Hephaestus Email Network
The Hephaestus Email Network was an Internet email service used by the Assassin Order.
While staying in the Sanctuary of Monteriggioni, Desmond Miles, Lucy Stillman, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane exchanged several messages over the network. Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.[1]
The only outsiders who contacted them were Erudito, a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as William M., and another William M. who was actually Warren Vidic impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team. William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the restored memories of 1506.[2]
On 9 October 2012, Lucy Stillman called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like Subject 16's. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.[3]
William informed Desmond that his progress was being monitored by Rebecca, and advised him to tell as few people as possible of their findings. Once Desmond explored all the memories, he received another email from William, thanking him for his help, and requesting him not to disclose the information to either Shaun or Lucy, as their security and safety depended on it. Finally, he informed Desmond that they would meet soon.[1]
The Assassins continued to use the Hephaestus Network after arriving at the Grand Temple. During this period, the Isu Juno was able to communicate with Desmond via email, urging him to continue his efforts to find the Grand Temple Key, and showing her disgust with the human race.[4]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Hephaestus was the Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.
- Accessing Desmond's account will earn the player the "Mailer Daemon" achievement.
- The emails sent by William during the The Da Vinci Disappearance memory sequences only appear during a playthrough of the game and are accessible after the completion of Sequence 3. If the player has already completed the entire story, an alternative dialogue will occur when the downloadable content is accessed.
- Regarding the name "William M." which appeared as the sender in emails separately addressed to Lucy and Shaun, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem said in a podcast on 29 April 2012 that "the William M's are not necessarily the same."[5]
- In Brotherhood, even though the team's passwords contained a varying amount of letters and numbers, each password would appear as eight characters when Desmond typed it into the computer.
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Shaun's mail
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III
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The Assassin's Den - The Lost Archive ft. Jeffrey Yohalem (Lead Writer) on the Loomer YouTube channel. "I don't know if people noticed this, but in some of the emails in Brotherhood, Lucy's getting letters from, um, uh, Desmond's—the, the guy in charge of the Assassins, William M. And, um, if you look at the time of some of those letters in the date, um, you'll notice something, especially the letters that are sent to Lucy versus—William M. is writing letters to Lucy, and he's writing letters to Shaun in the emails in Brotherhood, and the William M.'s are not necessarily the same. And if you look at those emails, you will see the beginning of the reveal that happened in [The Lost Archive]." from 36:18–37:04