Database: Heralds (Assassin's Creed II)

REBECCAC84: If a herald tries to draw attention to your assassinations, I bet you can bribe him to keep quiet.

Proclamations, local laws, news, market days and advertisements were all called out by heralds, since many Renaissance Italians could not read. Special laws had to be put in place to protect them from the crowd, due to extreme displays of unhappiness following the announcement of tax increases.