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Assassin's Creed: Brahman is a graphic novel published by Ubiworkshop on 30 October 2013. Writer Brenden Fletcher joined artists Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, who previously worked on Assassin's Creed: The Fall and Assassin's Creed: The Chain, to work on the graphic novel. Assassin's Creed: Brahman takes place in India in 1839 and focuses on Arbaaz Mir, an Assassin, as he battles a lifelong foe who has subjugated Mir's land and people, and his modern-day counterpart, Monima Das.
Synopsis[]
Who is Jot Soora? Devoted fiancé of movie star Monima Das, gifted programmer at software giant MysoreTech, or deadly Assassin with a secret?
When Jot stumbles into a layer of code deep in his company's new device, the discovery threatens his relationship, his job and his life. it also reveals shocking links to an ancestral past that cause him to question everything he knows about himself. As he delves further into memories stored in his genetic makeup, he uncovers an age-old battle between The Templar Order and The Assassin Brotherhood, both of whom are racing to find a mysterious artifact buried in the past that has the power to alter the fate of all mankind.
Karl Kerschl (Superman, The Flash) and Cameron Stewart (Batman & Robin, Catwoman), the award-winning creators of the critically acclaimed Assassin's Creed: The Fall and Assassin's Creed: The Chain, are joined by writer Brenden Fletcher (Wednesday Comics: The Flash) on Assassin's Creed: Brahman—the latest generation-spanning graphic novel companion to the blockbuster video game series.
Plot[]
Jot Soora is a programmer in MysoreTech located in Bangalore. He is also the fiancé of Monima Das, a famous actress in India. It was revealed that Monima is the descendant of Arbaaz Mir. Arbaaz had courted with the princess Pyara Kaur, granddaughter of Ranjit Singh, the founder of Sikh Empire.
MysoreTech has been assigned by Abstergo Industries to distribute Animus consoles across India in an attempt to access the genetic memories of the descendants of Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur living in India in order to find a Piece of Eden. Jot was found to be a descendant of Raza Soora, the mute servant and apprentice of Arbaaz, for which the Assassin had hired and accompanied him on the latter's adventures.
One day when Jot brought the Animus console home, Monima tried it on while Jot was sleeping and she was able to access her genetic memories, where she found that she was a descendant of Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur. Jot later found out that the machine could also extract memories from the operator's DNA and upload it to the Abstergo Cloud server. Through the cloud server, Jot relived some specific memories of Arbaaz Mir.
Jot learned that Mir was on the trail of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a Piece of Eden. The diamond is told to hold an immense source of energy with the power to bind the fate of all Pieces of Eden together as one. It is also known that only women can hold the power it contains. Mir finds out through his fellow Assassins that it was being held by Ranjit Singh. Eventually, Mir retrieved the diamond, but it was reluctantly surrendered to Singh's granddaughter, Pyara Kaur, who attempted to escape the palace with it, following her grandfather's death at the hands of the Templars. Discovered and threatened by the Templars, Pyara takes out the diamond, upon which a member of the Isu—the Indian goddess Durga—possesses her and speaks through time to tell Jot Soora that the Templars and Assassins must stay of the same heart and unite to defeat Juno, but upon the diamond shattering with a stray bullet, the ensuing release of energy vaporizes everyone in the area except Pyara Kaur, Arbaaz Mir, and Raza Soora.
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Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 - 27 June 1839) founded the Sikh Empire, which extended across the Punjab region to the northwest of India from 1799 to 1849.
He was the son of a small faction leader at the head of a misl, one of numerous entities comprising the region at that time. During childhood, he suffered from smallpox which resulted in the loss of one eye. He succeeded his father at the age of twelve.
During the summer of 1799, Ranjit Singh conquered the misl of Lahore, the economic capital of the region, with the ensuing expansion leading to his being crowned Maharajah of Punjab at twenty years of age. He then launched an attack on the Afghans, acquiring many territories where Islam was the predominant religion.
Although some of their conquests were violent, the Sikh Empire proved to be very progressive and open-minded for the times. All religions were freely allowed there, and the very rigid Hindu system of social castes did not apply in the Sikh religion, in which all men were considered equal. With the annexation of Kashmir to the north and Sindh to the south, Muslims represented more than 70% of subjects in the Sikh Empire.
Wanting to have his memory live on in the Sikh religion, Ranjit Singh ordered the sacred temple of Harmandir Sahib to be adorned. He had marble installed there, and had the exterior covered entirely in gold leaf. From then on, the western world referred to the sacred center of the Sikh religion and culture as the "Golden Temple".
Even today, Ranjit Singh is venerated by Sikhs across the entire world as one of the great heroes of their culture. A bronze statue approximately seven meters high (22 feet) representing Maharajah Singh was unveiled in the vicinity of the Indian Parliament in August 2003.
The Koh-i-Noor is a 105-carat diamond. Almost certainly one of the most desirable gems on the planet, it has passed through the hands of many dynasties on the Indian subcontinent. There are some who believe the diamond to be the fabled Syamantaka Mani, perhaps the most famous jewel in Hindu mythology, supposed to be blessed with magical powers.
In 1850, the diamond was confiscated from the Sikh Empire by the British East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. The diamond is currently set into the Crown of Queen Elizabeth and is on display at the Tower of London.
It is believed that the Koh-i-Noor carries with it a curse which affects men who wear it, but not women. All the men who owned it have either lost their throne or had other misfortunes befall them. Queen Victoria is the first reigning monarch to have worn the gem. Since Victoria's reign, the stone has generally been worn by the Queen Consort, never by a male ruler.
Situated in the northwest of India in the Punjabi state, Amritsar is the spiritual center of the Sikh community. The city owes its name to the sacred pool constructed in 1573 by Ram Das, the fourth ranked guru in Sikhism. In 1588, his successor Guru Arjan ordered the construction of a sacred place at the same location where Guru Nanak, the very first guru, would go to meditate. The Harmandir Sahib, known in the western world as the "Golden Temple", was completed in 1604. Guru Arjan had the manuscript of his commandments installed there. His writings today are the basis of the Sikh faith, which considers this book as the words of its last living guru.
In 1801, Ranjit Singh was crowned Maharajah of Punjab, subsequently creating the Sikh Empire. During his reign, Amritsar became the region's capital.Trivia[]
- In Hinduism, "Brahman" is the name used for God when not addressing him without any form (not his avatars or representations). It is also defined as the ultimate unchanging reality, that is uncreated, eternal, infinite, transcendent, the cause, the foundation, the source and the goal of all existence.
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