Story beats · 6

1. 01The Chalice contract

   Al Mualim points his best student at an artifact said to be able to end the war. Both sides are racing for it.

2. 02Basilisk

   The Templar lord is everything Altaïr fights — and a mirror of his certainty. Their duels structure the hunt.

3. 03Acre's water

   Altaïr foils a Templar plot to poison the city's cisterns — the young killer, briefly, a protector.

4. 04The Chalice is a woman

   Adha, keeper of dangerous knowledge, is the 'artifact' itself. The mission stops being a mission.

5. 05The ship at the dock

   Basilisk dies, but the Templars sail with Adha. Altaïr's vow to find her is the last thing the game shows.

6. 06What the codex remembers

   Later games reveal he found her too late — and that the loss is why the Altaïr of 1191 feels nothing at all.

Characters

• 
  Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

  Younger, prouder, and not yet humbled — the flaws of AC1 in the making

  protagonist
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  Adha

  'The Chalice' — not an object but a woman, and Altaïr's first love

  ally
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  Basilisk

  Templar lord hunting the Chalice for the Order

  antagonist

OppositionTemplar Order

Modern frame— (no Animus frame)

Pieces of Eden

• 'The Chalice' (a decoy — the artifact is a person)

Connections

• Assassin's CreedCharacter

  The direct prologue — the pride AC1 punishes and the grief under it both start here.

Trailer

YouTube · loads on play

Introduced to the series

• The series' first handheld outing
• Linear platforming take on parkour

Pride before the fall · Love as a casualty of war