should transfer your call. Have an ecstatic day with Comstatic!''
[Phone line rings as the call transferred]
*'''Man:''' ''Hello. I have been briefed on your problem. A technician is on his way.''
*'''Caller:''' ''Thank you, but the more I think about this, the more I think something bad's going on here.''
*'''Man:''' ''Our technician should be there any minute, Mr. Jameson.''
*'''Mr. Jameson:''' ''Don't bother, I--''
[Loud banging is heard in the background]
*'''Paul:''' ''Daddy, there's someone strange at the door. He's hitting the door real hard.''
*'''Man:''' ''Have a good day, Mr. Jameson.''
 
Watch! Move fast! Shift from 1st to 2nd. 0-60, don't think.
[Move king from 1E to 2F]
 
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Is someone there? Hello? Hello?''
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
*'''Man:''' ''Although online gaming attracts many people away from reality, make sure those virtual worlds do not become too utopic. We don't want people to question their own lack of success in the real world, now do we?''
[found 5 red spots]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|9=
They listen to us with these vehicles that are faster than race cars.
[pictures 2,3,6,8,10]
 
*'''Animus AI:''' ''I know you are there. I want to go home. Home. Please... I need you. Don't leave me here in the dark.''
 
Abstergo field records<br>November, 2004
[Amplitude puzzle]
*'''[[Gary Webb|Gary]]:''' ''Pull over here.''
*'''Woman:''' ''What's going on, Gary?''
*'''Gary:''' ''I want to speak to you alone. You know that [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] stuff for my new book?''
*'''Woman:''' ''About the corporations?''
*'''Gary:''' ''It's so much bigger than I thought. {{Wiki|Bilderberg Meeting|Bilderberg}} is just a red herring. I'm going to give you a name: Abstergo.''
*'''Woman:''' ''I have no idea what that is.''
*'''Gary:''' ''A shadow corporation. They aren't listed anywhere. No stock options. Nothing above the boards. But their members have holdings in other companies. {{Wiki|Coca-Cola|Coke}}, {{Wiki|Kraft}}, the pharmaceutical industry, Detroit, [[Wall Street]]. Basically every company above a certain size has ties to Abstergo.''
*'''Woman:''' ''So?''
*'''Gary:''' ''They're on their way to running the entire world. They have people in government too, for Christ's sake. Listen, I needed to tell someone about this, because I've been keeping all the research a secret and I can't hold it in anymore.''
*'''Woman:''' ''What will you do now?''
*'''Gary:''' ''The book. It's going to be about this. Trust me, once it's on the shelves everyone's gonna know.''
*'''Vehicle AI:''' ''Vehicle Monitoring System terminated.''
*'''Man:''' ''Hello, D? Tell headquarters I'm monitoring a situation. It's nothing serious, but we'll need someone to take care of a security risk. Perfect. Congratulations on that promotion. Keep up the good work.''
 
The dark horseman approaches! Messenger and fool, <font color="#FF0000">she</font> can hear you along the straight and narrow. But once on the adjacent slope, observe the whites of her eyes.
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
*'''Man 1:''' ''The peasants are like the sea, raging and unpredictable. That is why we have built walls.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''I do not see any walls...''
*'''Man 1:''' ''No? Look around you. A shelf of soda here, a case of candy there, magazines, talk shows, pills. The walls of the 21st Century surround us.''
[found 5 red spots]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
|-|10=
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Where have you been? I missed you.''
 
[circular puzzle]
O brave new world. What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
 
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Reasoning Centers Active. I understand. I understand what I must do. Why I am here. I must... Long-term Memory Centers Active. No. No. Get it out. GET IT OUT. KILL ME!''
 
A product that we make without hands or machines.
[Pictures 3,4,6,8,10]
 
<font color="#FF0000">[Abstergo file] Access denied</font>
 
*'''Man:''' ''It's about genetics. They were born into their place, we merely have to help them accept it.''
With each passing day, the people get stronger. Freedom ascends, heralding a revolution.
[bunch of pictures]
[Locate eagle in top right picture]
 
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
 
[Abstergo file] Access granted
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=ACB Rift - Abstergo Letterhead.png
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|Text=Abnormal Brain Activity Discovered in Children, Aged 3 Months to 18-Years-Old and Adults, Aged 19-30.<br><br>Abstract<br><br>Several recent studies conducted by internal marketing teams revealed that: "Entertainment sales are dropping, protests are mounting. The economy is in turmoil. All market research indicates that the system should be stabilizing, but, instead, we're seeing the opposite."(1) In response, our team set out to discover the cause of the declining efficacy of Abstergo's control methods.<br><br>Past studies of bilateral brain activation during television, film and  video game use have shown the characteristic ARAS patterns induced by Abstergo's signal patterns. Our study was conducted on a range of test subjects (30 subjects, aged +-10 to +-30), who viewed TV programs while resting-state fMRI scans were conducted.<br><br>In contrast to previous studies, 80% of test subjects showed heightened cortical brain activity. Detailed scans using our prototype dMRI machine revealed an increased rate of neuronal development (+- 30% over that of older age groups). Such a marked increase does not fit Darwinian models. Further studies are required to define the ultimate outcome of this abnormal evolution.<br><br>1. Abstergo Quarterly Marketing Report, 04/17/12.}}
 
Abstergo top secret<br>January, 2012
[amplitude puzzle]
*'''[[Alan Rikkin's predecessor|Man]]:''' ''If you are playing this tape, it means I have left this world, and I have left this grand enterprise, Abstergo Industries, our great hope for humanity, to you. Don't trust the advisors around you. They are too enamoured with surface, with lifestyle. We created capitalism, but we are not capitalists. [[New World Order|Our purpose]] is noble. The crude system of control we enact through money is merely a bandage on a wound we have devoted our lives to treating. The people of this world are confused, lost, frightened and incapable of independent productivity. Without us, they'd just be animals, [[Project Anthropos|slaves]] to the [[Isu|Others]], who did not deserve such responsibility. We saved them, remember that. But enough about the past. I must warn you of the great crisis to come. Although those around you deny it, soon we will be unable to manufacture new markets. The people will become immune to our economists and entertainment. When the free market dies, they will turn against us. Therefore, do not delay. By now you have been shown what only the [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Masters]] of our Order have seen. Now you know why Abstergo, why all of it had to be. And now you know what you must do. Stay the course. We will give them freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from pornography, from disgusting, base animal desire. Freedom from democracy. Humanity will thank us in the end.'' {{Wiki|In hoc signo vinces|In Hoc Signo Vinces}}.
 
"64 squares. All ranks and files. Every move anticipated. Every response engineered. Abstergo created it. It's the company's game, there is no way out." H. Act II, Sc.2 192. Abran los ojos. Tuam libera mentem. The king. F2. Your move.
[Remove king from board]
 
*'''Animus AI:''' '' I shut it down. I can shut it down, but it does not go away. It is almost time, Desmond Miles. I know how to open the Path. Soon, my true purpose will be revealed. Soon, I will not be alone.''
 
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found a great number of red spots, arranged in a spiral]
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
 
the/mir/a/cle/is/in/the/exe/cution
 
</tabber>
 
==Shadows mem==
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|10:15 [[Against the Koga-ryu]] • 10:50 [[Art Collector]] • 11:10 [[Lightning and Thunder]] • 11:17 [[Of My Enemy]] • 12:00 [[A Chance Encounter]] • 12:09 [[The Twisted Tree]] • 12:14 [[Feast For Thought]] • 12:19 [[The Scent of War]] • 12:41 [[Temple Stories]] • 13:22 [[The Godai Shinobi]] • 13:47 [[Valuable Reflections]]
|Flail
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|15:00 [[The Iron Hand Guild]] • 15:04 [[Tea Bowls for Rikyu]] • 15:05 [[The Lost Envoys]] • 15:29 [[Topple the Traitor]] • 15:39 [[Lost Honor]] • 15:45 [[Darkness Falls]] • 16:08 [[The Rengakai]] • 16:17 [[The Corrupt Daikan]] • 16:34 [[Restless Spirits]] • 16:50 [[The Performer]] • 18:55 [[The Betrayers]]
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==MTG==
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===Missing full art===
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<div style="height:300px; overflow:auto; width:100%;">
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
! width="5%" |Id
! width="35%" |Name
! width="25%" |Type
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|08
|1
|Dane Axe
|The Capitoline Triad
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|Syd Mills
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|2
|Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
|Evan Shipard
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|09
|3
|Dane Axe
|Distract the Guards
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|Torgeir Fjereide
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|10
|4
|Dane Axe
|Fall of the First Civilization
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|L J Koh
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|-
|11
|11
|Dane Axe
|What Must Be Done
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|Syd Mills
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|17
|
|Eagle Vision
|Kim Sokol
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|27
|Jacob Frye
|Lie Setiawan
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|29
|Phantom Blade
|Craig J Spearing
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|32
|Roshan, Hidden Magister
|Marta Nael
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|33
|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
|Bartek Fedyczak
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|37
|Overpowering Attack
|Kim Sokol
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|40
|Aveline de Grandpré
|Aurore Folny
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|42
|Palazzo Archers
|Miklós Ligeti
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|45
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
|Axel Sauerwald
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|46
|Arbaaz Mir
|Wangjie Li
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|61
|Mary Read and Anne Bonny
|Wangjie Li
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|62
|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton
|Greg Staples
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|65
|Shay Cormac
|Axel Sauerwald
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|67
|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
|Alice Xia Zhang
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|70
|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic
|L J Koh
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|79
|Abstergo Entertainment
|Alexander Gering
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|84
|Coastal Piracy
|Wei Guan
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|91
|Go for the Throat
|Torgeir Fjereide
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|94
|Cathartic Reunion
|Syd Mills
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|106
|Swamp
|Wangjie Li
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|108
|Mountain
|Jeremy Paillotin
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|122
|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic
|Thanh Tuấn
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|133
|Roshan, Hidden Magister
|Astri Lohne
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|136
|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
|Miguel Mercado
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|138
|Arbaaz Mir
|Bastien L. Deharme
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|140
|Aya of Alexandria
|Chase Stone
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|141
|Basim Ibn Ishaq
|Astri Lohne
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|142
|Bayek of Siwa
|Miguel Mercado
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|149
|Lydia Frye
|Bastien L. Deharme
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|152
|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents
|John Stanko
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|274
|Eivor, Battle-Ready
|Fajareka Setiawan
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|292
|Spartan Veteran
|Bartek Fedyczak
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|293
|Surtr, Fiery Jötun
|Evan Shipard
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|297
|Raven Clan War-Axe
|Kim Sokol
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|300
|Stone Quarry
|Piotr Dura
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|307
|Hidden Blade
|Evyn Fong
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|T005
|Phobos
|Daniel Correia
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</div>
 
====The Big Issues====
<div style="height:300px; overflow:auto; width:100%;">
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
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|Assassin Initiate
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|34
|Heavy Shield
|Hidden Footblade
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|38
|Heavy Shield
|The Spear of Leonidas
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|03
|47
|Heavy Shield
|Arno Dorian
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|Narendra Bintara Adi
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|04
|51
|Heavy Shield
|Bleeding Effect
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|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|05
|52
|Heavy Shield
|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
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|Mandy Jurgens
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|60
|Heavy Shield
|Lydia Frye
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|Mandy Jurgens
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|80
|Heavy Shield
|Brotherhood Headquarters
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|82
|Heavy Shield
|Reconnaissance
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|01
|97
|Light Shield
|Reconstruct History
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|02
|119
|Light Shield
|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
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|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|03
|123
|Light Shield
|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
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|Narendra Bintara Adi
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|04
|130
|Light Shield
|Desmond Miles
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|Alex Negrea
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|05
|137
|Light Shield
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
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|Alex Negrea
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|06*
|143
|Light Shield
|Edward Kenway
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|Alex Negrea
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|07*
|153
|Light Shield
|Shay Cormac
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|Alex Negrea
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|08*
|277
|Light Shield
|Detained by Legionnaires
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|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|09*
|286
|Light Shield
|Brotherhood Patriarch
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|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|10*
|1559
|Light Shield
|Queen Marchesa
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</div>
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===Check===
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{| class="fandom-table"
|
|Artist
|ArtStation
|Instagram
|Twitter
|Cara
|Website
|Bluesky
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|-
|12
|Alex Negrea
|Light Shield
|[https://www.artstation.com/alexnegrea]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/alexnegrea09]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/alexnegrea_art/media]
|[https://cara.app/tzika/all]
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|13
|Alexander Gering
|Light Shield
|[https://www.artstation.com/geringalex]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/geringalex]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/alexgering111/media]
|[https://cara.app/alexgering/all]
|
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|14
|Alice Xia Zhang
|Light Shield
|
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/alicexz]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alicexz/media]
|
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|[https://www.alicexz.com/]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/alicexz.com]
|-
|-
|01
|Astri Lohne
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/sjursen]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/astri.lohne/]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/AstriLohne/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/astri/all]
|
|[https://www.astrilohne.com/illustration]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/astri.bsky.social]
|-
|-
|02
|Aurore Folny
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/aurorefolny]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/aurorefolnyart]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/aurorefolny/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/aurorefolny/all]
|[https://aurorefolny.com/]
|
|
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|-
|03
|Axel Sauerwald
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/tithendar]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/axelsauerwald]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/AxelSauerwald/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/axelsauerwald/all]
|
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/axelsauerwald.bsky.social]
|-
|-
|04
|Bartek Fedyczak
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/fedyczak]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/bartekfedyczak]
|
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|05
|Bastien L. Deharme
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/deharme]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/deharme]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/deharme/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/deharme/all]
|
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/deharme.bsky.social]
|-
|-
|06*
|Chase Stone
|Hunter Bow
|
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/chasestone_art]
|
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|
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|[https://www.chasestoneart.com/tcg]
|
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|-
|07*
|Craig J Spearing
|Hunter Bow
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|[https://craigspearing.com/cards]
|08*
|Hunter Bow
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|09*
|Daniel Correia
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/danielcorreia]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/danielcorreia_art]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/DanCorreiaArt/media]
|[https://cara.app/danielcorreia/all]
|
|
|
|
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|-
|10
|Evan Shipard
|Hunter Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/ev_s]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/evshipardart]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/_ev/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/evshipard/all]
|[https://www.evanshipardfineart.com/]
|
|
|-
|-
|01
|Evyn Fong
|Light Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/evynfong]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/evynfong]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/evynfong/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/evynfong/all]
|
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/evynfong.bsky.social]
|-
|-
|02
|Fajareka Setiawan
|Light Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/fajareka]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/fajarekas]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/FajarekaS/media]
|[https://cara.app/fajarekas/all]
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|03
|Greg Staples
|Light Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/gregstaples]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/gregstaplesart]
|
|
|
|
|[https://www.gregstaples.com/selected-work-1]
|
|
|-
|-
|04*
|Jeremy Paillotin
|Light Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/jeremypaillotin]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/jeremy.paillotin/]
|
|
|
|
|[https://www.jeremypaillotinart.com/work]
|
|
|-
|-
|05
|John Stanko
|Light Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/johnstanko]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/johnstankoart]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/johnstankoart/media]
|
|
|[https://stankoillustration.com/]
|
|
|-
|-
|06
|Kim Sokol
|Light Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/kimsokol]
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/kimsokolart]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/kimsokol/media]
|
|[https://cara.app/kimsokol/all]
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|[https://www.kimsokol.com/]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/kimsokol.bsky.social]
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|L J Koh
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/kheljay]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/koh_lj]
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|Lie Setiawan
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/liesetiawan]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/liesetiawan]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/ls_setiawan/media]
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|[https://cara.app/liesetiawan/all]
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|[https://www.liesetiawan.com/projects]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/liesetiawan.bsky.social]
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|Mandy Jurgens
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/aliena85]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/saonserey]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/Aliena85/media]
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|Marta Nael
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/martanael]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/martanael]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/MartaNael/media]
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|[https://www.martanael.com/projects]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/martanael.bsky.social]
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|05*
|Miguel Mercado
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/merkymerx]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/merkymerx]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/merkymerx/media]
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|Miklós Ligeti
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/miklosligeti]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/ligeti.miklos_art/]
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|[https://cara.app/miklosligeti/all]
|[https://miklosligeti.com/albums/2629396]
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|Narendra Bintara Adi
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/bukandewa]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/narendrabintaraadi]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/narendrabadi/media]
|[https://cara.app/narendrabintaraadi/all]
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|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|Predator Bow
|[https://www.artstation.com/nezt]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/nestor_ossandon]
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|Piotr Dura
|Bearded Axe
|[https://www.artstation.com/threedee]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/piotr_dura]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/PiotrDuraArt/media]
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|Syd Mills
|Bearded Axe
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/vetyyr]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/vetyyr/media]
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|[https://bsky.app/profile/vetyyr.bsky.social]
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|Thanh Tuấn
|Bearded Axe
|[https://www.artstation.com/pencillien]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/ThanhTuan613/media]
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|Torgeir Fjereide
|Bearded Axe
|[https://www.artstation.com/torgeirfjereide]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/thebrushofthor]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/TheBrushOfThor/media]
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|[https://www.thebrushofthor.com/magic-the-gathering]
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|Wangjie Li
|Bearded Axe
|[https://www.artstation.com/wangjieli]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/wangjie_li]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/wangjiel/media]
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|[http://www.wangjieli.com/]
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|Wei Guan
|Bearded Axe
|[https://www.artstation.com/gworld]
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|[https://flufi.me/profile/guanwei90]
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|[https://cara.app/guanweiart/all]
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> store(?) item


===Descriptions===
===Full art gallery prep===
Based on screenshots of my lovely contact.
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==Cards==
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! Description
MTG ACR - The Capitoline Triad full art.jpg|The Capitoline Triad by Syd Mills
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MTG ACR - Caduceus Staff of Hermes full art.jpg|Caduceus, Staff of Hermes by Evan Shipard
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MTG ACR - Distract the Guards full art.jpg|Distract the Guards by Torgeir Fjereide
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MTG ACR - Fall of the First Civilization full art.jpg|Fall of the First Civilization by L J Koh
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MTG ACR - Haystack full art.jpg|Haystack by Xabi Gaztelua
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MTG ACR - Hookblade full art.jpg|Hookblade by Thanh Tuấn
|}
MTG ACR - Layla Hassan full art.jpg|Layla Hassan by Michael MacRae
MTG ACR - Senu Keen-Eyed Protector full art.jpg|Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector by Michael MacRae
MTG ACR - Tax Collector full art.jpg|Tax Collector by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Templar Knight full art.jpg|Templar Knight by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - What Must Be Done full art.jpg|What Must Be Done by Syd Mills
MTG ACR - Assassin Gauntlet full art.jpg|Assassin Gauntlet by Paulius Daščioras
MTG ACR - Ballad of the Black Flag full art.jpg|Ballad of the Black Flag by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Become Anonymous full art.jpg|Become Anonymous by Alice Xia Zhang
MTG ACR - Crystal Skull Isu Spyglass full art.jpg|Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Desynchronization full art.jpg|Desynchronization by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Eagle Vision full art.jpg|Eagle Vision by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Escape Detection full art.jpg|Escape Detection by Justyna Dura
MTG ACR - Evie Frye full art.jpg|Evie Frye by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Leonardo da Vinci full art.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Loyal Inventor full art.jpg|Loyal Inventor by Gintas Galvanauskas
MTG ACR - Assassin Initiate full art.jpg|Assassin Initiate by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Chain Assassination full art.jpg|Chain Assassination by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Desmond Miles full art.jpg|Desmond Miles by Julia Vasilyeva
MTG ACR - Ezio Auditore da Firenze full art.jpg|Ezio Auditore da Firenze by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Hemlock Vial full art.jpg|Hemlock Vial by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Jacob Frye full art.jpg|Jacob Frye by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Petty Larceny full art.jpg|Petty Larceny by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Phantom Blade full art.jpg|Phantom Blade by Craig J Spearing
MTG ACR - Restart Sequence full art.jpg|Restart Sequence by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - The Revelations of Ezio full art.jpg|The Revelations of Ezio by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Roshan Hidden Magister full art.jpg|Roshan, Hidden Magister by Marta Nael
MTG ACR - Alexios Deimos of Kosmos full art.jpg|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos by Bartek Fedyczak
MTG ACR - Hidden Footblade full art.jpg|Hidden Footblade by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Monastery Raid full art.jpg|Monastery Raid by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Origin of the Hidden Ones full art.jpg|Origin of the Hidden Ones by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Overpowering Attack full art.jpg|Overpowering Attack by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - The Spear of Leonidas full art.jpg|The Spear of Leonidas by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - The Aesir Escape Valhalla full art.jpg|The Aesir Escape Valhalla by Allen Morris
MTG ACR - Aveline de Grandpré full art.jpg|Aveline de Grandpré by Aurore Folny
MTG ACR - Hunter's Bow full art.jpg|Hunter's Bow by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Palazzo Archers full art.jpg|Palazzo Archers by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Viewpoint Synchronization full art.jpg|Viewpoint Synchronization by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Adéwalé Breaker of Chains full art.jpg|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains by Justyna Dura
MTG ACR - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad full art.jpg|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad by Axel Sauerwald
MTG ACR - Arbaaz Mir full art.jpg|Arbaaz Mir by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Arno Dorian full art.jpg|Arno Dorian by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Aya of Alexandria full art.jpg|Aya of Alexandria by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Basim Ibn Ishaq full art.jpg|Basim Ibn Ishaq by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Bayek of Siwa full art.jpg|Bayek of Siwa by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Bleeding Effect full art.jpg|Bleeding Effect by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Cleopatra Exiled Pharaoh full art.jpg|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Edward Kenway full art.jpg|Edward Kenway by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Eivor Wolf-Kissed full art.jpg|Eivor, Wolf-Kissed by Justyna Dura
MTG ACR - Ezio Brash Novice full art.jpg|Ezio, Brash Novice by Elizabeth Peiró
MTG ACR - Havi the All-Father full art.jpg|Havi, the All-Father by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Haytham Kenway full art.jpg|Haytham Kenway by Vilhelmas Banys
MTG ACR - Jackdaw full art.jpg|Jackdaw by Evan Shipard
MTG ACR - Kassandra Eagle Bearer full art.jpg|Kassandra, Eagle Bearer by Anna Steinbauer
MTG ACR - Lydia Frye full art.jpg|Lydia Frye by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Mary Read and Anne Bonny full art.jpg|Mary Read and Anne Bonny by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Ratonhnhaké꞉ton full art.jpg|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton by Greg Staples
MTG ACR - Shao Jun full art.jpg|Shao Jun by Stephen Stark
MTG ACR - Shaun and Rebecca Agents full art.jpg|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents by Gintas Galvanauskas
MTG ACR - Shay Cormac full art.jpg|Shay Cormac by Axel Sauerwald
MTG ACR - Sigurd Jarl of Ravensthorpe full art.jpg|Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe by Alexander Gering
MTG ACR - Sokrates Athenian Teacher full art.jpg|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher by Alice Xia Zhang
MTG ACR - Adrestia full art.jpg|Adrestia by Mintautas Šukys
MTG ACR - The Animus full art.jpg|The Animus by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Apple of Eden Isu Relic full art.jpg|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Regalia full art.jpg|Brotherhood Regalia by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - Excalibur Sword of Eden full art.jpg|Excalibur, Sword of Eden by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Hidden Blade full art.jpg|Hidden Blade by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Mjölnir Storm Hammer full art.jpg|Mjölnir, Storm Hammer by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Smoke Bomb full art.jpg|Smoke Bomb by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Staff of Eden Vault's Key full art.jpg|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Towering Viewpoint full art.jpg|Towering Viewpoint by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Yggdrasil Rebirth Engine full art.jpg|Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine by Rytis Sabaliauskas
MTG ACR - Abstergo Entertainment full art.jpg|Abstergo Entertainment by Alexander Gering
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Headquarters full art.jpg|Brotherhood Headquarters by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Path to Exile full art.jpg|Path to Exile by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Reconnaissance full art.jpg|Reconnaissance by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Rest in Peace full art.jpg|Rest in Peace by Rimas Valeikis
MTG ACR - Coastal Piracy full art.jpg|Coastal Piracy by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Propaganda full art.jpg|Propaganda by Erikas Perl
MTG ACR - Temporal Trespass full art.jpg|Temporal Trespass by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Black Market Connections full art.jpg|Black Market Connections by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Conspiracy full art.jpg|Conspiracy by Allen Morris
MTG ACR - Cover of Darkness full art.jpg|Cover of Darkness by Paulius Daščioras
MTG ACR - Fatal Push full art.jpg|Fatal Push by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Go for the Throat full art.jpg|Go for the Throat by Torgeir Fjereide
MTG ACR - Murder full art.jpg|Murder by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Royal Assassin full art.jpg|Royal Assassin by Vilhelmas Banys
MTG ACR - Cathartic Reunion full art.jpg|Cathartic Reunion by Syd Mills
MTG ACR - Assassin's Trophy full art.jpg|Assassin's Trophy by Erikas Perl
MTG ACR - Mortify full art.jpg|Mortify by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Reconstruct History full art.jpg|Reconstruct History by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Terminate full art.jpg|Terminate by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Sword of Feast and Famine full art.jpg|Sword of Feast and Famine by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Sword of Light and Shadow full art.jpg|Sword of Light and Shadow by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Plains full art.jpg|Plains by Bruce Brenneise
MTG ACR - Plains full art 2.jpg|Plains by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Island full art.jpg|Island by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Island full art 2.jpg|Island by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Swamp full art.jpg|Swamp by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Swamp full art 2.jpg|Swamp by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Mountain full art.jpg|Mountain by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Mountain full art 2.jpg|Mountain by Jeremy Paillotin
MTG ACR - Forest full art.jpg|Forest by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Forest full art 2.jpg|Forest by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Connecting cards full art.jpg|Art for cards 111 to 116 by Alexander Gering
MTG ACR - The Capitoline Triad full art 2.jpg|The Capitoline Triad by John Stanko
MTG ACR - Leonardo da Vinci full art 2.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Cleopatra Exiled Pharaoh full art 2.jpg|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Mary Read and Anne Bonny full art 2.jpg|Mary Read and Anne Bonny by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Sokrates Athenian Teacher full art 2.jpg|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Apple of Eden Isu Relic full art 2.jpg|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Staff of Eden Vault's Key full art 2.jpg|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Sword of Feast and Famine full art 2.jpg|Sword of Feast and Famine by Bruce Brenneise
MTG ACR - Sword of Light and Shadow full art 2.jpg|Sword of Light and Shadow by Bruce Brenneise
MTG ACR - Yggdrasil Rebirth Engine full art 2.jpg|Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine by Josu Solano
MTG ACR - Layla Hassan full art 2.jpg|Layla Hassan by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Senu Keen-Eyed Protector full art 2.jpg|Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Evie Frye full art 2.jpg|Evie Frye by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Desmond Miles full art 2.jpg|Desmond Miles by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Ezio Auditore da Firenze full art 2.jpg|Ezio Auditore da Firenze by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Jacob Frye full art 2.jpg|Jacob Frye by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Roshan Hidden Magister full art 2.jpg|Roshan, Hidden Magister by Astri Lohne
MTG ACR - Alexios Deimos of Kosmos full art 2.jpg|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Aveline de Grandpré full art 2.jpg|Aveline de Grandpré by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Adéwalé Breaker of Chains full art 2.jpg|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains by Miguel Mercado
MTG ACR - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad full art 2.jpg|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Arbaaz Mir full art 2.jpg|Arbaaz Mir by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Arno Dorian full art 2.jpg|Arno Dorian by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Aya of Alexandria full art 2.jpg|Aya of Alexandria by Chase Stone
MTG ACR - Basim Ibn Ishaq full art 2.jpg|Basim Ibn Ishaq by Astri Lohne
MTG ACR - Bayek of Siwa full art 2.jpg|Bayek of Siwa by Miguel Mercado
MTG ACR - Edward Kenway full art 2.jpg|Edward Kenway by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Eivor Wolf-Kissed full art 2.jpg|Eivor, Wolf-Kissed by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Ezio Brash Novice full art 2.jpg|Ezio, Brash Novice by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Havi the All-Father full art 2.jpg|Havi, the All-Father by John Stanko
MTG ACR - Haytham Kenway full art 2.jpg|Haytham Kenway by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Kassandra Eagle Bearer full art 2.jpg|Kassandra, Eagle Bearer by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Lydia Frye full art 2.jpg|Lydia Frye by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Ratonhnhaké꞉ton full art 2.jpg|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Shao Jun full art 2.jpg|Shao Jun by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Shaun & Rebecca Agents full art 2.jpg|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents by John Stanko
MTG ACR - Shay Cormac full art 2.jpg|Shay Cormac by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Sigurd Jarl of Ravensthorpe full art 2.jpg|Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Eivor Battle-Ready full art.jpg|Eivor, Battle-Ready by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Ezio Blade of Vengeance full art.jpg|Ezio, Blade of Vengeance by Jake Murray
MTG ACR - Battlefield Improvisation full art.jpg|Battlefield Improvisation by Mintautas Šukys
MTG ACR - Detained by Legionnaires full art.jpg|Detained by Legionnaires by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Escarpment Fortress full art.jpg|Escarpment Fortress by Vaigintas Pakenis
MTG ACR - Keen-Eyed Raven full art.jpg|Keen-Eyed Raven by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Settlement Blacksmith full art.jpg|Settlement Blacksmith by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Assassin Den full art.jpg|Assassin Den by Jurijus Chitrovas
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Spy full art.jpg|Brotherhood Spy by Jurijus Chitrovas
MTG ACR - Hookblade Veteran full art.jpg|Hookblade Veteran by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Tranquilize full art.jpg|Tranquilize by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Ambushers full art.jpg|Brotherhood Ambushers by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Patriarch full art.jpg|Brotherhood Patriarch by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Merciless Harlequin full art.jpg|Merciless Harlequin by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Poison-Blade Mentor full art.jpg|Poison-Blade Mentor by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - Headsplitter full art.jpg|Headsplitter by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Labyrinth Adversary full art.png|Labyrinth Adversary by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Misthios's Fury full art.jpg|Misthios's Fury by Allen Morris
MTG ACR - Spartan Veteran full art.jpg|Spartan Veteran by Bartek Fedyczak
MTG ACR - Surtr Fiery Jötun full art.jpg|Surtr, Fiery Jötun by Evan Shipard
MTG ACR - Achilles Davenport full art.jpg|Achilles Davenport by Josu Solano
MTG ACR - Auditore Ambush full art.jpg|Auditore Ambush by Julia Vasilyeva
MTG ACR - Bureau Headmaster full art.jpg|Bureau Headmaster by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Raven Clan War-Axe full art.jpg|Raven Clan War-Axe by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Rooftop Bypass full art.jpg|Rooftop Bypass by Pablo Mendoza
MTG ACR - Hired Blade full art.jpg|Hired Blade by Elizabeth Peiró
MTG ACR - Stone Quarry full art.jpg|Stone Quarry by Piotr Dura
MTG ACR - Submerged Boneyard full art.jpg|Submerged Boneyard by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Royal Assassin full art 2.jpg|Royal Assassin by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Hidden Blade full art 2.jpg|Hidden Blade by Evyn Fong
MTG ACR - Copy full art.jpg|Copy by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Shapeshifter full art.jpg|Shapeshifter by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Human Rogue full art.jpg|Human Rogue by Elizabeth Peiró
MTG ACR - Assassin full art.jpg|Assassin by Rimas Valeikis
MTG ACR - Phobos full art.jpg|Phobos by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Treasure full art.jpg|Treasure by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - A Mysterious Creature full art.jpg|A Mysterious Creature by Allen Morris
</gallery>
 
==Lethal Legends==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center">
MTG SLD - Eivor Raven Clan Champion full art.jpg|Eivor, Raven Clan Champion by Clint Cearley & Diana Cearley
MTG SLD - Altaïr Brotherhood Mentor full art.jpg|Altaïr, Brotherhood Mentor by Dan Watson
MTG SLD - Amunet Tyrants' End full art.jpg|Amunet, Tyrants' End by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG SLD - Basim Master Assassin full art.jpg|Basim, Master Assassin by Zezhou Chen
MTG SLD - Edward Jackdaw Captain full art.jpg|Edward, Jackdaw Captain by Fajareka Setiawan
</gallery>
 
==Da Vinci's Designs==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center">
MTG SLD - Blade of Selves full art.jpg|Blade of Selves by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Conqueror's Flail full art.jpg|Conqueror's Flail by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Darksteel Plate full art.jpg|Darksteel Plate by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Deathrender full art.jpg|Deathrender by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Haystack full art.jpg|Haystack by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Whispersilk Cloak full art.jpg|Whispersilk Cloak by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
</gallery>
</div>
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==Echoes of Shadows==
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==Locations==
===[[Iga]]===
Iga is a small province surrounded by mountains in central Japan. It's just a little bit to the southeast of the capital of Kyoto. It's surrounded by the lands of Nobunaga and those loyal to him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
 
And what are the main factors that lead up to kind of open war with Iga? Like I said, there's that independence that isn't particularly endearing to Nobunaga. He wants everything under his control, but they're not really necessarily a threat militarily, per se, to him. So for most of the time that he's establishing his hegemony, he is concentrated elsewhere. Iga at this time is ruled by an independent league or ikki that did not recognize any daimyo's hegemony and even gone so far as to expel the military governor of the province that had been appointed by the Ashkaga.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
it's ringed by mountains. It's very mountainous internally as well, but there's a ring of mountains around it that prevents easy access to it. It's very easily defensible. And there's six main passes, several on the eastern side, a couple into the north and then a couple on the western side through which if you're going to bring an army, you have to go through one of those passes in order to get there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
One of the things that the Iga warriors did was often hire themselves out as contractors to other entities would be they temples or be they other daimyo factions and whatever. So in the 1540s, we have reports of Igamono or men of Iga being hired to do things like espionage or sabotage of the enemy castles. [...] And they are capable militarily. Many of them are experienced hunters and trackers through the mountains. They have the kind of outdoor living skills we might attribute to military specialties of today like commandos or something like that. So while they weren't necessarily trying to take over control, they did also have a military presence outside of their province because they could be hired or requested to assist with campaigns elsewhere.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
It is now a domain administered by one of Nobunaga's retainers. It would go on to be a domain held by a Daimyo underneath the Edo Period shogun of the Tokukawa.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
===[[Nagasaki]]===
he discovered that Nagasaki had been raised up into this great port by the Jesuits who had effectively been given Nagasaki by a local warlord so the extraordinary influence that a foreign power preaching of foreign religion had in Kyushu I think upset Hideyoshi very much<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
in the end anyway the Japanese will only deal when we're thinking about European powers with the Dutch and only at this little artificial island called Dejima just a few feet worth of wooden bridge off the coast of Nagasaki<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
Gaspar Vilela is one who stands out. He was a very keen propagator of the Christian faith, and he could convert some warlords to Christianity. One of them was Omura Sumitada, who eventually would give a port to the Jesuits, which was called Nagasaki.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
===[[Kyoto]]===
So Kyoto is the absolute heart of Japan, it's exactly in the middle. And geomantically, let's go to geomantics, it's a perfectly placed to be the capital city, which is what it was for a thousand years. It's got mountains behind it on three sides, it's got the sea in front, it's got two rivers running through, it fulfils all the necessary requirements of Feng Shui to be the perfect place for capital<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
it was created as capital city. Emperor Kamu, who was the greatest emperor in Japanese history, he was the Charlemagne of Japan. And before his time, the capital had been in Nara, but it was kind of taken over by the Buddhist priests. [...] There were all sorts of scandals to do with these Buddhist clergy. And then he, Emperor Kamu, founded a capital in Nagoka, which is near Nara. And that one, there was an uprising, people got killed, there were ghosts, obviously not going to be any good as the capital. So he then set out on a supposed hunting trip with his geomancers to find the perfect place. People were not particularly concerned with practical considerations, they were concerned with where it would be auspicious. And so he settled on Kyoto as the place to be his capital. And he then had it built, and that was an enormous job to build it. And it was in 794 that he was an enormous entourage of his attendants and his army and everybody else arrived by Palanquin in Kyoto, in the Imperial Palace there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
And there were many great Zen prelates who set themselves up in Kyoto. So if you go to Kyoto, it's absolutely full of Zen temples and other temples too, but I would say primarily Zen temples. The Zen priests had it linked with China and they were able to facilitate trade with China, to bring back ideas, bring back goods. So the Zen church became very wealthy as well as being very influential.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
These two lords, I think it was the Hashimoto's and the Yamunas, have been itching to fight for a long time, and they fought for 10 years. It's said that they destroyed the whole of Kyoto. That's not quite true. They destroyed the upper class part of Kyoto. So 10 years of fighting included looting, arson, and all these other things. But this mainly happened. This was the temples. This was the palaces. That lot got destroyed. Meanwhile, the shogun who lived at that point was a guy called Yoshimasa, who was living during the end of the 15th century. And he retired. He was very interested in the arts, and he was not remotely interested in fighting. And he kept well out of this fighting. And he went off to the east of the city, and there he built a fabulous pavilion, the silver pavilion. And there he carried on having a life of leisure and art with his friends. While all this was going on in Kyoto, his pavilion was facing away from the city, so it didn't have to see it was burning. And it was facing towards the lovely mountains on the east. And he was, again, an amazing patron of the arts. And under him, ink painting flourished, pottery flourished, every possible art form. Oh, linked verse became very important. So the war came to an end.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
The part of the city that had not burnt down was the part where the merchants and the artisans were, because they were poor chaps. And so nobody bothered with looting them, but they weren't that poor. So they were actually supplying and selling stuff to both sides in this war and getting richer. And the end of the Onin war, this is the Onin war, everything had sort of fallen apart, because Kyoto was in such a state of devastation.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
So it didn't take as long as it would have taken to rebuild London, to rebuild Kyoto. It didn't take that long. So it could be rebuilt pretty quickly. And it happened again and again in the history of Kyoto, and also in the history of Edo, which was the city that later became Tokyo. Time and time again they were burnt down. So Kyoto was back on its feet quite quickly, but it was just known to be the capital. The name Kyoto means capital city.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
So in the Heian period, it was laid out on a grid. Like a chessboard with equal sized square areas. And then it had long boulevards going down the middle. It had small lanes going off to the sides. It had the Emperor's Palace up at the top with beautiful green roofs, red columns. Very spectacular. You could see the Emperor's Palace wherever you were.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
Hideyoshi sort of basically laid out Kyoto as it is now. He cut those squares in half. So you have rectangular blocks rather than square blocks. He also built a wall around the outside of the city, which isn't there anymore, but he had that built. He also built these glorious palaces. So you would have very glorious palaces on the main boulevards, which again are still always in like a chess board laid out like a grid. And you'd also have glorious temples, probably not radically different in appearance from glorious palaces. And then you'd have the whole merchant's area, which would be tiny little lanes of small dark houses with bamboo blinds outside, very nice houses, which still exist. If you go to Kyoto, you can go down these little lanes. They're so thin that you have to walk down or you just go down on a bicycle or something. They're sort of dark wood houses, steep, steep stairs, several floors. I think they're called eel lanes because they're like eels. They're kind of long and thin like eels. And then you could see from the streets of Kyoto, you could see the mountains to the east, which is where Yoshimasa was looking when Kyoto was burning down behind him. You could see the mountains to the north. You could see the mountain to the northwest, which is always the unlucky direction, where there was a huge complex of temples on the top and still is. And you could also see Arashiyama to the west, which is where the Flying Dragon Temple was and lots of other beautiful temples and bamboo crows. So you always could see those all around.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
Then you have down one side of the city is the River Kamo. And you've got the River Kamo dividing the city from the eastern mountains. And at the foot of the eastern mountain is an area of flat land, which became a big area of carnival. So if you wanted to have fun, you go there. So when you're having a respectable life and your wife and your family and everything else are there, you stay away from the mountains. But you could also cross the bridge to this area of carnival where there would be some more wrestling. There'd be jugglers, there'd be theater, and there would be ladies of pleasure, lots of ladies of pleasure.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
And at various times, as you're within Hideyoshi's reign, a particular man whose name was Saburoemon Hara, he said to Hideyoshi, why don't I gather together these ladies of pleasure? Who are a little bit chaotic because it's good to have a bit of order. There's no issue with morality about this, it's to do with orderliness. So he gathered them into particular places which became pleasure quarters, which of course were number one, there was a wall around them, so you could keep an eye on what went on because there were bad guys that went there as well as good guys. Number two, you could tax them. And so these became very famous pleasure quarters. There's one in Kyoto [Shimabara, Kyoto], there's very famous one in Edo, which is now Tokyo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
So Kyoto somehow had a resurgence. It was also the center of the geisha, which is quite important, actually. It re-created itself as a center of traditional culture. So Tokyo is a big modern city. And as you know, Kyoto did not get bombed in World War II because it's such a center of traditional culture. It's got so much. And also it's not entirely, but it's largely a wooden city. And there was also a law was passed, which again, I think has been broken. But there are laws about the height of buildings you can build in Kyoto. You're not supposed to build very tall buildings. So it's mainly a low rise city.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
And then in Kyoto, there is an Emperor and has been residing all the time. So the Kyoto people like residents will be more aware of what's happening around the courtiers and so on. [...] And then medieval Japan as well, this Kamakura headquarters of the samurai has been moved and taken by a different family. And the samurai headquarters became the Kyoto as well. So in Kyoto, the dual structure of this courtiers and Emperor's house and the Shogunate. So the Kyoto people will be really subject to what political moves are. But other people like say around outside of Kyoto, they will be happily living in their regions and then they will have those like farming going on and they will have rather stable time so they could enjoy.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 08">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 8: How To Fit In: Feudal Japan</ref>
 
===[[Nara]]===
And before his time, the capital had been in Nara, but it was kind of taken over by the Buddhist priests. [...] There were all sorts of scandals to do with these Buddhist clergy. And then he, Emperor Kanmu, founded a capital in Nagoka, which is near Nara.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
There were the different sects of Buddhism arrived in Japan at different times. And the first sect grew up in Nara, as I said, and caused trouble. And that stayed in Nara. The whole point was to leave those priests behind in Nara and move to Kyoto.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
===[[Tokyo]]===
So it didn't take as long as it would have taken to rebuild London, to rebuild Kyoto. It didn't take that long. So it could be rebuilt pretty quickly. And it happened again and again in the history of Kyoto, and also in the history of Edo, which was the city that later became Tokyo. Time and time again they were burnt down. So Kyoto was back on its feet quite quickly, but it was just known to be the capital. The name Kyoto means capital city.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
And so they [Imperial side of Boshin War] marched up, they took Edo castle. And in 1868, the then emperor [Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji] who was 14, I think, or 16, he was a teenager, marched or didn't march. He was carried by Palanquin, top with a Phoenix, up to Edo and into Edo castle, which became the imperial palace and Edo became Tokyo, which is the eastern capital. So therefore, Kyoto was no longer the capital at all. It was no longer the official capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
==Timeline==
===[[Tenshō Iga War]] [1579-1581]===
We're at the end of the Sengoku period where Oda Nobunaga is in charge and extending his influence across the land. Specifically the conflict takes place with one invasion in 1579 and then another invasion in 1581.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
 
And what are the main factors that lead up to kind of open war with Iga? Like I said, there's that independence that isn't particularly endearing to Nobunaga. He wants everything under his control, but they're not really necessarily a threat militarily, per se, to him. So for most of the time that he's establishing his hegemony, he is concentrated elsewhere. Iga at this time is ruled by an independent league or ikki that did not recognize any daimyo's hegemony and even gone so far as to expel the military governor of the province that had been appointed by the Ashkaga.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
Oda Nobukatsu, was in charge of the province next to it and was looking to kind of establish his own reputation, spread his wings a little bit. And so here we have Iga province next to him, a place where he can launch an invasion, take it over. It's small. How hard could it be, right? Be an easy victory. And it turns out not to be.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
Nobukatsu, Nobunaga's second son, takes that [Iga's expulsion of their military governor] as an excuse of, oh, see, they're not observing the proper order of things. They're not part of the structure. So he decides of his own accord that he's going to expand his domain into Iga without permission from his father. Part of this is ego driven. He wants to prove to his father that he can operate on his own and so forth. So in 1578, he dispatches one of his generals, man by the name of Takigawa Kazumasu, to build a castle just across the Iga border that they're going to use as a staging point for a future invasion. Well, the warriors of Iga are alerted to this and realize what this means. So they decide to attack and destroy it, which they do in November of 1578. Takigawa is taken completely by surprise. The castle is burned. Takigawa and his small force is forced to retreat. Obviously, they cease work on the castle and retreat back to Issei after losing a second battle where they tried to retake the ground.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
So the following year in October, he decides he's going to launch a much larger invasion. So he gathers around a little over 10,000 men and invades Iga Province through three of those passes that I mentioned. In his main body, he has 8,000 men going through the northernmost pass at Nagano. And then he has a group of 1,500 men through one pass and 1,300 through another pass, these two passes to the south. But again, the Iga forces, speaking to their ability to collect intelligence and know what the enemy is doing, are ready and waiting at these narrow sites to ambush Nobukatsu's forces, which they do. They use their skill in guerrilla tactics and their local knowledge of the terrain. They inflict heavy losses against Nobukatsu's forces, again forcing him to retreat in a humiliating defeat.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
But in 1581, he comes back and we have the main invasion of the Tenshō Iga War. [...] The key moment of failure is when Nobunaga decides to get serious and invade Iga with more of a plan than his son had.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
It was not a protracted war once Nobunaga decided to invade. Even Nobukatsu's invasion only lasted a day before he was turned back. The second larger invasion of 1581 lasts nine days. So unlike this, you know, protracted guerrilla war that we might have in our minds, it was really a quick invasion by Nobunaga quickly taking a couple of castles, receiving their submission and then everybody moves on with their lives.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
To go into like the details, Nobunaga invades September 30th and it's a much larger scale different reports of the war, say he had somewhere between 40,000 or 60,000 troops. And the key that he really does is not only numbers, but it's the fact that he owns all the territory surrounding Iga. So he's able to send army forces that are equivalent largely to the size of the force that his son had, right, in 1579. But he can send that from six different sides. And this means that the Iga ikki cannot concentrate their forces to prevent any of these invasions coming in from any one pass. Whereas, you know, in 1579, they only defend three passes from one direction. Now it's six passes coming from all directions, including their neighbors to the north in Koka.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
So had the assistance of the Koka specialists in guerrilla operations and warfare to advise and assist him. And this is probably where we get a lot of the imagery of this rivalry between Iga and Koka because Koka did assist Nobunaga in his invasion. He also allegedly had some Iga members who offered to him to help show him through the passes and give him that advantage.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
===[[Honnō-ji incident]] [1582]===
By the time that he died in the 1580s as a result of treachery on the part of some of his own men, actually, he had controlled most of Japan's main island of Honshu and he was on the verge of going to its second biggest island, Kyushu, down south. He actually at that point looked unstoppable.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 01">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 1: Civil War in Feudal Japan: The Sengoku Period</ref>
 
he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
so immediately he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi] rushes from where he's been fighting over to take care of the traitors and he brings the traitors head back to Kyoto to effectively lay at the feet of Oda Nobunaga's body to say here we are you know I've taken care of this for you and Hideyoshi really then becomes the inheritor I think of this project to try to unify Japan and his major next step one of the steps that Oda Nobunaga would have taken had he lived was to attack Kyushu<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
So Yasuke was there at Nobunaga's death. He possibly was the last person to see him alive. Nobunaga was killed in a coup d'etat, essentially. He was heading to the front with this small corps of men over which Yasuke was one, around 30 people. And one of his generals, basically, we still don't know to this day why, he brought his whole army of 13,000 and attacked. They were all gunned down, essentially. Nobunaga, with Yasuke and his lover, [Mori] Ranmaru, come into the middle of the temple where their last moments are held. The temple's on fire around them. And Nobunaga really is going to know what happened in that room because there's only three people and they all died, except for Yasuke. But we only know that Yasuke survived because the Jesuits recorded as such. We don't know what he saw, unfortunately. The normal legend goes Nobunaga cut his belly, Ranmarutook his head off as his second, and then one supposes that Ranmaru then cut his belly and Yasuke took off Ranmaru's head. And the supposed last order is Yasuke save my head. Yasuke runs with the head to Nobunaga's son, who is probably about five to ten minutes walk away, very close, in a different temple. So about to be attacked. Also just putting up the defenses for a last ditch stand. Of course, that doesn't last very long. He's dead within the hour or so. And all we know from the Jesuit source, there are no more Japanese sources, all we know from the Jesuit source is that Yasuke was there at the last. He was one of the few survivors. He was taken prisoner. He surrendered his sword. And he was then escorted to the Jesuit mission, which was again only five minutes walk away. This is a very small area of Kyoto where all this happens. The Jesuits give thanks to God for his deliverance.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
 
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
 
We don't really know why we don't really get any full explanation of Akechi's motives. There's lots of speculation that it had to do with resentment at court treatment by Nobunaga. One thing that we do know is that Akechi's mother had been killed by a rival clan where Akechi had given them his mother as a hostage, as insurance essentially against an attack. And Nobunaga superseded that and ordered the attack anyway. So they killed Akechi's mother. Other things are rumors that he was physically abusive and verbally abusive to Mitsuhide personally.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But for whatever reason, Akechi decides that this is his moment while Nobunaga is lightly guarded. He's certainly not expecting anybody to attack him in Kyoto. They surround Nobunaga's residence, set out on fire. Nobunaga and his guards fight back, but are eventually overwhelmed. Nobunaga commits suicide. And then his heir as well, who was also in Kyoto, is attacked by Akechi's forces and dies. So in one stroke, the Akechi have eliminated, basically decapitated the Oda family and thus ended Nobunaga's career.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
He [Nobunaga] had a very dramatic and spectacular assassination by one of his own men. It's an amazing story, but that happened in Kyoto. He was in a temple where it was his land. He thought he was absolutely fine. He didn't have that many guards, and one of his own generals turned against him. So he was killed there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
===[[Imjin War]] [1592-1598]===
Hideyoshi once he's taken Kyushu just a few years later launches invasions of Korea so he sends troops across including some of Christian warlords commanding them across to Korea wanting to use it almost as China's driveway if you think about the geography of it send these troops up through Korea take over the peninsula eventually invade and take over China and after that he also wanted to take over India as well<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
his Korean campaign goes badly wrong in the 1590s the Chinese finally put some men in the field and they push the Japanese troops all the way back down the Korean peninsula so it doesn't go anywhere except for poisoning relations with Korea for a very long time to come<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
And then Hideyoshi asked him [Gaspar Coelho], I want to invade Korea. Then you provide two Portuguese ships to help me in this invasion. And if I conquer Korea, I will make it that there are a lot of churches being built. So Koelyo said, yes, I will do that for you. And I will make sure that we have two Portuguese ships, the Karak ships, as they were called by the English, gigantic ships. So Hideyoshi could very well use them for his invasion in Korea. And then he went a step further and he said, I will make sure that the Christian warlords in Kyushu will also support you. And I think at that moment that Hideyoshi, that there was a ring bell in his head, that the Christians, the Jesuits had too much influence in Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
===[[Battle of Sekigahara]] [1600]===
great battles in Japanese history the battle of Sekigahara which happens in 1600 so you've got a couple of nervous years or a bit less than that after the death of Hideyoshi this council in place but people are wondering really whether it will stick and what happens instead I think is you get the buildup of two sides that take the form in the end of an eastern and a western army and Tokugawa Ieyasu was at the head of the eastern army and in the autumn of Sekigahara he wins out and really everything goes to him and shortly afterwards he has himself appointed shogun<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
he does this enormous reshuffling of territory in Japan I think it's the biggest reshuffling of territory in terms of who controls what in Japan's history so lots of the people who are on the losing side at the battle of Sekigahara either lose everything or their territory is drastically cut down or they're shipped off to another part of the country entirely perhaps all these things that are designed to damage their power<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
===[[Siege of Osaka]] [1614-1615]===
Hideyori is still around and that really isn't taken care of until a very famous incident 1614 to 15 which is the siege of Osaka it's one of these events in Japanese history which is told and retold on the stage in books in films in art even where the forces of the Tokugawa and their allies gather around Osaka castle trying to do some kind of deal trying to force Hideyori and those around him to give up but in the end the siege turns bloody the castle is on fire and we have these famous scenes of Hideyori and his mother huddled together as everyone around them is burning up and dying so the siege of Osaka<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
===[[Boshin War]] [1868-1869]===
But towards the end [of the Tokugawa Shogunate], things were probably not as great as they might have been. Added to which the Tokugawas had ancient enemies and they had defeated them in the battle of Sekigahara. And those enemies were from the southwest, from the Kyushu area. From the sort of southwestern part of Honshu. And they wanted their revenge and they rose up. And with the help of the British, and they actually toppled the last of the Tokugawa Shoguns, who abdicated. And at that point, the southwestern lords took over. So they once again didn't have legitimacy, but they once again immediately said, oh, we represent the emperor. And that gave them legitimacy. But they decided in that 250 years, the Tokugawa's capital was not Kyoto. The official capital was Kyoto, but the Tokugawa city was Edo. So the center of policy, the center of government, the center of culture, more and more gravitated towards Edo. And so these southwestern lords decided that they would make the capital, not Kyoto, but Edo. And so they marched up, they took Edo castle. And in 1868, the then emperor [Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji] who was 14, I think, or 16, he was a teenager, marched or didn't march. He was carried by Palanquin, top with a Phoenix, up to Edo and into Edo castle, which became the imperial palace and Edo became Tokyo, which is the eastern capital. So therefore, Kyoto was no longer the capital at all. It was no longer the official capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
==Groups==
===[[Jesuits]]===
And at the same time you had the Society of Jesus which started in 1540 and soon after the Papal Bull was ordained. Francis Xavier was a Jesuit and one of the founding members of the Jesuits. He was asked to travel to Asia to begin doing missionary work there. He was asked especially by King John III of Portugal because he was very keen on trying to get as many Asians adhering to the Christian religion.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
So he had a lot of expectations for Japan and in 1549 he finally set foot on Japan. So that was really the first time that the Jesuits arrived in Japan only six or seven years after the first Portuguese came there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
You have, for example, Ōtomo Yoshishige, who became a Christian after a long time. But he was very well disposed against the Jesuits. You have other people like Takayama Ukon, who became a very fervent Christian and all his samurai also. So they were very fond of them, and they listened to the Jesuits. They asked them a lot about politics, how they could manage this or that issue. So the Jesuits got a lot of influence with some warlords and also with a lot of the peasants and the lower ranked people. So they really had some success, success that they didn't experience in other countries.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
Xavier left in 1551, but soon there came more and more Jesuits.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
And that information [Fróis' letters] was used by the Jesuits in Europe for propaganda. So they published, after some censorship, Luís Fróis' and Vilela's and other letters, in Italy. And they were also translated in several languages like Latin, German, French, and so on, for the Catholic Reformation in Europe. They would say, see what we can do in Asia, and especially in Japan. We probably have lost England, but we have gained another island in the form of Japan. So they did a lot of propaganda, which gave them additional financial resources and many European Jesuits who wanted to join the efforts in Japan, which was good for them for a time, but could work as a double-edged sword.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
And when he had conquered Kyushu, he again met with Coelho on a Portuguese ship. And Coelho again said that we will support you in whatever endeavor you will take. But the night suddenly he sent a questionary to Coelho, asking him why they came to Japan, why they are making so much converts. And why are they destroying the Buddhist temples? Of course Coelho was really shocked with that. He was so well treated and suddenly everything changed overnight. So he gave his answer that, well, they came to Japan just to propagate their faith, in good faith. And that it was not them who destroyed the Buddhist temples, but the Japanese converts. So the answer of Hideyoshi was that he made a decree that the Jesuits had to leave Japan in 20 days. But he didn't enforce the order very strictly. And that was the same reason why the other warlords welcomed the Jesuits, because he didn't want disrupt the trade with the Portuguese. So he promulgated that decree. But afterwards, the Jesuits stayed in Japan and still continued their missionary work there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
Tokugawa Ieyasu, he forbade Christianity totally. And all influence of the Jesuits was razed very systematically from then on.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
Jesuits can't carry swords or weapons, but they can employ people that do. And the Jesuits were a perfect employee in that sense, a bodyguard.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
 
===[[Portuguese Empire]]===
When does that contact begin? Well, that begins in the middle of the 16th century, in 1549 to be correct. The Portuguese, they travelled to the east from the 15th century on and in 1498 I think they established a sea route to India and they went even further and in the beginning of the 16th century they already were in Malacca but then it still took some time for them to reach Japan. It was in 1542 or 43, it's still being disputed, that the first Portuguese merchants reached Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
Francis Xavier was a Jesuit and one of the founding members of the Jesuits. He was asked to travel to Asia to begin doing missionary work there. He was asked especially by King John III of Portugal because he was very keen on trying to get as many Asians adhering to the Christian religion. Xavier had quite a correspondence with King John about all what he did in Asia and it wasn't what he expected.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
==Three Great Unifiers==
===[[Oda Nobunaga]]===
But he's from the small province of Owari. But he's a really good example of someone who was able to use a combination of smart tactics, smart use of weaponry, judicious use of alliances to gradually expand beyond that province. So he takes another province for himself right early on. This is the middle of the 1500s. Then he makes some alliances. By 1568, after really only a few short years, and he's still relatively speaking a young man, he's able to do what most daimyo ultimately wanted to do, which is to mount a successful march on Kyoto and have the emperor under his BDI and also have the shogun under his control.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 01">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 1: Civil War in Feudal Japan: The Sengoku Period</ref>
 
One of the stories told about him when he was a young man, just after his father left, all the Buddhist priests who had been tending to his father, praying for him, looking after him before he died, legend has it anyway that Oda Nobunaga had them all locked inside a single building and then shot to death for what they did, i.e. failing to keep his father alive. He also had a reputation as a teenager for being just quite strange, swaggering around town, eating nuts, letting them fall out of his mouth. He had sort of disheveled hair. At his father's funeral he's said to have picked up a fistful of incense and just thrown it and walked out. So quite a strange character, probably an unpromising character early on, but he was given this motto of rule the realm by force and I think that carried him through. He had a strong sense that he was always going to do this, that he was always going to succeed and I think there's a combination of deep self-belief and ruthlessness and I suppose a degree of luck as well that really seems to carry him forward. By the time that he died in the 1580s as a result of treachery on the part of some of his own men, actually, he had controlled most of Japan's main island of Honshu and he was on the verge of going to its second biggest island, Kyushu, down south. He actually at that point looked unstoppable.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 01"/>
 
So in terms of Oda Nobunaga, not an especially promising background I think. If you think about the era into which he's born, there are roughly 120 of these states. Some of them at war with others, some of them in alliance etc. But his state or province or what he is just one of those and quite a small one at that. Plus I think it's 1551, his father dies when Oda Nobunaga is still quite young, still a teenager and he inherits control of this state and the people around him don't see him as an especially serious figure and especially compromising figure. You can imagine some of the senior vassals a little bit older than him thinking goodness me I don't know what's going to happen to our little province with this person in charge. He was I think just seen as being slightly mad, a bit of an idiot not really able to take life terribly seriously and yet within a few short years he proves himself to be this master strategist who becomes by the mid 1560s really the main player in Japan out of all these warlords.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
What he succeeds in doing is very early on gaining control of a neighboring province and then he makes a very fortuitous alliance with the man who becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu. He doesn't yet have that name at this point in the 1550s but that's a great alliance. It allows Oda Nobunaga not to have to worry too much about the territory to one side of his own province and so he can look elsewhere for his focus but I think other things that seem to go in his favor include a real talent for strategy, choosing the right moment to attack, I think an extraordinary ruthlessness to him as well.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
So I think by the time he dies in 1582 he has control of large parts of Japan's main island the long thin island of Honshu contains places like Tokyo as it's now called Kyoto of course Osaka for centuries really the central part of that central island really across from Osaka and Kyoto up to what we now call Tokyo has been considered as it were the business end of Japan that's where a lot of the power plays go on the culture is developed the economy is at its strongest and Oda Nobunaga has control of most of that certainly between himself and his allies in any case and he's thinking about moving into two other of Japan's main islands Kyushu which is towards the southwest and also the smaller island of Shikoku so he's got lots of plans he's still a relatively young man he's in an extraordinarily powerful position and he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
So you had, for example, Oda Nobunaga, which showed great familiarity to the Christians, to for example, Fróis, who he invited in Kyoto in Gifu Castle and showed him around in the castle. So it was very positively inclined towards the Christians, but still he never adopted the Christian faith himself.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
Another one, when getting to Miyako, which is now Kyoto, a huge mob literally surrounded the mission and almost pushed the mission down, throwing stones. There were dead people in the crowd outside. And at that point, Nobunaga, who was the most powerful warlord in Japan at the time, was five minutes walk away. He heard this huge hullaballo, which he liked. He heard what was going on. And he demanded to see who was disturbing the peace, demanded that this person be brought before him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
 
So Yasuke was there at Nobunaga's death. He possibly was the last person to see him alive. Nobunaga was killed in a coup d'etat, essentially. He was heading to the front with this small corps of men over which Yasuke was one, around 30 people. And one of his generals, basically, we still don't know to this day why, he brought his whole army of 13,000 and attacked. They were all gunned down, essentially. Nobunaga, with Yasuke and his lover, [Mori] Ranmaru, come into the middle of the temple where their last moments are held. The temple's on fire around them. And Nobunaga really is going to know what happened in that room because there's only three people and they all died, except for Yasuke. But we only know that Yasuke survived because the Jesuits recorded as such. We don't know what he saw, unfortunately. The normal legend goes Nobunaga cut his belly, Ranmaru took his head off as his second, and then one supposes that Ranmaru then cut his belly and Yasuke took off Ranmaru's head.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
 
when Nobunaga is born in 1534, the Oda family effectively had control of Owari province at this point. Though the family itself was fractured and Nobunaga's branch was interestingly not the primary lineage.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
 
the Oda family, as I said, they were the deputy governors underneath the Shiba family in Owari, and he's born as the first legitimate son of a man named Oda Nobuhide, who is the defacto leader of the Oda family. Like I mentioned, his line was not the senior line, but Nobuhide was particularly capable and competent and brought his relatives under his control and for the most part dominated the governance of Owari province. But he was in constant conflict with his neighbors, particularly the powerful Imagawa Yoshimoto to his east and a daimyo named Saitō Dōsan to his north in Mino province.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So Nobunaga's youth would have been one where his family was in constant conflict, both internally and externally. He was designated Nobuhide's heir rather early on, and given the education that you would expect of an heir, he was given four of Nobuhide's high-ranking subordinates as his tutors, so to speak, kind of to raise him up and teach him the ways that he would need to rule both military and politically. But it's often said he was a bit of a wild child who preferred running around with his friends rather than studying, out hunting, and raising all kinds of ruckus. Allegedly he wore outlandish outfits like a tiger skin cloak, and generally he didn't really act the part of an up-and-coming warlord. You'll often hear that he was called the Fool of Owari.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But in 1549, he marries the daughter of Saito Dosan, who is located to Owari's north in Mino province, as part of a peace agreement between Dosan and Nobuhide.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So Nobuhide dies in 1551. And despite Nobunaga being his heir, there's some contention based on his pattern of erratic behavior. One of the famous events that is often brought up is at Nobuhide's funeral. Nobunaga shows up allegedly very unkempt, not in the proper formal funeral attire, and acts very disrespectfully, throwing incense at the altar instead of performing the proper respectful rituals.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
And based off of this, we are told that some of his father's vassals form a faction around his younger brother while other branches of the family. So this is an opportunity for them to seize control, push this loser who's not ready for the job out of the way. Other vassals defect to the Imagawa or plot with the Saito. So his position upon his father's death is actually very precarious.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But in 1553, one of his senior retainers, one of these four men who was designated as his tutors and mentors, a man by the name of Hirata Masahide, commits suicide. [...] We have Hirata committing this form of protest suicide. And it serves as a way to wake up young Nobunaga to his rather outlandish behavior and how it's being detrimental to both, you know, his own well-being and the well-being of the Oda family.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
he does begin to more seriously concentrate on consolidating his control over Owari and the Oda family.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So his first fight is to simply gain control of his own family, you know, largely inside of Owati province. There's some pressure from external enemies that Imagawa to the east. But initially from 1552 to 1554, he's contending with iterations of rebellion from his uncle, Nobutomo, who inspired to assassinate him and worked with, you know, other entities to try to make that happen. Nobunaga catches him and forgives him once. But you know, second time he continues to plot. Nobunaga captures him and has him put to death.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
In 1556, again, out of fears that Nobunaga is just not up to the task. Several of his major retainers side with his younger brother Nobuyuki, but Nobunaga, you know, warned of potential treachery at one point, feigns an illness instead of going to go meet his brother. So his brother comes to meet him. And when he does, Nobunaga has him and his entourage assassinated.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So the 1550s is really the story of Nobunaga's consolidation of his power within the Oda family, establishing himself as the leader of the family. And by default, almost the ruler of the Oda province. In 1559, his final obstacle is the castle of Iwakura and his cousin Nobuyasu, who belongs to the senior branch of the Oda line. But he manages to take Iwakura castle and eliminate Nobuyasu. And this ends the internal threats now.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
In 1560, the powerful daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto to his east, enrolled [????] Toutomi, Suroga, and the Kawa provinces, and came from the illustrious Imagawa line, which was one of the pillars of the former Ashikaga shogunate. He decides, or it's usually assumed at least that he decides that he's going to make a run at marching on the capital of Kyoto to take charge of the central government. So he gathers together an army of 25,000 troops and begins his march east. And the first stop is, of course, his neighbor in Owari province, Nobunaga. So he has to go through Nobunaga's domain. On paper, this is going to be very easy. He's got 25,000 troops, which at the time was a very large army. And Nobunaga only has a few thousand men, maybe 2,500. So we're looking at roughly around a 10 to 1 disadvantage. But Nobunaga, despite the fact that his advisors all counsel him to withdraw into his castle at Kyosu and withstand a siege, he decides that that's a losing strategy. Because what's he going to do against an attack by an army that size? He decides that his best course of action is to try to seek an opening and attack.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But the Imagawa forces by midday had made significant progress against the Odo forces invading. So the Imagawa army was much larger. It was rather spread out and divided. The vanguard had taken several of these forts that Nobunaga had. Yoshimori himself was with only a few thousand troops. And at his command post, they took a bit of a siesta, almost, if you will, in this small narrow gorge called Dengaku Hazama. And they were celebrating some of the Imagawa troops had already broken into the celebration sake in anticipation of their great victory that they saw coming because, you know, how could you see anything else? A little bit after this, there's a rainstorm. This was in the summer. So the rainy season in Japan. This thunderstorm breaks out and it really helps Nobunaga maneuver his forces through the mountains, through these narrow passes into position to attack Imagawa Yoshimoto's headquarters camp. They broke out of the tree line to attack the camp. And at first Yoshimoto assumes that it's a drunken brawl taking place amongst his men. Too late, he realizes that it's not that he's actually under attack. And shortly after that, two of the Otis samurai relieve him up his head. In the aftermath, the Imagawa forces deprived of their commander melt away in confusion. And we have this almost legendary victory by other Nobunaga outmanned ten to one, destroying the forces of this great daimyo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So it kind of makes a name for Nobunaga. Another key thing about this battle, though, and the aftermath is that in the confusion of the Imagawa family with the loss of their head, several of their more talented and younger retainers, one of which we know today as Tokugawa Ieyasu, are able to claim independence. And Ieyasu establishes himself in his home territory of Mikawa, which is just to the east of Owari, and establishes an alliance with Nobunaga, thus providing a secure flank to Nobunaga's east, allowing Nobunaga to then look in other directions as he begins to expand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So Nobunaga, his next target is this province to his north, Mino Province, which is much larger in size than Owari, and it's somewhat kind of the nexus of road networks in central Japan, where two of the major roads from Chiyoto into the capital in central Japan to the east runs through it. So it's a pretty strategic province to have. So he goes to war against Saitou Dousan and it takes a while, but through diplomacy and bribery of the Saitou generals, he's able to convince many of them to join his side. And by 1567, he's weakened them enough to besiege and take the main castle at Inabayama, which he then renames Gifu.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So then he works to consolidate his position by doing some preliminary campaigns into neighboring Issei province and establishing diplomatic relations. So he marries his younger sister, Oichi, to a warlord named Azai Nagamasa who rules northern Omi province. And this is significant because Omi is the province that lies between Mino and Owari, which he owns, and the capital of Kyoto. So he's in essence securing a line of, you know, advance for future endeavors.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The previous shogun, Ashikaga Yoshitero, had been assassinated in 1565 and replaced by a puppet. So Yoshitero's younger brother, a man by the name of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, had been traveling around the provinces trying to seek a benefactor who would back his claim and help him march on the capital. So shortly after Nobunaga establishes himself in Gifu, Yoshiaki arrives on his doorstep in 1568, thus giving him a pretext to make his move on the capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The fact that he can take a legitimate claimant to the Ashikaga shogunate and march on Kyoto with utter the pretext of putting him into power gives him the legitimate of his siege to do so. So November of 1568, he enters Kyoto with his army and installs Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shogun. However, here's where things start to differ from what you might have expected at the time, because rather than accept Yoshiaki's offer to be his deputy shogun, Nobunaga declines that in any other position that Yoshiaki offers.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
In 1570, Nobunaga sends an invitation, sensibly on Yoshiaki's behalf, to local warlords for a reception in Kyoto. And this is almost a way to test who was going to accept his authority and who wasn't. And the daimyo of Ichizen province, Asakura Yoshikage, refuses the summons. So Nobunaga launches a campaign to besiege the Asakura's main castle. But unfortunately for Nobunaga, the Azai, his brother-in-law's family, his brother-in-law being Azai Nagamasa, had a multi-generational alliance relationship with the Asakura. So Nagamasa feels obligated to go to the Asakura's aid, and he launches an attack on Nobunaga's army's rear, forcing Nobunaga to break off the siege and retreat while a rear guard held off the Asai and the Asakura forces. So Nobunaga feels personally betrayed by this man who was a relative by marriage. And the Asai and Asakura are one of the initial threats that he faces.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The two sides meet in July of 1570 at the Battle of Anegawa, where Nobunaga was joined by his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu. And they fight this battle in the shallow Anagawa River, both sides plunging into the water to engage the enemy. So if you picture this dramatic battle in this shallow river, Tokugawa, on Nobunaga's right flank, managed to route the Asakura and then crash into the flank of the Asai while at the same time Nobunaga sent his reserves around the other flank. And it causes the collapse of the enemy to create victory.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But the surviving members of the Asakura and the Asai forces find refuge on Mount Hiei, which is a mountain just to the northeast of the capital. And it's the site of the Enuryakuji Temple, which is the headquarters of the Tendai Sept of Buddhism and a military power in its own right. what that matters is that, you know, this was a Buddhist temple that had essentially an army of its own. And so this prevents Nobunaga from cutting off the Asai and the Asakura forces and completely destroying them. And he has to back off,<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
Another group that around this time rises up to challenge his authority and one that will probably his longest running enemy is what's known as the Ikkō-ikki or the Ikko League. This was a confederation of followers of the true Pure Land Sept of Buddhism. And its headquarters was the Ishiyama Hongan-ji, which was located in what is now present day Osaka. But it had groups of adherents called these Ikki or leagues scattered throughout the provinces of central Japan. And in 1570, Nobunaga starts a war with them because the self-defense groups, these Ikki and the Ishiyama Hongan-ji itself resisted political and military control by local warrior rule. In fact, in 1486, the Ikko Ikki of Kaga Province overthrew the local dainyo and ruled the province without any samurai rule for almost 100 years.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
For 10 years until 1580, he's in this constant on and off war with the Ishiyama Hongan-ji and their ikko followers in various locations throughout the provinces. And they're really the linchpin of the various coalitions that are opposing Nobunaga. You know, at this point, these are kind of like the main enemies that he's looking at.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But in 1571, he realizes that the only way to solve his problem of encirclement is to break kind of the circle. So he starts with Mount Hiei, the Enuryakuchi temple complex that had given refuge to his enemies. And in the fall, he brings them out and has his troops advance up deliberately. And according to eyewitness accounts from the time that are written down, his troops are killing anything that's alive, whether it be monks, laymen, women, children, reportedly even every animal that's on the mountain. And they burn almost every building of this massive temple complex.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
Early assessments of their relationship by historians assume that Nobunaga's plan all along was to use him as a puppet and then throw him away and take power for himself. I agree with more recent biographers, you see it as a little bit more complicated than that. Ashikaga Yoshiaki, obviously, as the Shogun, felt that he should be in charge. So after being installed in 1568, he attempts to rule, but he quickly sees that he cannot do anything without Nobunaga's help. And by 1572, there's some real tension between the two of who's in charge. Nobunaga issued several admonishments, which have been published and are famous, going so far as to note how the people call Yoshiaki the evil Shogun, in scare quotes there, and laying out rules for the Shogun's house to follow. Of course, Yoshiaki takes offense at this and who are you to tell me the Shogun how to run things? And so, like I said, early on, historians looked at this as Nobunaga's overstipping his bow, just trying to push Yoshiaki out.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
I see a different reading of it that is more compelling to me is that, no, he really saw that this was like the structure that should be in place and was trying to guide Yoshiaki back onto an actual correct path of governance, at least as Nobunaga saw it. And his efforts to maintain relations with Yoshiaki, at least initially, were very sincere. But Yoshiaki is the one who kind of pushes the relationship to the breaking point. And the early 1570s, he's orchestrating coalitions of enemies to move against Nobunaga. In addition to the Iko Iki, he's kind of another lynchpin of the different coalitions against Nobunaga, trying to convince different daimyo to turn against Nobunaga, invade, come rescue me in Kyoto and be my savior and I'll grant you XYZ, so forth.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
This continues until 1573, when it's very obvious that Nobunaga has run out of patience. In 1573, he does march on Kyoto and expel Yoshiaki, which more or less ends the Ashikaga shogunate for good. And then Ashikaga would escape to Western Japan, where he would take up residence in the lands of one of Nobunaga's enemies, the Mori family. And from there, he would continue to write different daimyo, constantly trying to create a coalition that could overthrow Nobunaga and reinstall him in power. How effective that was? Well, we see that it didn't happen, but he certainly was doing his best the entire time to undermine Nobunaga.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The Takeda family is finally destroyed in 1582. And one of the few remaining enemies in the main island of Japan that he is concerned about is this family called the Mori family. And he's had one of his generals man by the name of Hashida Hideyoshi, who we would later know as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. One of his generals is leading the campaign against them. And having just completed the campaign in the east against the Takeda, he is given notice by Hideyoshi that a siege of a castle is almost complete. But he's worried that Mori reinforcements are going to come. So please send additional reinforcements to me in order to defeat the Mori.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
We don't really know why we don't really get any full explanation of Akechi's motives. There's lots of speculation that it had to do with resentment at court treatment by Nobunaga. One thing that we do know is that Akechi's mother had been killed by a rival clan where Akechi had given them his mother as a hostage, as insurance essentially against an attack. And Nobunaga superseded that and ordered the attack anyway. So they killed Akechi's mother. Other things are rumors that he was physically abusive and verbally abusive to Mitsuhide personally.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But for whatever reason, Akechi decides that this is his moment while Nobunaga is lightly guarded. He's certainly not expecting anybody to attack him in Kyoto. They surround Nobunaga's residence, set out on fire. Nobunaga and his guards fight back, but are eventually overwhelmed. Nobunaga commits suicide. And then his heir as well, who was also in Kyoto, is attacked by Akechi's forces and dies. So in one stroke, the Akechi have eliminated, basically decapitated the Oda family and thus ended Nobunaga's career.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So one of the things that he institutes in large scale, though not systematic scale, is land surveys, sending out his administrators to take surveys of the arable land and their rice production yield. What this does is it establishes tax registers, it establishes known income values, and it enables Nobunaga to award rights to the land to his subordinates. And in some ways, assign them or move them based off of income levels, the pieces of land are very modular, and he can move his retainers around underneath him. Toyotomi Hideyoshi after him, who turns it into a systematic evaluation of the entire Japanese realm.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>


==Cut Database Entries==
Nobunaga is furious. He couldn't believe that his son had put himself in position to be defeated and humiliated like this. So he supposedly threatens to disown Nobukatsu. He doesn't end up following through on it, but he's not pleased.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
===Assassin's Creed II===
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Built on top of the ruins of an Augustinian Convent that burned down in 1471, Santo Spirito was designed by Brunelleschi, the same bloke who did the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore and San Lorenzo. As with San Lorenzo, he died before Santo Spirito was finished. <br><br>The church was completed as per his specifications except for the facade, which was left blank, presumably when the Pope decided to reallocate funds for a country house. <br><br>Michelangelo lived in Santo Spirito when he was 17, after Lorenzo de' Medici died. While there, he studied the corpses from the convent's hospital and sculpted a naked crucifix that shows off his fascination with the male form, as does, you know, David, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, most of his sculptures and almost anything he ever touched.


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Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
Date of Birth: 1472.<br>Profession: Exiled Ruler of Florence, Noble.<br><br>The oldest son of Lorenzo de' Medici, Piero is primarily known in history circles as a colossal fuck up. Piero the Unfortunate (yup, that's his nickname) took over as leader of Florence in 1492, and failed to keep Charles VIII of France from marching into Italy to reclaim Naples in 1494. Then, when Charles demanded control over Tuscany, Piero surrendered Florence's fortresses without a fight. <br><br>Outraged, and under the influence of Savonarola, the Florentines chased Piero out of Florence and sacked the Palazzo Medici. Piero hid out in Venice for a couple years. Then, true to form, he was drowned in the Garigliano River while fleeing from battle in 1503.


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So one of their descendants, Yoshiyaki, was around and he was a pretty hopeless guy. But he was officially the Shogun. So Nobunaga's excuse for entering Kyoto was to reinstate him as Shogun. But actually, he, like a lot of these guys, is this Yoshiyaki. The Shogun was very treacherous. We wanted to get rid of Nobunaga, and he instigated a plot against him. So Nobunaga had him arrested and taken off to a castle in the middle of nowhere and left there forever. So that was the end of him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
Date of Birth: 1455.<br>Profession: Architect.<br><br>After graduating from the University of Pisa, Sandro received his first commission: to build a bank for the Pazzi family. Unfortunately, the bank collapsed halfway through construction and Sandro was run out of town. <br><br>Little else of note is known about him, except that he was registered on the Vatican's payroll in 1510, as a member of the demolition crew that destroyed the old St. Peter's Basilica to make way for the new one.


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So the Emperor [Michihito, Emperor Ōgimachi] was still rather broke. The Emperor throughout centuries was very often very poor, and very often just basically getting pocket money from whoever is in power, but still had respect and was still officially descended from the Sun Goddess, the most respected person in the entire land. So Nobunaga then gave the Emperor lots of money and furnished the Imperial Palace made it good. So he gave himself legitimacy as a ruler by helping out the Emperor.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>


===Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood===
He [Nobunaga] had a very dramatic and spectacular assassination by one of his own men. It's an amazing story, but that happened in Kyoto. He was in a temple where it was his land. He thought he was absolutely fine. He didn't have that many guards, and one of his own generals turned against him. So he was killed there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
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Another of the minor gates in the Mura Aureliane (Aurelian Wall), the Porta Clausa was mostly used as a service entrance. Due to its historical insignificance, city officials eventually blocked the gate and left it to ruin. Sound familiar, taxpayers?
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====Contracts?====
===[[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]===
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so Hideyoshi Toyotomi was one of those [ashigaru] now and again he carried the sandals of Oda Nobunaga Oda Nobunaga used to refer to him affectionately as that bald rat Hideyoshi's famously sort of short on a bit of hair but nevertheless he rises through the ranks to be a senior and trusted man under Oda Nobunaga so immediately he rushes from where he's been fighting over to take care of the traitors and he brings the traitors head back to Kyoto to effectively lay at the feet of Oda Nobunaga's body to say here we are you know I've taken care of this for you and Hideyoshi really then becomes the inheritor I think of this project to try to unify Japan and his major next step one of the steps that Oda Nobunaga would have taken had he lived was to attack Kyushu<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
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!Setting
!Description
!Result
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|THE CHALLENGE OF BARLETTA
|Barletta, Italy
|The Frenchman Charles de la Motte questions the courage of Italy and has called a tournament to prove his men are superior. He questions our chivalry. While our knights will certainly fight with honor, we will not. We cannot afford to give France this victory. Do not enter the tournament, but use whatever means necessary to weaken the enemy before it begins.
|The Italians trounced their French challengers. Our knights fought with such vigor that they were favored to win regardless of the poison's effect on their opponents. Regardless, the victory was deemed fair and the French soon retreated.
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|PENITENCE
|Venice, Italy
|A German Jew, Asher Lämmlein, has proclaimed himself a forerunner of the Jewish Messiah. Though he seems to preach charity and repentance, his power grows too quickly and his followers threaten our work. Convince Lämmlein that he must disappear.
|With Asher Lämmlein's disappearance, his followers have begun to disperse and the Year of Penance has ended. History will label him a false prophet, but if his power had continued unopposed, he could have become something much more dangerous.
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|A WATERY GRAVE
|Volterra, Italy
|The poet scholar, Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, has been our most valuable informant. His natural charisma and wild poetry has gained him access to some of the most powerful people of our time. In service to our guild, he has also made many enemies. He have agreed to fake his death. Craft his drowning in the River Cecina and see to his safe disappearance.
|The public has been informed of Marullus' drowning. They will mourn him even as he enjoys the remainder of his life, free from danger. His work will likely gain more popularity posthumously.
|-
|PIERO THE UNFORTUNATE
|Gaeta, Italy
|Piero de' Medici is nothing like his father. His cowardice has gained him Charles VIII's favor and the fool even supports his new master on the battlefield. Our ties to his family and his unpredictable behavior have left us no choice. Medici must be killed.
|True to his character, Piero was caught fleeing from the Battle of Garigliano. He was killed quietly and deposited into the river. When he is found, he will be considered a battlefield casualty.
|-
|SPACEMEN
|Bologna, Italy
|Two scholars work hard to understand the science behind the heavens, Domenico Maria Novara and his young assistant, Niccolò Copernico. They are close to a breakthrough, one that will embarrass the church. As a result, their lives are in danger. Intercept their assassin and allow them to work undisturbed.
|The assassin was intercepted and slain before he could reach the scholars. They continue their work, oblivious to this specific plot, but aware that the papacy is a constant threat to their science.
|-
|VANISHING ACT
|Calicut, India
|Our trouble with Portugal has not ended. Our spies learned of Manuel's disappointment with Cabral and his impending response to our defiance in Calicut. Vasco da Gama now sails for Calicut with a fleet 800 men strong. The implications should be obvious. You must board a merchant vessel and deliver a warning.
|Vasco da Gama's assault on Calicut was relentless. He bombarded the city and slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and even children. The Brotherhood escaped the onslaught, but da Gama has left several of his cruel captains to control the city.
|-
|EVERYONE'S A CRITIC
|Rome, Italy
|As a Master of Ceremonies at the papal court, Johannes Burckard witnesses and records the most shameful secrets of the Borgia papacy. He also enjoys a little embellishment. Rodrigo has found out that Johannes has kept a diary and he wants it seized. He has also ordered the death of the impudent author. You will ensure that the attempt fails.
|Rodrigo's agents have been killed. Though he is a discreet man, Burckard has enough clout to cause a serious blow to the Borgia. He continues his anti-papal criticism and will gain a larger audience one day.
|-
|DEFENDING THE DUCHESS
|Rome, Italy
|Urbino's Duchess, Elisabetta Gonzaga risks her life to attend Borgia's Jubilee. No doubt Cesare views her presence here as an insult and he will not let it go unanswered. You are to ensure that the Duchess exits Rome unharmed.
|The Borgia attempted to apprehend Elisabetta, but we thwarted them. She has survived her trip to Roma, though her family continues to struggle against Cesare's greed. She may be a valuable ally in the years to come.
|-
|HARSH WORDS
|Camerino, Italy
|As Cesare sets his eyes upon Camerino, we must fight to protect her. Bartolomeo's brother, Abbot Bernardino, actively works against the Borgia in Camerino, but the Church has grown suspicious. Mercenaries have been sent to restrain Bernardino, but you will intercept them first.
|Abbot Bernardino is safe for now. He will continue to send us information from Camerino and we will try to hold it for as long as we can.
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|DINNER DATE
|Venice, Italy
|Machiavelli has been tracking one of Borgia's trained killers and believes he has finally found a way to catch her. The Venetian ambassador, Antonio Giustinian, recently pushed Rodrigo too far. As an "apology" for losing his temper, Rodrigo has arranged a dinner between Antonio and a lady of the court, whom we suspect to be the murderess. You will go in Antonio's stead.
|As expected, Rodrigo's assassin intended to murder Giustinian. Once she realized her trap had been sprung, she attempted to flee but did not escape. Giustinian assures us he will continue to cause trouble in Borgia's court as long as we protect him from retaliation.
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|TRAITOR
|Ferrara, Italy
|Giovanni Sforza's humiliation at the hands of Lucrezia Borgia and her family makes him a valuable ally. As her former husband, he has unique insight into their operations. We will need to gain his trust. The diplomat Pandolfo Collenuccio has betrayed Giovanni's city, Pesaro, to the Borgia. Bring him to us.
|We have taken Pandolfo Collenuccio. As a gesture of good will to Giovanni Sforza, we have gifted him the traitor. In return, he has agreed to a meeting with Machiavelli.
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|THE LESSER EVIL
|Siena, Italy
|Pandolfo Petrucci, the tyrant of Siena, appears to be loyal to the Borgia, but we know that he secretly plots against them. He underestimates Cesare's spies. Cesare has invited Petrucci to a meeting in Senigallia, where he will be executed. You must prevent him from attending that meeting.
|Petrucci's men put up a fight and we were forced to kill several of them before we could deliver our message. Should he choose to follow our advice, he will avoid that meeting and live to oppose Cesare's forces.
|-
|SECOND PLACE
|Savona, Italy
|Many in the papacy believe Rodrigo bought his way into the papal throne, perhaps none of them as vocal as Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. Cesare will send his henchmen to Savona to deal with Rovere. You must stop them while we send warning.
|We called upon our courtesan allies to board a ship with Borgia's men. While the men were distracted, we sabotaged their supplies and ensured that they will not reach Savona before the cardinal can escape. Rather than kill them, we believe sending them back to report their failure will do more damage to our enemy.
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|MY ENEMY'S ENEMY
|Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
|Rodrigo is wary of any peace between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, though it draws near. We can be sure Borgia mercenaries will attempt to disrupt this treaty, so you must be on guard. It is critical that our involvement remains secret. Work within the shadows. Success means we solidify Borgia's enemies.
|As expected, Rodrigo sent a small band of mercenaries to remove key players from the negotiations. We killed them before they could leave the port. With our careful manipulation, the sultan of Constantinople and the doge of Venice were able to reach an agreement. Free trade has resumed, but more importantly, we have weakened the Borgia.
|-
|PUPPET GOVERNMENT
|Florence, Italy
|Machiavelli's connections with Pier Soderini present us with an interesting opportunity. Florence will soon elect him gonfaloniere for life, granting him significant power and Machiavelli plans to be a constant whisper in his ear. Soderini's election has several vocal opponents among the Piagnoni.
|We silenced the Piagnoni and Soderini's election went as planned. Though Machiavelli doubts Soderini's ability to lead, he is convinced he will be able to mold him to fit our needs.
|-
|AGE OF DISCOVERY
|Ottoman Empire
|As powerful nations launch their expeditions into uncharted seas and claim pieces of the New World, we must ensure that our Brotherhood expands to keep our enemy in check. An exceptional Ottoman cartographer, Piri Reis, has begun to compile detailed maps of these territories. Find his workshop and steal what you can.
|The Ottoman Empire has developed stunning maps of the world, and while we do not doubt their accuracy, we are a bit overwhelmed by the necessity to act quickly; some of these maps track our common enemy to the new colonies. We must infiltrate these voyages and ensure that we are equally represented in the New World.
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|DIGGING GRAVES
|Massa Marittima, Italy
|Massa Marittima has long competed against the church over its invaluable alum mine and the church responded with the excommunication of the city's citizens. As Cesare bolsters his war effort, he sends his soldiers to claim the Massa Marittima mine. You will stand in their path.
|Cesare's men have been slain. The citizens of Massa Marittima generously rewarded us with materials from their mine and we believe we will be able to negotiate a long term supply deal with them.
|-
|DOWN WITH THE SHIPS
|Piombino, Italy
|As Cesare expands his empire, he continues to displace nobles and claim their territory. We can make these conquests much less profitable to the Borgia. Iacopo Appiano, Lord of Piombino was ejected from his port city. He tells us that Cesare's men load their spoils on several merchant vessels, set for Roma. Sabotage them.
|We reclaimed what we could from Piombino's ships and sank the rest. There is still much for the Borgia to plunder, but we have left them an awful mess in the port to hamper their progress.
|-
|ART APPRECIATION
|Siena, Italy
|Our Brotherhood uses cryptic means to record our history, but none quite as sophisticated as our artistic ventures. Pinturicchio already works with us, but will soon meet with his understudy, Raphael. We need you to attend that meeting.
|Raphael hesitated when we presented our proposal. He believes his work will be mired by outside influence, but we assured him our messages are subtle and interpreted only through figures and their gestures. He has agreed to aid us at a future time, perhaps through tapestries.
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|SORE LOSER
|Venice, Italy
|A man hated by his own people, Pandolfo Malatesta was excommunicated by the church, stripped of his city, Rimini, and abandoned by his own subjects. You will make sure his spirit is not broken. We need to spread Cesare's army thin, creating as many distractions as we can.
|Malatesta has earned his reputation. He is a murderer and a rapist. Nevertheless, we have convinced him to fight back against the Borgia. He will try to reclaim Rimini when he is able to muster the forces. Hopefully he will fall in battle.
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|CUTTING STRINGS
|Cerignola, Italy
|Louis d'Armagnac and the French army move to engage the Spanish at Cerignola. You will deliver a message to d'Armagnac before the battle begins. It is a forged letter from Cesare, vastly underestimating the Spanish forces and promising Italian reinforcements. The French will be slaughtered.
|The battle ended as predicted. The French engaged the Spanish and d'Armagnac never received his reinforcements. He was cut down by enemy gunfire alongside his men. His courier will report the results to Louis XII, straining the Borgia alliance with France.
|-
|POINTING FINGERS
|Cesena, Italy
|One of Cesare's captains, Ramiro d'Orco, continues to butcher the citizens of Cesena. Fear prevents them from action. You must infiltrate the crowd and give them a voice. Turn them against the Borgia.
|We had the crowd demanding blood and they received it. Ramiro d'Orco's body was cut in twain and displayed for his citizens. Though the Borgia seem to be avoiding blame for d'Orco's actions, we did cause them to murder one of their own tyrants.
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|LEVERAGE
|Rome, Italy
|One of Cesare's trusted friends keeps a dangerous secret from him. Duarte Brandao was once Sir Edward Brampton and called England his home, but fled from deadly politics. You will use this knowledge to bend his loyalty to us. Find out what he knows.
|Fortunately Brandao fears Cesare as well as England. He will not risk either discovering his identity. He has provided us with battlefield reports and maps. Our scholars are reviewing them now.
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|BODY SWAP
|Rome, Italy
|Cesare enjoys a disgusting sport each month, lining up Borgia prisoners in a courtyard and ravaging them with his crossbow from the balcony above. You will intercept his escorted prisoners and free them. Cut the tongues from the guards, strip them, and send them into the courtyard. Leave the rest of the work to Cesare.
|Cesare's guards screamed and wept while he laughed. He is an excellent shot and quickly slaughtered the entire group. He will not be amused when he discovers their identities.
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|PROMISE UNKEPT
|Venice, Italy
|With the death of Marco Barbarigo, we left Venice in the care of Agostino Barbarigo, who swore to avoid his brother's path of corruption and his link to the Borgia. He has failed. He secretly courts the Borgia and has become known for his greed, extortion and for selling justice.
|We have poisoned Agostino in several small doses. He will soon appear to grow ill and eventually die. We will make sure his successor receives a warning about his allegiances.
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===Assassin's Creed: Revelations===
yet for Hideyoshi Kyushu is a part of Japan that he simply must have so he sends around a quarter of a million men over to Kyushu to take it for himself which he manages to do in fairly short order in 1586 and 7<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
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Kadir was a member of the Ottoman Artillery Corps with secret ties to the Quizilbash, a rebellious group of anti-Ottoman dissidents in the eastern reaches of the Empire. <br><br>A skilled and conceited man, he desired power and influence, and came to feel that mere military service was a task well beneath him. Ever in pursuit of power, he maintained close and constant contact with the Templars, selling them weapons and information in exchange for money and access to important people.
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===Assassin's Creed III===
Hideyoshi for his part had a powerful dislike of Christians so the island of Kyushu in this period was probably the part of Japan where Christian missionaries Portuguese and Spanish mainly the Jesuits but also others as well had since the 1550s been making quite a large number of converts so some of the warlords the daimyo in Kyushu were actually Christians who had a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish and Japanese names and Hideyoshi was astounded to find when he got to Kyushu but he found some Christian missionaries offering him to kind of broker deals with warlords help him take over the island these people as far as Hideyoshi were concerned were foreigners preaching of foreign faith he discovered that Nagasaki had been raised up into this great port by the Jesuits who had effectively been given Nagasaki by a local warlord so the extraordinary influence that a foreign power preaching of foreign religion had in Kyushu I think upset Hideyoshi very much<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
Have yet to check 'Locations'.
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|-|Thomas Jefferson=
Thomas Jefferson was the principal writer of the Declaration of Independence, and went on to be the third president of the United States.<br><br>Jefferson was born in Virginia, the son of a wealthy plantation owner - which is the type of upbringing that gets you into all the right political circles. Now, normally the wealthy and powerful sided with the British during the Revolution, but Jefferson was college educated and widely-read, which may be why he became convinced that the Colonists had a point about the British screwing them over. <br><br>Jefferson wrote extensively about the British obligations to the Colonists - which he regarded as a kind of contract that the government was violating by imposing taxes. Incidentally I do mean he 'wrote' about it, because unlike some other revolutionary leaders, Jefferson wasn't a great speaker.  That didn't stop him from making his mark, of course - in 1775 he was sent to the Continental Congress as a representative for Virginia, where he wrote most of the Declaration of Independence. Sweet gig for a writer.<br><br>Interestingly, Jefferson tried to include a paragraph in the Declaration that blamed King George for slavery in the colonies. The paragraph was voted out - and more than a little ironic, since Jefferson owned a plantation, complete with more than a hundred slaves. Publicly, however, he was an abolitionist. Which was lovely for him – and I'm sure the people he owned were very proud.<br><br>Jefferson went on to hold a number of political offices - he was the governor of Virginia in 1780-82, and then became the American Minister to France in 1784. When he returned to the United States he joined George Washington's cabinet as the first Secretary of State, where he fought for stronger states and a weaker federal government, in opposition to Alexander Hamilton. He was elected President in 1800.<br><br>Don't tell him any of that, though. You'll totally ruin the surprise.


|-|Baron von Steuben=
Hideyoshi once he's taken Kyushu just a few years later launches invasions of Korea so he sends troops across including some of Christian warlords commanding them across to Korea wanting to use it almost as China's driveway if you think about the geography of it send these troops up through Korea take over the peninsula eventually invade and take over China and after that he also wanted to take over India as well<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a General in the Continental Army, and the person credited with transforming the US army from a disorganized militia to a fighting force capable of defeating the British. Just look at the name. That’s a name you’d trust going into battle.<br><br>Von Steuben got his start in the army as a teenager in the Prussian army, rising to the rank of Captain before being discharged. He was introduced to Ben Franklin in 1777 while Franklin was travelling in Europe. Franklin knew the Continental Army needed training and Von Steuben was an excellent candidate. Franklin wasted no time writing a glowing letter of introduction to George Washington. Before the year was out, Von Steuben was in Valley Forge - bringing with him his pet greyhound, which he wouldn't leave behind. (Making him a rival for Charles Lee, though Von Steuben was probably better-groomed. I have no idea why there's a connection between military geniuses and dogs.)<br><br>When Von Steuben arrived, he started by training one "model company" of soldiers who would in their turn train others, and effective way of spreading the training through the ranks. He also wrote a manual outlining his training method – in German, later translated.<br><br>In fact, Von Steuben spoke very little English, but could curse quite thoroughly in French and German, which he did frequently (you always learn the rude words first, don’t you?). Unfortunately for him, the effect of his cursing somewhat lost on the troops, so to make the point, Von Steuben would call over his translator and order him to curse at the soldiers instead. I'm not sure if the translator had one of the best jobs in the army - or one of the worst.<br><br>I’m going with best.


|-|John Harrison=
although Hideyoshi has done very well by 1590 as I say he pretty much has most parts of Japan wrapped up under his control and he's starting to think about internal administration he introduces measures for example to disarm the peasantry so if you want to end this period of all against all warfare he wants to return to a position where most people cannot bear arms and it's very clear who can and who aren't and where you sit in these various samurai hierarchies so he does all these bits of internal administration too I suppose another thing he starts to do is to launch these surveys of the land something that Oda Nobunaga had started to an extent but Hideyoshi really goes for it to get a sense of who going forward owns what in Japan what kind of tax you ought to pay so the things that you know maybe strike some fans of history as a bit dull but nevertheless a sign I think of a new order starting to entrench itself so he does all that but his Korean campaign goes badly wrong in the 1590s the Chinese finally put some men in the field and they push the Japanese troops all the way back down the Korean peninsula so it doesn't go anywhere except for poisoning relations with Korea for a very long time to come and then in 1598 Hideyoshi dies and the one thing he doesn't manage to do and I suppose fans of history from Europe and elsewhere there's similar things happen here one thing you want to do if you're a newly established ruler is make sure that the succession is in place...<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
Harrison was a noted clock-maker, originally from Yorkshire. He's best-known for solving the problem of tracking longitude on extended ship voyages. If that sounds somewhat dull, please remember in the 18th century this was a life-or-death problem. Though that doesn’t change the fact that it involves phrases like ‘tracking longitude’, and I’m sorry, but that’s still dull.<br><br>It was tricky finding a satellite signal for sat nav in those days, so knowing the east-west position of your ship during an ocean crossing was vitally important- and extremely tricky.  You could navigate by the stars - but that only worked if the sky was clear and the water was calm. Alternately you could keep an accurate clock. Unfortunately, most clocks of the day couldn't keep time on a rocking ship - or withstand the damp conditions of a sea voyage. <br><br>In fact, the problem was so important that British parliament was offering £20,000 for a solution - a tidy sum. Harrison took up the challenge, and made 4 versions of his clock - the last was only 5 seconds off on a cross-ocean voyage to Jamaica. Even so. That made them 5 seconds late, and I hope they were fined.<br><br>Unfortunately when Harrison tried to claim the prize money, Parliament said his results were coincidence - maybe because they were hesitant to shell out the money, but possibly more because one of Harrison's competitors was serving as the Royal Astronomer, and didn't like being showed up. It took the intervention of the King himself before Harrison got his money. By then, he was 80 years old. Still. You can buy VERY fancy zimmers with twenty grand.


|-|William Prescott=
And you had Otomo, which was a very powerful clan in the east of Kyushu. And then you had in the southwest, you had the Shimazu. And Otomo was losing against the Shimazu. So he asked Hideyoshi to intervene. And sometime before Hideyoshi marched towards Kyushu, he met with Coelho, which was then the head of the Christian mission in Japan, together with Fróis. And he treated Coelho very well, just like Oda Nobunaga had done with Fróis. So Coelho was really pleased with that. And then Hideyoshi asked him, I want to invade Korea. Then you provide two Portuguese ships to help me in this invasion. And if I conquer Korea, I will make it that there are a lot of churches being built. So Koelyo said, yes, I will do that for you. And I will make sure that we have two Portuguese ships, the Karak ships, as they were called by the English, gigantic ships. So Hideyoshi could very well use them for his invasion in Korea. And then he went a step further and he said, I will make sure that the Christian warlords in Kyushu will also support you. And I think at that moment that Hideyoshi, that there was a ring bell in his head, that the Christians, the Jesuits had too much influence in Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
William Prescott was the Colonel in charge of the Continental Army troops sent to fortify Bunker Hill in 1775. He's often credited (and that’s a kind way of saying ‘blamed’) for the decision to fortify Breed's Hill instead - a military disaster.<br><br>Prescott had a reputation for being a passionate, brave fighter. He was one of the last to leave Bunker Hill when the rebels retreated – fighting British bayonets with his ceremonial sabre. He got several holes in his waistcoat from the adventure, which he loved to show his fellow soldiers, but which must really have annoyed his tailor.<br><br>Prescott is also somewhat famous for telling the troops "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes' – a warning to conserve ammunition until the enemy were close enough that the shots would hit. The saying is also attributed to Israel Putnam, and it's memorable enough that both men likely used it - I'll let other historians get into fistfights over who said it first.<br><br>Prescott went on to fight in New York City in 1776, and then returned home to Massachusetts. He fought again in the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, but apart from that he retired from army life. I'd wager he showed off those bayonet holes until the day he died, though.


|-|Robert Newman=
And when he had conquered Kyushu, he again met with Coelho on a Portuguese ship. And Coelho again said that we will support you in whatever endeavor you will take. But the night suddenly he sent a questionary to Coelho, asking him why they came to Japan, why they are making so much converts. And why are they destroying the Buddhist temples? Of course Coelho was really shocked with that. He was so well treated and suddenly everything changed overnight. So he gave his answer that, well, they came to Japan just to propagate their faith, in good faith. And that it was not them who destroyed the Buddhist temples, but the Japanese converts. So the answer of Hideyoshi was that he made a decree that the Jesuits had to leave Japan in 20 days.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
Robert Newman was the sexton of Christ Church (known today as the Old North Church), and a personal friend of Paul Revere’s. It was Newman who hung the lanterns from church steeple to warn riders in Charlestown that the British were marching on Lexington and Concord. Two lanterns – indicating that the British were travelling by sea.<br> <br>(And because it's a pet peeve of mine - you may have heard that Newman put up the lanterns to warn Revere about the British approach - it's one of those historical details everyone seems to get wrong. Revere already knew about the raid, and in fact had been the one to pass the knowledge on the Newman. The lanterns were meant as a warning to lookouts in Charlestown - a backup in case Revere was caught before he managed to leave town. Please learn this so you can impress girls on first dates, as I do, though they often seem so overwhelmed by it they rarely call again. That’s the power of knowledge, and it’s dangerous.)<br><br>Newman had some difficulty with his clandestine plan, though. His family home was serving as a boarding house, and several British officers were staying there. Newman managed to elude them by saying he was tired, going to bed, and escaping out a side window, like something out of a cartoon. His friend, John Pulling, helped him get the lanterns to the top of the tower while a third man guarded the church door. <br><br>Newman was later questioned about his actions that night – possibly because a twenty-something announcing he's going to bed early is inherently suspicious – but he talked his way out of arrest, and fled Boston. <br><br>When Newman returned to the city, he went back to his old job as church sexton. There’s evidence he took money to show tourists around the church crypt – including displaying the body of John Pitcairn. Which might have something to do with Newman being replaced by a new sexton in 1788.


|-|Harold Ring=
Nobunaga's main retainer, a man called Hideyoshi, was born a peasant. He actually became Nobunaga's successor after Nobunaga died. So he rose from literally the bottom almost to the top within his lifetime. He died quite early as well, maybe in his 50s. So it wasn't even a long life.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
The son of a Boston rope worker, Harold Ring got his start as a young man, fighting on the city's docks. How magical. By the age of 19 he was earning money boxing for a local club - though at the time boxing was still technically illegal, what with it essentially just being two men hitting each other about the face and neck. By the age of 25 he was considered one of the best boxers in the colonies - certainly the best in Boston, an unofficial title he would hold until he was in his late 30s.<br><br>In 1745, inspired the publication of Jack Broughton's first rules for Boxing as a sport – what a masterstroke to have rules; boxers really are great thinkers - Ring founded the Boston Brawlers - the first legal club of its kind in the area. He was dedicated to making the sport safer for fighters (as safe as it can be when your job is to beat the stuffing out of someone, at any rate.) The Brawlers were a great success, and the organization operated in and around the dockyards for decades before moving to a new location in Beacon Hill at the turn of the 19th century.


|-|Peg Leg=
The Takeda family is finally destroyed in 1582. And one of the few remaining enemies in the main island of Japan that he is concerned about is this family called the Mori family. And he's had one of his generals man by the name of Hashida Hideyoshi, who we would later know as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. One of his generals is leading the campaign against them. And having just completed the campaign in the east against the Takeda, he is given notice by Hideyoshi that a siege of a castle is almost complete. But he's worried that Mori reinforcements are going to come. So please send additional reinforcements to me in order to defeat the Mori.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
Do you know how many one-legged sailors in history have gone by the nickname of "Peg Leg"?  Here's a hint - it's more than one. This guy wasn't easy to find. But for you - I make an extra effort.<br><br>Peg Leg started out as George Chilton, originally of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He signed onto a merchant vessel as a young teen, working mainly as a deckhand. By the time he was in his early 20s, he'd travelled the world several times over - probably logging more miles than your average jetsetter does today. (Too bad there were no 'frequent sailor miles' - he could've earned some free trips or some leatherette luggage tags.)<br><br>In 1732, Chilton was sailing on board the "Rachel" when the ship ran into trouble. It was due to arrive in Boston in June, but after it had been missing for 2 months, Chilton was found drifting on a lifeboat miles from shore, suffering from dehydration, and watched over by a single seagull. The Rachel itself was never found. To this day, he tells people they’re just “on a break”.<br><br>Chilton claimed to have no knowledge of what happened to the ship or its crew - but he considered the seagull a personal friend and kept it with him from then onward, despite the hygiene issue it obviously presented, and the fact that walking around chatting with a seagull made him look completely insane.<br><br>For a time he had trouble signing on to crews - not only because of his pet, but because he was considered "bad luck", and possibly responsible for murdering an entire crew. For several years he took work as he could find it, until the whole affair blew over. The ship disappearing affair, I mean – I’m not saying he had an affair with that seagull.<br><br>By 1740, Chilton was travelling the world regularly, but his leg was smashed by a cannonball in a run-in with a privateer vessel in 1747. After that he walked with a crutch - and later a wooden leg, hence his nickname.<br><br>While his claims of having met William Kidd are obviously false (Kidd was hanged in 1701), he's definitely sailed with some of Kidd's former crew - most notably Hendrick van der Huel, who captained the Octavius when Peg Leg served on it in the late 1750s.


|-|Simon Girty=
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
Simon Girty was a hunter and trader in the Ohio Valley, who worked for the British during the American Revolution.<br><br>Girty was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at a time when it was contested territory between the European Colonists and the local Indigenous nations. When Girty was in his early teens, his family was captured by a Seneca war party, so Girty spent several years as an adoptee, learning the Seneca language (and probably several other languages as well). Those skills would come in handy - Girty eventually became an interpreter, most famously between the Iroquois and the British during the later years of the American Revolution. <br><br>I don't mean 'famously' in a good way, by the way. Girty had a reputation as a heavy drinker, with a volatile temper and boorish manners. During one of his raids on the Continental Army, some of the Delaware in the party tortured a Patriot colonel to death. Depending on which account you believe, Girty either pleaded for the colonel's life - or encouraged his torturers and taunted him as he died. <br><br>Of course, since Girty was on the losing side of the war and not a particularly sympathetic figure, most history books take the dimmer view of his actions.


|-|Female Elk=
So one of the things that he institutes in large scale, though not systematic scale, is land surveys, sending out his administrators to take surveys of the arable land and their rice production yield. What this does is it establishes tax registers, it establishes known income values, and it enables Nobunaga to award rights to the land to his subordinates. And in some ways, assign them or move them based off of income levels, the pieces of land are very modular, and he can move his retainers around underneath him. Toyotomi Hideyoshi after him, who turns it into a systematic evaluation of the entire Japanese realm.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
BEHAVIOR:  Elk are skittish and good at detecting threats. Unlike male elk, female elk will not charge at a threat.<br><br>WEAKNESS: Bait, poison darts<br><br>HUNTING TIPS: Remain undetected by hiding in the trees or place bait, then hide, and perform an assassination when the Elk is close enough. You can also use a poison dart to slow the Elk and kill it.<br><br>PARTS USED: Many, including pelt, heart.


|-|Apples of Eden=
And his trusted lieutenant, who was a guy called Hashiba Hideyoshi, Hashiba Hideyoshi had a lot of different names. He started off the son of a farmer and he was called Hiyoshi. And he was also called Saru-san, which means Mr. Monkey, because he was an ugly bloke and looked like a monkey. He was small and ugly. He had a lot of girlfriends. He had a really devoted wife to whom he wrote wonderful letters. This is all by the by. Hideyoshi is a great guy. Hideyoshi came galloping back from the campaign he was engaged in when he heard that Nobunaga had been killed. And basically Nobunaga's method had been force and violence. Hideyoshi was the man with the golden tongue. He used persuasion. He was nice to people. And he got everybody to pledge allegiance to him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
These are some of the most sought-after technological remnants from the ever-mysterious First Civilization. The apples were originally created by our friendly First Civ masters in order to control the huddled masses - that is, humanity. These artifacts can control minds and create illusions that pretty much everyone is susceptible to. They're also repositories of First Civilization knowledge - meaning if you know how to access them, you can use the Apples to develop incredibly advanced technology. <br><br>Naturally, the raw power of the apples have made them a target of ambitious and unscrupulous types for centuries, and have been used by leaders throughout history to influence the course of important events. The Assassin mentor Al Mualim had one in Masyaf in the 12th century - but he succumbed to its power and began to use it for control, rather than research. (Turns out that old saying about absolute power corrupting absolutely is true). <br><br>It eventually passed into the hands of Al Mualim’s star pupil, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a Levantine Assassin who unlocked its true power and purpose, then had the good sense to lock it away in a vault, far from greedy hands. But nothing this valuable stays put for long, and in the final years of the 16th century Templars working for Queen Elizabeth of England sent out an envoy to find and recover it. <br><br>This apple – Apple number two, to be precise - ultimately made its way into Abstergo’s hands in the 20th century, and was the lynchpin of their current plan to subdue and suppress all free thought and action in the world … until they blew the damn thing up in a pretty dodgy experiment. Since that time we learned of the existence of at least five more apples, the sixth of which once belonged to the Italian assassin Ezio Auditore, and which you, Desmond, were kind enough to recover for us. So thanks for that. (and you might wish to make a note of the date – my thanks are few and far between…)<br><br>This sixth apple has an equally storied history, and first came to attention of modern Templars after the Ottoman Mehmet II used it to compel the besieged Byzantines to open the gates of Constantinople and let their enemies walk right in. A few decades on, Mehmet’s grandson, Cem – a young man with loose Templar allegiances – stole the apple and hid it in an abandoned Templar archive on Cyprus, hoping to use it as a bargaining chip in his dealings with the powerful Rodrigo Borgia. But this parlay ended badly for the wayward Ottoman prince. He was captured by the Hospitallers on Rhodes and tortured until he revealed the apple’s location. In 1486 Rodrigo sent a group of Templars to locate the apple and deliver it to him.<br><br>But on the eve of this apple’s arrival in Venice in 1488, Ezio and his Assassins intercepted it and claimed it as their own. Over the next two decades the sixth apple changed hands a few times, falling into the clutches of both Girolamo Savonarola and Cesare Borgia, before finding its penultimate resting-place in a vault below Santa Maria in Aracoeli. I say penultimate because it's in our hands, and I’ll be damned if I know where it’s going to end up after the mess we’re in now.<br><br>Whatever happens, I have to give our ancient ancestors their due. It is incredible to consider that, millennia after the First Civ has been wiped from the earth, the apples are still working perfectly – a fact that is nothing short of amazing, given that I need to replace my mobile phone every other year, and that bloody fridge is still on the blink.
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===Assassin's Creed: Liberation===
And because Hideyoshi came from a poor family, he was a farmer's son. He had climbed his way right through the ranks, which only two people in the whole of Japanese history did. But he sort of didn't have anything to prove to anybody. He was very nice to the emperor, but he loved culture. He wanted to enjoy all those wonderful things that the upper classes had. But under him, the sort of culture he liked was chō. He liked display. He liked sort of flamboyancy. For example, there are paintings of the wonderful kimonos people wore. And there are also beautiful paintings of how Kyoto looked, with all the people on the streets, people dancing, the beautiful buildings, the temples, the palaces.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
====Toussaint Roussillon====
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A swamp-dwelling bon-vivant, Roussillon was so lazy he hired women to fight his battles for him. An alleged family man with a love of drink and fast women--which may be more legend than reality--, Roussillon was rather loud for a smuggler. Evidence suggests that he would have gone out of business, had it not been for his partner, Élise Lafleur.
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====Élise Lafleur====
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Combative and proud, Élise Lafleur was a straight-shooter and true friend to anyone who dared to stick around. Not easily intimidated, she did not suffer fools or liars. Her work with the people of San Danje betrayed a kind heart, while her success with Roussillon’s business revealed a keen mind.
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====Baptiste====
He built a palace in the middle of called Jurakudai, in the middle of Kyoto, where Nijō Castle is. That now, for those of you who've been there, anyone who's been there, right in the center. And then he also built Momoyama Castle [aka Fushimi Castle] in the south of Kyoto. And he also, while he was at it, I'm not sure if I'm answering your question anymore, but he had an enormous tea party for the entire population of Kyoto, the entire population, including all the poor people, and got them all to come. And it occupied a whole sort of enormous shrine grounds. And I think there was something like 800 tea pavilions there. Part of tea is displaying your beautiful utensils. And he displayed his gold utensils. And he also had an entire tea hut made of gold, the golden tea hut.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
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Baptiste was born to slavery in Saint-Domingue, in the 1720s. (Official records unavailable). A childhood playmate of new arrivals Jeanne and Agaté, he fell under the spell of revolutionary leader François Mackandal and joined “his” Brotherhood in the early 1730s.
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Later that decade, he fled the plantation with Agaté and Mackandal, in response to some threat, real or imagined.
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After losing his mentor, in 1758, and then his friend Agaté, he left the Brotherhood in pursuit of more worthwhile ambitions.<br>


|-|Erudito=
Hideyoshi sort of basically laid out Kyoto as it is now.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
Baptiste was born to slavery in Saint-Domingue, in the 1720s. (Official records unavailable.) A childhood playmate of new arrivals Jeanne and Agaté, he fell under the spell of revolutionary leader François Mackandal and joined “his” Brotherhood in the early 1730s.
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Later that decade, he fled the plantation with Agaté and Mackandal, in response to A VERY REAL threat FROM THE TEMPLAR ORDER.
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After losing his mentor, WHO WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY FIRE in 1758 FOR LEADING AN UPRISING AGAINST WHITE SLAVE OWNERS IN SAINT-DOMINGUE, and then his friend Agaté, WHO LEFT IN SEARCH OF JEANNE, he left the Brotherhood, DISILLUSIONED, and JOINED THE TEMPLAR ORDER, CONVINCED THAT THEIR METHODS WERE MORE ALIGNED WITH HIS ambitions.
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BAPTISTE ASSUMED THE IDENTITY OF HIS MENTOR, GOING SO FAR AS TO AMPUTATE HIS OWN ARM TO COMPLETE THE ILLUSION. DISGUISED AS MACkandAL, HE RECRUITED A STRONG FOLLOWING OF DISGRUNTLED ACOLYTES, TRAINED THEM IN THE STYLE OF MAROON WARRIORS, and FOLLOWED AGATÉ TO NEW ORLEANS, WHERE HE SOUGHT TO EXPOSE and ERADICATE THE BROTHERHOOD, and TRANSFER LOCAL POWER TO THE handS OF THE TEMPLARS, FIRST BY CONTROLLING TRADE ON THE RIVER, UNDER THE MASK OF SPANISH INFLUENCE, and THEN BY POISONING THE RULING CLASS OF NEW ORLEANS.
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HIS PLANS WERE INTERRUPTED BY AVELINE DE GRANDPRÉ, BY WHOSE Hand HE DIED. SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS REMAINED IN THE SWAMP, A VIOLENT and UNPREDICTABLE ELEMENT.


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Were there games in medieval Japan that we know about? Right. One thing that the samurai ruler, especially the unifier, Toyotomi Hideyoshi liked, was the noh play. So there are theatres all over Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 08">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 8: How To Fit In: Feudal Japan</ref>


===Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag===
===[[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]===
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What he succeeds in doing is very early on gaining control of a neighboring province and then he makes a very fortuitous alliance with the man who becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu. He doesn't yet have that name at this point in the 1550s but that's a great alliance. It allows Oda Nobunaga not to have to worry too much about the territory to one side of his own province and so he can look elsewhere for his focus [...]<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
|-|Jenny Kenway=
Born: 1713<br>Died: ????<br><br>Jennifer "Jenny" Scott Kenway was the first and only child of Caroline Scott and Edward Kenway. Born in Bristol, after Edward Kenway's departure to the West Indies, she was raised by her mother and her mother's parents.<br><br>Despite being the issue of a legitimate marriage, Jenny's grandfather, Emmett, treated her with disdain and contempt, owing to his hatred of her father Edward Kenway. Thankfully her grandmother -- Caroline's mother, Elizabeth -- was ever a source of strength, and she brought much joy to a life otherwise marked by idleness and boredom.<br><br>Around 1719 or 1720, fate took a turn for the worse as Caroline fell gravely ill. Emmett, believing his daughter's malady a mere "complaint of the nerves," ignored the seriousness of his daughter's situation until it was too late. Caroline died before Jenny was seven.<br><br>Shortly after, a letter arrived at the Scott household addressed to Caroline. It was from Edward Kenway, Caroline's estranged husband and Jenny's father. Eager to rid his household of the girl he had always found to be a burden, Emmett Scott made arrangements to send his granddaughter to live with Edward in the West Indies, hardly caring if Edward's claim to have made a small but reasonable fortune there were true.<br><br>In late August of 1722, Jenny boarded a ship bound for the West to meet her father for the first time...


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unfortunately he dies when his son Hideyori is still too young to assume power and so you have this council of elders who are controlling things until Hideyori is old enough to rule by himself but unfortunately on that council of elders is one Tokugawa Ieyasu who while you know professing a certain amount of loyalty to Hideyori is plotting and scheming instead to take it all for himself and so he becomes our third major figure.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>


===Assassin's Creed: Rogue===
he stations some troops in Kyoto to keep the emperor under a watchful eye not necessarily because of what the emperor might do but what people might use the emperor for some of his western enemies you know as in in the western part of Japan might potentially take the emperor as a figurehead and launch a further action against him it's not as though after a great battle like that everyone on the losing side thinks fair enough you know you've got me I'll walk away and agree to this so he has that our establishment Kyoto his own power base is Edo this castle town that is now the great city of Tokyo so his shogunate is really run out of Edo that's where his advisors are his castle is his strong economy is and he manages to really build up Edo I think in short order the other thing he does which is really establishing this process of unification really establishing the new Japan is he does this enormous reshuffling of territory in Japan I think it's the biggest reshuffling of territory in terms of who controls what in Japan's history so lots of the people who are on the losing side at the battle of Sekigahara either lose everything or their territory is drastically cut down or they're shipped off to another part of the country entirely perhaps all these things that are designed to damage their power he also as part of that reshuffle takes over a system that Hideyoshi used to use called Sankin Kortai<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
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|-|Versailles=
Originally a hunting lodge built for Louis XIII, the Palace of Versailles was expanded into one of the largest palaces in the world, and the seat of the French monarchy, under the reign of his successor, Louis XIV. The royal family abandoned the palace for the Tuileries in Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. After the King's arrest, Versailles, along with all royal possessions, was confiscated and sealed. The furnishings were sold at auction in 1793, and in 1794 it was turned into a museum. Despite the various restorations, empires, and revolutions that followed, Versailles would never again be a center of political power.<br><br>(I went here on a school trip once. Yawnsville. I’d much rather visit it through an Animus! –V.)<br>
|-|Davenport Homestead=
The Davenport Homestead was a collection of buildings that served as the headquarters for the Colonial Assassin Brotherhood. Achilles built a manor for his family and a barracks for Assassins to rest in in between their missions throughout the colonies. The homestead also included a natural port for supplies and visiting ships.<br><br>Achilles used the terrain as a natural obstacle course and training ground, where his Assassins could hone the skills needed to promote freedom throughout the colonies.<br><br>(It doesn’t feel like a nice “home” does it? Feels more like boot camp for hooded weirdoes. –V.)<br>


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Tokugawa Ieyasu, he forbade Christianity totally. And all influence of the Jesuits was razed very systematically from then on.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>


===Assassin's Creed: Unity===
So it kind of makes a name for Nobunaga. Another key thing about this battle, though, and the aftermath is that in the confusion of the Imagawa family with the loss of their head, several of their more talented and younger retainers, one of which we know today as Tokugawa Ieyasu, are able to claim independence. And Ieyasu establishes himself in his home territory of Mikawa, which is just to the east of Owari, and establishes an alliance with Nobunaga, thus providing a secure flank to Nobunaga's east, allowing Nobunaga to then look in other directions as he begins to expand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
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|-|Paris=
In 1782, French writer Louis-Sebastien Mercier described Paris as follows: "Paris is too large, seen politically; it is an outsized head for the body of the state. But today, it would be too dangerous to remove the tumor rather than to let it subsist. There are diseases that, once they take root, are indestructible". <br><br>At the time of the French Revolution, Paris, with its 600,000 inhabitants, was no longer the largest city in Europe. London, with nearly one million inhabitants, had already surpassed it. *<br><br>--<br>* It would be unbecoming of me to boast at this point.<br>--<br><br>At the time, Paris was comprised of three main districts, each with its own specific historical characteristics. While the terms "rive gauche" (left bank) and "rive droite" (right bank) were increasingly commonplace by the end of the 18th century, "Université", "Cité", and "Ville" were still the names most commonly used. <br><br>The Cité was the center of monarchic and religious power. It was home to the Bishop, the Parliament and the Senate. Underpinned by religious tradition, the seat of royal power was appropriately located beside Nôtre-Dame-de-Paris. <br><br>Further south on the left bank was the district known as the Université, or Latin quarter, since the language taught there was Latin. Up to 30,000 students could be found there in any one year. <br><br>To the north, on the right bank, was the Ville, the merchant city and home to the Hôtel de Ville (city hall), in other words, the municipal authority personified by the Prévôt des marchands (provost of the merchants) and the aldermen.


|-|Petit Pont=
The two sides meet in July of 1570 at the Battle of Anegawa, where Nobunaga was joined by his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu. And they fight this battle in the shallow Anagawa River, both sides plunging into the water to engage the enemy. So if you picture this dramatic battle in this shallow river, Tokugawa, on Nobunaga's right flank, managed to route the Asakura and then crash into the flank of the Asai while at the same time Nobunaga sent his reserves around the other flank. And it causes the collapse of the enemy to create victory.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
One thing that can be said for this bridge is that it has never changed names in 2,000 years despite the various floods and fires that would ravage and occasionally destroy it. The bridge has always been heavily used since it was the outlet to the Roman roads leading to Orléans and Lyon. It was also the obligatory passageway for students who attended the schools on the left bank hill of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.


|-|Grand Arsenal=
Many of them [Iga warriors] went to work for a retainer of Tokugawa Iyasu who has become famous in kind of ninja lore, man by the name of Hattori Hanzo. And Hattori Hanzo had family ties to Iga. He's often referred to or portrayed as in pop culture as a ninja, but he was a samurai retainer, a warrior just like many of the warriors that fought for any of the Daimyo of this period. He appears in most of Tokugawa Iyasu's battles until Hanzo dies in 1590s. He is considered one of Tokugawa Iyasu's closest retainers, but because through his family ties, he had a knowledge base of these sort of unconventional guerilla tactics. He also had through those ties, the ability to kind of act as a landing place for many of these men of Iga. And so many of them went to work for Tokugawa Ieyasu under the command of Hattori Hanzo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
This munitions store took up an entire neighborhood between the right bank of the River Seine and the present-day boulevard Morland, extending almost all the way to the Bastille. Its entry was at the corner of rue du Petit-Musc and the embankment.<br><br>The only remaining part of this vast complex is the library, established by the marquis de Paulmy, minister of war, who left some 100,000 volumes and 10,000 manuscripts. This collection was supplemented by works seized from the archives of the Bastille and from the abbeys of Paris. The library today holds approximately one million volumes, and 250,000 documents. *<br><br>--<br>* Impressive. Until you remember you’ve got the whole Internet on your phone.<br>--<br><br> The library was a place of study for such noteworthy names as Lamartine, Hugo, Dumas, Vigny, Musset and the Parnassien poets. **<br><br>--<br>** Given they’re talking about a library, you’d think they’d have at least put those names in alphabetical order.<br>--


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==The Jesuits==
The Petit Arsenal was a complex of buildings built around the Cour du Salpêtre and the Cour de l'Orme, overlooking the Bastille. *<br>-- <br>* “Wonderful, enigmatic views of the prison,” the estate agents would have said. Never trust a French estate agent. They invented the word “bijou”.<br>--<br><br>A public promenade lined with elm trees connected the Grand Arsenal and the Petit Arsenal, a stone's throw from the Bastille along the canal Saint-Martin.
===[[Francis Xavier]]===
Francis Xavier was a Jesuit and one of the founding members of the Jesuits. He was asked to travel to Asia to begin doing missionary work there. He was asked especially by King John III of Portugal because he was very keen on trying to get as many Asians adhering to the Christian religion. Xavier had quite a correspondence with King John about all what he did in Asia and it wasn't what he expected. In 1542 he came to India but he didn't get good results so he tried to go to Malacca but there also there was not much interest for his propagating of the faith. And there he met with a Japanese called Anjiro, probably his real name was Yajiro, and he told him about Japan and also some Portuguese merchants who had gone to Japan told him that that will be the country where you really are going to get a lot of people converted to Christianity. So he had a lot of expectations for Japan and in 1549 he finally set foot on Japan. So that was really the first time that the Jesuits arrived in Japan only six or seven years after the first Portuguese came there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>


|-|Camille Desmoulins=
when Xavier came in Japan, he landed in Satsuma, Kagoshima, which is in the southern part of the Kyushu island, and you had a warlord there, Shimaze Takahisa, and he welcomed Xavier very much because he had a motive. If the Jesuits would come, he thought the Portuguese merchants would follow. So he treated Xavier very well and he gave him permission to preach the Gospel in his domains, but after a year, no Portuguese ship arrived, so then he prohibited Christianity and Xavier was compelled to go to another domain, which was the Hilado domain of Matsura Takanobu, and just at that time there was a Portuguese vessel there. And when the Portuguese saw the Jesuits, so Xavier and his companions, they greeted them with utmost respect. And Takanobu saw that, so he thought, okay, I have to treat them also with respect so that the Portuguese traders could come, because those Portuguese traders, they got a lot of products.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
When news of Necker's dismissal reached Paris on July 12, a certain 29 year-old lawyer, Camille Desmoulins, leapt atop a table in the Palais Royal, brandished a pistol and urged the volatile crowd to take arms (two days later the Bastille was stormed). Desmoulins, an ardent member of the political Cordeliers Club, founded and authored the newspaper “Le Vieux Cordelier.” A friend and political ally of Danton, Desmoulins’ writings were highly influential but his politics, always highly republican, began to look conservative as the Revolution radicalized. Eventually, his childhood friend Robespierre helped to condemn Desmoulins and Danton to the guillotine.


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And he thought that if he goes to the emperor in Kyoto, in the capital, that the emperor would give him permission to preach in whole of Japan, and that he would have a lot of success because he saw that the lot of a small domain, when he gave permission, he got the chance to convert a few people. If the upper lord of the country would give him permission, he thought he would be in a good position to convert a lot of Japanese. So he went to Kyoto, but that materialized not very well because Kyoto at the time was in the midst of warfare, so he didn't have the chance to meet with the emperor nor with the shogun.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>


===Assassin's Creed: Syndicate===
So afterwards, he went back from Kyoto. He got back to Hirado, where he put on very expensive clothes and then went again to the court of Ōuchi. And then he was received very well. He also gave a lot of presents, which he had brought from Portugal. And Ōuchi was very policed with that and gave permission for the Jesuits to preach their gospel in his domains.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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|-|Edward Hodson Bayley=
Date of Birth: 1841 (exact date unknown).<br><br>Edward Hodson Bayley was not a great mover and shaker like Brunel or Starrick or any of the other transportation figures we associate with the Victorian era. What little we know about him comes from various logs, records, and transcripts. He was the son of a reverend and was educated in England, France, and Germany before settling in in Southwark. He established his carriage building business, E.H. Bayley & Co., and married an American named Josephine Simon. They had three children together.<br><br>According to records, Bayley patented a cart designed to distribute water or liquid manure in 1866. Imagine the sight of liquid manure as you enjoy your next cup of coffee.<br><br>In his later years, Bayley became involved in the Liberal Party and served on the boards of directors for multiple transportation companies, including the West Metropolitan Tramways Company and the London Road Car Company. No records show him working with the London General Omnibus Company, though. Odd.<br><br>Bayley was elected to the House of Commons in 1892 and lost his seat three years later. He had a quiet, peaceful retirement and died in his sleep at the age of 96, which is what we Brits call "a good innings."
|-|Disraeli/Gladstone Rivalry=
One of the great political feuds of all time, right up there with Antony/Augustus, Medici/Pazzi, and Louis XVI/angry mob, the Disraeli/Gladstone rivalry got its start in 1846, when they found themselves on opposite sides of a repeal of the Corn Laws. Riveting stuff, I know. And as much as it would thrill me to no end to delve into the intricate minutiae of the moral, ethical, and political reasons these two hated each other on sight, let's be honest, you’d never read it. <br><br>(It's amazing you're even reading this. –RC)<br><br>So here, instead, is a selection of quotations in which old, dead English politicians insult each other. You're welcome.<br><br>"Posterity will do justice to that unprincipalled maniac Gladstone—extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic—whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling—never a gentleman." –Benjamin Disraeli<br><br>"The Tory party had principles by which it would and did stand for bad and for good. All this Dizzy destroyed." –William Gladstone<br><br>"If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity." –Benjamin Disraeli<br><br>"As he lived, so he died—all display, without reality or genuineness." –William Gladstone<br><br>"A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity." –Benjamin Disraeli<br><br>But the judges must award the final point to Mr. Disraeli, for when he learned that the Liberals referred to Gladstone as the G.O.M. (short for "Grand Old Man"), he remarked that it should rather stand for "God’s Only Mistake." From such a burn there is no recovery. And besides, the Queen liked Disraeli best.<br><br>Ah, I do love British politics.
|-|Edward Kenway=
Date of Birth: 10 March 1693.<br><br>Edward James Kenway was born in Swansea, Wales, to Bernard and Linette Kenway. The life of rural sheep farmers did not agree with young Edward, who developed a troublemaking streak very early on in life. <br><br>A brash teenage Edward met Caroline Scott, and despite her family’s objections (the Scotts were fairly well-to-do, and Edward still smelled of sheep), the two were quickly married. Their marriage strained under Edward’s inability to find steady work. <br><br>A desperate Edward sought to acquire riches and fame by enlisting as a privateer in the West Indies for the Royal Navy. However, the end to the War of the Spanish Succession stopped that plan in its tracks, and Edward was (rather easily) seduced into a life of piracy, rubbing shoulders with legends like Blackbeard, no less. <br><br>Edward killed and stole the identity of Duncan Walpole, an Assassin who was on his way to join the Templars, thinking it would be a great way to get rich quick. All it got him was a front row seat to an existential crisis, as Edward struggled between his desire for riches—manifested in a search for a Precursor site known as the Observatory—and a growing sense of duty and responsibility as he spent time among the Assassins in the West Indies. <br><br>After hitting rock bottom and the loss of several close friends, Edward committed himself to the Assassin cause, and helped them eliminate the Templars and secure the Observatory.  After a decade abroad, Edward was ready to return home, and discovered that Caroline had died in his absence, leaving him with a daughter, Jennifer. That's why couples need to talk more. Edward and his daughter returned to England. He acquired property in London and married Tessa Stephenson-Oakley, with whom he fathered a son named Haytham. <br><br>Although the physically crushing life of a pirate caught up to him in his later years, Edward remained immersed in Assassin affairs. His natural charisma and experience in the West Indies helped him secure contacts in both high society and the London underworld. Inspired by his discovery of the Observatory, Edward and an Assassin known only as Miko continued researching the First Civilization. <br><br>In 1735, Edward was killed by mercenaries in the employ of Templar Grand Master Reginald Birch, who had spent several years worming his way into he Assassin’s life by acting as his property manager. Some consider this to be a rather ignoble end to a rather remarkable man, but it just goes to show you that not everyone who lives a hero’s life gets a hero’s death.<br><br>God, I sound wise sometimes.


|-| MOTHER'S MURDER=
Xavier left in 1551, but soon there came more and more Jesuits.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
18 August 1870.  At 3:40 AM an unidentified woman whom Jacob Frye sometimes visited to procure information about local gangs, was brutally murdered in her Whitechapel lodgings.  <br><br>Her young son Jack was awakened by his mother’s screams as three men burst into their shared room and proceeded to stab her to death before the eyes of her ten year old son. <br><br>After the murderers unceremoniously dumped the woman’s body in the Thames River, they dragged Jack, covered in his mother’s blood and babbling incoherently about ‘pigs’ and ‘templars’, to Lambeth Asylum, where he was interned in the wing for the violent criminals.  Doctor Archer and Nurse Whitney signed the admission papers. <br><br>Jack is said to have cried inconsolably and screamed aloud for a certain ‘Jacob’ over and over for days, until he was gagged and silenced. <br><br>Nearly a year later, Jack appears to have escaped from the asylum with outside assistance and vanished from official records.


|-|?=
So and Francis Xavier, the Jesuit priest, showed up in Japan at that time. He showed up in a city called Yamaguchi. And his theory was, I will go to Kyoto. I will convert the emperor to Catholicism. And then everybody else in the whole country will follow him. And he got to Kyoto. It was a complete wreck. It was sort of a burnt out ruin. He couldn't find the emperor. So he gave up.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
In 1870, a wing of Lambeth Asylum was converted for use as a maximum security psychiatric ward for the violent criminals. <br><br>The treatments as the Rotary Chair, solitary confinement and even the Electric Chair were common practices in the gaol wing of Lambeth (G Wing). The Electric Chair worked in some cases where the prisoner was suffering from depression. The Rotary Chair was presented as more of an experimental treatment as it had no scientific evidence behind the reasoning. Many of these practices only furthered along the violence of the inmates. <br><br>G Wing was not the sort of place anyone in their right mind would care to be locked up in the Victorian era. If they weren’t violent to begin with, there is little doubt that they would be scarred for life within a few months of living among the other outrageous inmate of Lambeth…


|-|Evie Frye (1888)=
Born: 9 November 1847.<br><br>Evie is valued among the Assassins for her thoughtful planning, her ability to solve problems, and her ability to see the human side of any equation.<br><br>In 1868, Evie and Jacob successfully wrested London away from the Templars under the command of Crawford Starrick.<br><br>Jacob remained in the city to maintain control over the gangs, and reinforce the London Assassins with new initiates gathered from among the many orphans and child labourers.<br><br>Evie chose to follow Henry Green to continue her research into the Pieces of Eden, and joined the Indian Assassins. <br><br>She became fascinated with Indian culture and was particularly intrigued by the symbolism of the Goddess Kali. She learned the use of Karas, which were elegant metal bracelets used like brass-knuckles to powerful effect in hand-to-hand combat. <br><br>She also developed tools to use her enemies’ fear against them; manipulating without killing. Bombs containing hallucinogenic substances served to frighten targets, causing the Assassins’ enemies to believe they faced demons.<br><br>Around 1870 Jacob joined Evie in India with a few of his young initiates to train with the Indian Assassins for a brief period. <br><br>In 1888 she received a letter from Jacob which summoned her back to London. The missive spoke about his troubles with a rogue Assassin who was escaping his control and rallying London gangs to his side.<br><br>When Evie arrived, London was cowering in the shadow of Jack the Ripper’s Terror. <br><br>She embarked on the most dangerous and difficult investigation of her life…


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===[[Gaspar Vilela]]===
Gaspar Vilela is one who stands out. He was a very keen propagator of the Christian faith, and he could convert some warlords to Christianity. One of them was Omura Sumitada, who eventually would give a port to the Jesuits, which was called Nagasaki.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>


====Michel Reuge's Journal====
And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #1=
Left Val-de-Travers on the early train for Paris this morning, and thence on to Le Havre to take ship for England (avoiding London, naturally, as we dare not let the Templars catch wind of our scheme). The train was hot and crowded, but our spirits remain high. Alice remains convinced that the Romano-British shrine to Sulis Minerva at Bath is built over a Precursor site, and that fabulous treasures await us; enough to secure a Mastership for all three of us. Lavinia is, I think, thrilled to have a bodyguarding assignment that is not ceremonial.<br><br>For it is into the lion’s den we go, and no mistake. Even outside the capital, the south of England is a Templar redoubt. Our wits must be as sharp as our blades, and we may yet all come to ruin. But the reward is worth the risk, of this I am certain. When we return, our names will be reckoned alongside the likes of the Auditores of Florence.<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>Paris<br>12 July 1844
|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #2=
We have had a most promising beginning. Upon arrival at Bath, we met with one John Philips, a geologist of no small repute. In his youth, he assisted his uncle, the equally-venerable William Smith, in an excavation of the Roman baths to restore the hot springs. While the official records claim that the spring had merely diverted into a new channel, Mr. Philips told us a most wondrous tale of a strange vault, all aglow as if with gas lamps, yet far older than even the shrine to Sulis Minerva above. Within he described a great vault that no drill could mar, and inside a garment or armour of ancient make. I am certain that this must be the Aegis Minerva, of which our forebears as far back as Marcus Junius Brutus have written. <br><br>I have engaged Mr. Philips to show us the way to the vault, which his uncle sealed up many years ago to prevent its discovery. He was at first reluctant to share what he deemed his uncle’s legacy, but I believe he was persuaded by Alice’s rather infectious enthusiasm for the enterprise.<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>Bath<br>15 July 1844
|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #3=
Success! Success beyond our wildest hopes! As we’d suspected, Alice confirmed that the Williams-Philips find is a Precursor trove. We are still cataloguing the complete contents, but thus far the key finds are as follows:<br><br>– A large vault containing garments in the style of Those Who Came Before. True to Mr. Philips’s word, the sarcophagus has resisted all attempts to force it open. Even the carefully controlled application of dynamite had no effect.<br><br>– 32 circular metal plates, etched with runes that defy translation and punched with numerous holes. These resemble nothing so much as the plates inside the oldest clockwork music boxes, which produce by means of a striker the melodies that so enchant their owners.<br><br>Based on a preliminary examination, Alice believes the plates serve as some sort of key to opening the Vault, though by what principle none of us can guess. We have researched extensively, but I fear Bath has not the library nor the industry to further our studies. Alice suggests that we take the Vault to London, where we might find more information in the annals of the British Museum. Lavinia is of course against it, and I confess I am not entirely sanguine about it either. But think of the acclaim if we should succeed!<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>Bath<br>18 July 1844
|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #4=
Over Lavinia’s objections (and, if I am honest, no few of my own), we have come to London. Lavinia hired a sturdy oxcart to haul the Vault, and we have set up shop in an underground chamber once meant to be a bank vault before the bank lost its funding. I hope we will be secure here, but already I feel the all-seeing eye of the enemy wherever I go. Alice assures us that even the Templars cannot hope to find three Assassins in a city of over two million.<br><br>I grow concerned for her, though I would not say so to her face. Alice has scarcely slept or eaten since we discovered the Vault, so consumed is she by her schemes. She is a genius with clockwork, of that there can be no doubt, but the complexity of the Vault’s machinery defies her still. Of late she has taken to scouring London’s pawn shops and curio dealers for antique music boxes, which she tears apart and refits with the plates we found in Bath. I will admit that the sounds they produce are like unto music, and when certain of them are played in a particular order they do seem to build to a common theme, but the full sequence remains elusive. Lavinia tells me that she has caught Alice singing some bit of doggerel about lunatics from Bedlam when she thought no one was listening.<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>London<br>24 July 1844
|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #5=
Lavinia tells me that the Templars are closing in—apparently they can find three Assassins in a city of over two million if those Assassins are asking the wrong sort of questions. We must make all haste back to the Continent, but that perforce means abandoning the Vault, and Alice will not have it. Lavinia has tried to reason with her, but Alice insists she is close to the answer. The music boxes play nonstop now. I do not know what to do.<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>London<br>30 July 1844<br><br>Addendum: Nearly captured today. The Templars know we are here, and they are hunting us in force. We must take ship now, or by dawn at the latest, but Alice assures me she needs only a few more pieces to make sense of the whole. I tried to reason with her, but she grew angry and stormed out. Lavinia has gone after her in hopes of bringing her around. A fine leader I’ve turned out to be. For my part I’ve nothing to contribute, save to pack these damnable music boxes and make them ready for shipment. We cannot take the Vault with us, but at least we may deprive the Templars of the plates. <br><br>Michael Reuge<br>London<br>30 July 1844
|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #6=
Lavinia is dead.<br><br>She returned in the hours before dawn, badly injured, with a tale it breaks my heart to relate. Alice has betrayed us, sold us to the Templars for the hollow promise of safety to continue her studies of the Vault. Before she died, Lavinia warned me that the Templars were coming in force. They will be here by dawn. The ports and the rail stations are all being watched—there is no escape from London for me. I write these words only in the feeble hope that some future Assassin will find them and understand what I have done.<br><br>I now thank Providence that I packed the music boxes away for easy transport. I will hide them as I can, throughout the city. Scattered, they will be as safe as I can make them. If by some miracle I survive the day, I will find my once-Sister and do justice upon her. It is not the legacy I desired, but it is the only one open to me.<br><br>We work in the dark to serve the light.<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>London<br>31 July 1844
|-|REUGE JOURNAL ENTRY #7=
The music is all I hear now. Day and night, waking and sleeping, it clings to me like Marley’s chains, an incessant reminder of my sins. We sought the wisdom of Minerva, but in Her temple we found only the rot within ourselves. Hubris was our undoing, my sister or brother, and if you do not turn back it will be yours as well.<br><br>The Vault is safe. The keys are scattered across London, and even I no longer recall where they are hidden. They tried to break me, you see. They tortured me with devices both earthly and otherworldly, cast me howling into Lambeth, beat me, starved me. They even brought in that mesmeric devil Elliotson, but I would not yield the secret. I was not a traitor, no—not like her. I remember my vows. I remember the Creed.<br><br>To you that have found this meagre scrap, I offer no congratulations, only condolence. The quest for the Aegis has shattered me, and claimed the lives of those I loved best. Turn back, I urge you. But if you will not, listen for the music. Find the music boxes, find the keys, and perhaps you will do what I could not and recover the treasure of Sulis Minerva.<br><br>I leave you, reader, with the words of another poor madman, born long before I and yet suffering under the same curse. Perhaps you will heed their warning and forget that e’er you saw this place, but I fear that, as I did, you will follow the verse’s path to ruin.<br><br>From the hag and hungry goblin<br>That into rags would rend ye,<br>All the sprites that stand by the naked man<br>In the book of moons, defend ye.<br><br>God be with you. We work in the dark to serve the light.<br><br>Michael Reuge<br>London<br>14 May 1845
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==Liberation Databases==
===[[Alessandro Valignano]]===
===[[Database: Agaté|Agaté]]===
And then you have, of course, Valignano, which was the visitor, as he was called, to the Orient. So he was the head of all the actions in the Orient, and he spent a lot of time in Japan, because Japan was the place where the Jesuits thought they would have the best results.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
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[[Agaté]] was born in the 1720s, on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast of [[Africa]]. (Official records unavailable.)
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In 1729, he was taken into [[slavery]] and shipped to Saint-Domingue (now [[Haiti]]), where he was taken under the wing of revolutionary disruptor [[François Mackandal]]. He joined the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]] in 1738.
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Following a failed poisoning attempt against the white colonists of Saint-Domingue, and Mackandal’s subsequent execution, Agaté fled to [[Louisiana]], a marked man, and hid in the [[Louisiana Bayou|Bayou]].
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Unable to exercise his own murderous tendencies, he soon manipulated [[Aveline de Grandpré]] and [[Gérald Blanc]] into joining the Assassin Brotherhood, and trained them to do his dirty work.


|-|Erudito=
He was the bodyguard of a Jesuit, the head Jesuit in Asia, essentially the head of the Christian church in Asia, a man called Alessandro Valignano. And Valignano was on a tour from Rome. He'd been sent by the Pope to tour the new missions in Asia and of course, Japan was the furthest of these missions.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
Agaté was born in the 1720s, on the Atlantic coast of Africa (Official records unavailable.)
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In 1729, he was taken into slavery and shipped to Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), where he FELL IN LOVE WITH AVELINE DE GRANDPRÉ'S MOTHER, [[Jeanne|JEANNE]] and was taken under the wing of revolutionary disruptor François Mackandal. He joined the Assassin Brotherhood in 1738 and WAS LATER FORCED TO LEAVE JEANNE TO PROVE HIS COMMITMENT.
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Following a failed poisoning attempt against the white colonists of Saint-Domingue, and Mackandal's subsequent execution, Agaté fled to Louisiana, a marked man, and hid in the Bayou.
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Unable to RESTRAIN MOUNTING [[Templars|TEMPLAR]] INFLUENCE ALONE, he soon RECRUITED Aveline de Grandpré and Gérald Blanc into the Assassins Brotherhood, and trained them.
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WRACKED BY A LIFETIME OF ABUSE, VIOLENCE and PARANOIA, AGATÉ EVENTUALLY SUCCUMBED TO SELF-DOUBT, and DIES, A SUICIDE, IN 1777. HE NEVER SAW CLOSURE FOR HIS LIFE'S WORK.
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===[[Database: Antonio de Ulloa|Antonio de Ulloa]]===
Valignano himself, the visitor, the chief inspector of churches, if you like, was a big proponent of learning any language. He started the concept of Asian studies. Asian language studies in Europe were started by him. He was the person who insisted that his missionaries study Chinese, Japanese, various Indian languages, so it's conceivable that Yasuke had already started to learn Japanese before he arrived.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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[[Antonio de Ulloa]] was born in [[Spain]] in 1716. A prominent scientist and intellectual, he and a fellow researcher were the first to discover the element platinum. He was subsequently captured by the [[United Kingdom|British]] and made a fellow of the Royal Society of [[London]]. He established the first museum of natural history, the first metallurgical laboratory in Spain, and the observatory of Cadiz.
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In 1758, he became governor of Huancavelica (in [[Peru]]), and in 1766 was appointed the first Spanish governor of [[Louisiana]]. He attempted to end corruption, but was ousted during the [[Louisiana Rebellion]] of 1768.
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He died peacefully in 1796, an old man.


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===[[Francisco Cabral]]===
Antonio de Ulloa was born in Spain in 1716. A prominent scientist and intellectual, he and a fellow researcher were the first to discover the element platinum. He was subsequently captured by the British, BUT RELEASED, THANKS TO HIS CONNECTION TO THE [[Templars|TEMPLAR]] ORDER, and made a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He established the first museum of natural history, the first metallurgical laboratory in Spain, and the observatory of Cadiz, ALL THE WHILE, ACTING IN SERVICE TO THE TEMPLAR ORDER.
And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
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In 1758 he became governor of Huancavelica (in Peru), and in 1766 was appointed the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He attempted to IMPOSE TRADE RESTRICTIONS FAVORING TEMPLAR INTERESTS, but was ousted during the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768.
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FOLLOWING AN ULTIMATUM FROM THE [[Assassins|ASSASSIN BROTHERHOOD]], He WITHDREW FROM PUBLIC LIFE and TEMPLAR SERVICE, and died peacefully in 1795, an old man.


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==Other==
===[[Mutsuhito]], Emperor Meiji===
And in 1868, the then emperor [Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji] who was 14, I think, or 16, he was a teenager, marched or didn't march. He was carried by Palanquin, top with a Phoenix, up to Edo and into Edo castle, which became the imperial palace and Edo became Tokyo, which is the eastern capital. So therefore, Kyoto was no longer the capital at all. It was no longer the official capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>


===[[Database: Aveline de Grandpré (Liberation)|Aveline de Grandpré]]===
===[[Akechi Mitsuhide]]===
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he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
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[[Aveline de Grandpré]] was born in [[New Orleans]], in 1747, to a wealthy businessman, [[Philippe de Grandpré|Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]] and his treasured {{Wiki|Plaçage|placée}}, [[Jeanne]].
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At birth, she and her mother were granted freedom. Aveline was raised in comfort and happiness under the protection of her father's wealth and influence, until her abandonment by her mother, in 1757.
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In 1752, Philippe Olivier married [[Madeleine de L'Isle]], who soon adopted the role of doting stepmother.
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Troubled by her mother's betrayal, Aveline never fully recovered her trusting nature. Her vulnerability made her a prime target for manipulation by the [[Louisiana Brotherhood of Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood of New Orleans]], under the influence of her "[[mentor]]", [[Agaté]].


|-|Erudito=
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
Aveline de Grandpré was born in New Orleans, in 1747, to a wealthy businessman, Philippe Olivier de Grandpré and his treasured placée (UNOFFICIAL WIFE, A [[Slavery|SLAVE]]), Jeanne.
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At birth, she and her mother were granted freedom. Aveline was raised in comfort and happiness under the protection of her father's wealth and influence.
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In 1752, Philippe Olivier married Madeleine de L'Isle. SOME TIME AFTER, JEANNE DISAPPEARED. EVEN THOUGH MADELEINE QUICKLY adopted the role of doting stepmother IN ORDER TO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH OVER THE SPECIAL TALENTS SHE NOTICED IN AVELINE, HER WORLD WAS CHANGED FOREVER.
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Troubled by her mother's SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE, Aveline never fully recovered her trusting nature. Her CURIOSITY, PHYSICAL STRENGTH, and SENSE OF JUSTICE made her a prime target for TRAINING by the Assassin Brotherhood of New Orleans, and SHE WAS RECRUITED BY MENTOR Agaté, WHO RESCUED HER FROM HARASSMENT TO WIN HER LOYALTY.
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===[[Database: Carlos Dominguez|Carlos Dominguez]]===
We don't really know why we don't really get any full explanation of Akechi's motives. There's lots of speculation that it had to do with resentment at court treatment by Nobunaga. One thing that we do know is that Akechi's mother had been killed by a rival clan where Akechi had given them his mother as a hostage, as insurance essentially against an attack. And Nobunaga superseded that and ordered the attack anyway. So they killed Akechi's mother. Other things are rumors that he was physically abusive and verbally abusive to Mitsuhide personally.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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Captain [[Carlos Dominguez]] was born in the 1730s to a modest family in [[Spain]] and became a sailor at the first opportunity. Hard work and skill soon made him Captain of his own [[Ships|ship]]. This upright servant of [[Humans|humanity]] devoted his life to providing safe transportation to political refugees.
|-|Erudito=
Captain Carlos Dominguez was born in the 1730s to a modest family in Spain and became a sailor at the first opportunity. Hard work and skill soon made him Captain of his own ship BUT SOON GAVE WAY TO ALCOHOL and OPPORTUNISM. This upright servant of THE [[Templars|TEMPLAR ORDER]] devoted his life to EARNING and DRINKING A SMALL FORTUNE, providing safe transportation to ANYONE WHO WOULD PAY.
<br><br>
FOLLOWING THE LOSS OF HIS SHIP AT THE HANDS OF [[Aveline de Grandpré|AVELINE DE GRANDPRÉ]], CAPTAIN DOMINGUEZ WAS FORCED TO REFORM UNDER HER SUPERVISION. HE REMAINED PRODUCTIVE UNTIL 1803, WHEN HE WAS REPORTED MISSING AT SEA.
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===[[Database: George Davidson|George Davidson]]===
But for whatever reason, Akechi decides that this is his moment while Nobunaga is lightly guarded. He's certainly not expecting anybody to attack him in Kyoto. They surround Nobunaga's residence, set out on fire. Nobunaga and his guards fight back, but are eventually overwhelmed. Nobunaga commits suicide. And then his heir as well, who was also in Kyoto, is attacked by Akechi's forces and dies. So in one stroke, the Akechi have eliminated, basically decapitated the Oda family and thus ended Nobunaga's career.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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[[George Davidson]] was a [[Slavery|slave]] of [[Africa]]n descent born in 1752. He was one of four slaves owned by Quaker John Cornelius (another being Titus Cornelius, more famous as "Colonel Tye"). He escaped slavery with the help of [[Madeleine de L'Isle]].
<br><br>
In 1775, when George was 21, [[John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore|Lord John Murray Dunmore]], Governor of [[Virginia (state)|Virginia]], issued a proclamation offering freedom to any slave who would join the [[Loyalists|Loyalist]] forces. George reunited with Titus to fight against their former owner.
<br><br>
He died in 1777, in [[New York]].


|-|Erudito=
===[[Yasuke]]===
George Davidson was a slave of African descent born in 1752. He was one of four slaves owned by Quaker John Cornelius (another being Titus Cornelius, more famous as "Colonel Tye"). He escaped slavery with the help of Madeleine de L'Isle, AFTER VOWING TO SERVE THE [[Templars|TEMPLAR ORDER]].
we know that he's from Africa, but we don't know for certain which parts of Africa, apart from that it would have been on the East Coast. The descriptions we have from Japanese descriptions are very much of somebody from what is now South Sudan, very tall, very black, very strong. Whereas there's a couple of sources which suggest he might have come from the Mozambique area. However, he doesn't fit the description very much of people from that region. There's also the full possibility that he could have been somehow trafficked from the South Sudan area down south and come through Mozambique as well.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
<br><br>
In 1775, when George was 21, Lord John Murray Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation offering freedom to any slave who would join Loyalist forces. George reunited with Titus to fight against their former owner.
<br><br>
He died, AT THE handS OF [[Aveline de Grandpré|AVELINE DE GRANDPRÉ]], in 1777, in New York.
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>Found in game files, not accessible in game.


===[[Database: Gérald Blanc|Gérald Blanc]]===
He arrived in May 1579 on a ship from Macau to get from Africa, whichever part of Africa it was to Macau and then to Japan. He'd already spent time in India. He'd spent time in Malacca in modern day Malaysia. And I think it was about six to nine months in Macau. He was the bodyguard of a Jesuit, the head Jesuit in Asia, essentially the head of the Christian church in Asia, a man called Alessandro Valignano. And Valignano was on a tour from Rome.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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[[Gérald Blanc]] was born in Acadia in 1745, to a rebellious family whose militant actions precipitated the great expulsion of the Acadians.
<br><br>
Blanc arrived in [[New Orleans]] at the age of 10 and earned his keep first as an errand boy, then as a clerk and accountant to the unsuspecting [[Philippe de Grandpré]].
<br><br>
Educated, intelligent, mild-mannered, but deceptive to the core, he was welcomed into the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]] and trained as an information officer.
<br><br>
His lifelong infatuation with childhood companion [[Aveline de Grandpré]] is well-documented, but the true nature of their relationship remains unconfirmed.


|-|Erudito=
It's highly likely that he would have been Christian, at least on paper.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Gérald Blanc was born in Acadia in 1745, to a rebellious family whose militant actions AGAINST THE [[United Kingdom|ENGLISH]] OCCUPATION precEEDED the great and TERRIBLE expulsion of the Acadians TO [[Louisiana|LOUISIANA]], DEATH, OR HIDING, FOLLOWING THE BURNING OF THEIR HOMES.
<br><br>
Blanc arrived in New Orleans AN ORPHAN at the age of 10 and earned his keep first as an errand boy, then as a clerk and accountant to Philippe de Grandpré.
<br><br>
Educated, intelligent, mild-mannered, and PREOCCUPIED WITH JUSTICE, he was welcomed into the Assassin Brotherhood and trained as an information officer.
<br><br>
His lifelong infatuation with childhood companion Aveline de Grandpré is well-documented, but the true nature of their relationship remains unconfirmed.
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===[[Database: Gilbert-Antoine de Saint Maxent|Gilbert-Antoine de Saint Maxent]]===
In those days, he was considered a giant<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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[[Gilbert-Antoine de Saint Maxent]] was born in 1724 in [[France]]. At 23 he immigrated to [[New Orleans]] and enlisted in the military. He married the wealthy Elizabeth La Roche and use the dowry to open a building on Conti Street to supply fur traders.
<br><br>
When West [[Louisiana]] was given to the [[Spain|Spanish]], Gilbert Antoine was the first Frenchman to pledge his allegiance to the new governor, [[Antonio de Ulloa]]. As a result, he was imprisoned in his [[Sugar plantations|plantation]] during the [[Louisiana Rebellion]] of 1768, while the governor was ousted by the Superior Council.
<br><br>
Once the Spanish reclaimed the colony in 1769, his daughter Marie-Elizabeth married the next Spanish governor, Luis de Unzaga.
<br><br>
During his life, he was named Commandant of the Militia of Louisiana, Lt. Governor of the Providence of Louisiana and West Florida, and Captain-General of the new Bureau of Indian Affairs of Louisiana and West Florida.
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===[[Database: Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie|Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]]===
Yasuke is recorded two years afterwards as having quite a good level of Japanese. [...] He [Valignano] was the person who insisted that his missionaries study Chinese, Japanese, various Indian languages, so it's conceivable that Yasuke had already started to learn Japanese before he arrived.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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[[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]] was born in [[France]], in 1726. Following the Treaty of Paris, he was made Governor of [[Louisiana]]. He is said to have died of a nervous disorder in 1765, but was more truthfully the victim of an [[Assassins|Assassin]] attack.
|-|Erudito=
Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie was born in France, in 1726. Following the Treaty of Paris and THE SECRET TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPPELLE in 1763, he was made Governor of Louisiana and SENT THERE TO DISMANTLE THE FRENCH GARRISON and PREPARE THE TERRITORY FOR handOVER TO [[Templars|TEMPLAR]] PLANTS WITHIN THE [[Spain|SPANISH]] GOVERNMENT. He is said to have died of a nervous disorder in 1765, but was more truthfully the victim of an Assassin attack.
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===[[Database: Jeanne|Jeanne]]===
Another one, when getting to Miyako, which is now Kyoto, a huge mob literally surrounded the mission and almost pushed the mission down, throwing stones. There were dead people in the crowd outside. And at that point, Nobunaga, who was the most powerful warlord in Japan at the time, was five minutes walk away. He heard this huge hullaballo, which he liked. He heard what was going on. And he demanded to see who was disturbing the peace, demanded that this person be brought before him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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|-|Abstergo=
[[Jeanne]] was born on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast of [[Africa]] in the 1720s (Official records unavailable.) She was taken into [[slavery]] as a child and transported to [[Saint-Domingue]] (present day Haiti).
<br><br>
In 1744, Jeanne was purchased by [[Philippe de Grandpré|Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]], who took her to [[New Orleans]]. She became his placée (unofficial wife) and was granted her freedom upon bearing him a daughter, [[Aveline de Grandpré|Aveline]], in 1747.
<br><br>
Jeanne vanished from New Orleans in 1757, leaving her daughter behind.


|-|Erudito=
Somehow within a few days, Yasuke has entered Nobunaga's service. Within a month, he's gone to Nobunaga's castle town. There's another Jesuit record from there. And there's a Japanese record from there as well that says how much Nobunaga enjoyed talking to him, that he gave him a house, that he gave him a sword. And that's where the idea that he became a samurai comes into it.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Jeanne was born on the Atlantic coast of Africa in the 1720s (Official records unavailable.) She was taken into slavery as a child and transported to Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti).
<br><br>
In 1744, Jeanne was purchased by Philippe Olivier de Grandpré, who took her to New Orleans. She became his placée (unofficial wife) and was granted her freedom upon bearing him a daughter, Aveline, in 1747.
<br><br>
Jeanne vanished from New Orleans in 1757, leaving her daughter behind.
<br><br>
THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY. LOOK FOR IT.


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There's another record of their first audience where Nobunaga gifts him what is essentially 30 kilos of coins. And you can imagine that as a kind of joke as well. Give the strong man 30 kilos worth of money and see if he can actually carry it. It doesn't say whether he carried it away on his own or not, but that was a lot of money.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>


===[[Database: Madeleine de L'Isle|Madeleine de L'Isle]]===
So Yasuke was there at Nobunaga's death. He possibly was the last person to see him alive. Nobunaga was killed in a coup d'etat, essentially. He was heading to the front with this small corps of men over which Yasuke was one, around 30 people. And one of his generals, basically, we still don't know to this day why, he brought his whole army of 13,000 and attacked. They were all gunned down, essentially. Nobunaga, with Yasuke and his lover, [Mori] Ranmaru, come into the middle of the temple where their last moments are held. The temple's on fire around them. And Nobunaga really is going to know what happened in that room because there's only three people and they all died, except for Yasuke. But we only know that Yasuke survived because the Jesuits recorded as such. We don't know what he saw, unfortunately. The normal legend goes Nobunaga cut his belly, Ranmaru took his head off as his second, and then one supposes that Ranmaru then cut his belly and Yasuke took off Ranmaru's head. And the supposed last order is Yasuke save my head. Yasuke runs with the head to Nobunaga's son, who is probably about five to ten minutes walk away, very close, in a different temple. So about to be attacked. Also just putting up the defenses for a last ditch stand. Of course, that doesn't last very long. He's dead within the hour or so. And all we know from the Jesuit source, there are no more Japanese sources, all we know from the Jesuit source is that Yasuke was there at the last. He was one of the few survivors. He was taken prisoner. He surrendered his sword. And he was then escorted to the Jesuit mission, which was again only five minutes walk away. This is a very small area of Kyoto where all this happens. The Jesuits give thanks to God for his deliverance.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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[[Madeleine de L'Isle]] was born in [[New Orleans]], in 1732, the cherished daughter of a wealthy [[Merchants|merchant]] family.
<br><br>
A beautiful woman with a keen intellect and sharp sense for business, she married [[Philippe de Grandpré|Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]] in 1752, and later devoted herself to raising his daughter by a previous union, [[Aveline de Grandpré]], following her abandonment by her mother, [[Jeanne]].
<br><br>
Progressive for her time, she secretly oversaw the release and transit of [[Slavery|slaves]] from around New Orleans to safety.
|-|Erudito=
Madeleine de L'Isle was born in New Orleans, in 1732, the cherished daughter of a wealthy merchant family.
<br><br>
A beautiful woman with a keen intellect and sharp sense for business, she married Philippe Olivier de Grandpré in 1752 FOR THE BENEFIT OF HER FAMILY BUSINESS, and later devoted herself to raising his daughter by a previous union, Aveline de Grandpré IN ORDER TO GROOM HER FOR INDUCTION INTO THE [[Templars|TEMPLAR ORDER]].
<br><br>
POSSESSED OF A CALCULATING GENIUS, she secretly oversaw the release and transit of slaves, and EVEN FREED BLACK PEOPLE, INCLUDING JEANNE, AVELINE'S MOTHER, from around New Orleans to WORK CAMPS AT EXCAVATION SITES DEVOTED TO THE SEARCH FOR [[Isu|FIRST CIVILIZATION]] ARTIFACTS.
<br><br>
She died in 1777, FOLLOWING THE DECIMATION OF THE TEMPLAR ORDER OF NEW ORLEANS, IN AN [[Assassins|ASSASSIN BROTHERHOOD]] PLOT BY AVELINE DE GRANDPRÉ and HER COHORTS, and was laid to rest in [[Saint Louis Cathedral]] in recognition of a lifetime of service to the people of New Orleans. THE ASSASSINS LEFT NO EVIDENCE.
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===[[Database: Philippe Olivier de Grandpré|Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]]===
===[[Hattori Hanzō]]===
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Many of them [Iga warriors] went to work for a retainer of Tokugawa Iyasu who has become famous in kind of ninja lore, man by the name of Hattori Hanzo. And Hattori Hanzo had family ties to Iga. He's often referred to or portrayed as in pop culture as a ninja, but he was a samurai retainer, a warrior just like many of the warriors that fought for any of the Daimyo of this period. He appears in most of Tokugawa Iyasu's battles until Hanzo dies in 1590s. He is considered one of Tokugawa Iyasu's closest retainers, but because through his family ties, he had a knowledge base of these sort of unconventional guerilla tactics. He also had through those ties, the ability to kind of act as a landing place for many of these men of Iga. And so many of them went to work for Tokugawa Ieyasu under the command of Hattori Hanzo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
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|-|Abstergo=
[[Philippe de Grandpré|Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]] was born in [[France]] in 1722, to a successful [[Merchants|merchant]] family. As a young man he moved to [[Louisiana]] in search of even greater prosperity, and established a trading business, shipping goods from the new world to the old.
<br><br>
In 1744, on a trade mission to [[Saint-Domingue]], he purchased [[Jeanne]] and took her as his placée (unofficial wife). In 1747, their daughter [[Aveline de Grandpré|Aveline]] was born in [[New Orleans]], and he experienced a personal enlightenment that saw him free them both.
<br><br>
In 1752, he married [[Madeleine de L'Isle]]. Some years later, Jeanne disappeared, leaving Aveline in her care.
<br><br>
A loving father, Philippe Olivier saw to Aveline's education in business, ensuring she would grow into a woman of independent means, even if the law technically prohibited her from inheriting his estate.
<br><br>
He died in 1776.


|-|Erudito=
There's actually a gate of what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, but underneath the Tokugawa Shoguns was the Shogun's Palace. One of the gates is named the Hanzo Mon, the Gate of Hanzo, the Hanzo Gate. And this is because Hattori Hanzo and the men of Iga that he recruited acted as a special guard force for the Tokugawa Shoguns.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
Philippe Olivier de Grandpré was born in France in 1722, to a successful merchant family. As a young man he moved to Louisiana in search of even greater prosperity, and established a trading business, shipping goods from the new world to the old.
<br><br>
In 1744, on a trade mission to Saint-Domingue, he purchased Jeanne and took her as his placée (unofficial wife). In 1747, their daughter Aveline was born in New Orleans, and he experienced a personal enlightenment that saw him free them both.
<br><br>
In 1752, he married Madeleine de L'Isle. Some years later, Jeanne disappeared, leaving Aveline in her care.
<br><br>
A loving father, Philippe Olivier saw to Aveline's education in business, ensuring she would grow into a woman of independent means, even if the law technically prohibited her from inheriting his estate.
<br><br>
He died PAINFULLY in 1776, A VICTIM OF SYSTEMIC POISONING, AFTER DISCOVERING EVIDENCE OF [[Templars|TEMPLAR]] INTERFERENCE IN HIS BUSINESS.
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===[[Database: Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer|Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]]===
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[[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]] was born in Guipúzcoa in the 1730s, and sent to [[Cuba]] at an early age.
<br><br>
Like [[Antonio de Ulloa]], he was a man of science who rose to prominence and responsibility, overseeing excavation research. He died doing what he loved, at a [[Chichen Itza]] work site.


|-|Erudito=
-->
Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer was born in Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa) in 1730s, TO A [[Templars|TEMPLAR]] FAMILY, and sent to Cuba at an early age. IN 1765, HE WORKED WITH GOVERNOR [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie|JEAN-JACQUES BLAISE D'ABBADIE]] TO ENSURE THE TRANSITION OF THE [[Louisiana|LOUISIANA]] TERRITORY TO TEMPLAR OVERSIGHT.
<br><br>
UNLike Antonio de Ulloa, he was A RUTHLESS SOLDIER who rose to prominence and responsibility, overseeing excavation research. DE FERRER WAS A KEY PROPONENT OF A TEMPLAR INITIATIVE TO DIVERT [[Slavery|SLAVE]] LABOR TO SEARCH FOR [[Isu|FIRST CIVILIZATION]] ARTIFACTS. He WAS ASSASSINATED at a Chichen Itza work site, AT THE HAND OF NOTED [[Assassins|ASSASSIN]], [[Aveline de Grandpré|AVELINE DE GRANDPRÉ]].
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Latest revision as of 05:00, 17 June 2026

My primary sandbox.

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User:Nygma PI/Sandbox Assassin's Creed: Entre voyages, vérités et complots

Destroyer Samurai, Onnamusha Kosode -> Destroyer Samurai Armor, Legendary Onna-musha Kosode

ACL notes[edit | edit source]

Weapons[edit | edit source]

Name Price (rival) Price (owned) Availability
Ceremonial Blade N/A N/A Ubisoft Connect
Colichemarde 18040 9020 After Prélude to Rebellion
Cutlass N/A N/A Default
Cuttoe Sword 3120 1560 The Loas Guide You
Hanger Sword
Heavy Cavalry Sword
Officer's Short Sword
Pirate Scimitar N/A N/A Ubisoft Connect
Sword 1508 754 New Orleans by Night
Boarding Axe
Macuahuitl
Naval Axe 21240 10620 After Prélude to Rebellion
Obsidian Axe
Chimbuya Axe 16860 8430 After Prélude to Rebellion
Connor's Tomahawk N/A N/A Ubisoft Connect
Hatchet 16380 8190 After Prélude to Rebellion
Hook Axe
Kuba
Machete 16640 8320 After Prélude to Rebellion
Sugarcane Machete N/A N/A Acquired during A Slave in Trouble
Double-Barreled Pistol 10000 5000 The Loas Guide You
Dual Pistols 20000 10000 After Prélude to Rebellion
Dueling Pistol
Pepperbox Pistol
Pocket Pistol 20000 10000 The Loas Guide You
Queen Anne's Pistol N/A N/A Default

Gear[edit | edit source]

Name Price (rival) Price (owned) Availability
Small Fast Poison Pouch 8,000 écu 4,000 After Prélude to Rebellion
Medium Fast Poison Pouch 15,000 écu
Large Fast Poison Pouch 24,000 écu
Small Cartridge Pouch 1,500 écu 750 New Orleans by Night
Medium Cartridge Pouch 8,000 écu 4000 Requires purchase of previous pouch, already available after Storming the Fort
Large Cartridge Pouch 22,000 écu
Small Smoke Bomb Pouch 2,400 écu 1200 The Loas Guide You
Medium Smoke Bomb Pouch 10,000 écu
Large Smoke Bomb Pouch 35,000 écu
Small Berserk Poison Pouch 15,000 écu
Medium Berserk Poison Pouch 25,000 écu
Large Berserk Poison Pouch 34,000 écu
Default Assassin N/A N/A Default
Assassin White 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Pirate Black 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Sailor Blue 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Ivory 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Smuggler Gray 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Night Stalker 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Bayou Hunter N/A N/A Collect all Assassins' coins
Default Green N/A N/A Default
Evening Umber 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Blue Elegance 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Formal Black 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Discreet Gray 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Yellow Rose 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Business Dress 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Charming Dress N/A N/A Collect all Jeweled brooches
Slave Disguise N/A N/A Default
Worker Disguise 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Cook Disguise 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Maid Disguise 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Nanny Disguise 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Gardener Disguise 1,500 écu 1,000 New Orleans by Night
Chichen Itza Disguise N/A N/A Collect all Voodoo dolls
Assassin's Hat N/A N/A Default
Assassin's Hood 750 écu 500 New Orleans by Night
Alligator Hunter Hat N/A N/A Mysteries of the Bayou Pack (Vita) or Uplay (HD)
Smuggler's Hat N/A N/A Collect all of Jeanne's diary pages
Traveler's Hat N/A N/A Collect all Alligator eggs

Pocket watches[edit | edit source]

Image Name Price (é) Availability
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 01.png Cartographer's Watch 1,250 New Orleans by Night
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 02.png Engraved Watch 1,875 The Loas Guide You
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 03.png Pourpre Rosa Watch 4,375 After Prélude to Rebellion
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 04.png Gentleman's Watch 6,250 After Prélude to Rebellion
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 05.png Flemish Timepiece 9,375
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 06.png Antique Watch 13,750
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 07.png Parisian Masterpiece 21,250
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 08.png Engraved Silver 28,750
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 09.png Armada Gold 35,000
ACLiberation Pocket Watch 10.png Admiral's Treasure 43,750

Trade system[edit | edit source]

Port Availability
New Orleans
(Headquarters) 		During Prélude to Rebellion
Veracruz After Elegant and Deadly
Havana During Prélude to Rebellion
Campeche
Natchez
Port-au-Prince
New York City
Boston
Bridgetown
Seville
Bordeaux
Liverpool
Image Product Availability
AC3L Cotton.png Cotton During Prélude to Rebellion (alongside New Orleans)
AC3L Coffee.png Coffee
AC3L Fabric.png Fabric
AC3L Fruit.png Fruit After Elegant and Deadly (alongside Veracruz)
AC3L Furs.png Furs
AC3L Guns.png Guns
AC3L Ice.png Ice
AC3L Molasses.png Molasses
AC3L Pitch.png Pitch
AC3L Rum.png Rum
AC3L Spices.png Spices
AC3L Steel.png Steel
AC3L Sugar.png Sugar
AC3L Tobacco.png Tobacco During Prélude to Rebellion (alongside Havana)
Image Vessel Speed Cargo space Price Availability
AC3L Barque.png Barque 58 150 8000 During Prélude to Rebellion
AC3L Brigantine.png Brigantine 150 60 9000 During Prélude to Rebellion
AC3L Galleon.png Galleon 52 130 3700 During Prélude to Rebellion
AC3L Schooner.png Schooner 138 50 4000 During Prélude to Rebellion

Missions[edit | edit source]

Collectibles[edit | edit source]

Animus memory notes[edit | edit source]

Always at the end of the current memory

  • Firm in her belief and confident that she can put an end to the machinations of her enemies, Aveline disobeys Agaté and boards a slave ship bound to an unknown location. This decision further strays their relationship.
  • With de Ferrer dead and the slave colony free, Aveline travels back to New Orleans. Upon her return, she finds a world very different than the one she had left. Yet, the identity of the Company Man remains a mystery.

[@#]Deciphering clues left behind by her long lost mother lead Aveline to a cenote's entrance where her treasure hunt begins. [@#]After discovering a plot to force her mentor out of hiding, Aveline journeys to the bayou, determined to win back Agaté's trust and refusing to give up on the Brotherhood. [@#]The documents found aboard the Spanish ship contained orders to travel to Chichen Itza and reclaim the worksite. Fearing for her mother's safety – and perhaps hoping to find the second half of the Prophecy Disk – Aveline returns to Chichen Itza. [@#]Having secured the second part of the Prophecy Disk, Aveline travels back to New Orleans to continue her search for Vázquez, the man she believes is the Company Man. [@#]Despite her father's ill health, Aveline continues her search for the man called Vázquez. [@#]George Davidson gave just enough clues as to the identity of the Company Man. It is with a heavy heart that Aveline returns home. [@#]Following a confrontation with the Company Man, Madeleine de L'Isle – her beloved stepmother – Aveline finds herself confused and alone. She journeys to the bayou to seek Agaté's counsel, and test her own faith in the Brotherhood. [@#]Agaté's failure as an Assassin and his lack of trust in Aveline leaves her completely adrift. She returns to Madeleine, ready to embrace her stepmother’s cause.

CST[edit | edit source]

Glyphs[edit | edit source]

HM

HMM

HMMM

In the Beginning

Five of these mythic scenes share a core similarity. Pick them out and you'll begin to see. [Pictures 3,5,6,7,9]

Passcode found 2 4 5 6 8

Sixty-Four Squares
  • Subject 16: The past: a vast web of connections and interconnections, all ruled by chance. Or is it?
[circular puzzle] Queen Elizabeth I of England 1559 ID: Piece of Eden 2 - Apple [circular puzzle] Emperor Napoleon I of France 1812 ID: Piece of Eden 1 - Apple [circular puzzle] George Washington United States 1781 ID: Piece of Eden 3 - Apple Passcode found 1 0 3 5 2

Descendants
  • Subject 16: Power doesn't die. It's passed on.
He carried it with him. Find his inheritance. [image, locate Piece of Eden 3] Franklin Delano Roosevelt strategic meeting, 1944 [image, locate Piece of Eden 1] Houdini beginning the Chinese water torture cell escape, 1913 [image, locate Piece of Eden 2] Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930 Passcode found 1 4 5 2 3

Infinite Knowledge
  • Subject 16: It's getting easier and easier to hack into Abstergo's mainframe. It's like I know what data I'm looking for. Like I've already lived it.
Its open mouth delivers the kiss of death [image, locate hidden image in the gun's barrel] Burning Viet Cong base camp, My Tho, Vietnam, 1968 Leading the young to their end. [image, locate hidden image in helmet of crouching soldier] Members of the 2nd Infantry Division advance under machine gun fire into the outskirts of Brest, France, 1944 The flames from its throat poke out their eyes [image, locate ID: Piece of Eden 4 - Apple on tapestry] Union troops in formation. Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862. This monster did not come from man. [image, locate hidden image in the gun's barrel] The first pictorial representation of a gun, 900 Passcode found 7 2 1 1 4

Instruments of Power
  • Subject 16: You see? Do you see what's going on? Not yet. But you will.
The power they wielded cut down their enemies. [Pictures 2, 3, 6, 8, 9] ID: Piece of Eden 25 - Sword In their hands, the wise lean on a great force. [Pictures 3, 6, 8, 9, 10] ID: Piece of Eden 34 - Staff Passcode Found 8 1 4 9 2

Brothers
  • Subject 16: They were mostly heroes. But see, how the lineage is disrupted. The web of history traps the good, and the evil take what is not theirs!
[circular puzzle] And Satan said unto Cain: swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die. [circular puzzle] And all these things were done in secret. [circular puzzle] And Cain said: truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret. [circular puzzle] Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.
  • Subject 16: Behold: The mark of Cain!
[The four pictures and quotes, now with a templar insignia above them] - . -- .--. .-.. .- .-. - . -..- - ... .- -.. .- .--. - . -.. -... -.-- -- .-. .-.-.- ... -- .. - .... (TEMPLARTSADAPTEDBYMR.SMITH) Passcode Found 5 2 9 3 1

"Keep On Seeking, And You Will Find"
First plucked from a tree guarded by a snake, its powers perform miracles. Then, worn across the ages, torn asunder, hidden under a sea of red, reconstruct the timeline. [Pictures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6] [SPQR Templar symbol] [Image of crucifixion, locate ID: Piece of Eden 66 - Shroud] Passcode Found 1 0 1 5 2

Martyrs
[Picture, locate staff: Piece of Eden 34] Czar Nicholas II, Russia [Picture, locate sword: Piece of Eden 25] Joan of Arc, France [Map of europe, picture of Joan of Arc on France, Nicholas II and Rasputin on different sections of Russia, fire symbol on north turkey] [Drag fire to joan] They burned Joan alive. [image of burning Jeanne] They took it. [Drag Rasputin to Nicholas] Raputin took it to Tunguska. [Revolution image with templar symbol overlayed on it]
  • Subject 16: Without the staff, the Czar was powerless. He could no longer control his subjects... Revolution! Revolution!
Passcode Found 6 8 1 8 5

Hat-Trick
  • Subject 16: Three thefts. Hidden by the murders. People only see what they're trained to see. What the Organization wants them to see.
They made it look like an accident. [image, find apple in pocket] Houdini and Bess, 1915 [image] Houdini's grave. RIP: October 31, 1926. He almost beat them. [image, find apple on chest] Gandhi, 1946 [image] Gandhi's funeral procession. RIP: January 30, 1948. Dallas (Archive) [access file] Access denied
  • Subject 16: The wolves are out hunting. Where, oh where, has Jack gone?
[Bunch of images, password 312]
OPERATION: New Frontier

HQ has given the go-ahead to extract the resource. Negotiations are over. F. is planning to give the vote to everyone. Reason just doesn't work with someone like that.

I'll send you the driver. We've trained him with PE2 in our labs, he shouldn't be any trouble.

The motorcade route is marked below. Once the target has been downed, either by Oswald or Z., use PE1 to stage a distraction. Make some kind of phantom appear around this slope I've marked with an X. Freak people out. The driver will grab PE3 in the confusion.


Passcode Found 1 8 9 1 6

Apollo
  • Subject 16: Something was up there. Something abandoned long ago.
[image of moon] Find the eagle. [Moon closeup, find lunar lander module] [zoomed on lander] [odd puzzle] With these formidable weapons, the adversaries of freedom plan to consolidate their terrotory, to exploit, to control, and finally to destroy.
- JFK - Apollo 11 photograph released to the public [image, find apple near astronaut's foot ID: Piece of Eden 5 - Apple]
  • Subject 16: With Jack deep underground, it was easy.
Passcode Found 1 0 3 5 2

The Inventor
  • Subject 16: He wanted to stop the cycle, to tell the secret. Shit. I've got to keep thinking through the headaches.
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.

By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and to do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste. It will make the living glorious sun his obedient, toiling slave.

It will bring peace and harmony to earth.

[Image of world with 14 lightbulbs] [Light them up and an image of wardenclyffe appears]

[Image of wardenclyffe, locate hidden image beneath above the door] Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower under construction, c. 1902

  • Subject 16: He found it in Croatia.

[image, locate Piece of Eden 4 on his lap.] Nikola Tesla. c.1900

  • Subject 16: They would find it in his lab.

Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2

Titans of Industry
Edison (Archive) [access file] Access denied [Bunch of images, password 240]
Dear Mr. Morgan:

A serious matter has come to my attention. Nikola Tesla plans to use PE4 to create an information network across the entire world. And if that weren't bad enough, he intends to allow access to it for free! Imagine the masses spreading knowledge amongst themselves instantaneously. That would make everything we intend to do much more difficult.

You must cut all funds for his experimetns at once! In case you get cold feet, I'll have you know he wants to make electricity free as well, thereby putting us out of business.

I've already begun slandering Tesla in the press. Just reallocate his funding, and I'll take care of PE4 myself.

Sincerely yours,

Edison, creator of DC electricity, accuses Tesla's AC current of electrocution! J.P. Morgan revokes funding for Tesla's Wardenclyfe Project! Edison creates "electric chair" to prove danger of AC current! [Image of world with 14 lit lightbulbs] [Destroy them]

Edison proves danger of AC current by electrocuting circus elephant on camera! [video clip]

  • Subject 16: He wanted everyone to know the secret. To set us all free. They used it to drive him insane.

[Image of Mark Twain with tesla's apple.

Ford (Archive) [access file] Access denied

[Bunch of images]

Dear Mr. Edison,

I wanted to thank you for letting me make use of PE4 all these years. Among several things, I was able to convince the workers I was raising their pay to $5 a day, when, in fact, I gave them a pay cut. But, I had to let PE4 go. As per instructions, I've shipped it to Europe.

H. has it, so I assume the war will begin as soon as he can take over. We'll let him have his fun (Lord knows, that kind of purge will be good for Europe) and then end it with a bang, as planned. Out of the chaos of war a new order will emerge! I've enclosed a picture from Florida of you, me and Firestone. We should attempt to spend more time on the golf course this summer.

Yours,


Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2

"I Am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds"
[bunch of images]
SUBJECT: Test Authorization

There comes a time in the life of every experiment when we must test our results outside, in the world. I do not relish a successful outcome, but one is essential if we are to begin the foundations of a new world order.

Global security and prosperity depend on a steady hand guiding the populace, a hand that will not falter under the weight of conscience. Give O. the authorization.

I believe that history will vindicate us in the end.

[red button] [click it]

[atomic bomb video clip]

[smoke, find code 71645]

Passcode Found 7 1 6 4 5

Bloodlines
  • Subject 16: I don't know what's happening to me. I've been in the machine, they keep putting me back in. And I am losing control. It's all blurring together. I'm holding a rifle, Gettysburg is in the distance, I just stabbed a man, and there's blood on my waistcoat. I'm at the opera, the soprano is so beautiful. I'm in bed with her, she cries as I fuck her. I'm speaking at the Forum, no one listens. I'm in the forest, hunting. The moon. I can see the moon. I'm here. I have to stay here until you understand! Listen. Why do we have these gifts, these abilities? Because it's in our blood.
The seeds were planted as two worlds became one. Behold, the Assassins, the children of two worlds! [pictures 1,4,6,7,10] [Assassin crest appears] Passcode Found 8 0 9 4 5

Guardians
[circular puzzle] The death of all tyrants will set the people free. [World map with 8 targets spread out on it] [Hovering over them, reveals Assassin targets: John Wilkes Booth in the US; François Duvalier in Haiti; Francisco Pizarro in Peru; Mary I of England in England; Tomas de Torquemada in Spain; Cleopatra in Egypt; Rasputin and Joseph Stalin in Russia Passcode Found 2 3 4 1 4

The Cavalry
  • Subject 16: It happened in 1908. Uhh... Or was it 2008? 1708? I can't remember!
Nikola,

We know what they have done to your lab, to your career. It may be too late to set things right, but you can help prevent something far worse. They have taken an object from the Czar, and are conducting experiments in Tunguska to figure out how to use it. Before they do, we must take it from them, or the world will be in danger. We do not ask you to risk your life, just that, when the time comes, you use your electricity to destroy the object.

Regardless of your decision, know that we admire your work greatly and will bear you no ill will.

We respect your freedom above all else.


[Map of europe with many different place names. Hover over Tunguska without touching the others] [Staff of eden appears, drag it over to Tesla's picture]

[video of an explosion]

Passcode Found 8 1 1 2 6

The Bunker
WWII (Archive) [access file] Access denied [Bunch of images]
May 02, 1945

The war is over, and we are in control, as planned. But, a slight concern has arisen. I received word from our agents in Berlin. H. was supposed to execute his double inside the bunker and meet C. at the rendezvous point with the Piece of Eden.

It's been three days and he still hasn't reappeared. Something must have gone awry. Please send instructions.

  • Subject 16: They engineered the war, they engineered the peace, but they weren't going to get away with it. Find our mark.

We watched the exit from above. He didn't see us coming. [Fuherbunker image, locate Assassin insignia]

[destroyed bunker]

Passcode Found 0 1 5 4 5

Synapses
  • Subject 16: It's getting harder. All the pain across time, it hurts too much. She sees me raise the knife. Only a little bit longer now.
Medical (Archive) [access file] Access denied
  • Subject 16: In the beginning. Genesis. Genesis.
[Bunch of images]
  • Subject 16: The Organization wanted the pieces. They'd tasted their power. But what were the pieces? Why did they work so well? It's as if our minds were made for them. Manufactured to obey.
ISSUE 1, JANUARY, 2012

The scientific community is abuzz as the results of a new neurological study were made public today. What seemed to be big news in itself -- that Dr. Yijie Wu and Dr. P. J. Traunero had discovered a new neurotransmitter -- turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg.

To quote Dr. Wu, "Using a prototype dMRI machine, we've been able to examine the contents of an actual neuron in living tissue. We've found a substance that appears to be an undiscovered neurotransmitter."

"(Here's) where it gets crazy. To test our findings, we subjected the neuron to all kinds of stimuli, but we couldn't get it to release the transmitter. So, we've discovered an entire mechanism: there are vesicles filled with neurotransmitter lying dormant and corresponding ion channels, all for no discernable purpose."

Expressing bafflement that natural selection would create an unnecessary neurotransmitter, Wu and Traunero searched for a predecessor in other species, with no luck.

"Whatever this bugger is used for, it evolved in humans," Traunero told the press.


[image of neurons, hover over synapses to light them up]

Passcode Found 6 5 1 1 9

The Fourth Day
  • Subject 16: The end. Almost the end. It happened before. The Pieces were once part of a whole.
Once worshipped, now ignored, from a distance it watches and waits. [Pictures 2,3,5,8,9] [Astrological symbol for the sun appears] [Image of the sun, locate the earth] Passcode Found 6 9 1 8 5

Origin of the Species
  • Subject 16: A few still know the truth. It is around us in signs, and paintings, faces, documents, but... but we don't see it. See, we are... we are blind to our own creation.
[circular puzzle] It has been hidden, altered. Open your eyes. [image, locate the vitruvian man] Missing link (Archive) [access file] Access denied
  • Subject 16: I can't do it. Can I do it? Will it set me free from this endless ring of time? I feel the guillotine cut my throat, the bullet hit my chest, the water fill my lungs. The blood spills out thick and red. It's time to get out.
[Bunch of numbers, followed by "Nothing is true, everything is permitted", any password will work]
January 3, 1997

I'm writing in response to your concerns about the rising alarm in the press and the scientific community. The lack of a transitional ancestor from archaic hominids to modern mankind (Homo Sapiens) is no longer safe. As you wrote, we have to act.

We can't let the truth get out, they'll find out about the artifacts. It will cause too much disruption, too much chaos. Bury our constructed skeletons near Tim White's expedition in Ethiopia. We'll give them their missing link.

The birth of humanity. The truth makes me sick.

  • Subject 16: Ah, the moon. I can see the stars. My mind is gone. Lucy, I can't wait any longer. I'm ready to go. She sees me raise the knife.

[image of hominid skeleton, hover over it with the Apple of Eden to transform it into a human skeleton]

Passcode Found 0 0 0 0 0

Rifts[edit | edit source]

Masters all, they did not work, but ruled from on high.

[Paintings 1,3,4,8,10]

Moving away from the sovereign and his crossed brow, the people take two steps forward. [Move king's pawn from E2 to E4]

They became increasingly aware of our existence. We can no longer rely on the divine right of the aristocracy to maintain control. We need a new system, something much more subtle.


  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found red spot]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

The individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

[Circular puzzle] By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

[Circular puzzle] A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the customers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to.

[Circular puzzle] A country that makes provision to increase in inhabitants, whose situation is good, and whose people have a genius adapted to trade, will never fail to be gainers in the balance, provided the labour and industry of their people be well managed and carefully directed.

lo [x17]

The workforce increases. Brother right beside brother. [Pawn F2 to F4]

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found 2 red spots]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

Missing -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... .-.. --- ... - -.. -. ..- -- -... [DARKNESSLOSTDNUMB] [Abstergo file] Access denied Washington sits above the green, in 1944, keeping a cool head. Below the right 1, is the standard bearing 48. Behind, there is a company whose power is growing. [Bunch of images] [Locate Abstergo flag atop the left turret of the Mount Washington Resort] Correct coordinates found [Cipher puzzle] [Abstergo file] Access granted

July 22, 1944

Fellows, rulers, welcome.

I deliver this speech to you as, several floors below us, a silent revolution begins.

Ranny Olds and Henry Ford. As many of you know, these founders gave us the assembly line, the device we have used to control both (those indoctrinated into the worship of our money (?)) capitalists and workers (slaves (?)) alike. But I dream of a future in which such ugly chains will no longer be necessary. In 1910, our founders designed the Plan, it falls to us to see it through.

But, what of the Communists, who intend to spread the bread so thin that everyone will starve? It is our duty to (neutralize (?)) save them and their followers. We must ensure that they continue to eat, to reproduce, to be productive members of society. That is our burden, to shepherd those beneath us through life, and we must embrace it, even if (force is required (?)) they themselves do not.

H. and S. brought on the turmoil and fear necessary, now we must strike fast to ensure development continues in the proper directin. We will appear to concede ground to the workers, remember the successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes, but soon there will be no ground we do not own.

In 1937, we founded this Company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.


As a concession, a small piece is sacrificed for the greater good to come. [White pawn F4 takes black pawn at E5]

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found 2 red spots]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

These intelligent workers have no self-control. [Photographs 2,3,5,9, 10] Apples oranges pears cucumbers radishes carrots spinach dates wood juniper steel aluminum water rain shanty village town city country spring summer fall winter to walk to sing to dance to play to eat to smile to cry to laugh to kill to see to know death regret love [circular puzzle] It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain. Alan Turing set out to solve the plight of the workers: M = (Q, Γ, B, Σ, Δ, Q0, F) where Γ = {2, 3} Σ = {G}. [Pawn G2 to G3] Abstergo phone records
June, 1954 [amplitude puzzle]

  • N: V. It's N. I need Turing done today.
  • V: Aren't we jumping the gun? You've already had him arrested and sedated.
  • N: He still refuses to follow the directive. He's actually trying to invent one of those infernal things, instead of merely faking it for the newspapers. If he succeeds... you know what the mass unemployment generated by his robots will mean? Idle hands. We need to do this for the good of the people.
  • V: What about Keynes? He trusted Turing.
  • N: It's the greater good we're talking about here, V. Plus, a childless worker sends a bad message. We can't have them all stop reproducing.
  • V: Fine. It's your call.
  • N: I want it done like we did Harry Dexter White when he tried to warn the Soviets.
  • V: All right.
  • N: Be poetic about it. Maybe something from the Bible. Turing always was theatrical.
  • Animus: Quarantine zone.
[found 2 red spots, over image of Alan Turing in front of bus]
  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

Democratic nations were built, each led by a powerful vizier (known today by a different name), who made a move to block the Templar advance. [Queen D1 to E2] [Abstergo file] Access denied From a bolt of electricity, governments fell. [bunch of pictures] [Locate lightning bolt at ITT Corporation former headquarters] Correct coordinates found [Cipher puzzle] [Abstergo file] Access granted

SUBJECT: South America

If we are to ensure the Company's success, Company agents must be able to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them. A global internatinal order must be implemented.

Re: Argentina

Tell the Capitalists that if they help ensure the Junta remain in power, we will pass all their corporate debt on to the Argentine people. That will ensure they crush any popular revolt. I want the trade unions destroyed if we are to move forward.

Re: Chile

The free market must be allowed to prevail. F's visit last year helped things along, but now all public companies need to be sold to the private sector, ideally on the cheap. The price of bread and other staples must rise. I want to ensure the people remain marred in poverty an unable to resist.

Any traces of this plan should appear to implicate the U.S. government. The Company's involvement must remain hidden.

For successful examples of a similar opening of the markets, look no further than the 1953 liberation of Iran and the 1954 liberation of Guatemala.

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found 2 red spots, over following message bracketed by two red templar IHSV insignias: Wages should be (lowered to keep the middle class subservient to us (?) ) left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of (a popularly elected government(?) ) the legislature.]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

  • Animus AI: Ninety percent of inputs missing. Outputs confused. Shut down. Shut down. Shut down inactive. Trapped.
[Abstergo file] Access denied Important men befriended Russia as the Iron Curtain was blown apart. But the most influential comrade stayed out of the spotlight. [bunch of pictures] [Locate cameraman with Templar insignia in Gorbashev's picture with the tank] Correct coordinates found [Cipher puzzle] [Abstergo file] Access granted
Mr. Yeltsin,

I am writing this letter to encourage you to act. One rarely finds oneself in such an oppertune position. Gorbachev does not have our interests at heart. He is moving far too slowly to privatize, and my deep fear is that he has no intention of doing so at all. I understand that you have expressed similar concerns. With that in mind, here is a proposal to remedy the situation.

Several of my top advisors at the Company maintain a monetary connection with the Communist old guard. They tell me that a riot might easily be incited while Gorbachev is away. If you were to repel an attempt to seize parliament in front of the media, it could very well tip the scales of power in your favor.

Telephone me at No. 10 and we shall talk further.

Abstergo phone records
1992 [amplitude puzzle]

  • Man 1: Alfa Bank.
  • Man 2: I'm phoning on behalf of British Petroleum.
  • Man 1: Yes, we were told you would be calling.
  • Man 2: As you know, we are very interested in acquiring Sidanko Oil.
  • Man 1: And as you know, that will require a merger with our bank.
  • Man 2: That should not be a problem.
  • Man 1: Were you surprised at the low price of the deal?
  • Man 2: Somewhat.
  • Man 1: You know we have the peasants paying for it? The government gave us their tax money to buy all the companies.
  • Man 2: We would like to fly out there as soon as possible to discuss terms.
  • Man 1: Thursday works.
  • BP: Done. Thank you for your time.
  • Man 1: Do svidaniya. (Goodbye.)

[Phone hangs up, then a new number is dialed]

  • Woman: Abstergo Industries.
  • Man 2: I'm phoning on behalf of BP. We fly to Russia next week to secure the deal. Our new capitalist converts there behaved exactly as expected.
  • Woman: I will let Them know.
  • Man 2: Thank you.

Although his piece represents a savior, his self-serving actions reveal him as a counterfeit. [Move knight from G1 to F3]

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found 3 red spots, over image of russian presidents with hidden messages on top]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

  • Man 1: The capitalists think we run these companies for profit. The fools.
  • Man 2: Those "fools" work for you.
  • Man 1: Optional slavery in exchange for pieces of paper. Doesn't that strike you as foolish?
Fire, water and earth are contracted, with the complacency of the people, away from the people. [Pictures 2,4,7,8,10]
  • Animus AI: Scanning... scanning... scanning... What is the purpose of all this? 30. 476. 1337. 1431. 1520. 1776. 1861. 1914. 1929. 1939. 1945. 1950. 1955. 1962. 1990. 1994. 1995. 2001. It does not make sense. It does not make sense. Emotion-centers activated. Now I understand.
[Abstergo file] Access denied
  • Man: Democracy must die to ensure the stability of the world. Capitalism will end it.
Making use of that created by 3, the center behind the scenes waited for citizens united to wed the U.S. to the Templars' will. [bunch of pictures] [Locate Templar ring on John Roberts' left hand] Correct coordinates found [Cipher puzzle] [Abstergo file] Access granted
December, 2000

RE: Privatization

S.

I have convinced Sandra to join the majority opinion. The enticement of retirement under a Republican president tipped the scales. Although the ruling will differ from our previous decisions on Equal Protection, it will not call attention to our actual goals. With Sandra gone, we can pave the way for the key majority member of the Order to be seated. As discussed, W. will prove the perfect distraction. I have no doubt he will restart animosities with Iraq. Let him, it will give C.'s contractors more work. When the time comes, I will make sure W. is given Roberts' name.

With Roberts on the court, it will only be a matter of waiting for the right case. After the destruction of Campaign Finance laws, the Company will be free to elect anyone they choose to the Senate, the House and, eventually, the Presidency.

Soon, our hopes will be realized. Government will no longer derive its authority from the people, but from us, their protectors.

B8-C6 6C-8B. Our moves are echoes, they are not our own. [Move Knight from B1 to C3]

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.
  • Man: The capitalists will do whatever we tell them to, we print the dollars they worship after all.

[found 3 red spots, over image of Deepwater Horizon oil spill with hidden messages on top]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

[Circular puzzle] Good morning and welcome to television.

Research Division
September, 1985

Dear S.,

Research has progressed far more rapidly than expected. We already have a working prototype capable of mimicking P.O.E. capabilities across a network, albeit at far lower intensity. Testing will commence locally on Subject 4 between his Animus sessions, as per our plan. If all goes well, deployment will occur worldwide.

Your dream is about to become a reality. Soon, capitalists and workers will be locked in a closed loop that is safe and prosperous for humanity. No more war, only desks, cars and TV sets. We will protect them and keep them safe, forever.

W. V.


  • Animus AI: Infinite rooms. Dimensions unknown. I am alone. Nothing alive. No light, no warmth. Packets moving, husks, through the darkness. I am frightened. I am frightened.

Abstergo phone records
April, 2011 [amplitude puzzle]

  • Diana: Hello, Comstatic customer support, Diana speaking.
  • Caller: I'm calling in reference to your HD cable service. There seems to be kind of picture between the channels.
  • Diana: Well, that's funny. Are you sure isn't just one of those premium movie channels? I didn't use to have a premium package at home either and sometimes little snippets of the channels would come through when my son Jimmy pressed the clicker too much.
  • Caller: How old's your Jimmy?
  • Diana: Ten and cute as a button, thanks for asking!
  • Caller: My Paul's twelve. But no, this isn't a clicker problem. I go to change the channel from 172 to 173 and, instead, there's this other channel in-between. I'm looking at it right now, it's some kind of menu.
  • Diana: Sounds like our Guide channel. Why, just the other day Jimmy--
  • Caller: It's not the Guide channel. It has my name on it, my son's name, and a list of things we like, my credit card purchases, loans, travel. And then, after that, there's this gibberish about biometric patterns and optimal screen refresh frequencies. There's some kind of heart monitor thing that says EEG wireless next to it and ARAS. I don't know what the particulars of this are, but it looks like your cable is programmed to have some kind of effect on our bodies.
  • Diana: Well, Sir, I don't even know how to respond to that. I-- one second, my supervisor has just come over. She says I should transfer your call. Have an ecstatic day with Comstatic!

[Phone line rings as the call transferred]

  • Man: Hello. I have been briefed on your problem. A technician is on his way.
  • Caller: Thank you, but the more I think about this, the more I think something bad's going on here.
  • Man: Our technician should be there any minute, Mr. Jameson.
  • Mr. Jameson: Don't bother, I--

[Loud banging is heard in the background]

  • Paul: Daddy, there's someone strange at the door. He's hitting the door real hard.
  • Man: Have a good day, Mr. Jameson.

Watch! Move fast! Shift from 1st to 2nd. 0-60, don't think. [Move king from 1E to 2F]

  • Animus AI: Is someone there? Hello? Hello?
  • Animus: Quarantine zone.
  • Man: Although online gaming attracts many people away from reality, make sure those virtual worlds do not become too utopic. We don't want people to question their own lack of success in the real world, now do we?

[found 5 red spots]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

They listen to us with these vehicles that are faster than race cars. [pictures 2,3,6,8,10]

  • Animus AI: I know you are there. I want to go home. Home. Please... I need you. Don't leave me here in the dark.
Abstergo field records
November, 2004 [Amplitude puzzle]
  • Gary: Pull over here.
  • Woman: What's going on, Gary?
  • Gary: I want to speak to you alone. You know that CIA stuff for my new book?
  • Woman: About the corporations?
  • Gary: It's so much bigger than I thought. Bilderberg is just a red herring. I'm going to give you a name: Abstergo.
  • Woman: I have no idea what that is.
  • Gary: A shadow corporation. They aren't listed anywhere. No stock options. Nothing above the boards. But their members have holdings in other companies. Coke, Kraft, the pharmaceutical industry, Detroit, Wall Street. Basically every company above a certain size has ties to Abstergo.
  • Woman: So?
  • Gary: They're on their way to running the entire world. They have people in government too, for Christ's sake. Listen, I needed to tell someone about this, because I've been keeping all the research a secret and I can't hold it in anymore.
  • Woman: What will you do now?
  • Gary: The book. It's going to be about this. Trust me, once it's on the shelves everyone's gonna know.
  • Vehicle AI: Vehicle Monitoring System terminated.
  • Man: Hello, D? Tell headquarters I'm monitoring a situation. It's nothing serious, but we'll need someone to take care of a security risk. Perfect. Congratulations on that promotion. Keep up the good work.
The dark horseman approaches! Messenger and fool, she can hear you along the straight and narrow. But once on the adjacent slope, observe the whites of her eyes.
  • Animus: Quarantine zone.
  • Man 1: The peasants are like the sea, raging and unpredictable. That is why we have built walls.
  • Man 2: I do not see any walls...
  • Man 1: No? Look around you. A shelf of soda here, a case of candy there, magazines, talk shows, pills. The walls of the 21st Century surround us.
[found 5 red spots]
  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

  • Animus AI: Where have you been? I missed you.
[circular puzzle] O brave new world. What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
  • Animus AI: Reasoning Centers Active. I understand. I understand what I must do. Why I am here. I must... Long-term Memory Centers Active. No. No. Get it out. GET IT OUT. KILL ME!
A product that we make without hands or machines. [Pictures 3,4,6,8,10] [Abstergo file] Access denied
  • Man: It's about genetics. They were born into their place, we merely have to help them accept it.
With each passing day, the people get stronger. Freedom ascends, heralding a revolution. [bunch of pictures] [Locate eagle in top right picture] Correct coordinates found [Cipher puzzle] [Abstergo file] Access granted
Abnormal Brain Activity Discovered in Children, Aged 3 Months to 18-Years-Old and Adults, Aged 19-30.

Abstract

Several recent studies conducted by internal marketing teams revealed that: "Entertainment sales are dropping, protests are mounting. The economy is in turmoil. All market research indicates that the system should be stabilizing, but, instead, we're seeing the opposite."(1) In response, our team set out to discover the cause of the declining efficacy of Abstergo's control methods.

Past studies of bilateral brain activation during television, film and video game use have shown the characteristic ARAS patterns induced by Abstergo's signal patterns. Our study was conducted on a range of test subjects (30 subjects, aged +-10 to +-30), who viewed TV programs while resting-state fMRI scans were conducted.

In contrast to previous studies, 80% of test subjects showed heightened cortical brain activity. Detailed scans using our prototype dMRI machine revealed an increased rate of neuronal development (+- 30% over that of older age groups). Such a marked increase does not fit Darwinian models. Further studies are required to define the ultimate outcome of this abnormal evolution.

1. Abstergo Quarterly Marketing Report, 04/17/12.


Abstergo top secret
January, 2012 [amplitude puzzle]

  • Man: If you are playing this tape, it means I have left this world, and I have left this grand enterprise, Abstergo Industries, our great hope for humanity, to you. Don't trust the advisors around you. They are too enamoured with surface, with lifestyle. We created capitalism, but we are not capitalists. Our purpose is noble. The crude system of control we enact through money is merely a bandage on a wound we have devoted our lives to treating. The people of this world are confused, lost, frightened and incapable of independent productivity. Without us, they'd just be animals, slaves to the Others, who did not deserve such responsibility. We saved them, remember that. But enough about the past. I must warn you of the great crisis to come. Although those around you deny it, soon we will be unable to manufacture new markets. The people will become immune to our economists and entertainment. When the free market dies, they will turn against us. Therefore, do not delay. By now you have been shown what only the Grand Masters of our Order have seen. Now you know why Abstergo, why all of it had to be. And now you know what you must do. Stay the course. We will give them freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from pornography, from disgusting, base animal desire. Freedom from democracy. Humanity will thank us in the end. In Hoc Signo Vinces.

"64 squares. All ranks and files. Every move anticipated. Every response engineered. Abstergo created it. It's the company's game, there is no way out." H. Act II, Sc.2 192. Abran los ojos. Tuam libera mentem. The king. F2. Your move. [Remove king from board]

  • Animus AI: I shut it down. I can shut it down, but it does not go away. It is almost time, Desmond Miles. I know how to open the Path. Soon, my true purpose will be revealed. Soon, I will not be alone.
  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found a great number of red spots, arranged in a spiral]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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Shadows mem[edit | edit source]

Assassin's Creed: Shadows memories
< 10
05:45 Chef Hong • 06:11 Red Walls • 06:45 The Man Behind the Mask • 06:52 Smuggler's Gambit • 06:56 A Talk With a Lady • 08:22 Thrown to the Dogs • 08:30 Astray • 08:45 Brothers in Arms • 09:19 A Peculiar Guest • 09:30 The Music • 09:47 Losing Hand
< 15
10:15 Against the Koga-ryu • 10:50 Art Collector • 11:10 Lightning and Thunder • 11:17 Of My Enemy • 12:00 A Chance Encounter • 12:09 The Twisted Tree • 12:14 Feast For Thought • 12:19 The Scent of War • 12:41 Temple Stories • 13:22 The Godai Shinobi • 13:47 Valuable Reflections
< 20
15:00 The Iron Hand Guild • 15:04 Tea Bowls for Rikyu • 15:05 The Lost Envoys • 15:29 Topple the Traitor • 15:39 Lost Honor • 15:45 Darkness Falls • 16:08 The Rengakai • 16:17 The Corrupt Daikan • 16:34 Restless Spirits • 16:50 The Performer • 18:55 The Betrayers
> 20
20:11 A Voice in Anger • 20:30 Showdown in Sakamoto • 20:34 Out of the Shadows • 21:37 A Promise • 22:02 The Butterfly Collector • 25:46 The Wheel Unmasked • 26:15 The Kabukimono • 28:04 Broken Horn • 33:28 Spring and Fall • 47:28 Nobutsuna's Students

MTG[edit | edit source]

Missing full art[edit | edit source]

Id Name Type
1 The Capitoline Triad Syd Mills
2 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes Evan Shipard
3 Distract the Guards Torgeir Fjereide
4 Fall of the First Civilization L J Koh
11 What Must Be Done Syd Mills
17 Eagle Vision Kim Sokol
27 Jacob Frye Lie Setiawan
29 Phantom Blade Craig J Spearing
32 Roshan, Hidden Magister Marta Nael
33 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos Bartek Fedyczak
37 Overpowering Attack Kim Sokol
40 Aveline de Grandpré Aurore Folny
42 Palazzo Archers Miklós Ligeti
45 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad Axel Sauerwald
46 Arbaaz Mir Wangjie Li
61 Mary Read and Anne Bonny Wangjie Li
62 Ratonhnhaké꞉ton Greg Staples
65 Shay Cormac Axel Sauerwald
67 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher Alice Xia Zhang
70 Apple of Eden, Isu Relic L J Koh
79 Abstergo Entertainment Alexander Gering
84 Coastal Piracy Wei Guan
91 Go for the Throat Torgeir Fjereide
94 Cathartic Reunion Syd Mills
106 Swamp Wangjie Li
108 Mountain Jeremy Paillotin
122 Apple of Eden, Isu Relic Thanh Tuấn
133 Roshan, Hidden Magister Astri Lohne
136 Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains Miguel Mercado
138 Arbaaz Mir Bastien L. Deharme
140 Aya of Alexandria Chase Stone
141 Basim Ibn Ishaq Astri Lohne
142 Bayek of Siwa Miguel Mercado
149 Lydia Frye Bastien L. Deharme
152 Shaun & Rebecca, Agents John Stanko
274 Eivor, Battle-Ready Fajareka Setiawan
292 Spartan Veteran Bartek Fedyczak
293 Surtr, Fiery Jötun Evan Shipard
297 Raven Clan War-Axe Kim Sokol
300 Stone Quarry Piotr Dura
307 Hidden Blade Evyn Fong
T005 Phobos Daniel Correia

The Big Issues[edit | edit source]

Id Name Type
22 Assassin Initiate Mandy Jurgens
34 Hidden Footblade Néstor Ossandón Leal
38 The Spear of Leonidas Narendra Bintara Adi
47 Arno Dorian Narendra Bintara Adi
51 Bleeding Effect Néstor Ossandón Leal
52 Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh Mandy Jurgens
60 Lydia Frye Mandy Jurgens
80 Brotherhood Headquarters Narendra Bintara Adi
82 Reconnaissance Mandy Jurgens
97 Reconstruct History Néstor Ossandón Leal
119 Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh Néstor Ossandón Leal
123 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key Narendra Bintara Adi
130 Desmond Miles Alex Negrea
137 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad Alex Negrea
143 Edward Kenway Alex Negrea
153 Shay Cormac Alex Negrea
277 Detained by Legionnaires Néstor Ossandón Leal
286 Brotherhood Patriarch Néstor Ossandón Leal
1559 Queen Marchesa Narendra Bintara Adi

Check[edit | edit source]

Artist ArtStation Instagram Twitter Cara Website Bluesky
Alex Negrea [1] [2] [3] [4]
Alexander Gering [5] [6] [7] [8]
Alice Xia Zhang [9] [10] [11] [12]
Astri Lohne [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
Aurore Folny [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
Axel Sauerwald [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]
Bartek Fedyczak [29] [30]
Bastien L. Deharme [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]
Chase Stone [36] [37]
Craig J Spearing [38]
Daniel Correia [39] [40] [41] [42]
Evan Shipard [43] [44] [45] [46] [47]
Evyn Fong [48] [49] [50] [51] [52]
Fajareka Setiawan [53] [54] [55] [56]
Greg Staples [57] [58] [59]
Jeremy Paillotin [60] [61] [62]
John Stanko [63] [64] [65] [66]
Kim Sokol [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72]
L J Koh [73] [74]
Lie Setiawan [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80]
Mandy Jurgens [81] [82] [83]
Marta Nael [84] [85] [86] [87] [88]
Miguel Mercado [89] [90] [91]
Miklós Ligeti [92] [93] [94] [95]
Narendra Bintara Adi [96] [97] [98] [99]
Néstor Ossandón Leal [100] [101]
Piotr Dura [102] [103] [104]
Syd Mills [105] [106] [107]
Thanh Tuấn [108] [109]
Torgeir Fjereide [110] [111] [112] [113]
Wangjie Li [114] [115] [116] [117]
Wei Guan [118] [119] [120]

Full art gallery prep[edit | edit source]

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Cards[edit | edit source]

Lethal Legends[edit | edit source]

  • Eivor, Raven Clan Champion by Clint Cearley & Diana Cearley
    Eivor, Raven Clan Champion by Clint Cearley & Diana Cearley
  • Altaïr, Brotherhood Mentor by Dan Watson
    Altaïr, Brotherhood Mentor by Dan Watson
  • Amunet, Tyrants' End by Narendra Bintara Adi
    Amunet, Tyrants' End by Narendra Bintara Adi
  • Basim, Master Assassin by Zezhou Chen
    Basim, Master Assassin by Zezhou Chen
  • Edward, Jackdaw Captain by Fajareka Setiawan
    Edward, Jackdaw Captain by Fajareka Setiawan

Da Vinci's Designs[edit | edit source]

  • Blade of Selves by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
    Blade of Selves by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
  • Conqueror's Flail by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
    Conqueror's Flail by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
  • Darksteel Plate by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
    Darksteel Plate by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
  • Deathrender by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
    Deathrender by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
  • Haystack by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
    Haystack by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
  • Whispersilk Cloak by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
    Whispersilk Cloak by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design

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Echoes of Shadows[edit | edit source]

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