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Prehistory
1923 Isu Era
During the War of Unification, the Isu scientist Consus created the firstShroud of Eden to treat casualties of the war. He later transferred his consciousness into the Shroud in a desperate bid to escape death, but became trapped within his own creation.[1]
The Isu Seth killed his brother Osiris. Overwhelmed by grief, Osiris' partner Isis used the Ankh to revive him for one night, during which they conceived their son Horus.[6]
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The Isu Hades abducted Persephone and forced her to become his wife, with the consent of his brother Jupiter.[9][10] He imprisoned Persephone in an area of the Underworld that she reshaped as Elysium, which Hades allowed her to rule alongside her friend Hekate.[11][12]
The Sister Realms were formed between Atlantis, ruled by Poseidon; the Underworld, ruled by Hades; and Elysium, ruled by Persephone.[11]
Circa 2223 Isu Era, Juno recovered the prototype Shroud of Eden which housed the consciousness of its creator, Consus.[14]
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Poseidon granted Juno and her husband Aita access to Atlantis, where they secretly started the Olympos Project, in which they experimented on humans and created monstrosities.[15] Poseidon banished them from the city back to Feyan and outlawed human experimentation in Atlantis.[16][17][18]
A summit was held by the Sister Realms through a delegation of Atlantean embassies regarding the findings of Atlantis' Solar Dynamics Observatory and the threat of solar instability. Hades was the only leader to attend, but embraced the prospect of annihilation.[19]
Poseidon, on the advice of his dikastesAletheia, destroyed the city of Atlantis due to recurring upheaval and friction between its Isu and human populations, by sinking it into the ocean.[16]
Humanity rose up in rebellion against the Isu, starting the Human-Isu War,[21] with Eve as their leader.[22] The Isu Saturn, Juno's father, was one of the first victims of the conflict.[23]
The Father of Understanding Jupiter, the Mother of Wisdom Juno, and the Sacred Voice Minerva retreated to the Grand Temple to find a solution from the impending solar flare, ultimately trying six unsuccessful options.[24][25][26]
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Balor defeated Cú Chulainn but was struck by Cú's spearGae Bolg, which became lodged into his back. Later, the Isu Odin faced Balor in combat and claimed the Gae Bolg following his victory.[27]
Odin imprisoned Fenrir, the son of Loki and Aletheia, after it was calculated that Fenrir would kill Odin during the impending catastrophe.[28]
Baldr, the son of Odin, was poisoned with mistletoe by Loki in retaliation for Fenrir's imprisonment[29] and captured by the Muspels under the command of Surtr,[30] who later executed him.[31]
After learning of Loki's crimes, Odin had him arrested[32] and imprisoned in a vault underneath what would become the fortress of Alamut. Enduring physical and psychological torture at the hands of the prison's guards,[33] Loki eventually escaped and began plotting his revenge.[34]
Aita volunteered as a test subject in an experiment to transfer Isu consciousness into human bodies, though his mind swiftly deteriorated.[35][25]
Juno developed a seventh solution to escape annihilation, a serum that would allow the Isu to be reborn as humans. Due to worries concerning the pollution of the human genome, the solution was abandoned by Jupiter and Minerva and the serum was locked away.[36]
With Juno's aid, Odin stole the serum of the seventh solution in order to survive the impending catastrophe. Using the serum,[36] Juno secretly added samples of Aita's genetic code into the human DNA, allowing him to be reborn in humans as Sages,[37] after which she agreed to end his suffering.[25][37]Vejovis also took advantage of a similar method to develop Sages of his own self.[38]
Juno secretly tampered with the Eye built by Minerva to prevent humanity from inheriting the Earth. After her treachery[25] and role in Odin's theft of the serum[36] were discovered, the High Council stripped her of her title,[39] before Minerva and Jupiter imprisoned her consciousness inside the Grand Temple.[25]
After being gravely injured while attempting to steal the serum from Asgard,[40] Loki helped Aletheia upload her consciousness into the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, hoping for the two of them to reunite after the impending catastrophe.[41][42]
2306 Isu Era (c. 75,000 BCE)
Earth after the Great Catastrophe
Minerva made preparations for another solution involving the global aurora borealis device to be tried during the next solar cycle, hoping that it would be successful without Juno's influence.[25]
A solar flare struck the Earth, exterminating most of the Earth's population;[43] less than 10,000 humans, and far fewer members of the Isu, survived the catastrophe.[24]
As the Great Catastrophe struck the Earth, Odin, Týr, Thor, Freyja, Idun, Frey, Sif, and Heimdall used the serum to upload their DNA into the supercomputer Yggdrasil to be incarnated as humans in future generations, before meeting their inevitable doom. Loki killed Heimdall before he could leave Yggdrasil's chamber and secretly used the serum to be incarnated as well.[44]
In the wake of the Great Catastrophe, humanity and the Isu started working together to rebuild civilization.[43] The Isu influenced human civilizations' early stages and would subsequently come to be revered as gods by the humans.[43][45]
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Adam and Eve's son Cain slew his younger brother Abel to steal Abel's Apple of Eden. Cain was later believed to have been the first precursor to the Order of the Knights Templar.[46]
Tutankhamun giving his father's Apple of Eden to the priests of Amun
Pharaoh Tutankhamun restored the religion of the Egyptian gods discarded by his father Akhenaten, and passed his father's Apple of Eden to the priests of Amun to maintain order and justice for the Egyptian people.[48]
13th century BC
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The Trojan War started due to an Apple of Eden, later believed to have been caused by the Isu Eris.[52] The war saw the rise and fall of many famous heroes, including Achilles and Paris.[21] Greek commander Agamemnon would later be revered by the Cult of Kosmos as a "servant of Kosmos".[47]
The Siege of Dapur took place, with Pharaoh Ramesses II besieging the Syrian city of Dapur held by the Hittie Empire. Ramesses, guided by the priests of Amun in possession of an Apple of Eden, emerged victorious.[48]
11th century BC
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David, who went on to become King of Israel, used the power of a Shroud of Eden to aid him in combat against the giant Philistine warrior Goliath.[21]
10th-6th century BC
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An ancient city in Rajasthan, India, became irradiated by the powers of a Piece of Eden, though it was later believed to have been caused by an atomic blast.[21]
8th century BC
714 BC
Shabataka started his reign as Pharaoh of Egypt. During his reign, he was in possession of a Staff of Eden.[21]
6th century BC
522 BC
September:Darius I claimed the throne of Persia from the usurper Bardiya with aid from the Order of the Ancients.[45]
515 BC
King Liao of Wu was killed by Zhuan Zhu, who would later be remembered as one of the "Five Great Assassins" by Sima Qian.[53]
5th century BC
500 BC
Pythagoras, a Greek scholar and descendant of the Isu, established the religious movement of Pythagoreanism,[54] otherwise known as the Cult of Hermes.[55]
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Pythagoras and Kyros parting ways
Pythagoras and his assistant Kyros of Zarax met Hermes Trismegistus in a remote desert, where Pythagoras was entrusted with Hermes' Staff of Eden, which would prolong his life.[56]
Kyros of Zarax won a race against Atalanta, daughter of King Iasius of Arkadia, using the Apple of Eden, winning her hand in marriage.[56]
The Cult of Kosmos was formed after a number of disillusioned followers of the Cult of Hermes decided to form their own splinter-group. In time, the Cult of Kosmos shifted its goal toward taking over the Greek world.[55]
August: The Protectors of Persia set up a road ambush for Xerxes I, an ally of the Order of the Ancients. Their leader Darius personally killed Xerxes in what became the first recorded use of the Hidden Blade, an act that would later cause Darius to be considered one of the earliest Assassins.[57][21]
Darius' assassination of Xerxes I
Darius tried to assassinate Xerxes' successor Artaxerxes I, to prevent him from falling under the Order of the Ancients' influence, but was stopped by his former ally Amorges, who had joined the Order to bring peace to Persia. Hunted by the Order, Darius and his family fled Persia, but only Darius and his son Natakas survived and successfully evaded their pursuers.[57]
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The Order of the Ancients planned to assassinate King Artaxerxes I after he refused to fall under their sway, and framed Darius for the attack.[57] However, the assassination failed, merely leaving Artaxerxes blind and on the run.[47]
A group of Order of the Ancients members led by Ianthe attempted to retrieve an Isu dagger once wielded by Vejovis from a hidden vault on Kephallonia. Unable to access the vault, Ianthe hired the mercenary Cadmus, who was secretly a Sage of Vejovis, to recover the dagger, only to betray him afterwards and steal the artifact while leaving Cadmus trapped inside the vault.[38]
Cadmus escaped from the Kephallonia vault and pursued Ianthe and his accomplices, killing the Ancient and recovering Vejovis' dagger. After the blade was broken into two pieces, an Order member fled with one half of the dagger while Cadmus kept the other half and later hid it away.[38]
451 BC
Myrrine, the daughter of King Leonidas, gave her daughter Kassandra the Isu artifact her father once possessed, which would come to be known as the Spear of Leonidas.[47]
Kassandra being dropped to her "death" by Nikolaos
The Cult of Kosmos influenced the Oracle of DelphiPraxithea to prophesize that King Leonidas' grandson, Alexios, would bring about the fall of Sparta. After Alexios was thrown off Mount Taygetos, and his sister Kassandra was presumed dead, the Cult kidnapped Alexios to raise as their weapon.[47]
Kassandra met and befriended Ikaros, the golden eagle once owned by Pythagoras, who became her lifelong companion. She later fled to Kephallonia, where she was taken in by the merchant Markos. Under Markos' care, Kassandra would grow up to become a misthios renowned as the "Eagle Bearer."[47]
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Alexios, now known as "Deimos", gained more influence within the Cult of Kosmos and leadership slowly shifted towards him. Aspasia, the lover of the Athenian leader Perikles and the Cult's leader, became disillusioned with the Cult and started devising ways to bring them down.[47]
431 BC
The Peloponnesian War started between the Greek states of Athens and Sparta, secretly orchestrated by the Cult of Kosmos as part of their efforts to take control of the Greek world.[47]
Kephallonia was freed from the tyrannical rule of the crime lord known as the "Cyclops" by Kassandra, who killed the Cyclops.[47]
Kassandra befriended the naval captain Barnabas after saving him from the Cyclops, and assumed command of his ship, the Adrestia.[47]
Kassandra accepted a contract from the Cultist of Kosmos Elpenor to kill her step-father, the Spartan general Nikolaos. After helping the Spartans win the Battle of Megara, she ultimately chose to spare Nikolaos despite him attempting to kill her as a child.[47]
Kassandra killed Elpenor for manipulating her, and discovered the existence of the Cult of Kosmos.[47]
Kassandra and Alexios discovering each other's identities
The Cult of Kosmos held a meeting in the Sanctuary of Kosmos beneath the Sanctuary of Delphi. Kassandra secretly attended and discovered that her brother Alexios lived and was serving the Cult as Deimos, through a shared memory displayed by an artifact known as the Pyramid.[47]
Kassandra relocated to Athens with the help of Herodotos, and became acquianted with Perikles, Sokrates, Alkibiades, and Aspasia, unaware of the latter's Cultist affiliations.[47]
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Kassandra started a search for her mother Myrrine, hoping to reunite her family and find out more about her family's lineage that the Cult of Kosmos was interested in.[47]
During her travels throughout Greece, Kassandra dismantled the Cult of Kosmos' hierarchy and influence over the states of Athens and Sparta by killing their high-ranking members.[47]
430 BC
Kassandra took down the Monger, a Cultist of Kosmos who had taken over the city of Korinth. During the attempt, she met and allied herself with the Spartan general Brasidas.[47]
429 BC
Kassandra returned to Athens in the midst of a plague. She tried to find her friend Phoibe who was out on an errand for Aspasia, but Phoibe was killed by the Cult of Kosmos.[47]
The Athenian leader Perikles was abducted by the Cult of Kosmos and executed by Alexios. Perikles' rival, the Cultist Kleon, became the new leader of Athens.[47]
Kassandra smuggled Aspasia out of Athens to escape the Cult of Kosmos, with aid from Sokrates and Hippokrates.[47]
Kassandra and Myrrine's reunion
Kassandra reunited with her mother Myrrine on Naxos Island after a 22-year separation, using information she received from Aspasia. Alongside Myrrine, she helped stop the threat Paros Island imposed on Naxos and killed the Cultist Silanos.[47]
While hiding from the Order of the Ancients in Makedonia, Darius encountered a group of mercenaries seeking to join Kassandra's crew, and worked with them to rescue Natakas after he was captured by the Order.[58]
The Order of the Ancients attacked the village of Potidaia to lure Kassandra into an ambush. Meeting and allying herself with Darius and Natakas, Kassandra stopped the Order's attack and dismantled their influence in Makedonia.[57]
Kassandra, Darius, and Natakas killed Pactyas, Darius' former ally and the leader of the Order of Hunters within the Order of the Ancients. Darius and Natakas parted ways with Kassandra as they left Makedonia to hide from the Order once more.[57]
Kassandra travelled to Thera and discovered the Gateway to the Lost City, the entrance to the ancient Isu city of Atlantis, where she met her biological father, Pythagoras. Through him, she started a search for the four Atlantis artifacts that would open the Gateway.[47]
Myrrine and Kassandra relocated to their former home in Sparta and reintegrated themselves into Spartan society.[47]
428 BC
The Olympic Games of 428 BC took place. Kassandra represented Sparta as its champion after the death of Testikles and won, allowing her to get close to the Pankration judge and Cultist Kallias and kill him.[47]
427 BC
Kassandra helped her step-brother Stentor conquer Boeotia for Sparta. In the process, she dispatched the region's four champions Drakon, Deianeira, Aristaios, and Nesaia, with the assistance of her stepfather Nikolaos.[47]
426 BC
Kassandra exposing King Pausanias' treachery
Pausanias, King of Sparta alongside Archidamos, was dethroned and imprisoned after Kassandra exposed his affiliation with the Cult of Kosmos.[47]
Kassandra reunited with Darius and Natakas in Dyme and discovered that Phila, the leader of the Order of the Storm within the Order of the Ancients, had set up a naval blockade around Achaia.[57]
Kassandra and Darius confronted Phila, resulting in her death, and took down the Order of the Storm. They subsequently settled down in Dyme, where Kassandra and Natakas had a son, Elpidios.[57]
The Order of the Ancients led by Amorges attacked Dyme, killing Natakas and taking his and Kassandra's son Elpidios captive.[57]
425 BC
Kassandra killed the Ancient Gergis, from whom she learned of the alliance between the Order of the Ancients and the Cult of Kosmos.[57]
Kassandra and Darius confronting Amorges
Kassandra and Darius confronted Amorges in Messenia, where they killed Darius' former comrade and stopped the Order of the Ancients' plans in Greece.[57]
Kassandra and Darius recovered Elpidios from Prince Darius II south of Messenia. At Kassandra's request, Darius took Elpidios to Egypt, where they settled down, and their descendants would eventually give rise to the Hidden Ones.[57]
Summer: The Battle of Pylos was fought between Athens and Sparta. The battle resulted in an Athenian victory, and Kassandra was taken captive when she was defeated in combat by Alexios.[47]
424 BC
During her imprisonment, Kassandra learned of Kleon's affiliation with the Cult of Kosmos and conversed with her brother Alexios. She later escaped with the help of her friends Barnabas and Sokrates.[47]
Kassandra formed a resistance to Kleon's rule over Athens comprised of Barnabas, Sokrates, Hippokrates, Alkibiades, Herodotos, and Aristophanes, which became known as the Periklean Circle.[47]
422 BC
The Battle of Amphipolis was fought between Athens and Sparta. On the battlefield, the Spartan commander Brasidas was killed by Alexios and the Athenian leader Kleon was killed by Kassandra.[47]
Kassandra killing Alexios
August: Alexios was killed by his sister Kassandra during a confrontation with her and their mother Myrrine atop Mount Taygetos.[47]
After eliminating the Cult of Kosmos, Kassandra returned to the Sanctuary of Kosmos to confront the Cult's leader, whom she discovered to be Aspasia. Explaining her ambitions to achieve world peace and find a philosopher king, Aspasia was spared by Kassandra, who destroyed the Cult's Pyramid.[47]
Kassandra defeated the Writhing Dread, Minotaur, and Brontes the Cyclops, and passed the Sphinx's riddles to acquire all four Atlantis artifacts, with which she activated the Gateway to the Lost City.[47]
Instructed by a message from Aletheia, Pythagoras relinquished the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to Kassandra. Without the artifact's powers extending his lifespan, Pythagoras passed away.[47]
Aletheia began to communicate with Kassandra through the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus and tasked her to find three symbols intended for the "Heir of Memories."[59]
Kassandra explored simulations of Elysium, the Underworld, and Atlantis created by Aletheia using heavily modified memories of her time as dikastes in order to help Kassandra better understand the powers and importance of the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. Afterwards, Aletheia officially appointed Kassandra as the new Keeper of the Staff.[11]
420 BC
After six months spent at a holiday resort on Korfu, Kassandra was found by her friends Barnabas and Herodotos, who had organized a treasure hunt to re-awaken her spirit of adventure.[60]
Kassandra eliminated a group of pirates who had found an Apple of Eden hidden on Korfu by a treasure hunter centuries prior. The Apple interacted with the Spear of Leonidas in Kassandra's possession, permanently de-powering it.[61]
The Apple of Eden de-powering the Spear of Leonidas
Barnabas found the Apple of Eden, becoming corrupted by it, and was saved by Kassandra, who freed him from the artifact's control and destroyed it.[62]
Aletheia tasked Kassandra to find and destroy other dangerous Pieces of Eden across the globe.[63] Kassandra begrudgingly accepted her new mission, and departed Greece with Barnabas and Ikaros after bidding farewell to Herodotos, to whom she gifted the depowered Spear of Leonidas.[64]
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Barnabas and Ikaros passed away, leaving Kassandra to continue her journey alone.[47] She developed very anti-social behavior as a result, choosing to focus entirely on her mission from Aletheia and avoid social interactions as much as possible.[65]
405 BC
After the decisive Battle of Aegospotami, Kassandra headed to Delos to tighten Sparta's stranglehold on the island, and eliminated two Athenian commanders who were setting up a shipment to offer relief to Athens.[66]
Kassandra reunited with her old friend Odessa, who informed her that Odysseus' Bow was hidden on Delos and told her how to access the temple where the artifact was kept. This allowed Kassandra to retrieve the bow.[66]
404 BC
Critias, leader of the Thirty Tyrants that governed Athens, sought the help of Kassandra to assassinate fellow statesman Theramenes for his own political gain. Kassandra refused and was branded an enemy of Athens, while Theramenes later died after being poisoned by Critias.[66]
Kassandra allied with Nikomedes, Theramenes' former adjutant, and killed the Viper, an informant working for Critias, during a party held at Critias' estate in Athens.[66]
403 BC
The Battle of Munychia was fought between the forces of the Thirty Tyrants led by Critias and the exiled Athenians led by Thrasybulus, after the latter captured the Munychia Fort with the help of Kassandra. Critias was killed by Kassandra during the battle, resulting in the Thirty Tyrants' defeat and the end of their rule over Athens.[66]
June 13: Alexander the Great died after having been fatally poisoned by Iltani, who would retroactively be honored as a legendary Assassin.[21] Though Iltani attempted to obtain his Staff of Eden,[67] Alexander would be interred with it in a tomb in Alexandria.[49]
The Prongs of the Trident of Eden held by Alexander the Great held were divided after his death. His generals Ptolemy I Soter and Seleucus I Nicator received the Faith and Fear Prongs, respectively, while the Devotion Prong was sent to Macedonia.[68]
3rd century BC
227 BC
Jing Ke's attempted assassination of King Zheng of Qin
Jing Ke attempted to assassinate King Zheng of Qin, who was supported by the Order of the Ancients, but failed and was killed during the attempt. He was posthumously remembered as one of the "Five Great Assassins" by Sima Qian.[53]
September 10: Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China previously known as King Zheng of Qin, was killed by Wei Yu with a spearnamed after the late Jing Ke, ending the emperor's tyranny over China. Wei Yu would later be honored as a legendary Assassin for this act.[21]
2nd century BC
196 BC
A granodiorite stele, later known as the Rosetta Stone, was inscribed with a decree issued in Memphis on behalf of Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes, as a result of Greek and ethnic Egyptian tensions. It also contained sensitive information concerning what would later be known as the Assassin Brotherhood.[70]
1st century BC
70 BC
The MedjaySabu of Siwa left his home to go on the run from the mercenary Bion, who had been hired by the Order of the Ancients member Raia to eradicate the Medjay bloodline.[71]
Sabu's son Bayek left Siwa to search for his father and traveled to Zawty to find the messenger who had warned Sabu about Bion. In Zawty, Bayek was reunited with his lover Aya and befriended the street urchin Tuta, both of whom decided to accompany him on his journey.[71]
Bayek, Aya, and Tuta traveled to Thebes, where they met up with Bayek's childhood friend Kensa and planned to eliminate the grave robber Menna, who had broken into Bayek's home years prior and captured Kensa's companion Neka. With the help of Neka's brother Seti, the group rescued Neka before Bayek and Kensa chased and killed Menna.[71]
Bayek, Aya, and Kensa went to the island of Yebu after hearing rumors that Sabu was being held prisoner there, but fell into a trap set by the local militia. They escaped after an encounter with Bion and ran into Sabu, who explained to his son the reason behind his mysterious disappearance.[71]
Bayek and Aya went on the run from Bion alongside Sabu, during which time Sabu trained his son in the ways of the Medjay, and he in turn trained Aya.[71]
56 BC
Aya left Bayek and Sabu to return to Siwa and tend to her sick aunt Herit, but was attacked by horse thieves on the way. She was saved by Bion, which inadvertently allowed the mercenary to find Bayek and Sabu's hideout and attack them. Sabu sacrificed himself to protect his son by pushing him into a river, effectively leaving Bayek as the last Medjay of Egypt.[71]
Bayek was rescued from the river and nursed back to health by villagers and returned to Siwa, where he, Aya, and his mother Ahmose fought and killed Bion in their home. Before dying, Bion revealed the Ancient Raia to be his employer.[71]
Bayek tracked Raia to his home in Alexandria and assassinated him, but remained unaware of the latter's affiliations.[71]
49 BC
Bayek and Khemu held hostage by the Order of the Ancients
Masked members of the Order of the Ancients abducted Bayek and his son Khemu in Siwa, in an attempt to obtain information about the Isu vault located there, resulting in Khemu's death.[49]
Bayek temporarily abandoned his Medjay duties to start a quest for vengeance against the Order of the Ancients, sending him on a journey across Egypt.[49]
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, under the influence of the Order of the Ancients, banished his sister Queen Cleopatra from Alexandria to become the sole ruler of Egypt.[49]
48 BC
Rudjek, one of the masked Ancients who had abducted Bayek and Khemu, was killed by Bayek in the Bent Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.[49]
Bayek returned to Siwa, where he exacted revenge on the false Oracle of Siwa and Order of the Ancients member Medunamun, and acquired the Order's Apple of Eden.[49]
Bayek reunited with his wife Aya in Alexandria, where she gifted him the Hidden Blade once owned by Darius, which she had received from Queen Cleopatra. Bayek then assassinated the phylakitaiGennadios to prevent him from arresting Aya for the murders of the Ancients Actaeon and Ktesos.[49]
The Royal Scribe Eudoros, a member of the Order of the Ancients, was killed by Bayek inside the Bathhouse of Alexandria. During the assassination attempt, Bayek accidentally amputated his ring finger when his Hidden Blade was unintentionally activated.[49]
Bayek and Aya met with Queen Cleopatra at Apollodorus' Estate, where she informed them of more Order of the Ancients members at large: Taharqa, Khaliset, Hetepi, and Berenike. Bayek traveled across Egypt to find and eliminate them, hoping to achieve vengeance for the death of his son Khemu.[49]
September 28: Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was killed by Lucius Septimius, a member of the Order of the Ancients, to prevent an alliance between him and Queen Cleopatra.[49]
Cleopatra forming an alliance with Julius Caesar
Bayek, Aya, and Apollodorus smuggled Cleopatra into Alexandria to allow her a meeting with Roman general Gaius Julius Caesar, who subsequently chose her over her brother Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII for an alliance.[49]
Aya infiltrated and opened the door to the Tomb of Alexander the Great to help Cleopatra impress Julius Caesar. This allowed Caesar's ally Flavius Metellus, a Roman general and leader of the Order of the Ancients, to take Alexander the Great's Staff of Eden.[49]
47 BC
February:
The Battle of the Nile was fought between the forces of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and those belonging to Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Ptolemy was killed by crocodiles while attempting to escape and his advisor, the Ancient Pothinus, was killed by Bayek.[49]
Julius Caesar, under the sway of the Order of the Ancients, prevented Bayek from killing the Ancient Lucius Septimius during the Battle of the Nile.[49]
Cleopatra became the new ruler of Egypt, under the influence of the Order of the Ancients through her ally Julius Caesar.[49]
Bayek and Aya formed a secret group consisting of Tahira, Phanos the Younger, Phoxidas, and Pasherenptah in opposition of Cleopatra's rule, believing her to have betrayed Egypt by siding with the Order of the Ancients.[49]
The formation of the Hidden Ones
Flavius Metellus killed Apollodorus to recover the Order's Apple of Eden. He and Lucius Septimius then used the Apple and Alexander the Great's Staff of Eden to open the door to the Siwa Vault, killing Bayek's friend Hepzefa when he tried to stop them.[49]
Bayek killed Flavius Metellus in Cyrene, where the latter had used the Apple of Eden to enthrall the population and be appointed proconsul. Having achieved vengeance for Khemu's death, Bayek retrieved the Apple and hid it away.[49]
Bayek and Aya agreed to part ways and named their brotherhood the Hidden Ones, vowing to spread its influence throughout both Egypt and Rome and oppose the Order of the Ancients.[49]
The priest Menkhtu, a former follower of Medunamun, allied with the remnants of the Order of the Ancients in Egypt to form the Sect of the Ibis Reborn, seeking to take control of the country. As they attempted to access an Isu complex under the Great Pyramid of Giza, Menkhtu and his followers were killed by the Hidden Ones, putting an end to their plans.[72]
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The Ancient Habibah was assassinated by the Hidden One and Vejovis' Sage Khepri inside the Temple of Philae. Khepri then retrieved one of the blades of Vejovis' dagger from Habibah's personal effects and brought it to Mesopotamia, where she had been tasked to establish a Hidden Ones bureau.[38]
44 BC
The assassination of Julius Caesar
March 15:
Lucius Septimius, a Roman soldier and member of the Order of the Ancients, was killed by the Hidden One Aya in combat at the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.[49]
Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic and figurehead of the Order of the Ancients, was killed during a Roman Senatorial meeting at the Theatre of Pompey by the Hidden Ones Aya, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and at least 40 other Roman Senators.[49]
March:
Marcus Antonius rallied Rome's citizens against Julius Caesar's assassins and captured Aya, who managed to escape with the help of Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. After a fight against Antonius and his followers, the Hidden Ones decided to spare Antonius' life and allowed him to leave.[73]
Brutus and Cassius fled Rome and went into hiding to avoid retribution from Marcus Antonius and the other supporters of Julius Caesar. The former traveled to Krete, where he established a fledgling Hidden Ones branch to fight the island's tyrants.[73]
As the newly-founded Roman Hidden Ones continued to grow, Aya became their Mentor and abandoned her birth name, adopting the new identity of "Amunet."[49]
42 BC
October 23: Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide when nearly defeated by Marcus Antonius and Octavian,[56] the new leader of the Order of the Ancients,[74] at the Battle of Philippi. The other Hidden Ones,[56] including Publius Volumnius,[75] only temporarily managed to revive Brutus with their Shroud of Eden.[56]
38 BC
Roman general Gaius Julius Rufio, a member of the Order of the Ancients, conspired to conquer the Sinai Peninsula as a starting point to take Egypt from Cleopatra's control.[74]
The Mentor Bayek assassinated the Ancients Tacito, Ptahmose, and Ampelius in the Sinai, to aid the local Hidden Ones bureau led by Tahira.[74]
The Sinai bureau of the Hidden Ones was attacked and destroyed by Gaius Julius Rufio's forces, and Bayek and Tahira were taken captive. Amunet rescued Bayek, and the pair later saved Tahira from Fort Clostra, though she soon died from the injuries she had sustained.[74]
Bayek and Amunet laying the foundations of the Hidden Ones' Creed
Gaius Julius Rufio was assassinated by Bayek aboard his personal octareme off the coast of the Sinai, shortly after the Roman general's fleet had arrived in Egypt.[74]
Sinai resistance leader Gamilat was killed by his former ally, Bayek, after the latter discovered that Gamilat had deceived the population of the Sinai to rally them against the Romans. Gamilat's actions later inspired Bayek to create the first tenet of the Hidden Ones' Creed: the prohibition of harming innocents.[74]
34 BC
The High Priestess and God's Wife of AmunIsidora used Akhenaten's Apple of Eden to create illusions of ancient pharaohs across Thebes, which would become known as the Curse of the Pharaohs, in retaliation against grave robbers who had killed her mother.[48]
At Amunet's request, Bayek investigated the Curse of the Pharaohs in Karnak. His investigation, aided by Isidora, Sutekh, Merti, and Tahemet, led him to explore illusions of Aaru, Aten, Heb Sed, and the Duat, where he defeated apparitions of Nefertiti, Akhenaten, Ramesses II, and Tutankhamun.[48]
Isidora was killed by Bayek in the Valley of the Kings after the Mentor discovered she was behind the Curse of the Pharaohs. He subsequently passed her Apple of Eden on to Sutekh, a descendant of Ramesses II, and trusted him to keep it safe.[48]
Sutekh died in the Waset Desert after having seemingly fallen prey to cobras in the Cobra Oasis, and his Apple of Eden mysteriously vanished.[48]
30 BC
Amunet giving Cleopatra the poison she used to take her life
August 12:
Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt and a former ally of the Order of the Ancients, was persuaded by her former friend Amunet to give up resistance against Octavian's Roman forces and use poison to take her own life.[73] Amunet would later be honored as a legendary Assassin who had killed Cleopatra with an asp.[21]
Amunet escaped Alexandria amidst the Roman army's attack on the city with Cleopatra's son Caesarion, whom she promised to take in as a Hidden One.[73]
The Hidden Ones held their final synod in Alexandria, presided over by Amunet. One of the attending Hidden Ones would later record the event in a document that became known as The Magas Codex.[76]
1st century
Unknown
John the Baptist, using a Staff of Eden, started a religious movement with baptism as its central symbol.[21]
Jesus of Nazareth, wielder of a Shroud of Eden, was crucified by the Order of the Ancients, who proceeded to take possession of the artifact.[21] On his way to his crucifixion in Golgotha, Jesus was met by a Sage known as the Wanderer.[70]
James, son of Zebedee, one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles and alleged owner of a Staff of Eden, passed away. The Staff would subsequently be broken into three pieces.[77]
41
January 24: The Roman EmperorCaligula, who was affiliated with the Order of the Ancients, was killed by the Hidden One Leonius using a dagger. For this act, Leonius would later be honored as a legendary Assassin.[21]
Governor Verus of Roman Britain was assassinated by the Acolyte Anicius, after the Hidden Ones' pleas to Verus and Emperor Domitian to support citizenship for the Iceni were ignored.[79]
2nd century
122
Caius, a Hidden One working on a contract from the Londinium bureau, attempted to assassinate Roman Emperor Hadrian, but was captured and killed.[79]
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Unknown
A group of Hidden Ones calling themselves the Liberalis Circulum began operating throughout the territories of the Roman Empire, under the leadership of Lugos. While attempting to transport two Pieces of Eden – the Ankh and the Scepter of Aset – from Egypt to Rome, Lugos' ship sank due to a storm and he perished.[6]
164
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius agreed to cease hostilities in Britannia and retreat south of the Antonine Wall after motions from the Hidden Ones. MasterEghan of the Hidden Ones was sent to oversee the retreat to verify Aurelius kept his word.[79]
3rd century
211
February 4: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus died after having been fatally poisoned by Khloe, a Magister of the Hidden Ones, inside his villa in Eboracum.[79]
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259
The Hidden One Aquilus, a member of the Liberalis Circulum, was taken captive by Romans under command of general Gracchus.[80] An army of Alemanni soldiers, led by Aquilus' cousin and fellow Hidden One Accipiter, defeated the Roman legion and saved Aquilus.[81]
Aquilus acquired the Ankh from Accipiter and transported it to his family's villa in Lugdunum, where his father Lucius tasked him with the assassination of the local bishop Faustinus, who had betrayed the Liberalius Circulum.[81]
Roman senator Caïus Fulvus Vultur, a member of the Order of the Ancients, killed Lucius and his servant Weke to obtain the Ankh,[81] and brought it with him to Rome.[6]
Caïus Fulvus Vultur's death at Aquilus' hands
Aquilus killed Caïus Fulvus Vultur inside his villa in Rome, and took the Ankh back to his home in Lugdunum, where he watched a recording made by his father using the artifact.[6]
Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum to spare the city from being sacked by the Alemanni.[6]
Aquilus and his wife Valeria were captured by Roman soldiers and transported to be executed in Rodumna. Aquilus was killed by one of the soldiers when the convoy was ambushed by Accipiter, who rescued Valeria and trusted her to hide the Ankh.[6]
Unknown
The Bishop of Lutetia, Denis, discovered an Isu temple underneath the village of Catolacus and recovered an Apple of Eden, which he used to convert the population of Lutetia to Christianity. Following Denis' arrest and execution by the Romans, an unknown individual used the Apple to create a false memory of the bishop walking with his decapitated head to his final resting place in Catolacus,[82] which would later be renamed Saint-Denis in his honor.[70]
Denis' successor created a special lantern to house the bishop's Apple of Eden, which would come to be known as the Head of Saint Denis. After realizing that the artifact was negatively influencing him, the successor returned it to the Isu temple underneath Catolacus.[82]
Roman Emperor Theodosius I established the Church of Rome as the new state religion of the Roman Empire, and subsequently started the persecution of pagans. The Hidden One Teague subsequently assassinated the priests Vitus, Secunda, and Agapitus in Britannia.[79]
383
Magnus Maximus, proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops, retreated a large portion of the Roman army in Britannia to conquer Gaul.[79]
Marcellus, a Magister of the Hidden Ones, evacuated the Hidden Ones from the bureaus in Eboracum and Venta Belgarum following the Roman retreat from the north of Britannia, to avoid the hostility of the local population.[79]
5th century
423
The Hidden One Magister Vitus ordered the withdrawal of their faction from Britannia due to the collapse of the Roman Empire in western Europe and the threat of invading tribes, advising the Hidden Ones to retreat to the bureau in Cologne.[79]
434
Attila became leader of the Hunnic Empire. Utilizing a Sword of Eden named the Sword of Mars, Attila would become feared for his invasions of Europe.[21]
6th century
Unknown
King Arthur of Britain, a leader of the Order of the Ancients[84] and owner of a Sword of Eden called Excalibur,[21] died after having been betrayed by those he loved.[84]
Sigmund recovered a Sword of Eden called Gram from the tree Barnstokkr. The artifact was said to have been placed there by Odin.[21]
8th century
705
Empress Wu Zetian was overthrown in the Shenlong Revolution, ending her short-lived Zhou dynasty, and the Tang was restored. The Golden Turtles, the Chinese branch of the Order of the Ancients, were decimated and retreated into hiding.[85]
The jiedushi An Lushan dispelled accusations of treason and acquired sweeping new powers for his imminent rebellion by answering Emperor Xuanzong's summons and arriving in Chang'an during the Flower Banquet.[53]
The Hidden One Li E assassinated Right Chancellor Yang Guozhong's winning team at the Flower Banquet contest in retaliation for their massacre of Duling village.[53]
755
December: An Lushan established the Yeluohe and rebelled against the Tang dynasty from Fanyang in a secret bid to supplant Yang Guozhong as leader of the Order of the Ancients, beginning the devastating civil war known as the An-Shi Rebellion.[53]
756
January: An Lushan captured the Tang eastern capital of Luoyang. The Hidden One Li E and the Yan family of Changshan Commandery organized a counter-rebellion in the territories under Lushan's control, freeing Tumen Pass by assassinating three Yeluohe lieutenant generals.[53]
February: An Lushan declared himself emperor of the new state called the Yan.[53]
July:
The road to the Tang imperial capital of Chang'an was exposed after Tong Pass fell to Yan forces due to sabotage by Yang Guozhong, who caused the deaths of the Tang generals Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Geshu Han leading its defence.[53]
Chang'an fell to Yan forces. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his court fled, but a mutiny by their disaffected guards at Mawei Station led to the execution of his favourite consort Yang Guifei and Right Chancellor Yang Guozhong.[87]
757
Li E's assassination of An Lushan
January 29: An Lushan was assassinated by the Hidden One Li E.[88]
796
July 29: King Offa of Mercia, a member of the Order of the Ancients whose rapid territorial expansion paved the way for the unification of England, passed away and was succeeded by Ecgfrith of Mercia.[79]
9th century
804
May 19:Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxon scholar in service of Emperor Charlemagne of the Carolingian Empire, was killed after discovering the existence of the Order of the Ancients, likely on the orders of Charlemagne, himself a leader of the Order.[79]
819
A Persian harbor master was killed in Baghdad by one of his wives, Roshan, due to his mistreatment of her and his other spouses. Becoming a fugitive, Roshan found refuge in the House of Wisdom, where she befriended the Sudanese inventor Bakhit and accepted to work as his assistant.[89]
Bakhit was invited to work for the prince of Thatta, Pakistan, and moved there alongside Roshan. During the journey to Thatta, Roshan befriended one of the royal guards, Advi, and began training in combat and swordsmanship under him.[89]
822
Roshan was forced to flee Thatta after Bakhit's secret deals behind the prince's back were discovered. She was aided during her escape by Advi, who sacrificed himself to protect her from the guards.[89]
Roshan joined the traveling brothel of Maryam, one of Bakhit's former clients, where she worked as a bookkeeper and Maryam's bodyguard.[89]
823
During a stop in Tabriz, Roshan went to visit her family in her home village of Kandovan and learned of her sister Masha's problems, caused by her controlling husband, a Mongolian merchant named Bogd. With the help of Dervis, a master thief and one of Maryam's clients, Roshan discovered that Bogd owed money to loan sharks and risked losing all of his wives, including Masha.[89]
Roshan learned that the loan sharks Bogd was indebted to were the same people who financed Maryam and that they were planning to take over her brothel. Forced to end her work for Maryam, Roshan accepted an invite to work for Dervis after the two paid off Bogd's debts in exchange for him releasing Masha.[89]
During her work for Dervis, Roshan disabled numerous of Bakhit's deadly devices that she and Dervis had been hired to transport to their buyers.[89]
824
While residing in Fustat, Egypt, Roshan was framed for theft and imprisoned, but later managed to escape with the help of the Hidden One Fuladh Al Haami. Fuladh then recruited Roshan into a team of mercenaries he had assembled with the goal of recovering an artifact from the Martyrs of Agaunum, a cult working with the Order of the Ancients.[89]
Fuladh's mercenaries ambushed the Martyrs of Agaunum near the Sinai, but failed to recover the artifact due to being sabotaged by one of their own, Francis, who was secretly working with the Martyrs.[89]
Following the loss of two of their team members, Mared and Wei, Fuladh's mercenaries traveled to Karachi. After a series of strange incidents during the journey, Roshan, Azadeh and Nafanua began to suspect there was a traitor among them.[89]
In Karachi, Roshan was attacked by two of her fellow mercenaries, the twins Geir and Gud, but managed to escape by luring the brothers to a harem where they were killed by the guards.[89]
While tracking the Martyrs of Agaunum in Karachi, Fuladh's mercenaries were led into a trap by Francis but managed to survive and kill their attackers. Roshan correctly identified Francis as the traitor after discovering that he had poisoned Nafanua, and allowed him to escape so that he would lead them to the Martyrs.[89]
At the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Roshan, Dias, Azadeh and her wolf companion Onyx ambushed the Martyrs of Agaunum while they were meeting with an Order of the Ancients member to pass on the artifact in their care. With Fuladh's assistance, the mercenaries killed all the Martyrs, including Francis, and secured the artifact, but Dias and Onyx perished during the battle. Afterwards, Fuladh invited Roshan to join the Hidden Ones.[89]
840
Alamut Castle began construction in the Talysh Mountains of Persia on the order of Wahsudan ibn Marzuban.[90] The Hidden Ones, learning about the existence of an Isu vault underneath the mountains, resolved to protect the site and eventually finished construction of the citadel, which became one of their major strongholds.[91]
December 11:Basim Ibn Ishaq infiltrated the Winter Palace in Anbar to steal a chest sought by the Hidden Ones, at the same time as Caliph al-Mutawakkil was having a meeting with five members of the Order of the Ancients to show them the chest's contents: a Memory Seal. After the Ancients left, Basim stole the Seal and killed al-Mutawakkil in self-defense before fleeing the palace.[91]
December 12: The guards began hunting down all thieves in Anbar in retaliation for al-Mutawakkil's murder. Basim Ibn Ishaq was saved by the Master Assassin Roshan, who took him to Alamut to start his training as a Hidden One.[91]
862
February: Basim Ibn Ishaq and Nur killed several mercenaries attempting to locate the Hidden Ones' Alamut camp. After reporting their findings, Nur was sent to Baghdad to investigate the mercenaries' presence.[91]
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Basim Ibn Ishaq arriving in Baghdad
The Hidden One Nur returned to Alamut after having been injured during his investigation of the Order of the Ancients in Baghdad. Mentor Rayhan sent Basim Ibn Ishaq, Roshan, and Fuladh Al Haami to Baghdad to continue Nur's investigation.[91]
Basim Ibn Ishaq assassinated Mas'ood Al-Ya'qoob, a soap mill owner and member of the Order of the Ancients who used prisoners to excavate Isu relics in the desert.[91]
Basim Ibn Ishaq assassinated the House of Wisdom's chief scholar and Order of the Ancients member Fazil Fahim al-Kemsa during one of his experiments with the Alruh, a machine created using scavenged Isu technology.[91]
Basim Ibn Ishaq assassinated the merchant and Order of the Ancients member Ning during Baghdad's annual Da'irat Al-mal held at the Bazaar.[91]
Basim Ibn Ishaq retrieved ten Isu shards from the Tha'abeen members of the Order of the Ancients in and around Baghdad. Traveling to a vault underneath the Northern Oasis, Basim placed the shards in their corresponding pedestals, allowing him to retrieve three pieces of Isu equipment: a sword, a dagger, and an armor set.[91]
Basim Ibn Ishaq attempted to assassinate Qabiha, al-Mutawakkil's former concubine and the Ra's Al-Af'a of the Order of the Ancients in Baghdad. However, he hesitated when Qabiha told him to investigate the Isu temple underneath Alamut to understand his true nature, resulting in Qabiha being killed by Roshan instead.[91]
Basim Ibn Ishaq returned to Alamut, where he helped the Hidden Ones fend off an attack by Tahirid forces who had ended their protection of Alamut due to a deal made by the Order of the Ancients with Governor Muhammad ibn Tahir. Roshan tried to stop Basim from accessing Alamut's Isu temple, but was defeated and subsequently left the Hidden Ones.[33]
Alamut under attack by the Tahirids
Basim Ibn Ishaq investigated the Alamut Temple, finding Loki's former prison cell and leading him to discover his nature as Loki's reborn form. Embracing Loki's resurgent memories, Basim decided to seek out the other Isu incarnations, to exact retribution for the suffering inflicted upon his past self.[33]
865
Circa 865, Viking leader Ragnar Lothbrok was captured and executed in a pit of snakes by Northumbrian King Ælla, a leading figure among the Order of the Ancients.[79]
867
March 21: King Ælla of Northumbria was killed in a blood eagle ritual by the Sons of Ragnar, in retaliation for his execution of Ragnar Lothbrok.[79]
Basim Ibn Ishaq and his apprentice Hytham traveled to Constantinople to investigate an assassination plot by the Byzantine Emperor Basil I and the Order of the Ancients, against Basil's son Leo VI.[93]
Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham formed an alliance with Thyra, the leader of the Eagle Clan and captain of the Varangian guard in Constantinople. Hytham joined the Varangian guard to keep watch over Leo VI and foiled an attempt on his life involving a loose viper.[93]
The Varangian guard Steros and an accomplice attempted to assassinate Hytham on the orders of Emperor Basil I and the Order of the Ancients. However, the Hidden One survived and killed Steros with the help of Basim Ibn Ishaq and Thyra.[93]
Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham followed the Varangian guard Justin to a secret meeting with the Order of the Ancients, and protected him when the Ancients tried to kill Justin due to his refusal to aid their schemes. The Hidden Ones and Thyra subsequently foiled another attempt by the Order to eliminate Leo VI at the royal palace.[93]
Basim Ibn Ishaq, Hytham and Thyra foiled an attempt by the Order of the Ancients to kill Leo VI during an attack on the royal palace. Hytham subsequently tailed one of the Ancients involved in the attack, but was captured and interrogated by the Ancient Arman. Basim and Thyra rescued Hytham and killed most of his captors.[93]
Theodore, the childhood tutor of Leo VI, was executed after his involvement with the recent attacks against the prince was uncovered by Hytham.[93]
The Order of the Ancients led by Isaac attempted to kidnap Leo VI while his family was attending a race at the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Basim Ibn Ishaq, Hytham, Thyra and Justin protected the prince and killed the Ancients, including Isaac, marking the end of the Order's alliance with Emperor Basil I.[93]
870
Gull wielding the Apple of Eden
Eivor Varinsdottir captured Gull, a slave of Kjotve the Cruel and the incarnation of the Isu Iðunn, who led her to a temple in the Feiknstafir mountains in search of a treasure. However, Gull betrayed Eivor and took the Apple of Eden they found for herself, only to lose it when the temple began to collapse. Eivor chose to escape while Gull stayed behind and was presumed dead.[94]
The Wolf Clan attacked Stavanger in a failed attempt to recover Gull, inflicting heavy casualties on the Raven Clan,[94] who were ultimately forced to abandon the town and relocate to Fornburg.[79]
The Hidden One Ammon was killed in combat with the Viking raider Sigurd Styrbjornsson during a mission to recover a Shroud of Eden from a merchant in Bulgar. Sigurd claimed Ammon's Hidden Blade as a battle trophy.[94]
Sigurd Styrbjornsson met and befriended the Hidden Ones Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham in Constantinople, who subsequently taught him many of their organization's customs.[95]
871
April: King Æthelred I of Wessex, Grand Maegester of the Order of the Ancients in England, passed away. His brother, Alfred, succeeded him as King of Wessex and, reluctantly, as Grand Maegester.[79]
872
Kjotve the Cruel and his Wolf Clan traveled to Rygjafylke's southern mountains in search of treasure. Despite being pursued by a group of Raven Clan Vikings led by Eivor Varinsdottir, who killed his son Hrolfr, Kjotve managed to escape with a set of precious scrolls.[96]
Sigurd Styrbjornsson returned home to Fornburg after a two-year expedition, accompanied by the Hidden Ones Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham. He gifted Ammon's Hidden Blade to his adoptive sister, Eivor Varinsdottir.[95]
The Raven Clan leaving Norway
The Raven Clan gained King Harald Fairhair's support in taking down the Wolf Clan and its leader, Kjotve the Cruel.[97] Eivor Varinsdottir killed Kjotve during a siege of the latter's fortress, avenging her parents.[98]
December: Dissatisfied with the unification of Norway's petty kingdoms under Harald Fairhair's rule, Eivor Varinsdottir, Sigurd Styrbjornson and select members of the Raven Clan left their homeland and sailed to England.[99]
Bishop Deorlaf was appointed temporary ealdorman of Sciropescire following his predecessor's death and attempted to negotiate a peace treaty with King Rhodri the Great. However, his efforts were sabotaged by Ivarr the Boneless, who wanted to convince Eivor Varinsdottir to help him kill Rhodri. Eventually, Eivor killed Ivarr himself after he forced her hand by murdering their friend Ceolbert.[79]
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Eivor Varinsdottir exploring an abandoned Hidden Ones bureau
During her travels, Eivor Varinsdottir dismantled the Order of the Ancients' hierarchy and influence in England by killing its high-ranking members, following tip-offs from an anonymous informant known only as "the Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ."[101]
At Hytham's request, Eivor Varinsdottir explored all six abandoned Hidden One bureaus in England and retrieved several pages of The Magas Codex to aid Hytham's research of the original Hidden Ones.[102]
Eivor Varinsdottir retrieved the Sword of Eden known as Excalibur from an Isu vault underneath Stonehenge.[79]
The Order of the Ancients member Stowe, who possessed one of the blades of Vejovis' dagger, sent the artifact to Syria before being killed in Lunden by the Hidden Ones and their ally, the Viking and Vejovis' Sage Alva. Alva later explored an Isu chamber underneath the Londinium bureau, where she was contacted by a hologram of Vejovis, who urged her and an unseen "spectator" to locate the blade by finding his other Sages.[38]
874
Eivor Varinsdottir, Sigurd Styrbjornson, and Basim Ibn Ishaq allied with the scholar Fulke and helped Geadric overthrow Eadwyn and become ealdorman of Oxenefordscire, in order to retrieve the Saga Stone from Eadwyn's vault at Cyne Belle Castle. However, Fulke betrayed her allies afterwards and convinced King Alfred the Great to take Sigurd as a prisoner of war, revealing herself to be a member of the Order of the Ancients in the process.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir and Basim Ibn Ishaq tracked Fulke to Cent, where they tried to help Abbot Cynebert earn the favor of future ealdorman Tedmund in exchange for Fulke's whereabouts. However, the plan failed and Fulke escaped after killing Cynebert.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir uncovered a plot by the Order of the Ancients to take over Jorvik and assassinated the people responsible: the High Reeve of Jorvik, Audun, and his lieutenants, Ingeborg and Grigorii.[79]
875
Eivor Varinsdottir appointed a new ealdorman of Lincolnscire following the death of Hundbeorht, and prevented the Order of the Ancients from taking control of the region through one of their members, Bishop Herefrith.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir helped Birstan, the ealdorman of Essexe, to reunite with his childhood love Alfida, and had his current wife Estrid escorted back to Francia by the Viking Rollo under the guise of a kidnapping.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir giving the Crystal Ball to the Kanien'kehá:ka
Eivor Varinsdottir and her allies stormed the fortress of Portcestre, where Eivor killed Fulke and rescued her brother Sigurd Styrbjornson, who had been tortured by Fulke in an attempt to awaken Týr's conscience inside him.[79]
Halfdan Ragnarsson enlisted Eivor Varinsdottir's help in investigating his lieutenant Faravid, whom he suspected of treason. After the real traitor was revealed to be King Ricsige of Northumbria, who had betrayed Halfdan by siding with the Picts, Eivor hunted down Ricsige and killed him.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir discovered and foiled a plot by the ealdorman of Glowecestrescire, Cynon, and the high priestess Modron to kill Cynon's successor Tewdwr, whom they believed to be unfit to rule.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir reunited with her childhood friend Vili Hemmingson in Snotinghamscire and helped him decide on a new leader for his Viking clan following the passing of his father, jarlHemming.[79]
877
King Alfred the Great enlisted Eivor Varinsdottir's help in flushing out and eliminating the members of the Order of the Ancients who had infiltrated Wincestre and were plotting against him. Eivor found and killed the Ancients Selwyn, Hilda, and Ealhferth, but was banished from Wincestre after refusing Alfred's offer to convert to Christianity.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir fighting Basim Ibn Ishaq in the Yggdrasil chamber
Winter:
Eivor Varinsdottir and Sigurd Styrbjornson returned to Norway, where they uncovered the Yggdrasil Chamber, in which they experienced a simulation of Valhalla. Realizing they were the human incarnations of Odin and Tyr, respectively, Eivor eventually came to reject Odin and convinced her brother to abandon the simulation.[105]
Basim Ibn Ishaq revealed himself to be the incarnation of Loki and vengefully attacked Eivor after deducing she was the rebirth of Odin. Eivor defeated Basim with Sigurd's help, and left him trapped inside Yggdrasil's simulation.[105]
Eivor Varinsdottir and her allies fought in the Battle of Chippenham, in order to weed out King Alfred the Great and kill him. Alfred escaped but the Vikings were victorious, despite suffering heavy losses, including Soma, Hunwald, and Hjorr Halfsson.[107]
Alfred the Great laying the foundations of the Templar Order
King Alfred found refuge in the village of Athelnay, where he contacted Eivor Varinsdottir and revealed himself to be "the Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ," as well as the reluctant Grand Maegester of the Order of the Ancients. In the wake of the Order's destruction, Alfred vowed to establish a new, "universal" order, which would eventually become the Templar Order.[101]
Eivor Varinsdottir found and retrieved Mjölnir, a Piece of Eden formerly wielded by the Isu Thor, in Rygjafylke, Norway.[79]
879
Fuladh Al Haami, Mentor of the Hidden Ones in the Justanid region, held a council at the newly constructed fortress of Alamut. Hytham was invited by Mentor Rayhan to attend the council in order to receive a promotion and give an account of Basim Ibn Ishaq's betrayal.[79]
Eivor Varinsdottir was invited by her cousin, the King of DublinBárid mac Ímair, to attened the coronation of Flann Sinna as High King of Ireland. During the coronation, there was an attempt on Flann's life, which was thwarted by Eivor and Bárid.[108]
Eivor Varinsdottir began aiding Flann Sinna's conquest of Ireland to help Bárid mac Ímair gain favor with the High King. In doing so, she discovered that a druidic cult called the Children of Danu was behind the assassination attempt against Flann, seeking to create chaos across Ireland. With the help of Flann's poetess and druid Ciara ingen Medba, Eivor eliminated two Children of Danu, Niamh and Sétnae, who tried to kill Flann after his victory over Connacht.[109][110]
881
After Abbot Eogan mac Cartaigh's betrayal at Clogher resulted in King Bárid mac Ímair's death, Bárid's son Sichfrith took the throne as Dublin's new ruler.[111]
882
With the help of King Sichfrith and Eivor Varinsdottir, Flann Sinna launched an assault on Armagh and killed Abbot Eogan mac Cartaigh, who was secretly the leader of the Children of Danu.[112] In the aftermath, Flann and the other kings of Ireland ordered the remaining druids to either convert or leave the country.[113]
The activated Lia Fáil
Feeling betrayed, Ciara ingen Medba activated the Lia Fáil in order to save her people from persecution, but was defeated by Eivor Varinsdottir. Afterwards, Flann Sinna rescinded his order and vowed to serve and protect all the people of Ireland, regardless of their religious beliefs.[113]
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During her travels in Ireland, Eivor Varinsdottir restored Dublin's trade connection across the land[114] and helped her new ally, the Persian merchant Azar, to settle an old grudge.[115]
Eivor Varinsdottir eradicated the last remnants of the Children of Danu,[116] which led to her collecting the amber shards for the druidic priestess Deirdre Na Linni and then obtaining the Gae Bolg after defeating a manifestation of Balor in a hallucination.[27]
Eivor Varinsdottir accepted an invitation from Toka Sinricsdottir and the Frankish rebel Pierre to travel to West Francia,[118] where she met with Sigfred to discuss the threat posed by Charles the Fat.[119]
The Elgring Clan and Eivor Varinsdottir were attacked in Melun by Bishop Engelwin's forces, whom they successfully repelled.[117] Afterwards, Eivor tracked Engelwin to the Sainte-Geneviève Church in Paris and assassinated him.[120]
Eivor Varinsdottir met with Charles the Fat in the chambers underneath the Boatmen Baths Tavern to discuss the possibility of a peace treaty between the king and Sigfred. Charles agreed to negotiate a treaty with the Vikings on the condition that Eivor find his missing wife, Queen Richardis.[121]
Eivor Varinsdottir assassinated the nun Euphrasia, a Bellatores Dei member, in Aquila and rescued a captive Queen Richardis.[122] She then delivered the queen to Charles the Fat, only to be betrayed by the king, forcing Eivor and Richardis to escape from his guards.[123]
After a failed attempt to convince Count Odo of France to negotiate a peace treaty,[124] Eivor Varinsdottir joined Sigfred in planning their siege of Paris.[125][126] She later met with Charles the Fat once again for a truce, but ultimately failed to persuade the king.[127]
The Vikings besieging Paris
The Elgring Clan, with the assistance of Eivor Varinsdottir, besieged Paris, attacking the Île de la Cité.[128] During the siege, Eivor killed the Bellatores Dei member Ebels[129] and defeated Count Odo, securing the Vikings' victory. During the peace talks, Sigfred was named Lord of Rouen by Charles the Fat,[130] which led to Toka Sinricsdottir becoming jarlskona in her uncle's place.[131]
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During her travels in West Francia, Eivor Varinsdottir discovered abandoned Hidden Ones bureaus across the land, acquired three keys needed to access the Lutetia bureau, and recovered the sword Joyeuse. Before leaving the bureau, she also learned that the Frankish Hidden Ones were still active, as she was left a note by one of their members, the monk Abbo Cernuus.[132]
887
At Count Odo's behest, Eivor Varinsdottir went to look for Queen Richardis in Amiens and found Charles the Fat's bastard son Bernard, who informed her of the queen's capture and her trial by fire at the Villa of Amiens. There, Eivor killed Bishop Gozlin, a Bellatores Dei member,[133] and defeated a mentally unstable Charles,[134] while Richardis survived her trial unscathed.[133]
Count Odo succeeded Charles the Fat as King of West Francia and formed an alliance with Eivor Varinsdottir and the Raven Clan. After also securing an alliance with Toka Sinricsdottir and the Elgring Clan,[135] Eivor returned home to England.[136]
Unknown
Kassandra arrived on Scotland's Isle of Skye to search for an Apple of Eden, but her presence inadvertently activated the artifact, which began affecting the locals' minds, giving them intense nightmares and driving many insane.[137]
Eivor Varinsdottir traveled to the Isle of Skye to investigate the nightmares and ran into Kassandra in a cemetery. After a brief fight and upon noticing they both wielded Hidden Blades, the two warriors agreed to work together to find the source of the nightmares.[138]
Eivor Varinsdottir giving the Isle of Skye's Apple of Eden to Kassandra
Eivor Varinsdottir and Kassandra found the Isle of Skye's Apple of Eden hidden in a cave and together they managed to de-activate it, ending the nightmares plaguing the locals.[139] Kassandra took the artifact and departed the island, though not before accepting Eivor's invitation to celebrate their victory by crashing a wedding, which helped her with her lacking social skills.[140]
Eivor Varinsdottir encountered the former Hidden One Roshan, who had come to England to assassinate the Order of the Ancients member Makira. Eivor helped Roshan accomplish her mission and the two parted ways, as Roshan left for Jerusalem with documents she had retrieved from Makira's body.[141]
889
After years of serving the Raven Clan, Eivor Varinsdottir decided she had fulfilled her destiny in England and sailed to Vinland to better understand her connection with Odin. There, Eivor spent her final years conversing with Odin, who explained her nature as a reborn Isu and told her about the Isu's history and eventual demise during the Great Catastrophe.[142]
900
The first pictorial representation of a gun was made in India, after it had been created using the knowledge from an Apple of Eden.[21]
10th century
975
King Olof Björnsson of Sweden was poisoned by the Hidden Ones, who afterwards helped his brother, Eric the Victorious, ascend the throne. Eric ousted his nephew, Olof's son Styrbjörn the Strong, who challenged his claim to the throne and vowed to return with an army to usurp him.[143]
985
Styrbjörn the Strong recruited the Jomsvikings to his cause after defeating their leader, Palnatoke.[144] He also formed an alliance with King Harald Bluetooth, who was secretly a member of the Templar Order and the owner of the Devotion Prong of the Trident of Eden. However, Harald eventually abandoned Styrbjörn after the latter forced him to renounce the prong.[143]
The Hidden One Thorvald Hjaltason, on the orders of his Mentor Torgny, attempted to halt the march of Styrbjörn's army. With the help of several of King Eric's men, including Östen Jorundsson, he organized a raid on Styrbjörn's camp, during which he killed Palnatoke and retrieved the Devotion Prong.[143]
King Eric's and Styrbjörn's armies clashed at the Battle of Fýrisvellir. Styrbjörn died while fighting Östen Jorundsson after being poisoned by Thorvald Hjaltason, and his army was ultimately defeated. Thorvald later entrusted the Devotion Prong to Östen, who went on to bury it.[143]
11th century
1001
The populace of Rome revolted against Pope Sylvester II, a leader of the Templar Order, who was branded a heretic and sorcerer for his support and promotion of science.[45]
1090
The Brotherhood that started as the Hidden Ones[49] became a public organization for the first time in their history under the name Assassins, under the directive of Hassan-i Sabbāh in the Levant.[45]
1099
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July 10:Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and warlord, passed away. His wife subsequently absconded with his piece of the Staff of Eden that previously belonged to Saint James.[77]
The Siege of Jerusalem
July 15: An army of Crusaderscaptured the city of Jerusalem, marking the end of the First Crusade and the start of a Crusader presence in the Holy Land for over two centuries.[45]
Circa 1140, the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis discovered the Isu temple underneath the city and retrieved the Head of Saint Denis. Using knowledge gained from the artifact, the abbot created a sword, akin to a Sword of Eden, which would later come to be known as the Eagle of Suger.[145]
1162
Hassan the Younger sent the Assassin who would later be known as Al Mualim from Alamut to establish a fortress in Masyaf, speculated by some to have been due to an ideological rift between the two.[146]
1176
August:
Sultan Salāḥ ad-Dīn laid siege to the Levantine Assassins' fortress in Masyaf. Acting on information received from Ahmad Sofian, Al Mualim tasked the Master Assassin Umar Ibn-La'Ahad with infiltrating the enemy camp, where he left a note tied to a dagger in Salāḥ ad-Dīn's tent.[147]
Šihāb ad-Dīn, uncle to Salāḥ ad-Dīn, brokered a truce with the Assassins on the condition that Umar Ibn-La'Ahad be executed for taking the life of a Ayyubid nobleman during his infiltration of their camp. Against Al Mualim's will, Umar voluntarily had his life taken.[147]
Ahmad Sofian committed suicide inside the quarters of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad's son Altaïr because of his remorse over giving Umar's name to the Saracens while in their captivity.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed Haras, an Assassin-turned-Templar, inside Masyaf fortress during an attack by the Templars, saving the life of Al Mualim.[83] Altaïr was elevated to the rank of Master Assassin for his actions.[45]
The Assassin and Vejovis' Sage Faisal, who survived the attack on Masyaf, traveled to Damascus and met a Templar known as The Hideout. Feigning defection to the Templars, Faisal was given one of the blades of Vejovis' dagger to transport to Beirut.[38]
The Assassin Rafee tracked down and attacked Faisal, believing he had betrayed the Brotherhood. After reluctantly killing Rafee to maintain his cover, Faisal delivered the blade to Beirut as instructed and later brought it to Constantinople.[38]
October 4: Templar Grand Master Gerard de Ridefort was beheaded on the orders of Saladin after having been captured during the Siege of Acre by the Saracen army.[45]
1190
The Knights Templar besieged the Assassins' fortress in Aleppo, on the orders of their de facto leader Lord Basilisk, though the Assassins were able to fend off the attack.[148]
Al Mualim tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad with finding the Chalice, an artifact rumored to hold powers similar to those of the Pieces of Eden.[148]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to Damascus and assassinated the Templar Alaat on behalf of Fajera, who handed him one of the keys to the Temple of the Sand, where the Chalice was supposedly held.[148]
Roland Napule, a Templar and head of the hospital in Tyre, was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on the orders of the local rafiq, Hamid. Altaïr retrieved a second key to the Temple of the Sand from one of Napule's captives.[148]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad retrieved the third key to the Temple of the Sand from the Templar leader Basilisk at a party in Jerusalem, acting upon information gained from the rafiq Kadar and the nobleman Ayman.[148]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the Master of the Templars' Jerusalem Tower and his student while attempting to retrieve a map of the Temple of the Sand.[148]
The Siege of Acre
Lord Basilisk attempted to stop the Siege of Acre by poisoning Acre's water supply, though the plan was thwarted by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Altaïr bested Basilisk in combat, but spared his life in exchange for the location of the Chalice.[148]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed Harash, the second-in-command of Al Mualim, after hearing of his betrayal from Adha, who revealed herself to be the Chalice.[148]
Lord Basilisk was killed in combat with Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad at the harbor of Tyre, after the Templars captured Adha. Despite Basilisk's death, the Templars shipped Adha away from Tyre.[148] Altaïr was eventually able to find Adha again, but was too late as she had been executed by the Templars.[21]
1191
July:
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers Malik and Kadar Al-Sayf infiltrated the Jerusalem Vault to retrieve an Apple of Eden. After encountering Templars led by Grand Master Robert de Sablé, Kadar was killed and Malik lost his left arm but managed to bring the Apple back to Masyaf.[52]
The Assassins fended off a Templar attack on Masyaf led by Robert de Sablé. Al Mualim demoted Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad for breaking the three tenets of the Creed during his mission to the Jerusalem Vault, and assigned him nine targets to assassinate in order to redeem himself.[52]
September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad attempted to kill Robert de Sablé, his ninth and final target, at Majd Addin's funeral in Jerusalem, but Robert had assigned Maria Thorpe as his decoy. Altaïr spared Maria's life after she informed him of Robert's plan to negotiate an alliance between the Crusaders and Saracens against the Assassins.[52]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad informing King Richard I of Robert de Sablé's betrayal
September 7:
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad confronted Robert de Sablé in King Richard I of England's camp at Arsuf and exposed his betrayal. Robert denied the accusations, so Richard proposed a duel to determine who was telling the truth. After Altaïr emerged victorious and killed the Grand Master, he was allowed to leave.[52]
Crusader forces commanded by King Richard I and the Saracen army led by Saladin clashed at the Battle of Arsuf, where the Crusaders emerged victorious.[52]
September:
Al Mualim was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad after betraying the Assassins by brainwashing his subjects with the Apple of Eden to make them worship him.[52]
Abbas Sofian sparked a minor civil war among the Assassins against Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, and stole the Apple of Eden, which began slowly killing him until he was saved by Altaïr.[83]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad succeeded Al Mualim as Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood, after persuading the Assassins of his ability to lead them.[147]
Fall:
Grand Master Armand Bouchart, the successor of Robert de Sablé, relocated the Knights Templar to Cyprus. During their relocation from Acre, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad led an Assassin attack on Acre's harbor and captured Maria Thorpe.[149]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued Maria Thorpe from imprisonment by Armand Bouchart, who did not intend to break the Latin Rule by conspiring with women. The two traveled by boat to Kyrenia.[149]
1192
Jonas, a merchant from Kyrenia, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on behalf of a Templar agent posing as the Kyrenia resistance leader Barnabas, triggering a riot among the populace.[149]
Moloch, leader of a local group of fanatics and a Templar ally, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Kantara Castle, acting upon information gained from Maria Thorpe and resistance soldier Markos.[149]
The Dark Oracle, a former Cypriot noblewoman, provided the Templars with the locations of resistance members. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued the members from captivity, and killed the Dark Oracle in Buffavento Castle.[149]
Maria Thorpe and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated Saint Hilarion Castle, where Altaïr killed Moloch's sons, the Templars Shalim and Shahar, eradicating the Templar presence in Kyrenia.[149]
1193
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killing Armand Bouchart inside the Templar Archive
The Knights Templar moved all their artifacts out of the Templar Archive in Limassol to an unknown location, on the orders of Grand Master Armand Bouchart.[149]
Grand Master Armand Bouchart was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, during a duel between the two inside the Templar Archive.[149]
13th century
1204
July 12: The Crusaders conquered and sacked the city of Constantinople, ending the Fourth Crusade. During the siege, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had come to Constantinople to spread the influence of the Assassins, was forced to retreat from the city.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria, and their eldest son Darim left Masyaf to oppose the rise of the Mongol Empire and eliminate Genghis Khan. Malik Al-Sayf was left to lead the Assassins, with help of Darim's younger brother Sef.[147]
1226
Sef Ibn-La'Ahad was killed by the apprentice Swami on the orders of Abbas Sofian, in an attempt to claim control of the Levantine Assassins.[147]
Malik Al-Sayf was framed for the murder of Sef Ibn-La'Ahad by Abbas Sofian, who placed a council in charge of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.[147]
1227
February:Jochi Khan, first son of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, was fatally poisoned by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.[150]
Darim Ibn-La'Ahad assassinating Genghis Khan
August: Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, was killed by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in China, after he fell off his horse when it was shot by Qulan Gal.[147] For his vital role in the Khan's assassination, Qulan Gal would later be honored as a legendary Assassin.[21]
1228
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria Thorpe, and their son Darim returned to Masyaf, where they were informed of the ruling council. Darim traveled to Alamut to meet with his brother Sef's widow and children.[147]
Malik Al-Sayf was rescued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad from Masyaf's dungeons, and informed Altaïr and Maria Thorpe of the truth about Sef's death. In Altaïr and Maria's absence, Malik was beheaded by Swami.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Maria Thorpe confronted Abbas Sofian in Masyaf fortress. Upon being taunted by Swami, Altaïr used his Apple of Eden to force Swami to kill himself. In the ensuing frenzy, Swami fatally stabbed Maria.[147] Altaïr escaped Masyaf with help from his son Darim.[83]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad exiled himself to Alamut, while Abbas Sofian usurped the title of Mentor of the Levantine Assassins. At Alamut, Altaïr made several discoveries and inventions using his Apple of Eden, and retrived six Memory Seals from the Isu temple beneath the fortress.[147]
1241
April 9: The Battle of Legnica was fought between the Mongol Empire and the Kingdom of Poland, aided by the Knights Templar. A Templar soldier was captured during the battle and brought to the court of the Mongol prince Möngke Khan, whom he introduced to the Templar ideology, laying the foundations of the Order's Mongolian Rite.[144]
December 11:Ögedei Khan, the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the third son of Genghis Khan, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi.[150]
1242
July 1:Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan, was killed by the Assassin Qulan Gal to create a power vacuum in the Mongol Empire's leadership and halt the advance of Batu Khan into Europe.[150]
1247
The merchant Mukhlis was saved from brigands led by Bayhas outside Masyaf by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had returned from his self-imposed exile in Alamut.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started gaining the support of the Levantine Assassins and Masyaf's villagers in attempting to take back the declining Brotherhood under Abbas Sofian, and befriended Malik Al-Sayf's son Tazim.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad confronting Abbas Sofian following his return to Masyaf
Abbas Sofian was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad using the Hidden Gun, during a non-violent assault on Masyaf fortress by Altaïr and his supporters. Altaïr was welcomed back as Mentor of the Levantine Assassins.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad ordered the start of the construction of a hidden library beneath the fortress of Masyaf to hide the knowledge and secrets of the Brotherhood.[147]
December 15:Hülegü Khan destroyed the Assassin fortress of Alamut, during his destruction of the Levantine Assassins' holdings.[45]
1257
January:Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrived in Masyaf on the invitation of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, and became acquainted with the Mentor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[147]
July: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his son Darim began training Niccolò and Maffeo Polo in the ways of the Assassin Brotherhood, in the hopes that they would help spread their ideology to the west. Niccolò started writing his journal, The Secret Crusade, detailing Altaïr's life.[147]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad passing away inside his library
August 12:
Hülegü Khan began the Mongol siege on the Assassin fortress at Masyaf,[147] ultimately rendering it abandoned.[83]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad guided Niccolò and Maffeo Polo out of Masyaf and granted them his Codex, the five Masyaf Keys, and several books. He also used his Apple of Eden to temporarily repel the Mongol assault and allow the other Assassins to escape from the city.[83]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad passed away after locking himself inside his library with his Apple of Eden and imprinting his final memories on the sixth Memory Seal.[83]
August 14: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo were attacked by a Mongol raiding party in the Syrian countryside, and lost Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.[152]
1258
January 1: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.[147]
January: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo scattered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's books around various landmarks in Constantinople, and hid the five Masyaf Keys in underground tombs located beneath the city.[147]
1259
Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left Constantinople to journey to the Mongol Empire and retrieve Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, without success.[83]
August 11: Möngke Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire and a member of the Templar Order, was killed by the Chinese Assassin Zhang Zhi to avenge her father, against her Mentor Kang's wishes. After being crippled by the Mongol commander Bayan during her escape, Zhi was nursed back to health by Kang but ultimately expelled from the Brotherhood.[144]
September: Möngke Khan was laid to rest in Burkhan Khaldun by his son Asutai, who recruited Bayan into the Templar Order. The Fear Prong of the Trident of Eden, which Möngke had in his possession, was buried with him.[144]
1263
November 14: Alexander Nevsky, a Russian leader and Templar ally, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi for his alliance with the Golden Horde and influence over the Mongol Empire.[150]
1265
February 8: Hülegü Khan was killed by the Mongolian Assassin Nergüi, as retribution for the destruction of Masyaf and the Levantine Assassins.[150]
1269
Niccolò and Maffeo Polo returned to their home in Venice, Italy, where they established an Assassins Guild and first met Niccolò's son Marco.[45]
1271
November: Marco Polo left on a journey to Asia with his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo, intent on retrieving the Codex of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[54]
1275
May: Marco Polo became a member of Kublai Khan's Imperial court, eventually retrieving Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex by sneaking into the vault of the summer palace in Shangdu.[54]
Summer: The man who would take the name Domenico Auditore was introduced to the Assassin Brotherhood by his father, Marco Polo, and Dante Alighieri. He began his apprenticeship under Dante, whom he was to later transport to Spain along with Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.[21]
King Philip IV of France, under the influence of Mentor Guillaume de Nogaret, branded the Knights Templar as heretics and their Temple in Paris was besieged, resulting in the arrests of numerous Templars including Grand Master Jacques de Molay.[70]
March 18: Jacques de Molay, the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar[45] and a Sage,[70] was burned at the stake alongside Geoffroi de Charney. Before his death, de Molay sent nine of his most trusted men across the known world to continue the Templar Order's objectives underground.[45]
1321
September 14: The Templars killed Dante Alighieri in Ravenna, revealing their continued existence to the Assassins.[21]
September 25: Dante's apprentice Domenico Auditore, his wife Isabetta, and their son Renato attempted to bring Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex to Spain, but were attacked at the Otranto harbor by pirates employed by the Templars; Isabetta did not survive the encounter.[21]
1324
January: Marco Polo, and later Domenico Auditore's father, were killed by the Templars.[21]
Domenico Auditore bought and renovated a villa in Monteriggioni, Tuscany, renaming it the Villa Auditore. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.[21]
1338
Lukas Zurburg was saved by the Assassins from a road thief while travelling from Essen to Adendorf. Zurburg subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood.[154]
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1340
The Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from the reigning Bahri dynasty of Egypt.[151]
The Egyptian Assassin Numa Al'Khamsin traveled to Cairo and interrogated Bachir Al-Djallil, a Templar-allied merchant, who revealed the Scepter had been taken to Karnak, before he was killed by Numa.[151]
1341
June 7: The reigning Bahri Sultan of Egypt, Al-Nasir Muhammad, was killed by his servant Leila, a secret Templar agent.[155]
Numa Al'Khamsin fighting Templars in Karnak
Numa Al'Khamsin and his apprentice Ali Al-Ghrabe recovered the Scepter of Aset, disassembled in an Ankh-shaped box, from the Templars in Karnak, and escaped to Cairo.[155]
Numa Al'Khamsin was imprisoned by the Sultan's Emirs for refusing to surrender the Scepter of Aset.[155] In his cell, he met Leila and the two worked together to escape before sharing a romantic encounter that led to the conception of a child.[156]
Ali Al-Ghrabe was captured and tortured by the Templars, and reluctantly agreed to help them lure his master Numa Al'Khamsin into an ambush, during which Numa was killed by Leila.[156]
Ali Al-Ghrabe fled with the Scepter of Aset and threw it down a well near Edfu, before dying of food poisoning several weeks later. Leila found the Scepter at the bottom of the well, but suffered a head injury while trying to climb up with it and became amnesiac.[156]
Leila was rescued from the well by passing Bedouins and died nine months later while giving birth to her and Numa Al'Khamsin's child. The Scepter of Aset remained at the bottom of the well, becoming lost to time.[156]
The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished from public view.[154]
1355
The Assassins stole the original Shroud of Eden from Geoffroy de Charny, a French knight and Templar, and replaced it with a forgery. Renato Auditore ordered the Shroud to be buried beneath the Villa Auditore.[56]
1368
Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne of China as the "Hongwu Emperor" and established the Ming dynasty. A Sage would end up serving in his court as a Confucian scholar.[70]
July: The Chinese imperial army arrested and executed thousands of people suspected of being Assassins on the Yongle Emperor's orders. During the purge, the Assassin leader Fang Xiaoru was killed while Li Tong managed to escape the Assassin headquarters in Beijing with another apprentice and an Apple of Eden.[154]
1417
Autumn: The Chinese admiral Zheng He started his fifth exploration voyage, discovering lands in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, ahead of European explorers.[54]
1424
August 12: Zhu Di was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion in the Gobi Desert.[154]
1431
May 30:
Jeanne d'Arc was saved from imprisonment and execution by the Assassin Brotherhood.[84]
Fleur, posing as her master Jeanne d'Arc,[84] was burned at the stake by the English, an act that was orchestrated by rogue Templars.[21]
1440
The Battle of Anghiari
June 29: The Battle of Anghiari was fought between the Florentine and Milanese armies. A six-year old Mario Auditore alerted the Florentine commander Micheletto Attendolo of a surprise attack by the Milanese, resulting in a Florentine victory.[21]
September: Monteriggioni was besieged by an Florentine army led by Federico da Montefeltro. Under Mario Auditore's leadership, Monteriggioni managed to fend off the siege.[56]
October 1: Mario Auditore discovered the Shroud of Eden beneath the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni. While exploring the crypts, Mario lost an eye upon triggering a trap.[56]
December:Vlad Tepes, the ruler of Wallachia and a Templar, was killed during an Assassin attack led by Ishak Pasha, the Mentor of the Ottoman Brotherhood.[83]
December 29: Giovanni Auditore and his sons Federico and Petruccio were hanged in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, on false accusations of treason against Florence, by their former ally, GonfaloniereUberto Alberti, who had secretly defected to the Templars.[21]
December 31: Giovanni's son Ezio Auditore assassinated Uberto Alberti as revenge for betraying the Auditore family, while the latter was attending an exposition of Andrea del Verrocchio's work.[21]
1477
January: Ezio Auditore, his mother Maria, and sister Claudia left Florence and moved to Monteriggioni to live with Ezio's uncle Mario in the Villa Auditore. Mario informed Ezio of his Assassin heritage and began training him to become an Assassin and follow in Giovanni's footsteps.[21]
1478
Francesco de' Pazzi attacking Giuliano de' Medici during the Pazzi conspiracy
April 14: Ezio Auditore killed his childhood rival Vieri de' Pazzi in San Gimignano, Tuscany, for conspiring with the Templars.[21]
April 26:
Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence, and his brother Giuliano were attacked by the Templar Pazzi conspirators, resulting in Giuliano's death. Lorenzo was saved by Ezio Auditore, who had spied on the conspirators' meeting earlier with aid from La Volpe and had learned about their plan.[21]
Ezio Auditore killed the Templar Francesco de' Pazzi and hung his body from the Palazzo della Signoria, scaring the remaining Pazzi conspirators into fleeing Florence and abandoning their plan to take over the city.[21]
Ezio Auditore climbed atop San Gimignano's tallest tower and assassinated Antonio Maffei, a monk formerly employed by Lorenzo de' Medici and one of the Pazzi conspirators.[21]
1479
April 12: Ezio Auditore assassinated Francesco Salviati, the Archbishop of Pisa and one of the Pazzi conspirators, in his villa near San Gimignano.[21]
May 3: Ezio Auditore assassinated Bernardo Baroncelli, a banker employed by the Pazzi family and one of the Pazzi conspirators, in San Gimignano.[21]
Ezio Auditore assassinated Stefano da Bagnone, a monk employed as Jacopoe de' Pazzi's secretary and one of the Pazzi conspirators, in the Monte Oliveto Maggiore monastery outside San Gimignano.[21]
1480
Rodrigo Borgia confronting Ezio Auditore
January 3: Ezio Auditore killed Jacopo de' Pazzi in an act of mercy after witnessing Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo mortally wound him during a Templar meeting in the Antico Teatro Romano for his failure during the Pazzi Conspiracy.[21]
May 3: Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire passed away, leaving his two sons Bayezid and Cem, a Templar, competing for the throne. Though Cem managed to secure their father's Apple of Eden, Bayezid secured the Ottoman throne.[158]
1482
June: Prince Cem hid his Apple of Eden in the Templar Archive on Cyprus after realizing the artifact refused to communicate with him, so that the European Templars may find it.[158]
June 29: Prince Cem met the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes; however, he was betrayed by the Hospitallers and sent to be imprisoned in Europe,[158] where he would become acquainted with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia in Italy.[83]
1485
Ezio Auditore using Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine
September 11: Ezio Auditore assassinated Emilio Barbarigo, leader of the Venetian merchant guild and a Templar, inside his palazzo, with aid from the Venetian thieves guild.[21]
September 14:Carlo Grimaldi, a member of Venice's Council of Ten and a Templar, lethally poisoned the Doge of Venice Giovanni Mocenigo, but was promptly killed in turn by Ezio Auditore, who had infiltrated the Palazzo Ducale using Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine.[21]
1486
February 15: Ezio Auditore infiltrated Venice's Carnevale feast and assassinated Marco Barbarigo, the new Doge of Venice and a Templar, with help from Sister Teodora.[21]
The Italian Templars left Venice to retrieve the Apple of Eden from Cyprus, after ascertaining its location from Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex pages.[21]
1487
June 16: The army of Lambert Simnel, a pretender to the English throne and Templar puppet, was defeated by King Henry VII of England, and Simnel was imprisoned.[56]
1488
Ezio Auditore's induction into the Assassins
June 25: Ezio Auditore stole the Apple of Eden from the Templars in Venice after they had just returned from Cyprus. Following a confrontation with Rodrigo Borgia, Ezio was formally inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood by his uncle Mario and allies from the courtesans, thieves, and mercenaries guilds, all of whom revealed themselves to be Assassins.[21]
July 7:
Checco and Ludovico Orsi attacked the city of Forlì on the orders of Rodrigo Borgia, after its ruler Caterina Sforza had hired the Orsi brothers to kill her Templar husband Girolamo Riario.[160]
Ezio Auditore arrived in Forlì with the Assassin Niccolò Machiavelli to give the Apple of Eden to Caterina Sforza for safekeeping. He killed Ludovico and Checco Orsi, but passed out after Checco wounded him and lost the Apple to the monk Girolamo Savonarola.[160]
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The Assassin and Vejovis' Sage Giulia prevented a group of Templars from accessing an Isu vault underneath the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. While exploring the vault, Giulia found one of the blades of Vejovis' dagger and was contacted by a hologram of the Isu, who instructed her to hide the blade deeper within the vault.[38]
1489
The Spanish Assassins established a headquarters in an abandoned fortress in the Sierra de Cazorla mountain range, to help them better track the movements of the Spanish Inquisition, which was backed by the Templars.[77]
The Spanish Assassins killed Hassan, a corrupt merchant affiliated with the Templars, and a Spanish Inquisition scribe, and learned about Inquisitor Gustavo Ramírez's ties to the Templars. However, their attempt to eliminate Ramírez at his stronghold failed and allowed the Inquisitor to escape.[77]
The Spanish Assassins confronted Gustavo Ramírez, who had recovered a piece of the Shattered Staff of Eden from St. Rafael Abbey, at Sádaba Castle. However, Ramírez escaped once again, forcing the Assassins to fight his soldiers.[77]
The Spanish Assassins helped Horacio de Heredia, a former Knight Hospitalier, exact revenge on the Spanish Inquisition captain Duran, who had branded his family as heretics and ordered their execution. In return, Horacio agreed to join the Brotherhood.[161]
The Celestial Mysteries, a set of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci given to the Spanish Thieves' Guild to fund the war against the Templars, were lost after the nobleman Jaime del Rada gambled them away. With the help of an ashamed Jaime, the Spanish Assassins managed to recover the paintings from the Spanish Inquisition.[162]
1490
The Spanish Assassins recovered a piece of the Shattered Staff of Eden from the Monastery of St. Lucia following a fight against the Templar Ojeda, who fled after being injured. They subsequently entrusted the artifact to their allies at the University of Salamanca.[77]
The Spanish Assassins eliminated Ordóñez, a captain of the Spanish Inquisition and Gustavo Ramírez's bodyguard, but learned that his troops had already captured Fort Baza as part of their plan to besiege Granada.[77]
1491
The Spanish Assassins eliminated a traitorous Royal Engineer who planned to meet with the Templar Ojeda and inform him of a secret entrance into Granada.[77]
Christopher Columbus, accompanied by the Assassin Luis de Santángel, was lured into an ambush in Venice by Rodrigo Borgia, who promised to fund Columbus' next voyage but wanted to keep the New World a Templar secret. Ezio Auditore rescued Columbus.[163]
Luis de Santángel persuaded Ezio Auditore to accompany him and Christopher Columbus back to Spain in order to help him and fellow Assassin Raphael Sánchez save the Spanish Assassins from persecution by the Spanish Inquisition.[163]
Ezio Auditore killed Gaspar Martínez and Pedro Llorente to end the persecution of the Spanish Assassins in Barcelona and Zaragoza, respectively. Contrary to his expectations, Ezio discovered that the two men were not Templars, but rather puppets of Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada.[163]
Aguilar de Nerha was officially inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Benedicto, having joined their ranks after his parents were killed by the Spanish Inquisition.[164]
November: Ezio Auditore assassinated a Templar spy who had been feeding false counsel to Emir Muhammad XII of Granada as part of a Templar plot to prolong the Granada War and prevent the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon from sponsoring Christopher Columbus' westward voyage.[163]
November 25: Ezio Auditore killed the Templars holding Muhammad XII of Granada hostage and rescued the emir, persuading him to surrender to the armies of Castile and Aragon and end the Granada War.[163]
Aguilar de Nerha escaping the auto-da-fé
December:
Prince Ahmed of Granada, son of Muhammad XII of Granada, was taken from Assassin protection by Templars led by Ojeda in an effort to obtain the Emir's Apple of Eden.[164]
Mentor Benedicto, along with other Assassins including Aguilar de Nerha and María, attempted to stop the abduction of Prince Ahmed. Benedicto, Aguilar, and María were captured by the Templars while the other Assassins were killed in the effort. Benedicto was later burned at the stake, but Aguilar and Maria managed to escape.[164]
1492
January 2:
Muhammad XII of Granada, during the surrender of the Emirate of Granada, handed the Apple of Eden to Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada in exchange for the return of his son.[164]
The Assassins Aguilar de Nerha and María engaged in a struggle with Tomás de Torquemada and Ojeda for the Apple of Eden, resulting in the deaths of María and Ojeda. Aguilar escaped with the Apple.[164]
Ezio Auditore assassinated Juan de Marillo, an inquisitor ordered by Tomás de Torquemada to purge Granada of "heretics" following the city's surrender.[163]
The Templars attempted to kill Christopher Columbus while he was on his way to France to accept an offer from King Charles VIII to sponsor his voyage. Ezio Auditore protected Columbus and convinced him to return to Spain and accept Queen Isabella I of Castile's sponsorship instead.[163]
Aguilar de Nerha giving the Apple of Eden to Christopher Columbus
August:
Christopher Columbus was entrusted with an Apple of Eden by the Assassin Aguilar de Nerha in Palos de la Frontera while preparing for his voyage to the New World.[164]
Ezio Auditore protected Luis de Santángel and Raphael Sánchez from soldiers dispatched by Tomás de Torquemada to arrest them, and decided to assassinate the Grand Inquisitor.[163]
Ezio Auditore confronted Tomás de Torquemada, who feigned ignorance of[163] his Templar affiliations[164] and escaped. Ezio subsequently decided against killing Torquemada and returned to Italy.[163]
August 11: Rodrigo Borgia was elected as the new head of the Catholic Church, after purchasing votes from the other cardinals, and became known as Pope Alexander VI.[165]
The Assassin bureau leader in Burgos, Diego de Alvarado, was captured and secretly persuaded to work as a Templar agent by the Inquisitor Gustavo Ramírez. He was subsequently rescued by the Spanish Assassins.[77]
The Assassin turncoat Diego de Alvarado recovered the last piece of the Shattered Staff of Eden from Sobroso Castle and delivered it to Gustavo Ramírez in Santiago de Compostela. However, Diego betrayed and killed Ramírez, and fled with the artifact before the Spanish Assassins could retrieve it.[77]
The Spanish Assassins tracked down and eliminated Diego de Alvarado, who had also stolen the other two pieces of the Shattered Staff of Eden. However, they learned that Diego had already delivered the complete Staff to Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada.[77]
October 12: Christopher Columbus' fleet discovered the Americas, and landed on the island of Guanahani, inhabited by the Taíno.[83]
1493
Spring: A team of Spanish Assassins traveled to Italy to investigate rumors of the Templars' resurgence in Florence, at the request of Ezio Auditore. With the aid of the Italian Assassins Perina di Bastian and Corvo Antonelli, they discovered that the Templar Bonacolto Contarini had been kidnapping the city's citizens to be sold into slavery, and eliminated him.[166]
1494
November 9: Girolamo Savonarola stirred the Florentines into rebelling against Piero de' Medici using the Apple of Eden. The Medici were exiled and Savonarola became the city's de facto leader.[165]
Ezio Auditore saved Girolamo Savonarola's cousin Marcello from Borgia guards in Florence.[165]
Ezio Auditore saved Piero de' Medici from Girolamo Savonarola's followers in Venice. Together, they took down the attackers and a corrupt herald.[165]
February 25: Prince Cem was killed in Capua by the Assassins, who believed the Borgia were planning to use him to conquer Constantinople.[152]
The Ottoman Assassins Ishak Pasha, Yusuf Tazim, Murat Bin Husn, and Aleksei Zima travelled to Spain to intercept a trade deal between the Byzantine and Spanish Templars, hoping to recover Niccolò Polo's journal, though the Templars had already taken it elsewhere.[167]
1497
June 14:Juan Borgia was killed by the courtesan Fiora Cavazza on the orders of his brother Cesare Borgia, allowing the latter to become Captain General of the Papal Armies.[168]
Ezio Auditore killed Girolamo Savonarola's nine lieutenants in an effort to remove Savonarola's control over the Florentine population and regain the Apple of Eden.[169]
1498
March 3:Giovanni Borgia was born to Lucrezia Borgia and the Assassin Perotto Calderon, with whom Lucrezia had a secret affair, but suffered from a life-threatening deformation. Calderon stole the original Shroud of Eden from his Brothers in Agnadello to save his son's life. The Assassins subsequently killed Perotto after discovering his betrayal.[56]
Ezio Auditore killing Girolamo Savonarola
May 23:
Girolamo Savonarola lost all his power and influence in Florence and was captured by an angry Florentine mob in front of the Palazzo Pitti. Ezio Auditore regained the Apple of Eden, after it had been dropped by Savonarola.[169]
Ezio Auditore killed Girolamo Savonarola out of mercy while his target was being burned at the stake in front of the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence.[169]
September 16: Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain and a Master Templar, was killed by the Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins[21][77] inside the Forge. The Shattered Staff of Eden was subsequently destroyed using the Forge's collapsing structures, and its remnants were buried.[77]
1499
The Spanish Brotherhood and the Libyan AssassinNajma Alayza investigated the disappearances of civilians in Granada, eventually discovering the Templar Garza and Najma's brother Ubayd Alayza to be responsible. Expressing remorse over his defection to the Templars, Ubayd was killed by Garza, who was in turn slain by the Assassins. Afterwards, Najma agreed to join the Spanish Brotherhood in their efforts to rebuild Granada.[170]
November 23:Perkin Warbeck, a Templar, was hanged by King Henry VII of England for his attempt to claim the English throne.[56]
December:
The Italian Assassins assembled the pages of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex and discovered they formed a map of the world, pointing towards the location of an Isu vault in the Vatican.[21]
In preparation for the Italian Brotherhood's mission to Rome, Claudia Auditore led a team of Assassins to Naples to acquire weapons stolen by Armilia Guardato, a Templar ally and longtime rival of the Auditore family. The Assassins ultimately succeeded in eliminating Armilia and securing the weapons.[171]
Ezio Auditore contacted by the hologram of Minerva
December 28:
Ezio Auditore infiltrated the Vatican and battled Rodrigo Borgia, who wielded the Papal Staff of Eden, in the Sistine Chapel. Ezio defeated Rodrigo and claimed the Staff, but chose to spare his target's life.[21]
Ezio Auditore opened the door to the Vatican Vault using his Apple of Eden and the Papal Staff and received a message from the Isu Minerva warning Ezio's descendant Desmond Miles of the Second Disaster.[21]
Ezio Auditore escaped Rome with his uncle Mario and the Apple of Eden, but lost the Papal Staff, which remained secured within an underground chamber in front of the Vatican Vault.[78]
1500
January 2: Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army under orders of Cesare Borgia, who executed the captured Assassin leader Mario Auditore and took possession of the Assassins' Apple of Eden. Ezio Auditore was severely wounded during the siege, and Caterina Sforza was captured.[78]
January: Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and set up headquarters on Tiber Island in Rome to fight the Borgia. Ezio Auditore joined him and later set up an underground network in the city led by his sister Claudia, La Volpe and Bartolomeo d'Alviano.[78]
Cesare Borgia and Sirus Favero founded the Crows, a Templar organization dedicated to eradicating the Assassins by adopting their own techniques and weaponry. They deceived the Spanish Assassin Raphael Sánchez into training the Crows for five years at Vallombrosa Abbey.[172]
May: Ezio Auditore saved Nicolaus Copernicus from Borgia attacks in Rome after Copernicus betrayed the Templars by making his scientific discoveries of heliocentrism public.[173]
December 16/17: Italian Assassins destroyed several warehouses and factories in Calicut, India owned by Pedro Álvares Cabral, a Portuguese explorer tasked with eliminating the local Assassins Guild. The population of Calicut rose in rebellion against Cabral, and he fled the city.[56]
16th century
1501
Ezio Auditore and Caterina Sforza escaping from Castel Sant'Angelo
June 30: Ezio Auditore helped Caterina Sforza escape her imprisonment by Lucrezia Borgia in the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome.[78]
September 20: Agostino Barbarigo, the Doge of Venice and an Assassin ally, died after having been poisoned by an Assassin team consisting of Francesco Vecellio, Cipriano Enu, and Tessa Varzi for making deals with the Borgia.[56]
1502
Ezio Auditore destroyed the war machines that Leonardo da Vinci had designed on the orders of Cesare Borgia, at Leonardo's own request.[78]
Yusuf Tazim met with a contingent of Venetian Assassins in a joint effort to steer the Ottoman–Venetian War to a peaceful end.[83]
Pietro de Galencia, a Templar spy who had infiltrated Monteriggioni, was killed by the Assassin Lo Sparviero after stealing a chest containing the blueprints for a Hidden Blade from the Villa Auditore. The Assassins were unable to recover the chest, as it had already been delivered to Cesare Borgia.[172]
October 18: The University of Wittenberg opened its doors. Its founder, Friedrich der Weise, previously received a large anonymous donation from the Assassins, stolen from the Templars.[56]
November 1:Vasco da Gama bombarded Calicut for two days in retaliation for the Assassins routing Pedro Álvares Cabral; the Assassins later eliminated da Gama's commanders who were left in the city.[56]
The Assassin Lo Sparviero foiled an assassination attempt on Leonardo da Vinci by the Crows; the Brotherhood first became aware of the existence of the Crows.[172]
1503
Francesco Vercellio recruiting Giovanni Borgia to the Assassins
Giovanni Borgia was recruited into the Assassin Order by the Assassin Francesco Vercellio.[56]
August 1: Ezio Auditore assassinated Juan Borgia the Elder, a Templar and one of Cesare Borgia's lieutenants, while his target was hosting a Pagan party in Rome.[78]
August:
Ezio Auditore killed Baron Octavian de Valois, a Templar and one of Cesare Borgia's lieutenants, in the Castra Praetoria in Rome with aid from Bartolomeo d'Alviano and his men.[78]
Cesare Borgia ordered his assassin Micheletto Corella to kill Pietro Rossi for his affair with Cesare's sister Lucrezia; Ezio Auditore thwarted the attempt and defeated Michelleto, but chose to spare his life.[78]
Ezio Auditore was promoted to Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and his sister Claudia was inducted into the Brotherhood.[78]
August 18: Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia was killed by his son Cesare after refusing to give him the Apple of Eden and attempting to have him killed for his reckless behaviour. Ezio Auditore retrieved the Apple of Eden from the courtyard of Basilica di San Pietro ahead of Cesare.[78]
September 22:Pius III was elected to the Papacy, succeeding the late Rodrigo Borgia. Cesare Borgia attempted to rig the election in his favor, but was unable to due to having lost all of his influence in the Vatican.[174]
November 1:Julius II became Pope, succeeding Pius III, who had passed away only 26 days after his election.[174]
Cesare Borgia's arrest
November 23:Margaret of York was fatally poisoned by the Assassins on behalf of King Richard VII of England, for plotting to claim the English throne in a Yorkist Templar plot.[56]
December: Cesare Borgia was arrested by Fabio Orsini on the orders of Pope Julius II, after all his remaining supporters in Rome were eliminated by the Italian Assassins.[78]
1504
Cesare Borgia escaped imprisonment from the Castel Sant'Angelo, but was re-captured by Ezio Auditore near Ostia. Pope Julius II struck a deal with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela of Spain to have Cesare imprisoned in the Castillo de la Mota in Valencia.[174]
Claudia Auditore stepped down as the madam of the Rosa in Fiore in Rome after having been taken captive by Templar spies. The Venetian thief Rosa took over the position.[174]
Ezio Auditore was nursed back to health by the noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo after having been injured in a battle outside Florence.[175]
November 26: Queen Isabella I of Castille passed away afer having been poisoned by her servant, an acquaintance of Luis de Santángel, at the request of the Assassins for colluding with the Borgia.[56]
1505
Ezio Auditore foiled an attempt on Leonardo da Vinci's life by mercenaries employed by Pope Julius II, who sought to deprive the Borgia of the inventor's genius.[175]
Micheletto Corella was taken captive in Zagarolo after Ezio Auditore led a force of 100 Assassins and thieves against Micheletto's army. Micheletto was imprisoned in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and interrogated.[174]
Pope Julius II employed Leonardo da Vinci as a military engineer and became an ally of the Italian Assassins following a meeting with Ezio Auditore.[174]
1506
Ezio Auditore locked his Apple of Eden in the Isu vault beneath the Roman Colosseum,[78] on the artifact's instructions.[174]
The Cult of Hermes kidnapped Leonardo da Vinci to uncover the location of the Temple of Pythagoras found by Leonardo. Ezio Auditore and Leonardo's apprentice Salaì investigated his disappearance and found a clue directing them to find five of Leonardo's missing paintings.[176]
Ezio Auditore recovered all five of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and discovered a hidden map leading to the Temple of Pythagoras.[176]
Ezio Auditore and Leonardo da Vinci inside the Pythagorean Vault
June 22: Ezio Auditore killed the Cult of Hermes' leader Ercole Massimo and rescued Leonardo da Vinci. Ezio and Leonardo then explored the Temple of Pythagoras and found an Isu vault which contained, unbeknownst to them, the coordinates of the Grand Temple.[176]
June 24: Ezio Auditore, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Leonardo da Vinci started their journey to Valencia to find Micheletto Corella, based on information from a courtesan named Camilla in Naples.[174]
Michelleto Corella freed his master Cesare Borgia from his imprisonment in the Castillo de la Mota. Cesare began rebuilding his forces and killed Michelleto after the latter betrayed and attacked him.[174]
Cesare Borgia shot Niccolò Machiavelli while he and Ezio Auditore were spying on him, and escaped after Ezio chose to take Machiavelli to a doctor rather than pursue Cesare.[174]
Demetrio il Silente, the inventor who had created the "Corvix Blades" based on the Hidden Blade blueprints stolen from the Villa Auditore in 1502, was sentenced to death for betraying Cesare Borgia, but was rescued by the Assassin Lo Sparviero.[172]
Sirus Favero, the leader of the Crows, infiltrated the Assassins and began plotting to destroy them from within as retribution for his son's murder by Lo Sparviero.[172]
Lo Sparviero became aware of Sirus Favero's deception and informed Niccolò Machiavelli after surviving an ambush by the Crows.[172]
Sirus Favero and most of the Crows were killed in Rome by Lo Sparviero and Niccolò Machiavelli. The surviving Crows fled to Forlì, where they were also eliminated by the Assassins soon after.[172]
1507
Ezio Auditore letting Cesare Borgia fall to his death
March 12: Ezio Auditore killed Cesare Borgia by dropping him from the walls of Viana Castle during the Siege of Viana.[78]
1509
February:
Ezio Auditore traveled to Venice during the city's Carnevale celebrations and recovered his stolen sword, but did not find any clues as to the identity of the thief.[66]
Ezio Audtiore returned to Monteriggioni to assist his sister Claudia with the city's renovations. However, they were betrayed by Claudia's assistant Seraphina, a secret member of the Cult of Hermes, who led bandits in an attack on Monteriggioni, during which several Auditore relics were stolen.[66]
Ezio Auditore returned to Venice and worked with Antonio de Magianis to lure out and assassinate Francesco Rizzo, a Templar involved with the attack on Monteriggioni.[66]
Ezio Auditore killed Seraphina after she unknowingly retrieved a fake replica of the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, and recovered the stolen Auditore relics.[66]
May 14: The Republic of Venice and Kingdom of France fought at the Battle of Agnadello, resulting in a French victory. Bartolomeo d'Alviano was captured by the French, while trying to protect their Shroud of Eden from falling into King Louis XII's hands.[56]
September 10: An earthquake struck Constantinople. Templars fighting under the Byzantine banner re-emerged in the city.[83]
1510
January: The Assassin Francesco Vecellio killed Niccolò di Pitigliano in Lonigo for terrorizing the local citizens and abandoning Bartolomeo d'Alviano at the Battle of Agnadello. Francesco took the Shroud of Eden, which Niccolò had stolen, back to the Assassins.[56]
August 25: Liu Jin was executed via lingchi on several charges of treason after being betrayed by his lieutenant Zhang Yong, who was secretly a Templar.[177]
Winter: Ezio Auditore left Italy and started his journey to Masyaf, after having found a letter in 1509 written by his father detailing Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library.[152]
1511
Ezio Auditore captured by the Templars in Masyaf
March:
Ezio Auditore was ambushed and captured by Byzantine Templars under the command of Leandros in Masyaf, but escaped his execution by hanging.[83]
Ezio Auditore killed Leandros in Atlas Village, after pursuing him through the Syrian countryside; Ezio retrieved The Secret Crusade by Niccolò Polo from Leandros' body.[83]
May: Ezio Auditore arrived in Constantinople and became familiarized with the Ottoman Assassins, led by Yusuf Tazim, and their struggle against the Byzantine Templars.[83]
The Byzantine Templars attempted to abduct Prince Suleiman during a party at Topkapı Palace but were thwarted by the Ottoman Assassins. Suleiman and Ezio Auditore subsequently formed an alliance to bring down the Byzantine Templars.[83]
Ezio Auditore assassinated the Janissary captain Tarik Barleti based on incorrect suspicions of colluding with the Byzantine Templars.[83]
Ezio Auditore retrieved the Armor of Ishak Pasha from a hidden chamber inside the Hagia Sophia, after uncovering its location from the ten memoir pages of Ishak Pasha he had found scattered around Constantinople.[83]
Ezio Auditore found and explored Vlad Tepes' prison on the outskirts of Constantinople, retrieving Vlad's sword from within his tomb.[83]
1512
Ezio Auditore and Piri Reis leaving Constantinople
Ezio Auditore used explosives to destroy the Great Chain over Constantinople's harbor. He also set the docked Ottoman fleet ablaze using Greek fire, and made his way to the Byzantine Templars' hideout in Cappadocia alongside Piri Reis.[83]
Ezio Auditore destroyed the Templars' ammunition storage inside Derinkuyu, causing the city to be filled with smoke and creating widespread panic.[83]
Ezio Auditore killed Manuel Palaiologos, the Byzantine Templar behind the efforts to remove Ottoman rule in Constantinople and open Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library. Ezio recovered the final Masyaf Key from Manuel's body, only to be confronted by Prince Ahmet, who revealed himself to be the true Templar Grand Master, and made his way back to Constantinople.[83]
April:
The Ottoman Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim was killed by the Byzantine Templars while trying to prevent Sofia Sartor's abduction in her bookshop.[83]
Ezio Auditore led the Ottoman Assassins in besieging the Templars' hideout at the Harbor of Theodosius, though he was forced to spare Prince Ahmet in order to save Sofia Sartor's life.[83]
Ezio Auditore and Prince Ahmet met on the wall connected to Galata Tower, where Ezio handed Ahmet the Masyaf Keys. Ahmet tricked Ezio and ordered Sofia's execution, though Ezio saved her from strangulation.[83]
April 25:
Sultan Bayezid II was forced to abdicate the Ottoman throne by his son Selim I, with support from the Janissaries.[83]
Ezio Auditore pursued and defeated Prince Ahmet outside Constantinople, before Ahmet's brother and rival, Sultan Selim I, arrived and slew his sibling. Ezio was spared due to the endorsement of Selim's son Suleiman, but was ordered to leave Constantinople.[83]
Ezio Auditore speaking to Desmond Miles
May: Ezio Auditore unlocked the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Masyaf, though he decided to leave Altaïr's Apple of Eden locked away. Alongside his and Altaïr's mutual descendant Desmond Miles in 2012,[83] Ezio then witnessed a message from the Isu Jupiter about the Toba catastrophe.[152]
June: Sofia Sartor sold her bookshop in Constantinople to the Ottoman Assassins, who hid the Masyaf Keys in the cistern beneath the shop. Ezio Auditore became engaged to Sofia, and the couple left for Italy.[152]
1513
February: Ezio Auditore announced his impending retirement as Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and declared his favored successor to be Lodovico Ariosto.[152]
1515
Ezio Auditore placed the English Assassin Hiram Stoddard in charge of a mission to take down a Templar plot, accompanied by Giovanni Borgia, based on intel delivered by Michelangelo.[178]
The Assassins Giovanni Borgia and Hiram Stoddard ambushed the Templar Dei Petrucci while the latter was transporting an Apple of Eden through Florence, but the Assassins failed to recover the artifact as Petrucci escaped with it.[178]
In an act of jealousy, Giovanni Borgia revealed Hiram Stoddard's adultery to the latter's lover, Elena, resulting in a violent confrontation on a rooftop. After being hit in the head by Hiram, Giovanni became possessed by the Isu Consus. Elena died in the skirmish, angering Hiram and drastically altering his personality.[178]
1516
Hiram Stoddard fighting Giovanni Borgia
The rogue Assassin Hiram Stoddard attempted to steal an Apple of Eden from a remote Assassin hideout in Greece, before being stopped and overpowered by Giovanni Borgia.[178]
1519
February:Hernán Cortés and an army of Spanish soldiers—including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia posing as "Botello" on a quest to find a Piece of Eden—landed on the Yucatán Peninsula to explore Mexico.[56]
May 2: Leonardo da Vinci passed away in the Clos Lucé in Amboise, France, with his friends Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side. King Francis I of France would spread stories about being at Leonardo's deathbed as propaganda.[152]
August 31: The Tlaxcaltec commander Chimalpopoca was captured during a battle against Hernán Cortés' Spanish forces, and was subsequently made subservient to the Spanish Empire using the powers of the Trident of Eden's Faith Prong wielded by Cortés.[68]
May 20: The Aztecs in Tenochtitlan were massacred by the Spanish during the Toxcatl feast, in response to the gruesomeness of the feast and to plunder Aztec riches. In the chaos, Giovanni Borgia stole a Crystal Skull from an Aztec priest.[56]
June 29: Moctezuma II, used as a puppet by the Spanish to calm the Aztec people, was killed after one of his subjects struck his head with a stone.[56]
June 30: Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan during the night, known as the Night of Sorrow, during which many Spanish soldiers were slaughtered by the pursuing Aztecs.[56]
1521
Ferdinand Magellan's expedition arriving in Cebu
April: The Spanish expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan arrived on the island of Cebu in the Philippines and converted the native population to Christianity. Magellan found a Piece of Eden hidden on Cebu – a crescent amulet – and was informed by chieftain Rajah Humabon of the other two artifacts that made up the set, one of which was held by his rival Lapu-Lapu.[179]
April 20:Zhu Houzhao, China's "Zhengde Emperor", died without an heir, leaving the country in a state of chaos. The Assassins seized the opportunity to infiltrate the imperial palace and rescue several of the Emperor's concubines, including Shao Jun, who was later initiated into the Brotherhood.[45]
April 27: Ferdinand Magellan's forces battled the native Visayans of Mactan Island for possession of their Piece of Eden. The Spanish were defeated when the Visayan chief Lapu-Lapu used the artifact against them, and Magellan was killed during the battle.[179]
May 27:Zhu Houcong became the "Jiajing Emperor" with aid from the Templars, succeeding his late cousin, Zhu Houzhao.[45]
August: Zhu Houcong ordered a purge of his enemies under the influence of the Eight Tigers, a group of Templar eunuchs.[177] This resulted in the near eradication of the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood, and the few survivors fled to other countries in the west.[180]
The Assassin Shao Jun and her mentor Zhu Jiuyuan traveled to Italy to seek the help of Ezio Auditore, but were ambushed by Templar agents in Venice; Jiuyuan perished in the encounter.[177]
Ezio Auditore giving the Precursor box to Shao Jun
November: Shao Jun met Ezio Auditore at his villa in Tuscany. Ezio agreed to teach her how to rebuild her Brotherhood, and the two fought off Chinese imperial guards pursuing Shao Jun in Florence and at Ezio's villa. Ezio entrusted Shao Jun with a Precursor box before her departure.[180]
November 30: While Ezio Auditore visited Florence with his wife Sofia and their daughter Flavia, he passed away as a result of old age and the wounds sustained during his career as an Assassin.[180]
An Assassin expedition was sent to Cambodia to investigate rumors of a rogue Assassin called Colubra using an Apple of Eden to sow terror among the local population. Accompanied by Shao Jun, the expedition's members fought Colubra's warriors, the Furies, and reached her sanctuary, where Colubra sacrificed herself to destroy the Apple.[181]
1526
The Assassin Shao Jun returned to China at the request of the Chinese Assassins' Mentor Wang Yangming to rebuild their Brotherhood and eliminate the Eight Tigers.[177]
Shao Jun allowed herself and the Precursor box to be captured by the Eight Tigers. She escaped imprisonment and killed the Tiger Gao Feng, while Wang Yangming killed the Tiger Ma Yongcheng. However, the Assassins failed to recover the Precursor box, which was shipped to Macau.[177]
Shao Jun infiltrated Macau to assassinate the Templar Gu Dayong, a member of the Eight Tigers, and recover the Precursor box in his possession.[177] During her mission, Shao Jun met a young boy named Kotetsu, the son of an Assassin, and agreed to rescue his father from captivity, though he soon succumbed to his injuries.[182]
The Tiger Qiu Ju ordered that the port of Macau be set ablaze in retaliation for Shao Jun's assassination of Gu Dayong. Shao Jun managed to escape, but many civilians were killed in the fire.[177]
1527
Giovanni Borgia and Bombastus examining the Crystal Skull
Giovanni Borgia discovered the formula for the philosopher's stone from the "True Magic" chapter of the Book of Abraham in the study of the Swiss scientist Bombastus, when Giovanni took his Crystal Skull to Bombastus for study.[56]
1529
January 9:
The Templar Wei Bin, a member of the Eight Tigers, was killed by the Assassin Shao Jun inside his fortress in Nan'an.[177]
Wang Yangming, the Mentor of the Chinese Brotherhood, was killed by the Templar Zhang Yong, the leader of the Eight Tigers, who took the Precusor box from his body.[177]
1530
The Templar Qiu Ju, a member of the Eight Tigers, was killed in a duel with the Assassin Shao Jun in the Forbidden City, after Shao Jun was ambushed by the Templars during a meeting with her friend, Empress Zhang.[177]
1532
Shao Jun confronting Zhang Yong
Altan Khan, ruler of the Tümed Mongols, launched a siege on the Great Wall of China. The Assassin Shao Jun,[177] with the assistance of her apprentice Kotetsu,[182] thwarted the invasion by closing the wall's gates.[177]
Shao Jun killed the Templar Zhang Yong, leader of the Eight Tigers, atop the Great Wall during the Mongol invasion. Before dying, Zhang Yong revealed that the Precursor box had been sent to another Templar branch, outside of China.[177]
Quila and Gonzalo Pardo, a Spanish Assassin, were captured by the Inca nobleman Tuti Cusi on false accusations of conspiring to kill the Incan Emperor after trying to enlist his aid. They were saved by Cusi's son, Quila's ex-husband Ayar Acar.[183]
Quila, Ayar Acar, and Gonzalo Pardo prevented an assassination attempt on Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui by incapacitating Tuti Cusi and his henchmen. Quila became the Emperor's personal chasqui and was invited by Pardo to join the Assassin Order.[183]
1541
June 26: The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Inca Empire, was killed by the Assassins.[21]
1542
The Assassin Giovanni Borgia communicated with Zhu Houcong through his Crystal Skull. Upon realizing the Emperor's threats, Giovanni warned the Brotherhood of the danger.[56]
1549
July 27:Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary, arrived in Japan to spread the influence of Christianity and the Templar Order.[150] He quickly cultivated an alliance with the local Shimazu clan, who agreed to aid him in his mission.[184]
Alvaro Catarribera, a former Spanish Assassin, infiltrated Francis Xavier's delegation to reach Japan, where he sought to establish a new Brotherhood to fight against the newly-arrived Templars. He soon found and recruited a young girl named Tsuyu, who became his apprentice, laying the foundations of the Kakushiba ikki.[185]
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Kotetsu and Shao Jun prior to the former's departure to Japan
After completing his training under the Mentor Shao Jun, the Assassin Kotetsu left China and returned to his home country of Japan, seeking to establish a new Assassin branch and combat the Templars' influence.[182]
1552
December 3: Francis Xavier was killed by a fellow Templar, João Machado, under orders of Templar Seneschal Gaspar Vilela. Machado stole Xavier's Precursor box, intending to bring it to Vilela in Nagasaki, before the artifact was stolen by Assassins under orders of Shao Jun.[186]
1554
April 27: The Republic of Florence conquered Monteriggioni, after the Florentine exile Giovannino Zeti handed the town keys to Florence. The Medicis allowed the Auditores to continue their rule of the town.[21]
November 17: Queen Mary I of England was killed by the Assassins, to free the people of England from her oppression.[21]
1559
January 15: Queen Elizabeth I of England, successor to her half-sister Mary I, was crowned at Westminster Abbey and began her rule over England, with the aid of an Apple of Eden.[21]
1560
The Templar Nuno Caro arrived in Sakai, Japan, and began making plans to expand the Order's influence in the country through trade,[187] as well as acquire the Imperial Regalia.[185] Ignoring his mission from the Inner Sanctum to search for Pieces of Eden, Caro lied to his superiors about the regalia's nature as Isu artifacts so they would continue funding his operations.[185]
Fujibayashi Masayasu began his shinobi training under Momochi Sandayu and became acquainted with fellow ninja Hattori Hanzō and the Assassins Alvaro Catarribera and Tsuyu. Catarribera informed Masayasu, Sandayu, and Hanzō about the Assassins' mission to protect the Imperial Regalia and convinced them to join their cause.[187]
Momochi Sandayu, Fujibayashi Nagato, and Hattori Hanzō swearing to Tsuyu's Creed
Alvaro Catarribera departed for parts unknown, giving the Imperial Regalia to Tsuyu and trusting her to continue the Assassins' mission to protect the artifacts. Tsuyu hid them within a kofun in Izumi Settsu and began to build up the Kakushiba ikki, recruiting Fujibayashi Nagato, Momochi Sandayu, and Hattori Hanzō.[185]
1567
January 23: Zhu Houcong, the Jiajing Emperor, was killed via mercury poisoning by the Chinese Assassins on the orders of their Mentor Shao Jun.[177]
Oda Nobunaga led a siege of Inabayama Castle, controlled by the Saitō clan. After capturing the castle and extinguishing the Saitō clan, Nobunaga established himself at the stronghold, which he renamed to Gifu Castle.[188]
1568
November: Oda Nobunaga marched on Kyoto with his army and installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as shōgun, effectively seizing control of Japan's central government.[188]
1570
While laying siege to the Asakura clan's stronghold at Kanagasaki Castle, Oda Nobunaga was betrayed and attacked by the army of his brother-in-law, Azai Nagamasa, whose clan maintained a multi-generational alliance with the Asakura. Nobunaga abandoned his siege of Kanagasaki and swore vengeance on Nagamasa and the Azai clan.[188]
July 6:Mōri Motonari, head of the Mōri clan, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō on the orders of his lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, to allow Oda Nobunaga to conquer Chūgoku.[150]
September 30: Oda Nobunaga led a siege of Mount Hiei, razing Enryaku-ji to the ground and massacring all of the temple's inhabitants.[188]
1573
May 13:Takeda Shingen, head of the Takeda clan, was killed in his camp during an attack by Honda Tadakatsu and the Assassin Hattori Hanzō, in order to obtain Shingen's Sword of Eden. The Sword was instead recovered by Oda Nobunaga.[150]
July:Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki rebelled against his benefactor Oda Nobunaga, resulting in his defeat and exile.[188] Seeking to overthrow Nobunaga, Yoshiaki later formed the secret organization known as the Shinbakufu with the goal of regaining his power and restoring the Ashikaga shogunate.[185]
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Diogo, a slave in the service of the Templars Nuno Caro and Duarte de Melo, witnessed his mother being killed by the Templars under suspicion of being a spy. With the help of an Assassin who sacrificed himself to save him, Diogo escaped from the Templars' ship and was later found by the Jesuits, who rescued him from the sea and took him into their service.[185]
Tsuyu entrusting the regalia to Fujibayashi Nagato
The Kakushiba ikki was decimated by the Shinbakufu, who stole two of the Imperial Regalia under the Assassins' protection after discovering their location from Hattori Hanzō. The Shinbakufu gave the artifacts to the Templars in exchange for their support, while Tsuyu entrusted the last regalia to her husband, Fujibayashi Nagato, and left to search for the rest.[185]
1576
June 21: The Battle of Gogunda was fought between the Army of the Mughal Empire and the Rajput chief Maharana Pratap Singh. Despite the Mughal Army's victory, Pratap Singh refused to recognize Mughal rule for several years until his army was defeated.[54]
1578
April 19:Uesugi Kenshin, head of the Uesugi clan and a member of the Templar Order, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.[150]
1579
October 6: Oda clan forces led by Oda Nobunaga's son Oda Nobukatsu attempted to invade the province of Iga but were repelled by the Iga ikki. During the battle, Fujibayashi Naoe proved herself by killing an enemy samurai and subsequently began her shinobi training under the guidance of both her father Nagato and Momochi Sandayu.[185]
1580
August: The Ishiyama Hongan-ji War came to an end once the Ikkō-ikki's leader Kennyo surrendered to the forces of Oda Nobunaga. However, remnants of the ikki led by Kennyo's son Kyonyo refused to submit to Nobunaga and continued their resistance against him.[185]
1581
The Jesuit missionary Francisco Cabral was forced to resign from his post by fellow missionary Alessandro Valignano, after Cabral confronted Valignano about the latter using his position to scour Japan for Templar recruits.[150]
March 8: The Jesuits Alessandro Valignano and Luís Fróis, accompanied by their bodyguard Diogo, arrived in Kyoto and met with Oda Nobunaga to secure safe passage for the Jesuit mission in Japan. Nobunaga granted the request and took Diogo into his service, renaming him Yasuke.[185]
September: Oda Nobunaga survived an assassination attempt by shinobi of the Iga ikki at Azuchi Castle, and decided to organize a second invasion of Iga.[185]
Oda Nobunaga's forces invading Iga
September 30:
Oda Nobunaga's forces, accompanied by Yasuke, marched on Iga and succeeded in subjugating its inhabitants. During the invasion, Yasuke fought and killed the Iga ikki leader Momochi Sandayu, who urged him to find and help a girl with a Hidden Blade.[185]
Fujibayashi Naoe recovered a box hidden in the Mihata Kofun at the request of her father Nagato. The samurai Ido Yoshihiro, a member of the Shinbakufu, stole the box and took it to Katano Castle, where he was later assassinated by Naoe in order to recover the box.[185]
The Shinbakufu ambushed Naoe and retrieved the box before being attacked by Nagato. The Shinbakufu mortally wounded Nagato and left both him and Naoe for dead. Naoe was later found by the monk Sorin and his apprentice Junjiro, who nursed her back to health.[185]
November 19: Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, son of Ivan the Terrible and a Templar affiliate, died; the Assassins were somehow involved in his death.[21]
1582
After completing her recovery, Fujibayashi Naoe began her quest for vengeance against the Shinbakufu, killing Yaita Wakasa in Sakai and Wada Koretake in Amagasaki, with the aid of the Ikkō-ikki members Kyonyo, Mitsumune, and Yaya.[185]
June 21:
Oda Nobunaga, head of the Oda clan, was betrayed and attacked by his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnō-ji. Mitsuhide, a secret member of the Shinbakufu, manipulated Fujibayashi Naoe into helping him kill Nobunaga by framing the daimyō as the Shinbakufu's leader.[185]
While infiltrating Honnō-ji to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, Naoe encountered Yasuke, who recognized her as the girl Momochi Sandayu had urged him to find. After defeating Nobunaga, the daimyō committed seppuku while Naoe realized she had been deceived and escaped.[185]
During the Honnō-ji incident, the Assassin and monk Yamauchi Taka retrieved Oda Nobunaga's Sword of Eden, which was then transported to China by Liu Yan.[150]
Naoe infiltrated Katano Castle to search for leads to Akechi Mitsuhide's whereabouts, only to run into Junjiro and Yasuke. After Yasuke saved them from the castle's guards, Junjiro convinced Naoe to forgive Yasuke and accept his help. Later, the trio, alongside Tomiko, decided to form their own league to fight against the Shinbakufu, naming it the Kakushiba ikki.[185]
May: John Dee left Třeboň and returned to England after an argument with Edward Kelley over the use of the Book of Abraham; Kelley started working at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.[56]
1590
August 18: The Roanoke Colony in the New World was found deserted; the disappearance of the colony had some relation to the Assassin–Templar War.[189]
1591
The Golem killed various members of the nobility and alchemists in Prague, the seat of the Holy Roman Empire. By conversing with it, Elizabeth Jane Weston prevented its attempt to kill her stepfather Edward Kelley.[56]
1592
The Imjin War was fought from 1592 to 1598 between the Joseon dynasty of Korea and invading Japanese forces led by the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The Joseon were ultimately successful in fending off the Japanese invasion, but the conflict led to a long-lasting animosity between the two countries and their people.[190]
1596
December 23: The Assassin Hattori Hanzō was killed by his longtime rival and fellow ninja Fūma Kotarō in Edo.[150]
1597
Edward Kelley's suicide
November 1: Edward Kelley committed suicide, by jumping off the roof of Hněvín Castle, where he had been imprisoned by Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire, for failing to create gold.[56]
1598
September 18: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the unifier of Japan, was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in Fushimi Castle.[150]
1600
October 21: The Battle of Sekigahara was fought between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari, ending in a Tokugawa victory. Ishida's vassal Shima Sakon was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka.[150]
17th century
1615
May–June: The second Siege of Osaka was fought between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Toyotomi clan; the Toyotomi clan was defeated, and thus the last threat to the shogunate. Many samurai, including the Assassin Hattori Masanari, perished in the conflict.[150]
May 29: Prince Charles II returned to London after years of exile in France, the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands.[56]
1661
May 29: King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was crowned at Westminster Abbey; a man wielding a Piece of Eden was present at the coronation.[56]
1666
The Great Fire of London
September 2: The Great Fire of London started, destroying thousands of buildings in the medieval City of London over the course of four days.[54]
Louis-Joseph d'Albert de Luynes and three other Assassins attempted to recruit Julie d'Aubigny, but d'Aubigny attacked and defeated them. After a second attempt, she agreed to join the Brotherhood and started training under Maréchal.[70]
June: The Master Assassin Thomas "Tom" Stoddard arrived in Salem from London on an assignment to retrieve a Piece of Eden from the colonies.[192]
June 10:Bridget Bishop was hanged in Salem on suspicions of witchcraft. The Assassin Tom Stoddard bore witness to the event.[192]
Tom Stoddard and Jennifer Querry finding the Templars' prisoners in Salem
June:
The Assassin Tom Stoddard and his contact Jennifer Querry infiltrated a Templar warehouse in Salem, where they found several imprisoned women. They rescued Dorothy Osborne and David, who promised to lead them to the Piece of Eden, fending off several attackers in the process.[192]
While fleeing through the swamp, Tom was forced to abandon Jennifer and David to protect Dorothy. While carrying her, Dorothy became possessed by Consus, who spoke through her, leaving a message intended for Tom's descendant Charlotte de la Cruz.[192]
Tom, Dorothy, and Jennifer were captured by the Templars at the Salem docks. While being interrogated, Dorothy allowed Consus to take hold of her, giving Jennifer the opportunity to free Tom. Jennifer was killed in the ensuing fight, and Dorothy committed suicide.[192]
William Stoughton was shot by Samuel Parris before the former could kill Tom, citing that the Templars' unneeded violence conflicted with their goals. Tom and David were allowed to escape, and later buried Jennifer and Dorothy before Tom realized that David was Jennifer's son and decided to adopt him.[192]
1696
The Great Recoinage of 1696 occurred, with King William III of England attempting to replace the worn coins in circulation. Subsequently, many counterfeit coins were produced and entered circulation.[193]
William Lowndes, the Secretary of the Treasury in England and an Assassin, tasked fellow Assassin Omar Khaled with lending aid to Warden of the Royal Mint Isaac Newton to resolve the issue of money counterfeiters following the Great Recoinage.[193]
A slave ship bound for the Americas was raided by the Assassin Omar Khaled, who managed to save all 1000 slaves aboard the vessel, but lost his own life in the process.[193]
Edward Kenway saved Rose, the housemaid of the Scott family, from being raped by Tom Cobleigh, and met Caroline Scott, becoming infatuated with her.[195]
Edward Kenway made several unsuccessful attempts to court Caroline Scott, but she was eventually won over by his charms and married him, breaking off her engagement to Matthew Hague, which led to her father Emmett Scott disowning her.[195]
1712
Caroline Scott leaving Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway, dissatisfied with his life in Bristol and failing marriage to Caroline Scott, decided to become a privateer. On the night of Edward's set departure, Emmett Scott had his Templar associates Tom Cobleigh and Julian burn the Kenways' farm, to prevent Caroline from returning there. Disowned by his father Bernard for the pain he had brought upon the family, Edward took revenge on Tom and Julian.[195]
Edward Kenway became a privateer aboard the Emperor, captained by Alexander Dolzell, and reluctantly turned to piracy along with the rest of the crew.[195]
Edward Kenway joined the crew of the Sea Dog's Bite, captained by Edward Thatch, after proving himself in a fight against his former crewmate Blaney, who was killed by Thatch for cheating. Mentored by both Thatch and Benjamin Hornigold, Edward became a successful privateer.[195]
April 11: The Peace of Utrecht was signed between the belligerents of the War of the Spanish Succession, effectively ending all armed conflict between the powers of Europe. Privateers in the West Indies were no longer needed, causing many privateers, including Edward Kenway, Edward Thatch and Benjamin Hornigold, to turn to piracy.[194]
The crew of the Sea Dog's Bite recovered the treasure of a Spanish shipwreck in the Bahamas after killing the Royal Navy captain Blount, who sought the same prize.[197]
The Royal Navy captain Stewart stole a map from the pirate captain Cliff and found an Isu vault in the Caribbean, but was pursued by a group of pirates from the Sea Dog's Bite crew, including Edward Kenway. The pirates killed Stewart and his men and decided to keep the vault's existence secret.[198]
1714
The Master Assassin Duncan Walpole, disillusioned by the lack of glory and recognition from serving the Brotherhood, was secretly convinced by the Templar Henry Spencer to switch allegiances.[199]
Duncan Walpole traveled to the West Indies to train with the Mentor Ah Tabai, where he acquired maps detailing the locations of the West Indies Brotherhood's bureaus, which Walpole planned to deliver to the Templars in Havana.[194]
1715
June: The Assassin Duncan Walpole was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway, after Walpole assassinated Edward's captain Abel Bramah and both ships were destroyed near Cape Bonavista. Stealing Walpole's identity, Edward saved Stede Bonnet from British soldiers and sailed with him to Havana, Walpole's intended destination.[194]
Edward Kenway meeting the Templars in Havana
July:
Edward Kenway, impersonating Duncan Walpole, met Woodes Rogers and Julien du Casse in Havana and delivered Walpole's maps of the Assassin bureaus to the Templar Grand Master, Laureano de Torres y Ayala. Torres then inducted "Walpole", Rogers and du Casse into the Templar Order.[194]
The Templars killed several Assassins in Havana while protecting the Sage Bartholomew Roberts from falling into their hands. That evening, Edward Kenway was caught on suspicions of freeing Roberts, and was imprisoned aboard the Spanish Treasure Fleet.[194]
July 30: The Treasure Fleet lost eleven of its twelve vessels in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. The remaining ship, later rechristened the Jackdaw, was stolen by pirate captives led by Edward Kenway and Adéwalé, and managed to escape the storm.[194]
September: The Templar Julien du Casse was killed by Edward Kenway in his stronghold in Great Inagua, to prevent du Casse from warning his fellow Templars of Edward's escape.[194]
1716
March:
The pirate and Assassin Mary Read invited Edward Kenway to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Tulum, on the Yucatán Peninsula. There, they explored the Mayan ruins and Edward identified a statue of the Sage.[194]
The Mentor Ah Tabai, Mary Read and Edward Kenway defended Tulum from an attack by British soldiers led by the slaver Laurens Prins.[194]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Antó defend the bureau in Kingston from a Templar attack, and killed the British officer and Templar Kenneth Abraham, from whom he obtained a Templar key.[194]
July:Samuel Bellamy replaced Benjamin Hornigold as captain of Hornigold's pirate fleet by majority vote and Hornigold's rule to not attack British ships was neglected. Hornigold was escorted away from the pirates to another island by Alonzo Batilla.[200]
November: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla attacked a galleon of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, but were lured into a trap by Captain Francis Hume of the British Navy, a Templar.[200]
1717
Edward Kenway questioning Laureano Torres at Punta Guarico
January:
Alonzo Batilla recovered Laurens Prins' slaver route and sank Francis Hume's ship, which had attacked Samuel Bellamy on the orders of Laureano de Torres y Ayala.[200]
Edward Kenway attacked the fort at Punta Guarico to steal Laureano de Torres y Ayala's gold, but instead devised a plan to use Torres and his gold to acquire Bartholomew Roberts from Laurens Prins, who had the Sage in his employ.[194]
February: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla set a trap for the Whydah, Laurens Prins' slave ship transporting a Piece of Eden. The Whydah and its treasure were secured, and the pirates were able to sink the attacking King George captained by Francis Hume.[200]
April 27: The slaver Laurens Prins was assassinated in Kingston by Edward Kenway, aiding his friend Mary Read in finishing her assassination contract after Prins refused to sell Bartholomew Roberts, whom Prins had employed. Roberts managed to escape Kingston.[194]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Rhona Dinsmore defend the bureau in Havana from a Templar attack, and killed the Templar Hilary Flint, from whom he obtained a Templar key.[194]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Upton Travers defend the bureau in Nassau from a Templar attack, and killed the pirate and Templar Jing Lang, from whom he obtained a Templar key, as well as Upton's brother Vance, who had betrayed the Assassins.[194]
May: Alonzo Batilla aided Christopher Condent in finding supplies and rum for the Pirate Republic of Nassau; La Buse fled Nassau with the Piece of Eden after discovering the Templars had infiltrated the republic.[200]
September: La Buse escaped from a Templar attack on an enemy ship, leaving the wreckage of his vessel Le Postillon behind; Alonzo retrieved La Buse's codebook from the Templar John Barnes, detailing his location to be Mayaguana.[200]
December: John Barnes was fatally shot by fellow Templar Christopher Condent, after being unable to discern the location of Olivier Levasseur to Condent and Benjamin Hornigold.[194]
1718
January: The pirates Edward Kenway and Edward Thatch, the latter now renowned as "Blackbeard," traveled to a shipwreck of the Spanish Treasure Fleet to find medicine for the people of Nassau, without success.[194]
March:Richard Thompson was saved from marooning on an island by Alonzo Batilla, and revealed that Olivier Levasseur had joined Edward Thatch's crew. Batilla endeavoured to catch up with Levasseur.[200]
April: Edward Thatch was overrun by a British Man O' War. After being saved by Edward Kenway, Thatch's men discovered a shipment of medicine from Charles-Towne aboard the Man O' War.[194]
May: Edward Thatch laid siege to Charles-Towne, South Carolina for a week, holding men hostage in exchange for medicine. Edward Kenway infiltrated the town, stealing the medicine instead.[194]
Woodes Rogers' arrival in Nassau
July 22:
Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas arrived in Nassau with Commodore Peter Chamberlaine, extending a pardon from King George I of Great Britain to all pirates.[194]
Commodore Peter Chamberlaine was assassinated by Edward Kenway for threatening the Pirate Republic. Edward and Charles Vane destroyed the British blockade of Nassau with a fireship and escaped the city.[194]
August: Alonzo Batilla and Olivier Levasseur retrieved their Piece of Eden and used its powers to fight off Christopher Condent. Levasseur escaped to hide the artifact from the Templars, while Batilla distracted the pursuing Governor Woodes Rogers before ultimately escaping.[200]
November 22: Edward Thatch was killed off the coast of Ocracoke, during a Royal Navy assault led by Robert Maynard. Edward Kenway and the Jackdaw managed to escape.[194]
November 23: Charles Vane and Edward Kenway were marooned on Isla Providencia, after Jack Rackham deposed Vane as captain and captured the Jackdaw.[194]
December 10: The pirate Stede Bonnet was hanged in Charles-Towne.[194]
1719
February: Edward Kenway was saved from Isla Providencia by an arriving ship, after having fought Charles Vane, who had lost his sanity on the island.[194]
May: The pirate Benjamin Hornigold joined the Templar Order in Kingston after accepting Governor Woodes Rogers' pardon. Edward Kenway sailed to Príncipe to save the Sage Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars.[194]
June 19: The pirate hunters and Templars John Cockram and Josiah Burgess were killed by Edward Kenway, after Edward had saved Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars' attack. Roberts was elected as the replacement of pirate captain Howell Davis.[194]
Edward Kenway and Bartholomew Roberts inside the reactivated Observatory
September:
Edward Kenway and Bartholomew Roberts captured the Portuguese ship Nosso Senhor da Compreensão and secured the Templars' blood vials on board. Roberts renamed the ship Royal Fortune and made it his flagship.[194]
The pirate hunter and Templar Benjamin Hornigold was killed by his former friend Edward Kenway on Santanillas for betraying the Pirate Republic.[194]
Edward Kenway was betrayed by Bartholomew Roberts and turned over to the British authorities in Kingston, after Edward and Roberts visited the Observatory. Roberts took possession of the complex's Crystal Skull.[194]
Edward Kenway's former first mate Adéwalé, disillusioned with the pirate lifestyle, decided to join the Assassin Brotherhood and began training under the Mentor Ah Tabai.[194]
October 31: The pirates Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Jack Rackham were captured by the Royal Navy following a short naval battle near Jamaica.[194]
November 18: Jack Rackham was executed in Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica.[194]
November 28: Mary Read and Anne Bonny were led to trial in Port Royal, but managed to delay their sentences by revealing their pregnancies. Edward Kenway, also imprisoned in Port Royal, was present for the trial.[194]
1721
Edward Kenway joining the Assassins
April: Edward Kenway and Anne Bonny escaped imprisonment in Port Royal with the aid of the Mentor Ah Tabai; Mary Read died in prison, due to complications from childbirth. Edward decided to join the Assassins, out of respect for Mary.[194]
May: Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas was injured during an assassination attempt by Edward Kenway at a party in Kingston.[194] Rogers survived his wounds and returned to England, but was expelled from the Templar Order for his slave trading.[195]
November 28: The French bandit Cartouche was saved from death by his lover Mireille, the leader of the French Assassins, who managed to fake his execution. Cartouche joined the Assassin Brotherhood.[70]
Unknown
Edward Kenway unlocked a hidden vault in Tulum using Mayan keystones he had found while exploring the West Indies, and retrieved a set of Mayan Armor created using scavenged Shards of Eden.[194]
1722
February 10: The pirate and Sage Bartholomew Roberts was killed by the Assassin Edward Kenway, who took possession of his Crystal Skull and blood vials. Upon Roberts' request, Edward destroyed his body to prevent it from falling into Templar hands.[194]
September 1: Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Caribbean Templars, was killed inside the Observatory in Jamaica by the Assassin Edward Kenway.[194]
September: The crew of the Jackdaw was taken captive by the pirate Edward Low while attempting to recover gold from a sunken Spanish ship. Edward Kenway rescued his crew and defeated Low.[202]
Edward Kenway meeting his daughter, Jennifer Scott
October:
Edward Kenway returned to England with his daughter Jennifer Scott, who had just arrived in Great Inagua, after Edward heard news that his wife Caroline Scott had passed away two years earlier.[194]
The West Indies Assassins relocated from Tulum to Great Inagua, after Edward Kenway left them his hideout there.[194]
1723
Edward Kenway killed the Templars Emmett Scott, father of Caroline Scott, and Wilson in a warehouse in Bristol for the pain they had brought upon his late wife and parents.[195]
Robert Walpole, the future Prime Minister of Great Britain and cousin of the Assassin Duncan Walpole, pardoned Edward Kenway and his pirate crew. Walpole later introduced Edward to both the Stephensen-Oakley family, who helped him purchase a mansion in London, and his future assistant, Reginald Birch.[195]
Unknown
Edward Kenway joined the British Brotherhood of Assassins and eventually became its co-leader alongside Miko.[75] He also traveled around the world in an attempt to learn more about the Isu, exploring temples in Italy and Alamut,[157][203] and found a Shroud of Eden, which he hid away in the Tower of London.[75]
December 24: Edward Kenway met with a West Indies Assassin in London who informed him about a potential Precursor site in Southeast Asia, which Edward decided to investigate.[203]
Hendrik, a navigator working for the Dutch East India Company who had discovered the location of a Precursor site in Angkor, met with Madam Lee and asked her to sponsor an expedition to the lost city. However, she turned him down.[205]
The Assassin Adéwalé killed a Templar working for the East India Company in the Caribbean, and learned that the Templars had laid a trap for Edward Kenway in Southeast Asia. Adéwalé subsequently contacted the British Brotherhood,[206] who informed Edward's wife Tessa about the plot.[207]
February:
Edward Kenway arrived in Macau to begin his investigation of the Precursor site in Angkor, and protected the Dutch navigator John Young, who had stolen Hendrik's story about Angkor, from an attack by Shimazu clanninja.[203]
Edward discovered that Hendrik had been assassinated by the Templars,[208] and was mistaken for his killer by Hendrik's Dutch East India Company colleagues, leading to Edward becoming a wanted fugitive in Macau.[209] Madam Lee purchased Hendrik's sea log upon his death and refused to hand it over to the Templars.[205]
Edward Kenway fighting a group of Shimazu ninja
Edward and John took shelter in the village of a Chinese laborer named Zhang, whom the former had rescued during an altercation with Shimazu ninja.[210] Edward later stole resources from one of Madam Lee's warehouses to create a remedy to treat an outbreak of cholera in the village.[211]
Edward infiltrated the Mandarin's House to recover Hendrik's sea log from Madam Lee, but was interrupted by an attack by Shimazu ninja.[212] While helping Lee's guards fend off the attack, he lost Hendrik's log to the Templar Shimazu Saito, but managed to keep the cipher needed to decode the journal.[213]
Edward formed an alliance with Madam Lee to recover Hendrik's sea log and deal with Lee's business rivals, Alan Jacob, Jan van Aert, and Sun, who were secretly backed by the Templars.[205]
Edward and John protected Madam Lee's merchant ships from an attack by pirates hired by Sun, and captured the pirates' captain, Mustafa.[214]
Edward staged a raid on a Far East Company ship to expose the company's opium trafficking,[215] after Alan Jacob tried to frame Madam Lee for smuggling the drug into Macau.[216]
Edward destroyed an opium shipment with the help of John and Mustafa to prevent both Shimazu Saito—who was acting on Sun's behalf—and Madam Lee from stealing it, ending his partnership with Lee in the process.[217]
Edward founded the Zhang Wei Union in Macau.[218] During the organization's first contract to escort a merchant ship to Manila, they defended a Dutch East India Company vessel from pirates.[219] Edward rescued the pirates' prisoners, including the Korean scholar and engineer Yun Pyeong-Gyu, whom he later recruited into the Union.[220]
Edward and his associates liberated the Paracel Islands from pirates who had overrun them,[221] at the request of Jan van Aert.[222] This allowed the Zhang Wei Union to secure a lucrative partnership with the Dutch East India Company.[223]
Edward Kenway and Shimazu Saito teaming up against the Shimazu ninja
A civil war broke out among the ninja of the Shimazu clan, between the Japanese ninja led by Fuma Sukuna and the mixed-blood ninja led by Shimazu Saito.[223] Sukuna and Saito allied themselves with Madam Lee and Sun, respectively, and the former enlisted Edward's help to eliminate Saito,[224] but the Assassin ended up stirking a partnership with her instead.[225]
The Assassin Xiao Han was invited by his uncle Sun to his gambling ship to decipher Hendrik's sea log, which had been given to Sun by Saito. Upon learning that Sun planned to deliver Angkor's Piece of Eden to the Qing Emperor,[225] Xiao Han killed him and took the sea log.[226]
Sun's gambling ship was destroyed by Admiral Zheng on the orders of Madam Lee, resulting in the deaths of all of Saito's followers and a power vacuum which allowed Lee to become Macau's dominant merchant.[227] In the aftermath, Saito was recruited by Edward into the Zhang Wei Union, while the Chinese Assassins formed an alliance with Lee to find Angkor.[190]
March:
The Zhang Wei Union's members deciphered the contents of Hendrik's sea log and sailed to the Philippines on their flagship Fenghuang to investigate their next lead.[179] During the voyage, they were attacked by Admiral Zheng's fleet and the Chinese Assassins led by Xiao Han,[228] but managed to lose their pursuers by sailing into a storm.[229]
The Zhang Wei Union members were joined in their expedition by Jan van Aert, who had learned about their search for Angkor. However, the crews of both the Fenghuang and Jan's ship were later arrested by the Spanish Navy and imprisoned in Manila, due to Jan's alleged involvement in the assassination of Governor Bustamante six years prior.[230]
Edward Kenway rescued Jan and his crew from Fort Santiago before being informed by Shimazu Saito of a monk who had used a crescent amulet to start a riot in Manila.[201] Edward and Saito confronted the monk to retrieve his Piece of Eden,[231] but the artifact was seized by Rajah, the leader of a native resistance against the Spanish colonists.[232] The Zhang Wei Union members fled Manila alongside Jan's crew, who lured away the Spanish Navy to facilitate their escape.[233]
Edward Kenway fighting Rajah
Monkey Island was occupied by Rajah's resistance, who used the crescent amulet to brainwash its inhabitants and recruit them to their cause.[234] The Zhang Wei Union members rescued the brainwashed warriors,[235] and destroyed the resistance's fort.[236]
Rajah stole Hendrik's second sea log from the Basilica del Santo Niño in Cebu and escaped after a confrontation with Edward and Saito, using the crescent amulet to instigate a riot in the city.[237]
Edward defeated Rajah at Fort San Pedro and claimed the crescent amulet. Saito recovered Hendrik's sea log,[238] but lost it during a fight against the Chinese Assassins led by Xiao Han,[204] who killed Rajah.[238] The Zhang Wei Union members escaped Cebu with the amulet, but its powers left Edward temporarily unresponsive.[239]
Saito assumed command of the Fenghuang's crew in lieu of Edward,[240] and secured an alliance with the mercenary Nagamasa and his men, who helped the crew ambush Fuma Sukuna's followers and the Rattan Shield Company deployed by Madam Lee,[241] resulting in Sukuna's death.[242]
The Fenghuang's crew was imprisoned in the Sultanate of Sulu and lost the crescent amulet due to a deal made by Jan van Aert with Sultan Badarud-Din I.[243] After escaping, the crew members tried to recover the amulet, but were forced to fight the Chinese Assassins led by Xiao Han, who also arrived in Sulu.[244]
Xialun Qing sacrificed herself to protect John Young from Xiao Han, allowing the Chinese Assassins to seize the crescent amulet and escape from Sulu.[245] The remaining Zhang Wei Union members fled Sulu empty-handed, joined by Nagamasa and his mercenaries.[246]
The Fenghuang sailed to Singapore, where the crew recovered from their defeat in Sulu.[206] Edward Kenway was briefly reunited with his wife Tessa and daughter Jennifer, who had come to warn him about the Templar plot against him uncovered by Adéwalé.[247][248]
April:
The Fenghuang's crew sailed to Burma in search of another Piece of Eden housed within the Shwedagon Pagoda.[249] Edward Kenway and Shimazu Saito successfully retrieved the artifact,[250] but John Young later betrayed the crew and stole the Piece of Eden, intending to use it to resurrect Xialun Qing.[251]
Edward Kenway confronting John Young following his betrayal
John revealed himself as a Templar spy and fled with the Piece of Eden when the Fenghuang came under attack by an East India Company fleet commanded by Grand Master Alan Jacob.[252] The Fenghuang pursued the enemy fleet to the Strait of Malacca,[253] only to fall into an ambush and fail to recover the artifact.[254]
Following a naval battle against both the East India Company's and Admiral Zheng's fleets, the Zhang Wei Union members were saved by Jan van Aert and the Dutch East India Company, who had been contacted by Zhang. After their enemies retreated, Edward agreed to resume his partnership with Jan,[255] and recruited additional allies from among Batavia's pirates and privateers.[256]
The Zhang Wei Union's fleet sailed to Indochina, where the East India Company and Admiral Zheng had formed a naval blockade.[258] Fighting both enemy fleets, the Union members and their allies emerged victorious, resulting in Zheng's death.[259]
The Zhang Wei Union, the East India Company, and Madam Lee and the Nguyễn clan's army converged at the Forgotten Temple, where they attempted to recover its Piece of Eden.[260] Fighting the temple's guardians using special weapons found around the site,[261] Xiao Han and his fellow Chinese Assassins entered the temple first, followed by John Young, who betrayed the Templars and the Company to pursue his own goals.[262]
Madam Lee and her forces formed a truce with the East India Company,[263] and secured the perimeter around the Forgotten Temple to buy the Chinese Assassins enough time to retrieve its Piece of Eden.[262]
The Zhang Wei Union used the Celestial Chariots, two blimps built by Yun Pyeong-Gyu, to cover Edward Kenway and Shimazu Saito and allow them to reach the Forgotten Temple.[263] Nagamasa dispatched three of his mercenaries to eliminate any soldiers on the ground and prevent them from shooting down the blimps.[264]
Edward and Saito entered the Forgotten Temple and split up to find and activate the control units in the western and northern parts of the complex, respectively.[265] Meanwhile, Xiao Han activated the control unit in the eastern side, opening the pathway to the core of the temple.[266]
Edward ran into John and the East India Company forces led by Alan Jacob, and they formed a truce to fight off the guardians that attacked them.[267] After being abandoned by Edward and John, Alan and his men followed them to the temple's core, where Saito, the Chinese Assassins, and a regiment of Nguyễn soldiers also arrived shortly after, resulting in a standoff.[268]
1735
The Victoire, captained by the Assassin Adéwalé, ambushed a convoy of French Templar ships near Saint-Domingue, and intercepted a parcel adressed to Bastienne Josèphe in Port-au-Prince. While fleeing from the Templars, the Victoire was destroyed in a storm, and Adéwalé washed up in Port-au-Prince.[269]
The Experto Crede protected the Vautour, a French merchant ship transporting French scientists for the French Geodesic Mission and slave spying for the Assassins and Maroons, from pirate ships.[269]
December 3: The Assassin Edward Kenway was killed in his family's estate in London by masked men employed by Reginald Birch, Edward's property manager and secretly a Templar. The masked men proceeded to steal Edward's journal, and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer.[270]
December 12:Haytham Kenway, son of Edward Kenway, started his tutelage under Reginald Birch on his mother Tessa's request, and left with Birch for Europe to find his sister Jennifer.[270]
1737
On the orders of Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, a French vessel took down a slave ship while the Experto Crede was trying to free its slaves from the French. Adéwalé managed to rescue some of the slaves and vowed revenge against de Fayet.[269]
Adéwalé giving the Precursor box to Bastienne Josephe
July 8:
Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue was killed by the Assassin Adéwalé in Port-au-Prince for his harsh treatment of slaves in the colony.[269]
Adéwalé left Port-au-Prince to return to the Assassins after giving Bastienne Josèphe a Precursor box which had resided in the Templar parcel addressed to her.[269]
Achilles Davenport, a former student of the Mentor Ah Tabai in the Caribbean,[157] established the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins in the Thirteen Colonies and assumed the title of Mentor.[189]
1747
British troops during the Siege of Bergen op Zoom
June 11:Juan Vedomir, a Templar assigned to decode Edward Kenway's journal, was killed by Haytham Kenway for working with the Assassins. Haytham took the journal with him, and later brought it to Reginald Birch in the Templar headquarters in Prague.[270]
September: During the retreat from the Siege of Bergen op Zoom, Edward Braddock ordered the execution of a family asking for passage on his boat. Braddock's relationship with Haytham Kenway deteriorated as the latter feared Braddock was turning away from the Templar Order.[270]
1749
The brig Aquila was constructed in Brest, France,[189] on the orders of the Assassin Council in Paris.[157] The ship would become the flagship of the Assassin Navy within several years.[189]
1751
The Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer seduced the Assassin Rhona Dinsmore in Havana to steal her maps of the Yucatán Peninsula. While searching for a Precursor box on the peninsula, de Ferrer instead stumbled upon the Maya city of Chichen Itza and decided to set up an excavation site, believing the city to house Precursor ruins.[157]
March: The Assassin Adéwalé met the Mentor Achilles Davenport of the Colonial Brotherhood at the Davenport Homestead to inform him that their Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript had been shipped to North America. Adéwalé then returned to Saint-Domingue with supplies to help victims of the earthquake.[157]
April: After meeting with their associate Le Chasseur, the Colonial Assassins discovered that the Voynich manuscript was in the possession of Lawrence Washington.[157]
July: Lawrence Washington organized a meeting with his fellow Templars at his estate in Mount Vernon to entrust them the Precursor box and Voynich manuscript. After the meeting, Washington was killed by the Assassin Shay Cormac.[157]
1753
June 25: Haytham Kenway abducted Lucio Albertine to help his mother, the captive Monica, a codebreaker and Assassin associate, decode Edward Kenway's journal for the Templars. Haytham stole the Hidden Blade of Miko, Lucio's Assassin bodyguard, while engaged in combat with him.[270]
1754
Haytham Kenway confronting Miko in the Theatre Royal
April 20: Haytham Kenway boarded the Providence to start his 72-day long journey to the New World to find the Grand Temple. During the journey, Haytham killed the Assassin sailor Louis Mills and managed to evade capture by the Aquila, luring it to its destruction in a storm.[189]
May: The Templar Samuel Smith was killed by the Assassins Shay Cormac in Terra Nova. Shay retrieved the Precursor box from Smith.[157]
Benjamin Franklin, with the use use of electricity and help of the Assassins Shay Cormac and Hope Jensen, made the Precursor box functional. Reading the Voynich manuscript, the box displayed a holographic map of the globe, highlighting Port-au-Prince, Lisbon and the Arctic.[157]
July 10: Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee rescued the surgeon Benjamin Church from capture by the slaver Silas Thatcher, and recruited him into the Colonial Templars.[189]
July 13: Haytham Kenway recruited the soldier John Pitcairn into the Colonial Templars, after attacking and threatening his former comrade Edward Braddock in order to get him to release Pitcairn from service.[189]
July 14: The Colonial Templars besieged the fortress of Southgate in Boston and killed the slaver Silas Thatcher. They then freed all of Thatcher's slaves, including a Kanien'kehá:ka woman named Kaniehtí:io.[189]
November 15: Haytham Kenway formed an alliance with Kaniehtí:io, who claimed she could lead him to the Grand Temple, by planning a joint attack on Edward Braddock.[189]
1755
The Braddock Expedition
July 9: General Edward Braddock was fatally wounded by Haytham Kenway during the Braddock Expedition, with aid from Haytham's fellow Templars, Kaniehtí:io, the Abenaki, Shawnee, and Lenape, for his betrayal of the Templar Order's principles.[189] Braddock died four days later.[270]
July 10: Kaniehtí:io took Haytham Kenway to the entrance of the Grand Temple, which the latter tried to access using his key, but was unsuccessful.[189]
July 13: Charles Lee was inducted into the Templar Order by Grand Master Haytham Kenway.[189]
August 4: Charles Lee met with Haytham Kenway to confirm Edward Braddock's death. Overhearing their discussion, Kaniehtí:io realized that Haytham had lied about making sure Braddock was dead and, believing Haytham had used her, cut ties with him.[270]
November 1: The Assassin Shay Cormac disturbed the Piece of Eden in the Temple beneath the Carmo Convent in Lisbon, causing an earthquake that destroyed the city and killed thousands of citizens. Shay managed to outrun the earthquake but was left severly traumatized.[157]
1756
Winter: The Assassin Shay Cormac stole the Voynich manuscript from the Davenport Homestead, believing that Achilles Davenport knew about the Seismic Temples and was indifferent to putting innocent lives at risk. After discovering the theft, Achilles ordered his Assassins to capture Shay and they cornered him atop a cliff, where Shay was presumed dead after falling into the ocean.[157]
June:
Shay Cormac was nursed back to health by Barry and Cassidy Finnegan at the request of Colonel George Monro, a Templar. On the insistence of Monro, Shay started financing the renovations of New York.[157]
Shay Cormac rescued Christopher Gist from hanging by the Assassin-affiliated gangs in New York, from whom he reclaimed the Morrigan, and seized Fort Arsenal as his new home.[157]
Shay Cormac dueling Le Chasseur
Le Chasseur, a smuggler and Assassin ally, was killed during a Templar attack on Fort La Croix by Shay Cormac, to prevent him from warning the Brotherhood of Shay's survival.[157]
Shay Cormac received a prototype grenade launcher from Benjamin Franklin and used it to destroy a factory in New York which was being used by the Assassin-affiliated gangs to manufacture poisonous gases.[157]
Unknown
Shay Cormac infiltrated Fort de Sable, where he found and retrieved the armor worn by the Templar James Gunn during his expedition to North America in 1398.[157]
Shay Cormac retrieved a set of 11th-century Templar armor from a shipwreck in the North Atlantic, after finding all the keys to the chamber where the armor had been locked away.[157]
Shay Cormac escorting George Monro and his men following the Siege of Fort William Henry
August 10: George Monro and his men escaped an Abenaki ambush led by the Assassin Kesegowaase with the aid of Shay Cormac, after being released following their surrender at the Siege of Fort William Henry.[157]
September 17: Jennifer Scott was rescued by her brother Haytham Kenway and Jim Holden from servitude at the palace of Governor As'ad Pasha al-Azm of Damascus. However, they were detected by the guards and Holden was captured while buying Haytham and Jennifer time to escape.[270]
September 21: Haytham Kenway rescued Jim Holden from the Abou Gerbe monastery on Mount Ghebel Eter in Egypt, where Holden had been castrated and buried in sand. In retaliation, Haytham set fire to the monastery and killed all the priests present.[270]
October 9:
Grand Master Reginald Birch was killed in his chateau near Troyes, France by Jennifer Scott, with the help of her brother Haytham Kenway, for having been responsible for their father's death and selling her into slavery.[270]
Haytham Kenway freed Reginald Birch's prisoners Lucio and Monica Albertine, but was impaled with a sword by a vengeful Lucio. He was nursed back to health over the course of several months by Jennifer Scott and Jim Holden.[270]
November 3: The Assassin Kesegowaase was killed by Shay Cormac in Albany. The Templar George Monro was killed in a fire lit by the Assassin Liam O'Brien, who stole the Voynich manuscript from Monro.[157]
1758
January 20: François Mackandal, Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue, was publicly executed after attempting to poison the white inhabitants of the colony. His pupils Agaté and Baptiste fled to Louisiana.[271]
Shay Cormac's induction into the Templar Order
January 28: Once Haytham Kenway made a full recovery, Jim Holden committed suicide, as he was no longer able to cope with the injuries and trauma inflicted upon him at Abou Gerbe.[270]
Haytham Kenway returned to the Thirteen Colonies,[270] where he inducted Shay Cormac into the Templar Order.[157]
June 8–July 26: The Siege of Louisbourg was fought between the Royal and French Navies. The Templars, using James Cook's HMS Pembroke, thwarted an attack by the Experto Crede captained by the Assassin Adéwalé and secured a British victory.[157]
The Assassin Adéwalé was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac at Vieille Carrière, with the assistance of Grand Master Haytham Kenway, after beaching his ship, the Experto Crede.[157]
1759
October: The Assassin Hope Jensen was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac following an altercation inside her mansion in New York. The Assassin Liam O'Brien returned to Achilles Davenport with the location of another Isu temple retrieved from their Precursor box.[157]
November 12: Aveline de Grandpré was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Agaté. After several months of training, she was formally inducted into the Order.[271]
Haytham Kenway and Shay Cormac sparing Achilles Davenport's life
March: A Seismic Temple in the North Atlantic created an earthquake after its Piece of Eden was disturbed during a confrontation between the Assassins Achilles Davenport and Liam O'Brien and the Templars Haytham Kenway and Shay Cormac. Liam was killed by Shay, and Achilles was shot in the leg by Haytham, who decided to spare the Mentor at Shay's request, so that the could warn the other Assassins of the dangers of the Seismic Temples.[157]
November 2:
Colonial Templars led by Charles Lee assaulted Ratonhnhaké:ton, Haytham Kenway's illegitimate son with Kaniehtí:io, during their search for the Grand Temple in the Mohawk Valley. After being unable to locate the site, the Templars eventually abandoned their search.[189]
The Kanien'kehá:ka village of Kanatahséton was set aflame by George Washington of the British Army, killing many villagers including Kaniehtí:io. Unable to save his mother, Ratonhnhaké:ton blamed Charles Lee and the Templars for the attack and vowed revenge.[189]
1762
July 17: Emperor Peter III of Russia was assassinated, possibly by the Assassin Brotherhood. His wife, Catherine the Great, became Empress of Russia.[272]
1763
The Colonial Templars effectively destroyed the Colonial Brotherhood by wiping out nearly all of its remaining members. Achilles Davenport entered a life of exile in the Davenport Homestead.[189]
1765
February 4:Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, the Governor of Louisiana and a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templars to hand over the colony to the Spanish government.[271]
1766
June 23: Baptiste, the leader of a Maroon smuggling operation impersonating his former Mentor François Mackandal, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templars, on the orders of Baptiste's former Brother, Agaté.[271]
1768
Aveline de Grandpré confronting Antonio de Ulloa
October 27:Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana and a Templar, was attacked by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré while trying to escape New Orleans during the Louisiana Rebellion. Aveline ultimately spared de Ulloa, who agreed to leave Louisiana and the Templars, and retrieved a map leading to a Templar work camp in Chichen Itza.[271]
1769
The Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré in the Isu ruins underneath Chichen Itza, where de Ferrer oversaw a working colony made up of freed slaves brought from Louisiana. Aveline also obtained half of an Isu artifact called the Prophecy Disk, and was reunited with her mother Jeanne.[271]
October 4: Ratonhnhaké:ton came into contact with Juno through the Clan Mother's Crystal Ball, who informed him that he needed to join the Assassin Brotherhood in order to protect his village from destruction.[189]
October 29: Achilles Davenport, the former Mentor of the Colonial Assassins, took Ratonhnhaké:ton under his tutelage after seeing him defend himself against a group of bandits trying to rob the Davenport Homestead.[189]
1770
March 5:
Ratonhnhaké:ton saw his father, Haytham Kenway, for the first time in Boston, and was unable to prevent him and Charles Lee from starting the Boston Massacre by manipulating a group of British soldiers into opening fire on a crowd of protesters.[189]
Ratonhnhaké:ton was framed for the Boston Massacre by the Templars, but was able to clear his name with the help of Samuel Adams. At Achilles Davenport's suggestion, Ratonhnhaké:ton renamed himself "Connor" to move more freely throughout the Thirteen Colonies.[189]
March 18: Connor was inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Achilles Davenport. He then started reconstruction on the Aquila, anchored in the harbor of the Davenport Homestead, and became its captain, with Robert Faulkner as his first mate.[189]
1771
The Spanish Templar Diego Vázquez's attempts to take over smuggling operations in the Louisiana Bayou were disrupted by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, with the aid of Agaté, Gérald Blanc, Élise Lafleur, and Roussillon.[271]
1772
Aveline de Grandpré returned to Chichen Itza, where she made peace with her mother Jeanne over her abandonment years prior and retrieved the other half of the Prophecy Disk using a map leading to another Isu ruin.[271]
1773
November 6: The Assassin Connor aided the Sons of Liberty in defying William Johnson's smuggling operation by destroying his tea shipments in Boston Harbor to disrupt Johnson's purchase of indigenous American land.[189]
December 3:Stephane Chapheau killed one of William Johnson's tax collectors, with aid from Connor, and started his tutelage under the Assassin.[189]
The Boston Tea Party
December 16: The Boston Tea Party occured, in which members of the Sons of Liberty movement and the Assassin Connor dumped British shipments of tea into Boston's harbor in defiance of British authority.[189]
December: The northern district of Boston was liberated from Templar influence by the Assassin Connor, with aid from Duncan Little. Duncan subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood and started his tutelage under Connor.[189]
1774
January 12: The Colonial Templars held a meeting in Boston to discuss recent events and the resurgence of the Colonial Assassins. Haytham Kenway was informed of Kaniehtí:io's death in 1760 and the possibility of Connor being his son.[270]
July 11: The Templar William Johnson was killed by the Assassin Connor in front of Johnson Hall, amidst a violent business deal to purchase the lands of clans of the Iroquois Confederacy.[189]
1775
The southern district of Boston was liberated from Templar influence by the Assassin Connor, with aid from Clipper Wilkinson. Wilkinson subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood and started his tutelage under Connor.[189]
April 18: Members of the Sons of Liberty rode out to warn British colonists of an imminent attack by the British Army; with aid from Connor, Paul Revere warned their allies in Lexington and then proceeded to Concord with William Dawes, though the two men were detained by British soldiers.[189]
Connor commanding Patriot troops during the Battles of Lexington and Concord
June 17: The Continental Army and British Army fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill at Charlestown, Massachusetts. British commander John Pitcairn, a Templar, was killed during the battle by the Assassin Connor, though the British managed to claim victory and captured Charlestown.[189]
Connor rescued Zadock Perry and Jonathan Ferguson, two Sons of Liberty captured by the British Army after their locations were exposed by the British informant Aidan Galway. Connor later assassinated Galway at the Boston docks, and killed Major Rawle while infiltrating Fort Independence to save Ferguson from execution.[66]
1776
During the Siege of Boston, the Assassin Connor eliminated a Templar cell posing as Patriots in the city, with help from Jonathan Ferguson.[66]
George Davidson, an African slave, joined up with a group of American revolutionaries and escaped to the Thirteen Colonies with the help of Aveline de Grandpré, at the request of her stepmother Madeleine de L'Isle.[271]
The Templar Julie de la Serre and her daughter Élise survived an assassination attempt by the rogue Assassin Bernard Ruddock, who had been hired by the Carroll family due to their oppossition to Julie's husband François' leadership of the Parisian Rite. In the aftermath, Élise learned about her family's Templar affiliations and began training to succeed her father as Grand Master.[273]
June 28: The Assassin Connor was led in New York to hang after having been imprisoned alongside the Templar Thomas Hickey while trying to prevent the latter's assassination of George Washington. With aid from Achilles Davenport[189] and secretly Haytham Kenway,[270] Connor escaped and killed Hickey.[189]
The Templar Diego Vázquez was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré at a soirée in New Orleans.[271]
Philippe de Grandpré passed away after being poisoned by his wife Madeleine de L'Isle, the secret leader of the Louisiana Rite of the Templar Order, due to Philippe having found evidence of Templar influence in his business.[271]
December 25: Continental Army forces led by George Washington and accompanied by Connor crossed the icy Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey.[274]
December 27: The Assassin Charles Dorian was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac in the Palace of Versailles, after Charles was entrusted with a Precursor box at an Assassin meeting.[157] Charles' son Arno was subsequently taken in by the De la Serre family as a ward.[70]
1777
New York was liberated from Templar influence by the Assassin Connor, with aid from Deborah Carter, Jamie Colley and Jacob Zenger. All three subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood and started their tutelage under Connor.[189]
Connor recovered William Kidd's Ring of Eden from Oak Island after having obtained all pieces of Kidd's treasure map.[189]
George Davidson, a Templar fighting in Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré with assistance from Connor. From Davidson, Aveline was able to discern that the elusive Templar known as the "Company Man" was her own stepmother, Madeleine de L'Isle.[271]
Madeleine de L'Isle's death at Aveline de Grandpré's hands
Agaté, the Mentor of the Louisiana Assassins, committed suicide after being bested by his pupil Aveline de Grandpré when he attacked her upon hearing news of the Company Man's identity.[271]
Madeleine de L'Isle, the leader of the Louisiana Templars, was killed by her stepdaughter, the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, inside the Saint Louis Cathedral during Aveline's feigned induction into the Templar Order. Aveline then activated the Prophecy Disk using the Heart of the Brotherhood, and witnessed a recording of Eve's election as leader of the human rebellion against the Isu.[271]
July 10:
Major General Richard Prescott of the British Army was captured by Continental Army officer William Barton, after his location in Rhode Island was discovered by the Assassin Connor and the spymaster Jeremiah Scudder. Prescott was later exchanged for General Charles Lee, who had been captured by the British in late 1776.[66]
Lawrence Cato, a former Colonial Assassin-turned-spy, was freed from Richard Prescott's captivity by Connor. After Cato informed him of Jeremiah Scudder's Templar affiliations, Connor tracked down Scudder in Newport and assassinated him.[66]
1778
January 7: Haytham Kenway and Connor formed an alliance to pursue Benjamin Church, who had betrayed both the Templar Order and the Continental Army, stealing several of the Army's supply crates with the intention of defecting to the British Empire.[189]
January 26: Haytham Kenway and Connor besieged the old Smith and Company Brewery in pursuit of Benjamin Church, though instead found a decoy of Church and were attacked by his henchmen, resulting in the brewery being set aflame.[189]
March 7: Benjamin Church was killed by Haytham Kenway and Connor aboard his ship off the coast of Martinique, where the pair recovered the stolen supplies of the Continental Army.[189]
March 17: Admiral Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Connor in the Caribbean, during a battle between the Aquila and Biddle's ship, the USS Randolph.[189]
Connor and Haytham Kenway interrogating the British soldiers
June 16: Haytham Kenway and Connor attacked and captured several British soldiers in New York to discern the British Army's plans, learning that they planned to march from Philadelphia to New York.[189]
June 17:
Connor ended his alliance with Haytham Kenway after discovering that the latter knew George Washington had ordered the attack on his village in 1760, a fact he had deliberately kept hidden from Connor.[189]
George Washington ordered an attack on the village of Kanatahséton after receiving reports of indigenous tribes allying with the British. Connor managed to hold off the attack, but was forced to kill his friend Kanen'tó:kon, who had been convinced by Charles Lee that Connor had betrayed his people.[189]
June 28:
The Continental Army, led by the Marquis de Lafayette and aided by Connor, fought the British Army at the Battle of Monmouth in an attempt to stop their march on New York. Despite Charles Lee's attempt to sabotage the outcome of the battle, Connor was able to secure the Patriots' retreat and spare George Washington of a humiliating defeat.[189]
Prompted by Connor, George Washington investigated Charles Lee and eventually had him court-martialled for insubordination and poor command decisions, leading to Lee's suspension from military duty.[189]
1780
September 24: Major General Benedict Arnold betrayed the Continental Army with help from John André, and attempted to surrender the garrison at West Point to the British, resulting in the Battle of West Point. The Assassin Connor ensured the Patriots' victory, but Arnold escaped by boat.[189]
1781
September 5: The French Navy, aided by the Aquila, defeated the British Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake. In exchange for Connor's aid, the French Navy shelled New York with ships for the Assassin's attack on Fort George.[189]
Connor assassinating Haytham Kenway
September 16: Grand Master Haytham Kenway was killed by his son, the Assassin Connor, who planned to eliminate Charles Lee instead, during his infiltration of Fort George.[189]
September: Achilles Davenport, Mentor of the Colonial Brotherhood, passed away and was buried next to his wife and son by his apprentice Connor, who succeeded him as leader of the Colonial Assassins.[189]
October 2: Charles Lee, the new Grand Master of the Colonial Templars following Haytham Kenway's death, was killed by Connor in the Last Drink tavern in Monmouth, after the Assassin had pursued Lee through New York and Boston. Connor retrieved the Grand Temple Key from Lee.[189]
1783
April: Connor came into contact with Juno through his village's Crystal Ball, who told him to hide the Grand Temple Key somewhere safe; the village's inhabitants had been forced to migrate as their land had been sold by the United States government.[189]
September 3: The Treaty of Paris was signed between delegates of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, formally ending the American Revolutionary War and establishing the United States.[54]
November 25: The last remaining troops of the British Army departed from the new free and independent State of New York in the United States on Evacuation Day.[189]
Unknown
George Washington approached Connor to ask him to dispose of his Apple of Eden,[277] which had been giving Washington troubling visions of an alternate timeline where Connor never became an Assassin and Washington, corrupted by the Apple, ruled the United States as a tyrant.[276] After they were both briefly transported to this timeline,[278] Connor took the Apple and tossed it into the ocean.[279]
1784
Doctor Edmund Judge, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré in Newport, Rhode Island, in order to recruit Patience Gibbs into Connor's Assassin Brotherhood.[280]
1788
January 25: Élise de la Serre left the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis after attempting to blackmail the school's headmistress, Madame Levene, over her perceived relationship with the groundskeeper Jacques. Learning that Jacques was Levene's son, Élise was given the madame's blessing to pause her education in exchange for keeping the secret.[273]
February 7: Élise de la Serre arrived at the Calais docks and was nearly kidnapped by the "Middle Man" alongside another girl, Hélène, while attempting to charter a ship to England. The smuggler Byron Jackson saved the two girls and offered them passage to England aboard his ship, the Granny Smith.[273]
February 8: Élise de la Serre arrived in London to help her mentor Frederick Weatherall search for Bernard Ruddock, the Assassin who had tried to kill Élise's mother Julie in 1776. Élise met with Weatherall at the mansion of the Carroll family, who offered to aid their search in exchange for Haytham Kenway's correspondence with his sister Jennifer Scott.[273]
Élise de la Serre meeting with Jennifer Scott
April 6:
Élise de la Serre received Haytham Kenway's letters from Jennifer Scott, who hoped that she would put them to good use by uniting the Assassins and Templars.[273]
Élise de la Serre saved Bernard Ruddock from being killed by the Carrolls, who wanted to cover their involvement in the assassination attempt on Julie. She then escaped back to France with Frederick Weatherall and Hélène after a confrontation with the Carrolls and their guards, resulting in the death of May Carroll.[273]
1789
January: Élise de la Serre saved Bernard Ruddock from hanging to interrogate him about the identity of his clients. After Ruddock denied knowing his employer's identity, Élise gave him six months to discover it.[273]
April 30: George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York, after a short retirement at Mount Vernon.[54]
François de la Serre, Grand Master of the French Templars, was killed by Charles Gabriel Sivert and Le Roi des Thunes in a Templar coup d'état orchestrated by François-Thomas Germain, who had been banished from the Order by de la Serre for his extremist views. De la Serre's adoptive son Arno Dorian was arrested for the murder.[70]
The Storming of the Bastille
July 14:
The Bastille in Paris was stormed and captured by the Parisian militia, signalling the start of the French Revolution. Arno Dorian and Pierre Bellec escaped captivity in the Bastille, and Bellec invited Arno to join the Assassins.[70]
Élise de la Serre killed Hook and Harvey, two bounty hunters hired by the Carrolls to eliminate her, with assistance from Bernard Ruddock. Ruddock then falsely identified Le Roi des Thunes as the man who had ordered the assassination attempt on Élise's mother Julie in 1776.[273]
July 25:
Arno Dorian attempted to reconcile with Élise de la Serre, discovering her Templar affiliations in the process, but Élise turned him away for having failed to deliver a letter which could have prevented her father's murder.[70]
Arno Dorian joined the Assassin Brotherhood after discovering their hideout underneath the Sainte-Chapelle and started his tutelage under Pierre Bellec.[70]
October 5: Élise de la Serre organized a meeting with her remaining supporters within the Templar Order at the Hôtel de Lauzun, only to learn from the Marquis de Pimôdan that most of them had either disappeared, been killed, or defected to François-Thomas Germain's faction. Élise and her companion Jean Burnel then fell into a trap which claimed Burnel's life while Élise managed to escape.[273]
October 5–6: The Women's March on Versailles occurred in protest against the monarchy of France. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, ensured the march remained peaceful.[70]
1791
Arno Dorian assassinating Charles Gabriel Sivert
January 5: The Templar Charles Gabriel Sivert was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian inside the Notre-Dame cathedral for his role in the assassination of François de la Serre.[70]
January 19: Le Roi des Thunes, the leader of the Cour des Miracles and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian for his role in the assassination of François de la Serre. The Marquis de Sade, who had helped Arno, became the new leader of the Cour.[70]
March 31:
Arno Dorian rescued François-Thomas Germain, secretly the new Templar Grand Master, after he feigned capture by the Templars inside his silversmith workshop. Germain falsely accused the Templar Chrétien Lafrenière of having commissioned the pin that killed François de la Serre.[70]
Chrétien Lafrenière was killed by Arno Dorian during a meeting between his faction of conservative French Templars and members from other European branches. Arno discovered that Lafrenière had tried to warn François de la Serre of his impending assassination, and realized Germain's deception.[70]
April 1: Élise de la Serre was saved by Arno Dorian from an ambush by François-Thomas Germain's radical Templar faction.[70]
April 2:
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Mentor of the French Assassins, was poisoned by fellow Assassin Pierre Bellec because of his willingness to work with the Templars. Bellec attempted to frame the Templar Élise de la Serre for the murder.[70]
Pierre Bellec was killed his apprentice Arno Dorian, after the latter refused to join his crusade against the Templars and the Assassin leadership, which Bellec believed needed to be eliminated to save the Brotherhood from corruption.[70]
August 14: Dutty Boukman held a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman, prophesizing that Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou and Jeannot Bullet would become leaders of a revolution to free the slaves of Saint-Domingue.[54]
August 21: The Haitian Revolution ignited; led by members of the Assassin Brotherhood, the slaves of Saint-Domingue rose up in revolt against their French masters.[54]
The Haitian Revolution
November:
Dutty Boukman was captured in battle with the French Army near Acul and publicly beheaded by General Rouxel. The Assassins Elsie and Fabien were initially assigned to save Boukman, but were ordered to desist to let Boukman's death inspire a revolution.[281]
After repeatedly massacring white colonists and his own men, Jeannot Bullet was sentenced to death by Eseosa for breaking the tenets of the Creed.[54]
Unknown
Arno Dorian solved all of Nostradamus' enigmas around Paris and obtained the keys to a vault in the Parisian Brotherhood's headquarters, from which he retrieved the Assassin robes once worn by Thomas de Carneillon.[70]
1792
Summer:Théroigne de Méricourt uncovered a Templar conspiracy to starve Paris' population in order to turn them against the French royal family. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, helped Méricourt recover some of the stolen food, and killed one of the Templar conspirators, Madame Flavigny.[70]
August 10:Tuileries Palace, the residence of King Louis XVI, was stormed by an armed mob. Arno Dorian retrieved the King's correspondence with his late Mentor Mirabeau, and Napoleon Bonaparte retrieved an Isu temple key from the King's secret hiding place.[70]
October 31: The Templar Marie Lévesque was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian while hosting a party at Luxembourg Palace, for her involvement in the conspiracy to starve Paris' population. Arno escaped with Élise de la Serre using a stolen hot air balloon.[70]
King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, as decreed by the National Assembly with the Templars' influence. Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre made a failed assassination attempt on Grand Master François-Thomas Germain at Louis' execution.[70]
Arno Dorian was expelled from the Assassin Brotherhood for his reckless actions and continued disregard for orders.[70]
June: The Templar Aloys la Touche was assassinated by Arno Dorian in Versailles while overseeing the execution of prisoners by guillotine.[70]
July:
A group of Girondists were smuggled out of Paris by the Assassins before they could be arrested by François Hanriot.[70]
General Marcourt, a Templar, and his fellow conspirators were killed by the Assassins for plotting to overthrow the French Republic.[70]
August 29: The French civil commissioner of Saint-Domingue, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, declared all slaves in the colony to be freed men.[54]
November 13:Didier Paton, a spy working for Maximilien de Robespierre, was sentenced to death after uncovering the existence of the Templar Order. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, rescued Paton and recruited him into the Brotherhood.[70]
1794
February 10:Jacques Roux, a radical Roman Catholic priest and leading figure among Les Enragés, who were being used by the Templars to stir up chaos in Paris, was killed by the Assassins.[70]
April 5: Georges Danton was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution, despite the Assassins' efforts to rescue him, as Danton believed that his death would ruin Maximilien de Robespierre's reputation.[70]
May: A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, retrieved their late Mentor Mirabeau's Assassin relics from his crypt underneath the Panthéon in Paris, before the Templars could steal them.[70]
June 8: The Festival of the Supreme Being commenced at the Le Champ de Mars. However, due to the intervention of Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre, the festival backfired as Maximilien de Robespierre's influence began to fall.[70]
Arno Dorian standing over Élise de la Serre's body
July 28:
Maximilien de Robespierre, a French politician, Jacobin leader and Templar, was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution.[70]
François-Thomas Germain, Grand Master of the French Templars and a Sage, was killed by Arno Dorian in the crypt beneath the Temple in Paris. Before his death, Germain killed Élise de la Serre using Jacques de Molay's Sword of Eden.[70]
July 29: The remaining Jacobin leaders in Paris were killed by French revolutionaries led by Théroigne de Méricourt, with aid from a team of Assassins. Following the collapse of the Jacobin party, a less radical government was established in France under the Directory.[70]
August 3: Arno Dorian traveled to Saint-Denis to meet with the Marquis de Sade, who requested the manuscript of Nicolas de Condorcet in exchange for a ship to take Arno away from France.[145]
August 4: Arno Dorian retrieved Nicolas de Condorcet's manuscript from a child thief named Léon, but was eventually convinced by him to stop Napoleon Bonaparte's men from accessing the Isu temple underneath Saint-Denis.[145]
August 7:
Arno Dorian entered the Saint-Denis Temple, where he killed Philippe Rose and retrieved the Head of Saint Denis. After using it to escape, Arno removed the Apple of Eden from the lantern and sent it to Al Mualim in Cairo, Egypt. He also gave Nicolas de Condorcet's manuscript to the Marquis the Sade, but decided to stay in France.[145]
Napoleon Bonaparte was arrested and placed under house arrest for supporting Maximilien de Robespierre during the French Revolution and stealing a small army to search for the Saint-Denis Temple.[145]
August 20: Napoleon Bonaparte was released from house arrest due to his powerful influence.[145]
August:
Arno Dorian eliminated the Cult of the Iron Mask and recovered the Iron Mask, which had formerly belonged to a famous French prisoner whose identity was never discovered.[145]
Arno Dorian retrieved the Eagle of Suger from a secret chamber inside the Basilica of Saint-Denis, after solving all of Suger's riddles around Saint-Denis.[145]
September: Bernard Ruddock met Arno Dorian in Versailles and gave him a letter from Élise de la Serre, in which she instructed Arno to retrieve her belongings and give Haytham Kenway's letters to Ruddock, to allow him to parley with the Brotherhood and rejoin their ranks.[273]
September 12: Arno Dorian retrieved Élise de la Serre's belongings from the Maison Royale, but was betrayed by Bernard Ruddock, who revealed that he was still serving the Carroll family. Taking Hélène hostage, Ruddock attempted to exact revenge for the death of May Carroll, but was killed by Frederick Weatherall.[273]
October: The procession carrying Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ashes was attacked by raiders while passing through Saint-Denis. Arno Dorian and another Assassin successfully defended the convoy and made sure it reached the Panthéon in Paris.[145]
Unknown
Arno Dorian formally rejoined the Assassin Brotherhood and eventually rose to the rank of Master Assassin.[70]
1795
Napoleon Bonaparte suppressing the 13 Vendémiaire uprising
October 5: The royalist uprising of 13 Vendémiaire was suppressed by the French Republic under leadership of Paul Barras and Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon earned infamy for attacking the royalists in Paris with cannons.[70]
1796
April: The Assassin Connor discovered that his daughter Io:nhiòte had inherited his Eagle Vision after she used an eagle to alert him to a wolf attack during a hunting trip.[282]
1797
August 24: Toussaint Louverture expelled Léger-Félicité Sonthonax from Saint-Domingue and became de facto ruler of the colony.[54]
1798
May 19: Napoleon Bonaparte embarked from Toulon on an expedition to Egypt and Syria, secretly with intention of acquiring the Apple of Eden from the Saint-Denis Temple.[145]
1799
July 15: A soldier of the French expedition in Egypt discovered the Rosetta Stone, a stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis. The stele was missing part of the first script pertaining to the Assassins.[70]
August 24: Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for France from Egypt, after having successfully retrieved the Apple of Eden of the Saint-Denis Temple.[145]
November 9: Napoleon Bonaparte established himself as the new ruler of France as First Consul during the coup of 18 Brumaire.[70]
July: Toussaint Louverture captured the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, with aid from Eseosa, becoming the leader of Hispaniola and freeing all slaves across the island.[54]
1802
May: Toussaint Louverture surrendered to General Charles Leclerc, sent by his brother-in-law Napoleon Bonaparte, who falsely claimed that France had no intention of restoring racial hierarchy in Saint-Domingue.[54]
November 1: Charles Leclerc died of poisoning by Eseosa, though his cause of death was believed to be yellow fever.[54]
1803
November 18:Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of Toussaint Louverture's lieutenants, defeated General Rochambeau at Vertieres. Rochambeau pulled out of Vertieres at night, knowing the colony was finally lost to France.[54]
1804
January 1: Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared himself leader of the free republic of Saint-Domingue, and subsequently exterminated thousands of white people living in the country.[54]
March 1: Eseosa started training under Connor, the leader of the Colonial Brotherhood, at the Davenport Manor in Massachusetts in preparation for his assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines for his tyranny over Saint-Domingue.[54]
Solomon Bolden and Jan van der Graff rode from Derna to Tripoli to meet the latter's contact Edmund, who could help them break into Selim III's palace to steal the Koh-i-Noor in the Sultan's possession. After informing Bolden and Graff of a secret tunnel leading into the palace, Edmund was recognized as a marine deserter and was executed by soldiers.[283]
Solomon Bolden was killed and Jan van der Graff was captured by Selim III's agents while trying to infiltrate the Sultan's palace. Graff was subsequently imprisoned in the same cell as Tavis Olier, the previous Black Cross, who began training him in the Templar ways.[283]
1808
The Assassins surrounding Jan van der Graff
July 29:
Jan van der Graff became the new Black Cross and managed to escape from Sultan Selim III's dungeon with the help of Tavis Olier, who was killed by guards in the process.[283]
The Assassin Ahkbar poisoned Selim III to take possession of the Koh-i-Noor, which he intended to keep for himself. However, he was confronted by Jan van der Graff, who overcame the artifact's powers and killed Ahkbar. Graff then tricked the Libyan Assassins who had come to retrieve the Koh-i-Noor, and escaped with the artifact.[283]
August: Napoleon Bonaparte and Arno Dorian entered the crypt beneath the Temple in Paris, and buried the remains of François-Thomas Germain in the Parisian catacombs.[70]
1832
January: The Château Clique, leaders of the Templar Order in Lower Canada, arrested several journalists, including the Assassin Ludger Duvernay, for publishing articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique. Duvernay was freed by the Assassins.[154]
Princess Pyara Kaur activated the Koh-i-Noor, causing her to temporarily serve as a vessel for the Isu Durga. Telling humanity to stand united, the Precursor was shot at by Francis Cotton, instead destroying the diamond. Enraged, the Precursor released a burst of energy, killing Cotton.[284]
1841
Hamid, the Mentor of the Indian Brotherhood, was taken captive by the Templars William Sleeman and Alexander Burnes and robbed of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, before being freed by Arbaaz Mir.[67]
William Sleeman acquired the location of the Herat Temple in Afghanistan from using his Precursor box alongside the Koh-i-Noor in the Amritsar Temple. Sleeman accidentally caused the destruction of the Amritsar Temple while shooting at Arbaaz Mir.[67]
Arbaaz Mir pursued the Templars to Herat in Afghanistan, where he located and infiltrated the Herat Temple but was captured by the Templars. Held prisoner by Alexander Burnes at Katasraj Temple, Arbaaz escaped, retrieved the Precursor box and Koh-i-Noor from the Templars, and was allowed to escape after beating Burnes in a duel.[54]
Arbaaz Mir giving the Koh-i-Noor to Ethan Frye
William Sleeman took control of the Summer Palace in Amritsar and held Arbaaz Mir's lover Pyara Kaur hostage. Arbaaz infiltrated the palace and confronted Sleeman, securing Pyara's safety by trading her for the Precursor box and Koh-i-Noor. Pyara stabbed Sleeman, allowing Arbaaz to retrieve the Koh-i-Noor.[67]
Wanting to keep the Koh-i-Noor safe, Arbaaz Mir gave it to the British Assassin Ethan Frye, who hid it somewhere in India.[67]
1842
The British Colonel and Templar Walter Lavelle deserted the army alongside a corporal named Cavanagh during the disastrous retreat from Kabul at the end of the First Anglo-Afghan War. After Cavanagh proved himself in combat against a group of Afghan soldiers during their escape, Lavelle recommended him for membership in the Templar Order.[285]
Unknown
Cavanagh joined the Templar Order in London and convinced his fellow Templars to sanction Walter Lavelle's execution, which he carried out himself.[285]
1847
Queen Victoria's husband, the Prince Consort Albert, commissioned a secret vault under Buckingham Palace to hide the Shroud of Eden he had found in the Tower of London, where the artifact had been previously hidden by the Assassin Edward Kenway.[75]
November 9: The Assassin Cecily Frye passed away after giving birth to her and Ethan Frye's twin children, Evie and Jacob.[75] A depressed Ethan decided to leave the twins in the care of Cecily's mother until the age of six, and traveled to India to take up the training of Jayadeep Mir, the son of his friend and fellow Assassin Arbaaz Mir.[285]
1849
March 29: The Sikh Empire fell at the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Control of the region fell to the British Templars, in the name of the British Empire.[45]
1852
John Sutter, a pioneer in the California Gold Rush, was ambushed by a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, who forced him to return the gold he had obtained through the labour of the Maidu people.[192]
The Assassin Jayadeep Mir failed to complete his first assassinatoin contract on the Templar Tjinder Dani, who was instead killed by his father Arbaaz. Jayadeep was sentenced to death by the Indian Brotherhood for his ineptitude, but a timely intervention by his mentor, Ethan Frye, saved Jayadeep's life, and he was banished to England instead.[285]
1860
Jaydeep Mir, adopting the new name "Bharat Singh" and operating under the pseudonym "The Ghost", began investigating the Templars' activities in London. He took up residence in the Thames Tunnel, where he befriended a number of homeless people.[285]
The Assassin Ethan Frye tried to interrogate Boot, a thief working as a courier for the Templars, but his target was killed by the Templar Robert Waugh before he could reveal anything. After Waugh accidentally shot an innocent girl while aiming for Ethan, the Assassin chased and eliminated him.[285]
Jayadeep Mir disposed of Robert Waugh's body at a railway dig site overseen by the Templar Cavanagh, who was searching for an Apple of Eden in the area. After the police discovered Waugh's body, Jayadeep helped to divert suspicion away from Cavanagh and began ingratiating himself with the Templar, hoping to learn more about his plans.[285]
Cavanagh began to suspect Jayadeep Mir's true identity and affiliations and had the Indian Assassins Ajay and Kulpreet captured for interrogation. While Kulpreet killed herself to avoid revealing anything, Ajay reluctantly told Cavanagh everything he knew to save himself. A remorseful Ajay later cryptically informed Ethan Frye that Jayadeep was in danger before taking his own life.[285]
September: Cavanagh tasked Jayadeep Mir to kill the solicitor Charles Pearson, who had found the Apple of Eden sought by the Templars, in order to prove his loyalty to the Order. In doing so, Cavanagh hoped to frame Jayadeep for the crime and acquire the Apple for his own ends; however, the Assassin refused to kill an innocent man.[285]
September 14:
During the inauguration of the world's first underground railway, the Templar Cavanagh assassinated solicitor Charles Pearson to steal the Apple of Eden in his possession. Cavanagh then tried to use the artifact to kill the Assassins Jayadeep Mir and Ethan Frye, but they managed to escape as the tunnel around them began to collapse.[285]
Cavanagh was killed by fellow Templar Marchant under the orders of Grand Master Crawford Starrick, who had learned of Cavanagh's plans to use the Apple of Eden to overthrow him. Marchant subsequently delivered the Apple to the Templars.[285]
Jayadeep Mir discovered that the Templars had killed his friend Maggie and, blaming himself, decided to retire from his life as an Assassin.[285]
1863
July 4: General Ulysses S. Grant ensured a victory for the Union States at the Siege of Vicksburg, gaining the attention and support of the Assassin Brotherhood.[68]
The Mentor of the American Brotherhood tasked Varius with retrieving the Faith Prong of the Trident of Eden from the Aztec Club and bringing it to General Ulysses S. Grant.[68]
The Templar agent Cudgel Cormac stole the Faith Prong from the Aztec Club after a struggle with the Assassin Varius, intending to take it back to Grand Master William M. Tweed.[68]
Varius and his new apprentice Eliza stole the Faith Prong back from Cudgel Cormac before it could be passed on to William M. Tweed. Eliza then successfully delivered the artifact to Ulysses S. Grant.[68]
Following a visit from his parents, Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur, Jayadeep Mir was inspired to take up work as an Assassin again. Adopting a new name, "Henry Green", he soon became the leader of the Assassin bureau in London.[285]
April 14: President Abraham Lincoln of the United States was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Templar affiliate, and passed away the next morning.[21]
April 26: The Assassins tracked down and killed John Wilkes Booth in retaliation for his assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[21]
1867
Emperor Napoleon III sent French Army officer and Assassin Jules Brunet to train the troops of the Tokugawa shogunate as part of a diplomatic military mission.[290]
August:
A samurai from the Fukuoka Domain murdered British sailors Robert Ford and John Hutchings of the HMS Icarus for drinking and sleeping near the tea house. The incident became known as the Icarus affair and would cause diplomatic tensions between the Tokugawa shogunate and the United Kingdom, the latter of which wanted the local authorities to arrest the Kaientai for the deaths of Ford and Hutchings.[290]
The British diplomat and Templar Harry Parkes negotiated with Tokugawa commissioners from the Tosa domain led by Goto Sojiro to convict the Kaientai responsible for the Icarus affair.[290] However, a lack of sufficient evidence meant that the investigation had to be moved to the city of Nagasaki, the site of the Icarus affair. Eventually, all charges against the Kaientai were dropped.[290]
In the aftermath of the Icarus affair, Jules Brunet met shogunTokugawa Yoshinobu in Edo, assuring him that the French and Japanese Assassins would support the shogunate against the Templar-backed Imperial Court in Kyoto. However, Yoshinobu was ready to concede to the demands of the British, who were backed by Emperor Meiji, against the wishes of Brunet. The discussion was cut short when a spy attempted to assassinate Yoshinobu; Brunet protected the shogun, but the spy managed to escape.[290]
November 19: Tokugawa Yoshinobu conceded to the demands of the British and the Imperial Court by abdicating the title of shogun.[290]
Jules Brunet tasked his Japanese contact, Matsuo, to mobilize all Assassin agents on the island to ensure the victory of the Tokugawa shogunate and their allies as war became inevitable. Disheartened by Yoshinobu's willingness to concede to the Imperials and the British, Brunet hoped that a republic would blossom in Japan if the Tokugawa forces were to win.[290]
1868
January: The Assassin Ethan Frye died of pleurisy in his home in Crawley, though not before asking his friend and fellow Assassin, George Westhouse, to continue the training of his children, Evie and Jacob Frye.[285]
January 27-31:
Imperial and Shogunate forces clashed near the Kyoto ward of Fushimi during the Battle of Toba–Fushimi. The battle ended in a decisive Imperial victory, and marked the beginning of the Boshin War between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa shogunate.[290]
Shiba Ibuka was present for the Battle of Tuba-Fushimi, but chose to flee the battlefield. His sister Atsuko, who had disguised herself as a man to watch over him, was forced to fight in his place to protect her brother's reputation.[290]
February 10:
Rupert Ferris, owner of Ferris Ironworks and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye in Croydon. Jacob's escape from the Templars resulted in a train crash outside Croydon.[75]
Sir David Brewster, a Templar scientist, was killed by the Assassin Evie Frye in Croydon during an experiment on an Apple of Eden that destroyed his laboratory and the artifact.[75]
Evie and Jacob Frye's arrival in London
February: Jacob and Evie Frye traveled to London to liberate the city from the Templars' control, and met Henry Green. With his help, the twins soon established a network of allies, including novelist Charles Dickens, police inspector Frederick Abberline, street urchin Clara O'Dea, and inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and started their own criminal gang, the Rooks, to combat the influence of the Templar-run Blighters.[75]
March 4: Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as the 18th President of the United States. His inner circle was subsequently infiltrated by the Templars, who entrusted him with a Precursor box and pages of the Voynich manuscript while simultaneously corrupting his administration.[291]
Evie Frye and Henry Green recovered a disc key and document detailing a Shroud of Eden from a secret vault inside the former mansion of Edward Kenway.[75]
Evie Frye recovered an Isu key hidden by Edward Kenway at the top of St. Paul's Cathedral, but lost it during a fight with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne.[75]
Jacob Frye forged an alliance with Crawford Starrick's cousin Pearl Attaway, and assassinated her business rival, the Templar Malcolm Millner. After discovering that Attaway was a Templar herself, Jacob assassinated her inside a train carriage at Waterloo station.[75]
Evie Frye assassinated Lucy Thorne after infiltrating the Tower of London, where both women mistakenly believed the Shroud of Eden to be located. Evie recovered the Isu key from Thorne.[75]
Philip Twopenny, the Governor of the Bank of England and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye while the former was trying to rob his bank to transfer the money to the Templars.[75]
Blighters leader and former Templar associate Maxwell Roth was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye in a burning Alhambra Music Hall, after a short-lived alliance between the two which resulted in the near-deaths of child labourers.[75]
The Frye twins killing Crawford Starrick
Jacob and Evie Frye infiltrated Queen Victoria's ball at Buckingham Palace and foiled Crawford Starrick's plan to murder the Queen and the other guests. Although Starrick managed to use this distraction to retrieve the Shroud of Eden, he was soon killed by Jacob, Evie and Henry Green, who returned the Shroud to its vault.[75]
Jacob and Evie Frye, with the aid of Queen Victoria, stopped an upstart Templar faction from executing several terrorist attacks around London and eliminated their leader.[75]
Jacob and Evie Frye found an underground vault in London where the Assassin Michel Reuge had hidden the Aegis, an Isu armor once worn by Minerva. After retrieving all of Reuge's keys from music boxes scattered around London, Evie opened the Aegis' vault and claimed the armor for herself.[75]
Henry Raymond, a penny dreadful writer, was killed by Jacob and Evie Frye after orchestrating a fake bomb threat at Buckingham Palace as a distraction to steal the Queen's Sceptre with Dove.[292]
Jacob and Evie Frye helped Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, in his quest to reclaim his throne, in spite of the Templar Brinley Ellsworth's attempts to sabotage them. After luring Singh into a trap where he tried to kill him, Ellsworth was defeated by Evie and then spared by Singh because of their past friendship.[293]
October 6-November 6:
The Battle of Aizu was fought when Imperial forces led an invasion of Aizu, a pro-Tokugawa feudal domain that sent thousands of troops for the shogunate war effort.[290]
During the Battle of Aizu, the fully-trained shinobi Shiba Atsuko was tasked with infiltrating the Imperial army's camp to acquire its attack plans. Although Atsuko was successful in her mission, her Assassin mentor Nakano Takeko was fatally shot and Atusko was forced to decapitate her to prevent her head from falling into Imperial hands.[290]
Shiba Atsuko faced off against the Templar William Lloyd and was saved by her brother Ibuka, who killed Lloyd and carried Atsuko away from the battlefield. However, Ibuka had been mortally wounded by Lloyd and later succumbed to his injuries.[290]
Shiba Atsuko was nursed back to health by the Japanese Assassin spy Matsuo, who convinced her to join the Brotherhood after telling her about her brother's deeds, saving her and the Musashi Masamune.[290]
1870
July 19: Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war against Prussia after Kaiser Wilhelm I's advisors, influenced by thee German Templars, convinced their ruler to instigate the French Emperor.[294]
May 18-May 28: Parisians revolted against the new republic and convened another Paris Commune to go against the French government. Despite the aid of the French Assassins, the Parisians' defense fell against the French Army and the commune was dissolved. As a result, the Third French Republic stood as the official government for France.[295]
1872
November:
Ulysses S. Grant's political rival Horace Greeley discovered his administration's corruption by the Templars and stole the Precursor box and Voynich manuscript pages entrusted to Grant by the Order. In response, the Templars poisoned Greeley and sent Alice to recover the artifacts.[291]
Alice stole back the Precursor box and Voynich manuscript pages and tried to murder Horace Greeley while the latter was hospitalized in New York. However, she failed as Greeley was protected by Pinkerton detective Tommy Greyling, forcing Alice to escape.[291]
Tommy Greyling tracked Alice to London, where the latter sought to steal additional pages of the Voynich manuscript from the British Museum. Allying with Mark Twain and the Assassins Evie Frye and Henry Green, Greyling failed to prevent Alice's theft of the pages, but cornered her on a ship sailing back to the United States. With no way out, Alice destroyed the pages and committed suicide by jumping into the ocean to avoid capture.[291]
1874
Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain experimenting on the Apple of Eden
June 6: Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City. He started working for Thomas Edison, a Templar, but left Edison Machine Works in 1885.[54]
1885
December 28: The Indian National Congress, a political party that would become the principal leader of the Indian independence movement, was founded. A Sage was present during its creation.[70]
1887
May 20: Several Assassin members of the Narodnaya Volya, including Aleksandr Ulyanov, were publicly hanged after a failed assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III of Russia, a Templar ally.[296]
The British Assassin known as Jack the Lad, having developed an extremist view of the Creed, wrestled control of the Rooks from his mentor Jacob Frye with the help of dangerous criminals.[298]
Jack the Ripper infiltrated his former mentor Jacob Frye's hideout and captured him, subsequently imprisoning him in Lambeth Asylum.[298]
October: Evie Frye returned to London from India after having been summoned by her brother Jacob. With help from Fredderick Abberline, she discovered Jacob was missing and started investigating the Whitechapel murders.[298]
October 29: The Assassin Nikolai Orelov attempted to kill Tsar Alexander III of Russia aboard his train bound for St. Petersburg, resulting in the Borki train disaster. The Tsar defeated Nikolai using a Staff of Eden, but ultimately spared the Assassin's life.[296]
November: Evie Frye killed Jack the Ripper inside Lambeth Asylum, after maneuvering her way through the asylum's patients set loose by Jack. Jacob Frye was subsequently rescued, and Evie worked with Frederick Abberline to hide Jack's identity and ties to the Brotherhood.[298]
November 1: Tsar Alexander III of Russia died of kidney failure,[45] caused by injuries inflicted by Nikolai Orelov in 1888.[296] His son, Nicholas II, succeeded him.[45]
1896
Spring: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers assumed full leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, after an argument between Mathers and William Wynn Westcott forced the latter to leave the Order.[56]
20th century
1901
January 22: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom passed away at the age of 81, marking the end of the Victorian era.[54]
December: Financier John Pierpont Morgan withdrew his funding of Nikola Tesla's experiments after Tesla intended to make electricity a free product, which stood in opposition of the Templars' plans.[21]
1908
The Tunguska explosion
June 30:
An Assassin team led by Nikolai Orelov raided a Templar research facility in Tunguska to recover the Staff of Eden that the Templars were experimenting on there.[296]
Nikola Tesla released a burst of electricity to the Templar facility from his Wardenclyffe Tower, destroying the Staff before the Assassins could retrieve it and causing a large eruption that became known as the Tunguska explosion. Nikolai Orelov was the only survivor.[296]
December 23: The Federal Reserve System was created as part of the "Plan" designed by the Templars, and as the first step to controlling the capitalist market.[45]
June 29:Khioniya Guseva, a disciple of Grigori Rasputin, attempted to kill her master in Pokrovskoye. Though mortally wounded, Rasputin managed to use the powers of a splinter of a Staff of Eden to survive and force Guseva to mutilate herself.[56]
The Assassin medic about to kill Erich Albert
December 24: On Christmas Eve, British and German soldiers called a truce amidst the fighting of World War I. During the truce, an Assassin operating as a medic for the British killed General Erich Albert, a Templar.[56]
December 29: The Templar agent Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conspirators led by Felix Yusupov,[45] who were influenced by the Russian Assassins.[21]
1917
March 15: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian throne after the start of the Russian Revolution, under pressure of the Assassins.[45]
November 7: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the temporary residence of the imperial family in Petrograd, tasked by Vladimir Lenin to kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. After finding out that the Imperial Sceptre in the palace was a mere replica of the Staff of Eden, Nikolai decided to spare the Tsar's life.[296]
November 15: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated an asylum in Krasnoyarsk to meet Khioniya Guseva. After hearing her account of the splinter's power, he granted her wish to die by killing her with his Hidden Blade.[56]
November 22: Nikolai Orelov and two henchmen unearthed the corpse of Grigori Rasputin to recover the splinter of the Staff of Eden, based on information from Tsar Nicholas II.[296]
December: Several scientists and members of the Russian Assassin Brotherhood, including Sergei and his wife, left to form a community in an Assassin science city at a facility in Protvino, provided by the Russian Academy of Sciences.[54]
1918
Nikolai Orelov trying to calm down Anastasia Nikolaevna after her family's execution
July 17:
Tsar Nicholas II and his family were massacred in Yekaterinburg by Templars intent on retrieving their Precursor box, though Nikolai Orelov rescued the Tsar's daughter Anastasia Nikolaevna and secured the box.[299]
After the Precursor box and Nikolai's splinter of the Staff of Eden were activated in conjunction, the consciousness of Shao Jun was transferred from the box to Anastasia. Nikolai planned to bring Anastasia to the Assassins, and the pair fled from Yekaterinburg to Kazan.[299]
September:
Nikolai Orelov was betrayed by his friend Leon Trotsky on behalf of the revolution and captured by the Templars. Using Shao Jun's skills, Anastasia saved Nikolai and the two escaped from Kazan by boat.[299]
Upon arriving in Moscow, Anastasia was taken by Sergei to meet the Russian Mentor while Nikolai was forced to report to the local bureau. Learning that the Assassins intended to extract Shao Jun's memories from Anastasia, likely killing her in the process, Nikolai betrayed the Brotherhood to rescue Anastasia.[299]
Nikolai saved Anastasia from imprisonment in the Assassin hideout next to the Spasskaya Tower. After Nikolai successfully destroyed a pursuing Assassin tank, he met Anastasia in front of the Bolshoi Theatre and gave her his wife's forged papers, which she used to flee to Germany under the name "Anna Anderson".[299]
Nikolai Orelov, his wife Anna, and daughter Nadya fled Russia with the splinter of the Staff of Eden and settled in the United States.[296]
November: Moina Mathers, formerly Mina Bergson, took leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and abandoned the Assassin Brotherhood after the death of her husband Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.[154]
1919
Nikolai Orelov and his son Innokenti after losing Anna and Nadya during the Palmer Raids
November 7: In twelve cities in the United States, agents of the Bureau of Investigation launched the Palmer Raids, directed by Alexander Mitchell Palmer, to arrest and deport radical leftists, though many innocents including Anna and Nadya Orelov were also rounded up.[300]
1925
March 12:Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China and Grand Master of the Chinese Templars, was killed by members of the Assassin Brotherhood in Beijing.[301]
1926
January: Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were visited by the Assassin Sergei, who had been tasked to bring Nikolai back to the Russian Assassins, at their cabin in the woods of Connecticut. Nikolai killed Sergei after the latter threatened Innokenti's life.[300]
October 31: The illusionist Harry Houdini was killed by the Templars to retrieve the Apple of Eden in his possession, which Houdini had used to obtain fame during his career.[21]
1927
Albert Bolden confronting Thaddeus Gift
February:
Grand Master Thaddeus Gift of the British Rite was killed by Albert Bolden, the Black Cross, in London for abandoning the Templars' principles and using the Order for personal gain.[301]
Darius Gift, son of Thaddeus Gift, was sent to Shanghai to deliver a package to Chiang Kai-shek, with the intention of drawing him into the Order's fold.[301]
March: The Black Cross Albert Bolden infiltrated the Templar-built train Great Wall, carrying White Russian soldiers led by the former Templar Yuri Dolinsky to the warlord Zhang Zongchang to fight Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. Bolden killed Dolinsky for his betrayal of the Templar Order.[302]
April:
Darius Gift was mistaken for the Black Cross by two Frenchmen in Shanghai, before being saved from his harassers by Albert Bolden. However, Darius' box was stolen by the actress Ruan Lingyu, posing as a prostitute, while he was distracted.[301]
Grand Master Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Rite organized a meeting with the local Master Templars, informing them that they should offer their aid to the Black Cross in any capacity while he searched for a traitor in their ranks.[301]
Albert Bolden infiltrated the Great World, headquarters of the Hop Wo Society, a front for the Green Gang, where he was ambushed. After allowing himself to be captured to meet gang leader Du Yuesheng, he escaped the building.[301]
Darius Gift infiltrated the Mingxing Motion Picture Company after discovering Ruan Lingyu's true identity, but was overpowered by her accomplice Zhang Damin when confronting her. Ruan decided to aid Darius, and after escaping from Zhang, she handed the box's contents to him.[301]
Albert Bolden discovered the traitor within the Templar Order was Soong Ching-ling, wife of the late Sun Yat-sen, who had sought to keep the box out of the hands of Chiang Kai-shek, realizing the latter had no intention of joining the Order.[301]
Grand Master Stirling Fessenden was called to a meeting by Du Yuesheng, where Chiang Kai-shek revealed his disinterest in joining the Templar Order.[301]
April 12: Albert Bolden killed Flowery Flag, an agent of Du Yuesheng sent to murder Darius Gift. Having learned that the Black Cross had killed his father, Darius shot him in retaliation, causing Bolden to fall from a rooftop.[301]
1928
Nikolai Orelov's death
Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were tracked down by a team of Assassins employed by the Bureau of Investigation. They took down all Assassins except the team's leader, who managed to catch Nikolai. Innokenti complied to his father's request to shoot the man, killing both the team leader and Nikolai.[300]
The Templar Rufus Grosvenor, a former disciple of the Master Spy, met Albert Bolden inside a Chinese opium den and tried to blackmail him into surrendering the Koh-i-Noor that Bolden had under his protection. However, the former Black Cross refused to disclose the Piece of Eden's location, and escaped while Grosvenor was distracted.[303]
1930
March 12:Mahatma Gandhi started the Salt March in disobedience against the British's salt laws in India until April 5, and managed to gather a large following with aid from his Apple of Eden.[21]
Abstergo Industries was founded by the Templar Order as a public front, which would primarily be used as a shadow company to control the world's capitalist market.[78]
The Templar Rufus Grosvenor killed the family of the former Black Cross Albert Bolden to lure him into a trap and steal the Koh-i-Noor from him.[303]
April 26: The town of Guernica was bombed on the orders of Nationalist Spain under Francisco Franco by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, to route the Spanish republican rebels, as part of the Spanish Civil War. Several Spanish Assassins died during the bombing.[303]
May:
The Templar Rufus Grosvenor convinced the Assassin Norbert Clarke, sent by the British Brotherhood to aid the Spanish Assassins, to take his own life.[303]
Grosvenor, posing as Norbert Clarke, joined Ignacio Cardona's Assassin cell in Barcelona, intending to have him unlock the powers of the Koh-i-Noor with the Precursor DNA in his genes.[303]
Fighting broke out in between the anarchists and communists in Barcelona. With the Assassins undecided on what faction to join, Grosvenor persuaded Cardona to use the Koh-i-Noor, nearly killing the Assassins.[303]
Albert Bolden, the former Black Cross, attacked Grosvenor to recover the Koh-i-Noor, but failed and escaped with an unconscious Cardona instead. After the Assassin awoke, Bolden revealed to him Grosvenor's deception and convinced him to join forces against Grosvenor.[303]
Albert Bolden and Ignacio Cardona riding together to stop Rufus Grosvenor
Bolden and Cardona confronted Grosvenor and the Assassins, rallied behind the Templar, in a church in the Spanish countryside. Bolden and Cardona were overpowered, and with another opportunity to use the Koh-i-Noor, Cardona destroyed the church and routed Grosvenor and Glaucia Acosta.[303]
Bolden and Cardona continued fighting in the Spanish Civil War, before Bolden would guard the ruins of the abandoned church, where the Koh-i-Noor remained buried.[303]
September 7: The Nazi bombing of London, known as the Blitz, started, destroying large portions of the city and killing thousands of civilians.[304]
September: The Assassins Boris Pash and Julia Dusk successfully recruited Eddie Gorm to work as a double-agent in the German nuclear weapons project, after Gorm's family was killed in the Blitz.[304]
Unknown
The SS Ourang Medan, an Abstergo Industries ship, was deployed to the sea near the Strait of Malacca to recover the crescent amulet hidden there. However, the mission ended in failure, and the ship and its entire crew mysteriously vanished.[239]
1942
September:
Eddie Gorm abducted Nazi physicist Werner Heisenberg during a Nazi meeting at the Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, discovering that the German nuclear weapons project was a front for Gero Kramer's Die Glocke project.[304]
Eddie Gorm and an injured Julia Dusk escaped from the Wilhelm Institute to an Assassin safehouse in Berlin, where Boris Pash revealed the existence of the Assassins and Templars to Gorm and recruited him into the Brotherhood.[304]
1943
January 7: The Templars faked Nikola Tesla's death[304] in a hotel room in New York City and pressured the FBI to order the Alien Property Custodian to seize Tesla's belongings.[21]
Eddie Gorm fighting Gero Kramer inside the Vemork facility
February 27:
The Assassin Eddie Gorm infiltrated the Nazis' hydroelectric water plant in Vemork, Norway, where he confronted and was overpowered by the Templar Gero Kramer.[304]
Gero Kramer placed Eddie Gorm in Die Glocke, a proto-Animus built by Nikola Tesla using the Nazis' Apple of Eden, hoping to use Gorm's genetic memories to locate Pieces of Eden in the past that the Templars could acquire through time travel.[304]
Allied forces besieged the Vemork facility, causing Gero Kramer and the Nazis to flee with their captive Nikola Tesla. Eddie Gorm was rescued by fellow Assassin Julia Dusk.[304]
July 15:
The Assassins Eddie Gorm and Julia Dusk besieged Książ Castle, where they killed the Templar Gero Kramer during a party and retrieved his Apple of Eden.[304]
Nikola Tesla revealed Boris Pash's secret alliance with the Templar John von Neumann, causing Eddie Gorm and Julia Dusk to turn on Pash. Dusk blew herself up with a grenade in an attempt to destroy the Apple of Eden; the attempt failed and Pash took the artifact, leaving Gorm for dead.[304]
October 29:
Aboard the USS Eldridge in Philadelphia, the Assassin Boris Pash and the Templar John von Neumann combined their efforts to use the Apple of Eden and Die Glocke to travel back in time and kill Adolf Hitler, who had fallen out of the Templars' control, a project that would come to be known as Project Rainbow.[304]
The former Assassin Eddie Gorm killed Nikola Tesla aboard the USS Eldridge to thwart Project Rainbow, before taking his own life in front of Boris Pash.[304]
The USS Elridge briefly manifested in a future state using the powers[52] of the Apple of Eden, though the project was ultimately deemed a failure.[304]
1944
July 1–22: The Bretton Woods conference was held by European powers – secretly economic agents of the Templars – to form the World Bank, as part of the "Plan".[78]
December 25:Keith Scipione, an agent of Abstergo Industries, purchased the original Shroud of Eden from a member of the Baguttiani in Milan, Italy.[56]
1945
April 30: Adolf Hitler was killed by an Assassin outside his Führerbunker, after having killed his body double inside the hideout. The Assassins also took possession of his Isu artifact.[21]
August 6–9: The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 by the United States, and a second hit the city of Nagasaki on August 9.[54]
August 12: Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II.[54]
1948
January 30: Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by the Templars to retrieve his Apple of Eden, after he had used it to lead a non-violent rebellion against British rule in India.[21]
August 16: British economist Harry Dexter White was killed by the Templars after betraying the Order by warning the Soviet Union of their capitalist plans.[78]
1952
June 17: Rocket engineer Jack Parsons died due to injuries received in an explosion in his laboratory orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, after Parsons made plans to reveal the secrets behind Aleister Crowley's formula.[56]
1953
March 5: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, was killed by the Assassins[21] with the use of poison, making it look like he died of a stroke.[54]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) initiative Project BLUEBIRD, a mind control program spearheaded by the Assassin Boris Pash, started after being sanctioned by the Mentor of the American Assassins, who hoped to gain an advantage over the Templars.[305]
August 19: Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to stop his plans to nationalize the Iranian oil industry.[78]
1954
June 7: President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to protect their capitalist interest.[78]
1957
February 8: While on his deathbed, Templar scientist John von Neumann was killed by his former ally, the Assassin Boris Pash, accompanied by Alekseï Gavrani, so that Pash could obtain his Apple of Eden.[305]
Members of the Assassin Boris Pash's Bloodstone Unit, including Alekseï Gavrani and Julia Gorm, interrogated Cooper, a Templar who had infiltrated the United States Army in Vietnam.[305]
Alekseï Gavrani expressed his grievances with the Bloodstone Unit's tactics and was discharged from the unit by Boris Pash in response.[305]
William Greer leaving the scene of John F. Kennedy's assassination
November 22:
President John F. Kennedy of the United States was killed as part of a Templar conspiracy[21] by members of the Bloodstone Unit, under the orders of CIA director William King Harvey, a Templar double agent within the Brotherhood.[305] The Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald was also involved.[21]
Kennedy's driver, the Assassin William Greer, took the President's Apple of Eden,[305] while another Apple was used by the Templars to create confusion.[21] The Assassin Alekseï Gavrani took the Apple from Greer, believing Boris Pash to be a traitor.[305]
Alekseï Gavrani brought the Apple of Eden to William King Harvey, unaware of his Templar affiliations, and took up the mantle of CIA agent QJ/WIN again.[305]
1964
Boris Pash and his Bloodstone Unit experimented on Julia Gorm using their Apple of Eden, which successfully resulted in the conciousness of her father Eddie Gorm taking over her mind. Gorm then endeavoured to kill Pash like her father wanted to.[305]
July 30: The Assassin Alekseï Gavrani, aboard an American ship disguised as a Vietnamese vessel in the Gulf of Tonkin, tracked Boris Pash to the island of Hòn Mê.[305]
August 2: Alekseï Gavrani promised to protect Boris Pash and Zenia, pregnant with Pash's child, from Julia Gorm in exchange for their Apple of Eden. Gavrani confronted Gorm, but the encounter left them both mortally wounded.[305]
August 4: Boris Pash used Gavrani's radio to contact the USS Maddox. He was met by William King Harvey, who took the Apple of Eden upon revealing his Templar affiliations. Templar scientist Warren Vidic helped in Zenia's labour, and the child – later known as Nathalie Chapman – became a prisoner of the Templars to ensure Pash's cooperation.[305]
1969
The Apollo 11 Moon landing
July 21: NASA's Apollo 11 spaceflight to the Moon, funded by Abstergo Industries, resulted in the recovery of an Apple of Eden from the Moon's surface.[21]
1971
Abstergo Industries' first Precursor Habitation Expedition took place as the second phase of what later became the Phoenix Project. By the end of the decade, the expeditions uncovered seven large Denisovan sites across the globe.[70]
April 21:François Duvalier, the fortieth President of Haiti, was killed by the Assassins, for his oppression over the Haitian people.[21]
1973
September 11: President Salvador Allende of Chile was overthrown and killed in a military coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries and engineered by Henry Kissinger to stop the nationalization of industries in Chile.[78]
1977
William Miles giving the Animus blueprints to Medeya Voronina
Nathalie Chapman escaped Warren Vidic's laboratory, taking her father's Apple of Eden and the blueprints for the Animus, giving the latter to the Assassin William Miles.[305] Miles gave them to the Russian Assassin Medeya Voronina in Moscow, after she rescued him from Templar agents, and told her to build the machine.[54]
1980
Abstergo Industries started the Animus Project, directed by Dr. Warren Vidic, with the intention of exploring the genetic memories of subjects to discover the secrets of the Assassins and the Pieces of Eden.[54]
July 29: Abstergo Industries' Surrogate Initiative passed its twenty-third test session to relive the genetic memory of another individual, when its director Aileen Bock relived the memories of Miriam Kurtz through her son Seamus' DNA.[194]
1981
August 9: Aileen Bock was severely injured in an accident involving the Animus during the thirty-seventh test session of the Surrogate Initiative, after which the project was put on halt.[194]
1983
Warren Vidic experimenting on Daniel Cross
February 9: A 10-year old boy, later named Daniel Cross, was kidnapped by Abstergo Industries and used as Subject 4 of the Animus Project. His memories were implanted with a hidden impulse to kill the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood before he was released from captivity.[296]
1985
September: Warren Vidic experimented on Daniel Cross with a device capable of mimicking Piece of Eden capabilities across a network, between Subject 4's Animus sessions.[78]
1986
An Abstergo team led by Dr. Alan Rikkin located the hideout of Joseph and Mary Lynch, seeking the latter to use her genetic memories to locate Aguilar de Nerha's Apple of Eden. Mary committed suicide with the help of her husband, who told their son Callum to flee.[164]
1991
August 19–21: President Boris Yeltsin of Russia took political power from President Mikhail Gorbachev in a staged coup d'état by standing up to communism, with aid from Abstergo Industries.[78]
December 25: Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union, making Boris Yeltsin the leader of Russia.[78]
1997
January: Abstergo agents buried several constructed skeletons near the site of Tim D. White's expedition in Ethiopia, to prevent knowledge of the Isu creating the human race becoming public.[21]
1998
Daniel Cross at the Philadelphia Assassin compound
April 23: Daniel Cross was brought to an Assassin compound outside Philadelphia by the Assassin Hannah Mueller to meet Paul Bellamy, after noticing Daniel's Assassin tattoo and witnessing him attack a man he called a Templar as a result of the Animus' Bleeding Effect.[296]
April 24: Daniel Cross had a vision and discovered his purpose to find the Mentor, while reliving his ancestor Nikolai Orelov's memories of the Tunguska explosion. Daniel and Hannah visited Assassin hideouts around the globe for two years to find the Mentor.[296]
1999
September 4–16: Apartment buildings in the cities of Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in Russia were bombed by Chechen terrorists, orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to boost the popularity of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.[78]
2000
May 7: Vladimir Putin became the second President of Russia, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.[78]
November 6: The Mentor was killed by the unwitting Templar sleeper agent Daniel Cross, sending the Assassin Order into chaos and removing their influence over the 2000 American presidential election.[296]
Assassins being hunted down during the Great Purge
November 21: Daniel Cross returned to the Abstergo Industries facility in Philadelphia. After entering the Animus, Daniel revealed the location of Assassin compounds and Abstergo initiated the Great Purge: a worldwide operation in which Abstergo strike teams attacked Assassin hideouts.[296]
December 6:Maxime Gorm and Team Epsilon raided an Assassin camp on the Japanese island of Kyushu, resulting in the deaths of most of the camp's inhabitants, including Yuri. Her son Tomo Sakagawa was rescued by Hajime Shimada and vowed revenge against Gorm.[305]
The Animus Project started using Assassins captured during the Great Purge as subjects to explore their genetic memories, including Paul Bellamy.[300]
21st century
2001
January 20:George W. Bush became the forty-third President of the United States, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.[78]
October 7: The War on Terror started. At some point, William Miles tasked Emmanuel Barraza with finding a Templar presence in the war, but ended up killing innocent children armed with bombs on a bus aimed for peace talks. Emmanuel vowed to never take a life again.[54]
March 13:Desmond Miles ran away from the Farm, the Assassin community in the Black Hills, South Dakota he had grown up in, on his sixteenth birthday, to escape the life his parents had chosen for him.[83]
Vanessa being kidnapped by Robert Getas and his accomplice
March 20: The Iraq War started under influence of George W. Bush as part of the War on Terror, planned by Abstergo Industries to privatize the oil market in Iraq.[78]
December 25:Vanessa, a scientist working at the National Space Centre's Landing Operations Control Center, sold the control codes of the Beagle 2 to Robert Getas, an employee of Abstergo Industries. After learning of Vanessa's relation to Charles Darwin, Getas had an accomplice kidnap her, believing her lineage would interest his employers.[56]
2005
The Assassin Lucy Stillman infiltrated Abstergo Industries after being contacted by Dr. Warren Vidic, who took an interest in her study of cognitive neuroscience.[52] Over time, she grew to resent her old mentor William Miles, believing the tasks for the Assassins to be inhumane, and joined the Templar Order.[289]
2006
Layla Hassan, a college dropout from UC Berkeley, was discovered and hired by Sofia Rikkin of Abstergo Industries through the company's Young Innovators program.[49]
2007
Leila Marino, an employee of Abstergo Industries, allegedly committed suicide. An individual named Neumann was involved in her death, and Marino's file became classified.[52]
August:Clay Kaczmarek started his training to become an Assassin under William Miles.[289]
2008
January: Clay Kaczmarek infiltrated the Abstergo Campus on the orders of William Miles, and retrieved data related to the Animus Project.[289]
Juhani Otso Berg left Finland's Special Forces of the Utti Jaeger Regiment for mercenary work, believing it more profitable for his daughter Elina's cystic fibrosis treatments. One night, Dr. Warren Vidic and the Abstergo task force Sigma Team broke into his house, where Vidic recruited Berg with the promise of Abstergo curing Elina's condition.[157]
Callum Lynch's custodial sentence was extended.[164]
April 20: A large amount of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico until 15 July, under contract of Abstergo-controlled British Petroleum. BP cleaned up the oil, which was worth billions of dollars.[78]
December 10:Shaun Hastings was saved from Abstergo agents by the Assassin Rebecca Crane, having been captured after leaking classified Abstergo documents to Wikileaks. Rebecca managed to hack the computer system of the van Shaun was held in, and rescued him during a gas stop.[306]
December 14:Subject 15 of the Animus Project, a pregnant woman, was eliminated after Lucy Stillman discovered there were dangerous complications due to the genetic memories of Subject 15's child overlapping with her own.[306]
2011
Isabelle Ardant, CEO of Historical Research at Abstergo Industries, was given the responsibility of archiving the genetic memories of Project Legacy. Through the project's data, she learned about the Shroud of Eden acquired by Abstergo during World War II and decided to repair it in order to prove herself to Abstergo CEO Alan Rikkin.[75]
February 1: Clay Kaczmarek was captured by Abstergo Industries' Lineage Discovery and Acquisition department and became Subject 16 of the Animus Project, as planned by William Miles.[289]
October 3: Isabelle Ardant met with Abstergo scientist Álvaro Gramática in Mexico City and gave him the Shroud of Eden for him to repair while she searched Project Legacy's archives for more information about people that had previously come into contact with the Shroud.[75]
December 18:Owen Meyers' father was arrested for the hold-up of a branch office of the Malta Banking Corporation. Although he pleaded innoncence, he was arrested and later died in prison, leaving his son troubled and determined to prove his father's innocence for the rest of his life.[68]
2012
January 4: Isabelle Ardant visited Álvaro Gramática at an Abstergo facility in Paris to check on his work with the Shroud of Eden. After revealing his plan to shoot himself while wearing the Shroud in order to activate it, Gramática did so in front of Ardant, and the Isu Consus manifested himself through Gramática.[75]
Abstergo Industries' synthetic drug New Fluoride was introduced to the water supplies of various settlements in China and the small United States town of Prince George. Despite Susan Drayton's failed attempt at leaking a sample of the drugs,[54] news of the operation still reached the press.[52]
June 6: Isabelle Ardant arranged for Templar agent Violet da Costa to be Álvaro Gramática's test subject for six months, feeling it was too risky to have the head of Abstergo's Future Technology shoot himself each time to summon Consus.[75]
August 8: Clay Kaczmarek committed suicide in the Animus laboratory in the Abstergo Campus. Using his blood, he painted several cryptic messages in the laboratory,[52] and preserved his consciousness in an artificial intelligence inside the Animus.[83]
September 1: Desmond Miles was kidnapped near Washington Square Park in New York City by agents of Abstergo Industries, and was brought to the Abstergo Campus in Rome, Italy.[54]
Desmond Miles with Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman at the Abstergo Campus
September 2: Desmond Miles was placed inside the Animus by Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman in the laboratory of the Abstergo Campus and became Subject 17 of the Animus Project, reliving the memories of his ancestor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[52]
September 7: A team of Assassins attempted to rescue Desmond Miles from the Abstergo Campus at Lucy Stillman's request, but ended up being exterminated.[52]
September 8:
Desmond Miles finished reliving Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's memories, which helped Abstergo acquire a map with the locations of various Pieces of Eden across the globe.[52]
Desmond and Lucy Stillman escaped the Abstergo Campus in Rome,[21] which was staged by Warren Vidic as part of Project Siren.[289]
September 9: Desmond Miles and Lucy Stillman arrived at an Assassin hideout in Rome, where they met with Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane; Desmond started reliving the memories of his ancestor Ezio Auditore in the Animus 2.0, built by Rebecca, in order to gain Ezio's skills and abilities through the Bleeding Effect.[21]
September 10:Gavin Banks was contacted by an Assassin operative who called him from a public phone in Brisbane, Australia. The caller told Gavin that it had been three days since he had last heard from his team, and that they had failed to report back. As Gavin instructed the caller to quickly pull out of the area, the telephone signal was interrupted. Later, Gavin personally confirmed that the Brisbane team had been eliminated. [54]
September 12: A team of Assassins in Whistler, Canada, was exterminated by Abstergo agents led by Daniel Cross.[54]
September 15:
Desmond Miles was warned of the upcoming Second Disaster by Minerva through Ezio Auditore's memories.[21]
Warren Vidic led an Abstergo attack on the Assassin hideout in Rome. The Assassins managed to escape,[21] but Abstergo retrieved the Animus recordings left behind by Lucy Stillman.[78]
September 16: Lucy Stillman's team arrived at Monteriggioni and set up a new base in the Sanctuary beneath the Villa Auditore,[78] after a roadblack in Grosseto prevented them from reaching the Assassin cabin in the Swiss Alps.[54] Desmond Miles continued to relive Ezio Auditore's memories to find his Apple of Eden, in the hopes of using it to defeat Abstergo and prevent the Second Disaster.[78]
October 5: Gavin Banks called William Miles and updated him on the status of the Assassin teams in Brisbane, Osaka, and Moscow. In turn, William, who was in Italy, briefly told Gavin about the favorable progress the Assassins were seeing at his end.[54]
Desmond Miles killing Lucy Stillman
October 10: Desmond Miles recovered Ezio Auditore's Apple of Eden from the Colosseum Vault, where Juno forced him to kill Lucy Stillman,[78] realizing that she would bring the artifact back to the Templars.[189] Desmond entered a coma from shock and was placed in the Animus by his father William Miles.[83]
October 12: Several Abstergo operatives, including Juhani Otso Berg, who had impressed Warren Vidic in the Animi Training Program's first phase started the second stage of their training.[83]
October 24: Gavin Banks received a coded message from Adriano Maestranzi, who instructed him to head to New York and told him that William should be making contact with the Brotherhood soon.[54]
October 26: Gavin Banks met with William Miles' team at an airport in Syracuse, New York, where he provided them with fake documents that allowed them safe passage into the country.[54]
October 28: Juhani Otso Berg impressed his superiors within Abstergo with his training in the Animus enough to be formally inducted into the Templar Order. [83]
October 30:
Desmond Miles awoke from his coma after reaching a Synch Nexus by fully experiencing Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's and Ezio Auditore's memories, with aid from an AI construct of Clay Kaczmarek inside the Animus. In the process, he witnessed a message from the Isu Jupiter which further detailed the Toba Catastrophe and directed Desmond to find the Grand Temple in order to prevent the Second Disaster.[83]
William Miles' team reached the Grand Temple in Turin, New York, and Desmond accessed it using Ezio's Apple of Eden. The Assassins set up a base of operations inside the Temple, where Juno began to communicate with Desmond and forced him to relive the memories of his ancestors Haytham Kenway and Connor through the Animus.[189]
November 2: Gavin Banks sent a text from Stillwater, Oklahoma, informing William Miles that his efforts at drawing the Templars' attention away from the latter's team had been successful.[54]
November 3: Gavin Banks sent another text from New Orleans, updating William Miles on the destruction of the Assassin team in Florence, Italy.[54]
November 8:Ctibor Hašek conducted an evaluation on Juhani Otso Berg which identified him as a potential candidate for the Templars' Inner Sanctum, noting him as an obedient, loyal agent who was dedicated to the Templar cause. However, Hašek was concerned that Berg's daughter could be a weakness.[157]
Desmond Miles confronted by Daniel Cross
November 15: Daniel Cross, driven insane by the Bleeding Effect, escaped his imprisonment in the Abstergo facility in Philadelphia.[54]
November 16:
Desmond Miles retrieved a power source for the Grand Temple from an office building in Manhattan, where he ran into and knocked out Daniel Cross, who had tried to capture and deliver him back to Abstergo.[189]
Laetitia England sent Juhani Otso Berg to investigate a cyber-security breach at the building Desmond had taken the power source from. Berg found Daniel, who assaulted him after suffering an attack of the Bleeding Effect, but Berg subdued and returned Daniel to Abstergo.[54][157]
November 17: Laetitia England called Warren Vidic in panic, asking about an Assassin raid presided over by Desmond Miles into one of their offices in Manhattan, and Daniel Cross' involvement with it.[54]
November 28:
An Assassin team led by Harlan Cunningham infiltrated the Abstergo Campus in Rome, killing four hackers trying to track down William Miles' team, and destroyed the facility's servers.[54]
Juhani Otso Berg tailed Harlan Cunningham back to the Assassin hideout in Florence following the latter's attack on the Abstergo Campus. After Berg called for backup, his Abstergo superiors granted him command of Sigma Team to organize a raid on the Assassin base.[54]
Juhani Otso Berg being caught in an explosion during the raid on the Florentine Assassins
November 30: Abstergo's Sigma Team, led by Juhani Otso Berg, attacked the Assassin hideout in Florence, which was blown up by the Assassin cell's leader Adriano Maestranzi. Berg and the Assassin Harlan Cunningham were the only survivors, although the former was heavily scarred by the explosion.[54]
December 2: Desmond Miles retrieved the second power source for the Grand Temple at a mixed martial arts event in São Paulo, Brazil, where he took it from Daniel Cross, who had killed the power source's original owner and stolen it.[189]
December 4: Gavin Banks and his crew picked up William Miles' team from Vitoria Bay, Brazil.[54]
December 6: Gavin Banks received a text message from William Miles confirming that his team had made it safely back to the Grand Temple. In turn, Gavin messaged William to tell him that the Templar responsible for the elimination of the Assassin cell in Florence had been identified as Juhani Otso Berg.[54]
December 12: William Miles was captured by Abstergo's Sigma Team led by Juhani Otso Berg in Cairo, Egypt, while recovering the third power source for the Grand Temple from the Egyptian Museum.[54] After William was brought to the Abstergo Campus in Rome, Warren Vidic contacted Desmond Miles and offered to trade his father for the Apple of Eden.[189]
Desmond Miles using the Apple of Eden to save his father
December 14: Desmond Miles killed Warren Vidic and Daniel Cross at the Abstergo Campus in Rome while infiltrating the facility to rescue his father William. Vidic's death forced the launch of Eye-Abstergo to be put on hold.[189]
December 19: Harlan Cunningham called Gavin Banks to tell him about the raid on the Florentine Assassins, which he was the sole survivor of. Gavin expressed his condolences and instructed Harlan to travel to an Assassin safehouse in Rotterdam and await further orders.[54]
December 20:
Desmond Miles, William Miles, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane retrieved the Grand Temple's key from the grave of Connor Davenport at the Davenport Homestead, after Desmond had discovered its whereabouts from Connor's memories.[189]
William Miles texted Gavin Banks to inform him that his team had found the Grand Temple's key and were heading back to the Temple to open its inner chambers. Gavin congratulated him and said that he would pass the news onto the other Assassins.[54]
December 21:
Desmond Miles sacrificed himself by activating the global aurora borealis device, against the wishes of Minerva, saving the world from destruction by the incoming solar flare, though also releasing Juno from her imprisonment in the Grand Temple.[189] Fifteen hours later, his body was recovered by Abstergo agents.[54]
Desmond Miles activating the global aurora borealis device
At the same time as Desmond's sacrifice, Álvaro Gramática was having his last session with Violet da Costa in order to say his goodbyes to Consus. During the conversation, Juno interfered in the stream and, unbeknownst to Gramática, communicated directly with Violet and turned her into a devoted follower, placing her in command of the Instruments of the First Will as part of her plan for humanity's future.[75]
2013
May 14: Gavin Banks received a coded text from Shaun Hastings with instructions to pick him and Rebecca Crane up from Peru.[54]
May 21: Gavin Banks received William Miles' codex from Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, wherein William had written all his knowledge and named Gavin the new leader of the Assassins.[54]
May 24: Gavin Banks and Shaun Hastings discussed the future of the Assassin Brotherhood now that the former was the leader. The Assassins aboard the Altaïr II made improvements to the ship while sailing North.[54]
May 25: Rebecca Crane took the time to work on the Hephaestus network, updating it to version 2.0, to improve the connectivity of the Altaïr II with other Assassin cells around the world.[54]
May 29:
The crew of the Altaïr II managed to decipher the first clue of William Miles' codex, which led them to Osaka, Japan.[54]
Gavin Banks ordered Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane to be his eyes and ears in America while he and his crew traveled to Japan. The Altaïr II docked in California, where the two Assassins disembarked and started their trip across the country, while laying low and gathering information about Abstergo.[54]
June 10: Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane reached Texas, where Rebecca updated Gavin Banks on their status by sending him a message through the improved Hephaestus Network, taking the opportunity to test her update on the field.[54]
August 27: Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane reached Oklahoma, where they sent another message to Gavin Banks in which they informed him about their plan to search for Desmond Miles' body and discover what Abstergo planned on doing with his genetic data to get closure for William Miles.[54]
September 3: In Alliance, Nebraska, Rebecca Crane stumbled upon an e-mail sent by Abstergo, who were looking for new employees for their Abstergo Entertainment branch. Rebecca proceeded to message Gavin Banks to tell him this needed to be investigated.[54]
Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane exploring the Farm
September 6: Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane reached the Black Hills in South Dakota, where they visited the remains of the Farm that Desmond Miles had grown up on and reflected on their losses.[54]
September 11: After being unable to contact Kenichi Mochizuki, the Mentor of the Japanese Brotherhood, Gavin Banks concluded that the Japanese Assassins had come under attack. The Altaïr II's crew set sail for the Philippines to resupply their weapons and gear in anticipation of the fight that awaited them in Japan.[54]
October 1: During the Altaïr II's voyage to Osaka, Emmanuel Barazza inspected the weapons the crew had purchased in the Philippines.[54]
October 11: In Battle Creek, Michigan, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane noticed an article on the Abstergo News Wire, celebrating their one-year anniversary in Montreal. Gavin Banks proceeded to ask Rebecca who Olivier Garneau was and their objective now narrowed to Montreal.[54]
October 24: Shaun Hastings and Rebbeca Crane arrived in Montreal and put their plan to infiltrate Abstergo into motion.[54]
October 28: The hacker group Initiates had one of their operatives sweep through an Abstergo building to retrieve a blood vial.[54]
Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane infiltrated Abstergo Entertainment, unaware that the Initiates were inside as well, and positioned themselves ready to report back to Gavin Banks.[54]
November 1: Abstergo received intel about a group of Assassins in Bangalore, India, using the Brahman V.R. to locate the Koh-i-Noor for unspecified reasons.[284]
November 2: The Initiate who had infiltrated Abstergo to steal a blood vial managed to smuggle it out undetected and departed Montreal.[54]
November 3: An Abstergo strike team was mobilized in Bangalore to capture Jot Soora and interrogate him, though he had already been abducted by the Assassins Siobhan and Jasdip Dhami and taken to a safe house.[284]
Jasdip Dhami attempting to rescue Jot Soora from Abstergo
November 4:
The Abstergo strike team in Bangalore stormed the Assassins' hideout, killing Siobhan Dhami but suffering many casualties in the process. Jot Soora escaped, but was abducted by Abstergo alongside his fiancée Monima Das later that day.[284]
Jot was rescued by Jasdip Dhami, but Monima drowned after the van she was held in sank in the Mithi River.[284]
The Assassin Dinesh downloaded Monima's genetic memories from the Brahman V.R. and erased them from the Abstergo cloud to make the trail look like a dead end.[284]
Abstergo tracked down Jot and the Assassins and attacked their hideout, killing Dinesh while Jot and Jasdip managed to escape. Shortly after, Juhani Otso Berg arrived on the scene and advised that from now on India needed to be monitored in search of any Assassin activity, to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.[284]
November 5: "Noob" hacked the computer of Olivier Garneau, CCO of Abstergo Entertainment, at the request of John Standish, the head of the company's IT department and a mole for the Assassins, and delivered an e-mail discussing a shareholders meeting in Chicago to Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane.[194]
November 17: After the incident in India, Juhani Otso Berg, concerned about the Instruments of the First Will, organized an infiltration of Abstergo's Paris facility in order to use the Shroud of Eden to interrogate Consus about Juno. Consus revealed Juno's plan.[75]
November 18: Abstergo Entertainment detained three employees, including "Noob," in a bunker on suspicions of hacking into company computers. With aid from John Standish, Noob escaped and hacked into the facility's server; there, they met Juno, who intended to occupy the analyst's body but explained it was too early.[194]
John Standish poisoning the research analyst
November 26: John Standish, revealed to be a Sage, was killed by Abstergo Entertainment security inside the bunker of their Montreal facility, after having poisoned "Noob". Upon recovering, the analyst was cleared of all the accusations against them and allowed to return to work.[194]
November:
Juhani Otso Berg explored the memories of Darius Gift and Albert Bolden in hopes of tracking down the Koh-i-Noor, but was unable to find any trail leading to its location.[301]
Berg confronted Laetitia England over Violet da Costa's removal from Sigma Team in order to work on the Phoenix Project. After the meeting, Berg was assigned to search for an Isu artifact that might be of use to the Phoenix Project.[157]
After a breach was detected in the Abstergo cloud servers originating in India, Berg was sent to investigate.[157]
December 2:
Rebecca Crane informed Gavin Banks about the death of John Standish, their recruitment of a new mole within Abstergo, and the success of their mission. Rebecca and Shaun Hastings then decided to withdraw from Montreal.[54]
"Noob" gave the Assassins everything Abstergo had recovered from Desmond Miles' body, including recorded memos destined to his father William. Thanks to this, William was able to move on from the death of his son, and thanked the analyst.[194]
December 4: Gavin Banks' team arrived in Osaka, finding the local Assassin cell decimated by the Yakuza. Gavin ordered his team to search the city for any survivors and responsible Yakuza alike.[54]
December 6:Emmett Leary, the hacker specialist of the Altaïr II, picked up on a recent gang war in which one branch of the Yakuza known as the Onmoraki-Gumi had been violently wiped out but their business fronts were still operating.[54]
December 12:Susan Drayton, captain of the Altaïr II, went ashore to help with the investigation. Emmanuel Barraza, on his own, roamed Osaka until he managed to track a cash deposit through the back streets of the Onmoraki's new headquarters.[54]
December 13: Fake news emerged about the new leader of the Onmoraki-Gumi. No one among the Altaïr II crew was able to identify who it was, casuing Gavin Banks to grow impatient. He finally decided it was better to go and confront them directly.[54]
The aftermath of the Onmoraki-Gumi's attack on the Japanese Assassins
December 17: The crew of the Altaïr II joined up with the Assassin cell in Osaka, who had taken up the guise of the Yakuza gang Onmoraki-Gumi, under the new leadership of Saeko Mochizuki following the death of her husband Kenichi.[54]
December 17-20: The Altaïr II crew and the Osaka Assassins exchanged information, warnings and technology, with the former providing weapons and the latter the Animus Omega they had stolen from an Abstergo Industries facility.[54]
December 25: Violet da Costa delivered John Standish's body to Álvaro Gramática's lab in Paris, and told Gramática that Abstergo wanted him to recreate an Isu body in addition to the Project Phoenix's main goal of sequencing the Triple Helix DNA to unlock the Pieces of Eden's full potential. After Gramática and Violet's partnership ended, the former continued to study the Shroud of Eden by himself.[75]
2014
January 15: Gavin Banks and his crew left Japan to focus focus on the next clue left by William Miles in his codex.[54]
January 21:Melanie Lemay was promoted to the new CCO of Abstergo Entertainment, starting in March, following Olivier Garneau's disappearance.[70]
February 10: Abstergo Industries employee Layla Hassan contacted Sofia Rikkin and proposed a new version of the Animus that would allow the user to be in a more immersive simulation under the form of a robotic arm on a six-axis motion rig suspended from the ceiling instead of a chair. Her project was reviewed by Sofia's head of engineering, Gabriel King, at the Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Madrid and eventually marked as an asset to be exploited.[49]
February 19: Gavin Banks' crew managed to decipher the second clue in William Miles' codex, which led them to Moscow.[54]
February 24: The Assassins Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut led an attack on an Abstergo compound in Rotterdam in order to retrieve a Precursor box from one of the laboratories. Arend found himself in a firefight with Sigma Team and was able to take out several Templars before escaping and rescuing Harlan, though the box was left behind.[157]
February 27: Melanie Lemay reviewed images from two centuries after the Toba Catastrophe, gathered from John Standish's DNA.[70]
Galina Voronina meeting with Gavin Banks and Emmanuel Barraza
March 7: The crew of the Altaïr II reached Russia. On their way to the capital, the group was contacted by the Russian Assassin Galina Voronina, who requested their aid in killing her mother Medeya Voronina.[54]
March 20: The Altaïr II crew and Galina Voronina infiltrated the Assassin compound in Protvino and eliminated those inside, whose minds had been destroyed by the Bleeding Effect, leaving Galina as the sole member of the Russian Brotherhood.[54]
March 26: Gavin Banks convinced Galina Voronina to join the Altaïr II crew as an enforcer. He also had the Ninidze brothers arrange for their contacts in Georgia to form a new Russian Brotherhood, with Saeko Mochizuki providing weapons from the Philippines.[54]
April 24: Gavin Banks ordered his team to locate William Miles and, hours later, they managed to get a hold on his location in a remote bunker in Norway.[54]
May 4: Rebecca Crew discovered the existence of a spy aboard the Altaïr II while doing regular maintenance and upgrading. Gavin Banks and William Miles tasked her and Shaun Hastings to run background checks on everyone.[54]
May: Juhani Otso Berg was sent to Essen, Germany, to recover any possible information about the Ankh of Isis. After a data sweep, Berg and Violet da Costa suggested that the Ankh was a decoy created by the Assassins to waste the Templars' time searching for a fake Piece of Eden. Berg discarded the search of the Ankh and continued his search for other Pieces of Eden, heading to the next site in Cuba.[157]
May 7–13: Crewmembers of the Altaïr II were interrogated in William Miles' bunker to flush out a spy who had been sending coded messages to the Initiates.[54]
Eric Cooper and Stephanie Chiu being discovered as the spies
May 25: Juhani Otso Berg led a Templar expedition in Jamaica to find the Observatory.[70]
May 30:
Abstergo acquired a DNA sample from a local Montrealer that revealed they were a descendant of Arno Dorian. Melanie Lemay noted the possibility of further information on Sages and informed Álvaro Gramática.[70]
After several days of digging, Juhani Otso Berg concluded that the Observatory had suffered a catastrophic collapse in the 18th century and had been deliberately buried by the Assassins. He ordered the expedition to cease its activities and notified Abstergo that the operation had to be put on hold due to the lack of manpower.[70]
Rebecca Crane analyzed the Initiates database and the Outernet created by the hacker group.[54]
Olivier Garneau, former CCO of Abstergo Entertainment, was assassinated in Chicago by a fixer after being tracked down by the Assassins.[307]
June 6: William Miles decided to rally the Initiates to the Assassin cause.[54]
June 10-12: Abstergo Entertainment's new project, Helix, was premiered at the Virtual Entertainment Exposition in California.[70]
June 16: The Assassins hacked into the Initiates database and sent a message to their network with the goal of rallying as many Initiates as they could.[54]
June 18: Melanie Lemay continued the search for Sages and began massively hiring employees to explore different individuals through time, among them being Robert Fraser.[308]
June 19: Robert Fraser was tasked with recovering as much information as he could on Arno Dorian.[308]
June 25: Robert Fraser began to show signs of the Bleeding Effect.[308]
August 6: Melanie Lemay informed Álvaro Gramática of periodic attempts by outside sources to access their memory storage servers.[70]
October 13:
The Assassins attacked the Abstergo laboratory in Paris, destroying John Standish's body and critically injuring Álvaro Gramática before fleeing with Sigma Team in pursuit. After the Assassins reached La Rochelle, where the Altaïr II was waiting for them, Sigma Team was quickly outnumbered and forced to abandon the pursuit.[157]
Álvaro Gramática healed himself with the Shroud of Eden one final time before the artifact lost its power.[75]
October 27:
The hacker group that had infiltrated the Abstergo servers in August once again accessed the company's servers, scanning all files in a massive data sweep.[70]
Álvaro Gramática asked Melanie Lemay to get someone to fast track Arno Dorian's memories.[70]
November:
William Miles assumed leadership of the Assassins once again and designated Bishop to be the official handler of the Initiates and their worldwide network.[70]
Bishop contacting the Helix player
Bishop contacted a Helix user who had just completed a set of memories involving Jacques de Molay and explained to them that they were being used by Abstergo before inviting them to join the Assassins as an Initiate. After the user accepted, Bishop tasked them to research an unsequenced set of Arno Dorian's memories to discover the location of the Sage François-Thomas Germain's remains so that the Asassins could retrieve them before Abstergo.[70]
The Initiate discovered that Arno had already won the fight for the Assassins by hiding Germain's remains in the Parisian catacombs, where no one could find them. Bishop thanked the Initiate for their assistance and told them to stay in touch for future assignments.[70]
The Initiate managed to access an additional sequence of Arno's memories, triggering a glitch in the system that locked them out of Helix and alerted Bishop. She was able to stabilize the connection, allowing the Initiate to continue reliving Arno's memories.[145]
A Helix research analyst nicknamed "Numbskull" triggered a virus while exploring the genetic memories of Shay Cormac. The virus ejected all the Abstergo Entertainment employees from their Animi and they were evacuated from the premises, with the exception of Numbskull, who was retained by Violet da Costa and Melanie Lemay so that they could flush out the virus.[157]
Juhani Otso Berg and Violet da Costa talking to the research analyst
Over the next five days, Numbskull continued to research Shay's memories while simultaneously performing maintenance on the rest of the facility's systems, all under the supervision of Violet and Juhani Otso Berg.[157]
After a week, Violet and Numbskull were able to restore the Helix servers. After completing their task, Numbskull was invited by Violet, Melanie, and Berg into the CCO's office, where they were invited to join the Templar Order.[157]
Following the upload of a video file made using Shay's genetic data recovered by Numbskull to the Assassin network, the Assassins evacuated several safehouses, shut down their servers, and installed new firewalls in response.[157]
November 5: Eric Cooper texted Emmett Leary to inform him that he had set up a headquarters in Paris, and were waiting for him to connect to the servers of a local Helix hub.[54]
December 1: Álvaro Gramática tried to organize a new initiative that would accelerate the gathering of data by introducing Helix in the lives of everyone. From wristbands to healthcare clinics that would allow them to take samples of every individual that interacts with them, Gramática was convinced that this was the only way to research and acquire descendants with a high Isu DNA concentration.[75]
2015
January: Abstergo Industries, in collaboration with MysoreTech, launched the Animus VR in the United States. The number of Abstergo products in the average American household would double within the year, accompanied by various healthcare products such as Herne+ and Bodybands.[75][50]
September 25: Isabelle Ardant visited Álvaro Gramática at his facility in Australia, and informed him of new findings related to a second Shroud of Eden, once held by Crawford Starrick. Gramática immediately demanded that Juhani Otso Berg and Sigma Team be assigned to retrieve the artifact.[75]
October 10: A woman and her ten-year-old son, Elijah, visited an Abstergo clinic in New York. A DNA analysis revealed that Elijah was both the son of Desmond Miles, unknowingly conceived at some point following his escape from the Farm, and a Sage. Isabelle Ardant planned to place him in an Animus for the next 50 years, but suggested that it would be better to let the child grow and have him monitored until the time to capture him was due.[75]
October 24:
Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane infiltrated Isabelle Ardant's office in London. After hacking her computer, the pair decided to attempt an assassination during a meeting later the same day. They also rigged the place with explosives to secure an escape route in case they needed to flee, and waited to ambush her.[75]
Several hours later, Ardant arrived at her office and called Álvaro Gramática to inform him that the Sigma Team had been called in to search for the Shroud of Eden. As she ended the call, the Assassins confronted Ardant, but were intercepted by Juhani Otso Berg and Violet da Costa, forcing the pair to activate the explosives and escape.[75]
Bishop contacted Shaun and Rebecca, promising backup and informing them that an Initiate was already synchronizing with the genetic data recovered from Isabelle Ardant's computer.[75]
October 25-26: Galina Voronina arrived in London to aid Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane.[75]
The Assassins waiting to ambush the Templars in the Buckingham Palace vault
October 27-31:
The Initiate discovered the location of the Shroud of Eden from the memories of Jacob and Evie Frye. Bishop dispatched Shaun Hastings, Rebecca Crane, and Galina Voronina to retrieve the artifact before the Templars, but Isabelle Ardant was already on site with Sigma Team operatives. During the altercation, Shaun killed Ardant, Violet da Costa fled with the Shroud, and Rebecca was shot. The Assassins managed to flee as another Abstergo strike team arrived at the location.[75]
Violet delivered the Shroud of Eden to Álvaro Gramática at his secret lab. Gramática went to report to Alan Rikkin, while Violet herself reported to Juno.[75]
Laetitia England ordered Juhani Otso Berg to deliver Shay Cormac's Precursor box to Gramática, both to boost the Phoenix Project's progress and to protect it from further raids or incursions the Assassins might organize to steal it.[299]
Charlotte de la Cruz was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood by Galina Voronina and Xavier Chen, who saved her from Abstergo agents attempting to silence her after Charlotte had uncovered the existence of both the Assassins and the Templars.[192]
Charlotte de la Cruz was taken by Galina Voronina and Xavier Chen to their hideout near the Salton Sea, where she met their team's technician Kody Adams. She was then informed of another Assassin, Joseph Laurier, who had infiltrated Abstergo and was supposedly baiting them with a false trail of a Piece of Eden. Wishing to verify Joseph's claim, the Assassins had Charlotte relive the memories of her ancestor Tom Stoddard in the Animus.[192]
December:
After concluding that Joseph Laurier had been telling the truth about his infiltration, Galina Voronina and Xavier Chen broke into Abstergo's San Diego facility to rescue him. Charlotte de la Cruz continued to explore Tom Stoddard's memories and, after discovering that Joseph had lied, left to save the Assassins from the trap they had walked into.[192]
Joseph Laurier confronting Charlotte de la Cruz and Galina Voronina
Xavier Chen was killed and Galina Voronina was injured by Joseph Laurier, who had betrayed the Assassins and allied with the Templars to exact revenge on Xavier for the death of his lover Christian. Joseph then double-crossed the Templars and detonated hidden explosives he had placed in the building, killing a number of high-ranking Templars, including Didier Hawking.[192]
Charlotte de la Cruz fought and defeated Joseph Laurier to rescue Galina Voronina, before the pair returned to Kody Adams in order to go into hiding from the Templars.[192]
2016
The Assassins Charlotte de la Cruz, Galina Voronina, and Kody Adams escaped to Mexico City. While Galina was being checked on by an illegal doctor, she killed the doctor's accomplice, an undercover Templar agent, and knocked the doctor out.[183]
Determined to find the hacker group Erudito, Charlotte de la Cruz started exploring the memories of her ancestor Quila, based on clues left behind by Consus.[183]
Galina Voronina, Charlotte de la Cruz, and Kody Adams unsuccessfully attempted to kidnap Garcia-Lopez, a Templar with a key role in the Order's propaganda division, in order to locate Joseph Laurier.[183]
Kody Adams was abducted by a Mexican cartel led by Arturo Viera, the boyfriend of the doctor the Assassins had hired, after Galina Voronina left him alone and went to search for Charlotte de la Cruz, who had left out of frustration.[183]
Charlotte de la Cruz and Galina Voronina met Arturo Viera's cartel at a stadium in Mexico City to exchange themselves for Kody Adams, though the cartel was wiped out by the Templars in retaliation for disobeying their orders not to engage the Assassins.[183]
While Charlotte de la Cruz attempted to surrender to the Templars in exchange for sparing Galina Voronina's and Kody Adams' lives, the members of Arturo Viera's cartel routed Ortega Sanchez's entourage with the help of Galina and Kody, allowing Charlotte to escape.[183]
The Assassins meeting with Erudito
Charlotte de la Cruz discovered the password to Erudito's network through Quila's memories, and unlocked GPS coordinates leading to Argentina. There, they were met by Erudito members, under the leadership of Charlotte's grandmother Florencia.[183]
Galina Voronina's Assassin cell and the members of Erudito reluctantly agreed to join forces to stop the resurrection of Juno through the Phoenix Project.[178]
Charlotte de la Cruz entered the Animus to relive the memories of her ancestor Hiram Stoddard, who had come into contact with Consus, while members of Erudito received Assassin training from Galina Voronina.[178]
Erudito tracked Joseph Laurier to Mogadishu, Somalia, and a team comprising Galina Voronina and Erudito members My'shell and Sheed was sent to capture him. Joseph agreed to come with them willingly in exchange for an opportunity to talk with Charlotte de la Cruz.[178]
While reliving the memories of Hiram Stoddard, Charlotte de la Cruz received a cryptic warning from Consus that she needed to find the Koh-i-Noor to stop the return of Juno.[178]
Templars led by Ortega Sanchez raided Erudito's base, killing numerous people including Kody Adams, Sheed, and Joseph Laurier. Charlotte de la Cruz, Galina Voronina, Florencia, and Guernica Moneo escaped with the help of the Assassins Kiyoshi Takakura and Arend Schut, resulting in Sanchez's death.[178]
June 26: The United Kingdom held a referendum over its membership of the European Union, commonly known as Brexit, in which the majority voted to leave. Data mining company Newton Analytica, on the payroll of Abstergo Financial Group's CEO Agneta Reider, swayed the vote in favour of leaving.[193]
André Bolden, son of the Black Cross Albert Bolden, was lured to Abstergo Industries under the false pretense of getting his PTSD cured. In reality, Abstergo placed him in the Animus to explore the memories of his ancestor Jan van der Graff.[283]
Juhani Otso Berg and André Bolden attacked by unknown assailants
Juhani Otso Berg gained André Bolden as an ally, despite the latter's opposition towards Abstergo, to root out the Instruments of the First Will who had infiltrated the Templars' ranks and mysteriously killed Caitlin Gift.[283]
Using Sebastian Monroe's stolen Animus, the teenagers explored their ancestors' memories during the 1863 New York draft riots and discovered the Faith Prong's location in Ulysses S. Grant's former home. However, the group was separated after Abstergo attacked their hideout.[68]
Owen Meyers and Javier Mondragón were rescued from Abstergo's raid by the Assassin Griffin, who convinced them to take him to the Faith Prong's location. When they arrived, however, they found that someone else had taken the artifact, and were forced to escape from a Templar strike team.[68]
Sean Molloy, Natalya Aliyev, and Grace and David Collins were brought to the Aerie, an Abstergo facility run by Isaiah and Dr. Victoria Bibeau, who convinced the teenagers to help the Templars in their search for the Trident of Eden's fragments.[68]
October 21: Abstergo Industries staged the public execution of Callum Lynch for the murder of a pimp, and secretly transferred him to their Rehabilitation Center in Madrid to use his genetic memories to locate an Apple of Eden.[164]
Callum Lynch awakening after his faked execution
October:
Despite his initial reluctance, Callum Lynch was convinced by Animus Project lead Sofia Rikkin to help the Templars find the Apple of Eden wielded by his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha. With Sofia and her team of scientists observing him, Callum entered the Animus 4.3 to explore Aguilar's memories.[164]
Simon Hathaway was inducted into the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order and explained his new vision for the Animus Project: to use the technology at Abstergo's disposal to try and understand the Pieces of Eden instead of simply gathering them. Abstergo CEO Alan Rikkin tasked Simon to restore the broken Sword of Eden in his possession to prove his project's potential.[84]
Simon Hathaway relived the memories of his ancestor Gabriel Laxart, a close companion of Jeanne d'Arc, to better understand the Sword of Eden's functionality. He was assisted by Dr. Victoria Bibeau, who traveled to London from the Aerie, but his research was secretly sabotaged by Alan Rikkin, who feared that Simon's discoveries about the Templars may interfere with Rikkin's vision for how the Order should operate.[84]
Alan Rikkin dispatched Omega Team to eliminate Simon Hathaway after deeming him and his research a threat. With the help of Victoria Bibeau and his ex-girlfriend Anaya Chodary, Simon survived and escaped with the Sword of Eden and the data from the Animus servers. He then traveled to France in search of "the Heart", the missing component of the Sword which had been lost during Jeanne d'Arc's execution.[84]
Simon Hathaway recovered the Heart and presented the restored Sword of Eden to the Inner Sanctum alongside his findings. This led to Simon being cleared of all the charges brought against him and caused some Sanctum members to re-evaluate how the Templars operated in the modern age.[84]
Sean Molloy using the Animus at the Aerie
Sean Molloy relived the memories of Tommy Greyling at the Aerie to locate the pages of the Voynich manuscript encountered by his ancestor, which Isaiah believed could help the Templars better understand the Trident of Eden's powers. However, the trail turned out to be a dead end due to the pages' destruction in 1872.[291]
After escaping a Templar raid on their safehouse, Griffin, Owen Meyers, and Javier Mondragón relocated to a new hideout, where Owen relived the memories of his ancestor Zhang Zhi in search of the Trident of Eden's Fear Prong. However, the memories proved to be a dead end.[144]
Natalya Aliyev relived her ancestor Bayan's memories at the Aerie, allowing the Templars to determine that the Fear Prong was located in Mongolia. Isaiah subsequently began making preparations for an expedition there to recover the artifact.[144]
Griffin, Owen Meyers, and Javier Mondragón staged a raid on the Aerie to save the captive teenagers, while Sebastian Monroe simultaneously mounted his own rescue mission with the help of the Templar Cole. Griffin and Javier managed to free Natalya Aliyev and David Collins and escape the Aerie, but Grace Collins and Sean Molloy stayed behind, and Owen and Monroe were captured.[144]
Owen Meyers, Grace Collins, and Sebastian Monroe escaped the Aerie with the help of Cole, who hid them inside a shipping crate, bringing them to Mongolia. However, once there, they were quickly discovered and re-captured by Isaiah.[144]
Griffin, Javier Mondragón, Natalya Aliyev, David Collins, and the Assassin Yanmei travled to Mongolia to recover the Fear Prong before the Templars. Although their plane was shot down by Abstergo, they all survived the crash.[144]
The Assassins, the teenagers, and Sebastian Monroe reconvened at Möngke Khan's tomb, where they sought to retrieve the Fear Prong. However, Isaiah followed them and had his guards fight the group while he took the artifact. After killing Yanmei, Isaiah announced his defection from the Templar Order and used the prong to make his men, including Cole, follow him.[144]
Victoria Bibeau and her fellow Templars arrived in Mongolia after learning about Isaiah's defection. With Isaiah already in possession of two Prongs of Eden, the Templars and Assassins agreed to a ceasefire until they stopped him and recovered the artifacts.[144]
While Javier Mondragón and David Collins relived the memories of their ancestors Thorvald Hjaltason and Östen Jorundsson to find the Trident of Eden's Devotion Prong, Owen Meyers, Natalya Aliev, and Grace Collins accessed a shared memory in their unconscious sub-DNA with the assistance of Sebastian Monroe. This allowed them to achieve an Ascendance Event and meet a projection of Minerva, who bestowed upon them a "shield" to use against the Trident.[143]
Isaiah kidnapped Sean Molloy from the Aerie and forced him to relive his ancestor Styrbjörn the Strong's memories to lead him to the Devotion Prong.[144][143]
After discovering the Devotion Prong's whereabouts in Sweden, Griffin, Owen Meyers, Natalya Aliev, and Grace Collins traveled there to retrieve it. However, Isaiah's men ambushed them, killing Griffin and seizing the artifact. Sean Molloy, having managed to free himself, rescued his friends and they all fled back to the Aerie with Victoria Bibeau's assistance.[143]
Isaiah and his men attacked the Aerie to eliminate the teenagers, who fought back with the help of Victoria Bibeau and Sebastian Monroe. Using Minerva's "shield", the teenagers overcame the Trident of Eden's powers and killed Isaiah, before using their combined DNA to depower the artifact, which was taken by Monroe.[143]
November:
After Callum Lynch discovered what had happened to Aguilar de Nerha's Apple of Eden, he saw ghastly visions of his Assassin ancestors, including Aguilar, Arno Dorian and his parents, which convinced him to embrace his Assassin heritage.[164]
A group of detained Assassins at Abstergo's Madrid facility, including Moussa, Lin, Nathan, Emir, and Callum Lynch, staged a breakout. Only Moussa, Lin, and Callum survived and escaped Madrid.[164]
Alan Rikkin and his daughter Sofia recovered Aguilar's Apple of Eden from the grave of Christopher Columbus.[164]
Callum Lynch assassinating Alan Rikkin
December 14:
Alan Rikkin organized a meeting at the Grand Templar Hall in London to celebrate their acquisition of the Apple of Eden with other members of the Templar Order, including his daughter Sofia and the Council of Elders.[164]
Callum Lynch infiltrated the meeting at the Grand Templar Hall and killed Alan Rikkin, before escaping with the Apple of Eden.[164]
2017
February:
While investigating an abandoned Abstergo skyscraper office in Hong Kong in search of clues about the Phoenix Project, Charlotte de la Cruz, Guernica Moneo, and the Assassin cell led by Barindra Mitra were attacked by the Instruments of the First Will. Mitra's cell was wiped out while Charlotte and Guernica barely managed to escape.[23]
Juhani Otso Berg and Violet da Costa investigated the aftermath of the fight in Hong Kong. Believing Abstergo had been infiltrated by a fifth column, Berg decided to conduct an investigation of his own as the new Black Cross, with the help of André Bolden.[23]
March:
Juhani Otso Berg attended a meeting of Inner Sanctum members in Quebec to discuss the emergence of a new Black Cross. André Bolden, disguised as the Black Cross, also attended the meeting to draw suspicion away from Berg.[23]
Johani Otso Berg attempted to interrogate Heinrich Hart, an Abstergo engineer and secret informant for the Assassins, in Berlin. After revealing himself to be a member of the Instruments of the First Will, Hart committed suicide in an explosion that also killed 170 civilians, though Berg managed to survive.[23]
Charlotte de la Cruz entered the Animus to find the Koh-i-Noor, as she had been instructed to do by Consus, but the machine malfunctioned, trapping Charlotte inside the memory corridor. Guernica Moneo directed the Assassins to Abstergo's Montreal campus to extract his contact Felix Oladele, who could help fix the Animus.[23]
Kiyoshi Takakura and Arend Schut-Cunningham infiltrated Abstergo's Montreal campus, but found that Felix Oladele had been killed by the former Assassin Jasdip Dhami, who had defected to the Instruments of the First Will. After fighting and wounding Kiyoshi and Arend, Jasdip made his escape.[23]
Charlotte de la Cruz experienced a memory of Juno inside the Animus and learned about her plan to conquer humanity. Guernica Moneo attempted to kill Charlotte on behalf of the Instruments of the First Will, but was stopped by Galina Voronina.[23]
The Assassins and Juhani Otso Berg forming a truce
Juhani Otso Berg and the Assassin My'shell traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to investigate a mysterious money transfer from Abstergo to the Assassins. After running into each other, Berg and My'shell were attacked by the Instruments of the First Will, who warned Berg to end his investigation.[23]
Galina Voronina's Assassin cell and Juhani Otso Berg formed an uneasy alliance to stop the Instruments of the First Will and find the Koh-i-Noor before them. To locate the artifact, Charlotte de la Cruz relived the memories of her ancestor Ignacio Cardona.[303]
After Charlotte de la Cruz suffered a brain hemorrhage and had to be removed from the Animus, Juhani Otso Berg continued the search for the Koh-i-Noor by reliving the memories of the former Black Cross, Albert Bolden.[303]
October 4: Tomo Sakagawa, posing as "Dr. Florent Carpentier", attempted to secure a job at the Clinique des Rameaux. His resume was accepted by the clinic's owner, Nathalie Chapman, and Tomo began working with an amnesiac patient, Elisa Adler.[305]
Layla Hassan disobeyed direct orders to return Bayek's sarcophagus to Abstergo and instead used her own portable version of the Animus to relieve Bayek's memories, in an attempt to prove her worth to the Animus Project.[49]
Layla Hassan meeting William Miles
Layla Hassan and Deanna Geary were attacked by Abstergo's Sigma Team for insubordination. While Geary was killed, Layla used the skills she had gained through the Bleeding Effect to eliminate her assailants.[49]
William Miles met with Layla Hassan in the Qattara Depression to offer her a chance to escape from Abstergo by joining up with the Assassins, which she reluctantly accepted.[49]
October–November: Layla Hassan formally joined the Assassin Brotherhood. During her first assignment to recover a relic from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec, she was attacked by Abstergo agents, but was saved by Kiyoshi Takakura.[47]
October 30: Nathalie Chapman confronted Tomo Sakagawa about his Assassin affiliations and revealed her own allegiance to the Brotherhood. Taking Tomo to a hidden base in the Gorges du Pont-du-Diable, Nathalie convinced him to help her learn more about Boris Pash's life by reliving the memories of Alekseï Gavrani.[305]
November 2: Tomo Sakagawa met with Hajime Shimada, informing him about his work with Nathalie Chapman and his suspicions regarding Nathalie's intentions. Despite Hajime's pleas to leave the mission to another Assassin, Tomo refused and continued exploring Alekseï Gavrani's memories under Nathalie's supervision.[305]
November 11: Tomo Sakagawa discovered Nathalie Chapman's plan to experiment on amnesiac patients and implant them with the memories of long-dead Assassins, as a way of resurrecting them through a permanent Bleeding Effect. Realizing Elisa Adler was one of Nathalie's victims, Tomo convinced her to return to her parents.[305]
Tomo Sakagawa left injured after his fight with Maxime Gorm
November 12:
Former Abstergo technicians Thomas and Alice Adler experimented on Maxime Gorm, whom they had kidnapped from the Abstergo Madrid facility. They placed him in an Animus and made him relive his grandfather Eddie Gorm's memories in search of an Apple of Eden that could hopefully cure the Adlers' daughter's amnesia.[304]
After Eddie's memories proved to be a dead end and left Maxime confused about his identity, the Adlers received an unexpected visit from their daughter, Elisa, and Tomo Sakagawa. When Maxime revealed himself, a fight broke out that left Thomas and Alice dead and Tomo critically injured while Maxime fled with Elisa.[304][305]
Hajime Shimada and his men retrieved a comatose Tomo and brought him to Nathalie Chapman's former clinic, where they nursed him back to health. Tomo was placed in the Animus and continued to relive Alekseï Gavrani's memories so the Assassins could learn more about Project BLUEBIRD, which Nathalie was trying to restart.[305]
Nathalie was confronted in her home by an Assassin, who was killed by her head of security, Stanislas. After learning about the events in Madrid from Stanislas, Nathalie used a coded phrase to activate Elisa Adler's hypnotic conditioning and make her bring Maxime Gorm to her.[305]
November 15:
Tomo Sakawaga killed Hajime Shimada and his men in a Bleeding Effect-induced manic episode. After returning to his senses, Tomo mourned the loss of his mentor and vowed to stop Nathalie Chapman's plans by himself.[305]
Nathalie met Maxime Gorm and explained her attempts to restart her father's life work: Project BLUEBIRD. In exchange for Nathalie restoring his memories erased by Abstergo, Maxime agreed to help her uncover more information about the project by reliving his mother Julia's memories.[305]
Tomo infiltrated Nathalie's base in the Swiss Alps and convinced Elisa Adler to help him stop Nathalie's plans. He then killed Maxime, Stanislas, and most of Nathalie's guards before confronting Nathalie herself and offering her a deal: his and Elisa's freedom in exchange for a decryption key to a virus Tomo had implanted in Nathalie's system.[305]
As Tomo and Elisa left Nathalie's base, the latter inserted the key from Tomo, only to discover it was another virus which affected the facility's cooling system. This caused an explosion that killed Nathalie and her staff, and also destroyed the Apple of Eden in Nathalie's possession.[305]
2018
After finding the Koh-i-Noor's burial site in Spain, Juhani Otso Berg contacted André Bolden to give him the location of Álvaro Gramática's laboratory, so he could keep an eye out for any Instruments of the First Will. Unbeknownst to Berg, André had already been captured by the Instruments,[303] who later executed him.[309]
Charlotte de la Cruz killing Juno
The Instruments of the First Will seized the Phoenix Project facility in Australia, intending to use it to resurrect Juno, and took Álvaro Gramática hostage.[303]
August:
Galina Voronina's Assassin cell and Juhani Otso Berg retrieved the Koh-i-Noor from its burial site, but lost it to the Instruments of the First Will after a fight.[309]
The Instruments of the First Will attacked the Assassins' hideout in London to kill Guernica Moneo for being a loose end, but My'shell protected him. In the ensuing fight, the hideout was destroyed and Guernica was mortally wounded while helping My'shell kill the Instruments.[309]
Using the Shroud of Eden and Isu DNA extracted from Elijah, the illegitimate son of Desmond Miles and a Sage, Álvaro Gramática was able to create a new Isu body for Juno to inhabit.[309]
The Assassins and Juhani Otso Berg attacked the Phoenix Project facility to prevent Juno's resurrection, resulting in the deaths of Jasdip Dhami, Álvaro Gramática, Violet da Costa, and Juno herself, who was killed by Charlotte de la Cruz with help from Elijah and the Koh-i-Noor. Berg then destroyed the facility in an explosion, killing Charlotte and the remaining Instruments of the First Will, while Elijah escaped with the Koh-i-Noor.[309]
October:
Layla Hassan found the broken Spear of Leonidas, based on information from the works of the Greek historian Herodotos, the last person known to have been in possession of the Spear.[47]
Layla led an Assassin team consisting of Dr. Victoria Bibeau, Kiyoshi Takakura, and Alannah Ryan on a mission to retrieve the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. Operating out of a hideout in London, Layla used her Animus to relive the memories of the Greek misthios Kassandra, based on the genetic data extracted from the Spear of Leonidas.[47]
Through Kassandra's memories, Layla discovered the existence of Atlantis underneath the Greek island of Thera and accessed the Gateway to the Lost City.[47]
Kassandra passing the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to Layla Hassan
After activating Atlantis' mechanisms, Kassandra greeted Layla in the Gateway to the Lost City and passed the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to her, while imploring Layla to fix the rift in time and destroy all the Pieces of Eden. Without the Staff's powers keeping her alive, Kassandra passed away.[47]
Through Kassandra's memories, Layla discovered the symbols required to open the doorway leading further into Atlantis, where she was contacted by the Isu Aletheia. With her help, Layla started training to use the Staff of Hermes.[11]
After witnessing simulations of the Isu Era through Kassandra's memories as part of her training, Layla was pulled out of the Animus by Victoria to stop the Bleeding Effect. Corrupted by the Staff's power, Layla accidentally killed Victoria in a fit of rage.[11]
Abstergo learned of the Assassins' mission in Atlantis and dispatched Sigma Team to kill them and retrieve the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. While Kiyoshi killed the Sigma Team operatives who attacked the Altaïr II, Layla defeated Juhani Otso Berg in Atlantis before impaling him with the Staff, crippling him.[11]
Kiyoshi Takakura and Alannah Ryan left Layla Hassan's team after learning of her accidental murder of Victoria Bibeau, and Layla had to be re-assigned to a new Assassin cell. She was eventually joined by Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, because of their similar experience with Desmond Miles' unintentional killing of Lucy Stillman.[79]
2019
April 15: The spire of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire, destroying the roof and causing significant damage to the rest of the building. The Assassin Gavin Banks had an Animus stored within the cathedral, which was destroyed in the blaze.[193]
The teenager Kō Risa, a descendant of Shao Jun, began attending therapy at the Abstergo clinic in Yokohama, hoping to learn to supress her violent tendencies. Unbeknownst to Risa, her doctor, Kaori Kagami, was a Templar seeking to use Shao Jun's memories to locate her Precursor box.[182]
The Assassin Kiyoshi Takakura eavesdropped on Kō Risa and Kaori Kagami's sessions and approached the former to warn her about Kagami's true intentions. However, the teenager refused to believe him, so Kiyoshi enlisted the help of Risa's cousin Mari to convince her to quit her therapy sessions.[182]
Kō Risa and Mari being recruited into the Brotherhood
Kō Risa began to suffer from the Bleeding Effect and tried to end her therapy sessions, but she was forced back into the Animus by Kaori Kagami, who was desperate to prove herself to the Council of Elders member Ellen Kaye.[182]
Kō Risa defeated Kaori Kagami and destroyed her Animus, ending the doctor's search for Shao Jun's Precursor box. She then escaped from the Abstergo clinic with the help of Kiyoshi Takakura and Mari before meeting the Mentor Saeko Mochizuki, who offered Risa and Mari a place in the Brotherhood. After the cousins accepted, they were tasked to find the Precursor box.[182]
September:
The Assassins Gavin Banks and My'shell Lemair recruited Aliyah Khan for a mission to stop Abstergo Industries from using the software program Project Lighthouse to gain control of the Dark Web. They had Aliyah relive her ancestor Omar Khaled's memories in the Animus, in order to find a rare Royal Mint coin inscribed with a code that could be used to disable the program.[193]
The Templars discovered Gavin, My'shell and Aliyah's hideout, forcing them to escape and relocate to the London Zoo, abandoning their Animus in the process. On Aliyah's suggestion, the group infiltrated the London offices of ExploreDNA and used one of the company's VR headsets to continue exploring Omar's memories.[193]
A Templar strike team led by Fahad Khan, Aliyah's father, attacked the ExploreDNA offices, capturing Gavin. Aliyah and My'shell blackmailed Abstergo Financial Group's CEO Agneta Reider to learn Gavin's whereabouts, and traveled to the Isaac Newton Cambridge Museum, where Gavin was being tortured by Fahad.[193]
Aliyah assassinated Fahad and rescued Gavin, whereupon the Assassins used the code found in Omar's memories to disable Abstergo's program. In return for her assistance, the Brotherhood arrested Aliyah's former business partner Jarrod Eubanks, who had fled with their funds, allowing Aliyah to repay her debts. She then decided to officially join the Assassins.[193]
November:
The COVID-19 pandemic started in China and over the next several months spread to the rest of the world, leading to a global lockdown.[310]
Juhani Otso Berg remained a captive of the Assassins, who unsuccessfully tried to interrogate him several times.[311]
Unknown
Juhani Otso Berg was eventually released from the Assassins' custody and returned to Abstergo, who experimented on him with a Staff of Eden, restoring his ability to walk.[312]
2020
January: The Earth's magnetic field, which had been continually strengthening since Desmond Miles' activation of the global aurora borealis device in 2012, became strong enough to create several global anomalies, such as a permanent aurora borealis over the entire world.[79]
Layla Hassan, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane were partnered with Kiyoshi Takakura on a mission to extract an Assassin mole, Doctor Kazui, from Abstergo's facility in Tokyo. The Assassins successfully extracted Kazui, while also deleting all of his genetic data from Abstergo's database and defeating Juhani Otso Berg, who tried to stop them.[312]
May: Basim Ibn Ishaq sent an encrypted message from within the Grey to the Assassins, directing them to Eivor Varinsdottir's remains in North America. Layla Hassan, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane followed the signal and, after renting a cabin in the area, dug up Eivor's skeleton, from which Layla extracted a DNA sample for her Animus, allowing her to relive the Viking's memories.[79]
August: Through Eivor Varinsdottir's memories, Layla Hassan learned of the Isu vault in Norway where Yggdrasil was located. After the Assassins concluded that the Isu supercomputer could be used to slow down the Earth's magnetism, Layla traveled to the vault to access it.[79]
Basim Ibn Ishaq being resurrected after centuries trapped in the Grey
August 16:
Layla Hassan entered the Yggdrasil Chamber, using the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus to protect herself from the lethal radiation inside, and used the machine to upload her consciousness to the Grey. She met Basim Ibn Ishaq, who showed her how to slow Yggdrasil down and save the planet, though this released Basim. Layla also met the Reader and chose to stay in the Grey and help him analyze different calculations to find ways of preventing future disasters.[79]
Basim Ibn Ishaq, the incarnation of Loki, escaped his imprisonment in the Grey and rejuvenated himself using the Staff of Hermes, which contained the consciousness of Loki's lover Aletheia. Thus, Loki and Aletheia's plan to survive the Toba Catastrophe and be reunited in the future was finally accomplished.[79]
August 17: Basim Ibn Ishaq met Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane and asked for an audience with William Miles. After Shaun and Rebecca left to bring their Mentor, Basim entered Layla Hassan's Animus to relive Eivor Varinsdottir's memories and hopefully discover the whereabouts of Loki's children.[79]
August 18: William Miles met Basim Ibn Ishaq inside the Animus simulation and the two agreed to work together to further the Assassin cause. William also demanded a blood sample from Basim, to be sequenced through the Animus and allow the Assassins to relive Basim's memories.[142]
Templar agents raided a museum in London to recover one of the blades of Vejovis' dagger, which had been found by the museum guard and Vejovis' Sage Joey. After escaping with the help of the Assassins Colm and Alera, Joey worked with them to explore the memories of Cadmus, Khepri, Alva, Faisal, and Giulia, in the hopes of locating the second dagger blade.[38]
After learning about the Isu vault in Venice, Joey, Colm, and Alera traveled there to recover the second blade of Vejovis' dagger. When Colm was revealed to be a Templar double agent, Alera assassinated him, before Joey combined the two parts of the dagger to complete the artifact. This initiated a resurrection process for Vejovis, which Joey stopped by destroying one of the blades, preventing the Isu's return.[38]
2023
An Assassin hacker infiltrated and sabotaged Abstergo Industries' Nexus Eye project at the request of Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane. However, the hacker was later captured by agents sent by the project's head, Dominika Wilk, who had discovered their affiliations.[66]
Noa Kim was abducted by Abstergo agents during a trip to Macau, China, and taken to the Exitus research vessel, where he was forced to relive the memories of his ancestor Edward Kenway during his time in Southeast Asia.[314]
Shimazu Sei and Noa Kim reaching an agreement
After Noa caused several synchronization errors, Doctor Shimazu Sei pulled him from the Animus, warning him against interfering with his ancestor's history, and told him that she sought information on a Piece of Eden that Edward had found during his travels.[315] Noa, hoping to learn more about his family's history, agreed to help Sei and continued to explore Edward's memories.[316]
Noa and Sei took an excursion to the A-Ma Cultural Village in Macau to retrieve a ledger that would allow them to continue tracking Edward's memories.[317] During the trip, members of the Zhawang Corporation attempted to rescue Noa, but he refused their help and returned to Abstergo.[218]
The Exitus relocated to Cebu, where Noa and Sei searched for clues to help them trace Edward's footsteps in the Philippines.[318] During their investigation, the Assassin Nathan Zhang and his criminal organization Doom Eagle attacked them, seeking to rescue Noa.[319] Noa fought Nathan, who informed him of his father's Assassin affiliations and gave him Captain Mustafa's sea log to help him track Edward's memories before leaving.[320]
Noa and Sei discovered the location of the crescent amulet from Edward Kenway's memories, but Sei's superiors ordered Noa's termination, believing he had outlived his usefulness.[239] Sei struck a deal with Nathan Zhang to ensure Noa's safety, and helped Noa return to his senses when he went on rampage aboard the Exitus under the Bleeding Effect's influence.[321]
Noa and Sei's bodyguard Yuki recovered the crescent amulet from the shipwreck of the SS Ourang Medan,[322] and escaped alongside Sei when Nathan Zhang and his men attacked their ship. Nathan brought Noa, Sei, and Yuki to a safehouse in Singapore, where Sei used a prototype Animus HR-8 to relive her ancestor Shimazu Saito's memories and find another Piece of Eden that could cure Noa of the amulet's effects.[240]
Noa took Sei's place in the Animus when she began to suffer from the Bleeding Effect,[243] and his genetic memories ultimately revealed the location of a Piece of Eden in the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar.[246] Avoiding Abstergo's Sigma Team, Sei, Noa, Yuki, and Nathan left Singapore and sailed to Myanmar to recover the Piece of Eden.[206]
Noa Kim talking to Edward Kenway through the Synch Nexus
Noa and Sei found the Piece of Eden in the Shwedagon Pagoda,[323] which created a Synch Nexus between Noa and Edward Kenway, allowing them to speak across time.[324] Noa, Sei, Yuki, and Nathan then escaped with the artifact, just as Sigma Team attacked the Shwedagon Pagoda in an attempt to capture them.[325]
Noa, Sei, Yuki, and Nathan infiltrated Yangon's harbor in search of a seaplane to flee Myanmar.[326] Yuki sacrificed herself to delay Sigma Team,[327] and Sei was captured after using the crescent amulet to subdue the Abstergo agents and buy Noa and Nathan enough time to escape with the second Piece of Eden.[251]
The Templars placed Sei in the Animus to track down the third Piece of Eden,[251] leading them to Shimazu Saito's grave.[328] Abstergo subsequently recovered the artifact.[329]
Sigma Team tracked Noa and Nathan to an uncharted island where they had taken refuge and attacked their hideout,[256] but faced unexpected resistance from a team of Assassins sent by Nathan's sister Claire Zhang, the Zhawang Corporation's director. With the help of the hacker group DedSec, Noa, Nathan, and the Assassins escaped the island and lost the pursuing Abstergo forces.[328]
The Assassins, DedSec, and the Zhawang Corporation held a meeting at the latter's headquarters in Jakarta, where they formed an alliance to stop Abstergo's plans.[328] After they decided to eliminate Sei to prevent the Templars from extracting any more information from her, Noa volunteered to carry out the mission.[329]
Noa infiltrated the Abstergo Genetic Research Lab in Osaka, Japan, and freed Sei from the Animus.[329] After convincing the Assassins to help him save Sei instead of killing her, they all escaped the facility, and Noa used his Piece of Eden to cure Sei's Bleeding Effect.[330]
Noa used the Zhawang Corporation's Brahman 3.0 to relive the remainder of Edward Kenway's memories and track down the Forgotten Temple.[258] Abstergo found the temple first,[331] but their attempts to breach it activated an advanced security protocol and created a temporal anomaly. As the past and present timelines began to merge, putting the entire world at risk, Noa, Sei, and Nathan traveled to the temple to shut it down.[332]
Noa, Sei, and Nathan were turned into their respective ancestors—Edward Kenway, Shimazu Saito, and John Young—as they approached the Forgotten Temple. Overtaken by John's personality, Nathan stole the Piece of Eden from Noa, who chased him alongside Sei, but they were all confronted by an apparition of Xiao Han projected by the crescent amulet.[333] "John" signaled the East India Company to commence a cannon bombardment, allowing him to escape during the confusion.[334]
Sigma Team used the third Piece of Eden to bypass the Forgotten Temple's dimensional field without being affected by the time anomaly,[333] and attempted to return the artifact to the core of the temple to seize control of it.[261] However, one member of the team was turned into Xiao Han by the crescent amulet,[335] while the temple projected apparitions of all the individuals who attempted to breach it in 1725, resulting in a similar version of events playing out.[263]
Noa's Assassin allies, who accompanied him to the Forgotten Temple and were turned into their Japanese mercenary ancestors,[264] handed him a device that allowed DedSec to remotely control some of the temple's systems. With it, Noa and Sei were able to enter the temple and begin making their way towards the core.[336]
The Assassins infiltrated Abstergo's field base near the Forgotten Temple and eliminated all of its occupants, including Sigma Team's field commander.[265]
Sigma Team reached the heart of the Forgotten Temple after all of its control units were activated,[337] but their attempt to gain control of the complex failed and resulted in its systems going haywire.[268]
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