The Full Assassin’s Creed Timeline

Assassin’s Creed Shadows would be the latest recreation inside the long-running assortment, nonetheless its feudal Japan setting areas it on the midpoint of the gathering’ historic timeline. That’s because of Assassin’s Creed doesn’t progress chronologically; this long-running franchise hops forwards and backwards in time between each entry, exploring essential events from means again to the Peloponnesian Battle in Historic Greece, and correct as a lot because the dawn of the First World Battle.

With 14 video video games inside the mainline assortment and counting, the timeline of these events is increasingly superior. That’s why IGN has pored over every scrap of lore to make sense of the gathering’ centuries-spanning timeline, the overarching story, and the way in which the video video games all match collectively. The result is this timeline, which covers all of the essential factor events inside the Assassin’s Creed timeline in chronological order.

The Isu Interval
75,000 BCE

Sooner than we are going to bounce into the timeline, we now have to cowl a bit little little bit of lore. Waaaay once more when, a extraordinarily superior civilization of god-like beings dominated the earth. Known as the Isu, they created the human race to behave as their slaves. Humanity was saved beneath Isu administration through the utilization of the Apples of Eden, a bunch of extraordinarily extremely efficient artefacts. People normally dislike being enslaved, though, and so two individuals – Eve and Adam – stole an Apple of Eden and escaped the Isu, triggering one factor of a revolutionary warfare.

The warfare between the Isu and humanity continued for a decade, nonetheless was decrease transient when a photograph voltaic flare hit the earth. The Isu had been obliterated. The stays of humanity, within the meantime, had been ready to rise from the ashes and inherit the earth.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
431 to 422 BCE – Peloponnesian Battle

As a result of the Peloponnesian Battle rages in Greece, a mercenary named Kassandra discovers The Cult of Kosmos; a shadowy organisation that has secretly been orchestrating the warfare. Amongst their amount is her long-lost brother, Alexios, who was kidnapped by the Cult as a toddler and became a demigod-like human weapon. Kassandra learns that the Cult centered Alexios because of he possesses the genes of their grandfather, legendary Spartan King Leonidas, who was a direct descendant of the Isu.

Kassandra embarks on a mission to halt the Cult’s plan to dominate Greece, all through which she learns that the organisation is using an Isu machine that calculates potential futures to help administration the warfare. Kassandra kills the essential factor members of the Cult and destroys the Isu machine, bringing the battle in Greece to an end.

All through her quest Kassandra is reunited alongside together with her natural father, Pythagoras, who is usually a descendant of the Isu. Pythogoras supplies Kassandra the Staff of Hermes, an Isu artifact that grants immortality, and asks her to show into the eternal guardian of Atlantis.

Assassin’s Creed Origins
49 to 43 BCE – Ptolemaic Egypt

In the middle of the interval of Cleopatra’s rule over Egypt, The Order of the Ancients – one different shadowy organisation that labored in collaboration with the Cult of Kosmos – kidnaps a peacekeeper known as Bayek and his son. The Order believes Bayek’s bloodline is the essential factor to unlocking an Isu vault, nonetheless he is unable to take motion. Inside the fight to flee his kidnappers Bayek by chance kills his son. Devastated, he vows to take revenge on these accountable.

Bayek and his partner Aya work to dismantle The Order, which establishes administration over Egypt using its puppet Pharoah, Ptolemy, and by bringing every Cleopatra and Julius Caesar into their ranks. Whereas the couple are ready to watch down and kill the lads who wronged them, they be taught that The Order should not be an space villain nonetheless in actuality a globe-spanning conspiracy intent on controlling politics and religion by discovering and using the Isu’s Apples of Eden. In an effort to fight in opposition to The Order’s oppression Bayek and Aya arrange The Hidden Ones; a secret collective of spies and assassins that perform out of Egypt and Rome.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage
861 – Islamic Golden Age

Practically a century later The Hidden Ones have established loads of strongholds internationally, along with the mountain fortress of Alamut in Iran. There Basim, a avenue thief from Baghdad, is educated as an assassin and tasked with investigating The Order of the Ancients’ actions in his home metropolis. Basim discovers that The Order seeks an Isu temple buried beneath Alamut and helps the assassins fend off The Order’s invading forces. Contained within the temple Basim finds a technologically superior jail which as quickly as held Loki – an Isu now considered a god by the Norse people. Basim learns that he is a reincarnation of Loki and vows to take revenge on those who imprisoned him in his former life.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
872 to 878 – Viking Invasion of England

All through the subsequent decade Basim travels with a Viking clan to England in hunt of additional members of The Order of the Ancients. There, the clan’s chief Sigurd and his sibling Eivor journey the nation in search of allies to help them arrange their settlement, Ravensthorpe. As a result of the pair help neighbouring communities they be taught of the tyranny of King Alfred, a frontrunner inside The Order who must overthrow the current regime and substitute it with a Christian system.

After discovering an Isu artifact Sigurd begins to experience visions that persuade him he is a god. Returning to Norway to investigate the hallucinations, Basim reveals that Eivor and Sigurd are reincarnations of Odin and Týr – the Isu who imprisoned Loki – and that he has been looking out all of them the way in which right down to enact his revenge. Eivor survives the assault and traps Basim in a simulated world generated by an Isu laptop shaped similar to the Yggdrasil tree. Traumatised by the events, Sigurd passes administration of the clan to Eivor, who heads once more to England to defeat King Afred on the Battle of Chippenham and return to Ravensthorpe as a hero.

Assassin’s Creed
1191 – Third Marketing campaign

The next 300 years see The Hidden Ones adapt and alter, finally turning into known as the Assassin Brotherhood by the highest of the eleventh century. Its foe moreover evolves; King Afred’s quest for a God-fearing system morphs The Order of the Ancients into the The Knights Templar. Nevertheless whereas the cult’s development is new, its goals are normally not: the Templars are nonetheless hell-bent on establishing a model new world order.

In the middle of the interval of the Third Marketing campaign, the assassin Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad works with the Brotherhood inside the Holy Land to steal an Apple of Eden from the Templars. Whereas the theft is worthwhile, Altaïr’s smug methods consequence inside the lack of lifetime of fellow assassin Kadar. The Brotherhood’s chief, Al Mualim, duties Altaïr in looking out down and assassinating 9 Templar leaders with a view to make up for his mistake.

Altaïr completes his course of, nonetheless with each Templar killed he step-by-step objects collectively their conspiracy to utilize the Apple of Eden’s powers. Nevertheless there’s a twist: Al Mualim had labored with after which double-crossed the Templars to secure the Apple for himself, and plans to utilize its powers to forcefully impose “peace” upon the world. Altaïr has no different nonetheless to kill his former grasp and take administration of the Brotherhood.

Assassin’s Creed 2
1476 to 1499 – Italian Renaissance

Fast forward to the Italian Renaissance and Ezio Auditore Da Firenze finds himself inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood as he seeks revenge for the lack of lifetime of his father and brothers (an execution organized by, you guessed it, the Templars). Using his father’s assassin gear and new devices developed by Leonardo Da Vinci himself, Ezio wages warfare in opposition to the Templar-aligned Borgia family. It’s a quest that sees Ezio take possession of an Apple of Eden, which reveals the location of a secret Isu vault beneath the Vatican. The Templars already know this secret, though, and Grand Grasp Rodrigo Borgia is made Pope so that he can entry the Vatican’s hidden chamber. And so there’s no completely different selection: Ezio has to downside the literal ruler of the Catholic church to a boxing match.

Rising victorious, Ezio makes use of the Apple to unseal the vault. Inside he’s confronted by a imaginative and prescient of the Isu Minerva, who informs the assassin of an impending doom ensuing from befall the earth in 2012. She reveals {{that a}} neighborhood of Isu vaults hidden internationally might very properly be the essential factor to surviving this future disaster.

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
1499 to 1507 – Italian Renaissance

Ezio might need defeated the Pope in a fistfight nonetheless he didn’t kill him, a name that backfires when Borgia’s Papal Navy besieges Ezio’s Monteriggioni villa and steals the Apple of Eden. In retaliation Ezio helps the weakened Assassin Brotherhood assemble up its vitality and numbers, a quest that sees him flip into the chief of the Italian Bureau. The Assassins dismantle the Borgia regime in Rome and reclaim the Apple of Eden, which Ezio hides in an Isu vault beneath the Roman Colosseum, protected against the Templars.

Assassin’s Creed Revelations
1511 to 1512 – Ottoman Civil Battle

Looking for additional particulars concerning the mysterious Isu, Ezio travels to the earlier Assassin Brotherhood headquarters, Masyaf, to investigate a library constructed by Altaïr. Annoyingly, the Templars have already discovered the library and begun to collect the 5 keys required to unlock it. To halt their progress, Ezio travels to Constantinople the place he allies with the Ottoman Assassins in opposition to the native Byzantine Templars. His efforts disrupt the Templars’ function to re-establish the Byzantine Empire and secure the library keys it had claimed.

Contained within the Masyaf library Ezio discovers Altaïr’s stays. The earlier Assassin chief had locked himself inside alongside along with his private Apple of Eden in an effort to take care of it out of the fingers of the Templars. The Apple duties a message from Jupiter, one different Isu, who reveals that important information that might help humanity survive the apocalypse has been collected inside the Grand Temple. Understanding that this info should not be meant for him nonetheless as a substitute a mysterious observer, Ezio leaves the library and retains the Apple locked inside as Altaïr had meant. He retires from his accountability nonetheless shortly thereafter dies due to the accidents gathered over his three a very long time working with the Brotherhood.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows
1579 – Sengoku Interval

We in the intervening time know little or no regarding the storyline of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, nonetheless what we do know is that inside the sixteenth century an African mercenary travels with a Catholic Jesuit missionary to Japan. There he meets Oda Nobunaga, a sturdy lord inside the technique of politically unifying the nation’s warring clans. Nobunaga makes the African man definitely one among his samurai. Taking the title Yasuke, the African man helps invade the Iga province in 1581 as part of Nobunaga’s advertising marketing campaign. Iga is home to Naoe, the daughter of shinobi grasp Fujibayashi Nagato. No matter coming from opposing sides of the battle, Yasuke and Naoe finally unite in pursuit of a shared function.

Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
1715 to 1722 – Golden Age of Piracy

In the middle of the Golden Age of Piracy, scoundrel Edward Kenway finds himself caught up in a model new Templar conspiracy after killing an Assassin and taking their place. He attends a secret meeting the place he learns that the Templars have arrived inside the Caribbean in search of The Observatory, an Isu machine capable of spying on any human. With it they hope to blackmail world leaders. Nonetheless, solely the ‘Sage’ can unlock the Observatory; a human reincarnation of the Isu Aita. The Templars search the current reincarnation of Aita, a pirate named Bartholomew Roberts.

Seeing a risk to utilize The Observatory for income, Edward embarks on a quest to hunt out Roberts and disrupt the Templars. He allies with a gaggle of pirates and helps arrange an neutral pirate republic sooner than lastly uniting with Roberts. The pair unlock The Observatory nonetheless disagree on what to do with it. Edward is shortly betrayed by Roberts, who takes the skull-shaped artifact powering the machine and locks Edward inside. Proving savvy enough to flee, Edward shortly tracks down Roberts to retrieve the stolen skull and take his bloody revenge. He then returns to The Observatory, the place he assassinates Templar chief Laureano de Torres y Ayala and seals the skull away, deciding the safety of the world is additional important than his personal quest for riches. His warfare in opposition to the Templars concluded, Edward returns to his home in England the place he lives out his days alongside along with his daughter, Jennifer, and son, Haytham.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue
1752 to 1776 – French and Indian Battle

Shay Patrick Cormac is distributed by the Assassin Brotherhood to retrieve an Isu artifact from a temple in Lisbon. Shay’s disturbing of the temple causes an earthquake that virtually completely destroys the city. Struck down with guilt, Shay decides to depart the Brotherhood and steal their map of Isu temples. The Assassins attempt to kill Shay for his betrayal, nonetheless he is rescued by Templars who take him to New York.

Over loads of years Shay step-by-step climbs the ranks of the Templar Order, killing loads of distinguished Assassins as he does. His work locations him on the trail of his former grasp, Achilles, whom he tracks to the Arctic in hope of halting the Brotherhood’s search for additional Isu temples. There, he and fellow Templar Haytham Kenway – positive, son of Edward Kenway! – injure Achilles nonetheless stop in want of killing him, leaving him alive to ensure he prevents the Assassins from unearthing any additional Isu temples.

In 1776, on a go to to Versailles to take away an Assassin, Shay signifies that the Templars start a revolution in France in response to a present insurrection sparked by the Assassins in America.

Assassin’s Creed 3
1754 to 1783 – American Revolution

The Templars set their sights on unlocking the Isu’s Grand Temple. Haytham Kenway murders an individual in London to accumulate the essential factor, after which travels to the Mohawk-guarded web site of the Temple inside the American Colonies. Haytham fails to work out learn how to unlock the Temple, nonetheless finds himself falling in love with a Mohawk lady named Kaniehti:io. Collectively they’ve a toddler, Ratonhnhaké:ton, nonetheless Haytham finally abandons his new family.

Years later, the Mohawk settlement is burned to the underside and Kaniehti:io is killed. On the lookout for revenge, Ratonhnhaké:ton renames himself Connor Kenway and trains with a reluctant Achilles to show into an Assassin. In direction of the backdrop of the American Revolution, Connor eliminates the Templars hidden contained in the British forces. His quest finally reunites him with Haytham, with whom he hopes to work with to find out some sort of peace. Nonetheless, Haytham believes it’s crucial that the Templars administration the nation, and the pair’s conflicting beliefs end in a son killing his father. Connor takes the Isu Grand Temple key and buries it, denying the Templars their end function.

Assassin’s Creed Liberation
1765 to 1777 – Spanish Occupation of Louisiana

Occuring in parallel to Connor’s journey, New Orleans-based assassin Aveline de Grandpré learns of a Templar plot to control Louisiana. Following the trail, Aveline learns that the plot is part of a loads larger conspiracy organised by the ‘Agency Man’, who’s using slaves to unearth an Isu temple. On her marketing campaign to disrupt the Templars and free the slaves, Aveline collects three components that hyperlink collectively to sort a Isu machine known as a ‘Prophecy Disk’.

Aveline finally discovers that the Agency Man is her private stepmother, who has been grooming her with the intent of inducting her into the Templars. Aveline kills her stepmother after which prompts the Prophecy Disk, which tells the story of Eve; the chief of the human stand up in opposition to the Isu.

Assassin’s Creed Unity
1789 to 1794 – French Revolution

Arno Dorian is orphaned as a toddler when Shay Cormac murders his father in Versailles. He’s taken in by François de la Serre, the Grand Grasp of the French Templars, and grows up alongside his new sister, Élise. As an grownup, Arno is framed for the murder of de la Serre and imprisoned inside the Bastille. There he meets a member of the Assassin Brotherhood who affords to help Arno monitor down his adoptive father’s killer.

The Brotherhood’s investigation uncovers a rift contained in the Templars led by the extremist François-Thomas Germain – the individual behind de la Serre’s murder. Germain plots to revolt in opposition to France’s monarchy and ignite revolution. As Paris falls into chaos, Arno and Élise work collectively to hint down Germain. They pursue him to an underground Templar crypt the place he makes an try and make use of a Sword of Eden, a sturdy Isu weapon, to kill Arno. Nonetheless, the sword unexpectedly explodes, killing Élise and wounding Germain. In his closing moments the Templar reveals that he is the current Sage. Arno later seals Germain’s stays inside the Paris Catacombs, making sure they hold out of attain of the Templars.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
1868 – Victorian England

In 1868, twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye arrive in London in search of The Shroud, one different Isu machine. They shortly uncover that the Templars have seized full administration over the city through use of enterprise figures, political leaders, and organised crime. The twins break up as a lot as full parallel goals: Jacob focuses on assassinating the Templars’ administration, whereas Evie makes an try and beat the Templars inside the race to hunt out The Shroud.

Whereas all of his lieutenants are killed all through Jacob’s bloody spree, Templar chief Crawford Starrick nonetheless manages to be taught that The Shroud is being held in a vault beneath Buckingham Palace. He steals the machine, nonetheless his plans to kill Britain’s leaders are halted when Jacob and Evie assassinate him. The twins return The Shroud to the vault, netting one different victory for the Assassin Brotherhood.

Inside the following years, Jacob is made head of the London Assassins and Evie manages to hint down and assassinate grisly serial killer Jack the Ripper. The pair later switch to the countryside, the place Evie raises her daughter, Lydia, as an Assassin. In the middle of the First World Battle, Lydia is tasked by Winston Churchill to investigate a German spy facility in London, which in order that happens to be staffed by Templars. Lydia’s mission concludes when she kills the espionage neighborhood’s chief, who’s revealed to be the most recent Isu Sage.

Transition Interval
1914 to 2012

Whereas the overwhelming majority of each Assassin’s Creed recreation is prepared all through a historic time interval, the gathering as an entire makes use of a framing story set by the fashionable interval. In the middle of the transition interval between Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s Victorian interval and the start of the fashionable storyline, the Templars create Abstergo Industries. A pharmaceutical agency established in 1937, Abstergo is part of the Templars efforts to control the world through capitalism. Inside the late Nineteen Seventies, Abstergo begins enchancment of the Animus: a digital actuality machine capable of exploring the recollections of a person’s ancestors. By exploring the earlier, Abstergo hopes to control the long term.

Assassin’s Creed 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, and three
2012

In 2012, bartender Desmond Miles is kidnapped by Abstergo Industries and compelled to utilize the Animus. Abstergo intends to utilize Desmond, who’s descended from Altaïr, to search out the Apples of Eden and completely different Isu artefacts. Happily for Desmond there’s an Assassin Brotherhood mole working at Abstergo, Lucy Stillman, and she or he helps him escape from the ability.

Desmond is dropped at a Brotherhood safehouse the place he works with Lucy and her teammates, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, to find the recollections of 1 different definitely one among his ancestors: Ezio. Desmond learns of the upcoming apocalypse by the use of Ezio’s encounter with Minerva beneath the Vatican, kickstarting the Assassins’ quest to forestall the highest of the world.

By exploring additional of Ezio’s recollections, Desmond is able to uncover the Apple of Eden that was hidden beneath the Roman Colosseum. Sadly, the Apple duties a imaginative and prescient of Juno, a villainous Isu who possesses Desmond and forces him to kill Lucy. The traumatic ordeal locations Desmond proper right into a coma, nonetheless he’s nonetheless ready to find Ezio’s closing recollections no matter such a medical emergency. By them he observes Ezio’s discovery of Altaïr’s library and Jupiter’s message revealing the existence of the Grand Temple.

Awakening from his coma, Desmond travels with Shaun and Rebecca to the Isu Grand Temple in New York the place they meet with William Miles, Desmond’s father and the chief of the fashionable Assassin Brotherhood. By reliving the recollections of Connor Kenway, Desmond is able to discover the essential factor to the Temple. Inside, the group uncover that the Isu experience can forestall the apocalypse nonetheless on the value of killing Desmond and unleashing the imprisoned Juno, who plans to control humanity. Desmond decides to sacrifice himself, believing humanity may have the flexibility to defeat Juno.

Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
2013

Abstergo makes use of samples taken from Desmond’s physique to proceed their hunt for Isu experience by the use of his ancestor’s recollections. In hopes of discovering the location of The Observatory, Abstergo assigns “The Noob”, an unnamed researcher, to find the recollections of Edward Kenway.

All through their challenge The Noob is tasked by the company’s head of IT, John Standish, to hack Abstergo’s pc techniques in hunt of information on the Assassins. Standish is finally revealed to be the modern-day Sage, and he intends to utilize The Noob as a bunch for Juno. Nonetheless, evidently Juno should not be however capable of emerge into the world, and so Standish makes an try and murder The Noob to take care of her existence secret. Sadly for him, he’s killed by Abstergo security, who think about him accountable for the hacks.

Assassin’s Creed Unity
2014

In a daring attempt to hint down the stays of former Sages, Abstergo releases “Helix” to most people; a video game-like software program program that allows avid gamers to experience genetic recollections. Guided by an Assassin known as Bishop, an unnamed provoke relives the lifetime of Arno Dorian in search of the stays of François-Thomas Germain, a Sage from the 1700s. Learning that Arno sealed Germain’s bones away inside the Paris Catacombs, Bishop believes the Sage’s stays are protected against Abstergo’s grasp.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
2015

The subsequent yr, the provoke is tasked with discovering The Shroud, an Isu machine hidden in London. By exploring the recollections of Jacob and Evie Frye the provoke learns that The Shroud is hidden beneath Buckingham Palace. Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane are despatched to retrieve it nonetheless Abstergo beats them to it. By hacking a senior Templar’s laptop, the Assassins be taught that Abstergo intends to utilize The Shroud to create a residing Isu. It is revealed that Juno moreover has her eyes on The Shroud, and has been manipulating Abstergo workers in an attempt to sabotage the Templar’s plans.

Assassin’s Creed Origins
2017

Layla Hassan, a researcher for Abstergo, has ambitions of turning into a member of the company’s Animus Endeavor. In an attempt to present her experience she develops a model new mannequin of the Animus capable of exploring recollections by the use of a DNA sample, completely skipping the need to find a natural descendant. On a go to to Egypt she discovers the mummified stays of Bayek and Aya and makes use of their DNA to relive the origins of The Hidden Ones. Layla is then contacted by William Miles, who affords her a spot inside the Assassin Brotherhood.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
2018

Using DNA samples recovered from the Spear of Leonidas, Layla is able to relive the recollections of Kassandra and uncover the location of Atlantis. Inside the legendary metropolis she comes face to face with the Greek mercenary, saved alive for a whole bunch of years because of the Staff of Hermes. Kassandra explains that the world needs steadiness between the Templars and Assassins to forestall disaster, and divulges that Layla is prophesied to ship that steadiness. As her closing act, Kassandra presents Laya the Staff of Hermes. Relieved of her accountability to guard Atlantis, she dies in Layla’s arms.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
2020

After observing fluctuations inside the Earth’s magnetic space, Layla and the Assassins get properly Viking stays in New England and use them to find the recollections of Eivor. By them Layla discovers the existence of the Yggdrasil laptop which is located in an Isu temple in Norway. Concurrently, the Assassins be taught that the magnetic space disturbances are a outcomes of the apocalypse-preventing Isu experience that Desmond Miles activated in 2012.

Laya travels to the Norway temple and makes use of Yggdrasil to enter its simulation, hoping to find an answer to stabilise the magnetic space. Inside she meets Basim, trapped there by Eivor, and a decide known as “The Reader”, a manifestation of Desmond’s ideas. Abandoning her mortal sort, Layla works with The Reader to forestall future apocalypses. Basim, within the meantime, escapes the simulation and claims the Staff of Hermes, which is revealed to incorporate the consciousness of Loki’s lover, Aletheia. He then joins the Assassin Brotherhood and makes use of their Animus to begin his quest to hint down Loki’s youngsters.

Matt Purslow is IGN’s Senior Choices Editor.