Haven

"This is what I would like to offer in my will: Havens, in which new apprentices could be trained and initiated."

―Leonardo da Vinci in his final letter to Ezio Auditore, 1519.

A haven was a place selected by Leonardo da Vinci as a secretive location conducive to the construction of Assassin refuges meant to train and initiate apprentices. After moving to Amboise, France, Leonardo turned his attention to researching ideal cities and, with the aid of English author Thomas More, uncovered nine such sites, which he remarked were ancient and some even mythical. Afraid of possible interception, he hid encoded information with trusted friends scattered around Europe under express instructions to destroy it should the Assassins not be able to contact them within a month of his death. He then sent Ezio Auditore da Firenze a letter with the first hints needed to arrive at the havens.

Ezio, with the help of other members of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, followed the trail in the Italian cities of Florence, Venice and Rome before sending messages to the local Brotherhood chapters in Grenoble, Brussels and Augsburg, which then contacted the Assassins living further west, in the cities of London, Seville and Lisbon. Combining the information retrieved from each city, the Assassins located the nine havens discovered by da Vinci.

List of havens

• Abbaye de Thélème, France
• Dunwich, England
• Kythera, Greece
• Miletos, Turkey
• Neuf-Brisach, France
• Palmanova, Italy
• Pienza, Italy
• Timgad, Algeria
• Ys, France

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: The Last Quest of Leonardo da Vinci