Apple of Eden 4

The Fourth Apple is a Piece of Eden, a piece of ancient but technologically advanced equipment created by Those Who Came Before to control human-kind, their workforce.

Use: Designed to create illusions and control mens minds; can be used in conjunction with The Staff. Possibly helped in the development of weapons and technology throughout the centuries.

Status: Unknown

Neutral ownership: Those Who Came Before.

Assassin associated ownership: Assassin of Hitler, Nikola Tesla

Templar associated ownership: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Adolf Hitler.

History

According to Subject 16, the Fourth Apple is depicted in 10th century Chinese art, as a flaming golden ball held by a small demon. This painting is the earliest known pictorial representation of firearms, and the gold ball is thought to have represented an early grenade. A hidden message in the glyph in binary code reads "Sumerian Me 23", a reference to the "Sumerian divine weaponry", which is thought to be the Fourth Apple, as it appears to have inspired the Chinese to invent gunpowder and early weapons.

The first known human possessor of the Fourth Apple is Nikola Tesla, who finds it in his home country of Croatia. When Tesla begins his experiments and intends to make free, unlimited electricity available to all, the Templars begin their campaign to stop him. Thomas Edison sends a letter to J. P. Morgan, urging him to cut funding to Tesla's experiments, and to tell other investors to avoid Tesla. Edison also begins publicly slandering Tesla and his experiments, including conducting his own "experiment" to prove that Tesla's electricity can kill people by electrifying an elephant. Some point afterward the Templars break into Tesla's lab, steal the Fourth Apple and use it to drive him insane.

A letter comes up after clicking the glowing orb of light in the picture in the hand of Edison (presumably the Fourth Apple) in Glyph Puzzle #12, indicating that the Apple came into Edison's possession after the Templars take it, and then later lends it to Henry Ford who manipulates assembly line workers for profit. However Ford says "as per instructions" he ships the Fourth Apple to Europe to H. (Adolf Hitler) just before the Nazi Party takes power in Germany to begin World War II.

Hitler uses the Apple to cause Germany's rise from their recession and into one of the major forces of World War II. He also possibly uses the Apple to create a double, which he was supposed to execute inside the bunker and then flee and meet up with C. (probably Winston Churchill). However, the Assassins were watching the bunker and killed the real Hitler presumably taking the Fourth Apple for themselves. Only one body is ever found in the bunker when searched later.

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  Ancient Chinese art.
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  Nikola Tesla.