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Forging History is the third and final book comprising the Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game published by CMON Games. It serves as a core campaign book, including three full storylines with multiple sequences each that are ready to play without alterations. In addition to this, there are suggestions for other sequences that can be added to further flesh out a session of these storylines ("sequence hooks") as well as other suggestions based on the time periods that are presented ("historical hooks").
Enter the Animus to follow the trail of a legendary sword from European folklore. In the Modern Day, Templars and Assassins are competing to find a lost Piece of Eden and its missing shard. Your Descendants will travel from the German-occupied streets of Paris during World War II to the mythical dawn of the Roman Kingdom, where the Artifact's origins are buried. From there, they will have to piece together clues scattered throughout Britain from the Viking invasion to the foggy alleyways of the Industrial Revolution. Get ready to discover the story of the Sword of Mars, unravel its deepest secrets, and keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
Champions of Eden
Prepare to descend into horror as you confront some of the most iconic monsters of movies and literature. Mummies, vampires, and more await your Descendants in this high-stakes adventure. The discovery of three previously unknown Pieces of Eden threatens to plunge the modern world into eternal darkness. Armed with the weapons hidden in their own DNA and tasked with recovering the awakened Rings of Eden, the PCs must face horrific foes to protect humanity from impending doom.
Lost in Time
Dive into a conspiracy that goes deeper into the Templars' agenda, embarking on the rescue of a potential ally of the Brotherhood, kidnapped and trapped within a Simulation. Using cutting-edge Abstergo technology, the Descendants will enter the Animus as Echoes to follow the treacherous mission of a Templar seeking to reach an Isu Vault in North Africa during World War I. Meanwhile, a potent Precursor lurks behind the scenes, waiting for the Descendants to make their moves through the Simulation's rifts. ‘Lost in Time' is a modular campaign adventure that will put your players' nerves to the test at every turn.
Supplementary material
The campaign book includes a number of database-like entries.
In this Sequence, Romulus is a key character in the storyline related to the Piece of Eden that the Descendants are investigating. He is also an available Witness of the Roman Kingdom Time Frame. If a Player selected Romulus as the Witness for their Descendant, the Reader can make them aware of the following information whenever they deem it appropriate (the Reader can also decide to impart this information to the Players in another way they see fit).
The vault beneath the Laran Temple is where, thirty-six years earlier, the Isu Mars personified in front of the twin brothers Romulus and Remus and gave them his Sword of Eden. The two young men argued over who should bear the weapon, and their discussion quickly turned to blood, Romulus eventually stabbing his brother with the Sword of Mars.
Romulus fled from the temple with the weapon and never returned. He used its powers to conquer and build. However, he never knew that the Isu Mars manifested again to his dying brother, offering him an Atlantis Artifact, a gift that would save his mortal life, at the cost of diminishing his free will and turning him into a Versipellis, an immortal wolf man with superhuman strength.
The cursed Remus is the Guardian of key objectives 2 and 3, still under the influence of the Atlantis Artifact. However, if the Reader wants to connect this Simulation to the Champions of Eden Storyline (see page 86), the Isu gift to the dying Remus could instead be the Ring of Moon Piece of Eden (see page 173, the Animi Network Card deck or the Assassin's Creed RPG App).
In this scene [Of Wolves and Men], the players identify the Shard of Eden they have seen while participating in the World War II Simulation Sequence as the pommel of Romulus' sword, which he uses as a key to open the door to the Isu Vault.
Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur, is no less than the Sword of Mars that the Crew is looking for. In the 5th century, King Arthur drew the sword from a stone, earning the trust of the Women of the Mist, a group of Celtic witch-warriors from Avalon, the guardians of Excalibur. Arthur later distanced himself from them due to his affiliation with the Order of the Ancients, giving rise to a rival group, the Descendants of the Round Table. After Arthur's demise, the clan safeguarded Excalibur beneath Stonehenge, until the late 9th century when Viking Eivor Varinsdottir took it. In 878, Niamh of Argyll, a priestess of the Women of the Mist, was instructed by their Lady to spy on the organization called the Hidden Ones and retrieve the sword. Despite facing numerous challenges, Niamh succeeded in her mission. Currently, Excalibur is in her possession.
Aita was an Isu scientist and Juno's husband. As the Toba Catastrophe approached, Aita volunteered to test one of the methods the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno) had devised to survive the disaster — the transference of Isu consciousness into an artificial body. The experiment failed, and Aita was left trapped inside the surrogate body, slowly driven insane by his predicament. Juno could neither heal nor rescue Aita and was forced to put him out of his misery. Before doing so, Juno preserved his genetic material by inserting it into human DNA in order to create the Sages. By this means, Aita has been reincarnated in a series of humans over the millennia, each Sage echoing his physical appearance and his opinions concerning the inferiority of the human race. Aita's goal is to manifest Juno in physical form so that they may be reunited.
