The expanded backstory found in the puzzle sections, spinoff games, novels, comics and other supplementary material shows the Assassins and the Templars participating in every conceivable world-historical event, with famous figures in history such as Socrates, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Richard the Lionheart, Jeanne d'Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, the Borgias, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Hattori Hanzo, Oda Nobunaga, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Robespierre, Napoléon Bonaparte, Queen Victoria, Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler among many others either being Assassins or Templars or non-aligned people supported and opposed by either faction.
However, this is only the Framing Device the vast majority of the action is set in the historical plotlines of the mainline installments, which so far include the Third Crusade, the Italian Renaissance, the Italian Wars, the Ottoman Empire, the American Revolution, the Golden Age of Piracy, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution, Victorian Britain, Ptolemaic Egypt, the Peloponnesian War, and the Viking Age. The first is set in the 21st century, where the battle between the Assassins and Templars has become one largely about information control, media manipulation and occasional cloak-and-dagger black-ops skirmishes. The succeeding games show that this conflict stretches over the whole of human history, across cultures and continents, and continued in the shadows under new names and labels in the centuries that followed - all the way up to the present day.Įach entry has two separate plots. The series as a whole pivots on a secret war between two powerful conspiracies that became public during The Crusades: The Templar Order, who wish for mankind to be united in peace under their enlightened control and the Assassin Brotherhood, who believe that Humans Are Flawed and the desire to control other humans is the greatest flaw that humans possess. Assassin's Creed is a Sci-Fi/ Historical Fiction Conspiracy Thriller series of third-person stealth-based sandbox action games developed by Ubisoft.
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