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* Unfortunately, they refer to the person being put in the Animus as "he". [[CaptainObvious Lucy's a girl.]]

[[WMG: The Apples will be used to save the world in a different way than the first attempt.]]
Juno mentioned that, as a special property of the Apples power, and i paraphrase: "If a hundred people sat enthralled then they may make a wall disappear if they will it away."
In the end, the first civilization sent the apples into space after using it to control people, hoping to "enthrall" everyone. What if instead of trying to enthrall people all at once (the space sending example) then saying the necessary words, you could use the special property or power of the apple spread it slowly. You create a religion so to speak. After this is done, keep the apple with you and use faith or the special reality warping property of the apple to will the disaster away.
* Further, i guess someone wanted the human/precursor hybrids dead for their immunity to the eden artifacts.
* further, oh look, no need to free juno.

[[WMG: The assassin's in Altair's, Ezio's, and Desmond's bloodline are actually mythological gryphons.]]
Think about it! The mythological gryphons are often described as creature who protected hoards of treasure in their dens. What if Those Who Came Before created the gryphons to gaurd Pieces of Eden? The "treasures" could have been the P.O.E's. In the beginning the gryphons, like mankind at the time, was not meant to be wise and were creations made from a mixture of blood from Those Who Came Before (in order to allow the creations to accept the mixed form of a lion and eagle) and mankind (to keep them loyal servants to Those Who Came Before). The gryphons were assigned to nests/dens, A.K.A the temples, in order to gaurd the P.O.E's. (If you are asking yourself "From what?", do remember that Minerva told Ezio that they were too concerned with material things to notice the issue with the sun. Maybe they were having an Arm's Race amongst themselves.)

After the first wipe out from the sun, everything was left in shambles. Those Who Came Before and mankind went to war but the gryphons stayed true to their jobs and continued to keep the P.O.E away from both sides, though this was taxing on their population as they were being attacked by the other two factions as they attempted to take the P.O.E's away to use in the war. The gryphons eventually developed the ability to take the shape of a human to hide themselves to the point where they could actually produce young in their human forms (Whether or not this was the oficial start of the Creed, I can't say). At some point an ancestor of Atair, Ezio, and Desmond was orphaned at an extremly young age when a temple was attacked and had never learned how to change into a gryphon again, probably being raised as a human. With the knowledge of their true forms gone, all those following that bloodline only had the Eagle Vision as an unknown reminder of what they once were.

[[WMG: Leonardo used the Apple when it was in his possession.]]
All those deadly devices that Leonardo "invented" were really technology the Apple shared with him. Remember the Borgia did give him the Apple for a short time to experiment on and now suddenly he can not only make a flying machine that works but one with a cannon on the back of it!
* Leo says as much when you first meet him in ''Brotherhood''

[[WMG: The 'Ones Who Came Before' are actually identical to humans, but with perfect genetic memory]]
[[spoiler:Juno]] referred to the Sixth Sense, 'Knowledge', which humans were made without. This could easily be the ability to access genetic memory naturally. Also, according to some of Subject 16's revelations in the previous game, [[spoiler:Desmond is likely the descendant of both a human and a 'One Who Came Before']]. Since he is experiencing prolonged 'Leaked Memories', this could explain why he was the only one who could see [[spoiler:Juno]]. If he is descended from her, her persona could be 'Leaking' out from his Genetic Memory. This could explain how she was able to [[spoiler:Control him, even if she seemed to need to use the apple to do so]].

[[WMG: The Templars have infiltrated the team.]]
In the ending, [[spoiler:Juno states that "The cross darkens the horizon" and after forcing Desmond to kill Lucy, says that the way is now "clear".]] Not only does this raise some very important questions about why Desmond was forced to do this in the first place, but it also suggests that [[spoiler:there is something untoward about Lucy]]. [[spoiler:Juno]]'s statements suggested that she was trying to aid Desmond, and it would be fair to assume that [[spoiler:The "Cross" referred to is the Templar cross.]] While this might simply be an allusion to the overarching plot of the series, it could also mean that [[spoiler:Lucy was another Templar threat to Desmond that he was unaware of, which would be why Juno forced him to kill her.]] Backing this up are [[spoiler:the strange red footprints seen in present-day Monteriggioni when using Eagle Vision, which lead from the sewers to Lucy during the sequence where she is standing outside, watching the moon.]] It may be possible that this was to access some of the town's electrical equipment (given the point about Monteriggioni's power lines being fairly weak, this isn't too far-fetched) and that the footprints were due to some... waste... that was dragged up. However, this is never mentioned. [[spoiler:There is also fact that the footprints show up in red. Think about it, what else shows up red in Eagle Vision? enemies, and messages written in blood. So, was Lucy always a Templar agent who had to murder someone and hide the body in the sewers to maintain her cover? was the victim in fact the real Lucy, who was covertly murdered while outside the sanctuary and replaced by a Templar double? was Lucy on your side all along, just engaging in a bit of covert killing without telling anyone? or was she down in the sewers for some perfectly innocuous reason, that she never saw fit to disclose to her team?]] If either of the first two possibilities is true, it would certainly explain [[spoiler: Lucy's extreme dedication - In one eMail, an Assassin leader actually asks her to calm down. Why would Lucy's stress seem out of the ordinary? could she be secretly working towards an ulterior motive? maybe she's so obsessed with finding the Apple because she's working for the Templars.]] Considering that Desmond is the only lead they have on the Apple (and that they have an apparent habit of planting moles in other teams), it would make sense for them to try and infiltrate the one with access to the most vital information.
** If this is true, then she must be a ''really'' good spy to fool Desmond's Eagle Vision into thinking she's an Assassin. Either that or she programmed the bleeding effect in the Animus to make her appear as a friendly to Desmond.
** Eagle Vision isn't exactly magic, and it is possible and in fact very likely that it only highlights known threats, which would allow Lucy to appear as an ally to Desmond because he sees her as such. Also, Subject 16's speech at the end of The Truth mentions something about "she is not as she seems" which could refer to Lucy, further supporting this theory.
** What if Juno wants the Assassins to fail? She refers to the "Cross darkening the horizon", but she doesn't seem too pleased to see Desmond. "The way is clear" means the Assassins just lost their best agent. Either all the Ones-who-came-before are betting on the Templars or it's just Juno. The blood is from Lucy stopping Templar agents from getting to the Hideout, and she doesn't tell the others because the stress would shatter the team completely. If Lucy was a Templar agent, I doubt she would put so much work into scheduling the weekly timetable. Or something. I dunno.
** Remember, [[spoiler: Al-Mualim]] appeared blue at first too.
** I get a feeling that if the real Lucy is dead and being replaced by a fake, maybe that Lucy has undergone BecomingTheMask.
** I thought that [[spoiler: 16 was refering to Juno not being who she said she was]]

[[WMG: Regarding [[spoiler: Juno's reason for killing Lucy]]]]
Remember [[spoiler: Kessler]] from ''{{InFamous}}''? Basically the same thing.

[[WMG: Lucy is [[spoiler: still alive.]]]]
[[spoiler: And if so, I hope she's still with the Assassins because I don't wanna hear about rumors of her being a Templar.]]

[[WMG: The person stuffed into the Animus at the ending is not Desmond, but Lucy]]
We have already seen Desmond ancestors, and Rebecca and Shaun both comment about their experiences. But what about Lucy? She's a great fighter, team leader and researcher to be just a Badass Normal.

The voices at the end (not Shaun or Rebecca, so probably other assassins) claim someone's gone into shock, which again would make Lucy more probable. What if Juno manipulated the whole thing because there was important information on Lucy's ancestors, and getting her into the Animus was vital to the mission?

Thus we get the setting for the next game: To find the last piece of information, hidden in the memories of a female Assassin.
* Unfortunately, they explicitly say they need to put "him" in the Animus. [[CaptainObvious Lucy's a girl.]]

[[WMG: Ezio uses blanks sometimes when using the hidden gun. ]]
This explains why his ammo supply doesn't go down when he executes someone while using his sword. The guards just die of a heart attack thinking they've just been shot.
** This only applies to Medium Weapon counter-kills -- when using the gun offensively for a kill streak, ammo is expended -- and in at least some of those counter kills, he's already incapacitated/mortally wounded them.
** Blanks aren't immaterial. They should take space.
** Firearms in the 1400's don't have cartridges, evidenced by the fact when you buy ammo, they show up as lead balls. Blanks weren't even around that long ago.
[[WMG: Mario's grandfather had a much higher opinion of his family's abilities than was justified.]]
The escape tunnel was hidden in the Assassin's Sanctuary - behind the statue of Altair. Which meant that it was behind a locked gate that could only be unlocked by placing the six Assassin Seals. Which the Auditore family searched for for an entire century without finding a single one before Ezio tracked down all six. Meaning that it would have been impossible for anyone to use that escape tunnel in the century between the Sanctuary's construction and Ezio's finding the seals. Clearly the designer thought that his kin would track down the Seals in a more reasonable amount of time, or he would have put the escape tunnel someplace more accessible.
*** Maybe he had an alternative way of opening the gate, or possibly he actually had the seals, and they were scattered across the Assassin tombs after he died, a possibility which he didn't predict.
[[WMG: The other woman Desmond is "supposed" to be with is Christina's descendant.]]
Brotherhood seemed to have sudden focus on Ezio's relationship with Christina, which is odd bit of development for a character who barely appeared for a few minutes in [=AC2=]. Add to the fact she seemed to be the one woman that Ezio genuinely and truly loved and was absolutely crushed when [[spoiler:she died]]...
[[WMG: Ezio had Rodrigo's successor killed.]]
After Rodrigo dies, the next big event mentioned in the game is the Cardinals electing Guillermo della Rovere to the Papacy. But he was not Rodrigo Borgia's successor. Rodrigo's successor was Francesco Piccolomini, or Pius III. He died, possibly of poison, after a mere four weeks in office - shortly after confirming that Cesare would remain Commander of the Papal Armies during his Papacy. His successor was Guillermo della Rovere, Pope Julius II, who removed Cesare from that post and had him arrested. How convenient for the Assassins that Cesare's new backer died so quickly, only to be replaced by an enemy...
[[WMG: Ezio was the target of a breeding program.]]
Think about it: by the end of Brotherhood Ezio is almost in his fifties. And yet he has still not fathered Desmond's ancestor. Consider how unlikely it is for such an old man to be sexually active. It's possible that some agent of Those who Came Before obtained his DNA because they knew how important that genetic line would be.
** This is [[MemeticSexGod Ez]][[HandsomeLech io]] we're talking about. I wouldn't want to be the one to tell him he's too old to have sex.
** Plus, Ezio seemed to have slept with several (thousand) women during the course of his life.
*** However, if you remember the weird dream Desmond has in AC2 about Altair, when Altair's DNA was...uh... 'passed on', Desmond was no longer able to follow him, so Ezio must of 'passed on' his DNA after the events of this game (AND revelations!)
** It may be ''statistically'' unlikely that any given old man is sexually active. However, this is Ezio Auditore. We ''know'' he's sexually active even in his later years - he chats up a woman bringing flowers to his sister's birthday party in the first minutes of the game, for crying out loud.
*** even statistically it's not that unlikely, the elderly are actually pretty damm sexually active.
* I don't think it's a case of him not being sexually active. He probably just hasn't fathered the Miles line until late in his life, with the likelihood that he's got plenty of illegitimate kids at least. That or he's just really careful.

[[WMG: The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 were part of a XanatosGambit on the part of the Templars to clamp down on Assassin activity in Europe.]]
This comes from the fact that Lucy said that the Templars were watching the Italian border checks for them, so they had nowhere to go except Monteriggioni. Thing is, under normal circumstances, this isn't the case, since all countries that share land borders with Italy are members of the Schengen Area, an EU customs union, which Italy is of course a part of. So, under normal circumstances, there are no border checks when going from Italy to France, for example. Border checks can be reinstituted temporarily in times of threats to national security, which the Templars might have a hard time explaining to the Italian government how four people with probably little to no criminal records that we know of could pose a threat to the national security of Italy. At first this troper thought it was just an oversight on the part of the game developers.

But lo and behold, the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa have triggered massive debates in Europe about how to handle the refugees streaming out of the region. Italy is absorbing a large amount of them, even though many immediately head off to France. So, there are many people calling for the Italian government and others across Europe to reinstate border controls. And since this is something that's likely to last for a while, we've got a reason for border controls to be holding in Desmond and company. And the Templars just sit back and watch as Assassin after Assassin gets caught at border controls that now exist once again across Europe.

[[WMG: Cesare is a kind of human embued with the powers of a Piece of Eden, a bit like Adha.]]
He does seem to be mildly prophetic, and perhaps his BadassBoasts about being unkillable aren't as nonsensical as we'd like to think...

[[WMG: [[AbusivePrecursors Those Who Came Before]] are, in fact, the true villians of the series. ]]

Those That Came before created [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture Humanity to serve as a slave labor for them.]] This was not a benevolent relationship [[BlatantLies despite what Minerva would have us believe.]] Eventually, Adam and Eve, two humans that grew genetically resistant to TTC's usage of the Pieces of Eden, rose up and stole one of the POEs (possibly with the help of an individual named [[ParadiseLost Lucifer.]] Anyways, war broke out between the two races, solar flare wipe out most of life, survivors rebuild, Those That Came before die out, ect. ect.

Except they did not die out nor did they truly help Humanity rebuild.

[[AncientConspiracy Instead, The Precursors (or what was left of them) went into deep hibernation and left behind recording in an attempt to manipulate humanity's descendents in their bid to retake control of the planet.]] [[EnemyCivilWar They orchestrated the war between the Templars and Assassins]] because both sides had the ability to see through their lies and disrupt their plans. Finally, the "Temples" Minerva mentions will somehow awaken the precursors and enslave the whole of humanity except for the [[EnemyMine Templars and Assassins who would be able to resist.]]
** The end of Brotherhood definitely casts a lot of doubt on the idea that the Precursors are to be trusted or relied on, I'll give you that. Sixteen's messages about how humans seem to have grown genetically resistant to brainwashing through television also seems to support the hypothesis in the first paragraph.

[[WMG: The Assassins control the CIA]]
As stated in the game, the Templars developed capitalism once the whole "divine right" thing stopped working. Today, they use corporations as fronts. It seems likely that the Assassins would have their own fronts, and given their preferred MO, what better fronts than intelligence agencies?

Besides, it would be amusing to see a ConspiracyTheory where the CIA are actually the good guys for a change.
** Nup CIA are templars, they orchestrated the assassination of JFK and coup's in Chili

* Unfortunately, they refer to the person being put in the Animus as "he". [[CaptainObvious Lucy's a girl.]]

Remember [[spoiler: Kessler]] from ''{{InFamous}}''? Basically the same thing.

Basically, I think that Eagle Vision is the result of the OWCBs' attempts to pass the sixth sense over to the humans. We know that it is carried genetically (Shaun, who is not of Assassin stock, does not have Eagle Vision, whereas Desmond does), and when using Eagle Visions, friendly targets turn up as covered in a blue shimmer.

Thus we get the setting for the next game: To find the last piece of information, hidden in the memories of a female Assassin.

And if so, I hope she's still with the Assassins because I don't wanna hear about rumors of her being a Templar.

In the ending, [[spoiler:Juno states that "The cross darkens the horizon" and after forcing Desmond to kill Lucy, says that the way is now "clear".]] Not only does this raise some very important questions about why Desmond was forced to do this in the first place, but it also suggests that [[spoiler:there is something untoward about Lucy]]. [[spoiler:Juno]]'s statements suggested that she was trying to aid Desmond, and it would be fair to assume that [[spoiler:The "Cross" referred to is the Templar cross.]] While this might simply be an allusion to the overarching plot of the series, it could also mean that [[spoiler:Lucy was another Templar threat to Desmond that he was unaware of, which would be why Juno forced him to kill her.]] Backing this up are [[spoiler:the strange red footprints seen in present-day Monteriggioni when using Eagle Vision, which lead from the sewers to Lucy during the sequence where she is standing outside, watching the moon.]] It may be possible that this was to access some of the town's electrical equipment (given the point about Monteriggioni's power lines being fairly weak, this isn't too far-fetched) and that the footprints were due to some... waste... that was dragged up. However, this is never mentioned. [[spoiler:There is also fact that the footprints show up in red. Think about it, what else shows up red in Eagle Vision? enemies, and messages written in blood. So, was Lucy always a Templar agent who had to murder someone and hide the body in the sewers to maintain her cover? was the victim in fact the real Lucy, who was covertly murdered while outside the sanctuary and replaced by a Templar double? was Lucy on your side all along, just engaging in a bit of covert killing without telling anyone? or was she down in the sewers for some perfectly innocuous reason, that she never saw fit to disclose to her team? ]] If either of the first two possibilities is true, it would certainly explain [[spoiler: Lucy's extreme dedication - In one eMail, an Assassin leader actually asks her to calm down. Why would Lucy's stress seem out of the ordinary? could she be secretly working towards an ulterior motive? maybe she's so obsessed with finding the Apple because she's working for the Templars.]] Considering that Desmond is the only lead they have on the Apple (and that they have an apparent habit of planting moles in other teams), it would make sense for them to try and infiltrate the one with access to the most vital information.

Remember [[spoiler: Kessler]] from ''{{InFamous}}''? Basically the same thing

[[WMG: Leonardo used the Apple when it was in his posession.]]

In the ending, [[spoiler:Juno states that "The cross darkens the horizon" and after forcing Desmond to kill Lucy, says that the way is now "clear".]] Not only does this raise some very important questions about why Desmond was forced to do this in the first place, but it also suggests that [[spoiler:there is something untoward about Lucy]]. [[spoiler:Juno]]'s statements suggested that she was trying to aid Desmond, and it would be fair to assume that [[spoiler:The "Cross" referred to is the Templar cross.]] While this might simply be an allusion to the overarching plot of the series, it could also mean that [[spoiler:Lucy was another Templar threat to Desmond that he was unaware of, which would be why Juno forced him to kill her.]] Backing this up are [[spoiler:the strange red footprints seen in present-day Monteriggioni when using Eagle Vision, which lead from the sewers to Lucy during the sequence where she is standing outside, watching the moon.]] It may be possible that this was to access some of the town's electrical equipment (given the point about Monteriggioni's power lines being fairly weak, this isn't too far-fetched) and that the footprints were due to some... waste... that was dragged up. However, this is never mentioned. [[spoiler:There is also fact that the footprints show up in red. Think about it, what else shows up red in Eagle Vision? enemies, and messages written in blood. So, was Lucy always a Templar agent who had to murder someone and hide the body in the sewers to maintain her cover? was the victim in fact the real Lucy, who was covertly murdered while outside the sanctuary and replaced by a Templar double? was Lucy on your side all along, just engaging in a bit of covert killing without telling anyone? or was she down in the sewers for some perfectly innocuous reason, that she never saw fit to disclose to her team? ]] If either of the first two possibilities is true, it would certianly explain [[spoiler: Lucy's extreme dedication - In one eMail, an Assassin leader actually asks her to calm down. Why would Lucy's stress seem out of the ordinary? could she be secretly working towards an ulterior motive? maybe she's so obsessed with finding the Apple because she's working for the Templars.]] Considering that Desmond is the only lead they have on the Apple (and that they have an apparent habit of planting moles in other teams), it would make sense for them to try and infiltrate the one with access to the most vital information.

** Remember, [[spoiler: Al-Mualim]] appeared blue at first too.

** What if Juno wants the Assassins to fail? She refers to the "Cross darkening the horizon", but she doesn't seem too pleased to see Desmond. "The way is clear" means the Assassins just lost their best agent. Either all the Ones-who-came-before are betting on the Templars or it's just Juno. The blood is from Lucy stopping Templar agents from getting to the Hideout, and she doesn't tell the others because the stress would shatter the team completely. If Lucy was a Templar agent, I doubt she would put so much work into scheduling the weekly timetable. Or something. I dunno.

** Eagle Vision isn't exactly magic, and it is possible and in fact very likely that it only highlights known threats, which would allow Lucy to appear as an ally to Desmond because he sees her as such. Also, Subject 16's speech at the end of The Truth mentions something about "she is not as she seems" which could refer to Lucy, further supporting this theory.

** If this is true, then she must be a ''really'' good spy to fool Desmond's Eagle Vision into thinking she's an Assassin. Either that or she programmed the bleeding effect in the Animus to make her appear as a friendly to Desmond.

In the ending, [[spoiler:Juno states that "The cross darkens the horizon" and after forcing Desmond to kill Lucy, says that the way is now "clear".]] Not only does this raise some very important questions about why Desmond was forced to do this in the first place, but it also suggests that [[spoiler:there is something untoward about Lucy]]. [[spoiler:Juno]]'s statements suggested that she was trying to aid Desmond, and it would be fair to assume that [[spoiler:The "Cross" referred to is the Templar cross.]] While this might simply be an allusion to the overarching plot of the series, it could also mean that [[spoiler:Lucy was another Templar threat to Desmond that he was unaware of, which would be why Juno forced him to kill her.]] Backing this up are [[spoiler:the strange red footprints seen in present-day Monteriggioni when using Eagle Vision, which lead from the sewers to Lucy during the sequence where she is standing outside, watching the moon.]] It may be possible that this was to access some of the town's electrical equipment (given the point about Monteriggioni's power lines being fairly weak, this isn't too far-fetched) and that the footprints were due to some... waste... that was dragged up. However, this is never mentioned. [[spoiler:There is also fact that the footprints show up in red. Think about it, what else shows up red in Eagle Vision? enemies, and messages written in blood. So, was Lucy always a Templar agent who had to murder someone and hide the body in the sewers to maintain her cover? was the victim in fact the real Lucy, who was covertly murdered while outside the sanctuary and replaced by a Templar double? was Lucy on your side all along, just engaging in a bit of covert killing without telling anyone? or was she down in the sewers for some perfectly innocuous reason, that she never saw fit to disclose to her team? ]] If either of the first two possibilities is true, it would certianly explain [[spoiler: Lucy's extreme dedication - In one eMail, an Assassin leader actually asks her to calm down. Why would Lucy's stress seem out of the ordinary? could she be secretly working towards an ulterior motive? maybe she's so obsessed with finding the Apple because she's working for the Templars.]] Considering that Desmond is the only lead they have on the Apple (and that they have an apparent habit of planting moles in other teams), it would make sense for them to try and infiltrate the one with access to the most vital information.

All those deadly devices that Leonardo "invented" were really technology the Apple shared with him. Remember the Borgia did give him the Apple for a short time to experiment on and now suddenly he can not only make a flying machine that works but one with a cannon on the back of it!