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===Plot===

In 2014, Abstergo releases their Helix software, which allows access to [[Genetic memory (psychology)|genetic memories]], to the general public as a gaming device. While [[Story within a story|playing through a memory]] of [[Jacques de Molay]] (Mario Desmarais), in which he orders a fellow Templar to hide his codex and sword during the sacking of the Paris [[Temple (Paris)|Temple]] in 1307, the player is contacted by the Assassin Brotherhood through their agent, codenamed "Bishop" ([[Kate Todd]]). Bishop invites the player to join the Assassins as an initiate, and presents an Abstergo video memo describing [[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag|the capture of a Sage]] who contains precursor DNA. Abstergo hopehopes to use the Sage to compile a precursor genome. Bishop directs the Initiate to locate another Sage, whose corpse they hope to recover.

The Initiate relives the memories of [[Arno Dorian]], a French-Austrian nobleman. Orphaned in 1776 after [[Assassin's Creed Rogue|his father Charles was assassinated]], Arno was taken in by François de la Serre, Grand Master of the French Templars. In 1789, Arno is given a message to deliver to de la Serre, but leaves it in his office and goes to meet with his childhood friend Élise, de la Serre's daughter, following her initiation into the Templar Order. Arno later finds de la Serre murdered, and is framed as the killer. He is imprisoned in the [[Bastille]], where he befriends a fellow prisoner, Pierre Bellec ([[Anthony Lemke]]), who knew his father. Bellec invites Arno into the Brotherhood after they escape during the [[Storming of the Bastille]].

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===''Dead Kings''===

One weekmonth after Élise's death, a devastated Arno finds refuge in [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Franciade]]. He is contacted by the [[Marquis de Sade]], who requests his help in finding the manuscript of [[Nicolas de Condorcet]], hidden in the tomb beneath the city, in exchange for a ship to take Arno to [[Egypt Eyalet|Egypt]]. During his search, Arno encounters tomb raiders led by Captain Philippe Rose (Taylor Price), a subordinate of Napoleon, who wishes to retrieve an artifact—an Apple of Eden—from a Precursor temple under the city's church. Arno finds that the manuscript has been stolen by a child thief, Léon (Eamon Stocks), who was captured by the raiders. Arno rescues Léon and retrieves the manuscript, but declines to help him stop the raiders. After a vision of Élise and hearing Léon's pleas, however, he changes his mind.

After discovering the temple's ___location and retrieving the key from one of Napoleon's officers, Arno opens the door to the temple, but is ambushed by Rose, who has betrayed Napoleon and wishes to take the Apple for himself. Arno survives the ambush, kills Rose, and retrieves the Apple, using it to repel the remaining raiders and escape. He later meets de Sade and gives him the manuscript. Arno decides to stay in France, and contacts the Brotherhood to deliver the Apple to Egypt, far from the reach of Napoleon, who is arrested for desertion and treason.{{efn|Within series lore, Napoleon's later [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|campaign in Egypt]] had the goal of retrieving the Apple of Eden, which allowed him to rise to power as First Consul and eventually [[Emperor of the French]].}}