Hybrid
The hybrids[1] were a humanoid species directly descended from those Isu who chose to interbreed with their human workforce. As a result of this interbreeding, hybrids were born without the artifical neurotransmitters that forced humanity's subservience to their Piece of Eden-wielding Isu overlords.
The descendants of those hybrids, known as The Bloodline by the Cult of Kosmos or as the Tainted Ones by the Order of the Ancients, inherited several special capacities from their ancestors. Those gifts sometimes made them targets for proto-Templar organizations which saw them as agents of chaos and a threat to their plans of domination.
History
The only known hybrids, whose ability to disobey the commands of the Isu led to the outbreak of war in 75,010 BCE, were Adam and Eve.[2]
Over the subsequent generations, the hybrids' offspring intermixed with the general human population, which had a small concentration of Isu DNA following their creation. Consequently, the concentration of Isu DNA in their own genome became diluted with each generation. Certain bloodlines directly descended from the hybrids, however, possessed fractionally higher levels of Isu DNA in their genome — resting somewhere between the 0.0002% of normal humans, to the 5 or 6% of Sages — which allowed their scions to naturally access Eagle Vision, to more fully interact with Pieces of Eden, much like their ancestors had. [3]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (mentioned only)
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