Eye

"Divination through numbers. There is a pattern to existence. To comprehend the calculations is to tame time. This was my focus. And so I built the Eye to aid us. But she turned it towards her own ends."

―Minerva to Desmond Miles, 2012

A vision of the Eye being used to predict the solar flare

An Eye was a set of Isu technology that granted the Isu the ability to foretell the future through the calculations of innumerable possibilities. Created by the Isu scientist Minerva, the Eyes were described by her as "divination by numbers" and were so precise that its users could anticipate exact responses to their recordings in the future. In this way, they could interact with future beings as though they were speaking to them in real-time, allowing them to influence the future.

One component of an Eye was discovered by humans and became known as the Antikythera mechanism.

History

Isu Era

While working alongside Juno and Jupiter to investigate solutions for the pending catastrophe in 75,000 BCE, Minerva used the first Eye in an effort to save the world from the inevitable second disaster which she had calculated to take place in 2012 CE. With the Eye, she identified Desmond Miles as the individual who would be most likely of preventing the disaster.

Knowing Desmond would eventually relive the genetic memories of his ancestor Ezio Auditore through an Animus, Minerva used the Eye to appear before Ezio in the Vatican Vault on 28 December 1499 with a message for his descendant, warning him of the impending solar flare. Eventually, Juno began to tamper with the device, prompting Minerva and Jupiter to destroy it and imprison Juno inside the Grand Temple.

Viking Age

In the 870s, Eivor Varinsdottir of the Raven Clan, who had inherited Odin's genetic memories via the "seventh solution", experienced herbal concoction-induced visions of her past life. During one such vision, Eivor, as Havi, met Minerva and saw her use the Eye to contact Ezio.

Industrial Revolution

In the mid-19th century, the Irish Assassin Oscar Kane mentioned to his apprentice Simeon Price that an Eye was likely located in Assyria, where excavations had been made to find the artifact, to no avail. He also revealed the existence of another Eye which was known to the Templars, and that he had personally funded the excavation of the site where the Eye could likely be found. By 1858, an Eye was believed to be hidden in Paris, and the French Assassins focused on its retrieval, with assistance from Kane. However, after finding the artifact, Kane seized it and escaped before either the Assassins or Templars could intercept him.

By 1861, an Eye was stated to be housed in the British Museum in London for inspection, until it was also stolen by Kane. Meanwhile, Price's apprentice, Pierrette Arnaud, was abducted by the Templar countess Konstanze von Visler and forced to decipher Ada Lovelace's notes of another Eye, revealing its location in a temple beneath Bath. Kane also discovered this Eye's whereabouts through his own investigation, though by the time he arrived at the temple, the artifact was long gone, taken by either the Templars or another party.

Modern times

After Juno was imprisoned, Minerva created a second Eye to reach out to Desmond once more on 21 December 2012, to determine whether he found a solution to prevent a second disaster. She discovered that Juno, whose consciousness had been digitally stored inside the temple, had been manipulating Desmond. Minerva urged Desmond not to use the global aurora borealis device, which would save the world from the solar flare but also free Juno from imprisonment, claiming that the world's destruction was better than Juno's release. In the end, Desmond decided to save the world, trusting that humanity would be able to counter Juno's threat.

In 2013, after researching the Eyes, Abstergo Industries discovered that the devices would have been extremely difficult to use due to the nature of the calculations, and would have required hundreds of thousands of trials to calculate events so far in the future.

In 2018, the Assassin Layla Hassan and her assistant Alannah Ryan mistakenly identified the global aurora borealis device as the Eye and corresponded as such in their research notes on Aletheia.

Gallery

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  The Antikythera mechanism
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  Ancient Greek depiction of the Eye

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed III (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR
• Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game (mentioned only)