Timeline / Assassin's Creed

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 Time of the Ones Who Came Before

• Humanity is created as a slave race for the Ones who came before. They are truly known as the Isu.
  • Despite being a slave race, some Isu came to be affectionate to mankind, holding them as significant and worth protecting.

The Great Rebellion and The Great Disaster

• A faction of humans, led by Adam and Eve, begin a rebellion against their masters.
  • During the war, the Isu were the more technologically advanced, but due to faster reproduction cycles, the humans could Zerg Rush the Isu and overwhelm them, so that any 1 loss to them was a greater blow then the loss of a human.
• During the war, the Isu leaders (Juno, Minerva and Jupiter) are made aware of a impending disaster for Earth: a solar flare that would wipe out all life on earth.
  • Multiple solutions to protect them were tried, but nothing unilaterally successful is found.
  • One such solution was to preserve their consciousness across time and space with a proto-animus of sorts. Juno's husband Aeita tests it first, but it slowly causes madness. In order to save some part of his consciousness, Aeita scatters his memories and consciousness across the human genome in order to survive and reappear in the future.
  • Ultimately, Jupiter and Minerva realized that they could not save themselves from the impending disaster, and so instead sent messages into the future in order to save humanity if another disaster occurred.
    • However, Juno, enraged and arrogant, chose instead to be locked away in one of their machines to save the world, waiting for a chance to arise anew and retake the Isu's rightful place as ruler of mankind.
  • Other ISU also scatter their genetic data like Aeita, but much more planned. Such humans are referred to as sages. Odin and Loki are among the ISU who created sages.
• The disaster strikes, wiping out much of the world's infrastructure and killing all the Isu and most of the humans. For those remaining, they are forced to rebuild from the ground up.

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

• 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, though it is also possible it was later adopted after the original order reformed to the Templars.
• The Pharaoh Smenhkare founds an order to investigate transhumanism and the precursors.
• Different Pieces of Eden keep showing up in history, used for various purposes, though usually to enact significant religious events.
  • For example, as speculated by future teachers, Pieces of Eden were used to turn water to wine, part the Red Sea, or caused The Trojan War.
• Also in this time, many of the great Assassins in premodern history act to preserve freedom for the masses, including Darius, the Assassin who killed Xerxes.

Precursor clashes around the Peloponnesian War

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 Cassandra is the Eagle Bearer.

• The Mathmetician Pythagoras 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.
  • He ended up having fraternal twins with the lady Myrinne of Sparta, but has them raised by the general Nikolaus: The Wolf of Sparta.
• The Eagle Bearer Cassandra and her twin brother Alexios are marked to be killed by the Cult of Knossos.
  • Both are lost off a cliff due to the cult manipulating the oracle to marking them as dooms for Sparta.
    • While Cassandra eventually is taken in by a skeevy merchant, Alexios is taken in by the Cult's child shaper and turned into their ultimate weapon.
• Growing up on the island of Kephalonia under a sleezy but good natured merchant, 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".
  • Struggling with how he failed to save her in the past, Cassandra confronts him on a cliffside after fighting for Sparta for a bit. He reveals some details of not being her biological father and how they were manipulated to lose her. (the choice of whether he lives or dies is left in the players hands)
• 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 Peloponnesian war in different ways.
  • Realizing that her brother is none other than Deimos, the current leader of the cult, she resolves to tear it down member by member, and free her brother.
• The Cult is composed of 32 members, with different branches working different causes.
  • The Naval Branch controls the seas with powerful triremes and mighty mercenaries. They're lead by a captain called The Hydra.
  • The Espionage Branch is all about secretly manipulating the city states and gathering information. They're lead by a female spymaster.
  • The Bloodline Branch has an interest in studying the Isu powers passed into humanity, thus trying to gain knowledge.
  • The Military Branch is all about pure martial strength to enforce the Cult's will. Their leader is none other than the number 1 mercenary in Greece.
• Cassandra kills the Minotaur, The Gorgon and the Cyclops. She also manages to solve the riddles of the Sphinx.
• After facing down Deimos, Cassandra returns to where the Cult originally met. And upon arrival, finds the now lone remaining member of the Cult of Kosmos: none other than Aspasia, wife of Pericles.
• With her duties complete, Cassandra takes over guarding the way to Atlantis, with the Staff of Hermes now giving her eternal life until she might find another worthy to take up her mantle.

The Life and Times of Bayek of Siwa

• In the times of Ptolemaic Egypt, a secret society, The Order of the Ancients, came out of reforms to Smenhkare's old order. They sought to control the people of Egypt and to gain power over ISU 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" arrives 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.
  • Unfortunately, their own senses of grief cause them to grow distant from each other, leading them to split up to hunt order members by themselves.
• One year later, Bayek kills the Heron, then liberates his home from the Ibis.
• He then saves his wife from a philcatae, and join forces again.
• Tracking The Hippo down, Bayek barely manages to kill him after nearly drowning, but loses his ring finger in the process. The Hippo though mocks his attempts at closure, saying "The Snake will never die!"
• Given direction by Cleopatra and Cesear's forces, Bayek gets some bearing on where other members of the order are. He continues his hunt.
  • In hunting The Scarab, he's deceived by the man into taking down bandits, and is then poisoned. But he manages to return, and assassinates him, mocking his dream of "bringing water and building cities" as something easily toppled by the sands of nature.
  • Investigating The Hyena, he discovers that the woman is working to decipher Isu symbols, though for the express of resurrecting 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".
• Bayek next goes after the one called The Crocodile.
• Joining more directly in their conflict with Ptolomy XIII, Bayek assassinates the Scorpion Pothimus. Killing his war elephant, and even getting an apology out of him for his order going too far all that time ago.
• Following their targets to Rome, Bayek and Aya move out to enact their final vengeance on the order.
  • 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.
    • Then joining with Brutus and the conspirators, she lands the first blow against "The father of understanding" Julius Ceasar in his assassination by the senate conspirators.
• Reuniting one more time in Egypt, Bayek and Aya discuss how their years of hunting have made them incompatible 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.

The Viking War

NOTE: As per Odyssey, Valhalla's order of events and side quests happen by player choice. Eivor is female, but as she is the sage of a male ISU, Odin, Let the Animus Choose is the canon option with memories showing male or female as appropriate.

• In Saxon times, The Order of the Ancients have gained power in the kingdom of Wessex. Their Leader was Alfred, who despite inheriting the title of Grandmaster, secretly hated his order, and started working to undermine them.
• Eivor begins a series of raids, lead on to destroy the Order by Bassin Ibn Ishaq of the Hidden Ones.
• After wiping out this last leader, Eivor has a parley with King Alfred of Wessex, revealing himself as true leader of the order of the ancients. However, with the order now thoroughly cleaned out, Alfred has a new vision to create a christian brotherhood that would truly embody values to spread goodness throughout the world. This would eventually come to be known as The Knights Templar.

The Orders Grow: First Century BCE to 1100s

• The Assassin Order is founded from the frame of The Hidden Ones with the purpose of safeguarding human freedom. They live by the creed "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
  • In addition, there are other tenants of the creed they hold dear. 1.) Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent. 2.) Stick to the shadows unless absolutely necessary. 3.) Do not compromise the brotherhood. They also have a structure based on devotion to a grandmaster, as well as a mission to create peace in all things internal and external.
• Also in this time, the Order of Ancients that Bayek fought eventually comes under the banner of The Knights Templar of Europe as Alfred intended. However, despite Alfred's lofty goals, the order remains 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.

The Life and Times of Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad

• Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad is born into the Assassin order.
  • His father was betrayed by the father of a man named Abbas, who broke under torture and revealed his location. Overcome with shame, the father slit his throat in Altaïr's presence, forever leaving an impact on the young Assassin.
  • Training and working hard, Altaïr becomes one of the highest-ranking and revered Assassins of the order. Unfortunately, he also became arrogant and dismissive. This would come to a head in the fateful years of 1189–1191.
• The 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 a crusade to begin their work on becoming new masters of the Holy Land.
• On a mission from his grandmaster Al Mualim, Altaïr leads three other Assassins to the Temple of Solomon to recover an Apple of Eden. Unfortunately, due to his arrogance and foolishness, Robert de Sablé, Grandmaster of the visible Templar Order, disgraces Altaïr. Somehow a fellow Assassin recovers the Apple, and the Assassins manage to drive off the Templar attack on their fortress Masyaf for the time. But for his breaking of the three tenants, Al Mualim demotes Altaïr, demanding that he kill nine men plaguing the Holy Land in order to reclaim his honor.
  • Altaïr's first target is a merchant named Tamir: ruthless and demanding, Tamir provides weapons to others at a price. On killing him, Tamir hints that he's part of something bigger, also warning Altaïr that his pride will destroy him.
  • The second target, Garnier de Naplouse is the 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.
  • Fourth is the regent of Damascus: Abu'l Nuqoud. A fat merchant (also Ambiguously Gay), he spends money on lavish parties, while also stealing money for the Templars and creates an elaborate party to poison and kill hundreds to create a new order in the city.
    • In part, he claims to be doing these things as he cannot serve a war under the same God that calls him "abomination."
  • Fifth is William of Montferrat. One of Richard's lieutenants, he's given regency of Acre, where he begins working behind Richard's back for the Templar cause. He takes food from the citizens, conscripts people for the army, and enacts harsh discipline. In addition, he massacres 3,000 Saracen prisoners, angering Richard for provoking their enemy to outrage and "Not doing the will of God." When Altaïr kills him, he claims to be acting for the people by purging his district of crime, teaching them order and discipline, and taking the food so that it might be rationed in the future.
    • After this kill, Altaïr demands to know how these men are connected, which in turn has Al Mualim reveal that all the men he's killing are Templars.
  • 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.
  • Last is Robert De Sable himself, but he sent a decoy, Maria Thorpe to throw Altaïr off. She informs him that Robert plans to turn the assassinations into a way for Saracen and Crusader to unite and destroy the Assassins. As she is "innocent" as not part of his mission, Altaïr lets her go, then pursues Robert to the Crusader camp.
    • There, Richard the Lionheart allows the two to engage in combat, reasoning that God will side with the righteous man. Though Robert attempts to cheat, Altaïr defeats him. Yet with his dying breaths, he reveals that Al Mualim was a Templar too, and now he would kill Altaïr to have the treasure to himself.
• Returning to Masyaf, Altaïr finds the entire area brainwashed, controlled by the Piece of Eden and Al Mualim. Rescued by Malik and others, Altaïr confronts Al Mualim, and eventually kills him. Unable to destroy the Piece of Eden due to his origins, he instead chooses to burn Al Mualim's body to ensure he is no illusion evermore, and study the Apple after chasing the jealous Abbas down who took it from him right after his battle.
• Altaïr takes on the new mantle of Grandmaster of the Assassins, working to dislodge the Templars from Cyprus and fight off Genghis Khan from conquering the holy land.
  • He also married the rogue Templar Maria Thorpe who defected after the new leader disparaged her. They had two sons.
    • His son Darim even manages to land the blow that killed the Khan.
  • He also attacks the Templars on Cyprus. While causing chaos, the Templars manage to get their supplies off the island, surviving to fight another day.
• Unfortunately, his Assassin rival Abbas eventually seizes control of the Brotherhood while he was out fighting Genghis. Abbas executes one of his sons, and when Altaïr used the Apple of Eden to torture his executioner, Maria is accidentally killed. Altaïr in turn must flee for his life.
  • 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.
• With old age almost overtaking him, Altaïr decides to abandon Masyaf so the Assassins can work among the people. But before his death, he takes several steps to protect the Piece of Eden and preserve the Brotherhood.
  • First, he creates special "keys" using the Apple and his memories to create "The Masyaf Keys". These contain some of his important memories, while also holding the power to unlock the vault he constructs below Masyaf.
    • To protect the keys, he gives them to Niccolò Polo to hide in Constantinople.
  • He gives his remaining son control of the Brotherhood, then locks himself in the vault below to hide the Apple of Eden.
    • His work finally done, Altaïr goes to rest in a chair, and death claims him as he sits down.

The War Goes Underground

• Following Altaïr's death, the Assassin Brotherhood disappears from public history as they fake their destruction by exploiting the Mongol invasion of Masyaf by sending their members to found Brotherhoods, becoming soldiers all over Europe and Asia for freedom.
  • However, due to their shared hatred, the Templars are not fooled by their public destruction, and recognize their continued meddling in their works.
• In 1307, under Assassin pressure, the Templar order is disbanded, humiliated, and publicly destroyed by King Philip of France and Pope Clement. However, the last public Templar grandmaster, Jacque de Molay (Who was also a sage with the lineage of Aieta of the first civilization, see the second folder), instructs his followers to take the order underground and continue their mission.
  • To that end, they hide a Piece of Eden they had (a sword) and a Templar Codex containing Molay's truths in a crypt in plain sight.
  • Burned for "heresy", Molay promises a reckoning with the king of France's descendants.
• The Templar Order also goes underground with the destruction of the public wing of the European Rites and the other Templar Rites in other continents follow their example to avoid major asset losses.
• 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, with other Rites taking a dim view of the Italian Rite's practices at this time.

The Spanish War

• In 1492, the Assassins have allied with the moors of Spain. However, the Templars, prodding the Spanish kingdom forward, plan to exterminate the Moorish kingdom for "Christendom" and thus claim an Apple of Eden the King of Grenada is hiding.
• The Assassin Aguilar joins the Assassins after his parents are burned at the stake. He becomes partnered with another Assassin, Maria, and together they're tasked with rescuing the Sultan's son. While they manage to get him out of the village, eventually the Templars recapture all of them, transporting them to Seville to be burned for "heresy".
  • Fortunately, they escape their execution after a hectic run through the city.
• Recognizing that their work in Spain is shattered, Ezio Auditore (see below) recommends that the Sultan surrender. As such, it's only a matter of time until the Templars get their hands on the Apple. To prevent this, Aguilar and Maria also move into the palace to try to get the Apple first.
  • Arriving about the same time, the Assassins get their hand on the Apple but end up in a standoff with the Templars. While at first willing to give up the Apple for his teammate, Maria kills herself rather than lose the Apple to the Templars.
  • Escaping the Templars by the water, Aguilar entrusts the Apple to Christopher Columbus, who would carry it to his grave.
  • Aguilar would eventually die in 1526 after marrying and passing on his lineage.

The Life and Times of Ezio Auditore

Ezio's quest for Vengeance

• Ezio Auditore is born in Florence, Italy. The son of a "new money" family, Ezio spends much of his youth playing around the city, picking fights with the rival Pazzi family, and romancing the cousin of Amerigo Vespucci; Christina.
  • He also takes time to help his brothers Federico and Petruccio, his younger sister Claudia, and his parents with various chores.
• But one day, everything changed when the Templars launched a plot to take over Florence. Seeing the Auditores as obstacles due to their close relations with the ruling Medici family, the Templars use Gonfaloniere Uberto Alberti to frame the family and lead to the hanging of Giovanni, Federico, and Petruccio.
  • Enraged but realizing he needs to protect his family, they hide in a nearby brothel, where the matron teaches Ezio to sneak, steal and stab.
    • With his new skills, he enters a party Uberto was attending, killing him, proclaiming that the Auditores will never be dead as long as he lives. However, with cries of "Assassin" around him, he escapes, though not without picking up a letter on Uberto's person, where he confesses to his wife that he did it to protect his family, though he feels great remorse for betraying his friends in the process.
  • Returning to find the bodies of his dead family members, and with the help of Christina, Ezio gives them a proper burial.
• With his immediate vengeance sated, Ezio has his family escape to the family estate at Monteriggioni. There, his uncle Mario rescues him from a Pazzi attack, taking the family in for the next 28 years.
  • Also there, Mario trains Ezio in the way of battle for two years, while also teaching him all he knows about the war between the Assassins and Templars, and that the Auditore family was part of it.
    • Ezio wants to move his family to Spain rather than face the Templars much to Mario's disgust. However, upon finding out about Vieri Pazzi raiding the estate, he joins Mario in an attack against the Pazzi stronghold in San Gimignano.
• Using the main mercenary army as a diversion, Ezio infiltrates San Gimignano, discovering that the conspiracy behind his family's death goes deeper, with a mysterious Spaniard plotting with the entire Pazzi family to overthrow the Medici. While the majority of them leave town for Florence, Ezio strikes down Vieri.
  • While failing to get answers from Vieri, he is taught by his uncle to show respect to those he kills, and getting a name for the man who was with the Pazzi: Rodrigo Borgia.
  • Realizing that no place he flees will be safe, Ezio resolves to hunt down all the Templars involved in his family's death, and thus avenge them once and for all.
• Ezio returns to Florence in time to help defend Lorenzo de' Medici from assassination. While Lorenzo's brother IS killed, Ezio manages to get Lorenzo medical help, then kills Francisco Pazzi for his part in the attempted kill. Given a mandate by Lorenzo afterwards, Ezio promises to hunt down the remaining conspirators as they'd fled the city after their failed Coup.
  • Before leaving the city, he visits Christina, only to discover that since he was gone and disgraced, she's getting married to another. As such, he meets with her future husband, getting a promise from him to treat her well, as Ezio doesn't believe his quest for vengeance can really include Christina in it.
• Hunting the conspirators to San Gimignano and killing them 1 by 1 for information, he eventually finds the last Pazzi leader: Jacopo meeting with Rodrigo and a man from Venice. While Ezio is ambushed, he manages to escape, and puts Jacopo out of his misery from wounds given by Rodrigo for his failure.
• Ezio next travels to Forli along with Leonardo to hunt down the Venetian. There, he befriends Caterina, Countess of Forli, who would be a long-term ally for him in the future.
• Sailing into Venice, Ezio gains the assistance of the Thieves Guild in facing Emilio Barbarigo, the man Ezio was seeking. There, along with the thieves, he kills Emilio, freeing the district's merchants from his tyranny.
• However, Rodrigo has also come to town, and as such, begins plotting with the Barbarigo family and its associates on how they might gain power. Rodrigo warns them not to take Ezio lightly, as the Pazzi's death was a great tragedy.
  • He then directs Carlos Grimaldi to poison the current Doge, and though Ezio tries to stop him, the Doge dies along with Grimaldi.
    • Marco Barbarigo becomes Doge, and institutes a manhunt on Ezio.
• Ezio kills Doge Marco Barbarigo during a festival. Into the vacuum steps Marco's brother who wants nothing to do with the Borgia.
  • During the festival, Ezio runs into his old flame Christina, but upset that he left her for years now, she storms off in a huff.
  • Following this, Ezio hunts down the last Templar Barbarigo along with his mentally crippled bodyguard, and kills him, but finds out the Templars were sailing for Cyprus for something. As such, Ezio hunkers down in Venice to await their return.
• Upon Rodrigo's return, Ezio intercepts his package, and with the help of the friends he made along the way, he drives him off. Then Ezio learns that all his mentors were actually Assassins, and HE might be the prophet that Rodrigo spoke of to gain the Apple's power. As such, Ezio is formally inducted into the Assassin Order.
• Ezio returns to Forli, resting at Caterina's place for a bit. However, Rodrigo's spies have tracked Ezio there, and a revolt is planned to overthrow Caterina and gain the Piece of Eden.
  • While driving off the attackers, he accidentally loses the Piece of Eden to Savonarola, who takes the piece back to Florence to institute the bonfire of vanities.
    • Ezio turns the people back to their own freedom, and murders Savonarola while he's burning at the stake.
    • However, in one mission, he discovers that Christina was wounded by looters and burners. While he tries to help her, she dies in his arms, attesting that she always loved him, holding on to the Auditore crest.
• Attaining all the scrolls of Altaïr, and recovering the 5 symbols from tombs around Italy, Ezio obtains the Armor of Altaïr, and discovers the location of a new Piece of Eden: Rome itself.
  • Riding to Rome, Ezio and Rodrigo engage in battle, both using their Pieces of Eden to their advantage. Eventually, Ezio overpowers Rodrigo, but realizing that he's finally found a calling beyond revenge, Ezio give Rodrigo Cruel Mercy: living knowing the power under the Vatican is never going to be his.
    • Entering the vault, Ezio is dubbed the prophet by Minerva, who sends a message forward in time through him to his descendant Desmond Miles. Dazed and confused by this, Ezio returns to Monteriggioni, now content to rest and recuperate now that his vengeance is sated.

Ezio's quest for Stability

• Cesare Borgia, Rodrigo's son and general of the papal armies, attacks Monteriggioni, utterly destroying the castle and killing Mario Auditore.
  • (The Armor of Altaïr is presumed lost in the attack)
  • Taking his mother and sister, Ezio steals away to Rome, planning to rebuild his strength at the heart of Templar power.
• The Brotherhood of Rome is weak due to its proximity to the Templar stronghold, but Ezio resolves to raise the esteem of the people of Rome, and so gradually drive the Borgia out.
  • To that end, he begins rescuing citizens and training them to become master Assassins.
  • He also leads missions to weaken the Borgia base: killing his French ally and assassinating Borgia the Elder to remove his cardinal influences.
  • Further, he roots out a traitor in his ranks, learning that the traitor was also responsible for the fall of Monteriggioni.
    • He then clears Machiavelli of wrongdoing, taking him on as his closest adviser.
• When Cesare returns, he finds his power base greatly eroded. In his rage and frustration he kills his father Rodrigo, and shoves his sister aside, mad with power.
  • Ezio fights off Cesare for the Apple, and then rests a bit.
• After the victory over Rodrigo, Ezio inducts his sister into the Brotherhood properly, and afterwards, is proclaimed Grandmaster and Mentor of the Italian Order.
  • Following this, Cesare is deposed from his power base, and while working for his cousin in Spain, Ezio hunts him down and finally kills him.
    • Ezio then hides his Apple of Eden away in the Coliseum's ruins.

Ezio's quest for wisdom

• Ezio sets sail for the holy land and Istanbul, seeking more insight into the life of Altaïr beyond the codex entries he possessed.
  • He recovers Niccolò Polo's journal, which in theory will help lead him to the keys to Masyaf, where Altaïr supposedly stored power. Killing the Templars around Masyaf's ruins, he then makes his way towards Istanbul, making friends with a young "scholar" named Suleiman.
• Meeting up with the Assassin Brotherhood of Istanbul, Ezio is given a hidden blade upgrade in a hook blade, and begins to learn more of his temporary home.
  • To that end, he makes an alliance with their leader, Yusuf to find a way to gain knowledge and locations from the journal in order to find the missing keys.
    • To decode the journal, Ezio gains the help of a young female bookseller: Sofia Sartor.
• Seeking a way into knowing the Templar plans, Ezio disguises himself as a minstrel in the Palace of Istanbul. It's here he discovers that Suleiman is in fact a young ruler, and furthermore, the son of a rebellious son Selim, who's engaged in a power play against the Sultan.
  • Furthermore, he discovers that the Templars are working under the leadership of a Byzantine nephew of the last emperor: Manuel.
• Ezio begins eroding Templar lieutenants around Istanbul, killing a gypsy leader, an Assassin who turned against them due to ethnic disagreements, a dancing assassin, Templar nobles, captains and others.
  • However, one mistake he made was when Suleiman instructed him to kill the Jassinary captain Tarrik, who seemed to be plotting with the Templars to destroy the sultan. In reality, he was secretly planning to destroy the Templars from within. As such, though Ezio lost a valuable ally, he did find the Templar's base's location.
• Traveling to the Templar base, he frees the Templar prisoners, and kills their fighting leader Shahkulu.
  • Then setting fire to the docks, Ezio kills the Templar leader Manuel.
    • However, It's then that Ezio learns that it's not Manuel but the Sultan's son Ahmet is the true Grandmaster of the Ottoman Templars.
• Ahmet in a power play kills several Assassins, including Yusuf. He kidnaps Sofia, and in a chase afterwards, Ezio rescues her. Meanwhile, Ahmet is killed by Selim, who has won his right to be Sultan. He forbids Ezio from being in Istanbul after this, but tired and with his quest complete (and on Sofia's request), Ezio finally leaves.
  • Sofia comes with him, as not only is her shop no longer safe, but she's fallen in love with Ezio.
• Entering Altaïr's tomb, Ezio finds the Apple of Eden and Altaïr's corpse, but deciding he's traveled and learned enough, reseals the tomb, finally satisfied with his journey.
• Returning back to Italy at last, Ezio settles down with Sofia as his new wife in a rebuilt Monteriggioni, and has a child.
• Ezio trains one final disciple: Shao Jun of the Chinese brotherhood. He teaches her not to give up, and passes his wisdom down to her to return and fight again. He also has one final battle against Templar agents that followed her.
  • Following her departure, Ezio sits down to rest on a bench in Florence, seeing the city he loves and the family he's created and dies a sudden but fulfilled death.

Between Renaissance and Empires

• Shao Jun returns to China following her lessons from Ezio. She battle the Ming emperor along with the Templar members there. Killing the last main leader, she realizes where her vengeance has lead her, and decides to settle down to reestablish the Chinese brotherhood.
• With the "discovery" of the Americas, Ezio had sent new members to establish American brotherhoods. As did the Templars.
  • One such action that was taken during this time by the assassins was killing Pounce De Leon to keep him from finding the true fountain of youth.
• Loreano de Torres becomes Governor of Cuba. With such influence, he becomes the lead Templar Grandmaster in the Caribbean. His main rival for power is the Assassin Grandmaster Ah Tabai, who leads the Caribbean tribes and assorted others in resisting Templar influence.
  • Torres in this time also gains the support of Julian De Cas, a gun happy weapons provider, and governor Woodes Rodgers, a British Caribbean privateer.

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.
  • However, due to his shame over his low status despite his marrying into wealth, Edward resolves to seek his fortune as a privateer.
    • Caroline objects to this course of action, and they leave on bad terms, Caroline returning to her family when Edward leaves to go sailing.
• Edward fights in Queen Anne's war, winning honor and glory for the crown, and making friends with other captains such as Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Thatch.
  • However this makes him no more wealthy, and by 1715, he runs into misfortune as his shipwrecks in the Caribbean.
• Fortune takes a turn when Edward kills the ambitious and traitorous Assassin Duncan Walpole after the wreck, discovering all about the Templars, and rescuing Steve Bonnet, a merchant in the process.
  • Arriving in Kingston, Edward impersonates Duncan and meets with the 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. But unfortunately, Roberts escapes, and he eventually is exposed and sent for slavery.
    • But in another fortunate turn, the Spanish fleet in route hits a hurricane, with Edward and a fellow slave Adéwalé escaping bondage and taking command of a brig alongside other pirates. Escaping the sinking fleet, Edward christens his new ship the Jackdaw, making Adéwalé quartermaster as he would not have proper respect should Edward have named him Captain.
• With his new ship, Edward decides to do some favors for his pirate friends at Nassau. Trying to build a new pirate republic, his advisers are Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Thatch, and "James Kidd". Edward recruits men, steals a sloop for their defenses, and assassinates Julian De Casse for that ship.
  • However, Edward also has an interest in finding something else the Templars talked about with him: the Observatory, and then sell it to gain untold riches to finally return home.
• In his wanderings, he stumbles upon a secret Templar base on the Great Inagua. Killing its leaders, he takes the cove as his new private base.
• Edward fights various Templar lieutenants around the Caribbean, helping the Assassins more out of a desire for reward than any true nobility.
  • Notable victims include Hilary Flint, Kenneth Abrahams, Lucia Marquez, and Jing Lang (the queen of pirates).
• Hearing of the Sage, a man who could unlock the observatory, Edward traces him to the plantation of an ex-pirate/slave owner Lauren Prims. Bumping into James Kidd, he discovers the truth: James Kidd is actually the lady Mary Read, who also happens to be an Assassin.
  • As such, with Mary as a diversion, Edward kills Prims, but the sage (revealed to be Bartholomew Roberts) escapes, revealed to be his servant.
    • 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.
• Meanwhile, Captain Charles Vane and his first mate Jack Rackham arrive in Nassau. Around this time, Edward Thatch grows his famous black beard, greeting them.
  • However, built on freedom of action, Nassau is rotting on itself with inactivity and illness, not helped that Governor Rodgers (the Templar) is using his power with the King's Pardon to entice pirates to come quietly into the fold. As a way to stave off that appeal, Edward, Blackbeard and Steve Bonnet (who was now serving as part of Blackbeard's crew) first go diving for medicines underwater, but with no viable elixirs found, Blackbeard then takes Queen Anne's Revenge to Charleston to barter citizens for the medicine.
    • Edward backs up Blackbeard, taking the medicines and allowing the release. However, Blackbeard then sails off, searching for a place to settle down.
• The medicines do help some, but then Rodgers arrives with a flotilla under Commodore Chamberlain, seeking to bring the entire city under British rule.
  • Some pirates do choose to take the King's pardon, including Burgess, Cockram, and more significantly, Benjamin Hornigold. Hornigold gave up due to feeling that their chance to make something great was lost under squalor and sloth. However, Charles Vane and his crew decide to use a fireship to sail away from Nassau instead, refusing to give up their freedom.
    • To help it succeed, Kenway assassinates Commodore Chamberlin, then uses the fireship to destroy a ship and sail away.
• Seeking support from his old pal Blackbeard, Vane, Kenway, Rackham, Anne Bonny and Mary Read all sail to his hideaway. However, Blackbeard refuses to return, feeling old and worn out. Vane sails his crew away, while Kenway gains some intel on the missing Sage.
  • However, one of Blackbeard's mates betrays their location to the British navy, leading to Blackbeard's last stand. Though he and Kenway fight valiantly aboard a Man of War, Blackbeard is Shot, sliced, and eventually has his head cut off. Edward in turn retreats to the high seas.
• After mourning Thatch for several days, Edward teams up with Charles Vane to find the sage. However, unhappy with Vane's cruel treatment of those he plundered, and disgruntled on going on a wild goose chase after the observatory, Rackham leads a mutiny and a hostile takeover of Edward's crew. Adéwalé is captured, but Vane and Edward are marooned.
  • Going mad with the isolation, Vane and Edward fight one another. Though Edward beats Vane down, he refuses to kill him, instead walking away, and finding a ship to sail back to his sanctuary.
    • Vane would later be captured by British forces and imprisoned for his crimes.
• Edward spies on a Templar meeting, hearing word of "the Princess"(The Sage Roberts's last known place of employment) being around Principe. Edward curses out Benjamin Hornigold for joining the Templars and barely makes it out alive, but sails to Principe, rescuing Roberts and killing Cockrim and Burgess in the process.
• Bartholomew Roberts agrees to help Edward to the Observatory, but before joining up, he has him kill Hornigold, who was pursuing them for the Templars.
  • However, in this process, a rift begins forming between Adéwalé and Edward. Adéwalé begins seeing the Assassins for the heroes they are, and is angry at Edward's pursuit of gold and glory driving them into shadier waters with riskier partners. Edward however promises that as soon as they find the observatory and sell it, it will all be over.
• To that end, the Jackdaw and Black Bart (Roberts) arrive at the observatory. Edward subdues the guards, and he and Black Bart enter in. They see how it works, but upon leaving the main temple, Roberts betrays Edward. While Adéwalé manages to sail the Jackdaw to safety before this happens, Edward is captured and turned over to the British for his bounty.
  • Around this time, Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Mary Read are attacked and captured by the British.
• Edward, Rackham, Vane, Read and Bonney all rot away in a British prison for several months.
  • Around this time, Stede Bonnet is also hanged for Piracy. Unfortunately, due to his meeker persona, he dies pleading for his life.
  • Rackham dies hung in a cage at the prison they are being held in, 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 who later dies in prison), 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 (probably the same one Edward looted from Duncan Walpole) back saying it, "suits him." They part ways, Edward now washed up and grieving for the life he's lost.
• For months, Edward traverses from Bar to bar, lamenting his lost wife, lost friends, lost fortune. Finally, after seeing a vision of Mary Read pleading with him to change course, Adéwalé finds Edward again. He gives him back the Jackdaw, but then leaves, telling him to come to the Assassin HQ once he has his head on straight.
  • Sailing there, Adéwalé informs Edward that due to the difficulties of following a man "driven by selfish ambition", he is joining the Assassins apart from him. Edward accepts this sadly, and begins learning and assisting the Assassins more genuinely now.
    • Learning the Rope dart, Edward drives off a Spanish attack by Torres's men, better understanding the Assassin's creed, and being named an honored guest by Ah Tabai. He also comforts Anne, the last of his pirate mates for losing her child and all their friends. Anne accepts to became Edward's new quartermaster.
• Sometime later, Edward sets sail for Kingston to assassinate Woodes Rodgers. However, his bond with Adéwalé is still not mended, so he makes Anne his new quartermaster.
• Landing safely, Edward learns that Rodgers is being recalled to England for investigation into improper use of power by King George II. Stabbing him secretly, Rodgers and Edward at last find common ground in their desire to stop Black Bart. As such, Rodgers points Edward in the direction of Principe. Edward leaves, but Rodgers actually survives his wounds, returning to England safely.
  • However, upon return, Rodgers is disgraced by King George, and exiled from the Templars for going against the Order by participating in the slave trade despite being asked to divest himself from it for years. 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).
• Reaching Roberts, who's using the observatory skull to launch raids on ships, The Jackdaw and the Royal Fortune (Roberts's ship) engage, ending with Edward boarding and killing Black Bart. Receiving the skull, Edward sends his enemy's body to a watery grave so the Templars cannot have it.
• Returning to Havana, Edward tracks Torres's blood to the fortress, but it turns out the blood put in was from a decoy. Realizing the trap, Edward then kills El Tiberion.
• Chasing Torres back to the Observatory, Kenway gets a lucky break due to Torres accidentally activating defense measures in the building. Fighting the companies of soldiers he brought with him, Edward finally kills the Templar Grandmaster.
  • In their final moments, Edward tells Torres that he believes that what the Templars were trying to do would be far worse than anything he did. Torres in turn gives Edward a parting complement, saying "You wear your convictions well. They suit you."
    • Returning the skull to the observatory, the Assassins promise to seal it away from Templar hands. However, a letter now reaches Edward...
• 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 after their reorganization is complete soon just as Altaïr did to work among the people more closely. In the interim, the Carribean Brotherhood operates from Great Inagua before dispersing to cells.
  • Anne Bonny decides to stay around the Caribbean, but doesn't think she has the conviction to join the Assassins... yet.
  • A ship arrives in the cove, bearing Edward's daughter. Finally reuniting her with the father she never knew.
    • As such, Edward sails back with her to England, rich as a pirate at last, but with new life and priorities.
• Edward settles down as a "gentleman" of England. He remarries, and has 1 son: Haytham.
  • His daughter Jennifer though was disappointed that Edward chose to keep her from the Assassin life, wanting her to become a proper lady like her mother.
  • Meanwhile, the cousin of Duncan Walpole helps pardon Edward of his past crimes, making him a noble.
• Edward takes up strengthening the British Brotherhood, finding Pieces of Eden and hiding one behind a home in Buckingham.
• While training up his son, he teaches him the power to kill, but also how to show mercy.
• 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. Birch later captures both siblings. Jennifer is sold into Ottoman slavery by Birch.

The fall of Haytham Kenway, and the rise of Shay Cormac

• Edward Braddock of the Templar Order goes a little kill crazy in India, prompting the Templars to move him to America to stave off threats to him.

Haytham establishes himself

• Haytham Kenway is raised by Reginald Birch after the death of his True father.
  • While discovering the truth, Haytham has ingrained too much Templar worldview to turn on the Templars in principle. So while he settles on killing Birch, he decides instead to set up his own branch elsewhere.
• As the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) begins to rage in North America, The Assassins take the side of the French, while the Templars choose to back the British.
• After assassinating an Assassin at the theater, Haytham Kenway sails to America to start a new branch of the Templars. He recruits several lieutenants: William Johnson a natives ambassador, William 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.
  • To gain access to a precursor site, Haytham befriends a Mohawk woman, and to gain her trust, decides to sabotage the Braddock Expedition. Haytham kills Braddock personally, accusing him of betraying their cause by trying to "cut your way to resolution".
  • As the temple won't open without an Apple of Eden, Haytham decides to develop Templar goals the old-fashioned way through nation-building rather than messing with the Pieces of Eden. To that end, he inducts Charles Lee as a new official member of the order.

The fall of Shay Cormac

• Shay Cormac grows up as part of the assassin order. While a bit rough and cocky, his skill with a blade and a ship is undeniable.
  • 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 aren't that different in their methodologies and goals.
• Shay is trained by several senior assassins: Hope, Kesegawase, and his closest friend the assassin Number Two Liam.
• Working with Liam, Shay helps rescue some smugglers, and captures a british ship called The Morrgain. Taking it as his personal craft, Shay sails the north atlantic and new york coasts for the service of the brotherhood.
• For his first true assassination, Shay is sent after one of the senior templars of the colonial rite: Lawrence Washington, older brother to one George. With Lawrence sending the rest of his rite off to figure out a codex and box they recovered from a precursor site, Shay kills the sick man, learning of the templar plans, and sending him and Liam on a 2 year long chase for the artifacts.
  • During those 2 years, Achilles loses both his wife and his son Conner, turning him bitter and angry at the world.
• Shay Cormac tracks down the piece of Eden in Portugal. Unfortunately, upon removing it, it causes the infamous Portugal Earthquake, horrifying and sickening him.
• Shay steals a map to the precursor site in response to his conviction that the precursor sites should never be meddled with again, causing grandmaster Achilles to brand him a traitor to the order, forcing him to flee... straight into the arms of the Templars.
• To keep Achilles from using the Piece of Eden again, Shay resolves to hunt down and kill any in his way trying to destroy the Pieces of Eden.
  • He slowly kills his many former friends, including killing the aged Adéwalé.
  • At the end of his journey, Haytham shoots Achilles in the leg as a warning to all assassins to never mess with them again.
• In 1763, with the end of the war, the Templars plunder the Assassin homestead, killing every member except for Achilles and Robert Faulkner, whom Haytham declares as harmless at the behest of Shay, who points out that they need survivors to tell the other Assassin Brotherhoods to not mess with the sites from the Precursor Box to prevent a potential catastrophe.
  • In the wake of their failure and loss, Achilles retreats to the homestead as a crippled failure and Faulkner descends into alcoholism.
• Haytham rescues his sister Jennifer and kills Reginald Birch with her in revenge, though they have a fallout and Jennifer lives in England in comfort but with severe depression over her ordeal.

The life and times of Connor Kenway and Aveline de Grandpré

The life of Connor Kenway

• Ratonhnhaké:ton is born around 1756. While his mother is a Mohawk, the identity of his father is that of Templar leader Haytham Kenway, who due to his "new world" work, is absent from his son's life.
  • As such, he grows to boyhood learning the way of his people, making a best friend in the tribal leader's son Kanen'tó:kon. One day, out playing hide and seeks, he runs into Charles Lee, who threatens him. As such, when his village is burned down later, he blames lee for the tragedy. Further compounded by his mother's death in the fire.
• Years later, he is given a vision of the future by Juno via a Piece of Eden their tribe holds. Juno says that without his efforts, the Templars will breach "the sanctuary", destroy his people, and destabilize the area. As such, he leaves his tribe to search for the symbol she shows him in order to train and follow to defeat their secret plans.
  • As such, he travels to the old Assassin homestead in Maine, where Achilles and William Falkner of the old colonial brotherhood live in shame and disgrace "waiting death."
    • While Achilles refuses to help Connor at first, after fighting off brigands on the land, Achilles reluctantly takes him on as his apprentice, teaching him English and the ways of the Assassins.
• On a trip into Boston, Achilles gives him the name Connor to help him blend in. While there, Connor tries to prevent the Boston Massacre, which was started by the Templars for their own purpose.
• Connor catches wind of William Johnson trying to buy his people's land. Ever the freedom loving man, Connor enlists the help of the sons of liberty and his best friend to institute the Boston Tea Party. However, this is not enough, and realizing that he now needs to take more direct steps, Connor buries a tomahawk into the manor, marking the beginning of his true war with the Templars.
  • Reaching the meeting place of the tribes and Johnson, Connor kills Johnson, knowing his Templar aims, but hearing from him about how he was trying to protect the land from greedy colonists.
• Connor's next mission is to help protect Sam Adams and John Hancock from the attacks of John Pitcairn, a Templar commander in the British army.
  • Joining up with Paul Revere, Connor rides to Lexington, sending a warning and calling up Militia to oppose this act of oppression.
    • To that end, thanks to his mobilization, Connor helps spark the battles of Lexington and Concord, beginning the American Revolution.
    • Much to his anger though, when attending the Second Continental Congress to address the war effort, he finds out Charles Lee now works in the congress. During this time he's also introduced to George Washington, the new commander of the army.
  • Then, he joins the battle on Breed's Hill against the charging British. Working his way around enemy lines, he strikes Pitcairn down. Pitcairn accuses Connor of acting like a child in killing so quickly, and that now the war will continue without stop. However, in his coat pocket, Connor also finds evidence of a plot to kill Washington.
• As the revolution grows, Connor next sets his sights on Thomas Hickey, currently working out of New York in counterfeiting and plotting to kill Washington.
  • During his attempt on his life, both Hickey and Connor are arrested, but thanks to Haytham and Lee, Hickey pulls a switcheroo, making the courts think Connor is Hickey, then planning to use the cover of his hanging to kill Washington.
    • However, the Assassins have caught wind of this, and with Achilles leading them on, they rescue Connor, who kills Hickey. Interrogating him, Hickey gives no information, simply stating he was all about being paid and living hedonistically.
    • Sometime after this, the declaration of independence is signed. Connor and Achilles watch over it, Achilles commenting that even though this will probably end badly, it's still a great accomplishment.
• Connor then lends a hand to Aveline in hunting down "the company man" in America.
• In 1778, Connor rides to Valley Forge, intent on warning Washington about the Templar conspiracy. While he eventually chooses to keep him in the dark upon realizing he has other problems, he does choose to pursue another Templar whose stolen supplies for the valley.
  • In the process, he teams up with his father, the two of them debating means, ends, and philosophical differences between Assassins and Templars.
    • Catching up with Church, they recover the supplies, and kill him, as he'd deserted the Templars some time before as he felt the British Crown was a better offer than what the Templars were doing, and more righteous a cause.
• All during this time, Edward's been sailing around the coast, hunting Nicolas Biddle. Eventually, he catches up with the Randolph, catching Biddle and killing him. Biddle claims his work helped strengthen the revolutionaries by weeding out loyalists, strengthening the navy, and leading them to strength.
  • As a show of respect, Connor scuttles the Randolph as per Biddle's last request.
• Continuing to work with his father, Connor eventually learns of an attack on his village, due to them now supporting the British... and because Charles Lee convinced Connor's friend of Connor's ill intent. Connor swears of working with either of them for the time, stopping Washington's men, but has to kill his friend in self-defense.
  • Assisting in stopping Charles Lee from causing the destruction of the revolutionary army at Monmouth, nonetheless Connor swears off working with Washington.
• Washington calls Connor to investigate Benedict Arnold and his guarding West Point. He discovers the plot to surrender the fort, leading to Arnold fleeing.
• Searching for Charles Lee, Connor gains the help of Lafayette in bombarding a part of the area around Yorktown in order to go after lee.
  • However, anticipating this, Haytham switches places with Lee and engages Connor on his arrival. Despite his own reservations, Connor kills his father in self-defense.
• Around 1781, though possibly in 1782, Achilles dies, leaving the estate and the brotherhood to Connor.
• In 1782, Connor moves to kill Charles Lee at last. Chasing through a shipyard and eventually catching up with him at a tavern, they share a drink, then Connor kills Lee.
  • 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 (whether Achilles died just before or just after Lee is unclear, though likely the latter is true).
• Later, he finds an Apple of Eden that George Washington has come into contact with. When they both touch it, they witness an alternate timeline where Washington becomes king of America, and Connor is now a spirit warrior with a living mother and the founding fathers all scrambled in allegiance.
  • Defeating Washington in the vision, Connor takes the Apple from Washington at last, and casts it into the sea.
  • He also warns Washington that having poured so much into this nation, he might be called on to continued service rather than the retirement he desires.
• Connor continues to cultivate the American brotherhood, eventually marrying and dying in the 1800s of natural causes.

The life of Aveline

• 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.
• Aveline secretly trains as an assassin under Mentor Agate of the New Orleans brotherhood.
• Aveline goes on a campaign against the New Orleans Templar Rite over a Precursor prophecy disk. During this campaign, he kills several high ranking Templars including an Assassin defector from Francois Mackandal's short lived Brotherhood (said Brotherhood had been crippled with the Haiti earthquake when one of theirs unintentionally triggered it as Shay would trigger the Lisbon Earthquake, with the Assassins not learning from their mistake due to them thinking the Haiti earthquake and tsunami to be a coincidence, indirectly leading to Shay's betrayal and Haytham's destruction of the Northern Colonial Brotherhood).
• Pretending to join the Templars, Aveline instead kills the members present in the meeting, ending with her "mother", the "Company Man" leading the New Orleans Rite of Templars.

The Life and Times of Arno Dorian

• Shay Cormac kills Arno's father. As his father gloats that Connor and The American Revolution 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 Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins reform into the American Rite and Brotherhood respectively.
  • With his father's death, Arno is taken in by Templar grandmaster De La Serre and his daughter Elise. As such, Arno grows up in a Templar household in the luxury of the reign of Louis XVI.
    • The order and the brotherhood at this time are in an... interesting condition. The Assassin leader Mirabeau is actually good friends with De La Serre, and as such, the orders are at a truce with each other. However, there are complications with this position. Namely, the Assassins have started diversifying their governing structure, so that they now have a council of Assassins that also make decisions to attack. In addition, despite De La Serre's stance, there is a putter of dissent growing underneath.
• Years prior, the Templar Francois Germain is exiled from the templars for speaking of visions he had. Namely, Germain is a new Sage... fragments of the Isu Aeita scattered across time and space. With new visions and inspirations, Germain is interested in moving the order in a new direction, but is exiled for his beliefs. However, he takes refuge at the house of Templar noble lady Marie and begins gathering new followers, including the disgraced tax collector La Touche, Maximillian de Robespierre, Citizen Le Peltier and the king of Beggars. Together, they begin plotting the fall of De La Serre, and a new dawn for the Templar order.
• In 1789, Arno has grown into a handsome but trouble-making guest of the De La Serres. Further, he's become quite possessive of his true father's watch.
  • Arno is given a letter to deliver to De La Serre. Unfortunately, the meeting De La Serre is attending is the calling of the Estate General. So De La Serre and Mirabeau are busy discussing what it will mean for the future of France. Further, getting into a fight with 2 locals, Arno is driven from the palace temporarily. Unwilling to risk going in for that again, Arno instead puts the letter under De La Serre's office door at home.
    • Next hearing of Elise's birthday party, Arno sneaks in and romances Elise for a while. However, upon exiting, he finds his foster father dying, and 2 men running off framing him for the deed.
• Thrown into the Bastille, Arno meets the Assassin Bellec, who recognizes that Arno has Eagle vision by seeing signs that aren't physically present.
  • During the storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789, Arno and Bellec escape, Bellec offering Arno a key to later join the brotherhood.
    • Returning to the De La Serre Estate, Arno finds out about Elise and her father being Templars, and that the letter he failed to deliver was a warning to protect De La Serre. As such, he's rejected from the house.
    • With nowhere else to go, and needing to avenge his foster father, Arno goes to the Assassins, and upon passing mental trials, is accepted as a novice in the order.
• In 1791, after years of training and the French revolution swirling around him, Arno finally begins to make plans to kill Sivert: a lower ranked Templar who he heard identified as one of De La Serre's killers.
  • The two years since the beginning of the revolution has been slow but tense for the Assassins and Templars. Despite killing De La Serre, Germain has yet to fully consolidate his hold on the order, with high templar Chrétien Lafrenière lending Elise his support in facing the newer Templar order.
  • Killing Sivert in a confessional, one of Arno's unique abilities trigger, allowing him to learn the name of the other conspirator: The King of Beggars.
• With assistance from the Marquis de Sade, Arno interrogates Roile de Thumes's 2nd in comman Le Touche for information of his location. Working their way to Roile's sanctuary, Arno kills him, his abilities triggering again. Roile held a grudge against De La Serre due to him rejecting the possible information his beggars could provide as "the intrigues of rats", and thus he assisted in the assassination, but they reported to another person. A Grandmaster who Arno couldn't determine right away.
• Germain gets his hand on a sword of Eden, using its powers to battle Elise and Arno.
  • Though they do stop him, in the explosion from the piece of Eden, Elise is killed, shattering Arno's world one last time.

The 1800s

• Jennifer Scott Kenway dies aged 92 in 1805, still distraught over Haytham's death at her nephew Connor's hands.
• Napoleon Bonaparte uses a Piece of Eden to become Emperor of France. Though against oppression, the Assassins choose to ally with Napoleon thanks to his past history with Arno Dorian. With his help, they hide the skeleton of Francois Germain in the crypts in plain sight.
• The Industrial Revolution kicks into full steam. However, with Germain's new school of thought, the Templars begin integrating themselves into society differently. Choosing to become industrialists, bankers and corporate leaders rather than just prime ministers or Kings, indirectly influencing politicians (while still retaining some political members who serve as puppets and mouthpieces to the Rite Grand Masters, who in turn now report to the newly established Inner Sanctum which takes global command of the Order, centralizing Templar activity, over time the further ranks of Guardians -senior Inner Sanctum members- and the General of the Cross, the undisputed but anonymous leader, are established as the top level command, with the earlier existing Council of Elders reformed into serving as a review board that assists the Inner Sanctum and makes sure that central authority is followed).

The Liberation of 1868 London

• Years prior to the beginnings of liberation, fraternal twins Jacob and Evie are born to the Assassin Ethan Frye.
  • They are born into a brotherhood disparaged. Ever since Edward Kenway's era, the Assassins in Britain have been on the defensive, London as the Templar stronghold, and their work being more on the margins.
• The twins train and grow, and while both are well regarded, Evie receives much of the praise and honor due to her honoring her father's will far more, growing resentment for Jacob, though directed at his father rather than his sister.
• In 1868, Henry Green is the last remaining Assassin operating in London proper. He sends letters to their leader on the fringes, asking for help so as to stop the Templars from poisoning the world through the British Empire.
  • Around this time, the twins run two assassination missions against Templar leaders Sir David Brewster and Rupert Ferris.
    • Jacob kills Rupert Ferris for his involvement in labor oppression, but the chasing templars accidentally crash a train in the process.
    • Evie kills Brewster who was working on an experiment with a Piece of Eden. His personal desire is to use it to disprove Charles Darwin as incorrect about Evolution and bring God back into their creation story. (Brewster is a rare genuine Christian among the Templars) Unfortunately due to pressure by his superior Lucy Thorne, he pushes it too far, causing an explosion at his factory, and destroying the Piece of Eden.
• Frustrated by George Westhouse's unwillingness to move the Assassins back to the main city, Jacob and Evie hitch a train to London, meeting up with Henry Green, and beginning to plot to destroy the Templars in their stronghold.
  • To that end, in order to give them space and a foothold, Jacob takes over a branch of a local gang, turning them into the Rooks. Gathering allies through different parts of the London underworld, they begin their work taking back London Burroughs from the Templar blighters, using a train as their HQ so as to never be in one space too long.
• However, despite their mutual desire to free London, the twins disagree on tactics. While Jacob wants to start attacking leaders as soon as possible, Evie wants to seek out the 2nd Piece of Eden that David Brewster mentioned when he was killed.
  • Although they collaborate in taking boroughs and helping notable figures around London such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Alexander Graham Belle, and Charles Dickens, they split up to do their own thing when it comes to seeking more concrete steps to retake London.
• Evie, partnering up with Henry Green, explores Edward Kenway's old mansion (now a Templar stronghold) to find clues of the new Piece of Eden. Gradually making her way around different London Monuments, she learns that the Piece of Eden is the Shroud of Turin. However, she loses different keys to finding it due to pursuit by the Templar Number Two: Lucy Thorne.
• Jacob joins up with Charles Darwin, seeking to shut down production of a medicine called Starrick's Soothing Syrup, which causes brain damage with repeated use. While they stop some shipments and destroy some factories, Darwin eventually passes on to Jacob that the mastermind behind creating the syrup is Dr. John Elliotson. Infiltrating his asylum, Jacob murders him in his demonstration room, Elliotson mocking Jacob as "A child who thinks he can solve all the world's woes with a flick of a blade."
  • While Elliotson's death does stop the syrup, without his hand on top, counterfeit medicines and thefts of ingredients begin occurring in London, putting the sick at risk. Evie subsequently helps retrieve some of the materials, while assisting Florence Nightingale. Nightingale proposes more direct government regulation of medicine, which in due time, helps stabilize the crisis.
• Jacob's next target is Starrick's transportation assets. He teams up with a "rival" Pearl Attaway in sabotaging and stealing different assets Starrick has, including an internal combustion engine for smaller vehicles. However, upon killing Starrick's chief engineer, he discovers Pearl was in fact Starrick's cousin, and the whole thing was a ploy for Pearl to cement HER control of the rails. For this deception, Jacob kills her.
  • However, with her death, the different train lines become targets for Gang manipulation, forcing Evie to steal deeds and drive off racketeers. She eventually passes the main train line deed to a new board company intent on creating a more accountable system for London transport.
• Tracking the shroud to the Tower of London, Evie kills Lucy Thorne, but finds out that the shroud is in fact elsewhere.
• Jacob spies on some bank robbers, eventually discovering that the Templar Philip Twopenny is robbing banks as a way to offset assets in the Templars' favor. But Twopenny's not just any gang leader. He's in fact the Bank of England's president, just using his position to steal from savers. In the midst of robbing the bank of London, Jacob kills him. Twopenny complains that only the Templars could create the city needed as investors, but mocking his greed, Jacob leaves him a shilling "for the path of the dead."
  • Unfortunately, Twopenny's death lead to a MASSIVE crisis for the British economy. Not just that they lost their leader, but there was also counterfeiting money, the loss of the 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.
• Following this, both twins begin having excursions with Parliament. Evie tries to use the last Sikh emperor to gain access to the Piece of Eden, which she determines is under Buckingham Palace. She runs into Templar troubles though, and compromises the mission when she chooses to save Henry Green rather than gain access to the shroud. She tries to break off with Green, thinking herself emotionally compromised from this, which was against what her father taught her. However, the Sikh mentions that this wasn't exactly what happened with her parents (having known them in the past), causing Evie pause.
  • Jacob meanwhile courts the great political figures of the era, seeking to kill the Earl of Cardigan, a Templar aristocrat. He sneaks into parliament and murders him on the eve of passing the election reform bill.
• Having taken over a sufficient amount of blighter territory, Jacob is then given an invitation to dine with the Blighter's lead gangster: Maxwell Roth. Uneasy but curious, Jacob goes to Roth, who in fact seeks an alliance with Jacob. It turns out Roth doesn't like working with the Templars, and seeks to bring down Starrick's business empire so he can be free to do as he wishes.
  • Working together, Roth and Jacob have major successes together against Starrick's empire. However, in one excursion, Roth tries to destroy a child labor factory, which is a line Jacob refuses to cross.
    • Afterwards, Jacob enters a performance Roth is putting on, which turns out to be a plot to murder all the patrons. Killing him, Jacob escapes triumphant, though shaken from the experience, particularly at the implication that he and Roth were attracted to each other.
• Seeing as he has no more areas to control London, Starrick decides to take drastic measures: namely at Queen Victoria's next ball, killing the elite of London so he can rule and protect from now on.
  • Catching wind of Starrick's plan to enter Buckingham to claim the shroud, Evie and Jacob's relationship is put to the test as they both call each other out on their perceived shortcomings. Henry makes temporary peace between them with proposing a plan to recover the shroud and kill Starrick in one go, but the twins still resolve to part company afterwards.
• Entering the party, Evie draws the attention of Starrick while Jacob kills the Templar snipers about to kill everyone. Realizing his plot is falling apart, Starrick steals Evie's key, and reaches the shroud.
  • However, teaming up again, Evie, Jacob and Henry eventually kill Starrick, putting it back into hiding as it's too great a price to heal by stealing life.
    • Having survived together, the twins reconcile, Henry Green proposes to Evie, and the twins go on several missions for Queen Victoria.

The Templar Web Grows

• During a honeymoon in India, Jacob adopts one Jack the Lad who was traumatized by the death of his mother at the hands of the Templars. Jacob takes him on as an Assassin, teaching him to fight the Templars.
  • However, Jack's mind eventually snaps under the strain of the creed, now believing that it gives him freedom to kill and bring terror to scare people into the truth, taking an extremist stance that the Assassin's must brutally slaughter any foes and civilians to scare society straight. He turns the Rooks on the twins and imprisons Jacob, and brutally murders several assassins disguised as prostitutes, some innocent victims and mental asylum employees who abused him before Jacob took him on. He thus becomes well known in all London as Jack the Ripper.
  • Returning to duty, Evie slowly dismantles Jack's network, then confronts and kills Jack.
• Thomas Edison, a Templar by trade, sabotages the efforts of Nicholas Tesla to bring free, cheap electricity to the world through his famous "elephant shock" demonstration.
  • Humiliated and infuriated, Tesla works with the Assassins to destroy a Piece of Eden, causing the Tunguska Event in Russian history.
• Jacob's granddaughter Lydia Frye, having been trained by her grandfather and grandaunt while her parents were doing field work for the Assassins, 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. Lydia's husband, Sam Crowder, having enlisted in the British Army as with many male British Assassins is not present when she dismantles the German Imperial London spy network secretly controlled by the Templars. The Master Spy, the last to fall, turns out to be another Sage of Aita and had secretly been working to restore Juno having infiltrated the Templar's.
• Russian Assassin Nikolai Orelov and his son escape the Russian Brotherhood which had fallen into extremism with the communist revolution, saving Princess Anastassia Romanov in the process, who takes the alias of Anna Andersen after receiving the fake papers meant for Orelov's late wife and daughter. Orelov's son Innokenti eventually becomes a grandparent to Daniel Cross.
• Vladimir Lenin, sympathetic to the Assassin's, dies, and his favored successor Leon Trotsky, also an Assassin ally, loses power to Templar operative Joseph Stalin, who turns the ostensibly free Soviet Union into a totalitarian nightmare as part of a plot to discredit left wing extremism by the Templars.
• Henry Ford uses the assembly line to turn work into another form of Templar control, assuring both the major capitalist and communist powers, the USA and the USSR, are firmly in the secret hold of the Templars.
• Abstergo is founded as a global megacorporation slowly achieving secret monopoly of the economy and political bribes as a front for the Templars. The Inner Sanctum is mostly made up of high ranking Abstergo employees, while the Council of Elders serve as the major shareholders.
• 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 for the Templars, at the very end of the war, an Assassin kills Adolf Hitler who had just faked his suicide by killing a body double in attempt to meet with fellow Templar Stalin and escape, messing up their final phase for the war.

The Edge of Defeat

• In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Assassins begin worldwide coordination, with a single central Mentor for the entire Brotherhood.
• In 1963, the Templars kill John F. Kennedy in order to get the Piece of Eden the presidency has. Templar aligned Lyndon B. Johnson ascends to the Presidency and funds the moon landing as per Templar orders.
• In 1969, the Templars use the guise of the moon landing to gain another Piece of Eden which had been on the Moon.
• In 2000, the Assassins are thrown into chaos when the mole Daniel Cross kills the Assassin Mentor 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, temporarily removing central command from the Brotherhood as they rebuild.
• To try conducting a new and dangerous operation, William sends 2 agents deep cover into the Templars: Lucy Stillman and Clay Kaczmarek. 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, over concerns that the Assassin plan to save the planet from a massive solar flare in 21 December 2012 will not work. 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.

The Life and Times of 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 William Miles and Mrs. Miles. Trained from the day he could walk to start becoming an Assassin.
  • However, he never quite came to believe in the Assassin mythos due to neglect from his father, and ran away to New York City to become a bartender.
• One night, he has a drunken one-night stand with a female on a night off. This results in her eventually becoming pregnant with his son.
• Around this time, Templar Inner Circle Research Director Warren Vidic runs a program on his newest model of the Animus to train agents very quickly in both singular and competitive scenarios. Finnish Utti Jaeger veteran Juhani Otso Berg (who Vidic recruited in exchange for treating Berg's daughter's cystic fibrosis) and several others show particular promise.
  • Daniel Cross taunts Berg that he will end up crazy just like Cross. Berg retorts that he is a stable combat veteran whose Animus sessions are closely monitored, two things Cross definitely doesn't have.
• Everything changed for Desmond on the day the Templars kidnapped him into Abstergo industries: The new front for the Templar order. He's made to relive the life of Altaïr as their way to try and find where other Pieces of Eden are using their fine-tuned Animus: allowing them to view Desmond's genetic memories.
  • While their science head Warren Vidic plans to kill Desmond after getting the information, his assistant Lucy ends up "rescuing" him once he finishes showing the Templars worldwide locations for the Pieces of Eden.
• Retreating to a safe house alongside Lucy's team members Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, 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.
  • 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, relieving Ezio's time in the Ottoman Empire and through Ezio's viewing of Altair's memory disks, Altair's recorded memories and last moments. With him synchronizing fully with Altair and Ezio (the former due to his death and the latter as he fathered his daughter with Sofia Sartor), the Animus beings deleting the safety program he was trapped in. Clay sacrifices his remaining existence to save Desmond so that he can view the final parts of Ezio's genetic data and wake up safely.
• Arriving at the precursor site that Haytham Kenway once sought to open, Desmond uses the Apple of Eden to open it. Then he starts looking at the memories of Connor to find the key to opening the temple and saving the world.
  • To accomplish this, Desmond also takes breaks where he talks with his friends and father, while also retrieving power sources to open up the temple more and more.
    • However on one session, William Miles tries to go out to get the last source alone, but is captured by Otso Berg and brought to Abstergo's Italy facility.
    • Berg is questioned by Inner Circle member Laetitia England, Head of Operations, on his conduct during the capture. Berg is marked down as Cross's successor for Field Operations.
• Charging into Abstergo Italy, 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.
  • Although the killings don't deal any major blows to the Templar leadership, it does force them to raise up new leaders in field operations and science.
• 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.

Video games and Initiates

• William Miles takes a leave of absence from his status as acting global Mentor to grieve for Desmond.
• 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.
  • He also is contacted by Rebecca and Shaun, who now work undercover as foodies.
  • However, Juno is still too weak to take over the employee's body, and in John's frustration, he's killed.
• A different employee does some research on Shay, and upon finding "proof" of the Assassins fallibility, is offered induction into the order... or death.
• Assassin handler Bishop (an alias, her real name is classified) instructs an Initiate in synchronizing the memories of Arno to make sure that Grand Master Germain's sage remains aren't also recovered by the Templars, already taken care of by Arno, and to find out what happened to the French Royal Apples of Eden.
• Now operating in the field, Rebecca and Shaun travel to London to find the Shroud. They battle Templar agent Violet da Costa, Grand Master Juhani Otso Berg and Inner Circle member Isabelle Ardant for the Piece. After a close escape that allows them to pull the data for the Frye Twins; Bishop and the Initiate synchronize Jacob and Evie Frye's memories to find the Shroud and Bishop details Russian Master Assassin Galina Voronina to London to help in the recovery.
  • In their final battle over the shroud, one of the Templars (Historical Operations Executive Isabelle Ardant) is killed by Shaun, but Rebecca is critically injured, and the Assassins are forced to concede the shroud to the Templars.
  • The Shroud is passed over to new Templar Research Director and Inner Circle member, Alvaro Grammatica, but one of the Templars, Violet Da Costa, is in fact a mole for Juno, who's secretly manipulating the Order.
  • The Initiate further synchronizes Jacob, Evie and Jack the Rippers data from the Whitechapel murders and the events surrounding them.
  • The Initiate explores Lydia Frye's memories for the World War 1 London spy ring lead by the German Sage, at the behest of Juno.

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, the 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.
• Cal lives his life on the run, eventually being caught and executed for murder. However, the execution was a ruse, and Sophia Rikkin takes on Cal as her latest subject in her quest to find a cure for violence.
  • Plugged into Abstergo's more... interactive Animus, Cal begins living out the life of his Spanish ancestor, learning more about his captors, fellow captives, and the Assassin–Templar conflict. He also meets his father, learning the true reason behind him murdering his mother. However, to exercise his free will, he follows the memory to its end, learning about the Apple of Eden Christopher Columbus had. Yet through this memory, he eventually comes to terms with his being of Assassin blood, and is initiated into the order by digital ghosts of his mother and other Assassins from his bloodline.
• The captive Assassins of Spain launch an escape on the compound. While many perish in the attempt, several do escape and led by Cal, make ready to steal back the Apple the Templars are about to get.
• Alan Rikkin reveals to his daughter his intent to claim credit for finding the Apple, and then using it to defeat the Assassins once and for all.
  • Outraged at the perversion of her work, Sophia eventually lets Cal walk into the Templar meeting, and assassinate Alan Rikkin right in front of all the lead Templars. He then steals the Apple of Eden and escapes.
    • Shamed by causing her father's death, Sophia vows to hunt down Cal. Cal meanwhile escapes into the night with his new cell in order to fight another day.

The New Chosen One

• Layla Hassan is tasked by Sofia Rikkin to synchronize Bayek's memories.
  • In the process, she begins to learn the truth of Templar actions, and eventually escapes Abstergo.
  • She then is picked up by the assassins as part of their global artifact retrieval team, now that Shaun and Rebecca need to recover.

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