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| |name = Hidden Ones
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| |image = ACO Hidden Ones 2.jpg
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| |leader =
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| |locations = [[Egypt]]<br>[[Rome]]
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| |related = [[Assassins]]
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| |formed = 48 BCE
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| |reorganized = 1050<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]''</ref>
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| |notable =
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| *[[Lugos]]
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| *[[Marcus Junius Brutus]]
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| *[[Gaius Cassius Longinus]]
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| *[[Leonius]]
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| *[[Aquilus]]
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| |founder =
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| *[[Aya]]
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| *[[Bayek]]
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| }}
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| The '''Hidden Ones''', also known as the '''Liberalis Circulum''' (''Circle of Liberals'') during the time of the [[Roman Empire]], was the name of an organization created by the [[Egypt]]ian [[Bayek]] and his wife, [[Aya]], that was dedicated to fighting for humanity's free will. They operated within Ptolemaic Egypt, the [[Roman Republic]] and the subsequent Roman Empire. In 1050, under the leadership of [[Hassan-i Sabbāh]], they founded a sovereign state in their own right, becoming a public organization that eventually became known as the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]].
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| ==History==
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| ===Foundation===
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| The Hidden Ones were founded in 48 BCE by the Egyptian [[Medjay]] Bayek and his wife, Aya, who cast away her former identity and took a new name, becoming Amunet. Eventually, Amunet founded a bureau in [[Rome]] along with a man named [[Lugos]],<ref name="AC3: Accipiter">''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]''</ref> and recruited several Roman Senators, including [[Marcus Junius Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]], as well as the Roman philosopher [[Publius Volumnius]].<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Reconstructed Data 011]]</ref> The Roman Hidden Ones referred to themselves as ''Liberatores''.<ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Rome: Chapter 2 - Giovanni Borgia]]</ref>
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| Later on, Lugos traveled to Egypt to recover two [[Pieces of Eden]], the [[Ankh]] and the [[Scepter of Aset]], which had been found in a pyramid by Roman plunderers. However, while carrying the two artefacts aboard his ship back to Rome across the [[Mediterranean Sea]], a terrible storm opened an enormous waterway within the ship, causing it to sink. Before his demise, Lugos recorded a message with the Ankh, detailing the ongoing events and lamenting the failure of his mission.<ref name="AC3: Accipiter"/>
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| ===Assassination of Julius Caesar===
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| [[File:Assassination of Julius Caesar.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Hidden Ones killing Julius Caesar]]
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| In 44 BCE, forty Senators, secretly Hidden Ones, conspired against the Roman general and dictator [[Gaius Julius Caesar]], whose appointment had been supported by the [[Order of the Ancients]]. After being assigned by Cassius as the one to come up with the plan of [[Assassination of Julius Caesar|assassinating Caesar]], Brutus designated a [[Temples|temple]] preceding a sealed [[Isu|First Civilization]] [[Colosseum Vault|vault]] hidden beneath what would eventually become the [[Santa Maria in Aracoeli|Santa Maria Aracoeli]] as a meeting place for his co-conspirators.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref><ref name="ACPL - Giovanni Borgia"/> Having received visions of Caesar's future assassination within the vault, Brutus was further motivated and scheduled their attack for the Ides of March.<ref name="ACB"/>
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| On 15 March 44 BCE, the Hidden Ones, led by Amunet, assassinated Caesar while he was addressing the Senate. After Amunet stabbed him from behind, the other senators attacked him. Caesar resisted at first, but resigned himself to his fate upon recognizing Brutus.<ref name="ACO"/><ref name="ACB"/> Driven to severe guilt from his actions, Brutus later returned to the [[Colosseum]], and abandoned the [[Dagger of Brutus|dagger]] he had used to strike down Caesar within the vault, along with his [[Armor of Brutus|heirloom armor]] and the [[Scrolls of Romulus|scrolls]] describing his dreams and discovery of the vault, as well as include drawings of the chamber and [[Vault pedestal|its pedestal]].<ref name="ACB"/>
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| ===Attempted resurrection of Brutus===
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| {{Quote|Whatever power lies within this artifact, it has not returned our Brother to us.|Publius Volumnius commenting on the failed resurrection of Brutus.|Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy}}
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| [[File:Philippi, Macedonia.png|250px|thumb|The Shroud covering Brutus]]
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| After the assassination, the Senate passed an amnesty on the Hidden Ones, which was proposed by Caesar's friend and co-consul [[Marcus Antonius]]. Nonetheless, uproar among the population caused Hidden Ones to leave Rome.<ref name="ACPL - Ghosts of Christmas Past">''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' - [[Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past]]</ref>
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| In 42 BCE, armies under the command of Caesar's allies clashed with those of Brutus and Cassius at the {{Wiki|Battle of Philippi}} in [[Macedonia]]. Faced with certain defeat, the two Hidden Ones fled and committed suicide shortly thereafter.<ref name="ACPL - Ghosts of Christmas Past"/>
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| After Brutus' death, his fellow Hidden Ones gathered in Philippi, Macedonia and tried to reanimate him using a [[Shroud of Eden 1|Shroud of Eden]]. Since they had never used it before, the Hidden Ones feared its effects, but nevertheless wrapped Brutus in the cloth. Though the corpse opened its eyes and moved its arms, it neither breathed nor reacted to any touch, and eventually fell still in a seeming "second death".<ref name="ACPL - Ghosts of Christmas Past"/>
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| As some of the Hidden Ones wept, Brutus was wrapped instead in a burial mantle, and the Shroud was returned to its wooden storage box.<ref name="ACPL - Ghosts of Christmas Past"/>
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| ===Assassination of Cleopatra===
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| On 12 August 30 BCE, Amunet infiltrated [[Cleopatra]]'s palace. There, she killed Cleopatra using a venomous [[Snakes|asp]].<ref name=AC2>''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
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| ===Later activities===
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| On 24 January 41, the Roman Hidden One [[Leonius]] killed Roman Emperor [[Caligula]] with a [[dagger]].<ref name=AC2/>
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| By the mid-3rd century, the [[Roman Brotherhood of Assassins|Roman branch]] of the Hidden Ones, now known as the ''Liberalis Circulum'', had spread throughout the Roman Empire, having members in Gaul, Germania and Iberia.<ref name="AC3: Accipiter"/>
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| In 259, [[Aquilus]], a Gaul Hidden One based in [[Lugdunum]], was tasked with assassinating two Generals and a Senator, and then ordered to retrieve an artifact in possession of his cousin [[Accipiter]], a Hidden One and a General of the [[Alemanni]] tribes. As Aquilus reached his third target, the General [[Gracchus]], his intent was discovered and he was stabbed by his own target. Fortunately for the Hidden One, Aquilus was saved by his cousin who gave him the Ankh, which had been finally recovered, centuries after Lugos' death. The Gaul took back the artifact to Lugdunum, but it was then stolen by the Hidden Ones' ancestral enemies, with [[Caïus Fulvus Vultur]] killing Aquilus' father, [[Lucius]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]''</ref>
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| Aquilus tracked Vultur to Rome, where he eliminated him and his fellow conspirators, and retrieved the artifact. Later, the arrest and execution of Aquilus was ordered by the [[Prefect of Lugdunum|prefect of his home city]], but even after Aquilus' death, the artifact was successfully hidden. It was this same Prefect with whom [[Cuervo]], an Iberian Hidden One sent to preserve the Circle's interests in Lugdunum from the Germanic armies raiding the Empire, and Accipiter were negotiating the spare of the Roman city in exchange for a significant tribute to the Alemanni.<ref name="AC3: Accipiter"/>
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| In the 4th century, an unidentified [[Roman Assassin|Roman Hidden One]] operated in the Roman Empire during the rise of [[Constantine I]] as emperor, witnessing the foundation of [[Constantinople]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/DarbyMcDevitt/status/694275921604407296 Darby McDevitt's Twitter]</ref><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook]]''</ref>
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| ===Reformation into the Assassin Brotherhood===
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| In 1050, under the leadership of [[Hassan-i Sabbāh]], the [[Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins|Levantine branch]] of the Hidden Ones founded a sovereign state in their own right from their capital of [[Alamut]], openly operating from the impregnable fortress as a public organization which eventually became knwon as the Assassin Brotherhood. Under Hassan's command, public assassinations occurred much more often and the people were encouraged to stand up to their oppressors, realizing that they were not on their own.<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed: Encyclopedia]]''</ref>
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| ==Members==
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| '''Ptolemaic Egypt''' / '''Roman Republic'''
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| *[[Aya]]
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| *[[Bayek]]
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| *[[Marcus Junius Brutus]]
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| *[[Gaius Cassius Longinus]]
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| *[[Lugos]]
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| *[[Pasherenptah]]
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| *[[Phanos the Younger]]
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| *[[Phoxidas]]
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| *[[Tahira]]
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| *[[Publius Volumnius]]
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| *38 other senators involved in Caesar's assassination
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| '''Roman Empire'''
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| :''Julio-Claudian dynasty''
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| *[[Leonius]]
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| :''3rd century''
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| *[[Accipiter]]
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| *[[Aquilus]]
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| *[[Cuervo]]
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| *[[Lucius]]
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| :''Constantinian dynasty''
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| *[[Roman Assassin]]
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| '''High Middle Ages'''
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| *[[Hassan-i Sabbāh]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| [[Category:Assassins]]
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