AC II: The Breakdown

Assassin's Creed is an absolute juggernaut of the gaming industry, having revolutionized the way games were made. These games are some of the most highly acclaimed games in the world. Also they were at a discount on Steam recently.This game has a lot of back story, so I'll skip directly to the beginning of one of gaming's most notable stories. I will tell you the story of Altair. Also I'm changing the format of the post again to be more story oriented. Deal with it.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR ASSASSIN'S CREED

The first Assassin's Creed actually has two stories. In real time is the story of Desmond, and the story of Altair, which is Desmond's ancestor from the Third Crusade. The story of Altair and Desmond are tied together, but separate stories.

Desmond Miles was born in 1987 in an Assassin camp. When he was 16 he didn't want to be an Assassin and fled the camp. He moved to New York and was captured by Abstergo Industries, who was the Templars reincarnate. Abstergo hooked him up to a future device known as The Animus, saying because his ancestors (like Altair), were Assassin's, he could use his DNA to revisit their memories. Lucy Stillman and Warren Vidic both held Desmond captive and forced him to cooperate and let them revisit his memories of his Assassin ancestors. The first one he starts out with is his Syrian ancestor, Altair.

Altair Ibn-La'Ahad was born in 1165, and at a young age, his Assassin parents died. Because of this, he himself was accepted into the Order of Assassin's. He quickly rose the ranks of Master Assassin. One day, the Assassin camp was attacked by Templars, who are the people the Assassin's want to kill and the reason the Order was formed. Altair successfully defended the attack, and continued to look for the people responsible. He later found out that the Templars wanted an ancient artifact known as the Chalice. Altair goes and starts killing Templars in search of the Chalice. After some time of Assassinating Templars, Altair finds the Chalice, only to find out that it is a women, not the cup from The Last Crusade. After finding the girl, named Adha, who was captured by Templars .Altair had to fight many a Templar to find her, eventually killing their leader, Basilisk. After fighting and killing him, Altair loses Adha, only finding out months later that she is dead. This leads Altair to kill the people responsible, even though it brings him no joy.

Years later, during the 3rd Crusade, Altair and pals are in search of an artifact inside Soloman's Temple. Inside he broke two tenets or laws of the Order. He killed an innocent, and he engaged his enemy directly. By doing so, the Templars inside escaped. Altair and pals narrowly escape and go back to HQ to tell them what happened. Another Assassin entered soon after, with the artifact Altair didn't retrieve. Altair and other Assassin's wound up going to the town of Masyaf to defend it from Templars. Altair ended up having to perform a leap of faith to escape. When he returned to the Assassin's base, he was found out about is breaking of the laws/tenets and was stripped of his rank unless he could assassinate nine Templars to redeem himself.

That is the story of Altair and Desmond, two Assassins with interweaving pasts and futures. No game play today because I'm moving The Breakdown over to a more story based blog. So feel free to share this with friends and tell me how you like the new design. And have a good day, or a bad one, everyone has those. But maybe after reading this it will be a good one. That would be nice.