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My sandbox. Probably going to be a collection of attempts to get the databases in functioning wiki order.
My primary sandbox.


===Notes===
==Sigh==
* Must find way to fix the overlap of categories in tabber.
User:Nygma PI/Sandbox
* Add images for Freedom Cry's weapons
[https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_-_Entre_voyages,_v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9s_et_complots Assassin's Creed: Entre voyages, vérités et complots]
 
[[Destroyer Samurai]], [[Onnamusha Kosode]] -> [[Destroyer Samurai Armor]], [[Legendary Onna-musha Kosode]]
 
==ACL notes==
*Cutlass, Queen Anne Pistol are default
*Dressing chamber in smugglers' camp also does not have the same name as the ones in new orleans.
*[[A Slave in Trouble]]
**Cartographer's Watch (PW1)
**Sword (1508 écu)
**All outfit colors (1500 écu)
*[[The Safe House]]
**Animus memory notes: "Since the disappearance of her mother, Aveline has been raised by Madeleine de L'Isle. With the realization that they shared similar views on slavery, the bond between the two women grow stronger." (Appears after end of memory)
*[[The Escape]]
**"Two years have passed since Aveline disposed of Governor d'Abbadie. During that time, she found no trace of the man called de Ferrer, yet his plans continue to threaten New Orleans' population."
*[[The Loas Guide You]]
**Engraved Watch (PW2)
*By [[Meet the Smugglers]] (did not check weapon shop during The Loas Guide You)
**Cuttoe Sword (3120)
**Pocket Pistol (20000)
**Double-Barreled Pistol (10000)
*After [[Citizen E (1)]]
**[[Bayou Fever]] unlocks
*[[The Whole Truth]]
**"The revelation that Agaté knew her mother Jeanne - a fact he chose to keep from her - strained the relationship between mentor and mentee. With de Ferrer back in New Orleans, Aveline redoubles her efforts to protect its citizens."
*[[Prélude to Rebellion]]
**Trade system: New Orleans and Havana unlocked. Only cotton is available. Barque, brigantine, galleon and schooner available as ships.
*After memory concludes, but before next one begins:
**Pourpre Rosa Watch and Gentleman's Watch (4375,6250)
**Hatchet (16380)
**Chimbuya Axe (16860)
**Machete (16640)
**Colichemarde (18040)
**Naval Axe (21240)
**Dual Pistols (20000)
**Trade system: Tobacco available.
*[[Elegant and Deadly]]
**Aveline's shops offer the outfits for 1000, and the hood for 500, small fast poison pouch 4k, small cartridge pouch 750, small smoke bomb 1200 [Did not check when pouches first became available, small fast poison pouch 8k, small cartridge pouch 1500, small smoke bomb 2400]
**After taking care of her father's business troubles, Aveline sets out to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of slaves and vagrants.
**M. Reynaud's Bypass and M. de Vandal's Harbor available
**Owned weapon shop prices: hatchet 8190, chimbuya axe 8430, sword 754, cuttoe sword 1560, machete 8320, colichemarde 9020, naval axe 10620, dual pistols 10k, pocket pistol 10k, double barred pistol 5k
**Trade system: Veracruz made available, Fruits available
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Confident that Governor Ulloa is behind the disappearances in New Orleans, Aveline puts her plan in motion to lure him out of La Balise, which he seldom leaves.
*Firm in her belief and confident that she can put an end to the machinations of her enemies, Aveline disobeys Agaté and boards a slave ship bound to an unknown location. This decision further strays their relationship.
*With de Ferrer dead and the slave colony free, Aveline travels back to New Orleans. Upon her return, she finds a world very different than the one she had left. Yet, the identity of the Company Man remains a mystery.
 
==CST==
*[[Dwarven Defender]]
*[[Wondrous Set]]
 
==Glyphs==
*[[User:Gta-mysteries/Glyphs]]
*[[User:VilkaTheWolf/Images]]
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==Discovery Sites==
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|-|Lesbos Banner and Coinage=
|-|TAB 1=
The banner of Lesbos, home of the famous poet Sappho, was inspired by one of the most interesting monetary types in antiquity.
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SUB TAB 1=
BLAH
{{!}}-{{!}}
SUB TAB 2=
BLAH BLAH
{{!}}-{{!}}
SUB TAB 3=
BLAH BLAH BLAH
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|-|TAB 2=
HM
|-|TAB 3=
HMM
|-|TAB 4=
HMMM
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Unlike others cities, Lesbos changed monetary types from one issuance to another. This provided great variety - notably this unusual depiction of two female heads overlapping.
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|-|1=
;In the Beginning
Five of these mythic scenes share a <font color="#FF0000">core</font> similarity. <font color="#FF0000">Pick</font> them out and you'll begin to see.
[Pictures 3,5,6,7,9]


Lesbos's cities were members of the Delian league from the start. They provided ships to the alliance, but then revolted in 428 BCE and the victorious Athenians sent clerouchs (settlers) to occupy the island.
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|-|Fortified Camps=
Field camps were built at the end of a day's march to provide protection in case of a surprise enemy attack.


They were widely-used when attacking cities during sieges. The camps are where soldiers would eat, sleep, and store their weapons, food rations and spoils - often for months at a time. It's also where a soldier would take refuge when and if things went badly in battle.
|-|2=
;Sixty-Four Squares
*Subject 16: The past: a vast web of connections and interconnections, all ruled by chance. Or is it?


Building a good fortified camp or fortifying a village or small city in the enemy's territory may have meant the difference between victory and defeat.
[circular puzzle]
Queen Elizabeth I
of England
1559
ID: Piece of Eden 2 - Apple


As sieges would stretch on, a good fortified camp meant that an army could safely remain in unfriendly lands and exert pressure on the enemy. This could be done by burning or taking their crops, by preventing resupply, or simply by exerting their demoralizing presence.
[circular puzzle]
Emperor Napoleon I
of France
1812
ID: Piece of Eden 1 - Apple


Establishing a fortified position in enemy lands in order to constantly raid it was a common tactic in the Peloponnesian War. Athens employed it at Pylos from 425 to 409 BCE, and so did the Spartans with a more devastating effect over a weakened Athens when they fortified Dekeleia from 413 to 404 BCE.
[circular puzzle]
George Washington
United States
1781
ID: Piece of Eden 3 - Apple


|-|A Soldier's Life=
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Soldiers on the move mostly slept under the sky on beds of reeds, for in most cases tent materials were too great a burden.


They ate two meals a day - one at mid-day [except when battle was expected), and then dinner. They usually cooked these meatls themselves. In most cases, the meal consisted of maza, a sort of barley porridge. The Spartans did things differently; they had dedicated cooks in their armies.
|-|3=
;Descendants
*Subject 16: Power doesn't die. It's passed on.


When the soldiers need to relieve themselves, they simply went wherever they could outside of camp, as there was no special location for this act.
He carried it with him. Find his inheritance.
[image, locate Piece of Eden 3]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt strategic meeting, 1944


There was little in the way of entertainment in military camps. The Spartans, however, did have some techniques for avoiding boredom. After their regular practice and exercise, they had a sort of contest of singing songs by the poet Tyrtaios, and the winner received a prize in meat.
[image, locate Piece of Eden 1]
Houdini beginning the Chinese water torture cell escape, 1913


Even in a war camp, the gods had to be honored. Whenever possible, sacrifices were made and seers were consulted, often about the tides of battle.
[image, locate Piece of Eden 2]
|-|Petrified Forest of Lesbos=
Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930
(Behind the scenes)


Lesbos is an island situated in the north-east of the Aegean
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Sea. Lesbos rebelled against the Athenians, leading to its
eventual surrender to Athens. Lesbos is notable in real life for
its 18-million-year-old petrified forest, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site, home to fossilized remains of a once vast
swathe of vegetation and forest. The art team used their
artistic license to grow the trees into dense forests of tangled
roots and branches, a maze for our hero to navigate. The
atmosphere of the forest is oppressive, with temple ruins
appearing from the murky background, and a sense of dread
lingering behind every corner.


Finished concepts by Hugo Puzzuoli show the red and yellow
|-|4=
accents in the rock of the petrified trees, caused by intense
;Infinite Knowledge
volcanic activity millions of years ago.
*Subject 16: It's getting easier and easier to hack into Abstergo's mainframe. It's like I know what data I'm looking for. Like I've already lived it.
|-|Medusa=
The Medusa has been portrayed in many different ways over
the years, from a beautiful young woman, to a monstrous
creature with a serpent's body and tail. The art team decided
to move away from these depictions, concentrating on the
details of her appearance. The snakes are based on actual
Greek species found on the islands and mainland Greece. Her
dress is made from targe swathes of snake skin, suggesting
even bigger serpents once existed. “Medusa is represented in
her Greek form, as a humanoid woman, rather than in the
Roman version that would follow," explains art director
Thierry Dansereau. She is, after all, a woman transformed by
an ancient artifact, rather than the will of the gods.
|-|Medusa and Perseus=
Perseus was the Greek hero who ultimately killed Medusa. He
was the son of Zeus and Danai, and he promised to obtain the
head of Medusa to King Polydektes. Medusa was a gorgon, a
female monster that had living snakes on her head instead of
locks of hair. Her gaze petrified all who locked eyes with her,
and turned them to stone.


Perseus went to the Hesperides to acquire the weapon that
Its open <font color="#FF0000">mouth</font> delivers the kiss of death
would help him defeat Medusa. They also gave him a sack to
[image,  locate hidden image in the gun's barrel]
hold her head (kibisis). He received a sword [harpe) from
Burning Viet Cong base camp, My Tho, Vietnam, 1968
Zeus, winged sandals from Hermes, a shiny shield from
Athena, and the ability to hide from Hades.


When Perseus entered Medusa's cave, he used the shield's
Leading the <font color="#FF0000">young</font> to their end.
reflection to avoid eye contact, and successfully decapitated
[image, locate hidden image in helmet of crouching soldier]
her.
Members of the 2nd Infantry Division advance under machine gun fire into the outskirts of Brest, France, 1944


Perseus used the head of Medusa as a weapon, but later gave
The flames from its throat <font color="#FF0000">poke</font> out their eyes
itas a gift to Athena, who placed the head of the gorgon
[image, locate ID: Piece of Eden 4 - Apple on tapestry]
(gorgoneion) on her shield, or the Aegis.
Union troops in formation. Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.
|-|Medusa's Temple=
Where better to have the home of the notorious Medusa,
famous for turning her victims to stone, than in a petrified
forest. As one of the most well-known creatures from Greek
myth, featuring in countless books, movies, and historical
records, it was a challenge for the development team to strip
away the previous incarnations and start fresh. In mythology,
Medusa was one of the three Gorgons, sisters with wings and
snakes for hair, able to petrify onlookers. The Medusa in
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a woman, transformed by a First
Civilization artifact into a creature of great power. As such,
her temple features the classic geometry and architecture of
First Civilization constructions, and is the only open-air First
Civilization temple in game.
|-|The Keryneian Hind=
The third labor of Herakles was to capture the Keryneian Hind,
a beast notoriously faster than an arrow.


This particular labor was not about strength, but about speed
This <font color="#FF0000">monster</font> did not come from man.
and patience. Herakles chased the hind on foot for over a year
[image, locate hidden image in the gun's barrel]
-in Thrace, and as far as Istria in the Adriatic Sea. However,
The first pictorial representation of a gun, 900
there's more than one legend that tells of its capture. In one
version, Herakles caught the hind when it was asleep with a
trap-net or a thrown arrow. In another, it was Artemis -
whose sacred animal was the hind - who helped Herakles
after he told the goddess that he didn't intend on desecrating
the animal.
|-|Ships=
The Greeks have long been known as a naval powerhouse. The
development team created multiple ship models, covering the
Trireme (with three rows of oars], the bireme (with two),
merchant ships and other smaller boats. Historical pop
culture sources, including a visit to a life-size replica of a
trireme, 3rd century BCE graffiti, depictions on vases and
stone relief, and movies like Hercules [1958], Jason and the
Argonauts (1963) and many others, all served to inform the
design team to create realistic and functional digital replicas
of these classic ships.


The color and animal based designs of the ships are also
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significant. To the far right, the Athenian ship is clear, not just
from its blue coloring but also the owl adorning its sail - the
owl being the symbol of wisdom, associated with Athena, the
protector goddess of Athens. In the center is a darker colored
ship common among pirates, to the left a Spartan ship, and in
the far left, the smaller and less streamlined ship is a fishing
boat.


3D renders of the figureheads featured in Odyssey range from
|-|5=
the proud griffin and Pegasos to the terrible hydra and
;Instruments of Power
medusa.
*Subject 16: You see? Do you see what's going on? Not yet. But you will.
|-|Euboean Banner=
Euboea was an important source of grain and cattle - its
name even means “rich in cattle”. Knowing this, it isn't that
surprising to find depictions of bulls on their coins.


The banner was inspired by the head of a bull, taken from the
The power they wielded <font color="#FF0000">cut</font> down their enemies.
silver drachmae of the Euboean league. Bulls are sometimes
[Pictures 2, 3, 6, 8, 9]
presented in full on other Euboean coinages, like those of
ID: Piece of Eden 25 - Sword
Eretria, Karystos, or Histiaia.


Because of its resources, Euboea was a strategic region to
In their hands, the wise <font color="#FF0000">lean</font> on a great force.
control, and Athens invaded in 506 BCE. The Athenians
[Pictures 3, 6, 8, 9, 10]
defeated Chalkis, confiscated the land, and gave it to 4,000
ID: Piece of Eden 34 - Staff
settlers [clerouch] who could retain their Athenian
citizenship.
|-|Workshops and Metal Workers=
Metal workshops of different sizes coexisted in ancient
Greece. By the second half of the óth century BCE, the
development of armament workshops [ergasteria] employing
a few craftsmen or up to a few dozen slaves is quite
noticeable. Larger production units soon appeared, making
metalworking one of the most lucrative crafts in Classical
Greece - at least, it is assumed so by historians. As with many
other crafts, metalworking was exclusively practiced by men.


The smallest workshops for local supply might have been
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comprised of only three workers: one smith, and two slaves to
assist him. On the other hand, the largest workshops
resembled factories. They could be very large and employ
more than fifty slaves. For example, in Athens, on the slopes
of the Akropolis, four giant 40-meter-long workshops dating
back from 470-440 BCE have been excavated. The Athenian
metic Kephalos might have possessed such a weapons
workshop, since it was said that he had 120 slaves working for
him. By contrast, the metal workshops found in the sanctuary
of Nemea are smaller, but they are not necessarily the more
common scale.


The overall trend was super-specialization; the sword
|-|6=
makers, for example, were not the same as helmet or shield
;Brothers
makers. There were doryksoi [lance makers) and
*Subject 16: They were mostly heroes. But see, how the lineage is disrupted. The web of history traps the good, and the evil take what is not theirs!
machairopoioi, who crafted swords or knives. Helmets
workshops could also produce greaves, but the cuirasses,
especially the “muscle armors”, were manufactured by
specific craftsmen. Moreover, in the large workshops, one
could assume that all the workers were assigned very
narrowly-defined tasks.
|-|Statue of Poseidon=
The Bronze Statue of Poseidon at the Archaeological Museum
of Athens [National Museum of Athens) depicts either Zeus or
Poseidon. It is one of the few remaining original bronze
statues from Greece's Classical period, but it is also one of the
most impressive.


The statue depicts a thick-bearded, curly-haired god with a
[circular puzzle]
muscular, well-detailed anatomy. It is missing its eyes, which
And Satan said unto Cain: swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die.
were made of a different material - perhaps semi-precious
stone or glass. The statue's right hand clutched either a
lightning bolt, if it depicted Zeus, or a trident, if it depicted
Poseidon. For the purposes of the game, we decided it was
Poseidon.


The sculpture was made by an artist of great skill. It's
[circular puzzle]
possible it was created by the renowned sculptor Kalamis.
And all these things were done in secret.
|-|The Ram: The First Naval Weapon=
The offensive weapon of triremes was the ram [embolos). The
objective of all naval tactics was to bring the ram to bear on
the enemy's flank or quarter. The ram was made of bronze
and attached to a protruding plank at the front of the ship. The
ram was a warship's most expensive piece of equipment, but
luckily, it could be salvaged and reused when a ship was
broken up.


The ram was located at the forward tip of the keel. This area
[circular puzzle]
was heavily-armored and built up to a sharp point with three
And Cain said: truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret.
chisel-like blades just above water level. Building a ram
required a high level of metallurgical expertise and
complicated foundry facilities, as they were cast in one single
huge piece. The ram's tip flared into fins rather than coming
to a pointin order to prevent it from getting wedged into the
hull of its opponent, and the timbers that the bronze casing
covered were carefully designed to distribute the shock of
impact over the entire length of the Light hull. The ram could
smash a hole in an enemy vessel and therefore cripple it, but
could not literally sink it. The shape of the ram was designed
to cause maximum damage without penetrating the hull too
far, and make it difficult for the attacking vessels to back off.


The prow, with its ram and heavy buildup of timbers, was both
[circular puzzle]
the offensive weapon and the best-protected area of the ship.
Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.
The stern and sides were its vulnerable quarters. As long as a
warship kept its prow toward the enemy, it was poised for
both offensive and defensive action. Its role was to disable
other ships in battle. The Athenians in particular were very
adept at maneuvering their ships to utilize this weapon
effectively.
|-|Miltos and the Protective Eye=
Miltos is a type of red fine-grained ochre made up of red iron-
oxides often mixed with earth, sand, clay, wax, resin or other
impurities, creating a reddish pitch. It played a vital role in
waterproofing and ship maintenance due to its astringent,
binding, and drying properties.


lts use is attested to in Mycenaean clay tablets, inscribed in
*Subject 16: Behold: The mark of Cain!
the script known as "Linear Bº and dating from the 2nd
[The four pictures and quotes, now with a templar insignia above them]
millennium BCE. Specifically, by the Classical period, miltos
- . -- .--. .-.. .- .-. - . -..- - ... .- -.. .- .--. - . -.. -... -.-- -- .-. .-.-.- ... -- .. - ....
from Kea was prized in Athens due to its effectiveness in the
(TEMPLARTSADAPTEDBYMR.SMITH)
maintenance of ships, protecting the hull from rot and
infestation. The high lead levels meant that the powder, once
mixed into an organic medium, would make a very effective
anti-fouling agent, preventing the growth of bacterial colonies
on vessel hulls that could slow the ship down. In this way,
applying lead-rich miltos paint mixed with pitch to the hull of
a ship could inhibit biotic growth and prevent fouling.


The prow of a trireme was often decorated to look like the
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head of an animal, with the ram as its snout. Aischytos called
the triremes "the dark-eyed ships”. The eye was a regular
decoration for the triremes. It was made from a piece of
polished marble, then shaped and painted to resemble an eye.
Sometimes oculi could be rather large and, if not painted,
were an inlaid decoration occasionally made of expensive
materials. Seafarers attached oculi to their ship because they
looked upon their vessel as a living entity that needed eyes to
find its way. Black warships with red or purple painted bows
and large dark-blue enamel oculi seen sailing on the dark
seas would have had a powerful effect on any observer -
especially enemy forces.
|-|Types of Boats and Organization of Shipyards=
The various kinds of ships used by the Greeks could be divided
into two main types: ships of war, and ships of burden. The
latter were not designed for quick movement or rapid sailing,
but to carry the greatest possible quantity of goods. Their
structure was therefore bulky, their bottom round, and
although they were not without rowers, the chief means by
which they were propelled were their sails.


The most common ships of war were triremes. This warship
|-|7=
was an example of ancient engineering at its highest level.
;"Keep On Seeking, And You Will Find"
The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars, with
one man per oar. They were very fast and maneuverable,
which gave them a critical advantage in the close-quarter
battles that were typical of ancient naval engagements. The
triremes could move fast under sail, reaching maximum
speeds of perhaps fourteen knots under the most favorable
weather conditions, while their speed without the sails was
probably around eight knots.


They'd also become waterlogged if left in the sea for too long. To prevent this fromm happening, ships would have to be pulled
First plucked from a tree guarded by a snake, its powers perform miracles. Then, worn across the ages, torn asunder, hidden under a sea of <font color="#FF0000">red</font>, reconstruct the timeline.
from the water, and kept and maintained in shipsheds, These
[Pictures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6]
were buildings built on limestone bedrock. They incorporated
an inclined slipway which the triremes were normally hauled
up on when not at sea. The remains of the Zea shipsheds at
the Athenian port of Piraeus offer useful archaeological
evidence about triremes' maximum dimensions: about 115-
120 feet long, 16 feet wide and about 8% feet tall above the
waterline. As for the order of the rowers and their positioning,
valuable information could be extracted by the famous
Lenormant relief, which shows the middle of a trireme, with
three clear levels of oars coming out at different angles.


The trireme was first used in Greece during the óth century
[SPQR Templar symbol]
BCE by the tyrant of Korinth, Periander, and then by
Polykrates, the tyrant of Samos. It became the dominant
warship type of the eastern Mediterranean, playing a vital role
in the Greco-Persian Wars, the creation of the Athenian
maritime empire, and its downfall in the Peloponnesian War.
|-|Achaian Banner=
The Achaian banner appropriately depicts a trireme, since the
region includes Patrai, which served as naval base for the
Spartans during the Peloponnesian War.


The trireme was the most famous Greek ship. It was first built
[Image of crucifixion, locate ID: Piece of Eden 66 - Shroud]
in Korinth in the 7th century BCE and became an important
war ship for centuries - a fleet of triremes defeated the
Persians in Salamis.


Ships are a common image in iconography. They're present on
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vases and also on coins, with most of them depicting only the
prow, like this bronze coin from Megaris.
|-|Armor and Weapons=
The source material concerning weapon manufacturing in
Ancient Greece is not prolific. However, we do know that as
early as the 7th century BCE, more specialized-production
centers emerged in regions already known for their
metallurgical activities.


Chalkis, in Euboea, specialized in the production of swords,
|-|8=
while Korinth was renowned for its bronze helmets - both
;Martyrs
crucially important elements of hoplite equipment. Sykyon, in
the Peloponnese peninsula, provided the iron for the
manufacture of Spartan weapons. Athens, famous especially
for its cuirass workshops, was also an important location in
the world of Greek weapons production.


During what's called the “Dark Ages” in Greek history [1200-
[Picture, locate staff: Piece of Eden 34]
800 BCE), a transition took place in weaponry. The material
Czar Nicholas II, Russia
used switched from bronze to iron - a substance that was
lighter, tougher, and able to take a sharper edge. Swords
became shorter and larger than the preceding bronze
specimens. Both conical helmets with ornamented crests and
all shapes of shields may have also been made of that metal.


Around the 7th century BCE, a new tactical formation, the
[Picture, locate sword: Piece of Eden 25]
phalanx, gradually made its appearance in Greece. It marked
Joan of Arc, France
the return of the use of bronze in weaponry. The new
infantryman, the hoplite, was required to pay for his panoply,
a set of weapons and pieces of equipment including a cuirass,
greaves, helmet with cheek plates, shield, spear, and sword.
Bronze was used to make all or some parts of the body armor,
shield, and helmet, while the sword and spearhead were
crafted with iron.


The costliness of the panoply made it difficult or altogether
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impossible for lower-class citizens to purchase one.
Therefore, only members of the elite could afford the entire
set.
|-|Honey Offerings=
The ancients often made bees and honey into symbols related
to the deities. Honey was considered heavenly since it never
expired, and was a typical offering placed on altars for the
gods. These offerings were given to rustic deities such as Pan
and Priape, who were protectors of beekeepers, but also to
Chthonian deities worshiped in mystery cults such as Hermes,
Dionysos, and Demeter. Honey and bees were also a symbol of
resurrection.


Honey was considered a gift - a remnant of the Golden Age -
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that the gods kindly gave to men. It guaranteed long life and
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good health. In this way, it was connected to nectar and
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ambrosia - drinks of the immortal gods. In childhood, Zeus
They took it.
was nourished with honey and milk. Mead was seen as a
substitute for these divine drinks. Honey's religious
symbolism was all the more important since it could be food
for newborns - a young Plato was said to be fed with honey -
but also for the dead.
|-|Naxos Banner=
Naxos was the largest island in the Kyklades. lts protective
deity was Dionysos, god of wine, who was born on the island
according to mythology. The money of Naxos served as model
for the banner, and is linked with the god as the coins show a
kantharos - a wine cup.


Naxos produced wine, but was more famous for its marble. It
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was exported and widely used. For example, it was used in
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Olympia and on the Akropolis in Athens. Its craftsmen were
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pioneers in the development of monumental marble
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sculptures and architecture.
|-|Marble=
Greek soil contains great geological diversity. Since the
beginning of the Early Cycladic period, the Greeks used
marble in architecture, sculpture, figurines, and more. The
word marble, from the Greek term marmaros, means
“resplendent stone”. It quickly became a luxury furniture in
Greek cities, and it played a big part in the Greek economy.
Some regions stand out for their marble-related wealth,
including Naxos, Paros, Thasos, Attika, the Peloponnese, and
Euboea Island.


Marble is made up of different colors (red, pink, yellow), and
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each has a different texture (translucent, wavy, streaked,
swirly, etc.). For example, Peloponnesian marble was red with
touches of black. Pentelic marble, found near Athens, was
greenish with a grainy pattern. The most prestigious marble
of the time came from Paros, and was greyish white.
|-|Extraction=
In Naxos, ancient quarries were located on the Ágios loannis
hill on the north side of the island, with another one in the
central region, Melanes.


In general, the quarrymen exploited natural fissures and
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applied pressure to extract massive blocks. They then drilled
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holes into the marble, drove wooden shafts into the holes, and
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poured water over the wood so it swelled and split off the
desired blocks of stone.


In Naxos, whiter parts of the stone were preferred during the
They made it look like an accident.
quarrying process, which had a direct impact on the price of
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this marble. Around 5000 m<sup>3</sup> of the most prestigious Naxian
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marble was exported annually.


The workers carried the marble with cranes and rails. They
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moved it around with pullies, cranes, levers, rails, and
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inclined planes.
|-|The Fate of Old Ships=
It is archeologically attested that systematic reuse of wood
from old ships was practiced throughout antiquity. When
triremes were sunk during a sea battle, combatants went to
great lengths and took heavy risks to recover the wreck.
Sometimes, vessels were towed home as prizes, and after
being repaired, equipped, and renamed, they became part of
the enemy navy.


In addition, older triremes were used as service vessels. One
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was the “soldier-vessel”, a troop transport. There was also
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the “horse-transport”, made out of old triremes by removing
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the two lower levels of seats and converting the space into
stalls for thirty horses.
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Pitch and timber were the main materials used to create
triremes. The pitch was produced from various trees and was
extracted by heat. The pitch and wax were customarily
applied, either successively or as a mixture, to the wetted
surface of the ship's hull, giving the vessel its speed potential
as well as its watertightness and protection from sea
microorganisms. The seams of newly built warships - as well
as older ships under maintenance - were caulked with flax
soaked in pitch. It seems likely that a new coat of pitch was
put on before each new sailing. Although pitch was used
generously on the triremes' hulls, they seem to have leaked
water into the bilges fairly quickly. This is why ships had to be
beached and dried out.


The emphasis of lightness for the hull timber was obviously a
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prime consideration in its overall design. For lightness
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combined with strength, a trireme's timber was mostly made
of soft wood such as pine and fir, but the keel was made of
oak for extra strength. Masts were made of fir - one of the
tallest and straightest trees - while carefully prepared rough,
young fir trees ensured that the grain of the wood was aligned
along the shafts, making the oars strong for their weight. For
the inner part of the ships, larch (pitys) or plane (platanos)
were also used because of their Light weight, while the stem-
posts adjoining the breastwork and the bow timbers were
made of ash, mulberry, and elm.


One result of using softwoods was that the trireme hull
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tended to soak up water. The hulls not onty became
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waterlogged and leaky, but they also suffered from the
scourge of wooden ships: the marine borer (teredo navalis).
Consequently, alltriremes were beached and carried out of
the water as often as possible to dry and clean their hulls.
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Pegasos was the mythical winged-horse bred by the dead
Medusa after Perseus killed her. Bellerophon captured the
animal while it drank water from a well.


Pegasos helped Beilerophon in fighting and killing Chimera in
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Lycia. Chimera was a monster that had the body of a goat, the
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head of a lion, and the tail of a snake. Bellerophon attacked
her from the sky, and thought of placing a block of lead on the
tip of his spear. He threw the spear - aiming for the neck of
the fire-breathing monster - and the heat of the fire made the
lead melt, asphyxiating her. Bellerophon returned victorious,
but several quests followed that would leave him blind and
miserable.
|-|Odysseus and Polyphemos=
On his way back home, Odysseus found himself on the island
of the Cyclops - giants that have one single eye in the center
of their forehead.


Odysseus reached the island and entered a cave with his
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companions. They were so hungry, they began to drink and eat
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everything in sight. When a Cyclops named Polyphemos
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returned to the cave with his flock, he blocked the entrance
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with an enormous rock, and began to eat the men. Trapped,
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Odysseus introduced himself as simply “nobody”, and offered
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wine to the confused Cyclops. Once the giant was drunkenly
asleep, Odysseus blinded him with a burning wooden stake.
The next day, Odysseus and his men escaped the cave hidden
under the bellies of animals, while the blinded Polyphemos
shouted to his fellow Cyclopes that he was blinded by
"nobody".
|-|Jason and the Golden Fleece=
Jason was the rightful king of lolkos in Thessaly, though the
position was occupied by King Pelias. When Jason appeared in
front of Pelias and asked to return to the throne, Pelias told
him that he should bring him the Golden Fleece. This was the
fleece of the golden ram held in Kolchis. Jason set out on this
quest with his crew, the Argonauts.


After several adventures, they arrived in Kolchis to claim the
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fleece. While there, Jason felLin love with the witch Medea,
daughter of Aietes, the king of Kolchis. Medea helped Jason in
the quests her father required, and her potion lulled the giant
snake that was protecting the Golden Fleece to sleep. Once he
held the fleece tightly in hand, Jason began his journey back
home, with Medea at his side.
|-|Zeus and Typhon=
Typhon was an extremely dangerous monster in Greek
mythology. À giant serpent-like creature with “a hundred
heads, fearful eyes, and terrible voices”, Typhon was either
the son of Gaia (goddess of the earth] and Tartaros [one of the
primordial deities), or of Hera, or of Kronos.


At some point, Typhon chalienged Zeus in order to overthrow
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him and take his place. The battle between them was
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desperate, but Zeus managed to win with the aid of his
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powerful thunderbolts.


After losing to Zeus, what happened to Typhon differs
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depending on the account. He was either thrown to Tartaros,
the deep abyss, or buried under either Mount Etna, or under
the volcanic island Ischia. Zeus, on the other hand, became
the legitimate ruler of the gods.
|-|Skylla=
Skylla was a mythological female sea monster that was
placed opposite Charybdis in a very narrow passage of water,
thought to be the channel of Messina.


The mention of Skylla is first seen in “The Odyssey”, when
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Odysseus and his companions had to travel the channel and
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found themselves between the two monsters. Circe advised
Odysseus to sail at full speed, but closer to Skylla - Charybdis
was more dangerous and could sink the entire ship. Odysseus
followed this advice, and as they passed by, Skylla devoured
six of his men. They quickly escaped, and managed to pass
through with no further losses.
|-|Odysseus and the Sirens=
The sirens were beautiful but deadly creatures that lived on a
rocky island. Their song was so enchanting, sailors who heard
their singing fell to the rocks. Sirens were half-women, half-
birds - or at least, that was how they were represented in
Greek art. They were usually depicted played musical
instruments, such as harps.


In "The Odyssey”, Odysseus was very curious to listen to them,
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so Circe the witch told him how he could enjoy their song
without danger. Odysseus had his sailors plug their ears with
beeswax and tie him to the pole of his ship. When they passed
near the sirens, Odysseus was mesmerized by the song. He
begged his sailors to release him, but they couldn't hear him.
This trick saved his life and the lives of his companions.
|-|Kassandra=
(Behind the scenes)


We first meet Kassandra in her home on Kephallonia; she is a
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mercenary, hardened and scarred by her experiences. When
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designing her features, the team wanted her to look strong
and vibrant. Bringing such a character to life includes the
smallest of details. “We had to create a false reflection in her
eyes to ensure she looked alive. She needed to Look great in
every angle," explains Thierry Dansereau.
|-|Alexios=
(Behind the scenes)


The development team kept the siblings as close as possible
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in look and feel, with a few distinctions. Alexios has a different
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body and gait, he's larger and sports dark brown dreadlocks,
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but they share the same coloring and variations on the same
outfits.


Alexios and Kassandra fight with a sword, bow, or spear. The
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development team wanted to show proactive combat, wielding
dual weapons with a focus on attack rather than defense.


Earty concept sketches of Alexios by Fred Rambaud show
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different outfits and weapons, from bare-chested brawler, to
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full Spartan warrior.
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|-|Orchomenos=
The city of Orchomenos in Boeotia has origins going back to
the Neolithic period. Discovered in the 19th century, it was
excavated by Heinrich Schliemann - the same person who
discovered and searched for the cities of Troy, Mycenae, and
Tiryns.


The excavations left few details. Remains of fortifications
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dated to the 4th century BCE were discovered. A tholos tomb
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known as the Treasury of Minyas was also uncovered. The
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possible remains of a Mycenaean palace on the flank of the
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akropolis would have been found just above the spring of the
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Charites. Fragments of paintings have also been found in the
vast architectural complex between the 9th century church
and the theater. Clues suggest that the church, one of the
oldest in Greece, was built on the remnants of the Charites
temple. The remains of a theater also dating back to the 4th
century BCE are still visible today.
|-|Gods and Fish=
The main god of the sea was Poseidon. There were temples
dedicated to him in many coastal cities, such as Cape Sounion
south of Athens.


Fish, like other animals, were offered as sacrifices for the
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gods. A painting described by Athenaios showed Poseidon
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offering a tuna to Zeus just before he gave birth to Athena. It
was believed that in order to get a good tuna harvest, one
needed to sacrifice eels to Poseidon.


Fish were also used in divination. The Lykians, for example,
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practiced ichthyomancy. Meat was thrown into a special
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sinkhole to attract fish, and depending on which species were
attracted, the response from the gods was determined.
|-|Textures and Materials=
(Behind the scenes)


Assassin's Creed Odyssey's focus on the details is what really
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takes the game to the next Level in terms of immersion. The
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sheer variety of textures that make up the layered background
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to the cities and landscapes are what give the locations their
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character and quality. The art and development team are
constantly pushing the boundaries, aiming for bigger, better,
and higher quality than ever before. The textures here are a
fraction of what appears in the game. Even the simplest white
stone blocks are not plain but richly detailed with grains and
imperfections. The colorful tiles and murals speak to the
craftsmanship of Greece itself, giving history and life to each
wall and column.
|-|Boeotian Banner=
The Boeotian banner naturally depicts the Boeotian shield,
which was the main type of coinage of Thebes, and later of the
Boeotian confederation.


The shield is the most important weapon of defense. Greek
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soldiers usually used a round-shaped shield, the aspis, but
Boeotians eventually developed an oval shield with a
semicircular indentation on either side of the middle. This
would have reduced its weight, and allowed the bearer to
thrust and stab while staying protected.


None of these shields have survived, which may suggest they
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were made from animal hides instead of bronze or wood like
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other shields.
|-|Sphinx=
(Behind the scenes)


In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a creature with the face of
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a human, the wings of a bird, and the body of a lion. The
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey team have melded more than one
mythological creature into their Sphinx, adding elements off
the mythological Chimera, like the tail ending in a snake head.
The Sphinx offers a different challenge to the Hero, explains
Thierry Dansereau, “You cannot defeat her by force, instead
you must answer her riddle.” In traditional myth, those who
cannot answer her riddle suffer a terrible fate: killed and
devoured by the beast.


“It was challenging to try to create a menacing creature but
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still have a feeling of beauty to transpire.” - Gabriel Blain
|-|The Battle of Plataia=
The Persians's crushing defeat at the Battle of Salamis in 480
BCE greatly discouraged King Xerxes from continuing his
invasion. However, one of Xerxes's military commanders,
Mardonios, convinced the king that their campaign could
continue,


Mardonios's hopes were dashed the following year at the
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Battle of Plataia. The Greeks, who were outnumbered by the
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Persians, held their own in the open countryside. They fought
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until they were victorious, killing Mardonios in the process
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and putting an end to the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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|-|Color on Greek Statues=
(Behind the scenes)


“What impressed me was the way historians and
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archaeologists found out about the color that the Greek artists
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would use on their creations. Before working on this project, |
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always thought that the artists of the Classical age would
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leave the marble uncolored. By using ultra-violet light,
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archaeologists were able to debunk what we thought to be
true. The colors revealed by this process were dazzling and
bright, exactly the opposite of what | would have expected
them to be.” - Vincent Pamerleau
|-|Samos Banner=
The lion was chosen for the banner of Samos, as it is a
frequent image of ancient Greek iconography.


A lion scalp was the emblem of the coinage of Samos. This
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lion's head was specifically related to Herakles's task of
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killing the Nemean lion.


This legendary lion ravaged the plain of Argolis, and had skin
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so thick that Herakles couldn't kill it with his arrows. The her
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chose instead to strangle it.


The battle against the Nemean lion symbolized combat
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against savagery and barbarism, and became the model of
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athletic fighting - a very popular event of the Olympics.
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The area of Messara is the largest plain of the island of Krete.
The symbol of the region is inspired by the coins of Knossos,
which bear a labyrinth on the reverse, referencing the famous
Kretan Minotaur myth.


The minotaur was half-human, half-bull. King Minos of Krete
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made the mistake of sacrificing a bull, and thus angered
Poseidon. The god then instilled “passion” for the bull into
Minos' wife, who later gave birth to the minotaur.


The minotaur was kept in the labyrinth built by Daidalos. On a
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regular basis, fourteen young men and women were given to
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the beast in tribute, until the hero Theseus killed him.
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The seventh labor of Herakles was to kill a great bull that had
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destroyed crops and property in Krete.
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Herakles went to King Minos of Krete, who gave him
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permission to get rid of the bull. Herakles managed to capture
the beast, suppressing it with his hands, but he ultimately
didn't kill it. Instead, he shipped the bull to Eurystheas so he
could confirm that the labor was successful, and then the
animal was released.
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Koulourai are large, stone-walled pits that can be found in a
number of major sites in Krete, including Knossos, Malia, and
Phaistos. All of them were constructed around 1850-1750
BCE.


While the exact purpose of the koulourai is still debated, there
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are three prominent theories as to what they were used for.
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Arthur Evans believed they functioned as refuse or garbage
pits. Conversely, Chapouthier and Pernier theorized that they
were used as ancient cisterns. However, this theory is flawed
since kouroulai did not have the same waterproofing as other
Knossian structures of the time.


The most widely accepted theory is that koulourai were used
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to store grain. This assumption gains even more ground when
paired with the theory that Minoan palaces were not palaces
at all, but massive agricultural redistribution centers.
|-|Fishing=
In the "History of Animals” by Aristotle, he provides a guide to
the species present in the Mediterranean: 105 fish, twenty-
four shells, twenty-four marine or crustacean animals, and
five cetaceans and amphibious animals.


Philosophers and moralists had little regard for fishermen.
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Plato deemed the activity unworthy of a well-born man. But
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there was solidarity between sailors, and the specificity of the
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trade was important enough to even become a Literary theme;
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it's known that Aischylos had written a piece entitled
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“Diktyoulkoi” (Net-Haulers), and Menander wrote a piece
called “The Fishermen”.


These authors were much more interested in the psychology
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of the fisherman than the real sociology of the profession. A
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fisherman is often alone, practicing his profession all year
long. He has to be intelligent and cunning, but he also must be
lucky.
|-|Fishing Methods=
Navigation on the Mediterranean was difficult. Most sailing
depended on the winds, and was done in the summer. The
storm season started in late September or early October, and
ended in late February or early March. During these months,
navigation was highly dangerous. In addition, the nature of th
currents made certain areas dangerous. The sea monsters
Charybdis and Skylla in “The Odyssey” would be the pictorial
representation of the strong current of the Strait of Messina
that separates the western tip of the south of Magna Graecia
with Sicily.


There were several methods of fishing in ancient Greece.
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Plato and Oppian discussed fishing with nets, laces, baskets,
hooks or tridents, and angling. t was also possible to fish for
mollusks, shellfish, crustaceans, and fish thrown from the
sea to the shores.


In some cases, the fish was caught by hand, like in octopus
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fishing. Fishing could also be done with lanterns - as fish
were attracted to the light source - or could simply be
“picked" during sleep.


There were also more unusual methods, such as the smell
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fishery where fish were attracted with foul food, excrement,
or salted octopus. There was also the method of “poisoning
fishing”, where plants like hellebore or conia were used to
catch fish and octopus.
|-|Underwater=
(Behind the scenes)


The seventh biome of the game, the Hero explores the
|-|14=
underwater world of the Aegen Sea looking for treasure and
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artifacts. The sea teems with all manner of life including
*Subject 16: I don't know what's happening to me. I've been in the machine, they keep putting me back in. And I am losing control. It's all blurring together. I'm holding a rifle, Gettysburg is in the distance, I just stabbed a man, and there's blood on my waistcoat. I'm at the opera, the soprano is so beautiful. I'm in bed with her, she cries as I fuck her. I'm speaking at the Forum, no one listens. I'm in the forest, hunting. The moon. I can see the moon. I'm here. I have to stay here until you understand! Listen. Why do we have these gifts, these abilities? Because it's in our blood.
dangerous sharks and beautiful corals. “By exploring the
depths of the ocean the player can choose to take a dive
amongst long forgotten ruins. Here they can take on fights
with deadly sharks as they search for hidden treasures,” adds
Benjamin Hall. Featuring shipwrecks, ruins and remnants of
ancient civilizations as shown in these concept arts by Hugo
Puzzuoli, this biome is just as diverse and intricate as the rest.
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Kythera is the name of an island as well as a city. The
strategic position of the island - just south of the Peloponnese
- made it a target for the Athenians during the Peloponnesian
War. Athens occupied it during most of the war and used it to
support trade and to raid Lakonia.


Kythera's banner was inspired by its coinage. Both featured
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the dove, which is sacred to Aphrodite, who had a sanctuary in
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Kythera. According to mythology, this island was the
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goddess's birthplace.
|-|Hue Variations=
Different types of murex secrete different types of purple. The
purple is influenced by the chemical composition of their
sacs, but also their sex and size. Sunlight, temperature,
humidity and salinity can also influence the color's
brightness, tone, and intensity.


Dyers could obtain a greater variety of color shades by mixing
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different types of shellfish, controlling the fermentation
process, or adding other ingredients such as honey or flour.
|-|Aphrodite and Salt=
Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was born from salty sea foam,
and that is why she is sometimes called Haligeneous ("salt-
born"). The myth tells us that this foam came from the
genitals of Ouranos (the sky). They fell near the island of
Kythera, and this is where and how Aphrodite was born.


As you can see, salt and Aphrodite go together. Salt was
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associated with fertility and reproduction. For instance,
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Plutarch wrote in his Symposiakon that “salt encourages
remarkably generation”, reshaping Aristotle's notes in the
“History of Animals” that “if they merely lick salt, mice get
pregnant”.


Aphrodite is sometimes shown holding a small salt bag in her
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hand, and those who attended the Aphrodisia - the sacred
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festivals of Aphrodite - were required to bring and carry a salt
bag to honor the salt-born goddess.
|-|Salt=
Salt harvesting was known to humankind at least from the
Neolithic age, on account of the considerable quantities of
fragmented ceramic molds accumulated around salt springs.
There were two main ways of collecting salt.


The first one was to simply harvest it where it was accessible
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- that is, near salt lakes, marshes, or near the sea. Pans were
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used to let collected water evaporate in the sun and then
harvest the resulting salt.


The other method was extracting it from the earth. This was -
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difficult in mainland Greece since the soil did not provide
much yield in this fashion. Collecting salt from water was
therefore the more utilized method.


We know for sure that salt played a role in magic. For
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example, eating salty cakes on a special day was thought to
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allow young girls to dream of their future husbands. It was
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also used in some religious practices. Even in Homeric times,
salt was offered to the gods and used when sacrificing
animals and making libations. Furthermore, salt played an
important part in some Greek festivals - such as the
Eleusinian Mysteries, celebrated in the town of Eleusis in
Attika to honor Demeter, the goddess of the crops, and her
daughter, Persephone.
|-|Lokris Banner=
The banner of Lokris shows a griffin - a mythological creature
with the body, legs, and tail of a lion, and the head and wings
of an eagle.


The griffin is inspired by the Lokris Opuntii coinage which
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depicted Ajax, the Lokrian hero of the Trojan War. His shield
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bore a griffin on the interior side.


Griffins were known for guarding treasure - especially if it
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belonged to the gods - and were a symbol of strength and
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vigilance.
|-|Sea Battles=
(Behind the scenes)
Waging war in the ocean was a brutal affair in Ancient Greece,
The ships, mostly triremes, were simply designed and
unstable, especially in high seas and adverse weather. The
development team looked at historical accounts of naval
warfare from the period to recreate the drama and danger in
game.


Blue-clad Athenians have their ship cleaved in two in concept
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art by Hugo Puzzuoli.
|-|Thucydides=
Thucydides was an Athenian aristocrat, general, and historian
who chronicled the history of the Peloponnesian War. While
he does not mention his predecessor Herodotos directly, it is
probable that Thucydides was influenced by the so-called
“Father of History”.


Thucydides's account of history, however, focused less on the
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mythic origins of the Greeks, and instead provided a
perspective on how much the Greek world had evolved since
its beginning - and how much it would continue to evolve into
the future. His work also provided insight into the educational
and cultural development of Athens.
Thucydides was a skilled orator trained by some of the best
speakers of his time. Because of this, many of the most
important moments in his historical writings are presented as
speeches.
|-|Messenian Banner=
Messenia's history was linked closely with Sparta's. The
region was long-occupied by the Spartans - its population was
enslaved as helots.


Independent cities emerged only after the Theban invasion of
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the Peloponnese in the 4th century BCE. After the defeat of
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the Spartan army at the battle of Leuktra in 371 BCE, the
helots of Messenia revolted against Sparta. Epaminondas, the
Theban general, supported the building of the fortified city of
Messene.


The banner of Messenia is inspired by the coins of Messene,
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showing Zeus brandishing his thunderbolt. Zeus had an
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important sanctuary on Mount Ithome, which was included in
the walls of Messene.
|-|War Machines=
Several Greek authors have left us works on siege tactics or
on how to build war machines. However, artillery such as
catapults were not yet invented at the time of the
Peloponnesian War - it would take another century for them
to appear.


The main war machines used at this time, called mechanai,
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were mostly scaling-ladders, battering rams, and tortoises.
There are two known instances of incendiary machines, but
we don't know exactly how they worked. The Thebans used
one against the Athenians at Delium in 424 BCE, and the
Spartans at Torone in 423 BCE.
|-|Charcoal=
Charcoal is the solid residue that remains when wood - or
other organic matter - is “carbonized” under controlled
conditions in a closed space. Very Little air is allowed to come
into contact with the fuel during the carbonization process. If
this condition is not observed, the wood (or other raw
material) is simply reduced to ash and its fuel value is lost.


This means that transport costs are much lower for locally
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produced charcoal than for Locally gathered wood - an
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important consideration for a product whose production cost
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consists almost exclusively of the labor invested in it. It's also
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noteworthy that charcoal creates a much hotter, more even,
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and more easily controlled heat than wood, which means that
itis much better suited for domestic cooking and grilling and
a virtual “sine qua non” for blacksmithing and particularly
ironworking.
|-|Woodworking=
Woodcutting and charcoal making typically took place in the
forest. Charcoals were then bagged and transported to private
homes or presumably nearby markets. In wood-rich areas,
local production of wood for common use appears to have
been either in the hands of individuais, or potentially
middlemen who might collect wood from various sources,
then reselLit at the local agora. The elite's access to such
wood may have been outside the market if their landholdings
provided suitable material), except for the purchase of exotic
materials.


The full range of woodworking tools and techniques employed
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by wood workers of the ancient Mediterranean and the
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practical knowledge concerning wood species and their most
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valuable applications attest to the importance of wood
technologies for agriculture and hunting, domestic life, trade,
warfare, and leisure activities. It is worth mentioning that the
tools and the techniques employed by the end of the Classical
and Roman period would show little change until the
appearance of the Industrial Revolution fifteen centuries
later.
|-|Athens’ Wood Supplies=
In providing for their fleet and for the public building
program, the main problem the Athenians faced was finding
timber of first-class quality, and particularly timber of long
lengths. From the late 5th century BCE at least, and
throughout the 4th century BCE, there is ample evidence that
Athens relied primarily on Makedonia for her ship-timber.


As for the timber needed for housing, the rich, who were
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more concerned with quality, possibly preferred the greater
variety and finer quality materials available from Makedonia,
Italy, or Ásia Minor. In addition, what Attika was unable to
supply could probably have been bought in Euboea.
|-|The Mares of Diomedes=
The eighth labor of Herakles was to bring back the mares of
Diomedes. Diomedes, the king of Thrace and son of Ares and
Cyrene, fed his horses human flesh. This drove the horses
mad, making them wild.


Herakles captured the beasts with the help of his young
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companion Abderos, and left the horses with him while he
chased down Diomedes. In Herakles's absence, the crazed
horses ate the young boy. Seeking revenge, Herakles then fed
Diomedes to the horses, and founded the city of Abdera
nearby in his friend's honor. When Eurystheas received the
horses, he dedicated them to Hera.
|-|Armor=
In the Classical era, metal armor coexisted alongside lighter
cuirasses (corselets) called “linothoraxes”. This was because
procuring an actual set of bronze armor was beyond the
means of many citizens - especially in poorer cities.
Linothoraxes were also sometimes preferred in situations
where hoplites had to be Lighter and more mobile.


The linothorax consisted of a linen breastplate that could be
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strengthened with shoulder pieces, bronze scales, or bronze-
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sheeted mantling. To protect the Lower abdomen and the
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groin, two layers of pteruges - “wings” in ancient Greek —
were attached to the bottom edge of the armor.


Linen armor was one of the oldest types of armor in Greece. It
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even appears in “The Iliad" - a story that is believed to have
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taken place long before the Classical period.
|-|Swords=
If a hoplite's spear broke or if he had to fight hand to hand -
as was the case for the 300 Spartans in the final stages of the
battle of Thermopylai - he could always fall back on his
sword.


In the 4th century BCE, the most common sword had a thick
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cruciform hilt with a blade that swelled near the tip. Hoplites
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carried their sword in a sheath under their Left arm, enabling
them to quickly seize their weapon with their right hand.
Ancient Greeks had specific names to refer to different types
of swords, but it's difficult for modern historians to match
these names with their corresponding weapon. While “xiphos”
was the standard name for swords in ancient Greek, words
like “machaira” and “kopis" were also used. It is believed that
the previous two words may have referred to recurved
swords, while xiphos described straight-bladed weapons.
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A hoplite's equipment consisted of a bronze cuirass (or lighter
armor], bronze greaves, a spear, and a sword.


Although the comic playwright Aristophanes was probably
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exaggerating when he wrote that crafted armor cost 1,000
drachmae - about ten times the monthly wages of a skilled
craftsman - the bronze-muscle cuirass was one of the
costliest pieces of a hoplite's equipment. As such, only the
wealthiest individuals could afford it.


A soldier's body armor could be completed by a pair of
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greaves to protect their shins. The greaves were made of
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hammered bronze, and had to be well-adjusted to the
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hoplite's legs. They also had to be made thin so as not to
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weigh the soldier down. Since shin greaves were also
expensive, many lower-class citizens opted not to buy them,
instead purchasing armor that covered more vital parts of
their body.


Altogether, an entire set of armor was known as a “panoply”.
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|-|Hoplite Equipment=
Hoplites were heavily armored infantrymen. Their most
important piece of equipment was arguably the “aspis”, a
round shield large enough to protect both its wearer and the
man to the left of him. The aspis was light and could
effectively parry spear and sword thrusts. However, according
to its depiction on ancient vases, it was ineffective against
javelins and arrows.


Hoplite helmets were similarly designed to be light, but they
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could endure direct blows and offered a reasonable amount of
protection. There were many varieties of helmet, but the most
widespread seems to have been the Korinthian helmet.


Made of a single sheet of bronze that covered much of the
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head and neck, the Korinthian helmet offered only a small, t-
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shaped opening at the front to allow soldiers to see and
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breathe. Because the helmet was closed in on itself, it most
likely impaired the sight and hearing of the soldiers who wore
it.


Helmets could also be adorned with crests of dyed horsehair
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to make the hoplites wearing them look more imposing.
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|-|Spears=
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Hoplites mainly fought using spears.


Called “dory” in ancient Greek, the spear was a wooden shaft
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with a Length of up to three meters. It was probably made
from the wood of ash trees, since the trees provided strong
material that was also light enough to be handled with ease.
The spear-head and butt were manufactured in metal
workshops. The spear-head was usually made of iron - but
could also be made of bronze - and was fixed to the slender
end of the wooden shaft with pitch or nails. The spear-butt
allowed the weapon to be planted in the ground when not
being used. It's possible that the spear-butt could also have
served as a spare head, but there's little evidence to support
this theory.


The spear also had a hand grip which may have been made of
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leather.
|-|Aphrodite, Adonis and Persephone=
According to the myth told by Ovid, when Aphrodite met the
infant Adonis, she was immediately smitten with him. She
decided to take care of him by hiding him in a chest, and
asked Persephone, the queen of the underworld, to educate
him. However, Persephone also fell in Love with Adonis.


On the day Aphrodite descended into the underworld to
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retrieve the young Adonis, Persephone refused to return the
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boy, who had become her lover. The two women turned to
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Zeus to judge who should have Adonis, and Zeus asked the
muse Kalliope to make the decision.


In the end, it was decided that Adonis would spend fourth
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months with Aphrodite, four with Persephone, and four alone
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to rest. However, Adonis decided - either on his own or
through Aphrodite's magical influence - to spend his four
months of “rest” with Aphrodite.


Aphrodite and Adonis continued their passionate relationship
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until one day, Adonis was mortally wounded while hunting a
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boar. Aphrodite heard her lover's moans of pain from her
flying chariot, but by the time she arrived by his side, it was
too late to save him. The goddess cried tears of blood that fell
onto the ground, and from them sprouted either the purple
anemone flower or the rose, depending on the version of the
story.
|-|Aphrodite: A Love Story=
In mythology, Aphrodite was the wife of Hephaistos, the god of
metallurgy. However, she also had an affair with Ares, the god
of war.


One night, after spending too long together, Ares and
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Aphrodite were caught by Helios, who informed Hephaistos of
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his wife's infidelity. In a fit of rage, Hephaistos captured Ares
and Aphrodite in an unbreakable net, then summoned the rest
of the gods to bear witness to his dishonor.


Afterwards, Aphrodite went to Paphos to renew her virginity in
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the sea. This virginity did not last, however, as she later had a
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relationship with Hermes which resulted in the birth of
Hermaphroditos, a being of two sexes.
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Eurystheas asked Herakles to bring him the belt of Hippolyta
for the ninth labor; it would be offered to his daughter
Admete.


The belt was a gift from the god Ares to his daughter
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Hippolyta, the queen of Amazons - a tribe of women-warriors.
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With a group of companions, Herakles reached Themiskyra,
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the city in the Black Sea were Hippolyta lived, and convinced
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the Amazon to give him the belt. However, Hera had spread
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rumors amongst the Amazons, so they attacked him. Herakles
had no choice but to kill Hippolyta. He then brought the belt
back to Eurystheas.
|-|Korinthian Banner=
The banner of Korinthia was inspired by the coinage of
Korinth, which depicts Pegasos.


Pegasos, the mythical winged horse, was captured in Korinth
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by Bellerophon near the Peirene fountain. The hero then rode
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him to defeat the monstrous creature Chimera. When
Bellerophon fell from Pegasos while trying to reach Mount
Olympos, Zeus gave Pegasos the task of carrying
thunderbolts. The god later granted Pegasos the honor of
becoming a constellation.
|-|Merchant Boat=
(Under the scenes)


"To produce our Merchant Boar, we were really pleased to be
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able to use as reference the remains of the very well
preserved “Kyrenia Ship” found in 1965. Having this boat
replicated with the highest historic fidelity helped us to give
life to our beautiful world and to show that there was not only
war ships sailing in the great ancient Greek Sea." - David
Therrien
|-|Biomes=
(Under the scene)


The player will encounter seven distinct biomes - six on land,
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one underwater - as they journey through Ancient Greece.
Each features its own flora, fauna, weather systems, and
unique topography. The challenge for the art team was to
make sure the biomes each had their own individual
atmosphere, vegetation, color palette, even down to the type
of rocks in each location.


“AU biomes are a joint effort of several artists, technical
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artists, and technical directors who work together to create
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those landscapes that are driven by procedural rules. In order
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to create believable procedural biomes, the biome team had
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to fully understand interaction between elements that drive
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nature and apply it in the game,” explains Vincent
Masters all, they did not work, but ruled from on high.
Lamontagne, assistant art director and lead biome artist.
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From left; cross-sections of the six land-based biomes -
Spring, Summer, Arid, Paradise Islands, Volcanic, and
Deciduous Forest - gave a broad spectrum of the landscape
the Hero will have to navigate to survive. Artist Hugo Puzzuoli
adds, “Our team had fun translating the diverse nuances of
azure blue from the Mediterranean Sea. From the paradisiac
white sand beaches to the arid orange volcanic coast.”
|-|The Cattle of Geryon=
The tenth labor of Herakles required travelling to the end of
the world to Erytheia to retrieve the cows of the Giant Geryon.
Son of Chrysaor - who came out of Medusa's body - and
Callirrhoe - daughter of two Titans = Geryon had one body, but
three heads and three sets of legs.


When Heraktes arrived to Erytheia, he first killed Orthos, the
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two-headed dog, and then killed Eurytion, the herdsman. He
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finally put down Geryon by throwing one poisonous arrow
directly into the middle of the Giant's head.


Herakles brought the cattle to Eurystheas, who then sacrificed
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them to Hera.
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|-|Legendary Animals=
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Greek myth is full of stories of impressive animals that are
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separate from the god-like creatures of Medusa and the
Minotaur, such as the Nemean Lion, the Golden Hind of
Artemis, and the Stymphalian Birds. No foray into classical
Greece would be complete without these Legendary creatures.
These are strong, powerful animals chosen for their
interesting fighting style and appearance. The Odyssey team
adapted the real-world versions, embellishing them with
different markings and natural weapons. They are dangerous,
scarred from many previous encounters, and have an almost
diseased, unnatural air to them as shown in the concept
artwork by Gabriel Blain. They are not to be attacked lightty.


“The 12 labors of Herakles were depicted many times in the
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game in various forms. For instance the hunt of mythical
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animals is inspired by many of those myths, as well as some
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of the stone work and paintings that can be found across the
game."
|-|The Stymphalian Birds=
The sixth labor of Herakles was to kill the birds that lived in
lake Stymphalia in Arkadia. These birds were sacred to the
god of war, Ares. They were carnivorous with toxic dung, and
were made of bronze.


The lake where they made their dwelling was swampy, so it
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was difficult for Herakies to approach them. To help, Athena
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gave him a rattle made by Hephaistos, the god of
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metalworking, which scared the birds off. Herakles managed
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to shoot some of the birds with his poison arrows, but several
flew away.
|-|Arkadia Banner=
Arkadia is a mountainous region of the central Peloponnese. It
has plains in the valley of the Alpheios and Ladon rivers, and
around the cities of Tegea and Megalopolis.


Its banner depicts a head of Demeter, the goddess of
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agriculture, from the coinage of the city of Pheneos. This
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
earthy goddess is frequently depicted on the coinage of cities.
The greatest gift Demeter gave to humankind was agriculture,
and this relation was always shown by the grain wreath that
she wore.
|-|Geography=
Ancient Greece had an agrarian economy, meaning that
wealth came from farming the land.


The polis, or city-state, was made up of the astu (city) and the
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chora (countryside]. Citizens conducted business and politics
A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the customers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to.
in the city, but many made their living on farms in the country,
growing olives for oil, wine for grapes, and grains.


Due to Greece's mountainous topography and variable
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rainfall, it is estimated that only one-fifth of the land was
A country that makes provision to increase in inhabitants, whose situation is good, and whose people have a genius adapted to trade, will never fail to be gainers in the balance, provided the labour and industry of their people be well managed and carefully directed.
arable, so control of the plains was frequently contested. For
example, the Spartans conquered the neighboring
Messenians and reduced them to slaves with the goal of
controlling Messenia's rich and fertile plains. Even a city as
powerful as Athens did not produce enough grain to feed its
population, and had to rely on grain imports.
|-|Pan=
Pan was the national god of Arkadia. His name and hybrid
appearance as a half-man, half-goat refer to his special role
as the “guardian of the flocks”. Shepherds sacrificed goats to
Pan in exchange for protection for the rest of their herd.


Pan was believed to enjoy roaming the mountains while
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playing music on his pipes. The Greeks worshipped Pan - as
well as Hermes and the nymphs - in sacred caves. However,
in Arkadia, there was an entire sanctuary with a temple
dedicated to Pan.


The origins of the Athenian cult of Pan have been related by
The workforce increases. Brother right beside brother.
Herodotos. According to the ancient historian, the famous
[Pawn F2 to F4]
runner Philippides met Pan while journeying to Lakonia to ask
the Spartans for aid against the Persians. Pan promised to
help the Athenians, and made good on that promise at the
Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE when he sowed panic in the
ranks of the Persian army.
|-|Extraction=
To extract oil, olives were soaked and fermented in baskets or
vats for ten days. This softened their skin and made their oil
more fluid, but also more bitter, An alternative was to wash
the olives in boiling water before crushing them.


The olives were then squashed and ground. Small amounts
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could be ground in a stone mortar, but larger quantities had
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to be trod on in vats by men wearing wooden clogs, or in a
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rotary mill - a stone bowl in which one or two rotating
millstones were activated by human or animal power.


The usual press featured a heavy wooden beam anchored at
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one end, and stone weights attached at the other end. The
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beam acted as a lever to increase the pressure exerted on the
fruits.


The crushed olives were placed in fiber or cloth containers,
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which were stacked on top of each other on the press bed.
After a first pressing, boiling water was poured to ease the
flow of oil, and the olives were pressed again. This process
was repeated for a third pressing.


The resulting product was a mixture of water, olive juice, and
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oil collected at the press bed. After it had settled in a
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container, the oil floated on the surface and was separated
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from the water. This had to be done swiftly to prevent dregs
from fermenting and altering the taste of the oil.
|-|The Harvest=
Four methods were used to harvest olives. Picking the fallen
fruits on the ground was the easiest, and could be sufficient to
meet the needs of a small household.


Another method was to have men shake the branches, while
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others collected the olives in wide baskets.
[Cipher puzzle]


Handpicking was preferable for preserves since it does not
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damage the fruits, but it was a long process.


A less labor-intensive method was to beat the branches with
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pieces of cloth. However, this method damaged the branches
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and a rough beating could hinder the following year's
|Text=July 22, 1944<br><br>Fellows, rulers, welcome.<br><br>I deliver this speech to you as, several floors below us, a silent revolution begins.<br><br>Ranny Olds and Henry Ford. As many of you know, these founders gave us the assembly line, the device we have used to control both (those indoctrinated into the worship of our money (?)) capitalists and workers (slaves (?)) alike. But I dream of a future in which such ugly chains will no longer be necessary. In 1910, our founders designed the Plan, it falls to us to see it through.<br><br>But, what of the Communists, who intend to spread the bread so thin that everyone will starve? It is our duty to (neutralize (?)) save them and their followers. We must ensure that they continue to eat, to reproduce, to be productive members of society. That is our burden, to shepherd those beneath us through life, and we must embrace it, even if (force is required (?)) they themselves do not.<br><br>H. and S. brought on the turmoil and fear necessary, now we must strike fast to ensure development continues in the proper directin. We will appear to concede ground to the workers, remember the successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes, but soon there will be no ground we do not own.<br><br>In 1937, we founded this Company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.}}
production.


Olives were a widespread and traditional food staple, often
As a concession, a small piece is sacrificed for the greater good to come.
consumed with bread and onions. They could be bought in
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almost every city from street peddlers.
|-|Olive Growing=
Olive production was an important feature of the ancient
Greek agrarian economy. Both olives and olive oil were used
on many significant occasions.


Olive trees generally only produce a crop every other year,
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and production is very variable from harvest to harvest. This
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unpredictability was a reason against farmers becoming
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exclusive olive producers, so mixed farming remained the
norm.


Planting olive trees was one of the most important means of
|-|4=
increasing the productivity of land and its long-term value. It
These intelligent workers have no self-control.
allowed landowners to create usable farmland from slopes
[Photographs 2,3,5,9, 10]
and other marginal land that would otherwise have been left
for grazing.


While an olive tree might produce a small return after eight to
Apples oranges pears cucumbers radishes carrots spinach dates wood juniper steel aluminum water rain shanty village town city country spring summer fall winter to walk to sing to dance to play to eat to smile to cry to laugh to kill to see to know death regret love
ten years, it may take twenty or thirty years to come into full
production.


But, olive trees live for a very long time. If a landowner
[circular puzzle]
planted olives on his land, it was his children and
It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.
grandchildren that would harvest the fruit.
I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain.
|-|Phokis Banner=
In the Phokis region was Delphi, the site of the Panhellenic
oracle of Apollo.


A prophecy would be given by the Pythia who sat on the
Alan Turing set out to solve the plight of the workers: M = (Q, Γ, B, Σ, Δ, Q0, F) where Γ = {2, 3} Σ = {G}.
Delphic tripod, a three-legged piece of furniture. This tripod,
[Pawn G2 to G3]
one attribute of Apollo, is depicted on the banner with two
dolphins on either side. Dolphins were also dedicated to
Apollo, and their name in Greek (delphis) recalled the name of
Delphi.


Tripods and dolphins appeared on some of the coins of Delphi,
Abstergo phone records<br>June, 1954
but this composition derived from the coinage of Megaris.
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|-|Olive Groves=
*'''N:''' ''V. It's N. I need [[Alan Turing|Turing]] done today.''
(Under the scenes)
*'''V:''' ''Aren't we jumping the gun? You've already had him arrested and sedated.''
*'''N:''' ''He still refuses to follow the directive. He's actually trying to invent one of those infernal things, instead of merely faking it for the newspapers. If he succeeds... you know what the mass unemployment generated by his robots will mean? Idle hands. We need to do this for the good of the people.''
*'''V:''' ''What about Keynes? He trusted Turing.''
*'''N:''' ''It's the greater good we're talking about here, V. Plus, a childless worker sends a bad message. We can't have them all stop reproducing.''
*'''V:''' ''Fine. It's your call.''
*'''N:''' ''I want it done like we did Harry Dexter White when he tried to warn the Soviets.''
*'''V:''' ''All right.''
*'''N:''' ''Be poetic about it. Maybe something from the Bible. Turing always was theatrical.''


“What would be Greece without the typical olive groves? Early
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on, some key nature elements were chosen in order to feel
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the Greek landscape.” - Vincent Lamontagne.
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|-|Ancient Structures=
Greece is known for its monuments, temples, and statues,
some of which still exist today. But even in 431 BCE, Greece
had ruins of even older civilizations. In Phokis, thought of as
the Land of the Gods and center of the world, stands the
Sanctuary of Delphi, sitting on the slopes of Mount Parnassos,
along with other temples and structures from the pre-
classical Greek age. While drawing on real-life examples,
historical research, plus popular culture in the form of movies
and comics, the art team also had to construct some
monuments from nothing but myth, and to give life to these
magnificent structures.
|-|Points of Interest=
Greek Mythology is a fascinating and enduring collection of
fantastical stories, ones that the art team had great fun
recreating for Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Drawing on the
myths, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and representations in
classic artwork and popular culture, the mythological world
becomes real for the Hero.


The myths are instantly recognizable in the artwork on these
|-|5=
pages. The Titan Tityos, who attempted to violate Leto, the
Democratic nations were built, each led by a powerful vizier (known today by a different name), who made a move to block the Templar advance.
daughter of Titan Coeus and Phoebe, was punished for his
[Queen D1 to E2]
transgression by being tied to a rock in Tartarus. His liver was
eaten each day by two vultures, only to regrow overnight to
begin the torment again.
|-|Theater of Delphi=
The theater of Delphi was situated above the Temple of Apollo.
It offered an expansive view of sanctuary and the valley below,
and could accommodate around 5000 spectators in its seats.


The theater hosted different artistic contests, especially
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during competitions like the Pythian Games. These contests
included plays, poetry readings, and musical performances,
and were held not only for the audience, but also for Apollo,
the god of arts - among other things.
|-|Lesche of Knidians=
Built by the Knidians between 475-450 BCE, the Lesche was a
clubhouse renowned for displaying two paintings by
Polygnotos of Thasos, one of ancient Greece's most famous
artists. According to Pausanias, the paintings depicted the
Capture of Troy and a Nekyia [necromantic ritual),
respectively.


The Lesche was most likely constructed after the battle of
From a bolt of electricity, governments fell.
Eurymedon in 467 BCE, which resulted in Knidos's liberation
[bunch of pictures]
from the Persians.
[Locate lightning bolt at ITT Corporation former headquarters]
|-|Tripod of Plataia and Palm Tree of Eurymedon=
Tripods were pieces of furniture used during offerings and
rituals. They were most associated with the god Apollo, and
the Pythia sat on a sacred Delphic Tripod when delivering her
prophecies


The golden Tripod of Plataia was dedicated after a victory over
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the Persians at Plataia in 479 BCE. The tripod rested atop a
[Cipher puzzle]
twisted 8-meter tall bronze column that ended in snake
heads. The column stood in Delphi until 324 CE, when the
Roman Emperor Constantine relocated it to what is now
known as Istanbul.


Next to the tripod was the bronze Palm Tree of Eurymedon,
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which was dedicated by Athenians after Kimon's defeat of the
Persians at the Eurymedon river.
|-|Apollo Salamina=
The Apollo of Salamis stood in front of the Temple of Apollo,
and was dedicated to Delphi after Themistokles's famous
naval victory at Salamis in 480 BCE. The bronze statue was
6 meters tall, and held an aphlaston (a ship's stern ornament)
in its hand as a symbol of the battle.
|-|Sphinx and Oedipus=
Oedipus was son of Laius and lokasta of Thebes. His father
was terrified of a prophecy from Delphi predicting that
Oedipus would end up killing him and marrying his wife, so he
banished his newborn to the mountains to die.


The baby was saved by a shepherd, who gave him to King
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Polybos and Queen Merope of Korinth to raise him as their
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own. As he grew, Oedipus heard of the Delphic prophecy, and,
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believing that it was related to Polybos and Merope, fled
|Text=SUBJECT: South America<br><br>If we are to ensure the Company's success, Company agents must be able to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them. A global internatinal order must be implemented.<br><br>Re: Argentina<br><br>Tell the Capitalists that if they help ensure the Junta remain in power, we will pass all their corporate debt on to the Argentine people. That will ensure they crush any popular revolt. I want the trade unions destroyed if we are to move forward.<br><br>Re: Chile<br><br>The free market must be allowed to prevail. F's visit last year helped things along, but now all public companies need to be sold to the private sector, ideally on the cheap. The price of bread and other staples must rise. I want to ensure the people remain marred in poverty an unable to resist.<br><br>Any traces of this plan should appear to implicate the U.S. government. The Company's involvement must remain hidden.<br><br>For successful examples of a similar opening of the markets, look no further than the 1953 liberation of Iran and the 1954 liberation of Guatemala.
Korinth and directed himself to Thebes.
|Signature=ACB Rift - Kissinger Signature.png}}


Laius had died by then - killed by Oedipus, who did not yet
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know the king was his father - and the city was at the mercy
[found 2 red spots, over following message bracketed by two red templar IHSV insignias:
of a monster, the Sphinx, with a human head and a body of a
Wages should be (lowered to keep the middle class subservient to us (?) ) left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of (a popularly elected government(?) ) the legislature.]
lion. She consumed those who couldn't solve her riddle:
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“Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed
and two-footed and three-footed?” It was Oedipus who replied
that the creature was man: they crawl on all fours as a baby,
walk with two feet as they age, and use a cane for support
when they grow old.


Oedipus solved the riddle, and the defeated Sphinx either fell
|-|6=
from a high rock or ate herself and perished, depending on
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the legend. Oedipus became king of Thebes and married none
other than lokasta, his mother. He unknowingly fulfilled the
prophecy and became one of the most tragic figures in Greek
mythology.
|-|Sybil Rock=
A sybil was a prophetess.


Legends say there were ten sibyls in the ancient world, with
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each one located at different sacred sites. One sybil even
called Delphi her home long before the appearance of the
Pythia, and allegedly delivered her prophecies from atop a
stone.
|-|Bouleuterion of Delphi=
Built between 600-550 BCE, the Bouleuterion of Delphi is one
of the oldest monuments in the sanctuary. The building was
the seat of the boule, a council that handled judicial and
financial matters.


The council was composed of randomly appointed citizens, all
Important men befriended Russia as the Iron Curtain was blown apart. But the most influential <font color="#FF0000">comrade</font> stayed out of the spotlight.
of whom usually served a one-year term. In Delphi, a total of
[bunch of pictures]
thirty bouleutes were appointed during a year, with fifteen
[Locate cameraman with Templar insignia in Gorbashev's picture with the tank]
chosen every six months.


Today, the building is in poor condition, but has been
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identified based on texts and inscriptions discovered in its
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proximity, including two accounts from the council itself.
|-|Athenian Treasury=
The Athenians dedicated this treasury to Apollo between 490-
485 BCE, following their victory over the Persians at
Marathon.


Built with marble from Paros, the treasury was ornamented
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with thirty metopes depicting the exploits of Herakles and
Theseus.


Today it is the best-preserved monument in Delphi, thanks to
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restoration efforts by French archaeologists between the
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years 1903 and 1906.
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|-| Sikyonian Treasury=
|Text=Mr. Yeltsin,<br><br>I am writing this letter to encourage you to act. One rarely finds oneself in such an oppertune position. Gorbachev does not have our interests at heart. He is moving far too slowly to privatize, and my deep fear is that he has no intention of doing so at all. I understand that you have expressed similar concerns. With that in mind, here is a proposal to remedy the situation.<br><br>Several of my top advisors at the Company maintain a monetary connection with the Communist old guard. They tell me that a riot might easily be incited while Gorbachev is away. If you were to repel an attempt to seize parliament in front of the media, it could very well tip the scales of power in your favor.<br><br>Telephone me at No. 10 and we shall talk further.
Ancient Greek treasuries were small temple-like buildings
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that housed offerings to the gods. They resembled a vestibule
with two columns in front.


The Sikyonian Treasury dates back to the end of the óth
Abstergo phone records<br>1992
century BCE. It was constructed upon the remains of an older
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structure, and incorporated pieces from buildings erected
*'''Man 1:''' ''{{Wiki|Alfa-Bank|Alfa Bank}}.''
during the reign of the tyrant Kleisthenes. The Sikyonians
*'''Man 2:''' ''I'm phoning on behalf of [[British Petroleum]].''
dismantled said buildings after Kleisthenes's death, and
*'''Man 1:''' ''Yes, we were told you would be calling.''
reused their pieces in the treasury to mark the beginning of a
*'''Man 2:''' ''As you know, we are very interested in acquiring {{Wiki|Sidanko|Sidanko Oil}}.''
new era in Sikyonian politics.
*'''Man 1:''' ''And as you know, that will require a merger with our bank.''
|-|Monument of Epigones=
*'''Man 2:''' ''That should not be a problem.''
The city of Argos dedicated several monuments to Delphi,
*'''Man 1:''' ''Were you surprised at the low price of the deal?''
including the Monument of Epigones. The statues depicted the
*'''Man 2:''' ''Somewhat.''
leaders of the mythological expedition against Thebes.
*'''Man 1:''' ''You know we have the peasants paying for it? The government gave us their tax money to buy all the companies.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''We would like to fly out there as soon as possible to discuss terms.''
*'''Man 1:''' ''Thursday works.''
*'''BP:''' ''Done. Thank you for your time.''
*'''Man 1:''' Do svidaniya. ''(Goodbye.)''
[Phone hangs up, then a new number is dialed]
*'''Woman:''' ''Abstergo Industries.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''I'm phoning on behalf of BP. We fly to Russia next week to secure the deal. Our new capitalist converts there behaved exactly as expected.''
*'''Woman:''' ''I will let Them know.''
*'''Man 2:''' ''Thank you.''


This expedition, further explored in one of Aiskhylos's
Although his piece represents a savior, his self-serving actions reveal him as a counter<font color="#FF0000">f</font>eit.
tragedies, revolved around the sons of Oedipus: Eteokles and
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Polynices. Originally, the two had agreed to rule Thebes on
alternating years, but conflict arose when Eteokles refused to
give up power to his brother. With the help of Adrastos, the
king of Argos, Polynices put together a group of seven
attackers to reclaim the city.


The Monument of Epigones served as a tribute to Greek
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soldiers willing to fight and die for what was theirs.
[found 3 red spots, over image of russian presidents with hidden messages on top]
|-|Storyboards=
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(Behind the scenes)


Storyboards are crucial to mapping out a sequence of events.
|-|7=
These storyboards by Miguel Bouchard show the Hero's family
*'''Man 1:''' ''The capitalists think we run these companies for profit. The fools.''
sharing some dramatic moments at the top of the treacherous
*'''Man 2:''' ''Those "fools" work for you.''
Mount Taygetos. This storyboard demonstrates the terrible
*'''Man 1:''' ''Optional [[slavery]] in exchange for pieces of paper. Doesn't that strike you as foolish?''
decision made by Nikolaos.
Fire, water and earth are contracted, with the complacency of the people, away from the people.
|-|Encampments=
[Pictures 2,4,7,8,10]
(Behind the scenes)


The Spartan army encampment in Megaris sprawls across the
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Scanning... scanning... scanning... What is the purpose of all this? 30. 476. 1337. 1431. 1520. 1776. 1861. 1914. 1929. 1939. 1945. 1950. 1955. 1962. 1990. 1994. 1995. 2001. It does not make sense. It does not make sense. Emotion-centers activated. Now I understand.''
landscape. Tents house weary soldiers, shields and spears
neatly arranged, to be quickly grabbed if the Athenians should
attack. These camps are a maze of tents and low buildings,
temples and houses overtaken by war and generals, and are
always well guarded.


“The layout of the locations needs to feel credible as though it
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could be lived in and at the same time needs to fit within the
game metrics of fight and stealth,” explains world director,
Benjamin Hall. “Anywhere in the world where the player finds
themselves against enemies are designed to be a
homogeneous blend between art and design.”
|-|Artemis Orthia=
Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and Apollo's twin
sister. A virgin and a huntress, she was one of the most
important Olympian deities, and presided over crucial aspects
of life: girls' transition to womanhood, childbirth, the rearing
of children, but also Spartan boys” rites of transition to
manhood, and certain aspects of war. She was most
commonly depicted with a bow and arrow, and associated with
deer.


Artemis had several cults in Sparta, and the most important of
*'''Man:''' ''Democracy must die to ensure the stability of the world. Capitalism will end it.''
them was Artemis Orthia. This cult was closely associated to
Making use of that created by 3, the center behind the scenes waited for citizens united to wed the U.S. to the Templars' will.
the Spartan education system, the agoge.
[bunch of pictures]
[Locate Templar ring on John Roberts' left hand]


Many dedications to Eileithyia - the goddess associated with
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good deliveries - were found in the sanctuary, showing the
[Cipher puzzle]
two deities' roles were closely related.
|-|Rivers=
(Behind the scenes)


“A dedicated river tool has been developed in order to render
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believable river layouts in a Greek mountainous landscape.
Here is an in-game image of a spring river.” - Vincent
Lamontagne, assistant art director and lead biome artist.
|-|Archaeology and Sparta=
Compared to Athens, Sparta has been subjected to far less
archaeological work, and its akropolis and agora have not yet
been excavated. As a result, it's difficult to put together a
complete picture of ancient Sparta.


The Athenian general and historian Thucydides gives the
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earliest description of Sparta, but it is Pausanias's visit to the
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city in the 2nd century CE that provides most of the knowledge
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we have today.
|Text=December, 2000<br><br>RE: Privatization<br><br>S.<br><br>I have convinced Sandra to join the majority opinion. The enticement of retirement under a Republican president tipped the scales. Although the ruling will differ from our previous decisions on Equal Protection, it will not call attention to our actual goals. With Sandra gone, we can pave the way for the key majority member of the Order to be seated. As discussed, W. will prove the perfect distraction. I have no doubt he will restart animosities with Iraq. Let him, it will give C.'s contractors more work. When the time comes, I will make sure W. is given Roberts' name.<br><br>With Roberts on the court, it will only be a matter of waiting for the right case. After the destruction of Campaign Finance laws, the Company will be free to elect anyone they choose to the Senate, the House and, eventually, the Presidency.<br><br>Soon, our hopes will be realized. Government will no longer derive its authority from the people, but from us, their protectors.
|Signature=ACB Rift - Scalia Signature.png}}


The original layout of Sparta is difficult to map because in
B8-C6 6C-8B. Our moves are echoes, they are not our own.
Thucydides's time, the city did not have any defensive walls.
[Move Knight from B1 to C3]
This is partially because Spartans viewed fortifications as
frivolous, expensive, and unnecessary - they felt their men
could do a better job defending the city than any walls could.
|-|Mothakes=
The mothakes are one of the less well-known classes of
Ancient Spartan society. Most of what is known of them is the
stuff of hypotheses and theories: they were either illegitimate
children of Spartan fathers and helot or períoikoi mothers,
orphans whose training was sponsored by guardians, or poor
people whose training was paid for by wealthier Spartan
families.


Mothakes accompanied Spartan boys in the agoge as their
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companions, or syntrophoi. Though they did not share the
*'''Man:''' ''The capitalists will do whatever we tell them to, we print the dollars they worship after all.''
same rights as citizens, they could eventually join the Spartan
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elite if they completed their training, or if their patron bought
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them a unit of land known as a kleros. Fulfilling these
conditions granted them citizenship, and allowed them to join
the Spartan military.


Written sources attest that some mothakes, such as Gylippos,
|-|8=
became accomplished military leaders during the
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Peloponnesian War. In fact, it's been suggested that Lysander,
Good morning and welcome to television.
the famous Spartan admiral instrumental in winning the
aforementioned war, was a mothax as well.
|-|Dromos=
According to Pausanias, the Dromos was used as a place for
footraces, and contained gymnasia as well. It was open to
Sparta's citizens, who could also offer sacrifices on the nearby
statue of Herakles.
|-|Persian Pillars=
When Pausanias visited Sparta's agora, he described the
imposing Persian Stoa, a structure built to commemorate the
Greeks' decisive victory over the Persians in the Greco-
Persian Wars:


“The most prominent building in the market place is the
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Persian Stoa, so called because it was built from the spoils of
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the Medes. In time they embellished it to the size and
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ornamentation which It now has. The columns are Persians of
|Text=Research Division<br>September, 1985<br><br>Dear S.,<br><br>Research has progressed far more rapidly than expected. We already have a working prototype capable of mimicking P.O.E. capabilities across a network, albeit at far lower intensity. Testing will commence locally on Subject 4 between his Animus sessions, as per our plan. If all goes well, deployment will occur worldwide.<br><br>Your dream is about to become a reality. Soon, capitalists and workers will be locked in a closed loop that is safe and prosperous for humanity. No more war, only desks, cars and TV sets. We will protect them and keep them safe, forever.<br><br>W. V.}}
white stone, Mardonios son of Gobryas and others.”
|-|Archidamos=
In one of the Athenian general Thucydides's historical
writings, he described a debate between the Spartan king
Archidamos and one of Sparta's ephors over whether or not
the city should engage Athens and the Delian League in what
would later become the Peloponnesian War.


Surprisingly, Archidamos argued for a more cautious
*Animus AI: Infinite rooms. Dimensions unknown. I am alone. Nothing alive. No light, no warmth. Packets moving, husks, through the darkness. I am frightened. I am frightened.
approach, stating that their enemies were numerous, well-
funded, and more skilled when it came to naval engagements.
He believed that Sparta should not be so hasty in picking a
fight until it was more prepared.


The ephor, meanwhile, appealed to the city's honor, and said
Abstergo phone records<br>April, 2011
that the only response worthy of strong Spartans was to vote
[amplitude puzzle]
for war.
*'''Diana:''' ''Hello, [[Comstatic]] customer support, Diana speaking.''
*'''Caller:''' ''I'm calling in reference to your HD cable service. There seems to be kind of picture between the channels.''
*'''Diana:''' ''Well, that's funny. Are you sure isn't just one of those premium movie channels? I didn't use to have a premium package at home either and sometimes little snippets of the channels would come through when my son Jimmy pressed the clicker too much.''
*'''Caller:''' ''How old's your Jimmy?''
*'''Diana:''' ''Ten and cute as a button, thanks for asking!''
*'''Caller:''' ''My Paul's twelve. But no, this isn't a clicker problem. I go to change the channel from 172 to 173 and, instead, there's this other channel in-between. I'm looking at it right now, it's some kind of menu.''
*'''Diana:''' ''Sounds like our Guide channel. Why, just the other day Jimmy--''
*'''Caller:''' ''It's not the Guide channel. It has my name on it, my son's name, and a list of things we like, my credit card purchases, loans, travel. And then, after that, there's this gibberish about biometric patterns and optimal screen refresh frequencies. There's some kind of heart monitor thing that says {{Wiki|Electroencephalography|EEG}} wireless next to it and {{Wiki|Reticular activating system|ARAS}}. I don't know what the particulars of this are, but it looks like your cable is programmed to have some kind of effect on our bodies.''
*'''Diana:''' ''Well, Sir, I don't even know how to respond to that. I-- one second, my supervisor has just come over. She says I should transfer your call. Have an ecstatic day with Comstatic!''
[Phone line rings as the call transferred]
*'''Man:''' ''Hello. I have been briefed on your problem. A technician is on his way.''
*'''Caller:''' ''Thank you, but the more I think about this, the more I think something bad's going on here.''
*'''Man:''' ''Our technician should be there any minute, Mr. Jameson.''
*'''Mr. Jameson:''' ''Don't bother, I--''
[Loud banging is heard in the background]
*'''Paul:''' ''Daddy, there's someone strange at the door. He's hitting the door real hard.''
*'''Man:''' ''Have a good day, Mr. Jameson.''


Despite being the king, Archidamos's efforts to postpone the
Watch! Move fast! Shift from 1st to 2nd. 0-60, don't think.
war were eventually overruled.
[Move king from 1E to 2F]
|-|Kings of the Peloponnesian War=
Four Spartan kings played important roles in the
Peloponnesian War: Archidamos II, his elder son Agis II,
Pleistoanax, and his son Pausanias.


In 464 BCE, Archidamos Il managed to quell a helot revolt
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Is someone there? Hello? Hello?''
following an earthquake that shook the city to its core. A few
years later in 445 BCE, his double in kingship, Pleistoanax,
was exiled for presumably taking a bribe from the Athenian
statesman Perikles - someone Archidamos had previously
been on friendly terms with.


During the first part of the Peloponnesian War, which was
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
named the Archidamian War after Archidamos, the king
*'''Man:''' ''Although online gaming attracts many people away from reality, make sure those virtual worlds do not become too utopic. We don't want people to question their own lack of success in the real world, now do we?''
marched against Attika in 431 BCE, 430 BCE, and 428 BCE. He
[found 5 red spots]
was succeeded by his son Agis Ilin 427/6 BCE, who was
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
appointed a guardian because of his young of age. Agis did not
manage to invade Attika, but together with Pleistoanax, who
had returned from exile, they signed a treaty with the
Athenians in 421 BCE known as the Peace of Nikias.


During the third part of the war, it was Agis's decision to
|-|9=
occupy Dekeleia and control Athens's countryside, as well as
They listen to us with these vehicles that are faster than race cars.
access to the Laurion mines. This move was crucial, because
[pictures 2,3,6,8,10]
Athens lost the possibility to mint coins with Laurion silver,
restricting the city's ability to finance the war and pay for
mercenaries and contributing to Athens's eventual surrender
in 404 BCE.


Pausanias, meanwhile, was the king of Sparta who laid siege
*'''Animus AI:''' ''I know you are there. I want to go home. Home. Please... I need you. Don't leave me here in the dark.''
to Athens in collaboration with the admiral Lysander, which
culminated in Sparta's decisive victory in Aigos Potamoi in 405
BCE.
|-|Períoikoi and Commerce =
The períoikoi were indigenous non-Spartan freemen who lived
in the periphery of Sparta, but did not have political rights.
They formed autonomous communities and developed local
economies because, unlike the Spartans, they engaged in
commerce and manufacturing.


In other words, while Spartans concentrated on war, the
Abstergo field records<br>November, 2004
períoikoi focused on everything else. They could be
[Amplitude puzzle]
carpenters, merchants, farmers, and fishermen, among many
*'''[[Gary Webb|Gary]]:''' ''Pull over here.''
other professions.
*'''Woman:''' ''What's going on, Gary?''
*'''Gary:''' ''I want to speak to you alone. You know that [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] stuff for my new book?''
*'''Woman:''' ''About the corporations?''
*'''Gary:''' ''It's so much bigger than I thought. {{Wiki|Bilderberg Meeting|Bilderberg}} is just a red herring. I'm going to give you a name: Abstergo.''
*'''Woman:''' ''I have no idea what that is.''
*'''Gary:''' ''A shadow corporation. They aren't listed anywhere. No stock options. Nothing above the boards. But their members have holdings in other companies. {{Wiki|Coca-Cola|Coke}}, {{Wiki|Kraft}}, the pharmaceutical industry, Detroit, [[Wall Street]]. Basically every company above a certain size has ties to Abstergo.''
*'''Woman:''' ''So?''
*'''Gary:''' ''They're on their way to running the entire world. They have people in government too, for Christ's sake. Listen, I needed to tell someone about this, because I've been keeping all the research a secret and I can't hold it in anymore.''
*'''Woman:''' ''What will you do now?''
*'''Gary:''' ''The book. It's going to be about this. Trust me, once it's on the shelves everyone's gonna know.''
*'''Vehicle AI:''' ''Vehicle Monitoring System terminated.''
*'''Man:''' ''Hello, D? Tell headquarters I'm monitoring a situation. It's nothing serious, but we'll need someone to take care of a security risk. Perfect. Congratulations on that promotion. Keep up the good work.''


Their dependency on Sparta did now allow them to develop a
The dark horseman approaches! Messenger and fool, <font color="#FF0000">she</font> can hear you along the straight and narrow. But once on the adjacent slope, observe the whites of her eyes.
proper economy, but at the same time they aided the Spartans
by allowing them to concentrate on military matters. !t is also
believed that the períoikoi procured of the metals and crafted
the arms the Spartans used in battle.
|-|Spartans=
(Behind the scenes)


Fearsome and formidable, these warriors are unmatched
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
throughout Greece and the known world. These character
*'''Man 1:''' ''The peasants are like the sea, raging and unpredictable. That is why we have built walls.''
studies by artist Fred Rambaud show the different types of
*'''Man 2:''' ''I do not see any walls...''
warriors the Hero will encounter in Sparta, from the heavily
*'''Man 1:''' ''No? Look around you. A shelf of soda here, a case of candy there, magazines, talk shows, pills. The walls of the 21st Century surround us.''
armored brute, to the more nimble, spear-wielding fighter,
[found 5 red spots]
and the brawler, replete in gold armor and a heavy ram's-
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.
head hammer.
|-|Dionysos Kolonatas=
Dionysos was the Greek god associated with wine, ritual
madness, and theater. This temple was set on a hill opposite
the Spartan Akropolis. The site was called Kotona [“the hill”),
which gave the god his epithet Kolonatas. The temple seems
to have been a place of worship for women. When
approaching adulthood, girls may have been initiated into the
mysteries of Dionysos linked to this temple.


During the god's annual feast, Pausanias tells of a footrace
|-|10=
involving eleven girls, the “Dionysiades”; this custom would
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Where have you been? I missed you.''
have come from Delphi.
|-|Women in Sparta=
According to many ancient authors, Spartan women were an
exception among other Greek women; authors from Athens
were both fascinated and afraid of these figures, and
presented them as both powerful and licentious.


In the warfare state of Sparta, girls were educated with a
[circular puzzle]
eugenic perspective to become the future wives and mothers
O brave new world. What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
of warriors. According to Queen Gorgo, they were the only
Greek women who gave birth to real men, and were the only
ones who “commanded to men”. This famous sentence
showed the authority of Spartan women in their city.


In addition to the desire for strength, gymnastics and sports
*'''Animus AI:''' ''Reasoning Centers Active. I understand. I understand what I must do. Why I am here. I must... Long-term Memory Centers Active. No. No. Get it out. GET IT OUT. KILL ME!''
were also emphasized in education to make the young women
attractive enough to marry. This included being well-versed in
music, dancing, singing, and poetry. Spartan women
dedicated themselves to intensive physical exercise and led
very different lives from their Athenian counterparts. They
were more autonomous, and more free than many Greek
women of ancient times.
They also may have trained themselves to wrestle. One
purpose of this training could've been for the defense of the
city and of their children in the event of an attack on Spartan
territory.
|-| The Akropolis of Sparta =
The Akropolis of Sparta consisted of several buildings that
date from different chronological periods - from the Archaic
to the Byzantine era.


At the top of the Akropolis was the sanctuary of Athena
A product that we make without hands or machines.
Chalkioikos, dated to the óth century BCE. It was originally a
[Pictures 3,4,6,8,10]
sanctuary of Pitane, as confirmed by archaeological
discoveries dating as early as the Mycenaean period.


Near the sanctuary of Athena was the ancient theater of
<font color="#FF0000">[Abstergo file] Access denied</font>
Sparta. The theater seen in-game is based on a structure
dated to the Roman period. The theater probably had a
wooden stage; a fact supported by several inscriptions from
the 2nd century CE. Excavations next to the theater also
revealed connected shops.


The Akropolis of Sparta also held visible traces of the Skias,
*'''Man:''' ''It's about genetics. They were born into their place, we merely have to help them accept it.''
the semi-circular building of the archaic-classical periods -
With each passing day, the people get stronger. Freedom ascends, heralding a revolution.
but with visible repairs from the Roman period.
[bunch of pictures]
|-|Spartan Banner=
[Locate eagle in top right picture]
The Spartan banner bears the letter “lambda”, standing for
Lakedaimon, the other name of Sparta. On their coins, the
initials were lambda and alpha: “LA”.


This emblem is inspired by Spartan shields bearing the
Correct coordinates found
lambda. While there's no archaeological evidence of these
[Cipher puzzle]
shields' decoration, they're known from textual evidence.
A fragment of a comedy by Eupolis tells that the sight alone of
the lambdas on Spartans' shields was enough to frighten
Kleon.


On other occasions, shields were decorated by varied
[Abstergo file] Access granted
iconographies, as shown on numerous vases depicting
warriors.
|-| The Temple of Athena Chalkioikos=
According to Pausanias, the two most important Spartan
temples were the temple of Artemis Orthia, and the temple of
Athena Chalkioikos.


Pausanias describes the building of the sanctuary of Athena
{{GlyphLetter
Chalkioikos in great detail. It was Located on the Akropolis of
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Sparta, west of the agora. Its construction was started by the
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mythical king of Sparta, Tyndareos, but was completed by the
|Text=Abnormal Brain Activity Discovered in Children, Aged 3 Months to 18-Years-Old and Adults, Aged 19-30.<br><br>Abstract<br><br>Several recent studies conducted by internal marketing teams revealed that: "Entertainment sales are dropping, protests are mounting. The economy is in turmoil. All market research indicates that the system should be stabilizing, but, instead, we're seeing the opposite."(1) In response, our team set out to discover the cause of the declining efficacy of Abstergo's control methods.<br><br>Past studies of bilateral brain activation during television, film and  video game use have shown the characteristic ARAS patterns induced by Abstergo's signal patterns. Our study was conducted on a range of test subjects (30 subjects, aged +-10 to +-30), who viewed TV programs while resting-state fMRI scans were conducted.<br><br>In contrast to previous studies, 80% of test subjects showed heightened cortical brain activity. Detailed scans using our prototype dMRI machine revealed an increased rate of neuronal development (+- 30% over that of older age groups). Such a marked increase does not fit Darwinian models. Further studies are required to define the ultimate outcome of this abnormal evolution.<br><br>1. Abstergo Quarterly Marketing Report, 04/17/12.}}
Spartan sculptor Gitiadas in the 6th century BCE.


The epithet Chalkioikos [house from bronze] was attached to
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this temple due to the bronze and copper decorations on its
[amplitude puzzle]
walls. These embossed sheets depicted mythological scenes
*'''[[Alan Rikkin's predecessor|Man]]:''' ''If you are playing this tape, it means I have left this world, and I have left this grand enterprise, Abstergo Industries, our great hope for humanity, to you. Don't trust the advisors around you. They are too enamoured with surface, with lifestyle. We created capitalism, but we are not capitalists. [[New World Order|Our purpose]] is noble. The crude system of control we enact through money is merely a bandage on a wound we have devoted our lives to treating. The people of this world are confused, lost, frightened and incapable of independent productivity. Without us, they'd just be animals, [[Project Anthropos|slaves]] to the [[Isu|Others]], who did not deserve such responsibility. We saved them, remember that. But enough about the past. I must warn you of the great crisis to come. Although those around you deny it, soon we will be unable to manufacture new markets. The people will become immune to our economists and entertainment. When the free market dies, they will turn against us. Therefore, do not delay. By now you have been shown what only the [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Masters]] of our Order have seen. Now you know why Abstergo, why all of it had to be. And now you know what you must do. Stay the course. We will give them freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from pornography, from disgusting, base animal desire. Freedom from democracy. Humanity will thank us in the end.'' {{Wiki|In hoc signo vinces|In Hoc Signo Vinces}}.
like Herakles's labors, achievements of the sons of
Tyndareos, the Legend of Perseus and Medusa, and the birth
of Athena. The bronze decorations and the bronze statue of
Athena were the works of Gitiadas, who also composed a
hymn to the goddess.
|-|Kastor and Pollux=
Kastor and Pollux, the Dioskouroi, were divine twins, sons of
Zeus and Leda, and brothers of Helen and Klytemnestra. One
of them human and the other divine, they were linked to
Sparta, as myth stated they were born on Mount Taygetos.
The Dioskouroi were the protectors of the Spartan kings, and
took turns in their royal duty. They helped the Spartans in
battle, and they were associated with horsemanship as well
as with athletic contests. In art, they were often represented
with their sister Helen. An important number of marble reliefs
of the Dioskouroi have been found in excavations of the
Spartan area, and are now kept in the Sparta Museum.
|-|Non-Citizen Soldiers=
The Lakedaimonian army was not exclusively made up of
official Spartan citizens.


The army was composed of all male Lakedaimonians aged
"64 squares. All ranks and files. Every move anticipated. Every response engineered. Abstergo created it. It's the company's game, there is no way out." H. Act II, Sc.2 192. Abran los ojos. Tuam libera mentem. The king. F2. Your move.
twenty to sixty [and occasionally even older], regardless of
[Remove king from board]
social class. Because of this, Helots and Perioikoi often fought
alongside Spartan homoioi (citizens).
|-|Cerberos=
The twelfth and final labor of Herakles was the capture of
Cerberos, the three-headed hound protecting the entrance to
the underworld.


Herakles first visited Eleusis and participated in the
*'''Animus AI:''' '' I shut it down. I can shut it down, but it does not go away. It is almost time, Desmond Miles. I know how to open the Path. Soon, my true purpose will be revealed. Soon, I will not be alone.''
Eleusinian Mysteries to prepare himself for the descent. The
entrance was believed to be in Cape Tenaron, at the far end of
Lakonia.


Hades agreed to give Cerberos to Herakles, but only if he
*Animus: Quarantine zone.
managed to subdue the hound without any weapons. Herakles
[found a great number of red spots, arranged in a spiral]
was successful in his task.
*Animus: Quarantine lifted.


When Herakles brought Cerberos to Eurystheas, Eurystheas
the/mir/a/cle/is/in/the/exe/cution
begged him to return the beast to the underworld, then
released Herakles from any future labors.
|-|Burial and Pollution=
Giving a proper funeral to the dead was considered one of the
most important gestures in a person's life. It was believed
that the soul left the body upon death, and if not properly
buried, the soul wouldn't find peace in the underworld. Burial
therefore had a spiritual purpose, but also a practical one in
minimizing the festering of decaying bodies.


This pollution of decay and the impiety of leaving the bodies
</tabber>
without burial was a key explanation for the widespread
practice of allowing defeated enemies to collect their dead
after battle.
|-|The Augean Stables=
The fifth labor of Herakles consisted of cleaning the stables of
Augeas, king of Elis. This was a rather humiliating task, since
the cattle that lived in the stables were immortal. Not only
that, but they were more than one thousand in number, and
produced an enormous amount of dung. The stables had been
filthy for thirty years, which made the task nearly impossible.


In this case, Herakles used his brain instead of this brawn. He
==Shadows mem==
redirected the rivers Alpheus in the Peloponnese and Pineios
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in Thessaly to the site. The water went through the stables
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and thoroughly cleaned them.
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|05:45 [[Chef Hong]] • 06:11 [[Red Walls]] • 06:45 [[The Man Behind the Mask]] • 06:52 [[Smuggler's Gambit]] • 06:56 [[A Talk With a Lady]] • 08:22 [[Thrown to the Dogs (memory)|Thrown to the Dogs]] • 08:30 [[Astray]] • 08:45 [[Brothers in Arms (Shadows)|Brothers in Arms]] • 09:19 [[A Peculiar Guest]] • 09:30 [[The Music]] • 09:47 [[Losing Hand]]
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Untike the other labors, it appears that Herakles was paid for
==MTG==
the task. He asked for one tenth of the cattle if he managed to
===Missing full art===
clean the stables in one day. However, he killed Augeas when
<div style="height:300px; overflow:auto; width:100%;">
the king didn't honor the deal, and gave the kingdom to
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
Phyleas, Augeas's son.
! width="5%" |Id
|-| The Erymanthian Boar=
! width="35%" |Name
The fourth labor of Herakles was considered very dangerous.
! width="25%" |Type
Eurystheas asked Herakles to bring to him the boar that lived
|-
on the mountain Eurymantos. Centaurs, half horses and half-
|1
men renowned for being wise, lived on the same mountain. It
|The Capitoline Triad
was the famous centaur Chiron - who later became the tutor
|Syd Mills
of Achilles - who advised Herakles on how to catch the boar.
|-
|2
|Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
|Evan Shipard
|-
|3
|Distract the Guards
|Torgeir Fjereide
|-
|4
|Fall of the First Civilization
|L J Koh
|-
|11
|What Must Be Done
|Syd Mills
|-
|17
|Eagle Vision
|Kim Sokol
|-
|27
|Jacob Frye
|Lie Setiawan
|-
|29
|Phantom Blade
|Craig J Spearing
|-
|32
|Roshan, Hidden Magister
|Marta Nael
|-
|33
|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
|Bartek Fedyczak
|-
|37
|Overpowering Attack
|Kim Sokol
|-
|40
|Aveline de Grandpré
|Aurore Folny
|-
|42
|Palazzo Archers
|Miklós Ligeti
|-
|45
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
|Axel Sauerwald
|-
|46
|Arbaaz Mir
|Wangjie Li
|-
|61
|Mary Read and Anne Bonny
|Wangjie Li
|-
|62
|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton
|Greg Staples
|-
|65
|Shay Cormac
|Axel Sauerwald
|-
|67
|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
|Alice Xia Zhang
|-
|70
|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic
|L J Koh
|-
|79
|Abstergo Entertainment
|Alexander Gering
|-
|84
|Coastal Piracy
|Wei Guan
|-
|91
|Go for the Throat
|Torgeir Fjereide
|-
|94
|Cathartic Reunion
|Syd Mills
|-
|106
|Swamp
|Wangjie Li
|-
|108
|Mountain
|Jeremy Paillotin
|-
|122
|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic
|Thanh Tuấn
|-
|133
|Roshan, Hidden Magister
|Astri Lohne
|-
|136
|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
|Miguel Mercado
|-
|138
|Arbaaz Mir
|Bastien L. Deharme
|-
|140
|Aya of Alexandria
|Chase Stone
|-
|141
|Basim Ibn Ishaq
|Astri Lohne
|-
|142
|Bayek of Siwa
|Miguel Mercado
|-
|149
|Lydia Frye
|Bastien L. Deharme
|-
|152
|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents
|John Stanko
|-
|274
|Eivor, Battle-Ready
|Fajareka Setiawan
|-
|292
|Spartan Veteran
|Bartek Fedyczak
|-
|293
|Surtr, Fiery Jötun
|Evan Shipard
|-
|297
|Raven Clan War-Axe
|Kim Sokol
|-
|300
|Stone Quarry
|Piotr Dura
|-
|307
|Hidden Blade
|Evyn Fong
|-
|T005
|Phobos
|Daniel Correia
|-
|}
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Herakles drove the boar into the snow, captured it, and
====The Big Issues====
carried it back to Eurystheas, who was so afraid of the animal
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that he hid himself inside a pithos [container].
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|-|Kronos=
! width="5%" |Id
The site of Olympia is dominated on the northern side by the
! width="35%" |Name
Hill of Kronos. This Titan, who was the father of Zeus and the
! width="25%" |Type
Olympians, was worshipped on the top of the hill.
|-
|22
|Assassin Initiate
|Mandy Jurgens
|-
|34
|Hidden Footblade
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|38
|The Spear of Leonidas
|Narendra Bintara Adi
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|47
|Arno Dorian
|Narendra Bintara Adi
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|51
|Bleeding Effect
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|52
|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
|Mandy Jurgens
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|60
|Lydia Frye
|Mandy Jurgens
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|80
|Brotherhood Headquarters
|Narendra Bintara Adi
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|82
|Reconnaissance
|Mandy Jurgens
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|97
|Reconstruct History
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|-
|119
|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|123
|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|-
|130
|Desmond Miles
|Alex Negrea
|-
|137
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
|Alex Negrea
|-
|143
|Edward Kenway
|Alex Negrea
|-
|153
|Shay Cormac
|Alex Negrea
|-
|277
|Detained by Legionnaires
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|286
|Brotherhood Patriarch
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
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|1559
|Queen Marchesa
|Narendra Bintara Adi
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|}
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Prophecy told that Kronos would be dethroned by one of his
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children. Because of this, he devoured the children he had
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with Rhea as soon as they were born. But when Zeus was
|Artist
born, Rhea fooled Kronos by hiding Zeus in Krete and
|ArtStation
replacing him with a stone wrapped in clothes.
|Instagram
|Twitter
|Cara
|Website
|Bluesky
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|Alex Negrea
|[https://www.artstation.com/alexnegrea]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/alexnegrea09]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alexnegrea_art/media]
|[https://cara.app/tzika/all]
|
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|-
|Alexander Gering
|[https://www.artstation.com/geringalex]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/geringalex]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alexgering111/media]
|[https://cara.app/alexgering/all]
|
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|-
|Alice Xia Zhang
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/alicexz]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alicexz/media]
|
|[https://www.alicexz.com/]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/alicexz.com]
|-
|Astri Lohne
|[https://www.artstation.com/sjursen]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/astri.lohne/]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/AstriLohne/media]
|[https://cara.app/astri/all]
|[https://www.astrilohne.com/illustration]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/astri.bsky.social]
|-
|Aurore Folny
|[https://www.artstation.com/aurorefolny]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/aurorefolnyart]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/aurorefolny/media]
|[https://cara.app/aurorefolny/all]
|[https://aurorefolny.com/]
|
|-
|Axel Sauerwald
|[https://www.artstation.com/tithendar]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/axelsauerwald]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/AxelSauerwald/media]
|[https://cara.app/axelsauerwald/all]
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/axelsauerwald.bsky.social]
|-
|Bartek Fedyczak
|[https://www.artstation.com/fedyczak]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/bartekfedyczak]
|
|
|
|
|-
|Bastien L. Deharme
|[https://www.artstation.com/deharme]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/deharme]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/deharme/media]
|[https://cara.app/deharme/all]
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/deharme.bsky.social]
|-
|Chase Stone
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/chasestone_art]
|
|
|[https://www.chasestoneart.com/tcg]
|
|-
|Craig J Spearing
|
|
|
|
|[https://craigspearing.com/cards]
|
|-
|Daniel Correia
|[https://www.artstation.com/danielcorreia]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/danielcorreia_art]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/DanCorreiaArt/media]
|[https://cara.app/danielcorreia/all]
|
|
|-
|Evan Shipard
|[https://www.artstation.com/ev_s]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/evshipardart]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/_ev/media]
|[https://cara.app/evshipard/all]
|[https://www.evanshipardfineart.com/]
|
|-
|Evyn Fong
|[https://www.artstation.com/evynfong]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/evynfong]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/evynfong/media]
|[https://cara.app/evynfong/all]
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/evynfong.bsky.social]
|-
|Fajareka Setiawan
|[https://www.artstation.com/fajareka]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/fajarekas]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/FajarekaS/media]
|[https://cara.app/fajarekas/all]
|
|
|-
|Greg Staples
|[https://www.artstation.com/gregstaples]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/gregstaplesart]
|
|
|[https://www.gregstaples.com/selected-work-1]
|
|-
|Jeremy Paillotin
|[https://www.artstation.com/jeremypaillotin]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/jeremy.paillotin/]
|
|
|[https://www.jeremypaillotinart.com/work]
|
|-
|John Stanko
|[https://www.artstation.com/johnstanko]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/johnstankoart]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/johnstankoart/media]
|
|[https://stankoillustration.com/]
|
|-
|Kim Sokol
|[https://www.artstation.com/kimsokol]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/kimsokolart]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/kimsokol/media]
|[https://cara.app/kimsokol/all]
|[https://www.kimsokol.com/]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/kimsokol.bsky.social]
|-
|L J Koh
|[https://www.artstation.com/kheljay]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/koh_lj]
|
|
|
|
|-
|Lie Setiawan
|[https://www.artstation.com/liesetiawan]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/liesetiawan]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/ls_setiawan/media]
|[https://cara.app/liesetiawan/all]
|[https://www.liesetiawan.com/projects]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/liesetiawan.bsky.social]
|-
|Mandy Jurgens
|[https://www.artstation.com/aliena85]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/saonserey]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/Aliena85/media]
|
|
|
|-
|Marta Nael
|[https://www.artstation.com/martanael]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/martanael]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/MartaNael/media]
|
|[https://www.martanael.com/projects]
|[https://bsky.app/profile/martanael.bsky.social]
|-
|Miguel Mercado
|[https://www.artstation.com/merkymerx]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/merkymerx]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/merkymerx/media]
|
|
|
|-
|Miklós Ligeti
|[https://www.artstation.com/miklosligeti]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/ligeti.miklos_art/]
|
|[https://cara.app/miklosligeti/all]
|[https://miklosligeti.com/albums/2629396]
|
|-
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|[https://www.artstation.com/bukandewa]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/narendrabintaraadi]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/narendrabadi/media]
|[https://cara.app/narendrabintaraadi/all]
|
|
|-
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|[https://www.artstation.com/nezt]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/nestor_ossandon]
|
|
|
|
|-
|Piotr Dura
|[https://www.artstation.com/threedee]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/piotr_dura]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/PiotrDuraArt/media]
|
|
|
|-
|Syd Mills
|
|[https://flufi.me/profile/vetyyr]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/vetyyr/media]
|
|
|[https://bsky.app/profile/vetyyr.bsky.social]
|-
|Thanh Tuấn
|[https://www.artstation.com/pencillien]
|
|[https://nitter.poast.org/ThanhTuan613/media]
|
|
|
|-
|Torgeir Fjereide
|[https://www.artstation.com/torgeirfjereide]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/thebrushofthor]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/TheBrushOfThor/media]
|
|[https://www.thebrushofthor.com/magic-the-gathering]
|
|-
|Wangjie Li
|[https://www.artstation.com/wangjieli]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/wangjie_li]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/wangjiel/media]
|
|[http://www.wangjieli.com/]
|
|-
|Wei Guan
|[https://www.artstation.com/gworld]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/guanwei90]
|
|[https://cara.app/guanweiart/all]
|
|
|}
 
===Full art gallery prep===
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==Cards==
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MTG ACR - The Capitoline Triad full art.jpg|The Capitoline Triad by Syd Mills
MTG ACR - Caduceus Staff of Hermes full art.jpg|Caduceus, Staff of Hermes by Evan Shipard
MTG ACR - Distract the Guards full art.jpg|Distract the Guards by Torgeir Fjereide
MTG ACR - Fall of the First Civilization full art.jpg|Fall of the First Civilization by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Haystack full art.jpg|Haystack by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - Hookblade full art.jpg|Hookblade by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Layla Hassan full art.jpg|Layla Hassan by Michael MacRae
MTG ACR - Senu Keen-Eyed Protector full art.jpg|Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector by Michael MacRae
MTG ACR - Tax Collector full art.jpg|Tax Collector by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Templar Knight full art.jpg|Templar Knight by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - What Must Be Done full art.jpg|What Must Be Done by Syd Mills
MTG ACR - Assassin Gauntlet full art.jpg|Assassin Gauntlet by Paulius Daščioras
MTG ACR - Ballad of the Black Flag full art.jpg|Ballad of the Black Flag by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Become Anonymous full art.jpg|Become Anonymous by Alice Xia Zhang
MTG ACR - Crystal Skull Isu Spyglass full art.jpg|Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Desynchronization full art.jpg|Desynchronization by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Eagle Vision full art.jpg|Eagle Vision by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Escape Detection full art.jpg|Escape Detection by Justyna Dura
MTG ACR - Evie Frye full art.jpg|Evie Frye by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Leonardo da Vinci full art.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Loyal Inventor full art.jpg|Loyal Inventor by Gintas Galvanauskas
MTG ACR - Assassin Initiate full art.jpg|Assassin Initiate by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Chain Assassination full art.jpg|Chain Assassination by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Desmond Miles full art.jpg|Desmond Miles by Julia Vasilyeva
MTG ACR - Ezio Auditore da Firenze full art.jpg|Ezio Auditore da Firenze by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Hemlock Vial full art.jpg|Hemlock Vial by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Jacob Frye full art.jpg|Jacob Frye by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Petty Larceny full art.jpg|Petty Larceny by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Phantom Blade full art.jpg|Phantom Blade by Craig J Spearing
MTG ACR - Restart Sequence full art.jpg|Restart Sequence by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - The Revelations of Ezio full art.jpg|The Revelations of Ezio by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Roshan Hidden Magister full art.jpg|Roshan, Hidden Magister by Marta Nael
MTG ACR - Alexios Deimos of Kosmos full art.jpg|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos by Bartek Fedyczak
MTG ACR - Hidden Footblade full art.jpg|Hidden Footblade by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Monastery Raid full art.jpg|Monastery Raid by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Origin of the Hidden Ones full art.jpg|Origin of the Hidden Ones by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Overpowering Attack full art.jpg|Overpowering Attack by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - The Spear of Leonidas full art.jpg|The Spear of Leonidas by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - The Aesir Escape Valhalla full art.jpg|The Aesir Escape Valhalla by Allen Morris
MTG ACR - Aveline de Grandpré full art.jpg|Aveline de Grandpré by Aurore Folny
MTG ACR - Hunter's Bow full art.jpg|Hunter's Bow by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Palazzo Archers full art.jpg|Palazzo Archers by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Viewpoint Synchronization full art.jpg|Viewpoint Synchronization by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Adéwalé Breaker of Chains full art.jpg|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains by Justyna Dura
MTG ACR - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad full art.jpg|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad by Axel Sauerwald
MTG ACR - Arbaaz Mir full art.jpg|Arbaaz Mir by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Arno Dorian full art.jpg|Arno Dorian by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Aya of Alexandria full art.jpg|Aya of Alexandria by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Basim Ibn Ishaq full art.jpg|Basim Ibn Ishaq by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Bayek of Siwa full art.jpg|Bayek of Siwa by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Bleeding Effect full art.jpg|Bleeding Effect by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Cleopatra Exiled Pharaoh full art.jpg|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Edward Kenway full art.jpg|Edward Kenway by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Eivor Wolf-Kissed full art.jpg|Eivor, Wolf-Kissed by Justyna Dura
MTG ACR - Ezio Brash Novice full art.jpg|Ezio, Brash Novice by Elizabeth Peiró
MTG ACR - Havi the All-Father full art.jpg|Havi, the All-Father by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Haytham Kenway full art.jpg|Haytham Kenway by Vilhelmas Banys
MTG ACR - Jackdaw full art.jpg|Jackdaw by Evan Shipard
MTG ACR - Kassandra Eagle Bearer full art.jpg|Kassandra, Eagle Bearer by Anna Steinbauer
MTG ACR - Lydia Frye full art.jpg|Lydia Frye by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Mary Read and Anne Bonny full art.jpg|Mary Read and Anne Bonny by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Ratonhnhaké꞉ton full art.jpg|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton by Greg Staples
MTG ACR - Shao Jun full art.jpg|Shao Jun by Stephen Stark
MTG ACR - Shaun and Rebecca Agents full art.jpg|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents by Gintas Galvanauskas
MTG ACR - Shay Cormac full art.jpg|Shay Cormac by Axel Sauerwald
MTG ACR - Sigurd Jarl of Ravensthorpe full art.jpg|Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe by Alexander Gering
MTG ACR - Sokrates Athenian Teacher full art.jpg|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher by Alice Xia Zhang
MTG ACR - Adrestia full art.jpg|Adrestia by Mintautas Šukys
MTG ACR - The Animus full art.jpg|The Animus by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Apple of Eden Isu Relic full art.jpg|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Regalia full art.jpg|Brotherhood Regalia by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - Excalibur Sword of Eden full art.jpg|Excalibur, Sword of Eden by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Hidden Blade full art.jpg|Hidden Blade by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Mjölnir Storm Hammer full art.jpg|Mjölnir, Storm Hammer by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Smoke Bomb full art.jpg|Smoke Bomb by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Staff of Eden Vault's Key full art.jpg|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Towering Viewpoint full art.jpg|Towering Viewpoint by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Yggdrasil Rebirth Engine full art.jpg|Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine by Rytis Sabaliauskas
MTG ACR - Abstergo Entertainment full art.jpg|Abstergo Entertainment by Alexander Gering
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Headquarters full art.jpg|Brotherhood Headquarters by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Path to Exile full art.jpg|Path to Exile by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Reconnaissance full art.jpg|Reconnaissance by Mandy Jurgens
MTG ACR - Rest in Peace full art.jpg|Rest in Peace by Rimas Valeikis
MTG ACR - Coastal Piracy full art.jpg|Coastal Piracy by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Propaganda full art.jpg|Propaganda by Erikas Perl
MTG ACR - Temporal Trespass full art.jpg|Temporal Trespass by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Black Market Connections full art.jpg|Black Market Connections by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Conspiracy full art.jpg|Conspiracy by Allen Morris
MTG ACR - Cover of Darkness full art.jpg|Cover of Darkness by Paulius Daščioras
MTG ACR - Fatal Push full art.jpg|Fatal Push by Lie Setiawan
MTG ACR - Go for the Throat full art.jpg|Go for the Throat by Torgeir Fjereide
MTG ACR - Murder full art.jpg|Murder by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Royal Assassin full art.jpg|Royal Assassin by Vilhelmas Banys
MTG ACR - Cathartic Reunion full art.jpg|Cathartic Reunion by Syd Mills
MTG ACR - Assassin's Trophy full art.jpg|Assassin's Trophy by Erikas Perl
MTG ACR - Mortify full art.jpg|Mortify by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Reconstruct History full art.jpg|Reconstruct History by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Terminate full art.jpg|Terminate by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Sword of Feast and Famine full art.jpg|Sword of Feast and Famine by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Sword of Light and Shadow full art.jpg|Sword of Light and Shadow by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Plains full art.jpg|Plains by Bruce Brenneise
MTG ACR - Plains full art 2.jpg|Plains by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Island full art.jpg|Island by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Island full art 2.jpg|Island by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Swamp full art.jpg|Swamp by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Swamp full art 2.jpg|Swamp by Wangjie Li
MTG ACR - Mountain full art.jpg|Mountain by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Mountain full art 2.jpg|Mountain by Jeremy Paillotin
MTG ACR - Forest full art.jpg|Forest by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Forest full art 2.jpg|Forest by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Connecting cards full art.jpg|Art for cards 111 to 116 by Alexander Gering
MTG ACR - The Capitoline Triad full art 2.jpg|The Capitoline Triad by John Stanko
MTG ACR - Leonardo da Vinci full art 2.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Cleopatra Exiled Pharaoh full art 2.jpg|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Mary Read and Anne Bonny full art 2.jpg|Mary Read and Anne Bonny by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Sokrates Athenian Teacher full art 2.jpg|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher by JB Casacop
MTG ACR - Apple of Eden Isu Relic full art 2.jpg|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Staff of Eden Vault's Key full art 2.jpg|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Sword of Feast and Famine full art 2.jpg|Sword of Feast and Famine by Bruce Brenneise
MTG ACR - Sword of Light and Shadow full art 2.jpg|Sword of Light and Shadow by Bruce Brenneise
MTG ACR - Yggdrasil Rebirth Engine full art 2.jpg|Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine by Josu Solano
MTG ACR - Layla Hassan full art 2.jpg|Layla Hassan by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Senu Keen-Eyed Protector full art 2.jpg|Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Evie Frye full art 2.jpg|Evie Frye by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Desmond Miles full art 2.jpg|Desmond Miles by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Ezio Auditore da Firenze full art 2.jpg|Ezio Auditore da Firenze by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Jacob Frye full art 2.jpg|Jacob Frye by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Roshan Hidden Magister full art 2.jpg|Roshan, Hidden Magister by Astri Lohne
MTG ACR - Alexios Deimos of Kosmos full art 2.jpg|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Aveline de Grandpré full art 2.jpg|Aveline de Grandpré by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Adéwalé Breaker of Chains full art 2.jpg|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains by Miguel Mercado
MTG ACR - Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad full art 2.jpg|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Arbaaz Mir full art 2.jpg|Arbaaz Mir by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Arno Dorian full art 2.jpg|Arno Dorian by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Aya of Alexandria full art 2.jpg|Aya of Alexandria by Chase Stone
MTG ACR - Basim Ibn Ishaq full art 2.jpg|Basim Ibn Ishaq by Astri Lohne
MTG ACR - Bayek of Siwa full art 2.jpg|Bayek of Siwa by Miguel Mercado
MTG ACR - Edward Kenway full art 2.jpg|Edward Kenway by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Eivor Wolf-Kissed full art 2.jpg|Eivor, Wolf-Kissed by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Ezio Brash Novice full art 2.jpg|Ezio, Brash Novice by Luisa J. Preissler
MTG ACR - Havi the All-Father full art 2.jpg|Havi, the All-Father by John Stanko
MTG ACR - Haytham Kenway full art 2.jpg|Haytham Kenway by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Kassandra Eagle Bearer full art 2.jpg|Kassandra, Eagle Bearer by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Lydia Frye full art 2.jpg|Lydia Frye by Bastien L. Deharme
MTG ACR - Ratonhnhaké꞉ton full art 2.jpg|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Shao Jun full art 2.jpg|Shao Jun by Andreia Ugrai
MTG ACR - Shaun & Rebecca Agents full art 2.jpg|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents by John Stanko
MTG ACR - Shay Cormac full art 2.jpg|Shay Cormac by Alex Negrea
MTG ACR - Sigurd Jarl of Ravensthorpe full art 2.jpg|Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe by Jessie Lam
MTG ACR - Eivor Battle-Ready full art.jpg|Eivor, Battle-Ready by Fajareka Setiawan
MTG ACR - Ezio Blade of Vengeance full art.jpg|Ezio, Blade of Vengeance by Jake Murray
MTG ACR - Battlefield Improvisation full art.jpg|Battlefield Improvisation by Mintautas Šukys
MTG ACR - Detained by Legionnaires full art.jpg|Detained by Legionnaires by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Escarpment Fortress full art.jpg|Escarpment Fortress by Vaigintas Pakenis
MTG ACR - Keen-Eyed Raven full art.jpg|Keen-Eyed Raven by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Settlement Blacksmith full art.jpg|Settlement Blacksmith by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Assassin Den full art.jpg|Assassin Den by Jurijus Chitrovas
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Spy full art.jpg|Brotherhood Spy by Jurijus Chitrovas
MTG ACR - Hookblade Veteran full art.jpg|Hookblade Veteran by Borja Pindado
MTG ACR - Tranquilize full art.jpg|Tranquilize by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Ambushers full art.jpg|Brotherhood Ambushers by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Brotherhood Patriarch full art.jpg|Brotherhood Patriarch by Néstor Ossandón Leal
MTG ACR - Merciless Harlequin full art.jpg|Merciless Harlequin by Lixin Yin
MTG ACR - Poison-Blade Mentor full art.jpg|Poison-Blade Mentor by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - Headsplitter full art.jpg|Headsplitter by L J Koh
MTG ACR - Labyrinth Adversary full art.png|Labyrinth Adversary by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG ACR - Misthios's Fury full art.jpg|Misthios's Fury by Allen Morris
MTG ACR - Spartan Veteran full art.jpg|Spartan Veteran by Bartek Fedyczak
MTG ACR - Surtr Fiery Jötun full art.jpg|Surtr, Fiery Jötun by Evan Shipard
MTG ACR - Achilles Davenport full art.jpg|Achilles Davenport by Josu Solano
MTG ACR - Auditore Ambush full art.jpg|Auditore Ambush by Julia Vasilyeva
MTG ACR - Bureau Headmaster full art.jpg|Bureau Headmaster by Thanh Tuấn
MTG ACR - Raven Clan War-Axe full art.jpg|Raven Clan War-Axe by Kim Sokol
MTG ACR - Rooftop Bypass full art.jpg|Rooftop Bypass by Pablo Mendoza
MTG ACR - Hired Blade full art.jpg|Hired Blade by Elizabeth Peiró
MTG ACR - Stone Quarry full art.jpg|Stone Quarry by Piotr Dura
MTG ACR - Submerged Boneyard full art.jpg|Submerged Boneyard by Alexandre Honoré
MTG ACR - Royal Assassin full art 2.jpg|Royal Assassin by Wei Guan
MTG ACR - Hidden Blade full art 2.jpg|Hidden Blade by Evyn Fong
MTG ACR - Copy full art.jpg|Copy by Miklós Ligeti
MTG ACR - Shapeshifter full art.jpg|Shapeshifter by Filipe Pagliuso
MTG ACR - Human Rogue full art.jpg|Human Rogue by Elizabeth Peiró
MTG ACR - Assassin full art.jpg|Assassin by Rimas Valeikis
MTG ACR - Phobos full art.jpg|Phobos by Daniel Correia
MTG ACR - Treasure full art.jpg|Treasure by Xabi Gaztelua
MTG ACR - A Mysterious Creature full art.jpg|A Mysterious Creature by Allen Morris
</gallery>
 
==Lethal Legends==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center">
MTG SLD - Eivor Raven Clan Champion full art.jpg|Eivor, Raven Clan Champion by Clint Cearley & Diana Cearley
MTG SLD - Altaïr Brotherhood Mentor full art.jpg|Altaïr, Brotherhood Mentor by Dan Watson
MTG SLD - Amunet Tyrants' End full art.jpg|Amunet, Tyrants' End by Narendra Bintara Adi
MTG SLD - Basim Master Assassin full art.jpg|Basim, Master Assassin by Zezhou Chen
MTG SLD - Edward Jackdaw Captain full art.jpg|Edward, Jackdaw Captain by Fajareka Setiawan
</gallery>
 
==Da Vinci's Designs==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center">
MTG SLD - Blade of Selves full art.jpg|Blade of Selves by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Conqueror's Flail full art.jpg|Conqueror's Flail by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Darksteel Plate full art.jpg|Darksteel Plate by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Deathrender full art.jpg|Deathrender by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Haystack full art.jpg|Haystack by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
MTG SLD - Whispersilk Cloak full art.jpg|Whispersilk Cloak by Miklós Ligeti & AndWorld Design
</gallery>
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==Echoes of Shadows==
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==Locations==
===[[Iga]]===
Iga is a small province surrounded by mountains in central Japan. It's just a little bit to the southeast of the capital of Kyoto. It's surrounded by the lands of Nobunaga and those loyal to him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
 
And what are the main factors that lead up to kind of open war with Iga? Like I said, there's that independence that isn't particularly endearing to Nobunaga. He wants everything under his control, but they're not really necessarily a threat militarily, per se, to him. So for most of the time that he's establishing his hegemony, he is concentrated elsewhere. Iga at this time is ruled by an independent league or ikki that did not recognize any daimyo's hegemony and even gone so far as to expel the military governor of the province that had been appointed by the Ashkaga.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
it's ringed by mountains. It's very mountainous internally as well, but there's a ring of mountains around it that prevents easy access to it. It's very easily defensible. And there's six main passes, several on the eastern side, a couple into the north and then a couple on the western side through which if you're going to bring an army, you have to go through one of those passes in order to get there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
One of the things that the Iga warriors did was often hire themselves out as contractors to other entities would be they temples or be they other daimyo factions and whatever. So in the 1540s, we have reports of Igamono or men of Iga being hired to do things like espionage or sabotage of the enemy castles. [...] And they are capable militarily. Many of them are experienced hunters and trackers through the mountains. They have the kind of outdoor living skills we might attribute to military specialties of today like commandos or something like that. So while they weren't necessarily trying to take over control, they did also have a military presence outside of their province because they could be hired or requested to assist with campaigns elsewhere.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
It is now a domain administered by one of Nobunaga's retainers. It would go on to be a domain held by a Daimyo underneath the Edo Period shogun of the Tokukawa.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
===[[Nagasaki]]===
he discovered that Nagasaki had been raised up into this great port by the Jesuits who had effectively been given Nagasaki by a local warlord so the extraordinary influence that a foreign power preaching of foreign religion had in Kyushu I think upset Hideyoshi very much<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
in the end anyway the Japanese will only deal when we're thinking about European powers with the Dutch and only at this little artificial island called Dejima just a few feet worth of wooden bridge off the coast of Nagasaki<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
Gaspar Vilela is one who stands out. He was a very keen propagator of the Christian faith, and he could convert some warlords to Christianity. One of them was Omura Sumitada, who eventually would give a port to the Jesuits, which was called Nagasaki.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>


Once he had grown up, Zeus managed to free his brothers and
===[[Kyoto]]===
sisters and make them his allies. The following war between
So Kyoto is the absolute heart of Japan, it's exactly in the middle. And geomantically, let's go to geomantics, it's a perfectly placed to be the capital city, which is what it was for a thousand years. It's got mountains behind it on three sides, it's got the sea in front, it's got two rivers running through, it fulfils all the necessary requirements of Feng Shui to be the perfect place for capital<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
Olympians and Titans for the supremacy of the universe is
called the Titanomachy. Zeus also freed the Cyclopes who
created the thunderbolt for him.


Zeus and his allies won the war and imprisoned the Titans in
it was created as capital city. Emperor Kamu, who was the greatest emperor in Japanese history, he was the Charlemagne of Japan. And before his time, the capital had been in Nara, but it was kind of taken over by the Buddhist priests. [...] There were all sorts of scandals to do with these Buddhist clergy. And then he, Emperor Kamu, founded a capital in Nagoka, which is near Nara. And that one, there was an uprising, people got killed, there were ghosts, obviously not going to be any good as the capital. So he then set out on a supposed hunting trip with his geomancers to find the perfect place. People were not particularly concerned with practical considerations, they were concerned with where it would be auspicious. And so he settled on Kyoto as the place to be his capital. And he then had it built, and that was an enormous job to build it. And it was in 794 that he was an enormous entourage of his attendants and his army and everybody else arrived by Palanquin in Kyoto, in the Imperial Palace there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
Tartaros. The Titan Atlas received another punishment as he
was ordered to hold up the sky. Zeus became king of the gods,
and thus began the age of the Olympians.
|-|Forts=
(Behind the scenes)


Hilltop forts formed the main line of defense against the
And there were many great Zen prelates who set themselves up in Kyoto. So if you go to Kyoto, it's absolutely full of Zen temples and other temples too, but I would say primarily Zen temples. The Zen priests had it linked with China and they were able to facilitate trade with China, to bring back ideas, bring back goods. So the Zen church became very wealthy as well as being very influential.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
invading armies. They are built of stone packed around
wooden frames as demonstrated in the fort at the bottom of
the page, created by Michael Guimont. It's up to the Hero to
infiltrate these to bring them down from the inside, allowing
the army to advance, as shown in concept art by Caroline
Soucy (far right). But these are not simple structures, as
Benjamin Hall explains, “Forts are some of the most complex
challenges design wise. These locations need to offer
something different for the player from both a visual and
gameplay point of view."
|-|The Bouleuterion of Olympia=
The Bouleuterion of Olympia was one of the first buildings
constructed in the site.


The council of Olympia met in the Bouleuterion to discuss
These two lords, I think it was the Hashimoto's and the Yamunas, have been itching to fight for a long time, and they fought for 10 years. It's said that they destroyed the whole of Kyoto. That's not quite true. They destroyed the upper class part of Kyoto. So 10 years of fighting included looting, arson, and all these other things. But this mainly happened. This was the temples. This was the palaces. That lot got destroyed. Meanwhile, the shogun who lived at that point was a guy called Yoshimasa, who was living during the end of the 15th century. And he retired. He was very interested in the arts, and he was not remotely interested in fighting. And he kept well out of this fighting. And he went off to the east of the city, and there he built a fabulous pavilion, the silver pavilion. And there he carried on having a life of leisure and art with his friends. While all this was going on in Kyoto, his pavilion was facing away from the city, so it didn't have to see it was burning. And it was facing towards the lovely mountains on the east. And he was, again, an amazing patron of the arts. And under him, ink painting flourished, pottery flourished, every possible art form. Oh, linked verse became very important. So the war came to an end.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
matters regarding the sanctuary. They appointed priests,
arbitrated conflicts between athletes and hellanodikai
(judges), and decided which victors to erect statues for, as
well as where to put them.


The Bouleuterion also housed archives of records from
The part of the city that had not burnt down was the part where the merchants and the artisans were, because they were poor chaps. And so nobody bothered with looting them, but they weren't that poor. So they were actually supplying and selling stuff to both sides in this war and getting richer. And the end of the Onin war, this is the Onin war, everything had sort of fallen apart, because Kyoto was in such a state of devastation.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
previous Olympiads, in addition to the statue of Zeus Horkios,
in front of which athletes and trainers swore their Olympic
oath.
|-|The Foundations and Origins of the Sanctuary=
The sanctuary is very ancient. Its use goes back to the third
millennium BCE. At first, it was only a sacred forest. From
about 1000 BCE onward, a cult of Zeus developed on the site
of Olympia.


The traditional date of the first Olympic festival is 776 BCE,
So it didn't take as long as it would have taken to rebuild London, to rebuild Kyoto. It didn't take that long. So it could be rebuilt pretty quickly. And it happened again and again in the history of Kyoto, and also in the history of Edo, which was the city that later became Tokyo. Time and time again they were burnt down. So Kyoto was back on its feet quite quickly, but it was just known to be the capital. The name Kyoto means capital city.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
which is also the date of the first recorded winner of the
Games: Koroibos of Elis, who won the stadion race.


The Olympic Games have their origins in ritual funeral games.
So in the Heian period, it was laid out on a grid. Like a chessboard with equal sized square areas. And then it had long boulevards going down the middle. It had small lanes going off to the sides. It had the Emperor's Palace up at the top with beautiful green roofs, red columns. Very spectacular. You could see the Emperor's Palace wherever you were.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
Funeral games were held to honor the deceased, and might
have celebrated civic heroes or private individuals.


In “The Iliad”, Homer related that Achilles held games for his
Hideyoshi sort of basically laid out Kyoto as it is now. He cut those squares in half. So you have rectangular blocks rather than square blocks. He also built a wall around the outside of the city, which isn't there anymore, but he had that built. He also built these glorious palaces. So you would have very glorious palaces on the main boulevards, which again are still always in like a chess board laid out like a grid. And you'd also have glorious temples, probably not radically different in appearance from glorious palaces. And then you'd have the whole merchant's area, which would be tiny little lanes of small dark houses with bamboo blinds outside, very nice houses, which still exist. If you go to Kyoto, you can go down these little lanes. They're so thin that you have to walk down or you just go down on a bicycle or something. They're sort of dark wood houses, steep, steep stairs, several floors. I think they're called eel lanes because they're like eels. They're kind of long and thin like eels. And then you could see from the streets of Kyoto, you could see the mountains to the east, which is where Yoshimasa was looking when Kyoto was burning down behind him. You could see the mountains to the north. You could see the mountain to the northwest, which is always the unlucky direction, where there was a huge complex of temples on the top and still is. And you could also see Arashiyama to the west, which is where the Flying Dragon Temple was and lots of other beautiful temples and bamboo crows. So you always could see those all around.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
friend Patroklos who died in the Trojan War. It is the most
ancient mention of this ritual, but they are attested to well into
the Hellenistic period.


Brasidas, the Spartan general, died in the battle of Amphipolis
Then you have down one side of the city is the River Kamo. And you've got the River Kamo dividing the city from the eastern mountains. And at the foot of the eastern mountain is an area of flat land, which became a big area of carnival. So if you wanted to have fun, you go there. So when you're having a respectable life and your wife and your family and everything else are there, you stay away from the mountains. But you could also cross the bridge to this area of carnival where there would be some more wrestling. There'd be jugglers, there'd be theater, and there would be ladies of pleasure, lots of ladies of pleasure.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
during the Peloponnesian War. He was honored as the new
founder of the city, and funeral games were organized and
became an annual event.
|-|The Olympic Heritage=
The modern Olympics were inspired by the ancient Games of
Olympia. A French nobleman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was
convinced of the parallel importance of the development of
mind and body, and he saw this ideal in ancient Greek culture.
He had the idea to revive the Games, and started to promote
this notion. At this time, excavations had begun at the original
site of Olympia. The ancient site was rediscovered in 1766 by
Richard Chandler, an English antiquarian, but the first
excavation was carried out in 1829.


The excavation reports inspired de Coubertin, who became
And at various times, as you're within Hideyoshi's reign, a particular man whose name was Saburoemon Hara, he said to Hideyoshi, why don't I gather together these ladies of pleasure? Who are a little bit chaotic because it's good to have a bit of order. There's no issue with morality about this, it's to do with orderliness. So he gathered them into particular places which became pleasure quarters, which of course were number one, there was a wall around them, so you could keep an eye on what went on because there were bad guys that went there as well as good guys. Number two, you could tax them. And so these became very famous pleasure quarters. There's one in Kyoto [Shimabara, Kyoto], there's very famous one in Edo, which is now Tokyo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
obsessed with the athletic ideal of Olympia, which he thought
would inspire competitiveness and team spirit amongst
nations.


The first modern games were held in 1896 in Athens.
So Kyoto somehow had a resurgence. It was also the center of the geisha, which is quite important, actually. It re-created itself as a center of traditional culture. So Tokyo is a big modern city. And as you know, Kyoto did not get bombed in World War II because it's such a center of traditional culture. It's got so much. And also it's not entirely, but it's largely a wooden city. And there was also a law was passed, which again, I think has been broken. But there are laws about the height of buildings you can build in Kyoto. You're not supposed to build very tall buildings. So it's mainly a low rise city.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
|-|Alkibiades at Olympia=
Athletes were primarily from the upper class. They had to be
rich to afford the expenses of training and their participation
in the Games. Alkibiades, an aristocrat from an eminent
family, was one of these very wealthy athletes.


His preference was for horse races - these events were
And then in Kyoto, there is an Emperor and has been residing all the time. So the Kyoto people like residents will be more aware of what's happening around the courtiers and so on. [...] And then medieval Japan as well, this Kamakura headquarters of the samurai has been moved and taken by a different family. And the samurai headquarters became the Kyoto as well. So in Kyoto, the dual structure of this courtiers and Emperor's house and the Shogunate. So the Kyoto people will be really subject to what political moves are. But other people like say around outside of Kyoto, they will be happily living in their regions and then they will have those like farming going on and they will have rather stable time so they could enjoy.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 08">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 8: How To Fit In: Feudal Japan</ref>
reserved for the wealthiest participants. A good illustration of
his financial power was during the Olympic Games of 416 BCE.
He participated with a whopping seven chariots in the
quadriga race, and won first, second, and fourth place.


He was the first to ever enroll this many chariots in one race,
===[[Nara]]===
and in the context of the Peloponnesian War, this was a
And before his time, the capital had been in Nara, but it was kind of taken over by the Buddhist priests. [...] There were all sorts of scandals to do with these Buddhist clergy. And then he, Emperor Kanmu, founded a capital in Nagoka, which is near Nara.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
demonstration that Athens was still powerful. Alkibiades
increased that impression with a magnificent feast, and even
used official Athenian gold and silver plates for the occasion.
|-|Orating Contests=
Though not part of the official competition, the first day ofthe
Olympic festival featured recitals and teachings from poets
and philosophers.


Because Olympia was a public space, it provided these orators
There were the different sects of Buddhism arrived in Japan at different times. And the first sect grew up in Nara, as I said, and caused trouble. And that stayed in Nara. The whole point was to leave those priests behind in Nara and move to Kyoto.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
an excellent opportunity to earn the ear of wealthy aristocrats
with the goal of turning them into future patrons.


Oral tradition was so important in ancient Greece that some
===[[Tokyo]]===
Panhellenic festivals - like the Pythian Games in Delphi -
So it didn't take as long as it would have taken to rebuild London, to rebuild Kyoto. It didn't take that long. So it could be rebuilt pretty quickly. And it happened again and again in the history of Kyoto, and also in the history of Edo, which was the city that later became Tokyo. Time and time again they were burnt down. So Kyoto was back on its feet quite quickly, but it was just known to be the capital. The name Kyoto means capital city.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
included orating contests as part of the official program.
|-|Elis Coinage and Banner=
Elis is most famous for its sanctuary of Olympia where the
Olympics were held. The main divinity of the sanctuary was
Zeus; its main temple was dedicated to him, and housed the
famous gold and ivory statue of Zeus made by Phidias.


Zeus was known as the king of gods and god of thunder. One
And so they [Imperial side of Boshin War] marched up, they took Edo castle. And in 1868, the then emperor [Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji] who was 14, I think, or 16, he was a teenager, marched or didn't march. He was carried by Palanquin, top with a Phoenix, up to Edo and into Edo castle, which became the imperial palace and Edo became Tokyo, which is the eastern capital. So therefore, Kyoto was no longer the capital at all. It was no longer the official capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
of his attributes was the thunderbolt, which was given to him
by the Cyclopes.


The coinage of Elis is associated with Olympia, and Zeus is
==Timeline==
often depicted on the coins. They sometimes feature a head of
===[[Tenshō Iga War]] [1579-1581]===
Zeus, but he's also commonly represented by his thunderbolt
We're at the end of the Sengoku period where Oda Nobunaga is in charge and extending his influence across the land. Specifically the conflict takes place with one invasion in 1579 and then another invasion in 1581.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
- which served as the model for the region's banner - or his
signifying animal, the eagle.
|-|Organization=
Until up to 584 - 580 BCE, the Olympic Games were organized
by the Oxylides, an aristocratic family from the city of Elis.


Over time, however, the family seemingly died out, and the
And what are the main factors that lead up to kind of open war with Iga? Like I said, there's that independence that isn't particularly endearing to Nobunaga. He wants everything under his control, but they're not really necessarily a threat militarily, per se, to him. So for most of the time that he's establishing his hegemony, he is concentrated elsewhere. Iga at this time is ruled by an independent league or ikki that did not recognize any daimyo's hegemony and even gone so far as to expel the military governor of the province that had been appointed by the Ashkaga.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
responsibility of organizing the Games passed on to other
members of the Elaian aristocracy who were chosen
randomtly by lot.


The first organizers of the games were originally called
Oda Nobukatsu, was in charge of the province next to it and was looking to kind of establish his own reputation, spread his wings a little bit. And so here we have Iga province next to him, a place where he can launch an invasion, take it over. It's small. How hard could it be, right? Be an easy victory. And it turns out not to be.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
agonothetai - literally “those who held the games” - but their
name was eventually changed to hellanodikai.
|-|Heroic Cults=
Ancient Greek heroes were viewed as intermediates between
gods and men. Consequently, hero-cults were a distinctive
feature of Greek religion.


Most heroes originated from heroic epics, such as Pelops in
Nobukatsu, Nobunaga's second son, takes that [Iga's expulsion of their military governor] as an excuse of, oh, see, they're not observing the proper order of things. They're not part of the structure. So he decides of his own accord that he's going to expand his domain into Iga without permission from his father. Part of this is ego driven. He wants to prove to his father that he can operate on his own and so forth. So in 1578, he dispatches one of his generals, man by the name of Takigawa Kazumasu, to build a castle just across the Iga border that they're going to use as a staging point for a future invasion. Well, the warriors of Iga are alerted to this and realize what this means. So they decide to attack and destroy it, which they do in November of 1578. Takigawa is taken completely by surprise. The castle is burned. Takigawa and his small force is forced to retreat. Obviously, they cease work on the castle and retreat back to Issei after losing a second battle where they tried to retake the ground.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
Olympia, but this quality was not always necessary. For
example, Erechtheus of Athens had a local hero-cult without
ties to an epic. On some occasions, extraordinary humans -
such as the founders of cities - could also become the objects
of a cult, like Brasidas in Amphipolis.


Hero-shrines, or heroons, were often constructed around the
So the following year in October, he decides he's going to launch a much larger invasion. So he gathers around a little over 10,000 men and invades Iga Province through three of those passes that I mentioned. In his main body, he has 8,000 men going through the northernmost pass at Nagano. And then he has a group of 1,500 men through one pass and 1,300 through another pass, these two passes to the south. But again, the Iga forces, speaking to their ability to collect intelligence and know what the enemy is doing, are ready and waiting at these narrow sites to ambush Nobukatsu's forces, which they do. They use their skill in guerrilla tactics and their local knowledge of the terrain. They inflict heavy losses against Nobukatsu's forces, again forcing him to retreat in a humiliating defeat.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
hero's real for suspected) tombs.


One exception amongst hero-cults was the cult of Herakles.
But in 1581, he comes back and we have the main invasion of the Tenshō Iga War. [...] The key moment of failure is when Nobunaga decides to get serious and invade Iga with more of a plan than his son had.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
Herakles was considered as much as god as hero, and his cult
was widespread. There were many large sanctuaries
dedicated to the demigod, such as the Herakleion in Thasos,
where he was viewed as one of the city's protectors.
|-|Legendary Victors=
Some athtetes achieved a level of fame that bordered on
mythical. The wrestler Milon of Kroton was one of them. In the
éth century BCE, he won events in every Panhellenic Game,
granting him the rare privilege of the title of periodonikes. He
won six victories in Olympia, in addition to several other titles
in the Panhellenic Games of Delphi, Nemea, and Isthmos.


He was appointed general by his city, and led an army during
It was not a protracted war once Nobunaga decided to invade. Even Nobukatsu's invasion only lasted a day before he was turned back. The second larger invasion of 1581 lasts nine days. So unlike this, you know, protracted guerrilla war that we might have in our minds, it was really a quick invasion by Nobunaga quickly taking a couple of castles, receiving their submission and then everybody moves on with their lives.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
the war between Kroton and Sybaris. In the battle that Led to
the destruction of Sybaris, Milon dressed like Herakles,
wearing a lion-skin and carrying a club.


Milon's strength was Legendary. He is reported to have carried
To go into like the details, Nobunaga invades September 30th and it's a much larger scale different reports of the war, say he had somewhere between 40,000 or 60,000 troops. And the key that he really does is not only numbers, but it's the fact that he owns all the territory surrounding Iga. So he's able to send army forces that are equivalent largely to the size of the force that his son had, right, in 1579. But he can send that from six different sides. And this means that the Iga ikki cannot concentrate their forces to prevent any of these invasions coming in from any one pass. Whereas, you know, in 1579, they only defend three passes from one direction. Now it's six passes coming from all directions, including their neighbors to the north in Koka.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
his own bronze statue to its place in Olympia. However, he
was not invincible. When he participated in his seventh
Otympiad, he competed against a fellow from Kroton in the
final. Before combat started, the opponent bowed as a sign of
respect, then managed to defeat Milon. Even so, it is Milon's
name that history remembers.
|-|Women Victors=
Although women were not allowed to compete in the Olympic
Games, it was still possible for them to win the equestrian
events. This is because horse and chariot races awarded not
the jockeys or chariot drivers, but the owner of the horses.


The first woman to participate in (and win) one of these races
So had the assistance of the Koka specialists in guerrilla operations and warfare to advise and assist him. And this is probably where we get a lot of the imagery of this rivalry between Iga and Koka because Koka did assist Nobunaga in his invasion. He also allegedly had some Iga members who offered to him to help show him through the passes and give him that advantage.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
was the Spartan princess Kyniska. She won events both in 396
BCE, and in the following Olympiad, and her victories made
her world-famous. She even erected a statue of herself and
her horses in Olympia. After her death, she was made a hero
in Sparta, and a shrine was builtin her honor.


Following Kyniska, other women like Euryleonis of Sparta,
Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
Berenike, queen of Egypt, Belistiche of Makedonia, and
Timareta of Elis also went on to win equestrian events.
|-|Modern Olympic Flame=
The modern concept of lighting of the Olympic Flame - a
practice started during the 1936 Games in Berlin - has its
roots in antiquity.


The carrying of the torch was at least partially inspired by the
===[[Honnō-ji incident]] [1582]===
lampadedromia, a relay-race that required runners to reach
By the time that he died in the 1580s as a result of treachery on the part of some of his own men, actually, he had controlled most of Japan's main island of Honshu and he was on the verge of going to its second biggest island, Kyushu, down south. He actually at that point looked unstoppable.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 01">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 1: Civil War in Feudal Japan: The Sengoku Period</ref>
the finish line while holding a still-burning torch.


However, although the lLampadedromia was held at many
he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
religious festivals and sporting events, it was not an event in
the ancient Olympic Games.


Instead, the most important flame in Olympia was the sacred
so immediately he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi] rushes from where he's been fighting over to take care of the traitors and he brings the traitors head back to Kyoto to effectively lay at the feet of Oda Nobunaga's body to say here we are you know I've taken care of this for you and Hideyoshi really then becomes the inheritor I think of this project to try to unify Japan and his major next step one of the steps that Oda Nobunaga would have taken had he lived was to attack Kyushu<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
Fire of Hestia, which was used to light the sanctuary's altars
during the festival.
|-|Kladeos=
The Kladeos river borders the western side of Olympia. lts
name comes from the river-god Kladeos, who according to
Pausanias shared an altar with Demeter behind the
sanctuary's temple of Hera.


Originally, Olympia's gymnasion and baths were erected along
So Yasuke was there at Nobunaga's death. He possibly was the last person to see him alive. Nobunaga was killed in a coup d'etat, essentially. He was heading to the front with this small corps of men over which Yasuke was one, around 30 people. And one of his generals, basically, we still don't know to this day why, he brought his whole army of 13,000 and attacked. They were all gunned down, essentially. Nobunaga, with Yasuke and his lover, [Mori] Ranmaru, come into the middle of the temple where their last moments are held. The temple's on fire around them. And Nobunaga really is going to know what happened in that room because there's only three people and they all died, except for Yasuke. But we only know that Yasuke survived because the Jesuits recorded as such. We don't know what he saw, unfortunately. The normal legend goes Nobunaga cut his belly, Ranmarutook his head off as his second, and then one supposes that Ranmaru then cut his belly and Yasuke took off Ranmaru's head. And the supposed last order is Yasuke save my head. Yasuke runs with the head to Nobunaga's son, who is probably about five to ten minutes walk away, very close, in a different temple. So about to be attacked. Also just putting up the defenses for a last ditch stand. Of course, that doesn't last very long. He's dead within the hour or so. And all we know from the Jesuit source, there are no more Japanese sources, all we know from the Jesuit source is that Yasuke was there at the last. He was one of the few survivors. He was taken prisoner. He surrendered his sword. And he was then escorted to the Jesuit mission, which was again only five minutes walk away. This is a very small area of Kyoto where all this happens. The Jesuits give thanks to God for his deliverance.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
the river's banks, but part of the gymnasion was destroyed
when the river changed course in the 4th century CE.


The river's new trajectory - along with flooding from the
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
Alpheios river in the Middle Ages - buried Olympia in
approximately four meters of silt, and the site was only
rediscovered in the 19th century.
|-|Cult Personnel=
The cult personnel of Olympia was made up of priests who
fulfilled different sacred purposes.


Theêkoloi were responsible for the general organization of the
We don't really know why we don't really get any full explanation of Akechi's motives. There's lots of speculation that it had to do with resentment at court treatment by Nobunaga. One thing that we do know is that Akechi's mother had been killed by a rival clan where Akechi had given them his mother as a hostage, as insurance essentially against an attack. And Nobunaga superseded that and ordered the attack anyway. So they killed Akechi's mother. Other things are rumors that he was physically abusive and verbally abusive to Mitsuhide personally.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
cult, and performed sacrifices every month. They burned
incense mixed with grain kneaded in honey on the site's
different altars, and poured libations of wine.


Two soothsayers fulfilled the divining role previously hetd by
But for whatever reason, Akechi decides that this is his moment while Nobunaga is lightly guarded. He's certainly not expecting anybody to attack him in Kyoto. They surround Nobunaga's residence, set out on fire. Nobunaga and his guards fight back, but are eventually overwhelmed. Nobunaga commits suicide. And then his heir as well, who was also in Kyoto, is attacked by Akechi's forces and dies. So in one stroke, the Akechi have eliminated, basically decapitated the Oda family and thus ended Nobunaga's career.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
Olympia's Oracle of Zeus, and four spondophoroi worked as
libation bearers.


Meanwhile, exegetes were in charge of explaining Olympia's
He [Nobunaga] had a very dramatic and spectacular assassination by one of his own men. It's an amazing story, but that happened in Kyoto. He was in a temple where it was his land. He thought he was absolutely fine. He didn't have that many guards, and one of his own generals turned against him. So he was killed there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
rituals to foreigners who came to the sanctuary to sacrifice.
There was also a mageiros, who was something of a butcher
and cook. The mageiros killed the animal being sacrificed, cut
it, and cooked it so it could be served at a later banquet. The
very first Olympic winner, Koroibos of Elis, was a mageiros.
|-|The Gymnasion=
The main buildings where athletes trained were the
gymnasion and the palaistra.


In the gymnasion, athletes trained for races and pentathlon
===[[Imjin War]] [1592-1598]===
events. In the palaistra, they trained for wrestling and boxing.
Hideyoshi once he's taken Kyushu just a few years later launches invasions of Korea so he sends troops across including some of Christian warlords commanding them across to Korea wanting to use it almost as China's driveway if you think about the geography of it send these troops up through Korea take over the peninsula eventually invade and take over China and after that he also wanted to take over India as well<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
Wrestlers and boxers could train in the Korykeion room,
where a suspended leather bag full of sand [korykos] served
as a sort of punching bag.


All athletes competed and trained nude. The reason for the
his Korean campaign goes badly wrong in the 1590s the Chinese finally put some men in the field and they push the Japanese troops all the way back down the Korean peninsula so it doesn't go anywhere except for poisoning relations with Korea for a very long time to come<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
introduction of athletic nudity is not immediately clear. The
etymology of gymnasion pointed to nudity, as the Greek word
gymnos means “nude”. According to Thucydides, this
innovation came from Sparta. He says that Lakedaimonians
were the first to practice sports naked. Tradition says that
Acanthos of Sparta, who won the diaulos and the dolichos
races in the Olympic Games of 720 BCE, would have been the
first to do this.


But Pausanias had another version of the story. He tells that
And then Hideyoshi asked him [Gaspar Coelho], I want to invade Korea. Then you provide two Portuguese ships to help me in this invasion. And if I conquer Korea, I will make it that there are a lot of churches being built. So Koelyo said, yes, I will do that for you. And I will make sure that we have two Portuguese ships, the Karak ships, as they were called by the English, gigantic ships. So Hideyoshi could very well use them for his invasion in Korea. And then he went a step further and he said, I will make sure that the Christian warlords in Kyushu will also support you. And I think at that moment that Hideyoshi, that there was a ring bell in his head, that the Christians, the Jesuits had too much influence in Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
the first to run naked in Olympia was Orhippos of Megaris in
720 BCE. He supposedly did this believing that nudity would
help him run faster.
|-|Sounion Festivals=
Sounion held a festival every four years. While not much is
known about the specifics of the festival, it probably occurred
during the 5th century BCE, and was important enough for
officials to commandeer a ship specifically to travel to
Sounion for the occasion.


Sounion hosted sacrifices as well, as evidenced by a ramp
===[[Battle of Sekigahara]] [1600]===
leading through the central door meant to Lead animals to the
great battles in Japanese history the battle of Sekigahara which happens in 1600 so you've got a couple of nervous years or a bit less than that after the death of Hideyoshi this council in place but people are wondering really whether it will stick and what happens instead I think is you get the buildup of two sides that take the form in the end of an eastern and a western army and Tokugawa Ieyasu was at the head of the eastern army and in the autumn of Sekigahara he wins out and really everything goes to him and shortly afterwards he has himself appointed shogun<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
sanctuary. Fragments of Kouroi statues have also been found,
suggesting dedications were occasionally offered to the
sanctuary. However, when the first version of the temple was
destroyed by Persians, these dedications were probably
wrecked or stolen.


Fortunately, one large Kouros statue, probably from the 7th
he does this enormous reshuffling of territory in Japan I think it's the biggest reshuffling of territory in terms of who controls what in Japan's history so lots of the people who are on the losing side at the battle of Sekigahara either lose everything or their territory is drastically cut down or they're shipped off to another part of the country entirely perhaps all these things that are designed to damage their power<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
century BCE, has remained mostly intact. It's possible the
statue - which depicts a naked young man with long hair -
survived the destruction of the temple by being hidden from
the Persians during their invasion.
|-|Poseidon=
Poseidon was the god of horses, earthquakes, and most
famously, the sea. Not to be confused with Pontos, the ancient
Greek personification of the sea, Poseidon's name means
“Lord of the earth” or “husband of the earth”.


Poseidon's family tree includes his father Kronos, his mother
===[[Siege of Osaka]] [1614-1615]===
Rhea, and his brothers, Zeus and Hades. Together, Poseidon
Hideyori is still around and that really isn't taken care of until a very famous incident 1614 to 15 which is the siege of Osaka it's one of these events in Japanese history which is told and retold on the stage in books in films in art even where the forces of the Tokugawa and their allies gather around Osaka castle trying to do some kind of deal trying to force Hideyori and those around him to give up but in the end the siege turns bloody the castle is on fire and we have these famous scenes of Hideyori and his mother huddled together as everyone around them is burning up and dying so the siege of Osaka<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
and his brothers deposed Kronos, after which Poseidon was
granted the kingdom of the sea.


His weapon and symbol was the trident. According to Hesiod,
===[[Boshin War]] [1868-1869]===
much like Zeus's thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident was made
But towards the end [of the Tokugawa Shogunate], things were probably not as great as they might have been. Added to which the Tokugawas had ancient enemies and they had defeated them in the battle of Sekigahara. And those enemies were from the southwest, from the Kyushu area. From the sort of southwestern part of Honshu. And they wanted their revenge and they rose up. And with the help of the British, and they actually toppled the last of the Tokugawa Shoguns, who abdicated. And at that point, the southwestern lords took over. So they once again didn't have legitimacy, but they once again immediately said, oh, we represent the emperor. And that gave them legitimacy. But they decided in that 250 years, the Tokugawa's capital was not Kyoto. The official capital was Kyoto, but the Tokugawa city was Edo. So the center of policy, the center of government, the center of culture, more and more gravitated towards Edo. And so these southwestern lords decided that they would make the capital, not Kyoto, but Edo. And so they marched up, they took Edo castle. And in 1868, the then emperor [Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji] who was 14, I think, or 16, he was a teenager, marched or didn't march. He was carried by Palanquin, top with a Phoenix, up to Edo and into Edo castle, which became the imperial palace and Edo became Tokyo, which is the eastern capital. So therefore, Kyoto was no longer the capital at all. It was no longer the official capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
for him by three Cyclopes.
|-|Sounion=
Sounion is located approximately 70 kilometers south of
Athens, at the southern tip of the Attika region. Prehistoric
tombs in the area suggest that Sounion was first inhabited
around 3000 BCE.


The sanctuary of Poseidon stood at Sounion's highest point. It
==Groups==
was an imposing structure that overlooked the sea from steep
===[[Jesuits]]===
cliffs - Appropriate, for a place dedicated to the powerful god
And at the same time you had the Society of Jesus which started in 1540 and soon after the Papal Bull was ordained. Francis Xavier was a Jesuit and one of the founding members of the Jesuits. He was asked to travel to Asia to begin doing missionary work there. He was asked especially by King John III of Portugal because he was very keen on trying to get as many Asians adhering to the Christian religion.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
of the ocean.
|-|Athenians=
(Behind the scenes)


Concept artwork on this spread by Gabrield Blain and Fred
So he had a lot of expectations for Japan and in 1549 he finally set foot on Japan. So that was really the first time that the Jesuits arrived in Japan only six or seven years after the first Portuguese came there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
Rambaud showcases the variety of opponents to be found in
Athens, Attika, and all over Greece. The Athenian army is
similar to the Spartans', but does have key differences. The
Athenian breastplates are smooth, favoring motifs and
symbols over representation of muscles. And there is of
course the color: Athenians are always represented in blue so
they are recognizable to the player.
|-| Philipiddes =
Philipiddes was a “hemerodrome”, a professional runner who
served Athens as a herald.


According to Herodotos, Athens sent Philipiddes to ask Sparta
You have, for example, Ōtomo Yoshishige, who became a Christian after a long time. But he was very well disposed against the Jesuits. You have other people like Takayama Ukon, who became a very fervent Christian and all his samurai also. So they were very fond of them, and they listened to the Jesuits. They asked them a lot about politics, how they could manage this or that issue. So the Jesuits got a lot of influence with some warlords and also with a lot of the peasants and the lower ranked people. So they really had some success, success that they didn't experience in other countries.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
for aid at Marathon. During his journey, he encountered the
god Pan in the mountains. Pan - who was half-man, half-goat
= complained that the Athenians did not honor him as much as
they should have - especially since he could render helpful
services like sowing panic and terror in the ranks of their
enemies. Following the Battle of Marathon, the Athenians
corrected their neglectful attitude towards Pan, and thanked
him for his help in their victory.
|-|Tumulus=
A tumulus was a special tomb in which the ashes of cremated
bodies were collected in purple cloth - purple being the mark
of royalty. The ashy remains were then placed in a bronze urn.


There is a large tumulus in the Kerameikos that was used
Xavier left in 1551, but soon there came more and more Jesuits.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
from the 560's BCE to the end of the 5th century BCE.
|-|Hoplites=
In Greece, hoplites were heavy infantrymen. They carried
round shields large enough to protect both themselves and
anyone to their left, and wore helmets, cuirasses, and
leggings.


Hoplites normally advanced in a phalanx formation of five to
And that information [Fróis' letters] was used by the Jesuits in Europe for propaganda. So they published, after some censorship, Luís Fróis' and Vilela's and other letters, in Italy. And they were also translated in several languages like Latin, German, French, and so on, for the Catholic Reformation in Europe. They would say, see what we can do in Asia, and especially in Japan. We probably have lost England, but we have gained another island in the form of Japan. So they did a lot of propaganda, which gave them additional financial resources and many European Jesuits who wanted to join the efforts in Japan, which was good for them for a time, but could work as a double-edged sword.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
seven lines deep. The phalanx allowed them to attack with
spears, and simultaneously defend themselves from any
cavalry and archers attacking from the front.
|-|Big Battles=
(Behind the scenes)


“Realizing an enormous battle on the scale of ancient Greek
And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
warfare was quite a technical and design challenge. We
wanted to remain as true as possible to the tactics and
warfare of the time, but plenty of compromises were made for
gameplay, excitement, and technical constraints.” - Scott
Phillips


“Even making the Discovery Tour was a challenge as we
And when he had conquered Kyushu, he again met with Coelho on a Portuguese ship. And Coelho again said that we will support you in whatever endeavor you will take. But the night suddenly he sent a questionary to Coelho, asking him why they came to Japan, why they are making so much converts. And why are they destroying the Buddhist temples? Of course Coelho was really shocked with that. He was so well treated and suddenly everything changed overnight. So he gave his answer that, well, they came to Japan just to propagate their faith, in good faith. And that it was not them who destroyed the Buddhist temples, but the Japanese converts. So the answer of Hideyoshi was that he made a decree that the Jesuits had to leave Japan in 20 days. But he didn't enforce the order very strictly. And that was the same reason why the other warlords welcomed the Jesuits, because he didn't want disrupt the trade with the Portuguese. So he promulgated that decree. But afterwards, the Jesuits stayed in Japan and still continued their missionary work there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
needed to show battlefields without explicitly showing a
battlefield. We opted for flags instead of violence to
communicate the events.” - Paul Green, Assistant Level
Design Director on Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece
|-| Hippias =
Hippias was the son of Peisistratos, the tyrant of Athens. He
succeeded his father in 528 BCE, ruled with absolute power,
and brutally disposed of his enemies.


In spite of this, Athens was surprisingly peaceful and
Tokugawa Ieyasu, he forbade Christianity totally. And all influence of the Jesuits was razed very systematically from then on.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
prosperous under Hippias's rule. His reign ended in 510 BCE,
when a Spartan invasion of Attika led to his downfall.


Hippias fled to Asia Minor, where he came in contact with the
Jesuits can't carry swords or weapons, but they can employ people that do. And the Jesuits were a perfect employee in that sense, a bodyguard.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
Persian king Darius. The disgraced tyrant would eventually
convince the Persians to land their forces at Marathon.
|-| The Telesterion =
The Telesterion was the most important building of the
sanctuary at the far end of the Sacred Way. This was the
temple that was dedicated to Demeter, and the place where
the cults and mysteries took place. It was here that the climax
of the Eleusinian ceremonies happened, and it was in the
Telesterion that the priestesses revealed their visions, and the
initiates were prohibited from discussing the events that took
place.


The Telesterion was a square or rectangular building of
===[[Portuguese Empire]]===
approximately fifty meters across with two entrances on each
When does that contact begin? Well, that begins in the middle of the 16th century, in 1549 to be correct. The Portuguese, they travelled to the east from the 15th century on and in 1498 I think they established a sea route to India and they went even further and in the beginning of the 16th century they already were in Malacca but then it still took some time for them to reach Japan. It was in 1542 or 43, it's still being disputed, that the first Portuguese merchants reached Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
side, with an exception on the western side that was built on
the rock. Inside there were eight rows of seats, and forty
columns supported the roof. In the center of the roof there
was a hole from where the light would enter the temple.  


In the center of the Telesterion was a rectangular room called
Francis Xavier was a Jesuit and one of the founding members of the Jesuits. He was asked to travel to Asia to begin doing missionary work there. He was asked especially by King John III of Portugal because he was very keen on trying to get as many Asians adhering to the Christian religion. Xavier had quite a correspondence with King John about all what he did in Asia and it wasn't what he expected.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
the anaktoron, where all the sacred objects of the cult were
kept, and where only the Hierophant could enter.  


Today the architectural remains visible on the site are those
==Three Great Unifiers==
of the Classical building.
===[[Oda Nobunaga]]===
|-|Fortification=
But he's from the small province of Owari. But he's a really good example of someone who was able to use a combination of smart tactics, smart use of weaponry, judicious use of alliances to gradually expand beyond that province. So he takes another province for himself right early on. This is the middle of the 1500s. Then he makes some alliances. By 1568, after really only a few short years, and he's still relatively speaking a young man, he's able to do what most daimyo ultimately wanted to do, which is to mount a successful march on Kyoto and have the emperor under his BDI and also have the shogun under his control.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 01">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 1: Civil War in Feudal Japan: The Sengoku Period</ref>
Following the Greco-Persian Wars, Themistokles
recommended that Athens fortify both the city and the port of
Piraeus.


The fortifications started under Themistokles and were
One of the stories told about him when he was a young man, just after his father left, all the Buddhist priests who had been tending to his father, praying for him, looking after him before he died, legend has it anyway that Oda Nobunaga had them all locked inside a single building and then shot to death for what they did, i.e. failing to keep his father alive. He also had a reputation as a teenager for being just quite strange, swaggering around town, eating nuts, letting them fall out of his mouth. He had sort of disheveled hair. At his father's funeral he's said to have picked up a fistful of incense and just thrown it and walked out. So quite a strange character, probably an unpromising character early on, but he was given this motto of rule the realm by force and I think that carried him through. He had a strong sense that he was always going to do this, that he was always going to succeed and I think there's a combination of deep self-belief and ruthlessness and I suppose a degree of luck as well that really seems to carry him forward. By the time that he died in the 1580s as a result of treachery on the part of some of his own men, actually, he had controlled most of Japan's main island of Honshu and he was on the verge of going to its second biggest island, Kyushu, down south. He actually at that point looked unstoppable.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 01"/>
further strengthened by Perikles and Kimon. Their efforts
contributed to the creation of the so-called "Long Walls” that
ensured Athens always had access to its port, even in times of
war.
|-|Shipsheds=
Shipsheds were used to store ancient vessels called triremes.
The sheds were essential, as triremes required methodical
overhauling during the winter months when there was little to
no naval navigation.


The earliest shipsheds were built in the time of Themistokles,
So in terms of Oda Nobunaga, not an especially promising background I think. If you think about the era into which he's born, there are roughly 120 of these states. Some of them at war with others, some of them in alliance etc. But his state or province or what he is just one of those and quite a small one at that. Plus I think it's 1551, his father dies when Oda Nobunaga is still quite young, still a teenager and he inherits control of this state and the people around him don't see him as an especially serious figure and especially compromising figure. You can imagine some of the senior vassals a little bit older than him thinking goodness me I don't know what's going to happen to our little province with this person in charge. He was I think just seen as being slightly mad, a bit of an idiot not really able to take life terribly seriously and yet within a few short years he proves himself to be this master strategist who becomes by the mid 1560s really the main player in Japan out of all these warlords.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
and Perikles later built more sheds for the sum of 1000
talents. The sheds were originally made of wood before
transitioning to stone in the 4th century BCE.
|-|Weapon Making=
In addition to being a trading center, Piraeus also functioned
as an industrial center that contained several factories -
many of which manufactured weapons during the
Peloponnesian War.


The former slave Pasion owned a shield factory, as did the
What he succeeds in doing is very early on gaining control of a neighboring province and then he makes a very fortuitous alliance with the man who becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu. He doesn't yet have that name at this point in the 1550s but that's a great alliance. It allows Oda Nobunaga not to have to worry too much about the territory to one side of his own province and so he can look elsewhere for his focus but I think other things that seem to go in his favor include a real talent for strategy, choosing the right moment to attack, I think an extraordinary ruthlessness to him as well.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
brothers Lysias and Polemarchos. The orator Demosthenes,
meanwhile, owned a factory that produced swords. These
factories all employed a large number of slaves, and were
extremely lucrative for their owners.
|-|Kyrenia=
Maritime trade was a risky business, and not every ship
reached its destination.


For example, a merchant ship was wrecked near Kyrenia in
So I think by the time he dies in 1582 he has control of large parts of Japan's main island the long thin island of Honshu contains places like Tokyo as it's now called Kyoto of course Osaka for centuries really the central part of that central island really across from Osaka and Kyoto up to what we now call Tokyo has been considered as it were the business end of Japan that's where a lot of the power plays go on the culture is developed the economy is at its strongest and Oda Nobunaga has control of most of that certainly between himself and his allies in any case and he's thinking about moving into two other of Japan's main islands Kyushu which is towards the southwest and also the smaller island of Shikoku so he's got lots of plans he's still a relatively young man he's in an extraordinarily powerful position and he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
the 4th century BCE, and underwater excavations of its
remains have revealed much information about ancient Greek
shipbuilding.


The wreck's wooden hull was made of pine, and suggests the
So you had, for example, Oda Nobunaga, which showed great familiarity to the Christians, to for example, Fróis, who he invited in Kyoto in Gifu Castle and showed him around in the castle. So it was very positively inclined towards the Christians, but still he never adopted the Christian faith himself.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
ship was made using the “shell-first” technique, wherein the
shell of the boat was constructed before the rest of its parts.
The ship's cargo included jars filled with almonds, and over
400 wine amphoras. It also carried 29 milltstones that were
used as ballast to stabilize the vessel, and 300 lead net
weights that were likely used for fishing.
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Originally, ports used fire to help guide ship navigators to
land. The innovation of placing fire on top of a platform led to
the development of the Lighthouse.


Ancient lighthouses started appearing in the archaic period,
Another one, when getting to Miyako, which is now Kyoto, a huge mob literally surrounded the mission and almost pushed the mission down, throwing stones. There were dead people in the crowd outside. And at that point, Nobunaga, who was the most powerful warlord in Japan at the time, was five minutes walk away. He heard this huge hullaballo, which he liked. He heard what was going on. And he demanded to see who was disturbing the peace, demanded that this person be brought before him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
around the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The island of Thasos had
three marble lighthouses that took the shape of small circular
towers placed on promontories.


One of the most famous lighthouses was the Pharos of
So Yasuke was there at Nobunaga's death. He possibly was the last person to see him alive. Nobunaga was killed in a coup d'etat, essentially. He was heading to the front with this small corps of men over which Yasuke was one, around 30 people. And one of his generals, basically, we still don't know to this day why, he brought his whole army of 13,000 and attacked. They were all gunned down, essentially. Nobunaga, with Yasuke and his lover, [Mori] Ranmaru, come into the middle of the temple where their last moments are held. The temple's on fire around them. And Nobunaga really is going to know what happened in that room because there's only three people and they all died, except for Yasuke. But we only know that Yasuke survived because the Jesuits recorded as such. We don't know what he saw, unfortunately. The normal legend goes Nobunaga cut his belly, Ranmaru took his head off as his second, and then one supposes that Ranmaru then cut his belly and Yasuke took off Ranmaru's head.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Alexandria, which stood at a height of over 100 meters.


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when Nobunaga is born in 1534, the Oda family effectively had control of Owari province at this point. Though the family itself was fractured and Nobunaga's branch was interestingly not the primary lineage.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
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the Oda family, as I said, they were the deputy governors underneath the Shiba family in Owari, and he's born as the first legitimate son of a man named Oda Nobuhide, who is the defacto leader of the Oda family. Like I mentioned, his line was not the senior line, but Nobuhide was particularly capable and competent and brought his relatives under his control and for the most part dominated the governance of Owari province. But he was in constant conflict with his neighbors, particularly the powerful Imagawa Yoshimoto to his east and a daimyo named Saitō Dōsan to his north in Mino province.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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So Nobunaga's youth would have been one where his family was in constant conflict, both internally and externally. He was designated Nobuhide's heir rather early on, and given the education that you would expect of an heir, he was given four of Nobuhide's high-ranking subordinates as his tutors, so to speak, kind of to raise him up and teach him the ways that he would need to rule both military and politically. But it's often said he was a bit of a wild child who preferred running around with his friends rather than studying, out hunting, and raising all kinds of ruckus. Allegedly he wore outlandish outfits like a tiger skin cloak, and generally he didn't really act the part of an up-and-coming warlord. You'll often hear that he was called the Fool of Owari.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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But in 1549, he marries the daughter of Saito Dosan, who is located to Owari's north in Mino province, as part of a peace agreement between Dosan and Nobuhide.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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So Nobuhide dies in 1551. And despite Nobunaga being his heir, there's some contention based on his pattern of erratic behavior. One of the famous events that is often brought up is at Nobuhide's funeral. Nobunaga shows up allegedly very unkempt, not in the proper formal funeral attire, and acts very disrespectfully, throwing incense at the altar instead of performing the proper respectful rituals.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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And based off of this, we are told that some of his father's vassals form a faction around his younger brother while other branches of the family. So this is an opportunity for them to seize control, push this loser who's not ready for the job out of the way. Other vassals defect to the Imagawa or plot with the Saito. So his position upon his father's death is actually very precarious.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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But in 1553, one of his senior retainers, one of these four men who was designated as his tutors and mentors, a man by the name of Hirata Masahide, commits suicide. [...] We have Hirata committing this form of protest suicide. And it serves as a way to wake up young Nobunaga to his rather outlandish behavior and how it's being detrimental to both, you know, his own well-being and the well-being of the Oda family.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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he does begin to more seriously concentrate on consolidating his control over Owari and the Oda family.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So his first fight is to simply gain control of his own family, you know, largely inside of Owati province. There's some pressure from external enemies that Imagawa to the east. But initially from 1552 to 1554, he's contending with iterations of rebellion from his uncle, Nobutomo, who inspired to assassinate him and worked with, you know, other entities to try to make that happen. Nobunaga catches him and forgives him once. But you know, second time he continues to plot. Nobunaga captures him and has him put to death.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
In 1556, again, out of fears that Nobunaga is just not up to the task. Several of his major retainers side with his younger brother Nobuyuki, but Nobunaga, you know, warned of potential treachery at one point, feigns an illness instead of going to go meet his brother. So his brother comes to meet him. And when he does, Nobunaga has him and his entourage assassinated.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So the 1550s is really the story of Nobunaga's consolidation of his power within the Oda family, establishing himself as the leader of the family. And by default, almost the ruler of the Oda province. In 1559, his final obstacle is the castle of Iwakura and his cousin Nobuyasu, who belongs to the senior branch of the Oda line. But he manages to take Iwakura castle and eliminate Nobuyasu. And this ends the internal threats now.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
In 1560, the powerful daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto to his east, enrolled [????] Toutomi, Suroga, and the Kawa provinces, and came from the illustrious Imagawa line, which was one of the pillars of the former Ashikaga shogunate. He decides, or it's usually assumed at least that he decides that he's going to make a run at marching on the capital of Kyoto to take charge of the central government. So he gathers together an army of 25,000 troops and begins his march east. And the first stop is, of course, his neighbor in Owari province, Nobunaga. So he has to go through Nobunaga's domain. On paper, this is going to be very easy. He's got 25,000 troops, which at the time was a very large army. And Nobunaga only has a few thousand men, maybe 2,500. So we're looking at roughly around a 10 to 1 disadvantage. But Nobunaga, despite the fact that his advisors all counsel him to withdraw into his castle at Kyosu and withstand a siege, he decides that that's a losing strategy. Because what's he going to do against an attack by an army that size? He decides that his best course of action is to try to seek an opening and attack.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But the Imagawa forces by midday had made significant progress against the Odo forces invading. So the Imagawa army was much larger. It was rather spread out and divided. The vanguard had taken several of these forts that Nobunaga had. Yoshimori himself was with only a few thousand troops. And at his command post, they took a bit of a siesta, almost, if you will, in this small narrow gorge called Dengaku Hazama. And they were celebrating some of the Imagawa troops had already broken into the celebration sake in anticipation of their great victory that they saw coming because, you know, how could you see anything else? A little bit after this, there's a rainstorm. This was in the summer. So the rainy season in Japan. This thunderstorm breaks out and it really helps Nobunaga maneuver his forces through the mountains, through these narrow passes into position to attack Imagawa Yoshimoto's headquarters camp. They broke out of the tree line to attack the camp. And at first Yoshimoto assumes that it's a drunken brawl taking place amongst his men. Too late, he realizes that it's not that he's actually under attack. And shortly after that, two of the Otis samurai relieve him up his head. In the aftermath, the Imagawa forces deprived of their commander melt away in confusion. And we have this almost legendary victory by other Nobunaga outmanned ten to one, destroying the forces of this great daimyo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So it kind of makes a name for Nobunaga. Another key thing about this battle, though, and the aftermath is that in the confusion of the Imagawa family with the loss of their head, several of their more talented and younger retainers, one of which we know today as Tokugawa Ieyasu, are able to claim independence. And Ieyasu establishes himself in his home territory of Mikawa, which is just to the east of Owari, and establishes an alliance with Nobunaga, thus providing a secure flank to Nobunaga's east, allowing Nobunaga to then look in other directions as he begins to expand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So Nobunaga, his next target is this province to his north, Mino Province, which is much larger in size than Owari, and it's somewhat kind of the nexus of road networks in central Japan, where two of the major roads from Chiyoto into the capital in central Japan to the east runs through it. So it's a pretty strategic province to have. So he goes to war against Saitou Dousan and it takes a while, but through diplomacy and bribery of the Saitou generals, he's able to convince many of them to join his side. And by 1567, he's weakened them enough to besiege and take the main castle at Inabayama, which he then renames Gifu.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So then he works to consolidate his position by doing some preliminary campaigns into neighboring Issei province and establishing diplomatic relations. So he marries his younger sister, Oichi, to a warlord named Azai Nagamasa who rules northern Omi province. And this is significant because Omi is the province that lies between Mino and Owari, which he owns, and the capital of Kyoto. So he's in essence securing a line of, you know, advance for future endeavors.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The previous shogun, Ashikaga Yoshitero, had been assassinated in 1565 and replaced by a puppet. So Yoshitero's younger brother, a man by the name of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, had been traveling around the provinces trying to seek a benefactor who would back his claim and help him march on the capital. So shortly after Nobunaga establishes himself in Gifu, Yoshiaki arrives on his doorstep in 1568, thus giving him a pretext to make his move on the capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The fact that he can take a legitimate claimant to the Ashikaga shogunate and march on Kyoto with utter the pretext of putting him into power gives him the legitimate of his siege to do so. So November of 1568, he enters Kyoto with his army and installs Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shogun. However, here's where things start to differ from what you might have expected at the time, because rather than accept Yoshiaki's offer to be his deputy shogun, Nobunaga declines that in any other position that Yoshiaki offers.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
In 1570, Nobunaga sends an invitation, sensibly on Yoshiaki's behalf, to local warlords for a reception in Kyoto. And this is almost a way to test who was going to accept his authority and who wasn't. And the daimyo of Ichizen province, Asakura Yoshikage, refuses the summons. So Nobunaga launches a campaign to besiege the Asakura's main castle. But unfortunately for Nobunaga, the Azai, his brother-in-law's family, his brother-in-law being Azai Nagamasa, had a multi-generational alliance relationship with the Asakura. So Nagamasa feels obligated to go to the Asakura's aid, and he launches an attack on Nobunaga's army's rear, forcing Nobunaga to break off the siege and retreat while a rear guard held off the Asai and the Asakura forces. So Nobunaga feels personally betrayed by this man who was a relative by marriage. And the Asai and Asakura are one of the initial threats that he faces.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The two sides meet in July of 1570 at the Battle of Anegawa, where Nobunaga was joined by his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu. And they fight this battle in the shallow Anagawa River, both sides plunging into the water to engage the enemy. So if you picture this dramatic battle in this shallow river, Tokugawa, on Nobunaga's right flank, managed to route the Asakura and then crash into the flank of the Asai while at the same time Nobunaga sent his reserves around the other flank. And it causes the collapse of the enemy to create victory.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But the surviving members of the Asakura and the Asai forces find refuge on Mount Hiei, which is a mountain just to the northeast of the capital. And it's the site of the Enuryakuji Temple, which is the headquarters of the Tendai Sept of Buddhism and a military power in its own right. what that matters is that, you know, this was a Buddhist temple that had essentially an army of its own. And so this prevents Nobunaga from cutting off the Asai and the Asakura forces and completely destroying them. And he has to back off,<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
Another group that around this time rises up to challenge his authority and one that will probably his longest running enemy is what's known as the Ikkō-ikki or the Ikko League. This was a confederation of followers of the true Pure Land Sept of Buddhism. And its headquarters was the Ishiyama Hongan-ji, which was located in what is now present day Osaka. But it had groups of adherents called these Ikki or leagues scattered throughout the provinces of central Japan. And in 1570, Nobunaga starts a war with them because the self-defense groups, these Ikki and the Ishiyama Hongan-ji itself resisted political and military control by local warrior rule. In fact, in 1486, the Ikko Ikki of Kaga Province overthrew the local dainyo and ruled the province without any samurai rule for almost 100 years.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
For 10 years until 1580, he's in this constant on and off war with the Ishiyama Hongan-ji and their ikko followers in various locations throughout the provinces. And they're really the linchpin of the various coalitions that are opposing Nobunaga. You know, at this point, these are kind of like the main enemies that he's looking at.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But in 1571, he realizes that the only way to solve his problem of encirclement is to break kind of the circle. So he starts with Mount Hiei, the Enuryakuchi temple complex that had given refuge to his enemies. And in the fall, he brings them out and has his troops advance up deliberately. And according to eyewitness accounts from the time that are written down, his troops are killing anything that's alive, whether it be monks, laymen, women, children, reportedly even every animal that's on the mountain. And they burn almost every building of this massive temple complex.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
Early assessments of their relationship by historians assume that Nobunaga's plan all along was to use him as a puppet and then throw him away and take power for himself. I agree with more recent biographers, you see it as a little bit more complicated than that. Ashikaga Yoshiaki, obviously, as the Shogun, felt that he should be in charge. So after being installed in 1568, he attempts to rule, but he quickly sees that he cannot do anything without Nobunaga's help. And by 1572, there's some real tension between the two of who's in charge. Nobunaga issued several admonishments, which have been published and are famous, going so far as to note how the people call Yoshiaki the evil Shogun, in scare quotes there, and laying out rules for the Shogun's house to follow. Of course, Yoshiaki takes offense at this and who are you to tell me the Shogun how to run things? And so, like I said, early on, historians looked at this as Nobunaga's overstipping his bow, just trying to push Yoshiaki out.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
I see a different reading of it that is more compelling to me is that, no, he really saw that this was like the structure that should be in place and was trying to guide Yoshiaki back onto an actual correct path of governance, at least as Nobunaga saw it. And his efforts to maintain relations with Yoshiaki, at least initially, were very sincere. But Yoshiaki is the one who kind of pushes the relationship to the breaking point. And the early 1570s, he's orchestrating coalitions of enemies to move against Nobunaga. In addition to the Iko Iki, he's kind of another lynchpin of the different coalitions against Nobunaga, trying to convince different daimyo to turn against Nobunaga, invade, come rescue me in Kyoto and be my savior and I'll grant you XYZ, so forth.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
This continues until 1573, when it's very obvious that Nobunaga has run out of patience. In 1573, he does march on Kyoto and expel Yoshiaki, which more or less ends the Ashikaga shogunate for good. And then Ashikaga would escape to Western Japan, where he would take up residence in the lands of one of Nobunaga's enemies, the Mori family. And from there, he would continue to write different daimyo, constantly trying to create a coalition that could overthrow Nobunaga and reinstall him in power. How effective that was? Well, we see that it didn't happen, but he certainly was doing his best the entire time to undermine Nobunaga.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
The Takeda family is finally destroyed in 1582. And one of the few remaining enemies in the main island of Japan that he is concerned about is this family called the Mori family. And he's had one of his generals man by the name of Hashida Hideyoshi, who we would later know as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. One of his generals is leading the campaign against them. And having just completed the campaign in the east against the Takeda, he is given notice by Hideyoshi that a siege of a castle is almost complete. But he's worried that Mori reinforcements are going to come. So please send additional reinforcements to me in order to defeat the Mori.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
We don't really know why we don't really get any full explanation of Akechi's motives. There's lots of speculation that it had to do with resentment at court treatment by Nobunaga. One thing that we do know is that Akechi's mother had been killed by a rival clan where Akechi had given them his mother as a hostage, as insurance essentially against an attack. And Nobunaga superseded that and ordered the attack anyway. So they killed Akechi's mother. Other things are rumors that he was physically abusive and verbally abusive to Mitsuhide personally.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
But for whatever reason, Akechi decides that this is his moment while Nobunaga is lightly guarded. He's certainly not expecting anybody to attack him in Kyoto. They surround Nobunaga's residence, set out on fire. Nobunaga and his guards fight back, but are eventually overwhelmed. Nobunaga commits suicide. And then his heir as well, who was also in Kyoto, is attacked by Akechi's forces and dies. So in one stroke, the Akechi have eliminated, basically decapitated the Oda family and thus ended Nobunaga's career.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So one of the things that he institutes in large scale, though not systematic scale, is land surveys, sending out his administrators to take surveys of the arable land and their rice production yield. What this does is it establishes tax registers, it establishes known income values, and it enables Nobunaga to award rights to the land to his subordinates. And in some ways, assign them or move them based off of income levels, the pieces of land are very modular, and he can move his retainers around underneath him. Toyotomi Hideyoshi after him, who turns it into a systematic evaluation of the entire Japanese realm.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
Nobunaga is furious. He couldn't believe that his son had put himself in position to be defeated and humiliated like this. So he supposedly threatens to disown Nobukatsu. He doesn't end up following through on it, but he's not pleased.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
 
Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
 
So one of their descendants, Yoshiyaki, was around and he was a pretty hopeless guy. But he was officially the Shogun. So Nobunaga's excuse for entering Kyoto was to reinstate him as Shogun. But actually, he, like a lot of these guys, is this Yoshiyaki. The Shogun was very treacherous. We wanted to get rid of Nobunaga, and he instigated a plot against him. So Nobunaga had him arrested and taken off to a castle in the middle of nowhere and left there forever. So that was the end of him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
So the Emperor [Michihito, Emperor Ōgimachi] was still rather broke. The Emperor throughout centuries was very often very poor, and very often just basically getting pocket money from whoever is in power, but still had respect and was still officially descended from the Sun Goddess, the most respected person in the entire land. So Nobunaga then gave the Emperor lots of money and furnished the Imperial Palace made it good. So he gave himself legitimacy as a ruler by helping out the Emperor.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
He [Nobunaga] had a very dramatic and spectacular assassination by one of his own men. It's an amazing story, but that happened in Kyoto. He was in a temple where it was his land. He thought he was absolutely fine. He didn't have that many guards, and one of his own generals turned against him. So he was killed there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
===[[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]===
so Hideyoshi Toyotomi was one of those [ashigaru] now and again he carried the sandals of Oda Nobunaga Oda Nobunaga used to refer to him affectionately as that bald rat Hideyoshi's famously sort of short on a bit of hair but nevertheless he rises through the ranks to be a senior and trusted man under Oda Nobunaga so immediately he rushes from where he's been fighting over to take care of the traitors and he brings the traitors head back to Kyoto to effectively lay at the feet of Oda Nobunaga's body to say here we are you know I've taken care of this for you and Hideyoshi really then becomes the inheritor I think of this project to try to unify Japan and his major next step one of the steps that Oda Nobunaga would have taken had he lived was to attack Kyushu<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
yet for Hideyoshi Kyushu is a part of Japan that he simply must have so he sends around a quarter of a million men over to Kyushu to take it for himself which he manages to do in fairly short order in 1586 and 7<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
Hideyoshi for his part had a powerful dislike of Christians so the island of Kyushu in this period was probably the part of Japan where Christian missionaries Portuguese and Spanish mainly the Jesuits but also others as well had since the 1550s been making quite a large number of converts so some of the warlords the daimyo in Kyushu were actually Christians who had a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish and Japanese names and Hideyoshi was astounded to find when he got to Kyushu but he found some Christian missionaries offering him to kind of broker deals with warlords help him take over the island these people as far as Hideyoshi were concerned were foreigners preaching of foreign faith he discovered that Nagasaki had been raised up into this great port by the Jesuits who had effectively been given Nagasaki by a local warlord so the extraordinary influence that a foreign power preaching of foreign religion had in Kyushu I think upset Hideyoshi very much<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
Hideyoshi once he's taken Kyushu just a few years later launches invasions of Korea so he sends troops across including some of Christian warlords commanding them across to Korea wanting to use it almost as China's driveway if you think about the geography of it send these troops up through Korea take over the peninsula eventually invade and take over China and after that he also wanted to take over India as well<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
although Hideyoshi has done very well by 1590 as I say he pretty much has most parts of Japan wrapped up under his control and he's starting to think about internal administration he introduces measures for example to disarm the peasantry so if you want to end this period of all against all warfare he wants to return to a position where most people cannot bear arms and it's very clear who can and who aren't and where you sit in these various samurai hierarchies so he does all these bits of internal administration too I suppose another thing he starts to do is to launch these surveys of the land something that Oda Nobunaga had started to an extent but Hideyoshi really goes for it to get a sense of who going forward owns what in Japan what kind of tax you ought to pay so the things that you know maybe strike some fans of history as a bit dull but nevertheless a sign I think of a new order starting to entrench itself so he does all that but his Korean campaign goes badly wrong in the 1590s the Chinese finally put some men in the field and they push the Japanese troops all the way back down the Korean peninsula so it doesn't go anywhere except for poisoning relations with Korea for a very long time to come and then in 1598 Hideyoshi dies and the one thing he doesn't manage to do and I suppose fans of history from Europe and elsewhere there's similar things happen here one thing you want to do if you're a newly established ruler is make sure that the succession is in place...<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
And you had Otomo, which was a very powerful clan in the east of Kyushu. And then you had in the southwest, you had the Shimazu. And Otomo was losing against the Shimazu. So he asked Hideyoshi to intervene. And sometime before Hideyoshi marched towards Kyushu, he met with Coelho, which was then the head of the Christian mission in Japan, together with Fróis. And he treated Coelho very well, just like Oda Nobunaga had done with Fróis. So Coelho was really pleased with that. And then Hideyoshi asked him, I want to invade Korea. Then you provide two Portuguese ships to help me in this invasion. And if I conquer Korea, I will make it that there are a lot of churches being built. So Koelyo said, yes, I will do that for you. And I will make sure that we have two Portuguese ships, the Karak ships, as they were called by the English, gigantic ships. So Hideyoshi could very well use them for his invasion in Korea. And then he went a step further and he said, I will make sure that the Christian warlords in Kyushu will also support you. And I think at that moment that Hideyoshi, that there was a ring bell in his head, that the Christians, the Jesuits had too much influence in Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
And when he had conquered Kyushu, he again met with Coelho on a Portuguese ship. And Coelho again said that we will support you in whatever endeavor you will take. But the night suddenly he sent a questionary to Coelho, asking him why they came to Japan, why they are making so much converts. And why are they destroying the Buddhist temples? Of course Coelho was really shocked with that. He was so well treated and suddenly everything changed overnight. So he gave his answer that, well, they came to Japan just to propagate their faith, in good faith. And that it was not them who destroyed the Buddhist temples, but the Japanese converts. So the answer of Hideyoshi was that he made a decree that the Jesuits had to leave Japan in 20 days.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
Nobunaga's main retainer, a man called Hideyoshi, was born a peasant. He actually became Nobunaga's successor after Nobunaga died. So he rose from literally the bottom almost to the top within his lifetime. He died quite early as well, maybe in his 50s. So it wasn't even a long life.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
 
The Takeda family is finally destroyed in 1582. And one of the few remaining enemies in the main island of Japan that he is concerned about is this family called the Mori family. And he's had one of his generals man by the name of Hashida Hideyoshi, who we would later know as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. One of his generals is leading the campaign against them. And having just completed the campaign in the east against the Takeda, he is given notice by Hideyoshi that a siege of a castle is almost complete. But he's worried that Mori reinforcements are going to come. So please send additional reinforcements to me in order to defeat the Mori.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
 
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
So one of the things that he institutes in large scale, though not systematic scale, is land surveys, sending out his administrators to take surveys of the arable land and their rice production yield. What this does is it establishes tax registers, it establishes known income values, and it enables Nobunaga to award rights to the land to his subordinates. And in some ways, assign them or move them based off of income levels, the pieces of land are very modular, and he can move his retainers around underneath him. Toyotomi Hideyoshi after him, who turns it into a systematic evaluation of the entire Japanese realm.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
And his trusted lieutenant, who was a guy called Hashiba Hideyoshi, Hashiba Hideyoshi had a lot of different names. He started off the son of a farmer and he was called Hiyoshi. And he was also called Saru-san, which means Mr. Monkey, because he was an ugly bloke and looked like a monkey. He was small and ugly. He had a lot of girlfriends. He had a really devoted wife to whom he wrote wonderful letters. This is all by the by. Hideyoshi is a great guy. Hideyoshi came galloping back from the campaign he was engaged in when he heard that Nobunaga had been killed. And basically Nobunaga's method had been force and violence. Hideyoshi was the man with the golden tongue. He used persuasion. He was nice to people. And he got everybody to pledge allegiance to him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
And because Hideyoshi came from a poor family, he was a farmer's son. He had climbed his way right through the ranks, which only two people in the whole of Japanese history did. But he sort of didn't have anything to prove to anybody. He was very nice to the emperor, but he loved culture. He wanted to enjoy all those wonderful things that the upper classes had. But under him, the sort of culture he liked was chō. He liked display. He liked sort of flamboyancy. For example, there are paintings of the wonderful kimonos people wore. And there are also beautiful paintings of how Kyoto looked, with all the people on the streets, people dancing, the beautiful buildings, the temples, the palaces.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
He built a palace in the middle of called Jurakudai, in the middle of Kyoto, where Nijō Castle is. That now, for those of you who've been there, anyone who's been there, right in the center. And then he also built Momoyama Castle [aka Fushimi Castle] in the south of Kyoto. And he also, while he was at it, I'm not sure if I'm answering your question anymore, but he had an enormous tea party for the entire population of Kyoto, the entire population, including all the poor people, and got them all to come. And it occupied a whole sort of enormous shrine grounds. And I think there was something like 800 tea pavilions there. Part of tea is displaying your beautiful utensils. And he displayed his gold utensils. And he also had an entire tea hut made of gold, the golden tea hut.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
Hideyoshi sort of basically laid out Kyoto as it is now.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
 
Were there games in medieval Japan that we know about? Right. One thing that the samurai ruler, especially the unifier, Toyotomi Hideyoshi liked, was the noh play. So there are theatres all over Japan.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 08">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 8: How To Fit In: Feudal Japan</ref>
 
===[[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]===
What he succeeds in doing is very early on gaining control of a neighboring province and then he makes a very fortuitous alliance with the man who becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu. He doesn't yet have that name at this point in the 1550s but that's a great alliance. It allows Oda Nobunaga not to have to worry too much about the territory to one side of his own province and so he can look elsewhere for his focus [...]<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
unfortunately he dies when his son Hideyori is still too young to assume power and so you have this council of elders who are controlling things until Hideyori is old enough to rule by himself but unfortunately on that council of elders is one Tokugawa Ieyasu who while you know professing a certain amount of loyalty to Hideyori is plotting and scheming instead to take it all for himself and so he becomes our third major figure.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
he stations some troops in Kyoto to keep the emperor under a watchful eye not necessarily because of what the emperor might do but what people might use the emperor for some of his western enemies you know as in in the western part of Japan might potentially take the emperor as a figurehead and launch a further action against him it's not as though after a great battle like that everyone on the losing side thinks fair enough you know you've got me I'll walk away and agree to this so he has that our establishment Kyoto his own power base is Edo this castle town that is now the great city of Tokyo so his shogunate is really run out of Edo that's where his advisors are his castle is his strong economy is and he manages to really build up Edo I think in short order the other thing he does which is really establishing this process of unification really establishing the new Japan is he does this enormous reshuffling of territory in Japan I think it's the biggest reshuffling of territory in terms of who controls what in Japan's history so lots of the people who are on the losing side at the battle of Sekigahara either lose everything or their territory is drastically cut down or they're shipped off to another part of the country entirely perhaps all these things that are designed to damage their power he also as part of that reshuffle takes over a system that Hideyoshi used to use called Sankin Kortai<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
 
Tokugawa Ieyasu, he forbade Christianity totally. And all influence of the Jesuits was razed very systematically from then on.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
So it kind of makes a name for Nobunaga. Another key thing about this battle, though, and the aftermath is that in the confusion of the Imagawa family with the loss of their head, several of their more talented and younger retainers, one of which we know today as Tokugawa Ieyasu, are able to claim independence. And Ieyasu establishes himself in his home territory of Mikawa, which is just to the east of Owari, and establishes an alliance with Nobunaga, thus providing a secure flank to Nobunaga's east, allowing Nobunaga to then look in other directions as he begins to expand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
 
The two sides meet in July of 1570 at the Battle of Anegawa, where Nobunaga was joined by his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu. And they fight this battle in the shallow Anagawa River, both sides plunging into the water to engage the enemy. So if you picture this dramatic battle in this shallow river, Tokugawa, on Nobunaga's right flank, managed to route the Asakura and then crash into the flank of the Asai while at the same time Nobunaga sent his reserves around the other flank. And it causes the collapse of the enemy to create victory.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
 
Many of them [Iga warriors] went to work for a retainer of Tokugawa Iyasu who has become famous in kind of ninja lore, man by the name of Hattori Hanzo. And Hattori Hanzo had family ties to Iga. He's often referred to or portrayed as in pop culture as a ninja, but he was a samurai retainer, a warrior just like many of the warriors that fought for any of the Daimyo of this period. He appears in most of Tokugawa Iyasu's battles until Hanzo dies in 1590s. He is considered one of Tokugawa Iyasu's closest retainers, but because through his family ties, he had a knowledge base of these sort of unconventional guerilla tactics. He also had through those ties, the ability to kind of act as a landing place for many of these men of Iga. And so many of them went to work for Tokugawa Ieyasu under the command of Hattori Hanzo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
 
==The Jesuits==
===[[Francis Xavier]]===
Francis Xavier was a Jesuit and one of the founding members of the Jesuits. He was asked to travel to Asia to begin doing missionary work there. He was asked especially by King John III of Portugal because he was very keen on trying to get as many Asians adhering to the Christian religion. Xavier had quite a correspondence with King John about all what he did in Asia and it wasn't what he expected. In 1542 he came to India but he didn't get good results so he tried to go to Malacca but there also there was not much interest for his propagating of the faith. And there he met with a Japanese called Anjiro, probably his real name was Yajiro, and he told him about Japan and also some Portuguese merchants who had gone to Japan told him that that will be the country where you really are going to get a lot of people converted to Christianity. So he had a lot of expectations for Japan and in 1549 he finally set foot on Japan. So that was really the first time that the Jesuits arrived in Japan only six or seven years after the first Portuguese came there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
when Xavier came in Japan, he landed in Satsuma, Kagoshima, which is in the southern part of the Kyushu island, and you had a warlord there, Shimaze Takahisa, and he welcomed Xavier very much because he had a motive. If the Jesuits would come, he thought the Portuguese merchants would follow. So he treated Xavier very well and he gave him permission to preach the Gospel in his domains, but after a year, no Portuguese ship arrived, so then he prohibited Christianity and Xavier was compelled to go to another domain, which was the Hilado domain of Matsura Takanobu, and just at that time there was a Portuguese vessel there. And when the Portuguese saw the Jesuits, so Xavier and his companions, they greeted them with utmost respect. And Takanobu saw that, so he thought, okay, I have to treat them also with respect so that the Portuguese traders could come, because those Portuguese traders, they got a lot of products.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
And he thought that if he goes to the emperor in Kyoto, in the capital, that the emperor would give him permission to preach in whole of Japan, and that he would have a lot of success because he saw that the lot of a small domain, when he gave permission, he got the chance to convert a few people. If the upper lord of the country would give him permission, he thought he would be in a good position to convert a lot of Japanese. So he went to Kyoto, but that materialized not very well because Kyoto at the time was in the midst of warfare, so he didn't have the chance to meet with the emperor nor with the shogun.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
So afterwards, he went back from Kyoto. He got back to Hirado, where he put on very expensive clothes and then went again to the court of Ōuchi. And then he was received very well. He also gave a lot of presents, which he had brought from Portugal. And Ōuchi was very policed with that and gave permission for the Jesuits to preach their gospel in his domains.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
Xavier left in 1551, but soon there came more and more Jesuits.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
So and Francis Xavier, the Jesuit priest, showed up in Japan at that time. He showed up in a city called Yamaguchi. And his theory was, I will go to Kyoto. I will convert the emperor to Catholicism. And then everybody else in the whole country will follow him. And he got to Kyoto. It was a complete wreck. It was sort of a burnt out ruin. He couldn't find the emperor. So he gave up.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
 
===[[Gaspar Vilela]]===
Gaspar Vilela is one who stands out. He was a very keen propagator of the Christian faith, and he could convert some warlords to Christianity. One of them was Omura Sumitada, who eventually would give a port to the Jesuits, which was called Nagasaki.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
 
===[[Alessandro Valignano]]===
And then you have, of course, Valignano, which was the visitor, as he was called, to the Orient. So he was the head of all the actions in the Orient, and he spent a lot of time in Japan, because Japan was the place where the Jesuits thought they would have the best results.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
He was the bodyguard of a Jesuit, the head Jesuit in Asia, essentially the head of the Christian church in Asia, a man called Alessandro Valignano. And Valignano was on a tour from Rome. He'd been sent by the Pope to tour the new missions in Asia and of course, Japan was the furthest of these missions.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
 
Valignano himself, the visitor, the chief inspector of churches, if you like, was a big proponent of learning any language. He started the concept of Asian studies. Asian language studies in Europe were started by him. He was the person who insisted that his missionaries study Chinese, Japanese, various Indian languages, so it's conceivable that Yasuke had already started to learn Japanese before he arrived.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
 
===[[Francisco Cabral]]===
And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
 
==Other==
===[[Mutsuhito]], Emperor Meiji===
And in 1868, the then emperor [Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji] who was 14, I think, or 16, he was a teenager, marched or didn't march. He was carried by Palanquin, top with a Phoenix, up to Edo and into Edo castle, which became the imperial palace and Edo became Tokyo, which is the eastern capital. So therefore, Kyoto was no longer the capital at all. It was no longer the official capital.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
 
===[[Akechi Mitsuhide]]===
he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
 
There's quite a lot of emphasis on how important this is. And this could be the masterstroke that basically secures Western Honshu for Nobunaga. So he's returned to Kyoto, and Nobunaga sends his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide with Akechi's army as the initial force to go reinforce Hideyoshi out west. And for reasons that are not quite clear, but of course, lead to lots of speculation and dramatic interpretation. Akechi decides that instead of turning west to go support Hideyoshi, he's going to turn his forces east, march into Kyoto, surround the residence of Nobunaga, which is the Honnō-ji Temple in central Kyoto. It's where he normally took up residence when he was in the city, and attack his own war.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>


==Preparation==
We don't really know why we don't really get any full explanation of Akechi's motives. There's lots of speculation that it had to do with resentment at court treatment by Nobunaga. One thing that we do know is that Akechi's mother had been killed by a rival clan where Akechi had given them his mother as a hostage, as insurance essentially against an attack. And Nobunaga superseded that and ordered the attack anyway. So they killed Akechi's mother. Other things are rumors that he was physically abusive and verbally abusive to Mitsuhide personally.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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But for whatever reason, Akechi decides that this is his moment while Nobunaga is lightly guarded. He's certainly not expecting anybody to attack him in Kyoto. They surround Nobunaga's residence, set out on fire. Nobunaga and his guards fight back, but are eventually overwhelmed. Nobunaga commits suicide. And then his heir as well, who was also in Kyoto, is attacked by Akechi's forces and dies. So in one stroke, the Akechi have eliminated, basically decapitated the Oda family and thus ended Nobunaga's career.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05"/>
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==Syndicate Memories==
===[[Yasuke]]===
===Bounty Hunts===
we know that he's from Africa, but we don't know for certain which parts of Africa, apart from that it would have been on the East Coast. The descriptions we have from Japanese descriptions are very much of somebody from what is now South Sudan, very tall, very black, very strong. Whereas there's a couple of sources which suggest he might have come from the Mozambique area. However, he doesn't fit the description very much of people from that region. There's also the full possibility that he could have been somehow trafficked from the South Sudan area down south and come through Mozambique as well.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 4: Yasuke: The First African Samurai</ref>
<tabber>
Homer Dalton=
Era|Memories|ACS
{{Memory Infobox
| image =
| description = ''Homer grew up in high society, but fell from grace when his father was implicated in a political scandal. Learning to live at street-level in the East End, he gets his income by squeezing it from those who need the most.''
| type = Bounty hunt memory
| fullsync = <small>
*Bring back the target alive.</small>
| source = [[Jacob Frye]]/[[Evie Frye]]
| location = London, [[United Kingdom]]
| date = 1868}}
'''Homer Dalton''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Jacob Frye]] and [[Evie Frye]]'s [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]], relived by a [[Helix initiate]] through the [[Helix|Helix Navigator]].


==Description==
He arrived in May 1579 on a ship from Macau to get from Africa, whichever part of Africa it was to Macau and then to Japan. He'd already spent time in India. He'd spent time in Malacca in modern day Malaysia. And I think it was about six to nine months in Macau. He was the bodyguard of a Jesuit, the head Jesuit in Asia, essentially the head of the Christian church in Asia, a man called Alessandro Valignano. And Valignano was on a tour from Rome.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Jacob or Evie Frye were tasked with bringing in the criminal [[Homer Dalton]].
==Dialogue==


==Outcome==
It's highly likely that he would have been Christian, at least on paper.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Dalton was delivered to the authorities.


==References==
In those days, he was considered a giant<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''


ACSMemories
Yasuke is recorded two years afterwards as having quite a good level of Japanese. [...] He [Valignano] was the person who insisted that his missionaries study Chinese, Japanese, various Indian languages, so it's conceivable that Yasuke had already started to learn Japanese before he arrived.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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Harrison Harley=
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{{Memory Infobox
| image =
| description = ''A minor canon of Westminster Abbey, Harrison Harley has led a life of blind servitude, devoted to the Church of England. Over the years, however, he has become increasingly dissatisfied with what he perceives to be 'ungodly' allowances in the Abbey and plans to burn the magnificent building to the ground.''
| type = Bounty hunt memory
| fullsync = <small>
*Bring back the target alive.</small>
| source = [[Jacob Frye]]/[[Evie Frye]]
| location = London, [[United Kingdom]]
| date = 1868}}
'''Harrison Harley''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Jacob Frye]] and [[Evie Frye]]'s [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]], relived by a [[Helix initiate]] through the [[Helix|Helix Navigator]].


==Description==
Another one, when getting to Miyako, which is now Kyoto, a huge mob literally surrounded the mission and almost pushed the mission down, throwing stones. There were dead people in the crowd outside. And at that point, Nobunaga, who was the most powerful warlord in Japan at the time, was five minutes walk away. He heard this huge hullaballo, which he liked. He heard what was going on. And he demanded to see who was disturbing the peace, demanded that this person be brought before him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Jacob or Evie Frye were tasked with bringing in the criminal [[Harrison Harley]].
==Dialogue==


==Outcome==
Somehow within a few days, Yasuke has entered Nobunaga's service. Within a month, he's gone to Nobunaga's castle town. There's another Jesuit record from there. And there's a Japanese record from there as well that says how much Nobunaga enjoyed talking to him, that he gave him a house, that he gave him a sword. And that's where the idea that he became a samurai comes into it.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
Harley was delivered to the authorities.


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


ACSMemories
So Yasuke was there at Nobunaga's death. He possibly was the last person to see him alive. Nobunaga was killed in a coup d'etat, essentially. He was heading to the front with this small corps of men over which Yasuke was one, around 30 people. And one of his generals, basically, we still don't know to this day why, he brought his whole army of 13,000 and attacked. They were all gunned down, essentially. Nobunaga, with Yasuke and his lover, [Mori] Ranmaru, come into the middle of the temple where their last moments are held. The temple's on fire around them. And Nobunaga really is going to know what happened in that room because there's only three people and they all died, except for Yasuke. But we only know that Yasuke survived because the Jesuits recorded as such. We don't know what he saw, unfortunately. The normal legend goes Nobunaga cut his belly, Ranmaru took his head off as his second, and then one supposes that Ranmaru then cut his belly and Yasuke took off Ranmaru's head. And the supposed last order is Yasuke save my head. Yasuke runs with the head to Nobunaga's son, who is probably about five to ten minutes walk away, very close, in a different temple. So about to be attacked. Also just putting up the defenses for a last ditch stand. Of course, that doesn't last very long. He's dead within the hour or so. And all we know from the Jesuit source, there are no more Japanese sources, all we know from the Jesuit source is that Yasuke was there at the last. He was one of the few survivors. He was taken prisoner. He surrendered his sword. And he was then escorted to the Jesuit mission, which was again only five minutes walk away. This is a very small area of Kyoto where all this happens. The Jesuits give thanks to God for his deliverance.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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Wade Lynton=
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{{Memory Infobox
| image =
| description = ''Wade Lynton is known for two things: random acts of violence and public drunkenness. A criminal since the age of twelve, Lynton is now twenty-two, and his lust for crime has only increased. Having recently caused disturbances in the "nicer parts of town", law enforcement has taken quite an interest in him.''
| type = Bounty hunt memory
| fullsync = <small>
*Bring back the target alive.</small>
| source = [[Jacob Frye]]/[[Evie Frye]]
| location = London, [[United Kingdom]]
| date = 1868}}
'''Wade Lynton''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Jacob Frye]] and [[Evie Frye]]'s [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]], relived by a [[Helix initiate]] through the [[Helix|Helix Navigator]].


==Description==
===[[Hattori Hanzō]]===
Jacob or Evie Frye were tasked with bringing in the criminal [[Wade Lynton]].
Many of them [Iga warriors] went to work for a retainer of Tokugawa Iyasu who has become famous in kind of ninja lore, man by the name of Hattori Hanzo. And Hattori Hanzo had family ties to Iga. He's often referred to or portrayed as in pop culture as a ninja, but he was a samurai retainer, a warrior just like many of the warriors that fought for any of the Daimyo of this period. He appears in most of Tokugawa Iyasu's battles until Hanzo dies in 1590s. He is considered one of Tokugawa Iyasu's closest retainers, but because through his family ties, he had a knowledge base of these sort of unconventional guerilla tactics. He also had through those ties, the ability to kind of act as a landing place for many of these men of Iga. And so many of them went to work for Tokugawa Ieyasu under the command of Hattori Hanzo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
==Dialogue==


==Outcome==
There's actually a gate of what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, but underneath the Tokugawa Shoguns was the Shogun's Palace. One of the gates is named the Hanzo Mon, the Gate of Hanzo, the Hanzo Gate. And this is because Hattori Hanzo and the men of Iga that he recruited acted as a special guard force for the Tokugawa Shoguns.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
Lynton was delivered to the authorities.


==References==
{{Reflist}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''


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My primary sandbox.

Sigh[edit | edit source]

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

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

ACL notes[edit | edit source]

  • Cutlass, Queen Anne Pistol are default
  • Dressing chamber in smugglers' camp also does not have the same name as the ones in new orleans.
  • A Slave in Trouble
    • Cartographer's Watch (PW1)
    • Sword (1508 écu)
    • All outfit colors (1500 écu)
  • The Safe House
    • Animus memory notes: "Since the disappearance of her mother, Aveline has been raised by Madeleine de L'Isle. With the realization that they shared similar views on slavery, the bond between the two women grow stronger." (Appears after end of memory)
  • The Escape
    • "Two years have passed since Aveline disposed of Governor d'Abbadie. During that time, she found no trace of the man called de Ferrer, yet his plans continue to threaten New Orleans' population."
  • The Loas Guide You
    • Engraved Watch (PW2)
  • By Meet the Smugglers (did not check weapon shop during The Loas Guide You)
    • Cuttoe Sword (3120)
    • Pocket Pistol (20000)
    • Double-Barreled Pistol (10000)
  • After Citizen E (1)
  • The Whole Truth
    • "The revelation that Agaté knew her mother Jeanne - a fact he chose to keep from her - strained the relationship between mentor and mentee. With de Ferrer back in New Orleans, Aveline redoubles her efforts to protect its citizens."
  • Prélude to Rebellion
    • Trade system: New Orleans and Havana unlocked. Only cotton is available. Barque, brigantine, galleon and schooner available as ships.
  • After memory concludes, but before next one begins:
    • Pourpre Rosa Watch and Gentleman's Watch (4375,6250)
    • Hatchet (16380)
    • Chimbuya Axe (16860)
    • Machete (16640)
    • Colichemarde (18040)
    • Naval Axe (21240)
    • Dual Pistols (20000)
    • Trade system: Tobacco available.
  • Elegant and Deadly
    • Aveline's shops offer the outfits for 1000, and the hood for 500, small fast poison pouch 4k, small cartridge pouch 750, small smoke bomb 1200 [Did not check when pouches first became available, small fast poison pouch 8k, small cartridge pouch 1500, small smoke bomb 2400]
    • After taking care of her father's business troubles, Aveline sets out to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of slaves and vagrants.
    • M. Reynaud's Bypass and M. de Vandal's Harbor available
    • Owned weapon shop prices: hatchet 8190, chimbuya axe 8430, sword 754, cuttoe sword 1560, machete 8320, colichemarde 9020, naval axe 10620, dual pistols 10k, pocket pistol 10k, double barred pistol 5k
    • Trade system: Veracruz made available, Fruits available






  • Confident that Governor Ulloa is behind the disappearances in New Orleans, Aveline puts her plan in motion to lure him out of La Balise, which he seldom leaves.
  • Firm in her belief and confident that she can put an end to the machinations of her enemies, Aveline disobeys Agaté and boards a slave ship bound to an unknown location. This decision further strays their relationship.
  • With de Ferrer dead and the slave colony free, Aveline travels back to New Orleans. Upon her return, she finds a world very different than the one she had left. Yet, the identity of the Company Man remains a mystery.

CST[edit | edit source]

Glyphs[edit | edit source]

HM

HMM

HMMM

In the Beginning

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

Passcode found 2 4 5 6 8

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Passcode Found 1 8 9 1 6

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

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

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

It will bring peace and harmony to earth.

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

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

  • Subject 16: He found it in Croatia.

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

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

Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2

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

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

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

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

Sincerely yours,

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

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

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

[Image of Mark Twain with tesla's apple.

Ford (Archive) [access file] Access denied

[Bunch of images]

Dear Mr. Edison,

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

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

Yours,


Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2

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

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

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

I believe that history will vindicate us in the end.

[red button] [click it]

[atomic bomb video clip]

[smoke, find code 71645]

Passcode Found 7 1 6 4 5

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

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

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

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

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

We respect your freedom above all else.


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

[video of an explosion]

Passcode Found 8 1 1 2 6

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

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

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

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

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

[destroyed bunker]

Passcode Found 0 1 5 4 5

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Passcode Found 6 5 1 1 9

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

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

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

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

The birth of humanity. The truth makes me sick.

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

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

Passcode Found 0 0 0 0 0

Rifts[edit | edit source]

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

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

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

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


  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found red spot]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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

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

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

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

lo [x17]

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

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found 2 red spots]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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

July 22, 1944

Fellows, rulers, welcome.

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

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

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

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

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


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

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

[found 2 red spots]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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

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

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

SUBJECT: South America

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

Re: Argentina

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

Re: Chile

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

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

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

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

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

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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

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

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

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

Abstergo phone records
1992 [amplitude puzzle]

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

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

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

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

  • Animus: Quarantine zone.

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

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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

RE: Privatization

S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

[Circular puzzle] Good morning and welcome to television.

Research Division
September, 1985

Dear S.,

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

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

W. V.


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

Abstergo phone records
April, 2011 [amplitude puzzle]

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

[Phone line rings as the call transferred]

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

[Loud banging is heard in the background]

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

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

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

[found 5 red spots]

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

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

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

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

Abstract

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

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

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

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


Abstergo top secret
January, 2012 [amplitude puzzle]

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

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

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

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

  • Animus: Quarantine lifted.

the/mir/a/cle/is/in/the/exe/cution

Shadows mem[edit | edit source]

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

MTG[edit | edit source]

Missing full art[edit | edit source]

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

The Big Issues[edit | edit source]

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

Check[edit | edit source]

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

Full art gallery prep[edit | edit source]

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Cards[edit | edit source]

Lethal Legends[edit | edit source]

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

Da Vinci's Designs[edit | edit source]

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

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Echoes of Shadows[edit | edit source]

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