Cryptic Messages

When Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman leave the Abstergo laboratory at the end of Assassin's Creed, Desmond Miles is able to use his Eagle Vision, much like Altaïr in the past. There are Cryptic Messages scribed all over the floor and walls of his room and the Animus Room. Subject 16, the patient before Desmond, wrote these with his own blood to warn Desmond of what is happening.

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 * I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End: This is referenced to in Desmond's room, with the '22.13' symbol, which is the appropriate passage in the Bible.
 * Explanation: This is a well-known phrase from the Bible. It means that God is all-powerful. This yet again links back to the "New World Order" conspiracy.
 * 13.0.0.0.0. This is also written in Desmond's room.
 * Explanation: References the Mayan Long Count calender; the Mayan calender also ties in with the 2012 conspiracy.
 * Lorenz Attractor: The interlocking circular figures.
 * Explanation: The Lorenz attractor is a graphic representation of the Lorenz Oscillator, a 3 dimensional, fractal system that demonstrates chaotic structure, shows how a dynamical system evolves over time in a complex, non-repetitive pattern. Closely relates to Chaos Theory, which is an underlying theme of both games. Specifically how different occurrences at different times in history affect other separate events through a vast interlocking system of cause and effect throughout the annals of history. Also known as the "Butterfly Effect", which details how a butterfly could beat it's wings in Britain and cause a tornado in America due to cause and effect.
 * Mandelbrot set: also on the bedroom walls.
 * Explanation: The Mandelbrot set pertains zn^2 + c the Mandelbrot set is the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded.
 * The Eye of Horus and the Giza Necropolis to the right of Desmond's room on the computer platform there is the Eye of Horus and three triangles lined up diagonally.
 * Explanation: this seems to represent the Giza necropolis.
 * In Desmond's room there are three more types of writing: Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese.
 * Explanation: Hebrew – עולם הבא ("olam haba": The writing in Hebrew means "The World to Come". It refers to the utopian world that will exist after the coming of the Messiah, possibly a reference to the world the Templars seek to create.
 * Explanation: Arabic – الزلزلة: The writing in Arabic means "The Earthquake" which is the name of the 99th Sura of the Qu'ran and tells of Judgement Day and one of the signs of the end of the world.
 * Explanation: Asian Texts – Several quotes relating to the game and its key protagonists.
 * 個人生死個人了，個人業報個人消 ("You reap what you sow.")
 * 欲知未來果，今生作者是 ("One who wants to read into his future simply needs to write his own past.")
 * 人無遠慮，必有近憂 ("A man without far sight, must have near worries.")
 * 不聞不若聞之，聞之不若見之，見之不若知之，知之不若行之 ("Hearing is better than not hearing, observing is better than hearing, knowing is better than observing, and doing is better than knowing.")
 * 若人欲了知，三世一切佛，應觀法界性，一切唯心造 ("As a human being, if you want to know the spiritual realm of Buddha, you have to observe, you have to know that everything you see in the world comes from your own mind.")
 * 前事不忘後事之師 ("One who does not forget what was before is the master of what comes after.")
 * Within Emperor Jiajing's sin and Quetzcoaltz's hunger lies the Answers.: A message in Desmond's bedroom.
 * Explanation: The Jiajing Emperor was Emperor of China from 1521 to 1567. He is known to be a cruel ruler, and an assassination attempt was made on him in 1542 when his concubines tried to strangle him while he slept (a plot that ultimately failed). He was also obsessed with collecting elixirs and artifacts, in the hope that they would grant him everlasting life – this could possibly mean that within Assassin's Creed, he managed to acquire a Piece of Eden.
 * 'Quetzcoaltz' is probably a misspelling of Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec deity. Quetzalcoatl was the God of the sky and creation, and was responsible for the creation of books and calenders. Depicted as a feathered serpent, he was also the symbol of death and resurrection. Among the Aztecs, the name 'Quetzalcoatl' was also a priestly title.
 * Top Left Corner: A Mandelbrot set

Messages in Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood
Subject 16 leaves more messages behind in both Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. These appear in the form of Glyphs and Rifts respectively, and are scattered throughout their respective cities. Like the cryptic messages, they can be found using Eagle Vision, and contain puzzles that reveal additional information about the past and, once solved, the Truth.

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