Glyphs

Glyphs are encrypted messages in the Animus 2.0 created by Subject 16. Just before he died, he left messages in the original Animus to tell anybody who finds it an important secret. The only way somebody would find these is to solve the puzzles relevant to the information given. There are a total of 20 glyphs found in Italy.

List of Glyphs

• The Truth File 1: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Santa Croce. — Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with an apple in them.
• The Truth File 2: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Ospedale Degli Innocenti. — Solve the puzzle more easily by rotating the circle puzzle pieces from smallest circle to the largest.
• The Truth File 3: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at La Rosa Colta. — Solve the puzzle by highlighting the circular object in each photo.
• The Truth File 4: While hanging from the roof, it’s on a wall at Villa Auditore. — Solve the puzzle by taking the hints literally.
• The Truth File 5: In the bottom dwellings of Santa Maria Assunta, it’s on a wall near pillars. — Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with a sword in them.
• The Truth File 6: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Torri Dei Salvucci. — Solve the puzzle more easily by rotating the circle puzzle pieces from smallest circle to the largest, while keeping an eye on the two outer layers that will connect.
• The Truth File 7: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Torre Del Diavolo. — Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with red in them, this can be done in any order.
• The Truth File 8: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at San Lorenzo. — Solve the puzzle by finding the Pieces of Eden (success is indicated with a sound). Then putting the flame over Joan on the world map. And finally, by moving Rasputin’s photo to the top of Czar Nicholas II’s photo.
• The Truth File 9: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Mercato Vecchio. — Solve the puzzle by taking the hints literally, with the last one being 6=1.
• The Truth File 10: While standing on a roof, it’s on a wall at Monte Oliveto Maggiore. — Solve the puzzle by not looking for the Eagle Apollo lander on the moon. When found, it’s best to rotate the layers of the puzzle from the inside out until they all align, but note that inner layer 1 rotates on its own despite being connected to layer 4 as well in one instance, same story for layer 6. Lastly, the Piece of Eden is on the Moon’s surface.
• The Truth File 11: While standing on the floor, it’s under a stone arch at Antico Teatro Romano. — Solve the puzzle by highlighting the light bulbs. After that highlight the middle of the photo above the doorway. Then highlight Nikola Tesla’s lap.
• The Truth File 12: While standing on a roof (not the church tower itself), look down to the side of a wall attached to where you stand at Abbazia Di San Mercuriale. — Solve the puzzle by aligning red 4 with gray 1 on the wheel and entering the related code. Then turn off all the lights on the globe. Select the orb in the middle of the next photo. Solve the last puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 1=II. 2=III 3=I..
• The Truth File 13: Climb the base lookout tower until you see it on part of the stone walling on Avamposto Veneziano. — Solve the puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 5=circle, square, square. 2=circle 3=triangle. Next press the red button so-to-speak. The last part you’ll find near the left-middle bottom of the letter.
• The Truth File 14: Swim under the Ponte Di Rialto bridge, where you’ll find it on a wall near the edge of the water. — Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with Gods in them: Jupiter, Zeus, Cupid, Swan (AKA Zeus again) and Europa.
• The Truth File 15: While standing on a roof, it’s on a higher up wall at Gilda Dei Ladri Di Venezia, right above a wooden hatch. — Solve the puzzle by working from the inside out, and realizing that these layers are connected: 1 to 6, the middle two, and 4 to 5.
• The Truth File 16: Climb up the Campanile Di San Marco bell tower, until you can climb in, at which point you’ll find it on the floor. — Solve the puzzle by looking around on the map for the answer to appear. I’m not sure if this has to be done in any specific order, if so it’s: Naples, Alaska, Greece and Tunguska. Then go to the staff and stab the photo with it.
• The Truth File 17: Climb up the Torre Dell ‘Orologio and on the floor you’ll find it. — Solve the puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 7=broken square symbol, 9=six-sided hourglass symbol, 1=square with little square inside of it. Then the attic on the top-right will reveal an Assassin symbol for you to ID.
• The Truth File 18: While standing on a roof (not the highest roof), it’s on a wall at San Pietro Di Castello. — Solve the puzzle by lining up the wheel like this: 6=M or YYY, 0=Chalice symbol, 3=< <
• The Truth File 19: It’s on the back of one of the rounded-top walls that stick out on the side-parts of Scuola Grande Di San Marco. — Solve the puzzle by choosing the paintings with a sun in them. I’m not sure if this has to be done in any specific order, if so it’s: Aztec Calendar, Easter Gate, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Nazca Textile and Book of the Dead. Then find the part of the sun photo that has the most radiation and ID it.
• The Truth File 20: From the roof with a fire near it, it’s there when you look down to a wall on the side of San Giacomo Di Rialto. — Solve the puzzle by working from the inside out, and realizing that these layers are not connected: 2nd inner layer, 5th outer layer. Then ID the sun. Next you can line up the code wheel any way you want to complete the puzzle. In the final puzzle, move the cursor over the bones to change the skeleton from a monkey into a human.