Revolutions (Storyline)

The storyline of Revolutions follows the memories of the Aigle family, a prominent asssassin family during the 19th and 20th centuries. They are the ancestors of modern assassin Steven Jackson, whose goal is to find the Pieces of Eden hidden by the Aigles.

Assassin's Creed: Revolutions
The first game follows Paul Aigle, a French assassin during the French Revolution. During the French Revolution, the rebels are split between the Jacobins (Templars) and the Girdonists (Assassins). Paul assassinates several Jacobins, until the Grand Master of the Templar Order is revealed: Maximillen Robespierre, who had faked his death to lead the Templars undercover. Paul strenghtens the Assassins in Paris, Toulouse, and Lyon, and assassinates several members of the Templar Order. He eventually discovers the location of Pieces of Eden in Rennes-le-Chateau, and he travels there with Napoleon. There, he finds the Sword of Eden and a Piece of Eden. Napoleon steals them and uses them to take control of France.

Several years later, Paul retakes several cities for the Assassins. He then infiltrates Napoleon's castle in Versailles, and takes the Sword. Without it, Napoleon's empire crumbles and he is banished to Elba. Paul goes there and interrogates him, and Napoleon reveals Robespierre is using the Apple to create an illusion of Napoleon returning. Paul travels there and finally kills him, taking both the Sword and the Apple. He keeps them under a close eye, until giving them to his grandson, Jason Aigle, in Crimea.

Assassin's Creed: Revolutions II
The second game picks up the storyline. The Apple is lost due the Russian invasion during the Crimean War, and general Vladimir Korilov recovers it. Jason travels to Oltenitza to recover it. He weakens Templar control, and destroys the military presence in the south to let the Ottomans advance. Jason then attacks a train carrying Korilov, but fails to get the Apple. The Assassins then head to Sevastopol to get the Apple. After killing several Templar military captains, Jason learns that the Apple will be shipped out using the Russian fleet. Jason attempts to recover it, but the British and French attack complicates it. He nears Korilov, but reveals a fleet of advanced war machines, including tanks, airplanes, and jeeps, the knowledge given to him by the Apple. Korilov begins an invasion of Europe using these.

Jason travels to Paris hoping to find the Sword. After tracking down former Assassins, he realizes that its located in his father's grave. He fights there and gets the sword, and having touched two Pieces of Eden, several knowledge is passed on to him. Jason discovers that if he strikes the Apple with the sword, it will cause it to travel back in time. He goes to Korilov's HQ and does that, travelling back in time to the train. Using the sword he kills Korilov and takes the Apple, preventing the future from happening. Knowing that horrible things could happen if it falls into the wrong hands, Jason migrates to America with the Sword and the Apple.

Explorations
Explorations is the first novel in the storyline, following Jason's brother, John. John migrates to Germany in 1856. He takes on several Templars in Germany, and follows them to Neander valley. He sees them morphing a skeleton with an Apple. He then kills them after they bury it. He is unsure what this means, but later hears the skeleton is of a species related to humans. John then travels to Britain, and meets Richard Carrington. He tells John that he researched a massive solar flare that happened earlier in the year, and a bigger one could happen very soon. John then rescues Carrington fron Templars who wanted to take his research.

John then meets Charles Darwin, who is under pressure from "the Cross" not to publish his Origin of Species. John knows this is the Templars, and attacks their local Den. They capture John, but he is rescued by the British Assassins. After saving Darwin from Templars, the Assassins learn the Templars plan to use Big Ben as a transmitter which will broadcast the power of the Apple. They attack the clock, and John corners the leader. The first movement of the arrows kills the leader, and John takes the Apple. Back at the HQ, John gazes at the Apple and learns the truth, and puts all the past events together. He plans to tell his brother this, but his health begins to fail him. He writes a book about it and ships it to him, which is found by Henry Aigle in 1898.