Arno: Templar poison, Templar pin… it looks damning.

Élise: Bravo, you’ve figured it out: My cunning plan was to murder the only Assassin who doesn’t want to see me dead, then stand about waiting to be discovered.

Arno: Not the only Assassin.

Élise: You’re right. I’m sorry. But you know this wasn’t my doing.

Arno: I believe you. The Brotherhood, though…

Élise: Then let’s find the real killer before they get wind of this.

De Sade: Ah… Which is a more incisive commentary on corruption in the bishopric? Seven nuns seducing a parish priest into debauchery, or an enormously endowed Benedictine sodomizing a goat named Pius?

Arno: No force in heaven or on earth will make me answer that question.

De Sade: Quite right Arno, the goat it is.

The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost.

I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

Ideals too easily give away to dogma. Dogma becomes fanaticism.

No higher power sits in judgment of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins.

In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll. 

We believe ourselves redeemers, avengers, saviors. We make war on those who oppose us, and they in turn make war on us. We dream of leaving our stamp upon the world…

…even as we give our lives in a conflict that will be recorded in no history book.

All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves.

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Arno: It’s beautiful.

Élise: From up here, you’d never know the nation is tearing itself apart.

Arno: Can… can things ever go back to the way they were before, do you think?

Élise: Do you? After everything that’s happened? Everything we’ve lost?

Arno: So… that’s it, then? The course of history forever altered… never again to return?

Élise: Maybe we can’t go back. But going forward isn’t necessarily an ending.

Arno: Élise, I—

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(What an awkward air kiss…)

You cheated.

Élise: You took too long.

Arno: I love you.

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Get a sneak peek at some of the characters of #AssassinsCreed Unity, and the actors that brought them to life in this trailer.

In Assassin’s Creed Unity, Arno will cross paths with colorful personalities from the French Revolution, including historical figures Napoléon Bonaparte, the Marquis de Sade, and Robespierre, alongside all-new characters such as the mysterious Elise.