The Renaissance · 1526–1532Side entry
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
Shao Jun rebuilds a Brotherhood from its ashes
2.5D stealth side-scroller
- Released
- 21 April 2015
- Setting
- Ming-dynasty China
- Metacritic
- Metacritic 69
- Length
- ≈5 h main story
Returning from Ezio's Tuscany in 1526, Shao Jun hunts the Eight Tigers who slaughtered her Brotherhood, kills their leader Zhang Yong, loses Ezio's box — and rebuilds the Chinese Assassins as their Mentor.
Story beats · 6
01Homecoming to ashes
1526: the Brotherhood that raised her is a list of graves. The Eight Tigers rule through a boy emperor.
02Shadow work
Ports, prisons, the Forbidden City — Shao Jun moves through Ming China as a silhouette with a rope dart.
03Tiger by Tiger
The cabal narrows with each kill until only its head remains: Zhang Yong, architect of the purge.
Characters
Shao JunprotagonistEzio's last student — sole survivor of the Chinese Brotherhood
Zhang YongantagonistLeader of the Eight Tigers — the eunuch cabal ruling through the Jiajing Emperor
The Jiajing EmperorantagonistThe throne the Tigers hide behind — and Shao Jun's final, patient target
OppositionThe Eight Tigers (Templars of the Ming court)
Modern frameFramed as Animus training constructs (Helix)
Pieces of Eden
The Precursor Box (Ezio's chest — lost by 1532)
Connections
AC: EmbersCharacterEzio's last student — the film is her prologue, his chest her inheritance.
AC RogueArtifactThe Precursor Box she loses resurfaces in Shay Cormac's hands two centuries on.
AC Chronicles: RussiaArtifactIn 1918 the same box binds Anastasia Romanov to Shao Jun's memories.
In game · 6 shots
Trailer
Introduced to the series
- 2.5D stealth side-scrolling
- Rope dart & shadow-silhouette design
Rebuilding from extinction · The artifact declined