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Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa) is the capital city of Portugal. During the Age of Discovery, the city was a hub for commerce with Africa, India, and Brazil, doing trade in spices, slaves, sugar, and textiles.
A guild of the Assassin Order was also based in the city and received aid from Ezio Auditore da Firenze's Italian guild.
History[edit | edit source]
Age of Discovery[edit | edit source]
Knowing that King Manuel I of Portugal might have connections to the Templars, the Assassins traveled to Lisbon and interrogated one of the men in his council, who revealed that Manuel did indeed serve the Templar cause. They also learned that Manuel was preparing to send a fleet, led by Vasco da Gama, to Calicut. This prompted the Assassins to warn their brothers in India.[1]
Shortly after that, they learned that Manuel was forcing the city's entire Jewish population to either convert to Christianity or leave, but had also closed the city borders, making it impossible to escape. Anyone who refused to convert was beaten or even killed. The Assassins arranged for three ships to take the Jewish citizens out of Lisbon, though it was not enough and the Assassins were forced to kill many guards that had found out about their plans.[2]
Knowing that they could not get all the citizens out in time, they provided them with weapons and light armor, training them in tactics such as stealth, surprise, intimidation and shock. The civilians seemed eager to fight their king, and very few of them accepted the offer to travel to Italy with the Assassins.[3]
In 1511, a group of Ottoman Assassins sent from Constantinople by Ezio Auditore investigated the Templars' activities in Lisbon. They learned that the Order had been diverting money sent by King Manuel to fund their own "missionary" expeditions to Asia,[4] and proceeded to retrieve the stolen funds, putting the money to better use.[5] The Assassins further sabotaged the Templars' operations by eliminating Francisco, a sea captain placed in charge of the Order's proselytizing in Portugal's colonies. They boarded one of Francisco's ships at Lisbon's harbor and killed him at sea.[6]
During this time, the Portuguese Templars paid large sums of money to explorers for information of their discoveries. The Assassins, although lacking the Templars' wealth, used other means to procure the same information.[7] Capitalizing on the Templars' weakened influence, the Assassins later installed several Dens in Lisbon to allow them to better conduct their operations in the city.[8]
Early modern period[edit | edit source]
By the 18th century, Portugal's colony in Brazil provided a massive income for the empire. This allowed King John V to expand the city into one of the largest in Europe.[9]
Lisbon had also become a capital with thriving markets that attracted not only visitors from all over Europe, but also trade from the West Indies, with the Portuguese royal family at Ribeira Palace having their wine supplied by the pirate Edward Kenway's fleet.[10] Around the same time, physicians in the city, attempting to curtail the then-recent smallpox epidemics that had devasted the continent, experimented with new cures and ingredients, also trading with the fleet.[11]
In November of 1755, the Colonial Assassin Shay Cormac was sent to Lisbon by his Mentor, Achilles Davenport, to retrieve a Piece of Eden from within an Isu temple hidden beneath the Carmo Convent. Shortly after Shay removed the Piece from its pedestal, it disintegrated and triggered an earthquake. Though Shay managed to escape from the disaster and sail back to the Thirteen Colonies, this massive earthquake collapsed multiple structures and killed countless civilians throughout the city.[12] The earthquake inspired the French philosopher Voltaire to write a long poem about the tragedy.[9]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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Lisbon prior to the 1755 earthquake -
Shay Cormac running through Lisbon during the earthquake -
Lisbon following the earthquake
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Rogue
- Assassin's Creed: The Last Quest of Leonardo da Vinci
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Tales of Iga (mentioned only)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Contracts: "A Fleeting Chance"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Contracts: "Exodus"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Contracts: "A Fighting Chance"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Colonies, Part I"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Colonies, Part II"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Colonies, Part III"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Rage Of Exploration"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Database: Lisbon
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Edward Kenway's fleet: "Cursed Night"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Edward Kenway's fleet: "Do No Harm"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Kyrie Eleison
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