Consus

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"I am Consus, the Erudite God."

―Consus in the Pythagorean temple.

Consus, also known as Prometheus or the Erudite God, was a famed Isu scientist and a creator of Pieces of Eden.

Towards the end of his natural life, Consus, afraid of death, transferred his consciousness into his prototype Shroud of Eden. In the early 1500s, he became a guardian of sorts to Giovanni Borgia, an Assassin born into the notorious Borgia family.

Biography

First Civilization

In the days before the Toba catastrophe, Consus was known as a great scientist among the Isu. In 1923 Isu Era, during the War of Unification, Consus answered the need for combat medicinal equipment, by creating the first Shroud of Eden, a prototype device designed to return the wearer's body to predetermined, healthy, specifications. Later, when Consus became aware of his impending natural death, the one thing the Shrouds could not heal, he instead transferred his consciousness into the prototype Shroud, in order to live on.

Life after death

Giovanni's guardian

"Consus is standing next to me. He is watching. He does not speak much. Papà tells me he is not real, but I see him."

―Giovanni, regarding Consus.

Giovanni and Consus spying on Fiora and Cesare

In 1498, shortly after his birth, Giovanni Borgia was discovered to be malformed and likely to die within a few days. The Assassin Perotto Calderon was able to heal his presumed son after stealing the Shroud.

Throughout his childhood thereafter, Giovanni would have delusions of seeing a nonexistent being, whom he befriended and called Consus. Consus often spoke in Giovanni's head and gave him advice, even once allowing Giovanni to read a letter given to him, though the boy himself did not know how at the time.

Though of questionable origin, Consus seemed to be in favor of the Assassins or simply against the Templars. Giovanni's grandfather would ask Giovanni about Consus and if he could speak with him, but Giovanni would simply answer that Consus was not there, as he "does not play when Nonno is around."

Additionally, in 1503, Consus attempted to convince Giovanni to give the Apple of Eden to Fiora Cavazza, when she had come to retrieve it for the Assassins, and later advised Giovanni to go with Francesco Vecellio to join the Assassin Brotherhood.

Though these hallucinations did not appear to occur later in his life, Giovanni did not forget them. Upon bringing the Crystal Skull to Bombastus in 1520, he met a madman by the name of Johan who, upon seeing him, called out to Consus, causing Giovanni to demand him for an explanation of using the name. However, the Assassin received none, as Johan fearfully mumbled that he had mentioned "consent".

Erudite God

"Giovanni drops to the floor, unconscious. I kneel beside him. His eyes suddenly open, but a stranger gazes at me. Giovanni's face alters before my very eyes!"

―Maria with Giovanni in the temple.

Giovanni's face being altered

When Giovanni and Maria Amiel traveled to the Temple of Pythagoras in the late 16th century, the Vault within it reacted to Giovanni as it would to a descendant of the First Civilization, shining with symbols and glyphs.

When Giovanni fell unconscious and awoke soon after, his face had changed into that of a seemingly ancient entity. He spoke in a distant and unfamiliar voice, where he claimed himself to be Consus, the Erudite God.

Final death

By 1944, the prototype Shroud had ended up in Milan, in the hands of the Baguttiani family. On Christmas Day that year, Templar agent Keith Scipione purchased the Shroud from the family, and sent the device to an Abstergo facility.

In 2011, Templar Isabelle Ardant found the Shroud, which was believed to be broken, and gave it to Abstergo scientist Álvaro Gramática for repair in order to satisfy Alan Rikkin. Álvaro ultimately repaired the Shroud by killing himself, thus summoning Consus, who possessed Álvaro's body and spoke through him, before finally healing him. All this happened in front of a horrified Isabelle.

This led Álvaro to discover that whenever the Shroud heals what would normally be a fatal wound, Consus could temporarily possess the wearer and be able to speak through them. Álvaro started using the Shroud on his new test subject Violet da Costa, repeatedly shooting her in the head so he could communicate with Consus and learn his secrets.

The prototype Shroud, and Consus' consciousness, was unwittingly destroyed in late 2014, when the Assassins Shaun Hastings and Galina Voronina destroyed Álvaro's Parisian lab, where the Shroud was being held. As his final act, Consus used what remained of the Shroud's power to resurrect Álvaro.

Legacy

Years after his death, during the Human-First Civilization War, it was Consus' transference of his own consciousness into a Piece of Eden that inspired Juno to place her faith in a similar solution to help her species survive the impending catastrophe. She attempted to transfer the consciousness of her husband, Aita, into a synthetic body, but the result left him comatose; he was euthanized shortly thereafter.

Trivia

• Consus was a Roman deity assigned to protect the grain. Later, he also became known as a deity of secret counsel.