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[[File:Santa_Maria_Aracoeli_7.png|thumb|250px|The entrance to the Colosseum Vault.]] | [[File:Santa_Maria_Aracoeli_7.png|thumb|250px|The entrance to the Colosseum Vault.]] | ||
*Juno is a Roman goddess, Queen of the Gods, protector, and special counselor of the state. She is equaled with the Greek goddess [[Wikipedia:Hera|Hera]] in both characteristics and personality | *Juno is a Roman goddess, Queen of the Gods, protector, and special counselor of the state. She is equaled with the Greek goddess [[Wikipedia:Hera|Hera]] in both characteristics and personality. | ||
*Her other name "Uni" is the Etruscan equivalent of Juno/Hera. | *Her other name "Uni" is the Etruscan equivalent of Juno/Hera. | ||
*Juno is not actually named during ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', nor does it appear during the end credits. Rather, Juno's name was revealed by [[Nadia Verrucci]] on her website. | *Juno is not actually named during ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', nor does it appear during the end credits. Rather, Juno's name was revealed by [[Nadia Verrucci]] on her website. | ||
Revision as of 19:07, 7 June 2012
Juno, also known as Uni, was a member of the First Civilization, and part of the Capitoline Triad alongside Jupiter and Minerva.
She spoke with two First Civilization descendants, Clay Kaczmarek through the Bleeding effect, and Desmond Miles in both the Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and the Colosseum Vault.
Biography
Gathering of knowledge
- "Each vault's knowledge was transmitted to a single place. It was our duty - mine, Minerva's, and Juno's - to sort and sample all that was collected."
- ―Jupiter.[src]
During the rage of the Human-First Civilization War, Juno was among those who avoided the fighting.[1]
Along with Jupiter and Minerva, she built several Temples underground, safe from the war, in which to research methods of salvation from the impending catastrophe. The findings of each vault were sent to a single location, the Grand Temple.[1]
Juno remained in the Grand Temple with Jupiter and Minerva to sort through the possible solutions, and test those they found promising. They tested six in succession, finding each progressively more promising, however, they were too late, and the catastrophe struck, killing nearly all of the First Civilization, and humankind.[1]
Enlisting aid
- "Thousands of years this message waited. Soon its promise shall be fulfilled. Go forth, with eyes open to all but the truth."
- ―Juno speaking with Clay.[src]
After experiencing long sessions in the Animus, Clay Kaczmarek began suffering from the Bleeding effect, and becoming confused with the division of his genetic memories from his actual ones.[2]
Around this time, Juno approached him, introducing herself and telling Clay she had "come to show [him] the way." Some time after, Clay claimed to be able to see "what has been, what will be."[2]
Juno acknowledged him, saying that what he needed to do was clear, and that he should help Desmond Miles. Clay blatantly refused, but Juno only said that her message had waited thousands of years, and its promise would be fulfilled.[2]
When Clay's eyes were opened to the truth of Lucy Stillman's allegiance to the Templars, he consented to Juno's request,[2] and went on to aid Desmond while he was trapped in the Black Room.[1] After Clay agreed to help, Juno spoke gravely that "They must suffer as we suffered."[2]
Balancing the scales
- "A hundred years I might speak and still you would not know us. You with five senses. Us with six. The one we kept from you. To be safe. Now, you can never know. Only try."
- ―Juno to Desmond.[src]
Juno appeared four times as a holographic form to Desmond Miles, a modern day Assassin, as he passed through the Santa Maria Aracoeli, in search of the vault hidden within it. However, none of the others who had accompanied Desmond could see or hear her.[3]
Juno spoke to him of the vaults and her people, and elaborated on the warning Minerva had previously relayed to Ezio Auditore da Firenze in 1499, though her tone was noticeably more hostile towards humanity. Calling man ignorant, Juno spoke of the blending of the bloodlines of human and First Civilization - a line from which Desmond descended - and angrily regretted that they should have left man as they were.[3]
When Desmond, Lucy Stillman, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane reached the Apple of Eden within the vault, Juno spoke to Desmond a final time. Saying that the "final journey" had commenced, she told him of a woman who would accompany him, but first, the path needed to be opened, and the scales balanced.[3]
With that, Juno forcefully took control of Desmond, causing him to stab Lucy with his Hidden Blade.[3]
Trivia
- Juno is a Roman goddess, Queen of the Gods, protector, and special counselor of the state. She is equaled with the Greek goddess Hera in both characteristics and personality.
- Her other name "Uni" is the Etruscan equivalent of Juno/Hera.
- Juno is not actually named during Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, nor does it appear during the end credits. Rather, Juno's name was revealed by Nadia Verrucci on her website.
- In the Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel, it is stated that Ezio encountered Juno, though exactly when is unspecified.
References
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