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A lone eagle soars over the recently conquered port city of Acre, where below a christian knight paces the gallows, preaching to a crowd the sins of the men that hang behind him. As the bird lifts up and over the nearby church bell tower, a figure appears. intent on the scene below - stark and white clad against the dirty, rubble-strewn city. The bell begins to toll noon as the man drops into the square below. He stalks quietly and steadily through the jeering throng, gently pushing aside those in his path. At the fourth bell, he begins a slow run, now shoving down those that aren't wise enough to step aside. From atop the raised gallows, he is spotted. The knight's gaurds draw their weapons, and the white cloaked figure drops into a sprint. In a flash, a spinning blade takes down the first soldier. The second has swung once before the attacker has dropped him as well. At the sixth bell, the assassin leaps. Time seems to slow. A hidden blade emerges from his arm, and his vitctim falls as the knife finds his neck. Time comes to a stop as the Christian knight falls. In the stunned silence, the assassin reaches down and reverently closes the dead man's eyes, and then the chase is on. Gaurds surge forward and rush after the murderer as he launches into a nearby alley, humps off a street-side stoop, and pulls himself to the roof. Along the tops of buildings he runs, circling back to the church entrance. He drops to the ground and rushes to the Cathedral door. As he calmly turns, he is totally surroundedby his foes. The twelfth bell tolls. The doors open and a sea of white-robed monks emerge from afternoon prayer. Standing completely still, in the bright light of day, the assassin completly dissappears. one of the men looks up, and catches the scroll gliding the winds, he quickly reads it:

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
~the Assassin's Creed"

he looks down and closes his eyes in shame, as the scrap of parchement, falls between his fingers back into the winds waves.