Liberation of Rome



The Liberation of Rome was an event taking place in the Italian Renaissance in which the city of Rome was liberated from the rule of the Borgia by the Assassins and was brought into the Renaissance.

In 1500, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze travelled to Rome to once more seek revenge on the Borgia. Rome, under the rule of the Borgia, had become decrepit, decaying under oppresion and corruption. The people were starving, scared and feared for their lives. Ezio needed to make the people believe again. His mission was not just about destroying the Borgias: it was, more importantly, bringing the ideas and beliefs of the Renaissance to Rome.

Recruiting the rebels
Upon arriving in Rome, Ezio and Niccolò Machiavelli, another Assassin, began renovating Tiber Island and made it the center of their operation. Ezio knew he was going to need help if he was to defeat the Borgia. He began saving rebellious citizens who were being bullied by Borgia guards. After being rescued, they knelt down to Ezio and swore their allegiance to the Assassin cause. Ezio then sent them to Niccolò Machiavelli, where they would become Assassins themselves.

The Borgia influence
Rome was under the iron fist of the Borgia. The people were scared, living miserably and were being constantly bullied by Papal guards as well as the occasional highwayman or bandit. The Borgia kept control over the five districts in Rome using towers, which were guarded by its leader and group of guards. The tower prevented shops from re-opening, making the districts dull and decrepid. There was a strong military presence in Rome, as the Borgia had the Papal armies at their command. Papal guards constantly bullied and harassed the people, scaring and terrifying them into submission. Rome under the Borgias was a police state, and the people of Rome had begun to lose all hope.

Liberation
Ezio started with the Borgia towers. In order to free the districts, the towers had to fall. First, Ezio had to find the tower leader, kill him and make his way to the top of the tower and blow it up with barrels of gunpowder. With each tower destroyed, shops started to re-open, dull and grey buildings would become flourishing homes, crime reduced and less Papal guards occupied the districts. The city's streets and renovations improved, the citizens also changed, beggars and addicts became artists and merchants and Ezio would also get to recruit more apprentices with the towers destroyed. Borgia flags were scattered across Rome to show that the Borgia controlled that area. As Ezio collected the flags, the Borgia lost more of their control over the people. Rome began to change and rebuild and the people grew more confident that the Borgia had less and less control over their lives.