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{{WP-REAL}} | {{Quote|I am known by many names: Consus, Prometheus, the Erudite God...|Consus, 1692.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed 4 (issue)}} | ||
{{Quote|I am known by many names: Consus, Prometheus, the Erudite God...|Consus, 1692.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)}} | |||
{{Character Infobox | {{Character Infobox | ||
|image = | |image = File:Consus Isu fullbody.png | ||
|death = [[Isu Era]] {{C|Physical death}}<br>13 October 2014 {{C|Consciousness}} | |death = c. 1923 [[Isu Era]] {{C|Physical death}}<br>13 October 2014 {{C|Consciousness}} | ||
|species = [[Isu]] | |species = [[Isu]] | ||
|affiliates = [[Hephaestus]]<br>[[Humans]]}} | |affiliates = [[Hephaestus]]<br>[[Humans]]}} | ||
'''Consus''', also known as the '''Erudite God''', '''Prometheus''', and | '''Consus''', also known as the '''Erudite God''', '''Prometheus''', and theorized to be [[Jeanne d'Arc]]'s '''Voices''', was a famed [[Isu]] scientist and a creator of [[Pieces of Eden]]. | ||
Towards the end of his natural life, Consus, afraid of death, transferred his consciousness into his prototype [[Shrouds of Eden|Shroud of Eden]]. From there Consus developed an affinity for the human species, impressed with their ability to become more than what the | Towards the end of his natural life, Consus, afraid of death, transferred his consciousness into his prototype [[Shrouds of Eden|Shroud of Eden]]. From there Consus developed an affinity for the human species, impressed with their ability to become more than what the Isu had ever intended, and communicated with various individuals in different forms throughout history. In the early 1500s, he became a guardian of sorts to [[Giovanni Borgia]], an [[Assassins|Assassin]] born into the notorious [[House of Borgia|Borgia family]]. | ||
While he could converse when the Shroud was active,<ref name="AssassinsIntel002">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 002]]</ref> it was | While he could converse when the Shroud was active,<ref name="AssassinsIntel002">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 002]]</ref> a side-effect of subsequent efforts to duplicate the technology copying the Isu's mind along with it,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]'' {{C|2nd edition}}</ref> it was hypothesized that Consus was also able to communicate to and through individuals with a high percentage of Isu DNA.<ref name="Hersey">''[[Assassin's Creed: Heresy]]''</ref> | ||
His consciousness transferal innovation has had far-reaching consequences as it resulted in Juno studying its mechanics, and her application of the technique led to the implementation of [[Mead of poetry|a methodology]] which allowed the scientist to ensure that her late husband [[Aita]] was [[Sage|repeatedly reincarnated]] in human form throughout the centuries. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
=== | ===Isu Era=== | ||
====Isu scientist==== | ====Isu scientist==== | ||
{{Quote|I was old. I wanted more time. Bodies constructs, minds are programs. Uploaded my program into the Shroud, to cheat death. Succeeded. Failed. Trapped in my prototype.|Consus to Álvaro Gramática, 2012.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}} | {{Quote|I was old. I wanted more time. Bodies constructs, minds are programs. Uploaded my program into the Shroud, to cheat death. Succeeded. Failed. Trapped in my prototype.|Consus to Álvaro Gramática, 2012.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Database: Reconstructed Data 003}} | ||
In the days before the [[ | In the days before the [[Great Catastrophe]], Consus was known as a great scientist among the Isu. In [[Isu Era|1923 Isu Era]], during the [[War of Unification]], Consus helped his master [[Hephaestus]] create devastating weapons for their side, the [[Swords of Eden]].<ref name="AssassinsIntel003">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 003]]</ref> | ||
After Hephaestus | After Hephaestus was killed, Consus focused his efforts on medicinal equipment by creating the [[Shroud of Eden 1|Shroud of Eden]], a prototype device designed to return the wearer's body to predetermined, healthy specifications. Later, when Consus became aware of his impending natural death, something the Shroud could not undo, he instead enumerated his consciousness and transferred it into his prototype in order to live on. The transfer was successful, though Consus found himself trapped in the artifact, unable to speak or let anyone know that he was still alive, being forgotten for hundreds of years.<ref name="AssassinsIntel003" /> | ||
==== | ====First legacy==== | ||
{{Quote|Juno. Schemer. Three centuries after my death, she found me. Usurped my work. Used it for her own ends.|Consus to Juhani Otso Berg, 2013.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}} | {{Quote|Juno. Schemer. Three centuries after my death, she found me. Usurped my work. Used it for her own ends.|Consus to Juhani Otso Berg, 2013.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Database: Reconstructed Data 005}} | ||
Although Consus was gone, his research became a field of science in [[Atlantis]] where a repository of knowledge, [[Consus Archive|The Consus Archive]], was established. Many subsequent attempts made by scientists to replicate Consus' designs met with limited success; however, one student of his work, a gifted member of the Isu [[Illuminat]] caste named [[Aita]] was able to utilize Consus' developments to advance and pioneer medical technology of his own.<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]''</ref> | |||
300 years after Consus' physical death, Aita's scientific partner and lover, another Illuminat named [[Juno]]—whose mind potentially exceeded that of Aita<ref name="ACO" />—found the prototype Shroud of Eden in Consus' abandoned lab. Discovering that Consus had developed the consciousness transfer, Juno learned everything about it from the old entity, planning to use it for her own ends. Juno was also the one who informed Consus about [[Project Anthropos|creating]] humanity as the Isu's servants, a feat that Consus had not believed possible.<ref name="AssassinsIntel005">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 005]]</ref> | |||
After the outbreak of the [[Human-Isu War]] in 2296 Isu Era,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Volume 3: Finale]]'' – AC: Uprising Roll Call</ref> Juno and Aita became part of a group of Isu trying to prevent the impending Great Disaster, but their four attempts failed.<ref name="AC3Modern">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> However, using the knowledge that she had acquired from Consus,<ref name="AssassinsIntel005" /> Juno developed a fifth solution and planned to transfer the consciousness of their species into stronger, artificial bodies, but she failed and her husband fell into coma after he volunteered to be her test subject. He was euthanized shortly thereafter.<ref name="AC3Modern"/> | |||
The scientists eventually found a viable solution, but by then, it was too late to enact it and save their civilization. In attempt to save the world from a second recurrence expected over 75,000 years later, they used the [[Eye]], an object that manipulated the patterns of existence to ensure that their successors would find the [[Grand Temple]].<ref name="AC3Modern"/> However, Juno despised humanity, seeing them as no more than base creatures<ref name="ACBHModern">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – Modern day</ref><ref name="AC3Modern"/> who had killed her father [[Saturn]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 4|Issue #4]]</ref> Refusing to let them inherit the Earth, she tampered with the Eye,<ref name="AC3Modern"/> an act for which Jupiter and Minerva attacked and killed her before sealing her corpse in the Grand Temple.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III: Official Game Guide]]'': "Analysis and Speculation", pg. 308</ref> Following in Consus' footsteps, though, she had enumerated her own consciousness and transferred it into the Temple network, ensuring that the Temple's activation would release her from her prison.<ref name="AssassinsIntel005" /> | |||
===Helping humanity=== | ===Helping humanity=== | ||
====Known contacts==== | ====Known contacts ==== | ||
{{Quote|You are marvelous creations. Exceeded your programming. Made something from nothing. Flawed but bold. I approve.|Consus on humanity, speaking to Álvaro Gramática, 2012|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}} | {{Quote|You are marvelous creations. Exceeded your programming. Made something from nothing. Flawed but bold. I approve.|Consus on humanity, speaking to Álvaro Gramática, 2012|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|Database: Reconstructed Data 004}} | ||
Before the Grand Temple was sealed, however, the Shroud left Juno's possession and during the subsequent millennia it passed from owner to owner, Consus helping and conversing | Before the Grand Temple was sealed, however, the Shroud left Juno's possession and during the subsequent millennia, it passed from owner to owner, with Consus helping and conversing to humans with whom he came into contact. Through these interactions, he became known as Prometheus and his story became legend.<ref name="AC Comics">''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed 3 (issue)|Issue #3]]</ref> | ||
[[File:Prometheus brings fire to mankind.jpg|thumb|left|''Promethus brings fire to humanity'', by {{Wiki|Heinrich Füger}}]] | [[File:Prometheus brings fire to mankind.jpg|thumb|left|''Promethus brings fire to humanity'', by {{Wiki|Heinrich Füger}}]] | ||
According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a [[Titan]] who created mankind and stole fire from [[Mount Olympus]] to allow humans to create their own civilization.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]</ref> As punishment for rebelling against the gods, he was to be chained to a rock for eternity, where an [[eagle]] would eat his liver daily.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref> | According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a [[Titan]] who created mankind and stole fire from [[Mount Olympus]] to allow humans to create their own civilization.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]: "File.0.20\FC_Entities"</ref> As punishment for rebelling against the gods, he was to be chained to a rock for eternity, where an [[eagle]] would eat his liver daily.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref> | ||
In ancient Greece, Consus came in contact with [[Jason]], the leader of the [[Argonauts]]. A Greek hero, Jason was sent by King Pelias to retrieve the {{Wiki|Golden Fleece}}, a mythical object of great healing; in reality, it was the prototype Shroud shielding the consciousness of Consus.<ref name="AssassinsIntel004">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 004]]</ref> | In ancient Greece, Consus came in contact with [[Jason]], the leader of the [[Argonauts]]. A Greek hero, Jason was sent by King Pelias to retrieve the {{Wiki|Golden Fleece}}, a mythical object of great healing; in reality, it was the prototype Shroud shielding the consciousness of Consus.<ref name="AssassinsIntel004">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 004]]</ref> | ||
At the beginning of the 15th century, an entity believed to be Consus was communicating with [[Jeanne d'Arc]] and guiding her in her battles for France against the English towards the end of the [[Hundred Years' War]]. | At the beginning of the 15th century, an entity believed by [[Abstergo Industries]] researchers to be Consus was communicating with [[Jeanne d'Arc]] and guiding her in her battles for France against the English towards the end of the [[Hundred Years' War]]. The entity spoke to Jeanne in the guise of [[Michael (archangel)|Saints Michael]], [[Catherine of Alexandria|Catherine]], and [[Margaret the Virgin|Margaret]], who she called her "Voices" and thought they were telling her God's will. The Voices led her to the location of a [[Sword of Eden 1|Sword of Eden]] but the entity's time with Jeanne came to an end after the Assassins [[Fleur|faked her death]] in 1431.<ref name="Hersey" /> | ||
During this time, the Shroud itself lay inside a box beneath [[Monteriggioni]] within the [[Auditore Family Crypt]] where it had been hidden a century earlier. After the town was attacked by the [[Florence|Florentines]] in 1454 looking to claim the artifact, [[Mario Auditore]] led a group of men into the crypt to retrieve the Piece of Eden. He was caught off guard by one of the traps protecting the Shroud and lost an eye which prompted Consus to announce his presence. Fearful and ignorant of the Isu's abilities, Mario cut down his companions to stop them opening the box and fled the crypt with the Shroud all the while ignoring Consus' requests to stop and allow himself to be healed. The artifact managed to prevent the eye from bleeding but Mario had [[Giovanni Auditore| | During this time, the Shroud itself lay inside a box beneath [[Monteriggioni]] within the [[Auditore Family Crypt]] where it had been hidden a century earlier. After the town was attacked by the [[Florence|Florentines]] in 1454 looking to claim the artifact, [[Mario Auditore]] led a group of men into the crypt to retrieve the Piece of Eden. He was caught off guard by one of the traps protecting the Shroud and lost an eye which prompted Consus to announce his presence. Fearful and ignorant of the Isu's abilities, Mario cut down his companions to stop them opening the box and fled the crypt with the Shroud all the while ignoring Consus' requests to stop and allow himself to be healed. The artifact managed to prevent the eye from bleeding but Mario had his brother [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze|Giovanni]] take the box away and place it under the protection of the wider Assassin network.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' – [[Italian Wars: Chapter 3 – Mario Auditore]]</ref> | ||
====Giovanni's guardian==== | ====Giovanni's guardian==== | ||
{{Quote|Consus is standing next to me. He is watching. He does not speak much. | {{Quote|Consus is standing next to me. He is watching. He does not speak much. Papà tells me he is not real, but I see him.|Giovanni, regarding Consus.|Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy}} | ||
[[File:Entangled.jpg|thumb|Giovanni Borgia and Consus]] | [[File:Entangled.jpg|thumb|Giovanni Borgia and Consus]] | ||
Throughout his childhood thereafter, Giovanni would have hallucinations of Consus, whom only he could see and befriended him. Consus often spoke in Giovanni's head and gave him advice, even once allowing Giovanni to read a letter given to him, though the boy himself had not yet learned how to at the time.<ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia - Rome">''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Rome: Chapter 2 – Giovanni Borgia]]</ref | In 1498, shortly after his birth, Giovanni Borgia was discovered to be malformed and likely to die within a few days, though his [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Assassin]] father [[Perotto Calderon]] stole the Shroud and used it to heal him.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Italian Wars: Chapter 4 – Perotto Calderon]]</ref> Throughout his childhood thereafter, Giovanni would have hallucinations of Consus, whom only he could see and befriended him. Consus often spoke in Giovanni's head and gave him advice, even once allowing Giovanni to read a letter given to him, though the boy himself had not yet learned how to at the time.<ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia - Rome">''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Rome: Chapter 2 – Giovanni Borgia]]</ref> | ||
In 1503, Consus attempted to convince Giovanni to give the [[Apple of Eden 6|Apple of Eden]] to [[Fiora Cavazza]], when she had come to retrieve it for the Assassins,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Rome: Chapter 1 – Fiora Cavazza]]</ref> and later advised Giovanni to go with the Assassin [[Francesco Vecellio]] to join the Brotherhood.<ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia - Rome"/> | Giovanni's grandfather [[Rodrigo Borgia]] often asked Giovanni about Consus and if he could speak with him, but Giovanni would simply answer that Consus was not there, as he "does not play when ''Nonno'' is around."<ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia - Rome" /> In 1503, Consus attempted to convince Giovanni to give the [[Apple of Eden 6|Apple of Eden]] to [[Fiora Cavazza]], when she had come to retrieve it for the Assassins,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Rome: Chapter 1 – Fiora Cavazza]]</ref> and later advised Giovanni to go with the Assassin [[Francesco Vecellio]] to join the Brotherhood.<ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia - Rome" /> | ||
With Niccolò di Pitigliano in control of the Shroud in 1510, Francesco made an assassination attempt on his life in [[Lonigo]]. Though Niccoló was gravely injured by the Assassin, Consus urged him to heal himself, which he did, but fearing that he did not have the strength to escape to another town attempted to unleash the "power" of the Shroud to save himself. He felt a thousand voices shouting in his head as the Piece of Eden turned him inside out and ripped him apart, allowing Francesco to collect the Shroud.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Italian Wars: Chapter 2 – Francesco Vecellio]]</ref> | With Niccolò di Pitigliano in control of the Shroud in 1510, Francesco made an [[assassination]] attempt on his life in [[Lonigo]]. Though Niccoló was gravely injured by the Assassin, Consus urged him to heal himself, which he did, but fearing that he did not have the strength to escape to another town attempted to unleash the "power" of the Shroud to save himself. He felt a thousand voices shouting in his head as the Piece of Eden turned him inside out and ripped him apart, allowing Francesco to collect the Shroud.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Italian Wars: Chapter 2 – Francesco Vecellio]]</ref> | ||
Meanwhile, Giovanni Borgia had grown up thinking that his time with Consus was at an end as his hallucinations did not appear to him in his later life. In 1515, however, the young Assassin was possessed by Consus during a brawl with fellow apprentice and rival, [[Hiram Stoddard]]. Consus delivered a cryptic message to Stoddard and through him to his descendants before releasing his hold on Giovanni. As Stoddard deserted the Brotherhood due to the accidental death of his lover during the ordeal, Giovanni went unaware of what had happened when he passed out.<ref name="AC013">''Assassin's Creed'' # | Meanwhile, Giovanni Borgia had grown up thinking that his time with Consus was at an end as his hallucinations did not appear to him in his later life. In 1515, however, the young Assassin was possessed by Consus during a brawl with fellow [[Assassin apprentice|apprentice]] and rival, [[Hiram Stoddard]]. Consus delivered a cryptic message to Stoddard and through him to his descendants before releasing his hold on Giovanni. As Stoddard deserted the Brotherhood due to the accidental death of his lover during the ordeal, Giovanni went unaware of what had happened when he passed out.<ref name="AC013">''Assassin's Creed'' – [[Assassin's Creed 13|Issue #13]]</ref> | ||
Upon bringing a [[Crystal Skulls|Crystal Skull]] to [[Bombastus]] five years later, Giovanni encountered a madman by the name of [[Johan]] who, upon seeing him, called out to Consus. When Giovanni demanded an explanation, the Assassin received none, as Johan fearfully mumbled that he had simply said "consent".<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Rome: Chapter 4 – Giovanni Borgia]]</ref> | Upon bringing a [[Crystal Skulls|Crystal Skull]] to [[Bombastus]] five years later, Giovanni encountered a madman by the name of [[Johan]], who, upon seeing him, called out to Consus. When Giovanni demanded an explanation, the Assassin received none, as Johan fearfully mumbled that he had simply said "consent".<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Rome: Chapter 4 – Giovanni Borgia]]</ref> | ||
[[File:PL-Shrine.png|thumb|250px|Giovanni's face being altered.]] | [[File:PL-Shrine.png|thumb|250px|Giovanni's face being altered.]] | ||
When Giovanni and [[Maria Amiel]] traveled to the [[Temple of Pythagoras]] in the late 16th century, the [[Pythagorean Vault|Vault]] within it reacted to Giovanni as it would to a descendant of the | When Giovanni and [[Maria Amiel]] traveled to the [[Temple of Pythagoras]] in the late 16th century, the [[Pythagorean Vault|Vault]] within it reacted to Giovanni as it would to a descendant of the Isu, shining with symbols and glyphs. Giovanni fell unconscious and awoke soon after, but his face had changed into that of a seemingly ancient entity. He spoke in a distant and unfamiliar voice, where he announced himself to Maria as Consus, the Erudite God.<ref name="ACPL - Maria Amiel">''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Divine Science: Chapter 1 – Maria Amiel]]</ref> | ||
Giovanni fell unconscious and awoke soon after, but his face had changed into that of a seemingly ancient entity. He spoke in a distant and unfamiliar voice, where he announced himself to Maria as Consus, the Erudite God.<ref name="ACPL - Maria Amiel"/> | |||
====Presence in Salem==== | ====Presence in Salem==== | ||
{{Dialogue|Stoddard|What have you done to the girl?|Consus|Be not afraid. She is with me|Consus possessing Dorothy Osborne, 1692.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)}} | {{Dialogue|Stoddard|What have you done to the girl?|Consus|Be not afraid. She is with me|Consus possessing Dorothy Osborne, 1692.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)}} | ||
[[File:ACA Consus Dorothy.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Dorothy Osborne, possessed by Consus.]] | [[File:ACA Consus Dorothy.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Dorothy Osborne, possessed by Consus.]] | ||
In 1692, somehow bonded to | In 1692, somehow bonded to the young girl [[Dorothy Osborne]], Consus was able to speak through her in what appeared to be visions. His presence sparked the events that led to the [[Salem witch trials]], with the Assassins and Templars fighting to gain control of Dorothy, and through her, Consus. Eventually, after the [[Puritans]] led by the Templar [[William Stoughton]] captured Dorothy, she committed suicide to prevent the Templars from using her connection with Consus to cause more innocent deaths.<ref name="AC Comics" /> | ||
In actuality, Consus was attempting to make contact with [[Charlotte de la Cruz]], who was reliving the genetic memories of her ancestor [[Thomas Stoddard]] in the 21st century, cryptically advising her to seek "the ones with greater knowledge". Later, de la Cruz understood that Consus was telling her to find [[Erudito]], an organization of truth seekers.<ref name="AC Comics" /> | In actuality, Consus was attempting to make contact with [[Charlotte de la Cruz]], who was reliving the genetic memories of her ancestor [[Thomas Stoddard]] in the 21st century, cryptically advising her to seek "the ones with greater knowledge". Later, de la Cruz understood that Consus was telling her to find [[Erudito]], an organization of truth seekers.<ref name="AC Comics" /> | ||
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====In the hands of Abstergo==== | ====In the hands of Abstergo==== | ||
{{Quote|I have so many questions, but let's stick with you. How is it that your mind resides in this artifact?|Gramática to Consus, 2012.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}} | {{Quote|I have so many questions, but let's stick with you. How is it that your mind resides in this artifact?|Gramática to Consus, 2012.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}} | ||
By 1944, the prototype Shroud, which had been in possession of [[William Robert Woodman]] during the previous century <ref name="AssassinsIntel004"/> | By 1944, the prototype Shroud, which had been in possession of [[William Robert Woodman]] during the previous century,<ref name="AssassinsIntel004" /> had ended up in Milan, in the hands of the Baguttiani family. On Christmas Day that year, the Templar agent [[Keith Scipione]] purchased the Shroud from the family and sent the device to an [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]] facility.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – [[Holidays: Chapter 1 – Ghosts of Christmas Past]]</ref> | ||
In 2011, Templar [[Isabelle Ardant]] found the Shroud through the ill-fated [[Project Legacy]]. Believing it to be broken, she gave the Piece of Eden to Abstergo scientist [[Álvaro Gramática]] for repair in order to satisfy [[Alan Rikkin]]. After months with no success, Álvaro ultimately reactivated the Shroud by shooting himself, thus summoning Consus, who possessed Álvaro's body and spoke through him, before finally healing him. All this happened in front of a horrified Isabelle.<ref name="AssassinsIntel002" /> | In 2011, the Templars' [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]] member [[Isabelle Ardant]] found the Shroud through the ill-fated [[Project Legacy]]. Believing it to be broken, she gave the Piece of Eden to the Abstergo scientist [[Álvaro Gramática]] for repair in order to satisfy [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] [[Alan Rikkin]]. After months with no success, Álvaro ultimately reactivated the Shroud by shooting himself, thus summoning Consus, who possessed Álvaro's body and spoke through him, before finally healing him. All this happened in front of a horrified Isabelle.<ref name="AssassinsIntel002" /> | ||
This led Álvaro to discover that whenever the Shroud healed what would normally be a fatal wound, Consus could temporarily take over the wearer and speak through them. Álvaro started using the Shroud on his new test subject [[Violet da Costa]], repeatedly shooting her in the head so he could communicate with Consus and learn his secrets.<ref name="AssassinsIntel003" /> | This led Álvaro to discover that whenever the Shroud healed what would normally be a fatal wound, Consus could temporarily take over the wearer and speak through them. Álvaro started using the Shroud on his new test subject [[Violet da Costa]], repeatedly shooting her in the head so he could communicate with Consus and learn his secrets.<ref name="AssassinsIntel003" /> | ||
On 21 December 2012, as he was talking to Gramática through Violet, Consus instantly became aware of | On 21 December 2012, as he was talking to Gramática through Violet, Consus instantly became aware of Juno's release from her imprisonment in the Grand Temple<ref name="AssassinsIntel004"/> after Desmond Miles sacrificed his life to prevent the world's destruction by an incoming solar flare.<ref name="AC3Modern"/> Greatly disturbed by the event, Consus declared that all was now lost.<ref name="AssassinsIntel004" /> | ||
Violet and [[ | On 17 November 2013, Violet and the [[Master Templar]] [[Juhani Otso Berg]] traveled to Álvaro's [[Abstergo Industries Paris facility|lab]] in [[Paris]] in order to make contact with Consus and gain insight on Juno's motivations, having grown concerned by the threat posed by her and her [[Instruments of the First Will|growing number of followers]]. Consus warned them of Juno's dangerous and scheming nature, and informed them that, as a non-corporeal being, she had infiltrated the global network.<ref name="AssassinsIntel005" /> | ||
The prototype Shroud, and apparently Consus' consciousness, were unwittingly destroyed in late 2014, when the Assassins [[Shaun Hastings]] and [[Galina Voronina]] attacked Álvaro's lab to end Abstergo's experiments there. Realizing all too late that Álvaro was wearing the Shroud, Shaun was unable to prevent Galina from detonating a grenade which took out the lab and the artifact with it. As his final act, Consus used what remained of the Shroud's damaged power to heal Álvaro, who had been fatally injured by the explosion.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 007]]</ref> | The prototype Shroud, and apparently Consus' consciousness, were unwittingly destroyed in late 2014, when the Assassins [[Shaun Hastings]] and [[Galina Voronina]] attacked Álvaro's lab to end Abstergo's experiments there. Realizing all too late that Álvaro was wearing the Shroud, Shaun was unable to prevent Galina from detonating a grenade which took out the lab and the artifact with it. As his final act, Consus used what remained of the Shroud's damaged power to heal Álvaro, who had been fatally injured by the explosion.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 007]]</ref> | ||
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===Last hope against Juno=== | ===Last hope against Juno=== | ||
{{Quote|Your enemy seems manifest child, but the mountain's glimmer calls to many. Its summit shall see her true awakening. You must let the wolf dwell with the lamb...|Consus possessing Giovanni Borgia, 1515.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)}} | {{Quote|Your enemy seems manifest child, but the mountain's glimmer calls to many. Its summit shall see her true awakening. You must let the wolf dwell with the lamb...|Consus possessing Giovanni Borgia, 1515.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)}} | ||
Despite the destruction | Despite the Shroud's destruction in 2014, Consus continued to play a posthumous role in the world's affairs by influencing humanity's history through Charlotte de la Cruz. Indeed, the entity had made plans to guide humanity in their fight against Juno by leaving messages throughout history to several of de la Cruz's ancestors.<ref name="AC013" /> | ||
In 2016, following | In 2016, following Consus' nebulous instructions received while relieving Stoddard's memories in Salem, Charlotte made contact with Erudito. The organization, which had learned about Juno's plan to create a new body by manipulating the Templars' [[Phoenix Project]] through moles within the [[Instruments of the First Will]], decided to ally themselves with de la Cruz and her Assassin team to stop the Isu.<ref name="AC011">''Assassin's Creed'' – [[Assassin's Creed 11|Issue #11]]</ref> | ||
Believing that Consus was humanity's last hope and | Believing that Consus was humanity's last hope and Juno's antithesis, Erudito decided to use Charlotte's connection with the entity to learn more about him via the [[Animus]]. Through [[Hiram Stoddard]]'s traumatized, fractured memories, the young Assassin made contact with the Isu who delivered another cryptic message to her, warning the Assassin about Juno's imminent awakening and the unnatural alliance she would have to make to stop the goddess.<ref name="AC013" /> | ||
===Juno's Resurrection=== | ===Juno's Resurrection=== | ||
{{Dialogue2|Consus|She'll stop you. You must know that.|Juno|Who, de la Cruz? I'm glad the millennia haven't dulled your sense of humor, old friend. She's weak. You forget: I've been in her head.|So you have, child. But I know her heart.|Consus and Juno, 2017.|Assassin's Creed: Uprising}} | {{Dialogue2|Consus|She'll stop you. You must know that.|Juno|Who, de la Cruz? I'm glad the millennia haven't dulled your sense of humor, old friend. She's weak. You forget: I've been in her head.|So you have, child. But I know her heart.|Consus and Juno, 2017.|Assassin's Creed: Uprising}} | ||
In 2018, the [[Instruments of the First Will]] invaded Alvaro Gramatica's secret lab and coerced the Templar scientist into growing an Isu body for their mistress. Gramatica used strands of a [[Shroud of Eden 2|Shroud of Eden]], which the Templars had recently recovered in [[London]], to create an amniotic sac for the new body. Upon learning this, Juno savoured the fact that the work of the "traitorous" Consus would be key to her return.<ref name="ACUp10" | In 2018, the [[Instruments of the First Will]] invaded Alvaro Gramatica's secret lab and coerced the Templar scientist into growing an Isu body for their mistress. Gramatica used strands of a [[Shroud of Eden 2|Shroud of Eden]],<ref name="ACUp10">''Assassin's Creed: Uprising'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 10|Issue #10]]</ref> which the Templars had recently recovered in [[London]], to create an amniotic sac for the new body. Upon learning this, Juno savoured the fact that the work of the "traitorous" Consus would be key to her return.<ref name="ACUp10"/> | ||
Several hours later, as Juno | Several hours later, as Juno inhabited the Isu fetus which was growing at an accelerated rate thanks to the Shroud's properties, Consus once again transcended the barriers of death to speak with her through his creation, calling her new body a monstrosity and warned her that Charlotte would be her doom. Juno retorted that she had been in the Assassin's head and saw her weakness, though Consus reaffirmed his confidence in Charlotte, stating that he knew her heart. Indeed, at the same time, Charlotte, her Assassins teammates, and the [[Master Templar]] [[Juhani Otso Berg]]–with whom the Assassins had entered a temporary alliance to stop the Instruments' machinations–were on their way to the lab.<ref name="ACUp11">''Assassin's Creed: Uprising'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 11|Issue #11]]</ref> | ||
When finally Juno's new body was developed enough to survive outside, Consus' ability to communicate with her was lost. Despite this, he still played a part in Juno's downfall when Charlotte, helped by [[Elijah]], used the [[Koh-i-Noor]] to create an illusion of Consus based on Juno's memories; this distracted Juno for long enough to allow the Assassin to stab her in the neck with her Hidden Blade, killing the revived Isu for good.<ref name="ACUp12">''Assassin's Creed: Uprising'' # | When finally Juno's new body was developed enough to survive outside, Consus' ability to communicate with her was lost. Despite this, he still played a part in Juno's downfall when Charlotte, helped by [[Elijah]], used the [[Koh-i-Noor]] to create an illusion of Consus based on Juno's memories; this distracted Juno for long enough to allow the Assassin to stab her in the neck with her Hidden Blade, killing the revived Isu for good.<ref name="ACUp12">''Assassin's Creed: Uprising'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 12|Issue #12]]</ref> | ||
== | ===Mythology=== | ||
Consus inspired a [[Rome|Roman]] deity of the same name assigned to protect the grain who later also became known as a deity of secret counsel. Additionally he influenced the development of the [[Greece|Greek]] {{wiki|Prometheus}}, a cultural hero and fire-giver deity who created mankind from clay. | |||
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Creation Prometheus Louvre.jpg|A relief depicting Prometheus' creation of mankind | Creation Prometheus Louvre.jpg|A relief depicting Prometheus' creation of mankind | ||
AC2 Prometheus Bound.jpg|''Prometheus Bound'', by {{Wiki|Peter Paul Rubens}} | AC2 Prometheus Bound.jpg|''Prometheus Bound'', by {{Wiki|Peter Paul Rubens}} | ||
ACUr Sketch Earlier Consus.jpg|Concept sketch of a younger Consus | |||
ACUr Sketch Consus Younger.jpg|Concept sketch of a younger Consus with Juno | |||
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==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' {{Mo}} | |||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' {{Mdat}} | *''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' {{Mdat}} | ||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Heresy]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Assassin's Creed: Heresy]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
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*''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' | *''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' | ||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' {{ | *''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' {{Mo}} | |||
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Latest revision as of 08:28, 17 December 2025
Consus, also known as the Erudite God, Prometheus, and theorized to be Jeanne d'Arc's Voices, was a famed Isu scientist and a creator of Pieces of Eden.
Towards the end of his natural life, Consus, afraid of death, transferred his consciousness into his prototype Shroud of Eden. From there Consus developed an affinity for the human species, impressed with their ability to become more than what the Isu had ever intended, and communicated with various individuals in different forms throughout history. In the early 1500s, he became a guardian of sorts to Giovanni Borgia, an Assassin born into the notorious Borgia family.
While he could converse when the Shroud was active,[1] a side-effect of subsequent efforts to duplicate the technology copying the Isu's mind along with it,[2] it was hypothesized that Consus was also able to communicate to and through individuals with a high percentage of Isu DNA.[3]
His consciousness transferal innovation has had far-reaching consequences as it resulted in Juno studying its mechanics, and her application of the technique led to the implementation of a methodology which allowed the scientist to ensure that her late husband Aita was repeatedly reincarnated in human form throughout the centuries.
Biography[edit | edit source]
Isu Era[edit | edit source]
Isu scientist[edit | edit source]
In the days before the Great Catastrophe, Consus was known as a great scientist among the Isu. In 1923 Isu Era, during the War of Unification, Consus helped his master Hephaestus create devastating weapons for their side, the Swords of Eden.[4]
After Hephaestus was killed, Consus focused his efforts on medicinal equipment by creating the Shroud of Eden, a prototype device designed to return the wearer's body to predetermined, healthy specifications. Later, when Consus became aware of his impending natural death, something the Shroud could not undo, he instead enumerated his consciousness and transferred it into his prototype in order to live on. The transfer was successful, though Consus found himself trapped in the artifact, unable to speak or let anyone know that he was still alive, being forgotten for hundreds of years.[4]
First legacy[edit | edit source]
Although Consus was gone, his research became a field of science in Atlantis where a repository of knowledge, The Consus Archive, was established. Many subsequent attempts made by scientists to replicate Consus' designs met with limited success; however, one student of his work, a gifted member of the Isu Illuminat caste named Aita was able to utilize Consus' developments to advance and pioneer medical technology of his own.[5]
300 years after Consus' physical death, Aita's scientific partner and lover, another Illuminat named Juno—whose mind potentially exceeded that of Aita[5]—found the prototype Shroud of Eden in Consus' abandoned lab. Discovering that Consus had developed the consciousness transfer, Juno learned everything about it from the old entity, planning to use it for her own ends. Juno was also the one who informed Consus about creating humanity as the Isu's servants, a feat that Consus had not believed possible.[6]
After the outbreak of the Human-Isu War in 2296 Isu Era,[7] Juno and Aita became part of a group of Isu trying to prevent the impending Great Disaster, but their four attempts failed.[8] However, using the knowledge that she had acquired from Consus,[6] Juno developed a fifth solution and planned to transfer the consciousness of their species into stronger, artificial bodies, but she failed and her husband fell into coma after he volunteered to be her test subject. He was euthanized shortly thereafter.[8]
The scientists eventually found a viable solution, but by then, it was too late to enact it and save their civilization. In attempt to save the world from a second recurrence expected over 75,000 years later, they used the Eye, an object that manipulated the patterns of existence to ensure that their successors would find the Grand Temple.[8] However, Juno despised humanity, seeing them as no more than base creatures[9][8] who had killed her father Saturn.[10] Refusing to let them inherit the Earth, she tampered with the Eye,[8] an act for which Jupiter and Minerva attacked and killed her before sealing her corpse in the Grand Temple.[11] Following in Consus' footsteps, though, she had enumerated her own consciousness and transferred it into the Temple network, ensuring that the Temple's activation would release her from her prison.[6]
Helping humanity[edit | edit source]
Known contacts[edit | edit source]
Before the Grand Temple was sealed, however, the Shroud left Juno's possession and during the subsequent millennia, it passed from owner to owner, with Consus helping and conversing to humans with whom he came into contact. Through these interactions, he became known as Prometheus and his story became legend.[12]
According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan who created mankind and stole fire from Mount Olympus to allow humans to create their own civilization.[13] As punishment for rebelling against the gods, he was to be chained to a rock for eternity, where an eagle would eat his liver daily.[14]
In ancient Greece, Consus came in contact with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. A Greek hero, Jason was sent by King Pelias to retrieve the Golden Fleece, a mythical object of great healing; in reality, it was the prototype Shroud shielding the consciousness of Consus.[15]
At the beginning of the 15th century, an entity believed by Abstergo Industries researchers to be Consus was communicating with Jeanne d'Arc and guiding her in her battles for France against the English towards the end of the Hundred Years' War. The entity spoke to Jeanne in the guise of Saints Michael, Catherine, and Margaret, who she called her "Voices" and thought they were telling her God's will. The Voices led her to the location of a Sword of Eden but the entity's time with Jeanne came to an end after the Assassins faked her death in 1431.[3]
During this time, the Shroud itself lay inside a box beneath Monteriggioni within the Auditore Family Crypt where it had been hidden a century earlier. After the town was attacked by the Florentines in 1454 looking to claim the artifact, Mario Auditore led a group of men into the crypt to retrieve the Piece of Eden. He was caught off guard by one of the traps protecting the Shroud and lost an eye which prompted Consus to announce his presence. Fearful and ignorant of the Isu's abilities, Mario cut down his companions to stop them opening the box and fled the crypt with the Shroud all the while ignoring Consus' requests to stop and allow himself to be healed. The artifact managed to prevent the eye from bleeding but Mario had his brother Giovanni take the box away and place it under the protection of the wider Assassin network.[16]
Giovanni's guardian[edit | edit source]
- "Consus is standing next to me. He is watching. He does not speak much. Papà tells me he is not real, but I see him."
- ―Giovanni, regarding Consus.[src]
In 1498, shortly after his birth, Giovanni Borgia was discovered to be malformed and likely to die within a few days, though his Italian Assassin father Perotto Calderon stole the Shroud and used it to heal him.[17] Throughout his childhood thereafter, Giovanni would have hallucinations of Consus, whom only he could see and befriended him. Consus often spoke in Giovanni's head and gave him advice, even once allowing Giovanni to read a letter given to him, though the boy himself had not yet learned how to at the time.[18]
Giovanni's grandfather Rodrigo Borgia often asked Giovanni about Consus and if he could speak with him, but Giovanni would simply answer that Consus was not there, as he "does not play when Nonno is around."[18] In 1503, Consus attempted to convince Giovanni to give the Apple of Eden to Fiora Cavazza, when she had come to retrieve it for the Assassins,[19] and later advised Giovanni to go with the Assassin Francesco Vecellio to join the Brotherhood.[18]
With Niccolò di Pitigliano in control of the Shroud in 1510, Francesco made an assassination attempt on his life in Lonigo. Though Niccoló was gravely injured by the Assassin, Consus urged him to heal himself, which he did, but fearing that he did not have the strength to escape to another town attempted to unleash the "power" of the Shroud to save himself. He felt a thousand voices shouting in his head as the Piece of Eden turned him inside out and ripped him apart, allowing Francesco to collect the Shroud.[20]
Meanwhile, Giovanni Borgia had grown up thinking that his time with Consus was at an end as his hallucinations did not appear to him in his later life. In 1515, however, the young Assassin was possessed by Consus during a brawl with fellow apprentice and rival, Hiram Stoddard. Consus delivered a cryptic message to Stoddard and through him to his descendants before releasing his hold on Giovanni. As Stoddard deserted the Brotherhood due to the accidental death of his lover during the ordeal, Giovanni went unaware of what had happened when he passed out.[21]
Upon bringing a Crystal Skull to Bombastus five years later, Giovanni encountered a madman by the name of Johan, who, upon seeing him, called out to Consus. When Giovanni demanded an explanation, the Assassin received none, as Johan fearfully mumbled that he had simply said "consent".[22]
When Giovanni and Maria Amiel traveled to the Temple of Pythagoras in the late 16th century, the Vault within it reacted to Giovanni as it would to a descendant of the Isu, shining with symbols and glyphs. Giovanni fell unconscious and awoke soon after, but his face had changed into that of a seemingly ancient entity. He spoke in a distant and unfamiliar voice, where he announced himself to Maria as Consus, the Erudite God.[23]
Presence in Salem[edit | edit source]
- Stoddard: "What have you done to the girl?"
- Consus: "Be not afraid. She is with me"
- —Consus possessing Dorothy Osborne, 1692.[src]
In 1692, somehow bonded to the young girl Dorothy Osborne, Consus was able to speak through her in what appeared to be visions. His presence sparked the events that led to the Salem witch trials, with the Assassins and Templars fighting to gain control of Dorothy, and through her, Consus. Eventually, after the Puritans led by the Templar William Stoughton captured Dorothy, she committed suicide to prevent the Templars from using her connection with Consus to cause more innocent deaths.[12]
In actuality, Consus was attempting to make contact with Charlotte de la Cruz, who was reliving the genetic memories of her ancestor Thomas Stoddard in the 21st century, cryptically advising her to seek "the ones with greater knowledge". Later, de la Cruz understood that Consus was telling her to find Erudito, an organization of truth seekers.[12]
In the hands of Abstergo[edit | edit source]
- "I have so many questions, but let's stick with you. How is it that your mind resides in this artifact?"
- ―Gramática to Consus, 2012.[src]
By 1944, the prototype Shroud, which had been in possession of William Robert Woodman during the previous century,[15] had ended up in Milan, in the hands of the Baguttiani family. On Christmas Day that year, the Templar agent Keith Scipione purchased the Shroud from the family and sent the device to an Abstergo facility.[24]
In 2011, the Templars' Inner Sanctum member Isabelle Ardant found the Shroud through the ill-fated Project Legacy. Believing it to be broken, she gave the Piece of Eden to the Abstergo scientist Álvaro Gramática for repair in order to satisfy Grand Master Alan Rikkin. After months with no success, Álvaro ultimately reactivated the Shroud by shooting himself, thus summoning Consus, who possessed Álvaro's body and spoke through him, before finally healing him. All this happened in front of a horrified Isabelle.[1]
This led Álvaro to discover that whenever the Shroud healed what would normally be a fatal wound, Consus could temporarily take over the wearer and speak through them. Álvaro started using the Shroud on his new test subject Violet da Costa, repeatedly shooting her in the head so he could communicate with Consus and learn his secrets.[4]
On 21 December 2012, as he was talking to Gramática through Violet, Consus instantly became aware of Juno's release from her imprisonment in the Grand Temple[15] after Desmond Miles sacrificed his life to prevent the world's destruction by an incoming solar flare.[8] Greatly disturbed by the event, Consus declared that all was now lost.[15]
On 17 November 2013, Violet and the Master Templar Juhani Otso Berg traveled to Álvaro's lab in Paris in order to make contact with Consus and gain insight on Juno's motivations, having grown concerned by the threat posed by her and her growing number of followers. Consus warned them of Juno's dangerous and scheming nature, and informed them that, as a non-corporeal being, she had infiltrated the global network.[6]
The prototype Shroud, and apparently Consus' consciousness, were unwittingly destroyed in late 2014, when the Assassins Shaun Hastings and Galina Voronina attacked Álvaro's lab to end Abstergo's experiments there. Realizing all too late that Álvaro was wearing the Shroud, Shaun was unable to prevent Galina from detonating a grenade which took out the lab and the artifact with it. As his final act, Consus used what remained of the Shroud's damaged power to heal Álvaro, who had been fatally injured by the explosion.[25]
Legacy[edit | edit source]
Last hope against Juno[edit | edit source]
- "Your enemy seems manifest child, but the mountain's glimmer calls to many. Its summit shall see her true awakening. You must let the wolf dwell with the lamb..."
- ―Consus possessing Giovanni Borgia, 1515.[src]
Despite the Shroud's destruction in 2014, Consus continued to play a posthumous role in the world's affairs by influencing humanity's history through Charlotte de la Cruz. Indeed, the entity had made plans to guide humanity in their fight against Juno by leaving messages throughout history to several of de la Cruz's ancestors.[21]
In 2016, following Consus' nebulous instructions received while relieving Stoddard's memories in Salem, Charlotte made contact with Erudito. The organization, which had learned about Juno's plan to create a new body by manipulating the Templars' Phoenix Project through moles within the Instruments of the First Will, decided to ally themselves with de la Cruz and her Assassin team to stop the Isu.[26]
Believing that Consus was humanity's last hope and Juno's antithesis, Erudito decided to use Charlotte's connection with the entity to learn more about him via the Animus. Through Hiram Stoddard's traumatized, fractured memories, the young Assassin made contact with the Isu who delivered another cryptic message to her, warning the Assassin about Juno's imminent awakening and the unnatural alliance she would have to make to stop the goddess.[21]
Juno's Resurrection[edit | edit source]
- Consus: "She'll stop you. You must know that."
- Juno: "Who, de la Cruz? I'm glad the millennia haven't dulled your sense of humor, old friend. She's weak. You forget: I've been in her head."
- Consus: "So you have, child. But I know her heart."
- —Consus and Juno, 2017.[src]
In 2018, the Instruments of the First Will invaded Alvaro Gramatica's secret lab and coerced the Templar scientist into growing an Isu body for their mistress. Gramatica used strands of a Shroud of Eden,[27] which the Templars had recently recovered in London, to create an amniotic sac for the new body. Upon learning this, Juno savoured the fact that the work of the "traitorous" Consus would be key to her return.[27]
Several hours later, as Juno inhabited the Isu fetus which was growing at an accelerated rate thanks to the Shroud's properties, Consus once again transcended the barriers of death to speak with her through his creation, calling her new body a monstrosity and warned her that Charlotte would be her doom. Juno retorted that she had been in the Assassin's head and saw her weakness, though Consus reaffirmed his confidence in Charlotte, stating that he knew her heart. Indeed, at the same time, Charlotte, her Assassins teammates, and the Master Templar Juhani Otso Berg–with whom the Assassins had entered a temporary alliance to stop the Instruments' machinations–were on their way to the lab.[28]
When finally Juno's new body was developed enough to survive outside, Consus' ability to communicate with her was lost. Despite this, he still played a part in Juno's downfall when Charlotte, helped by Elijah, used the Koh-i-Noor to create an illusion of Consus based on Juno's memories; this distracted Juno for long enough to allow the Assassin to stab her in the neck with her Hidden Blade, killing the revived Isu for good.[29]
Mythology[edit | edit source]
Consus inspired a Roman deity of the same name assigned to protect the grain who later also became known as a deity of secret counsel. Additionally he influenced the development of the Greek Prometheus, a cultural hero and fire-giver deity who created mankind from clay.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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A relief depicting Prometheus' creation of mankind -
Prometheus Bound, by Peter Paul Rubens -
Concept sketch of a younger Consus -
Concept sketch of a younger Consus with Juno
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed: Heresy (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed (comic)
- Assassin's Creed: Uprising
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
- The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis (mentioned only)
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