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The Sunlight Sword was a Japanese rōnin and member of the Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins who lived during the Ming dynasty.
Biography
In 1543, the Chinese Brotherhood sent the Sunlight Sword to join an Assassin team led by Shao Jun to the Gotō Islands outside Japan. Their mission was to intercept the priest João Machado, a Templar and the Portuguese Jesuit Gaspar Vilela's right-hand man, as he returned to China aboard one of Wang Zhi's pirate ships. Ostensibly tasked with taking possession the ship's cargo of arquebuses, there was also an Apple of Eden present. As the Assassins boarded the ship the Sunlight Sword took enemy fire damaging his samurai armor. Throwing caution to the wind, he charged the pirates and Portuguese arquebusiers allowing for Shao Jun to incapacitate Machado and recover the Apple. However, a dying gunman managed to light a store of gunpowder, forcing the survivors to disengage.[1]
Having survived the previous engagement, the Sunlight Sword, once again under the command of Shao Jun, crossed paths with João Machado for a second time in 1552. The Templar, now a commander within the Military Order of Aviz, ferried a Precursor box looted from Francis Xavier,[2] a fellow Templar,[3] to his master Gaspar Vilela in Nagasaki, Japan.[2]
Behind the scenes
The Sunlight Sword is a character introduced in the Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game. Promotional material originally had him appear in a slightly different version of The Nanban Trade sequence under the name Akira, which among its various meanings includes the word "sunlight".[4]
Appearances
References
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – The Nanban Trade
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – The Lost Box
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Memories
- ↑
Akira (given name) on Wikipedia