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Project Legacy

These require wikilinks, or could do with articles of their own:

• Beagle 2 (Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past)
• Battle of Worcester
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (")
• Boscobel House (")
• Dover (")
• Westminster Abbey (")
• William Juxon (")
• The Louvre (Divine Science: Chapter 1 - Maria Amiel)
• Besançon (")
• Perenelle Flamel (")
• Holy Innocents' Cemetery (")
• Troyes Cathedral (")
• Coroebus of Elis (Divine Science: Chapter 2 - Kyros of Zarax)
• Pherecydes of Syros (")
• Theano (")
• Třeboň (Divine Science: Chapter 3 - Elizabeth Jane Weston)
• Count Rožmberk (")
• Jane Cooper (")
• Hněvín Castle (")
• Exposition Universelle (1900) (Divine Science: Chapter 4 - Frater V.O.V.)
• Florence Farr (")
• Star Chamber/Palace of Westminster (Contracts (Project Legacy))
• Wittenberg (")
• Kremlin (")
• Strigolniki (")
• Georg von Frundsberg (")
• Landsknechte (")
• Saamoothiri (")

English Civil War

Template:War The English Civil War was a series of conflicts fought between supporters of King Charles I and Parliament, who disputed the degree of control the other group ought to have over the country.

After two periods of conflict, Charles I was executed in 1649, and England became a republic ruled by Parliament. His son Charles II returned from exile in the Netherlands and gathered an army from Scotland, Wales and Gloucestershire. He lost the war at the Battle of Worcester, where Oliver Cromwell's larger force routed the Royalists. Charles escaped via St. Martin's Gate after the Earl of Cleveland led a diversionary cavalry charge.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past

Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the British Parliament in London.

During the Renaissance, it housed a secret court known as the Star Chamber, named for the stars painted on the ceiling of the meeting room. There, members could try powerful members of society whom ordinary courts were incapable of convicting. King Henry VII offered the Italian Assassins a seat in the Chamber after they killed his enemy Margaret of York.

• Shaun Hastings used the pseudonym "Guy Fawkes" for his online activities: Fawkes, of course, plotted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the Palace during the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.

Westminster Abbey

Charles II's coronation at Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is a large church located west of the Palace of Westminster in London. It is the site for coronations of the English monarchy, as well as burials and Royal weddings.

In 1661, during the coronation of King Charles II, he noticed his general George Monck speaking with a man holding an Apple of Eden, but had to bow his head to receive his crown from the Archbishop William Juxon before he could look further.

• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past

The Louvre

The Louvre, located in Paris, France, is one of the largest museums in the world. During the Renaissance, it was a royal palace.

In 1527, the Assassin Giovanni Borgia received permission to consult the Louvre's library with Maria Amiel. They discovered Nicolas Flamel's will leaving his grimoire to his nephew, and used the records to locate his closest living relative.

• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - Divine Science: Chapter 1 - Maria Amiel

Other things to do

• Bocce
• Checkers
• Morris
• Fanorona
• Ivan the Terrible?
• John Gay and The Beggar's Opera?

Kenways

At some point we might have to link the Kenway family instead of listing Edward, Haytham and Connor in articles to do with blending and eavesdropping when discussing the AnvilNext games. Thoughts anyone?

The Kenway family were a British family during the 18th century, whose members individually swore allegiance to the Assassins and Templars.

History

The earliest known member of the Kenway family was the pirate Edward Kenway, born to an English father and Welsh mother. He married Caroline Scott and had a daughter named Jenny. After joining the Assassins and ending his life in the Caribbean, Edward remarried to Tessa Stephenson-Oakley, and they had a son named Haytham in London.

In 1735, Edward was murdered by men secretly working for Reginald Birch, who also kidnapped Jenny and sold her into slavery. Birch took in Haytham under his wing and trained him to become a Templar. In 1757, Haytham rescued Jenny from Damascus and learned the truth, and they killed Birch. Despite this, Haytham remained loyal to the Order.

Two years beforehand, while searching for the Grand Temple in North America, Haytham conceived a child with the Kanien'kehá:ka woman Kaniehtí:io. Their son Ratonhnhaké:ton became the Colonial Assassin Connor, who eventually killed his father when it became clear their ideologies were irreconcilable.

Connor eventually had children, whose bloodline continued to Desmond Miles.

And that's it for now, until we learn about Connor's kids or if Haytham had a French child or something. :S

Tactics

Edward, Haytham and Connor were masters of hand-to-hand combat and dual-wielding, and trained in freerunning and swimming. They were also adept at being inconspicuous while blending and eavesdropping, making more of an effort to socialize while doing the former. They all possessed Eagle Vision.

As he was trained by Templars rather than Assassins, Haytham lacked skills his father and his son shared, like the ability to balance on tree branches or hunting and fighting wild animals. He also never commanded his own ship.

British Assassins

The British Brotherhood originated from the members of the Italian Assassins who came to London in 1503 to kill Margaret of York. They gained the trust of King Henry VII and earned a seat in the Star Chamber.

In 1588, the Assassins killed the anti-Protestant Queen Mary, who was succeeded by Queen Elizabeth.

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, the Assassins collaborated with General George Monck to undermine Cromwell's regime, in exchange for the Crown's Apple of Eden. They wrote to King Charles, who was in exile in the Dutch Republic to keep him informed.

In 1754, the Assassin Miko, who possessed a key for the Grand Temple, was murdered in the Theatre Royal by the Templar Haytham Kenway. Kenway promptly left for Boston on the Providence, but was followed by Louis Mills, who left a trail for the Colonial Assassins on the Aquila. However, Kenway discovered Mills' allegiance and killed him, before sailing the Providence into a storm to shake off the Aquila.

And that's it until AC4, or if Ubisoft makes a Robin Hood game. :D

Far East

For the inevitable Shao Jun or Japanese ACs.

The Far East referred to the countries located in east Asia.

The Chinese and Mongolian branches of the Assassins were active in the region, removing tyrants like Qin Shi Huang and Genghis Khan. Despite Genghis' assassination at the hands of Qulan Gal, and the aid of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, the Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, they were unable to stop the spread of the Mongol Empire and the conquering of China.

The Italian Assassins, including Marco Polo, travelled through the Far East and to the court of Kublai Khan, where they recovered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.

By 1524, the Chinese Assassins had been wiped out by the Emperor Jiajing. After seeking the aid of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the former Mentor of the Italian Assassins, Shao Jun journey back to her country to rebuild the Order. By the 21st century, the Assassins had a cell located in Osaka, Japan.

Religion

Religion is something the leaders of the Templars and Assassins do not practice due to their knowledge of the First Civilization. The former often moved into religious positions of power to control people, while the latter protected the rights of people to believe what they wanted.

The Aztecs' worship of Tezcatlipoca involved human sacrifices, greatly disgusting the troops under Hernán Cortés.

The Hermeticists believed man, the gods and the world were all equal, and were driven underground as their beliefs undermined the Church.

The Freemasons were a Brotherhood founded after the Renaissance which allowed any man, regardless of what god he believed in, to join.