Assassin's Creed (Les Deux Royaumes comics)

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Assassin's Creed is a series of comic books split into several volumes, originally published in French for Canada and France. While the original volume was primarily based on the storyline of Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed II - though notably different - the second and third issues shifted their focus to a completely original storyline based on the characters Aquilus and Accipiter, while also borrowing elements from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

So far, four volumes have been released: Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond, Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus, Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter, and Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk.

Plot

Tome 1: Desmond

In 2012, two orderlies at St. Erembert Psychiatric Hospital were rounding up the inmates after their break. One of them notice someone behind a tree, who is revealed to be Mitch, the other orderly. "Subject 16" Clay Kaczmarek, who was posing as Mitch all along, takes this opportunity to subdue the orderly and then escape the hospital.

Elsewhere, Desmond Miles, successor to Clay, was being forced to relive the memories of Aquilus, a 3rd Century Roman Assassin, while under the supervision of Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman of Abstergo Industries. Aquilus was delivering a message to General Gracchus of Caesar's armies at one of their camps. Upon being granted an audience however, Aquilus was held at knifepoint before Gracchus, who knew of Aquilus' past and suspected him as the executioner of past figures. Aquilus denied the accusations, stating that he only wished to serve as a soldier in the fight against the Germani barbarians. This did not convince Gracchus however, and would then stab him with a knife.

This causes Desmond to desynchronize from Aquilus' memories. Alan Rikkin and the executive board watching the Animus simulation saw that Desmond's progress was taking too much time, then deciding to order the subject's termination. Lucy intervened and told them to reconsider their decision, due to Desmond's extraordinary lineage. The board agreed to discuss their decision first, while Vidic and Lucy attend to Desmond and the Animus. The board reflected on the situation with Desmond; they remembered the incident with their previous subject, Subject 16, who went insane after being subjected to the Animus for a long time.

Trivia

• While the first comic shared enough discrepancies with the games to suggest it wasn't canon to the series, the second comic, 'Aquilus' was confirmed by Ubisoft to be part of the Assassin's Creed universe, both in the Universe video and in the Encyclopedia. However, the third comic, 'Accipiter' did not seem to be part of the canon; while it had some similarities to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood it was a completely original story with no references to Ezio Auditore da Firenze's time in Rome, and with the modern-day Assassins searching for the Ankh instead of Ezio's Apple of Eden.
  • A major contradiction of the first comic was that Subject 16 was alive. Official guidebooks for Assassin's Creed stated that Abstergo's doctors "were too late to save him" after he cut a vein to produce the messages seen by Desmond Miles through Eagle Vision and it was explicitly stated by Alexandre Amancio that Subject 16 was physically dead. Lucy Stillman appeared to act uncaring towards him and was irritated by his presence later in the first comic, which contradicted greatly to the visible guilt and grief she showed about him during the games. While the original French edition of the first volume gave his name as "Michael," the English translation changed it to "Clay."
  • Another point that differed from the games was that the Apples of Eden were called "Spheres."
  • The drawings shown in Desmond's room bore no resemblance to those of the game.
  • The progression into Assassin's Creed II's main events via the modern-day Assassins and Animus greatly differed, some characters being entirely omitted as of the first comic.
  • There was also a contradiction in that Aquilus' memories were relived after his child's conception, even to the point of his own death — something that genetic memory constraints shouldn't allow.
  • Lucy is depicted as a very different character in this series then she is in the games. For one point she showed a much colder side rather than the calm and empathetic personality that she displayed in the games to the point that Desmond jokingly called her Ice Queen, though she did lighten up as the series progressed developing into a character much closer to that of the games. Her feelings for Desmond were also less ambiguous than they were in the games, with the two actually kissing at one point. Lucy was also shown to not be a Templar triple agent like in the games and was in fact nearly killed while trying to protect Desmond when the Templars found them in Monteriggioni.
  • Stella Crow is the leader of the Assassin Order, not William Miles, as she is the one who gives out assignments and sends Jonathan Hawk to Lucy's team.

Gallery

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  Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond full cover
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  Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus full cover
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  Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter full cover
• Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy cover
  Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy cover
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  Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk cover
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