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{{Quote|Rot in hell, Thomas.|Tesla on Thomas Edison, before firing his particle beam weapon.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall|Assassin's Creed: The Fall 2}} | {{Quote|Rot in hell, Thomas.|Tesla on Thomas Edison, before firing his particle beam weapon.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall|Assassin's Creed: The Fall 2}} | ||
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| birth = 10 July 1856<br>[[Smiljan]], [[Austria|Austrian Empire]] | |birth=10 July 1856<br>[[Smiljan]], [[Austria|Austrian Empire]] | ||
| death = 28 October 1943 (aged 86)<br>[[Philadelphia, United States|Philadelphia]], [[United States]] | |death=28 October 1943 (aged 86)<br>[[Philadelphia, United States|Philadelphia]], [[United States]] | ||
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*[[German Rite of the Templar Order|German Rite]] {{c|unwillingly, 1943}} | |||
'''Nikola Tesla''' (Serbian: Никола Тесла; 1856 – 1943) was a {{Wiki|Serbian Americans|Serbian American}} inventor, and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity. Tesla planned to create a worldwide network that was able to transmit information and electricity to anywhere on the planet. The knowledge needed for this plan came from [[Apple of Eden 4| | }} | ||
'''Nikola Tesla''' (Serbian: Никола Тесла; 1856 – 1943) was a {{Wiki|Serbian Americans|Serbian American}} inventor, and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity. Tesla planned to create a worldwide network that was able to transmit information and electricity to anywhere on the planet.<ref name="Wiki">{{WP|Nikola Tesla}}</ref> The knowledge needed for this plan came from an [[Apple of Eden 4|Apple of Eden]] he had acquired. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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In 1874, Tesla fled to {{Wiki|Tomingaj}}, near the municipality of {{Wiki|Gračac}}, in order to avoid being drafted into the army. While there, he spent much of his time exploring the wilderness and the surrounding mountains; it was here that he found an Apple of Eden.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – [[Database: The Spark]]</ref> | In 1874, Tesla fled to {{Wiki|Tomingaj}}, near the municipality of {{Wiki|Gračac}}, in order to avoid being drafted into the army. While there, he spent much of his time exploring the wilderness and the surrounding mountains; it was here that he found an Apple of Eden.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – [[Database: The Spark]]</ref> | ||
On 6 June 1884, he arrived in [[New York City]] after an harrowing and arduous journey from Europe. It was here he met [[Thomas Edison]], secretly a | On 6 June 1884, he arrived in [[New York City]] after an harrowing and arduous journey from Europe. It was here he met [[Thomas Edison]], who was secretly a [[Templars|Templar]]. Tesla thought the meeting was good fortune and began working for Edison almost immediately, improving designs and showcasing his innovative abilities and ideas, though their relationship rapidly declined and Tesla soon quit the company to start up on his own.<ref name="The Short">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – [[Database: The Short]]</ref> | ||
However, the Templars—most prominently Edison—opposed his ideas, as they would be a serious impediment to the Templar [[New World Order|goals of global control]] and Edison's own advocacy of [[capitalism]]. To this end, Edison demonstrated a series of experiments, such as lethally electrocuting a circus [[elephant]] as proof of Tesla's power being dangerous, causing public disapproval towards Tesla's invention. Along with his smear campaign, Edison also influenced his fellow Templar [[John Pierpont Morgan|J.P. Morgan]] to cut funding for Tesla's famous {{Wiki|Wardenclyffe Tower}}. In the following months, Tesla's Apple of Eden seemingly disappeared from his lab, along with some of his designs.<ref name="Glyph11">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs|Glyph]] #11: "The Inventor"</ref><ref name="Glyph12">''Assassin's Creed II'' – Glyph #12: "Titans of Industry"</ref><ref name="The Short"/> | |||
===Assassin sympathizer=== | ===Assassin sympathizer=== | ||
{{Quote|Nikola,<br>We know what they have done to your lab, to your career. It may be too late to set things right, but you can help prevent something far worse. [...] We do not ask you to risk your life, just that, when the time comes, you use your electricity to destroy the object.<br>Regardless of your decision, know that we admire your work greatly and will bear you no ill will.<br>We respect your freedom above all else.|A letter to Tesla from the Assassins.|Assassin's Creed II|Glyphs}} | {{Quote|Nikola,<br>We know what they have done to your lab, to your career. It may be too late to set things right, but you can help prevent something far worse. [...] We do not ask you to risk your life, just that, when the time comes, you use your electricity to destroy the object.<br>Regardless of your decision, know that we admire your work greatly and will bear you no ill will.<br>We respect your freedom above all else.|A letter to Tesla from the Assassins.|Assassin's Creed II|Glyphs}} | ||
In 1908, the [[Assassins]] contacted Tesla and enlisted his help in destroying a Templar facility in [[Tunguska]] which housed a copied Tesla coil, and was also the location where the [[Imperial Sceptre]] of [[Russia]]—one of the [[Staves of Eden]]—was located, using his powerful particle beam weapon.<ref name="Glyph16">''Assassin's Creed II'' – Glyph 16: "The Cavalry"</ref><ref name="The Shock">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – [[Database: The Shock]]</ref> | In 1908, the [[Assassins]] contacted Tesla and enlisted his help in destroying a Templar facility in [[Tunguska]] which housed a copied Tesla coil, and was also the location where the [[Imperial Sceptre]] of [[Russia]]—one of the [[Staves of Eden]]—was located, using his powerful particle beam weapon.<ref name="Glyph16">''Assassin's Creed II'' – Glyph 16: "The Cavalry"</ref><ref name="The Shock">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – [[Database: The Shock]]</ref> | ||
[[File:Tesla v.png|thumb|250px|Tesla triggering the Tunguska explosion]] | [[File:Tesla v.png|thumb|250px|Tesla triggering the Tunguska explosion]] | ||
While a team of [[Russian Brotherhood of Assassins|Russian Assassins]] led by [[Nikolai Orelov]] infiltrated the facility to retrieve the Staff of Eden, Tesla fired his machine from America, while he also expressed his resentment of Edison just prior. However, the Assassins failed to secure the Staff in time, with both the artifact and the Assassins ultimately caught in the explosion.<ref name="ACTF2">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: The Fall 2|Issue #02]]</ref> | While a team of [[Russian Brotherhood of Assassins|Russian Assassins]] led by [[Nikolai Orelov]] infiltrated the facility to retrieve the Staff of Eden, Tesla fired his machine from America, while he also expressed his resentment of Edison just prior. However, the Assassins failed to secure the Staff in time, with both the artifact and the Assassins ultimately caught in the explosion.<ref name="ACTF2">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: The Fall 2|Issue #02]]</ref> | ||
As a result, a massive super-explosion that became known as the [[Tunguska explosion]] erupted, and the facility and the Staff of Eden were destroyed.<ref name="The Shock" /> Nikolai was the only survivor,<ref name="ACTF2"/> and a remaining shard of the Staff later came into the possession of [[Grigori Rasputin]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: The Fall'' – [[Assassin's Creed: The Fall 3|Issue #03]]</ref> | As a result, a massive super-explosion that became known as the [[Tunguska explosion]] erupted, and the facility and the Staff of Eden were destroyed.<ref name="The Shock"/> Nikolai was the only survivor,<ref name="ACTF2"/> and a remaining shard of the Staff later came into the possession of [[Grigori Rasputin]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: The Fall'' – [[Assassin's Creed: The Fall 3|Issue #03]]</ref> | ||
As Tesla's popularity began to dwindle under the Templars' efforts, he lost the rights to several patents and wasted what money he had in elaborate parties where he would reveal his latest inventions. The unbelievable nature of many of these machines, coupled with Tesla's distress over losing the Apple, led the public to see him as little more than a benevolent lunatic.<ref name="Glyph12"/> | As Tesla's popularity began to dwindle under the Templars' efforts, he lost the rights to several patents and wasted what money he had in elaborate parties where he would reveal his latest inventions. The unbelievable nature of many of these machines, coupled with Tesla's distress over losing the Apple, led the public to see him as little more than a benevolent lunatic.<ref name="Glyph12"/> | ||
===Kidnapped by Kramer=== | ===Kidnapped by Kramer=== | ||
Officially, Tesla died in poverty in [[New York City]] in January 1943. However, Tesla was in fact kidnapped by the Nazi general and [[German Rite of the Templar Order|German Templar]] [[Gero Kramer]], who needed the aging genius to study the Pieces of Eden in order to create new weapons. Having no choices, Tesla decided to comply and act as if he accepted his new situation, while in fact he planned to thwart the Templars' progress discreetly.<ref name="ACCo1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies]] | Officially, Tesla died in poverty in [[New York City]] in January 1943. However, Tesla was in fact kidnapped by the Nazi general and [[German Rite of the Templar Order|German Templar]] [[Gero Kramer]], who needed the aging genius to study the Pieces of Eden in order to create new weapons. Having no choices, Tesla decided to comply and act as if he accepted his new situation, while in fact he planned to thwart the Templars' progress discreetly.<ref name="ACCo1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies]] – [[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies Volume 1: Die Glocke|Vol. 1 Die Glocke]]''</ref> | ||
By February, Tesla was still alive and well, secretly working at a hydroelectric dam in [[Vemork]], [[Norway]]. With the knowledge obtained from an Apple of Eden and other kidnapped scientists, Tesla created [[Die Glocke]], a proto-[[Animus]] that the Templars intended to use to find more Pieces of Eden by looking into the past of captured Assassins.<ref name="ACCo1"/> | By February, Tesla was still alive and well, secretly working at a hydroelectric dam in [[Vemork]], [[Norway]]. With the knowledge obtained from an Apple of Eden and other kidnapped scientists, Tesla created ''[[Die Glocke]]'', a proto-[[Animus]] that the Templars intended to use to find more Pieces of Eden by looking into the past of captured Assassins.<ref name="ACCo1"/> | ||
After Kramer captured [[Eddie Gorm]], a [[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Assassin]] who infiltrated the facility to put an end to the Templars' project, the general put him in Die Glocke and ordered Tesla to activate the device. However, due to Tesla's sabotage, the device exploded and the scientist told the angry general that he needed several hours to fix it. Fortunately, as the Templar was strangling Tesla, [[United Kingdom|British]] commandos launched an assault on the facility and Kramer ordered two of his men to escort a dazed Gorm and Tesla to the cells while he was dealing with the attack.<ref name="ACCo1"/> | After Kramer captured [[Eddie Gorm]], a [[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Assassin]] who infiltrated the facility to put an end to the Templars' project, the general put him in ''Die Glocke'' and ordered Tesla to activate the device. However, due to Tesla's sabotage, the device exploded and the scientist told the angry general that he needed several hours to fix it. Fortunately, as the Templar was strangling Tesla, [[United Kingdom|British]] commandos launched an assault on the facility and Kramer ordered two of his men to escort a dazed Gorm and Tesla to the cells while he was dealing with the attack.<ref name="ACCo1"/> | ||
On their way, they were rescued by another Assassin, [[Julia Dusk]], who killed the soldiers and asked what happened. Tesla told her everything and revealed to the Assassins that the weapons created by Kramer were constructed by a company called [[Abstergo Industries]] under the [[Książ Castle]] in [[Poland]]. Dusk then knocked Tesla out, telling Gorm that they could not take the old man with them if they wanted to successfully escape the Germans, that Tesla was smart enough to understand that and continue to act as if he was loyal to Kramer upon waking up.<ref name="ACCo1"/> | On their way, they were rescued by another Assassin, [[Julia Dusk]], who killed the soldiers and asked what happened. Tesla told her everything and revealed to the Assassins that the weapons created by Kramer were constructed by a company called [[Abstergo Industries]] under the [[Książ Castle]] in [[Poland]]. Dusk then knocked Tesla out, telling Gorm that they could not take the old man with them if they wanted to successfully escape the Germans, that Tesla was smart enough to understand that and continue to act as if he was loyal to Kramer upon waking up.<ref name="ACCo1"/> | ||
===Rescued by Pash=== | ===Rescued by Pash=== | ||
In July 1943, a dozen Assassins led by [[Boris Pash]] assaulted Książ Castle, under which Tesla and hundreds of other scientists were constructing new weapons inspired by the Pieces of Eden for the Templars in what was known as [[Project Riese]]. After killing Kramer and recovering the Apple, Dusk and Gorm joined with the rest of the Assassins who had already cleared the underground facility and freed the scientists, and met with Tesla again. However, Tesla | In July 1943, a dozen Assassins led by [[Boris Pash]] assaulted Książ Castle, under which Tesla and hundreds of other scientists were constructing new weapons inspired by the Pieces of Eden for the Templars in what was known as [[Project Riese]]. After killing Kramer and recovering the Apple, Dusk and Gorm joined with the rest of the Assassins who had already cleared the underground facility and freed the scientists, and met with Tesla again. However, Tesla was not happy, stating that the Reich still held his colleagues' families and protested at his continued forced service to create dangerous devices, this time for the Brotherhood.<ref name="ACCo2">''Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – [[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies Volume 2: Project Rainbow|Vol. 2 Project Rainbow]]''</ref> | ||
Warning Pash that the Assassins would destroy the world if they | Warning Pash that the Assassins would destroy the world if they believed themselves omnipotent, he begged Dusk not to give the Apple to Pash. Stating that Pash's plan would only result in another Tunguska explosion, he also revealed that the colonel was working with the Templars. Stunned by this revelation, the two Assassins asked for explanations from their leader who admitted that it was true while Tesla was taken away. Pash had accepted an alliance and to work on [[Philadelphia Project|Project Rainbow]] with Templars after the war they orchestrated escaped their control.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | ||
The situation quickly escalated, with Boris grievously injuring Gorm, while a disgusted Dusk tried to destroy the Apple with a grenade, killing herself in the process. Picking up the intact artifact, Boris declared that Gorm was no longer one of them, and left with the scientists and his Assassins, leaving his former protégé to bleed to death.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | The situation quickly escalated, with Boris grievously injuring Gorm, while a disgusted Dusk tried to destroy the Apple with a grenade, killing herself in the process. Picking up the intact artifact, Boris declared that Gorm was no longer one of them, and left with the scientists and his Assassins, leaving his former protégé to bleed to death.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | ||
===Project Rainbow and Death=== | ===Project Rainbow and Death=== | ||
[[File: | [[File:AC Conspiracies Tesla Death.png|thumb|left|250px|Tesla's death]] | ||
Eventually, Tesla was convinced to work on the Assassin's grand plan to solve the War by Pash's Templar partner, the scientist [[John von Neumann]]. The Assassins, now backed by Abstergo and the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]], settled the scientists on the [[USS Eldridge|USS ''Eldridge'']] where Die Glocke was reconstructed and modified. On October 28, von Neumann activated the device and launched their last try before the Inner Sanctum deemed Project Rainbow a failure and ordered him to join the [[Manhattan Project]].<ref name="ACCo2"/> | Eventually, Tesla was convinced to work on the Assassin's grand plan to solve the War by Pash's Templar partner, the scientist [[John von Neumann]]. The Assassins, now backed by Abstergo and the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]], settled the scientists on the [[USS Eldridge|USS ''Eldridge'']] where ''Die Glocke'' was reconstructed and modified. On October 28, von Neumann activated the device and launched their last try before the Inner Sanctum deemed Project Rainbow a failure and ordered him to join the [[Manhattan Project]].<ref name="ACCo2"/> | ||
After the Templar inquired about Tesla absence, Pash went to Tesla's cabin to find him, as the old man was the only one who knew how to operate the device properly. Once there Pash discovered the bodies of several Assassins and eventually Gorm waiting for him and standing next to a deceased Tesla, | After the Templar inquired about Tesla absence, Pash went to Tesla's cabin to find him, as the old man was the only one who knew how to operate the device properly. Once there, Pash discovered the bodies of several Assassins and eventually Gorm waiting for him and standing next to a deceased Tesla, whom he had shot in the head. A distraught Pash tried to explain to an unstable Gorm that the Rainbow Project was never about a bomb, but Gorm had become increasingly erratic after Julia's death and eventually committed suicide.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | ||
Indeed, after the | Indeed, after the Templars understood that their pawn [[Adolf Hitler]] and WWII had completely escaped their control, they decided in desperation to help the Americans develop atomic bombs. While von Neumann believed there was another solution and that was a better course of action, his superior disagreed and contacted the Assassins. The Templar convinced Pash that travelling through time to stop Hitler before he became a menace was possible thanks to knowledge he found in the Apple of Eden. Despite believing that Neumann's plan had infinitesimal chances of success, Pash decided that the Brotherhood had to take the risk and accepted an alliance with the Templar.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | ||
===Legacy=== | ===Legacy=== | ||
Following Tesla's death, the Project was deemed a fiasco by the Inner Sanctum and was disbanded with Neumann joining Project Manhattan.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | Following Tesla's death, the Project was deemed a fiasco by the Inner Sanctum and was disbanded with Neumann joining Project Manhattan.<ref name="ACCo2"/> | ||
In October 2018, while [[search for the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus|searching]] for the [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], [[Victoria Bibeau]] expressed her concerns about its capabilities to [[Layla Hassan]]. Going so far as to state that Nikola Tesla blew one up, inferring that the one they were searching for could be just as dangerous.<ref name="ACOD MD">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[21st century conversations | In October 2018, while [[search for the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus|searching]] for the [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], [[Victoria Bibeau]] expressed her concerns about its capabilities to [[Layla Hassan]]. Going so far as to state that Nikola Tesla blew one up, inferring that the one they were searching for could be just as dangerous.<ref name="ACOD MD">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[21st century conversations|Modern day]]</ref> | ||
==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
Nikola Tesla is a historical figure and character first introduced in the [[Glyphs|Glyph]] mini-game puzzles of the 2009 video game ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''. He made his first physical appearance in the 2010 comic mini-series ''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' written by [[Karl Kerschl]] and [[Cameron Stewart]]. | Nikola Tesla is a historical figure and character first introduced in the [[Glyphs|Glyph]] mini-game puzzles of the 2009 video game ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''. He made his first physical appearance in the 2010 comic mini-series ''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' written by [[Karl Kerschl]] and [[Cameron Stewart]]. | ||
Historically Tesla died on 7 January 1943 in New York City, [[United States]]. This death was proven to be faked in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies]]''.<ref name="ACCo1"/> His ashes were also placed in a spherical golden urn, an object that bore a striking resemblance to the Apple of Eden that influenced Tesla's work in the ''Assassin's Creed'' universe. | Historically, Tesla died on 7 January 1943 in New York City, [[United States]].<ref name="Wiki"/> This death was proven to be faked in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies]]''.<ref name="ACCo1"/> His ashes were also placed in a spherical golden urn, an object that bore a striking resemblance to the Apple of Eden that influenced Tesla's work in the ''Assassin's Creed'' universe. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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ACC Russia DB Nikola Tesla.png|Database image of Tesla in ''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' | ACC Russia DB Nikola Tesla.png|Database image of Tesla in ''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' | ||
Tesla1896.jpg|Tesla around 1896 | Tesla1896.jpg|Tesla around 1896 | ||
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian: Никола Тесла; 1856 – 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity. Tesla planned to create a worldwide network that was able to transmit information and electricity to anywhere on the planet.[1] The knowledge needed for this plan came from an Apple of Eden he had acquired.
Biography
Early life
Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 to Serb parents Milutin and Ðuka Tesla at their family home in Smiljan in the Austrian Empire, now situated in modern-day Croatia.[2]
Acquiring the Apple of Eden
In 1874, Tesla fled to Tomingaj, near the municipality of Gračac, in order to avoid being drafted into the army. While there, he spent much of his time exploring the wilderness and the surrounding mountains; it was here that he found an Apple of Eden.[3]
On 6 June 1884, he arrived in New York City after an harrowing and arduous journey from Europe. It was here he met Thomas Edison, who was secretly a Templar. Tesla thought the meeting was good fortune and began working for Edison almost immediately, improving designs and showcasing his innovative abilities and ideas, though their relationship rapidly declined and Tesla soon quit the company to start up on his own.[4]
However, the Templars—most prominently Edison—opposed his ideas, as they would be a serious impediment to the Templar goals of global control and Edison's own advocacy of capitalism. To this end, Edison demonstrated a series of experiments, such as lethally electrocuting a circus elephant as proof of Tesla's power being dangerous, causing public disapproval towards Tesla's invention. Along with his smear campaign, Edison also influenced his fellow Templar J.P. Morgan to cut funding for Tesla's famous Wardenclyffe Tower. In the following months, Tesla's Apple of Eden seemingly disappeared from his lab, along with some of his designs.[5][6][4]
Assassin sympathizer
- "Nikola,
We know what they have done to your lab, to your career. It may be too late to set things right, but you can help prevent something far worse. [...] We do not ask you to risk your life, just that, when the time comes, you use your electricity to destroy the object.
Regardless of your decision, know that we admire your work greatly and will bear you no ill will.
We respect your freedom above all else." - ―A letter to Tesla from the Assassins.[src]-[m]
In 1908, the Assassins contacted Tesla and enlisted his help in destroying a Templar facility in Tunguska which housed a copied Tesla coil, and was also the location where the Imperial Sceptre of Russia—one of the Staves of Eden—was located, using his powerful particle beam weapon.[7][8]
While a team of Russian Assassins led by Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the facility to retrieve the Staff of Eden, Tesla fired his machine from America, while he also expressed his resentment of Edison just prior. However, the Assassins failed to secure the Staff in time, with both the artifact and the Assassins ultimately caught in the explosion.[9]
As a result, a massive super-explosion that became known as the Tunguska explosion erupted, and the facility and the Staff of Eden were destroyed.[8] Nikolai was the only survivor,[9] and a remaining shard of the Staff later came into the possession of Grigori Rasputin.[10]
As Tesla's popularity began to dwindle under the Templars' efforts, he lost the rights to several patents and wasted what money he had in elaborate parties where he would reveal his latest inventions. The unbelievable nature of many of these machines, coupled with Tesla's distress over losing the Apple, led the public to see him as little more than a benevolent lunatic.[6]
Kidnapped by Kramer
Officially, Tesla died in poverty in New York City in January 1943. However, Tesla was in fact kidnapped by the Nazi general and German Templar Gero Kramer, who needed the aging genius to study the Pieces of Eden in order to create new weapons. Having no choices, Tesla decided to comply and act as if he accepted his new situation, while in fact he planned to thwart the Templars' progress discreetly.[11]
By February, Tesla was still alive and well, secretly working at a hydroelectric dam in Vemork, Norway. With the knowledge obtained from an Apple of Eden and other kidnapped scientists, Tesla created Die Glocke, a proto-Animus that the Templars intended to use to find more Pieces of Eden by looking into the past of captured Assassins.[11]
After Kramer captured Eddie Gorm, a British Assassin who infiltrated the facility to put an end to the Templars' project, the general put him in Die Glocke and ordered Tesla to activate the device. However, due to Tesla's sabotage, the device exploded and the scientist told the angry general that he needed several hours to fix it. Fortunately, as the Templar was strangling Tesla, British commandos launched an assault on the facility and Kramer ordered two of his men to escort a dazed Gorm and Tesla to the cells while he was dealing with the attack.[11]
On their way, they were rescued by another Assassin, Julia Dusk, who killed the soldiers and asked what happened. Tesla told her everything and revealed to the Assassins that the weapons created by Kramer were constructed by a company called Abstergo Industries under the Książ Castle in Poland. Dusk then knocked Tesla out, telling Gorm that they could not take the old man with them if they wanted to successfully escape the Germans, that Tesla was smart enough to understand that and continue to act as if he was loyal to Kramer upon waking up.[11]
Rescued by Pash
In July 1943, a dozen Assassins led by Boris Pash assaulted Książ Castle, under which Tesla and hundreds of other scientists were constructing new weapons inspired by the Pieces of Eden for the Templars in what was known as Project Riese. After killing Kramer and recovering the Apple, Dusk and Gorm joined with the rest of the Assassins who had already cleared the underground facility and freed the scientists, and met with Tesla again. However, Tesla was not happy, stating that the Reich still held his colleagues' families and protested at his continued forced service to create dangerous devices, this time for the Brotherhood.[12]
Warning Pash that the Assassins would destroy the world if they believed themselves omnipotent, he begged Dusk not to give the Apple to Pash. Stating that Pash's plan would only result in another Tunguska explosion, he also revealed that the colonel was working with the Templars. Stunned by this revelation, the two Assassins asked for explanations from their leader who admitted that it was true while Tesla was taken away. Pash had accepted an alliance and to work on Project Rainbow with Templars after the war they orchestrated escaped their control.[12]
The situation quickly escalated, with Boris grievously injuring Gorm, while a disgusted Dusk tried to destroy the Apple with a grenade, killing herself in the process. Picking up the intact artifact, Boris declared that Gorm was no longer one of them, and left with the scientists and his Assassins, leaving his former protégé to bleed to death.[12]
Project Rainbow and Death
Eventually, Tesla was convinced to work on the Assassin's grand plan to solve the War by Pash's Templar partner, the scientist John von Neumann. The Assassins, now backed by Abstergo and the Inner Sanctum, settled the scientists on the USS Eldridge where Die Glocke was reconstructed and modified. On October 28, von Neumann activated the device and launched their last try before the Inner Sanctum deemed Project Rainbow a failure and ordered him to join the Manhattan Project.[12]
After the Templar inquired about Tesla absence, Pash went to Tesla's cabin to find him, as the old man was the only one who knew how to operate the device properly. Once there, Pash discovered the bodies of several Assassins and eventually Gorm waiting for him and standing next to a deceased Tesla, whom he had shot in the head. A distraught Pash tried to explain to an unstable Gorm that the Rainbow Project was never about a bomb, but Gorm had become increasingly erratic after Julia's death and eventually committed suicide.[12]
Indeed, after the Templars understood that their pawn Adolf Hitler and WWII had completely escaped their control, they decided in desperation to help the Americans develop atomic bombs. While von Neumann believed there was another solution and that was a better course of action, his superior disagreed and contacted the Assassins. The Templar convinced Pash that travelling through time to stop Hitler before he became a menace was possible thanks to knowledge he found in the Apple of Eden. Despite believing that Neumann's plan had infinitesimal chances of success, Pash decided that the Brotherhood had to take the risk and accepted an alliance with the Templar.[12]
Legacy
Following Tesla's death, the Project was deemed a fiasco by the Inner Sanctum and was disbanded with Neumann joining Project Manhattan.[12]
In October 2018, while searching for the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, Victoria Bibeau expressed her concerns about its capabilities to Layla Hassan. Going so far as to state that Nikola Tesla blew one up, inferring that the one they were searching for could be just as dangerous.[13]
Behind the scenes
Nikola Tesla is a historical figure and character first introduced in the Glyph mini-game puzzles of the 2009 video game Assassin's Creed II. He made his first physical appearance in the 2010 comic mini-series Assassin's Creed: The Fall written by Karl Kerschl and Cameron Stewart.
Historically, Tesla died on 7 January 1943 in New York City, United States.[1] This death was proven to be faked in Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies.[11] His ashes were also placed in a spherical golden urn, an object that bore a striking resemblance to the Apple of Eden that influenced Tesla's work in the Assassin's Creed universe.
Gallery
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Database image of Tesla in Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia -
Tesla around 1896 -
Tesla reading in front of a spiral coil -
Tesla watching as Mark Twain experiments with the Apple -
Tesla's concept of the information network -
Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower -
Tesla with the Apple of Eden -
The Assassins' message to Tesla -
Tesla in 1943 -
Tesla's signature
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (photo only)
- Assassin's Creed: The Fall (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Initiates
- Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Nikola Tesla on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: On
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: The Spark
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: The Short
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #11: "The Inventor"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #12: "Titans of Industry"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Glyph 16: "The Cavalry"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: The Shock
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Assassin's Creed: The Fall – Issue #02
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Fall – Issue #03
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – Vol. 1 Die Glocke
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – Vol. 2 Project Rainbow
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Modern day
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