Database: Fading Hope

Protvino//Russia//1928 The following is an excerpt from a series of log entries from an Assassin lab in Protvino, outside of Moscow:

It's become clear to us that if Stalin is not a [[Templars|Templar, then he is, at the very least, their puppet. We miss Lenin more than ever.

Templar forces have infiltrated the, and they interfere in the affairs of the Academy. Yuri Petrovich Figatner, a Templar, heads a special "counter-revolutionary" commission and has turned the Academy into another organization.

The Mentor is in hiding. We are being hunted like never before, and he is a target. He swore he would continue to give orders from seclusion. He laughed and called it his retirement. But there is no peaceful end to the work we do. There is only one end for people like us.

Under orders from our hidden leader, Sergei left our compound to hunt down Nikolai Orelov, the defector, and reclaim the Shard of Eden in his possession. It was a move born of desperation, and we have not heard from him in two years. I fear the worst.