Modern times

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"If there is one message Gavin brings with him in his tour around the world, it is this: The Assassins are no longer alone."

―An Initiate spy, 2014.

Buzz Aldrin picking up the Apple of Eden on the surface of the Moon

Modern times refers to the period from the start of the 20th century through the 21st century CE. This era saw the overall decline of the Assassin Order and the ascendance of the Templar Order, including Desmond Miles' capture for use in the Animus Project and the commercialization of genetic memory technologies.

The Templar Order recovered several Pieces of Eden during the modern age. Among the victims of the search were Harry Houdini, Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy. Although not a victim, Nikola Tesla lost his Apple of Eden to the Templars, an incident which motivated him to help the Assassins in destroying the Imperial Sceptre, one of the Staves of Eden. Additionally, the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon was in fact a Templar expedition to recover an Apple of Eden that was on the lunar surface.

Events

Russian Empire

The Tunguska explosion

At some point before June 1908, Grigori Rasputin stole the Imperial Sceptre from Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Without the Staff of Eden, Nicholas could not control his people, ultimately leading to the Russian Revolution. It was unclear if Rasputin himself was a Templar, but by June 1908, the Staff had been taken to a Templar research station in Tunguska.

Before the Templars could take advantage of the artifact, however, a team of Russian Assassins led by Nikolai Orelov and their ally Nikola Tesla destroyed the facility. Only Nikolai survived the explosion, during which he experienced a vision from the First Civilization.

In 1917 during the Russian Revolution, Nikolai was tasked by Vladimir Lenin to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II. Nikolai infiltrated the palace but spared the Tsar, he only wanted to be sure that the staff was destroyed. Nicholas revealed that a shard of the staff had been kept as a necklace worn by Rasputin. Seeking more information, the Assassin went to Krasnoyarsk and freed Rasputin's former disciple Khioniya Guseva from the asylum.

She informed him that she tried to kill Rasputin but he was protected by the shard he wore and with it obliged her to mutilate herself. At her request, Nikolai ended her life to stop her suffering. Nikolai later recovered the shard from Rasputin's grave, but chose not inform the Brotherhood of his actions. In December 1917, the Brotherhood, with the help of Soviet government, installed a Assassin and scientific community at Protvino. Among their number was the Assassin Sergei and his wife.

In July 1918, Nikolai accepted a last mission for the Assassins before leaving Russia: recovering a Precursor box once held by Ezio Auditore which was in possession of the Tsar's family, who were imprisoned by the Bolsheviks. In Yekaterinburg, Nikolai discovered that the Templars also sought the box and had executed the Tsar's entire family except for Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, who had the box. When Nikolai found her, his shard from the Sceptre and the box came into contact, causing a Bleeding Effect on Anastasia, who believed she was the Chinese Assassin Shao Jun, the box's owner in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty. Nikolai decided to bring her to the Assassins in Moscow to cure her.

Nikolai and Anastasia talking on board the train

The pair fled by train to Kasan to escape the Templars. There, Nikolai was betrayed by Leon Trotsky, who said that Anastasia's continued existence as a symbol of the Tsar's power ran against the revolution's ideas and could only be resolved by killing her, but the young woman saved Nikolai from the Templars and they escaped by boat.

In Moscow, Nikolai entrusted Anastasia and the box to Sergei. In the Assassins bureau, Nikolai learned that the Assassins planned to use Anastasia as a test subject to recover Shao Jun's memories, despite knowing the process would likely kill her. Nikolai decided to betray the Brotherhood and save her from their laboratory. Furious that Nikolai had impeded their plans by rescuing Anastasia from the facility, the Assassins sent a tank to kill him. Instructing Anastasia to run and wait for him at the Bolshoi Theatre, the former Assassin eventually destroyed the tank. As he had promised, Nikolai went to the theater and gave a false passport to Anastasia, who took the name of Anna Anderson. Nikolai then bid farewell to "Anna", who went to Germany.

Assassins from the Bureau of Investigation sent to locate Nikolai

Abandoning the Assassins, Nikolai emigrated to the United States with his family. During the Palmer Raids, his wife Anna and daughter Nadya were deported back to Russia, but Nikolai evaded arrest with his infant son Innokenti and subsequently raised him in a secluded cabin. When the Assassin Sergei found them, he threatened Innokenti to make Nikolai hand over the shard. Nikolai killed Sergei and trained his son to fight, anticipating the return of subsequent Assassins.

Eventually, a group of American Assassins who worked for the FBI attempted to explain to Nikolai that they had provided his family safe return to Russia, claiming to only want information about his vision. Nikolai refused to believe them and initiated a struggle which left Innokenti the sole survivor.

World Wars

With the beginning of World War I, the Assassins were sent all across Europe to be at every theatre of war. Many British Assassins enlisted in the British Army. During the Christmas truce of 1914, one of their Assassins undercover as a medic killed the Templar Erich Albert, a General in the German Army. In 1916, the Templars had installed a spy ring in London lead by a figure known as the "Master Spy". In truth, he was a Sage, a reincarnation of the member of the Isu Aita. Lydia Frye, who was the last Assassin in the city, killed him and his followers.

The Templars orchestrated Adolf Hitler's rise to power by granting him an Apple of Eden. Secretly, however, the war had been instigated to spread the Templar economic system of capitalism throughout a war-torn Europe, keeping the populace under the control of corporations, such as Abstergo Industries, which became the public front of Templar Order in 1937. Although the aim of Templar hegemony was accomplished, Hitler himself was killed by the Assassins in 1945 after he killed his double and left his bunker in Berlin. Hitler's Apple was lost, however, and its fate remained unresolved.

The Philadelphia Project

In 1943, Abstergo had an unclear involvement in the Philadelphia Project, as they gained data from the Animus Project's twelfth subject that confirmed USS Eldridge was briefly thrust into a future timeline. Fearful of temporal paradoxes, the company contained the artifact responsible to a secured location.

In 1944, the Templar agent Keith Scipione claimed the original Shroud of Eden for Abstergo Industries. The same year, Barthel Schink, an Assassin ally and member of the Edelweiss Pirates, was captured by the Gestapo. In prison he met a fellow Edelweiss Pirate, Miriam Kurtz, and tasked her to recover a Piece of Eden from the spire of the Cologne Cathedral and bring it back to the French Assassins stationed in Paris. She succeeded but the Third Reich reclaimed it.

The Search For Mary Lynch

In 1986, Alan Rikkin led a Templar strike-team to capture Mary Lynch in Baja California, Mexico. Intending to put the Assassin into an Animus to uncover clues to the whereabouts of The Artifact, however they arrived too late as Mary and Joseph Lynch were aware of their arrival. Not wanting to be captured and exploited by the Templar Order, Mary Lynch planned to kill herself with the help of her husband, however Joseph lacked the strength to go through with the plan and so Mary lead her husbands Hidden Blade to her throat, resulting in her dead.

Shortly afterwards, their son Callum returned home finding his mother death in a chair with Joseph’s blade extended, dripping with his mother’s blood. Joseph found himself unable to kill his son, and instead prompted Callum to flee before the arrival of the Templars. After Callum's departure, the heartbroken Joseph surrendered to the Templars and was brought over to the Abstergo Foundation located in Madrid.

The Great Purge and the Prophet's Codex

Daniel Cross killing the Mentor

In November 2000, the Templars successfully planted a sleeper agent named Daniel Cross among the Assassins, who plunged them into disarray by assassinating the Mentor of the Order. By September 2012, the Templars had managed to locate and destroy virtually every Assassin encampment around the world during an operation titled the Great Purge.

Sometime in 2002, Daniel Cross was officially inducted into the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order and given an assignment by Dr. Warren Vidic through e-mail. Daniel traveled to Moscow, Russia to find the "Prophet's Codex" in the library of Ivan the Terrible hidden beneath the Bolshoi Theatre. Attending a play there, Daniel quietly made his way through the theatre to find a hidden door which led to the library.

Daniel reading the Prophet's Codex

Upon entering it, he was spooked by an Assassin sentry who intended to greet him, causing Daniel to loosen his Hidden Blade. However, Daniel pretended to be the Assassin's replacement as sentry, and the man eagerly told Daniel about the location of the Codex when Daniel inquired. When the sentry left, Daniel opened the Prophet's Codex, written by Ezio Auditore. He read Minerva's speech to Vidic via his earpiece and noted the name "Desmond". Afterward, Daniel took the box containing the Codex and killed the sentry, before calling a clean-up team and leaving the library.

Early 21st century

In September or October 2006, a virus dubbed L-11 broke out in Africa. After three months, 96% of the continent's population had died, and even after six years, Africa remained essentially empty. This story was later alleged by Abstergo Industries to be a falsified account reported by Erudito, a hacking collective.

On 9 December 2010, junior professor Shaun Hastings released confidential information on Abstergo Industries to WikiLeaks; Abstergo quickly had the letter pulled, and Shaun abducted for interrogation. The next day, while he was being transferred, Rebecca Crane hacked the onboard computer of Abstergo's van to show that it was low on fuel. When the van pulled over to rectify this, Rebecca helped Shaun escape, and introduced him to the Assassin Order.

In March 2012, violence erupted between Mexican border guards and undocumented immigrants from the United States. Despite hundreds of American refugees being killed and thousands more wounded, record numbers of Americans still continued to cross the border. On 3 September, the Global Weather Association abandoned the phrase "North Atlantic Hurricane Season", since occurrences of the natural phenomenon in the North Atlantic had become so powerful and frequent that coastal cities in the East Coast lived in constant fear of the storms. Three days later, the last American film studio permanently closed down, as rampant film piracy and competition from the video game industry had rendered the American cinema industry nonviable. Meanwhile, the USA and European Union continued to build jointly-owned oil platforms in the Weddell Sea, despite protests that the platforms violated the Antarctic Treaty System.

Clay Kaczmarek's capture

In 2010, William Miles gave Clay Kaczmarek the task of infiltrating Abstergo Industries. His job was to access the personal computer of Alan Rikkin, the company's CEO, and uncover the details surrounding the secretive "Animus Project". Clay's efforts yielded information on the project's research funding, the name of its lead, and the location of the new facility in Italy. Thereafter, the Assassins decided to plant Clay deeper into Abstergo as a test subject of the program. He was informed that there was a mole already inside Abstergo by the name of Lucy Stillman, who would aid him in his escape when the time came.

On 1 February 2011, Clay was captured by the Lineage Discovery and Acquisition team and inducted into the Animus Project as Subject 16. He was forced to relive the memories of his ancestors, particularly Ezio Auditore, for long periods of time. Though Vidic kept the true purpose of their genetic explorations a secret, Clay realized that their efforts were focused on locating a mythical "Apple of Eden"; when Clay inquired about the Apple, Vidic threatened that Clay could not reasonably expect to be released if he knew what they truly sought. Later, William contacted Clay and assured him that when the time came, Lucy would rescue him, as they were a team.

Eventually, Clay discovered the true purpose of the Animus Project—the release of the Eye-Abstergo satellite—and decided that it was time for him to escape. However, his over-exposure to the Animus caused him to suffer from extreme bouts of the Bleeding Effect. In addition, after conversing with Juno, Clay discovered Lucy's true allegiance to the Templars.

Following this revelation, Clay was convinced by Juno to deliver a message to his eventual successor, Desmond Miles. As he plotted his suicide, Clay created an artificially intelligent construct of himself inside the Animus by hacking the machine throughout the night. After sending one final e-mail to his father, Clay slit his wrists and used his blood to paint cryptic messages for his eventual successor to find.

The Fake Brotherhood

Around 2012, the Georgian brothers Akaki and Nodar Ninidze, grew tired of the constant wars that plagued their home country and sought a way to end it. Inspired by the strong legacy of the Assassin Brotherhood in other country’s like Russia, Syria and Turkey, they founded their own ‘’Brotherhood’’ to bring peace to their country, with Akaki fashioning himself as the ‘’Mentor’’ of this Brotherhood.

Although the ‘’Assassin’s’’ struck fear into their enemies at first, the Templars eventually caught wind of their actions, believing them to be part of the official Brotherhood they attacked them from many fronts. Effectively whittled down, Gavin Banks arrived to take in the remaining survivors and retreat to Pankisi Valley, where he relayed to the freedom fighters the secret history of the Assassin-Templar way. Eyes opened to the truth, the two brothers were inspired to join the Altair II to take the fight to a larger scale than their home country, leaving behind now an official and true Georgian Brotherhood.

Desmond Miles' capture

Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman overseeing Desmond Miles

On 6 September 2012, the media announced that Abstergo Industries was being investigated for manipulating a small town's water supply in order to test a synthetic drug referred to as "New Fluoride". This pressured Abstergo to launch their Eye-Abstergo satellite by 21 December 2012, which was secretly a mind control device powered by a Piece of Eden. The Piece of Eden originally intended to power the satellite was destroyed in the DIA satellite accident, and Abstergo did not have another available.

To that end, Abstergo kidnapped Desmond Miles and took him to their facility in Rome. Desmond relived the memories of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, so that Abstergo could obtain a map showing the approximate locations of the Pieces of Eden on Earth. Shortly after, Desmond escaped Abstergo with the help of Lucy Stillman, who claimed to be an undercover Assassin to gain Desmond's trust. However, the escape was actually a part of Project Siren, a plan devised by Vidic to facilitate a quicker recovery of Desmond's genetic memories.

Lucy brought Desmond to an Assassin hideout and rendezvoused with Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane. With the Assassins losing the war against the Templars, the decision was made to train Desmond as a true Assassin in the fastest possible way: through the use of the Animus 2.0, which was made from copied Abstergo blueprints. As such, the Assassins intended to take advantage of the Bleeding Effect by having Desmond relive the memories of an ancestor to take on his skills, this ancestor being Ezio Auditore. While reliving Ezio's memories, Desmond encountered Minerva, who warned of a natural disaster that would soon recur. In order to avert planet-wide decimation, the Pieces of Eden needed to be brought to a series of temples built by the First Civilization.

Vidic and the Abstergo guards raiding the hideout

Soon after, Desmond and his companions were located by a team of Templars led by Vidic himself, though they were able to escape once more. The group fled to Monteriggioni, where Desmond continued to relive Ezio's life in order to locate the Apple of Eden that had come into his possession. Meanwhile, Lucy stashed a recorded copy of Desmond's sessions in the Animus at the hideout, which Vidic later retrieved.

The search led Desmond to the Colosseum Vault in Rome, which contained a secret passage leading to Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Here, the Assassins located the Apple of Eden within a hidden vault, and Desmond attempted to retrieve it through performing a short freerunning course. When Desmond touched the Apple, his body was possessed by Juno, and he was forced to stab Lucy in the stomach, killing her. Desmond then went into shock and slipped into unconsciousness.

After Desmond blacked out, William Miles' team arrived and had him placed him into the Animus. During this time, Desmond relived the memories of Ezio during the search for Leonardo da Vinci, where he subsequently discovered the Pythagorean Vault and receivied the coordinates that would direct the Assassin Order to the Grand Temple. However, as a result of this strain on his weakened psychological state, Desmond slipped into a coma.

Desmond awakening from the coma

As Desmond's coma bound him to the Animus, he was left to try and piece his subconscious mind together. After burying Lucy outside Rome, the Assassins flew to the United States while posing as a medical team from State University. When Desmond had fully synchronized with Ezio's remaining memories with the help of Subject 16's virtual construct, he entered into a Synch Nexus and awoke outside the Grand Temple, claiming that he knew what they had to do to prevent the impending solar coronal mass ejection.

After the Assassins entered the temple and restored a power source, Juno's voice commanded Desmond to find "the key". To that end, Desmond began reliving the memories of Haytham Kenway, a British Templar during the French and Indian War who came into possession of an amulet that would grant access to the Grand Temple after passing its initial barrier. While taking a break, Shaun informed Desmond that they needed more power cores to boost the Temple back to functionality, and the team resolved to find them. Meanwhile, Desmond continued viewing his genetic memory, this time reliving the memories of the American Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, Haytham's son with a Kanien'kehá:ka woman named Kaniehtí:io.

Desmond parachuting onto a New York skyscraper

By 16 November, Shaun located another power source in an Abstergo office in Manhattan. The team traveled there, and Desmond climbed the unfinished Freedom Tower to parachute into the office. He was confronted by Daniel Cross, but knocked him unconscious with the battery and escaped.

On 2 December, Desmond infiltrated a stadium in São Paulo, Brazil to recover another power source, which was being worn as a necklace by a business tycoon's trophy wife. Abstergo guards were present and searching for Desmond, so he blended with the crowd and stealthily made it to her balcony. However, Cross had already killed the woman and taken the artifact. Spurred into action, Desmond chased Cross, beat him and escaped with the power source via train.

Upon their return to the Grand Temple, Shaun immediately located another power source in Egypt. William volunteered to retrieve it, and told Desmond to stay behind and learn the location of the key from Connor's memories. Desmond was concerned for his father's safety, and his fears were realized when Abstergo captured William after he recovered the power source.

Vidic sent a message offering to trade William for the Apple, and Desmond returned to the Abstergo facility in Rome. However, he refused to bargain, killing Cross and any Abstergo guards who stood in his way. He used the Apple to compel the guards into killing Vidic and then themselves, then left with William and the power source. Without the Apple of Eden in their possession, Abstergo put off the Eye-Abstergo satellite launch.

Desmond sacrificing himself

Desmond eventually found the memory he was looking for, discovering that Connor had buried the key on the Davenport Homestead near the grave of Connor Davenport, the Colonial Assassin's namesake. After digging it up, the Assassins returned to open the door inside the Grand Temple. Behind it lay an orb which Juno commanded Desmond to touch in order to prevent the Second Disaster. However, Minerva appeared and revealed they had been misled: Juno had sought to conquer the world and as punishment, her consciousness was imprisoned.

While activating the global aurora borealis device would save the world, it would also free Juno and end Desmond's life. At Juno and Desmond's urging, Minerva revealed that if he did not touch the orb, humanity would survive the disaster and Desmond would be hailed as the next messiah. However, his words would eventually be twisted to serve wicked purposes, justifying abuse and oppression.

With only hours before cataclysm struck, Desmond chose to touch the orb, believing it to be the better choice and claiming the Assassins would stop Juno. Telling the others to leave, he activated the device, dying to protect Earth from the solar flare. That afternoon, Abstergo found the Temple and recovered Desmond's body, leaving his bag and broken Hidden Blade behind.

Post-Second Disaster

By the end of 2012, Abstergo began selling the Animus as a game console to the public through their entertainment branch, alongside various other items such as the Angelus implant, Bodyband, and Herne+. They also extended into the international market, particularly with Brahman V.R. consoles across India via their subsidiary, MysoreTech.

On 14 May 2013, Shaun, Rebecca, and William broke a six-month "silence" following Desmond's death, and a week later the three arrived in a coastal region of Peru awaiting interception by Gavin Banks. Gavin welcomed the trio aboard the Altaïr II, only to be informed that William was stepping down from his position of Assassin leader and naming Gavin as his replacement. William also gave Gavin a book that contained everything he knew about the Order, tasking Gavin with rebuilding the Brotherhood.

William's first clue

By 25 May, the Altaïr II docked in Acapulco, Mexico, with Rebecca helping to devise version 2.0 of the Hephaestus Email Network. Two days later, Gavin discovered a clue in William's book containing a poem and a set of numbers written in different directions. Gavin gave orders to Shaun and Rebecca to return to the United States, as he needed some "eyes and ears on America".

On 10 June, Rebecca sent a message to Gavin remarking that Texas "is awesome"—confirming their redeployment in the United States had been successful—and bidding him good luck. On the same day, an unknown person reacted to a magazine article that the Tunguska explosion was caused by the Assassins, not a meteorite as per the official story. They also remarked that Nikolai Orelov knew about the event.

Abstergo Entertainment

In September 2013, Abstergo Entertainment's Montreal branch put out an ad to hire five new employees, one each in Product Development, Technical Support, Customer Contact, Office Support, and Management. After Abstergo released the postings, Rebecca sent a text message to Gavin, claiming she wanted to investigate. Three days later, en route to Montreal, Shaun and Rebecca traveled to the Farm and found it destroyed. By 11 September, the Assassin team composed of Gavin, Susan Drayton and Eric Cooper discussed potential happenings in Osaka, Japan, as Gavin's informant there had gone "silent". Gavin then announced he would be heading to the Philippines to do some "shopping".

On 1 October, Emmanuel Barraza inspected the guns Gavin bought from the Philippine gun makers in preparation for a possible fight in Osaka. On 11 October, the day Abstergo Entertainment celebrated its one year anniversary in Montreal, Rebecca sent Gavin a text message asking about Abstergo Entertainment CCO Olivier Garneau and what he knew about Templars and Assassins. Rebecca and Shaun arrived in Montreal on 24 October and quickly heard rumors of a vial contained within the facility. Rebecca informed Gavin on 28 October that they had a mole within Abstergo helping them search, and they would find the vial in time. Meanwhile, two of the company's employees, Jennifer Tam and Philippe Chartrand, exchanged emails about a new Abstergo employee and the employee's involvement in the Sample 17 Project.

On 2 November, an unknown Initiate recovered the blood vial from Abstergo. Jennifer and Philippe continued to exchange emails about the memories of Bernard and Edward Kenway, and Jennifer mentioned that she had a crush on the new barista working in the lobby. Over several days, they continued to discuss the barista and the "Noob", but their conversations eventually turned to a string of hackings on Abstergo Entertainment's servers.

The hackings, perpetuated by the new research analyst at the behest of IT specialist John Standish, began as a means to retrieve information pertinent to Desmond; the data was then delivered to Shaun and Rebecca, posing as the lobby's barista and courier respectively. The hacking soon turned to data on Abstergo's internal workings, culminating with information about a board meeting in Chicago. Olivier subsequently disappeared en route to the meeting, putting Abstergo on high alert.

As the hacking escalated, several employees were moved to containment cells in the basement of the Abstergo building, including the new research analyst. John gave the new research analyst the proper clearance to leave their cell, and instructed them to access the company's main server to remove all record of their activities. However, John's ultimate plan was for Juno—currently existing on the digital network—to possess the employee's body and take physical form. However, Juno was too weak to manifest and vanished, inciting John's rage.

In an attempt to make the employee a more suitable host, John snuck into their cell and poisoned them. However, Abstergo guards broke in and killed John before he could carry out his plans. John was subsequently blamed for the employee's hacking activities, clearing their name. On 2 December, Rebecca informed Gavin that their informant had been killed, and that she and Shaun would be leaving Montreal. However, the two then contacted the new research analyst, saying that they would be happy for the help if the analyst chose to keep hacking Abstergo Entertainment's servers.

Search for the Koh-i-Noor

Jot using the Brahman V.R.

In November 2013, Abstergo Industries launched the Brahman V.R. in India in an effort to access the genetic memories of Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur, which they believed would lead to a Piece of Eden known as the Koh-i-Noor. Jot Soora, an employee of MysoreTech, was found to be a descendant of Raza Soora, Arbaaz Mir's servant who accompanied his master on many adventures.

One day Jot brought a console home, and upon using it, his fiancée Monima Das learned that she was a descendant of Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur. Jot later discovered that the machine extracted memories from the operator's DNA and uploaded them to the Abstergo Cloud server, and relived some of Arbaaz Mir's genetic memories himself. Jot later spoke to his colleague, Siobhan Dhami, about the device, but claimed to be the descendant of Arbaaz Mir out of embarrassment about his heritage. He then traveled to Mumbai to see his fiancée at her film studio, but was followed and abducted by Siobhan and her brother Jasdip.

Revealing themselves to be Assassins, Siobhan and Jasdip forced Jot into the Brahman V.R., believing his genetic memories would lead them to the Koh-i-Noor. However, upon placing Jot in the device, they realized he had lied about his heritage. Just then, the Templar agent Juhani Otso Berg crashed the Assassin hideout to recover Jot Soora, attacking and killing Siobhan. In the chaos, Jot retrieved the Brahman device and plunged out of the hideout into the slums below. He then fled for the studio, where he and Monima were apprehended by Templar agents in a black van.

Jasdip attempted to free the couple as they sped down the highway, but caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle, which plummeted into the Bay of Mumbai. Jasdip managed to save Jot but Monima was lost to the bay's depths. Jasdip escorted Jot to the Assassin hideout in the Chor Bazaar, where Jot met another Assassin called Dinesh. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, Jot decided to relive Monima's memories in the Brahman V.R., even at the risk of exposing himself to the Templars. He revealed that Monima's ancestor was Pyara Kaur, which Dinesh realized could lead them to the Koh-i-Noor. Dinesh then downloaded Monima's ancestry data from the Abstergo servers onto Jot's mobile phone.

The Templars soon reached the hideout and Dinesh was killed in the ensuing conflict. While Jasdip fought the Templar attackers, Jot escaped with his phone into the crowded streets, where he eventually returned to the scene of the accident. He then played a video on his phone, showing his marriage proposal to Monima through her eyes.

Osaka, Japan

The destroyed Osaka base

On 3 December, another Initiate spy aboard the Altaïr II updated their database after successfully rigging the Hephaestus 2.0, and reported that they could now upload full reports to the Initiates database. The next day, the spy reported that Gavin and Emmanuel had found the Osaka Brotherhood's ruined compound. Using his Eagle Vision, Gavin determined that the yakuza, rather than Abstergo, were behind the attack. They then found the remains of Gavin's contact and former mentor, Kenichi Mochizuki; Gavin ordered his men to scout the area for survivors and begin searching out the yakuza perpetrators.

On 6 December, the Initiate spy reported that Emmett Leary discovered a ruthless branch of the yakuza, the Onmoraki-Gumi, had recently been wiped out by gang warfare. Six days later, the spy reported that even though the Onmoraki-Gumi was gone, it was still somehow running its front-end companies. Susan tried her luck at finding the location of their new headquarters in a yakuza-controlled gambling den but failed at her attempt. Emmanuel was more successful, both winning and tracking down the new headquarters.

The next day, the spy reported that the identity of the Onmoraki-Gumi's new leader was unknown, and crew members began placing bets on what the leader looked like. Gavin claimed that the only way to move forward was to confront the yakuza group directly. Meanwhile, on 16 December, an Initiate spy in Philadelphia uploaded an Abstergo file concerning the ancestry of Milton Jones, showing the latter's connection to the Assassin Adéwalé.

Kiyoshi impaling Emmanuel's hand

On 17 December, the Initiate spy aboard the Altaïr II reported that Gavin and Emmanuel visited the Onmoraki-Gumi's headquarters and requested an audience with their leader. The Onmoraki sentry, Kiyoshi Takakura, initially refused and fought with Gavin. However, when Emmanuel overheard other gang members mention the Brotherhood and saw that Kiyoshi bore a Hidden Blade, he stepped forward to intervene, injuring himself on Kiyoshi's weapon. He then asked Kiyoshi to recite the first tenet of the Creed, which he did successfully, and Emmanuel revealed the Assassin insignia on his dog tags. Kiyoshi offered a sincere apology before allowing them inside.

The spy reported that Osaka's new Mentor was a 78-year-old woman, Saeko Mochizuki or "Osoroshii Baba", who took over the Brotherhood when the yakuza attacked their compound and killed her husband. In retaliation, she led the Assassins to attack and destroy the yakuza, subsequently taking over the gang. She also told Gavin that she used the Onmoraki-Gumi to blend her Assassins into the city, noting that the Assassins and the yakuza had similar ways of working in the dark to serve the light.

Saeko was happy to be reunited with Gavin, but warned that the Osaka Brotherhood was still recovering from its battles with Abstergo and the yakuza. She also noted that Japan's restrictive gun laws kept them at a disadvantage against Abstergo's unlimited resources. As a tribute to the new Osaka Brotherhood, Gavin offered the guns his team had purchased in the Philippines and gave Saeko the contact details of their supplier. In return, Saeko gave him a new Animus headset that the Brotherhood had recovered from an Abstergo facility in Japan, believing that the war between Assassins and Templars had escalated into a new dimension.

On New Year's Eve 2013, the spy reported on the Assassins' holiday activities, such as cleaning the Altaïr II at Saeko's behest and partaking in homemade toshikoshi soba. Meanwhile, Kiyoshi and Emmanuel sparred for three hours before going to a karaoke bar. Stephanie Chiu filmed Emmanuel singing with her phone and he swore that he would renounce his stance on killing if she ever showed it to anyone.

By 15 January 2014, Gavin was satisfied with the Assassin presence in Japan and made the call to move on. Again, the team took their direction from William's book. Emmett asked Gavin why they didn't contact William for the answer, to which Gavin replied that it was their mission to find it out for themselves. He also told Emmett that while William was back in the Order, Gavin did not know where he was or how to get in touch with him.

Protvino, Russia

On 19 February, the Assassin team aboard the Altaïr II solved the next puzzle in William's journal which led them to Moscow. The Initiate spy remarked that a new puzzle would help them narrow down their target within the city. Emmanuel and Emmett traveled to Moscow via the Trans-Siberian Railway, while the crew of the Altaïr II sailed to Saint Petersburg. With Emmett away, the spy accessed his computers and discovered a backdoor through an old Abstergo server to an Assassin lab in Protvino, just outside of Moscow. Abstergo appeared not to be monitoring the lab, or even know of its existence.

Galina meeting with Gavin's team

By 16 March, Gavin's team had made contact with an Assassin in Moscow named Galina Voronina. During their meeting, Galina requested that Gavin's team assassinate her mother, an Assassin scientist who was driven insane through the Bleeding Effect. Galina further explained that her mother had created her own Animus and forced the other members of her cell into it, and Gavin's team would have to fight through the mad survivors to gain access to the lab. Lastly, she told them that her mother claimed to be talking to Eve while in the Animus.

Emmett explained that it was impossible to talk to anyone inside the Animus as it is a one-way experience, and that there were few documented cases of encounters with anyone from the First Civilization, but Galina ignored him. She eventually agreed to help and believed Emmett could solve the problem using words, not violence.

On 20 March, Gavin's team and Galina went to the Assassin lab in Protvino, and Galina single-handedly put down the crazed Assassins. Gavin's team pushed their way inside the laboratory and found Galina's mother in the Animus, babbling about her "lost husband" and the color grey. Emmett looked at the wall-mounted monitors and saw Juno's face in the static; when Galina killed her mother, the spy saw Juno scream before disappearing.

Galina joining the team on the Altaïr II

Six days later, on 26 March, Gavin's team reboarded the Altaïr II in St. Petersburg and brought Galina along. Since she was the last of the Russian Assassins, Gavin asked her to join his team and act as his enforcer. Meanwhile, Akaki and Nodar Ninidze sent word to their contacts in Georgia, who would be armed by Saeko funneling weapons from the Philippines. The two Brothers also sended sended a message to the Assassin's to send agents to Russia to rebuild the Russian Brotherhood there.

Search for William Miles

On 10 April, the spy noted that Gavin had been in a foul mood since they left Russia due to the Brotherhood's losses in Brisbane, Whistler, Florence, Denver, Moscow, and São Paulo. Even though William had returned from hiding the year before, he had not reached out to the crew of the Altaïr II. Taking the silence personally, Gavin soon brought his team together and demanded that they find William.

The Altaïr II docked at William's secret bunker

Their efforts bore fruit a week later, when they located William, Shaun and Rebecca in a secret bunker in Norway. While Rebecca and Shaun were enthused at the reunion, William and Gavin were less so, and Gavin asked to speak with the former leader immediately.

Some days later, Gavin and William argued about the latter's recent behavior; Gavin asserted that William had been using him like a pawn, distracting him with solving the cryptic journal, while William reiterated that Desmond's death had put him in an unfit state to lead the Assassins. Rebecca cut the argument short by informing the crew that she had discovered coded messages sent from the ship's computer systems to the Initiates Database. Her discovery quickly led to a crew-wide manhunt to uncover the spy.

Eric protecting Stephanie

After William interrogated the ship's crew, excluding Gavin and Galina, inside his "White Room", he discovered that Dr. Chiu was the spy and ordered Galina to kill her. However, Eric jumped to her defense, claiming he wrote the reports and Chiu simply uploaded them to the database. William, however, spared their lives, claiming that the Initiates seemed like a reasonable group, and the interviews had been useful in determining the character of the Altaïr II's crew.

Berg's errands

In February 2014, the Assassins Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut entered a facility in Rotterdam and stole the Precursor box once owned by Shay Cormac, an Assassin who became a Templar during the Seven Years' War. Berg and Sigma Team fought to reclaim the artifact but the Assassins escaped.

In May, Berg was tasked to find the Ankh of Isis and went to Essen. He rapidly gave up, as his colleague Violet da Costa suggested that the Ankh was only a legend created by the Assassins to waste the Templars' time searching for a fake Piece of Eden. Later, Berg went to Long Bay to find the Observatory, but discovered that the Assassins had buried it two centuries before. The Templar decided to return later with an excavating group.

The Worldwide Hunt for Álvaro Grammática

In 2015, Harlan Cunningham and Arend Shut were interrupted on their honeymoon by the Assassin Bishop who issued all Assassin’s, on behalf of William Miles, to hunt down a high priority target, Álvoro Grammática, the leader and head scientist of the Phoenix Project. At some point the two Assassin’s tried to contact the Georgian Brotherhood to ask for assistance in locating Dr Grammática’s secret laboratory, in which he had planned to recreate an Isu’s body with the help of the Shroud of Eden. However nothing was heard of the Georgian Brotherhood, which Arend considered worrisome.

The Indian Assassin, Jasdip Dmami, was assigned to find Alvaro Grammatica’s laboratory in Australia, however unbeknown to the Assassin’s his grief over his dead sister made him defect over to the Instruments of the First Will and become a fanatical and devoted follower of Juno. Ever since then he had gone dark.

Like wise, the Mentor of the Japanese Brotherhood, Saeko Mochizuki, sended teams into China and the Koreas to assist them in the hunt for Alvaro Grammatica...

Working with the Initiates

After uncovering the Initiates' moles, William planned to use the Initiates' Outernet and their people to transform the into support operatives and trainees of the Assassins. Shaun then entered in contact with the Initiates to recruit them in the Brotherhood under William's commands, and became their co-handler alongside the Assassin know as Bishop On October 13, Shaun and Galina infiltrated Abstergo's Phoenix Project laboratory in Paris, destroying the facility and all the research and study on the Precursor DNA, as well as stealing data and melting their servers.

During the attack, Galina mortally wounded doctor Álvaro Gramática, the Phoenix Project leader, with a grenade, but the Templar was healed by the Shroud of Eden which was destroyed in the process. Sigma Team members Berg and Sorkin tried to arrest the two Assassins but Galina stabbed Sorkin multiple times and fled with Shaun. After this event, Laetitia England authorized the reformation of Sigma Team and Berg went to Montreal to help Violet with the combined attacks by Erudito, the Assassins, and the Instruments of the First Will.

Bishop contacting the Initiate

In November, Bishop began to recruit new Initiates through the Helix server. One of them was tasked to relive the memories of Arno Dorian, an Assassin who had encountered François-Thomas Germain, a Sage who lived during the French Revolution. Arno's memories were sent to the Assassins by Robert Fraser and Victoria Bibeau, two Assassins working in Abstergo Entertainment who had recently destroyed Abstergo's progress on Arno's memories.

The Assassins wanted to find Germain's remains before the Templars could in order to slow down the Phoenix Project's progress. The Initiate discovered that Arno had hidden the Sage's body in the catacombs of Paris and the Assassins decided not to continue the research since Abstergo wouldn't be able to recover a DNA sample. However, the Initiate continued reliving Arno's memories and discovered that the French Assassin had found an Apple of Eden in Saint-Denis and that he had sent it to Egypt.

Violet and Otso Berg at the Abstergo Entertainment offices in Montreal

That same month, Juno attacked Abstergo Entertainment's server with a virus hidden in the memories of Shay Cormac during his time as an Assassin. The employee who relived his memory and had unintentionally released the virus was tasked by Templars Violet da Costa and Berg to fix the server and to continue his research on Shay's past. Berg used the footage of Shay's memories to send a message to the Assassins, to show them their weaknesses and to warn them on the forthcoming hunt that Berg was going to lead.

However, the video ended up being a decoy used by Berg to make the Assassins run from Montreal, revealing their locations. After that, the employee was threatened with either joining the Templars or being killed for refusing, though they were also given time to think it over.

Search for the Shroud

After the destruction of the original Shroud of Eden, the Templars searched for another artefact. On 25 September 2015, Abstergo discovered a new Shroud in London through the memories of Arbaaz Mir's son, Jayadeep Mir. However, the Assassins tasked the Helix Initiate with finding the Shroud before the Templars by reliving the memories of the Master Assassins and twins Evie and Jacob Frye.

Shaun and Rebecca infiltrated Isabelle Ardant's office in London to steal the twin memories and decided to wait for the return of the Templar, but they were ambushed by Berg and Violet. The Assassins managed to escape from the office and find an hideout in London. Because of Sigma Team's presence in London, Bishop sent reinforcements for the couple; Galina joined the two Assassins to protect them.

Galina Voronina and Otso Berg fighting

The two factions discovered that the Shroud was hidden beneath the Buckingham Palace. The Abstergo team retrieved the precursor artifact but the Assassins decided to attack. Galina entered a hand-to-hand combat with Berg, defeating the Master Templar. Shaun killed Ardant but Violet escaped with the Shroud and wounded Rebecca, who had jumped in front of Shaun, taking the bullet meant for him. The duo was saved by Galina, who used a smoke bomb to eliminate the rest of Sigma Team and the group fled from the vault.

Later, Bishop revealed a footage from Gramática's new secret Phoenix Project Laboratory where it was shown that Violet had delivered the Shroud to Gramática, who pretended to use it to create an Isu body from scratch. The next part of the footage featured Violet talking to Juno through a screen, where it was revealed that Violet was an Instrument of the First Will and that the recovery of the Shroud was part of her plan.

The Initiate continued reliving the memories of the Frye twin during the Autumn of Terror and discovered the identity of Jack the Ripper. During this time, several Assassins demonstrated their disapproval of using the civilian-run Initiates, mainly Eric Cooper, a former Initiate, and Jasdip Dhami. Heeding their advice, William Miles decided to stop using the Initiates' support in the future.

The Discovery of Elijah Miles

In October 2015, a woman brought her son, Elijah Miles, to an Abstergo clinic in New York, which in secret collected DNA from the general population, at which point Abstergo discovered his nature as a Sage and that he shared the patrilineal lineage of Desmond Miles.

Isabelle Ardant informed Álvaro Gramática of this discovery and he wished to kidnap the boy immediately and conduct a vivisection on him, Ardant opposed this, claiming the young Sage as her own project and that such a decision was inhumane. She instead planned to have Abstergo abduct the boy once he was old enough, and then put him into an Animus for fifty years so they could study his lineage. Ardant was killed by Shaun Hashtings under Buckingham Ham palace the same year before this plan could be enacted, however...

The Rooftop Garden Protocol

In December 2015, Bishop gave the Iniates additional memory sequences to keep the connection between them and Helix stable before William Miles ended the communication between the Iniates and the Assassin's for the foreseeable future in a directive to protect them from the Templars.

Recruitment of Charlote de la Cruz

Charlotte de la Cruz

In December of 2015, conspiracy enthusiast Charlotte de la Cruz was contacted by the Assassins for her ability to use Eagle Vision. After illegaly transfering money from the Malta Bank Corporation into a old woman's account, she was greeted by two Assassins, Galina Voronina and Xavier Chen, in her apartment. Already aware of the Brotherhood’s existence she eagerly joined them, but within moments her apartment was stormed by three Templars feigning to be from World Share and seeking to kill them. In the ensuing battle Charlotte lost her conscious and was brought over to Xaviers hideout in Salton Sea.

She was introduced there to Kody and the Animus. They explained her that they urgently needed her help as an Assassin, Joseph Laurier, had apparently gone to the Templars in San Diego to inform them of an artifact hidden by his ancestor during the Salem Witch Trials. They needed her to enter the Animus and relive her ancestor Thomas Stoddard's memories of the era to determine if Joseph was telling the truth and had betrayed the Brotherhood or if he was just baiting the Templars.

Inside the memories of her ancestor. Charlotte discovered there was no Artefact but a girl who functioned as a conduit for the Isu scientist Consus, confusing her ancestor as the Isu scientist was using him to commune directly with his descendant.

Charlotte Fights Joseph Laurier

Believing that Joseph was innocent, Galina and Xavier decided to infiltrate the Templar safehouse in San Diego where Joseph was being kept. As Kody and Charlotte stayed behind in a van outside the building, Charlotte started to plague the strange and crytic messages from Consus and what they meant, convinced there was more to the story she convinced Kody to get her back inside the Animus to see Thomas adventure till the very end. What she discovered frighted her to the core, it turns out that one of the children who was with Thomas was indeeds Josephs ancestor, meaning he must've known where the girl was buried and the two Assassin’s were walking into a trap. Feeling a sense of guilt she infiltrated the building and had to subdue a employee named Brad to hide her pressence inside the building. Using the Bleeding Effect she climbed her way through multiple shafts and found Joseph, who by the time had already killed Xavier, gravely injured Galina’s leg and was at the point of finishing her of. Charlotte tried to fight Joseph but was no match as he easily overpowered her. He explained he betrayed the Brotherhood because his lover Christian had died on a mission overseen by Xavier, but he was still a ‘’good soldier’’ and tripple-crossed the Templars by panting a bomb inside the the office. He wanted Charlotte to join him so she could not be corrupted by the Brotherhood which she refused. As Joseph's bomb went off, Templar agents burst into the room and opened fire. Charlotte carried Galina through an air vent, which returned her to the maintenance room Brad was in.

Charlotte was shocked to find Brad had died, and after noticing his medical alert bracelet, realized he had asthma and suffocated because he could not reach his inhaler. She then dolefully carried Galina back to the van. Galina ordered Kody to inform their leader Gavin Banks to send a team to Salem, but Charlotte told her it was unnecessary, as Joseph never told the Templars where Dorothy's body was buried. As they drove away, Galina asked her how she felt after Xavier and Brad's deaths, to which she sarcastically responded she was happy.

The Crew

In 2016, an Assassin Cell that operated in London, The United Kingdom since the 2010’s, added 5 members to it’s group: Jackie O’Connel, Mac, Philip J. Gallagher, Victor Flores Castillo and Yu Shu Lien to help Sigmund Ziggy Visser track down a Piece of Eden.

The Hunt In Mexico

Charlotte talking to her mother over the phone

By Januari 2016, the Assassins had fled to New Mexico to escape Templar pursuers. In their hideout Charlotte spoke to her mother over a burner phone before two doctors arrived who were paid in ‘’blood money’’ to fix Galina’s broken leg. However it turned out that the male doctor was in fact a Templar agent who was sent to kill them, forcing Galina to take him out. Interogating the woman, it was revealed she knew nothing about the guy and he was new, to appease Charlotte's wishes to not kill her Galina regulately knocked the woman unconcious.

They moved to the opposite motel, as it would be the last place the Templars would expect. Charlotte noted to Kody that she wanted to quite before the man attacked, believing that she was not cut out for the Assassin life. Kody reassured her that there was a reason she was here and that, due to her impressive performance, she might even help them find the hacker collective Erudito. Realizing they were the ones Consus had directed her to find, she had Kody hook her up to the darknet to find them. After a night of searching she discovered a meeting was planned for the following week, but the location was password-encrypted. The sole hint was the question, "What does the cute Pishta say?"

She recalled that her grandmother's childhood nickname for her was "Pishtaco", apparently shared by an ancestor who lived during the fall of the Inca Empire. Waking Kody up, she ordered him to place her in the Animus, where she began reliving the memories of the chasqui Quila.

After two hours spending in the Animus, Kody ended the simulation as it needed to be recharged, angering Charlotte. Galina ordered the group to kidnap a woman named Garcia-Lopez who has a connection to Joseph and Charlotte objected believing her trip into the past is more important then finding Joseph who had survived the ordeal back in San Diego. Angered by this Galina threatens to take away her Animus priveledges and kick her out of the group. Needing to find Erudito Charlotte reluctantely accepts the mission.

At Chapultecpac Park, Charlotte attempts to follow Garcia but get's spotted! When she and Kody try to get close to her she smacks Kody in the face and peper-sprays Charlotte. Kody helped Charlotte get back in the van to escape before the authorities could arrive and Galina accuses her of failling the mission on purpose and endangering her own family for showing her face to the enemy. Charlotte then ignored Galina's order to watch the van to re-enter the Animus. Galina and Kody soon discovered her and pulled her out, the former being mad that she ignored orders and the latter noting that the batteries were cooked. Fed up with Galina, Charlotte chose to leave to find new batteries.

At a trainstation Charlotte contemplates the life of an Assassin forever on the run is even worth it, she considers calling her mother to tell her she is coming home but she is distracted by a man getting tormented by a thug and decides to step in. Using the Bleeding Effect she overpowers the man and feels a sense of accomplishment and decides to stay with the Assassin’s, however she would do it her way.

As she is searches for new power cells she noticed that someone has been following her the past three blocks and decide to hide around the corner to find out who it is. It turns out it was Galina and she needed Charlotte's help as Kody has been kidnapped by the Mexican Cartel and sended his left ear as proof.

Charlotte joined Galina in a rescue attempt at the cartel's stronghold at the Estadio Azteca stadium, where Charlotte used her stealth skills while Galina took up a sniper position. As Charlotte made her way to Kody, Galina placed blame on her for her mercy, as the female doctor alerted the cartel and for letting Garcia-Lopez escape, which prevented them from leaving the city. As Charlotte made her way to Kody she get’s ambused by the cartel leader Arturo Viera, who shot her in the right foot to force Galina to surrender her, but Charlotte managed to break free of his grasp so Galina could have a shot. Soon after, a Templar strike-force arrived in a chopper, gunning down Viera and his girl. The leader of the strike force was a Templar named, Ortega Sanchez who showed great interest in de la Cruz. Suspecting that Templars believed her to be very important to come after her, Charlotte pointed a gun at her head. She then cut a deal with Sanchez, in exchange for Galina and Kody's safety, she would provide them with the location of Erudito's meeting three days from now. Sanchez gave her a day to find out the password to the location before striking her injured foot with his cane, saying its insurance against a double-cross and threatened to harm her friends and family if she did not hold up her end of the bargain.

Florencia

Charlotte relives the memories of Quila one last time and learns the password was Don Gonzalo Pardo, revealing that the Erudito meeting was in Argentina. Soon after, a worried Charlotte prepared to turn herself over to Sanchez, only for the cartel to attack the Templars, in part because of Galina having cut a deal for the cartel to avenge Viera's death. Taking a commercial flight to Buenos Aires, Charlotte spotted a man sporting a sign reading Don Gonzalo Pardo, who showed them to their Erudito contact, revealed to be her grandmother, Florencia.

The Erudito Collective

Over the course of two-days the Assassin's have stayed at an unknown island under the roof of an Erudito hive. They attend a meeting of Florencia who is holding a video conference with the other leaders of the organisation. Florencia insists that Erudito has to take a stand against the Templar Order througth becoming more active in the field and becoming more militaristic instead hoarding information, which was opposed by Dewalt, who was more traditionalist and wanted Erudito to stay in the shadows. When Charlotte suggested that they try to find a way to make everyone happy, she was informed by Guernica about the Phoenix Project and its ultimate goal of resurrecting Juno. When Dewalt asked for a full-membership vote of non-confidence, Florencia begrudgingly told him to send the message and that they would meet in an hour.

Afterwards, Charlotte questioned Florencia on what exactly her mission was supposed to be, as all she knew was that she was going to be looking for Consus. Florencia explained that they had originally thought that Consus had only spoken to a young Assassin named Giovanni and only once when he was very young, but after analysing the Animus data they deduced that it was most like that Consus had communicated with Giovanni more than once and thought he had hidden a message. Charlotte then deduced that one of her ancestors had witnessed the encounter, which Guernica confirmed to be correct. After Florencia explained that Charlotte's ancestor had been with Giovanni twice, once in 1515 and a second time in 1516, Charlotte decided she wanted to explore her ancestors memories to uncover the truth but she had to wait untill the conference was over.

Exploring the compound Charlotte encounters a nearly healed Galina sparring with two Erudito agents, My’Shell Lemair and Sheer. The two women talk to each other and Galina protests against the idea of Erudito and the Assassin’s working together and that she was no speech maker and that they already had a mission and that was tracking down Joseph. Charlotte on the other hand believes the mission has changed to something much bigger and that is stopping the Phoenix Project much to Galina’s surprise. After Galina explained that she and Gavin Banks nearly died to stop it.

At the conference things get heated between Florencia and Dewalt as he was trying to convince the collective to not change their strategies. Charlotte tries to convince Galina one more time to speak but she refuses as nobody would listen to her. Having enough of this Charlotte decides to speak up despite Florencia’s protest. She understood why Erudito was reluctant to accept Florencia’s plan, as they would try to ruin them or remove them from the face of the Earth, the Assassin’s were spread agrose the world and they still nearly got wiped out. She suggests that the Brotherhood and Erudito should merge as they are not strong enough on their own to defeat their enemy.

Galina furiously objected against this plan and smacked her cane on the conference table, but Charlotte insists, believing if they work together they could achieve rebuilding the Brotherhood much faster and they could in exhange train Erudito’s field agents.

Charlotte made a proposal: she would go inside the Animus to find Consus for them and share everything she learns with all of them and in exchange they would find Joseph for them. Describing this as a test of sorts too see if they could work together, helping Florencia prove her vision of the future. The votes came in, favoring Florencia. Before Charlotte and Galina parted ways, Galina gives Charlotte to her surprise a big hug, believing that not everyone at Erudito had her back, except maybe with a knife. Afterwards she left on her mission with My’Shell and Sheer to track down Joseph in Somalia, having learned from Erudito he was hiding out there.

False Memories

To make the merger work, both Assassin’s needed to succeed in their respected missions. Charlotte under supervision of Kody jumped into the memories of her Assassin ancestor Hiram Stoddard while Florencia entered and exited the room multiple times to keep the majority of the votes.

According to Erudito’s algorithms Consus should appear in 1516, after Charlotte finished reliving Hiram’s confrontation with Giovanni she laments there was nothing of importance there except vague mentions of something that happened in 1515. Kody clarified that he had dug up information on Hiram and that, by 1516, he was a bitter and ruthless man, earning him the nickname "Bloody Hiram". When Charlotte asked Kody how exactly this made Hiram any different from her Tom, Kody explained that, for Hiram, this behaviour came out of nowhere and that he thought that Hiram's mind was a very dangerous place to be. Kody then warned Charlotte of the dangeres of reliving someone’s mind that’s disturbed and how that could negatively impact her.

Charlotte however found the importance of the mission more important than her own safety and ordered Kody to plug her back into the Animus and relive Hiram's memories of 1515. Inside her ancestors memories of 1515 Charlotte was suprised to see that Hiram was a more friendly, flirtouses and lighthearted person compared to the more angry and violent man she saw him become later, she wondered what must have happened to him in becoming someone so violent and filled with anger later. During her session, Charlotte witnessed Hirams and Giovanni’s rivaly while under the tutelange of retired Assassin Mentor Ezio Auditore as well as Hiram’s romance with a young Italian woman named Elena.

Later Giovanni and Hiram were send on a mission to Florence, in which they were tasked by Michelango to retrieve an Apple of Eden from a Templar named Dei Petrucci, however the mission turns into a disaster when Hiram decides to not listen to Giovanni’s advice leading both Petrucci and the Apple get away from them.

Charlotte was unwillingly removed from the Animus by Kody, who explained that her vitals were going haywire. When Florencia told him to give Charlotte a moment to rest and then get her back in, Kody chastised her, remarking that Charlotte could get long-term damage if she did not get a break. After Florencia told Kody the story of how she taught Charlotte how to ride a bike, Charlotte interrupted their argument and told Kody to jump her forward to the last time Hiram saw Giovanni in 1515. After Kody protested that Hiram and Giovanni parted ways in 1515 on really bad terms and that the last thing Charlotte's system needed was that kind of stress, Charlotte reassured him that she was not quite yet ready to rest.

Inside the memories, a furious Giovanni confronted Hiram openly in a tavern in Florence two days after Petrucci escaped, and they still had no clue of him and the artefact. Hiram tried to play the situation cool but Giovanni slapped his drink out of his hand and berated him. Seeing his faults and trying to appease him, Hiram allowed Giovanni to write a letter to Mentor Ezio to explain the situation. Hiram shortly afterwards started flirting with a young servant girl, asking her to teach him a poem.

The next day, Hiram was awakened by Michelango, who told him that Elena was in town and waiting for him, filled with joy, he went to the roof to meet her, but to his surprise Elena, heartbrokingly, accused him of cheating on her. Not understanding what was going on, she explained to him that she could read from Ezio’s face the news was bad and so she stole his letter. After reading it, she made her way to Florence to console him, but it turned out that he had already consoled himself with another woman. Hiram told her that it was not true and the young girl only learned him a poem. When Giovanni got up to the roof, it became clear that Giovanni had told her this, leading the two rivals to confront each other and attack each other with their fists.

As the conflict unraveled in front of Charlotte, the memory got more and more distorted, even glitching and showing the same outcome of Elena leaving two times with the same audio relooping. After being pulled out of the Animus, the three discussed what just happened. Kody informed Charlotte that they stumbled upon a False Memory. Charlotte deduced this must have happened because of a traumatic expierence, something similar to an abused child who no longer could remember what exactly happened to him. They deduced that this would explain why Hiram never mentioned Consus as he didn’t exactly remember what happened. Florencia then informed Charlotte that, if she kept at it, she could drill through to the truth.

However, Kody remarked that she would also encounter other, more disturbing potential false memories that Hiram's mind rejected and that the accumulated stress could end up being too much, causing Charlotte's brain to shut down forever to protect itself. Charlotte then told Kody that she had to do it, but, in order to put him at ease, decided to take a break before going back in. After Florencia told her that they did not know how close the Templars were to unleashing the Phoenix Project, Charlotte stated that she was not going to make the same mistake as Hiram and rush into things, remarking that thirty minutes would not make much difference.

After her break, Charlotte jumped inside the distorted memories of Hiram, she tried multiple things like using her Eagle Vision but to no avail as the memories got more violent and distorted, causing Charlotte to expierence mental and physical pain.

However, in one of the false memories, one where Hiram attempted to kill himself by jumping off the roof, nearly resulting in Charlotte's mind shutting down in order to avoid the trauma of Hiram's death. Charlotte noticed a pattern between all the false memories and made Hiram move his hand towards Elena's scarf, causing the false memory to end and allowing her to see what really happened. Within the memory, Giovanni lost consciousness after Hiram kicked him in the face, leading to Consus taking possession of Giovanni. The Isu scientist demanded silence as he spoke to Charlotte through Hiram, referring to her as "the watcher, who soon become the shepherd" and informed her that, in order to stop the Phoenix Project, she had to "let the wolf dwell with the lamb". Afterwards, Charlotte witnessed Hiram's failed attempt to catch a terrified Elena after she accidentally fell from the roof to her death, thus revealing why Hiram eventually suppressed the memory.

The Templar Assault

Upon emerging from the Animus, Charlotte asked what was going on, to which Kody replied that the Templars somehow found them. Florencia jumped in on the conversation and questioned Charlotte if she had found Consus and what he had said, to which Charlotte replied his message made no sense. Florencia responded that they would have to discuss this later, as right then they needed to get to the service room and get the data on the Phoenix Project. They, however, got interrupted by Guernica, who entered the room with Dewalt and a group of armed Erudito agents, and insisted that they had to follow protocol and wipe the serves clean remotely. Kody objected and worried of what would happen if the Templars got their hands on the data first.

Kody tried to convince Charlotte to escape with them and asked her how many times she would risk her life for her grandmother, who continously put her in harm's way, Charlotte realized Hiram's real mistake was turning his back on Giovanni, his family. She blamed herself for not listening to her grandmother earlier, causing them to not have enough time to study Hiram’s memories, which prompted her to say, regardless of what Guermica and Kody were going to do, she was going with her grandmother.

Around the same time in Mogadishu, Somalia, Galina, My'shell and Sheed traced Joseph Laurier to a ceremony attended by the Templar Zerha Okur, who financed the mission that killed his boyfriend. He attempted to flee to a nearby construction site, where he was able to subdue Sheed and overpower Galina. However, My'shell managed to distract Joseph with a flanking strike, allowing Sheed to recover his gun and pull it on Laurier. Just then, an Erudito distress call reached the team, informing them that Erudito's base in Argentina was under attack. Determined to save Charlotte from the Templars and give her a choice to join him willingly, Joseph offered his help and his jet. Galina agreed, but also remarked that, once the ordeal was over, they would get back to revenge.

At the Erudito complex, Kody placed explosions to blow up the server room, while Florencia was uploading the data on the Phoenix Project by use of a data box. When Charlotte saw the security forces were being overwhelmed by the Templars, she pulled against Florencia while she was getting her out of the room, making her drop the data box in the progress. Kody ran back in order to retrieve it, telling Charlotte that she was right, and this was a war they had to win. Unfortunately, Kody was subsequently gunned down, much to Charlotte and Florencia's shock.

Charlotte consoled the fatally wounded Kody in his final moments, assuring him that he had done well to save the data box. Afterwards, Charlotte was approached by Florencia, who stated that he was a good soldier for saving the data and that they needed to honor his sacrifice and get moving. However, Charlotte blamed Florencia for Kody's death, stating that he would have still been alive if they had been at the boats. Charlotte then blamed herself for dragging Kody there, but was consoled by Florencia, who remarked that both Charlotte and Kody had done what they had to do. At that moment, they noticed an airplane flying overhead,which got shot down and crash landed somewhere far away from them. Unsure if the plane belonged to the Assassins or Templars, they decided to go with Florencia's plan to go to the boats she had stacked inside the caves for emergencies like this.

A small Templar strike team moved out to the crash site to investigate for any survivors, they discovered the dead body of Sheed, but got jumped by Galina, Joseph and My'shell, the latter who had been playing dead. Galina hoped that the Assassins had received her coordinates before they crashed so they could be extracted. Realizing that any hope of rescue relied on taking out the warship that shot them down, they headed toward the west coast.

Extraction Point

After a roughly six hour walk, Charlotte and her companions were almost at the cave where the boats were stored. Having a bad feeling, she talked with Florencia as to whether she found it odd that they were not being followed, to which Florencia replied that she did not, as she had chosen a hard-to-track path. Shortly after, they saw the cave in which Florencia had secured the boats and started making their way towards it. However, Charlotte was hesitant to approach the cave, suspecting it of being a trap. After Charlotte informed Florencia of this, she dismissed Charlotte's worries, stating that she had made sure they were not being followed and that, without phones or tech, the Templars had no way of tracing them.

However, Charlotte then remembered that she was stabbed by Sanchez back in Mexico, and deduced that they had to have been tracking her and found the island through her and had been secretly following them. She used her Eagle Vision to explore the cave and tried to convince the group the Templars were waiting for them there. Although Florencia disagreed, the rest of the group seemed to agree with Charlotte.

After Charlotte told the group that she was the reason that the Templars had found them, Florencia lost herself in an outburst, yelling that she did not complete the security scan and that Charlotte was an embarrasment to her as a granddaughter. Charlotte apologised for everything and made a plan for the group to split up, she would be a distraction for the Templars while they made an attempt to escape and fight another day. Florencia, although still angry, wanted to stay with her granddaughter, but Charlotte insisted it was way to dangerous and she had to make up for her mistakes. At the West Coast of the island, Galina and her two companions assaulted the Templar warship. The crew retaliated, and explosives upon the deck were hit amidst the gunfire, effectively destroying the ship. Joseph was badly wounded and told the two women to leave him behind and to find the survivors, he asked Galina to not let the Brotherhood corrupt Charlotte, with her replying before leaving with My'shell that Charlotte would change the Brotherhood instead.

Somewhat later at the crash site, Florencia, Dewalt, Guernica and the other Erudito survivors met up with Galina and My'shell, discussing the situation and the whereabouts of Charlotte, who Guernica had been tracking, before Florencia interrupted them after hearing a noise. After pushing a Templar agent off the edge of a canyon, Charlotte made her way into a forest and followed the river, hoping to escape the pursuing Templars. However, the river led Charlotte towards the edge of a cliff, leaving her cornered. Shortly after, Charlotte was confronted by the Templar agent Whittaker, who demanded to know where the other Assassins were. They ended up in a brawl, with Charlotte winning by using a tree branch to knock the Templar unconscious.

However, Charlotte was then confronted by Sanchez and two Templar agents. Charlotte stated that she was wondering when he was going to show up and remarked that she thought he was afraid of fighting women, which prompted Sanchez to tell her the story of how he, as a child, had helped his grandmother kill his abusive grandfather by beating him to death with his own cane. Fortunately, at that moment, a helicopter showed up and riddled Sanchez and the Templar agents with bullets. Looking towards the helicopter, Charlotte discovered that it was an Assassin rescue team, with Florencia and the rest of the group on board. After Florencia opened the helicopter door, Charlotte, realizing that there was no place for the helicopter to land, leaped towards the helicopter, barely managing to get onboard with the help of Galina and Guernica.

Onboard the helicopter she met for the first time the Dutch Assassin Arend Schut-Cunningham and the Japanese Assassin Kiyoshi Takakura, who explained that Gavin Banks had picked up Galina's distress signal and sent them out out to rescue them. Florencia apologised for her harsh words and that she saw a lot of herself in her. Florencia then told Charlotte that, after seeing so much death around her so quickly, it was okay for her to take some time, regroup and give the Assassins some time to figure out a way to get the tracking device out of her. However, Charlotte replied that she could not stop and was actually hoping the Templars could find her, stating that she would be waiting for them.

By October 2016, Abstergo knew of Charlotte's possible precursor-heritage and wanted her tracked down so that her genetic memories could be extracted.

The Search For The Prongs of Eden

Around October 2016, the teenager Owen Meyer had long become obsessed with proving that his father had been falsely accused of murder. Driven by a strong sense of justice, he wanted to use Sebastian’s Monroe’s secret Animus to proof too himself and others that his father had died unjustifiably in prison.

As the appointment with Monroe drew near, Owen felt that he needed someone to stand by him, Owen asked his friend, Javier Mondragón, to help him prove his father’s innocence, and despite the fact the two grew apart of the many years, Javier promised him to be there. However, as the duo met with Monroe, the man told them that he couldn't help them as Owen had only access to his father's memories from before his own conception and hadn't any DNA sample of his father taken from after the robbery. As Owen’s frustration grew, Monroe offers Javier the option to use the Animus, and Owen suspected that this was the real reason Javier came along that night.

Despite Owen's disillusionment, feeling stuck and angered with Javier taking his place, he was still midly curious to the machine, they decided to go inside the Animus together and experienced a shared simulation of their ancestors memories who met during the Spanish  conquest of the Aztec Empire. As they experienced their ancestors memory’s, Owen and Javier unknowingly witnessed Hernán Cortés using a Piece of Eden, to brainwash the ancestor of Javier.

Realising they discovered a Piece of Eden, Monroe terminated the simulation and sended the two confused boys back home. The next couple of days, Owen had a knacking feeling he was being watched and felt increasingly nervous as he and Javier found out that Monroe had completely gone of the grid.

Afterwards Owen noticed he was being followed by the stranger in a coat and decided to confront the man in the open, the stranger said that he worked for Abstergo and was on Owen’s side and to proof it he wanted to help Owen proof his late fathers innocence, which caught the young boy’s attention. However just mere moments later, the man got struck down by an Assassin’s hidden dart who was hiding from a nearby roof. Not wanting to stay around to see what happens next Owen escaped from the scene with the help of Monroe, who came out of hiding and would explain everything to him once they were safe.

Once at Monroe’s hideout, Owen reunited with Javier and afterwards got appointed with four other teenagers: Sean Molloy, Natalya Aliyev, and the siblings Grace and David Collins. Monroe explained them that he had worked at each of their schools and all of them had used his Animus before and that they were all instrumental to find a Piece of Eden that Owen and Javier had found in his simulation. He explained them The Assassin-Templar War, while using holographic projections to illustrations them the grand scale of the conflict. He also apologized that he had incidentally drawn them into the conflict, as he had believed he had fire-walled the Animus and had now made sure to double check.

After they explained them that the Pieces of Eden were always abused by both organizations and he had planned to hide it away again so their genetic memories had no relevance to their pursuers, the teenagers agreed to go inside the Animus again. They experienced a shared simulation of the New York Drafts Riots of 1863, and over the course of a single night they discovered the last resting place of the Piece of Eden.

Monroe thanked the teens for their help and offered them a ride home, he retrieved the Animus Memory Core as they made their way to the exit, discussing who they should drop of first. However, before they could make a proper decision they were suddenly interrupted by a Templar strike force that had found them, with the intent of capturing them alive. Monroe, pursued by Templars, reluctantly jumped into his van and drove of, leaving the kids to defend for themselves. Javier used his new found abilities and fought of a Templar agent, afterwards he jumped with Owen on Monroe’s parked motorbike outside and drove of as well, separating them from the others.

Quickly overwhelmed by the Templar strike-force, the Templars safely escorted Natalya Sean and the Collins siblings to an Abstergo facility where they met Dr. Victoria Bibeau. She was able to deescalate the situation by trying to appease the teenagers many questions while trying to make them feel safe. As they explored the facility under guidance of Victoria, she tried to show them the many positives good things done by Abstergo. Later she was joined by her college, Isaiah.

Believing that Abstergo wasn’t as bad as Monroe had made them out to be, some of the teens were pursued by Victoria and consequentialy revealed that they knew of the existence of the Piece of Eden, displeasing Natalya. Victoria and Isaiah deduced they didn’t need to keep secrets anymore and explained they were Templars. Victoria went on to explain history of the Piece of Eden, that it once was part of The Trident of Eden, wielded by Alexander The Great, and after his dead was split up in three Prongs, given to his most loyal generals, since then the Prongs have ended up in various different hands aggrose history. Politicians, religiouns, Assassin’s and Templar hands both the current locations of the Prongs remained a mystery. She hoped the teens would help them reclaim the artefacts.

Isaiah also added that Monroe used to work for Abstergo Industries as a Templar scientist before going rogue, his field of expertise was to study the ‘’Ascendence Event’’; various bloodlines crossing through the centuries, being in contact with Pieces of Eden, as if guided by an invisible hand. They deduced the teens before them were part of a new and recent discovered Ascendence Event and were willing to compensate them if they worked voluntary with the Templars to discover it’s origin and purpose. They added the teens were in no way prisoners and if they wanted to leave they could do so any time they want.

Intrigued by their offer and the many benefits of working with the Templars, some of the teens disclosed the information on the whereabouts of the Piece of Eden, much too the satisfaction of the Templars.

After escaping from the hideout, Owen and Javier were debating about their options, before they were greeted by a man named Griffin, as the man pulls out the tracking device in their stolen motorbike, Owen recognized him as the Assassin who had followed him and Monroe yesterday.

Griffin convinced Owen to trust him, and the teenager in turn convinced his reluctant friend to work with the Assassins, explaining that Pieces of Eden are always abused and that Monroe may suffer the same fate. The teenagers revealed to the Assassin the location of the Dagger, in Grant's house. After Griffin prompted them to use Eagle Vision to see if he was truly trustworthy and after he promised to secure the Brotherhood's help in order to prove that Owen's father was innocent of the crime he was arrested for, he brought them to his safe house. Noting the boys' disappointment in their dilapidated surroundings, Griffin explained about the Great Purge that nearly drove the Assassins to the edge of extinction and how ruthless the Templars truly were.

After equipping themselves at Griffins hideout and receiving a call from Gavin Banks, who revealed that the Dagger was in fact a prong of the Trident of Eden and that the Templars knew of it’s location, they took a private plane to New York and from there drove to Grant's house. However, someone arrived there first and left with the artifact beforehand, the stash being empty. Before they left, three helicopters filled with Templar agents arrived to the house and after Owen destroyed two of them with an EMP grenade, they escaped.

Once they made it to safety, Griffin scolded Owen for disobeying his order not to engage the Templars, and threatened to renege on his promise if it happened again. He then reminded that Abstergo will not rest until the other Pieces of the Trident are found and that Owen and the other teenagers are the key to finding them. Offered a choice to carry on, Javier considered dropping out but Owen, determined to find the truth, agreed to help the Assassins.

Once Monroe made it as far as he could and recuperated, he berated himself for being so careless and vowed to rescue the teenagers from the Templars. To that end, he used a burner phone he purchased to call Cole, a Templar mole who owed him a favour...

Locus, The Precursor Manuscript

October 2016, Isaiah was keen on exploring the memories of Sean Mollow’s ancestor, Tommy Greyling, as he believed his genetic memories held answers to better understanding the Prongs of Eden. Inside the Animus, they discovered that Ulyss S Grant was not only just in possession of a Precursor Box but also used it to decipher a Precursor Manuscript to use the Prong of Eden more efficiently to win the Presidentel election. Afterwards they decided to take a short break, Isaiah contacted Dr Victoria over a videocall as she was still spending time away in London to help Simon Hathaway with his research. As they discuss the importance of finding the Manuscript, Dr Victoria urged Isaiah not to take drastic measures as Sean is still recovering from his trauma's, and using the Animus could prevent Sean from accepting his body's new limitations.

Isaiah decided too still push boundaries, however. Sean's exposure to a prolonged effect of the Animus and Tommy's encounter in London with a Templar agent going by the name of Alice turns deadly, he expierences a violent deschronization from the Animus and needed to be brought over to the medical wing of the Aerie. Natalya angered by Isaiah's lack of care and him pushing Sean beyond the extremes confronts him, but storms out of the room shorty after when Sean decided he would go back inside the Animus, much too Isaiah's delight. In the gardens of the Aerie, Natalya is conformted by David and Grace Gollins as they believe just like her that Isaiah is using Sean and will ''drop him like a fly'' as soon as he is finished with him, but they didn't wanna say anything as they feared the Templars might keep a closer eye on them if they spoke up. So for now they need too play along.

After resuming his Animus sessions, Sean expierences Tommy's failed capture of Alice and the pages, letting Isaiah come to the deduction that the pages are presumanble in Templar hands by now and drops the search much to Seans dissapointment.

He searches out his friends, Natalya, David and Grace Collins and admited he was being used and describes his expierence inside the Animus and how Alice escaped. Which let's the teenagers to deduce something doesn’t line up. The teens come together and speak to Isaiah about their theory. They deduced that Alice was smart and grabbed the first steamboat back to America under a psuodo name and Tommy was most likely on that boat as well. Intrigued by their hypothesis Isaiah allows Sean to jump back into Tommy's memories. The expierence confirmed indeed that Alice used a steamboat to travel back to America but got confronted on the deck by Tommy Greyling for the last time. Not wanting the Assassin's to get their hands on the Manuscipt and herself included, she destroyed the manuscript by throwing it in the sea and afterwards committed suicide to avoid being captured. After the expierence inside the Animus, Isaiah thanked Sean for his intuition and gives the teens some time of too enjoy themselves, but in private he tells to himself that the hunt has only just begun...

Turbelance In The Innersanctum

In October 2016, Simon Hathaway was induced into the Innersanctum, believing the Animus Project was not realised to it's full potentional he wanted to explore history in a different aproach; Simon wanted to explore memories of Templars to uncover lost secrets. He believed a historian and Templar like himself could see things others would not and offered to go inside the Animus.

Alan Rikkin granted permission to Hathaway when the Templar historian told him about his new project: to learn more about Jeanne d'Arc's personal Sword of Eden and Rikkin gave him a deliberately tight one-week schedule and brought Dr Victoria Bibeau over from the Abstergo facility in North America to supervise Hathaways mentel health and report to him as he dived into the project. Over the course of multiple days, Rikkin grew more and more desillusioned with Hathaway's research as prying too much into the history of the Sword, once wielded by the revered Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay, as he believed that learning more about de Molay's infuence could lead into interference with his own ambitions for how the modern Templars operated.

As Simon started to become increasingly more aware of his moves being followed, he became more stressed and anxiously searching his surroundings, wondering if Abstergo was following his every moves. Eventually Rikken saw him and his research as a definitive threat and ordered Omega Team, a clandestine task force that answered solely to him and was kept secret from the rest of the Innersanctum, to kill Simon Hathaway.

Simon was able to evade and even wound one of the agents with his new skills and used his knowledge of London's underground tunnels to escape his purseurs and eventually presented himself to the Innersanctum, with the now restored Sword of Eden and atleast inspired some of it's members to re-evaluate how the Templar Order operated in the modern age. Afterwards, Rikkin privately set about activating Omega Team to prepare moving against the entire Sanctum in a a contingency plan known as "Double Epsilon", however, he was preoccupied by events in Spain, so he left Omega Team on standby to await his return to London.

Callum Lynch's capture

In October 2016, Callum Lynch was sentenced to death by lethal injection. However, this was a ploy by the Templars, who faked his death and brought him over to the Abstergo Facility in Madrid. Under supervision of Sofia Rikkin, he was forced to relive the memories of the Spanish Assassin Aguilar de Nerha in hopes to locate an Apple of Eden. While in captivity, Callum joined other Assassins who were subjected to similar tests. Having acquired Aguilar's skills through the Bleeding Effect, he orchestrated a prisoners rebellion and escaped with Moussa and Lin.

Callum killing Alan Rikkin

Meanwhile, with Sofia and her father Alan having used Callum's memories to find the Apple in Christoffa Corombo's tomb, they travelled to Holborn Hall in London to convene with the other Templars, including the high ranking Council of Elders, to observe Alan's unveiling of the Apple. Unbeknownst to them, Callum, Moussa, and Lin infiltrated the crowd, with Callum managing to get close to Alan, kill him before all the assembled Templars, and reclaim the Apple. In the ensuing chaos, he escaped with the other Assassins to the city's rooftops, evading the police.

The Discovery of the Hidden Ones

Layla Hassan, 2017, Egypt

In October 2017, as part of Abstergo's Historical Tactical Team, Layla Hassan and Deanna were sent to Egypt to find and retrieve an important historical artefact. However Layla Hassan discovered the artefact was infact a tomb that housed the mummies of Bayak and Aya of Siwa. Without informing her superiors, Layla used her own Portable Animus to relive their memories from around the year 48 BCE in order to prove her worth to the Animus Project, while Deanna monitored her vitals remotely from a nearby hotel.

Inside the memories of Bayek and Aya she discovered the origin of the Assassin Brotherhood and their millenia long conflict with the Templar Order, as well as First Civilization messages left behind for her that spoke of a new disaster awaiting Earth in the nearby future. However the exact details on this disaster were not explained. Layla's refusal to regulary check in at Abstergo made the company send in Sigma team to investigate the expedition in Egypt. Upon discovering the team went rogue they killed Deanna but were unable to kill Layla who used her new abilities to defend herself. Afterwards she swore she would see this through.

Layla and William making a deal

Later Layla was awoken again from the Animus, this time by a strange man overlooking her session, alarmed Layla unplugged herself from the Animus and demanded to know who he was. After Layla learned he was the infamous Assassin William Miles, she became somewhat at ease with his pressence. William aware of her current predicament and her early history and keen interest in the Animus Project, he offered her a place amongst them. To fight back against Abstergo and explore the Animus with more free reign. Layla agreed to align herself with the Assassin’s, however she did not want to join as a official member of the Brotherhood. William agrees with her as they wait for the extraction helicopter to arrive.

By the end of that year, Layla relented on her stance and joined the Assassins, befriending several of her fellow members, including Charlotte de la Cruz, Arend Schut-Cunningham, and Harlan Cunningham. As part of her first Assassin mission, she and Kiyoshi Takakura went to Quebec to retrieve a relic which had belonged to the Recollects from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec. Things went sideways when they were confronted by Abstergo, but Kiyoshi's past as a yakuza helped him save Layla from danger.

The Adlers

In November 2017, former Abstergo employees Alice and Thomas Adler where hiding out in Madrid after stealing an Animus and kidnapping Maxime Gorm to explore his ancestor, Eddie Gorm’s, genetic memory too find Hitler’s Apple of Eden during the Second World War. They believed the combined power of the Apple and the Bleeding Effect could restore their daughter, Elisa Adler, psyche as she was suffering from amnesia. However, despite their inquiry into the life of Eddie Gorm, they found nothing on the Apple of Eden’s location. Before they could examine their next step the door bell ringed, alarmed they hastened upstairs as they expected no one to know where they were.

Luckily, Maxime was left alone but distraught over his true identity, believing himself to be Eddie. He soon escaped his restraints and went upstairs to the living room. There, he introduced himself to Elisa Adler and her doctor, Dr. Florent Carpentier. Distraught by the revelation that her parents kidnapped someone, Carpentier revealed himself to be an Assassin and attempts to kill Maxime, but killed both of Elisa’s parents in the process. Maxime overpowered Florent, who’s real name was Tomo Sakawaga, and subdued Tomo with a knife to his right eye. Quickly, he and Elisa left the home and hid from the incoming Assassins.

The Journey of Layla Hassan

By October 2018, Layla Hassan had become fully dedicated to the Assassin Brotherhood and went on a few very successful missions. She became a leader of her own Assassin Cell, consisting of Kiyoshi, Alannah Ryan and ex-Abstergo employee and former Templar, Dr. Victoria Bibeau.

Layla and Victoria with the Spear of Leonidas

Layla had become obsessed with Isu artefacts and culture by this point, and in her search for knowledge she rediscovered The Lost Histories, a volume by Herodotos, that had been lost to time. The volume was buried alongside the Spear of Leonidas. Layla and Victoria read through the volume together and discovered that the Spear had once belonged to the Spartan Mercenary, Kassandra. Excited by her new discovery she took a sample of Kassandra’s DNA and returned to her Assassin hideout in London where Dr. Victoria would oversee her Animus simulation.

From Kassandra's genetic memories, Layla learned the location of the lost city of Atlantis, where she believed the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, a powerful Piece of Eden, to be hidden. Believing the artifact would allow the Assassins to gain the upper hand over the Templars, Layla led her team from their to the coast of Santorini, boarding the Altair II.

Upon arriving at their destination, Layla explored the underwater caverns and found the entrance to Atlantis. Examining the tunnel leading to the ancient city, she found no way to access Atlantis and, believing Kassandra's memories held the answer, she returned to the Animus to continue exploring the misthios' life.

Kassandra passing on the Staff

Once Layla had the necessary knowledge to open the city, she realigned several mirrors reflecting a light beam and the gateway to Atlantis was opened. It was then that she met Kassandra, kept alive for thousands of years by the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. Having traveled the world and personally witnessed most of their exploits throughout history, Kassandra warned Layla that the Templars and Assassins represent order and chaos, respectively, and that either side prevailing over the other would result in the world's doom.

Declaring Layla to be the prophesied individual who would restore balance to the world, Kassandra requested her to destroy the Staff once she had fulfilled her mission with it, as well as all other Pieces of Eden, continuing Kassandra's life work. After Layla agreed, the misthios relinquished the Staff to her and passed away moments later. Layla then returned to the Animus to synchronize with the remainder of Kassandra's memories.

The Trials of Atlantis

Afterwards she discovered that Kassandra had met a holographic projection of the Isu, Aletheia, who guided Kassandra for thousands of years to hunt down Pieces of Eden and eventually pass on the Staff too the prophesied ‘’Heir Of Memories’’.

Upon exiting the Animus, Aletheia talked to Layla from inside the Staff and with her help and the crew of the Altair II she was able to open the Great Seal of Atlantis. During this time, Victoria had become increasingly worried for Layla’s mental health as she was being overly prolonged to the Animus and so decided to personaly go with Layla. Inside the Throne Room of Atlantis, Layla went inside the Animus again to expierence Kassandra’s memories of the Trials of Atlantis, specifically designed by Aletheia so Layla could learn to master the Staff and not be corrupted by it’s immense power.

A Bleeding Effected Layla Killing Victoria

As Layla continued to relive Kassandra's memories while the latter explored the simulations, Layla’s behavior became increasingly aggressive, which caused Victoria to forcefully pull Layla out of the Animus, claiming the Bleeding Effect to be affecting her. This culminated in Layla accidentally killing Victoria with the Staff during an outburst. Horrified at what she had done, Layla was approached by Aletheia, who proclaimed that Layla might not be the true "Heir of Memories" after all, and that she needed time to reflect. Layla refuted Aletheia's statement, blaming the Staff for her actions though Aletheia reminded her that she dictated who the "Heir" was and not Layla.

Layla eventually convinced an apprehensive Aletheia to let her finish the Trials. Upon completing Kassandra’s memories she was awoken from the simulation by Aletheia who warned her of a intruder, revealed to be Juhanni Otso Berg. Layla confronted the Templar and tried to make a compromise with Berg to use the Staff to heal his sick daughter, Elina, but Berg warned her not to bring up his daughter and that there was no compromise to be made. Layla forced to defend herself easily bested Otso Berg and ‘’gloated’’ in her own success and the power of the Staff. Afterwards she impaled Otso Berg with the Staff, paralyzing him from the waist down.

Layla Cripling Otso Berg

As Berg passed out from his injuries, Layla approached Victoria's body, speaking to her softly before taking her earpiece. In doing so, she regained communications with Alannah and her team, informing them of what had transpired and requesting the team to pick her up from the throne room. Following this event, Otso Berg was captured by the Assassin’s and interrogated for information, however, Alannah and Kiyoshi lost their trust in Layla due to her killing of Victoria and elected to leave the team, leading to Layla being reassigned to a new Assassin cell.

Notre-Dam Incident

On 15 April 2019, the spire of the Notre-Dam in France suddenly caught fire, shocking the entire world. Gavin Banks had an Animus housed in secret which was seemingly destroyed in the fire.

The Treatment of Kō Risa

In 2019, Kō Risa, also known as Lisa Huang, was a young Japanese woman who received treatment at an Abstergo clinic in Yokohama to help her with her violent tendencies. However unknowingly to her she was being used by the Templar Order to help them find a Piece of Eden that was in possession of her Chinese Assassin ancestor, Shao Jun. Eventually, through help of her cousin, Mari, and the Japanese Assassin, Kiyoshi Takakura, she escaped from the facility and joined with her cousin the Assassin Brotherhood…

A Modern Virus

In late 2019, Aliyah Khan is an English card shark who was a former dropout of the London School of Economics. After she traveled to the enclave of Chinatown, she played poker with the Assassin Gavin Banks in an attempt to earn enough money to pay off some her of student loan debt with. Having lost all of her chips to him, Aliyah sought out Gavin after the match and demanded to know his identity. Gavin gave her an address, telling her to find it if she wished to know more.

The very next day, Aliyah was contacted by the schools registrar and learned that her funds had been paid by an ‘’alumni.’’ After recovering from the shock and disbelieve she went to the school too meet with the school officials and registrar and learned that it was indeed true. She surmised the mysterious ‘’alumni’’ could have been none other than Gavin.

Following the address given, she then went to meet Gavin, which led to a warehouse on the London Docklands. There she met My'shell Lemair who let her inside. They then were joined by Gavin, who explained himself to Aliyah, telling her that he knew of her former bussnis partner Jarrod Eubanks with whom she had established a crypto company in September. However he later betrayed her and fled with the company’s funds, making her severely indebted to her investors, among whom was her friend Biancia’s father. Gavin offered her an opportunity. If she was willing to help them they would tell her where her old associate had hidden her money. Gavin summarized the Assassin-Templar War for Aliyah and told her of her ancestor Omar Khaled, a member of the British Brotherhood of Assassin’s from the 1600s and apprentice to Isaac Newton. After some hesitation, Aliyah agreed to enter the Animus in exchange for the promised return of her crypto funds. Using the Animus, Aliyah relived Omar's memories in order to find a rare Royal Mint coin on which was inscribed a code word to disable a modern day computer virus…

TBA...

Layla Mission, Tokyo

Layla Mission Tokyo

By mid-2020, Layla Hassan had been joined by Shaun Hashtings and Rebecca Crane because of their similar expierence with losing a teammate, when Desmond Miles, under the influence of a Apple of Eden, killed Lucy Stilman back in 2012 in the Colliseum Vault in Roma.

Layla had intercepted a message from an Abstergo facility located in Tokyo Japan that specialised in forcing Isu-technology onto involutary subjects for technological progression and creating superhumans. That year, the team traveled to Tokyo and Layla was reunited with her old teammate Kiyoshi, who joined the team on an assignment. While the main entrance was poorly guarded, the team elected to enter through the roof, bypassing the facility's security

While exploring the facility the team discovered a encrypted note left behind inside an Animus. The puzzle solved they found out that the Templars were performing experiments with a Staff of Eden. Layla being the only one with detailed expierence and training with the Animus goes inside the genetic memories of the Venetian Assassin Bastiano da Mezzo.

They discovered that their informant was Bastiano’s decendant, Dr. Kazui, who was inside the facility and they moved out to extract him.

After the group succesfuly destroyed Dr. Kazui’s DNA in the analyse room, they safely found Dr. Kazui before the Templars could use him. Along the way, they also analyzed any data and documents they could about their experiments regarding the Staff. Disguising the doctor in an Abstergo guard's uniform, the four Assassins were able to exfiltrate him before Abstergo even realized what was happening. Along the way, however, the doctor got cut, leaving behind trails of blood. Returning to the premises, any trace of Dr. Kazui had to be wiped clean. They also stopped to erase his DNA data from the Abstergo database.

Before they could leave the facility, the Assassins were cornered by Layla's nemesis Juhani Otso Berg, who was freed at some point and brought over to the facility after 2 November. Through experimentation he regained his legs and fought the Assassin’s as the building was engulfed in flames. After a four-on-one fight, Berg came close to killing Kiyoshi but the latter was saved by Layla, who was finally able to subdue the Templar, and the four Assassins escaped. This was the last time Layla worked with Kiyoshi, but despite their previous falling out, the two were able to part ways on good terms.

Finding The Wolf Kissed

Layla Hassan Smoking

By May 2020, the Earth’s magnetic field, which had continued to increase in potency since the 2012 coronal mass ejection, had become strong enough to create several major electromagnetic disturbances around the world, resulting in a permanent aurora borealis over the globe. The destruction of multiple satalites and frequent earthquakes around the world.

By August of the same year, while looking for a solution, Layla and her team received a strange and cryptic message from an unknown source, with coordinates that lead them to New England, North America. As they arrived at their destination they found a grave of a Viking dating back to the 9th century. They setted up the Portable Animus HR-8.5, inside a cabin for Layla to use. Shaun also placed a mood stabilizer on her neck, to ensure she would not succumb to the Bleeding Effect and the Staff’s of Hermes Trismegistus influence.

Layla solving the Anomalies

As Layla expierenced the memories of the Ravenclan shieldmaiden, Eivor Varinsdottir, the simulation started glitching, as two data DNA streams were detected overlapping with each other, confusing the Assassin’s. When Rebecca questioned Layla about her expierence with the two data streams, she described it as two minds fighting over one brain. Not having much choice left, they deduced that the Animus should decide which stream to follow for a more authentic and accurate representation of the memories.

Inside the simulation, Layla encountered 10 floating glyphs she was able too interact with, each of these involved a digital platform-puzzle to be solved. During the solving of the puzzles, she heard the voices of the Aletheia, marking the first time she heard her since early 2019, but her words were not meant for her, as she spoke to her husband Loki in past sentence in clearly private conversations. Upon completing all the glyph’s she was shown a memory of the Isu Loki, where he witnessed nine Isu members uploading their DNA into the Yggsdrasil computer during the Great Catastrophe to ensure their DNA would be uploaded into the human gene pool to reincarnate themselves in the far future. Afterwards, the nine members left the chamber not knowing of Loki’s presence, he overpowered two of the security guards and uploaded his own DNA into the machine to ensure his survival in the future as well.

The memory amazed the Assassin’s, as complete and unfettered Isu memories were considered rarity, with the only two other known examples being the classified Abstergo video, The Truth, and Charlotte De La Cruz memory exchange with the Isu Juno.

Eventually, Basim finished reliving Eivor's memories in the Animus, realizing that the Viking's connection with her Isu self, Odin, was different from his own connection with Loki. At that moment, William remotely accessed his Animus simulation for their "face-to-face" meeting. As the Mentor was curious to learn how Basim had survived for so long in suspended animation, the latter agreed to help him understand while they worked together to further the Assassin cause.

Before they could begin, however, William requested that Basim provide the Assassins with a blood sample, to parse its genetic sequences through the Animus and allow the Brotherhood to relive his memories. Basim complied, musing that William was in for "quite a ride", before leaving the cabin to clear his mind. Outside, he had another Bleeding Effect-induced hallucination, this time of Eivor and Odin discussing the Great Catastrophe.

Resident From The Grey

In November 2022, former museum guard turned Assassin, Joey came into contact with one part of Vejovis’ dagger, a Piece of Eden in the shape of a double-bladed dagger. He was soon recruited by Colm and Alera, who explained to him they were part of the Assassin Brotherhood and they needed his help to find the other half of the Piece of Eden. Joey complied and experienced the memories of their ancestors agrose millenia’s. During his time in the Animus he came, through their ancestors, into contact multiple times with Vejovis, an Isu member who survived the Great Catastrophe by uploading his consciousness into The Grey, however Vejovis seeded his memories into the human genome so that his future reincarnations would unwittingly work towards his resurrection as a corporeal being in the modern day.

After finding the location of the dagger and with the help of Alera they defeated Colm, who was a rogue agent working for the Templar Order. Joey joined the two half of the daggers in the vault under the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, and was greeted by a hologram of Vejovis himself. He congratulated Joey for finding his double-bladed dagger and restoring it to it’s former glory and making it possible for him to become corpereal again. Alera tried to attack him but Vejovis made Joey swipe at her, revealing that Joey was one of his reincarnation and that by reliving the memories of his other Sages and connecting the blades, Vejovis' consciousness would soon bleed into Joey's. To stop this process from happening, Joey separated the blades, shattering one half of the dagger, and destroying the part of the pedestal that the hologram was coming from. After Vejovis' hologram glitched out of existence, Joey and Alera decided to leave before the Templars got there, with Joey taking the intact half of the blade. Joey asked if they managed to kill Vejovis, and Alera remarked that she was uncertain.

As Joey left the basilica, their cellphone received messages from their boss at the museum informing him of their firing. Alera offered Joey a place among them to which they accepted, becoming official member of the Brotherhood.

Hacker Affiliation

In 2023, an elite hacker received a mission by Shaun Hashtings and Rebecca Crane to infiltrate Abstergo’s ‘’Nexus Eye’’ Project. Led by Dominika Wilk, Abstergo’s headchief of cybersecurity. The initiave aimed to extract code fragments from the Antitkythera mechanism, merging them with the Animus to create a compyter with the power to predict and influence human behavior. Once infiltrated, Dominika tasked them to relive the genetic memories of a number of Assassin-affiliated figures at key historic poins: The Eagle Bearer Kassandra, Ezio Auditore and Connor Kenway.

Unaware of the mole in her team, the hacker strategically placed logic bombs disguised as beacons inside the memories to thwart with Abstergo’s fragment retrieval. Upon completing Ezio’s memories, Dominika became aware of the mole in her organization and exposed them as a spy, but they were saved by Shaun and Rebecca. The hacker delved into the last memories of Kassandra and Connor while evading Dominika and her forces. Culminating in a pursuit where the Hacker was forced to fight the Templar forces in a corrupted memory to escape, after placing the last logic bomb and dismantling the Nexus Eye. Despite this victory, Dominika was able to track down the hacker to their location and send in an abstergo team capture them.

The Abduction of Noa Kim

Noa Kim

In 2023, Noa Kim was a Korean - American college student who was abducted by Abstergo agents after being falsely lured with a vacation prize trip to Macau, China. He was forced to relive the memories of his pirate-assassin ancestor, Edward Kenway, to find a Piece of Eden under supervision of Doctor Shimazu Sei, a Templar. However Noa made a deal with Sei to explore the memories of Edward, as he was interested in his ancestors life and the similarities between his American father, who abandoned him and his mother long ago. Noa asked to be given free reign to do what he wanted while in the Animus, as well as his freedom once he helped Sei acquire the information that she sought.

Working together, Sei agreed upon Noa’s request to learn more about his ancestors, giving him information on the notorious: Ezio Audiore. Noa became determined to learn more about his ancestral roots, through the Animus. After completing the next sequence of Edwards memories he got stuck inside the Animus Memory Corridor, unable to progress he requested upon the aid of Doctor Shimazu Sei, to which the doctor proceeded to tease him over his previous stubbornness and refusal to be told what to do. She then brought up a journal that had belonged to a ceramic merchant in Macau who had encountered Edward, allowing Noa to use the information to synchronize with his ancestor's memories and progress to the next sequence. As he did so, he said that Sei could occasionally be helpful and addressed her by her first name, irritating the doctor.

Noa Kim attacking the guards

Later, Sei ordered Noa Kim to be removed from the Animus as he was showing signs of the Bleeding Effect. Noa was escorted by two Abstergo guards, but he got overwhelmed by a hallucination induced by the Bleeding Effect, he believed the guards to be ninja’s and attacked them, However, he shortly fell asleep afterwards and woke up back in his room, with Sei standing at his bedside. She explained him the dangers of the Bleeding Effect, but Noa got only excited about the benefits of gaining his ancestor’s skills, as it would result in him becoming stronger. Enranged, Sei explained she had seen people lose their mind too the Bleeding Effect and refused to let the same thing happen to him.

Noa teased Sei for caring about him more than she let on, and deduced that her family was in trouble if she needed to rely so much on him. He then asked that he be taken to Macau, claiming to know where Edward had gone next, and Sei reluctantly accepted.

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