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{{Character Infobox
{{Quote|On a Church that will stand for a thousand years or more. Three spires reach to Heaven, the truth lies on the tallest one.|A riddle by Nostradamus describing the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.|Assassin's Creed: Unity|Cancer}}
|name = Abbo Cernuus
{{Landmarks Infobox
|native =
|image = ACU Abbey of Saint Germain des Prés.png
|image = Wiki noimage.jpg
|description =
|birth = c. 850<ref name="Wikipedia"/><br>{{Wiki|Île-de-France}},<ref name="FR Wikipedia">{{WP|fr:Abbon de Saint-Germain-des-Prés|Abbon de Saint-Germain-des-Prés}}</ref> [[Francia|Kingdom of the West Franks]]
|location = [[Le Quartier Latin]], [[Paris]], [[France]]
|death = c. 923<ref name="Wikipedia"/><br>[[Paris]],<ref name="FR Wikipedia"/> Île-de-France, Kingdom of the West Franks
|dateconstructed = 558
|active =  
|functions = Abbey<br>Storehouse<br>Prison
|species = [[Human]]
|features = [[Viewpoint]]
|database =  
|events = [[September Massacres]]
|affiliates = *[[Benedictines|Order of Saint Benedict]]
*[[Assassins|Hidden Ones]]
**[[Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins|Frankish Hidden Ones]]
}}
}}
'''Abbo Cernuus''' (c. 850 – c. 923) was a [[Benedictines|Benedictine]] [[Scholar|monk]] from {{Wiki|Neustria}} and secretly a member of the [[Assassins|Hidden Ones]] who operated in the [[Carolingian Empire]] in the late 9th century, operating under the pseudonym of '''A.C.'''<ref name="AssassinsOfficial">{{Twitter|bob2356|status/1434355533314605063url|Antoine Henry|quote=It's great to see our awesome community come together to solve and interpret secrets we put in!<br><br>St Denis mystery:<br>
The '''Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés''' (French: ''Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés'') is a defunct abbey in [[Paris]].
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRo_4Q7Q0Q0 youtu.be/KRo_4Q7Q0Q0]<br>
[https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/pgp07b/we_got_our_reward_for_solving_st_denis/ reddit.com/r/assassinscree…]<br><br>AC the Hidden One:<br>
[https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/phnyek/a_theory_about_the_hidden_one_quest_from_siege_of/ reddit.com/r/assassinscree...]<br><br>This is our reward as devs for putting the efforts in. Thank you all!|image=File:ACV Twitter - AC is Abbo Cernuus.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter|ObviousAlias4|status/1434534282131820547|ObviousAlias|quote=@bob2356 Just to confirm for @AC_Wiki purposes, we need explicitly citable statements, Abbo Cernuus is A.C. in official canon.|image=File:ACV Twitter - AC is Abbo Cernuus.png}}<br>↑ {{Twitter|assassinscreed|status/1435271770085408777|Assassin's Creed|quote=@ObviousAlias4 Indeed, A.C. is Abbo Cernuus. 😉|image=File:ACV Twitter - AC is Abbo Cernuus.png}}</ref> Being both an eyewitness and participant in the [[Siege of Paris (885–886)|siege]] of [[Paris]] from 885 to 886,<ref name="Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] – [[The Siege of Paris]]'' – [[Database: Francia]]</ref> Abbo documented his account of the events in the {{Wiki|Latin}} poem ''De bellis Parisiacæ urbis''.<ref name="Wikipedia">{{WP|Abbo Cernuus}}</ref>


==Biography==
==History==
Abbo Cernuus was believed to have been born in the middle of 9th century.<ref name="Wikipedia" /> At some point, he was [[Initiation into the Assassin Order|inducted]] into the [[Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins|Frankish Hidden Ones]], inheriting the mantle from the few Hidden Ones who opted to remain behind after their mass departure from the [[Roman Empire]]'s provinces of [[Great Britain|Britannia]] and {{Wiki|Roman Gaul|Gaul}} in the 5th century. Like his predecessors, Abbo dedicated himself to keeping the former [[Assassin bureau|bureaus]] in Paris and the surrounding [[Francia|Frankish]] cityside safe.<ref name="Hidden" />
The first church at the site of the abbey was built in 558. By the 17th century, the area around Saint-Germain-des-Prés became a popular place for the nobility to have their country houses built, and the abbey itself was one of the richest in [[France]]. A prison called the Prison de l'Abbaye had also been built there.<ref name="Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Database: St-Germain-des-Prés]]</ref>


Abbo eventually found his calling as a monk and found a placement at the the [[Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés]] south of Paris, where he studied for many years. When the [[Vikings]] from the [[Elgring Clan]] led a raid on the abbey in 885, Abbo helped in its defense, personally eliminating six [[raid]]ers who broke into the [[church]] aiming to steal holy relics from the sepulcher.<ref name="GhostOfSaintGermain">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] – [[The Siege of Paris]]'' – [[The Ghost of Saint Germain]]</ref>
During the second [[Siege of Paris (885–886)|Siege of Paris]], the abbey was raided by a group of [[Vikings]] from the [[Elgring Clan]]. However, their presence was noticed by the [[Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins|Frankish]] [[Assassins|Hidden One]] [[Abbo Cernuus]], who started killing them off one by one. The remaining Vikings soon fled the area, whereupon a Frankish captain was sent by the [[Bellatores Dei]] leader [[Isidore Mercator]] to find and engage the Hidden One at the abbey; however, the captain also met his end atop the abbey.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] – [[The Siege of Paris]]'' — [[The Ghost of Saint Germain]]</ref>


As Abbo had been wearing his hooded Hidden Ones robes at the time, this eventually gave rise to the legend among the surrounding [[Civilian|populace]] that the cloaked figure sometimes seen on the abbey roof was [[Germain of Paris|Saint Germain]]'s ghost protecting holy ground. Wanting to keep his dual identity a secret, Abbo let the rumors continue unabated.<ref name="GhostOfSaintGermain"/>
As the [[French Revolution]] broke out, the abbey was ransacked and effectively turned into a storehouse, with 15,000 tons of gunpowder stored in the refectory.<ref name="Database" /> The [[Templars|Templar Order]] took advantage of the ransacking, stealing valuable artifacts and hiding them underneath the building. In response, a team of French Assassins was sent to recover the artifacts.<ref name="Catacomb Raider">''Assassin's Creed: Unity'' – [[Catacomb Raider]]</ref>


At the same time, a group of [[Christianity|Christian]] zealots known as the [[Bellatores Dei]] gradually rose in power and soon found the Hidden Ones' locked Roman-era bureaus in [[Champlieu Ruins|Champlieu]], [[Gisacum Ruins|Gisacum]], and [[Diodurum Ruins|Diodurum]]. Although they had no knowledge of the Hidden Ones' origins or purpose, they sought to open the rooms and claim what secrets lay within. In accordance with [[the Creed]]'s directive to protect the Brotherhood at all costs, Abbo took it upon himself to defend the ancestral headquarters, swiftly assassinating the teams of [[soldier]]s who attempted to excavate and break into them.<ref name="Hidden">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] – [[The Siege of Paris]]'' – [[Hidden]]</ref>
During the [[September Massacres]] of 1792, the first and some of the most brutal massacres took place at the Prison de l'Abbaye, where revolutionaries killed 24 non-juring priests.<ref name="PW">''[[Project Widow]]'' – "September Massacres"</ref><ref name="Database" /> The night before, the playwright [[Pierre Beaumarchais]] had just been released.<ref name="Pierre">''Assassin's Creed: Unity'' – [[Database: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais]]</ref> After the radical journalist and politician [[Jean-Paul Marat]] was murdered in July 1793, suspects were rounded up and sent to the Prison de l'Abbaye for questioning.<ref name="Assassination">''Assassin's Creed: Unity'' – [[The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat]]</ref> In August 1794, an explosion destroyed part of the former abbey.<ref name="Database" />


At the Hidden Ones' abandoned [[Lutetia bureau|bureau in Paris]], Abbo caught sight of the Viking ''[[jarl]]skona'' [[Eivor Varinsdottir]] within the bureau. Quickly, Abbo left her a strange letter at the bureau's entrance before she could spot him. The letter was signed with an "AC" and an apology for the dead soldiers and a poem:<ref name="Hidden" />
==Gallery==
 
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
:''"This place of honor forever holding, the deeds that were done<br>We abide always many in number, yet together are one<br>Whose firm faith and whose lonely labor, serve only the fight<br>I must yet stay unknown in the darkness, so you may work in the light."''
ACUDB - Saint-Germain-des-Prés.png|Database image
In return, Abbo let Eivor keep the short sword [[Joyeuse]] as a gift after unlocking it from inside the bureau.<ref name="Hidden"/> Following the siege, Abbo wrote the poem ''De bellis Parisiacæ urbis'', or ''Bella Parisiacæ urbis'' ("Wars of the City of Paris"), a chronicle detailing the siege and its aftermath.<ref name="Wikipedia" />
ACV Abbey of Saint Germain.jpg|The abbey in the 9th century
 
ACU the suspects who killed Marat were in Prison.png|The suspects in Marat's murder being held in the prison
==Legacy==
</gallery>
In 2020, [[Shaun Hastings]] mentioned Abbo in a [[database]] entry about Francia, describing the monk as "tricky" and noting that "nothing about [him] was straightforward". However in said database entry, Shaun called him Abbo ''of Cernuus'' rather than Abbo Cernuus which is incorrect, as ''[[wikt:cernuus|cernuus]]'' is Latin for "the crooked" and should not be formatted as a toponymic or {{Wiki|Patrial name|patrial}} byname.<ref name="Database"/>
 
==Behind the scenes==
On 7 September 2021, the official ''Assassin's Creed'' Twitter revealed Abbo Cernuus as the identity of "A.C."<ref name="AssassinsOfficial"/>


==Appearances==
==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – ''[[The Siege of Paris]]'' {{mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]] – [[The Siege of Paris]]''


==References==
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Revision as of 08:27, 4 May 2026

"On a Church that will stand for a thousand years or more. Three spires reach to Heaven, the truth lies on the tallest one."
―A riddle by Nostradamus describing the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.[src]-[m]

The Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French: Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés) is a defunct abbey in Paris.

History

The first church at the site of the abbey was built in 558. By the 17th century, the area around Saint-Germain-des-Prés became a popular place for the nobility to have their country houses built, and the abbey itself was one of the richest in France. A prison called the Prison de l'Abbaye had also been built there.[1]

During the second Siege of Paris, the abbey was raided by a group of Vikings from the Elgring Clan. However, their presence was noticed by the Frankish Hidden One Abbo Cernuus, who started killing them off one by one. The remaining Vikings soon fled the area, whereupon a Frankish captain was sent by the Bellatores Dei leader Isidore Mercator to find and engage the Hidden One at the abbey; however, the captain also met his end atop the abbey.[2]

As the French Revolution broke out, the abbey was ransacked and effectively turned into a storehouse, with 15,000 tons of gunpowder stored in the refectory.[1] The Templar Order took advantage of the ransacking, stealing valuable artifacts and hiding them underneath the building. In response, a team of French Assassins was sent to recover the artifacts.[3]

During the September Massacres of 1792, the first and some of the most brutal massacres took place at the Prison de l'Abbaye, where revolutionaries killed 24 non-juring priests.[4][1] The night before, the playwright Pierre Beaumarchais had just been released.[5] After the radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat was murdered in July 1793, suspects were rounded up and sent to the Prison de l'Abbaye for questioning.[6] In August 1794, an explosion destroyed part of the former abbey.[1]

Gallery

  • Database image
    Database image
  • The abbey in the 9th century
    The abbey in the 9th century
  • The suspects in Marat's murder being held in the prison
    The suspects in Marat's murder being held in the prison

Appearances

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: St-Germain-des-Prés
  2. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Siege of Paris — The Ghost of Saint Germain
  3. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Catacomb Raider
  4. ↑ Project Widow – "September Massacres"
  5. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
  6. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
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