"Visions of grate Cities made of Glass; Portraits of beautiful Men and Women in great flowing Robes; Machines that generated Lightening as easily as Thunderclouds; Vehicles that flewe in the Skies as Birds..."
A First Civilization city located in modern-day Turin, New York
Language
First Civilization script in the Grand Temple
Technology
Desmond: "What makes you guys so special, so smart? That you happen to invent all these things while us mere mortals stumble around like idiots?"
Vidic: "To be fair, we don't invent them. We find them."
Desmond: "Find them?"
Vidic: "They're gifts, Mr. Miles, from those who came before."
—Desmond Miles and Warren Vidic on the Templars' inventions, 2012.[src]
The armillary sphere in the Observatory
Temples
"You possess the potential for understanding. But you broke our tools. Or turned them against one another. We have destroyed what we could. Sealed away what we could not. Most. Not all. And it does not take many to unwind the world. Here is a safe place. Eternal. To store objects."