Story beats · 8

1. 01Iga, 1579

   Nobunaga's army erases the shinobi homeland in a night. Naoe survives her father; the box her family kept does not stay hers.

2. 02The masked league

   The men who took the box wear masks and answer to no daimyo. Naoe's revenge list acquires a name: the Shinbakufu.

3. 03The samurai from across the sea

   Yasuke — weighed, gifted armor, granted a sword by Nobunaga himself — embodies the era's strangeness: history's most improbable retainer, treated as fact.

4. 04Honnō-ji burns

   Mitsuhide's betrayal ends Nobunaga in a burning temple in 1582. Yasuke walks out of his lord's death into masterlessness — and into Naoe's war.

5. 05Two ways up the same castle

   Naoe goes through the shadows on the roof; Yasuke goes through the front gate. The game's structure is the partnership's argument, played by hand.

6. 06What the box is

   Not gold, not letters: precursor work — and the Jesuit ships in Sakai harbor carry men who crossed the world knowing exactly what it was.

7. 07The league unmasked

   Behind the Shinbakufu's masks are the era's respectable men — lords, merchants, clergy — each certain a unified Japan needs a hidden hand. Naoe and Yasuke disagree, one mask at a time.

8. 08A brotherhood, improvised

   With the box denied and the league broken, the allies who survived become something with tenets and a hideout — the Creed arriving in Japan by convergent evolution.

Characters

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  Naoe

  Iga shinobi, daughter of Fujibayashi Nagato — stealth as birthright

  protagonist
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  Yasuke

  The African samurai of history, remade by Nobunaga's fall

  protagonist
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  Oda Nobunaga

  The unifier whose ambition burns Iga — and whose fall frees Yasuke

  antagonist
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  Fujibayashi Nagato

  Naoe's father, keeper of a box worth a province

  ally
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  The Shinbakufu

  A masked league that would rule a unified Japan from behind it

  antagonist

OppositionThe Shinbakufu (a masked Templar-aligned league)

Modern frame— (framed through the Animus with no named present-day operative)

Pieces of Eden

• The box taken from Iga (an Isu artifact)

Connections

• AC MirageFaction

  The Hidden Ones' eastern roads reach Japan at last — Shadows' brotherhood rediscovers Basim-era tenets an ocean from Alamut.

• AC RevelationsFaction

  The Templar push east that Ezio blunted in Constantinople arrives in Japan two generations later aboard Jesuit ships.

In game · 8 shots

Trailer

YouTube · loads on play

Introduced to the series

• Two protagonists with opposed playstyles (shinobi stealth vs samurai combat)
• Dynamic seasons that change infiltration routes
• Light/shadow stealth & prone movement
• Hideout building

Honor vs survival · Unification and its brokers · Outsiders as clearest observers · Grief becoming structure