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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Assassin's Creed'' (French comic series)}}
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Assassin's Creed'' (Les Deux Royaumes comics)}}
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{{Comic Infobox
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|image = Assassin'sCreedIDesmondCover.jpg
'''''Assassin's Creed''''' is a series of comic books split into several volumes, originally published in French for [[Canada]] and [[France]]. While the original volume was primarily based on the storyline of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' - though notably different - the second and third issues shifted their focus to a completely original storyline based on the characters [[Aquilus]] and [[Accipiter]], while also borrowing elements from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''.
 
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|Writer = [[Eric Corbeyran]]
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|Penciller = [[Djilalli Defali]]
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|Colorist = [[Alexis Sentenac]] {{c|1-3}}<br>
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[[Cyril Vincent]] {{c|4-6}}
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|Publisher = [[Les Deux Royaumes]] {{c|[[France|FR]]}}<br/>[[Titan Comics|Titan Books]] {{c|[[United States|US]]}}
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|Start Date = November 11, 2009 {{c|FR}}<br />October 30, 2012 {{c|US}}
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|End Date = October 31, 2014 {{c|FR}}<br />November 17, 2015 {{c|US}}
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|Genre = Historical Fiction
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|Format = Graphic novel
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'''''Assassin's Creed''''', also known as '''''Assassin's Creed'' – Cycle 1''' is a series of graphic novels consisting of six volumes, originally launched in French on 11 November 2009 by [[Ubisoft]]'s publishing division, [[Les Deux Royaumes]]. It was later translated and published in English by [[Titan Books]] in 2012.
   
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While the present events taking place in the series have been deemed as non-canon by Ubisoft, the past events featuring the [[Assassins|Assassin]] ancestors are canon.
So far, six volumes have been released: ''[[Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]''.
 
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A [[Assassin's Creed: Conspirations|second cycle]] to be published by Les Deux Royaumes was announced in 2016 with a different creative team.
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==Series==
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The series have been organized into two trilogies consisting of:
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===''The Ankh of Isis Trilogy''===
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{{Main|Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy}}
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Consisting of ''[[Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]'', ''The Ankh of Isis Trilogy'' is an alternate take on the story of [[Desmond Miles]] and his search for an [[Pieces of Eden|ancient artifact]], called the [[Ankh]].
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The first volume, ''Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond'' was primarily based on the story-lines of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''. The next two volumes, ''Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus'' and ''Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter'' shifted focus to a completely original story-line based on the titular characters, [[Aquilus]] and [[Accipiter]], with elements from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' mixed in.
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{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
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! width="5%" |'''Publication date'''
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! width="5%" |'''Hardcover'''
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|''[[Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond]]''||November 11, 2009 {{c|FR}}<br />October 30, 2012 {{c|US}}||rowspan="3"|<center>[[File:TheAnkhOfIsisTrilogy.jpg|100px]]<br />''[[Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy]]''<br />November 5, 2013 {{c|US}}<ref>[https://www.bookdepository.com/Assassin-s-Creed---The-Ankh-of-Isis-Trilogy/9781781163436 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy]</ref></center>
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|''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]''|| November 12, 2010 {{c|FR}}<br />October 30, 2012 {{c|US}}
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|''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]''|| November 10, 2011 {{c|FR}}<br />October 30, 2012 {{c|US}}
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===''The Hawk Trilogy''===
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{{Main|Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy}}
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Consisting of ''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]'', the second trilogy in the series focused on two new characters, a new [[Modern times|modern day]] Assassin by the name of [[Jonathan Hawk]] and his [[Egypt]]ian ancestor, [[Numa Al'Khamsin]].
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''The Hawk Trilogy'' centers around Jonathan Hawk, a member of the modern day Assassin cell based in [[London]], who relives the [[Genetic memory|memories]] of his Egyptian ancestor Numa Al'Khamsin, in order to locate the [[Scepter of Aset]]. In contrast to ''The Ankh of Isis Trilogy'', ''The Hawk Trilogy'' offered a completely original modern day story, contradicting little established events from the games.
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{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" style="text-align:center;"
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! width="5%" |'''Title'''
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! width="5%" |'''Hardcover'''
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|''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]''||November 16, 2012 {{c|FR}}<br />November 12, 2013 {{c|US}}||rowspan="3"|<center>[[File:TheHawkTrilogy.jpg|100px]]<br />''[[Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy]]''<br />November 5, 2013 {{c|US}}<ref>[https://www.bookdepository.com/Assassins-Creed-Eric-Corbeyran/9781785653889?ref=grid-view&qid=1574685442668&sr=1-3 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Hawk Trilogy]</ref></center>
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|''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]''|| October 31, 2013 {{c|FR}}<br />November 18, 2014 {{c|US}}
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|''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]''|| October 31, 2014 {{c|FR}}<br />November 17, 2015 {{c|US}}
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
*While the first comic shared enough discrepancies with the games to suggest it was not canon to the series, the second comic, ''Aquilus'' was confirmed by [[Ubisoft]] to be part of the ''Assassin's Creed'' universe, both in the Universe video and in the Encyclopedia. However, the third comic, ''Accipiter'' did not seem to be part of the canon; while it had some similarities to ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' it was a completely original story with no references to [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]'s time in [[Rome]], and with the [[modern times|modern-day]] [[Assassins]] searching for the [[Ankh]] instead of [[Ezio's Apple of Eden]].
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*While the first comic shared enough discrepancies with the games to suggest it was not canon to the series, the second comic, ''Aquilus'' was confirmed by Ubisoft to be part of the ''Assassin's Creed'' universe, both in the Universe video and in the Encyclopedia. However, the third comic, ''Accipiter'' did not seem to be part of the canon; while it had some similarities to ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' it was a completely original story with no references to [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]'s time in [[Rome]], and with the [[modern times|modern-day Assassins]] searching for the Ankh instead of the [[Apple of Eden 6|Apple of Eden]].
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*The events surrounding the Ankh are [[AE files:The Ankh|obliquely referenced]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' which includes a nod to the comics' non-canon modern-day storyline.
**A major contradiction of the first comic was that [[Clay Kaczmarek|Subject 16]] was alive. Official guidebooks for ''Assassin's Creed'' stated that [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]]'s [[doctors]] "were too late to save him" after he cut a vein to produce the [[Cryptic Messages|messages]] seen by [[Desmond Miles]] through [[Eagle Vision]] and it was explicitly stated by [[Alexandre Amancio]] that Subject 16 was physically dead. [[Lucy Stillman]] appeared to act uncaring towards him and was irritated by his presence later in the first comic, which contradicted greatly to the visible guilt and grief she showed about him during the games. While the original French edition of the first volume gave his name as "Michael," the English translation changed it to "Clay."
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*A major contradiction of the first comic was that [[Clay Kaczmarek|Subject 16]] was alive. Official guidebooks for ''Assassin's Creed'' stated that [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]]'s [[doctors]] "were too late to save him" after he cut a vein to produce the [[Cryptic Messages|messages]] seen by Desmond Miles through [[Eagle Vision]] and it was explicitly stated by [[Alexandre Amancio]] that Subject 16 was physically dead. [[Lucy Stillman]] appeared to act uncaring towards him and was irritated by his presence later in the first comic, which contradicted greatly to the visible guilt and grief she showed about him during the games. While the original French edition of the first volume gave his name as "Michael", the English translation changed it to "Clay".
**Another point that differed from the games was that the [[Apples of Eden]] were called "Spheres."
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*Another point that differed from the games was that the [[Apples of Eden]] were called "Spheres".
**The drawings shown in Desmond's room bore no resemblance to those of the game.
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*The drawings shown in Desmond's room bore no resemblance to those of the game.
**The progression into ''Assassin's Creed II'''s main events via the modern-day Assassins and [[Animus]] greatly differed, some characters being entirely omitted as of the first comic.
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*The progression into ''Assassin's Creed II''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main events via the modern-day Assassins and [[Animus]] greatly differed, some characters being entirely omitted as of the first comic.
**There was also a contradiction in that Aquilus' memories were relived after his child's conception, even to the point of his own death — something that genetic memory constraints should not allow.
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*There was also a contradiction in that Aquilus' memories were relived after his child's conception, even to the point of his own death — something that genetic memory constraints should not allow.
**Lucy is depicted as a very different character in this series than she is in the games. For instance, she showed a much colder side rather than the calm and empathetic personality that she displayed in the games - to the point that Desmond jokingly called her "Ice Queen", although she did lighten up as the series progressed, developing into a character much closer to that of the games. Her feelings for Desmond were also less ambiguous than they were in the games, with the two actually kissing at one point. Lucy was also shown to not be a [[Templars|Templar]] double agent like in the games and was, in fact, nearly killed while trying to protect Desmond when the Templars found them in [[Monteriggioni]].
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*Lucy is depicted as a very different character in this series than she is in the games. For instance, she showed a much colder side rather than the calm and empathetic personality that she displayed in the games - to the point that Desmond jokingly called her "Ice Queen", although she did lighten up as the series progressed, developing into a character much closer to that of the games. Her feelings for Desmond were also less ambiguous than they were in the games, with the two actually kissing at one point. Lucy was also shown to not be a [[Templars|Templar]] double agent like in the games and was, in fact, nearly killed while trying to protect Desmond when the Templars found them in [[Monteriggioni]].
   
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
 
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Desmond Backcover.jpeg|Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond full cover
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Desmond Backcover.jpeg|''Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond'' full cover.
Aquilus Backcover.jpeg|Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus full cover
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Aquilus Backcover.jpeg|''Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus'' full cover.
Accipiter Backcover.jpeg|Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter full cover
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Accipiter Backcover.jpeg|''Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter'' full cover.
Ankh of Isis Trilogy.jpg|Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy cover
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Tome4hawk.jpg|''Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk'' cover.
Tome4hawk.jpg|Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk cover
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CakrCover.jpg|''Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr'' cover.
CakrCover.jpg|Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr cover
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Leilacover.jpg|''Assassin's Creed 6: Leila'' cover.
 
Assassin's creed characters (French comics books) by Krystel.jpg|Concept art of Aquilus and Numa Al'Khamsin.
Leilacover.jpg|Assassin's Creed 6: Leila cover
 
Assassin's creed characters (French comics books) by Krystel.jpg
 
 
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Assassin's Creed, also known as Assassin's Creed – Cycle 1 is a series of graphic novels consisting of six volumes, originally launched in French on 11 November 2009 by Ubisoft's publishing division, Les Deux Royaumes. It was later translated and published in English by Titan Books in 2012.

While the present events taking place in the series have been deemed as non-canon by Ubisoft, the past events featuring the Assassin ancestors are canon.

A second cycle to be published by Les Deux Royaumes was announced in 2016 with a different creative team.

Series

The series have been organized into two trilogies consisting of:

The Ankh of Isis Trilogy

Main article: Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy

Consisting of Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond, Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus and Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter, The Ankh of Isis Trilogy is an alternate take on the story of Desmond Miles and his search for an ancient artifact, called the Ankh.

The first volume, Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond was primarily based on the story-lines of Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed II. The next two volumes, Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus and Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter shifted focus to a completely original story-line based on the titular characters, Aquilus and Accipiter, with elements from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood mixed in.

Title Publication date Hardcover
Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond November 11, 2009 (FR)
October 30, 2012 (US)
TheAnkhOfIsisTrilogy
Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy
November 5, 2013 (US)[1]
Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus November 12, 2010 (FR)
October 30, 2012 (US)
Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter November 10, 2011 (FR)
October 30, 2012 (US)

The Hawk Trilogy

Main article: Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy

Consisting of Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk, Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr and Assassin's Creed 6: Leila, the second trilogy in the series focused on two new characters, a new modern day Assassin by the name of Jonathan Hawk and his Egyptian ancestor, Numa Al'Khamsin.

The Hawk Trilogy centers around Jonathan Hawk, a member of the modern day Assassin cell based in London, who relives the memories of his Egyptian ancestor Numa Al'Khamsin, in order to locate the Scepter of Aset. In contrast to The Ankh of Isis Trilogy, The Hawk Trilogy offered a completely original modern day story, contradicting little established events from the games.

Title Publication date Hardcover
Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk November 16, 2012 (FR)
November 12, 2013 (US)
TheHawkTrilogy
Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy
November 5, 2013 (US)[2]
Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr October 31, 2013 (FR)
November 18, 2014 (US)
Assassin's Creed 6: Leila October 31, 2014 (FR)
November 17, 2015 (US)

Trivia

  • While the first comic shared enough discrepancies with the games to suggest it was not canon to the series, the second comic, Aquilus was confirmed by Ubisoft to be part of the Assassin's Creed universe, both in the Universe video and in the Encyclopedia. However, the third comic, Accipiter did not seem to be part of the canon; while it had some similarities to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood it was a completely original story with no references to Ezio Auditore da Firenze's time in Rome, and with the modern-day Assassins searching for the Ankh instead of the Apple of Eden.
  • The events surrounding the Ankh are obliquely referenced in Assassin's Creed: Rogue which includes a nod to the comics' non-canon modern-day storyline.
  • A major contradiction of the first comic was that Subject 16 was alive. Official guidebooks for Assassin's Creed stated that Abstergo's doctors "were too late to save him" after he cut a vein to produce the messages seen by Desmond Miles through Eagle Vision and it was explicitly stated by Alexandre Amancio that Subject 16 was physically dead. Lucy Stillman appeared to act uncaring towards him and was irritated by his presence later in the first comic, which contradicted greatly to the visible guilt and grief she showed about him during the games. While the original French edition of the first volume gave his name as "Michael", the English translation changed it to "Clay".
  • Another point that differed from the games was that the Apples of Eden were called "Spheres".
  • The drawings shown in Desmond's room bore no resemblance to those of the game.
  • The progression into Assassin's Creed II's main events via the modern-day Assassins and Animus greatly differed, some characters being entirely omitted as of the first comic.
  • There was also a contradiction in that Aquilus' memories were relived after his child's conception, even to the point of his own death — something that genetic memory constraints should not allow.
  • Lucy is depicted as a very different character in this series than she is in the games. For instance, she showed a much colder side rather than the calm and empathetic personality that she displayed in the games - to the point that Desmond jokingly called her "Ice Queen", although she did lighten up as the series progressed, developing into a character much closer to that of the games. Her feelings for Desmond were also less ambiguous than they were in the games, with the two actually kissing at one point. Lucy was also shown to not be a Templar double agent like in the games and was, in fact, nearly killed while trying to protect Desmond when the Templars found them in Monteriggioni.

Gallery

References