“真相”与“结局”，解开ACII谜团

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First off, I realize other topics have been posted about this, but this post is to clarify what the generally accepted interpretation of ACII's end and The Truth video seems to be.

From what I can tell, everything started with a race referred to as "The Ones Who Came Before" (to simplify things I'll just call them Gods from now on. Make no mistake, however, they are not gods). They were an extremely advanced civilization, but there is no indication that they were aliens, as some believe. They lived on the Earth long before the mankind was created. And they were created. It seems that these Gods used the Pieces of Eden (an invention of theirs, presumably) to create humans (one of the glyph files suggests that they created them by forcing primates to evolve with the Pieces of Eden) to serve them as slaves. This is suggested by two things: the brief image in The Truth of humans working, overseen by a shadowy figure (the god Minerva, according to some official concept art) holding an Apple of Eden (The Piece of Eden that is shaped like a sphere) and by a glyph file containing an article from a medical journal stating that a seemingly useless neurotransmitter had been found in the human brain. The glyph file goes on to suggest that this neurotransmitter is there because mankind was designed to be controlled by the Pieces of Eden.

Eventually one of the gods mated with a human, producing Adam and Eve (whether they were siblings or completely unrelated is unknown and irrelevant) who were basically the original Assassins, or the "The Children of Two Worlds" as one Glyph file puts it. This is why Assassins have such remarkable abilities, like Eagle Vision and unnatural agility. I've heard that Ubisoft said that another attribute of this new race is their immunity to the Mind Control capabilities of the Pieces of Eden, but I cannot find the quote (if anyone has it, post it please). I don't quite understand that since you see plenty of Assassins being controlled by Al Mualim in the first game, and Adam and Eve could easily be immune because they hold a Piece of Eden (and Ezio demonstrates that one Piece can in fact block another during the fight with the Maestro). Anyways, Adam and Eve steal a Piece of Eden and escape with it, either freeing the humans in the process or returning later to do so. This sparks a war between the powerful gods and the innumerable humans.

At some point during this war, a devastating cosmic event happens, and the Earth burns (this event is definitely caused by the Sun - probably an incredibly large solar flare). Humans and Gods alike are nearly killed off entirely, but a few members of each race survive and slowly rebuild. But, for an unexplained reason, the Gods never fully recover and eventually die off, while the humans prosper (and their Assassin protectors). The hologram of Minerva that Ezio meets in the Vault seems to be some kind of AI left behind by the Gods once they had accepted their fate... nothing more than an interactive message, really. The thing that was the most confusing for many was the fact that Minerva talked to Desmond through Ezio. This is a complicated topic and everything I have to say about it is inferred, so I could very easily be wrong. The most likely answer is that the Gods had achieved some level of prescience (that is, the ability to see glimpses of the future) but this power must have been quite limited, or it was not developed until after the catastrophe, because if their prescience had existed beforehand and it had been absolute they would have foreseen the catastrophe and avoided it. This aptitude for prescience seems to be derived from the Gods' apparent tendency to "perceive time differently", rather than our human tendency to see time as absolutely linear and totally inexorable. It is also connected to the Pieces of Eden, somehow. Altair wrote in one of the pages of his Codex that "the Apple is more than a catalogue of that which precedes us. Within its twisting, sparking innards I've caught glimpses of what will be". Whether the Gods had their prescience because of the Pieces of Eden or, more likely, the other way around is unknown. As for the reason Minerva talked to Desmond, she was simply delivering a warning and decided that talking to an Assassin through that Assassin's ancestor was a secure way to communicate.

EDIT: I've also heard some say that there were three people in The Truth video, Adam, Eve, and an unnamed third person from whose eyes we see the whole video. I don't believe this to the case. Firstly, The Animus displays things in third person (though it could be argued that this is for the sake of gameplay and that in the "pure" Assassin's Creed universe this is not the case). Secondly; remember that Subject Sixteen is in fact an Assassin and is therefore a descendant of Adam and Eve, the first Assassins, so he could easily be viewing the memories of either one of them, rather than a third, random Assassin. And third, the camera occasionally does things that a first person camera couldn't do (i.e. zoom out to show the whole complex when Adam and Eve reach the roof, or when the camera flies between the two while they are running fairly close together).

As for the Templars, they seem to have no connection to the Gods other than their use of the Pieces of Eden. They do know about the true origin of humanity (this is revealed through a letter from Abstergo seen in a Glyph file) but they have no direct connection to it.

Hopefully this helps, and hopefully it wasn't completely redundant. Feel free to ask questions or correct any mistakes I've made (or just discuss any viable alternatives to the interpretation above). Thanks to Cornik22 for helping to refine this post and for some addition information.

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人肉翻译：
就我所知，一切起源于一个叫“始祖”(为了方便我在这叫他为“上帝”，然而不要误会，他们并不是上帝）。据推断，他们有极其优越的文明，但无任何迹象显示他们是火星来的。他们在人类被创造之前很久就已经居住在地球。这之后才出现人类。貌似“上帝”用伊甸园碎片(他们的发明)创造了人类(根据其中一个象形文字的文件(那些在墙上的象形文字)记载他们用伊甸园碎片强制使灵长类的动物进化)使其作为他们的奴隶。这个结论的根据有两个：其一，在“真相”中的缩略图，内容为人类在工作，远处有一个黑影拿着伊甸园碎片窥视他们(这个黑影应该是“上帝”Minerva)。其二，其中一个记载着医学日记的象形文字的文件显示在人类大脑发现貌似没什么功能的神经传递素(这句我译起来挺怪，为什么神经传递素没用？)。殊不知，原来神经传递素的存在使人类永远被伊甸园碎片支配。

终究，上帝搭上了人类(这个情节颇像《星际迷航》)，便出现了阿当和夏娃(这里不考究阿当和夏娃的伦理关系因为这无从蹊跷)，他们，就是刺客的鼻祖，或者你可以说他们是“两个世界的结晶”正如象形文字文件所述。这就是刺客有如此非凡的能力诸如Eagle Vision和变态的敏捷度。我记得曾经听过Ubisoft讲过，刺客的还有一个特点是他们对伊甸园碎片免疫，但我现在找不到Ubisoft的原话了。但证据显示，一代中所有刺客(包括altair)都被伊甸园碎片迷惑，并且阿当和夏娃能免疫伊甸园碎片只是因为他们本身持有伊甸园碎片(正如二代最后Maestro的伊甸园碎片不能迷惑Ezio因为Ezio也有伊甸园碎片)。但无论如何，阿当和夏娃偷走了伊甸园碎片，使人类从此摆脱控制，触发了之后的人神大战。

在乱战中，发生了一个离奇的杯具性灾难，地球燃烧了(由太阳的超大型耀斑活动引起)。人类与上帝几近灭绝。幸好有一些幸存下来。然而，出于某种未知原因，上帝始终不能得到正常的恢复逐渐走向衰落，反而人类(包括刺客)日渐壮大。在二代结局的全息图(那些星球图)中，应该就是“上帝”的遗书，一封用AI形式表达(像《机械公敌》)的关于未来的遗书。这封遗书让“上帝”通过Ezio与Desmond对话。可想而知，在大灾难之后，“上帝”获得了预知未来的新技能(证据不足，纯属推测)。当然，这也和伊甸园碎片有关，Altaiir曾经在Codex Page写过“我可以在伊甸园碎片中隐约看见未来的事物”。

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大概就这样。。水平有限，欢迎大家指正，文中有些论点可能我玩的时候错过了，要进行二周目才可以求证。。。刺客们一齐探讨真相。

我有两个疑问，为何Altaiir、Ezio和Desmond嘴角都有刀疤？二代中Desmond的梦有什么与剧情有何关系？

Nothing is true, Everything is permitted..

婆罗门

感谢楼主的翻译。。。。。

razor1982

支持考据，楼主辛苦了

x_zero

我更加的想起了"我和僵屍有個約會"了~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

lion808

谢谢你的分享阿!终于明白啦!

aaron586

原文中还提到了把主角抓去做实验的那个组织，但那博士和组织和GOD应该没什么直接联系，也想要碎片吧~~

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下面是引用wason_lee于2009-12-07 22:04发表的“真相”与“结局”，解开ACII谜团:
我有两个疑问，为何Altaiir、Ezio和Desmond嘴角都有刀疤？二代中Desmond的梦有什么与剧情有何关系？
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个人觉得嘴角的疤只是对他们同宗的一个象征，Ezio是游戏开始打群架留下的疤，Altair和Desmond貌似都没有解释到，或者我漏过了相关的剧情。
Desmond的梦在攻略本的Analysis & Speculation部分有解释

下面是引用aaron586于2009-12-10 12:43发表的:
原文中还提到了把主角抓去做实验的那个组织，但那博士和组织和GOD应该没什么直接联系，也想要碎片吧~~

博士是Templar的一员，组织则是现代Templar组织。

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感谢楼主的翻译，楼主辛苦了！

keble

好贴~   

洛克人ΧΡ

跪求Desmond的梦的解释

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