Assassin's Creed: The Fall (TPB)

Assassin's Creed: The Fall is a trade paperback which collects the complete three issues of the Wildstorm Comics comic series of the same name. The book was released on 1 November 2011. On October 2023, Studio Lounak announced a rerelease, "wrapped in all new covers, with revisited dialogue and colors", slated for 31 January 2024.

Description

The monster-hit, historical fantasy/sci-fi Assassin's Creed video game from Ubisoft breaks into comics with a stunning tale written and illustrated by acclaimed creators Karl Kerschl (WEDNESDAY COMICS, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) and Cameron Stewart (BATMAN AND ROBIN). ASSASSIN’S CREED: THE FALL follows 19th century Russian Assassin Nikolai Orelov as he strives to claim an artifact of immense power from the hands of the Templars, leading to a climactic and violent showdown with the ruthless Tsar Alexander III aboard a speeding train.

Meanwhile, in modern times, a troubled young drifter copes with unsettling visions of a possible past life—visions that have irreversible consequences for the present. ASSASSIN'S CREED: THE FALL is an exciting new chapter in the popular series that no fan will want to miss.

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"I first caught sight of the Emperor and was struck by the size of the man, and although cumbersome and heavy, he was still a mighty figure. The look of his bright eyes made quite an impression on me. As he passed where I was standing he raised his head for a second and to this day I can remember what it felt as our eyes met. It was a look as cold as steel, in which there was something threatening, almost frightening, and it struck me like a blow." – French artist Alexandre Benois, on meeting Alexander Ill (Memoirs) After his father's assassination in 1881, Alexander III assumed the title of Tsar and began his 13-year reign, which was characterized by fierce, autocratic rule. Although he stabilized the government and enjoyed peace with neighboring Europe and Asia, he did so at the expense of the working class and peasantry, crushing liberal opposition, sending thousands of political dissidents into Siberian exile, and abolishing the free press. He was known to be an imposing, brutish figure with formidable physical strength and an iron will.

In late October of 1888, Alexander and his family were aboard the Imperial Train en route to St. Petersburg from Crimea. While the family was eating in the dining car, the train derailed at high speed and crashed near Borki station. According to the official version of events, Alexander held the collapsed roof of the ruined car on his shoulders while his children clambered from the wreckage. Investigations into the cause of the crash have yielded inconclusive results. In 1894, Alexander III died from kidney failure. It has been speculated that the onset of infection was related to injuries he sustained during the Borki train disaster...

The Tunguska event, or Tunguska blast, or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m. KRAT (0:14 UT) on June 30 (OS. June 17), 1908. The explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5-10 kilometres (3-6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates of the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across. "At breakfast time I was sitting by the house at Vanavara Trading Post, 40 miles south of the explosion, facing north. I suddenly saw that directly to the north, over Onkoul's Tunguska Road, the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. The split in the sky grew larger, and the entire northern side was covered with fire. At that moment I became so hot that I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire; from the northern side, where the fire was, came strong heat. I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, but then the sky shut closed, and a strong thump sounded, and I was thrown a few metres." – Testimony of S. Semenov, as recorded by Leonid Kulik's expedition in 1930.

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 — 7 January 1943) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Because of his 1894 demonstration of wireless communication through radio and as the eventual victor in the War of Currents, he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices as early as 1893, and aspired to intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. Because of his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist by many late in his life.

Collected issues

• Assassin's Creed: The Fall 1
• Assassin's Creed: The Fall 2
• Assassin's Creed: The Fall 3

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