Angkor

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Angkor

Angkor was the capital city of the Khmer Empire. It was also the rumored location of an Isu temple containing Pieces of Eden, which caused various parties, including the Assassins and Templars, to seek out the lost city in the early 18th century.

History

At some point prior to 1725, Hendrik, a navigator for the Dutch East India Company, found Angkor during a company expedition in the jungles of Indochina and wrote down its location and other valuable information about the site in his personal sea log, which he then encrypted using a special cipher. Upon becoming stationed in Macau, Hendrik sought to find a way to return to Angkor and approached the Qing merchant Madam Lee to ask her to sponsor an expedition to the lost city, but she turned him down.

Around this time, both the Assassins and Templars learned about Angkor and its alleged treasure and sought to find the lost city. After the West Indies Brotherhood of Assassins intercepted an East India Company ship and recovered a document mentioning Angkor, referred to by the locals as the "Lost City" or the "Territory of Those Who Came Before", an Assassin met with Edward Kenway in London on 24 December 1724 to pass along the information and request a detailed investigation. Edward subsequently departed for Macau to search for leads to Angkor's location, arriving in the city in February 1725.

Meanwhile, the Templar-affiliated Shimazu clan in Japan dispatched Shimazu Saito and her mixed-blood subordinates, alongside a faction of Japanese ninja led by Fuma Sukuna, to find Angkor and retrieve its treasure for the Templars. Arriving in Macau around the same time as Edward, Saito and her followers attempted to silence everyone who knew about Angkor to maintain the site's existence secret, including Hendrik and his friend and fellow navigator John Young, who had stolen Hendrik's story and was bragging about his alleged discovery. While Saito's ninja killed Hendrik, John was protected by Edward and subsequently teamed up with the Assassin to find Angkor by retrieving Hendrik's sea log, which had been purchased by Madam Lee.

After managing to steal Hendrik's sea log during an attack on Madam Lee's estate, the Mandarin's House, but losing its cipher to Edward, Saito gave the log to the businessman Sun in exchange for his protection of the Templar's subordinates. Unable to find anyone to decode the log without the cipher, Sun reached out to his nephew Xiao Han, Mentor of the Chinese Assassins, who was familiar with the language used to encrypt the log. After learning about Sun's plan to gift Angkor's treasure to the Qing Emperor, Xiao Han killed him and seized the log, intending to use the Piece of Eden in Angkor to overthrow the Qing dynasty. The Chinese Assassins subsequently formed an alliance with Madam Lee to find Angkor and retrieve its treasure.

Meanwhile, Edward managed to secure a partnership with Saito, who had been branded a traitor by the Shimazu clan, and recruited her into his organization, the Zhang Wei Union, following the deaths of all of her subordinates at the hands of Fuma Sukuna's ninja. Using the cipher to Hendrik's sea log in Edward's possession and Saito's memory of the log's contents, they were able to learn that Hendrik had been following up on Ferdinand Magellan's trail to find Angkor and decided to do the same, sailing to the Philippines.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple (mentioned only)