Flag

Various flags are present in Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. These flags can be collected, although they are not required for advancing in the storyline.

Third Crusades

Flags have been scattered by members of the various factions throughout the Holy Land to lay claim to particular regions of territory. There are different kinds of flags, each representing a different religious/military faction. Altaïr can collect these flags (the assassins seem to believe the Holy Land belonged to no one and everyone), to complete Additional Memories and attain Achievements.

The flags

Image	Flag name	Location	Number of flags
	Assassin flags	Masyaf	20
	King Richard flags	Kingdom	100
	Saracen flags	Damascus	100
	Teutonic flags	Acre Middle district	33
	Templar flags	Acre Rich district	34
	Hospitalier flags	Acre Poor district	33
	Jerusalem crosses	Jerusalem	100

Locations

The website Assassin's Creed Interactive Maps has maps for the Kingdom, Masyaf, and each district of Damascus, Acre, and Jerusalem with numbered markers for the locations of every flag. When you hover your mouse over a marker, a screen shot of the flag in-game pops up. Click on the marker for a high resolution version of the screen shot. The maps also include Templars in the same manner. Beneath each map is a checklist to assist in recording which flags have already been collected. It uses browser cookies to remember selections. These maps were created by Firestorm and thus do not infringe on the copyrighted maps from the Official Game Guide by Prima Games.

For a video walkthrough of all the flags and Templars, see The Hidden Blade website. These videos demonstrate an efficient collection route and use the same numbering scheme as Firestorm's maps. They were created by IanXO4 and stabguy to assist players who wish to quickly collect all of the flags and Templars or recheck a district for one missing flag. Total running time of the walkthrough is 150 minutes including unedited travel from one flag to the next.

Achievements

Collecting all of the flags of a particular kind will, in the Xbox 360 version, give the player an achievement.

Icon	Name	Description	Points	Secret?
	Keeper of the Lions Passant	Find all of Richard's Flags in the Kingdom.	25File:Xbox360g.png	No
	Keeper of the Creed	Find all Flags in Masyaf.	10File:Xbox360g.png	No
	Keeper of the Four Gospels	Find all Flags in Jerusalem.	20File:Xbox360g.png	No
	Keeper of the Crescent	Find all Flags in Damascus.	20File:Xbox360g.png	No
	Keeper of the Black Cross	Find all Teutonic Flags in Acre.	10File:Xbox360g.png	No
	Keeper of the Order	Find all Templar Flags in Acre.	10File:Xbox360g.png	No
	Keeper of the 8 Virtues	Find all Hospitalier Flags in Acre.	10File:Xbox360g.png	No

Renaissance

Flags make their return in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in the form of Borgia flags. There are 101 Borgia flags to collect in Rome (18 of them in Lairs of Romulus). To make the flag collecting easier in Brotherhood, the game has some new features, such as Flags Maps obtainable from art merchants. Another feature is that every time Ezio sees a flag while using Eagle Vision, the flag will be marked on the map.

Collecting all 101 flags will reward Ezio with the Borgia Cape, which makes Ezio permanently Incognito, and you receive an achievement "Capture the Flag".