Grand Temple
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"... each Vault's knowledge was transmitted to a single place..."'[1]
-Tinia/Jupiter to Desmond in the message revealed to Ezio in Altaïr's library.
'Grand Temple' 'or' The Central Vault was created by Those Who Came Before underground in North East America in order to mass the knowledge acquiered by the research of Jupiter , Minerva and Juno into methods of the Earth's salvation from the incoming solar flare. It was buried as the other Vaults were in order to protect their contents from the war with humanity and the solar flare.[2] It was buried beneath a statue dedicated to Jupiter , Minerva and Juno which was destroyed in the solar flare and was buried,its location unknown by all until Desmond's revelation.[3]
History
All information from the other temples about any way to prevent the first disaster would be sent there for Jupiter, Juno and Minerva to "sort and sample all that was collected." The three then tested six possible solutions in succession, "each more encouraging than the last," but all six solutions ultimately failed."[1]
in 2012, a comatose Desmond Miles relived the memories of his ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze in 1506. Ezio and Leonardo da Vinci entered the Pythagorean Vault, which gave the coordinates to the Temple: 43 39 19 N 75 27 42 W. William Miles observed the memory and dispatched a team there.[2]
Desmond soon relived Ezio's memories in 1512: the Mentor had entered Altaïr's library and was used by Altaïr's Piece of Eden to deliver a message to him: Desmond entered a Sync Nexus where Jupiter gave him the location and informed him to go there. Desmond awoke with William, Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings near the Grand Temple, stating he knew what they had to do.[5] [1]
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