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The Rings of Seth are a set of three Rings of Eden said to have been bestowed by the Isu Seth to his champions. They are directly connected to the Staff of Seth, which is able to control those who use the rings.[1] All of the rings have some illusionary power, making it seem as if the wearer has been transformed into a type of monster, namely, a mummy by the Ring of Sand,[2] a vampire by the Ring of Blood,[3] and a werewolf by the Ring of Moon.[4] Besides this, the Ring of Sand specializes in illusions, the Ring of Blood has mind-manipulating powers, and the Ring of Moon gives heightened perceptions and physical prowess.[5]
The Rings[]
Ring of Blood[]
The Ring of Blood
- Main article: Ring of Blood
The first records relating to the Ring of Blood mention that the Wallachian Voivode Vlad Tepes received a ring from a mysterious figure that bestowed upon him "otherworldly powers" to fight the Ottoman Empire.[6] In the Victorian era, the British Assassins encountered a vampire while investigating a series of gruesome murders in London, England. After they learned a visiting Wallachian nobleman was the culprit, he escaped before they could confront him,[7] though they followed him to Transylvania. Once near his castle, the vampire attacked the Assassins, but they managed to overpower and kill him. As he fell to the ground, the vampire's form faded to reveal a normal human with the Ring of Blood on his finger before the body dissolved into ash.[3]
Ring of Moon[]
The Ring of Moon
- Main article: Ring of Moon
In 1788, the Louisiana Brotherhood received reports of grisly murders happening in New Orleans, as well as tales of a predator terrorizing livestock.[8] Noticing that most of the victims had connections to illicit trades and tenuous links to the suspected Templar Don Vicente Jose Nuñez, the Brotherhood decided to probe this lead further by infiltrating his residence. Their investigation did not take place, for as they arrived at their destination, they found the house engulfed in flames. The werewolf burst out of the house and onto the street from a window, before both it and the Assassins were chased out of the city by the soldiers. Reaching a Hopewell site in the bayou, the group witnessed the werewolf transform back into a man as he died. Before they could retrieve the Ring of Moon from the body, a group of Templars led by Nuñez entered the cave. The Assassins managed to defend themselves and keep the Ring out of Templar hands, killing Nuñez during the struggle.[4]
Ring of Sand[]
The Ring of Sand
- Main article: Ring of Sand
In 1923, laborers at the Tomb of Tutankhamun dig site uncovered a secondary tunnel leading to an new network of chambers and passageways. In one of the chambers, they located a solitary sarcophagus that housed the Ring of Sand. The Templars, led by Lord Carnarvon, swiftly mobilized to seize control of the site. When the Templars attempt an incursion to the chamber, they were attacked by a living mummy wielding a golden khopesh. The mummy controlled a veritable menagerie: skeletons armed with rusty weapons, colossal snakes, swarms of carnivorous scarabs, sand ghosts, and zombie hyenas, all of which obeyed their command. After the mummy noticed a group of Assassins had also infiltrated the site, they, too, became targets, though they managed to defeat the mummy. When a panicked Templar agent threw a grenade at the corpse, the detonation triggered a chain reaction that caused the underground complex to start collapsing, though the Assassins managed to emerge just before they would have been trapped inside.[2]
Zixuan Long's plot and recovery by the Assassins[]
By 2016, the Ring of Blood was in Templar possession and had been transferred to the Abstergo Industries executive and high-ranking Templar Aleksandr Omovich for safekeeping in the private vault in his villa alongside the Ring of Moon. The Abstergo archaeologist Dr. Zixuan Long arranged for a meeting at the villa, under the pretext of showcasing the recently-discovered Staff of Seth and its connections to the rings. During the meeting, Long activated the Ring of Blood using his assistant, who underwent a transformation and, under the Staff of Eden's control, carried out a massacre in the mansion, allowing Long to take the Ring of Moon.[1] Through their investigations, the Assassins eventually pieced together a trail leading them closer to the creature's lair,[9] an abandoned structure not far from the villa. While attempting to look for clues in the location, they were attacked by a 7-foot tall werewolf. Though a formidable adversary, the creature was eventually beaten, reverting to a normal woman upon death, the Ring of Moon on her finger. The Assassins retrieved the ring and returned to their hideout.[10]
After having previously featured in the Egyptian Museum's exhibit of Tutankhamun's latest relic collection despite a lack of records attesting to its provenance, the Ring of Sand was loaned in 2016 to the British Museum as part of an artifact exchange along with a few other items from the Tutankhamun collection.[11] While it was on display in London, an Assassin cell was forced to kill a Long's assistant who had been transformed into a vampire again and controlled into stealing the Ring. After recovering her artifact and stealing the one on display,[12] the Assassins later took the three Rings of Set to the Isu vault beneath the Valley of the Kings, preparing to stop Long's schemes and prevent him from reaching where he thought Apophis rested. After their confrontation, Seth took over Dr. Long's body and spoke to the Assassins by transmitting his voice through the rings.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
The Rings of Seth are a series of Rings of Eden introduced in the Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game's third supplementary book, Forging History. While the "Pirate Ring of Eden" from the tabletop game's second volume Legacy of the Brotherhood copies its ability to project an energy shield over its wearer from previous Rings, this set has unique colorings and names, and their abilities are taken from characters in Universal Monsters' classic horror films and have not been previously established in the Assassin's Creed series to be among a Ring's alternate functions.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – The Mansion Massacre
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – The Great Egyptian Discovery
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – From Dusk Till Dawn
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – Howling at the Fire
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – Fulfill your Destiny
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – From Dusk Till Dawn – Sequence Hooks: "Dracula's Origins"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – The Mansion Massacre – Sequence Hooks: "London Twilight"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – Howling at the Fire – Sequence Hooks: "Swamps and Whispers"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – From Dusk Till Dawn – Sequence Hooks: "Investigation"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – The Wolf Among Us
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – The Great Egyptian Discovery – Sequence Hooks: "Mysterious Origins"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – Hackney Diamonds