Story beats · 8

1. 01Solomon's Temple

   One arrogant morning — the Creed's three tenets broken, Kadar dead, Malik maimed, and a Templar treasure loose in the world. Altaïr is demoted to novice.

2. 02Nine names

   Al Mualim's road to redemption: nine men in Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem, investigated first, killed clean. The rank comes back one feather at a time.

3. 03What the dying say

   Every target dies calm, certain, and on message: we were building order; you don't know who you serve. The doubt is the game's real currency.

4. 04The brotherhood of enemies

   Saracen and Crusader targets turn out to be one lodge — Templars using the Crusade as cover for a project older than either side.

5. 05The tenth man

   Robert de Sablé's last words complete the ledger: the expedition to Solomon's Temple had ten Templars. The tenth sits in Masyaf, holding the Apple.

6. 06The master's garden

   Al Mualim turns the Apple on his own fortress and offers Altaïr a perfected world. Student kills teacher under a tree heavy with illusions.

7. 07The map

   In Altaïr's hands the Apple projects the Earth, marked with the resting places of its siblings — the series' entire future, drawn in light.

8. 08Subject 17

   Abstergo has what it came for; Lucy buys Desmond his life. Left alone, he finds the wall behind his bed written over in blood only eagle vision can read.

Characters

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  Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

  Master Assassin broken to novice — the Creed's proudest student and first great skeptic

  protagonist
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  Al Mualim

  Mentor of Masyaf, keeper of more than the Creed

  antagonist
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  Malik Al-Sayf

  Lost an arm and a brother to Altaïr's arrogance — becomes his conscience

  ally
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  Robert de Sablé

  Grand Master of the Templars, ninth name on the list

  antagonist
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  Desmond Miles

  Bartender, abductee, Subject 17 of the Animus

  modern
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  Lucy Stillman

  The researcher on the inside

  modern
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  Warren Vidic

  Abstergo's Animus man — the Templars in a lab coat

  antagonist

OppositionTemplar Order

Modern frameDesmond Miles

Pieces of Eden

• Apple of Eden (Piece of Eden No. 2)

Connections

• AC IIDirect sequel

  Desmond's story continues the same night — and Altaïr's codex becomes the Renaissance Brotherhood's foundation text.

• AC RevelationsCharacter

  Revelations returns to Masyaf to tell the rest of Altaïr's life, through the memory seals Ezio recovers.

• AC OriginsFaction

  Masyaf's Brotherhood is the Hidden Ones grown into a nation — Bayek's tenets, word for word, a millennium on.

In game · 8 shots

Trailer

YouTube · loads on play

Introduced to the series

• Social stealth & crowd blending
• Free-running parkour across whole cities
• Eagle vision
• The Animus frame itself

Certainty as a weapon · Nothing is true, everything is permitted · Faith and its middlemen · The student surpassing the master