Assassins Creed Iv - Black Flag: -europe- -enar-

Nasim’s brass disc held the first node’s coordinate. But to read it, Edward needed a cipher wheel stolen from a Venetian ghetto—and Arwa needed a poison that only grew in the Vatican’s hidden gardens.

The letter arrived at Great Inagua on a Dutch fluyt, hidden in a false-bottomed chest of nutmeg. Its seal was not a cross or a crown, but a broken circle: the mark of the Ottoman Brotherhood, long thought extinct. “Kenway. The Observatory is a lock. But there is a key—not of glass, not of blood. A compass that points to no star. It was last seen in the hold of a Man O’ War called ‘Sultana’s Mirror,’ sunk off the coast of Galway. The Templars call it ‘Al-Biruni’s Index.’ Find it before they do. — EnAr” Edward frowned. “EnAr” was not a name. It was a cipher. English and Arabic. East and West. Assassins Creed IV - Black Flag -Europe- -EnAr-

Edward Kenway, Master Assassin of the British West Indies, was no stranger to blood. But the blood on the letter he held was not from a blade—it was from a quill. The ink, mixed with iron gall and something darker, smelled of the Levant. Nasim’s brass disc held the first node’s coordinate

The wreck of the Sultana’s Mirror lay not far from the Aran Islands. But the sea had scattered her secrets. What Edward found instead was a survivor: a mute boy, no older than twelve, with olive skin and calloused hands, clutching a brass disc etched with constellations. Its seal was not a cross or a

Lord Ashworth did not wait. His fleet blockaded Gibraltar. He offered terms: give him the boy, and he would spare the Assassins. “The Templars will usher in an age of peace through control,” his letter read. “You pirates only know chaos.”