Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted
Jan 29, 2010 1:12:38 GMT -5
Post by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on Jan 29, 2010 1:12:38 GMT -5
Full Name: Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? Assassin's Creed II
Age: A difficult question to answer I am afraid...
Height: 6'
Weight: 165 lbs
Build: Broad shouldered and built like a runner
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Nationality: Florentine (Italian)
Job: Master Assassins of an Ancient order
Appearance
Life Story (as much as you want us to know): The official database entry reads like this:
"Date of Birth: 1459
Profession: Student, Noble
In a diary entry from 1474, Maria Auditore, one of the great Florentine chroniclers and Ezio's mother. describes her son as "competitive, Stubborn and loud mouthed, but so passionate that it is impossible to fault him for anything." Complains to the city guard by several noble patricians seem to suggest he was also something of a womanizer.
Tutored by the great Giovanni Tornabuoni, Ezio's school records cease around age 17, at which point, his name is connected with some terrible crime. It is impossible to discern what it could be from the records, there's very little here, but afterward Ezio drops out of history entirely, as if he never existed."
(That’s really all you really need to know, but if your interested, keep reading. If you're REALLY interested, his wiki page is a lot more detailed than I'm being.)
Ezio had just returned home after completing some errands given to him from his father, when he found everything in shambles and his sister hiding with his mother, who was in shock. After he learned that the guards had been ordered to arrest Giovanni Auditore (his father) and all his sons, Ezio immediately made his way to the prison that his father was being held in and climbed up to Giovanni's cell window to speak to him. Ezio was given instructions to find the chest in the hidden room in Giovanni's office. He was told only that not much would make sense but that 'everything is important,' then told to take the letter and documents found inside to Uberti Alberto, personal assistant of Lorenzo de' Medici and a close friend of the Auditore family.
Inside the chest he found the assassin's cloak he would be wearing for the next 23 years and the letter to contain details of a plot against the city of Florence and the Auditore family. Ezio brought the incriminating documents to Alberti and was assured that his family would be released the following day when the information was presented as evidence of their innocence.
But they were betrayed. The next Ezio returned to the Piazza della Signoria to find Alberti presiding over the execution of the Auditores. When Giovanni claimed his innocence and cited the documents that Ezio had delivered to him the previous night, Alberto denied such evidence. Ezio's attempt to prevent the execution were all in vain. Alberto then ordered the guards to murder Ezio, who had no other choice but to run.
After fleeing the scene, Ezio and his family sought shelter in a brothel, ran by the sister of the Auditore housemaid, a courtesan named Paola, who agreed to assist Ezio in his quest for vengeance, teaching him how to survive in the city as an outlaw through pick pocketing and blending in crowds. She further directed Ezio to Leonardo da Vinci, who would become Ezio's greatest ally and long lasting friend, to repair the hidden blade of the late Giovanni Auditore.
Now armed, Ezio carried out his first assassination by ridding the world of his family's betrayer and thus became the most wanted man in Florence. He took the remains of his family then to his Uncle Mario's family just outside of Monteriggioni. While his original plans where to continue on to Spain, they stayed due to Mario's urging.
It was during this time that Ezio learned that Alberto did not work alone. The Pazzi family, long at odds with the Auditore, were the true agents of the conspiracy, and that his father wasn't merely a banker, but a member of the Assassin's Brotherhood. The Pazzi were, in turn, members of the Templar order, who aspire to rule Italy and, ultimately, the world.
This begins a long and arduous journey, as Ezio hunts down and dispatches each Pazzi in turn, honing his skills through tuition from Mario and many others. He comes to understand that his father had uncovered something far larger than simple political corruption. Both groups were searching for a mysterious Codex, written by Ezio's ancestor Altair, which once complete would lead to some powerful secret that the Assassin order was trying to prevent the Templar's from learning.
Ezio then travels to Venice to track down a list of men that was put together by his father, and finds out that each of the men were Templars. As he continues on through the list, finding more Codex pages as he went along, the purpose of the Templar's scheming becomes apparent. Their leader, Rodrigo Borgia, is attempting to locate and open an ancient Vault that is supposed to contain some great power. But to open the vault, two 'Pieces of Eden' are needed, ancient artifacts that enable whoever wields them to commit astonishing feats. Ezio manages to steal one from Borgia, in a fight where Ezio discovers that several of the friends and contacts that he had met on his travels were also Assassins, part of the same order as his father, his ancestors, and now himself, and that Ezio's role in events had been foretold by an ancient prophecy, naming him a prophet.
Time fast forewords to 1499, and the Codex is complete. The Assassins are in possession of the 'Apple of Eden' and the completed codex, which reveals a map that leads to Rome, where Rodrigo Borgia now serves as pope, and wields the second piece of Eden, the Papal Staff. They fight in the Sistine Chapel for the right to open the Vault hidden beneath it. Though Rodrigo appears to triumph, he rages at the discovery that the secret chamber is forever closed to him. Ezio, though gravely wounded, challenges him once more to an un-armed fight, and wins. Even through 23 years of tracking and hatred, he decides to spare Borgia's life.
Only Ezio knows what he see's in the Vault, for he never tells anyone else. Perhaps if anyone else were to find him they could ask him, but where he resides these days doesn't get much traffic. You see there is a heavy price to pay for a prophet using a Piece of Eden. A little bit of yourself gets eroded away, piece by piece, until the day you die and the apple swallows you, completely. If anyone were to find the apple again, maybe then they could ask him.
(More information here on the Assassin Order.
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? Assassin's Creed II
Age: A difficult question to answer I am afraid...
Height: 6'
Weight: 165 lbs
Build: Broad shouldered and built like a runner
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Nationality: Florentine (Italian)
Job: Master Assassins of an Ancient order
Appearance
Life Story (as much as you want us to know): The official database entry reads like this:
"Date of Birth: 1459
Profession: Student, Noble
In a diary entry from 1474, Maria Auditore, one of the great Florentine chroniclers and Ezio's mother. describes her son as "competitive, Stubborn and loud mouthed, but so passionate that it is impossible to fault him for anything." Complains to the city guard by several noble patricians seem to suggest he was also something of a womanizer.
Tutored by the great Giovanni Tornabuoni, Ezio's school records cease around age 17, at which point, his name is connected with some terrible crime. It is impossible to discern what it could be from the records, there's very little here, but afterward Ezio drops out of history entirely, as if he never existed."
(That’s really all you really need to know, but if your interested, keep reading. If you're REALLY interested, his wiki page is a lot more detailed than I'm being.)
Ezio had just returned home after completing some errands given to him from his father, when he found everything in shambles and his sister hiding with his mother, who was in shock. After he learned that the guards had been ordered to arrest Giovanni Auditore (his father) and all his sons, Ezio immediately made his way to the prison that his father was being held in and climbed up to Giovanni's cell window to speak to him. Ezio was given instructions to find the chest in the hidden room in Giovanni's office. He was told only that not much would make sense but that 'everything is important,' then told to take the letter and documents found inside to Uberti Alberto, personal assistant of Lorenzo de' Medici and a close friend of the Auditore family.
Inside the chest he found the assassin's cloak he would be wearing for the next 23 years and the letter to contain details of a plot against the city of Florence and the Auditore family. Ezio brought the incriminating documents to Alberti and was assured that his family would be released the following day when the information was presented as evidence of their innocence.
But they were betrayed. The next Ezio returned to the Piazza della Signoria to find Alberti presiding over the execution of the Auditores. When Giovanni claimed his innocence and cited the documents that Ezio had delivered to him the previous night, Alberto denied such evidence. Ezio's attempt to prevent the execution were all in vain. Alberto then ordered the guards to murder Ezio, who had no other choice but to run.
After fleeing the scene, Ezio and his family sought shelter in a brothel, ran by the sister of the Auditore housemaid, a courtesan named Paola, who agreed to assist Ezio in his quest for vengeance, teaching him how to survive in the city as an outlaw through pick pocketing and blending in crowds. She further directed Ezio to Leonardo da Vinci, who would become Ezio's greatest ally and long lasting friend, to repair the hidden blade of the late Giovanni Auditore.
Now armed, Ezio carried out his first assassination by ridding the world of his family's betrayer and thus became the most wanted man in Florence. He took the remains of his family then to his Uncle Mario's family just outside of Monteriggioni. While his original plans where to continue on to Spain, they stayed due to Mario's urging.
It was during this time that Ezio learned that Alberto did not work alone. The Pazzi family, long at odds with the Auditore, were the true agents of the conspiracy, and that his father wasn't merely a banker, but a member of the Assassin's Brotherhood. The Pazzi were, in turn, members of the Templar order, who aspire to rule Italy and, ultimately, the world.
This begins a long and arduous journey, as Ezio hunts down and dispatches each Pazzi in turn, honing his skills through tuition from Mario and many others. He comes to understand that his father had uncovered something far larger than simple political corruption. Both groups were searching for a mysterious Codex, written by Ezio's ancestor Altair, which once complete would lead to some powerful secret that the Assassin order was trying to prevent the Templar's from learning.
Ezio then travels to Venice to track down a list of men that was put together by his father, and finds out that each of the men were Templars. As he continues on through the list, finding more Codex pages as he went along, the purpose of the Templar's scheming becomes apparent. Their leader, Rodrigo Borgia, is attempting to locate and open an ancient Vault that is supposed to contain some great power. But to open the vault, two 'Pieces of Eden' are needed, ancient artifacts that enable whoever wields them to commit astonishing feats. Ezio manages to steal one from Borgia, in a fight where Ezio discovers that several of the friends and contacts that he had met on his travels were also Assassins, part of the same order as his father, his ancestors, and now himself, and that Ezio's role in events had been foretold by an ancient prophecy, naming him a prophet.
Time fast forewords to 1499, and the Codex is complete. The Assassins are in possession of the 'Apple of Eden' and the completed codex, which reveals a map that leads to Rome, where Rodrigo Borgia now serves as pope, and wields the second piece of Eden, the Papal Staff. They fight in the Sistine Chapel for the right to open the Vault hidden beneath it. Though Rodrigo appears to triumph, he rages at the discovery that the secret chamber is forever closed to him. Ezio, though gravely wounded, challenges him once more to an un-armed fight, and wins. Even through 23 years of tracking and hatred, he decides to spare Borgia's life.
Only Ezio knows what he see's in the Vault, for he never tells anyone else. Perhaps if anyone else were to find him they could ask him, but where he resides these days doesn't get much traffic. You see there is a heavy price to pay for a prophet using a Piece of Eden. A little bit of yourself gets eroded away, piece by piece, until the day you die and the apple swallows you, completely. If anyone were to find the apple again, maybe then they could ask him.
(More information here on the Assassin Order.