History Recap / Assassinscreed

In Havana, it's clear that Edward has something of a reputation as a rowdy and as a pirate, and he has a difficult time avoiding unwanted attention as a result. After helping Bonnet recover his goods from some robbers, he finally arrives at the governor's mansion and meets a number of interesting people, such as Woodes Rogers. They welcome him as a new convert to their "order" and ask him to demonstrate his Assassin skills, which Edward bluffs his way through. When they finally meet with Torres, the governor, it turns out that he's a Templar Grand Master and that they are there as new inductees. Duncan Walpole, Edward's assumed identity, is a defector from the Assassins who brings both maps of their locations in the Caribbean and information vital to locating a precursor site known as the Observatory, which apparently contains an artifact allowing its user to see anyone, anywhere in the world. The key to the enterprise is a mysterious figure called the Sage, who shows up in multiple eras, and whose latest incarnation, a man named Bartholomew Roberts, is in Templar custody.

In modern time, this game opens a short while after the end of ''Assassin's Creed III'', and no longer features Desmond Miles as the point of view character. Instead, you are an [[{{AFGNCAAP}} anonymous first-person perspective character]] who has been hired by the recently founded Abstergo Entertainment. Abstergo Entertainment, a Montreal-based subsidiary of Abstergo Industries, is seeking to produce entertainment products -- video games and feature films -- using the Animus technology. To that end, your job is to be a historical researcher into Desmond Miles' bloodline via the recently perfected technology that allows users to experience the memories of people not in their direct bloodline.

Edward is no fool -- he recognizes immediately that a man with control over the Observatory would rule the seas and be the most successful pirate in history, whereas if the Templars controlled it, they could shut down he and his kind forever. He therefore resolves to capture this Roberts for himself, but is instead caught when his disguise is penetrated, and the Templars send him off on a prison ship. He breaks free with the aid of a former slave named Adewale, and captures a brig to escape from the storm that causes the rest of the fleet (the famed Spanish Treasure Fleet) to founder.

Making his base in the villa of Monterrigioni, Ezio embarks on a long journey through the cities and political intrigues of Renaissance Italy on his quest for revenge. He takes down the Pazzi family first, his family's direct murderers, and moves on to other noble families implicated in the conspiracy. Along the way, he befriends a number of august historical personages, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Caterina Sforza. He also discovers the subtle machinations of the Templars behind it all.

Desmond, Rebecca, Shaun, and Lucy, on the run from Abstergo's security forces, make their way to the modern day Monterrigioni, now an archaeological site. By doing so, they hope that proximity to the long-time home of his ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, will help Desmond synchronize better with the memories. However, it carries a corresponding risk to his sanity, as he is increasingly having trouble distinguishing between his reality and Ezio's. He reenters the Animus in the hopes of discovering where Ezio left his Apple of Eden.

Back in Renaissance Italy, Ezio returns to Monterrigioni, bearing the Apple and victorious in his conflict with Rodrigo Borgia, but confused over the meaning of the cryptic message he found beneath the Vatican. He is given little time to relax, as the villa suddenly comes under siege by an army under the command of Cesare Borgia, Rodrigo's son. Cesare has come to reclaim the Apple. In the ensuing battle, Ezio is wounded and his best friend Mario is killed by Cesare. Ezio heads for Rome to avenge Mario's death, but passes out from his wounds.

Ezio has defeated his enemies yet again, reclaimed the Apple, and stands atop a revitalized Rome. Accordingly, the other Assassins now name him the Grand Master of the Order. He has one task left, however. The Apple has shown him that Cesare will escape his imprisonment. Ezio sets out to hunt him down, and finally confronts him years later in Spain. In the ensuing battle, he throws Cesare off a wall.

Desmond and his team of modern Assassins have arrived at the Grand Temple in search of the First Civilization's promised mechanism to save the world from the impending solar flare on December 21, 2012. Upon entering, Desmond discovers a power source that when plugged in activates the Temple, including a strange glowing wall. When he approaches the wall, Desmond hears Juno's voice telling him that he must find the key. With that, he is hurled back into the Animus to relive the memories of another ancestor.

The Animus takes Desmond back to 1754, in London England, in the person of an upper class British gentleman named Haytham Kenway. Haytham is at a theater, ostensibly to attend the Beggar's Opera, but in reality to assassinate someone. He sneaks backstage and flawlessly carries out the execution, retrieving an inscribed amulet from the body and making his way out of the theater in the ensuing chaos. Haytham takes the amulet to his fellows, who identify it as American in origin. They believe that a Precursor site may be in the region and that the amulet has something to do with it. Haytham takes ship for America.

On board the ''Providence'', Haytham hears whispers of potential mutiny. He tracks down the suspects but can find no solid information except that someone is dumping painted barrels overboard. He deduces that this is a trail meant to mark their course for a pursuer just before the ship is ambushed by another vessel. Below decks, it is revealed that there is no mutiny, only a lone man using it as a red herring to lure Haytham into a trap. Haytham defeats his attacker and the ''Providence'' sails into a storm to lose its pursuer, which founders.

Arriving in 1755 Boston, Haytham encounters a young and aspiring Charles Lee, who helps him recruit a number of personages to his cause: William Johnson, a financier and explorer; Thomas Hickey, an unscrupulous rogue; John Pitcairn, a military commander; and Benjamin Church, a surgeon. Together they hatch a plot to locate the Precursor site, which is in the lands of the Mohawk tribe.

Their plan involves rescuing a number of Natives from slavery at the hands of a rogue British general, counting on their gratitude to establish friendly relations. In doing so, Haytham meets a young woman named Kaniehtí:io, who grudgingly befriends him in return for his aid. She needs him to kill Edward Braddock, a ruthless and murderous British general whom Haytham has had an association with in the past.

Haytham does as asked, and after Braddock falls, Ziio takes him to the Precursor site, which we recognize as the Grand Temple. However, his amulet alone is not enough to open the door, and in his despair he turns to her welcoming embrace. Afterwards, he returns to his fellows and determines to establish a new branch of the Order in the Colonies, and to welcome Charles Lee into that Order... the Templar Order. It turns out that Haytham was a Templar all along.

Many years later, Kaniehtí:io has borne and raised a son. Named Ratohnhaké:ton, he is welcomed into the Mohawk tribe despite his half-British ancestry, but the encroaching colonial expansion threatens his village. In the forest one day, he encounters Charles Lee, who leads an expedition to burn out his people. Ratohnhaké:ton swears vengeance on Lee on the spot, and chases him back to his village to find it in flames and his mother dying.

Years later, the teenage Ratohnhaké:ton is restless, anxious to fight against the Colonists despite his elder's warning that his people must remain neutral. She hands him a Precursor artifact that grants him a vision -- Juno, who tells him to seek out the Assassins in order to protect his land; else the Templars will find and destroy everything she has sought to protect.

He travels east and finds an old man by the name of Achilles Davenport, the last of the Assassins after a Templar purge years before. It takes some convincing, but Achilles finally agrees to train him. Achilles tells him of his father, now Grand Master of the Templar Order in the Colonies, and charges him with defeating Haytham and his fellows. It is Achilles who bestows the name Connor on the young boy, reasoning that he can pass for a Spaniard or Italian (both of whom are better than a Native or a Negro).

In Boston, Connor bears witness to (and fails to prevent) the Boston Massacre, and falls in with Samuel Adams and his Patriots. The fires of war are stirring. On his return, Connor also learns of another asset that the Assassins hold in reserve, a ship named the Aquila -- the same ship that pursued Haytham Kenway on the Atlantic crossing some fifteen years prior. Connor helps refit the Aquila and learns to captain her.

Now grown into his full Assassin rank, Connor is thrust headlong into the American Revolution. His quest, to seek out and kill the Templars, meshes with the Patriots' quest to free their land, but the alliance is not an easy one. Connor first attempts to stop the plans of William Johnson to buy his people's land, which embroils him in the Boston Tea Party. Johnson remains undaunted, however, and Connor is forced to find him and assassinate him at his estate in the Frontier.

Next is John Pitcairn, who is trying to quell the nascent rebellion before it can fully start. Connor rides with Paul Revere to warn the Patriots of the British march on Lexingon, and holds the line in the battle of Concord. He then helps hold off the British shelling of Bunker Hill so that he can get a clear path to kill Pitcairn.

Two Templars have fallen, but Connor has learned of a plot to assassinate George Washington himself, in an attempt to get Charles Lee promoted to commander of the Patriot army. Thomas Hickey is the man chosen to do the deed, but in the attempt to corner him, Connor himself is implicated in the conspiracy and imprisoned. Connor tries to break out of the prison and kill Hickey, but is confronted by Lee, who recognizes him as the boy whose village he attacked years ago and promises to have him executed in the plot to kill Washington. Connor escapes hanging with the aid of his Assassin recruits and kills Hickey in the nick of time.

Connor is now faced with the challenge of protecting George Washington's interests. His army's supplies have gone missing during the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and while tracking down the culprit, he comes face to face with his father. Haytham spares Connor's life and offers to team up with him to track down and kill Benjamin Church, who has broken with the Templars to pursue his own interests. Connor and Haytham each attempts to recruit the other to their cause while they hunt Church; the hunt itself is more successful than their uneasy alliance.

Connor returns to Washington's side, doubting his ability to kill his father, but ready to begin the hunt for Charles Lee in earnest. What he finds instead is a threat to his people's existence coming from an unexpected source: George Washington himself. It seems that Washington seeks to drive out the Native tribes who are allied with the British, and Haytham has been concealing this information in a attempt to manipulate Connor. He breaks with his father and hunts down Washington's messengers, but must also stop his own people, goaded by Lee, from provoking a conflict. In the process he is forced to kill his childhood friend, Kanen'tó:kon. He returns with news of Lee's betrayal and has to help fend off a Loyalist attack on Monmouth, but Washington refuses to have Lee executed. Connor leaves in disgust.

Resolved now to hunt Charles Lee on his own, Connor enlists the help of General Lafayette, and stages a naval assault on the fort where Lee is hiding. Stunned by a cannon blast, Connor unexpectedly confronts his own father, who is now determined to kill him in order to protect Lee. In the ensuing fight, Connor defeats Haytham, but Haytham doesn't have the amulet anymore.

Only one Templar remains. Connor finally tracks down Lee in the docks of New York, but in the ensuing chase, Connor receives a crippling injury. He manages to shoot Lee, however, who flees, with Connor staggering in pursuit. The two mortal enemies at last confront each other at a tavern in the Frontier. They share a drink, then Connor knifes Lee, finishing him, and takes the amulet.

Still in great pain, Connor returns to his tribe's village to find it abandoned, with only the Piece of Eden left behind. He receives another vision from Juno, congratulating him on his success and instructing him to bury the amulet where none will find it. He chooses a grave on the Davenport estate -- the grave of his namesake, Achilles' son Connor, who died the same year that Ratohnhaké:ton was born. This ends Connor's story.

Meanwhile, outside the Animus, Desmond and company have been using their idle time to track down the locations of three power sources that they need to fully activate the Grand Temple. The first is in a New York office building. Desmond breaks in, only to unexpectedly confront a Templar agent named Daniel Cross. Cross was turned long ago and used to decimate the modern Assassin order; he was also experimented on in the prototype Animus, which damaged his mind thanks to the Bleeding Effect. Desmond stuns Cross and flees.

The second power source turns up in a stadium in Brazil. Abstergo has learned of the Assassin's interest in them and is seeking to recover all it can, but this one is still reachable. Desmond travels there and evades Abstergo security, only to once again confront Cross. He retrieves the second power source and escapes, but Cross remains alive.

William, Desmond's father, attempts to retrieve the third power source from Egypt while Desmond uses the Animus, but is captured and taken to Abstergo's headquarters in Italy where Desmond himself was held not long ago. Vidic, Desmond's former captor, offers to exchange William for the Apple of Eden that Desmond holds, which is the key to their world domination schemes. Desmond openly invades Abstergo, hoping to fight his way to his father. He confronts Cross yet again, but before Cross can kill Desmond, the Bleeding Effect finally drives him mad and he flees in confusion. Desmond kills him, then finally faces Warren Vidic. Rather than hand over the Apple, Desmond uses its power to compel Vidic's security guards to kill first him, then themselves. He walks out of the building with his father and the final power cell, leaving a trail of dead Templars in his wake.

Having learned the hiding place of the key from Connor's memories, all the pieces are now in place to activate the Grand Temple. Through exploring it, Desmond has learned much of the First Civilization and their attempts to save the world seventy five thousand years ago. All along, Juno has been a presence, urging him along but also showing her disdain and even naked hatred of humanity. When the key is used and Desmond faces the final mechanism, the truth is revealed. Juno betrayed Minerva and Tinia, hiding her consciousness in the Grand Temple, intending to manipulate the future not to save the world for humanity's freedom, but to use its salvation as a means of dominating humanity, recreating the First Civilization with herself as its overlord.

Minerva states that it is too late to save the world otherwise; the Assassins and Templars have squandered their chance, but if they allow the destruction to take place, Desmond and his fellows may hope to preside over a new civilization where they can undo the mistakes of the past. However, they do this in the knowledge that humanity will eventually fall to fighting and corruption yet again. Desmond chooses Juno's vision, and sacrifices his life so that the planet will be spared. Juno, however, has been unleashed.

Desmond and the others set up camp at the Grand Temple, safely hiding them from Abstergo. Desmond enters the Animus and becomes one of his ancestors, a man from London named Haytham Kenway. After assassinating his target at an Opera House, Haytham sails to the "New World" colonies. While searching for his destination he is greeted by Charles Lee, who quickly guides him to an inn where his allies are waiting. Haytham completes various tasks, such as freeing one of his associates, Benjamen Church, and assassinating two targets, Silas, and Eddward Braddock. During these times Haytham meets an Indian woman named Ziio, who he falls in love with and unknowingly impregnates. Charles Lee is brought to the inn, to be inducted into the "order" by Haytham. Shockingly, Haytham reveals he is a member of the Templar order and Lee joins him. Desmond is shocked by this.

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Desmond and the others set up camp at the Grand Temple, safely hiding them from Abstergo. Desmond enters the Animus and becomes one of his ancestors, a man from London named Haytham Kenway. After assassinating his target at an Opera House, Haytham sails to the "New World" colonies. While searching for his destination he is greeted by Charles Lee, who quickly guides him to an inn where his allies are waiting. Haytham completes various tasks, such as freeing one of his associates, Benjamen Church, and assassinating two targets, Silas, and Eddward Braddock. During these times Haytham meets an Indian woman named Ziio, who he falls in love with and unknowingly impregnates. Charles Lee is brought to the inn, to be inducted into the "order" by Haytham. Shockingly, Haytham reveals he is a member of the Templar order and Lee joins him. Desmond is shocked by this.

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This article will consolidate the recaps for all the games in the ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Assassin's Creed]]'' series.

Ezio hesitates to take the Apple, but it illuminates anyway. Ezio realizes that his purpose, once again, has been to act as a conduit for the mysterious Desmond that Juno spoke to so long ago. Weary of his life as an Assassin and the endless search for truth that has come to this, he removes his Hidden Blades and his sword, but the Apple is not done. Completing Altaïr's and Ezio's stories unlocks the Synch Nexus and bridges the gap of time, allowing the final representative of The Ones Who Came Before, Jupiter, to speak directly to Desmond through the Animus.

Ezio hesitates to take the Apple, but it illuminates anyway. Ezio realizes that his purpose, once again, has been to act as a conduit for the mysterious Desmond that Juno spoke to so long ago. Weary of his life as an Assassin and the endless search for truth that has come to this, he removes his Hidden Blades and his sword, but the Apple is not done. Completing Altaïr and Ezio's story unlocks the Synch Nexus and bridges the gap of time, allowing the final representative of The Ones Who Came Before, Jupiter, to speak directly to Desmond through the Animus.

Jupiter explains that his people attempted to save the world and its people from a cataclysmic solar flare seventy five thousand years ago, but failed. The Vaults were constructed to house their experiments, and all their accumulated knowledge was transmitted to the Grand Temple. It is now up to Desmond to go there and unlock it secrets in an attempt to prevent the Earth's population from being wiped out again, in the present day. Freed from the Animus, Desmond awakens to see not just Shaun and Rebecca standing over him, but also his father, William. They have arrived at the Grand Temple, and Desmond now knows what they need to do.

The trail of the five Masyaf Keys leads Ezio to Constantinople at the height of its power and influence. There he meets an affable Master Assassin by the name of Yusuf Tazim, who offers to show him around the city and enlists his aid in restoring the power of the Assassins in their endless battle against the Templars. He also meets a young scholar and prince by the name of Suleiman, whose father and uncle are squabbling over the succession of the Sultanate. Finally, he encounters a comely librarian by the name of Sofia who aids him in his search for Polo's journals, and who rapidly engages his attention in other ways as well.

The combination of events within his mind and without have broken Desmond Miles' psyche, and the Animus is the only thing keeping his mind intact. As his fellow Assassins move their base of operations from Italy to New York, he "awakens" on a bizarre island in the middle of nowhere. Exploring the island, he unexpectedly encounters the image of Subject Sixteen, who reveals that he suffered the same fate, and died because of it. Sixteen tells Desmond that the only way out is to go deeper into his memories of Ezio and Altaïr, until they have nothing left to show him. Only then can he arrive at the Synch Nexus that is his ticket back to sanity.

Desmond dives back into the life of Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Now in his fifties, Ezio has become weary of the constant struggle against the Templars and now seeks a deeper truth. Following the clues in a letter written by his father, Ezio travels to Masyaf, the ancestral home of the Assassins, in the hopes of finding Altaïr's hidden library, in which he is said to have stored all his accumulated wisdom. What he encounters, however, is a nest of Templars who are also attempting to unlock the library, in search of the location of what they call the Grand Temple, which housed the most powerful of the artifacts of The Ones Who Came Before. The keys to the library were sent off by Altaïr in the hands of the Polo family and their locations were recorded in his journals.

As it turns out, the schism between the Ottoman Turks and the Byzantine Templars threatens to engulf Constantinople in all-out civil war, and to find the Keys, Ezio must not only restore the Assassins to prominence, but also unroot the Templar conspiracy that festers at the heart of the city. In the course of doing so, he mistakenly assassinates a captain of the Janissaries who was secretly working to undermine the Templars. Ezio resolves to continue his work and travels in disguise to the hidden city of Cappadochia, where he finds and kills the leader of the Templars, Manuel Palaiologos, and recovers the last of the Keys.

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Over the course of months, Ezio recruits new Assassins to revitalize the Order. He renovates local businesses and recruits to his side the Mercenary Guild, the Thieves' Guild, and the Courtesans' Guild. He finds his old friend, Leonardo da Vinci, forced to build machines of war for the Borgias, and sets out to destroy them and burn the plans. He finds Cesare's allies and financial backers and kills them. He also confronts and uproots a pagan cult fomented by the Church in order to drive people into its arms.

He awakens in Rome, having been brought there by an unknown person. He discovers a city that has fallen into despair and corruption under the crushing influence of the Borgias. The Assassin presence there is minimal and its economy is in shambles, while Cesare lives in pomp and debauchery and plots to conquer all of Italy using the Apple. Consulting with Niccolo Machiavelli, Ezio determines that the best course of action is to undermine Cesare's base of power by reclaiming Rome from his control.

Desmond, Rebecca, Shaun, and Lucy, on the run from Abstergo's security forces, make their way to the modern day Monterrigioni, now an archaeological site. By doing so, they hope that proximity to the long-time home of his ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, will help him synchronize better with the memories. However, it carries a corresponding risk to Desmond's sanity, as he is increasingly having trouble distinguishing between his reality and Ezio's. He reenters the Animus in the hopes of discovering where Ezio left his Apple of Eden.

The Staff and the Apple combine to open a secret vault beneath the Vatican built by The Ones Who Came Before. Inside, Ezio finds not the treasure or wisdom that he hopes for, but a holographic projection of a member of that ancient race. Calling herself Minerva, she addresses not just Ezio, but also Desmond himself, using Ezio as a conduit. She tells him of an ancient cataclysm that befell the First Civilization and warns Desmond that he has only a short while to locate the other Vaults before such a disaster will happen again.

In the epilogue, Abstergo attacks the Assassins' hideout and Desmond confronts Vidic one more time as he uses his newfound Assassin skills to defeat Abstergo's security forces. The Assassins flee to seek a new hiding spot to continue their search for the Apple.

Ezio embarks on a long journey through the cities and political intrigues of Renaissance Italy on his quest for revenge. He takes down the Pazzi family first, his family's direct murderers, and moves on to other noble families implicated in the conspiracy. Along the way, he befriends a number of august historical personages, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Caterina Sforza. He also discovers the subtle machinations of the Templars behind it all.

Outside the Animus, Lucy and the other Assassins express their concern for Desmond's well-being. The Bleeding Effect is rapidly granting him Ezio's skills but he is having hallucinations and other symptoms of excessive Animus use. The various Assassin cells around the world are being hunted down by a concerted effort from Abstergo and hope is dwindling. Their only hope is to discover the location of Ezio's Apple of Eden so they can prevent Abstergo from acquiring it.

This time, Desmond is exploring the memories of a more recent ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Born to a wealthy Florentine banker, Ezio enjoys a carefree youth until the dirty politics of Italy catch up with him and his father and brothers are framed and executed for treason.

Abstergo pulls Desmond out of the Animus, having gained the knowledge they sought. Desmond is told that he will be killed, since YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, but Lucy convinces Vidic that he might still have information they need if the locations of the Pieces of Eden don't pan out. They leave him alone in the lab, when Desmond makes an astonishing discovery. Altaïr's Eagle Vision -- his ability to see things beyond the perception of other people -- has somehow communicated itself through the Animus to him. He sees cryptic messages written on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the laboratory, apparently in blood. The game ends.

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Desmond relives the rise to fame of a Persian Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'ahad who lived during the Crusades. At the start of the story, he is brash and arrogant, and violates the Assassin's Code on a mission to retrieve one of the Pieces of Eden for his master, Al Mualim. He is stripped of his rank after a symbolic death and forced to relearn his trade by killing nine targets assigned to him by Al Mualim. Each is a Templar who has committed vile acts in the furtherance of their cause. The final target is Robert de Sade, a vicious killer who leads the armies of the Crusades on behalf of King Richard.

In addition to the surface conflict, the two sides are also fighting over artifacts left behind by an ancient civilization known only as [[{{Precursors}} The Ones Who Came Before]]. They had a glorious First Civilization that was destroyed in some sort of catastrophe, and they left behind bits of their technology -- known as the Pieces of Eden -- which, among their other uses, can enslave the minds of humans. The Templars want these to cement their control over humanity. The Assassins want them to keep the Templars from getting them.