Venetian Staff of Eden

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The Venetian Staff of Eden was a Staff of Eden, a piece of leftover Isu technology.

History

In 1509, the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins in Venice overheard a conversation between Niccolò di Pitigliano and one of his messengers about the Templars being about to locate an "artifact of utmost importance". Ezio Auditore da Firenze requested the Assassins to intercept and eliminate the messenger. They found a note confirming that the Templars had located a Staff of Eden, known for its power of control over humans. They managed to find only one clue: a Dottore in the San Polo District with information about the Staff.

The Assassins tracked down the Dottore and, after some coaxing, he informed them that the Staff of Eden might be hidden near the statue of the Lion of Venice under the Piazza di San Marco. They managed to recover it before the Templars could get ahold of it, though they attempted a forceful attack to the Venetian Brotherhood headquarters using an elite unit dispatched from Rome, the mounted guard. The Assassins defended both their headquarters and the Staff.

A powerful and former enemy of the Brotherhood was specially appointed to take the Staff, which they attempted to do while disguised as Pestilence, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Though their identity remained a mystery to the Assassins that defended the Staff, they did manage to uncover information tying their enemy to the Crows, a group of Templars they thought eliminated. With the Venetian Assassins being hunted by all the city guards and the Templars on their trail, they decided to infiltrate an abandoned palace and meet with Ezio in order to entrust him with the Staff. Ezio was able to retrieve the Staff and put it in a safe place for the time being.

After the victory over the Templars in Venice, Ezio sent four Assassins, Alif, Beatrice, Clara, and Domenico, to Rome to help his sister Claudia prepare for his succession and secure the Staff once and for all inside a Temple.

A Follower of Romulus, posing as Leonardo da Vinci, led the Assassins to an ambush, though they managed to survive it. Their investigation revealed that the traitor made a pact with the Papal Guard in the ruins near the Colosseum, where Ezio said that the secret entrance to the Temple that would house the Staff was. After learning of the alliance between the Followers of Romulus and the Templars, the Assassins found the entrance to the Temple had been sealed, though they managed to locate an encrypted message that indicated another entrance. They carried out a reconnaissance mission along with Ezio and discovered the secret entrance was protected by a complex and very strange mechanism.

When escorting Ezio to the entrance, another ambush occured, though they were dealt with along with the mastermind behind it, Lucrezia Borgia. Reaching the entrance, the Assassins helped Ezio activate the two parts of the mechanism to allow him to access the Temple. Ezio then placed the Staff in a safe location inside it, while his group prevented the Followers of Romulus from locating the Temple's entrance. The mission was a success, with the Assassins claiming the Staff of Eden was safe where the Templars would never be able to reach it.

Around 2020, the Abstergo Industries Tokyo facility was carrying out research on transplanting Isu technology into humans, with the goal of creating advanced technologies and forcibly augmenting human subjects into super soldiers. For this, they studied the powers of the Venetian Staff of Eden, being on the verge of locating it when an Assassin team intervened and destroyed the DNA data they had being using to do so.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice
  • Roma
  • Tokyo XXI