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The final lead-in to the present-day installment will take place in the 1960s
The Templar-controlled CIA and FBI will be major players, and one of Desmond's immediate family (father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, take your pick) will be the player character. The Templars' and Assassins' involvement in the Cold War, the career of J. Edgar Hoover, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Vietnam War, and the CIA's wars against communist regimes in Central America will all be explored. The player will use cutting-edge technology to assassinate Russian and American spies involved in cloak-and-dagger operations in major American cities, ultimately trying to avert nuclear war by taking out a major historical character. Naturally, the game will culminate in President Kennedy's assassination at the hands of the Templars.
All Those Who Came Before were closest to the ancient Romans.
This explains a few things:
Assassin's Creed III will be released in September 2012.
Just so it can perfectly match the in-game time.
A fission mailed will happen sometime in the series.
Either as a glitch in the animus or whatever, but either way, it could happen.
Altaïr and Desmond are the same person.
The Apple let Altaïr cheat death by reincarnated as the person we know to be Desmond. This explains why Altaïr looks exactly like Desmond, and why he carries the same exact scar. This also lets Altaïr use the apple and not turn out to be a villain.
Ezio has untreated Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
His condition may have started out mild, then snowballed into what it is during Assassin's Creed II, namely, stabbing every guard who tells him to get off the roof. Mileage is gonna vary on this one, since it kind of depends on how one plays.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is really Assassin's Creed III in disguise!
Why would Nolan North sign onto a game he would have a bit part in?
Durandal, Joyeuse and Curtana/Cortana (same Sword, different spelling) are all POEs.
Excalibur was a PoE, and there were many Apples, so why not swords? They are all legendary swords (who's names have been used in gaming before), and they could all Pieces of Eden. Durandal was also indestructible, and was forged from the same steel as Cortana and Joyeuse.
Mass Historical Templar Guessing
Well, lets start coming up with plausible historical Templars. I'll start: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated by the assassin JWB, perhaps the Top Hat was a Piece of Eden), Bill Gates (Still Alive, POE: Unknown), Tim Burton, meant to keep the masses entertained, stopped but not killed by the Assassin JS (killer of Batman Movie Franchise, Note, Burton fan, but this is WMG), The Founder Of TV Tropes (not sure of his name). His POE is this website (the effects are... similar).
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The mysterious female Knight Templar is related to the meta-plot's Lucy
The mysterious artifacts are actually from the future, they got sent back through time travel
So, Twenty Minutes into the Future, The End of the World as We Know It occurs. Lucky for us, someone is able to send powerful artifacts back in time that hold the key to stopping this disaster. In order to ensure that they survive long enough to be used come 2012, the artifacts are disguised as holy relics. So, we have one that looks like an apple, and it can deceive people, we probably have a spear similar to the Lance of Longinius, and so on. Somewhere along the line, the Templars mistakes these artifacts for the real thing.
Furthermore, they give up on finding any relics involving Jesus. This will backfire badly as the "Holy Grail" will obviously be the... Holy Grail of all these artifacts. Desmond is going to find it and save the day at the end of the series.
Evidence of the time travel presents itself in the final scene of the animus. The "piece of Eden" shows a map that distinctly outlines all the modern-day countries. The Precursors would have no way of knowing that. The fact that the Creediverse is an alternate continuity to our present day comes when Dr. Vidic says "Some of the artifacts are on land masses that no longer exist." ~ All the land masses I saw sure seemed to be there today.
Desmond is already a trained Assassin.
Desmond was on "the farm" until his teen years, and obviously, there was no attempt by his parents to hide their status as assassins. Ergo, Desmond must've started training as one, even if he cut and run long before he would've gotten to Altaïr's level. He doesn't need Altaïr's memory leak to be an assassin, only for Altaïr's sixth sense; he already has the basic skills, perhaps marred only by disuse.
Lucy is not an actual Assassin.
Lucy is noted to have spent a large amount of time working on her education, enough that it would've precluded her from secretly being a part of a clandestine organization. If she were an actual Assassin, she wouldn't have built the Animus for Abstergo anyway. More likely, she decided on her own that Abstergo needed to be stopped, and in choosing to take action, she became an ally to Abstergo's enemy: by default, the Assassins.
The Assassins' who assaulted Abstergo succeeded.
Assassins are masters of blending in; if they won the engagement with Abstergo security, they would've planned ahead of time to impersonate them. Notice that the voice telling Vidic all is well seems to be different then the one reporting the situation minutes before. If the Assassins are as low in number as Vidic says, surely they never would've entertained the possibility that a direct assault on a security-filled corporate headquarters would work, and would've planned from the get-go to use subterfuge. This is why Lucy is so confidant that Desmond will be fine if he just trusts her; she knows the cavalry is here and they're just waiting for the Templars to turn their backs in their excitement to sneak him out.
The new security guard is an Assassin.
The manual makes reference to a new-hire security guard in charge of monitoring Desmond through the cameras. Consider the amount of sneaking around Desmond is able to do thanks to Lucy leaving him the door-lock combination, and the fact that she would leave it at all, knowing there are cameras in every room. Neither Lucy nor Desmond are ever busted, and the "new security guard" scenario in and of itself just reeks of Chekhov's Gun and/or an Untwist. It would also add more credence to the above.
The Assassins are not extinct.
Abstergo has gone and enacted their own personal Order 66 against the Assassins as best they can, but the Assassins who attacked the corporate building weren't the last. Rather, the Assassins have taken advantage of their depleted numbers to let Abstergo think that they're no longer a threat; the Assassins are heavily disadvantaged in manpower and resources, but if Abstergo thinks there aren't any left, it gives them the element of surprise when they make their next move, probably a very carefully planned one. It's an advantage they've practically never had, since the Templars have always known they've existed. The Templars may well and truly fail at handling a situation involving supposed-to-be-dead Assassins so badly that it makes all the difference.
Adam and Eve were the first Assassins
Mostly from their parkouring, of course, but it would fit if they (or their descendants) founded the Brotherhood. Alternatively...
Adam and Even founded the Assassins AND the Templars
If the biblical passage is taken metaphorically in in-game terms, then Eve was the one that really wanted the Apple, i.e. the precursor supertech, and Adam was more along for the ride. It could be that in the "real" story their story had less amicable conclusion after their cast-off from Eden (Adam wrested the apple from Eve, or vice versa for example).
Subject 16 has that video because he's BEEN either Adam or Eve in the Animus
And how they tried to hide those uncomfortable origins is part of why they made him go crazy with Animus overuse.
Since most of the Assassins share a bloodline, Subject 16 has been Ezio, too!
That's one explanation of how he planted his videos around all and only the places that Ezio would visit. This would pose quite a few problems, of course.
We've never seen Altaïr.
Sure, at first glance, Desmond is Altaïr's Identical Grandson. This does not, however, explain their matching scars. The Animus is merely rendering Desmond into Altaïr's place, visually, because Desmond is experiencing these memories as if he's there. We have no idea what Altaïr looks like. Sorry, ladies, the badass assassin doesn't have sexy scars, just the dorky bartender.
We've never heard Altaïr.
In addition to the theory above, Altaïr's voice isn't his own, but Desmond's rendered in Altaïr's place. I mean, it's not like he'd actually sound like that as an Arab in the Holy Land.
Desmond's mother was Eva.
To explain Assassin's Solid : Desmond's mother was Eva, aka Big Mama, aka the surrogate mother and partial DNA contributor for Les Enfantes Terribles and thus Solid Snake's surrogate mother. This naturally means that Snake carries the same genetic memory as Desmond, because Eva's involvement in the cloning process means he is technically descended from Altaïr.
(And just for anyone who may not know; while that silliness was an obvious April Fool's joke, Altaïr's costume is unlockable in MGS4.)
Lara Croft will find the Pieces of Eden.
Just a note, I don't actually believe this but I think this would make a great fanfic!XD. Apparently in the new Tomb Raider games, there is no magic. "The ones who came before" could be referring to the Atlanteans in the Tomb Raider games. So the assassins ask Lara to retrieve the artifacts before the Templars do to save the world (again)! And the whole world being controlled by Templars for peace could be the Seventh Age. Oh and it could happen, Ubisoft is interested in buying Eidos so you'll never know. :)
Assassin's Creed is a prelude to the story of Ayreon.
The Animus is an early version of the Dream Sequencer.
Assassins are symbolically "married" to the Brotherhood, over and above their possible spouses.
Lucy and Altaïr are both shown to be missing their left ring finger, the same one that bears the wedding band in—at the very least—Christian tradition. The ritual removal of this finger could be used by the hashashin to remind its members who their real family is. Dem boys is crazy.
Everything Desmond was told about the Animus is wrong.
Looking through a persons life by reading their descendants "genetic memory"? A big case of Artistic License - Biology. However, time travel is hinted to exist, and the Abstergo seems to have had access to technology that lets them mess with peoples heads, like the Piece of Eden. Its possible they combined those two things, and use the Animus to read the mind of someone in the past. They just use Desmond to lock on to his ancestor and the images Desmond sees are straight from Altaïr's mind.
Humans don't have genetic memory
Those Who Came Before do, and they passed it on to the assassins when they interbred.
The deaths of the Templars did not happen the way you see them in game.
After assassinating an individual you get to watch their Final Speech as they lay dieing in your arms. However, if you hit the glitches you see them up and about talking to you. It seems like the assassinations didn't quite end the same way as you think and Altaïr actually spent some time discussing matters with his targets before killing them. This is supported by the female scapegoat, who you see bleeding from the neck only to revert to perfect health when Altaïr chooses to spare her at the end of the scene.
This seemed kinda obvious to me, but a lot of people seem to bring up how it made no sense for them to be talking to you for a few minutes after having been stabbed through the neck.
AC II's equivalent of Robert de Sable will be Rodrigo Borgia
This is drawing from the "Lineage" movie. Rodrigo was the main villain, so he may assume Robert's role in this game.
Desmond will be the protagonist of the next game.
Every vault location was revealed on Ezio's map, so there's no need to try and find them anymore, and Desmond is a trained assassin at this point, so all that's left is locating the remaining vaults and saving the world.
Desmond's Bleeding effect, and the entirety of the Animus Project is a Xanatos Gambit By Altaïr to gain Immortality by using the powers of the Pieces of Eden.
Codex File 30 explains how Altaïr was searching for a way to cheat death in his last days. He takes a final look into the Apple.. which tells him about how his consciousness can be given to another so he may live again. Desmond's hallucinations, etc, are Altaïr attempting to gain control of Desmond.
People really weren't that annoying back then, Altaïr and Ezio were just misanthropes
In the first game, you were always getting shoved around by lepers and harassed by beggar women. In the second, you can't walk 20 feet without being accosted by every no-talent minstrel in Italy. No way people were really this annoying. Rather, since your experience is constructed from the memories of Ezio and Altaïr, you are seeing their perceptions of the world and how many annoying people were in it who just seemed to be out to get them in particular. In all likelihood Ezio just had one or two missions made far more difficult than it should have been by some Spoony Bard, but that experience was enough to sour his perceptions forever, and populate the streets of Florence in his memories with a veritable army of pushy troubadours.
The Animus 2.0 deliberately amplifies the bleeding effect, or removes the safeguards in place to keep it from happening.
In the first Assassin's Creed, it takes the entire game for Desmond to gain even a small part of Altaïr's abilities. In the second game, however, Desmond, in what seems to be a shorter period of time than the first game, gains what appears to be all of the experience and abilities of Ezio. Therefore, it seems that the Assassins deliberately induced the bleeding effect rapidly in order to impart Desmond with the knowledge he needs in a very short amount of time. They did this either by removing safeguards that the Templars had in place to try to keep Desmond from gaining Altaïr's skills, or by deliberately accelerating the effect.
Dexter is Subject 16
The Apple can send information through time
Altaïr's Codex in the second game mentions visions of the past and future obtained from using the Apple, and as mentioned above, this ancient artifact contains within it a modern day world map. Then at the end of the second game Minerva does the whole Breaking the Fourth Wall thing with Desmond, with what appears to be remarkably specific knowledge of what will be happening over 500 years into the future. This level of precognition seems out of place for a race that failed to see its own destruction coming, but notice that at the beginning of the scene she asks Ezio to show her the Apple, and then almost immediately after this briefly turns to face the camera for the first time. Either Desmond will find the Apple himself at some point in the future, or technology from the Apple was used in the construction of the Animus, allowing the necessary information to be passed back and causing a Stable Time Loop.
Mario is related to Desmond
*Cough* I'll get my coat.
The Assassins are Not Quite Human.
So, how is it that Desmond and his ancestors have superhuman senses, can beat people to death with relative ease, and survive 40 story falls just by landing in some hay? Well, we know from AC2 that the human race was made by a precursor race that left behind Pieces of Eden and after their demise, memories of them became the foundation of mankind's worship of gods. Looking at one of the glyph puzzles, concerning the origins of Assassins, all the relevant clues to solving the puzzle involve paintings depicting mortal women having sex with gods. From this we can pretty easily infer that assassins are hybrids of some kind.
Altaïr can swim just fine.
The Animus just has a glitch, as confirmed in the ACII manual.
Desmond never left Abstergo
Desmond is fooled all along by both Vidic and Lucy. They both play around with his feelings and they have tried to make him more willing into this project by making Lucy 'betray' Templars and pose as one of Assassins to push him into phase 2. Notice that she's the one to disarm most of the security guards! Also she have put Desmond into car trunk so he could not see where he was taken but she never actually drove far from Abstergo if ever left the facility. And just have a look around new hideout. It look suspiciously similar to old one, just made a bit of retro style. And still you cannot have much of view outside, like it's very important to keep it from Desmond's knowledge where he is.
Desmond is the direct and perfect reincarnation of Altaïr and Ezio
He just learns what he, as the reincarnation of them, should know from his past lives. Note that Altaïr's and Ezio's names mean less or more 'Eagle' which is the symbol of the resurrection. Templars knew that and they abducted him to use him as they please by manipulating him into taking his past (but carefully cut/censored) knowledge. Also, he is the only one which can make proper use of Apple and Pieces of Eden, as seen with Ezio. Thus he's the The Messiah or The Chosen One and was hunted by Templars. But it took long researches to find him. That's why his parents sheltered his existence out of Templars' knowledge, because they were aware of his importance.
The Animus was based on the design of the POE-Apple
At some point, the Templars decided to try their hand at reverse-engineering a POE, the Animus was the result. An above WMG postulates that the Apples can send information forward or backwards through time. Two of the Glyph puzzles reveal that A) Humans were artificially engineered, and B) that humans have neural synapses that exist for no other purpose than to act as receptors, turning the POE's 'illusions' into direct stimuli. The Animus works by sending information from the past to the occupant as an 'illusion', the whole 'genetic memory' is just Abstergo Hand Waving the fact that they don't know exactly how it works.
Each Animus requires a POE, likely Apple, to operate
Altaïr looked into the Apple one last time at the end of his life. Ezio may have done something similar. The genetic memory explanation is bullshit; Desmond can access their memories because the Apple keeps the minds of those who held it.
The security system Desmond activated in the middle of AC II disabled Abstergo's guns and/or other equipment
And that's why a company with limitless resources came after their most valuable asset with batons.
Minerva didn't really know Desmond's name
Her speech was just encoded with an (INSERT DESCENDANT NAME HERE) command, and the Animus filled in the rest.
Abstergo ISN'T a Templar organization
It's an Assassin organization posing as a Templar organization. They've run at least 17 subjects through the Animus, trying to find as much as possible about the past Assassins (which doesn't really fit the Templars motives i.e. hide the truth and get their hands on the Pieces of Eden, why would they need the memories of past assassins when modern assassins would be far more useful for that?) and find someone who can survive the Animus AND gain the abilities of past assassins. It does also explain why the Abstergo logo appears at least twice in Minerva's speech at the end of ACII.
Every single magical artifact from human legend and history was in fact real, and likely a Piece of Eden.
Admittedly, this is less likely to be a WMG and more a reasonable conclusion based on evidence given...
If AC3 takes place during World War II, the Assassin you play as will be the one who assassinates Hitler.
Subject 16 has already confirmed that an Assassin was responsible for taking out Hitler when he tried to escape his bunker. I don't think Ubisoft would pass up the opportunity to have you personally whacking him.
Moses' staff and the Papal Staff are the same thing.
Due to the fact the game says all the miracles were done by pieces of Eden, and one of the pieces of Eden is a staff, and Moses used a staff, it shouldn't be too hard to piece together. So far we've only seen two Pieces of Eden, the Apple and the Staff. The Apple seems only good for making copies, illusions, or using the Jedi mind trick. The Staff is the one with real power. Also, Moses was the biggest prophet for Judaism, which later evolves into Christianity/Catholicism, which explains how the staff got to the Pope, it was just passed through the religions.
The third game will take place almost entirely in modern day, with some parts following Altaïr's lover.
There's no reason for them to use the Animus, as far as I can guess. In the first game, they needed the map from Altaïr, and the second game was just training Desmond to become like Ezio. There's a point to all this training, you're going to fight as Desmond in the third game. This makes sense, considering the fact that Desmond now has a modernized retractable blade. Ubisoft also mentioned playing a female ancestor. Remember the flashback Desmond had when he was suffering the bleeding effect? Where his genetic memory is passed on to the Templar Altaïr had sex with? There has to be somewhere they were going with that, and considering that apparently Ubisoft says that you'll play as a woman, it's just too much to be coincidence.
Petruccio had Eagle Vision
In the novel Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, Petruccio asks Ezio to bring him some feathers he saw on a high rooftop. After his brother does him favor he points out that he missed a few. It is impossible for a person with a normal sight to spot something small like feathers high on a roof so my presumption is that this kiddo might had Eagle Vision (being Altaïr's descendant and so).
The Animus 2.0 simulation is experiencing Unreliable Narrator Syndrome via Desmond
This theory came from Australian Games Magazine Hyper (Issue 195 if you want to find it). The Review who did Assassin's Creed II pointed out this, that the bleed could go both ways, and that Desmond's memories and self were affecting things in the Animus, thus explaining the Shout Outs in the game.
Altaïr is One of Us
Obviously he played Super Mario Bros.., see above.
Those Who Came Before are the Protheans.
Consider the nature of how the Pieces of Eden operate, and compare then with the technology of the Protheans. The Apple and the Beacons are very similar, and the effects of items like the Staff and the Sword are reminiscent of Mass Effect technology. Those Who Came Before also reported being destroyed by a calamity from the skies, which cuts awfully close to the idea of the Reaper invasion. And consider also that the Protheans were heavily interested in humanity.
Nathan Drake is related to Desmond
Distantly at least, which explains their similar voices. The Drake family branch broke away from the Assassins due to the betrayal of Sir Francis Drake becoming a Privateer helping the Templars in exchange for riches. When Sir Francis discovered El Dorado (A Piece of Eden bioweapon inside the corpse of One Who Came Before) he learned that his Templar benefactors planned to use it as a weapon for population control. He decided to redeem his family's honor by blowing up the Templar Island Base and hiding El Dorado. Gabriel Roman thought it was just a hidden treasure, but Navarro (who was a Templar agent) was looking for it, following the trail the Nazi's left only for destiny to intervene and return Nathan Drake to finish his ancestor's effort and redeem his family in the eyes of the assassins.
If AC3 takes place during the 20th Century, the Assassin you play as will be the one who causes the Tunguska Event.
The turn of the century, turning Nikola to the cause, fighting Edison and J.P. Morgan's dark designs. It'll be The Five Fists Of Science only without the Lovecraftian monsters...maybe.
In the end of Assassin's Creed 3 it turns out that the three games where played from the eyes of a descendant of Desmond who controls him the same way Desmond controls Altaïr and Ezio.
If the Third game is played from Desmond's point of view there wouldn't be any excuse why you could save, restart levels and do similar things or even look at Desmond from the third person perspective any more.
The logical conclusion is that in the far future someone wants to find an object which Desmond hides at the end of part 3. Therefore the Animus is used again. It would make the perfect meta WTF-ending.
Think about it. In the beginning of AC 1 development it was planned to keep Desmond's involvement secret until the end where all the animus-mechanics are revealed in order to make a good WTF-ending (it was thrown over due to information leaking).
Couldn't it be possible that they decide to pick this plan back up?
Word Of God said that because it is Assassin's Creed 2, the protagonist has two hidden blades. That means in Assassin's Creed 3, the next protagonist will have three hidden blades.
The Animus is a time machine that uses Mental Time Travel instead of genetic memory.
Think about it. It explains the questionable aspects of 'genetic memory'. Desynchronization could just be a built-in failsafe against paradoxes. The bleeding effect would be due to his mind actually being there to absorb relevant information from his ancestors. It would also explain Minerva's knowledge of Desmond, as she is One Who Came Before and would therefore understand the Animus' time-travel properties.
You will have to fight Altaïr and possibly Ezio in AC3.
If you were
The entire game takes place inside of a new, mass-produced version of the Animus, used for teaching purposes.
The Animus is the ultimate learning tool. What would be a better way to understand an event, than to actually experience it firsthand? That would explain why in the Desmond segments, the camera is still third person, and the entire series could be a simulation of how the Assassins defeated the Templars and helped mankind correct the mistakes it has made over the course of time.
Altaïr is the Father of Understanding
The theory goes that the oft-mentioned Father of Understanding is Altaïr after he used the Apple to live longer. To the Templars he would 'understand' their motives due to the side-effects and going revolutionize the Templars. The reason the Assassins weren't wiped out was because whoever he chose to succeed him - because he wouldn't have left them without a strong leader since he wasn't their enemy when he left to use the Apple - was too good and the Apple may have slightly decreased Altaïr's sharp thinking as part of the price of immortality. The new leader kept the information about what happened to Altaïr from the rest of the Assassins to prevent the obvious damage it would cause to their morale.
The Animus works by turning the inborn Psychometry skill up to 11.
Everyone we've known to use the Animus has had the alien Psychometric bloodline ability: Eagle Eye. The Animus just amplifies the inborn psychometry and tunes it up several notches, pointing it inward instead outward. If you were to put a "normal" human in the Animus, it would just be a hunk of junk.
Assassin's Creed takes place in the Tiberium universe.
The world is going to complete shit outside, and we never see anything beyond the facilities where the Animus units are being kept. The description of the chaos and destruction is very reminiscent of the collapse of national governments under the strain of Tiberium. Also, ancient societies and brotherhoods abound, along with Precursor technology. Clearly, someone is being manipulated by Kane.
Assassin's Creed takes place in the Dragon Age timeline
Assassins are Mages (I mean, how come they can do so many awesome things, unless they are Mages, specifically Arcane Warriors) and Templars are, amazingly enough, Templars. The Templars are in a role-reversal with the Chantry, since they control the religions. Quite obviously, Minerva and all those other things are the Maker, her minions, and all those Dragons. The Animus is just something that artificially induces the Harrowing through a Lyrium drip via IV.
Assassin's Creed III will be released on December 21, 2012
I can definitely see Ubisoft trying to pull this off.
The multiplayer characters in Assassins Creed: Brotherhood will appear in the single-player story
The framing device for the multiplayer is that the player characters are Templars reliving their ancestors life's in order to gain their skills, like Desmond did with Ezio. As the multiplayer also takes place during the Renaissance, it is likely that these Templar ancestors where contemporary with Ezio, and therefore it is possible they may each have a role in the story. The most likely such role is as Templar operative's dispatched to kill Ezio. In particular, the Hunter class is likely to play the role of Ezio's Evil Counterpart, sporting a similar outfit (In the Hood worn with Badass Cape) and Weapon of Choice (the switch-blade, which promotional materials explain is a Templar equivalent to the hidden blade).
Every Assassin is spiritually bonded to the people destined to die by their blade/snake/spear/whatever.
This would be an explanation for the after-killing conversations Ezio and Altaïr have with their targets. They have a chance to talk before the bond is broken by the death and they go back to reality. In addition to that, they also can forgive their target and bring them back to life, which explains how after Maria was stabbed, she ran off after Altaïr 'killed' her, and later fathered his child.
There will be no Animus in AC3 and Desmond will learn to control the Bleeding Effect
As the Bleeding Effect kicks in, Desmond will start re-living the memories of his ancestors without the need to use an Animus, as he already briefly had with Altaïr in AC2. A significant part of the plot will revolve around trying to find a way to control the Bleeding Effect so that the visions don't just happen randomly. By the end, Desmond will have complete access to all his ancestors' memories (on paper anyway).
Assassin's Creed 3 will take place during the French Revolution.
Really, it's just so obvious choice. A conflict that fits perfectly in the series' theme, interesting period style, lots of beautiful historical buildings with plenty of decorations handy for climbing around...Can anyone give an example of another setting and period after the 16th century that has all that, and can convincingly tie to one mostly Caucasian man's family history?
RED and/or BLU were part of/taken over by Templars.
In Brotherhood, one of the abilities your multiplayer character can have is the power to disguise yourself as someone else with amazing speed. Now doesn't that sound like an ability from a certain masked, suit-clad GENTLEMAN? Also, another ability, the Sprint Boost, gives a speed boost and swirly trail effects akin to BONK.
The Saboteur is the WWII Assassin's Creed
The Saboteur shares the building climbing of AC, has a car named Altaïr, and the trunk you need to steal from the Nazis could easily be a POE. It was outsourced to allow Ubisoft to create an AC in a different era, and keep it to a trilogy.
Assassin's Creed 3 will take place in World War One
The theory of a game in one of the World Wars has, after all, been passed around, and since World War II got jossed, perhaps it shall be World War One?
A closer-to-modern times AC will allow you to hijack a car while you're currently in another one and both are moving.
In Brotherhood Ezio can hijack someone else's horse while on one of his own. This is the (il)logical extension. Also, why the hell not?
Instead of horses AC 3: 2012 will employ motorbikes
Motorbikes are more a pendant to horses than cars and it fits that the first game suspicious specificly confirmed that Desmond has a motorbike license.
A closer-to-modern-but-not-quite times AC will replace horses with the bicycle
If the Prowler is voiced and appears in single player as a boss/target, he will be done by Barry Pepper.
The ultimate Actor Allusion/Take That: My hood-wearing guy is better than yours!
Lucrezia Borgia will be voiced by Brooke Shields
Considering that Brooke Shields is actually Lucrezia's descendant, it would make one helluva Casting Gag... Or whatever it would count as.
The entire series is in the mind of a conspiracy theorist tripping on LSD
It would explain everything.
Caterina Sforza is an Assassin.
Hey, it could happen. Did you not see her at Forli?! Perhaps in Brotherhood she may emerge as one. Funny, an Assassin with a foul tongue.
Renaissance is canon, and is the true version of events
The protagonist of the novel is actually Ezio, rather than a simulation of him being controlled by Desmond. Wherever the novel deviates from the game, the novel shows what really happened, the game shows the Animus' imperfect re-enactment/Desmond behaving differently.
Ezio is Nanoha's ancestor.
As revealed in this trailer, about 1 minute in: "What are you going to do?" "Make some friends." World War II was organized by the Templars to end racism and overpopulation
The Templars had wanted to get rid of prejudice for a long time (which is why they orchestrated the civil war), but despite all their success, prejudice was still alive and well in places like Germany and East Asia. To solve this, they orchestrated World War II and the holocaust. Everybody knows the affect this had on casual racists, they were disgusted by the actions of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan, and realized they were wrong (its more advanced than that in real life, but I'm not going to go into detail right now). After the war, enough support was built up to allow the civil rights movement to take place, as well as other equal rights movements in other nations. The war also served to set back overpopulation. This whole thing really fits into the Templar's whole Well-Intentioned Extremist agenda.
Life is a giant Xanatos Gambit; don't believe a word anyone says!
So you've deduced that you're a Hashashin, and you want to find another. So you go and tell your BFF Forever (yes, Best Friends Forever Forever) that you support the Assassins, thinking "hey, they're my BFFF, they're just like me!" If you don't get a response of disbelief, sarcasm, or Idiot Ball, you might get the "oh hey, so am I!" Sweet! But...Templars never reveal themselves anyway, what with the Mind Control thing. So how do you know your BFFF is really an Assassin, and not a Templar in disguise? Or an Assassin disguised as a Templar disguised an Assassin?! Well, they're your best friend, so you can trust them with anything, right?
...right? Well you won't be believing that when you end up in an underground facility with your ex-BFF exchanging "I knew you knew I knew you weren't an Assassin!"
This goes along with the "nothing is true" part of the Creed; essentially, everything is a lie, doubt everything. Soon you (may) end up doubting your doubtings of your doubtings and end up just wanting everything over and done with. Or end up doubting further. Although I doubt that...
In conclusion: instead of opening your mouth, continue to pretend to be the Unwitting Pawn; the true Assassins/Templars (if you swing that way) will come to you.
Of course...who knows? All this advice could be coming from a Templar...
Sooner or later, we will be playing as Subject 16
They may as well have written "chekov's gun" in with their crazy scrawlings, and I cannot be the only one who's curious about them.
The Cain and Abel aspect of the story may be an inversion.
In the puzzle 'Brothers', Subject 16 notes that the Templars have always tried to put up there own people as the heroes (history is written by the victor after all). Also, in all three of the images of 'Cain killing Abel', Abel is reaching for the Piece of Eden as Cain strikes him down, almost as if Cain is trying to keep Abel from the Apple, just like the Assassin's have been doing to the Templars. And finally, an Assassin is a killer, just like Cain.
A later game will provide a Templar's point of view.
As it turns out, Maria is not the only Templar (or former one, at least) ancestor of Desmond. At some point in time, the Miles family tree happened to have a Black Sheep who became a Templar agent. While not a Complete Monster, said ancestor was something of a Anti-Villain Well-Intentioned Extremist who was likely just working for the wrong side. We now get to have a Sympathetic Viewpoint of the Templars as well as offer up some potential new gameplay elements.
William, the Assassin sending intel to Shaun and Lucy, is Desmond's father
The M. at the end of his name stands for Miles.
Petruccio knew that Giovanni was an Assassin
The Assassins in Altaïr's time stained feathers with their targets blood. Maybe Petruccio knew this, and wants the eagle feathers to give to him. Also, it would have made for a good reason that he wanted the feathers.
The Ones Who Came Before planned for the Pieces of Eden to be used to save humanity
But not by the Assassins. If you wanted something to get done long after you had gone, who would you trust to do it properly? The plucky, undertsaffed and out gunned guys with nifty fashion sense and some extra senses, or a global, powerhungry ruthless conspiracy with acces to the most modern technology of the time? I thought so. Every win the Assassins have had against the Templar plans have only weakened humaity's only hope. The OWCB don't care about our free will, only that their greatest invention survives in one form or another. Humanity is going to burn to death and it's all your fault, You Bastard.
When Desmond finally stars in his own AC game, it will be a Prince of Persia-style co-op game with Lucy as his sidekick
At the beginning of Brotherhood, there's a section with Desmond and Lucy navigating the underground passages beneath modern-day Monteriggioni to gain access to the Sanctuary. This gameplay, with Desmond and Lucy helping each other get through, may very well be foreshadowing to when Desmond stars in his own game, which will be about him traversing the hidden Temples with Lucy a la Prince of Persia, with Lucy taking on the role of Farah/Elika/Whatever. Bonus points, because Nolan North has ALREADY starred as the Prince in the 2008 game.
Desmond isn't really in the Animus.
In fact, Desmond is long dead. His memories are being replayed by someone else entirely through an Animus.
The creators of the game intentionally left a glitch in the game after completing The Truth in Brotherhood
For those that didn't complete the truth until after the game there's a short scene out of the animus where the group discusses the ramifications. In it nearly everyone's version of Desmond was glitched standing through the Animus. This was intentionally meant for us to question and clue us into the fact that a glitch occurred in the "real world". The development team has been noted for blaming all glitches and bugs in the games on the Animus, why would they leave such a common bug unless it was meant as a plot point?
Subject 16 lives yet.
Who here has taken the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood achievement for completing all the glyphs to a morse code translator? I'll tell you. It says "IAMALIVE"!
The announcer for Brotherhood multiplayer is an AU version of GLaDOS.
Not much real evidence other than sounding vaguely similar, but it sounds cool?
Desmond had to kill Lucy so he could have a child with someone else.
Combine the ending of Brotherhood with Subject Sixteen's 'The Truth' and you realize that Desmond is not the important one. His son, who is of Templar descent, is using an improved nearly-glitch-free animus sometime After the End. Desmond was falling in love with Lucy and she had to be eliminated so he could find the one.
The Patriots are tools of the Templars.
The way the Patriots control the public opinion and media would be just in accordance to the Templars' goal. Big Boss and later Snake and Raiden became Assassins to oppose them.
The explanation of Synchronization
It's not about how close to the original memories the gameplay is, it's about how well Desmond understands his ancestors. The reason the sync bar goes down is because he doesn't understand what it's like to have a sword slice you, and yet still be able to walk away from it as Altaïr and Ezio do, or drop off a building and walk away. The reason it increases in the game is because Desmond started to understand his ancestors better and better - he starts off seeing Altaïr as proud and strong, something Desmond probably can relate to in some capacity, but then saw the guy stripped of all his possessions and rank, which he can't understand at all, and he sees Ezio start off as a rich and happy noble, which he could never imagine. But over time, he saw the sights they saw, he got into their minds and bodies, and learned about them more and more, just as Altaïr and Ezio understand themselves more in their own journey, thus increasing the synchronization more and more.
The Sisterhood Cheat is Actually Canon!
And Ezio ended up sleeping with each female member of the Assassin's order he founded, eventually resulting in multiple Ezio/Altaïr descendant lines!
Lucy is Erudito
She knows the ins and outs of Abstergo, and she's probably in charge of the gang's email network, so she likely would have the passwords to give to Desmond.
After Ezio discarded his father's Assassin robe, The Smuggler found it.
It's sort-of similar in appearance to the robe she wears in Multiplayer (note the neckline, puffy white sleeves and leather cuirass), and her scenes in Project Legacy make her seem like the type of person who wouldn't mind wearing a dirty, 40 year old robe.
Cesare Borgia will be resurrected at some point.
A new Mmemonic set in Project Legacy is based around The Shroud. The components are Jesus, Brutus (briefly rezzed in another memory), some other guy and Cesare. Factor in Ezio's uncertainty over his last words, and his unwillingness to die in the final boss fight and UbiSoft may as well have outright confirmed this! Unless they're playing with us.
Lucy is a Templar spy.
She got Animus data to Rebecca while at Abstergo, can get into Abstergo's mainframes easily enough after leaving, encountered very little resistance while escaping, and later in the game, if you talk to Lucy and then go outside, she is standing right where the red footprints leading to the vila end. That is why she was stabbed at the end of the game.
The Apple can store consciousness
We already know that Altaïr looked into the Apple to see about preserving his mind as he approached death... but it could be possible that the Apple itself would serve as the vessel. In Brotherhood, Ezio becomes a lot more cold and controlled. He's still a bit of a Lad, as he always was, but he comes off as being a lot more calm and calculating, and a lot less concerned with having his fun and charging into a fight. This could be down to his age, his weariness at the neverending war against the Templars or the wisdom he gained over the years, but this change in him comes about right after he first uses the Apple against Rodrigo Borgia. It could be that upon using the Apple, Altaïr's mind entered Ezio's body, either taking over him completely or merging itself with his without his knowledge. This would have brought about the change we see in Ezio - either he absorbed Altaïr's mind or got taken over completely. If the former is true, then Ezio could have adopted many of Altaïr's personality traits, resulting in his quieter, more patient temprament. If the latter is true, then Altaïr may have retained Ezio's memories or experienced a similar effect on his personality. With Ezio's memories he could convincingly pass it off as if nothing had changed, and his warmer, more personable character could have been either from maintaining his cover or from picking up Ezio's traits. It may also be possible that a combination of the two men now exists within Ezio's body, perfectly aware of what has happened. Whatever the case, it may have been that Ezio placed the Apple within the vault beneath the Colloseum and left the writing on the wall of the sanctuary passage in order to ensure that Desmond could find it. While he could have placed it there simply to ensure that it could be used to prevent the end of the world (Ezio could have consulted the Apple to see what lay ahead, and learned about the coming apocalypse regardless of any alterations to his mind), it could also be possible that he wanted the next bearer of the Apple to experience the same effect, in the hopes that the wisdom and knowledge of both himself and Altaïr, both held within it, would be passed on to the next person who would really need it. If this is the case, then Desmond will be a very different person when we next see him in a future installment.
Juno forcing Desmond to stab Lucy was an illusion .
(Theory courtesy of the Ubisoft forums) The more you think about the popular theory that Juno forced Desmond to stab Lucy because Lucy was a Templar spy, the less it makes sense. Lucy went through a hell of a lot of trouble to defect to the Assassins, defying Vidic and all the other Templar higher-ups, and even if we're assuming she managed to trick the Assassins into thinking she was on their side, that's an awfully roundabout way for Abstergo to get the info they need, considering Desmond would have never escaped the Templars' clutches without Lucy's help.
So, essentially, Lucy would have had to betray the Templars, defect to the Assassins, THEN defect back to the Templars, assuming they wouldn't just kill her for her efforts. Either that or this was all a convoluted Templar plot to gain the Assassins' trust, but why would they even need that if they have Desmond right where they want him? So which is more likely? That Lucy is a traitor, albeit one on Revolver Ocelot's level, and got stabbed-via-proxy by Juno for her efforts, or Lucy was never killed, because she was never stabbed?
It was all a trick- Juno's way of getting Desmond to be ready to do what is necessary. As if that wasn't enough, in the very first game we're shown that the number one power of the Apple of Eden is to create illusions. Next time you watch the AC:B ending, pay close attention to what Juno says. She says "the Path must be opened" and "the scales must be balanced" but neither of those things blatantly says "Lucy has to die, it's the only way."
The next game will have Desmond on his own, using the Apple of Eden as a portable Animus.
Pretty sure killing Lucy wont go over well with the rest of the team even if Desmond explains that he was being controlled. Either they kick him out or Desmond leaves voluntarily in case this happens again. When Desmond sleeps the apple will automatically shape his dreams to reflect the memories of another past life, someone different but relevent to whats going on in the present.
The Hidden Blade is a Nasuverse-style conceptual weapon.
As long as its user takes the enemy by surprise or counters the enemy's attack successfully, it will One-Hit Kill no matter what. Like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, though, the question is executing the move. Good enough against the games' human opponents, but against the Eldritch Abominations of Nasu's setting...?
(Warning: Spoilers for The Fall) That old guy in the white suit wasn't the Mentor.
If you want to bring someone to meet you, the only rational reason to kidnap them instead of, you know, sending an invitation is because you don't trust them. And if you don't trust someone, why on earth would you leave them alone in a room with the head of your entire organisation and a deadly weapon?
The Assassins aren't that stupid. They set up a convincing-looking stand-in for the Mentor in order to draw out possible traitors. The REAL Mentor is alive and well.
The Ones Who Came Before are the Great Race, H. P. Lovecraft's Yithians.
Pre-human civilisation? Check. Technology so advanced it looks like magic? Check. Mind-altering powers? Check. Underground stasis vaults scattered across the world? Check. Time travel or precognition abilities? Check. Strong but dispassionate interest in humanity? Check.
This ties pretty well into the previously-mentioned WMG that the Animus uses mental time-travel rather than genetic memory, too. Mental time-travel is what the Yithians were famed for.
Assassin's Creed III will take place in New York.
The coordinates Ezio and Leonardo get at the end of the Da Vinci Disappearance DLC point to an address in New York. Perhaps the two guys who took Desmond back to the Animus are leaving to New York as their new hideout, or one of Desmond's ancestors lived in Upstate New York?
The Pieces of Eden can also function as Energon Harvesters.
They have to get their energy from somewhere. So they are built with a means to extract energy/energon from any source to power themselves. Optimus Prime referred to the one in his show (looked like an Autobot scaled Apple) as being built by the ancients, but he's referring to the Ones Who Came Before and not ancient Autobots.
La Volpe is related to Ezio.
It was implied in Assassin's Creed II that La Volpe has Eagle Vision (thats how he sees through walls) and it has been stated that only descendants of Adam and Eve (like Altaïr and Ezio) have Eagle Vision, so La Volpe must be descended from them, therefore related to Ezio.
Eagle vision allows the user to see all around them.
Think like Wrath's Ultimate Eye - it allows them to see 360 degrees all around them, at all angles. Thus, the camera isn't just an animus thing - it's Altaïr's and Ezio's actual vision!
The Assassins are trying to train Desmond to be the next Grandmaster of their order.
After The Fall, the Mentor's dead, and the Assassins need a new leader. If they already have one, they're probably just an acting leader, ala Machiavelli after Mario was killed. After all, both of Desmond's ancestors played as so far were Grandmasters in their perspective generations, and Desmond even commanded a few Assassins through Ezio in Brotherhood.
Daniel Cross (from The Fall) will be a rival and maybe even antagonist to Desmond.
He's got a lot of Assassin skills, and he's defected to the Templars. In Brotherhood multiplayer, Abstergo was trying to use the bleeding effect to beat Desmond, after all...
Desmond is from...where? "The Farm" is in...
C'mon, let's hear some guesses!
The final Assassin's Creed game will focus on one of Desmond's parents
I originally thought that the final AC game would center on Desmond, but there's a problem - namely, how central the Animus is to the gameplay. For Desmond to be the sole protagonist would require significant changes in gameplay. Instead, we will have a parallel plot of Desmond and his parent (who we will call Miles for now). The Miles storyline will take place in the Cold War, and could span the globe. Desmond will get plenty of screentime, and players will control him using a slightly different scheme.
Rosa is Desmond's ancestor
While Ezio had many love interests, most of them were nobles, for whom an out-of-wedlock pregnancy would have been devastating. By contrast, Rosa is a commoner, and an out-of-wedlock pregnancy would not have harmed her social status.
Memories can only be passed down the male line.
Because of the way biology works. Men create sperm all their lives, and according to the way that genetic memory probably works, DNA memories are updated in every batch of sperm. Meanwhile, women are born with their entire supply of eggs already formed.
Assassin's Creed is a deconstruction of Stealth Videogames (Or, just games in general) SPOILERS for the ending of Brotherhood
Not sure if this has been talked about yet, but I got the idea after finishing Brotherhood. At the end,the Apple of Eden and the Desmond sequence fully drives home the idea that this is a deconstruction of video games. First, with the Apple of Eden, Ezio is virtually unstoppable, and getting the badies out of the way is done by holding down or pressing one button. In terms of gameplay, you are as close to God Mode in Assassin's Creed as we're likely to get. One must remember that the player isn't the only one "playing;" Desmond is in the Animus, and is "playing" the memories. We control Desmond, and Desmond controls Ezio.
Later, after we finish the parts in the Animus, we play as Desmond and have to go get the Apple under the coliseum. The pause menu is very different; the only options we get are Resume, Options, etc. Regular game options. Whats missing is the ability to restart: this is important because without that ability, it means this is the real world, and we are Desmond in the here and the now. We are no longer "playing a game;" there are no retries or redos. It is also impossible to die (I believe; I fell a couple times jumping around the church and didn't die when I presumably should have) probably because, if Desmond did die here, he would be dead forever. The developers didn't want to turn the players into a bunch of suckers if they did fall far enough, but also wanted to stay consistent. They couldn't let Desmond die here.
When Juno takes over Desmond's body and murders Lucy, we feel what its like to be controlled. We make the movements, despite not wanting to, and we're entirely conscious of it. We hate killing Lucy. We are being "played" by the equivalent of God. This is the same feeling a video game character might feel if, say, you played a cruel mother and killed random civies, if they were conscious of it.
Also, the ending, being put back into the Animus (the game) because its the only way to save Desmond is similar to falling into video games because of grief, that might stem from, maybe, being forced into killing a friend of yours.
I'm sure there are other examples throughout the series, but these are the ones that stood out to me the most.
Cain is still alive.
And in the final Assassin's Creed game, Desmond will kill him.
The Freemasons are Assassins.
Compare their symbols. They look rather similar, if you ask me. Besides, it would be a twist for such a maligned organization to be on the good guys' side.
Ezio may have met with RKS Members.
They're in the same era.
The series is in a Stable Time Loop, and Desmond and Adam are the same person.
This would explain the the "precognition" of "Those Who Came Before". This would also explain why Desmond and Adam are voiced by the same guy.
Marquis de Sade will feature prominently in AC 3.
Assuming that the earlier WMG about AC 3 being set during the French Revolution is correct, de Sade would most likely to be a prominent Assassin of the period. Much like Machiavelli, de Sade is a historically vilified figure associated with all kinds of unpleasant activities, but who actually was ahead of his time in many ways, defending women's rights and opposing class society despite of his aristocratic station, like Machiavelli supported the idea of republicanism in most of his less known works. And to tip of it all off, certain writings of his almost directly state: "Nothing is real, everything is permitted"!
AC III will take place during the American Civil War.
It's arleady established that John Wilkes Booth was killed by the Assassins, and that Subject 16 had an ancestor at the Battle of Gettysburg (who may or may not be a common ancestor between 16 and Desmond). The Battle of Gettysburg is also perfect for nicknaming this Assassin "The Killer Angel".
Jupiter is the the one who seeded the Assassin line.
Considering how the mythological Zeus/Jupiter liked to mess around with mortal women, that his wife Hera/Juno was known to be a bitch towards said mortal women (and their offspring — think Heracles/Hercules and his reason for starting the Twelve Labors), and how one of his motifs was the eagle, and it makes a lot of sense.
Altaïr's storyline in Assassins Creed Revelations will be used to justify Bag of Spilling.
The game will begin with Ezio having all his equipment and skills from Brotherhood intact. When we eventually control Altaïr, he will start off with only the weapons he had on him at the end of the first game (or Bloodlines, but I haven't played it). Over time, he will slowly gain the weapons and skills that Ezio currently has, possibly showing the events that lead to him looking into the Apple of Eden and developing the Hidden Gun, the current version of the Hidden Blade, and other weapons. We will eventually switch back to Ezio some time after Altaïr gains all of Ezio's current skills and weapons in his storyline.
In Revelations, we will play as Altaïr's son, not Altaïr himself.
Desmond has already witnessed the said son's conception in Assassin's Creed II.
The Assassin's Creed games were marketed by the Assassins themselves.
Think plot of The Last Starfighter. The Assassins in fact control Ubisoft in real life, and are using the games of the AC franchise to get the word out there about their war about the Templars and their secret war. The final game in the franchise will be specially tailored to each state/province/etc. where it's distributed, with contact information for local Assassin cells to contact as a hidden easter egg. Only the most serious and talented gamers will be able to access this easter egg, and thereby be recruited into the order.
The Assassin's Creed games were marketed by the Templars
Think about it. They were only a few years from launching their satellite when the first game came out. The Assassins may become desperate and try and appeal to the public to help stop them. But to prevent this, the Templars either infiltrated Ubisoft or convinced the company to make the games. This way, if any of the Assassins or Assassin sympathizers try to inform the public of what the Templars are doing, they will only be marked as "insane and obviously plays too much video games".
Computers are a new type of animus. We are in the future and we are controlling Desmond, who is our common ancestor.
Cesare Borgia really isn't able to be killed by a mere human.
And he probably will come back in Revelations and turn out to be the grand master of the templars. Alternatively he still lives in 2012 and is Vidic or some other higher-up of Abstergo.
A future game will allow Desmond to die.
But instead of respawning, the game will just cut to a silent black screen with nothing on it. The only way to retry the level will be to quit the game and restart it.
Desmond's game will take place After the End.
The solar flare destroys most of the world's power supplies, so Desmond is forced to crawl out of the animus (it hugely malfunctioning as the Assassins try desperately to log Desmond out before it fries his brain could make for a trippy tutorial). The almost complete destruction of society would be a great excuse for the small city sizes, the lack of population and the lack of supplies of the guards/military. The plot could have Desmond tracking down the temples, to ensure nothing like 2012 happens again, or finding a viable method of Time Travel to get back in time and stop the flare before it does any damage.
Eagle vision is actually a mild form of Omniscience
The precursors' sixth sense, "knowledge" is omniscience. Minerva knew that Ezio would find the vault under the Vatican, and how Desmond would eventually see the message via the animus. Juno also mentions that the humans "see the blue glow". Just like how Eagle Vision makes various people glow. It also explains how Ezio/Altaïr can use their eagle vision to identify people they've never met before, as well as things like guard patrols and secret, invisible messages that should be imperceptible. Ultimately, the gods used their future knowledge to leave relics and messages to ensure humanity's continued existence.
The Sicarii
Just read that article! Concealed daggers, anti-Roman zealotry, you name it. The Sicarii were basically the Hashhashin, before their time. Bonus points because they would blend in with the crowd by pretending to mourn their victims.
were the ancient Jewish precursor of the Assassin OrderAssassin's Creed III will take place in the Thirteen Colonies during the time of the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution.
It makes sense. A resource-rich territory is a perfect battleground between Assassins and Templars. If George Washington doesn't turn out to be a Templar, he's a perfect Assassin Grand Master, as historians already believe him to be one of the great military spymasters of the era. Hell, the Founding Fathers might even not be aware that some of their fellow leaders are Assassins or Templars, which could lead to a fundamental split in ideology between them (one that can be seen later in the Federalist (Adams, Hamilton) and Democratic Republican (Jefferson, Madison) divide after the Revolution. They could use colonial cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston as settings. Granted, this is likely more possible if the majority of the Patriots were Assassin-aligned, and I have a sneaking suspicion Thomas Jefferson would have been the preeminent Assassin anyway, while Benjamin Franklin served as more of a da Vinci role.
Besides, the AMVs using songs from 1776 would make it all worth it.
Desmond's bloodline has a thing for Second Loves.
We will soon follow one of Desmond's female ancestors.
Assassin's Creed III will be set during the French Revolution.
At the end of Brotherhood, while in the Vault, Shaun mentions the Phrygian Cap, which stands for freedom, and the Masonic Eye, and says they only come together in one place before getting cut off. That place is the Declaration of the Rights of Man ◊ at the beginning of the French Revolution; the cap is on the tip of the spear, and the eye is in the middle in the top. Like the Crusades and Renaissance, most people know about the French Revolution, and would recognize some people, but be in the dark enough to not know everything. Like II, it could span multiple years, possibly going into the reign of Napoleon. Incidentally, the Glyph puzzles in II mention that Napoleon possessed a Piece of Eden; this would give the Assassins and Templars a reason to go after him.
Desmond is Subject Sixteen.
"Desmond Miles" is a false personality generated by Sixteen to cope with the Bleeding Effect.
Spanish civil war will be in 3.
it seems logical, it has a chaotic good vs lawful evil/lawful neutral
just like the rest of the series
AC 3 will centre around the first descendant of Altaïr and Ezio.
According to the writer of Revelations, Altaïr and Ezio are on different sides of Desmond's family tree... which means that at some point, the descendants of Altaïr and Ezio intermarried.* Since when that happened hasn't been revealed, AC 3 can take place any time from 1530 or so to the modern day (Desmond might be that first descendant).
Locations of Minerva's Temples.
Let's hear some guesses!
Subject 16 is...
Rosa is Vin
Assassin's Creed III will not feature Desmond at all.
Shao Jun will be the ancestor character in Assassins Creed III
If only because Embers showed her to have a hidden blade-type device in her shoe. With one on each wrist...
More on Lucy as a Templar spy...
She is one, but not in the way most people would think. When this troper played through Revelations, specifically the part where Shaun suggested to Bill that Desmond may have been programmed by the Templars, it got the troper thinking. Perhaps Lucy was somehow programmed at some point in her life just after she became an Assassin (most likely during her undercover stint as an Abstergo employee in the first game). That could be what Juno meant when she said "the Cross darkens the horizon" regarding Lucy.
Desmond will relive the life of a Templar ancestor.
Think about it. What better way would the Assassins have to gain intelligence on the methods and motives of the Templars? Relive the life of a Templar. There is already a high chance that he has at least a few Templar ancestors. Maria, a former Templar, is already one of Desmond's ancestors. It wouldn't be to outlandish to think that she was born into the order from her side of the family. Therefore, they would also be Desmond's ancestors, allowing him to experience their lives through the Animus. Obviously, this would be a bit of a radical change for a main series game, but it would make a nice side-addition.
If there's ever a modern-day game, Daniel Cross will be The Dragon to Alan Rikkin.
After all, he defected to Abstergo in Assassin's Creed: The Fall and the multiplayer mode of Revelations confirms he's both still alive in Desmond's time and the head of Operations for Abstergo.
The neurotransmitter that PO Es use to enslave humans is the "genetic pump" described by Warren Ellis in Supergod
Morrigan Lugus describes faith as a narcotic effect "triggered by awe and fear of an anthropomorphism of your environment." In prehistoric times that translates to "sky gods" in the clouds and rolling hills mistaken for "earth mothers", but in history this role is mostly played by smooth-talking demagogues. If you are suspicious of authority, due to knowing "nothing is true"(anyone who claims to have all the answers is so full of shit his eyes should be brown), and "everything is permitted"(no two societies have the same laws, so they are made by imperfect people and you should use your own judgement of right and wrong) you can call the pig out and demand straight answers which he can't provide. If someone with strong will and that same suspicion is hit by a POE, they can realize the effect is an override and choose to resist it.
Rodrgio Borgia was able to will the Apple of Eden from Cyprus into existence by sheer greed
Subject 16 has relived Shao Jun's memories
Lucy mentions he lived the life of an ancestor in the Far East, and if you read the blood wall above Desmond's bed, there are multiple Chinese sentences and even an explicit reference to Emperor Jiajing.
The Crystal Skulls will be vital to Assassin's Creed III
E-mails Desmond can find at the end of the first game make mention of them (along with other unimportant plot aspects like Subject 16 and the Bleeding Effect), specifically that the Templars hold them in the modern day and use them as untraceable communicators, and that Vidic himself is in possession of one. Meanwhile, one of the few English phrases on Subject 16's mural reads "Within Quetzalcoatl's hunger and Emperor Jiajing's sin lies the answers". In Project Legacy, we see Giovanni Borgia steal a Skull from an Aztec city, and he is later contacted through it by a Chinese man, who is most probably Jiajing. Given that the skulls from Mexico and China are probably what 16 was referring to, maybe the "answers" he says they contain are the solutions to the solar flare Jupiter mentions he, Juno and Minerva were working on at the time , that Desmond and co. will have to find, by digging through Shao Jun's memories to find the Jiajing skull, and preparing an assault on a Templar facility convieniently located in New York to get Vidic's crystal skull, giving Desmond a chance to finally get some revenge on Dr. Vidic.
Erudito is Consus
In the final entry of Divine Science: Chapter 1, it is revealed that Giovanni Borgia gets possessed by a member of Those Who Came Before, self-addressing as "Consus, the Erudite God." Erudite as in "Erudito", perhaps? It's known that Those That Came Before are both long-lived and anti-Templar, so it wouldn't be surprising if such an entity decided to meddle in Abstergo's affairs.
Assassin's Creed shares a timeline and world with Grand Theft Auto
Or possibly Saints Row.
La Volpe is Hermes
We already have a cast of Greek Gods, and one of the things Hermes was the god of was thieves. The Hermeticists wear outfits similar to his. And this would explain why in the thirty-some years years of AC 2 and Brotherhood he appears to not age and even get younger.
Assassin's Creed III's plot
In light of the newly released images of the game, establishing an American Revolution setting and a Native Assassin, Tthis troper decided to do a bit of reading up on the American Revolution on the Other Wiki and searched up the roles the Natives played in the Revolution. To her surprise, most of the Native Americans sided with the Crown, and one of the powerful supporters was Joseph Brant of the Mohawk nation. Said nation was a part of the Iroquois Confederacy based in New York. A possibility that our Assassin will see the events of the Revolution unfold from here, who knows? It would make sense considering the key to saving the universe is in New York and Desmond is under a tight deadline at the moment.
It's impossible to properly relive the memories of an ancestor of the opposite gender
Three games so far and all of Desmond's ancestors have been male, the Assassin's Creed multi-player scenarios do not seem to be proper memory revisitations. Plus, it makes a bit of sense since the Animus works on Genetic memory, the missing or added piece of a chromosome one ancestor had or didn't could make an enormous difference in synchronizing with an ancestor of the opposite gender.
The Assassins are actually the Delta Knights
Consider: Both are an ancient society of warriors who live in secret. Both are devoted to protecting ancient, advanced technology from those who would misuse it. Leonardo da Vinci is a member of both. Also, look at their logos. The Assassin Insignia ◊ looks a lot like a very modified Delta. ◊
The Six Vaults and their methods of Salvation
Jupiter stated that there were six vaults built, along with a main vault. He also stated that each vault was devoted to a different method of salvation. So what sorts of salvation methods do you think there were?
Desmond is a mental patient
He's been diagnosed with severe schizophrenia and committed to the Abstergo Mental Hospital. Dr. Warren Vidic and Nurse Lucy Stillman are attending. He's been having increasingly vivid hallucinations of "past lives" while simultaneously losing more and more connection with reality. He sees his doctor as a cold bastard trying to subsume his "eagle vision" with drugs, and sees the more comforting Nurse Lucy and fellow patients Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane as his only friends in this obvious worldwide conspiracy against the "Chosen One," which is of course Desmond. He seems to even lapse into Borderline Personality Syndrome when he starts babbling more and more about some "Subject 16." However, when the good Nurse tries to administer Desmond a new drug, he suffers a severe psychotic break, overpowers and stabs her with the needle. The doctors are becoming increasingly convinced he's beyond help at this point.
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