Memento Mori
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Memento Mori is a memory in The Da Vinci Disappearance downloadable content pack for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
Description
Upon returning from Ferrara, Ezio journeys to the Vaticano district in Rome to search for the da Vinci painting possessed by an old lover of Lucrezia Borgia, Patrizio. On arrival, Ezio witnessed a brief meeting between Patrizio and a Hermeticist. He quietly tailed the men to discover the location of the painting he sought.
Dialogue
The Tail
Ezio arrives at the Vaticano district in time to witness a meeting between Patrizio and one of the robed disciples.
- Patrizio: You are here for the painting?
- Hermeticist: Yes, Patrizio.
Both men leave the area, heading towards the location of the painting. Ezio follows.
- Patrizio: That puttana (whore) sent it to me as a present. I want it out of my house.
- Hermeticist: We will be glad to add it to our collection. As agreed, the Master waits at your palazzo to take it off your hands.
- Patrizio: She thought I would be pleased with such a gift? After she married another man?
- Hermeticist: The ways of men and women are strange, but Hermes teaches us that through careful study, both may be brought to harmony.
- Patrizio: Doubtless, one such as Lucrezia has never crossed your path.
The men meet an obstacle in their way, and must alter their path to Patrizio's palazzo.
- Patrizio: What is it? What's going on?
- Hermeticist: Damned peasants!
- Patrizio: Come with me.
The Talk
The men arrive at Patrizio's palazzo and meet with the Hermeticist leader, Ercole Massimo.
- Ercole: You will complete the sale?
- Patrizio: Of course. That woman used false passion to seduce me. The error lies in her Spanish blood, I know it.
- Ercole: Such unthruths you so carefully utter, based on little more than a name. These countries, these groups, make such easy targets for the lazy and ignorant.
- Patrizio: You should tell her that, the high and mighty Duchessa (Duchess). Puttana! (Whore!) I have changed my mind. That painting does not deserve to belong to anyone.
Patrizio's death.
Patrizio takes the painting from its easel and slams it on the ground. Ercole's disciple plunges a dagger through Patrizio's back, killing him almost instantly.
- Ercole: Take the painting and examine it for clues. Be careful. Human hands aided by a fierce intelligence made that. Treat it with respect. Go!
The disciple leaves with the painting. Ezio swiftly follows.
Outcome
Patrizio is murdered by the Hermeticits and his painting is taken. Ezio chases one of the disciples across the Vaticano district, eventually assassinating him and acquiring the painting.
Trivia
- To achieve full synchronization, the player must not use the rooftops while tailing Patrizio.
- "Memento Mori" is latin for "Remember that you will die" or (less literally) "Remember that you are mortal".