The Truth

"Hello. This is...they call me Subject 16. Listen, I don't have much time - there's something I have to show you. We have been lied to this whole time; everything we know, everything we've been brought up to believe - it's wrong."

- Subject 16

The Truth is a sidequest in Assassin's Creed II that can be unlocked by uncovering glyphs throughout the world, and solving the puzzles that accompany each glyph. There are 20 in all, and successfully unlocking each one will give a bit more insight into the Origins of the Templars, the Assassins, and the Piece of Eden.

In the video, Adam and Eve, dressed in skin colored bodysuits, are seen running from something. They move through an open area which may be The Garden of Eden. The scenery is a mixture between flora, a shiny blue material that resembles glass, and a white surface which sounds like stone. The garden is decorated in a very futuristic style which is a strong contrast against the biblical setting. Moving through a circular automatic door, Adam and Eve use free-running (similar to that used by the Assassins) to climb a large, futuristic looking building. While they are climbing the building, a shadow of a huge humanoid and apparently floating being can be seen holding a Piece of Eden to control several human slaves. These workers appear to be in an environment similar to that of a metal refinery, with one slave in the foreground clearly using a hammer to shape a metal object. The brief appearance of the shadow is visually similar to Minerva, sharing the flowing clothes and glowing emblem on the headwear. Adam and Eve continue climbing until they reach the roof of the building. The camera zooms outwards, revealing many other futuristic buildings surrounding them. Further in the background, a mountain is clearly visible, while there is little other elevation in land elsewhere. The terrain is lush, and large forest boundaries are visible. Eve can then be seen to be holding a Piece of Eden. Eve then says "Adam, I have it!", Adam acknowledges Eve, and she then yells: "Look out!" as an unknown, unseen person appears behind them. The memory suddenly ends, and binary code flashes up. The numbers read: "EDEN"

These glyphs are based upon the markings left behind in Assassin's Creed, which were left behind by Subject 16, and written in his blood. Many of these glyphs can be recognized as the Cryptic Messages from the previous game, and can only be seen with Eagle Vision.

Trivia

 * It looks like the mountain in the background is Mount Kilimanjaro, as the mountain is visually identical to the mountain. The image appears to be taken from the one in Wikimedia, except that it's horizontally flipped. This also makes sense because Mount Kilimanjaro is in Africa, and the origins of humans are said to be in Africa, more specifically mid-Africa, which is also roughly the location of Kilimanjaro. Also, one of the dots on the codex map in AC2 is in Africa, at roughly the area of Mount Kilimanjaro. Further adding to this theory is that Lucy herself said that Vidic tagged events in the Middle East and Ancient Africa.
 * The video seems to predate the destruction of Those Who Came Before, and possibly the human rebellion and the war that followed. As Adam and Eve seem to had taken The Apple without permission and are probably trying to escape with it, one can assume that they had started the rebellion. Judging by the existence of humankind, they had succeeded at whatever they were up to.
 * At the end of the video, a block of binary code can be seen briefly. The code is "01000101 01000100 01000101 01001110" which translates as EDEN. Also, the number of zeroes is 20, and put together with the number of ones (twelve) it makes 2012, referencing the Doomsday date of December 21st, 2012. It is mentioned in Assassin's Creed II that on that date, a solar flare will wipe out humanity, like one apparently did to Those Who Came Before.
 * The viewing angle of the camera suggest that it is a recording of one of Subject 16's session in the Animus; this in turn would indicate a direct lineage between 16, and Adam and/or Eve.
 * Adam is voiced by Nolan North, the same voice actor who voices Desmond.
 * The music being played during Adam and Eve's escape from Eden in the video, is the same music that plays while Desmond and Lucy are escaping Abstergo at the beginning of ACII and when Ezio is running away from the guards after the execution of Petruccio, Federico, and Giovanni at the hands of Uberto Alberti. It's also the "Open Conflict" song of Forlì. It is entitled "Wetlands Escape" on the Assassin's Creed 2 Original Game Soundtrack."
 * In the PS3 version, Eve does not say, "Look out!" At that point, it is just silent and the binary for "Eden" appears.

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