Metal Cestus

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The Metal Cestus as it appears in Assassin's Creed II.

The Metal Cestus is an upgrade to Ezio's fists weapon slot. It can be purchased from any blacksmith. When equipped, it will boost the damage of fists from 1 to 3. It will be automatically equipped when purchased, and cannot be unequipped. The Metal Cestus upgrade will give you a slight advantage for Beat Up events, and other missions that involve unarmed fighting. A particularly useful moment to equip the Metal Cestus is on the last level against Rodrigo Borgia, wherein you are disarmed of all weapons except the Metal Cestus. The origin of this weapon is the ancient Roman Empire, where gladiators used weapons similar to the Cestus in arena fights.

The Metal Cestus is the only small weapon you can have equipped along with another small weapon, though they can't be used together.

Name	Damage	Speed	Deflect	Unlocked	Cost
Fists	1	5	1	At the beginning of the game	N/A
Metal Cestus	3	5	1	Sequence 6, Memory 1	2000f

Gallery

• The Cestus makes fist fights easier
  The Cestus makes fist fights easier

Trivia

• At the beginning of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, when Ezio is wearing the Armor of Altaïr, the Metal Cestus is not present.
• In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Ezio aquires a very similar glove from Leonardo da Vinci named the Climb Leap Glove, which allows him to perform the climb leap learned from Rosa in Assassin's Creed II as well as boosting the strength of the fists. When replaying DNA Sequence 2: Memory 4 with the Armor of Brutus worn, then re-equipping the Roman Spaulders from a Blacksmith, the glove will be removed but the metal connected to the glove will remain on Ezio's hand, making it look like it is attached.