History Timeline / AssassinsCreed

** He ended up having fraternal twins with the lady Myrinne, but has them raised by the general Nikolaus: The Wolf of Sparta.

*** While Cassandra eventually is taken in by a skeevy merchant, Alexios is taken in by the Cult's child rearer and shaped into their ultimate weapon.
* Growing up on the island of Kephalonia, Cassandra grows into a beautiful and strong mistios (mercenary). However, one day, she's approached to carry out a hit on The Wolf of Sparta: her "father".

* Turning on the man who hired her, Cassandra begins to learn of this Cult of Kosmos who supposedly controls the oracle of Delphi. In time, she begins to see the truth of this claim, even using a mask to infiltrate their secret meeting. Seeing the tens of members all manipulating the peloponesian war.

* Also in this time, the Order of Ancients that Bayek fought eventually comes under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, still interested in finding Pieces of Eden and controlling the masses. With the Hidden Ones becoming the ostensibly Muslim Assassins and the Order of the Ancients becoming the ostensible Christian Knights Templar, the ancient societies find their modern identities.

* Cassandra kills the Minotaur and the Cyclops. She also manages to solve the riddles of the Sphinx.

** However, Jack's mind eventually snaps under the strain of the creed, now believing that it gives him freedom to kill and bring terror to scare people into the truth. He turns the Rooks on the twins and imprisons Jacob. He eventually becomes well known in all London as Jack the Ripper.

* The Mathmetician Pythagoris finds the Staff of Hermes, giving him immortality as long as he holds it. He desires to study the gateway to Atlantis, and then seal it off once a new organization starts desiring the power within. That organization is The Cult of Knossos, a group which desires control over the known world.

* In the times of Ptolemaic Egypt, a secret society arose. The Order of the Ancients. They sought to control the people of Egypt and to gain power over special artifacts.

* Russian Assassin Nikolai Orelov and his family escape the Russian Brotherhood which had fallen into extremism with the communist revolution, saving Princess Anastassia Romanov in the process. Orelov's child eventually becomes a great grandparent to Daniel Cross.

* Retreating to safe houses, Desmond begins using the bleeding effect to gain the skills of Ezio Auditore to fight the Templars. Eventually hiding in the old Auditore manor, they retrieve the Piece of Eden from under the Coliseum, but using the piece, Juno entices Desmond to kill Lucy, revealing her Templar connections and showing Desmond that Lucy believes only the Templar plan will work to save the planet. Juno shows a simulation of the failure of the Templar satellite launch, causing Desmond to reluctantly kill Lucy.

*** However on one session, William Miles tries to go out to get the last source alone, but is captured and brought to Abstergo's Italy facility.

* Now operating in the field, Rebecca and Shaun travel to London to find a new Piece of Eden. Namely, the Shroud. They battle three Templar agents for the Piece.
** In their final battle over the shroud, one of the Templars (Historical Operations Executive Isabelle Ardant) is killed, but Rebecca is critically injured, and the Assassins are forced to concede the shroud to the Templars.
** The Shroud is passed over to a new Templar scientist, Alvaro Grammatica, but one of the Templars, Violet Da Costa, is in fact a mole for Juno, who's secretly manipulating the Order.

* Cain kills his brother Abel to get a Piece of Eden he had. The mark on his head would one day become the symbol of the Templar Order.[[note]]Though this might have been retconned, as in ''Origins'' the iconography of the Order is quite different.[[/note]]

* Also in this time, the Order of Ancients that Bayek fought eventually comes under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, still interested in finding Pieces of Eden and controlling the masses. With the hidden ones becoming the ostensibly Muslim Assassins and the Order of the Ancients becoming the ostensible Christian Knights Templar, the ancient societies find their modern identities.

* Following Altaïr's death, the Assassin Brotherhood disappears from history, becoming soldiers all over Europe and Asia for freedom.

* By the year 1460 or so, the Borgia family has become the controlling family of the Italian Templar order. While ruthless and effective, their patron, Rodrigo, is more interested in gaining power rather than any pretext of making a better world.

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

* Also in this time, "the Order" that Bayek fought eventually comes under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, still interested in finding Pieces of Eden and controlling the masses.

NOTE: due to the open world nature of this game, the player choses what order events happen in, or if certain events even happen. Canonically though, this is Cassandra's Odessy.

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

* The Eagle Bearer Cassandra and her twin brother are marked to be killed by the Cult of Knossos.

* Around 1781, Achilles dies, leaving the estate and the brotherhood to Connor.

** However, despite the Colonial rite being decimated, only a few months later, Connor discovers some hard truths. First, though the British leave New York, at last, there are still slaves being sold, showing America is not nearly as free as it preaches. Second, his people have gone west, leaving their village. And the government is selling the land to make a quick buck in order to avoid taxes like the British before them. And finally, despite his protests of outrage to Juno, Juno says that what he wanted was impossible, but that he has played a good part, telling him to bury Lee's amulet for another in the future. So, Connor buries the amulet in Achilles's grave.

* Edward, Rackham, Read and Bonney all rot away in a British prison for several years.
** Around this time, Steve Bonnet is also hanged for Piracy. Unfortunately, due to his meeker persona, he dies pleading for his life.
** Rackham dies hung in a cage, while Edward refuses to divulge the observatory's location to Rodgers and Torres who visit him in the prison. Meanwhile, Anne and Mary plead pregnancy to stay their hanging.
* Months later, Edward is rescued by Ah Tabai, who's busting out Mary Read. Working his way around the prison (and visiting Rackham's corpse and Vane's delusional self), Edward rescues Mary and Anne. Mary's child is taken away from her already, and due to complications in the birthing process, she dies in Edward's arms, asking him to do right by her. Anne is evacuated by Ah Tabai to the Assassin HQ, painfully near labor. Tabai gives Edward an Assassin uniform back saying it, "suits him." They part ways, Edward now washed up and grieving for the life he's lost.

*** Learning the Rope dart, Edward drives off a Spanish attack by Torres's men, better understanding the Assassin's creed, and being named an honored guest by Ah Tabai. He also comforts Anne, the last of his pirate mates for losing her child and all their friends.

** However, upon return, Rodgers is disgraced by George, and exiled from the Templars for going against the Order by participating in the slave trade. As such, he's rendered a nonthreat. (Torres once explained that Slavery causes the mind to revolt and undermines their attempts at order, while what they're seeking is a way to enslave the mind so the body may follow)

* Edward gives his base at Great Inagua to the Assassins for a safe haven, though Ah Tabai says he'll be dispersing his part of the brotherhood soon just as Altaïr did to work among the people more closely.

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

** While discovering the truth, Haytham has ingrained too much Templar worldview to turn on the Templars in principle. So while he kills Birch, he decides instead to set up his own branch elsewhere.

** However, Shay also is different from the current members of the colonial brotherhood. While all the other members are more traditional assassins with their hatred of templars and devotion to grandmaster Achilles, Shay is more hesitant to follow that kind of dogma, even recognizing that the Assassins and Templars are NotSoDifferent in their methodologies and goals.

* Jacob's daughter Lydia Frye works in British Intelligence during World War 1, fighting against spies and saboteurs. While Admiral Winston Churchill praises her work, Lydia for her part was more interested in completing woman's suffrage.
* Henry Ford uses the assembly line to turn work into another form of Templar control.
* The Templars engineer World War II as a way to gain control over the world. Apparently, Hitler and the big 3 of the allied nations were all in on the plan. Unfortunately, at the very end of the war, an Assassin kills Adolf Hitler, messing up their final phase for the war.

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

* Desmond Miles (a descendant of Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore, and the Kenway family) is born in North Dakota to career Assassins. Trained from the day he could walk to start becoming an Assassin.
** However, he never quite came to believe in the Assassin mythos, and ran away to New York City to become a bartender.

* Retreating to safe houses, Desmond begins using the bleeding effect to gain the skills of Ezio Auditore to fight the Templars. Eventually hiding in the old Auditore manor, they retrieve the Piece of Eden from under the Coliseum, but using the piece, Juno entices Desmond to kill Lucy, revealing her Templar connections.
** His mind shattered by the experience, Desmond is put back in the animus, where with the help of the Clay "program", he manages to piece his mind back together and wake up safely.

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

* When she was young, Aveline is kidnapped by a Templar and raised as her daughter, her real mother (a mistress of Aveline's father is sent into slavery).

* Shay Cormac kills Arno's father. As his father gloats that Connor and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution undid all the Templars' efforts there, Shay comments that "perhaps we'll start a revolution of our own.", in the aftermath of this event the Colonial Rite of the Templar Order and the American Brotherhood of Assassins reform into the American Rite and Brotherhood respectively.

*** Learning the Rope dart, Edward drives off a Spanish attack by Torres's men, better understanding the Assassin's creed, and being named an honored guest by Ah Tabai. He also comforts Mary Read, the last of his pirate mates for losing her child and all their friends.

* In 1763, with the end of the war, the Templars plunder the Assassin homestead, killing every member except for Achilles whom Haytham declares as harmless.

* When she was young, Aveline is kidnapped by a Templar and raised as her daughter.
* Pretending to join the Templars, Aveline instead kills them all, ending with her "mother".

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

* The Industrial Revolution kicks into full steam. However, with Germain's new school of thought, the Templars begin integrating themselves into society differently. Choosing to become industrialists, bankers and corporate leaders rather than just prime ministers or Kings.

[[folder:Ancient Human civilization: Post-disaster–1st Century BCE]]

* The Assassin Order is founded with the purpose of safeguarding human freedom. They live by the creed "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

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

[[folder:The great rebellion and the great disaster]]

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

[[folder:The Life and Times of Bayek of Siwa]]
* In the times of Ptolemaic Egypt, a secret society arose. The Order of the Ancients. They sought to control the people of Egypt, and to gain power over special artifacts.
* Meanwhile Bayek, last of the Mediv, marries and gives birth to a son. (khemu) They live in peace at the desert oasis town of Siwa.
* One night, the order, from the "Heron" to the "Lion" arrive at Siwa, seeking answers from Bayek on how to find a precursor site. Knowing nothing, but worried for the threat they pose to his son, Bayek tries to defend them, but the Lion redirects his knife to instead kill Khemu. Upon reawakening, Bayek and his wive Aya both swear vengeance on the men who took their son away.

** Investigating The Hyena, he discovers that the woman is working to decipher Isu symbols, though for the express of ressurecting her daughter. After a fierce battle in a sandstorm, she is torn apart by her own hyenas.
** Fighting The Lizard, he hunts him down, stopping his reign in following the ways of "old egypt".

** For Bayek, this involves finally killing Flavius Metellus. "The Lion" who was leader of the order after gaining the powers of the piece of eden and was the one who redirected the knife back in Siwa. while hesitant at first to lose this last living piece of his son, Bayek finally does the deed.
** For Aya, she kills "the Jackal" Lucius Septimus, but loses the staff of eden.

* Reuniting one more time in Egypt, Bayek and Aya discuss how their years of hunting have made them incompatiple to stay together, but from the ashes of their lives, they resolve to create a new brotherhood to safeguard the people from all those like the order of ancients. They call them "The Hidden Ones"; the direct precursor to the order of Assassins.

[[folder:The Orders grow. First Century BCE to 1100s]]
* The Assassin Order is founded with the purpose of safeguarding human freedom. They live by the creed "Nothing is true. Everything is Permitted."

* Also in this time, "the order" that Bayek fought eventually comes under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, still interested in finding Pieces of Eden and controlling the masses.

[[folder:The life and times of Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad]]

* The Third Crusade is called. With forces from France, England, and other parts of Europe, the Crusaders wage war on Saladin's forces, seeking to claim the Holy Land for Christendom. Led by Richard the Lionheart, the Templars use this pretext of crusade to begin their work on becoming new masters of the Holy Land.

** The second target, Garnier de Naplouse is leader of the knights Hospitalier, working to free people from the prisons of their minds. He takes people from sewers, prisons and brothels to experiment on and heal them, though often with force.
** Third is Talal. A slaver and archer, he seeks to make slaves out of "Beggars, whores, addicts and lepers" to save them from their situations. He also claims to be part of something bigger than himself.

** Sixth is the regent of Jerusalem: Majd Addin. Arrogant and proud, he killed for fun to weed out dissenters who disrupt order and in order for him to feel like a God.
** Seventh is the chief scholar of Damascus Jubair al Hakim. He instituted a book burning in Damascus, claiming that the books poison people, and make them weak and stupid.
** Eighth was the Teutonic Knight's leader Sibrand. Paranoid and fearful after the death of the other leaders of the Templars, he lashed out at everyone, until Altaïr kills him. At his death, he confesses that he believes the Piece of Eden proves that there's nothing after death, and that his role was to create a protective blockade once the Templars "freed" the holy land.

** Returning years later, Altaïr finds the Assassin Brotherhood weakened to near critical condition, turned into little more than thugs. However, rallying the younger generation, Altaïr retakes the fortress, shooting Abbas with a hidden gun that the Piece of Eden showed him.

[[folder:The war goes underground]]

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

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

* But one day, everything changed when the Templars launched a plot to take over Florence. Seeing the Auditores as obstacles due to their close relations with the ruling Medici family, the Templars use ''Gonfaloniere'' Uberto Alberti to frame the family and lead to the hanging of Giovanni, Federico and Petruccio.

[[folder:The life and times of Edward Kenway]]
* Edward Kenway is born to an English father and a welsh mother. While born an ordinary commoner, he wins the hand of a wealthy lady Caroline Scott.

* With his new ship, Edward decides to do some favors for his pirate friends at Nassau. Trying to build a new pirate republic, his advisers are Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Thatch and "James Kidd". Edward recruits men, steals a sloop for their defenses, and assassinates Julian De Casse for that ship.
** However, Edward also has interest in find something else the Templars talked about with him: the Observatory, and then sell it to gain untold riches to finally return home.

* Edward fights various Templar lieutenants around the Caribbean, helping out the assassins more out of a desire for reward than any true nobility.

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

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

** As the temple won't open without an Apple of Eden, Haytham decides to develop Templar goals the old-fashioned way through nation building rather than messing with the Pieces of Eden. To that end, he inducts Charles Lee as a new official member of the order.

** However, Shay also is different from the current members of the colonial brotherhood. While all the other members are more traditional assassins with their hatred of templars and devotion to grandmaster achilles, Shay is more hesitant to follow that kind of dogma, even recognizing that the assassins and templars are NotSoDifferent in their methodologies and goals.
* Shay is trained by several senior assassins: Hope, Kesegawase and his closest friend the assassin NumberTwo Liam.

* Shay Cormac tracks down the piece of eden in Portugal. Unfortunately, upon removing it, it causes the infamous Portugal Earthquake, horrifying and sickening him.

* All during this time, Edward's been sailing around the coast, hunting Nicolas Biddle. Eventually, he catches up with the ''Randolph'', catching Biddle and killing him. Biddle claims his work helped strengthen the revolutionaries by weeding out loyalists, strengthening the navy and leading them to strength.

** However, despite the Colonial rite being decimated, only a few months later, Connor discovers some hard truths. First, though the British leave New York at last, there are still slaves being sold, showing America is not nearly as free as it preaches. Second, his people have gone west, leaving their village. And the government is selling the land to make a quick buck in order to avoid taxes like the British before them. And finally, despite his protests of outrage to Juno, Juno says that what he wanted was impossible, but that he has played a good part, telling him to bury Lee's amulet for another in the future. So, Connor buries the amulet in Achilles's grave.

[[folder:The life and times of Arno Dorian]]

[[folder:The 1800s]]

[[folder:The liberation of 1868 London]]

** Although they collaborate in taking borough's and helping notable figures around London such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Alexander Graham Belle and Charles Dickens, they split up to do their own thing when it comes to seeking more concrete steps to retake London.

** Unfortunately, Twopenny's death lead to a MASSIVE crisis for the British economy. Not just that they lost their leader, but there was also counterfeiting money, the loss of the banknote printing plate, and subsequently, inflation and economic fear of losing manufacturing to America. Evie works fast to find the plates, destroy the counterfeit notes and help reopen the main bank, but her resentment toward Jacob for his actions without forethought grows, widening their unease with each other.

[[folder:The Templar web grows: 1870's to 1945]]

[[folder: The edge of defeat: 1946–2009]]

[[folder:The life and times of Desmond Miles]]

* Opening the temple at last, Desmond finds out about Juno's deceptions, and hears from both her and Minerva about what should be done here near the end of the world. After hard consideration, Desmond decides to sacrifice his life in order to save the world from a new solar flare. While his friends and father want him to find another way, he tells them there isn't time for another solution, and Minerva's choice to let the flare hit to prevent Juno's escape would just restart the cycle of battle. So with Desmond's help, a giant planetary shield is created to protect earth. However Desmond dies, and Juno escapes as a digital "ghost", now prepared to start a new plot to regain her strength and a body.

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

[[folder:The Life and Times of Callum Lynch]]
* To further understand and gain information on other Assassins finding Pieces of Eden, the Templars begin holding Assassin descendants of Yusuf of Istanbul, Baptiste of the French Indies and others for exploring for more Pieces of Eden. However, with the strain of the Assassins beginning to gain ground, the project begins to come under scrutiny. Funnily enough, the CEO of Abstergo Alan Rikkin has an interest in finishing the project as his daughter Sophie is the head of research there.
* Callum Lynch, descendant of both Arno Dorian and Aguilar, grows up the child of two Assassins. However, when the Templars discover their location, his mother commits suicide by her father's hand to keep them from a life of torture under the Templars. Horrified at the deed, Cal's father orders his son to run. Cal escapes, but his father does not.

* The captive Assassins of Spain launch an escape on the compound. While many parish in the attempt, several do escape, and led by Cal, make ready to steal back the Apple the Templars are about to get.

[[folder: The new chosen one]]

* Shay Cormac tracks down a piece of eden in Portugal. Unfortunately, upon removing it, it causes the infamous Portugal Earthquake, horrifying and sickening him.

* Also in this time, "the order" that Bayek fought eventually comes under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe, now interested in finding Pieces of Eden and controlling the masses.

** Torres in this time also gains the support of Julian De Cas, a gun happy weapons provider, and governor Woodes Rodgers, the British Caribbean governor.

** Arriving in Kingston, Edward impersonates Duncan and meets with the four chief Templars of the West Indies: Julian De Casse, Woodes Rodgers, El Tiberion, and Grandmaster Loreano De Torres. He delivers information on the whereabouts of the Assassin bases in the area, and is given a modest reward along with custom hidden blades. However, his greed leads Edward to wish to steal a man called the Sage out from under the Templars. And unfortunately, his being recognized by Steve Bonnet leads to his exposure, and being sent for slavery.