Assassin's Creed Revelations

The Renaissance · 1511–1512

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Two lifetimes close their accounts in Constantinople

Released: 15 November 2011
Setting: Constantinople
Metacritic: Metacritic 80
Length: ≈12 h main story

Ezio goes to Masyaf to understand Altaïr, and to Constantinople to find the five keys to his library — while in the Animus' basement, Desmond reassembles his own broken mind.

Story beats · 8

01Return to Masyaf
The series' first fortress, revisited as an old man's question: what was it all for? The answer is locked behind five Ottoman keys.
02The city between empires
Constantinople: Yusuf's Brotherhood, a succession crisis, and Byzantine Templars who never accepted 1453. Ezio hunts keys through all of it.
03Altaïr, after
Each key replays the founder's later life — triumph, betrayal by Abbas, exile, and a long widowhood spent turning grief into doctrine.
04Sofia
A bookseller who has never heard of the Creed becomes the reason Ezio starts imagining a life after it.
05Animus Island
Desmond, comatose, negotiates his own mind with Subject 16's ghost: reach the end of both ancestors' stories or dissolve into the machine.

Characters

Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Fifty-two, still climbing — a Mentor looking for the point of it all
protagonist
Sofia Sartor
Bookseller of Constantinople — the life after the Creed
ally
Yusuf Tazim
Ottoman Brotherhood's grinning captain
ally
Prince Ahmet
Heir to the throne, secretly the Byzantine Templars' patron
antagonist
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
His last sixty years, relived through the Masyaf keys
deuteragonist
Desmond Miles
A mind in pieces on Animus Island
modern
Clay Kaczmarek (Subject 16)
The previous subject, surviving as software
modern

OppositionTemplar Order (Byzantine rite)

Modern frameDesmond Miles (Animus Black Room)

Pieces of Eden

The Masyaf Keys (Altaïr's memory seals)
Apple of Eden (Altaïr's, left in the library)

Connections

Assassin's CreedCharacter
The Masyaf keys tell the rest of Altaïr's life — the sequel AC1 never got, delivered inside Ezio's finale.
AC BrotherhoodDirect sequel
Picks up with Desmond comatose after Juno's ambush — the Black Room is the price of the Colosseum vault.
AC IIIDirect sequel
Desmond wakes with the Grand Temple's location — AC III's modern day starts the same week.

In game · 6 shots

Ezio drops from the rooftops, dagger first, onto Ottoman guards in a moonlit Constantinople lane

Gameplay in Ottoman Constantinople — screenshot 2

Gameplay in Ottoman Constantinople — screenshot 3

Gameplay in Ottoman Constantinople — screenshot 4

In-game screenshot 5 of Assassin's Creed Revelations

In-game screenshot 6 of Assassin's Creed Revelations

Trailer

Introduced to the series

Hookblade traversal & ziplines
Bomb crafting
Den defense & Mediterranean network
First-person puzzle interludes (Desmond's Journey)

Legacy audited · Endings chosen, not suffered · Memory as inheritance · Two teachers, one lesson