The Auditore Blade

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The Auditore Blade was a virtual representation of one of Ezio Auditore da Firenze's genetic memories stored in the Abstergo Cloud, relived through the Animus by an Assassin hacker under the guise of an employee to Dominika Wilk.

Description

Ezio infiltrated a palazzo in Venice to retrieve his stolen sword.

Dialogue

Ezio entered the palazzo through an open window and unsheathed over his Hidden Blades.

• Ezio: Ah, the Hidden Blade. The Assassin's weapon of choice.

He searched the room, finding a letter left by a drawer close to the door.

• Ezio: The staff has been dismissed for the day. There will only be a couple of guards for me to deal with. Good to know.

Ezio opened the door and entered a corridor.

• Ezio: Once again, my path leads back to Venice. Alas, I must deny my friends here the pleasure of my company. I have a sword to retrieve, and a lesson to teach: no-one steals from an Auditore and lives to boast about it.

The Assassin traversed the corridor and opened another door, standing on a walkway above a library below, where two guards talked to each other and other one perused through the books.

• Mercenary 1: I wish we were with the rest of the troop right now instead of being stuck standing guard here.
• Mercenary 2: Why? They're working hard out there in the countryside. All we have to do is watch an empty building and drink wine.
• Mercenary 1: They'll be getting plenty of chances to line their pockets when the day comes.
• Mercenary 2: We'll be getting our reward sure enough. Don't be impatient.
• Mercenary 1: I'm not impatient. I just want my fair share.
• Mercenary 2: I have no doubt we will all get what we deserve.

Before descending to the lower floor, Ezio looked to a writing desk on his left and saw a map.

• Ezio: A map of Monteriggioni... why is this here?

Ezio continued his search and entered a room with a trapdoor, using it to reach the antechamber below. He closed it behind him.

• Ezio: I am not supposed to be here.

Ezio entered the library and silently sneaked past the three guards, eavesdropping on their conversation while doing so.

• Mercenary 1: When am I done? I really was looking forward to the chance to do a little, shall we say, acquisitions work.
• Mercenary 2: Why are you in such a rush?
• Mercenary 1: I have bills to pay. And they won't give me credit down at the wine shop any more.
• Mercenary 2: Ah, so your money was burning a hole in your purse. Now you need more, and you thought the other operation would give you some easy pickings.
• Mercenary 1: It's not like that, but that doesn't mean it's any less unfair we can't be part of the fun.
• Mercenary 2: Fun? I suppose that's what you'd call it.
• Mercenary 1: Why not? No guards, no real opposition. I'll wager the men who got sent there come back with jewels and coin (missing dialogue)
• Mercenary 2: Yes, and they're probably just that—stories. You ask around and every little town supposedly has secret tunnels filled with treasure. I don't believe a word of it.
• Mercenary 1: Shows what you know, then.
• Mercenary 2: Not as if it matters. We're here, and we've got a job to do here. So quit your bellyaching about all the treasure you won't be bringing home, and straighten up and man your post instead.
• Mercenary 1: Fine, fine, whatever you say. But when the lads come home with their purses full (missing dialogue)

Ezio proceeded to a poorly lit storage room, where he found a note on top of a crate.

• Ezio: It says here the painting is to be delivered to Francisco Rizzo. I know that name...

He entered an adjacent room, where a guard blocked his way.

• Ezio: I should try and stay out of sight.

Ezio picked up one of the objects stored in the room to throw to the other side of it, which distracted the guard and cleared his way.

• Mercenary 3: Hey. What's all that about?

Ezio sneaked past the guard and reached a living room warmed by a fire. Behind him, the soldier returned to his position, unsuccessful in his search.

• Mercenary 3: I could have used that time to other things.

Ezio opened the door next to the fireplace and reached a dining room, where another soldier was stationed.

• Ezio: They will be watching for me here.

The Assassin quickly assassinated him with his Hidden Blade. He then picked up a piece of marble lying on the dining table.

• Ezio: What is this?

Ezio looked around and spotted another piece on top of a cabinet. He joined the two pieces, which formed the center of a cross.

• Ezio: Two pieces join together. But where do they go?
  I need to keep looking.

He approached the nearby fireplace and noticed an incomplete symbol above it.

• Ezio: There's an empty socket above the fireplace.

Ezio fitted the item on the socket and it formed a red cross pattée, unlocking a mechanism which opened the false bottom of the fireplace.

• Ezio: A secret passage...

Ezio entered the tunnel ahead, climbing over a pile of wooden boxes to spot an exit to one of the canals blocked by a metal grate. On the other side, a woman in a cloak sat on a gondola and talked to the gondolier.

• Civilian 1: Quickly, I must leave the city tonight!
• Civilian 2: Yes, mistress.
• Civilian 1: I should never have been away so long. Is my carriage ready?
• Civilian 2: Yes, mistress.
• Civilian 1: Good. Now put your back into it. There is no time to waste.
• Civilian 2: Yes, mistress.

They took off and Ezio continued ahead in the tunnel, reaching a wooden wall. He climbed it by grabbing its metal handles, and reached an attic filled with several paintings, statues and treasure chests. He closed the trapdoor from which he had emerged behind him.

• Ezio: What is this? A treasure room of some kind? My sword could well be here.

Ezio investigated the storeroom, searching for the sword in the cabinets.

• Ezio: My sword must be here somewhere.

The Assassin opened a drawer and discovered a crown encrusted with several types of jewels.

• Ezio: That is quite the treasure. On whose head did it once rest, I wonder?

He approached one of the paintings stowed away in a crate.

• Ezio: Christ and the Madonna. A popular subject.

Ezio saw a large statue of an Athenian foot soldier.

• Ezio: A warrior from ancient times. I am glad we dress more sensibly these days.

Ezio approached a statue of a seated lion.

• Ezio: A lion. The symbol of San Marco. Though this one does not have wings.

Ezio noticed a partially-boarded wall with handles. Climbing up these, he managed to reach the attic's hidden upper level. On the other side of a beam, his stolen sword was stored in a display rack illuminated by a decorated dormer window, next to a bust and a couple of foreign vases. Ezio traversed the beam and marveled upon the sight of his lost weapon.

• Ezio: Here it is.

Before recovering it, Ezio uncovered a suspicious note on top of a wooden box.

• Ezio: A note. "The sword is attractive, but ultimately useless for our purposes. It is not the item we need. We must plan more carefully, and try again." There is no signature.

Ezio then reclaimed his sword from the rack, sheathing the blade on his holster.

• Ezio: My yataghan. Such an elegant blade.

Ezio descended to the lower floor of the storeroom, noticing a book case where one of its books was slightly inclined outwards in comparison to the other ones. He pushed the book's spine, prompting the book shelf to his left to lower beneath the ground.

• Ezio: A hidden door... Ah. Time to get out of here.

The passage lead to a corridor that passed above the dining room with the fireplace. Ezio proceeded and opened the door at the end of it, being spotted by one of the mercenaries. He faced him in combat, blocking his strikes with his halberd and opening up a window to finish him. After eliminating the soldier, Ezio climbed a ladder attached to a large bookcase and found a latter on one of the shelves.

• Ezio: "I have found my father's notebooks, and within them, the key to the power I seek." Huh. The ravings of a lunatic, no doubt.

Ezio then opened the glazed door to the palazzo's balcony.

Outcome

Ezio retrieved his sword and escaped from the palace.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR

Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR memories
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
The Auditore Blade - Return to Monteriggioni - Monteriggioni Tunnels - Rizzo's Humiliations - The Final Humiliation - Cult of Hermes Reborn
Kassandra
Hunting the Bow - The Thirty Tyrants - The Informant - Battle of Munychia
Ratonhnhaké:ton
Daring Rescue - Siege of Boston - The Spymaster - Barton's Raid - A Greater Cause