User blog comment:Falcon eagle/About the Philippines/@comment-3132811-20121117064000

I already wrote a fan fiction about this. During the 1500s, Europeans deem Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan insane for believing that the world is round. Christopher Columbus would later on go westbound, only to discover the Americas, while Magellan followed and landed on Southeast Asia: the Philippine Islands. Columbus had it by luck. Magellan did it with a Piece of Eden, compliments of the Iberian Templars.

When they landed in Cebu, where they celebrated the Holy Eucharist, Magellan tried to court the local chieftains in the island. One dissident was a certain Lapu-Lapu, a local chieftain who is an honorary Assassin due to his ties with the Chinese and Arab Hashashins who frequently visit the island as traders. They fought the Spaniards and looted their treasure. One treasure was the Sto. Nino de Cebu. It is a statue of a young Jesus Christ holding a staff on his a right hand and an orb in his left. The orb is actually the Piece of Eden that aided Magellan in his conquest. The Spaniards retreated and returned with a better armory, then defeated the Moros and reclaim the Piece of Eden. They would later on rule the Philippines for 300 years until the rise of a new social class formed by individuals with Assassin backgrounds, the Illustrados, plotted the theft of the Piece of Eden with the aid of a widespread Revolution. Members of the Filipino Assassins-Illustrados include Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Juan Luna and many more, together with the Katipuneros such as Emilio Aguinaldo and Andres Bonifacio. They were the Filipino Assassins who fought for the independence we experience as citizens of the Philippines.

To this day, Filipino Assassins exist, mingling with ordinary citizens while performing their obligations as Assassins in secret. Abstergo Inc. and Templars are currently on the hunt for Assassins in Asia and the Philippines is the nation with the most Assassins in the South East.

"Ang lahat ay walang katotohanan, at ang lahat ay pinahihintulutan."