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| − | Cross fled back to Abstergo's Philadelphia facility, where he revealed the location of all Assassin hideouts he had visited. The Templars then initiated a worldwide attack on the Assassins called the [[Great Purge]], resulting in the near-decimation of the Assassin Order.<ref name="ACTF"/> Abstergo also employed the aid of several other brainwashed Assassins during the purge, including [[Maxime Gorm]], who became Cross' war dog.<ref name="ACBl"/> The remaining members of the Brotherhood continued to operate in covert cells around the globe,<ref name="AC2"/> eventually falling under the leadership of William Miles.<ref name="ACRV"> |
+ | Cross fled back to Abstergo's Philadelphia facility, where he revealed the location of all Assassin hideouts he had visited. The Templars then initiated a worldwide attack on the Assassins called the [[Great Purge]], resulting in the near-decimation of the Assassin Order.<ref name="ACTF"/> Abstergo also employed the aid of several other brainwashed Assassins during the purge, including [[Maxime Gorm]], who became Cross' war dog.<ref name="ACBl"/> The remaining members of the Brotherhood continued to operate in covert cells around the globe,<ref name="AC2"/> eventually falling under the leadership of William Miles.<ref name="ACRV">《[[刺客信条：启示录]]》</ref> |
| − | In the following years, the Templars continued to hunt the Assassins, and achieved to thin out their diminished numbers.<ref name="AC2" /> In October 2002, Cross – then a Templar agent – infiltrated the Assassins' secret [[library of Ivan the Terrible]] and retrieved the [[Prophet's Codex]], from which the Templars learned about "[[Desmond Miles|Desmond]]" and his importance to the First Civilization.<ref name="ACTC" /> Desmond, the son of William Miles, fled the Assassin compound known as [[the Farm]] to escape from his Assassin life on his next birthday. Two years later, Miles sent [[Lucy Stillman]] to infiltrate Abstergo as an assistant to Dr. Warren Vidic, director of the [[Animus Project]].<ref name="AC1"> |
+ | In the following years, the Templars continued to hunt the Assassins, and achieved to thin out their diminished numbers.<ref name="AC2" /> In October 2002, Cross – then a Templar agent – infiltrated the Assassins' secret [[library of Ivan the Terrible]] and retrieved the [[Prophet's Codex]], from which the Templars learned about "[[Desmond Miles|Desmond]]" and his importance to the First Civilization.<ref name="ACTC" /> Desmond, the son of William Miles, fled the Assassin compound known as [[the Farm]] to escape from his Assassin life on his next birthday. Two years later, Miles sent [[Lucy Stillman]] to infiltrate Abstergo as an assistant to Dr. Warren Vidic, director of the [[Animus Project]].<ref name="AC1">《[[刺客信条]]》</ref> |
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- “有时我们做事的目的可能会重叠，但也仅此而已了。双方的分歧点归根结底还是自由。我们追求自由，他们厌恶自由。所以我们的斗争永无休止，直到有一方被彻底消灭。”
- ―威廉·迈尔斯讲述刺客与圣殿骑士之间的斗争。[来源]
从人类文明的破晓直至现代社会，刺客的历史已沿袭数千年。尽管直到中世纪，刺客们才拥有了较为先进的组织体系，但早在埃及托勒密王朝、罗马帝国，乃至薛西斯一世统治末期、亚历山大大帝和秦始皇的时代，刺客们的先驱就有了鲜明的活动踪影。在这些先驱者们作为刺客组织浴火重生之后，他们的足迹又遍布了后世各个时代的角落。
自诞生之初，刺客这一群体和他们的先驱们便一直与圣殿骑士团及其早期化身进行着漫长的争斗。
古代
先驱活动
- “导师的角色是监督和协调我们组织的行动，以通过自由意志来追求和谐。在过去，这通常意味着杀死任何变得过于强大或贪婪的人。”
- ―导师关于组织的行动方式，2000年。[来源]
亚当和夏娃带着一颗伊甸苹果逃离了伊甸园
刺客的理念最早可被追溯到人类文明初生的时期，即伊述纪元的人类对他们创造者的反抗。亚当和夏娃率领人类抵抗压迫、追寻自由意志的壮举使他们成为了最早的刺客先驱。[1]
像亚当和夏娃一样，其他第一文明的后代也献身于保护人类的自由。[2]其中一个显著的例子是斯巴达国王列奥尼达斯的血脉，他在温泉关战役中为使希腊摆脱波斯国王薛西斯一世的控制而战斗，而薛西斯的支持者是圣殿骑士团的前身秩序神教。[3]
大流士刺杀薛西斯国王
截至公元前465年，由大流士、阿摩基斯、佩克特阿斯和其他人组成的波斯自由斗士小团体已经开始反抗薛西斯国王的和圣殿骑士团的另一个前身上古维序者的统治。公元前465年，他们伏击了薛西斯的随从，导致薛西斯死于大流士之手；[4]这成为有文献记载的首次使用袖剑。[2]
在薛西斯死后，大流士担心这位国王的继任者阿尔塔薛西斯也会屈服于上古维序者的控制，并计划杀掉这位年轻的国王。他的计划被阿摩基斯挫败了，之后阿摩基斯和他的同伴们一起叛逃到上古维序者，希望利用他们的资源带来改变。[4]后来，大流士被诬陷企图暗杀阿尔塔薛西斯，然而这场暗杀实际上是由上古维序者实施的，[5]并导致阿尔塔薛西斯失明。[6]在随后的几十年里，上古维序者一直在追杀大流士以及伊述血统的其他后裔，他们将其称为“污血者”。[4]
伯罗奔尼撒战争
- “就摧毁神教而言，你完成了我做不到的事，你是个英雄。但这种不平衡的状况是得付出代价的，孩子。在没有混沌的情况下，秩序就变得至高无上，进步与自由将化为乌有。但是我们还有希望——希望就在你，以及你带来的未来之中。”
- ―毕达哥拉斯在角锥体创造的幻象中与卡珊德拉交谈，约公元前422年。[来源]
公元前446年，秩序神教精心策划了一项绑架斯巴达国王列奥尼达斯的孙子阿利克西欧斯的计划，他同时还是毕达哥拉斯的儿子。神教强迫皮提亚帕希迪亚宣布一个预言，即阿利克西欧斯会导致斯巴达的灭亡。在卡珊德拉破坏献祭阿利克西欧斯的仪式后，他被推定已死并被神教带走，神教打算利用他独特的血统来解锁伊甸碎片。卡珊德拉被其继父尼科拉欧斯从忒格特斯山的山崖上扔下后，也被认为已死，而她在长大后成为凯法隆尼亚的一名被称为“驯鹰人”的雇佣兵。[3]
卡珊德拉与阿利克西欧斯的重逢
公元前431年，秩序神教精心策划了斯巴达与雅典之间的伯罗奔尼撒战争，以秘密控制希腊。卡珊德拉被秩序神教成员厄尔皮诺聘用去杀死实际上是她的继父尼科拉欧斯的斯巴达将军“血狼”，[3]但她并没有杀死血狼，只是将他的头盔拿去复命。[7]通过厄尔皮诺，卡珊德拉知晓了神教的存在、他们对寻找卡珊德拉的母亲密里涅的兴趣，以及她的弟弟已经成为神教的成员。她随后游历了希腊各地，与希罗多德、苏格拉底、希波克拉底、阿斯帕西娅和伯利克里等人结盟，以帮助她寻找有关母亲下落的线索，与此同时，她还通过铲除神教成员来打乱神教的计划。[3]
在未能从她的弟弟手中救出伯利克里，并目睹雅典落入神教成员克勒翁的控制之后，卡珊德拉与她的母亲团聚，并通过她，将她的生父毕达哥拉斯定位在锡拉岛上古老的第一文明城市亚特兰蒂斯的遗迹中。通过她的父母，她发现了她的血统的重要性，以及她在保护亚特兰蒂斯免受那些试图利用亚特兰蒂斯的力量谋取自身利益的人的侵扰的任务中所扮演的角色。[3]
卡珊德拉与抵抗军会合
公元前424年，卡珊德拉杀死了斯巴达的双王之一的波萨尼亚斯，将斯巴达从神教统治下解放了出来。两年后，她与她最亲密的盟友们组织了一场抵抗运动，希望把雅典从这座城市的新领导人克勒翁的统治下解放出来，最终在卡珊德拉安菲波利斯战役中杀死了他。不久之后，密里涅和卡珊德拉在忒格特斯山与阿利克西欧斯团聚，[3]在那里卡珊德拉被迫杀死了她的弟弟。[7]在摧毁了神教之后，她从神教的神器——角锥体——中看到了未来刺客的幻象，然后她摧毁了那个神器但放走了神教的前领导人阿斯帕西娅。她还帮助毕达哥拉斯从世界上封印了亚特兰蒂斯，并从他那里继承了赫尔墨斯·特利斯墨吉斯忒斯的权杖，让她可以无限期地活下去，直到她把权杖传给“记忆继承者”。[3]
大约在同一段时间里，大流士和他的儿子奈塔卡斯在马其顿寻求庇护，他们试图逃避波斯分册的上古维序者，他们最终与卡珊德拉相遇，卡珊德拉试图阻止波斯人对波提狄亚村庄的攻击。他们联合起来，消灭了正在追杀大流士和污血者们的维序者佩克特阿斯和他的下属们，然后他们分道扬镳。[4]他们在亚该亚重聚，在那里他们联合起来打败了正在阻止马其顿难民逃跑的维序者费拉。之后，卡珊德拉与奈塔卡斯开始了一段恋情，并在亚该亚的迪默和大流士以及她刚出生的儿子艾匹底欧斯一起定居下来。[8]
卡珊德拉、大流士和艾匹底欧斯在一起
最终，波斯分册的上古维序者的首领阿摩基斯成功地在亚该亚找到了大流士和卡珊德拉，包围了这座村庄，杀死了奈塔卡斯，并绑架了艾匹底欧斯。尽管奈塔卡斯的死导致了他们关系出现裂痕，卡珊德拉和大流士还是一起努力打倒了剩下的上古维序者，最终对抗并杀死了阿摩基斯。由于担心上古维序者会继续猎杀她，卡珊德拉告诉大流士把艾匹底欧斯从希腊带走。两人最终在埃及定居，艾匹底欧斯的后代艾雅将为后来的兄弟会奠定基础。[5]
其他活动
- “讽刺的是，亚历山大将死于那些被他在战斗中打败的人的毒药。但不是在这里，因为他已经走了。不久，我将完成我的使命。为了我的那些来到这里的兄弟们，如果我还没来得及把我的秘密传下去就死了，那么这些就是毒药的配方，愿它对组织有用。”
- ―伊尔塔尼对刺杀亚历山大的记录，公元前323年。[来源]
伊尔塔尼
大约在一百年后的公元前4世纪，一个古老的组织作为刺客兄弟会的前身，与上古维序者背道而驰。[9]公元前323年，作为这些早期刺客之一的伊尔塔尼阻止了[10]维序者盟友[11]亚历山大大帝的前进。[10]她成功地毒害了这位希腊征服者，[2]然而她试图找回亚历山大的伊甸权杖的努力失败了。[12]
中国的首位皇帝秦始皇嬴政也曾与早期的圣殿骑士有着诸多关联，[10]公元前210年，刺客先驱魏羽使用了一把长矛了结了他的性命，也随之终结了他向人民施加的暴政。[2]在寻找刺杀秦始皇的机会的过程中，他还集结同道人士而成社，形成了中国刺客兄弟会的雏形。[13]
大约在公元前70年，被称为守护者、后来形成了刺客兄弟会的古埃及保护者，被上古维序者追杀。一位名叫比翁的前士兵，受雇于维序者拉亚，在公元前56年成功杀死了包括萨布在内的最后几名守护者。比翁最终被萨布的儿子巴耶克、他的母亲阿赫莫丝和他未来的妻子艾雅一起杀死，随后巴耶克杀死了拉亚。[14]
无形者的建立
- 艾雅：“当我们暗杀时，我们只刺杀那些应死之人。那是少数的试图控制我们的病态灵魂......但他们永远不会知道我们是谁。我们精心策划着一首首冷酷之诗。”
- 巴耶克：“复议，我不再是一个父亲，一个丈夫，或一个守护者。我是无形者”
- ―艾雅和巴耶克兄弟会创建期间的对话，公元前47年[来源]
公元前49年，上古维序者（后来演化为圣殿骑士）的数名成员来到了埃及的西瓦绿洲，目的是了解更多有关阿蒙神庙地下的伊述密室的信息。为此，他们绑架了当地的守护者巴耶克和他的儿子卡慕，逼问他如何打卡密室的大门。这场闹剧导致了卡慕的死亡，也驱使着巴耶克和他的妻子艾雅走上了针对维序者的复仇之路。在杀死了首个目标鲁德杰克后，巴耶克返回西瓦刺杀了大祭司梅度纳曼，从他手里拿到了一颗伊甸苹果。[12]
后来女王克利奥帕特拉被卷入与她的弟弟托勒密十三世的内战，托勒密背后的势力正是上古维序者。艾雅作为女王的护卫，需要时刻保护女王的安全，一时无法抽身去继续他们的复仇大业。她不在的这段时间，巴耶克搭建起了一个由支持克里奥帕特拉、反对上古维序者的人们所组成的网络，继续追杀需要为西瓦惨剧负责的凶手。在除掉了维序者集团的大部分成员后，巴耶克和艾雅把注意力转移到了帮助克里奥帕特拉与庞培结盟上——如果成功，对抗托勒密的行动将得到罗马共和国的支持。[12]
当上古维序者谋杀了庞培之后，巴耶克和艾雅使克利奥帕特拉得以在亚历山大与庞培的对手盖乌斯·尤利乌斯·凯撒将军会面，并结成了成功的联盟。两人后来帮助克利奥帕特拉打开亚历山大陵的门。与此同时，上古维序者一直在操纵着凯撒，进而操纵着克利奥帕特拉。[12]
兄弟会的第一次会议
他们对克利奥帕特拉的影响使他们得以从坟墓中取回亚历山大的伊甸权杖，并杀死克利奥帕特拉的追随者，掌管伊甸苹果的西西里的阿波罗多洛斯。面对比以前更强大的反对势力，巴耶克和艾雅会见了他们反抗克利奥帕特拉和凯撒的盟友，为建立新的兄弟会奠定了基础。[12]
公元前47年，凯撒和克利奥帕特拉在上古维序者的影响下背叛了巴耶克和艾雅。遭到背叛后，巴耶克和艾雅急忙赶回西瓦以阻止维序者的首领弗拉维乌斯·梅特鲁斯，但赶到时他们发现弗拉维乌斯已经离去，并且密室大门也已被打开。巴耶克继续追踪弗拉维乌斯，最终杀死了他，夺回了苹果，同时也为儿子卡慕报了仇。[12]
与此同时，艾雅招募了罗马议员马库斯·尤尼乌斯·布鲁图斯和盖乌斯·卡西乌斯·隆基努斯，他们是凯撒在元老院的政敌。为了他们的事业，艾雅决定前往罗马与上古维序者对抗。临行前，艾雅和巴耶克一起为他们新创立的兄弟会起了名字——无形者，它是后世的信条及其追随者的雏形。之后他们分别在孟斐斯和罗马建立了据点。[12]
早期刺杀活动
- “[凯撒]将元老院当做私人财产，让那里挤满骗子、投机者，一群对罗马事业毫无热忱的人。我的兄弟们正渴望鲜血，但我尚不确定自己能否让鲜血涌出。”
- ―马库斯·尤尼乌斯·布鲁图斯谈论尤利乌斯·凯撒，公元前44年[来源]
公元前44年左右，尤利乌斯·凯撒成为了上古维序者组织的新任领导者，他的副手是卢修斯·塞普提米乌斯。[12]在艾雅的领导下，布鲁图斯和卡西乌斯秘密召集了三十八位元老院议员，这些人也同样反对凯撒在当选元老院终生独裁官后所展现的称帝野心。[15]
艾雅一击刺中凯撒
公元前44年三月十五日，艾雅、布鲁图斯和卡西乌斯来到了元老院议员集会的庞培剧场。布鲁图斯与卡西乌斯进入了会场内，而艾雅则在和她的两位兄弟并肩行动前与“胡狼”塞普提米乌斯展开搏斗，并将其击杀。她是第一个向凯撒发起攻击的人，其余元老院成员紧随其后，乱刀杀死了他。此次暗杀事件之后不久，艾雅将自己的名字改为了阿蒙内特。[12]
因为他们后来被凯撒的盟友马库斯·安东尼乌斯追杀，[16]布鲁图斯和卡西乌斯最终被迫逃离罗马，内战紧接着爆发。二人所率领的军队在腓立比与马库斯·安东尼乌斯和屋大维的军队正面遭遇，卡西乌斯在随后的战斗中阵亡。面对无可挽回的失败，布鲁图斯选择了自杀。他的无形者同伴们试图用伊甸裹尸布复活他，但只成功了片刻，随后他再次陷入死亡。[17]尽管如此，还是有传言说他伪造了自己的死亡活了下来并更改了名字。[16]
巴耶克和阿蒙内特在西奈半岛上寻找与无形者们会面
凯撒死后，无形者继续与领导人已换为屋大维（此时称奥古斯都）的上古维序者对抗。公元前38年，西奈半岛的无形者在与前凯撒部将盖乌斯·尤里乌斯·路菲欧的斗争中陷入困境。他通过他的三个副官——卜塔摩斯、艾培利欧斯和塔西托——来压榨西奈的人民。无形者在西奈的领导人塔希拉写信向巴耶克求援，巴耶克收到信后便前往西奈，接着相继杀死了这三个副官。[18]
作为报复，罗马士兵烧毁了西奈的无形者总部，俘虏并囚禁了巴耶克和塔希拉。艾雅在收到西奈总部被毁的消息后立刻赶往西奈，救下了正在被罗马士兵折磨的巴耶克。接着他们又救出了塔希拉，但塔希拉由于在总部遇袭时受伤过重而没能挺过去。塔希拉的死让巴耶克决定杀死路菲欧，他悄悄接近停泊于西奈海岸外的路菲欧的舰队，然后刺杀了他。后来巴耶克发现，罗马人的屠杀是由他的盟友盖米拉特故意激起的，目的是逼迫更多平民加入他的反抗军以壮大其势力。了解到这些后，巴耶克杀死了盖米拉特，同时确立了现代刺客信条的第一条：绝不伤及无辜。这些无形者们随后打算把他们的影响扩展到佩特拉和犹地亚，在那里，无形者的新进成员卡瓦博打算与希律大帝的暴政作战。[18]
同年，巴耶克从阿蒙内特那里听到关于一场了诅咒袭击了底比斯和附近的帝王谷的消息。在巴耶克的调查中，他发现一个古老的神器被用来制造袭击平民的死去法老的幻象。在探索了这个神器带来的几个关于来生的幻象之后，巴耶克发现这是阿蒙神妻伊西朵拉为了报复她的母亲尼托克丽丝被盗墓者杀害而使用了另一颗伊甸苹果造成的。巴耶克杀死了伊西朵拉伊西朵拉，并把苹果交给了他的盟友苏特佧，苏特佧把苹果藏了起来，但最后却神秘地死在了瓦塞特沙漠中。[19]
阿蒙内特把毒药交给克利奥帕特拉
公元前30年，在艾雅杀死凯撒并决定饶过克利奥帕特拉的13年后，[12]这位埃及法老卷入了屋大维和她的情人马库斯·安东尼乌斯之间的内战。在马库斯·安东尼乌斯被击败并自杀后，屋大维的军队逼近亚历山大，使埃及人民陷入了战火之中。阿蒙内特潜入了克利奥帕特拉的宫殿，恳求她结束战争，劝说这位法老用阿蒙内特的毒药自杀；[16]后来传说阿蒙内特用毒蛇杀死了她。[2]作为阿蒙内特对她的这位前朋友完成的最后一次请求，阿蒙内特带走了这位法老的儿子凯撒里昂并让他成为一名无形者。[16]
在罗马帝国的活动
- “这个神器的力量还没有被揭示，但是这个物体本身对我们这个会社有很强的象征意义……”
- ―卢修斯在神器所记录的信息中，向他的儿子阿奎卢斯描述了安卡。公元259年。[来源]
公元前27年，罗马共和国被屋大维开创的罗马帝国所取代。帝国的第三任皇帝卡利古拉被上古维序者暗中影响，这使他成为了无形者莱奥尼乌斯的目标。莱奥尼乌斯于公元41年用匕首将其刺死。[2]最终，无形者的罗马分支将自己更名为自由社（Circle of Liberals）。[20]
在格瑞克斯将军帐篷中遇伏的阿奎卢斯
到了公元259年，自由社已经在吕迪努姆市建立了一个总部。罗马早期刺客卢修斯让阿拉曼人阿克齐皮特获得了一种被称为“安卡”的先行者神器。卢修斯的儿子阿奎卢斯去见阿克齐皮特，[21]但是当阿奎卢斯刺杀格瑞克斯将军的行动失败时，他失去了知觉。[22]阿克齐皮特救下了他，把安卡交给了他，并让他把安卡交给他的父亲。[21]
卢修斯后来被他的朋友卡尤斯·富尔维乌斯·武尔图尔（元老院议员，暗中是一名早期圣殿骑士）谋害。杀死卢修斯后，武尔图尔偷走了安卡。[21]阿奎卢斯成功地向武尔图尔施展了复仇，但在返回吕迪努姆后被罗马士兵逮捕。阿克齐皮特与吕迪努姆行省长官进行了停战谈判，之后试图带人前去解救阿奎卢斯，但一名罗马士兵在遭到阿克齐皮特伏击时杀死了阿奎卢斯。之后，阿克齐皮特将安卡托付给阿奎卢斯的妻子瓦莱里娅保管。[23]
此后，兄弟会在罗马帝国的历史中仍然保持着活跃。公元330年，在君士坦丁大帝掌权期间，曾有一名早期刺客与他相熟识。[24]
中世纪
维京时代
- 埃里克国王：“为什么不让你的兄弟会在留暗中心思呢？”
- 托里尼：“因为我的兄弟会有敌人。我们反对那个在法兰克人中获得了巨大权力的组织，他们的影响力现在正在蔓延。他们与丹麦的哈拉尔德有过往来，后者现在正在与斯泰尔布约恩一起航行。”
- ―瑞典国王埃里克和“执法者”托里尼谈兄弟会的宗旨，公元985年。[来源]
到了10世纪后半叶，兄弟会已经发展到了斯堪的纳维亚半岛，那里当时居住着挪威人。早期刺客与斯韦阿兰王国（今瑞典）国王埃里克有联系，兄弟会的导师、“执法者”托里尼当时正担任国王埃里克的顾问。[25]
截至985年，兄弟会已经开始与埃里克国王的侄子、斯堪的纳维亚王子“强者”斯泰尔比乔恩对立。兄弟会怀疑斯泰尔比乔恩的盟友哈拉尔德·蓝牙国王隶属于圣殿骑士团，并拥有一种伊甸碎片：伊甸三叉戟之一的伊甸戟尖。为了反对该组织扩展到斯堪的纳维亚半岛，兄弟会的成员托瓦尔德·雅尔塔森参与了埃里克国王反对斯泰尔比乔恩的战役，并努力消灭那些反对兄弟会的人。[25]
在那一年，托瓦尔德·雅尔塔森在从一位奴隶海涅处审问到了强者斯泰尔比乔恩将会带兵入侵斯韦阿兰王国后，将这个消息报告给了他的导师托里尼。他们推测出之前被兄弟会阻挡在这个国家之外的圣殿骑士将会在斯泰尔比乔恩的帮助下统治这个国家。于是他们去面见斯韦阿兰的国王埃里克（刺客们曾经花了多年时间才确保他的统治），向他提出了一个在斯泰尔比乔恩的必经之路上设下埋伏的建议。在数次攻击之后，斯泰尔比乔恩的军力被成功的削弱，而托瓦尔德也成功地偷到了斯泰尔比乔恩用来祭神的一把奇怪的匕首（这把匕首其实是伊甸三叉戟的一段戟尖——忠诚戟尖）。在菲里斯河场之战中，被托瓦尔德征召来的勇士奥斯特·乔伦德森击败了斯泰尔比乔恩，而托瓦尔德用下了毒的银币杀死了他。之后托瓦尔德把那把奇怪的匕首托付给了乔伦德森，让他把这把奇怪的匕首埋藏起来，他最终把这把奇怪的匕首埋藏到了他家附近的一个山泉旁边。而经过托瓦尔德的文过饰非，国王埃里克在这场战斗之后被人们称为“胜利者埃里克”。
黎凡特兄弟会的改组
- “你永远无法消灭信条，即使你杀掉它所有的信奉者，焚烧所有的文献——这充其量不过是起到暂缓的效果。总会有一天，总会有一个人，重新发现它，重新创造它。我相信即使是我们，刺客们，也只不过是重新发现了信条，来自比阿尔莫林还要早的年代……”
- ―摘自阿泰尔·伊本-拉阿哈德的手札，12世纪90年代。[来源]
青年时期的阿尔莫林
在1090年左右，哈桑-伊·萨巴赫夺取了黎凡特地区兄弟会的统治，并成功将其改组为了刺客组织。为了与当时已改组为骑士团的圣殿骑士相抗衡，萨巴赫也决定将刺客改良成一个较为公开的团体。在哈桑的命令下，众目睽睽中的刺杀事件发生得更为频繁，人民受到鼓舞而起身与刺客们并肩作战，共同对他们的压迫者进行反抗。[10]
1162年，刺客兄弟会的领导者小哈桑派遣一位后世以其阿尔莫林的头衔而知名的刺客建造了马斯亚夫要塞，然而众多谣言指出此举实为组织内部的分裂。[26]
1170年左右，黎凡特兄弟会终于落入了阿尔莫林之手，[27] 他随即为自己麾下的刺客制定了诸多规约，例如禁止使用毒药，他还向加入组织的新人承诺在他们力战而亡之后将前往天堂。[2]
1176年，萨拉丁于马斯亚夫的刺客总部外驻军，意图将刺客组织一举铲除。阿尔莫林派遣刺客大师奥马尔·伊本-拉阿哈德秘密潜入萨拉丁的军帐送信，但奥马尔不慎暴露行踪，在逃亡路上被迫刺杀了一名撒拉森贵族。通过审问刺客探子艾哈迈德·索菲安，萨拉丁得知了他的名字，并请叔父希哈布丁前去与刺客组织谈判。然而，萨拉丁却提出用奥马尔的性命换取马斯亚夫的解围，而阿尔莫林也极不情愿地应允。[27]
第三次十字军东征中的冲突
- Altaïr：“You held fire in your hand, old man. It should have been destroyed.”
- Al Mualim：“Destroy the only thing capable of ending the Crusades and creating true peace? Never.”
- ―Altaïr and Al Mualim about the Apple of Eden, 1191.[来源]
阿泰尔试图杀死罗贝尔·德·萨布莱
Since at least 1189,[28] Al Mualim was aware of an Apple of Eden located somewhere in the Holy Land. Unbeknownst to his subjects, he collaborated with the high-ranking members of the Knights Templar to find the artifact and, secretly, claim the Holy Land for himself. They eventually located it in an ancient vault beneath the ruins of Solomon's Temple.[29]
Before the Knights Templar could claim it, Al Mualim had three of his subjects, including Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, retrieve the artifact. Arriving at the same time as the Templars, Altaïr ignored his master's orders and decided to take his oppportunity to kill Grand Master Robert de Sablé. Though Malik Al-Sayf was gravely injured and his brother killed, he returned the artifact to Masyaf.[29]
The Knights Templar followed Altaïr back to Masyaf, where they attempted to lay siege to the fortress, but were routed by Altaïr. For breaking the tenets of the Creed, Altaïr was demoted to a novice and was sent on a quest to restore his rank of Master Assassin by killing nine notable Templar targets on both sides of the crusader conflict in Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem, winning back the trust of his master and fellow Assassins.[29]
阿尔莫林对阿泰尔使用伊甸苹果
After Grand Master de Sablé used his subordinate Maria Thorpe as a decoy to prevent Altaïr's attempt on his life, he wrote to meet Saladin and King Richard I of England at the Battle of Arsuf to rally them against the Assassins. Altaïr faced de Sablé in combat during his meeting with King Richard, as per the king's request, and killed the Grand Master, who in his dying moments revealed Al Mualim's treachery.[29]
Meanwhile, Al Mualim used the artifact to make his Assassins bend to his will. They ultimately faced opposition from a small group of Assassins including Altaïr and Malik. Altaïr confronted his master in the fortress' garden, where he fought off the illusions created by the Apple and ultimately killed the Mentor.[29]
兄弟会的改组与世界化的尝试
- “Though I ask my brothers now to abandon their rituals, I do not ask that they abandon the creed. THIS is what makes us Assassins. Not the removal of a finger. Not a false promise of paradise. Not the prohibition of poison. Our duty is to the people, not to custom.”
- ―An excerpt of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's codex, 1191.[来源]
After the death of Al Mualim, a minor civil war broke out stirred by Abbas Sofian. Altaïr eventually managed to become the new Mentor through gaining the support of his fellow Assassins. He initiated a series of reforms, allowing the use of poison and prohibited the taking of the ring finger and the promise of a false paradise.[2] Altaïr then left on a journey to Cyprus, the Templars' new headquarters, supporting the local resistance movement. Due to Altaïr's efforts, the Templars left the island with the artifacts from the Templar Archive in Limassol, though the Assassin managed to kill the new Grand Master Armand Bouchart,[30] gaining the island for the Assassins in the process.[2]
阿泰尔撰写他的手札
Altaïr and Malik Al-Sayf worked together on inventing new assassination techniques for the Assassins, resulting in the usage of dual Hidden Blades. All the while, Altaïr continued to study the Apple and wrote in his codex, which defined the Creed for generations to come.[2]
Altaïr and his Assassins also started visiting other countries to spread their reformed Assassin philosophy.[27] However, Altaïr was unsuccessful to spread his teachings in Constantinople in 1204, due to the chaos of the Fourth Crusade, and returned to Masyaf.[27]
第一次男爵战争
- “Your barons are no better than the King if they take aid from the French.”
- ―William of Cassingham justifying his allegiance to John, 1215.[来源]
战争中的罗伯特·菲兹沃尔特
In 1215, tensions rose among the aristocracy in England, when King John had fallen under the sway of the Knights Templar. In doing so, the king refused to abide by Magna Carta. This led the Assassin Robert Fitzwalter to lead the local barons in rebellion against the king, with additional support from the Kingdom of France.[31]
However, this created a rift in the Brotherhood, as the Master Assassin William of Cassingham opposed Fitzwalter's support of the barons and alliance with the French. He instead worked to support John's young son Henry. By the end of the conflict, John had passed away and Henry became the new King of England.[31]
刺杀成吉思汗
- “A dark tide rises to the east - an army of such size and power that all the land is made quick to worry. Their leader is a man named Temujin, who has adopted the title Genghis Khan. He sweeps across the lands, conquering and subsuming all who stand in his way. Whatever his motives, he must be stopped.”
- ―An excerpt from Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's codex, c. 1217.[来源]
Around 1217, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad recognized the threat of the rising Mongol Empire under the leadership of Genghis Khan, and suspected him of wielding a Piece of Eden. Together with his wife and son Darim, he left the Levantine Brotherhood in the care of Malik Al-Sayf and journeyed to Mongolia. They joined forces with the fledgling Mongolian Brotherhood, and made plans to take down the Khan and stop the Mongol horde.[27]
达里姆在成吉思汗死前
In February 1227, Darim and Qulan Gal pursued Genghis Khan's son Jochi, who was fatally poisoned by Darim.[31] In August 1227, Qulan Gal joined Altaïr in an attack on the Great Khan's camp in China, though Altaïr was wounded in the process and the Mongols were alarmed.[27]
Genghis Khan attempted to flee, but his horse was shot down by Qulan Gal, followed by Darim who killed him with another arrow.[27] The Assassins consequently rescued Gal's apprentice Nergüi, who was left disfigured.[31] With the Mongols left leadership, Altaïr and his family concluded their business in Mongolia and left their Mongols brothers for Masyaf.[27]
马斯亚夫的陷落
- “Our tactics, too, must change. It means an end to our fortresses. [...] We must weave our webs quietly. And we must do so differently than we have in the past.”
- ―An excerpt from Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's codex, 1191.[来源]
阿泰尔和玛利亚会见阿巴斯和斯瓦米
Circa 1216, Abbas Sofian plotted the murder of Altaïr's son Sef, and framed Malik Al-Sayf for the murder. With the Levantine Brotherhood left leaderless, he installed a council with himself as its head. Altaïr and his family returned in 1228, and after meeting with Abbas, Altaïr rescued Malik from imprisonment. During their absence, Abbas' right-hand man Swami killed Malik,[27] spurring Altaïr and Maria to meet with Abbas. The meeting turned violent, resulting in the deaths of Maria and Swami. Altaïr fled with the help of his son Darim,[28] and started living in exile in Alamut,[27] while Abbas became the new Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood.[28]
For almost twenty years, Altaïr spent his days studying the Apple of Eden, creating new inventions such as the Hidden Gun. In First Civilization ruins beneath Alamut, he discovered artifacts known as Memory Seals, six of which he took with him.[27] Meanwhile, tensions between the Assassins and Mongols rose when Qulan Gal and Nergüi respectively killed Chagatai Khan and Ögedei Khan in 1241, creating a power vacuum in the Empire.[31] Altaïr returned to Masyaf six years later and quickly gained support from the Assassins. He went on to kill Abbas and retook his title of Mentor, bringing the Brotherhood back to its former glory. He also started construction of a library beneath Masyaf.[27]
阿泰尔将记忆封印托付给尼克罗·波罗
In 1256,[27] under the orders of the Templar Mongol Khan, Möngke,[32] Hülegü Khan destroyed the Assassin fortress of Alamut. Knowing the Mongols' arrival at Masyaf was imminent, Altaïr requested the travellers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo to visit their fortress. Altaïr started telling the Polo brothers his life story and trained them in the ways of the Assassins, seeing them as the Order's future.[27]
On 12 August 1257, Hülegü Khan laid siege to Masyaf. The old Mentor handed the Polos his codex and five Memory Seals, and ordered the other Assassins to abandon Masyaf, wanting his Assassins to operate amongst the people. He then locked himself in his library with the Apple of Eden and his final Memory Seal and passed away.[28]
抗击蒙古帝国
- “Altaïr means us to spread the word of the Assassin, that is his plan. [...] He is entrusting the spirit of the Brotherhood. He is passing the torch to us.”
- ―Niccolò Polo in his journal The Secret Crusade, 1257.[来源]
After escaping from Masyaf, the Polos were attacked by the Mongols and lost the codex. Nonetheless, they arrived in Constantinople, founded an Assassins Guild, and hid the Memory Seals in the city.[27] They journeyed to the Mongol Empire in 1259 to retrieve the codex, but their efforts were unsuccessful.[28]
That same year, the Mongols started expanding further into China, to the dismay of the Chinese Brotherhood. To halt the Mongol advance, one Assassin served as a general in the Chinese army and helped prevent the capture of Diaoyu Castle, but was killed. Later, on 11 August, his daughter Zhang Zhi, an apprentice, killed Möngke in revenge, against her Mentor Kang's wishes.[32]
马克·波罗在亚洲的旅途
Only four years later, Nergüi carried out another high profile assassination when he killed the Templars' Russian ally Alexander Nevsky, who held a notorious alliance with the Mongols. He succeeded in exacting revenge for the Levantine Brotherhood, by killing Hülegü Khan on 8 February 1265.[31]
The Polos returned to Venice in 1269, establishing another Assassins Guild in Venice.[10] They took Niccolò's son Marco with them on their next journey to the Mongol Empire two years later. Arriving at the Mongol court in 1275, Marco Polo gained the trust of Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai Khan, and retrieved the codex from the Khan's palace in Shangdu. The Polos brought it back to Venice,[33] where they handed it to their new Brothers. Around 1296, it was under protection of the Assassin and poet Dante Alighieri, who also began training the individual later known as Domenico Auditore.[2]
兄弟会秘密重生
- “In breaking the Templars' public facade, are we merely driving them into the shadows? Fifty years ago, the Templars thought us destroyed, after all. Vanishing from the public eye has proven our greatest strength in this interminable war—are we now granting the same boon to our enemies?”
- ―An excerpt of the journal of Thomas de Carneillon, 1307.[来源]
The Assassins decided to make their continued existence known to their mortal enemies, by devising a plan to eradicate the Knights Templar. The Mentor of the French Brotherhood, Guillaume de Nogaret, poisoned his political enemy Pope Benedict XI in 1304, and exerted his influence over King Philip IV of France and the new Pope Clement V to turn them against the Knights Templar.[34]
德·卡尔内隆试图杀死德·莫莱的顾问
On 13 October 1307, Assassins dressed as the king's mercenaries launched an assault on the Temple in Paris to arrest the Templars and their Grand Master, Jacques de Molay. Master Assassin Thomas de Carneillon also infiltrated the Temple to obtain the Codex Pater Intellectus and a Sword of Eden, though de Molay's advisor hid them in the Temple's crypt. With de Molay and numerous other Templars arrested, de Carneillon led a decade-long hunt for Templar remnants in Europe. In 1314, de Molay was executed, and the Assassins believed their mortal enemies officially disbanded.[34]
In 1321, Dante Alighieri was killed by Templars, causing Marco Polo and Domenico Auditore's father to order Domenico, Alighieri's apprentice, to take Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's codex to Spain. Though the Templars hired pirates to attack Domenico and his family in Otranto's harbor, the Assassin hid the codex's pages from the pirates in various boxes. Three years later, the Templars had also killed Marco Polo and Domenico's father. Domenico founded the noble House of Auditore in Florence, and moved into the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni, which became the new headquarters of the Italian Brotherhood.[2]
阿尔卡姆辛在卡纳克与圣殿骑士战斗
In 1340, the Egyptian Assassin Numa Al'Khamsin was tasked by an Assassin elder to retrieve the Scepter of Aset, an artifact given to rebelling Mamluks by another Assassin in 1250, from the Templars.[35] Numa and his apprentice Ali Al-Ghraib recovered it in Karnak, though Numa was imprisoned by the Mamluks upon his refusal to hand it over.[36] Having escaped with the Templar agent Leila, Numa was led into a trap by his apprentice under pressure of the Templars and subsequently killed by Leila. Nonetheless, Al-Ghraib hid the artifact in a well, but died before he could contact the Assassins.[37]
Near the middle of the 14th century, the Brotherhood in Germany discovered that a group promising protection from the plague known as the Brothers of the Cross was a secret Templar organisation pursuing the Ankh. In 1350, both the Brothers of the Cross and the German Assassin Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished.[38]
In 1402, the Templars aided the ascension of the Yongle Emperor, which was followed by a purge of the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood. Li Tong and an apprentice escaped with an Apple of Eden, and she later exacted revenge on the emperor in 1424.[38] Another notable assassination was carried out under orders of Ishak Pasha, leader of the Ottoman Assassins, when he led the attack that resulted in the death of Templar Vlad the Impaler.[28]
百年战争
- “Rumors have been swirling about a Maid of prophecy for years. I have investigated them all. Most are liars, memorizing the story and adhering to it, hoping to get a little bit of coin and some fleeting fame. But the stories about Jeanne were different.”
- ―Yolande of Aragon to Gabriel Laxart, 1429.[来源]
After the Assassins caused the disarray of the Templar Order in Paris in 1307, the Assassins kept France free from Templar influence. Their enemies, meanwhile, had strengthened their presence in Britain. Under the Templars' influence, the Hundred Years' War between England and France started in 1337, with the Templars hoping to regain control over France under the English banner.[39]
Jeanne d'Arc
By the start of the 15th century, prophecies of a Maiden who would lead France to victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians, had begun to spread. Hoping to find truth to the prophecy, the French Mentor, Queen Yolande of Aragon, deployed Assassins throughout the country hoping to stumble upon the real Maiden. In January 1429, the Assassin Jean de Metz, a squire working for Robert de Baudricourt, met Jeanne d'Arc.[39]
Jeanne had a high amount of Precursor DNA, being able to enchant others by merely being in their presence and hearing "Voices" who she believed to be angels – believed by Abstergo to be Consus – delivering God's messages to her and who informed her of her destiny to lead France to victory in the war.[39]
Recognising her as the prophesied Maiden, Jean de Metz swore loyalty to her and helped her and her companion Gabriel Laxart to gain an audience with his lord, who sent her to Duke Charles of Lorraine. Through the Duke of Lorraine, Jeanne, Gabriel and Jean met the Dauphin of France, Charles. Jean also started training Gabriel Laxart in Assassin skills, recognising that he also had high Precursor DNA. Jean and Gabriel dug up the Sword of Eden that Jeanne had been informed of by "the Voices", and after Jeanne met with the Mentor, Queen Yolande, the Assassins ensured Jeanne received the aid required to form her own army to help the besieged city of Orléans.[39]
作为圣殿骑士为了获得她的伊甸宝剑而制定的计划的一部分，[2]贞德被英国军队俘虏，被指控为异端邪说，然而圣殿骑士本无意杀害贞德，只是想消除她的威胁。但审判被皮埃尔·科雄主教和让·迪斯蒂韦神父从中作梗，从而导致贞德被判处了火刑。然而，贞德其实被让·德·梅兹等刺客们救了出来，她年轻的女门徒弗勒尔自愿地代替她被烧死，她还佩戴了让娜所持有的“圣心”以伪装得更加逼真。在刺客的暗中操作下，处刑顺利进行，[39]乔佛里·泰拉热作为行刑人。[40]法国刺客兄弟会的导师约朗德要求贞德不得向任何人透露自己没死的消息，然后放她离开，去过上属于自己而非圣女的生活。[39]
文艺复兴
意大利刺客的崛起
- “Your father and I managed to make out bits of a prophecy scrawled across these pages. It was written by an Assassin like us, who long ago held a "Piece of Eden." His name was Altaïr... He spoke of something powerful and ancient hidden beneath the land.”
- ―Mario Auditore to his nephew Ezio about Altaïr's prophecy, 1478.[来源]
马里奥受的伤
14世纪中期，刺客们用一件精心制作的赝品将裹尸布从法国圣殿骑士若弗鲁瓦·德·沙尔尼手中掉包，带回蒙特里久尼。确认裹尸布的真实性后，一位名叫雷纳托·奥迪托雷的奥迪托雷家族刺客决定将其隐藏起来。刺客们排干了城里的水井，将裹尸布藏入其中，并称其为伪造的教会档案。[17]
圣殿骑士最终发现了裹尸布的所在地。1454年，圣殿骑士派佣兵费德里科·达·蒙特费尔特罗围攻蒙特里久尼。马里奥·奥迪托雷成功抵御入侵，并从一名敌方间谍卢西亚诺·佩扎蒂处了解到，此次袭击的真正目的是寻找藏于地下的某样东西。马里奥最终在付出了包括他的左眼在内的沉重的代价后找到了裹尸布。之后他把裹尸布暂时藏入奥迪托雷庄园，随后吩咐他的兄弟乔瓦尼·奥迪托雷携裹尸布离开蒙特里久尼。从那以后，没人再提起过裹尸布一事，马里奥本人则敷衍说“这已经是兄弟会的问题了”。[17]
1476年，乔瓦尼·奥迪托雷在佛罗伦萨的一条小巷中跟踪圣殿骑士的最高大师，罗德里戈·博吉亚。尽管他努力消灭了两名保镖并活捉了第三个，但罗德里戈还是逃跑了。于是他将活捉的那名保镖送到乌贝托·阿尔贝蒂手中接受审讯。这名保镖说，圣殿骑士将会暗杀米兰公爵加莱亚佐·马里亚·斯福尔扎，于是乔凡尼迅速赶往米兰阻止这一阴谋。尽管他未能及时赶到以保护公爵，但他与公爵的保镖一起杀掉了所有行刺者。之后他从一个名叫乔瓦尼·安德烈亚·兰普尼亚尼的凶手尸体上搜出了一个钱袋，袋里装有威尼斯的货币。乔凡尼立刻前往威尼斯，在那里，他找到了一封印有巴巴里格家族封印的加密邮件。[41]
乔瓦尼遇袭
之后，乌贝托宣称马费伊神父（安东尼奥·马费伊，事实上他已经把邮件解密，但乌贝托要求他“这个秘密在这里出世，也在这里死亡了”）没能将邮件解密，只能让乔凡尼自己装作信使将信继续送下去，才能找到其目标。乔凡尼同意了，带着一封复制的信件只身前往罗马。到达罗马后，乔瓦尼递送了这封邮件，并一路跟踪，直到信到了罗德里戈·博吉亚手上。于是他跟踪博吉亚进入了圣彼得大教堂，终于两人开始对峙谈话。波齐亚表示他很欣赏刺客的身手，想给他一个机会加入圣殿骑士 ，这样才“有机会活着见到‘新世界制度的建立’”。乔瓦尼很果断地拒绝了，开始迎战涌上来的众多博尔吉亚心腹。尽管人数悬殊，他还是取得了胜利——尽管最后博吉亚用飞刀重伤了他，逃跑了。[41]
马里奥教导埃齐奥关于刺客兄弟会的事情
In 1476, after Rodrigo Borgia became the new Grand Master of the Italian Templars,[33] Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, a leading Italian Assassin, was publicly executed alongside two of his sons, in an attempt to stop his meddling with Templar affairs. Secretly receiving aid from other Assassins, Giovanni's sole remaining son Ezio Auditore exacted revenge on executioner Uberto Alberti and joined his uncle Mario, the Assassin leader, in their headquarters of Monteriggioni.[2]
With the aid of his uncle and several underworld figures, secretly Assassins, Ezio fought back against the Italian Templars and stopped their conspiracies. This included eliminating the participants in the Pazzi conspiracy, who planned to overthrow Lorenzo de' Medici as leader of Florence, and opposing the Barbarigos in Venice, who were successful in killing Doge Giovanni Mocenigo and claim leadership of the city, albeit temporarily.[2]
刺客们和莱昂纳多·达芬奇研究伊甸苹果
All the while, Altaïr collected the scattered pages of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, discovering a prophecy that foretold of a Prophet who would appear when a Piece of Eden was brought to Venice. In 1488, the Italian Templars recovered an Apple of Eden[2] from the Templar Archive, hidden there by Ottoman Templar Cem,[42] and brought it to Venice. Ezio stole the artifact and confronted Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia, eventually routing him alongside the other Assassins. Unbeknownst to Ezio, it was he who was the Prophet.[2]
Unsure of what to do with the Apple of Eden after their ally Leonardo da Vinci was unable to divulge its purpose, the Assassins endeavoured to hide it in the Rocca di Ravaldino in Forlì under supervision of their ally Caterina Sforza. Rodrigo Borgia employed the brothers Checco and Ludovico Orsi obtain the Apple from the Assassins. While they were briefly successful, Ezio reclaimed the artifact before being gravely wounded by Checco and passing out, at which point it was stolen by the monk Girolamo Savonarola.[2]
西班牙宗教法庭
- “The Inquisition has finally delivered Spain to the Templars. Sultan Muhammad and his people still hold out in Granada. But if his son, the prince, is captured... he will surrender the city and the Apple of Eden. [...] If the Apple falls into their hands, the Templars will destroy everything that stands in their way.”
- ―The Mentor Benedicto, at the induction of Aguilar de Nerha, 1491.[来源]
阿吉拉尔·德·内哈在1491年进行刺客宣誓
By the 1490s, the Spanish Inquisition, led by a Master Templar, Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada, had begun to capture and execute members of the Assassin Brotherhood.[43] In 1491, Christopher Columbus and his friend Luis de Santángel, an Assassin, were lured to Venice with the prospect of funding by Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who secretly wanted to kill Columbus to stop him from discovering the New World. Santángel employed the aid of fellow Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze to protect him, who later joined them to stop the Inquisition's persecution of the Brotherhood. There, he worked with a branch of Assassins – unaware of Torquemada's Templar affiliations – at eroding Borgia influence in Spain.[44]
Meanwhile, another Brotherhood of Assassins under the leadership of Benedicto endeavoured to stop Torquemada's Templar schemes. They learned of Torquemada's intent to kidnap the son of Emir Muhammad XII of Granada to trade for the Emir's Apple of Eden. A team of Assassins including Benedicto, Maria and Aguilar de Nerha rode to stop the Templars from finding the sultan's son, but were unsuccessful and captured. Sentenced to be executed at the stake, Aguilar and Maria escaped from their shackles after their Mentor Benedicto was executed.[43]
阿吉拉尔将苹果交给哥伦布
At Granada, Aguilar and Maria interrupted the exchange between the Emir and Torquemada, resulting in the deaths of Maria and Torquemada's right hand Ojeda, and in Aguilar's retrieval of the Apple. Aguilar rode to Palos de la Frontera, where he entrusted Christopher Columbus with keeping the Apple safe.[43]
Sometime afterwards, after eliminating several key members of the Inquisition and ensuring Columbus' voyage was financed, Ezio decided to confront Torquemada. The Grand Inquisitor, feigning ignorance of Templar affairs and declaring loyalty to Rodrigo Borgia, eventually escaped Ezio. The Assassin decided against pursuing Torquemada, believing him to only be a puppet, and returned to Italy.[44]
Control of the Spanish Brotherhood eventually fell to the new Mentor Aguilar de Nerha.[45] Facing continued opposition from Torquemada, the Assassins ultimately killed the Grand Inquisitor on 16 September 1498.[2] Meanwhile, Luis de Santángel, the finance minister of King Ferdinand, had slowly been poisoning Queen Isabella after she had succumbed to the influence of the Borgia family, a task which a group of Italian Assassins completed in 1504.[17]
争夺裹尸布
- “太美了！它看上去很普通，整整齐齐地叠在木箱里面，但远远不止这样！”
- ―佩罗托初见裹尸布[来源]
1498年，刺客佩罗托·卡尔代龙作为卧底潜伏在博吉亚家族，此间与卢克雷齐娅·博吉亚发生恋情，使得卢克雷齐娅怀上了他的孩子。然而，这个孩子先天畸形, 出生几天后就可能夭折。佩罗托带着孩子逃往阿尼亚德洛，希望利用刺客组织保管的复活圣器来挽救孩子的性命。佩罗托到达裹尸布的隐藏地，里纳尔多·维图里的住所。佩罗托被迫杀死了不少刺客同胞，终于得到了裹尸布，治好了他的儿子。然而不久，佩罗托便因违背刺客信条而被刺客同伴杀死。[17]
裹尸布覆盖尼科洛·迪·皮蒂利亚诺
1509年阿尼亚德洛之战前后，裹尸布落入尼科洛·迪·皮蒂利亚诺之手。1510年，刺客弗朗切斯科·韦切利奥受命刺杀尼科洛，回收伊甸碎片。尼科洛几乎被弗朗西斯科杀死，他忍着重伤爬向裹尸布并触碰了它。裹尸布让尼科洛暂时恢复生命，他带着这件圣物逃出了燃烧的宅子。尼科洛希望裹尸布能完全治好自己，于是将裹尸布完全包在了身上。这时，裹尸布没有遵循他的意愿，反而摧毁了他的身体，最终杀死了他。早已预料到这一切的弗朗切斯科再次出现，从这垂死的人手上取走了裹尸布。[17]
罗马的解放
- “There will be no peace until we rise up against the entire Borgia family and the Templars who serve them.”
- ―Ezio Auditore da Firenze to Niccolò Machiavelli, 1500.[来源]
In 1497 and 1498, the Italian Assassins endeavoured to retrieve the Apple of Eden from Girolamo Savonarola, who had used it to become the leader of Florence. After dismantling his influence and turning the people against Savonarola, Ezio retrieved the artifact during the chaos of a riot, at which point the Assassins turned their gaze toward the Borgia once more.[2]
埃齐奥与密涅瓦对话
Through Altaïr's Codex pages, the Italian Assassins discovered that Rodrigo Borgia intended to use the Apple and Staff of Eden to open an ancient vault beneath the Vatican. While the other Assassins caused unrest in the city as a distraction, Ezio infiltrated the Sistine Chapel and eventually bested Rodrigo. Ezio, as the Prophet, managed to open the vault using the Staff and Apple of Eden and received a message from the Isu Minerva, intended for his descendant Desmond Miles.[2]
After Ezio's return to Monteriggioni, Rodrigo's son Cesare attacked the town in retaliation for thwarting the Templars' plans, resulting in Mario Auditore's death and the Villa Auditore's destruction. Ezio later joined Niccolò Machiavelli in Rome, where he took the lead in building up the resistance against the Borgia. With their new headquarters on Tiber Island, Ezio began recruiting new members for the Brotherhood and taking down Borgia institutions. Utilizing the city's underworld, Ezio assassinated key Templars Juan Borgia and Octavian de Valois.[15]
埃齐奥对峙切萨雷
In August of 1503, Rodrigo Borgia, who opposed his son disturbing the Templar-led peace in the city, hid the Apple of Eden from Cesare, resulting in his own son killing him. Ezio retrieved the artifact before Cesare, and used it to remove the last Borgia holdouts in the city. Cesare, the new Grand Master, was arrested on orders of the new Pope Julius II,[15] an Assassin ally. He escaped the next year and fled to Spain, where he joined the army of his brother-in-law John III of Navarre.[46]
In 1506, the Apple of Eden told Ezio to hide it in a vault beneath the Colosseum, where it would be found later be his descendant. In March of 1507, Ezio had tracked Cesare to Viana, where a battle was taking place. Ezio pursued Cesare to Viana Castle, where he eventually threw the Grand Master off the castle walls, permanently ending the Borgias' schemes.[15]
对抗拜占庭圣殿骑士
- “Five years ago, Templar influence here was minimal. A small faction with dreams of restoring the Byzantine throne. But they're growing in number, day by day. And with Sultan Bayezid on his way out, they may try something dramatic.”
- ―Yusuf Tazim about the Byzantine Templars, 1511.[来源]
After an earthquake struck Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in 1509, a group of Templars uniting under the banner of the Byzantine Empire showed up in the city. They engaged in conflict with the Ottoman soldiers and Ottoman Assassins, hoping to reconquer the Empire under Byzantine Templar rule.[28]
奥斯曼刺客欢迎埃齐奥到来
In 1510, Ezio Auditore found letters from his father detailing Altaïr's library underneath Masyaf, and he set off to find it. However, after facing opposition from the Byzantine Templars in the fortress and discovering the keys – the Memory Seals – were hidden in Constantinople, he joined the Ottoman Assassins' fight against the Templars. The Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim regularly employed Ezio's aid in their troubles, and Ezio also made use of his new friendship with young Ottoman prince Suleiman.[28]
Slowly, Ezio recovered the Masyaf Keys hidden in the city. He recovered the final key from leading Templar Manuel Palaiologos, whom Ezio killed in Derinkuyu in Cappadocia. However, Ottoman Prince Ahmet, the true Grand Master, killed Yusuf Tazim and kidnapped Ezio's paramour Sofia Sartor to exchange for the artifacts, leading to the Italian Assassin pursuing the Grand Master. At the end of their confrontation, they were met by the forces of Ahmet's brother Selim, who swiftly opted to kill his brother to ensure his own claim on the throne.[28]
埃齐奥面对圣殿大师艾哈迈德
With the Masyaf Keys in his possession, Ezio opened Altaïr's library beneath Masyaf, where he discovered Altaïr's Apple of Eden. Ultimately, he decided to leave the artifact hidden away, and retired back to Italy,[28] having left the Ottoman Brotherhood in the hands of Dogan[47] and in good relations with future Sultan Suleiman.[28]
Ezio continued leading the Italian Assassins for several years, keeping his fame amongst the Assassins as a legendary Mentor across the world, before retiring[47] sometime after 1515.[48]
在新大陆的活动
- “The natives of this new world had a philosophy like our creed for as long as they've been here. And when Europeans arrived, our groups sort of... matched up. Cultures and religions and languages keep folks divided. But there's something in the Assassin's Creed that crosses all boundaries. A fondness for life and liberty.”
- ―Mary Read about the Assassins in the New World, 1716.[来源]
As early as 1503, the Assassins had started to spread to the New World.[17] By 1510, they had established a presence in Florida, and welcomed the Puerto Rican refugees Alonso Carlo and Miguel Ramón Carlo de Lugo into their community.[38]
乔瓦尼·博吉亚观察阿兹克特人
In February 1519, Giovanni Borgia boarded Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés' voyage to Mexico to locate a Piece of Eden. After several months of travel, Cortés and his entourage where welcomed into the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan. When the Spanish massacred the Aztecs on the night of 20 May 1520, Borgia killed an Aztec priest and took his Crystal Skull, later escaping during the Night of Sorrows and travelling back to Europe.[17]
In 1524, Juan Ponce de León, another conquistador, travelled to Florida to discover the Fountain of Youth. The fountain, secretly a Piece of Eden, was under the protection of the Assassins, and Miguel Ramón Carlo was sent to meet Ponce de León. Upon the latter's insistence to find the fountain, the Assassins shot him with poisoned arrows, resulting in his death sometime later.[38]
By 1533, a Spanish Assassin named Gonzalo Pardo had infiltrated the company of Francisco Pizzaro, a Templar-affiliated conquistador who subdued the Inca Empire. On orders of the Brotherhood, Pardo was to save the Incan Emperor Atahualpa from execution to help the Incas, but failed in his task. He stayed in the Empire, wandering Peru as a drunkard, until joining forces with the Incan Quila in 1536 to stop a conspiracy orchestrated by Pizzaro to kill Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui.[49] Eventually, in 1541, Pizzaro was killed by the Assassin Brotherhood.[2]
英格兰都铎王朝时期的活动
- “Henry VII of the House of Tudor rules England with unflinching power. Though England enjoys peace and stability under his command, he may soon become a victim of Templar manipulation.”
- ―The Assassins on the state of England, 1503.[来源]
Since the late 15th century, the Assassins noticed the Templar Order attempting to spread its influence over the House of Tudor, the ruling house of England. In 1503, Ezio Auditore da Firenze sent a group of Assassins to England to aid King Henry VII in stopping a Templar plot. On his behalf, the Assassins poisoned the last key figure in the Templar conspiracy, Margaret of York, on 23 November 1503. In response, the Templars infiltrated Henry's Star Chamber, the secret high court. After removing the conspirators, the Assassins were offered a seat on the Star Chamber by King Henry.[17]
During the mid-1550s, the Templars once again held the upper hand in England by exerting strong influence over the court of Queen Mary I.[2] The Assassins, instead, supported her half-sister Elizabeth.[50] To end the Templars' reign, the Assassins killed Queen Mary on 17 November 1558. She was succeeded by Queen Elizabeth I, who, with the use of an Apple of Eden, guided England into a golden age.[2]
中国刺客兄弟会的重组
- “I will undo all that you have done. I will rebuild the Brotherhood and recruit those who wish to make our land a place of freedom, those ready to die to fight men like you. Your Templar world will not happen. The Assassins will rise again.”
- ―Shao Jun to a dying Zhang Yong, 1532.[来源]
邵君和导师王守仁
During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor in China, both the Assassins and Templars held presences in the Imperial court. After the death of the Emperor in 1521, the Eight Tigers – a group of Templar eunuchs – seized power in court, installed the Jiajing Emperor as their puppet, and planned to eradicate the Assassins from the Beijing.[51]
Their Mentor Wang Yangming was warned of their plan by the concubine Shao Jun, and after a failed attempt to kill the Tigers, many of the emperor's enemies including Assassins were killed in what was known as the Great Rites Controversy in 1524.[51]
Wang Yangming evacuated the Assassins and their allies from the Forbidden City and went into hiding. Zhu Jiuyuan succeeding him as Mentor and trained Shao Jun as an Assassin. As the Tigers' hunt for the Assassins continued, Jiuyuan and Jun left China to find the aid of Ezio Auditore da Firenze.[51] Only Jun arrived at the retired Mentor's villa in Tuscany, where he reluctantly offered her aid and wisdom – and the ancient Precursor box.[52] Jun returned to China in 1526, joining forces with Wang Yangming to rebuild their Brotherhood.[51]
邵君在长城上与张永对峙
With no other Assassins remaining, the Mentor and his former student travelled across the country to take down the Eight Tigers. Though their efforts initially proved successful with the deaths of four of their enemies, the Tigers' leader Zhang Yong and Qiu Ju killed Wang Yangming in 1529.[51]
Jun continued the fight, ultimately killing Zhang Yong during a Mongol attack on the Great Wall in 1532. Despite having lost the box, Jun rebuilt the Chinese Brotherhood as the new Mentor, and finally ordered the death of the Jiajing Emperor in 1567.[51]
兄弟会扩张至日本
- “I care little for Nobunaga's ambition, but it must be fulfilled. All pieces must be in play before Ieyasu can claim his rightful place.”
- ―Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu to Hattori Hanzō, 1571.[来源]
In 1549, the Templars arrived in Japan aiming to spread their influence to new lands. When the Assassins caught wind of this, they too established a presence in Japan. They found allies in the Japanese ninja, from whom they learned new techniques. They made contact with the warlord Oda Nobunaga, who promised an alliance as soon as he united the country. In addition, the Assassins made a secret alliance with Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose vassal Hattori Hanzō had become a Master Assassin.[31]
服部半藏身着刺客服
Aside from battling the Templars, the Japanese Assassins also aided the Tokugawa clan in unifying the land. To this extent, Hanzō killed the rival warlords Mōri Motonari, to aid Nobunaga's conquests, and Takeda Shingen, who held a Sword of Eden, which later wound up in Nobunaga's hands. Five years later, he killed the Templar warlord Uesugi Kenshin.[31]
When the Tokugawa and the Assassins discovered that Nobunaga was to be attacked by his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide, Hanzō protected Tokugawa Ieyasu, while the Assassin Yamauchi Taka secretly killed Nobunaga amidst the chaos and retrieved the Sword of Eden. The Chinese Assassin Liu Yan then transported the artifact away from Japan.[31]
In 1596, Hanzō was killed by a rival ninja, Fūma Kotarō. Suspecting that Nobunaga's successor and the new ruler of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, played a part in his death, Ieyasu tasked Yamauchi Taka with the investigation, which led to his assassination of Hideyoshi in 1598. The land then became divided between Toyotomi's loyalists, and Tokugawa's supporters, which included other Assassins like Mogami Yoshiaki and Yamauchi Kazutoyo. This led to the Battle of Sekigahara, in which Yamauchi Taka killed the general Shima Sakon to help ensure Tokugawa's victory, and consequently, the foundation of the Tokugawa shogunate.[31]
欧洲帝国扩张时期
塞勒姆女巫审判
- Querry：“The Puritans are easily controlled. They're convinced the devil walks the earth.”
- Stoddard：“Little wonder the Templars are in evidence.”
- ―Jennifer Querry and Thomas Stoddard about the witch trials, 1692.[来源]
In the early 1690s, word reached the British Assassins of an artifact hidden somewhere in Salem, Massachusetts. The Brotherhood sent Master Assassin Thomas Stoddard, who had become legendary for tracking Precursor artifacts, to America to recover the artifact. Around the same time, reports of young girls with strange illnesses led the Puritan villagers of Salem to accuse one another of witchcraft in early 1692, known as the Salem witch trials. After the Templars Samuel Parris and William Stoughton arrived looking for the artifact, they took a center role in the persecutions of accused witches. In June 1692, Stoddard arrived in Salem and met the local Assassin Jennifer Querry.[53]
斯托达德和奎莉面对暴民
The two Assassins infiltrated a warehouse, where they freed a young girl named Dorothy Osborne and a mute boy named David from Templar imprisonment.[53]
When Dorothy became possessed by the Precursor Consus, Stoddard discovered that she was the artifact they had been looking for and he brought her to safety at the Salem docks. The Assassins, Dorothy and David were soon recaptured after their escape.[53]
During their interrogation, while the Templars were distracted by Dorothy being possessed by Consus, Querry managed to kill a guard and free Stoddard before being killed by Stoughton. While Stoddard was also shot in the arm by Stoughton, the Templar was betrayed by his accomplice Parris before he could finish Stoddard off. Dorothy, overcome by guilt, decided to kill herself in a fire. Before Stoughton could kill Stoddard, he was rescued by a remorseful Parris. With Dorothy dead, Stoddard abandoned his quest.[53]
搜寻观测所
- “It seems another Sage has been found. The race for the Observatory begins anew.”
- ―Ah Tabai about the Caribbean Assassins' plight, 1716.[来源]
Since at least the 1670s, the Assassin Brotherhood in the Caribbean was engaged with the Templars in a search for Sages – reincarnations of Aita capable of opening the Observatory, an ancient First Civilization complex. In 1673, the Mentor Bahlam abducted the Sage Thom Kavanagh to prevent him falling under the influence of the Templar Laureano de Torres y Ayala, and set him on his quest to find the Observatory.[40]
阿塔拜驱逐爱德华·肯维
In 1714, Phillip Randall, Mentor of the British Brotherhood, sent Master Assassin Duncan Walpole – who sought to join the Templars – to meet with the new Caribbean Mentor Ah Tabai and train with him. Seeing this task as an insult, Walpole was convined by Henry Spencer to join the Templars[54] and compiled locations of the Assassin bureaus in the Caribbean for Grand Master Torres. Before he could finalize his betrayal, he was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in 1715.[40]
The Caribbean Assassins later attacked the Templars in Havana to rescue another Sage, Bartholomew Roberts, but were slaughtered by the Templars, including Kenway posing as Walpole. Kenway's fellow pirate, the Assassin Mary Read, attempted to persuade Kenway to join the Brotherhood. Kenway aided the Assassins in fighting off a Royal Navy attack on the Brotherhood's Tulum headquarters, but Ah Tabai banished him for his earlier misdeeds. Nonetheless, Kenway helped the local Assassin bureaus fend off Templar attacks and performed assassination contracts for the Brotherhood, in exchange for payment.[40]
阿塔拜从观测所中取得水晶头骨
Read continued to try to persuade Kenway of the error of his ways, though it was only until Read's death in Port Royal's prison that Kenway decided to fight for the Assassin cause; by then, Kenway's quartermaster Adéwalé had already joined the Assassins. Under tutelage of Ah Tabai in 1722, Kenway was assigned three targets: the Sage Roberts, Templar Governor Woodes Rogers and Grand Master Torres.[40]
After killing Roberts and grievously wounding Rogers, Kenway assassinated Torres during the latter's siege on the Observatory, placing both the complex and the Crystal Skull it held under the Assassins' protection. Kenway left after offering the Caribbean Assassins his Great Inagua hideout,[40] while the Brotherhood continued its stewardship over the Observatory. At some point in the 18th century, the complex suffered a catastrophic collapse, after which it was deliberately buried by the Assassins.[34]
伦敦刺客的陨落
- “Miko was a bit of a free spirit; he roamed all over Europe, searching for Pieces of Eden, making connections and lending aid to various regional Brotherhoods. [...] What Edward brought to the table was stability.”
- ―Shaun Hastings on the London Assassins, 2015.[来源]
Edward Kenway returned to Bristol in 1723, where he exacted revenge on his former father-in-law, the Templar Emmett Scott and his henchman Wilson. He and his crew were pardoned by Robert Walpole, acting as a neutral party between the Assassins and Templars, and Edward was offered a home at Queen Anne's Square.[55] Edward settled down and became co-leader of the London Brotherhood alongside Miko, and together they strengthened their presence in London.[50]
爱德华和家人在伦敦
Both Miko and Edward often travelled across Europe, doing research into First Civilization sites and Pieces of Eden.[50] Edward's research led him to the discovery of several temples in Italy and beneath Alamut, and he endeavoured to find the location of the Grand Temple, detailing his findings in a journal.[56] At some point, the London Assassins also found a Shroud of Eden, and hid it in a secret location in the Tower of London.[50]
On 3 December 1735, Edward was killed in his mansion by mercenaries hired by his assistant Reginald Birch, the Grand Master of the British Templars. Birch obtained Edward's journal and started tutoring his son Haytham, who rose to become a Templar in his own right.[57] In 1754, he killed Miko and stole the Grand Temple's key,[58] leaving the London Assassins leaderless. Under Birch's leadership, the Templars managed to rout the Assassins from London, and would maintain control of the city for over one-hundred years.[50]
在北美的活动
- Achilles：“You have no idea what you're doing. The future of the whole continent, maybe the whole world, is tied up in that Manuscript.”
- Shay：“Perhaps. But we don't have the right to decide that future.”
- Achilles：“The right? We have the responsibility!”
- —Achilles and Shay about the Assassins using the Voynich manuscript, 1756.[来源]
阿德瓦莱和反抗军领袖奥古斯丁
In 1735, Adéwalé was tasked with intercepting a parcel – which contained the Precursor box – from a French Templar admiral in the Caribbean. His ship was lost at sea when he tried to escape through a storm, and Adéwalé washed up near Port-au-Prince. For the next two years, Adéwalé supported the local Maroon rebellion, culminating in his aiding the French Geodesic Mission and killing Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet.[59]
By 1732, the Maroon François Mackandal had created his own Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue. Mackandal took a more radical approach to the Creed, aiming to exterminate French colonists from the colony and actively searching for Precursor relics. In 1746, on orders of his Mentor Ah Tabai, Achilles Davenport established the Colonial Brotherhood in the Thirteen Colonies, which rapidly became one of the strongest branches of the Order.[56]
谢伊·科马克、阿德瓦莱和阿基里斯在家园
In November 1751, Mackandal acquired the location of a Precursor temple near Port-au-Prince from using the Precursor box alongside the Voynich manuscript. When Vendredi entered the temple to acquire its Piece of Eden, the temple activated its defense mechanism and triggered an earthquake which devastated the city. During the chaos, Master Templar Lawrence Washington stole the artifacts from Mackandal's camp and brought them to the Thirteen Colonies, with Adéwalé in pursuit. Achilles Davenport then tasked Shay Cormac with the recovering the artifacts from the Templars.[56]
After discovering the location of another temple near Lisbon, Portugal, Shay was sent to find it in 1755. However, upon touching its artifact, the temple also triggered an earthquake that destroyed Lisbon. Angered by his Mentor's decisions, Shay stole the manuscript after his return to the Davenport Homestead, and the Assassins attacked him and left him for dead. Unbeknownst to the Assassins, Shay survived and joined the Templar Order.[56]
Alongside George Monro and later Grand Master Haytham Kenway, Shay hunted down his former Brothers. Though Liam O'Brien managed to kill Monro and retrieve the manuscript, Shay's efforts resulted in the deaths of Kesegowaase, Adéwalé and Hope Jensen. In 1760, with the location of a Precursor temple in the Arctic acquired, Achilles tasked the Chevalier de la Vérendrye with distracting the Templars while they sought the temple.[56]
阿基里斯和利亚姆在北极神殿中
Kenway and Shay arrived at the temple before Achilles and Liam could disrupt the temple's defense system, though in their struggle Liam activated it. While Shay killed Liam and retrieved the manuscript, Haytham spared Achilles to warn off the Assassins of the temples' danger.[56] Following a purge of the Colonial Assassins in 1763, Achilles, crippled by Haytham, was forced to spend the rest of his days in exile in the Davenport Homestead.[58]
路易斯安那的抗争
- 艾弗琳：“康纳，你总是......确定兄弟会的手段和方式是正确的吗？”
- 康纳：“我......相信自己的双手。”
- ―艾芙琳与康纳谈论起兄弟会与信条。[来源]
在1765年时，路易斯安那刺客兄弟会的刺客艾弗琳·德·格朗普雷发现圣殿骑士正在新奥尔良筹划某种阴谋，为首的是一个代号为“公司人”的教团高层人员。在刺杀了几个同谋者后，艾芙琳得知圣殿骑士招募了一大批奴隶，并把他们集中送到了奇琴伊察。在刺客热拉尔·布兰科的帮助下，艾芙琳逃过了新奥尔良圣殿骑士的追捕，来到了奇琴伊察。[60]
在解放了那里的奴隶后，艾芙琳从当地的大神庙中找到了一件伊甸圣器。而后她又回到新奥尔良，计划揭穿这位“公司人”的真面目。几年后，艾芙琳为寻找线索来到纽约，出身于卡尼耶可哈卡的原住民刺客康纳与其同行。[60]
艾芙琳与玛德琳及其手下对峙
在他的帮助下，艾芙琳终于得知了“公司人”的真实身份，那就是她的继母玛德琳。在格朗普雷庄园门口，母女两人展开了对峙。玛德琳试图让艾芙琳加入教团，而艾芙琳则决定去路易斯安纳河口，与阿加特先做个了断。对艾芙琳早已心生芥蒂的阿加特却选择了自杀，艾芙琳只好拿走他的项链，作为自己“背叛兄弟会”的佐证。随后，她假装自己愿意投奔教团，在入团仪式上趁机刺杀了玛德琳，终结了圣殿骑士对新奥尔良的控制。[60]
1784年，艾芙琳再次与康纳合作，在罗德岛刺杀了圣殿骑士艾德蒙·佐志，取得伊甸圣器预言项链，并介绍奴隶佩瑟丝·吉伯斯加入了北美刺客兄弟会。[61]
美国革命
- “George Washington now rallies the colonists and their march towards freedom begins in earnest. Little wonder, then, that the Templars now want him dead. They seek to reshape this land into something cold and ordered. Something soulless.”
- ―Ratonhnhaké:ton about the Templars, 1775.[来源]
阿基里斯·达文波特见到拉顿哈给顿
In 1769, Ratonhnhaké:ton, a boy from a Kanien'kehá:ka tribe, was told by Juno through usage of a Crystal Ball to join the Assassin Order to protect his tribe. He contacted Achilles Davenport, who, despite his initial reluctance, agreed to train the boy. After several months of training, Achilles and the boy, who he named Connor, travelled to Boston, where they witnessed the Templars, led by Connor's father Haytham Kenway, plotting igntion of the Boston Massacre. Despite his efforts, Connor failed in stopping their scheme.[58]
Connor started pursuing the members of the Colonial Rite of Templars and training new apprentices, and in his devours, supported the revolutionaries' desire for independence from Britain. He joined the Sons of Liberty in participation in the Boston Tea Party and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.[58]
康纳和华盛顿在福吉谷
Connor met George Washington at his inauguration as Commander-in-Chief of the new Continental Army, and fought alongside the Continentals at the Battle of Bunker Hill to assassinate officer John Pitcairn. He also prevented the Templars' attempts to kill George Washington and replace him with Charles Lee, Haytham Kenway's right-hand man.[58]
When pursuing Benjamin Church, Connor formed an alliance with his father, as Church had betrayed both the Continental Army and the Templars. They chased Church to Martinique, and after killing him, temporarily continued their alliance. When Haytham exposed Washington's plans to attack Connor's tribe, the Assassin cut off ties with both his father and Washington. Despite this, he fought alongside the Marquis de Lafayette in the Battle of Monmouth on the revolutionaries' behalf, and later exposed Benedict Arnold's betrayal as a final favor to Washington.[58]
In 1781, Connor targeted his arch-enemy Charles Lee, gained the support of Admiral de Grasse's aid in an attack on the Templars' Fort George headquarters in New York by aiding the French Navy in the Battle of the Chesapeake. However, Haytham Kenway had forced Lee to flee, and Connor was forced to kill his father.
康纳杀死圣殿大师查尔斯·李
Around the same time, Achilles passed away, and Connor became the new steward of the Davenport Homestead. In 1782, he chased Charles Lee from Boston to Monmouth, where he finally killed his adversary. The next year, the British Army surrendered at the Siege of Yorktown, and the United States were officially founded soon after.[58]
Sometime later, Washington met Connor in the woods, where he showed him the Apple of Eden he found in Yorktown. After the two experienced a vision of an alternate reality where Washington was corrupted by the Apple and had named himself King of the United States, Washington handed the artifact to Connor, who dumped it into the ocean on his behalf.[58]
法国革命
- “[Mirabeau]'s a politician. Sees himself as a great peacemaker. He thinks he can end the war between Assassins and Templars, bring the Revolution to a happy conclusion, and convince dogs and cats to live together in peace.”
- ―Pierre Bellec to Arno Dorian about their Mentor, 1791.[来源]
阿尔诺·多里安站在议会前
Due to France's financial costs during the Seven Years' War and inspired by the American Revolution, unrest started among the citizens of France in the late 1780s. The French Mentor Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, began to mediate between King Louis XVI and the revolutionaries, hoping to bring the conflict to a peaceful end while maintaining his truce with Templar Grand Master François de la Serre.[34]
In 1789, de la Serre was killed in a coup led by the exiled Templar François-Thomas Germain, who intended to reform the Templar Order. While the reformed Templars under Germain started fueling the French Revolution to undo the established positions of power, Master Assassin Pierre Bellec recruited Arno Dorian – son of the Assassin Charles Dorian and adopted son of de la Serre – into the Brotherhood to find de la Serre's murderers at the behest of the French Assassin Council.[34]
After eliminating de la Serre's murderers, Arno rescued François-Thomas Germain, the smith of a Templar pin gifted to him by the Marquis de Sade. Germain directed Arno towards Chrétien Lafrenière, who was loyal to de la Serre, and the Assassin consequently killed him. At a Templar meeting in the Jacobin Club, Arno discovered that the Templars were orchestrating the Revolution and planned King Louis XVI's execution.[34]
拿破仑和阿尔诺在杜伊勒里宫
Arno subsequently formed an alliance with his adopted sister, Élise de la Serre, from whom the Assassins discovered that Germain was the new Grand Master. Soon after, Bellec killed Mirabeau, angered over the truce with the Templars and fanatically believing the Assassins needed to be destroyed to be built back up, similar to Masyaf, Monteriggioni and the American colonies.[34]
Though he was in turn killed by Arno, the Council lost two of its members. They sent Arno to recover Mirabeau's correspondence with the King from the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792, and while there, Arno formed an alliance with Napoleon Bonaparte, who was looking for an ancient key.[34]
The Council forbid Arno from pursuing Germain, instead tasking other members with the investigation. When Arno directly disobeyed their orders by tracking him to the King's execution, the Council exiled him from the Brotherhood. Arno nonetheless pursued Germain and Maximilien de Robespierre, instigator of the Reign of Terror, and killed the Grand Master in the crypt beneath the Temple on 28 July 1794.[34]
Arno about to hand the Apple to the Assassin
Still exiled from the Brotherhood, Arno stopped Napoleon's attempt to recover an Apple of Eden from the Saint-Denis Temple, and gave the artifact to an Assassin for delivery to Al Mualim in Cairo.[62] Arno was later reinstated into the Brotherhood and became a Master Assassin.[34]
While Napoleon later retrieved the artifact from Egypt,[62] the Assassins prevented an attempt on his life on 24 December 1800.[34] Council member Sophie Trenet later played an important role in the events leading to the foundation of the French Second Republic.[33]
海地革命
- “I will create a new Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue. I will make it a thousand times better than the one created by the disgraced Mackandal.”
- ―An excerpt from 1776 of Eseosa's codex.[来源]
伊斯奥沙的画像
As early as 1776, Eseosa, son of Babatunde Josèphe and grandson of Adéwalé, worked to rebuild the Assassin Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue after its decline since the death of François Mackandal. To this end, he recruited the Maroons Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Georges Biassou, Jean-François Papillon and Jeannot Bullet into the Brotherhood's ranks, and started making preparations to help other slaves in the colony.[33]
In 1791, during a ceremony inspired by Mackandal, Boukman prophesized that Papillon, Biassou and Bullet would be leaders of a rebellion to free the slaves of Saint-Domingue. Violence erupted, which soon escalated in a colony-wide rebellion. Boukman was captured in battle in November 1791.[33] Though the Assassin Elsie was adamant on rescuing Boukman from execution and procuring his book, Fabien had been given orders to let the execution proceed to bolser their cause.[63] The same month, Eseosa executed Bullet for breaking the tenets of the Creed.[33]
Despite these setbacks, slavery was abolished by Maximilien Robespierre in 1794, and Louverture became the de facto leader of Saint-Domingue. In 1801, they faced opposition from the Templars, who unsuccessfully tried to install Jean-Louis Villatte as governor before the Assassins ousted him. However, by then both Biassou and Papillon had lost faith in the rebellion and joined the Spanish.[33]
By then, the French government had fallen under Napoleon Bonaparte's leadership, and sent Charles Leclerc to secure Louverture's surrender. By May 1802, Louverture surrendered and was imprisoned in France. His general Jean-Jacques Dessalines continued the fight, triumphing over the French, and declared himself Emperor of the new republic of Haiti, subsequently slaughtering thousands of white colonists. Eseosa travelled to the Davenport Homestead to train with Connor, in preparation for assassinating Dessalines.[33]
搜寻光之山
- “My lord, I have put the Assassins off for too long. They have your payment, and they expect delivery of the relic. Otherwise...”
- ―Ahkbar to Sultan Selim III, 1808.[来源]
By the early 1800s, word reached the Assassin Brotherhood that Sultan Selim III of the Ottoman Empire had come into the possession of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a powerful Piece of Eden. As the Templars and Napoleon were also seeking the artifact, the Assassin Ahkbar was tasked to infiltrate Selim's social circle and he became the Sultan's right hand.[64]
Ahkbar confronting van der Graff
In 1805, Ahkbar caught wind of the Black Cross Solomon Bolden and Napoleon's agent Jan van der Graff seeking passage into the Sultan's palace. He led them into an ambush, resulting in Bolden's death and van der Graff's capture. In July 1808, after the Sultan refused the Assassins' offer to buy the diamond, Ahkbar resolved to fatally poison the Sultan.[64]
He took the Koh-i-Noor for himself, abandoning his principles to the Order. He was killed by van der Graff, who escaped his imprisonment. A group of Assassins then confronted van der Graff, who pretended to hand over the artifact, but they were given an empty box.[64]
下加拿大的斗争
- “Fellow patriots! The Oppressors have laid claim to Saint John's Day! As we speak, they are celebrating the creation of their secret association. No longer will this blessed day be theirs! We will form our own society! We will give this day back to the people!”
- ―The Assassin Ludger Duvernay at a soirée for the Saint-Jean Baptiste Society, 1834.[来源]
By the 1830s, members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Assassins were engaged in a struggle with the Château Clique, a group of wealthy Templar families that effectively ruled Lower Canada. The journalist Ludger Duvernay, a member of the Brotherhood, posted a series of articles criticizing the Château Clique in 1832, hoping to expose their connection to the Templar. Duvernay was subsequently censored and imprisoned, and the people were rallied against Duvernay.[38]
Duvernay was rescued by the Brotherhood, who then used an Apple of Eden to turn the people against the Château Clique. In 1834, Duvernay created his own secret society, the Saint-Jean Baptiste Society, with the intention of spiritually unifyig Quebec and gaining indepedence from the rest of Canada.[38]
锡克帝国中的冲突
- “While the diamond may bring untold wealth and power to those who worship it, in the wrong hands it is lethal. [...] If we do not take the Syamantaka now it will surely fall into Templar hands.”
- ―Hamid concerning the Koh-i-Noor diamond, 1839.[来源]
阿尔巴兹与帝国卫兵战斗
In 1839, Hamid, Mentor of the Indian Brotherhood, tasked Arbaaz Mir with finding a map from the Voynich manuscript detailing the Koh-i-Noor, which had fallen into the hands of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire and was sought by the British Templars. To keep the artifact out of the Templars' hands, Hamid sent Arbaaz to obtain the diamond and protect the Maharaja from their enemies.[65]
Together with the slave boy Raza Soora, Arbaaz infiltrated a feast at Singh's summer palace. With Raza's help, Arbaaz obtained the artifact from First Civilization ruins beneath the palace. However, the Templar General Francis Cotton had the palace guards arrest the Assassin, allowing him and William Hay Macnaghten to poison the Maharaja.[65]
After Arbaaz escaped and engaged in battle with Cotton and the palace guards, Arbaaz's ally, Princess Pyara Kaur, interrupted the battle by using the Koh-i-Noor's powers, changing her shape into that of a Precursor. While giving a warning to unite against a common enemy, Cotton shot at the Precursor, who released a burst of energy that killed Cotton and the Imperial guards.[65]
Until 1841, the Koh-i-Noor remained in Hamid's protection, when he was abducted by Master Templar William Sleeman and his right hand Alexander Burnes, who took the diamond. Arbaaz pursued the Templars after rescuing Hamid, tracing them to the Amritsar Temple where he witnessed Sleeman use the Koh-i-Noor in conjunction with a Precursor box to obtain the location of the Herat Temple. Chasing the Templars to Herat in Afghanistan, Arbaaz discovered the temple's pedestal was broken, and was instead taken captive. Eventually defeating Burnes in a duel, Arbaaz traveled back to India.[9]
阿尔巴兹将钻石交给伊森·弗莱
After his return to Amritsar, the Assassin was forced to rescue his lover Pyara Kaur, who was being held captive by Sleeman in the summer palace. Having made his way through the palace, Arbaaz confronted Sleeman. During the confrontation, Pyara, who was held at gunpoint, stabbed Sleeman, allowing Arbaaz to steal the Koh-i-Noor before they fled. He then met with fellow Assassin Ethan Frye and gave him the Koh-i-Noor, telling him to hide it somewhere.[9]
加利福尼亚淘金热
在加利福尼亚淘金热期间，一名身份未知的美国刺客在大盆地沙漠活动。1852年，她袭击了约翰·萨特的马车来讨回他从迈杜人那里偷来的黄金。[53]
现代前夕
美国内战
- “If the Confederacy wins, or even forces the negotiation of a treaty, the Templars could take control of the country. [...] Everything we've achieved. Everything my grandmother fought for in New Orleans. It will all be lost.”
- ―The Mentor about the importance of a Union victory to Varius, 1863.[来源]
In 1861, civil war broke out in the United States. The American Brotherhood supported the Union States under President Abraham Lincoln against the Templar-backed Confederate States. In order to help win the war, in 1863, the Mentor in Washington tasked Varius – the lone Assassin operating in New York City – with stealing a Dagger of Eden from the Aztec Club and deliver it to General Ulysses S. Grant, whom the Mentor perceived as the Union's best hope for winning the war.[20]
After retrieving the object, Varius became entangled in a fight with the Templar agent "Cudgel" Cormac and lost the artifact. Together with a new apprentice, Eliza, whose father was killed during the Templar-planned draft riots, Varius recovered the artifact as Cormac was about to deliver it to his Grand Master William M. Tweed. Eliza later participated in the Civil War and successfully brought the Dagger to General Grant.[20]
The Assassins continued to remain active during the war. After the assassination of President Lincoln at the hands of the Templar affiliate John Wilkes Booth, the Brotherhood killed Booth on 26 April 1865.[2]
重夺伦敦
- Jacob：“You could continue [father's] legacy in London.”
- Evie：“Freeing future generations from a city ruled by Templars. You know, Jacob Frye, you might just be right.”
- ―Jacob and Evie deciding to retake London from the Templars, 1868.[来源]
Since the fall of the London Assassins in the mid-18th century, the Templars held control over the capital of the British Empire and the Assassins mostly operated from outside London.在1862年，一些在伦敦建造地铁的工人们发现了一颗伊甸苹果，并把它作为尊重的象征送给了查尔斯·皮尔逊，皮尔逊把它做成了手杖的把手。而英国的圣殿骑士成员卡瓦纳在知道了这件事后便设下了一个陷阱以夺取这颗苹果。在1862年9月14日，卡瓦纳杀死了皮尔逊并夺取了他的手杖，随后，卡瓦纳从皮尔逊的手杖上取下了这颗苹果。在场的刺客贾亚德普·米尔和伊森·弗莱试图阻止卡瓦纳，但他们失败了，而这场争夺苹果的战斗最终引发了一场爆炸。然而，卡瓦纳最终也没能拿走这颗苹果——他被从属于另一位圣殿骑士克劳福德·斯塔瑞克的马钱特给杀死了，这颗苹果也随之落入了斯塔瑞克的手中。[66]
之后，伦敦的刺客们各自退避：乔治·韦斯豪斯留在了克罗伊登；伊森·弗莱得了胸膜炎，并最终在忧愤中在自己的家中去世了；而贾亚德普·米尔在泰晤士隧道中选择了自我禁锢。之后，贾亚德普·米尔的父母来到了伦敦，成功的劝说了贾亚德普·米尔重新为兄弟会做事，并给他取了一个新名字：亨利·格林。[66]
In early 1868, the Assassin twins Jacob and Evie Frye assassinated two Templar targets, Rupert Ferris and David Brewster, in Croydon, with the latter assassination resulting in the destruction of an Apple of Eden. Against the will of their superior George Westhouse, the Frye twins left for London to retake the city from Templar rule.[50]
雅各布、亨利和伊薇在伦敦
Whilst there, the twins met the local Assassin agent Henry Green and built up a network of allies including Frederick Abberline, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. While Jacob took over the local Clinkers gang and renamed them the Rooks to aid them in their battle against the Templars and their Blighters gang, Evie instead opted to focus her efforts on finding the Piece of Eden the Templars were seeking.[50]
Over the course of a few months, Jacob single-handedly killed most of Grand Master Crawford Starrick's closest agents, including John Elliotson, Pearl Attaway, Philip Twopenny, James Brudenell and Maxwell Roth. Meanwhile Evie worked on undoing the chaos some of these assassinations did to London's political and social situation and traced leads on the Shroud of Eden.[50]
雅各布与伊薇将要杀死斯塔瑞克
With his influence dwindling, Starrick discovered the artifact to be hidden beneath Buckingham Palace and planned to eliminate all heads of state and church at a party thrown by Queen Victoria at the palace. While the Frye twins killed Starrick's agents at the party, Starrick recovered the artifact from the crypt and a battle ensued between the Grand Master and the Frye twins. The Assassins ultimately overcame their enemy, but decided to leave the artifact in the crypt.[50]
By 1888, one of Jacob's apprentices, Jack, had become insane and took over control of the Rooks to service his own twisted version of the Creed. After several of Jacob's female initiates dressed as prostitutes failed to kill Jack, Jacob requested his siser to return from India, where she was living with Henry Green. Jacob was eventually abducted by Jack, who had become known as Jack the Ripper.[67]
Evie eventually managed to cripple Jack's new hold over London, with the help of Detective Inspector Abberline. She traced Jack's hideout to Lambeth Asylum, where he was previously incarcerated, and ultimately killed the rogue Assassin and freed her brother.[67]
与沙俄对立
- “The Mentor himself has said that this is a time of great change. Russia will soon be strong and free from Imperial rule, an example to the world.”
- ―Nikolai Orelov about the cause of the Narodnaya Volya, 1888.[来源]
沙皇亚历山大三世击败尼古拉·奥列洛夫
Since at least the reign of Tsar Alexander II, the Russian Assassins – operating in public as the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) – had been battling the Templars' influence over the Russian Empire. In 1881, the Assassins were successful in killing the Tsar, a puppet of the Templars. This resulted in the ascension of his son, Alexander III, who became a willing ally of the Templars and was gifted a Staff of Eden.[68]
A failed attempt on his life resulted in the execution of several Assassins including Aleksandr Ulyanov in March 1887. The next year, their Mentor responded by tasking Nikolai Orelov with assassinating the Tsar while the latter was travelling by train; the attempt failed, with the conflict resulting in the Borki train disaster. The Tsar eventually died in 1894 from kidney failure developed from injuries inflicted by Orelov.[68]
In 1908, the Assassins discovered that Grigori Rasputin had stolen the Imperial Scepter – a Staff of Eden – from the new Tsar, Nicholas II.[68] They employed the overseas aid of Nikola Tesla, an inventor discredited by the Templar Thomas Edison,[2] and stormed the facility in Tunguska that housed the Staff. Tesla released a burst of energy to the facility from his Wardenclyffe Tower, resulting in the destruction of the Staff in a huge explosion. Orelov was the sole survivor, and Rasputin later managed to retrieve a splinter of the artifact from the site.[68]
第一次世界大战
- Churchill：“If you would put your considerable talents to good use at Tower Bridge, you would have the thanks of a brave, but beleaguered nation.”
- Lydia：“I would settle for the right to vote.”
- ―Winston Churchill requesting the aid of Lydia Frye, 1916.[来源]
On 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the First World War broke out between the Allied Powers and Central Powers.[33] Assassins from all across Europe were pulled in every direction to ensure the Brotherhood was present in every theatre of war and seat of power. As such, many members of the British Brotherhood enlisted in the army.[50]
Open conflict soon started in the Western Front; on Christmas Eve of that year, British and German troops started a truce, during which a British Assassin medic killed the German Templar general Erich Albert.[17]
温斯顿·丘吉尔与莉迪亚·弗莱
The war would last several years, and by 1916, the Brotherhood had found an ally in Winston Churchill, former First Lord of the Admiralty. He worked closely with the Assassin Lydia Frye – the granddaughter of Jacob Frye who had chosen to stay and protect London – to take down a German Templar spy network in London, culminating in the assassination of the network's Master Spy, a Sage.[50]
The war continued until 1918,[33] by which point a series of revolutions had started in several countries, including Russia,[68] and Ireland, in the latter of which at least one Assassin participated.[34]
俄国革命
- “The Mentor himself has said that this is a time of great change. Russia will soon be free of Imperial rule, an example to the world.”
- ―Nikolai Orelov to his wife Anna about the Russian Assassins' goals, 1888.[来源]
奥列洛夫俯瞰圣彼得堡的动乱
In 1917, after the First World War brought Russia to near collapse, the Russian Revolution broke out. The Assassins supported the people's desire for a new government and pressured the Tsar into abdicating.[10] The leader of the revolutionary Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, then asked his old friend Nikolai Orelov to kill Nicholas II. Unwilling to comply, Orelov infiltrated his residence only to determine if the Tsar's new Scepter was the Staff of Eden. The Assassin spared Nicholas' life, and the latter told him about Rasputin's mysterious shard; Orelov then retrieved the artifact from Rasputin's corpse, and planned to leave Russia with his family to start a new life.[68]
The Bolsheviks effectively seized control of Russia after the October Revolution. In reward for their support, Lenin and the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded the Assassins with several of the Academy's facilities. One such facility in Protvino was turned into an Assassin science city, inhabited by a community of Assassins and scientists including Sergei.[33]
奥列洛夫遇见安娜斯塔西娅，两人所携带的伊甸碎片产生共鸣
In 1918, Orelov took up one final task from the Brotherhood: to retrieve a Piece of Eden, the Precursor box, from the possession of the Imperial family in Yekaterinburg. After Orelov infiltrated the Ipatiev House, the Templars murdered the Imperial family to obtain the artifact while only the Tsar's daughter Anastasia survived. While she met Orelov, the box she held came in contact with Nikolai's splinter of the Staff, transferring the consciousness of Shao Jun to Anastasia. The Assassin eventually brought her and the box safely to his Brothers in Moscow.[69]
The Assassins instead imprisoned Anastasia in the Kremlin to experiment on her, causing Nikolai to betray the Brotherhood and rescue her. After giving her identification papers belonging to "Anna Anderson",[69] Orelov himself left Russia with his family.[68]
After Lenin's death in 1924, the Russian Assassins faced opposition from the new Soviet government led by Joseph Stalin, a Templar puppet. Yuri Petrovich Figatner, a Templar in the Politburo, started a "counter-revolutionary" commission to hunt down the Assassins and turned the Russian Academy of Sciences into a Stalinist organization, forcing their Mentor to go in hiding.[33]
Roaring Twenties
- Assassin：“Shouldn't we have checked back with the Bureau by now? What if--”
- Team leader：“This is above Hoover's head. We're answerable to the Brotherhood and I'll be damned if I'm going to tell them that one old man killed half my team.”
- ―The Assassins discussing their mission to pursue Nikolai Orelov, 1928.[来源]
By 1919, the American Brotherhood had infiltrated the Bureau of Investigation. Around this time, the Russian Brotherhood reached out to their American counterpart hoping to locate the deserter Nikolai Orelov to obtain the knowledge he possessed of a vision during the Tunguska explosion. The American Brotherhood used its position to have Orelov's wife and daughter detained back to Russia during the Palmer Raids, but Orelov and his son managed to elude capture.[70]
Assassins from the Bureau of Investigation
By 1926, the American Brotherhood located Orelov, and Russian Assassin Sergei tried to take him back to Russia. After Sergei was killed by Orelov, American Assassins working at the Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover tried again in 1928. Orelov and his young son Innokenti managed to kill the team of Assassins, though the encounter proved fatal for Orelov.[70]
Through the 1920s, the Brotherhood retained its strong presence in the United States. During this time, one Assassin became affiliated with Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, who became some of the most famous American writers.[24]
西班牙内战
- “I'm an Assassin, yes. But I'm a Spaniard first. And while I'll happily sow these fields with Templar blood, any man who would oppress his fellows is fair game as far as I'm concerned.”
- ―Ignacio Cardona to his fellow Republicans, 1937.[来源]
As civil war broke out in Spain between the leftist Republicans and rightist Nationalists in 1936, several Spanish Assassins joined the war on the Republican side. Ignacio Cardona fought alongside Buenaventura Durruti in the Durruti Column, until his death in November 1936. On 26 April 1937, a team of Assassins was present at the bombing of the town of Guernica.[71]
Cardona using the Koh-i-Noor on his Brothers
In May 1937, the team was joined in Barcelona by the Templar Rufus Grosvenor, secretly serving the will of the Precursor Juno, claiming to be Norbert Clarke, sent by the British Brotherhood as aid. As internal fighting broke out between the anarchists and communists, the members of the team were unable to reach consensus on who to support. Grosvenor handed Cardona the Koh-i-Noor diamond to force them to stop, and the latter unwittingly used its powers on his fellow Assassins until finally dropping it to prevent further harm to himself and the others.[71]
Albert Bolden, the former Black Cross from whom Grosvenor had stolen the Koh-i-Noor, had been watching the ordeal and attacked Grosvenor. He was forced to flee after being attacked by the other Assassins, but took the unconscious Cardona with him. Eventually pursuading Cardona to team up against Grosvenor, they confronted Grosvenor and the other Assassins, who had been persuaded to Juno's cause.[71]
The confrontation eventually came to a head in a run-down church, where the former Assassins overpowered Cardona and Bolden. Grosvenor gave Cardona another opportunity to unlock the Koh-i-Noor's power. The Assassin used the artifact to create bulls from the artifact's energy, which destroyed the church, and also created an illusion of the artifact's destruction. After Bolden rescued Cardona from the rubble, he swore to remain a protector a site, where the Koh-i-Noor remained buried, and the pair continued fighting in the civil war.[71]
第二次世界大战
- “It was the Templars who delivered Germany into Nazi hands. If we do nothing, th world will crumble. Int he age of shadows, the price doesn't matter, we need to stop them.”
- ―Boris Pash to Eddie Gorm, 1942.[来源]
International tensions that arose in the aftermath of the First World War ultimately resulted in a Second World War, orchestrated by the Templars to bring about a new world in the war's wake.[2] Many Assassins across the world participated in the conflict, including a group that operated from a cabin in the Swiss Alps to train, supply and lead local Maquis cells against German troops.[33]
After the start of the war, a team of Assassins led by Boris Pash infiltrated the German nuclear weapons project, headed by the Templar Obbergruppenführer Gero Kramer. After their attempt failed, Pash employed docking manager Eddie Gorm to infiltrate Kramer's inner circle in 1940. Gorm abducted Werner Heisenberg, the lead scientist on the nuclear project, at a meeting in September 1942. From him, Gorm learned that the project was a cover-up for Kramer's real project, Die Glocke.[72]
Gorm fighting Kramer in the Vemork facility
After receiving formal training to become a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, Gorm infiltrated the hydroelectric water plant of Vemork on 27 February 1943 to stop Kramer's project. During a fight with the Templar, Gorm was overpowered and placed inside Die Glocke, a precursor to the Animus built by Nikola Tesla. Kramer intended to search for other Pieces of Eden by having Gorm relive his ancestors' memories in the device.[72] However, due to Tesla's sabotage, the machine exploded. Gorm was rescued by Julia Dusk in the midst of the British army's infiltration of Vemork, and gained information on Project Riese from their longtime ally Tesla.[73]
The Assassins then diverted their attention to the Project Riese base underneath Książ Castle in Poland, where Abstergo Industries had built a base for the German Templars to build superweapons from Precursor knowledge. Gorm and Dusk infiltrated an auction at Książ Castle, where they killed Obbergrupenführer Kramer and claimed the Apple of Eden and the base for the Assassins. However, Tesla revealed that Pash was in collusion with the Templars, hoping to build nuclear weapons for the Americans to turn the tide of war. Gorm and Dusk turned against Pash, with Dusk blowing herself up to destroy the Apple, to no effect.[73]
Pash and his Assassins overseeing Project Rainbow
On 28 October 1943, under the supervision of Pash and the Templar John von Neumann and using the Apple of Eden and Die Glocke, a group of scientists attempted to conduct a time travel experiment on the USS Eldridge, known as Project Rainbow. Their plan was to kill Adolf Hitler before he could ascend to power, as the Templars were unable to maintain their influence over the Nazi leader. Before the experiment could be conducted, Gorm killed Tesla to sabotage it, before taking his own life, refusing to take part in Pash's plans for mankind.[73]
The Assassins were in contact with the anti-Nazi youth group the Edelweiss Pirates, namely Barthel Schink. Before he was sentenced to be hanged in 1944, Schink tasked Miriam Kurtz with bringing a Piece of Eden hidden in the spire of Cologne Cathedral to the Assassins in Paris.[40]
The war continued until 1945. On 30 April of that year, Adolf Hitler exited his Führerbunker in Berlin after executing his body double. The Assassins, who had been lying in wait for Hitler to show himself, killed the Nazi leader, aiding in bringing the conflict to an end.[2]
Post-war period
- “We had hoped to return to our roots, but now our own Mentor is dead. Suddenly, we are aimless, without vision.”
- ―Medeya Voronina describing the state of the Russian Assassins after the war in her journal, 1953.[来源]
Without a strong leader, we are losing influence with our government, and funding is drying up.
After the Second World War, the Russian Academy of Sciences was able to reorganize, ridding itself of Templar influence and strengthening the Russian Brotherhood's foothold.[33] In 1953, they eventually managed to poison Joseph Stalin.[2] Around the same time, the Russian Mentor passed away, leaving the Russian Assassins without proper direction and influence.[33]
After World War II, the United States government formed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which the American Mentor William King Harvey. Harvey created a CIA unit known as the Bloodstone Unit, with Boris Pash at the helm. He ordered Pash to conduct research into the Pieces of Eden and genetic memory research, known as Project Bluebird. Pash believed that for mankind to be truly free from the shackles placed upon them by the First Civilization, all humans needed to have access to the memories of their ancestors, and to that end attempted to make the consciousnesses of one's ancestor co-exist alongside a subject's own consciousness.[74]
On 8 February 1957, Pash killed his former ally, the Templar scientist John von Neumann, to obtain the Apple of Eden they used during Project Rainbow, intending to use it for Project Bluebird.[74]
Vietnam War
An Assassin in Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, the American Assassins fought on the side of South Vietnam and the United States. Pash used the Bloodstone Unit, which included Alekseï Gavrani (known as Agent QJ/WIN), Julia Gorm and Zenia, to uncover Templar machinations during the war.[74]
By 1963, Harvey had secretly switched sides to the Templar Order, using his position in the Assassins and the CIA for the Templars' benefit. Alongside his fellow Templars, Harvey began orchestrating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,[74] who did not have Abstergo Industries' benefits at heart. Though the Templars employed their own sleeper agents for the assassination as well,[2] Harvey tasked Pash to use members of the Bloodstone Unit to kill Kennedy and take the Apple. Kennedy's driver William Greer, an Assassin, took Kennedy's Apple, but was intercepted by Alekseï Gavrani, who took the artifact back to Harvey, unaware of the latter's involvement in the plot. Harvey subsequently implored Harvey to stop Pash and eliminate the Bloodstone Unit, secretly to further his own schemes.[74]
Pash and the Bloodstone Unit continued their operations in Vietnam, which included experimenting on Julia Gorm to allow the consciousnesses of her ancestors to exist alongside her own. This eventually led to her father Eddie Gorm's consciousness taking over - which in turn led to her wanting to kill Pash, like her father did. By 30 July 1964, Gavrani, on board one of seven American ships disguised as South Vietnamese vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin, had tracked Pash and the Bloodstone Unit to the island of Hòn Mê. To escape Julia Gorm, Pash and his accomplices fled to mainland, hoping to escape to the Red River via the Vietnamese canals.[74]
After Gavrani tracked his targets down, he agreed to instead bring Pash and Zenia, who was pregnant with Pash's child, to safety in exchange for the Apple's location. Zenia confided in Gavrani that it was her plan to bear Pash's child in order to have Julia Gorm's consciousness be reborn in the child. When Gorm located and attacked the group, both she and Gavrani were left mortally wounded in their subsequent confrontation. Pash used Gavrani's radio to contact the USS Maddox for a rescue operation, promising to give up the Apple of Eden.[74]
After the rescue operation, Pash was met by William King Harvey, and learned the truth regarding Harvey's Templar plans. At Harvey's mercy, Pash was helpless to stop his Mentor's plan to trigger the United States engaging in open warfare with North Vietnam. After the Templar Warren Vidic helped Zenia's labour, which proved fatal for Zenia, Harvey intended to take the newborn child for Templar experimentation. He wanted Pash to pledge loyalty to the Templars, to leave the CIA, and to hand his genetic memory research to Vidic if he were to have a role in the child's life. Additionally, Julia Gorm was turned into a Templar asset, as the new Agent QJ/WIN.[74]
End of the century
- “In the old days, that usually meant killing anyone who became too powerful or greedy. These days, it means subversion of established regimes. [...] Countries. Corporations. We change the system from within.”
- ―The Mentor explaining the Assassins' modern approach to Daniel Cross, 2000.[来源]
One of the Brotherhood's last high profile assassinations came in 1971, when they killed the Templar-supported President François Duvalier of Haiti.[2] However, by the end of the century, the Assassin Brotherhood ceased to use violence to change regimes, and instead focused their attention on stopping the manipulation of the Templars through the subversion of regimes and corporations.[68]
At the end of the 1970s, the daughter of Borish Pash, Nathalie Chapman, learned of her father's work while held in confinement by Warren Vidic for experimentation related to the construction of the Animus. Chapman escaped Vidic's laboratory, stole blueprints for the Animus, and,[74] in 1977,[33] handed them to an American Assassin,[74] William Miles.[33] While being pursued by Templar agents in Moscow, Miles handed the blueprints over to fellow Assassin Medeya Voronina, asking her to construct an Animus ahead of the Templars.[33]
In 1983, the grandson of Nikolai Orelov, later known as Daniel Cross, was kidnapped by Abstergo Industries to be experimented on by Warren Vidic.[68] In 1986, an Abstergo team headed by Dr. Alan Rikkin located the Assassin compound in Mexico where Joseph and Mary Lynch resided, hoping to use Mary's genetic memory to located Aguilar de Nerha's Apple of Eden. The raid resulted in Mary's suicide, Joseph's capture, and their son Callum's escape.[43]
By the end of the century, the entire Assassin Brotherhood had also fallen under the leadership of a single Mentor,[10] a reclusive figure known only through stories by most members of the Brotherhood.[68]
当代
大清洗
- “We're losing this war, Desmond. The Templars are too powerful. And every day more of us die...”
- ―Lucy Stillman to Desmond Miles, 2012.[来源]
In April 1998, Hannah Mueller brought Daniel Cross, whom she had mistaken for a confused Assassin, to an Assassin compound outside Philadelphia. The compound's director, Paul Bellamy, believed it was Cross' destiny to join the Brotherhood, which the latter refused to acknowledge. After sneaking away with Mueller to get his medication, Cross – who suffered from the Bleeding Effect – experienced a vision when reliving the Tunguska event from the memories of Nikolai Orelov, and believed it was now his purpose to find the Mentor.[68]
克洛斯杀死导师
The next two years, Cross trained as an Assassin and travelled across the world visiting Assassin cells to ask for aid in his quest. On November 5, Cross was abducted from a hotel room and woke up in the Mentor's Dubai headquarters, where the Mentor explained his role to Cross, and expressed his desire to name Cross his successor.[68]
After he awarded Cross with a ceremonial hidden blade, the latter acted upon a hidden impulse to kill the Mentor, implanted into his brain in 1983 by Dr. Warren Vidic. The Assassins were left in a state of chaos,[68] allowing the Templars to gain the upper hand in the American presidential election and install their puppet George W. Bush.[15]
一个圣殿骑士特工小队杀死在费城的刺客营地成员
Cross fled back to Abstergo's Philadelphia facility, where he revealed the location of all Assassin hideouts he had visited. The Templars then initiated a worldwide attack on the Assassins called the Great Purge, resulting in the near-decimation of the Assassin Order.[68] Abstergo also employed the aid of several other brainwashed Assassins during the purge, including Maxime Gorm, who became Cross' war dog.[74] The remaining members of the Brotherhood continued to operate in covert cells around the globe,[2] eventually falling under the leadership of William Miles.[28]
In the following years, the Templars continued to hunt the Assassins, and achieved to thin out their diminished numbers.[2] In October 2002, Cross – then a Templar agent – infiltrated the Assassins' secret library of Ivan the Terrible and retrieved the Prophet's Codex, from which the Templars learned about "Desmond" and his importance to the First Civilization.[70] Desmond, the son of William Miles, fled the Assassin compound known as the Farm to escape from his Assassin life on his next birthday. Two years later, Miles sent Lucy Stillman to infiltrate Abstergo as an assistant to Dr. Warren Vidic, director of the Animus Project.[29]
Infiltrating the Animus Project
- “The amount of funding they've put in the Animus Project since the eighties. We need to go deeper next time. Find out what Abstergo's really looking for inside our DNA. I'm counting on your help, Clay.”
- ―William Miles to Clay Kaczmarek, 2011.[来源]
Since the 80s, the Assassins lost several members to experimentation in Abstergo Industries' secret Animus Project, including Paul Bellamy.[70] The Mentor William Miles aimed to have someone infiltrate the company to gather intelligence. To this end, he recruited Clay Kaczmarek into the Brotherhood in 2010. After Clay successfully gathered intelligence from the personal computer of Abstergo's CEO Alan Rikkin, the Assassins decided to plant Clay deeper into Abstergo, realising how important the project was to Abstergo.[75]
On 1 February 2011, Clay was intentionally captured by Abstergo's Lineage Discovery and Acquisition division to become the latest test subject for the Animus Project, known as Subject 16; secretly, William planned to have Clay eventually extracted by his mole, Lucy Stillman, who had been working as project lead Dr. Vidic's assistant. Over time, Clay became aware that the Templars intended to find an Apple of Eden through the exploring of the memories of his ancestors, and aimed to use the artifact for their Eye-Abstergo project.[75]
An interpretation of Clay's memory of spying on the Project Siren meeting
However, overexposure to the Animus led to Clay suffering the "Bleeding Effect", causing him to explore his ancestors' memories without using the Animus and leading to mental instability. Through the Bleeding Effect, he spoke with a member of the First Civilization, Juno, who revealed to him that Lucy had switched sides to the Templars out of resentment for the Assassins abandoning her.[75]
After realising he could not escape and finding out about Vidic's Project Siren – a plan to stage Lucy's betrayal of the Templars and take Desmond to a safe environment with the Assassins in order to find the Apple of Eden – Clay decided to follow Juno's instructions to help Desmond. He left secret messages for Desmond in the laboratoray written in his blood, and started planning his own suicide. He created a digital construct of himself inside the Animus, before taking his own life on 8 August 2012.[75]
防止第二次灾变
- “Every day for the past two weeks the sun has been throwing off larger and larger flares. Older satellites are starting to malfunction, I hear rumblings of recalling the crew on the international space station. There's already work being done as well to shield power stations and transformers on the ground. Not that any of it matters. This goes far beyond some brownouts...”
- ―Shaun Hastings on the imminent solar flare, 2012.[来源]
戴斯蒙德·迈尔斯会见肖恩·黑斯廷斯和瑞贝卡·克瑞恩
Following Clay's death, Abstergo endeavoured to find Desmond Miles as the Animus Project's next subject.[29] On 1 September 2012,[33] they located and kidnapped him, and he was placed inside the Animus in the Abstergo Campus in Rome under Dr. Vidic and Lucy Stillman's supervision. After Abstergo acquired a map of the Pieces of Eden from the memories of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Lucy escaped with Desmond to join the Assassins Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings,[33] as part of Vidic's plan to make Desmond willingly find an Apple of Eden.[75]
The Assassins then made Desmond explore the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze to find his Apple of Eden. From Ezio's meeting with Minerva in 1499, the Assassins discovered that an imminent solar flare posed a larger threat than the Templars, and they focused their attention to finding the Precursor temples. After an attack on their Rome hideout,[2] the team fled to Monteriggioni, where Desmond discovered the Apple's location from Desmond's memories. They travelled back to Rome, where they discovered the vault beneath the Santa Maria in Aracoeli. When Desmond picked up the Apple, he became possessed by the Precursor Juno.[15]
戴斯蒙德杀死露西
Faced with visions of Lucy leading the team and the Apple to the Templars,[58] Desmond stabbed Lucy, and went into a coma. The team was picked up by William Miles, and Desmond was placed into the Animus. He retrieved the coordinates to the Grand Temple from Ezio's memories,[76] and while Desmond continued to explore his ancestor's memories, the team travelled to the Grand Temple in New York to combat the incoming disaster.[28]
With aid from a digital construct of Clay Kaczmarek inside the Animus, Desmond awoke from his coma, and the team took up shelter inside the Grand Temple. Once inside, Juno – who had been digitally imprisoned inside the temple – forced Desmond to live the memories of Haytham Kenway, and later his son Ratonhnhaké:ton, to find the temple's key.[58]
While reliving his ancestors' memories, Desmond conversed with a digital construct of Juno inside the Grand Temple, learning more about their attempts to stop the first solar flare. He also went on missions to Manhattan and São Paulo to find power source for the temple, which led to encounters with Templar agent Daniel Cross. When Wiliam Miles went to find a third power source in the Cairo Museum, he was captured by Sigma Team. Desmond subsequently flew to Rome to rescue him from the Abstergo Campus, which resulted in Desmond killing both Cross and Dr. Vidic.[58]
戴斯蒙德牺牲自己启动装置
Eventually, Desmond recovered the Grand Temple Key's location from Ratonhnhaké:ton's memories and recovered it from the Davenport Homestead. Using it to open the Grand Temple's inner gate, Desmond discovered the global aurora borealis device and was met by digital constructs of both Juno and Minerva. While Juno offered Desmond a choice to use the device to shield the planet from a solar flare, on the condition that it would also release her from imprisonment in the temple, Minerva warned Desmond that releasing her would bring more horror than the solar flare.[58]
Believing it to be the lesser of two evils, Desmond opted to use the device to protect the Earth from near-complete destruction. Telling William, Shaun and Rebecca to go, Desmond used the device, resulting in his own death but also the successful protection of the planet. After Juno left the temple,[58] Desmond's body was eventually found and obtained by an Abstergo team.[40]
重新立足
- Shaun：“So what do we do now?”
- Gavin：“We go to work. We turn the page.”
- ―Shaun Hastings and Gavin Banks on their course of action, 2013.[来源]
埃里克·库珀、盖文·班克斯和苏珊·德雷尔在阿泰尔II号上
Unable to cope with the death of his son, William Miles went to live in seclusion. In May 2013, he passed his codex onto Gavin Banks, and named him the new leader of the Brotherhood. Banks, operating from the Altair II, sent Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane to the United States to report on Templar activity, while Banks and his crew proceeded to continue Miles' work by following instructions from his codex.[33]
Hastings and Crane decided to recover Desmond's body, and moved to Montreal after discovering that Abstergo's new entertainment division was recruiting new employees.[33] They infiltrated their Montreal facility as a barrista and courier, respectively, and allied themselves with Abstergo technician John Standish to acquire inside information. Standish forced an analyst of the Sample 17 Project to hack into the company's computers for the Assassins in early November. However, on 26 November 2013, Standish, a Sage, ultimately betrayed the Assassins and tried to acquire the analyst's body for Juno to use, before being killed by Abstergo guards. After discovering what happened to Desmond's body, William Miles came out of hiding.[40]
扎斯迪普和阿布斯泰戈突击队战斗
On 3 November, an Indian Assassin cell including siblings Siobhan and Jasdip Dhami abducted Jot Soora, a MysoreTech employee whom they erroneously believed to be a descendant of Arbaaz Mir, after he was assigned to test a localized version of the virtual reality Animus. Otso Berg's Sigma Team raided the safehouse in which they held Jot to acquire him for themselves. Jasdip and Jot survived the attack and fled to a safehouse in Mumbai. Exploring more memories of Arbaaz through the Abstergo Cloud, Soora was unable to find the location of the Koh-i-Noor before Berg attacked the safehouse again, in which Jot escaped from both the Assassins and Templars.[65]
In December 2013, the Altair II arrived in Osaka, Japan, where its crew tried to establish contact with the local Assassins. Sometime prior, the Japanese Assassins' hideout had been attacked by a Yakuza gang, the Onmoraki-Gumi, resulting in the death of their Mentor Kenichi Mochizuki. His wife Saeko became the new Mentor, eliminated the Onmoraki-Gumi's leaders and took over the organization to blend the Assassins into the city. Banks and Emmanuel Barraza discovered the Yakuza's hideout, and despite Banks' disapproval of the Yakuza, the crew left the Japanese Assassins behind.[33]
In February 2014, Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut infiltrated an Abstergo facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and stole the Precursor box. After a firefight with Sigma Team led by Otso Berg, the Assassins were forced to abandon their mission, leaving the artifact behind in the process.[56]
伊曼努尔和班克斯会见加林娜·沃罗宁娜
In March 2014, Banks, Barraza and Emmett Leary left the Altair II to travel to Moscow to meet with Galina Voronina, an Assassin from the Protvino cell who needed aid in assassinating her mother, who went crazy from exposure to the Animus. The Assassins accompanied Voronina to the science city, where she single-handedly took out all remaining feral Assassins including her mother, who was strapped to the Animus under Juno's control. With the science city abandoned, Voronina accepted Banks' invitation to join his crew as an enforcer.[33]
Banks, determined to find William Miles, led the Altair II to a bunker in Tromsø, Norway based on instructions from the codex. There, they rejoined Miles, Hastings and Crane, where the latter discovered that there was a spy for the Initiates on the crew. After interrogating the crew, both Dr. Stephanie Chiu and Eric Cooper were exposed as spies. Miles and Banks decided to recruit the Initiates, and on 16 June, Hastings sent a message to the group with an invitation to join the Brotherhood.[33]
In October, a team of Assassins including Gavin, Shaun and Galina attacked Abstergo's Paris facility,[56] where the Templar scientist Dr. Álvaro Gramática was conducting research for their Phoenix Project;[50] an attempt to sequence a Precursor genome to unlock the true potential of the Pieces of Eden.[34] To thwart their progress, the Assassins destroyed the facility, including the body of the Sage John Standish[56] and the original Shroud of Eden, connected to the consciousness of the Precursor Consus.[50]
By November, Hastings and an Assassin codenamed Bishop contacted users of Abstergo's new Helix program on behalf of the Assassins. One such user became an initiate tasked with exploring the memories of Arno Dorian to find the body of the Sage, François-Thomas Germain, ahead of the Templars. After discovering that Arno had hidden the body in the Paris catacombs, the Assassins abandoned their search.[34] Around the same time, Otso Berg sent a video recording of Shay Cormac killing Assassins across the Assassins' network. The Assassins, fearing an attack by the Templars, were sent into a temporary state of chaos.[56]
加林娜、肖恩和瑞贝卡埋伏在白金汉宫中的圣殿骑士
In late 2015, Bishop contacted another Helix user to help her, Shaun and Rebecca find the location of a Shroud of Eden in London by exploring the memories of Jacob and Evie Frye. Through their memories, the Initiate discovered its location in the vault underneath Buckingham Palace, where Shaun, Rebecca and Galina faced off against Isabelle Ardant, Juhani Otso Berg and Violet da Costa. Shaun killed Ardant, but when Rebecca was critically shot the Assassins had to leave the artifact behind to safely escape.[50]
With the Shroud in his possession, Dr. Álvaro Gramática subsequently became the Assassins' primary target and finding his lab a top priority. Meanwhile, the Templars started targeting the Initiates, resulting in the death of an initiate. After various Assassins voiced their concerns over the Initiates' involvement, William Miles enacted the Rooftop Garden Protocol, ending all communications on the Assassins' worldwide network and with the Initiates.[67]
新生刺客的行动
- “Above all, your primary target remains Dr. Gramatica and his lab. If you find either, DO NOT ENGAGE. Report to me immediately and we will assemble a strike team. Outside of this, you are free to choose your own targets, so long as you follow the Creed.”
- ―Bishop sending a message to the Assassin cells, 2015.[来源]
In late 2015, a new Assassin team consisting of Xavier Chen, Galina Voronina and Kody Adams rescued Charlotte de la Cruz, an individual with Eagle Vision they had considered for recruitment, from a Templar ambush. The Assassins had received intel that one of their members, Joseph Laurier, had made contact with the Templars to inform them of an artifact hidden by his ancestor during the Salem witch trials. In order to determine if he was telling the truth or baiting the Templars, Charlotte was forced to relive the memories of her 17th century Thomas Stoddard in the Animus.[53]
夏洛特和加林娜对峙约瑟夫
With time running out, Galina pressured the team into confronting the Templars at their local headquarters. While initially believing Joseph spoke the truth, Charlotte later discovered his treachery through her ancestor's memories. However, Joseph took the opportunity to kill Xavier and gravely injured Galina.[53] Charlotte and Galina escaped with Kody, relocating to Mexico City in early 2016, and refocused their efforts on Joseph. Meanwhile, Charlotte became convinced they had to find Erudito, a hacker collective, per Consus' warning through her ancestor's memories.[49]
Trying to find leads through local Templars, and while Charlotte relived the memories of her ancestor Quila, the Assassins instead angered a local cartel led by Arturo Viera. After Viera kidnapped Kody, a team of Templars led by Ortega Sanchez eliminated Viera at a meeting between him and the Assassins. He planted a tracking device in Charlotte's foot, and made a deal to spare her team's life if she'd surrender herself to them later. While she held up her end of the deal, Galina and Kody made a deal with the cartel to kill the Templars and Sanchez. This allowed them to proceed to Argentina, having discovered the password and coordinates of their hideout hidden in Quila's memories.[49]
刺客会见博学者
The Assassins were brought to an Erudito base at an undisclosed location. While Erudito's leader, Charlotte's grandmother Florencia, wanted to help the Assassins, several of the other hackers were initially reluctant to give up their independence. Charlotte ensured the opportunity to convince the hackers, by having her explore the memories of Hiram Stoddard, who worked with Giovanni Borgia, for more signs from Consus, while Galina took Erudito's field agents to find Joseph Laurier in Somalia.[48]
Eventually, after Sanchez, who survived the earlier ordeal, and the Templars tracked Charlotte using the device planted in her foot, many members of Erudito were killed during their attack on the island. Joseph, who was engaged in a fight with Galina, Sheed and My'shell Lemair, offered them resistance after word of the attack reached them to ensure Charlotte's safety, believing her to be too important. While Kody, Sheed and Joseph died during the attack, the others were able to escape with help from the Assassins Arend Schut and Kiyoshi Takakura, and later regrouped.[48]
优越事件
待补充，补充完毕之前请参见《刺客信条：末裔（系列）》的现代线。
Destruction of the Abstergo Madrid facility
In October 2016, Abstergo faked the public execution of Callum Lynch, a convict on death row with a strong Assassin heritage. He was brought to Abstergo's Madrid facility, where he was placed in a new Animus by Dr. Sophia Rikkin, daughter of Abstergo CEO Alan Rikkin. They forced him to explore the memories of the Assassin Aguilar de Nerha in the hope of finding his Apple of Eden. Meanwhile, Callum met various imprisoned Assassins in the facility.[43]
Working closely with Sophia, Callum relived the memories of his ancestor and eventually came to trust Sophia, becoming determined to help Abstergo. When he reached Aguilar's target memory in the Animus, Callum was greeted by ghastly visions of his ancestors, including his mother, who convinced him to accept his place among the Assasins. The other Assassin prisoners staged a prison break, and Callum escaped along with Moussa and Lin.[43]
卡勒姆·林奇刺杀艾伦·里金
In order to retrieve the Apple from the Templars, the three Assassins infiltrated the Grand Templar Hall in London, where Rikkin was celebrating the artifact's retrieval at a Templar meeting. Sophia Rikkin, dissatisfied with her father stealing her successes, allowed Callum to infiltrate the meeting. The new Assassin consequently killed Rikkin and retrieved the Apple before fleeing in the chaos.[43]
Stopping Project Bluebird
待补充，补充完毕之前请参见《刺客信条：阴谋》的现代线和《刺客信条：血石》的现代线。
Conflict with Juno
- “All these bodies... It's a statement. Templars don't make statements. Why would they drag this war into daylight? The cell we lost in Hong Kong... now this in Germany. We haven't seen anything like this since the Great Purge. This is something new.”
- ―Kiyoshi Takakura about their new enemy, 2017.[来源]
夏洛特被第一文明的仆从袭击
By 2017, Charlotte de la Cruz had become an essential part of the Assassin Brotherhood. Charlotte and Guernica Moneo, an Erudito hacker and reluctant Assassin ally, travelled to join Barindra Mitra's cell to search a Phoenix Project lab in Hong Kong for data. However, upon their arrival, Charlotte was attacked by a group of men wearing high-tech Assassin armor and was met by a young boy – unbeknownst to her, the son of Desmond Miles. This new faction were secretly the Instruments of the First Will, a group serving Juno and fighting to restore Isu dominance over humanity. After Jasdip Dhami, an Assassin who had joined the Instruments, gravely wounded Guernico, Charlotte was forced to retreat with him back to the London safehouse.[77]
Galina and Arend met their Abstergo contact, Heinrich Hart, in Berlin, to question him on the intel about the Hong Kong safehouse. Feigning ignorance, Hart, himself an Instrument, was able to convince the Assassins of his innocence. After Hart blew himself up shortly afterwards following an interaction with Otso Berg, the new Black Cross, the Assassins became convinced they were facing a new faction. Using Abstergo intel, the Assassins found a lead on the Koh-i-Noor, which Consus had previously told Charlotte to find. Intending to explore the life of her ancestor Ignacio Cardona, who interacted with the artifact, Charlotte instead got stuck inside the Animus interface, unable to get out.[77]
Guernica – himself secretly an Instrument of the First Will – insisted the Assassins find Felix Oladele, an Abstergo extraction specialist, to help Charlotte, but instead led Arend and Kiyoshi into another trap laid by the Instruments, which they barely escaped. Juno secretly infiltrated the Assassins' Animus, sifting through Charlotte's memories. Guernica, willing to spare Charlotte future atrocities, attempted to kill Charlotte after Juno was done, but was caught and stopped by Galina.[77]
Meanwhile, My'shell Lemair, blaming herself for Charlotte's situation, decided to investigate leads on old Assassin accounts, leading her to discover they were secretly being used by a third faction. Berg also investigated the accounts and interrogated her, before being ambushed by an Instrument cell led by Jasdip. Gravely wounded, My'shell took Berg to the London safehouse, where the Assassins reconvened. Reluctantly, the Assassin cell and Berg decided to join forces to stop the new faction which had infiltrated both their orders.[77]
Charlotte went to relive the memories of Ignacio Cardona, discovering that he interacted with the former Black Cross Albert Bolden. After Charlotte was unable to carry on due to fatigue caused by the Animus, Berg relived the memories of Albert Bolden using the DNA from his descendant André Bolden. They eventually discovered the artifact was buried in the rubble of an abandoned church in Spain. Meanwhile, the Instruments hijacked Abstergo's Phoenix Project laboratory for their own means.[71]
Search for the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus
- Victoria：“I believe this staff is important. But the Templars and Assassins have found Staves of Eden before. Nikolai Tesla blew one up in Russia, if I remember correctly?”
- Layla：“This is different. If what I saw in Egypt is true, this staff doesn't control minds... it controls physics. Time. Imagine rewriting the rules of the universe.”
- ―Victoria Bibeau and Layla Hassan about the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, 2018.[来源]
威廉·迈尔斯被蕾拉·哈桑威胁
In late October 2017, William Miles rescued a rogue Abstergo operative named Layla Hassan, who had been tasked by Simon Hathaway with retrieving the sarcophagus of Bayek of Siwa, the founder of the Hidden Ones, in the Qattara Depression in Egypt. After she decided to explore Bayek's memories on her own with her portable Animus rather than bringing the sarcophagus to Abstergo, the company unsuccessfully sent agents to kill her. William eventually found her and offered her an opportunity to work on the Assassins' Animus project, which she reluctantly accepted.[12]
Over the next year, Layla's reluctance to joining the Brotherhood subsided and she became a valued member of the Assassins, even gaining leadership over her own cell. In late 2018, Layla found evidence that pointed to the location of the broken Spear of Leonidas, and gathered a team consisting of fellow former Abstergo employee Victoria Bibeau, Kiyoshi Takakura and Alannah Ryan to recover it. Using a DNA sample on the artifact, she proceeded to explore Kassandra's genetic memories in the Animus in a safehouse in London, hoping to find clues leading to the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus.[3]
Layla meeting Kassandra in the Gateway to the Lost City
Eventually, through Kassandra's memories, the cell discovered the location of the sunken city of Atlantis and how to reactivate the Gateway to the Lost City that served as its entrance. After doing so, Layla was met by Kassandra, who had lived over two millennia thanks to the powers of the Staff. She then passed the artifact on to Layla, imparting on her the responsibility to bring balance between order and chaos back to the world. Before letting to of the Staff, Kassandra made Layla promise to destroy all the Pieces of Eden after achieving her goals, before Kassandra's immortality faded and she passed away.[3]
Layla decided to explore more of Kassandra's memories, through which she was directly contacted by the Isu Aletheia, from whom she discovered that Layla was intended to be the "Heir of Memories" and was to learn how to use the Staff and fight its corruption. Through her experiences in the Animus, Layla discovered how to reach further into the Gateway. Once there, she was joined by Victoria and the two were eventually discovered by Abstergo's Sigma Team, which was swiftly eliminated by Layla.[78]
Through Kassandra's memories, Layla experienced several simulations of Isu civilization created by Aletheia with the intent of learning how to master the Staff's power. During these Animus sessions, Victoria implored Layla to stop to prevent the Bleeding Effect from taking over. In a moment of rage induced by the Staff, Layla accidentally killed her friend. She continued exploring the simulations, eventually learning all Aletheia had to teach. At this point, Layla was confronted by Otso Berg, who was left crippled in their subsequent confrontation.[79]
另参见
参考与来源
- ↑ 《＜刺客信条＞电影幕后：深入阿尼姆斯》
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 《刺客信条II》
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 《刺客信条：奥德赛》
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 《刺客信条：奥德赛》-《第一把袖剑的传承》-《全面猎杀》
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 《刺客信条：奥德赛》-《第一把袖剑的传承》-《血脉》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：奥德赛》-《盲王》
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 《刺客信条：奥德赛小说》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：奥德赛》-《第一把袖剑的传承》-《暗影后裔》
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 《刺客信条编年史：印度》
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 《刺客信条百科全书》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：基本指南》
- ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 《刺客信条：起源》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：大明风云》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：沙漠誓言》
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 《刺客信条：兄弟会》 引用错误：无效
<ref>标签；name属性“ACBH”使用不同内容定义了多次 引用错误：无效<ref>标签；name属性“ACBH”使用不同内容定义了多次 - ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 《刺客信条：起源漫画》
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 17.9 《刺客信条：传承计划》 引用错误：无效
<ref>标签；name属性“ACPL”使用不同内容定义了多次 - ↑ 18.0 18.1 《刺客信条：起源》-《无形者》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：起源》-《法老的诅咒》
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 《刺客信条：末裔》
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 《刺客信条2：阿奎卢斯》
- ↑ 《刺客信条1：戴斯蒙德》
- ↑ 《刺客信条3：阿克齐皮特》
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 《刺客信条：团结：阿布斯泰戈娱乐 - 员工手册》
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 《刺客信条：末裔 - 诸神的命运》
- ↑ 《刺客信条：官方攻略》
- ↑ 27.00 27.01 27.02 27.03 27.04 27.05 27.06 27.07 27.08 27.09 27.10 27.11 27.12 27.13 27.14 刺客信条：秘密圣战
- ↑ 28.00 28.01 28.02 28.03 28.04 28.05 28.06 28.07 28.08 28.09 28.10 28.11 28.12 《刺客信条：启示录》
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 《刺客信条》 引用错误：无效
<ref>标签；name属性“AC1”使用不同内容定义了多次 - ↑ Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 31.5 31.6 31.7 31.8 31.9 Assassin's Creed: Memories
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan
- ↑ 33.00 33.01 33.02 33.03 33.04 33.05 33.06 33.07 33.08 33.09 33.10 33.11 33.12 33.13 33.14 33.15 33.16 33.17 33.18 33.19 33.20 33.21 33.22 33.23 33.24 Assassin's Creed: Initiates
- ↑ 34.00 34.01 34.02 34.03 34.04 34.05 34.06 34.07 34.08 34.09 34.10 34.11 34.12 34.13 Assassin's Creed: Unity
- ↑ Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk
- ↑ Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr
- ↑ Assassin's Creed 6: Leila
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4 38.5 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 39.4 39.5 《刺客信条：异端》
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 40.4 40.5 40.6 40.7 40.8 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 刺客信条：血系
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Recollection
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 43.4 43.5 43.6 Assassin's Creed: The Movie 引用错误：无效
<ref>标签；name属性“ACfilm”使用不同内容定义了多次 引用错误：无效<ref>标签；name属性“ACfilm”使用不同内容定义了多次 - ↑ 44.0 44.1 Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rebellion
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood novel
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 Assassin's Creed – Volume 3: Homecoming
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 Assassin's Creed – Volume 2: Setting Sun
- ↑ 50.00 50.01 50.02 50.03 50.04 50.05 50.06 50.07 50.08 50.09 50.10 50.11 50.12 50.13 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 51.3 51.4 51.5 Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Embers
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 53.5 53.6 Assassin's Creed – Volume 1: Trial by Fire
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Official Movie Novelization
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 56.2 56.3 56.4 56.5 56.6 56.7 56.8 56.9 Assassin's Creed: Rogue
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
- ↑ 58.00 58.01 58.02 58.03 58.04 58.05 58.06 58.07 58.08 58.09 58.10 58.11 58.12 Assassin's Creed III
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 60.2 《刺客信条III：解放》
- ↑ 《刺客信条IV：黑旗》-《艾弗琳》
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Chair
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 64.2 Assassin's Creed: Templars – Cross of War
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 65.2 65.3 Assassin's Creed: Brahman
- ↑ 66.0 66.1 刺客信条：底层世界
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Jack the Ripper
- ↑ 68.00 68.01 68.02 68.03 68.04 68.05 68.06 68.07 68.08 68.09 68.10 68.11 68.12 68.13 Assassin's Creed: The Fall
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
- ↑ 70.0 70.1 70.2 70.3 Assassin's Creed: The Chain
- ↑ 71.0 71.1 71.2 71.3 71.4 Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Volume 2: Inflection Point
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – Volume 1: Die Glocke
- ↑ 73.0 73.1 73.2 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – Volume 2: Project Rainbow
- ↑ 74.00 74.01 74.02 74.03 74.04 74.05 74.06 74.07 74.08 74.09 74.10 Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone
- ↑ 75.0 75.1 75.2 75.3 75.4 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – The Lost Archive
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance
- ↑ 77.0 77.1 77.2 77.3 Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Volume 1: Common Ground
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Lost Tales of Greece – The Heir of Memories
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis
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