Europe

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Europe is a continent or subcontinent comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east along with the rest of Eurasia.

Since at least the Roman era, both the Assassin Brotherhood and Templar Order have had a strong presence in Europe. Europe served as the primary housing for both organizations until the Age of Discovery, when they started expanding their influence around the entire globe.

History

Isu Era

Millennia ago, Europe, like the rest of the World, was populated by the Isu, an advanced civilization. In modern Greece, the Sister Realms of Atlantis, Elysium and Underworld were ruled respectively by Poseidon, Persephone and Hades. In Norway, the Aesir of Asgard were led by Odin. Numerous Isu Temples were built across Europe, especially in British Isles, Greece and Italy.

The Isu scientist Phanes engineered humans as slaves for the First Civilization, using Apples of Eden to control them. Phanes fell in love with a female human and they fled to Atlantis. She gave birth to Eve, the first hybrid who was unaffected by the Apple of Eden. As the number of hybrids increased, Eve, with Adam, led the Human-Isu War by stealing an Apple of Eden around 75 010 BCE.

During the War, Isu learned that an upcoming coronal mass ejection will destroy Earth. The Isu scientists searched for different ways to save the World. One of them was the Rings of Eden Initiative led by Rah Cel'eze, adapting the technology of Rings of Eden to deflect the solar flare. Inside a station in modern England, the Isu tried to create a giant Ring of Eden to circle the Earth but without the time and resources, they limited their goal to protect one city. Eventually, the initiative was shut down and the station was cut from the global grid.

Knowing that the Isu would become extinct after the catastrophe while humanity would prevail, the Aesir, with the help of Juno, decided to use the seventh solution to survive. In 75 000 BCE, just before the Toba Disaster, Odin, Tyr, Freyja, Freyr, Thor, Sif, Idun and Heimdall used the computer Yggdrasil to store their essence and reincarnate them into the human gene pool across eons. The Isu Loki also secretly used Yggdrasil to take his revenge on Odin millennia after the Catastrophe.

After the Earth burnt for weeks, less than ten thousand humans and a few Isu survived. Jupiter, Minerva, and other Isu taught what they could to the humans to help reignite the spark of civilization. After a few centuries, all Isu were dead but they were remembered by humans as gods, composing the pantheon of different civilizations. While the Isu Temples were buried through time, the Pieces of Eden were used by descendants of the hybrids, becoming rulers, heroes, and conquerors. Their feats were remembered as legends and the artifacts were perceived as magical objects.

Antiquity

During the Bronze Age, many civilizations appeared across Europe, like the Celts in Western Europe, the Etruscans and the Romans in Italy, the Minoans in Krete and the Mycenaean in Greece, which was later seen as the cradle of Western civilization, influencing philosophy, art, politics, and science.

During the Archaic era, the Greek culture expanded by settlers across Mediterranean Sea, in Sicily but also in Iona and Cyrenaica. During the 6th century BCE, the scholar Pythagoras met the Isu Hermes Trismegistus who gave him his Staff of Eden, granting him immortality. Pythagoras founded the Cult of Hermes, a group that sought to keep balance between Order and Chaos. However, many Hermeticists favored Chaos, and they eventually split off to form the Cult of Kosmos, which was led by a person under the moniker the Ghost of Kosmos to secretly control Greece. They found an Isu Pyramid under the Sanctuary of Delphi, permitting them to see possible futures and influencing Greek politics. Pythagoras went to the ruins of Atlantis to protect its secrets from the Cult.

During the Classical Era, Greece was divided into many poleis, such as Sparta, Korinth, and Athens, which was one of the first Democracy. Between 490 and 449 BCE, Greece was invaded by the Achaemenid Empire which was supported by the Order of the Ancients, a secret society emulating the Isu civilization by controlling humanity through Pieces of Eden. The Persians and the Order allied with the Cult of Kosmos, facing the Greek city-states alliance, Athens and Sparta among them. Even if the king Leonidas of Sparta died with his army at the Battle of Thermopylae, the Greeks defeated the Persians at the battles of Salamis and Plataia.

Without a common enemy, Athens and Sparta fought for Greece's hegemony, creating the Delian League for the former and the Peloponnesian League for the latter. This led to the Peloponnesian War between 431 and 404 BCE, with the Cult of Kosmos infiltrating the two sides to gain control of Greece. Their plans were thwarted by the misthios Kassandra, granddaughter of King Leonidas, who assassinated each member and destroyed the Pyramid with the Leonidas' Spear of Eden. The Order of Ancients infiltrated the Greek institutions during the War but they were stopped by Kassandra who was helped by the Persian Proto-Assassin Darius. Later Kassandra helped her father Pythagoras to seal the ruins of Atlantis and inherited the Staff of Hermes, becoming the Keeper, tracking Piece of Eden through the World for twenty-six centuries.

In the late 4th century BCE, Greece was part of the Kingdom of Makedonia ruled by Alexander the Great. The Order of the Ancients granted him a Staff combined with the Trident of Eden, permitting him to conquer Egypt and the Middle East. His vast empire didn't last as Alexander was poisoned by the Babylonian Proto-Assassin Iltani, leading to the division between Makedonian Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Seleucid Empire, each ruler having one of the Trident's prongs.

In the late 2nd century BCE, the collapse of the Seleucid Empire created a power vacuum that turned the region of western Cilicia into a pirate stronghold. The inhabitants were already known for their outlaw activities and military prowess, and the Cilicians established themselves as the most successful group of pirates in the ancient Mediterranean region.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed
• Assassin's Creed II
  • Battle of Forlì
  • Bonfire of the Vanities
• Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  • The Da Vinci Disappearance
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations
• Assassin's Creed III
• Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (Map)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue
• Assassin's Creed: Unity
• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
• Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
• Assassin's Creed: Origins
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History