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These require wikilinks, or could do with articles of their own:

• Iacopo Appiano, Lord of Piombino (Rome: Chapter 3 - Francesco Vecellio)
• Massa Marittima (")
• Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara (")
• Malinalli (Rome: Chapter 4 - Giovanni Borgia)
• Gonzalo Guerrero (")
• Gerónimo de Aguilar (")
• Tlaxcalans (")
• Battle of Worcester (Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past)
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (")
• Boscobel House (")
• Dover (")
• Westminster Abbey (")
• William Juxon (")
• William Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream (DATA-DUMP S00.S02)
• The Louvre (Divine Science: Chapter 1 - Maria Amiel)
• Besançon (")
• Perenelle Flamel (")
• Holy Innocents' Cemetery (")
• Troyes Cathedral (")
• Coroebus of Elis (Divine Science: Chapter 2 - Kyros of Zarax)
• Pherecydes of Syros (")
• Theano (")
• Třeboň (Divine Science: Chapter 3 - Elizabeth Jane Weston)
• Count Rožmberk (")
• Jane Cooper (")
• Hněvín Castle (")
• Exposition Universelle (1900) (Divine Science: Chapter 4 - Frater V.O.V.)
• Florence Farr (")
• Star Chamber/Palace of Westminster (Contracts (Project Legacy))
• Wittenberg (")
• Kremlin (")
• Strigolniki (")
• Georg von Frundsberg (")
• Landsknechte (")
• Saamoothiri (")

Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the British Parliament in London.

During the Renaissance, it housed a secret court known as the Star Chamber, named for the stars painted on the ceiling of the meeting room. There, members could try powerful members of society whom ordinary courts were incapable of convicting. King Henry VII offered the Italian Assassins a seat in the Chamber after they killed his enemy Margaret of York.

• Shaun Hastings used the pseudonym "Guy Fawkes" for his online activities: Fawkes, of course, plotted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the Palace during the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.

Westminster Abbey

Charles II's coronation at Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is a large church located west of the Palace of Westminster in London. It is the site for coronations of the English monarchy, as well as burials and Royal weddings.

In 1661, during the coronation of King Charles II, he noticed his general George Monck speaking with a man holding an Apple of Eden, but had to bow his head to receive his crown from the Archbishop William Juxon before he could look further.

• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past

The Louvre

The Louvre, located in Paris, France, is one of the largest museums in the world. During the Renaissance, it was a royal palace.

In 1527, the Assassin Giovanni Borgia received permission to consult the Louvre's library with Maria Amiel. They discovered Nicolas Flamel's will leaving his grimoire to his nephew, and used the records to locate his closest living relative.

• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - Divine Science: Chapter 1 - Maria Amiel

Christmas

Christmas is a holiday on 25 December, where Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.

The following events took place around Christmas:

• The assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza took place on 26 December 1776. Giovanni Auditore da Firenze was executed two days later.
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze confronted Rodrigo Borgia in Rome and opened the Vatican Vault on 28 December 1499.
• Isaac Newton was born on 25 December 1642.
• George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas with Ratonhnhaké:ton. The following morning, one of Connor's apprentices assassinated Johann Rall at the Battle of Trenton.
• Christmas Truce
• Grigori Rasputin was assassinated on 29 December 1916.
• The Beagle 2 rover landed on Mars on 25 December 2003, but an employee working for Abstergo Industries hid this and made it appeared to crash.

Other things to do

• Bocce
• Checkers
• Morris
• Fanorona
• Ivan the Terrible?
• John Gay and The Beggar's Opera?
• Bribery (merge Heralds and Town criers?)
• Smuggling?

Replay ACIII to see if Biddle dies at Barbados just as he did in real life, and to check to see how much Connor matches Corey May's description:

“He has such a mixed heritage and upbringing and exposure to so many different ideas, so he’s quite unique in the world,” May said. “It makes him more thoughtful. He’s more considerate of different perspectives. He spends a lot more time observing and thinking than he does making snap judgments and proclamations.”

Unlike previous Assassin Altaïr, who was motivated by his desire to restore his honor, and Ezio, who was motivated by revenge, Connor is motivated by a desire to “just do good in the world,” May said.

“He sees a lot of wrong in the world … and he finds that there’s no one else out there willing to do anything about it,” May said. “It definitely makes him a bit of an idealist and in some sense, it makes him a little bit naive, that he thinks that one person can make a difference, but he clings to that belief and remains very firm in his convictions, so I think it makes him endearing in a way that previous assassins haven’t been.”

Link these locations to all relevant articles:

Saint Augustine

• Henderson in Distress
• Paving the Way
• Dread of Night

Louisbourg

• Troubled Waters
• Raiding the Prospector
• One of a Kind

The Bahamas

• Blistering Dawn
• A Call for Help
• Search for the Somerset
• The Ghost War, Act 1
• The Ghost War, Act 2

Virgin Islands

• The Sea Wolves
• A Midnight Engagement
• The Giant and the Storm

The Kenway family were a British family during the 18th century, whose members individually swore allegiance to the Assassins and Templars.

History

The earliest known member of the Kenway family was the pirate Edward Kenway, born to an English father and Welsh mother. He married Caroline Scott and had a daughter named Jenny. After joining the Assassins and ending his life in the Caribbean, Edward remarried to Tessa Stephenson-Oakley, and they had a son named Haytham in London.

In 1735, Edward was murdered by men secretly working for Reginald Birch, who also kidnapped Jenny and sold her into slavery. Birch took in Haytham under his wing and trained him to become a Templar. In 1757, Haytham rescued Jenny from Damascus and learned the truth, and they killed Birch. Despite this, Haytham remained loyal to the Order.

Two years beforehand, while searching for the Grand Temple in North America, Haytham conceived a child with the Kanien'kehá:ka woman Kaniehtí:io. Their son Ratonhnhaké:ton became the Colonial Assassin Connor, who eventually killed his father when it became clear their ideologies were irreconcilable.

Connor eventually had children, whose bloodline continued to Desmond Miles.

And that's it for now, until we learn about Connor's kids or if Haytham had a French child or something. :S

Tactics

Edward, Haytham and Connor were masters of hand-to-hand combat and dual-wielding, and trained in freerunning and swimming. They were also adept at being inconspicuous while blending and eavesdropping, making more of an effort to socialize while doing the former. They all possessed Eagle Vision.

As he was trained by Templars rather than Assassins, Haytham lacked skills his father and his son shared, like the ability to balance on tree branches or hunting and fighting wild animals. He also never commanded his own ship.

British Assassins

The British Brotherhood originated from the members of the Italian Assassins who came to London in 1503 to kill Margaret of York. They gained the trust of King Henry VII and earned a seat in the Star Chamber.

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, the Assassins collaborated with General George Monck to undermine Cromwell's regime, in exchange for the Crown's Apple of Eden. They wrote to King Charles, who was in exile in the Dutch Republic to keep him informed.

In 1754, the Assassin Miko, who possessed a key for the Grand Temple, was murdered in the Theatre Royal by the Templar Haytham Kenway. Kenway promptly left for Boston on the Providence, but was followed by Louis Mills, who left a trail for the Colonial Assassins on the Aquila. However, Kenway discovered Mills' allegiance and killed him, before sailing the Providence into a storm to shake off the Aquila.

And that's it until AC4, or if Ubisoft makes a Robin Hood game. :D

Far East

For the inevitable Shao Jun or Japanese ACs.

The Far East referred to the countries located in east Asia.

The Chinese and Mongolian branches of the Assassins were active in the region, removing tyrants like Qin Shi Huang and Genghis Khan. Despite Genghis' assassination at the hands of Qulan Gal, and the aid of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, the Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, they were unable to stop the spread of the Mongol Empire and the conquering of China.

The Italian Assassins, including Marco Polo, travelled through the Far East and to the court of Kublai Khan, where they recovered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.

By 1524, the Chinese Assassins had been wiped out by the Emperor Jiajing. After seeking the aid of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the former Mentor of the Italian Assassins, Shao Jun journey back to her country to rebuild the Order. By the 21st century, the Assassins had a cell located in Osaka, Japan.

Taverns

Taverns or inns are buildings where people can meet, drink, eat, gamble, and which sometimes provide lodging for travellers and their horses. Innkeepers were expected to be knowledgable about the community they served, and to be an important source of news.

The pirate Edward Kenway could recruit crewmembers for the Jackdaw from taverns. His grandson Ratonhnhaké:ton was a teetotaler but frequented taverns to chat with his friends and apprentices.

Rome

• La Volpe Addormentata

Boston

• Green Dragon Tavern
• Bunch of Grapes
• Crown Coffee House
• King's Horse
• Molineux Tavern

Davenport Homestead

• The Mile's End

Frontier

• The Wright Tavern - Concord
• Buckman Tavern - Lexington
• Munroe Tavern - Lexington
• Last-Drink Tavern - Monmouth

New York City

• Dark Horse

Religion

Religion is something the leaders of the Templars and Assassins do not practice due to their knowledge of the First Civilization. The former often moved into religious positions of power to control people, while the latter protected the rights of people to believe what they wanted.

The Aztecs' worship of Tezcatlipoca involved human sacrifices, greatly disgusting the troops under Hernán Cortés.

The Hermeticists believed man, the gods and the world were all equal, and were driven underground as their beliefs undermined the Church.

The Freemasons were a Brotherhood founded after the Renaissance which allowed any man, regardless of what god he believed in, to join.