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The first drawing in a little project I've started. I'm gonna try to draw a bunch of pictures like this of different Assassins in different time periods in history along with a fitting historical quote, using either in-game canons or my own personal headcanons (or a combination of the two). I thought it might be a fun little project to keep me occupied. I decided to start with the earliest time period in the Assassin's Creed lore: the Isu Era

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The Isu (later dubbed ‘precursors’ or ‘the First Civilization’ by future generations) were at the height of their technological advances in the year 75010 BC. There civilization flourished, but it flourished because of a dark reality. They used their technology to advance the evolution of existing apes into hominids similar to themselves: humans. They used their technology to control the minds and bodies of these humans, using them as slaves to build their world for them. However, two new humans, hybrids between the two hominids, were born into the workforce, and would change history forever. Their names were Adam and Eve.

They labored normally like the rest of their species in a factory named Eden. However, that changed when a rogue Isu named Lucifer left his post and snuck in to cause havok. He stole an Apple of Eden, one of the technologies used by the First Civilization to control their slaves, and gave it to Eve. The Apple gave Eve the knowledge and comprehension of the oppression on her species, and she knew she had to take action. She shared the Apple with her husband, Adam, and the two escaped Eden, never looking back. They went around the globe, forming an army that would fight for the freedom and equality of humanity. That army formed a Creed, and eventually dubbed themselves the Assassins. These freed humans launched countless rebellions against the “gods” that created them, and an all out war would soon break out between the two species.

Several Isu and humans joined the Assassins in their fight to save humanity, including Prometheus, Hercules, and even the archangel Gabriel. Eve would've offered Lucifer a chance to join had she not learned of his true intentions: to destroy all life on Earth for his own pleasure. Eve was forced to team up with the Isu’s top soldier, the archangel Michael, to take out the treacherous snake. The fighting went on and on, and neither side was able to turn away long enough to realize the impending threat.

Three Isu scientists, Minerva, Juno, and Jupiter, had learned that an enormous solar flare was soon to erupt and hit the Earth. Knowing that the flare would cause apocalyptic damage to the planet, the three, who called themselves the Capitoline Triad, worked effortlessly to find a way to save the world. They tried method after method, but none worked, and the solar flare eventually hit, causing what was essentially the apocalypse. The war between the Isu and humans had finally come to a close, as both sides now had to work together in order to survive what would eventually be called the Toba Catastrophe.