Database
The Database was a collection of information that could be used by a person, written and compiled by Shaun Hastings and Clay Kaczmarek, members of the Assassin Order, for use within the Animus virtual machine.[1][2][3]
Information
The database held records detailing assassination targets, allies, contacts, monuments, buildings, cities, documents, Glyphs, Rifts, Assassin's Tombs, Romulus Lairs and other people, places, and events that the Assassins Ezio Auditore and Connor Kenway came across during their lifetime, viewed by their descendant Desmond Miles. [1][2][3]
Maintenance
Pre-Coma
Before Desmond Miles was put into a Coma, the data base was maintained by Shaun, whenever Ezio or Connor saw something of interest, he could flag the database entry into Desmond's view, for the purpose of gaining greater knowledge about the entry's subject.[1][2]
With the database being maintained from the outside of the animus, Shaun or Rebecca could add comments or details of their own. Including their mentioning of Glyphs and other important items of interest in the database.[1][2]
It also helped Desmond reach tombs, Glyphs and other places of interest when he needed to.[1][2]
Coma
During the time when Desmond fell into a coma due to the events that happened in the Colosseum and was sent into the Black Room to recover, Shaun could no longer monitor his activities when reliving Ezio's life. Instead, the virtual construct of Clay Kaczmarek or Subject 16, began to write Database entries for Desmond to read. Clay also put in some comments to help Desmond within the animus but unlike Shaun and Rebecca, he wrote it within the database entry.[3]
Trivia
- The database commonly has false information on birth years. For example, Francesco de' Pazzi and Vieri de' Pazzi, who are father and son, are stated to have an age difference of 10.
- Some of the characters present in Assassin's Creed II do not appear in the database.
- Most of the files seems to have been obtained from Abstergo with multiple references pointing out to this.