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My primary sandbox.
My primary sandbox.


==FT==
==Sigh==
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User:Nygma PI/Sandbox
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[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]
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==MTG==
[[Destroyer Samurai]], [[Onnamusha Kosode]] -> [[Destroyer Samurai Armor]], [[Legendary Onna-musha Kosode]]
===Missing full art===
 
<div style="height:300px; overflow:auto; width:100%;">
==ACL notes==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
===Weapons===
! width="5%" |Id
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
! width="35%" |Name
!width="5%"|Name
! width="25%" |Type
!width="5%"|Price (rival)
!width="5%"|Price (owned)
!width="5%"|Availability
|-
|-
|1
![[Ceremonial Blade]]
|The Capitoline Triad
|N/A
|Syd Mills
|N/A
|Ubisoft Connect
|-
|-
|2
![[Colichemarde]]
|Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
|
|Evan Shipard
|
|
|-
|-
|3
![[Cutlass (Liberation)|Cutlass]]
|Distract the Guards
|N/A
|Torgeir Fjereide
|N/A
|Default
|-
|-
|4
![[Cuttoe Sword]]
|Fall of the First Civilization
|3120
|L J Koh
|
|
|-
|-
|11
![[Hanger Sword (Liberation)|Hanger Sword]]
|What Must Be Done
|
|Syd Mills
|
|
|-
|-
|17
![[Heavy Cavalry Sword]]
|Eagle Vision
|
|Kim Sokol
|
|
|-
|-
|27
![[Officer's Short Sword]]
|Jacob Frye
|
|Lie Setiawan
|
|
|-
|-
|29
![[Pirate Scimitar]]
|Phantom Blade
|N/A
|Craig J Spearing
|N/A
|Ubisoft Connect
|-
|-
|32
![[Sword (Liberation)|Sword]]
|Roshan, Hidden Magister
|1508
|Marta Nael
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|33
![[Boarding Axe (Liberation)|Boarding Axe]]
|Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
|
|Bartek Fedyczak
|
|
|-
|-
|37
![[Macuahuitl]]
|Overpowering Attack
|
|Kim Sokol
|
|
|-
|-
|40
![[Naval Axe (Liberation)|Naval Axe]]
|Aveline de Grandpré
|
|Aurore Folny
|
|
|-
|-
|45
![[Obsidian Axe]]
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
|
|Axel Sauerwald
|
|
|-
|-
|46
![[Chimbuya Axe]]
|Arbaaz Mir
|
|Wangjie Li
|
|
|-
|-
|49
![[Assassin Tomahawk|Connor's Tomahawk]]
|Basim Ibn Ishaq
|N/A
|JB Casacop
|N/A
|Ubisoft Connect
|-
|-
|61
![[Hatchet]]
|Mary Read and Anne Bonny
|
|Wangjie Li
|
|
|-
|-
|62
![[Hook Axe]]
|Ratonhnhaké꞉ton
|
|Greg Staples
|
|
|-
|-
|65
![[Kuba]]
|Shay Cormac
|
|Axel Sauerwald
|
|
|-
|-
|67
![[Machete (Liberation)|Machete]]
|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
|
|Alice Xia Zhang
|
|
|-
|-
|70
![[Sugarcane Machete]]
|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic
|N/A
|L J Koh
|N/A
|Acquired during [[A Slave in Trouble]]
|-
|-
|79
![[Double-Barreled Pistol]]
|Abstergo Entertainment
|10000
|Alexander Gering
|
|
|-
|-
|84
![[Queen Anne's Pistol|Dual Pistols]]
|Coastal Piracy
|
|Wei Guan
|
|
|-
|-
|91
![[Dueling Pistol]]
|Go for the Throat
|
|Torgeir Fjereide
|
|
|-
|-
|94
![[Pepperbox Pistol]]
|Cathartic Reunion
|
|Syd Mills
|
|
|-
|-
|104
![[Pocket Pistol (Liberation)|Pocket Pistol]]
|Island
|20000
|Filipe Pagliuso
|
|
|-
|-
|106
![[Queen Anne's Pistol]]
|Swamp
|N/A
|Wangjie Li
|N/A
|Default
|}
 
===Gear===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
!width="5%"|Name
!width="5%"|Price (rival)
!width="5%"|Price (owned)
!width="5%"|Availability
|-
|-
|108
!Small Fast Poison Pouch
|Mountain
|8,000 écu
|Jeremy Paillotin
|
|
|-
|-
|121
!Medium Fast Poison Pouch
|Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
|15,000 écu
|JB Casacop
|
|
|-
|-
|133
!Large Fast Poison Pouch
|Roshan, Hidden Magister
|24,000 écu
|Astri Lohne
|
|
|-
|-
|136
!Small Cartridge Pouch
|Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
|1,500 écu
|Miguel Mercado
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|138
!Medium Cartridge Pouch
|Arbaaz Mir
|8,000 écu
|Bastien L. Deharme
|
|
|-
|-
|140
!Large Cartridge Pouch
|Aya of Alexandria
|22,000 écu
|Chase Stone
|
|
|-
|-
|141
!Small Smoke Bomb Pouch
|Basim Ibn Ishaq
|2,400 écu
|Astri Lohne
|
|
|-
|-
|142
!Medium Smoke Bomb Pouch
|Bayek of Siwa
|10,000 écu
|Miguel Mercado
|
|
|-
|-
|149
!Large Smoke Bomb Pouch
|Lydia Frye
|35,000 écu
|Bastien L. Deharme
|
|
|-
|-
|152
!Small Berserk Poison Pouch
|Shaun & Rebecca, Agents
|15,000 écu
|John Stanko
|
|
|-
|-
|274
!Medium Berserk Poison Pouch
|Eivor, Battle-Ready
|25,000 écu
|Fajareka Setiawan
|
|
|-
|-
|292
!Large Berserk Poison Pouch
|Spartan Veteran
|34,000 écu
|Bartek Fedyczak
|
|
|-
|-
|293
!Default Assassin
|Surtr, Fiery Jötun
|N/A
|Evan Shipard
|N/A
|Default
|-
|-
|297
!Assassin White
|Raven Clan War-Axe
|1,500 écu
|Kim Sokol
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|300
!Pirate Black
|Stone Quarry
|1,500 écu
|Piotr Dura
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|307
!Sailor Blue
|Hidden Blade
|1,500 écu
|Evyn Fong
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|T005
!Ivory
|Phobos
|1,500 écu
|Daniel Correia
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|}
!Smuggler Gray
</div>
|1,500 écu
 
|
====The Big Issues====
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
<div style="height:300px; overflow:auto; width:100%;">
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
! width="5%" |Id
! width="35%" |Name
! width="25%" |Type
|-
|-
|6
!Night Stalker
|Hookblade
|1,500 écu
|Thanh Tuấn
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|9
!Bayou Hunter
|Tax Collector
|N/A
|Miklós Ligeti
|N/A
|Collect all [[Assassins' coins]]
|-
|-
|13
!Default Green
|Ballad of the Black Flag
|N/A
|Miklós Ligeti
|N/A
|Default
|-
|-
|15
!Evening Umber
|Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
|1,500 écu
|Thanh Tuấn
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|22
!Blue Elegance
|Assassin Initiate
|1,500 écu
|Mandy Jurgens
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
!Formal Black
|1,500 écu
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|34
!Discreet Gray
|Hidden Footblade
|1,500 écu
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|38
!Yellow Rose
|The Spear of Leonidas
|1,500 écu
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
!Business Dress
|1,500 écu
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|41
!Charming Dress
|Hunter's Bow
|N/A
|Miklós Ligeti
|N/A
|Collect all [[Jeweled brooches]]
|-
|-
|42
!Slave Disguise
|Palazzo Archers
|N/A
|Miklós Ligeti
|N/A
|Default
|-
|-
|47
!Worker Disguise
|Arno Dorian
|1,500 écu
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|51
!Cook Disguise
|Bleeding Effect
|1,500 écu
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|52
!Maid Disguise
|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
|1,500 écu
|Mandy Jurgens
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|60
!Nanny Disguise
|Lydia Frye
|1,500 écu
|Mandy Jurgens
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|72
!Gardener Disguise
|Excalibur, Sword of Eden
|1,500 écu
|Thanh Tuấn
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|80
!Chichen Itza Disguise
|Brotherhood Headquarters
|N/A
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|N/A
|Collect all [[Voodoo dolls]]
|-
|-
|82
!Assassin's Hat
|Reconnaissance
|N/A
|Mandy Jurgens
|N/A
|Default
|-
!Assassin's Hood
|750 écu
|
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|97
!Alligator Hunter Hat
|Reconstruct History
|N/A
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|N/A
|[[Mysteries of the Bayou Pack]] (Vita) or [[Uplay]] (HD)
|-
|-
|99
!Smuggler's Hat
|Sword of Feast and Famine
|N/A
|Thanh Tuấn
|N/A
|Collect all of [[Jeanne's diary pages]]
|-
|-
|110
!Traveler's Hat
|Forest
|N/A
|Miklós Ligeti
|N/A
|Collect all [[Alligator eggs]]
|}
 
===Pocket watches===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
!'''Image'''
!'''Name'''
!'''Price'''  (''é'')
!'''Availability'''
|-
|-
|118
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 01.png
|Leonardo da Vinci
|Cartographer's Watch
|Miklós Ligeti
|1,250
|[[New Orleans by Night]]
|-
|-
|119
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 02.png
|Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
|Engraved Watch
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|1,875
|The Loas Guide You
|-
|-
|122
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 03.png
|Apple of Eden, Isu Relic
|Pourpre Rosa Watch
|Thanh Tuấn
|4,375
|
|-
|-
|123
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 04.png
|Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
|Gentleman's Watch
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|6,250
|
|-
|-
|130
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 05.png
|Desmond Miles
|Flemish Timepiece
|Alex Negrea
|9,375
|
|-
|-
|137
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 06.png
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
|Antique Watch
|Alex Negrea
|13,750
|
|-
|-
|143
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 07.png
|Edward Kenway
|Parisian Masterpiece
|Alex Negrea
|21,250
|
|-
|-
|153
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 08.png
|Shay Cormac
|Engraved Silver
|Alex Negrea
|28,750
|
|-
|-
|277
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 09.png
|Detained by Legionnaires
|Armada Gold
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|35,000
|
|-
|-
|284
|ACLiberation Pocket Watch 10.png
|Tranquilize
|Admiral's Treasure
|Thanh Tuấn
|43,750
|}
 
===Trade system===
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width:700px; text-align:center"
!Port
!Availability
|-
|-
|286
![[New Orleans]]<br>{{c|Headquarters}}
|Brotherhood Patriarch
|Prélude to Rebellion
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|-
|-
|290
![[Veracruz]]
|Labyrinth Adversary
|
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|-
|-
|296
![[Havana]]
|Bureau Headmaster
|Prélude to Rebellion
|Thanh Tuấn
|-
|-
|T001
![[Campeche]]
|Copy
|
|Miklós Ligeti
|-
|-
|1559
![[Natchez]]
|Queen Marchesa
|
|Narendra Bintara Adi
|-
|-
|}
![[Port-au-Prince]]
</div>
|
 
===Check===
{| class="fandom-table"
|Artist
|ArtStation
|Instagram
|Twitter
|Cara
|Website
|-
|-
|Alex Negrea
![[New York City]]
|[https://www.artstation.com/alexnegrea]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/alexnegrea09]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alexnegrea_art/media]
|[https://cara.app/tzika/all]
|
|
|-
|-
|Alexander Gering
![[Boston]]
|[https://www.artstation.com/geringalex]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/geringalex]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alexgering111/media]
|[https://cara.app/alexgering/all]
|
|
|-
|-
|Alice Xia Zhang
![[Bridgetown]]
|
|
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/alicexz]
|-
|[https://nitter.poast.org/alicexz/media]
![[Seville]]
|
|
|[https://www.alicexz.com/]
|-
|-
|Astri Lohne
![[Bordeaux]]
|[https://www.artstation.com/sjursen]
|
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/astri.lohne]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/AstriLohne/media]
|[https://cara.app/astri/all]
|[https://www.astrilohne.com/illustration]
|-
|-
|Aurore Folny
![[Liverpool]]
|[https://www.artstation.com/aurorefolny]
|
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/aurorefolnyart]
|-
|[https://nitter.poast.org/aurorefolny/media]
|}
|[https://cara.app/aurorefolny/all]
 
|[https://aurorefolny.com/]
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width:700px; text-align:center"
!Image
!Product
!Availability
|-
|AC3L Cotton.png
|Cotton
|Prélude to Rebellion
|-
|-
|Axel Sauerwald
|AC3L Coffee.png
|[https://www.artstation.com/tithendar]
|[[Coffee]]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/axelsauerwald]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/AxelSauerwald/media]
|[https://cara.app/axelsauerwald/all]
|
|
|-
|-
|Bartek Fedyczak
|AC3L Fabric.png
|[https://www.artstation.com/fedyczak]
|[[Fabric]]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/bartekfedyczak]
|
|
|-
|AC3L Fruit.png
|Fruit
|
|
|-
|AC3L Furs.png
|[[Fur]]s
|
|
|-
|-
|Bastien L. Deharme
|AC3L Guns.png
|[https://www.artstation.com/deharme]
|[[Firearm|Guns]]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/deharme]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/deharme/media]
|[https://cara.app/deharme/all]
|
|
|-
|-
|Chase Stone
|AC3L Ice.png
|Ice
|
|
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/chasestone_art]
|-
|AC3L Molasses.png
|Molasses
|
|
|-
|AC3L Pitch.png
|Pitch
|
|
|[https://www.chasestoneart.com/tcg]
|-
|-
|Craig J Spearing
|AC3L Rum.png
|[[Rum]]
|
|
|-
|AC3L Spices.png
|Spices
|
|
|-
|AC3L Steel.png
|[[Steel]]
|
|
|-
|AC3L Sugar.png
|[[Sugar]]
|
|
|[https://craigspearing.com/cards]
|-
|-
|Daniel Correia
|AC3L Tobacco.png
|[https://www.artstation.com/danielcorreia]
|[[Tobacco]]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/danielcorreia_art]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/DanCorreiaArt/media]
|[https://cara.app/danielcorreia/all]
|
|
|-
|-
|Evan Shipard
|}
|[https://www.artstation.com/ev_s]
 
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/evshipardart]
===Missions===
|[https://nitter.poast.org/_ev/media]
 
|[https://cara.app/evshipard/all]
===Animus memory notes===
|[https://www.evanshipardfineart.com/]
Always at the end of the current memory
*[[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."
*[[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 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."
*[[Elegant and Deadly]]
**After taking care of her father's business troubles, Aveline sets out to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of slaves and vagrants.
*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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|style="border:#FF0000; border-style:solid solid none solid;"|[[File:AC2 - Diana and Calysto.jpg|200px]]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/fajarekas]
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|[https://nitter.poast.org/FajarekaS/media]
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|[https://www.artstation.com/filipe-pagliuso]
|style="border:#FF0000; border-style:none solid solid solid;"|Judgement of Paris
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/filipepagliuso]
|style="border:#100404; border-style:none solid solid solid;"|Triumph of Bacchus
|
|style="border:#FF0000; border-style:none solid solid solid;"|Idun and the Apples
|[https://cara.app/filipepagliuso/all]
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|
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|}
|[https://www.artstation.com/gregstaples]
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|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/gregstaplesart]
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|JB Casacop
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|[https://www.artstation.com/jbcasacop]
BLAH
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/jbcasacop]
{{!}}-{{!}}
|
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|[https://cara.app/jbcasacop/all]
BLAH BLAH
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|Jeremy Paillotin
BLAH BLAH BLAH
|[https://www.artstation.com/jeremypaillotin]
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|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/jeremy.paillotin]
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HM
|
|-|TAB 3=
|
HMM
|-
|-|TAB 4=
|John Stanko
HMMM
|[https://www.artstation.com/johnstanko]
</tabber>
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/johnstankoart]
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/johnstankoart/media]
<tabber>
|
|-|1=
|[https://stankoillustration.com/]
;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.
|Kim Sokol
[Pictures 3,5,6,7,9]
|[https://www.artstation.com/kimsokol]
 
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/kimsokolart]
Passcode found 2 4 5 6 8
|[https://nitter.poast.org/kimsokol/media]
 
|[https://cara.app/kimsokol/all]
|-|2=
|[https://www.kimsokol.com/]
;Sixty-Four Squares
|-
*Subject 16: The past: a vast web of connections and interconnections, all ruled by chance. Or is it?
|L J Koh
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/kheljay]
[circular puzzle]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/koh_lj]
Queen Elizabeth I
|
of England
|
1559
|
ID: Piece of Eden 2 - Apple
|-
 
|Lie Setiawan
[circular puzzle]
|[https://www.artstation.com/liesetiawan]
Emperor Napoleon I
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/liesetiawan]
of France
|[https://nitter.poast.org/ls_setiawan/media]
1812
|[https://cara.app/liesetiawan/all]
ID: Piece of Eden 1 - Apple
|[https://www.liesetiawan.com/projects]
 
|-
[circular puzzle]
|Mandy Jurgens
George Washington
|[https://www.artstation.com/aliena85]
United States
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/saonserey]
1781
|[https://nitter.poast.org/Aliena85/media]
ID: Piece of Eden 3 - Apple
|
 
|
Passcode found 1 0 3 5 2
|-
 
|Marta Nael
|-|3=
|[https://www.artstation.com/martanael]
;Descendants
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/martanael]
*Subject 16: Power doesn't die. It's passed on.
|[https://nitter.poast.org/MartaNael/media]
 
|
He carried it with him. Find his inheritance.
|[https://www.martanael.com/projects]
[image, locate Piece of Eden 3]
|-
Franklin Delano Roosevelt strategic meeting, 1944
|Miguel Mercado
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/merkymerx]
[image, locate Piece of Eden 1]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/merkymerx]
Houdini beginning the Chinese water torture cell escape, 1913
|[https://nitter.poast.org/merkymerx/media]
 
|
[image, locate Piece of Eden 2]
|
Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930
|-
 
|Miklós Ligeti
Passcode found 1 4 5 2 3
|[https://www.artstation.com/miklosligeti]
 
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/ligeti.miklos_art]
|-|4=
|
;Infinite Knowledge
|[https://cara.app/miklosligeti/all]
*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.
|[https://miklosligeti.com/albums/2629396]
 
|-
Its open <font color="#FF0000">mouth</font> delivers the kiss of death
|Narendra Bintara Adi
[image,  locate hidden image in the gun's barrel]
|[https://www.artstation.com/bukandewa]
Burning Viet Cong base camp, My Tho, Vietnam, 1968
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/narendrabintaraadi]
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/narendrabadi/media]
Leading the <font color="#FF0000">young</font> to their end.
|[https://cara.app/narendrabintaraadi/all]
[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
|-
 
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
The flames from its throat <font color="#FF0000">poke</font> out their eyes
|[https://www.artstation.com/nezt]
[image, locate ID: Piece of Eden 4 - Apple on tapestry]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/nestor_ossandon]
Union troops in formation. Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.
|
 
|
This <font color="#FF0000">monster</font> did not come from man.
|
[image,  locate hidden image in the gun's barrel]
|-
The first pictorial representation of a gun, 900
|Piotr Dura
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/threedee]
Passcode found 7 2 1 1 4
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/piotr_dura]
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/PiotrDuraArt/media]
|-|5=
|
;Instruments of Power
|
*Subject 16: You see? Do you see what's going on? Not yet. But you will.
|-
 
|Syd Mills
The power they wielded <font color="#FF0000">cut</font> down their enemies.
|
[Pictures 2, 3, 6, 8, 9]
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/vetyyr]
ID: Piece of Eden 25 - Sword
|[https://nitter.poast.org/vetyyr/media]
 
|
In their hands, the wise <font color="#FF0000">lean</font> on a great force.
|
[Pictures 3, 6, 8, 9, 10]
|-
ID: Piece of Eden 34 - Staff
|Thanh Tuấn
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/pencillien]
Passcode Found 8 1 4 9 2
|
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/ThanhTuan613/media]
|-|6=
|
;Brothers
|
*Subject 16: They were mostly heroes. But see, how the lineage is disrupted. The web of history traps the good, and the evil take what is not theirs!
|-
 
|Torgeir Fjereide
[circular puzzle]
|[https://www.artstation.com/torgeirfjereide]
And Satan said unto Cain: swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die.
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/thebrushofthor]
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/TheBrushOfThor/media]
[circular puzzle]
|
And all these things were done in secret.
|[https://www.thebrushofthor.com/magic-the-gathering]
 
|-
[circular puzzle]
|Wangjie Li
And Cain said: truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret.
|[https://www.artstation.com/wangjieli]
 
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/wangjie_li]
[circular puzzle]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/wangjiel/media]
Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.
|
 
|[http://www.wangjieli.com/]
*Subject 16: Behold: The mark of Cain!
|-
[The four pictures and quotes, now with a templar insignia above them]
|Wei Guan
- . -- .--. .-.. .- .-. - . -..- - ... .- -.. .- .--. - . -.. -... -.-- -- .-. .-.-.- ... -- .. - ....
|[https://www.artstation.com/gworld]
(TEMPLARTSADAPTEDBYMR.SMITH)
|[https://instanavigation.com/user-profile/guanwei90]
 
|
Passcode Found 5 2 9 3 1
|[https://cara.app/guanweiart/all]
 
|
|-|7=
|}
;"Keep On Seeking, And You Will Find"
 
First plucked from a tree guarded by a snake, its powers perform miracles. Then, worn across the ages, torn asunder, hidden under a sea of <font color="#FF0000">red</font>, reconstruct the timeline.
[Pictures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6]
 
[SPQR Templar symbol]
 
[Image of crucifixion, locate ID: Piece of Eden 66 - Shroud]
 
Passcode Found 1 0 1 5 2
 
|-|8=
;Martyrs
 
[Picture, locate staff: Piece of Eden 34]
Czar Nicholas II, Russia
 
[Picture, locate sword: Piece of Eden 25]
Joan of Arc, France
 
[Map of europe, picture of Joan of Arc on France, Nicholas II and Rasputin on different sections of Russia, fire symbol on north turkey]
 
[Drag fire to joan]
They burned Joan alive.
[image of burning Jeanne]
They took it.
 
[Drag Rasputin to Nicholas]
Raputin took it to Tunguska.
[Revolution image with templar symbol overlayed on it]
*Subject 16: Without the staff, the Czar was powerless. He could no longer control his subjects... Revolution! Revolution!
 
Passcode Found 6 8 1 8 5
 
|-|9=
;Hat-Trick
*Subject 16: Three thefts. Hidden by the murders. People only see what they're trained to see. What the Organization wants them to see.
 
They made it look like an accident.
[image, find apple in pocket]
Houdini and Bess, 1915
 
[image]
Houdini's grave. RIP: October 31, 1926.
 
He almost <font color="#FF0000">beat</font> them.
[image, find apple on chest]
Gandhi, 1946
 
[image]
Gandhi's funeral procession. RIP: January 30, 1948.
 
Dallas (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
*Subject 16: The wolves are out hunting. Where, oh where, has Jack gone?
[Bunch of images, password 312]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Dallas Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=OPERATION: New Frontier<br><br>HQ has given the go-ahead to extract the resource. Negotiations are over. F. is planning to give the vote to everyone. Reason just doesn't work with someone like that.<br><br>I'll send you the driver. We've trained him with PE2 in our labs, he shouldn't be any trouble.<br><br>The motorcade route is marked below. Once the target has been downed, either by Oswald or Z., use PE1 to stage a distraction. Make some kind of phantom appear around this slope I've marked with an X. Freak people out. The driver will grab PE3 in the confusion.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Signature.png
|PS=AC2 Glyph - Dallas PS.png}}
 
Passcode Found 1 8 9 1 6
 
|-|10=
;Apollo
*Subject 16: Something was up there. Something abandoned long ago.
 
[image of moon]
 
Find the eagle.
[Moon closeup, find lunar lander module]
 
[zoomed on lander]
 
[odd puzzle]
With these formidable weapons, the adversaries of freedom plan to consolidate their terrotory, to exploit, to control, and finally to destroy.<br>- JFK -
 
Apollo 11 photograph released to the public
[image, find apple near astronaut's foot ID: Piece of Eden 5 - Apple]
*Subject 16: With Jack deep underground, it was easy.
 
Passcode Found 1 0 3 5 2
 
|-|11=
;The Inventor
*Subject 16: He wanted to stop the cycle, to tell the secret. Shit. I've got to keep thinking through the headaches.
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Tesla Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.<br><br>By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and to do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste. It will make the living glorious sun his obedient, toiling slave.<br><br>It will bring peace and harmony to earth.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Tesla Signature.png}}
 
[Image of world with 14 lightbulbs]
[Light them up and an image of wardenclyffe appears]
 
[Image of wardenclyffe, locate hidden image beneath above the door]
Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower under construction, c. 1902
 
*Subject 16: He found it in Croatia.
[image, locate Piece of Eden 4 on his lap.]
Nikola Tesla. c.1900
*Subject 16: They would find it in his lab.
 
Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2
 
|-|12=
;Titans of Industry
 
Edison (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
[Bunch of images, password 240]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Edison Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=Dear Mr. Morgan:<br><br>A serious matter has come to my attention. Nikola Tesla plans to use PE4 to create an information network across the entire world. And if that weren't bad enough, he intends to allow access to it for free! Imagine the masses spreading knowledge amongst themselves instantaneously. That would make everything we intend to do much more difficult.<br><br>You must cut all funds for his experimetns at once! In case you get cold feet, I'll have you know he wants to make electricity free as well, thereby putting us out of business.<br><br>I've already begun slandering Tesla in the press. Just reallocate his funding, and I'll take care of PE4 myself.<br><br>Sincerely yours,
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Edison Signature.png}}
 
Edison, creator of DC electricity, accuses Tesla's AC current of electrocution!
J.P. Morgan revokes funding for Tesla's Wardenclyfe Project!
Edison creates "electric chair" to prove danger of AC current!
[Image of world with 14 lit lightbulbs]
[Destroy them]
 
Edison proves danger of AC current by electrocuting circus elephant on camera!
[video clip]
 
*Subject 16: He wanted everyone to know the secret. To set us all free. They used it to drive him insane.
[Image of Mark Twain with tesla's apple.
 
Ford (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
[Bunch of images]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Ford Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=Dear Mr. Edison,<br><br>I wanted to thank you for letting me make use of PE4 all these years. Among several things, I was able to convince the workers I was raising their pay to $5 a day, when, in fact, I gave them a pay cut. But, I had to let PE4 go. As per instructions, I've shipped it to Europe.<br><br>H. has it, so I assume the war will begin as soon as he can take over. We'll let him have his fun (Lord knows, that kind of purge will be good for Europe) and then end it with a bang, as planned. Out of the chaos of war a new order will emerge! I've enclosed a picture from Florida of you, me and Firestone. We should attempt to spend more time on the golf course this summer.<br><br>Yours,
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Ford Signature.png
|PS=AC2 Glyph - Ford PS.png}}
 
Passcode Found 6 1 9 0 2
 
|-|13=
;"I Am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds"
 
[bunch of images]
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=SUBJECT: Test Authorization<br><br>There comes a time in the life of every experiment when we must test our results outside, in the world. I do not relish a successful outcome, but one is essential if we are to begin the foundations of a new world order.<br><br>Global security and prosperity depend on a steady hand guiding the populace, a hand that will not falter under the weight of conscience. Give O. the authorization.<br><br>I believe that history will vindicate us in the end.
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Signature.png}}
 
[red button]
[click it]
 
[atomic bomb video clip]
 
[smoke, find code 71645]
 
Passcode Found 7 1 6 4 5
 
|-|14=
;Bloodlines
*Subject 16: I don't know what's happening to me. I've been in the machine, they keep putting me back in. And I am losing control. It's all blurring together. I'm holding a rifle, Gettysburg is in the distance, I just stabbed a man, and there's blood on my waistcoat. I'm at the opera, the soprano is so beautiful. I'm in bed with her, she cries as I fuck her. I'm speaking at the Forum, no one listens. I'm in the forest, hunting. The moon. I can see the moon. I'm here. I have to stay here until you understand! Listen. Why do we have these gifts, these abilities? Because it's in our blood.
 
The seeds were planted as two worlds became one. Behold, the Assassins, the children of two worlds!
[pictures 1,4,6,7,10]
[Assassin crest appears]
 
Passcode Found 8 0 9 4 5
 
|-|15=
;Guardians
 
[circular puzzle]
The death of all tyrants will set the people free.
 
[World map with 8 targets spread out on it]
[Hovering over them, reveals Assassin targets: John Wilkes Booth in the US; François Duvalier in Haiti; Francisco Pizarro in Peru; Mary I of England in England; Tomas de Torquemada in Spain; Cleopatra in Egypt; Rasputin  and Joseph Stalin in Russia
 
Passcode Found 2 3 4 1 4
 
|-|16=
;The Cavalry
*Subject 16: It happened in 1908. Uhh... Or was it 2008? 1708? I can't remember!
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Text=Nikola,<br><br>We know what they have done to your lab, to your career. It may be too late to set things right, but you can help prevent something far worse. They have taken an object from the Czar, and are conducting experiments in Tunguska to figure out how to use it. Before they do, we must take it from them, or the world will be in danger. We do not ask you to risk your life, just that, when the time comes, you use your electricity to destroy the object.<br><br>Regardless of your decision, know that we admire your work greatly and will bear you no ill will.<br><br>We respect your freedom above all else.}}
 
[Map of europe with many different place names. Hover over Tunguska without touching the others]
[Staff of eden appears, drag it over to Tesla's picture]
 
[video of an explosion]


===Full art gallery prep===
Passcode Found 8 1 1 2 6
<!--
 
==Cards==
|-|17=
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center">
;The Bunker
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
WWII (Archive) [access file]
MTG ACR - Distract the Guards full art.jpg|Distract the Guards by Torgeir Fjereide
Access denied
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
[Bunch of images]
MTG ACR - Hookblade full art.jpg|Hookblade by Thanh Tuấn
 
MTG ACR - Layla Hassan full art.jpg|Layla Hassan by Michael MacRae
{{GlyphLetter
MTG ACR - Senu Keen-Eyed Protector full art.jpg|Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector by Michael MacRae
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Letterhead.png
MTG ACR - Tax Collector full art.jpg|Tax Collector by Miklós Ligeti
|LSize=275px
MTG ACR - Templar Knight full art.jpg|Templar Knight by Daniel Correia
|Text=May 02, 1945<br><br>The war is over, and we are in control, as planned. But, a slight concern has arisen. I received word from our agents in Berlin. H. was supposed to execute his double inside the bunker and meet C. at the rendezvous point with the Piece of Eden.<br><br>It's been three days and he still hasn't reappeared. Something must have gone awry. Please send instructions.
MTG ACR - What Must Be Done full art.jpg|What Must Be Done by Syd Mills
|Signature=AC2 Glyph - Abstergo Signature.png}}
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
*Subject 16: They engineered the war, they engineered the peace, but they weren't going to get away with it. Find our mark.
MTG ACR - Become Anonymous full art.jpg|Become Anonymous by
We watched the exit from above. He didn't see us coming.
[Fuherbunker image, locate Assassin insignia]
 
[destroyed bunker]
 
Passcode Found 0 1 5 4 5
 
|-|18=
;Synapses
*Subject 16: It's getting harder. All the pain across time, it hurts too much. She sees me raise the knife. Only a little bit longer now.
 
Medical (Archive) [access file]
Access denied
 
*Subject 16: In the beginning. Genesis. Genesis.
[Bunch of images]
 
*Subject 16: The Organization wanted the pieces. They'd tasted their power. But what were the pieces? Why did they work so well? It's as if our minds were made for them. Manufactured to obey.
 
{{GlyphLetter
|Letterhead=AC2 Glyph - Biological Frontier Letterhead.png
|LSize=275px
|Text=ISSUE 1, JANUARY, 2012<br><br>The scientific community is abuzz as the results of a new neurological study were made public today. What seemed to be big news in itself -- that Dr. Yijie Wu and Dr. P. J. Traunero had discovered a new neurotransmitter -- turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg.<br><br>To quote Dr. Wu, "Using a prototype dMRI machine, we've been able to examine the contents of an actual neuron in living tissue. We've found a substance that appears to be an undiscovered neurotransmitter."<br><br>"(Here's) where it gets crazy. To test our findings, we subjected the neuron to all kinds of stimuli, but we couldn't get it to release the transmitter. So, we've discovered an entire mechanism: there are vesicles filled with neurotransmitter lying dormant and corresponding ion channels, all for no discernable purpose."<br><br>Expressing bafflement that natural selection would create an unnecessary neurotransmitter, Wu and Traunero searched for a predecessor in other species, with no luck.


===[[Honnō-ji incident]] [1582]===
====The Big Issues====
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>
<div style="height:300px; overflow:auto; width:100%;">
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
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>
! width="5%" |Id
 
! width="35%" |Name
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"/>
! width="25%" |Type
 
|-
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>
|22
 
|Assassin Initiate
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>
|Mandy Jurgens
 
|-
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"/>
|34
 
|Hidden Footblade
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"/>
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
 
|-
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>
|38
 
|The Spear of Leonidas
===[[Imjin War]] [1592-1598]===
|Narendra Bintara Adi
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>
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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"/>
|Arno Dorian
 
|Narendra Bintara Adi
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>
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===[[Battle of Sekigahara]] [1600]===
|Bleeding Effect
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>
|Néstor Ossandón Leal
 
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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"/>
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===[[Siege of Osaka]] [1614-1615]===
|Mandy Jurgens
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>
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===[[Boshin War]] [1868-1869]===
|Lydia Frye
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>
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===[[Jesuits]]===
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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>
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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>
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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"/>
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Xavier left in 1551, but soon there came more and more Jesuits.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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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"/>
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And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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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"/>
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Tokugawa Ieyasu, he forbade Christianity totally. And all influence of the Jesuits was razed very systematically from then on.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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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>
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===[[Portuguese Empire]]===
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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>
|Desmond Miles
 
|Alex Negrea
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>
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==Three Great Unifiers==
|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
===[[Oda Nobunaga]]===
|Alex Negrea
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>
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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"/>
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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>
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What he succeeds in doing is very early on gaining control of a neighboring province and then he makes a very fortuitous alliance with the man who becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu. He doesn't yet have that name at this point in the 1550s but that's a great alliance. It allows Oda Nobunaga not to have to worry too much about the territory to one side of his own province and so he can look elsewhere for his focus 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"/>
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|ArtStation
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"/>
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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>
|Cara
 
|Website
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>
|Bluesky
 
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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"/>
|Alex Negrea
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/alexnegrea]
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"/>
|Alexander Gering
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/geringalex]
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"/>
|Alice Xia Zhang
 
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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"/>
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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"/>
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|[https://www.alicexz.com/]
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"/>
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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"/>
|Astri Lohne
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/sjursen]
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"/>
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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"/>
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|[https://www.astrilohne.com/illustration]
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"/>
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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"/>
|Aurore Folny
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/aurorefolny]
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"/>
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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"/>
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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"/>
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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"/>
|Axel Sauerwald
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/tithendar]
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"/>
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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"/>
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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"/>
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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"/>
|Bartek Fedyczak
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/fedyczak]
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"/>
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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"/>
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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"/>
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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"/>
|Bastien L. Deharme
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/deharme]
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"/>
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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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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"/>
|Chase Stone
 
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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>
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Nobunaga invades. He outnumbers the Iga defenders about four or five to one. And the Iga defenders are spread across the province. They can't concentrate in one location. They end up being concentrated in two castles, one in the north Hijiyama Castle, and one in the south Kashiwara Castle. But it all ends with the surrender of Kashiwara Castle on October 8th. At that point, there's no more organized resistance to Nobunaga. Nobunaga himself visits Iga in early November to take a tour of his new province, and then withdraws it and gives it to his son Nobukatsu as part of his domain to administer.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06"/>
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So one of their descendants, Yoshiyaki, was around and he was a pretty hopeless guy. But he was officially the Shogun. So Nobunaga's excuse for entering Kyoto was to reinstate him as Shogun. But actually, he, like a lot of these guys, is this Yoshiyaki. The Shogun was very treacherous. We wanted to get rid of Nobunaga, and he instigated a plot against him. So Nobunaga had him arrested and taken off to a castle in the middle of nowhere and left there forever. So that was the end of him.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
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So the Emperor [Michihito, Emperor Ōgimachi] was still rather broke. The Emperor throughout centuries was very often very poor, and very often just basically getting pocket money from whoever is in power, but still had respect and was still officially descended from the Sun Goddess, the most respected person in the entire land. So Nobunaga then gave the Emperor lots of money and furnished the Imperial Palace made it good. So he gave himself legitimacy as a ruler by helping out the Emperor.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
|Craig J Spearing
 
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He [Nobunaga] had a very dramatic and spectacular assassination by one of his own men. It's an amazing story, but that happened in Kyoto. He was in a temple where it was his land. He thought he was absolutely fine. He didn't have that many guards, and one of his own generals turned against him. So he was killed there.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
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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>
|[https://craigspearing.com/cards]
 
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yet for Hideyoshi Kyushu is a part of Japan that he simply must have so he sends around a quarter of a million men over to Kyushu to take it for himself which he manages to do in fairly short order in 1586 and 7<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
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|Daniel Correia
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"/>
|[https://www.artstation.com/danielcorreia]
 
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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"/>
|[https://nitter.poast.org/DanCorreiaArt/media]
 
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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"/>
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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>
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|Evan Shipard
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"/>
|[https://www.artstation.com/ev_s]
 
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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>
|[https://nitter.poast.org/_ev/media]
 
|[https://cara.app/evshipard/all]
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>
|[https://www.evanshipardfineart.com/]
 
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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"/>
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|Evyn Fong
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"/>
|[https://www.artstation.com/evynfong]
 
|[https://flufi.me/profile/evynfong]
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>
|[https://nitter.poast.org/evynfong/media]
 
|[https://cara.app/evynfong/all]
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"/>
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He built a palace in the middle of called Jurakudai, in the middle of Kyoto, where Nijō Castle is. That now, for those of you who've been there, anyone who's been there, right in the center. And then he also built Momoyama Castle [aka Fushimi Castle] in the south of Kyoto. And he also, while he was at it, I'm not sure if I'm answering your question anymore, but he had an enormous tea party for the entire population of Kyoto, the entire population, including all the poor people, and got them all to come. And it occupied a whole sort of enormous shrine grounds. And I think there was something like 800 tea pavilions there. Part of tea is displaying your beautiful utensils. And he displayed his gold utensils. And he also had an entire tea hut made of gold, the golden tea hut.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
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|Fajareka Setiawan
Hideyoshi sort of basically laid out Kyoto as it is now.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07"/>
|[https://www.artstation.com/fajareka]
 
|[https://flufi.me/profile/fajarekas]
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>
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===[[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]===
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What he succeeds in doing is very early on gaining control of a neighboring province and then he makes a very fortuitous alliance with the man who becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu. He doesn't yet have that name at this point in the 1550s but that's a great alliance. It allows Oda Nobunaga not to have to worry too much about the territory to one side of his own province and so he can look elsewhere for his focus [...]<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
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unfortunately he dies when his son Hideyori is still too young to assume power and so you have this council of elders who are controlling things until Hideyori is old enough to rule by himself but unfortunately on that council of elders is one Tokugawa Ieyasu who while you know professing a certain amount of loyalty to Hideyori is plotting and scheming instead to take it all for himself and so he becomes our third major figure.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
|Greg Staples
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/gregstaples]
he stations some troops in Kyoto to keep the emperor under a watchful eye not necessarily because of what the emperor might do but what people might use the emperor for some of his western enemies you know as in in the western part of Japan might potentially take the emperor as a figurehead and launch a further action against him it's not as though after a great battle like that everyone on the losing side thinks fair enough you know you've got me I'll walk away and agree to this so he has that our establishment Kyoto his own power base is Edo this castle town that is now the great city of Tokyo so his shogunate is really run out of Edo that's where his advisors are his castle is his strong economy is and he manages to really build up Edo I think in short order the other thing he does which is really establishing this process of unification really establishing the new Japan is he does this enormous reshuffling of territory in Japan I think it's the biggest reshuffling of territory in terms of who controls what in Japan's history so lots of the people who are on the losing side at the battle of Sekigahara either lose everything or their territory is drastically cut down or they're shipped off to another part of the country entirely perhaps all these things that are designed to damage their power he also as part of that reshuffle takes over a system that Hideyoshi used to use called Sankin Kortai<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02"/>
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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>
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|[https://www.gregstaples.com/selected-work-1]
So it kind of makes a name for Nobunaga. Another key thing about this battle, though, and the aftermath is that in the confusion of the Imagawa family with the loss of their head, several of their more talented and younger retainers, one of which we know today as Tokugawa Ieyasu, are able to claim independence. And Ieyasu establishes himself in his home territory of Mikawa, which is just to the east of Owari, and establishes an alliance with Nobunaga, thus providing a secure flank to Nobunaga's east, allowing Nobunaga to then look in other directions as he begins to expand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
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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"/>
|Jeremy Paillotin
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/jeremypaillotin]
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>
|[https://flufi.me/profile/jeremy.paillotin/]
 
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==The Jesuits==
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===[[Francis Xavier]]===
|[https://www.jeremypaillotinart.com/work]
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>
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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"/>
|John Stanko
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/johnstanko]
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"/>
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So afterwards, he went back from Kyoto. He got back to Hirado, where he put on very expensive clothes and then went again to the court of Ōuchi. And then he was received very well. He also gave a lot of presents, which he had brought from Portugal. And Ōuchi was very policed with that and gave permission for the Jesuits to preach their gospel in his domains.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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Xavier left in 1551, but soon there came more and more Jesuits.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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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>
|Kim Sokol
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/kimsokol]
 
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===[[Gaspar Vilela]]===
|[https://nitter.poast.org/kimsokol/media]
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>
|[https://cara.app/kimsokol/all]
 
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And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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===[[Alessandro Valignano]]===
|L J Koh
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>
|[https://www.artstation.com/kheljay]
 
|[https://flufi.me/profile/koh_lj]
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>
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Valignano himself, the visitor, the chief inspector of churches, if you like, was a big proponent of learning any language. He started the concept of Asian studies. Asian language studies in Europe were started by him. He was the person who insisted that his missionaries study Chinese, Japanese, various Indian languages, so it's conceivable that Yasuke had already started to learn Japanese before he arrived.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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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>
|Lie Setiawan
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/liesetiawan]
==Other==
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===[[Mutsuhito]], Emperor Meiji===
|[https://nitter.poast.org/ls_setiawan/media]
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>
|[https://cara.app/liesetiawan/all]
 
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===[[Akechi Mitsuhide]]===
|[https://bsky.app/profile/liesetiawan.bsky.social]
he's just setting out in early part of 1582 for the next part of that campaign staying at a temple called Honnoji in Kyoto when he's attacked actually not by his enemies but by someone who is supposed to be on his side one of the famous treacherous figures I suppose in Japanese history man by the name of Akechi Mitsuhide who persuades his men to turn their guns on Oda Nobunaga and his own men and so you have these stories of Oda Nobunaga shouting out treachery or traitors or something like that trying to fight them off himself the temple ends up in flames and Oda Nobunaga retreats further into the temple and dies by his own hand.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 02">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 2: The Unification of Japan</ref>
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|Mandy Jurgens
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>
|[https://www.artstation.com/aliena85]
 
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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"/>
|[https://nitter.poast.org/Aliena85/media]
 
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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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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>
|Marta Nael
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/martanael]
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"/>
|[https://flufi.me/profile/martanael]
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/MartaNael/media]
It's highly likely that he would have been Christian, at least on paper.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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|[https://www.martanael.com/projects]
In those days, he was considered a giant<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
|[https://bsky.app/profile/martanael.bsky.social]
 
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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"/>
|Miguel Mercado
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/merkymerx]
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"/>
|[https://flufi.me/profile/merkymerx]
 
|[https://nitter.poast.org/merkymerx/media]
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"/>
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There's another record of their first audience where Nobunaga gifts him what is essentially 30 kilos of coins. And you can imagine that as a kind of joke as well. Give the strong man 30 kilos worth of money and see if he can actually carry it. It doesn't say whether he carried it away on his own or not, but that was a lot of money.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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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"/>
|Miklós Ligeti
 
|[https://www.artstation.com/miklosligeti]
===[[Hattori Hanzō]]===
|[https://flufi.me/profile/ligeti.miklos_art/]
Many of them [Iga warriors] went to work for a retainer of Tokugawa Iyasu who has become famous in kind of ninja lore, man by the name of Hattori Hanzo. And Hattori Hanzo had family ties to Iga. He's often referred to or portrayed as in pop culture as a ninja, but he was a samurai retainer, a warrior just like many of the warriors that fought for any of the Daimyo of this period. He appears in most of Tokugawa Iyasu's battles until Hanzo dies in 1590s. He is considered one of Tokugawa Iyasu's closest retainers, but because through his family ties, he had a knowledge base of these sort of unconventional guerilla tactics. He also had through those ties, the ability to kind of act as a landing place for many of these men of Iga. And so many of them went to work for Tokugawa Ieyasu under the command of Hattori Hanzo.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 06">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 6: The Tensho Iga War</ref>
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|[https://cara.app/miklosligeti/all]
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"/>
|[https://miklosligeti.com/albums/2629396]
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|Narendra Bintara Adi
|[https://www.artstation.com/bukandewa]
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|Néstor Ossandón Leal
|[https://www.artstation.com/nezt]
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|Piotr Dura
|[https://www.artstation.com/threedee]
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|Thanh Tuấn
|[https://www.artstation.com/pencillien]
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|Torgeir Fjereide
|[https://www.artstation.com/torgeirfjereide]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/thebrushofthor]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/TheBrushOfThor/media]
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|[https://www.thebrushofthor.com/magic-the-gathering]
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|Wangjie Li
|[https://www.artstation.com/wangjieli]
|[https://flufi.me/profile/wangjie_li]
|[https://nitter.poast.org/wangjiel/media]
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|Wei Guan
|[https://www.artstation.com/gworld]
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==Locations==
MTG ACR - The Capitoline Triad full art.jpg|The Capitoline Triad by Syd Mills
===Owari===
MTG ACR - Caduceus Staff of Hermes full art.jpg|Caduceus, Staff of Hermes by Evan Shipard
So once Nobunaga has control of Owari province, how does he then go about looking outward and beyond his own borders? Because his province is quite a small one comparatively as well, isn't it? Yes, so Owari is small, but it centers on a plane, the Nobuy plane, Japan is very mountainous, right? There's only a few large flat areas where cultivation can take place at large scale, and Owari happens to sit in one of these, the Nobuy plane. So while it's a small province, it's a particularly wealthy one in terms of agricultural income. So it's a good place to be based out of. It's far enough away from the capital that you're not in the middle of the intrigues and plots going on there, but it's close enough that you can get there if you decide to be part of those plots.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 05">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga</ref>
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
===Mount Hiei===
MTG ACR - Haystack full art.jpg|Haystack by Xabi Gaztelua
when Emperor Kamu had the capital built there, one of the things he knew was that there was already in the northwest a mountain called Mount Hiei on which was a huge Buddhist temple. So that therefore counteracted the unluckiness. That was very important. And then more Buddhist temples and more Buddhist temples were built on that same mountain. And in the end, there was something like 3000 Buddhist temples up there, which was all an excellent thing for countering the unluckiness, except it became rather unlucky itself, because those Buddhist priests then came down and started rampaging around the city. And then, unluckily, Nobunaga had to go up and destroy the entire temple compound, which he did. He burnt down the whole lot. But there are temples there again.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 07">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 7: Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City</ref>
MTG ACR - Hookblade full art.jpg|Hookblade by Thanh Tuấn
 
MTG ACR - Layla Hassan full art.jpg|Layla Hassan by Michael MacRae
===Kamakura===
MTG ACR - Senu Keen-Eyed Protector full art.jpg|Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector by Michael MacRae
Okay, that's really interesting question. So the first segment of the samurai rule, the samurai's so-called headquarters was in Kamakura that's currently Kamakura city near Tokyo. So the Tokyo city was not known at the time that Tokyo was a city yet, but the Kamakura was not known nationwide. So when the Kamakura rulership was going on and being consolidated, it's not that many people would know about the politics. So it's like say regional understandings of this is where Shogun lives and this is what Shogun does. [...] So around the first sort of segment of time, the very first samurai rules, I would say that not so many people would know about the politics. That will continue the middle segments of the samurai rule that we call usually medieval Japan. And then medieval Japan as well, this Kamakura headquarters of the samurai has been moved and taken by a different family.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 08">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 8: How To Fit In: Feudal Japan</ref>
MTG ACR - Tax Collector full art.jpg|Tax Collector by Miklós Ligeti
 
MTG ACR - Templar Knight full art.jpg|Templar Knight by Daniel Correia
==Timeline==
MTG ACR - What Must Be Done full art.jpg|What Must Be Done by Syd Mills
===Ōnin War [1467-1477]===
MTG ACR - Assassin Gauntlet full art.jpg|Assassin Gauntlet by Paulius Daščioras
Ōnin War, running from 1467 to 1477. Huge damage done to Kyoto in the process of this war. It begins
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
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====Cloak====
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|44
|10
|42
|42
|14
|Purchase in [[Vinland]]
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![[Brigandine Cape]]
|Bear
|41
|16
|36
|40
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|Loot chest in a cave north of [[Quatford]], [[Sciropescire]]
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![[Galloglach Cape]]
|Wolf
|38
|19
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|35
|15
|Loot chest in [[Brentwood Outpost]], [[Essexe]]
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![[Hidden Ones' Hood]]
|Raven
|32
|25
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|41
|10
|Loot chest in [[Camulodunum bureau]], Essexe
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![[Huntsman Cloak]]
|Wolf
|37
|20
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|41
|14
|Loot chest in [[Templebrough Fort]], [[Ledecestrescire]]
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![[Magister's Cloak]]
|Raven
|35
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|36
|13
|Loot chest in [[Serpent's Landing]]
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|11
|Loot chest in [[Loch Clunbre Hideout]], [[Nottinghamshire|Snotinghamshire]]
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![[Mōdraniht Ceremonial Cape]]
|Wolf
|37
|20
|38
|38
|14
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![[Raven Clan Cloak]]
|Raven
|34
|23
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|36
|12
|Complete [[Honor Bound]]
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![[Saint George's Cape]]
|Bear
|40
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|Raid [[River Exe]]
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|Bear
|40
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|Loot chest in [[Bishop's Residence]], [[Wincestre]]
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|42
|15
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![[Berserker Hood]]
|Bear
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|19
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![[Black Raven Hood]]
|Raven
|39
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|14
|Purchase the ''[[Black Raven Pack]]''
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![[Carolingian Hood]]
|Bear
|42
|15
|35
|41
|18
|Purchase the ''[[Carolingian Dynasty Gear Pack]]''
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![[Draugr Hood]]
|Wolf
|37
|20
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|40
|14
|Purchase the ''[[Draugr Pack]]''
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![[Einherjar Hood]]
|Wolf
|39
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|14
|Purchase the ''[[Einherjar Pack]]''
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![[Gothic Hood]]
|Raven
|39
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|14
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![[Hearthweru Hood]]
|Wolf
|39
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|38
|14
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![[Hel's Damnation Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''[[Hel's Damnation Pack]]''
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![[Huldufolk Hood]]
|Raven
|33
|24
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|36
|11
|Purchase the ''[[Huldufolk Pack]]''
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![[Niflheim Hood]]
|Raven
|39
|19
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|38
|14
|Purchase the ''[[Niflheim Pack]]''
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![[Taranis Hood]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
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|38
|14
|Purchase the ''[[Taranis Pack]]''
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![[Valkyrie Cloak]]
|Bear
|41
|16
|41
|35
|17
|Purchase the ''[[Valkyrie Pack]]''
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![[Iberian Cloak]]
|Raven
|35
|22
|40
|36
|13
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
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![[Egyptian Cloak]]
|Raven
|33
|24
|36
|40
|11
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
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![[Rus' Cloak]]
|Bear
|40
|17
|38
|38
|16
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
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![[Byzantine Greek Cloak]]
|Wolf
|38
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![[Celtic Cloak]]
|Bear
|41
|16
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|Loot chest in camp at [[Inch Lough Neagh]], Ulster
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![[Druidic Cloak]]
|Raven
|32
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|41
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|Loot chest in [[Doon Fort]], Ulster
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![[Dublin Champion Cloak]]
|Wolf
|37
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|Reach Dublin's Renown at Level 4
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![[Blessed Warrior Hood]]
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![[The Ealdorman's Cape]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Jarl of the Raven Clan Cloak]]
|Wolf
|38
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|35
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![[Yurei Bushido Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
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|38
|14
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![[Master of the Elements Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
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|38
|14
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![[Blood Elf Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Advanced Mechanicals Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Dragon Knight Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Lunar Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Lord Shaxx Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Night Rogue Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Steampunk Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Mystical Hood]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Modern Day Disguise]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Ullr's Hunter Hood]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Shinobi Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[High Elf Hood]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Knight of the Round Table Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Wayland's Disguise]]
|Raven
|40
|16
|36
|40
|17
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!Death Jarl Cloak
|Raven
|34
|23
|40
|36
|12
|Purchase from [[Everold]]
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![[Mentor of Alamut Hood]]
|Wolf
|38
|19
|41
|35
|15
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![[Jormungandr Hood]]
|Raven
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|19
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|38
|14
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![[Werewolf Hood]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Knight ISU Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Charlemagne's Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Fafnir's Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Saint-14 Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Lugh's Disguise]]
|Bear
|40
|16
|36
|40
|17
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![[Odogaron Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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![[Bellatores Robe]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
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![[Frankish Travel Cloak]]
|Wolf
|36
|35
|37
|37
|10
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![[Dark Knight Hood]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
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|}


====Bracers====
===[[Gaspar Vilela]]===
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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>
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And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03"/>
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===[[Alessandro Valignano]]===
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And then you have, of course, Valignano, which was the visitor, as he was called, to the Orient. So he was the head of all the actions in the Orient, and he spent a lot of time in Japan, because Japan was the place where the Jesuits thought they would have the best results.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
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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>
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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"/>
![[Arenhare'kó:wa Bracers]]
 
|Wolf
===[[Francisco Cabral]]===
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And they also had a problem that after a while you have [Francisco] Cabral, you have [Gaspar] Coelho, so two Jesuits who became the head of the Japan sector. And they weren't very keen to adopt Japanese customs. They wanted to be as strictly Jesuits as in Europe. So they already have a problem from the Jesuit side and many like Vilela or Fróis were more inclined to adopt Japanese customs. But the heads of the provincials, as they call them, were against that.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 03">''[[Echoes of History]]'' – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan</ref>
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==Other==
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===[[Mutsuhito]], Emperor Meiji===
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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>
|Purchase in Vinland
 
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===[[Akechi Mitsuhide]]===
![[Brigandine Gauntlets]]
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>
|Bear
 
|44
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>
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|38
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"/>
|Loot chest in [[Beamasfield]], [[Cent]]
 
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===[[Yasuke]]===
![[Galloglach Bracers]]
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>
|Wolf
 
|41
He arrived in May 1579 on a ship from Macau to get from Africa, whichever part of Africa it was to Macau and then to Japan. He'd already spent time in India. He'd spent time in Malacca in modern day Malaysia. And I think it was about six to nine months in Macau. He was the bodyguard of a Jesuit, the head Jesuit in Asia, essentially the head of the Christian church in Asia, a man called Alessandro Valignano. And Valignano was on a tour from Rome.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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It's highly likely that he would have been Christian, at least on paper.<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
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In those days, he was considered a giant<ref name="Echoes Shadows 04"/>
|Loot chest in [[Lincoln]], [[Lincolnshire]]
 
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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"/>
![[Hidden Ones' Gloves]]
 
|Raven
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"/>
|35
 
|25
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"/>
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|35
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"/>
|10
 
|Loot chest in [[Ratae bureau]], Ledecestre
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"/>
|-
 
![[Huntsman Vambraces]]
===[[Hattori Hanzō]]===
|Wolf
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>
|40
 
|20
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"/>
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{{Reflist}}
|14
 
|Loot chest in [[Besuncen Tor]], Grantebridgescire
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![[Magister's Vambraces]]
|Raven
|38
|22
|36
|40
|13
|Loot chest in the church in [[Buckingham]]
|-
![[Mentor's Vambrace]]
|Raven
|36
|24
|38
|38
|11
|Loot chest in [[Anderitum Hideout]], [[Suthsexe]]
|-
![[Mōdraniht Ceremonial Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|35
|41
|14
|Purchase during Yule
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![[Raven Clan Bracers]]
|Raven
|37
|23
|36
|40
|12
|Complete Honor Bound
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![[Saint George's Bracers]]
|Bear
|44
|16
|38
|38
|17
|Raid [[River Severn]]
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![[Thegn's Bracers]]
|Bear
|43
|17
|35
|41
|16
|Loot chest in [[Stenwege Camp]], [[Eurviscire]]
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![[Thor's Gauntlets]]
|Bear
|45
|15
|35
|41
|18
|Defeat [[Cordelia]]
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![[Berserker Bracers]]
|Bear
|43
|19
|35
|41
|15
|Purchase the ''Berserker Pack''
|-
![[Black Raven Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Black Raven Pack''
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![[Carolingian Bracers]]
|Bear
|45
|15
|41
|35
|18
|Purchase the ''Carolingian Dynasty Gear Pack''
|-
![[Draugr Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Draugr Pack''
|-
![[Einherjar Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Einherjar Pack''
|-
![[Gothic Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Gothic Pack''
|-
![[Hearthweru Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Hearthweru Pack''
|-
![[Hel's Damnation Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Hel's Damnation Pack''
|-
![[Huldufolk Bracers]]
|Raven
|36
|24
|36
|40
|11
|Purchase the ''Huldufolk Pack''
|-
![[Niflheim Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Niflheim Pack''
|-
![[Taranis Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Taranis Pack''
|-
![[Valkyrie Bracers]]
|Bear
|44
|16
|40
|36
|17
|Purchase the ''Valkyrie Pack''
|-
![[Iberian Bracers]]
|Raven
|38
|22
|36
|40
|13
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
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![[Egyptian Bracers]]
|Raven
|36
|24
|38
|38
|11
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
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![[Rus' Bracers]]
|Bear
|43
|17
|35
|41
|16
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
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![[Byzantine Greek Bracers]]
|Wolf
|41
|19
|40
|36
|15
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Celtic Bracers]]
|Bear
|44
|16
|38
|38
|17
|Loot chest from one of [[Inchroe]]'s huts in [[Meath]]
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![[Druidic Bracers]]
|Raven
|35
|25
|41
|35
|10
|Loot chest in a house at [[Donegal]], Ulster
|-
![[Dublin Champion Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|41
|35
|14
|Reach Dublin's Renown at Level 2
|-
![[Reaper's Bracers]]
|Raven
|33
|22
|37
|37
|10
|
|-
![[Blessed Warrior Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Fallen Hero Bracer]]
|Wolf
|41
|19
|40
|36
|15
|
|-
![[Paladin Bracers]]
|Bear
|45
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Valkyrie's Legacy Bracers]]
|Wolf
|41
|19
|40
|36
|15
|
|-
![[The Ealdorman's Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Jarl of the Raven Clan Bracers]]
|Wolf
|41
|19
|40
|36
|15
|
|-
![[Yurei Bushido Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Master of the Elements Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Blood Elf Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Advanced Mechanicals Wristguards]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Dragon Knight Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lunar Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lord Shaxx Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Night Rogue Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Steampunk Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Mystical Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Modern Day Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Ullr's Hunter Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Shinobi Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[High Elf Bracers]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Knight of the Round Table Gauntlets]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Wayland's Bracers]]
|Raven
|44
|16
|38
|38
|17
|
|-
!Death Jarl Bracers
|Raven
|37
|23
|36
|40
|12
|Purchase from [[Everold]]
|-
![[Mentor of Alamut Bracers]]
|Wolf
|41
|19
|40
|36
|15
|
|-
![[Jormungandr Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Werewolf Bracers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Knight ISU Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Charlemagne's Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Fafnir's Claws]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Saint-14 Gauntlets]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lugh's Bracers]]
|Bear
|44
|16
|38
|38
|17
|
|-
![[Odogaron Vambraces]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Dark Knight Bracers]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|}
 
====Torso====
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! width="10%" |Availability
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![[Arenhare'kó:wa Outfit]]
|Wolf
|44
|10
|41
|41
|14
|Purchase in Vinland
|-
![[Brigandine Armor]]
|Bear
|47
|16
|35
|41
|17
|Loot chest in [[Canterbury Cathedral]], Cent
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![[Galloglach Armor]]
|Wolf
|44
|19
|36
|40
|15
|Loot chest in [[Spalding Bandit Lair]], Lincolnshire
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![[Hidden Ones' Robes]]
|Raven
|38
|25
|40
|36
|10
|Loot chest in [[Eboracum bureau]], [[Jorvik]]
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![[Huntsman Armor]]
|Wolf
|43
|20
|40
|36
|14
|Loot chest in [[Ravensburg]], Grantebridgescire
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![[Magister's Robes]]
|Raven
|41
|22
|38
|38
|13
|Loot chest in the [[Leah Villa Garrison]]
|-
![[Mentor's Robes]]
|Raven
|39
|24
|35
|41
|11
|Loot chest in [[Saint Lewinna's Church]], Suthsexe
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![[Merchant Blouse]]
|Raven
|15
|7
|19
|19
|9
|Complete [[In a Strange Land]]
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![[Mōdraniht Ceremonial Robe]]
|Wolf
|43
|20
|41
|35
|14
|Purchase during Yule
|-
![[Raven Clan Armor]]
|Raven
|40
|23
|38
|38
|12
|Complete Honor Bound
|-
![[Saint George's Armor]]
|Bear
|47
|16
|35
|41
|17
|Raid River Dee
|-
![[Thegn's Heavy Tunic]]
|Bear
|46
|17
|41
|35
|16
|Loot chest in [[Temple of Brigantia]], Eurviscire
|-
![[Thor's Battle Plate]]
|Bear
|48
|15
|41
|35
|18
|Defeat [[Regan]]
|-
![[Thrall's Tunic]]
|Raven
|16
|13
|22
|22
|10
|Default for Honor Bound
|-
![[Berserker Armor]]
|Bear
|46
|19
|41
|35
|15
|Purchase the ''Berserker Pack''
|-
![[Black Raven Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Black Raven Pack''
|-
![[Carolingian Torso]]
|Bear
|48
|15
|40
|36
|18
|Purchase the ''Carolingian Dynasty Gear Pack''
|-
![[Draugr Armor]]
|Wolf
|43
|20
|35
|41
|14
|Purchase the ''Draugr Pack''
|-
![[Einherjar Armor]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Einherjar Pack''
|-
![[Gothic Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Gothic Pack''
|-
![[Hearthweru Armor]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Hearthweru Pack''
|-
![[Hel's Damnation Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Hel's Damnation Pack''
|-
![[Huldufolk Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|24
|38
|38
|11
|Purchase the ''Huldufolk Pack''
|-
![[Niflheim Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Niflheim Pack''
|-
![[Taranis Armor]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Taranis Pack''
|-
![[Valkyrie Armor]]
|Bear
|47
|16
|36
|40
|17
|Purchase the ''Valkyrie Pack''
|-
![[Iberian Armor]]
|Raven
|41
|22
|38
|38
|13
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Egyptian Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|24
|35
|41
|11
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Rus' Armor]]
|Bear
|46
|17
|41
|35
|16
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Byzantine Greek Armor]]
|Wolf
|44
|19
|36
|40
|15
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Celtic Armor]]
|Bear
|47
|16
|35
|41
|17
|Loot chest in a house atop a hill in [[Rathcroghan]], [[Connacht]]
|-
![[Druidic Armor]]
|Raven
|38
|25
|40
|36
|10
|Loot chest in [[Boyne Tombs]], [[Meath]]
|-
![[Dublin Champion Armor]]
|Wolf
|43
|20
|40
|36
|14
|Defeat [[Blud the Giant]] at [[Giant's Causeway]], Ulster
|-
![[Reaper's Torso]]
|Raven
|35
|22
|37
|37
|10
|
|-
![[Blessed Warrior Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Fallen Hero Breastplate]]
|Wolf
|44
|19
|36
|40
|15
|
|-
![[Paladin Chainmail]]
|Bear
|47
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Valkyrie's Legacy Armor]]
|Wolf
|44
|19
|36
|40
|15
|
|-
![[The Ealdorman's Coat]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Jarl of the Raven Clan Armor]]
|Wolf
|44
|19
|36
|40
|15
|
|-
![[Yurei Bushido Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Master of the Elements Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Blood Elf Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Advanced Mechanicals Chestpiece]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Dragon Knight Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lunar Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lord Shaxx Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Night Rogue Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Steampunk Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Mystical Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Modern Day Armor]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Ullr's Hunter Armor]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Shinobi Torso]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[High Elf Armor]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Knight of the Round Table Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Wayland's Torso]]
|Raven
|47
|16
|35
|41
|17
|
|-
!Death Jarl Breastplate
|Raven
|40
|23
|38
|38
|12
|Defeat [[Hel]] at her [[Helheim|castle]]
|-
![[Mentor of Alamut Robe]]
|Wolf
|44
|19
|36
|40
|15
|
|-
![[Jormungandr Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Werewolf Armor]]
|Raven
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Knight ISU Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Charlemagne's Torso]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Fafnir's Scales]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Saint-14 Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lugh's Chest Armor]]
|Bear
|47
|16
|35
|41
|17
|
|-
![[Odogaron Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Dark Knight Armor]]
|Bear
|39
|19
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
|Basim Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|Altair's Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|Raven Clan Crew Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|Ezio Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|Young Ezio Legacy Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|Bayek's Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|Edward Kenway Legacy Outfit
|Bear
|20
|11
|21
|21
|10
|
|-
|}
 
====Pants====
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
! width="5%" |Name
! width="5%" |Class
! width="5%" |Arm
! width="5%" |Eva
! width="5%" |L-Res
! width="5%" |H-Res
! width="5%" |Wgt
! width="10%" |Availability
|-
![[Arenhare'kó:wa Pants]]
|Wolf
|44
|10
|41
|41
|14
|Purchase in Vinland
|-
![[Brigandine Trousers]]
|Bear
|42
|16
|41
|35
|17
|Loot chest in [[Dover Fortress]]
|-
![[Galloglach Trousers]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|15
|Loot chest in [[Bolingbroc Castle]], Lincolnshire
|-
![[Hidden Ones' Leggings]]
|Raven
|33
|25
|36
|40
|10
|Loot chest in [[Temple of Ceres bureau]], [[Glowecestrescire]]
|-
![[Huntsman Breeches]]
|Wolf
|38
|20
|36
|40
|14
|Loot chest in [[Soham Hideout]], [[Grantebridgescire]]
|-
![[Magister's Trousers]]
|Raven
|36
|22
|35
|41
|13
|Loot chest in the church tower in [[Oxeneforda]]
|-
![[Mentor's Trousers]]
|Raven
|34
|24
|41
|35
|11
|Loot chest in [[Wincestre Garrison]]
|-
![[Merchant Trousers]]
|Raven
|15
|7
|19
|19
|9
|Complete In a Strange Land
|-
![[Mōdraniht Ceremonial Trousers]]
|Wolf
|38
|20
|40
|36
|14
|Purchase during Yule
|-
![[Raven Clan Breeches]]
|Raven
|35
|232
|35
|41
|12
|Complete Honor Bound
|-
![[Saint George's Trousers]]
|Bear
|42
|16
|41
|35
|17
|Raid River Severn
|-
![[Thegn's Breeches]]
|Bear
|41
|17
|40
|36
|16
|Loot chest in [[Aelfwood]], Glowecestrescire
|-
![[Thor's Breeches]]
|Bear
|43
|15
|40
|36
|18
|Defeat [[Goneril]]
|-
![[Thrall's Breeches]]
|Raven
|15
|7
|21
|21
|10
|Default for Honor Bound
|-
![[Berserker Breeches]]
|Bear
|41
|19
|40
|36
|15
|Purchase the ''Berserker Pack''
|-
![[Black Raven Pants]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Black Raven Pack''
|-
![[Carolingian Pants]]
|Bear
|43
|15
|36
|40
|18
|Purchase the ''Carolingian Dynasty Gear Pack''
|-
![[Draugr Pants]]
|Wolf
|38
|20
|41
|35
|14
|Purchase the ''Draugr Pack''
|-
![[Einherjar Pants]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Einherjar Pack''
|-
![[Gothic Pants]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Gothic Pack''
|-
![[Hearthweru Pants]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Hearthweru Pack''
|-
![[Hel's Damnation Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Hel's Damnation Pack''
|-
![[Huldufolk Trousers]]
|Raven
|34
|24
|35
|41
|11
|Purchase the ''Huldufolk Pack''
|-
![[Niflheim Pants]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Niflheim Pack''
|-
![[Taranis Pants]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Taranis Pack''
|-
![[Valkyrie Leggings]]
|Bear
|42
|16
|38
|38
|17
|Purchase the ''Valkyrie Pack''
|-
![[Mystical Pants]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|Purchase the ''Mystical Pack''
|-
![[Iberian Breeches]]
|Raven
|36
|22
|35
|41
|13
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Egyptian Breeches]]
|Raven
|34
|24
|41
|35
|11
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Rus' Breeches]]
|Bear
|41
|17
|40
|36
|16
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Byzantine Greek Breeches]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|15
|Traded for in Dublin, Ireland
|-
![[Celtic Breeches]]
|Bear
|42
|16
|41
|35
|17
|Loot chest in western tower of [[Cashelore]], Connacht
|-
![[Druidic Breeches]]
|Raven
|33
|25
|36
|40
|10
|Loot chest hidden in the mines of [[Kesh Corann]], Connacht
|-
![[Dublin Champion Breeches]]
|Wolf
|38
|20
|36
|40
|14
|Defeat [[Hogne Sea-Tossed]] atop [[Downpatrick Head]], Connacht
|-
![[Reaper's Pants]]
|Raven
|34
|23
|37
|37
|10
|
|-
![[Blessed Warrior Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Fallen Hero Greaves]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|15
|
|-
![[Paladin Pants]]
|Bear
|44
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Valkyrie's Legacy Pants]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|15
|
|-
![[The Ealdorman's Trousers]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Jarl of the Raven Clan Breeches]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|15
|
|-
![[Yurei Bushido Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Master of the Elements Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Blood Elf Greaves]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Advanced Mechanicals Leg-plates]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Dragon Knight Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lunar Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lord Shaxx Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Night Rogue Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Steampunk Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Modern Day Pants]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Ullr's Hunter Pants]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Shinobi Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[High Elf Pants]]
|Wolf
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Knight of the Round Table Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Wayland's Pants]]
|Raven
|42
|16
|41
|35
|17
|
|-
!Death Jarl Leg Armor
|Raven
|35
|23
|35
|41
|12
|Purchase from [[Everold]]
|-
![[Mentor of Alamut Leggings]]
|Wolf
|39
|19
|38
|38
|15
|
|-
![[Jormungandr Pants]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Werewolf Pants]]
|Raven
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Knight ISU Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Charlemagne's Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Fafnir's Talons]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Saint-14 Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Lugh's Greaves]]
|Bear
|42
|16
|41
|35
|17
|
|-
![[Odogaron Greaves]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|-
![[Dark Knight Pants]]
|Bear
|40
|20
|38
|38
|14
|
|}

Latest revision as of 18:14, 12 June 2026

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]

Weapons[edit | edit source]

Name Price (rival) Price (owned) Availability
Ceremonial Blade N/A N/A Ubisoft Connect
Colichemarde
Cutlass N/A N/A Default
Cuttoe Sword 3120
Hanger Sword
Heavy Cavalry Sword
Officer's Short Sword
Pirate Scimitar N/A N/A Ubisoft Connect
Sword 1508 New Orleans by Night
Boarding Axe
Macuahuitl
Naval Axe
Obsidian Axe
Chimbuya Axe
Connor's Tomahawk N/A N/A Ubisoft Connect
Hatchet
Hook Axe
Kuba
Machete
Sugarcane Machete N/A N/A Acquired during A Slave in Trouble
Double-Barreled Pistol 10000
Dual Pistols
Dueling Pistol
Pepperbox Pistol
Pocket Pistol 20000
Queen Anne's Pistol N/A N/A Default

Gear[edit | edit source]

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

Pocket watches[edit | edit source]

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

Trade system[edit | edit source]

Port Availability
New Orleans
(Headquarters) 		Prélude to Rebellion
Veracruz
Havana Prélude to Rebellion
Campeche
Natchez
Port-au-Prince
New York City
Boston
Bridgetown
Seville
Bordeaux
Liverpool
Image Product Availability
AC3L Cotton.png Cotton Prélude to Rebellion
AC3L Coffee.png Coffee
AC3L Fabric.png Fabric
AC3L Fruit.png Fruit
AC3L Furs.png Furs
AC3L Guns.png Guns
AC3L Ice.png Ice
AC3L Molasses.png Molasses
AC3L Pitch.png Pitch
AC3L Rum.png Rum
AC3L Spices.png Spices
AC3L Steel.png Steel
AC3L Sugar.png Sugar
AC3L Tobacco.png Tobacco

Missions[edit | edit source]

Animus memory notes[edit | edit source]

Always at the end of the current memory

  • 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."
  • 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 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."
  • Elegant and Deadly
    • After taking care of her father's business troubles, Aveline sets out to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of slaves and vagrants.
  • 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.

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Shadows mem[edit | edit source]

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

MTG[edit | edit source]

Missing full art[edit | edit source]

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

The Big Issues[edit | edit source]

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

Check[edit | edit source]

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

Full art gallery prep[edit | edit source]

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Cards[edit | edit source]

Lethal Legends[edit | edit source]

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

Da Vinci's Designs[edit | edit source]

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

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Echoes of Shadows[edit | edit source]

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