History Timeline / AssassinsCreed

* Shay Cormac steals a map to the precursor site, causing grandmaster Achilles to brand him a traitor to the order, forcing him to flee... straight into the arms of the Templars.

[[folder:The liberation of 1860s London]]

*** Jacob kills Rupert Ferris for his involvement in labor oppression, but accidentally crashes a train in the process.

* Jacob joins up with Charles Darwin, seeking to shut down production of a medicine called Starrick's Soothing Syrup, which causes brain damage with repeated use. While the stop some shipments and destroy some factories, Darwin eventually passes on to Jacob that the mastermind behind creating the syrup is Dr. John Elliotson. Infiltrating his asylum, Jacob murders him in his demonstration room, Elliotson mocking Jacob as "A child who thinks he can solve all the world's woes with a flick of a blade."
** While Elliotson's death does stop the syrup, without his hand on top, counterfeit medicines and thefts begin occurring in London, putting the sick at risk. Evie subsequently helps retrieve some of the materials, while assisting Florence Nightingale. Nightingale proposes more direct government regulation of medicine, which in due time, helps stabilize the crisis.

*** To fight this, Starrick raises wages to counter inflation.

!! Film/AssassinsCreed

* Meanwhile Bayek, last of the Mediv, marries and gives birth to a son.

The Assassin's creed universe spans all of human history, so following it can be quite confusing. This will include lore from truth puzzles, lore from the novels, and other media outside the primary games, so beware of spoilers. Also please help.

[[folder: The time of the Ones who Came Before]]

[[folder: The great rebellion and the great disaster]]
* A faction of humans, lead by Adam and Eve, begin a rebellion against their masters.

* The disaster strikes, wiping out much of the world's infrastructure and killing all the isu and most of the humans. For those remaining, they are forced to rebuild from the ground up.

[[folder: Ancient human civilization: Post disaster-1'st Century BCE]]

* Also in this time, many of the great assassins in premodern history act to preserve freedom for the masses, including the assassin that killed Darius.

[[folder: The Life and Times of Bayek of Siwa]]
* In the times of Ptolemaic Egypt, a secret society arose. The Order of the Ancients. They sought to control the people of egypt, and to gain power over special artifacts.

[[folder: The Orders grow. First Century BCE to 1100's]]

** In addition, there are other tenants of the creed they hold dear. 1. Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent. 2. Stick to the shadows unless absolutely necessary. 3. Do not compromise the brotherhood. They also have a structure based on devotion to a grandmaster, as well as a mission to create peace in all things internal and external.

[[folder: The life and times of Altair ibn-La'Ahad]]
* Altair ibn-La'Ahad is born into the Assassin order.
** His father was betrayed by the father of a man named Abbas, who broke under torture and revealed his location. Overcome with shame, the father slit his throat in Altair's presence, forever leaving an impact on the young assassin.
** Training and working hard, Altair becomes one of the highest ranking and revered assassins of the order. Unfortunately, he also became arrogant and dismissive. This would come to a head in the fateful years of 1189-1191.
* The 3rd Crusade is called. With forces from France, England and other parts of Europe, the Crusaders wage war on Saladin's forces, seeking to claim the holy land for Christendom. Led by Richard the Lionheart, the Templars use this pretext of crusade to begin their work on becoming new masters of the holy land.
* On a mission from his grandmaster Al Mualim, Altair leads 3 other assassins to the temple of solomon to recover an Apple of Eden. Unfortunately, due to his arrogance and foolishness, Robert de Sable, grandmaster of the visible templar order disgraces Altair. Somehow, a fellow Assassin recovers the Apple, and the Assassins manage to drive off the Templar attack on their fortress Masiyaf for the time. But for his breaking of the 3 tenants, Al Mualim demotes Altair, demanding that he kill 9 men plaguing the holy land in order to reclaim his honor.
** Altair's first target is a merchant named Tamir: ruthless and demanding, Tamir provides weapons to others at a price. On killing him, Tamir hints that he's part of something bigger, also warning Atair that his pride will destroy him.
** The second target, Garnier de Napoulese is leader of the knights Hospitallier, working to free people from the prisons of their minds. He takes people from sewers, prisons and brothels to experiment on and heal them, though often with force.

** Fourth is the regent of Damascus: Abu'l Nuqoud. A fat merchant, (also AmbiguouslyGay), he spends money on lavish parties, while also stealing money for the Templars and creates an elaborate party to poison and kill hundreds to create a new order in the city.

** Fifth is William of Monferat. One of Richard's lieutenants, he's given regency of Acre, where he begins working behind Richard's back for the Templar cause. He takes food from the citizens, conscripts people for the army, and enacts harsh discipline. In addition, he massacres 3000 Saracen prisoners, angering Richard for provoking their enemy to outrage and "Not doing the will of God." When Altair kills him, he claims to be acting for the people by purging his district of crime, teaching them order and discipline, and taking the food so that it might be rationed in the future.
*** After this kill, Altair demands to know how these men are connected, which in turn has Al Mualim reveal that all the men he's killing are Templars.

** Eighth was the Teutonic Knight's leader Sibrand. Paranoid and fearful after the death of the other leaders of the Templars, he lashed out at everyone, until Altair kills him. At his death, he confesses that he believes the Piece of Eden proves that there's nothing after death, and that his role was to create a protective blockade once the Templars "freed" the holy land.
** Last is Robert De Sable himself, but he sent a decoy, Maria Thorpe to throw Altair off. She informs him that Robert plans to turn the assassinations into a way for Saracen and Crusader to unite and destroy the Assassins. As she is "innocent" as not part of his mission, Altair lets her go, then pursues Robert to the Crusader camp.
*** There, Richard the Lionheart allows the two to engage in combat, reasoning that God will side with the righteous man. Though Robert attempts to cheat, Altair defeats him. Yet with his dying breaths, he reveals that Al Mualim was a Templar too, and now he would kill Altair to have the treasure to himself.
* Returning to Masayaf, Altair finds the entire area brainwashed, controlled by the Piece of Eden and Al Mualim. Rescued by Malik and others, Altair confronts Al Mualim, and eventually kills him. Unable to destroy the Piece of Eden due to his origins, he instead chooses to burn Al Mualim's body to ensure he is no illusion evermore, and study the Apple after chasing the jealous Abbas down who took it from him right after his battle.
* Altair takes on the new mantle of Grandmaster of the Assassins, working to dislodge the Templars from Cyprus and fight off Genghis Khan from conquering the holy land.
** He also married the rogue Templar Maria Thorpe who defected after the new leader disparaged her. They had 2 sons.
*** His son Dareem even manages to land the blow that killed the Khan.

* Unfortunately, his Assassin rival Abbas eventually seizes control of the Brotherhood while he was out fighting Genghis. Abbas executes one of his sons, and when Altair used the Apple of Eden to torture his executioner, Maria is accidentally killed. Altair in turn must flee for his life.
** Returning years later, Altair finds the Assassin Brotherhood weakened to near critical condition, turned into little more than thugs. However, rallying the younger generation, Altair retakes the fortress, shooting Abbas with a hidden gun that the Piece of Eden showed him.
* With old age almost overtaking him, Altair decides to abandon Masayaf so the Assassins can work among the people. But before his death, he takes several steps to protect the Piece of Eden and preserve the Brotherhood.
** First, he creates special "keys" using the Apple and his memories to create "The Masayaf Keys". These contain some of his important memories, while also holding the power to unlock the vault he constructs below Masayaf.
*** To protect the keys, he gives them to Nicolo Polo to hide in Constantinople.

*** His work finally done, Altair goes to rest in a chair, and death claims him as he sits down.

[[folder: The war goes underground]]
* Following Altair's death, the Assassin Brotherhood disappears from history, becoming soldiers all over Europe and Asia for freedom.

* In 1307, under Assassin pressure, the Templar order is disbanded, humiliated and publicly destroyed by King Philip of France and Pope Clement. However, the last public Templar grandmaster, Jacque de Molay (Who was also a sage with the lineage of Aieta of the first civilization, see the 2nd folder), instructs his followers to take the order underground and continue their mission.

[[folder: The Spanish War]]
* In 1492, the assassins have allied with the moors of Spain. However, the Templars, prodding the Spanish kingdom forward, plan to exterminate the moorish kingdom for "Christendom" and thus claim an Apple of Eden the King of Grenada is hiding.
* The Assassin Aguilar joins the Assassins after his parents are burned at the stake. He becomes partnered with another Assassin Maria, and together they're tasked with rescuing the Sultan's son. While they manage to get him out of the village, eventually the Templars recapture all of them, transporting them to Seville to be burned for "heresy".

[[folder: The life and times of Ezio Auditore]]

** He also takes time to help his brothers Frederico and Petruccio, his younger sister Claudia, and his parents with various chores.
* But one day, everything changed when the Templars launched a plot to take over Florence. Seeing the Auditores as obstacles due to their close relations with the ruling Medici family, the Templars use judge Uberto Alberti to frame the family and lead to the hanging of Giovanni, Federico and Petruccio.

*** With his new skills, he enters a party Uberto was attending, killing him, proclaiming that the Auditories will never be dead as long as he lives. However, with cries of "Assassin" around him, he escapes, though not without picking up a letter on Uberto's person, where he confesses to his wife that he did it to protect his family, though he feels great remorse for betraying his friends in the process.

* With his immediate vengeance sated, Ezio has his family escape to the family estate at Monterigionni. There, his uncle Mario rescues him from a Pazzi attack, taking the family in for the next 28 years.
** Also there, Mario trains Ezio in the way of battle for 2 years, while also teaching him all he knows about the war between the Assassins and Templars, and that the Auditore family was part of it.

* Using the main mercenary army as a diversion, Ezio infiltrates San Gimignano, discovering that the conspiracy behind his family's death goes deeper, with a mysterious Spaniard plotting with the entire Pazzi family to overthrow the Medicci. While the majority of them leave town for Florence, Ezio strikes down Vierri.
** While failing to get answers from Vierri, he is taught by his uncle to show respect to those he kills, and getting a name for the man who was with the Pazzi: Rodrigo Borgia.
** Realizing that no place he flees will be safe, Ezio resolves to hunt down all the templars involved in his family's death, and thus avenge them once and for all.
* Ezio returns to Florence in time to help defend Lorenzo De Medicci from assassination. While Lorenzo's brother IS killed, Ezio manages to get Lorenzo medical help, then kills Francisco Pazzi for his part in the attempted kill. Given a mandate by Lorenzo afterwards, Ezio promises to hunt down the remaining conspirators as they'd fled the city after their failed Coup.

* Hunting the conspirators to San Gimignano and killing them 1 by 1 for information, he eventually finds the last Pazzi leader: Jacapo meeting with Rodrigo and a man from Venice. While Ezio is ambushed, he manages to escape, and puts Jacapo out of his misery from wounds given by Rodrigo for his failure.
* Ezio next travels to Forli along with Leonardo to hunt down the Venician. There, he befriends Caterina, Countess of Forli, who would be a long term ally for him in the future.
* Sailing into Venice, Ezio gains the assistance of the Thieves Guild in facing Emilio Barbargio, the man Ezio was seeking. There, along with the thieves, he kills Emilio, freeing the district's merchants from his tyranny.

* Attaining all the scrolls of Altair, and recovering the 5 symbols from tombs around italy, Ezio obtains the Armor of Altair, and discovers the location of a new Piece of Eden: Rome itself.

*** Entering the vault, Ezio is dubbed the prophet by Minerva, who sends a message forward in time through him to his descendant Desmond Miles. Dazed and confused by this, Ezio returns to Montirigionni, now content to rest and recuperate now that his vengeance is sated.

* Ceasare Borgia, Rodrigo's son and general of the papal armies, attacks Monterigionni, utterly destroying the castle and killing Mario Auditore.
** (The Armor of Altair is presumed lost in the attack)

** He also leads missions to weaken the Borgia base: killing his french ally and assassinating Borgia the Elder to remove his cardinal influences.
** Further, he roots out a traitor in his ranks, learning that the traitor was also responsible for the fall of Monterigioni.

* When Ceasare returns, he finds his power base greatly eroded. In his rage and frustration he kills his father Rodrigo, and shoves his sister aside, mad with power.
** Ezio fights off Ceasare for the Apple, and then rests a bit.

** Following this, Ceasare is deposed from his power base, and while working for his cousin in Spain, Ezio hunts him down and finally kills him.

* Ezio sets sail for the holy land and Istanbul, seeking more incite into the life of Altair beyond the codex entries he possessed.
** He recovers Nicolo Polo's journal, which in theory will help lead him to the keys to Masyaf, where Altair supposedly stored power. Killing the templars around Masayaf's ruins, he then makes his way towards Istambul, making friends with a young "scholar" named Sulliman.

** To that end, he makes an alliance with their leader, Yusef to find a way to gain knowledge and locations from the journal in order to find the missing keys.

* Seeking a way into knowing the Templar plans, Ezio disguises himself as a minstrel in the Palace of Istambul. It's here he discovers that Sulliman is in fact a young ruler, and furthermore, the son of a rebellious son Selim, who's engaged in a powerplay against the Sultan.

* Ezio begins eroding Templar lieutenants around Istanbul, killing a gypsy leader, an Assassin who turned against them due to ethnic disagreements, a dancing assassin, templar nobles, captains and others.
** However, one mistake he made was when Sulliman instructed him to kill the Jassinary captain Tarrik, who seemed to be plotting with the Templars to destroy the sultan. In reality, he was secretly planning to destroy the Templars from within. As such, though Ezio lost a valuable ally, he did find the Templar's base's location.
* Traveling to the Templar base, he frees the Templar prisoners, and kills their fighting leader Shakkulu.

* Ahmet in a power play kills several Assassins, including Yusef. He kidnaps Sofia, and in a chase afterwards, Ezio rescues her. Meanwhile, Ahmet is killed by Selim, who has won his right to be Sultan. He forbids Ezio from being in Istanbul after this, but tired and with his quest complete (and on Sofia's request), Ezio finally leaves.

* Entering Altair's tomb, Ezio finds the apple of Eden and Altair's corpse, but deciding he's traveled and learned enough, reseals the tomb, finally satisfied with his journey.
* Returning back to Italy at last, Ezio settles down with Sofia as his new wife in a rebuilt Monterigionni, and has a child.
* Ezio trains one final disciple: Shao Jun of the chinese brotherhood. He teaches her not to give up, and passes his wisdom down to her to return and fight again. He also has one final battle against Templar agents that followed her.

[[folder: Between Renaissance and Empires]]
* Shao Jun returns to China following her lessons from Ezio. She battle the Ming emperor along with the templar members there. Killing the last main leader, she realizes where her vengeance has lead her, and decides to settle down to reestablish the Chinese brotherhood.
* With the "discovery" of the Americas, Ezio had sent new members to establish american brotherhoods. As did the templars.

[[folder: the life and times of Edward Kenway]]

** However this makes him no more wealthy, and by 1715, he runs into misfortune as his ship wrecks in the Caribbean.
* Fortune takes a turn when Edward kills the ambitious and traitorous assassin Duncan Warpole after the wreck, discovering all about the Templars, and rescuing Steve Bonnet, a merchant in the process.
** Arriving in Kingston, Edward impersonates Duncan and meets with the 4 chief templars of the west indies: Julian De Casse, Woodes Rodgers, El Tiberion, and Grandmaster Loreano De Torres. He delivers information on the wearabouts of the assassin bases in the area, and is given a modest reward along with custom hidden blades. However, his greed leads Edward to wish to steal a man called the Sage out from under the Templars. And unfortunately, his being recognized by Steve Bonnet leads to his exposure, and being sent for slavery.
*** But in another fortunate turn, the spanish fleet in route hits a hurricane, with Edward and a fellow slave Adawale escaping bondage and taking command of a brig alongside other pirates. Escaping the sinking fleet, Edward cristens his new ship The Jackdaw, making Adawale quartermaster as he would not have proper respect should Edward have named him Captain.
* With his new ship, Edward decides to do some favors for his pirate friends at Nassau. Trying to build a new pirate republic, his advisers are Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Thatch and "James Kidd". Edward recruits men, steals a sloop for their defenses, and assassinats Julian De Casse for that ship.
** However, Edward also has interest in find something else the templars talked about with him: the Observatory, and then sell it to gain untold riches to finally return home.
* In his wanderings, he stumbles upon a secret templar base on the great inika. Killing its leaders, he takes the cove as his new private base.
* Edward fights various templar lieutenants around the carribean, helping out the assassins more out of a desire for reward than any true nobility.
** Notable victims include Hilary Flint, Kenneth Abrahams, Lucia Marquez and Jing Lang (the queen of pirates).
* Hearing of the sage, a man who could unlock the observatory, Edward traces him to the plantation of an ex pirate/slave owner Lauren Prims. Bumping into James Kidd, he discovers the truth: James Kidd is actually the lady Mary Read, who also happens to be an assassin.

*** Mary then brings Edward to the main Assassin headquarters, where he meets Al Tabai. As Edward is still arrogant, rude and disinterested in greater things, he is absolved of accidentally wrecking the assassins by giving information to the Templars, but he's not welcomed in as his view of the creed is simplistic and selfish in his reading.

** However, built on freedom of action, Nassau is rotting on itself with inactivity and illness, not helped that Governor Rodgers (the templar) is using his power with the King's Pardon to entice pirates to come quietly into the fold. As a way to stave off that appeal, Edward, Blackbeard and Steve Bonnet (who was now serving as part of Blackbeard's crew) first go diving for medicines underwater, but with no viable elixirs found, Blackbeard then takes Queen Anne's Revenge to Charleston to barter citizens for the medicine.

** However, one of Blackbeard's mates betrays their location to the british navy, leading to Blackbeard's last stand. Though he and Kenway fight valiantly aboard a Man of War, Blackbeard is Shot, sliced, and eventually has his head cut off. Edward in turn retreats to the high seas.
* After mourning Thatch for several days, Edward teams up with Charles Vane to find the sage. However, unhappy with Vane's cruel treatment of those he plundered, and disgruntled on going on a wild goose chase after the observatory, Rackham leads a mutiny and a hostile takeover of Edward's crew. Adawale is captured, but Vane and Edward are Marooned.

* Bartholomwew Roberts agrees to help Edward to the Observatory, but before joining up, he has him kill Hornigold, who was pursuing them for the templars.
** However, in this process, a rift begins forming between Adawale and Edward. Adawale begins seeing the assassins for the heroes they are, and is angry at Edward's pursuit of gold and glory driving them into shadier waters with riskier partners. Edward however promises that as soon as they find the observatory and sell it, it will all be over.
* To that end, the Jackdaw and Black Bart (Roberts) arrive at the observatory. Edward subdues the guards, and he and Black Bart enter in. They see how it works, but upon leaving the main temple, Roberts betrays Edward. While Adawale manages to sail the Jackdaw to safety before this happens, Edward is captured and turned over to the british for his bounty.
** Around this time, Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Mary Read are attacked and captured by the british.
* Edward, Rackham, Read and Bonney all rot away in a british prison for several years.

* Months later, Edward is rescued by Ah Tabai, who's busting out Mary Read. Working his way around the prison (and visiting Rackham's corpse and Vane's delusional self), Edward rescues Mary and Anne. Mary's child is taken away from her already, and due to complications in the birthing process, she dies in Edward's arms, asking him to do right by her. Anne is evacuated by Ah Tabai to the assassin HQ, painfully near labor. Tabai gives Edward an assassin uniform back saying it, "suits him." They part ways, Edward now washed up and grieving for the life he's lost.
* For months, edward traverses from Bar to bar, lamenting his lost wife, lost friends, lost fortune. Finally, after seeing a vision of Mary Read pleading with him to change course, Adawale finds Edward again. He gives him back the Jackdaw, but then leaves, telling him to come to the assassin HQ once he has his head on straight.
** Sailing there, Adawale informs Edward that due to the difficulties of following a man "driven by selfish ambition", he is joining the assassins apart from him. Edward accepts this sadly, and begins learning and assisting the assassins more genuinely now.
*** Learning the Rope dart, Edward drives off a spanish attack by Torres's men, better understanding the Assassin's creed, and being named an honored guest by Ah Tabai. He also comforts Mary Read, the last of his pirate mates for losing her child and all their friends.
* Some time later, Edward sets sail for Kingston to assassinate Woodes Rodgers. However, his bond with Adawale is still not mended, so he makes Anne his new quartermaster.

* Reaching Roberts, who's using the observatory skull to launch raids on ships, The Jackdaw and the Royal Fortune (Roberts's ship) engage, ending with Edward boarding and killing Black Bart. Receiving the skull, Edward sends his enemy's body to a watery grave so the templars cannot have it.
* Returning to Havanna, Edward tracks Torres's blood to the fortress, but it turns out the blood put in was from a decoy. Realizing the trap, Edward then kills El Tiberion.

** In their final moments, Edward tells Torres that he believes that what the templars were trying to do would be far worse than anything he did. Torres in turn gives Edward a parting complement, saying "You wear your convictions well. They suit you."
*** Returning the skull to the observatory, the assassins promise to seal it away from templar hands. However, a letter now reaches Edward....
* Edward gives his base at Great Inika to the Assassins for a safehaven, though Ah Tabai says he'll be dispersing his part of the brotherhood soon just as Altair did to work among the people more closely.
** Anne Bonny decides to stay around the carribean, but doesn't think she has the conviction to join the assassins...yet.

** His daughter Jennifer though was disappointed that Edward chose to keep her from the assassin life, wanting her to become a proper lady like her mother.
** Meanwhile, the cousin of Duncan Warpole helps pardon Edward of his past crimes, making him a noble.
* Edward takes up strengthening the British Brotherhood, finding pieces of eden and hiding one behind a home in Buckingham.

* One night, Edward comes face to face with a band of hitmen sent by Reginald Birch, Templar grandmaster of the british rite. While Haytham and Jenny escape, Edward dies at their hands.

[[folder: The fall of Haytham Kenway, and the rise of Shay Cormac]]
* Edward Braddock of the Templar Order goes a little kill crazy in India, prompting the templars to move him to America to stave off threats to him.

** While discovering the truth, Haytham has ingrained too much templar worldview to turn on the templars in principle. So while he kills Birch, he decides instead to set up his own branch elsewhere.
* As the 7 years war (French and Indian War) begins to rage in North America, The Assassins take the side of the french, while the templars choose to back the British.
* After assassinating an assassin at the theater, Haytham Kenway sails to America to start a new branch of the templars. He recruits several lieutenants: William Johnson a natives ambassador, William Picarn a British commander, Thomas Hickey a shady con man, Benjamin Church a money grubbing surgeon, Nickolas Biddle a sailor, and Charles Lee: an earnest young man devoted to Haytham.
** To gain access to a precursor site, Haytham befriends a mohawk woman, and to gain her trust, decides to sabotage the Braddock Expedition. Haytham kills Braddock personally, accusing him of betraying their cause by trying to "cut your way to resolution".
** As the temple won't open without an apple of eden, Haytham decides to develop templar goals the old fashioned way through nation building rather than messing with the pieces of eden. To that end, he inducts Charles Lee as a new official member of the order.
* Shay Cormac steals a map to the precursor site, causing grandmaster Achilles to brand him a traitor to the order, forcing him to flee...straight into the arms of the templars.
* To keep Achilles from using the piece of eden again, Shay resolves to hunt down and kill any in his way trying to destroy the pieces of eden.
** He slowly kills his many former friends, including killing the aged Adawale.
* In 1763, with the end of the war, the templars plunder the assassin homestead, killing every member except for Achilles whom Haytham declares as harmless.

[[folder: The life and times of Conner Kenway and Evaline De-grandprie]]
!! The life of Conner Kenway
* Ratonhnhaké:ton is born around 1756. While his mother is a mohawk, the identity of his father is that of Templar leader Haytham Kenway, who due to his "new world" work, is absent from his son's life.
** As such, he grows to boyhood learning the way of his people, making a best friend in the tribal leader's son Kanen'tó:kon. One day, out playing hide and seeks, he runs into Charles Lee, who thretens him. As such, when his village is burned down later, he blames lee for the tragedy. Further compounded by his mother's death in the fire.

** As such, he travels to the old Assassin homestead in maine, where Achilles and William Falkner of the old colonial brotherhood live in shame and disgrace "waiting death."
*** While Achilles refuses to help Conner at first, after fighting off brigands on the land, Achilles reluctantly takes him on as his apprentice, teaching him English and the ways of the Assassins.
* On a trip into Boston, Achiles gives him the name Conner to help him blend in. While there, Conner tries to prevent the boston massacre, which was started by the templars for their own purpose.
* Conner catches wind of William Johnson trying to buy his people's land. Ever the freedom loving man, Conner enlists the help of the sons of liberty and his best friend to institute the Boston Tea Party. However, this is not enough, and realizing that he now needs to take more direct steps, Conner buries a tomahawk into the manor, marking the beginning of his true war with the templars.
** Reaching the meeting place of the tribes and Johnson, Conner kills Johnson, knowing his templar aims, but hearing from him about how he was trying to protect the land from greedy colonists.
* Conner's next mission is to help protect Sam Adams and John Hancock from the attacks of John Pitcarn, a Templar commander in the british army.
** Joining up with Paul Revere, Conner rides to Lexington, sending a warning and calling up Militia to oppose this act of oppression.
*** To that end, thanks to his mobilization, Conner helps spark the battles of Lexington and Concord, beginning the american revolution.
*** Much to his anger though, when attending the 2nd continental congress to address the war effort, he finds out Charles Lee now works in the congress. During this time he's also introduced to George Washington, the new commander of the army.
** Then, he joins the battle on Breed's hill against the charging British. Working his way around enemy lines, he strikes Pitcarn down. Pitcarn accuses Conner of acting like a child in killing so quickly, and that now the war will continue without stop. However, in his coat pocket, Conner also finds evidence of a plot to kill Washington.
* As the revolution grows, Conner next sets his sights on Thomas Hickey, currently working out of New York in conterfeiting and plotting to kill washington.
** During his attempt on his life, both Hickey and Conner are arrested, but thanks to Haytham and Lee, Hickey pulls a switcheroo, making the courts think Conner is Hickey, then planning to use the cover of his hanging to kill Washington.
*** However, the assassins have caught wind of this, and with Achilles leading them on, they rescue conner, who kills Hickey. Interrogating him, Hickey gives no information, simply stating he was all about being paid and living hedonistically.
*** Sometime after this, the declaration of independence is signed. Conner and Achilles watch over it, achilles commenting that even though this will probably end badly, it's still a great accomplishment.
* Conner then lends a hand to Evaline in hunting down "the company man" in america.
* In 1778, Conner rides to Valley Forge, intent on warning Washington about the Templar conspiracy. While he eventually chooses to keep him in the dark upon realizing he has other problems, he does choose to pursue another templar who's stolen supplies for the valley.

*** Catching up with Church, they recover the supplies, and kill him, as he'd deserted the templars some time before as he felt the british crown was a better offer than what the templars were doing, and more righteous a cause.
* All during this time, Edward's been sailing around the coast, hunting Nicolas Biddle. Eventually, he catches up with the Randolph, catching Biddle and killing him. Biddle claims his work helped strengthen the revolutionaries by weeding out loyalists, strengthening the navy and leading them to strength.
** As a show of respect, Conner skuttles the Randolph as per Biddle's last request.
* Continuing to work with his father, Conner eventually learns of an attack on his village, due to them now supporting the british...and because Charles Lee convinced Conner's friend of Conner's ill intent. Conner swears of working with either of them for the time, stopping Washington's men, but has to kill his friend in self defense.
** Assisting in stopping Charles Lee from causing the destruction of the revolutionary army at Monmouth, nonetheless Conner swears off working with washington.
* Washington calls Conner to investigate Benedict Arnold and his guarding West Point. He discovers the plot to surrender the fort, leading to Arnold fleeing.
* Searching for Charles Lee, Conner gains the help of Lafayette in bombarding a part of the area around Yorktown in order to go after lee.
** However, anticipating this, Haytham switches places with Lee and engages Conner on his arrival. Despite his own reservations, Conner kills his father in self defense.
* Around 1781, Achilles dies, leaving the estate and the brotherhood to Conner.
* In 1782, Conner moves to kill Charles Lee at last. Chasing through a shipyard and eventually catching up with him at a tavern, they share a drink, then Conner kills lee.
** However, despite the Colonial rite being decimated, only a few months later, Conner discovers some hard truths. First, though the british leave New York at last, there are still slaves being sold, showing america is not nearly as free as it preaches. Second, his people have gone west, leaving their village. And the government is selling the land to make a quick buck in order to avoid taxes like the british before them. And finally, despite his protests of outrage to Juno, Juno says that what he wanted was impossible, but that he has played a good part, telling him to bury Lee's amulet for another in the future. So, Conner buries the amulet in Achilles's grave.
* Later, he finds an apple of eden that George Washington has come into contact with. When they both touch it, they witness an alternate timeline where Washington becomes king of America, and Conner is now a spirit warrior with a living mother and the founding fathers all scrambled in alligiance.
** Defeating Washington in the vision, Conner takes the apple from washington at last, and casts it into the sea.
** He also warns washington that having poured so much into this nation, he might be called on to continued service rather than the retirement he desires.
* Conner continues to cultivate the american brotherhood, eventually marrying and dying in the 1800's of natural causes.
!! The life of Evaline
* When she was young, Evaline is kidnapped by a templar and raised as her daughter.
* Pretending to join the templars, Evaline instead kills them all, ending with her "mother".

[[folder: The life and times of Arno Dorian]]
* Shay Cormac kills Arno's father. As his father gloats that Conner and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution undid all the templars efforts there, Shay comments that "perhaps we'll start a revolution of our own."
** With his father's death, Arno is taken in by Templar grandmaster De La Serre and his daughter Elise. As such, Arno grows up in a templar household in the luxury of the reign of Louis XVI.
*** The order and the brotherhood at this time are in an...interesting condition. The Assassin leader Mirabeau is actually good friends with De La Serre, and as such, the orders are at a truce with each other. However, there are complications with this position. Namely, the assassins have started diversifying their governing structure, so that they now have a council of assassins that also make decisions to attack. In addition, despite De La Serre's stance, there is a putter of dissent growing underneath.
* Years prior, the templar Francois Germain is exiled from the templars for speaking of visions he had. Namely, Germain is a new Sage...fragments of the Isu Aeita scattered across time and space. With new visions and inspirations, Germain is interested in moving the order in a new direction, but is exiled for his beliefs. However, he takes refuge at the house of Templar noble lady Marie and begins gathering new followers, including the disgraced tax collector La Touche, Maximillian de Rospierre, Citizen Le Peltier and the king of Beggars. Together, they begin plotting the fall of De La Serre, and a new dawn for the templar order.

** During the storming of the Bastille on July 14th 1789, Arno and Bellec escape, Bellec offering Arno a key to later join the brotherhood.

*** With nowhere else to go, and needing to avenge his foster father, Arno goes to the assassins, and upon passing mental trials, is accepted as a novice in the order.
* In 1791, after years of training and the french revolution swirling around him, Arno finally begins to make plans to kill Sivert: a lower ranked Templar who he heard identified as one of De La Serre's killers.
** The 2 years since the beginning of the revolution has been slow but tense for the assassins and templars. Despite killing De La Serre, Germain has yet to fully consolidate his hold on the order, with high templar Chrétien Lafrenière lending Elise his support in facing the newer templar order.

[[folder: The 1800's]]
* Napoleon Boneparte uses a piece of Eden to become Emperor of France. Though against oppression, the assassins choose to ally with Napoleon thanks to his past history with Arno Dorian. With his help, they hide the skeleton of Francois Germain in the crypts in plain sight.
* The Industrial Revolution kicks into full steam. However, with Germain's new school of thought, the templars begin integrating themselves into society differently. Choosing to become industrialists, bankers and corporate leaders rather than just prime ministers or Kings.

[[folder: The liberation of 1860's London]]
* Years prior to the beginnings of liberation, fraternal twins Jacob and Evie are born to the assassin Ethan Frye.
** They are born into a brotherhood disparaged. Ever since Edward Kenway's era, the assassins in Britain have been on the defensive, London as the templar stronghold, and their work being more on the margins.

* In 1868, Henry Green is the last remaining assassin operating in London Proper. He sends letters to their leader on the fringes, asking for help so as to stop the templars from poisoning the world through the british empire.
** Around this time, the twins run 2 assassination missions against templar leaders Sir David Brewster and Rupert Ferris.

*** Evie kills Brewster who was working on an experiment with a piece of eden. His personal desire is to use it to disprove Charles Darwin as incorrect about Evolution and bring God back into their creation story. (Brewster is a rare genuine Christian among the templars) Unfortunately due to pressure by his superior Lucy Thorne, he pushes it too far, causing an explosion at his factory, and destroying the piece of eden.
* Frustrated by George Westhouse's unwillingness to move the assassins back to the main city, Jacob and Evie hitch a train to London, meeting up with Henry Green, and beginning to plot to destroy the templars in their stronghold.
** To that end, in order to give them space and a foothold, Jacob takes over a branch of a local gang, turning them into the Rooks. Gathering allies through different parts of the london underworld, they begin their work taking back london Burroughs from the Templar blighters, using a train as their HQ so as to never be in one space too long.
* However, despite their mutual desire to free London, the twins disagree on tactics. While Jacob wants to start attacking leaders as soon as possible, Evie wants to seek out the 2nd piece of Eden that David Brewster mentioned when he was killed.
** Although they collaborate in taking burroughs and helping notable figures around london such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Alexander Graham Belle and Charles Dickens, they split up to do their own thing when it comes to seeking more concrete steps to retake London.
* Evie, partnering up with Henry Green, explores Edward Kenway's old mansion (now a templar stronghold) to find clues of the new piece of eden. Gradually making her way around different London Monuments, she learns that the piece of eden is The Shroud of Turnin. However, she loses different keys to finding it due to pursuit by the Templar NumberTwo: Lucy Thorne.
* Jacob joins up with Charles Darwin, seeking to shutdown production of a medicine called Starrick's Soothing Syrup, which causes brain damage with repeated use. While the stop some shipments and destroy some factories, Darwin eventually passes on to Jacob that the mastermind behind creating the syrup is Dr. John Elliotson. Infiltrating his asylum, Jacob murders him in his demonstration room, Elliotson mocking Jacob as "A child who thinks he can solve all the world's woes with a flick of a blade."
** While Elliotson's death does stop the syrup, without his hand on top, conterfeit medicines and thefts begin occuring in london, putting the sick at risk. Evie subsequently helps retrieve some of the materials, while assisting Florence Nightingale. Nightingale proposes more direct government regulation of medicine, which in due time, helps stabilize the crisis.

** However, with her death, the different train lines become targets for Gang manipulation, forcing Evie to steal deeds and drive off racketeers. She eventually passes the main train line deed to a new board company intent on creating a more accountable system for london transport.

* Jacob spies on some bankrobbers, eventually discovering that the templar Philip Twopenny is robbing banks as a way to offset assets in the templar's favor. But Twopenny's not just any gang leader. He's in fact the Bank of England's president, just using his position to steal from savers. In the midst of robbing the bank of London, Jacob kills him. Twopenny complains that only the templars could create the city needed as investors, but mocking his greed, Jacob leaves him a shilling "for the path of the dead."
** Unfortunately, Twopenny's death lead to a MASSIVE crisis for the british economy. Not just that they lost their leader, but there was also counterfeiting money, the loss of the backnote printing plate, and subsequently, inflation and economic fear of losing manufacturing to America. Evie works fast to find the plates, destroy the counterfeit notes and help reopen the main bank, but her resentment toward Jacob for his actions without forethought grows, widening their unease with each other.

* Following this, both twins begin having excursions with Parliament. Evie tries to use the last Sikh emperor to gain access to the Piece of eden, which she determines is under Buckingham Palace. She runs into Templar troubles though, and compromises the mission when she chooses to save Henry Green rather than gain access to the shroud. She tries to break off with Green, thinking herself emotionally compromised from this, which was against what her father taught her. However, the Sikh mentions that this wasn't exactly what happened with her parents (having known them in the past), causing Evie pause.
** Jacob meanwhile courts the great political figures of the era, seeking to kill the Earl of Cardigan, a templar aristocrat. He sneaks into parliament and murders him on the eve of passing the election reform bill.
* Having taken over a sufficient amount of blighter territory, Jacob is then given an invitation to dine with the Blighter's lead gangster: Maxwell Roth. Uneasy but curious, Jacob goes to Roth, who in fact seeks an alliance with Jacob. It turns out Roth doesn't like working with the templars, and seeks to bring down Starrick's business empire so he can be free to do as he wishes.

* Entering the party, Evie draws the attention of Starrick while Jacob kills the templar snipers about to kill everyone. Realizing his plot is falling apart, Starrick steals Evie's key, and reaches the shroud.
** However, teaming up again, Evie, Jacob and Henry eventually kill starrick, putting it back into hiding as it's too great a price to heal by stealing life.

[[folder: The Templar web grows: 1870's to 1945]]
* During a honeymoon in India, Jacob adopts one Jack the Lad who was traumatized by the death of his mother at the hands of the templars. Jacob takes him on as an assassin, teaching him to fight the templars.
** However, Jack's mind eventually snaps under the strain of the creed, now believing that it gives him freedom to kill and bring terror to scare people into the truth. He turns the rooks on the twins and imprisons Jacob. He eventually becomes well known in all london as Jack the Ripper.

* Thomas Edison, a Templar by trade, sabotages the efforts of Nicholas Tesla to bring free, cheep electricity to the world through his famous "elephant shock" demonstration.
** Humiliated and infuriated, Tesla works with the assassins to destroy a piece of eden, casuing the tusunga event in Russian history.
* Jacob's daughter Lydia Frie works in British Intelligence during World War 1, fighting against spies and sabatours. While admiral Winston Churchill praises her work, Lydia for her part was more interested in completing woman's suffrage.

* The Templars engineer World War II as a way to gain control over the world. Apparently, Hitler and the big 3 of the allied nations were all in on the plan. Unfortunately, at the very end of the war, an assassin kills Adolf Hitler, messing up their final phase for the war.

[[folder: The edge of defeat: 1946-2009]]
* In the aftermath of the 2nd world war, the Assassins begin worldwide coordination.
* In 1963, the Templars kill John F. Kennedy in order to get the piece of Eden the presidency has.
* In 1969, the Templars use the guise of the moon landing to gain another piece of eden.
* In 2000, the assassins are thrown into chaos when the mole Darron Cross kills the Assassin Grandmaster and throws several of their safe houses into templar hands.
** Pushed to the brink of defeat worldwide, William Miles becomes the defacto leader of the order, though he encourages the worldwide units to conduct their own affairs as they've been weakened too much to coordinate anything at the moment.
* To try conducting a new and dangerous operation, William sends 2 agents deep cover into the templars: Lucy and Clay. Clay becomes the subject 16 of the animus, experimented and extracted on by the templars, but still holding true to the creed, awaiting his chance to be extracted once his cover is done. Unfortunately, due to William's extremely professional demeanor, Lucy defects to the templars during this time, and betrays Clay. Clay's body is eventually ruined, but he manages to save part of his mind in the animus cores to guide the one truly meant for the information. That man would be Desmond Miles.

[[folder: The life and times of Desmond Miles]]
* Desmond Miles, a descendant of Altair ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore and the Kenway family is born in North Dakota to career assassins. Trained from the day he could walk to start becoming an assassin.
** However, he never quite came to believe in the assassin mythos, and ran away to New York to become a bartender.
* One night, he has a drunken 1 night stand with a female on a night off. This results in her eventually becoming pregnant with his son.
* Everything changed for Desmond on the day the Templars kidnapped him into Abstergo industries: The new front for the Templar order. He's made to relive the life of Altair as their way to try and find where other pieces of eden are using their fine tuned Animus: allowing them to view Desmond's genetic memories.
** While their science head Warren Vidic plans to kill desmond after getting the information, his assistant Lucy ends up "rescuing" him once he finishes showing the templars worldwide locations for the pieces of eden.
* Retreating to safe houses, Desmond begins using the bleeding effect to gain the skills of Ezio Auditore to fight the templars. Eventually hiding in the old Auditore manor, they retrieve the piece of eden from under the collesium, but using the piece, Juno entices desmond to kill Lucy, revealing her templar connections.

* Arriving at the precursor site that Haytham Kenway once sought to open, Desmond uses the apple of Eden to open it. Then he starts looking at the memories of Conner to find the key to opening the temple and saving the world.

*** However on one session, William Miles tries to go out to get the last source alone, but is captured and brought to abstergo.
* Charging into Abstergo, Desmond puts Darron Cross out of his misery due to the bleeding effect catching up to Cross. Then he uses the apple of eden to kill Warren Vidic, then waltzing his way back to safety with his father.

[[folder: Video games and Initiates]]

* The latest incarnation of Juno's husband Aita uses the body of John Standish from IT to manipulate an Abstergo employee to try and give Juno a body to possess. In the process, the employee finds evidence of Templar manipulation on whether to release games for Ezio, Connor and Altair, v-logs from Desmond, as well as various other files about Templar history.

* A different employee does some research on Shay, and upon finding "proof" of the Assassins fallibility, is offered induction into the order...or death.
* Now operating in the field, Rebecca and Shaun travel to London to find a new piece of Eden. Namely, the Shroud. They battle 3 Templar agents for the piece.

** The Shroud is passed over to a new templar scientist, Alvaro Grammatica, but one of the Templars, Violet Da Costa, is in fact a mole for Juno, who's secretly manipulating the Order.

[[folder: The Life and Times of Cal Lynch]]
* To further understand and gain information on other assassins finding pieces of Eden, the Templars begin holding Assassin descendants of Yusuf of Istanbul, Baptiste of the French Indies and others for exploring for more pieces of Eden. However, with the strain of the assassins beginning to gain ground, the project begins to come under scrutiny. Funnily enough, the CEO of Abstergo Alan Rikkin has an interest in finishing the project as his daughter Sophie is the head of research there.
* Cal Lynch, descendant of both Arno Dorian and Aguilar, grows up the child of 2 Assassins. However, when the Templars discover their location, his mother commits suicide by her father's hand to keep them from a life of torture under the Templars. Horrified at the deed, Cal's father orders his son to run. Cal escapes, but his father does not.
* Cal lives his life on the run, eventually being caught and executed for murder. However, the execution was a ruse, and Sophia Rikkin takes on Cal as her latest subject in HER quest to find a cure for violence.
** Plugged into Abstergo's more...interactive Animus, Cal begins living out the life of his Spanish ancestor, learning more about his captors, fellow captives, and the Assassin/Templar conflict. He also meets his father, learning the true reason behind him murdering his mother. However, to exercise his free will, he follows the memory to its end, learning about the Apple of Eden Christopher Columbus had. Yet through this memory, he eventually comes to terms with his being of Assassin blood, and is initiated into the order by digital ghosts of his mother and other assassins from his bloodline.
* The captive assassins of Spain launch an escape on the compound. While many parish in the attempt, several do escape, and led by Cal, make ready to steal back the Apple the Templars are about to get.

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** For example, as speculated by future teachers, Pieces of Eden were used to [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} turn water to wine]], part the Red Sea, or caused TheTrojanWar.

* Cain kills his brother Abel to get a Piece of Eden he had. The mark on his head would one day become the symbol of the Templar Order.

* Shay Cormac kills Arno's father. As his father gloats that Conner and TheAmericanRevolution undid all the templars efforts there, Shay comments that "perhaps we'll start a revolution of our own."

[[folder: Ancient human civilization: Post disaster-1100's]]

* The Assassin Order is founded with the purpose of safeguarding human freedom. They live by the creed "Nothing is true. Everything is Permitted."
** In addition, there are other tenants of the creed they hold dear. 1. Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent. 2. Stick to the shadows unless absolutely necessary. 3. Do not compromise the brotherhood. They also have a structure based on devotion to a grandmaster, as well as a mission to create peace in all things internal and external.
** Many of the great assassins in premodern history are of the order, including the assassin that killed Darius, and the one that killed Cleopatra.
* Also in this time, a society is founded with the interest of controlling humanity. They eventually come under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, now interested in finding Pieces of Eden and controlling the masses.

* To discredit the assassins and profit off their work, the templars take the animus technology worldwide for the purpose of making video games.
* The latest incarnation of Juno's husband Aeita uses the body of John from IT to manipulate an Abstergo employee to try and give Juno a body to possess. In the process, the employee finds evidence of templar manipulation on whether to release games for Ezio, Conner and Altair, v-logs from Desmond, as well as various other files about Templar history.

* A different employee does some research on Shay, and upon finding "proof" of the assassins fallibility, is offered induction into the order...or death.
* Now operating in the field, Rebecca and Shaun travel to London to find a new piece of Eden. Namely, the shroud. They battle 3 templar agents for the piece.
** In their final battle over the shroud, one of the templars (Historical Operations Executive Isabelle Ardant) is killed, but Rebecca is critically injured, and the assassins are forced to concede the shroud to the templars.
** The shroud is passed over to a new templar scientist, but one of the templars is in fact a mole for Juno, who's secretly manipulating the order.

* Cal Lynch, descendant of both Arno Dorian and Aguilar, grows up the child of 2 assassins. However, when the templars discover their location, his mother commits suicide by her father's hand to keep them from a life of torture under the templars. Horrified at the deed, Cal's father orders his son to run. Cal escapes, but his father does not.
* Cal lives his life on the run, eventually being caught and executed for murder. However, the execution was a ruse, and Sophie Rikken takes on Cal as her latest subject in HER quest to find a cure for violence.
** Plugged into Abstergo's more...interactive Animus, Cal begins living out the life of his spanish ancestor, learning more about his captors, fellow captives, and the assassin/templar conflict. He also meets his father, learning the true reason behind him murdering his mother. However, to exercise his free will, he follows the memory to its end, learning about the apple of eden Columbus had. Yet through this memory, he eventually comes to terms with his being of assassin blood, and is initiated into the order by digital ghosts of his mother and other assassins from his bloodline.
* The captive assassins of Spain launch an escape on the compound. While many parish in the attempt, several do escape, and led by Cal, make ready to steal back the apple the templars are about to get.
* Alan Rikken reveals to his daughter his intent to claim credit for finding the apple, and then using it to defeat the assassins once and for all.
** Outraged at the perversion of her work, Sophie eventually lets Cal walk into the templar meeting, and assassinate Alan Rikken right in front of all the lead Templars. He then steals the apple of eden and escapes.
*** Shamed by causing her father's death, Sophie vows to hunt down Cal. Cal meanwhile escapes into the night with his new cell in order to fight another day.

* To further understand and gain information on other assassins finding pieces of Eden, the Templars begin holding Assassin descendants of Yusif of Istambul, Baptiste of the French Indies and others for exploring for more pieces of Eden. However, with the strain of the assassins beginning to gain ground, the project begins to come under scrutiny. Funnily enough, the CEO of Abstergo Alan Rikken has an interest in finishing the project as his daughter Sophie is the head of research there.

** However, Juno is still too week to take over the employee's body, and in John's frustration, he's killed.
* The employee does some research on Shay, and upon finding "proof" of the assassins fallability, is offered induction into the order...or death.

* Jacob is then given an invitation to dine with the Blighter's lead gangster: Maxwell Roth. Uneasy but curious, Jacob goes to Roth, who in fact seeks an alliance with Jacob. It turns out Roth doesn't like working with the templars, and seeks to bring down Starrick's business empire so he can be free to do as he wishes.

* Entering the party, Evie draws the attention of Starrick while Jacob kills the templars about to kill everyone. Realizing his plot is falling apart, Starrick steals Evie's key, and reaches the shroud.

* The 3rd Crusade is called. With forces from France, England and other parts of Europe, the crusaders wage war on Saladin's forces, seeking to claim the holy land for Christendom. Led by Richard the Lionheart, the Templars use this pretext of crusade to begin their work on becoming new masters of the holy land.
* On a mission from his grandmaster Al Mualim, Altair leads 3 other assassins to the temple of solomon to recover an apple of eden. Unfortunately, due to his arrogance and foolishness, Robert de Sable, grandmaster of the visible templar order disgraces Altair. Somehow, a fellow assassin recovers the apple, and the assassins manage to drive off the templar attack on their fortress Masiyaf for the time. But for his breaking of the 3 tenants, Al Mualim demotes Altair, demanding that he kill 9 men plaguing the holy land in order to reclaim his honor.

** Fourth is the regent of Damascus: Abu'l Nuqoud. A fat merchant, (also AmbiguouslyGay), he spends money on lavish parties, while also stealing money for the templars and creates an elaborate party to poison and kill hundreds to create a new order in the city.

** Fifth is William of Monferat. One of Richard's lieutenants, he's given regency of Acre, where he begins working behind Richard's back for the templar cause. He takes food from the citizens, conscripts people for the army, and enacts harsh discipline. In addition, he massacres 3000 saracen prisoners, angering richard for provoking their enemy to outrage and "Not doing the will of God." When Altair kills him, he claims to be acting for the people by purging his district of crime, teaching them order and discipline, and taking the food so that it might be rationed in the future.

** Eighth was the Teutonic Knight's leader Sibrand. Paranoid and fearful after the death of the other leaders of the templars, he lashed out at everyone, until Altair kills him. At his death, he confesses that he believes the piece of eden proves that there's nothing after death, and that his role was to create a protective blockade once the templars "freed" the holy land.
** Last is Robert De Sable himself, but he sent a decoy, Maria Thorpe to throw Altair off. She informs him that Robert plans to turn the assassinations into a way for saracen and crusader to unite and destroy the assassins. As she is "innocent" as not part of his mission, Altair lets her go, then pursues Robert to the crusader camp.
*** There, Richard the Lionheart allows the two to engage in combat, reasoning that God will side with the righteous man. Though Robert attempts to cheat, Altair defeats him. Yet with his dying breaths, he reveals that al mualim was a templar too, and now he would kill Altair to have the treasure to himself.
* Returning to Masayaf, Altair finds the entire area brainwashed, controlled by the piece of eden and Al Mualim. Rescued by Malik and others, Altair confronts Al Mualim, and eventually kills him. Unable to destroy the piece of eden due to his origins, he instead chooses to burn Al Mualim's body to ensure he is no illusion evermore, and study the apple after chasing the jealous Abbas down who took it from him right after his battle.
* Altair takes on the new mantle of grandmaster of the assassins, working to dislodge the templars from Cyprus and fight off Genghis Khan from conquering the holy land.
** He also married the rogue templar Maria Thorpe who defected after the new leader disparaged her. They had 2 sons.

** He also attacks the templars on Cyprus. While causing chaos, the templars manage to get their supplies off the island, surviving to fight another day.
* Unfortunately, his assassin rival Abbas eventually seizes control of the brotherhood while he was out fighting Genghis. Abbas executes one of his sons, and when Altair used the apple of eden to torture his executioner, Maria is accidentally killed. Altair in turn must flee for his life.
** Returning years later, Altair finds the assassin brotherhood weakened to near critical condition, turned into little more than thugs. However, rallying the younger generation, Altair retakes the fortress, shooting Abbas with a hidden gun that the piece of eden showed him.
* With old age almost overtaking him, Altair decides to abandon Masayaf so the assassins can work among the people. But before his death, he takes several steps to protect the piece of eden and preserve the brotherhood.
** First, he creates special "keys" using the apple and his memories to create "the masayaf keys". These contain some of his important memories, while also holding the power to unlock the vault he constructs below Masayaf.

** He gives his remaining son control of the brotherhood, then locks himself in the vault below to hide the Apple of Eden.

** However, due to their shared hatred, the templars are not fooled by their public destruction, and recognize their continued meddling in their works.
* In 1307, under assassin pressure, the Templar order is disbanded, humiliated and publicly destroyed by King Philip of France and Pope Clement. However, the last public templar grandmaster, Jacque de Molay (Who was also a sage with the lineage of Aieta of the first civilization, see the 2nd folder), instructs his followers to take the order underground and continue their mission.
** To that end, they hide a piece of eden they had (a sword) and a templar codex containing Molay's truths in a crypt in plain sight.

* In 1492, the assassins have allied with the moors of Spain. However, the Templars, prodding the Spanish kingdom forward, plan to exterminate the moorish kingdom for "Christendom" and thus claim an apple of eden the king of Grenada is hiding.
* The assassin Aguilar joins the assassins after his parents are burned at the stake. He becomes partnered with another assassin Maria, and together they're tasked with rescuing the Sultan's son. While they manage to get him out of the village, eventually the templars recapture all of them, transporting them to Seville to be burned for "heresy".

* Recognizing that their work in Spain is shattered, Ezio Auditore (see below) recommends that the sultan surrender. As such, it's only a matter of time until the templars get their hands on the apple. To prevent this, Aguilar and Maria also move into the palace to try to get the apple first.
** Arriving about the same time, the assassins get their hand on the apple but end up in a standoff with the templars. While at first willing to give up the apple for his teammate, Maria kills herself rather than lose the apple to the templars.
** Escaping the templars by the water, Aguilar entrusts the apple to Christopher Columbus, who would carry it to his grave.

** He also takes time to help his brothers frederico and Petruccio, his younger sister Claudia, and his parents with various chores.
* But one day, everything changed when the templars launched a plot to take over florence. Seeing the Auditores as obstacles due to their close relations with the ruling Medici family, the Templars use judge Uberto Alberti to frame the family and lead to the hanging of Giovanni, Federico and Petruccio.
** Enraged but realizing he needs to protect his family, they hide in a nearby brothel, where the matron teaches ezio to sneak, steal and stab.

*** Ezio wants to move his family to Spain rather than face the templars much to Mario's disgust. However, upon finding out about Vieri Pazzi raiding the estate, he joins Mario in an attack against the Pazzi stronghold in San Gimignano.

* Ezio next travels to Forli along with Leonardo to hunt down the venician. There, he befriends Caterina, Countess of Forli, who would be a long term ally for him in the future.
* Sailing into Venice, Ezio gains the assistance of the Thieves guild in facing Emilio Barbargio, the man Ezio was seeking. There, along with the thieves, he kills Emilio, freeing the district's merchants from his tyranny.

** He then directs Carlos Grimaldi to poison the current Doge, and though Ezio tries to stop him, the doge dies along with Grimaldi.
*** Marco Barbarigo becomes doge, and institutes a manhunt on Ezio.

** Following this, Ezio hunts down the last templar Barbarigo along with his mentally crippled bodyguard, and kills him, but finds out the templars were sailing for Cyprus for something. As such, Ezio hunkers down in Venice to await their return.
* Upon Rodrigo's return, Ezio intercepts his package, and with the help of the friends he made along the way, he drives him off. Then Ezio learns that all his mentors were actually assassins, and HE might be the prophet that Rodrigo spoke of to gain the apple's power. As such, Ezio is formally inducted into the assassin order.
* Ezio returns to Forli, resting at Katerina's place for a bit. However, Rodrigo's spies have tracked Ezio there, and a revolt is planned to overthrow Katerina and gain the piece of eden.
** While driving off his assassins, he accidentally loses the piece of eden to Savonarola, who takes the piece back to Florence to institute the bonfire of vanities.

* Attaining all the scrolls of Altair, and recovering the 5 symbols from tombs around italy, Ezio obtains the armor of Altair, and discovers the location of a new piece of eden: Rome itself.
** Riding to Rome, Ezio and Rodrigo engage in battle, both using their pieces of eden to their advantage. Eventually, Ezio overpowers Rodrigo, but realizing that he's finally found a calling beyond revenge, Ezio give Rodrigo CruelMercy: living knowing the power under the vatican is never going to be his.

* The brotherhood of Rome is weak due to its proximity to the Templar stronghold, but Ezio resolves to raise the esteem of the people of Rome, and so gradually drive the Borgia out.
** To that end, he begins rescuing citizens and training them to become master assassins.

** Ezio fights off Ceasare for the apple, and then rests a bit.
* After the victory over Rodrigo, Ezio inducts his sister into the brotherhood properly, and afterwards, is proclaimed grandmaster and mentor of the italian order.
** Following this, Ceasare is deposed from his power base, and while working for his cousin in spain, Ezio hunts him down and finally kills him.
*** Ezio then hides his apple of eden away in the coliseum's ruins.

* Meeting up with the assassin brotherhood of Istambul, Ezio is given a hidden blade upgrade in a hook blade, and begins to learn more of his temporary home.

* Seeking a way into knowing the templar plans, Ezio disguises himself as a minstrel in the palace of istambul. It's here he discovers that Sulliman is in fact a young ruler, and furthermore, the son of a rebellious son Selim, who's engaged in a powerplay against the sultan.
** Furthermore, he discovers that the templars are working under the leadership of a byzantine nephew of the last emperor: Manuel.
* Ezio begins eroding Templar lieutenants around Istanbul, killing a gypsy leader, an assassin who turned against them due to ethnic disagreements, a dancing assassin, templar nobles, captains and others.
** However, one mistake he made was when Sulliman instructed him to kill the Jassinary captain Tarrik, who seemed to be plotting with the templars to destroy the sultan. In reality, he was secretly planning to destroy the templars from within. As such, though Ezio lost a valuable ally, he did find the templar's base's location.
* Traveling to the templar base, he frees the templar prisoners, and kills their fighting leader Shakkulu.
** Then setting fire to the docks, Ezio kills the templar leader Manuel.
*** However, It's then that Ezio learns that it's not Manuel but the sultan's son Ahmet is the true grandmaster of the ottoman templars.
* Ahmet in a power play kills several assassins, including Yusef. He kidnaps Sofia, and in a chase afterwards, Ezio rescues her. Meanwhile, Ahmet is killed by Selim, who has won his right to be Sultan. He forbids Ezio from being in Istanbul after this, but tired and with his quest complete (and on Sofia's request), Ezio finally leaves.

* Ezio trains one final disciple: Shao Jun of the chinese brotherhood. He teaches her not to give up, and passes his wisdom down to her to return and fight again. He also has one final battle against templar agents that followed her.
** Following her departure, Ezio sits down to rest on a bench in florence, seeing the city he loves and the family he's created and dies a sudden but fulfilled death.

* Loreano de torres becomes governor of Cuba. With such influence, he becomes the lead Templar Grandmaster in the Caribbean. His main rival for power is the Assassin Grandmaster Ah Tabai, who leads the Caribbean tribes and assorted others in resisting templar influence.

* Edward Kenway is born to an english father and a welsh mother. While born an ordinary commoner, he wins the hand of a wealthy lady Caroline Scott.

*** Mary then brings Edward to the main Assassin headquarters, where he meets Al Tabai. As Edward is still arrogant, rude and disinterested in greater things, he is absolved of accidentally wrecking the assassins by giving information to the templars, but he's not welcomed in as his view of the creed is simplistic and selfish in his reading.

* Years later, he is given a vision of the future by Juno via a piece of eden their tribe holds. Juno says that without his efforts, the templars will breach "the sanctuary", destroy his people, and destabilize the area. As such, he leaves his tribe to search for the symbol she shows him in order to train and follow to defeat their secret plans.
** As such, he travels to the old assassin homestead in maine, where Achilles and William Falkner of the old colonial brotherhood live in shame and disgrace "waiting death."
*** While Achilles refuses to help Conner at first, after fighting off brigands on the land, Achilles reluctantly takes him on as his apprentice, teaching him english and the ways of the assassins.

* Cain kills his brother abel to get a piece of eden he had. The mark on his head would one day become the symbol of the templar order.
* Different pieces of eden keep showing up in history, used for various purposes, though usually to enact significant religious events.
** For example, as speculated by future teachers, pieces of eden were used to [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} turn water to wine]], part the red sea, or caused TheTrojanWar.
* The assassin order is founded with the purpose of safeguarding human freedom. They live by the creed "Nothing is true. Everything is Permitted."

* Also in this time, a society is founded with the interest of controlling humanity. They eventually come under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, now interested in finding pieces of eden and controlling the masses.

** Fortunately, they escape their execution.

* Years prior, the templar Germain is exiled from the templars for speaking of visions he had. Namely, Germain is a new Sage...fragments of the Isu Aeita scattered across time and space. With new visions and inspirations, Germain is interested in moving the order in a new direction, but is exiled for his beliefs. However, he gathers followers, including the disgraced tax collecter La Touche and the king of Beggars. Together, they begin plotting the fall of De La Serre.
* In 1789, Arno has grown into a handsome but troublemaking guest of the De La Serres. Further, he's become quite possessive of his true father's watch.
** Arno is given a letter to deliver to De La Serre. Unfortunately, the meeting is the calling of the Estate General, and so De La Serre and Mirabeau are busy discussing what it will mean for the future of France. Further, getting into a fight with 2 locals, Arno is driven from the palace temporarily. Unwilling to risk going in for that again, Arno instead puts the letter under De La Serre's office door at home.

** During the storming of the Bastille on July 14th, Arno and Bellec escape, Bellec offering Arno a key to later join the brotherhood.

** In their final battle over the shroud, one of the templars is killed, but Rebecca is critically injured, and the assassins are forced to concede the shroud to the templars.

* In 1789, Arno attends a party at Versailles.

* In 1307, under assassin pressure, the Templar order is disbanded, humiliated and publicly destroyed by King Philip of France. However, the last public templar grandmaster, Jacque de Molay (Who was also a sage with the lineage of Aieta of the first civilization, see the 2nd folder), instructs his followers to take the order underground and continue their mission.

* While driving off his assassins, he accidentally loses the piece of eden to Savonarola, who takes the piece back to Florence to institute the bonfire of vanities.
** Ezio turns the people back to their own freedom, and murders Savonarola while he's burning at the stake.
** However, in one mission, he discovers that Christina was wounded by looters and burners. While he tries to help her, she dies in his arms, attesting that she always loved him, holding on to the Auditore crest.

* Traveling to the templar base, he frees the templar prisoners, and kills their fighting leader Shakulu.

* Returning back to Italy at last, Ezio settles down with his new wife in a rebuilt Monterigionni, and has a child.

* With the "discovery" of the americas, Ezio had sent new members to establish american brotherhoods. As did the templars.

* Loreano de torres becomes governor of Cuba. With such influence, he becomes the lead Templar Grandmaster in the Caribbean. His main rival for power is the Assassin Grandmaster Ah Tabai, who leads the caribbean tribes and assorted others in resisting templar influence.
** Torres in this time also gains the support of Julian De Cas, a gun happy weapons provider, and governor Woodes Rodgers, the british carribean governor.

** Some pirates do choose to take the King's pardon, including Burgess, Cockram, and more significantly, Benjamin Hornigold. Feeling that their chance to make something great was lost under squalor and sloth. However, Charles Vane and his crew decide to use a fireship to sail away from Nassau instead, refusing to give up their freedom.

* Edward takes up strengthening the British Brotherhood, finding pieces of eden and hiding one behind a home in buckingham.

** She was originally engaged to an East India Company official, before eloping with edward.

** However this makes him no more wealthy, and by 1715, he runs into misfortune as his ship wrecks in the caribbean.

* With his new ship, Edward decides to do some favors for his pirate friends at Nassau. Along with Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Thatch and "James Kidd". Finding men, stealing a sloop for their defenses, and assassinating Julian De Casse for his ship.

*** Mary then brings Edward to the main Assassin headquarters, where he meets Al Tabai. As Edward is still arrogant, rude and disinterested in greater things, he is absolved of accidentally wrecking the assassins for passing information to the templars, but he's not welcomed in as his view of the creed is simplistic and selfish in his reading.
* Meanwhile, Captain Charles Vane and his first mate Jack Rackham arrive in Nassau. Around this time, Edward Thatch grows his famous Blackbeard, greeting them.

*** Edward backs up Blackbeard, taking the medicines and allowing the release. However, Blackbeard for his part sails off, searching for a place to settle down.

* Landing safely, Edward learns that Rodgers is being recalled to England for investigation into improper use of power by King George II. Stabbing him secretly, in his wounded state, Rodgers and Edward at last find common ground in their desire to stop Black Bart. As such, Rodgers points Edward in the direction of Principe. Edward leaves then, but Rodgers actually goes on to survive his wounds, returning to England for sure.

* Reaching Roberts, who's using the observatory skull to launch accurate raids on ships thanks to the blood of sailors in it, The Jackdaw and the Royal Fortune (Roberts's ship) engage, ending with Edward boarding and killing Black Bart. Receiving the skull, Edward takes his enemy's body so the templars cannot have it, and makes his way to Havanna to finally stop grandmaster Torres as well.
* Speaking with the assassin there, he tracks Torres's blood to the fortress, but it turns out the blood put in was from a body double. Realizing the trap, Edward then kills El Tiberion.
* Chasing Torres back to the Observatory, Kenway gets a lucky break due to Torres accidentally activating defense measures in the building. Fighting from the companies of soldiers he brought with him, Edward finally kills the Templar Grandmaster.
** In their final moments, Edward tells Torres that he believes that what the templars were trying to do would be far worse than anything he did. Torres in turn gives edward a parting complement, saying "You wear your convictions well. They suit you."
*** Returning the skull to the observatory, the assassins promise to seal it away from templar hands. However, at that time, a letter reaches Edward....

** Furthermore, the cousin of Duncan Warpole helps pardon Edward of his past crimes, making him a noble.

* After assassinating Reginald Birch, Haytham Kenway sails to America to start a new branch of the templars. He recruits several lieutenants: William Johnson a natives ambassador, William Picarn a British commander, Thomas Hickey a shady con man, Benjamin Church a money grubbing surgeon, Nickolas Biddle a sailor, and Charles Lee: an earnest young man devoted to Haytham.

*** Catching up with Church, they recover the supplies, and kill him, as he'd deserted the templars some time before as he felt the british crown was a better offer than what the templars were doing, and more richeous a cause.

** Returning to find the bodies of his dead family members, andwith the help of Christina, Ezio gives them a proper burial.

** While failing to get answers from Vierri, he is taught by his uncle to show respect to those he kills, also learning of Vierri's father issues at that time too. Further, he gets a name for the man who was with the Pazzi: Rodrigo Borgia.

** Following this, Ezio hunts down the last Barbarigo, and kills him, but finds out the templars were sailing for Cyprus for something. As such, Ezio hunkers down in Venice to await their return.

* He also leads missions to weaken the Borgia base: killing his french ally and assassinating Borgia the Elder to remove his cardinal influences.

*** To decode the journal, Ezio gains the help of a young female bookseller.

* Furthermore, he discovers that the templars are working under the leadership of a byzantine nephew of the last emperor: Manuel.

* In 2000, the assassins are thrown into chaos when the mole Darron Cross kills the Assassin Grandmaster and throws several of their safehouses into templar hands.

*** In their final battle over the shroud, one of the templars is killed, but Rebecca is critically injured, and the assassins are forced to concede the shroud to the templars.

* Charging into Abstergo, Desmond puts Darron cross out of his misery due to the bleeding effect catching up to Cross. Then he uses the apple of eden to kill Warren Vidic, then waltzing his way back to safety with his father.

* The Templars engineer World War II as a way to gain control over the world. Unfortunately, at the very end of the war, an assassin kills Adolf Hitler, messing up their final phase for the war.

* Everything changed for Desmond on the day the Templars kidnapped him into Abstergo industrys: The new front for the Templar order. He's made to relive the life of Altair as their way to try and find where other pieces of eden are using their fine tuned Animus: allowing them to view Desmond's genetic memories.

The Assassin's creed universe spans all of human history, so following it can be quite confusing. This will include lore from truth puzzles, lore from the novels, and other media outside the primary games, to beware of game spoilers.

* Also in this time, a society is founded with the interest of controlling humanity. They eventually come under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, now interested in finding pieces of eden and control the masses.

* The 3rd Crusade is called. With forces from France, England and other parts of Europe, the crusaders wage war of Salladin's forces, seeking to claim the holy land for Christendom. Led by Richard the Lionheart, the Templars use this pretext of crusade to begin their work on becoming new masters of the holy land.

** Fourth is the regent of Damascus: Abu'l Nuqoud. A fat merchant king, (also AmbiguouslyGay), he spends money on lavish parties, while also stealing money for the templars and creates an elaborate party to poison and kill hundreds to create a new order in the city.

** Sixth is the regent of Jerusalem: Majd Addin. Arrogant and proud, he killed for fun to weed out dissenters and feel like a God.
** Seventh is the scholar of Damascus Jubair al Hakim. He instituted a book burning in Damascus, claiming that the books poison people, and make them weak and stupid.

* Unfortunately, his assassin rival Abbas eventually seizes control of the brotherhood while he was out fighting Ghengis. Abbas executes one of his sons, and when using the apple of eden to torture his executioner, Maria is accidentally killed. Altair in turn must flee for his life.
** Returning years later, Altair finds the assassin brotherhood weakened to near critical mass, turned into little more than thugs. However, rallying the younger generation, Altair retakes the fortress, shooting Abbas with a hidden gun that the piece of eden showed him.

* In 1307, under assassin pressure, the Templar order is disbanded, humiliated and publicly destroy by King Philip of France. However, the last public templar grandmaster, Jacque de Molay (Who was also a sage), instructs his followers to take the order underground and continue their mission.

* Ezio returns to Florence in time to help defend Lorenzo De Medicci from assassination. While his brother IS killed, Ezio manages to get Lorenzo medical help, then kills Francisco Pazzi for his part in the attempted kill. Given a mandate by Lorenzo afterwards, Ezio promises to hunt down the remaining conspirators as they'd fled the city after their failed Coup.

* Sailing into Venice, Ezio gains the assistance of the Thieves guild in facing Emilio Barbargio, the man Ezio was seeking. There, along with