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'''Forlì''' was a city in the region of [[Romagna]], and the home of [[Caterina Sforza]]. It is the main location of the [[DLC]] [[Battle of Forlì (DLC)|Battle of Forlì]], and is a multiplayer map for ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''.
'''Forlì''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] city located in the region of [[Romagna]] and the capital of the province of {{Wiki|Province of Forlì-Cesena|Forlì-Cesena}}. During the [[Renaissance]], it was the site of an eponymous battle, the [[Battle of Forlì]].


==History==
==History==
The land around Forlì had been settled since the Paleolithic; the city's name comes from "''Forum Livii''".
===Early development===
Forlì's immediate surroundings contain evidence of early [[human]] habitation in the form of [[flint]] {{Wiki|knapping}} fragments from the nearby Ca' Belvedere di {{Wiki|Monte Poggiolo}} that date to around 798,000 BCE in the {{Wiki|Paleolithic}} era,<ref>Peretto, Carlo (January/February 2006). "The first peopling of southern Europe: the Italian case", ''Comptes Rendus Palevol'', '''5'''(1–2). [[Paris]], {{Wiki|National Museum of Natural History, France|National Museum of Natural History}}. pg. 283–290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2005.11.006. Retrieved 14 August 2025.</ref> though this is hardly evidence of the later industrial city being properly "founded" as the [[Assassins|Assassin]] historian [[Shaun Hastings]] once sarcastically commented.<ref name="Database">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Database: Forlì (Assassin's Creed II)|Database: Forlì]]</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]] – [[Forlì – A Crimson Sunset]]'' – [[Database: Forlì (Identity)|Database: Forlì]]</ref>


By the 15th century, Forlì was ruled by [[Girolamo Riario]], and was a part of [[Venice]]'s coastal defense network.
Forlì's name is derived from the [[Rome|Romans]], who built the city named "''Forum Livii''" in 188 BCE along the ''{{Wiki|Via Aemilia}}'', one of several roads they laid after pacifying the local {{Wiki|Gauls}} as part of the regular {{Wiki|Roman–Gallic wars}}. After the [[Roman Republic|Roman rule]], it went from {{Wiki|Lombards|Lombard}} hands into [[church]] control. It became an independent republic in 889, infuriating the [[Vatican]], which spent the next 400 years trying to regain control over the city.<ref name="Database" />


==In ''Assassin's Creed II''==
===Middle Ages and early Renaissance===
[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio]] first travels to Forlì in when he and [[Leonardo da Vinci]] are on their way to [[Venice]]. They only make a brief stop in Forlì, as they are only there to catch the boat to Venice. When Ezio and Leonardo are about to get on the boat, they are refused entry as Ezio does not have a pass. Meanwhile, [[Caterina Sforza]] is stranded on a rock in a small lagoon and Ezio decides to save her using a [[gondola]]. On their way back to the port, Caterina exclaims that Ezio needs a reward for his work, so Ezio is given a pass to Venice and can freely go there with Leonardo.
Along with Rome's constant machinations, Forlì faced a steady stream of Goth, [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]], Lombard, and Frank marauders for the next few centuries. In addition, it faced annual flooding, which was finally brought under control by diverting nearby rivers away from the city center in 1050.<ref name="Database" />


Ezio later returns to Forlì after he had obtained the [[Apple of Eden|Apple]] from [[Rodrigo Borgia]], as he and the other [[Assassins]] meet in Forlì to discuss where would be the safest place for the Apple. The Assassins decide to keep the Apple in Forlì, but when Caterina Sforza leads Ezio and [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] into the city, they discover that something is terribly wrong, as the city had been invaded by the [[Orsi Brothers|Orsi brothers]].
Forlì became a military dictatorship at the end of the 13th century and power was then was passed to the Ordelaffi family. In 1480, with the Ordelaffi fighting amongst themselves over the chain of succession, [[Papacy|Pope]] [[Sixtus IV]] stepped in and gave the city to his nephew, [[Girolamo Riario]].<ref name="Database" /> In 1481, the [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] visited Forlì while ''en route'' to [[Venice]] with [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. During the visit, Ezio rescued the countess [[Caterina Sforza]], Riario's wife, from a small island<ref>''Assassin's Creed II'' – [[Tutti a Bordo]]</ref> where Riario had intentionally stranded her after an argument.<ref name="Renaissance">''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]''</ref>


[[File:Threatsforza.jpg|thumb|298px|Checco and Ludovico threatening Ezio and Caterina.]]Caterina orders Ezio to enter the city through a secret entrance, as the city gates were blocked off, and Caterina revealed that the city had been invaded because of a map made by her [[Girolamo Riario|husband]], which showed all the locations of the [[Codex ]]pages. Once Ezio gains entry to the city, he opens the gates for his fellow Assassins to enter through, and Caterina tells him that they must make their way to the [[Rocca di Ravaldino]], the city's fortress. When they arrive at the fortress, a [[guard]] warns of another wave of enemy soldiers attacking the citadel. The Assassins decide to defend the fortress with the help of the city garrison, and after much fighting, they finally see off the enemy troops.
===Battle of Forlì===
{{Main|Battle of Forlì}}
[[File:Godfather 2.png|thumb|250px|left|Checco and Ludovico threatening Ezio and Caterina]]
In 1488, Caterina hired the Orsi brothers, [[Checco Orsi|Checco]] and [[Ludovico Orsi|Ludovico]], to [[Assassination|assassinate]] Riario. At the time, Riario had joined the [[Roman Rite of the Templar Order|Italian Templars]] and had been developing a map of the fabled [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex|Codex]] pages' purported locations.<ref name="A Warm Welcome">''Assassin's Creed II – [[Battle of Forlì (DLC)|Battle of Forlì]]'' – [[A Warm Welcome]]</ref>


The Orsi brothers then approach the citadel and eventually tell her that her children are being held captive, and that unless [[Caterina Sforza|Caterina]] hands over her husband's map and the Apple of Eden, they will be killed. Caterina is in deep distress and [[Ezio]] suggests that he should go and save her children. Ezio goes to the [[Romagna]] countryside and quickly saves [[Bianca Riario|Bianca]], Caterina's daughter. She tells Ezio that her brother, [[Ottaviano Riario|Ottaviano]], is being held at a lighthouse under the guard of [[Ludovico Orsi]]. Once Ezio reaches the lighthouse he scales it and frees Ottaviano, but Ludovico Orsi is nearby and Ezio soon assassinated him. Ludovico, on his deathbed, says that his Master gains his prize, because of him. Ezio is confused by this, but returns to Forlì to tell Caterina the good news.
Later, in July 1488, Ezio returned to Forlì along with [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], intending to make the city's castle, the [[Rocca di Ravaldino]], a safe haven for the [[Apple of Eden 6|Apple of Eden]] he had obtained from [[Rodrigo Borgia]]. However, before the Apple could be secured, the Orsi brothers, working on behalf of the [[House of Borgia|Borgia]], seized not only Forlì,<ref name="A Warm Welcome" /> but also Caterina's two young children, [[Bianca Riario|Bianca]] and [[Ottaviano Riario|Ottaviano]]. The Orsi brothers held them as hostages, intending to trade the children for the Apple.<ref name="Godfather">''Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì'' – [[Godfather]]</ref>


When Ezio returns, he is told that while he was away rescuing Caterina's children, the city of Forlì was attacked again by the [[Templars]], but this time they had succeeded in capturing the Apple. [[Checco Orsi]] had captured it and was preparing to escape the countryside outside of Forlì, so Ezio made his way to where he was located. Checco Orsi then tried to escape Ezio when he learned of Ezio's presence, but Ezio, on [[Horses|horseback]], soon chased him down and killed him.
During the battle, Caterina was forced to order the [[cannon]]s to fire at Orsi troops inside the town walls. As a result, parts of the city were destroyed.<ref name="Renaissance"/> Meanwhile, Ezio was able to save the Sforza children and slay Ludovico easily,<ref name="Godfather" /> but Checco used the distraction to launch another attack and steal the Apple. Ezio went to recover the artifact and was badly wounded when Checco stabbed him with a [[Short blade|dagger]].<ref name="Checcomate">''Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì'' – [[Checcomate]]</ref>


On his deathbed, Checco Orsi stabbed Ezio in the stomach, causing him to blackout. When Ezio regained consciousness, he saw a [[Girolamo Savonarola|black robed monk]] stealing the Apple. Ezio tried his best to remember all that he could about him, before he blacked out again. When Ezio awoke again, he found himself on the roof of the [[Palazzo Comunale (Forlì)|Palazzo Communale]], with Caterina caring for him. He then told her that he had to go and find out who the mysterious monk was.
Despite his injury, Ezio managed to kill Checco and reclaim the artifact, but later succumbed to blood loss and fainted on the roadside. In the confusion that ensued, a black-robed [[monk]] found and stole the Apple still clutched in Ezio's hand.<ref name="Checcomate"/>


Ezio then went to an abbey in the countryside to ask another monk if he knew who the monk that stole the Apple was. When Ezio arrives he finds a monk, named [[Darby O’Callahan|Darby O'Callahan]], who is being attacked, Ezio kills the [[guards]] and talks to him. Darby says that he doesn't know who the mysterious monk is, but tells him to go to the [[Abbazia di San Mercuriale]] to ask some other monks.
[[File:Checcomate 6.png|thumb|250px|Caterina treating an injured Ezio]]
Following the battle, Caterina nursed Ezio back to health at the [[Palazzo Comunale (Forlì)|Palazzo Communale]].<ref name="Checcomate" /> Ezio learned from [[Darby O'Callahan]] and the monks of the [[Abbey of San Mercuriale]] that the man who had stolen the Apple was a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar by the name of [[Girolamo Savonarola]],<ref>''Assassin's Creed II'' – ''Battle of Forlì'' – [[Far From the Tree]]</ref> whom Ezio eventually [[Bonfire of the Vanities|tracked down and killed]] in [[Florence]], allowing him to reclaim the artifact.<ref>''Assassin's Creed II'' – ''[[Bonfire of the Vanities (DLC)|Bonfire of the Vanities]]'' – [[Mob Justice]]</ref>


Once Ezio arrives and asks a monks for some information, they all start to flee, they scream that Ezio is a monk-killer as he killed [[Stefano da Bagnone]]. Ezio soon grabbed hold of on, before they all escaped and asked him if he knew who the mysterious monk was. He told him that he was [[Girolamo Savonarola]], the leader of [[Florence]].
===Papal rule===
After the battle, Forlì fell solely in the hands of Caterina, who fought to prevent the Vatican from re-taking control.<ref name="Database Caterina">''Assassin's Creed II'' – [[Database: Caterina Sforza (Assassin's Creed II)|Database: Caterina Sforza]]</ref> Ultimately, however, [[Cesare Borgia]] conquered Forli by taking the wider Romagna region,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – [[New Man in Town]]</ref> and had Caterina captured during the [[siege of Monteriggioni]]<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[Vilified]]</ref> and brought to the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] in Rome as a prisoner.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[Castello Crasher]]</ref> With Ezio's help,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[Femme Fatale]]</ref> the Countess escaped confinement,<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[The Burdens We Carry]]</ref> but she was exiled to Florence, where she died of pneumonia within the decade.<ref name="Database Caterina"/>


==Landmarks==
With Cesare having taken the land for the [[Papacy]], his death in 1507 during his [[Siege of Viana|siege]] of the [[Spain|Spanish]] town [[Viana]]<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[Pax Romana]]</ref> meant that Forlì returned to Church possession despite Ottaviano's attempts to reclaim it from Pope [[Julius II]].<ref>{{WP|Ottaviano Riario}}</ref>
Forlì's architecture is characterized by comparatively small buildings, greyish stonework, and flat rooftops.


===Rocca di Ravaldino===
===Modern times===
{{Main|Rocca di Ravaldino}}
In 2012, [[Abstergo Industries]] used Forlì as a simulated training location during the [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|first]] stage of their [[Animi Training Program]]. The simulation depicted the Abbazia di San Mercuriale and the surrounding area, which contained mostly housing, some of it in poor state, as well as plenty of market stalls. Forlì's streets were mostly spacious and long, with little alleyways connecting the more open areas, of which one was dedicated to the keeping of [[horse]]s, with several [[stable]]s present, as well as [[Hiding spots|haystacks]] and watering troughs. Due to the low tide, the city drains were empty of water, turning one of the city's wells into a possible escape route. Forlì was not programmed to have aesthetic variations. As a result, it could only be used during the day.<ref name="Multiplayer">''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[Multiplayer/ACBH|Multiplayer]]</ref>
'''Rocca di Ravaldino''' was the heavily walled and cannoned fortress of Forlì, a citadel of strategic importance to the defense of the city. The [[Piece of Eden|Apple of Eden]] was briefly held here for safekeeping upon its recovery by the [[Assassins|Assassins' Order]]. It serves as a [[Secret Location]].


==Trivia==
In 2016, Abstergo's subsidiary [[Abstergo Entertainment]] reused Forlì as a simulated location for their [[Identity Project]]. Like most of the simulated locations in the Project, Forlì had two aesthetic variations, and as such could be utilized during a siege or at dusk.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]]'' – [[Contracts (Identity Project)|Contracts]]</ref>
*Caterina Sforza, who is featured in the game, was Countess of Forlì from 1480 until 1500. Her legendary quotes are featured in the Battle of Forlì DLC. In 1488, her husband, Girolamo Riario, was assassinated in a conspiracy led by the [[House of Orsi|Orsi]], a noble family of the city, and she and her children were made prisoners. Since the fortress of Ravaldino refused to surrender, Caterina offered to go to convince the Castellan, Tommaso Feo, to yield. The Orsinis believed the good intentions of Caterina because she left her children as hostages, but once inside the safety of the fortress, she let loose a barrage of threats and promises of vengeance against her former captors. When they threatened to kill her still-captive children, she exposed her genitals from the fortress walls saying: "''Ho con me lo stampo per farne degli altri!''" (I have the instrument to bear more!).
 
*Forlì was a very provincial town, but the Fortress of Forlì was one of the most fortified citadels in [[Italy]], one that was protected by numerous, very large cannons. In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]'', when the [[Orsi Brothers]] attack Forlì, Caterina Sforza is forced to order the cannons to fire at enemy targets inside the town walls. As a result, parts of the city were destroyed.
==Behind the scenes==
*It is in Forlì that the player can [[customization|dye]] Ezio's robes with the tints "Wetlands Ebony" and "Wetlands Ivory" to achieve the "[[Assassin's Creed II Achievements#Perfect Harmony|Perfect Harmony]]" Trophy/[[Achievement]].
In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', Forlì is depicted as being directly on the coastline. In reality, it is several kilometers away from any large bodies of water. Forlì also serves as the main setting of ''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]]''{{'}}s [[Assassin's Creed: Identity downloadable content|downloadable]] expansion ''[[Forlì – A Crimson Sunset]]'', which depicts an alternate version of the Battle of Forlì. However, since this version of the conflict is set after the Siege of Monteriggioni and is drastically different from the one seen in ''Assassin's Creed II'', it is considered non-canon.
*Forlì is one of the two locations that you can use the [[Flying Machine]] in ''Assassin's Creed II'' (considering you have obtained the Battle of Forlì DLC), and the only one where it can be used at any time.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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2323 480x270.jpg|Ezio firing his hidden gun in the Rocca di Ravaldino
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Scan0007-1.jpg|Map of Forlì and surrounding areas
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www.totalvideogames.com_AC2_S_084_Wetlands_ToeChop_69741__size_655_1500.jpg|Ezio fighting in the countryside just outside Forlì
AC2 forli concept.png|Concept art of Forlì
z_9e84395f.jpg|Map of Forlì for ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' multiplayer.
Christian-schob-forli-battle-mood-thumb.jpg|Concept art of Forlì
Christian-schob-image-location-forli-battle-mood-thumb1.jpg|Concept art of Forlì
Christian-schob-image-location-forli-battle-mood-thumb2.jpg|Concept art of Forlì
Christian-schob-image-location-forli-battle-mood-thumb3.jpg|Concept art of Forlì
The Nest of the Bird.png|Concept art of an Assassin in Forlì
A Grey Sky.png|Concept art of the Battle of Forlì
</gallery>
</gallery>
|-|Screenshots=
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
Scan0007-1.jpg|Map of Forlì in ''Assassin's Creed II''
AC2 Map Forli.png|An [[Animus]] map of Forlì
ACI Map Forli.png|Map of Forlì in ''Assassin's Creed: Identity''
Forli outer walls.png|Forlì's outer walls
Bodyguard 4.png|Forlì being invaded by enemy troops
Forli - multiplayer.jpg|A simulation of Forlì
ACBMP Aerial View Forli.jpg|An aerial view of the Forlì map used in the Animi Training Program, with [[chase breakers]] marked
Hidden gun in multiplayer.jpg|The [[Prowler]] shooting the [[Barber]] from afar with the [[Hidden Gun]]
Multiplayer New 2.jpg|The [[Captain]], having thrown down a [[Bombs#Smoke bombs|smoke bomb]], attempts to escape the [[Harlequin]]
ACII DB Forlì.png|Database image of Forlì in ''Assassin's Creed II''
An Unexpected Summon.png|Database image of Forlì in ''Identity''
</gallery>
</tabber>
==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Battle of Forlì (DLC)|Battle of Forlì]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Identity]]'' – ''[[Forlì - A Crimson Sunset]]'' {{C|non-canon}}


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Latest revision as of 15:05, 28 May 2026

"Take it to Forlì. The citadel's walls are protected by cannons and our ally controls it."
―Mario Auditore about Forlì, 1488.[src]-[m]

Forlì is an Italian city located in the region of Romagna and the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. During the Renaissance, it was the site of an eponymous battle, the Battle of Forlì.

History[edit | edit source]

Early development[edit | edit source]

Forlì's immediate surroundings contain evidence of early human habitation in the form of flint knapping fragments from the nearby Ca' Belvedere di Monte Poggiolo that date to around 798,000 BCE in the Paleolithic era,[1] though this is hardly evidence of the later industrial city being properly "founded" as the Assassin historian Shaun Hastings once sarcastically commented.[2][3]

Forlì's name is derived from the Romans, who built the city named "Forum Livii" in 188 BCE along the Via Aemilia, one of several roads they laid after pacifying the local Gauls as part of the regular Roman–Gallic wars. After the Roman rule, it went from Lombard hands into church control. It became an independent republic in 889, infuriating the Vatican, which spent the next 400 years trying to regain control over the city.[2]

Middle Ages and early Renaissance[edit | edit source]

Along with Rome's constant machinations, Forlì faced a steady stream of Goth, Byzantine, Lombard, and Frank marauders for the next few centuries. In addition, it faced annual flooding, which was finally brought under control by diverting nearby rivers away from the city center in 1050.[2]

Forlì became a military dictatorship at the end of the 13th century and power was then was passed to the Ordelaffi family. In 1480, with the Ordelaffi fighting amongst themselves over the chain of succession, Pope Sixtus IV stepped in and gave the city to his nephew, Girolamo Riario.[2] In 1481, the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore visited Forlì while en route to Venice with Leonardo da Vinci. During the visit, Ezio rescued the countess Caterina Sforza, Riario's wife, from a small island[4] where Riario had intentionally stranded her after an argument.[5]

Battle of Forlì[edit | edit source]

Main article: Battle of Forlì
Checco and Ludovico threatening Ezio and Caterina

In 1488, Caterina hired the Orsi brothers, Checco and Ludovico, to assassinate Riario. At the time, Riario had joined the Italian Templars and had been developing a map of the fabled Codex pages' purported locations.[6]

Later, in July 1488, Ezio returned to Forlì along with Niccolò Machiavelli, intending to make the city's castle, the Rocca di Ravaldino, a safe haven for the Apple of Eden he had obtained from Rodrigo Borgia. However, before the Apple could be secured, the Orsi brothers, working on behalf of the Borgia, seized not only Forlì,[6] but also Caterina's two young children, Bianca and Ottaviano. The Orsi brothers held them as hostages, intending to trade the children for the Apple.[7]

During the battle, Caterina was forced to order the cannons to fire at Orsi troops inside the town walls. As a result, parts of the city were destroyed.[5] Meanwhile, Ezio was able to save the Sforza children and slay Ludovico easily,[7] but Checco used the distraction to launch another attack and steal the Apple. Ezio went to recover the artifact and was badly wounded when Checco stabbed him with a dagger.[8]

Despite his injury, Ezio managed to kill Checco and reclaim the artifact, but later succumbed to blood loss and fainted on the roadside. In the confusion that ensued, a black-robed monk found and stole the Apple still clutched in Ezio's hand.[8]

Caterina treating an injured Ezio

Following the battle, Caterina nursed Ezio back to health at the Palazzo Communale.[8] Ezio learned from Darby O'Callahan and the monks of the Abbey of San Mercuriale that the man who had stolen the Apple was a Dominican friar by the name of Girolamo Savonarola,[9] whom Ezio eventually tracked down and killed in Florence, allowing him to reclaim the artifact.[10]

Papal rule[edit | edit source]

After the battle, Forlì fell solely in the hands of Caterina, who fought to prevent the Vatican from re-taking control.[11] Ultimately, however, Cesare Borgia conquered Forli by taking the wider Romagna region,[12] and had Caterina captured during the siege of Monteriggioni[13] and brought to the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome as a prisoner.[14] With Ezio's help,[15] the Countess escaped confinement,[16] but she was exiled to Florence, where she died of pneumonia within the decade.[11]

With Cesare having taken the land for the Papacy, his death in 1507 during his siege of the Spanish town Viana[17] meant that Forlì returned to Church possession despite Ottaviano's attempts to reclaim it from Pope Julius II.[18]

Modern times[edit | edit source]

In 2012, Abstergo Industries used Forlì as a simulated training location during the first stage of their Animi Training Program. The simulation depicted the Abbazia di San Mercuriale and the surrounding area, which contained mostly housing, some of it in poor state, as well as plenty of market stalls. Forlì's streets were mostly spacious and long, with little alleyways connecting the more open areas, of which one was dedicated to the keeping of horses, with several stables present, as well as haystacks and watering troughs. Due to the low tide, the city drains were empty of water, turning one of the city's wells into a possible escape route. Forlì was not programmed to have aesthetic variations. As a result, it could only be used during the day.[19]

In 2016, Abstergo's subsidiary Abstergo Entertainment reused Forlì as a simulated location for their Identity Project. Like most of the simulated locations in the Project, Forlì had two aesthetic variations, and as such could be utilized during a siege or at dusk.[20]

Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]

In Assassin's Creed II, Forlì is depicted as being directly on the coastline. In reality, it is several kilometers away from any large bodies of water. Forlì also serves as the main setting of Assassin's Creed: Identity's downloadable expansion Forlì – A Crimson Sunset, which depicts an alternate version of the Battle of Forlì. However, since this version of the conflict is set after the Siege of Monteriggioni and is drastically different from the one seen in Assassin's Creed II, it is considered non-canon.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • Concept art of Forlì
    Concept art of Forlì
  • Concept art of Forlì
    Concept art of Forlì
  • Concept art of Forlì
    Concept art of Forlì
  • Concept art of Forlì
    Concept art of Forlì
  • Concept art of Forlì
    Concept art of Forlì
  • Concept art of an Assassin in Forlì
    Concept art of an Assassin in Forlì
  • Concept art of the Battle of Forlì
    Concept art of the Battle of Forlì

  • Map of Forlì in Assassin's Creed II
    Map of Forlì in Assassin's Creed II
  • An Animus map of Forlì
    An Animus map of Forlì
  • Map of Forlì in Assassin's Creed: Identity
    Map of Forlì in Assassin's Creed: Identity
  • Forlì's outer walls
    Forlì's outer walls
  • Forlì being invaded by enemy troops
    Forlì being invaded by enemy troops
  • A simulation of Forlì
    A simulation of Forlì
  • An aerial view of the Forlì map used in the Animi Training Program, with chase breakers marked
    An aerial view of the Forlì map used in the Animi Training Program, with chase breakers marked
  • The Prowler shooting the Barber from afar with the Hidden Gun
    The Prowler shooting the Barber from afar with the Hidden Gun
  • The Captain, having thrown down a smoke bomb, attempts to escape the Harlequin
    The Captain, having thrown down a smoke bomb, attempts to escape the Harlequin
  • Database image of Forlì in Assassin's Creed II
    Database image of Forlì in Assassin's Creed II
  • Database image of Forlì in Identity
    Database image of Forlì in Identity

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Peretto, Carlo (January/February 2006). "The first peopling of southern Europe: the Italian case", Comptes Rendus Palevol, 5(1–2). Paris, National Museum of Natural History. pg. 283–290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2005.11.006. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Assassin's Creed II – Database: Forlì
  3. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Identity – Forlì – A Crimson Sunset – Database: Forlì
  4. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Tutti a Bordo
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì – A Warm Welcome
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì – Godfather
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì – Checcomate
  9. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì – Far From the Tree
  10. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Bonfire of the Vanities – Mob Justice
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Assassin's Creed II – Database: Caterina Sforza
  12. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – New Man in Town
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Vilified
  14. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Castello Crasher
  15. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Femme Fatale
  16. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Burdens We Carry
  17. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Pax Romana
  18. ↑ Ottaviano Riario on Wikipedia
  19. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Multiplayer
  20. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Identity – Contracts

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