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| | Asterisks indicate it's a translation from russian. Better than nothing :/ |
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| |-|Visit from the East= | | |-|Visit from the East= |
| | FLORENCE//ITALY//1524-11-24 |
| | Shao Jun, a devoted Chinese Assassin made the long journey from China to Italy to consult with Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the retired Mentor of the Brotherhood. She accompanied him on a trip to Florence where Ezio told her of his family’s fate at the gallows which started his journey as an Assassin. |
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| | As they headed for home, they were ambushed by an Imperial soldier in an empty Florentine alley. Ezio stepped forward to engage the attacker, but Shao Jun urged him back and killed the soldier after a brief clash. With a renewed sense or urgency, they rushed back to Ezio’s villa to evacuate his family and prepare for another attack. |
| |-|Persona Non Grata= | | |-|Persona Non Grata= |
| | VENICE//ITALY//1486-02-14 |
| [[File: ACIPersonaNonGrata.jpg|right|250px]] | | [[File: ACIPersonaNonGrata.jpg|right|250px]] |
| | While attending the Carnevale in Venice with her husband, Manfredo, Cristina Vespucci found a letter planted on her person. The note had instructions to meet in an alley away from the festivities. Thinking the paper had been placed by her husband, she playfully ventured to the meeting point and passionately embraced the masked man waiting for her. When she realized it was her former love Ezio Auditore, she was furious. Cristina blamed him for abandoning her in Florence and ordered him to never seek her out again. |
| |-|Quid Pro Quo= | | |-|Quid Pro Quo= |
| | CONSTANTINOPLE//TURKET//1511-06-22 |
| [[File:ACISofiaSartor.jpg|right|250px]] | | [[File:ACISofiaSartor.jpg|right|250px]] |
| | Ezio Auditore discovered a hidden entrance to the Yerebatan Cistern in Sofia Sartor’s bookshop. He recovered one of the fabled Masyaf keys and a strange map of Constantinople covered in indiscernible symbols. He returned to Sofia's bookshop to share his findings and requested her aid in deciphering the map in order to locate more keys. She agreed, on the condition that she be allowed to study any rare texts Ezio recovered along the way. This was the beginning of a relationship between an eventual husband and wife. |
| |-|Altair and the Apple= | | |-|Altair and the Apple= |
| | MASYAF//SYRIA//1191 |
| | Al Mualim, master of the Levantine Brotherhood, sent his best agent, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, along with the brothers Malik and Kadar, to retrieve a treasure from Solomon's Temple. When he saw that the Templars had arrived first, Altaïr recklessly attacked and was forced to flee before seeing what it was that both sides were after. |
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| | Malik managed to recover the artifact and bring it back to Masyaf, but before the treasure could be opened to reveal the prize inside, Robert de Sable laid siege to the fortress. Although the treasure's container was seen on Al Mualim's desk, it was only after killing six of the Templar leaders did he reveal the Apple of Eden to Altaïr, and explain its power to control the minds of others. |
| |-|Of Forbidden Knowledge= | | |-|Of Forbidden Knowledge= |
| | VENICE//ITALY//1488 |
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| | Ezio Auditore da Firenze spent ten years hunting down the Templars who killed his father and brothers. Along the way, his uncle Mario revealed their family history as Assassins, and their mission to track down pages of Altaïr's codex, which talked about a prophecy involving Pieces of Eden. |
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| | When the Templar Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia brought an Apple of Eden to Venice from Cyprus, Ezio was there to steal it. Although he was not able to kill Rodrigo, Ezio kept the Apple of Eden and was welcomed into the ranks of the Assassin Brotherhood. |
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| | Ezio and his allies convened in Venice to try and discover the secrets behind the Piece of Eden. Ezio touched the artifact and activated it, resulting in a staggering display of energy and glyphs. |
| |-|Connor and the Crystal Ball= | | |-|Connor and the Crystal Ball= |
| | KANATAHSÉHTON//BRITISH AMERICA//1769-10-04 |
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| |-|Aveline and the First Fragment= | | |-|Aveline and the First Fragment= |
| | CHICHEN ITZA//YUCATÁN//1769 |
| | While investigating the disappearance of slaves and vagrants from New Orleans, Aveline de Grandpré uncovered a Templar plot which involved sending laborers to a secret worksite. Against her mentor Agate's orders, she impersonated a slave and boarded a vessel bound for the Yucatán peninsula, hoping to shed light on the matter. |
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| | After a long journey, she arrived at Chichen Itza, where the Templars had built a massive work camp. After discovering that her long-lost mother had been working with the Templars, Aveline decoded pages from her diary. Using her mother's notes and map, she traveled through an underground maze where she found a fragment of a First Civilization artifact known as the Prophecy Disk |
| |-|Orelov Versus the Staff of Eden= | | |-|Orelov Versus the Staff of Eden= |
| | BORKI//RUSSIAN EMPIRE//1888-10-29 |
| | The Assassin Nikolai Orelov was sent to assassinate Tsar Alexander III, in order to loosen the Templar's grip on Russia. Nikolai infiltrated the Imperial train which was transporting the Tsar from Crimea to Saint Petersburg. The intelligence he had received suggested that his target would be alone in the dining car, but when Nikolai entered, he was shocked to discover the Tsar's family. |
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| | Nikolai and Alexander fought, and their battle derailed the train. Alexander held up the remains of the dining car so that his children could escape. The angry Tsar then taunted Nikolai with the Staff of Eden, challenging the Assassin to kill him with it. Despite his training and the Staff, Nikolai was defeated by Alexander. However, Nikolai was allowed to escape as the Tsar did not want to commit murder in front of his children. |
| |-|Embryonic Induction= | | |-|Embryonic Induction= |
| | FREIBURG//GERMANY//1924 |
| |-|A Commander’s Doubts= | | |-|A Commander’s Doubts= |
| | VALLEY FORGE//USA//1777-12-14 |
| |-|Forlí’s Failing= | | |-|Forlí’s Failing= |
| | FORLÍ//ITALY//1488-07-08 |
| | After retrieving the Apple of Eden from the Templars in Venice, Niccolò Machiavelli accompanied Ezio Auditore to the fortified city of Forlì, hoping to place the artifact under the protection of their ally, Countess Caterina Sforza. |
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| | However, a Templar force captained by the Orsi brothers got there first and laid siege to the city. Machiavelli, alongside Ezio and Caterina, were forced to retaliate. Although they were successful in driving the attackers from the city and eliminating the Orsi, Ezio was critically wounded in the struggle and lost the Apple to Girolamo Savonarola. |
| |-|A Costly Mistake= | | |-|A Costly Mistake= |
| | MONTERIGGIONI//ITALY//1500-01-01 |
| |-|Hand-over of the Italian Brotherhood= | | |-|Hand-over of the Italian Brotherhood= |
| | ROME//ITALY//1503-08-16 |
| |-|Chasing Cesare= | | |-|Chasing Cesare= |
| | VALENCIA//SPAIN//1507-03-02 |
| |-|Governor of Order= | | |-|Governor of Order= |
| | NASSAU//THE BAHAMAS//1717 |
| | In the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, the British colonies in the Bahamas were practically ungoverned and undefended which attracted hundreds of pirates. In 1717, the English privateer Woodes Rogers was appointed royal governor of the Bahamas and was commissioned to destroy the pirate stronghold. |
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| | Rogers offered royal pardons in exchange for the cessation of pirate activities, and was able to crack down on the pirates, despite the fact that several of them returned to piracy soon after taking the pardon. Rogers also organized several mass hangings of pirates during the year 1718. However, there were problems of communication between Rogers and the British authorities, and Rogers was replaced as Governor of the Bahamas on June 12, 1721, though he would regain the position in 1728. |
| |-|Pirates, Ye Be Warned= | | |-|Pirates, Ye Be Warned= |
| | PORT ROYAL//JAMAICA//1720-11-18 |
| | Jack Rackham, also known as Calico Jack, served under Captain Charles Vane until he accused Vane of cowardice and replaced him as captain following a popular vote in November 1718. |
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| | At that time, British authorities were vehemently chasing down pirates, and Captain Calico Jack and his crew were captured and put on trial. All of the men in Calico Jack's crew were condemned to death, including Charles Vane. |
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| | Jack Rackham was hanged on November 18, 1720, and his corpse was displayed at the harbor in Port Royal, as a warning to pirates throughout the Caribbean. |
| |-|Losing Ed= | | |-|Losing Ed= |
| | LONDON//ENGLAND//1735-12-03 |
| | Tessa Kenway enjoyed an eventful life with her husband Edward, step-daughter Jenny, and son Haytham until their family manor in Queen Anne’s Square came under attack. |
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| | The attack was later revealed to have been orchestrated by the Templar Reginald Birch. Edward Kenway was killed and Jenny taken captive. Haytham killed a man to save Tessa’s life, and Birch, in turn, saved the boy. |
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| | With their peaceful life shattered, and her relationship with her son strained, Tessa agreed to let Reginald Birch train Haytham in the ways of his Order. The pair left for Europe to search for Jenny, and Tessa stayed in London to oversee the reconstruction of her Manor, but died some years later. |
| |-|Love and Marriage= | | |-|Love and Marriage= |
| | FLORENCE//ITALY//1452-05-05 |
| | Following a whirlwind romance, Maria de' Mozzi wed Giovanni Auditore on a beautiful summer’s day. |
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| | Maria came from a privileged Florentine background and spent most of her early life sheltered from the outside world. She grew to hate her family’s control over her actions, and wished to experience life among the city’s lower classes. After much debate, her parents reluctantly allowed the young woman to open a bakery in the family’s palazzo. Less than a month later, Maria met a mysterious and charismatic man named Giovanni Auditore. |
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| | They fell deeply in love and were married. Maria and Giovanni went on to have four children: Federico, Ezio, Claudia, and Petruccio. |
| |-|Unexpected Reunion= | | |-|Unexpected Reunion= |
| | CHICHEN ITZA//YUCANTÁN//1769-08-27 |
| | Under the threat of death, Jeanne abandoned her family and began a new life at a freed slave camp in Chichen Itza, far away from her daughter, Aveline de Grandpré, in New Orleans. |
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| | After nearly a decade of separation, Jeanne came face-to-face with Aveline when the latter journeyed to the Mayan site during an investigation into the disappearances of slaves from Louisiana. To Aveline’s dismay, Jeanne fled upon learning of her daughter’s ties to the Assassin Brotherhood and her mentor, Agaté. |
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| | Years later, she explained her reasons for leaving, before refusing her daughter’s offer to return to New Orleans. |
| |-|A Life for a Life= | | |-|A Life for a Life= |
| | MASYAF//SYRIA//1165-01-11 |
| [[File:Maud ACI.png|right|250px]] | | [[File:Maud ACI.png|right|250px]] |
| | In the village beneath Masyaf’s mountain fortress, Maud, the Christian partner of the Assassin Umar Ibn-La'Ahad, gave birth to their son Altaïr after a difficult pregnancy. |
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| | Due to complications during childbirth, she passed away. Umar’s responsibilities as an Assassin often kept him from his son's life, so the entire Brotherhood helped raise the boy. After his father was executed at the hands of the Saracens, an 11-year old Altaïr was taken under the wing of Al Mualim, the Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood. |
| |-|Self Penance= | | |-|Self Penance= |
| | LOUISIANA BAYOU//SPANISH LOUISIANA//1777 |
| | After discovering that her stepmother Madeleine de L’Isle was a high ranking member of the Templar Order, the distraught Assassin Aveline de Grandpré sought the counsel of her estranged mentor, Agaté. |
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| | To her dismay, Agaté believed her to have abandoned their cause and aligned herself with the Templars. Overwhelmed with the guilt of having failed his student, Agaté took his own life by leaping from his tree-top den. |
| |-|A Cruel End= | | |-|A Cruel End= |
| | MASYAF//SYRIA//1228-09-12 |
| | [[File:ACIMalikHead.jpg|right|250px]] |
| | While Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad was in Mongolia, Malik Al-Sayf served as Mentor of the Levantine Assassins. However, the mutinous Abbas Sofian murdered Altaïr’s son, Sef, and framed Malik for the crime. Malik was imprisoned in the cells beneath Masyaf’s fortress. |
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| | Three years later, Altaïr returned to Masyaf and released Malik, and took him to a safe house in the mountains. When Altaïr left to confront Abbas, Malik was decapitated by Swami, an Assassin loyal to the traitor. |
| |-|A Well Earned Rest= | | |-|A Well Earned Rest= |
| | DAVENPORT MANOR//USA//1781 |
| | Achilles Davenport became disillusioned with the Assassins after a crushing defeat at the hands of the Templar Order. Nevertheless, he spent over a decade guiding a young Kanien'kehá:ka boy named Ratonhnhaké:ton and transforming him into the libertarian Assassin known as Connor. |
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| | His young pupil restored his faith in the Brotherhood, and Achilles passed away peacefully at home. Connor and members of the nearby community came together to pay homage to Achilles at a ceremony on a hill that overlooked the Davenport Homestead. He was laid to rest beside his wife and son. |
| |-|Dire Consequences= | | |-|Dire Consequences= |
| | SHLISSELBURG//RUSSIAN EMPIRE//1887-05-20 |
| | Aleksandr Ulyanov, elder brother of Vladimir Lenin, and member of the Assassin Brotherhood in Russia, failed an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III, a powerful Templar ally. |
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| | Aleksandr was captured and executed. His friend and fellow Assassin, Nikolai Orelov, managed to evade capture after the botched attempt on the Tsar’s life. Helpless, Nikolai watched his friend hang, which gave him nightmares for years to come. |
| |-|Fading Friend= | | |-|Fading Friend= |
| | AMBOISE//FRANCE//1519-05-02 |
| | With his health in rapid decline, the Renaissance visionary Leonardo da Vinci was delighted to receive a visit from his lifelong friends, Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli, at his home in Amboise, France. |
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| | In the days before his death, the men reminisced of their shared past and exchanged pleasantries. Ezio and Niccolò were present at the moment of Leonardo’s passing. |
| |-|Piracy on the Northern Atlantic= | | |-|Piracy on the Northern Atlantic= |
| | NEWFOUNDLAND COAST//1720-06 |
| | Even though they were conducting the majority of their operations in the Caribbean, the pirates needed to adapt to weather conditions as well as to the Atlantic trade patterns and shipping lanes. |
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| | After his attack on forty-two ships in Brazil, Black Bart renamed one of the captured ships The Fortune and headed north towards Newfoundland. He plundered a number of ships near the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland before returning to the West Indies in the winter. |
| |-|Harimandir= | | |-|Harimandir= |
| |-|Da Vinci’s Flying Machine= | | AMRITSAR//INDIA//1830 |
| |-|The Wheel Revolution= | | The Darbār Sāhib, also called the Harimandir, was built in 1604 as a Sikh religious complex. It was destroyed on several occasions by Afghan invaders, only to be rebuilt during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the early nineteenth century. The new structure was decorated with gold and filled with gold ornaments, leading it to be called the “Golden Temple”. |
| | |-|Da Vinci’s Flying Machine*= |
| | VENICE//ITALY//1485 |
| | Leonardo da Vinci was extremely interested in the idea of creating a device with which a person could fly like a bird. He began sketching a project inspired by the flight of birds themselves. Da Vinci developed a machine that was known as the "ornithopter". Although it was not assembled in life, according to the drawings it can be called the ancestor of today's helicopters. Around 1480, Da Vinci completed a glider that had a wingspan of over ten meters. He stopped working on the project for several years, until Ezio Auditore came to Da Vinci and asked him to use his car to enter the Doge's Palace in order to save the current ruler of Venice from the Templar conspiracy. Even though the car was completely destroyed after a successful flight,Ezio's move took an important step towards the possibility of creating a workable aircraft. |
| | |-|The Wheel Revolution*= |
| | //MESOPOTAMIA//-3500 |
| | The round object known as the Wheel was invented around 3500 BC. in Mesopotamia. This invention revolutionized transportation and manufacturing. The oldest known wheels were made from wooden discs tied together with cross-braces. The design of the wheel has been greatly improved over the following centuries. Spoked wheels, for example, appeared around 2000 BC in Asia. The Middle Ages are characterized by the overwhelming use of wheels as a means of transforming energy sources such as water, wind and various animals. Even after more than fifty centuries, the wheel plays an important role in the life of mankind. |
| |-|Company’s Venom= | | |-|Company’s Venom= |
| | NEW ORLEANS//NEW FRANCE//1773-10-13 |
| [[File:ACIPhilippe.png|right|250px]] | | [[File:ACIPhilippe.png|right|250px]] |
| |-|Death at the Gate= | | |-|Death at the Gate*= |
| |-|Blood and Snow= | | MASYAF//SYRIA//1176 |
| |-|The Rope= | | In the second half of the XII century, Salah Ad'Din directed his forces to capture the mountain fortress Masiaf, surrounding it with camps of his people. After receiving information about the impending siege from the spy Ahmad Sophian, Umar Ibn-La'Ahad was sent on a special mission. His goal was to infiltrate Salah Ad'Din's tent at nightfall to leave a "message" for the Sultan. Although he was successfully completed the first half of his mission, Umar was discovered by Salah Ad'Din himself while trying to get out of the tent. This forced the desperate Assassin to flee, killing one noble to secure his escape. After finding the Assassin spy Ahmad in the ranks of the Saracens, he was tortured in captivity, after which the Saracens were able to negotiate a peace treaty with Al Mualim. Only they asked to exchange Ahmad for Umar. If the Brotherhood would refuse them,then the forces of the Saracens would be directed to the continuation of the siege of Masyaf. After a hopeless debate, Al Mualim ultimately yielded to Umar. In the last minutes of his life, Umar heard the desperate cries and cries of his son, 11-year-old Altair. |
| | |-|Blood and Snow*= |
| | CONNECTICUT//USA//1928 |
| | The peaceful hermit life of Nikolai Orlov and his son Innocent in their hut in the forests of Connecticut was interrupted by uninvited guests. Sergei, an elderly Assassin and former acquaintance of Nicholas, encouraged him to return to the Brotherhood and share the secrets he had learned. When he refused, Sergei grabbed Innokentiy, brandishing a knife. Nikolai knocked the weapon out of the Assassin's hands and strangled him to death. Guessing what was going on, Innocent's father subjected his son to intense and sometimes tough training. Nikolai believed that without hard training, his son would not be able to master the necessary skills in time. In winter, during the snowfalls, Nicholas's predictions came true, and several Assassins came to their hut. After a painful battle in the surrounding forest, Nikolai eventually managed to nullify the number of his opponents, but was seriously wounded in the process - in both legs.In a desperate last attempt to secure his son's escape, Nikolai grabbed the last of the attackers and urged Innokenty to shoot the man, understanding the consequences. Although initially he refused, the boy still pulled the trigger. The bullet went through Nicholas and the Assassin, killing both. Left alone with a hostile world, broken but rebellious, Innocent took the Hidden Blade from his father and disappeared into the forests, going to the nearest city - Hartford.going to the nearest town - Hartford.going to the nearest town - Hartford. |
| | |-|The Rope*= |
| | FLORENCE//ITALY//1476-12-29 |
| | Finally entangled in the investigation, which he himself had been conducting for decades, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore da Firenze nevertheless discovered a Templar conspiracy that threatened the very foundation of the Renaissance Italy. His hunt for the truth took him away from his home in Florence in Venice, captured by the Barbarigo family and Milan, usurped by corrupt officials, but at the same time made him the main target of Rodrigo Borgia's anger. When Giovanni gathered enough evidence to expose the conspiracy, he was betrayed by his friend Uberto Alberti, who was the Gonfalonier of Florence at the time. At the direction of Rodrigo Borgia, Giovanni was unjustly arrested and, along with his sons Federico and Petruchio, was hanged in the Piazza della Signoria. This event was witnessed by his only surviving son, Ezio,whose life after that changed once and for all. |
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