During the journey with his uncle, Ezio told Mario what he had learned from Minerva, but also found solace in the fact that his own battles were finally at an end. Arriving at the Villa, Claudia informed him that Caterina Sforza was at Monteriggioni to ask his help. Ezio agreed to listen her after visiting the city. During his time in the village, Ezio helped Angelina Ceresa to deliver flower for Claudia's birthday party.
Ezio once again retold the events of his encounter in the Vault to all of them. On 2 January , Ezio and Caterina were waking up by the sound of a cannon. They believed that the mercenaries were in training until a cannonball broke Ezio's bedroom wall. Taking a sword and his father's hidden blade went on the roof and discovered that the city was being besieged. Meeting with his uncle, he was informed that this was an attack from the Borgia with the Papal Army.
Ezio ran to the walls to take control of the cannons and gave enough time to the citizens to flee. As the Papal troops reached the wall, Ezio killed them. Even with all their effort, the enemies breached the main gate of the city. Seeing his uncle lying on the ground, Ezio ran across the rooftops in a vain effort to reach them, but Mario was shot down by the General.
At the same moment, Ezio was shot by arquebusiers upon the city walls and fell to the ground. Ezio, having soon regained consciousness as two of Mario's mercenaries dragged him to safety, continued to partake in the battle, which had spilled into what was left of the city streets. Ezio protected Claudia and retreat to the Villa where they stopped a thief before he closed the secret door of the study's room.
In the undergrounds, Ezio activated some traps to kill Borgia men and protected the citizens. Arriving at the exterior of the city, Ezio informed his mother and sister that Mario was dead. After ordering them to take refuge in Florence, Ezio began to make his way for Rome. During this journey, however, Ezio passed out and fell from his horse due to the severity of his wounds.
After leaving the house, Ezio retrieved some medicine from a local doctor and searched for Machiavelli in front of the Mausoleum. Ezio's attention was soon caught, however, by the discussion of a group of guards who were set on injuring an innocent civilian for "causing the Borgia guards trouble".
After following the guards to the Piazza di Spagna , he found a man weeping at the gallows before the hanging corpse of a woman—clearly someone who had been dear to him. Consoling the distraught man, he learned that the woman, Livia , had been his wife and that she had been raped then charged and executed for adultery by a henchman of the Borgia known simply as Il Carnefice.
More than that, Il Carnefice had threatened to hang Livia's husband as well if he dared to remove her body for proper rites. Recalling how his own family had been murdered by injustice at the gallows, Ezio assured the victim that he could empathize with him and that he was free to remove Livia's body while he dealt with Il Carnefice. Initially expecting Ezio to return to Florence, Machiavelli was surprised to hear that his friend was determined to stay in Rome to fight the Borgia.
By now, Ezio had noticed how Rome had fallen into a state of disrepair under the Borgia and that its citizens were being heavily oppressed. Thereupon Machiavelli apprised him of the situation and most of all of Cesare Borgia, the man responsible for the attack on Monteriggioni and the death of Mario Auditore. As the two made their way through Rome, Ezio suggested that they continue on horseback, but Machiavelli informed him that the guards of the district had closed the stables, restricting access only to the Borgia.
Not dissuaded, Ezio assassinated the local Borgia captain , Iacopo de Grassi , and demolished his command tower to break the Borgia's hold on the area. Almost immediately, the stable reopened to the public, with the Assassins providing funds for its renovation and purchasing their first Roman steeds. The two Assassins resumed their tour of Rome but began to clash over their divergent philosophies. Machiavelli reprimanded Ezio for showing mercy to Rodrigo, but despite regretting Mario's death, Ezio maintained that "killing one man" would not have changed the outcome and that the Assassins had to instead focus on rallying the support of the people and establishing a social network.
The cynical Machiavelli expressed little faith in the trustworthiness of the people, whereupon Ezio countered that this faith was core to the Assassin Brotherhood.
Their debate was cut short by the sudden theft of Ezio's money pouch by a pickpocket, forcing Ezio into a brief chase to retrieve it. Meeting back with Machiavelli at the Campidoglio , Ezio was informed by his friend that they had to search for an informant, Vinicio , who had been expected to deliver a letter he was to have intercepted from the Borgia.
The two Assassins descended the hill to investigate the Roman Forum and found him threatened by guards. After killing them, Vinicio reported that he had failed to steal the letter, pointing to the courier that was still in their line of sight. Without further ado, Ezio chased the messenger into the Colosseum and snatched the document from him. On the road to join Machiavelli, Ezio passed by the Baths of Trajan.
There, he was attacked by men with wolf skins. After he killed them, he investigated in the area to know how they arrived there. He found an entrance of a Lair of Romulus and opened it. The scroll contained a drawing of the Armor of Brutus and indicated that someone locked it with six keys.
Leaving the lair, Ezio met again with Machiavelli who informed him that the men who attacked him were the Followers of Romulus, a cult manipulated by the Borgia to terrorize the citizens and drove them to the arms of the Church. Ezio gave him the letter from the messenger but it was ciphered.
The Assassins then decided to make some allies. Machiavelli informed Ezio they could use the tunnels of the city to be undetectable will joining their first ally. Fabio lent to the Assassins an old storehouse of his on Tiber Island , in the hope that they would find a better use for it. When Fabio left, Machiavelli was ready to attack the Borgia but Ezio informed him that they captured Caterina and had the Apple.
When Ezio asked if they had a network in the city, Machiavelli explained that the mercenaries were fighting the French allies of Cesare while the courtesans weren't totally for the Assassins cause.
Also, the thieves guild refused to work with them. Ezio decided to met their leaders to strengthen their position in Rome. From here, Ezio travelled to the Rosa in Fiore in an attempt to gather the support of the city's courtesans. When he arrived however, he learned that Madonna Solari , the madam of the brothel, had been kidnapped by the Cento Occhi , Cesare's hired thugs, and was being held for ransom. Gathering the funds necessary, Ezio made his way to the kidnappers' location, only to be double-crossed.
Madonna Solari was killed, and the Cento Occhi attacked Ezio. Ezio survived the ambush and returned to the Rosa in Fiore to discover his mother and sister there. With no one to lead them, the courtesans turned to Claudia Auditore to act as their Madam, with a very reluctant Ezio agreeing to her appointment.
He also tasked her to retrieve Caterina Sforza. Ezio helped his sister and mother to develop the brothel, protecting the courtesans who were targeted by the Borgia and killing the ambassadors working for the Templars. He beat Madonna Solari's brother Santino to reclaim the Rosa in Fiore and expelled the courtesan Giuletta who was a mole for the Borgia.
Arriving another day at the Caserma di Alviano , Ezio met Bartolomeo d'Alviano who presented his wife Pantasilea Baglioni to his friend. While Bartolomeo said that his mercenaries had no difficulties fighting the Templar forces, Pantasilea revealed to Ezio that her husband hid the truth as they were French Army.
She tasked Ezio to assassinate the Borgia captain of the district to let her husband focus on the French. After stealthy killing the captain and burning the tower, Ezio met again with Bartolomeo to require his help against the Templars. The Condottiero agreed but asked Ezio to help him to renovate the barrack. Later, as the Caserma di Alviano was reconstructed, Bartolomeo recruited more mercenaries. Ezio tasked them to monitored Cesare and Rodrigo Borgia. Pantasilea informed Ezio that Machiavelli had made a list of targets that he sent through Pigeon coop.
Ezio began to accomplish this contract to help the Brotherhood. Ezio then moved on to gather the support La Volpe's Roman thieves but the Assassin refused as he suspected that Machiavelli was a traitor working for the Borgia. As Ezio refused to believe him, La Volpe led Ezio to a secret meeting where a Borgia guard gave a document to Machiavelli. As Machiavelli left the place, a group of thieves attacked the guards.
As the young thief Claudio was hurt, Ezio and La Volpe intervened to save him. After killing the guards, Ezio helped Claudio to leave the area by hiding in the crowd as they were highly searched. As Claudio was safe, Ezio reduced his notoriety to be incognito.
Returning to La Volpe, Ezio told him that Machiavelli wasn't a traitor and that he must have an explication for what they saw. The thief reluctantly accepted to help Ezio. Together they buy an old building to install the Thieves' Guild and renovated as an inn known as La Volpe Addormentata. Through this building, they could collect information from the Borgia guards who drank there and taking their money through gambling games.
As the guild was well installed, Ezio tasked La Volpe to search for information on the location of the Apple of Eden. Ezio helped the thieves in their rivalry against the Cento Occhi. In , while passing the Campidoglio, Ezio noticed a scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus giving a strange speech to the Roman citizens.
After having asked another spectator about the man's identity, he learned that the man came from the Vatican, though spoke contrary to the Church's teachings. However, Ezio soon saw a battalion of Borgia guards attack Copernicus, and swiftly stepped in to defend him. Upon hearing that more Borgia guards were looking for Copernicus, they quickly left the Campidoglio and went looking for a hideout.
Evading the Borgia guards, Ezio found shelter for Copernicus in a small house in the Antico District , next to the Colosseum. Once they were safe, Copernicus realized that his fellow scholars would be in danger as well, and asked Ezio to deliver a letter of warning to each of them. Despite being insecure on whether to trust Copernicus or not, Ezio agreed to deliver the letters.
Ezio travelled across the Centro District , handing letters to several scholars, and managing to reach most of them in time. Ezio followed a cardinal roaming nearby, who eventually led him to the Master. Eavesdropping on their conversation, Ezio found out that the Master had sent his best men to kill the scholars whom Ezio had delivered the letters to, and he quickly rushed to save them.
He informed Copernicus that his suspicions were correct, and warned him of his own safety, but Copernicus forewent caution, as he wanted to chronicle an eclipse that night. Ezio set off once again, with the intention of killing the Master. Ezio found the Master and killed him with his Hidden Blade, and with his dying breath, the Master revealed that he had already sent his best man to kill Copernicus. Ezio quickly set off to where Copernicus would research the eclipse and arrived just in time to kill the assassin.
As they looked up at the eclipse together, Copernicus revealed to Ezio that the sun was most likely the midpoint of the universe, contrary to common belief that it was the Earth. Copernicus thanked Ezio for his aid, and they went their separate ways. Infiltrating the stronghold in , [] Ezio scaled the fortress' double walls and apprehended Lucrezia Borgia , who was holding the keys to Caterina's cell. Only a timely explosion from within the Castel prevented him from being overwhelmed.
Returning to his base of operations, Ezio decided that in order to free Rome from its Borgia oppression, he needed to involve those who were being oppressed. Within a year, Ezio had turned a number of Rome's citizens into Assassin apprentices , [] and had adopted several existing members of the Order into his guild, such as Francesco Vecellio , whose former master had betrayed the Order. The apprentices fought and trained alongside Ezio, and undertook missions to aid their fellow Assassins in cities across Europe and beyond, including Calicut , India.
Ezio also had his apprentices aid him in removing a number of Templar agents, such as Malfatto and Silvestro Sabbatini. Eventually, Ezio received a surprise visit from his old friend Leonardo da Vinci, who informed him that he had been pressed into providing the Borgia with various forms of advanced weaponry and War Machines.
Leonardo promised to provide Ezio with the tools necessary to destroy his weapons, albeit at a small monetary cost. Ezio agreed and managed to demolish all of Leonardo's machines in his war against the Borgia.
Ezio asked them for the source of Cesare's funds, to which La Volpe replied that Cesare had his own personal banker, whose identity was unknown, as he was only referred to as "the Banker". Additionally, Ezio revealed that he intended to kill the French general, Octavian de Valois , so that Cesare would lose the protection of his foreign allies.
La Volpe also remarked that there was a side entrance into the Castel Sant'Angelo that Ezio could use and that Lucrezia's lover Pietro Rossi had a key to enter it. Despite Ezio's request for her to stay, Caterina left Rome. Ezio met Claudia in the Rosa in Fiore, and she told him that senator Egidio Troche frequently came into the brothel to complain about his debts to the Banker and that he could be found at the Campidoglio.
Hearing several men on the Campidoglio talking about Egidio making failed attempts to get finances, Ezio eventually found him under attack of Borgia guards and rescued him.
Together, they went through the district looking for a safe place for Egidio to hide out in. Finally, Egidio found shelter in the home of his brother Francesco , who was angry at Egidio for warning the ambassador of Venice of Cesare's plans for Romagna. Egidio was willing to aid Ezio, telling him that the Borgia guards usually led him to the Banker, and that he needed money to meet with them.
Eventually, they arrived at the Pantheon , where the money was given to the Borgia captain Luigi Torcelli. Ezio infiltrated the Pantheon via the roof and killed Luigi, taking his clothes and impersonating him. Ezio was given entry to the party, but the guards soon found out that Luigi had been killed in the Pantheon, and they went out looking for Ezio.
However, with the aid of Claudia's courtesans, he was able to remain undetected while following the chest carrier to the party. Once there, Ezio overheard the Banker introduce himself as Juan Borgia to a courtesan. Ezio followed them both to where Cesare was giving a speech.
Ezio avoided the patrolling guards and took a seat on a bench, killing Juan Borgia as he passed him. Ezio escaped and returned to the Rosa in Fiore, where a group of courtesans who had stolen the chest of money cried out that the Borgia guards had followed them to the brothel and that they had gone after Claudia and Maria.
Ezio rushed inside, only to find out that Claudia had already killed all the Borgia guards by herself using a knife. Following the Banker's death, Ezio travelled to Bartolomeo d'Alviano's barracks and met with the condotierro and his wife, Pantasilea Baglioni , just before the barracks was attacked by a French army under the command of Octavian de Valois , a Templar working in concert with Cesare Borgia.
Although the Assassin mercenary army was able to beat back the French with Ezio's help, Pantasilea was captured by the Baron in the midst of battle. Despite having put up a valiant defense of his barracks, Bartolomeo saw no feasible way that he could secure his wife's safety short of surrendering; Ezio however, had another idea. After Ezio eliminated a large number of French soldiers, [] Bartolomeo's mercenaries donned their armor and took on the guise of a French patrol escorting a defeated Bartolomeo to the Castra Praetoria , the base of operations for the Baron de Valois' forces.
Infiltrating the fortress, Bartolomeo and Ezio came face to face with the Baron, who very nearly killed Pantasilea, had not Ezio interrupted him with a shot from his Hidden Gun. Battle soon broke out, and with Bartolomeo's mercenaries engaging the French forces, Ezio was free to pursue the Baron and Pantasilea, eventually freeing her and killing him.
Ezio disagreed, but promised to look into the presence of a traitor. Ezio then tailed Micheletto, who was to infiltrate the play that Pietro would appear in, and kill him. As he followed him, Ezio had his apprentices discreetly replace the guards Micheletto tasked with partaking in the murder. Eventually, Micheletto arrived at the site of the play, the Colosseum. Ezio soon struck Micheletto but spared his life when he learned that Pietro had been poisoned previously, as a means of insurance.
Ezio hurried from the Colosseum with Pietro in his arms, while his apprentices covered the retreat. After handing Pietro over to a doctor and receiving the key to the Castel from him, Ezio spotted Paganino , a member of the Venetian thieves guild who had been present at the siege of Monteriggioni. When approached, Paganino ran and Ezio gave chase.
Paganino pressed Ezio's Hidden Blade into his own throat to kill himself rather than risk divulging anymore information. They gathered in the ceremony hall, and there Ezio offered Claudia a chance to join the Order, just as the others of their family had. She agreed and was inducted into the Order. Ezio consented and left for the Castel Sant'Angelo. With Cesare's supporters in Rome dead, the Brotherhood and its allies were in command of the city.
Ezio was informed that Cesare had returned to Rome and was meeting with his father in the Castel Sant'Angelo. As Cesare hurried off to obtain the Apple of Eden that his father had hidden away, Ezio entered the Castel and gave Rodrigo's body his blessing. He then learned from Lucrezia where Rodrigo had hidden the Apple and raced out of the fortress. Ezio arrived at St. Peter's Basilica and took possession of the Apple before Cesare, with just moments to spare.
Cesare arrived with a sizable contingent of Papal soldiers, though Ezio managed to escape them. Eventually, the Assassins caught up with Cesare himself, who was awaiting reinforcements from Micheletto and his army by the gates of Rome. Cesare's forces were defeated although their leader had retreated behind the city portcullis. However, he soon realized that he was not safe as he was quickly arrested by Fabio Orsini on the orders of Pope Julius II.
As he was dragged away, Cesare screamed that chains would not hold him and that no man could murder him. Despite their victory, Ezio was troubled by Cesare's comments, and upon meeting with Leonardo, he confessed his concerns. At Leonardo's suggestion, Ezio decided to look into the Apple to see if Cesare's threats were true. Upon doing so, Ezio quickly let go of the Apple, standing before Leonardo could question him and commenting that he had to leave immediately.
Before he departed, however, Ezio left Leonardo a parting gift: a chest full of gold, in compensation for losing his patron. Running from the Tiber Island headquarters, Ezio made his way to the Castel Sant'Angelo and was greeted by a scene of mass confusion. Questioning a guard, Ezio learned that Cesare had escaped, likely with the aid of an inside-man, but that Lucrezia had been left behind. Concluding that the best way for Cesare to escape the city was by boat, Ezio ran to the docks nearest the Castel.
The docks were extremely busy when he arrived, and as such, Ezio was forced to use the Apple to learn of Cesare's location. Pointed to a red-sailed caravel on pier six, Ezio made his way there, only to find that it had already set sail. Ezio headed to the nearest boat and offered to pay the boat-master handsomely if he pursued the caravel.
Ezio was surprised to see that it was Claudio who captained the boat, having been given money to do so by La Volpe previously. The ships were already nearing Ostia by the time Claudio's scoop caught up. Locking sails, Claudio gave Ezio the order to jump aboard and together Ezio and Claudio quickly overpowered the ship's crew, while Cesare watched helplessly from the secure wooden crate he had been hidden in.
Upon docking in Ostia, Cesare was securely sent back to Rome. When Ezio inquired as to where he was being held, Julius politely refused to answer, perhaps cautious of any attempts Ezio might make on the Templar leader's life.
Later in the conversation, a tired Ezio nonchalantly suggested the name " Swiss Guard " for the contingent of Swiss mercenaries Julius II was thinking of hiring as his personal bodyguards. Together, they formulated a plan that would keep control of the Borgia loyalists until the time to strike presented itself. After making their way onto the rooftops, the Assassins were eventually able to lose their pursuer, although it took a lot of effort on their part.
Upon learning her location, the two quickly made their way to liberate her from her captors, only to discover they had been led into a trap; Bruno had been working for the Borgia for at least a year. Upon reaching the Borgia diehards' facility, Ezio saw Claudia tied to a chair, half-dressed and bruised. The leader of the diehards held a knife to Claudia's throat and threatened to kill her if Ezio did not leave Rome once and for all.
Bringing together a force of one-hundred apprentices and thieves, Ezio's forces quickly surrounded and overpowered the two-hundred and fifty strong force commanded by Micheletto.
Micheletto was taken to Florence, and was incarcerated in the cell atop the Palazzo della Signoria; the same cell that had held Ezio's father twenty-eight years earlier.
Ezio quickly realized that this could work to their advantage: if they could track Micheletto down, they could follow him to Cesare. Convening an emergency meeting, Ezio organized a manhunt for Micheletto that focused on the area surrounding Rome and Ostia. The Piece of Eden told Ezio that the time had come for him to relinquish it, so that future generations might make use of it, and also indicated where it should be hidden.
In the final moments of his assassin career, Ezio would give up the chance of attaining power because for him the answer was already there: he was not meant to understand. Once he realized he was just a conduit for Desmond to gain answers through, Ezio stopped chasing the distant moon and settled for life in reality.
You might say Ezio was destined for greatness, but his intentions were never to be known for his acts. As the history books were devoid of Ezio, you can be certain that was how he wanted it to remain. The easiest example of just how much Ezio valued the simple life was back when he had his last brotherly moment with Frederico, where he confessed how much he loved his seemingly humdrum life, as he had family - for Ezio, that was what mattered most of all. From then on, at least until the age of , Ezio had no time for the true pleasures in life.
He was consumed with vengeance until the age of 40, before which he had spent his youth chasing after the killers of his family, forgoing any chance of falling in love. As for freedom, he had the liberty to do whatever he pleased, but his sole mission of finding answers caused him to never realize it. As an older man, Ezio finally gained the wisdom to understand all of this. The Templars and Assassins serve the same purpose of guiding mankind, but their ideologies are radically different.
Ezio understood what the Assassins stood for, and that was to keep the light in the reach of the people. Ezio had it all: he was dashing, strong, could have any woman he wanted, and skills no one could beat him in; but he never abused his powers.
The fault in the Templars was that they always wanted more. Thus, Ezio was wise enough to reject any temptation that came his way. He could have adopted the Templar ideology and be free of the burden of responsibility, but restrained himself knowing he had no right to control anyone.
Before the restructuring of the Order, Levantine Assassins were known to take their own life if necessary rather than compromise the Brotherhood. During Saladin's siege of Masyaf, Ahmad Sofian was captured and interrogated by the Saracens about the identity of the Assassin who infiltrated the camp. Ahmad broke and gave the name of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad. This resulted in him breaking the third tenet of the Creed, as Umar was executed for this, and though he was spared Ahmad could not bear the shame and guilt and took his own life.
Umar himself also technically broke the first and third tenets as well by killing a Saracen nobleman, who was not his target and which resulted in the Saracens electing to continue the siege unless he surrendered himself, which would have resulted in many Assassin deaths.
Umar elected to give himself up for execution to save his fellow Assassins. However, the execution was only an illusion, as Al Mualim wished to grant him a second chance.
Renaissance "Our tenets are clear. One of our brothers has decided to disobey them and must pay with his life. In , Perotto Calderon also broke the tenets of the Creed out of his love for the Templar Lucrezia Borgia and their newborn son. He broke his cover as a spy amongst the Borgia, compromising the Brotherhood in the process, and killed several of his fellow Assassins in an effort to steal the Shroud of Eden they protected, which he thought could cure his child's deformities.
Though he was successful, a team of Assassins later tracked Perotto down, and executed him as punishment. Instead of punishing him, Ezio ordered him to reflect on his mistake and gave him the chance to redeem himself when they confronted Cyril again. During this time, an Assassin of Jerusalem broke the Creed, and the Ottoman Assassins were asked to intervene. Despite his treachery, the other Assassins of his guild asked that he be executed covertly with a crossbow.
Haitian Revolution In , Eseosa sentenced fellow Assassin Jeannot Bullet to death for breaking the first tenet of the Creed French Revolution In , the French Assassin Council expelled Arno Dorian from the Brotherhood for repeatedly assassinating targets without consulting them. He was accused of compromising the Brotherhood and pursuing a personal vendetta. However the expulsion was temporary as the Council decided to reinstate the young Assassin years later, after he had matured and demonstrated true fidelity to the Creed.
So it shall be written. After Bayek killed him, Gamilat realized what he had done and said he deserved this. Bayek assured him from now on, all Hidden Ones will stay their blades from the flesh of the innocent. Middle Ages "Though I ask my brothers now to abandon their rituals, I do not ask that they abandon the Creed. THIS is what makes us Assassins.
Requiescat in Pace. It's Latin and means "May you rest in peace". User Info: CryBaby Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to ask and answer questions. Question Status How do you do Double Assassination? Answered Assassination phrase? Answered Do the assassination contract end? If yes, what do you get out of it after you finish it all?
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