User blog:Jasca Ducato/*Spoilers* Juno, Eagle Vision and all that. *Spoilers*

Right, well firstly, here is my one and only spoiler warning for this blog. If you haven't completed Brotherhood, or do not want the ending spoiled for you, go away now.

Juno, not Minerva
Having just made a number of posts on the official forums, I believe it would be worth my creating a blog to share my views, and to hear your own. So without further ado, here goes. Upon entering the catacombs beneath il Colosseo, Desmond Miles is confronted by another pre-recorded member of the First Civilisation. Although her name is never explicitly given, it is hinted that she is in fact Juno; Lucy mentions the Santa Maria Aracoeli is built on top of the old Temple of Juno, this in turn suggests that the Temples mentioned in ACII may well be the Temples of Juno, Minerva and Jupiter (see Capitoline Triad). After arriving at the Santa Maria Aracoeli, Desmond proceeds to make his way to the platform high above the ground. Along his journey, Juno provides another dialogue. In it she says: "Here is a safe place. Eternal. To store objects. Words. Wisdom. But not life. Almost did we have the means. But time&hellip;time erodes us. We can distract him. We can see past him. Faint left when he strikes right. But his reach is so very long. His stamina unending. We cannot evade his grasp. Not forever." Now, who exactly she is referring to I do not know, although I suspect she may be talking about Ezio and his descendant, Desmond, though I cannot be sure.

Anyways, after entering the Vault Juno reappears and preaches the following:

"A hundred years I might speak and still you would not know us. You with five senses. Us with six. The one we kept from you. To be safe. Now, you can never know. Only try. Grasp. You can SEE. SMELL. TASTE. TOUCH. HEAR. Knowledge has been blocked away. After, when the world became undone, we tried to pass it through the blood. Tried to join you with us. You see the blue shimmer. You hear the words. But you do not know. WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT YOU AS YOU WERE. It is hard to stay contained. Knowing as we do. We wait for you Desmond. You will come here. You will activate us. You will know only when it is too late. "

Eagle Vision and the "Sixth sense"
This is where it starts to get interesting (yes, it was all pretty boring up to the point). Juno tells Desmond that whilst humanity only has five "senses", sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing, the First Civilisation have six: the sixth one is "knowledge". Now whilst it is not explicilty said what this knowledge is, what it constitutes, or what is enables TWCB to sense, here speech does provide hints. Take the line "Knowledge has been blocked away.[&hellip;] You see the blue shimmer. You hear the words. But you do not know." Now, the "blue shimmer" is, without a shadow of a doubt, the Eagle Vision, which we know to be a by-product of human/First Civilisation inter-breeding. This suggests that Eagle Vision is a watered down version of the "knowledge" Juno talks about, and that it provides the members of Desmond's lineage only a glimpse of what was possible with the full knowledge.

"After, when the world became undone, we tried to pass it through the blood. Tried to join you with us. You see the blue shimmer. You hear the words. But you do not know. WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT YOU AS YOU WERE." From this I have come to the following conclusion: the "world became undone" is more than likely referring the the Human-First Civilization War and the catastrophe that followed. After the war, with the First Civilisation on their way to extinction, attempts were made to pass on the sixth sense to humanity, their own creations. However, they were only ever able to pass on the watered down version that is Eagle Vision, the "blue shimmer" as Juno calls it.

After completing the puzzle, Desmond asks Lucy Stillman, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane if they heard what Juno had said to him, Lucy replies that they heard nothing. This accounts for the line "You hear the words." Juno is talking to Desmond through his sixth sense, and as such only Desmond can hear her words; this explains why none of the others heard what was said.

Ultimately, I believe that the sixth sense, or "knowledge" was a gift that allowed the First Civilisation to know all they needed to about the alignment and intentions of those they looked upon, whereas Eagle Vision only shows you the alignment and provides hints as to what should be done (like an advanced form of instinct or intuition), the intentions of those being viewed upon ultimately remain a mystery (unless otherwise learned).

Credit scene
This is a short section, made up entirely of my own OR, but worth a mention in my honest opinion.

During the credits, you hear two individuals discussing Desmond. One mentions that he is going into shock, and argues against the decision to return him to the Animus when the second individual suggests doing so. The second individual also says that the have no choice but to return him to the Animus, to prevent his death. Now, these two are both men, and neither of them are Shaun Hasstings. Now, if you lot took the time to read all the emails during the game, you will have spotted that Lucy had been conversing with an individual named "William", and that they were discussing Desmond and their concerns for his health. I believe that the two voices being heard are this William, and a second man also mentioned in one of William's emails (his name temporarily eludes me), and that they are both members of the Assassin Order.

Of course, their are those people out their who have picked up on Lucy being called a traitor, and as such it opens the possibility that William is not a member of the Assassins, but whatever affiliation Lucy truely serves (and don't go assuming I'm talking about the Templars', becuase I'm not&hellip; there may well be a third party involved for all we know).

So, that is it (for now), let's hear what you have to say?