Category:The Hidden History

970 BCE 

Leif Ericson and his Norsemen are blown off course during their mission to introduce Christianity to the inhabitants of Greenland. After being shipwrecked on a frigid fragment of land, he and his people establish a base camp and to start hunting for game. During his exploration he discovers a marker illuminated by a golden-yellow energy source that is unknown to man and it interacts with him, bestowing upon him the knowledge of the location of several vaults hidden away by the Osirians' during their conflict in the Orion constellation with an unknown enemy.

Ericson dispatches a group of warriors to locate the nearest vault, but cannot find a way off of this land fragment without freezing to death in the frigid waters. Ericson commands that stones be engraved and buried on this island until those with the means to discover these vaults arrive.

999 BCE 

Thirty years after discovering the marker, and preparing the path for the future, Ericson and his people depart and return to Norway.

945 BCE, Jerusalem 

Several scholars are searching the hills for artifacts of value and stumble across an entrance into an enormous vault leading deep underground. The entrance is open and upon entering the vault they find several sarcophagi arranged in a star formation inside. One of the coffins is left ajar and the preserved corpse of a large humanoid figure is lying beside it. One of the scholars fetches a physician to inspect the body and the figure is brought to the doctor's inn where the physician begins a primitive autopsy. During the procedure, the humanoid reanimates and attacks the physician, killing him. The scholar escapes, and returns to the other scholars still inspecting the vault, telling them about the living humanoid and the murder of the physician. The scholars are shaken with fear and head into the palace of Solomon to inform him of what has happened.

King Solomon enlists the military to search the city for the humanoid and declares martial law as well. The soldiers find the humanoid in the outskirts of Jerusalem but when the creature is confronted, the humanoid attacks them and kills several of the soldiers, forcing the remainder to retreat. Solomon is informed of the attack and orders the military commander to recover the Ark of the Covenant from the vault. The commander is confused, but takes a pair of his lieutenants and finds the Ark.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Ark of the Covenant is an enormous chest constructed out of refined metal and stone and is powered by a source of energy unknown to mankind. They open the chest and find several suits of highly advanced protective armor that is powered by this same source of energy. Upon retrieving the armor, the shifting weight of the armor triggers a pair of stone walls to move aside, revealing weaponry that are also powered by this same energy source.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The soldiers bring the armor and the weapons back to Solomon's palace, and he orders them to put it on and to use the weapons against the humanoid and to eliminate it. The commander and his lieutenants put on the armor, and march to the outskirts of town to confront the humanoid, who has disappeared into the underground mine.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The soldiers search the mine shafts when their armor deploys small spherical probes that start scanning the mine shafts. The probes send a holographic image onto the faceplates of the soldier's armor showing an enormous cylindrical structure buried deep beneath the surface and a marker shows where the humanoid is headed: an enormous starship at the bottom of the structure.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The soldiers realize that the cylindrical structure is beneath the ground where the coliseum in Rome will be built.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">(The arena was constructed later above the facility as a marker indicating where the humanoid's starship is.)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The shaft is actually a teleportation device and it takes them 1400 miles to the Roman coliseum.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">They arrive into the structure as the starship begins to take off. The soldiers run into the closing hatchway and into the vessel as it takes off, and out of the atmosphere into space. The soldiers storm the bridge, and attack the humanoid who is piloting the vessel. The creature sets the vessel on autopilot, leaves the command chair and attacks them and kills one of the lieutenants and wounds the other. The commander also manages to wound the humanoid before shooting at the ship's navigation console and taking it off course and sending it spinning rapidly towards the Moon.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The commander is mortally wounded by the humanoid and survives long enough to witness the vessel crashing onto the Moon's surface, and tearing a massive gash in the hull, venting the ship's atmosphere and suffocating the humanoid to death. After seeing the creature die, the commander breathes his last breath as the oxygen indicator in his armor shuts off and he dies in silence.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Temple of Solomon is constructed over the underground vault at the request of King Solomon to protect the vault from unauthorized intrusions and as a monument to the sacrifice of these three soldiers who gave their lives to protect the human race.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">King Solomon initiates the Templar military directive and has all known records regarding the incident secured and placed under secure guard in the Templar's headquarters within the Temple of Solomon.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Several centuries pass on the Moon, and the wreckage of the crashed alien spacecraft are buried under inches of dust, obscured from view.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">February, 1492 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Nicolaus Copernicus at 19 years of age discovers a great scar on the Moon's surface and after tracking the length of the scar with the alignment of the Earth he finds that the location from where the scar originated is in Jerusalem. He travels there to seek answers and is imprisoned by the King's court after being labeled a threat to the citizens of the city.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">In custody he meets another prominent figure: Leonardo da Vinci who was arrested for disturbing the peace because of his flying machine. During their imprisonment, Copernicus informs da Vinci of his research and the knowledge piques da Vinci's interest to a great scale.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">June-September, 1492 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci is released the same day as Copernicus and da Vinci informs him that da Vinci plans to inform Columbus of this information; because it could have serious implications regarding the motives of Columbus' ocean journey. They part ways and Copernicus heads to Rome to inquire of the Pope's astronomers regarding the Moon's anomaly. Upon arriving and being granted an audience with the Pope, he is told not to bother himself with the "mysteries of the heavens" because they are not important to the "salvation of man." Copernicus disagrees and is thrown out of the Pope's chambers and into the river. He climbs out of the river and is approached by a pair of men in cloaks who invite Copernicus to meet with their commander regarding his inquiries.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Copernicus (suspicious of their intentions) politely declines and returns to his rented residence in Rome for the evening. That night, five Illuminati Sicarii ambush Copernicus in his home and bind him in rope, and begin interrogating him regarding the Moon's anomaly and his interest in it and it's tie with Jerusalem. Copernicus refuses to speak and is tortured, whipped and beaten by these men but still refuses to talk. They wrap a noose around his neck and prepare to hang him from his bedroom window when the same two cloaked men who approached him earlier in the day intervene and kill the Sicarii assassins.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The suspicion Copernicus had previously vanishes upon their intervention and he accepts the invitation to meet with their leader. That same night, Copernicus loads a wagon with trunks containing his research and he, along with the two cloaked figures, ride out of Rome to a ship waiting in the harbor to transport them to their secret headquarters on a small island.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1099: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Christian pilgrims escape from the militant occupancy of Jerusalem and head farther into the Holy Land.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1119: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">20 years after the evacuation of Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and proposed creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin agrees to the request, and granted space for a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque. He and Bernard of Clairvaux establish the Latin Rule and begin constructing plans to fortify the palace. (The Temple Mount had a mystique because it was above the ruins of the Temple of Solomon. The Crusaders afterwards refer to the Al Aqsa Mosque as Solomon's Temple, and from here the new Order took upon themselves the name of "Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon," or "Templar" knights. The Order consists of nine knights and is led by Godfrey de Saint-Omer and André de Montbard.)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The emblem they established was of two knights riding on a single horse, and this emblem will be used in various places for the remainder of their occupancy in the Holy Land and elsewhere.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1266 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Maffeo and Niccolo travel across Asia and reach the seat of the Kublai Khan at Dadu, present day Beijing, China. Khan received them brothers with hospitality and asked them many questions regarding the European legal and political system. He also inquired about the Pope and Church in Rome. After the brothers answered the questions he tasked them with delivering a letter to the Pope, requesting 100 Christians acquainted with the Seven Arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy). Kublai Khan requested that an envoy bring him back oil of the lamp in Jerusalem.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1268 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The death of Pope Clement IV in 1268 and the election of his successor delay the Polos in fulfilling Khan's request.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1269-1270 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Niccolo and Maffeo followed the suggestion of Theobald Visconti, then papal legate for the realm of Egypt, and returned to Venice in 1269 or 1270 to await the nomination of the new Pope, which allowed Marco to see his father for the first time, at the age of fifteen or sixteen.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1271 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:18.3999996185303px;">Marco Polo (at seventeen years of age), his father, and his uncle set off for Asia. While on their journey they discover several highly-advanced vaults containing "moving pictures" of the gods of Greece and the Olympians. It is in these vaults that they discover encoded messages that when deciphered display a final message and map of the world with several "great islands" that have yet to be 'rediscovered.' After uncovering the first vault, they were assaulted by Illuminati soldiers but were rescued by Templar Knights. The Grand Master of the Templar Knights rode to them in one week and informed them that the discovery of this [and subsequent] vaults will "shake the foundations of man's faith" and that the Papal Courts decreed that these vaults are to be protected by their Papal [Illuminati] guards whilst the Papal scientists and philosophers decipher the meanings of each encoded message. Marco Polo however, copies down in his journals every detailed image and the characters of each message.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Marco is invited to join his father and uncle on this journey and Niccolò, Maffeo and Marco Polo embarked on their voyage to fulfill Khan's request. They sailed to Acre, and then rode on camels to the Persian port of Hormuz. They wanted to sail to China, but the ships there were not seaworthy, so they continued overland until reaching Khan's summer palace in Shangdu, near present-day Zhangjiakou. Three and a half years after leaving Venice, when Marco was about 21 years old, Khan welcomed the Polos into his palace.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1275 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Upon arriving at the Kublai Khans palace, the Khan informs the Polos that the oil from the lamp is actually a substance that has been on this Earth for several thousand years, since the arrival of the gods in Egypt. The oil is extracted by several scientists in the Khan's court and that his father Genghis Khan kept in his library a journal of Qin Shi Huang who had the first sections of the Great Wall of China constructed in 220 BCE to protect the land from the gods. The Polos are confused at the statement so Kublai Khan pulls out a large scroll showing the outline of a great square surrounding the land and mountains that is incomplete. He explains that it was not completed because the threat was quelled several centuries before (in 945 BCE).

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">After this meeting with Kublai Khan, the Polos depart and return to Italy across the continents of Asia and it is during their return journey that they discover the vaults left behind by the Osirians.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">13 September, 1276 - May 20, 1277: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">During the Crusades, the Knights are given contradicting orders from two superiors: one was to escort a trio of Cardinals transporting highly classified intelligence from Constantinople and into Rome, where they were to deliver this information to the Pope. This intelligence is delivered to the Cardinals from an alleged "leper" who is actually an Illuminati spy leaking information regarding the Templars and their military operations being executed throughout the land.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The countermanding order was to eliminate any suspected espionage personnel that might be weakening the Templar Order from the inside out.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Unbeknownst to the Order, Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini is actually an Illuminati (and it is he who received the leaked intelligence from the "leper") and this Cardinal that is sowing dissent between the Papacy and the Order so that the Illuminati can execute their secret plans of attempting the assassination of the Pope "in the illumination of the day," so that these plans when performed would implicate the Knights Templar in said assassination.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Illuminati Cardinal managed to corrupt an Assassin to their [the Illuminati] cause and while the Templar Order is striving to maintain control and equilibrium throughout the Holy Land and Europe, this Illuminati Assassin foils their plans to publish peace and equality. This Assassin manages to infiltrate the Templar Order and acquire a set of armor and robes with the Templar's emblem on them and the Assassin rides into Rome with the Templar Order to meet with Pope John XXI.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">All of the Cardinals are confined to Solitude while the Pope meets with the arriving Templar Knights, but Cardinal Orsini suspects that the assassination won't be a success due to the fact that the Templar heading the meeting is actually the Grand Master of the Knights Templar himself. The Cardinal arranges for a secret meeting with an Assassin messenger, and at this meeting the Cardinal delivers several letters and research papers regarding the "unholy experiments" of the Pope.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Order arrives and meets with the Pope regarding his requests to dispatch more military forces to "secure the land" and it is during this meeting that one of the Templars doesn't recognize one of the men accompanying him [the Illuminati Assassin], and when this Knight confronts the Assassin, the Illuminati stabs the Knight and mortally wounds him before attempting to murder the Pope. Thwarted by the other protecting Knights that were there, the Pope is protected and their meetings adjourns to his apartment for the evening of May 14, 1277 to continue his "medical research" and it is in his apartment that it is realized that Pope John XXI is actually an Illuminati himself.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">It is during this "experimentation" as the Pope begins incising and torturing a poor, leprous man which was the same Illuminati spy from the beginning. During the torturous scenario, a solitary figure in Assassin's robes silently approaches the Pope and binds him to his chair before performing a 'mercy-kill' on the leprous Illuminati spy. Pope John XXI reveals that what he was doing "...what man doeth that seemeth unholy hast been fulfilled...for the Cleansing will come to pass, as it always hath..."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">After hearing the Pope's vague statement, the Assassin sets fire to the apartment, weakening the support pillars with an acidic liquid of some sort before escaping the apartment building and leaves the city on horseback. The Pope's eyes and skin pigment begin to change as the apartment collapses in a horrifying shriek (that is part apartment, part Pope screaming in agony), and the collapsing building apparently killed the Pope and buried him under a pile of smoldering rubble

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">While on horseback, the Assassin is then accompanied by several Templars on horses (the very same ones that met with the Pope earlier). It is now revealed that this Assassin is the Grand Master of the Templar Knights and that this is a new union between both military and covert forces.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">24 May, 1277: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">10:31 P.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">; Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini informs his Illuminati brethren in the middle of the night that nobody should ever discover the actual remains of former [antipope] John XXI and that steps must be taken to protect the valuable information that the sadistic scientist John XXI researched and discovered.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">25 May, 1277: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">9:47 A.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;"> - Military actions are taken as the Illuminati ransack the apartment ruins only to find out that the corpse of John XXI is...gone, disappeared, as well as the corpse of the Illuminati "leper" spy. Upon hearing about this revelation, Orsini heads to John XXI's mistresses' estate in the "highlands" with several Illuminati soldiers under the identities of Papal military guards. They pilfer through the mansion and find the mistress dead in a secret "experimentation" room from torture and strangulation. Deeper inside the stronghold they find the scattered limbs, entrails and remains of the "leper" spy. The guards collect all the remains and burn them so that his identity cannot be discovered.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">12:27P.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;"> - The Grand Master is in conference with the Master Assassin in the Order's fortress when both men "sense" something amiss and depart for Rome to seek counsel from Cardinal Orsini. Upon arriving [the Assassin under the disguise of Templar Grand Master] they are informed that the Cardinal is away on an important task regarding the security of Roma and its peoples. Both men request the location where the Cardinal is and reluctantly does one of the city guards divulge it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">11:18 P.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;"> - Both the Grand Master and the Master Assassin split up, both returning to their strongholds to prepare for their infiltration. The Grand Master puts on armor, his robes and carries only a long Claymore sword as his defense and he rides alone to the outskirts of the "highland retreat" and reunites with the Master Assassin, who is wielding a crossbow and a primitive-looking long-barreled musket. Both men silently sneak onto the grounds, which are dark and hauntingly quiet. They move into the mansion and search the top and ground floors, finding the secret "experimentation room" and the massacred remains of one of the Cardinal's military protectors.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The sounds of fighting are heard deeper underneath, in what appears to be the catacombs or subbasement of this mansion and both men find the Cardinal and the remaining two of his guards fighting several opponents that are charged with supernatural powers. As both the Grand Master and the Master Assassin enter the fray, they are able to distract these enemies long enough for the Cardinal and his guards to escape to the outside. One of the opponents is the reanimated corpse of Pope John XXI, and he speaks to both men as if with the voice of many as he recites Mark 5:9 "My name is Legion: for we are many." Suddenly there appears a crack of noise like lightning and a flash of light as the Master Assassin uses his musket-rifle and kills the possessed Pope John XXI with a shot to the head. Once the decapitated corpse falls to the ground, the other two also follow suit and cease to function as if it was John XXI's possessive powers keeping them alive.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">26 May, 1277: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">4:15 A.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;"> - The Master Assassin and Templar Grand Master emerge from the now flaming ruins of the "highland retreat" and speak to the recovering Cardinal Orsini who is seated in a carriage ready to be returned to Rome. The Cardinal informs the Grand Master that times are changing and that when that time finally comes, the Templars "will no longer be of need to Roma." The Cardinal shakes the hand of the Master Assassin, and not the Grand Master before the carriage departs, to return to Rome leaving him and the Master Assassin alone in front of the burning ruins.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">12:18 P.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;"> - Both men return to the Order's fortress to inform the rest of the Knights that "a storm is coming" in which "the Knights will have need of strength."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1:45 P.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;"> - The Grand Master retires to his quarters in frustration as the Master Assassin enters and hands the Grand Master a coin which the Cardinal handed to him before his departure. On the coin is stamped simply: "illuminatus." The Grand Master is confused at this because he has never heard of this "illuminatus" before. The Master Assassin explains to him that the "Illuminati are amongst common men in the light of day" and that "this is how they secure themselves against the mortal judgments." The Grand Master looks at the Master Assassin asking how he knows this, to which the Master Assassin lifts up the chest piece of armor revealing a branding of the same word "illuminatus" across his chest. The Assassin explains that his father, after becoming an Assassin, chose to betray his friends and family and loved ones "to the light which shines by day and condemns by night" and that the Master Assassin's first official act as an Assassin was to kill the Illuminati that were meeting in secret in Persia.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">In a flashback we see that the Master Assassin managed to infiltrate the Illuminati's secret Persian meeting place but as the Master Assassin made his move to silently kill the Illuminati, his father sees him and warns the Illuminati to secure the building while the father deals with this parasite. The father has the Master Assassin bound to a wooden table, and stripped of his shirt and cowl. Then, the father heats up the brand with the word ""illuminatus" on it and brands his son, the Master Assassin with the word explaining that "now all the world shall know, when thou art executed in the square, that the illuminatus, the illumination of mind and might has come, and all the world shall fear the Reaping at that day."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Grand Master understands that this revelation on a coin of little value that the Cardinal (soon to be Pope) has given them and explains that "this [the coin] is a declaration of war, not just any war; but a Holy War that will culminate in the decimation of millions of souls and the putting asunder of many nations."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1295: 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Upon returning home after 24 years of journeying and discovering the remaining vaults, Marco Polo encrypts his journals and locks them away in a secure room within various catacombs in Venice. Marco Polo informs the Templar Grand Master of his actions and gives the Grand Master the location of each journal and the cipher to decode each one. The Papal Courts deploy an army to the Templar's headquarters and fortress to wrest the information of Marco Polo's journals from the grasp of the Templars, but the army is defeated and those who escape return to Rome. Following their escape, several Templar Knights are ordered by the Grand Master to hide the information inside the underground ruins of the Temple of Solomon, because the Grand Master believes that everything he has been given regarding these vaults relate in some way to the Temple of Solomon and its hallowed ground.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">July, 1492 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Leonardo da Vinci is 39 years old, and Christopher Columbus is 40. Both men meet in Spain two days before Columbus' departure. Columbus hands da Vinci a roll of parchment telling him to open it after he [Columbus] has departed.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">August 3rd, 1492 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Columbus sets sail and da Vinci bids him farewell before returning to his home in Italy.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">September 2nd, 1492 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci heads to the inn where he is temporarily staying and once entering his room he immediately opens the scroll. It happens to be a encrypted message from Marco Polo to Columbus regarding the "distant islands separate from our very own." Da Vinci deciphers part of the message which tells him to search Columbus' nearby residence for a device that will "discover the meaning" of the scroll. Da Vinci enlists the help of a pair of individuals [who turn out to be covert Illuminati posing as "common-men"] and these individuals help da Vinci search Columbus' house. In Columbus' study, on his desk is a spherical device. Next to the device is an overturned candlestick. Da Vinci lights the candle and notices that there are symbolic cuts and grooves in the sphere. Upon closer inspection da Vinci discovers that the spherical device opens, and that there is a plate with melted wax on the inside.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci sets the lit candle inside the sphere, and replaces the lid. The illumination from the casts an image of the world with "great islands" on the left side of the image [the Americas]. Da Vinci rotates the sphere and sees that there is a coded message on the "back-side" which details the secret mission of Marco Polo and the Templars who were commanded to secure the information of these "great islands" within the Pope's chambers in Rome where "they would be protected from the sinner."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The sphere also outlines up along the walls rectangular squares large enough to be doors. Da Vinci inspects these squares and after moving a select set of books, each wall where the square outline laid slid into the wall. Inside one hidden chamber is a collection of armor and weapons hanging in a neat order. Inside the opposite chamber is a series of shelves containing maps and scrolls and metal plates with engravings describing the discoveries of Marco Polo during his travels eastward.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Each map is written in a different language but the image displayed is consistent in design and outline: the same as the "distant islands" displayed from the spherical device.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The two individuals help da Vinci place all the information into a chest and onto a wagon, but once the chest is secured the two impersonators draw their crossbows on da Vinci ordering him to kneel and be taken into custody for "threatening the security of the land." Da Vinci questions their authority, because they speak with Italian accents, and currently all of them are in Spain.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The impostors declare that their "reach is great" inferring that the Illuminati have no limitations on their range. Da Vinci refuses to surrender and is about to be executed when a quartet of men in black armor and cloaks arrive on horseback and immediately assault the two Illuminati.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Even though these two men are outnumbered two-to-one, their physical training and endurance manages to wound one of the four armored figures and decapitate another. However, they are fatigued and outwitted by the black-armored men and are bound, blindfolded and thrown in the back of the wagon with the chest. Da Vinci thanks these men for their rescue and they inform him that they are Knights of the Templar Order that have been integrated into a joint-union with the Assassins. They are the Templar Assassins.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">They take da Vinci to their headquarters (aside from the Templar and Assassin headquarters) which is located in a fortress on a small island. In this structure are both the Templar Grand Master and the Master Assassin, both of which inform da Vinci on his "discovery" regarding these new lands and that this discovery "will shake the nations forever."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci is informed that Columbus' departure was not to "rediscover lost lands" but to find a hidden vault containing the answers to the greatest of mankind's questions: "WHERE did we come from" and "WHERE are we going."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci is told that during Marco Polo's journeys east he found several vaults in distinct languages containing the same pictogram and explanations of what the image meant. On each image was a small series of letters that when combined and arranged it became the outline of a map. Marco Polo had these words of each language placed on the spherical object where the map would be accessible without risk of damaging the original stone engravings.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Inside these vaults that Marco Polo discovered, he also became acquainted with a "moving picture" of a "great god who called himself Prometheus," the same god that gave man fire and was punished for it. The image spoke to Marco Polo, explaining that the 'fire' he gave to man wasn't the same fire used to create heat for the cooking of meat and its other uses, but it was the 'fire' of pure knowledge that Prometheus gave man. That "knowledge" however, was taken from men by the Olympians who came down "out of heaven in chariots of fire" and locked it [the knowledge] away in the earth's surface, in these vaults; until the day came when this knowledge would be revealed "to all mankind."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci is told that Christopher Columbus' mission to set sail was to find the last of these vaults, and recover the final fragment which would; when combined with the other fragments; would unlock the secret to this "pure knowledge."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">He [da Vinci] asks where the other fragments are being kept, and the Templar Grand Master explains that the Pope has them in his possession, just like the details of Marco Polo's mission and the information he received as well.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Master Assassin reveals that a plan is in place to retrieve these fragments and to intercept Columbus before he departs. Da Vinci asks how that is possible, since Columbus departed several days ago. The Templar Grand Master informs da Vinci that Columbus is anchored "to the north" and that he "will not set sail to these "great islands until [he] has the other fragments."

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Templar Grand Master arranges a meeting with the Pope to discuss the ongoing Crusade and while the Pope is meeting with him, the Assassins will enter the Pope's chambers and retrieve the data fragments. After retrieving the separate pieces, the Grand Master adjourns his meeting and reunites with da Vinci and the Assassins on the coast overlooking the ocean and the anchored fleet of Christopher Columbus.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Columbus goes ashore and compiles the data fragments all together but is unable to decipher the final part of the message. Da Vinci looks at them and is able to however and Columbus is very impressed, insomuch that he offers da Vinci a place aboard his ship to help discover this final vault. Da Vinci politely declines and after the fragments are placed in Columbus' care, the Templars, Assassins and da Vinci bid Columbus farewell and return to the Templar Assassin headquarters.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Columbus' fleet departs for the "great islands" and secures the data fragments and da Vinci's translation of the last segment into his chest in his private quarters. However, several sailors are actually Illuminatus in disguise and their mission is to stay in disguise until the vault is discovered and then eliminate Columbus and return to the Pope with the information recovered under guard.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">A Secret Meeting: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">In a covert meeting the Templar Grand Master meets with Leonardo da Vinci to commend him on the design and successful construction of his "underwater apparatus/diving-suit." The Grand Master requests to see da Vinci's workshop and designs and upon entering the man's workshop the Grand Master is amazed and the vehicle and weapon designs that are all over the walls. The Templar commissions that one of da Vinci's "wheeled transports" be built and presented to the Templar Grand Master as soon as construction is complete.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">[The Grand Master also shows da Vinci his predecessor's notes regarding their use of "Greek fire" in warfare and asks that da Vinci create a machine that might do the same, better if possible. Da Vinci obliges and takes the notes to his workshop for research and development.]

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci informs the Grand Master that the design might be flawed but the Templar Grand Master coolly tells the man that he "sees the future in him [da Vinci]" and that "warfare will be changed because of your knowledge." Da Vinci agrees and spends several days revising the design.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">War Machines: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Leonardo da Vinci successfully constructs his "self-propelled cart" and presents it to the Templar Grand Master along with the prototype Architonnerre (steam-powered cannon). Overjoyed with the device the Grand Master commissions a team of military engineers to journey to da Vinci's workshop and produce thirty of each device following da Vinci's instructions. During construction da Vinci mentions that it might be possible to mount a cannon onto the cart after the vehicle is weighted correctly to equalize the balance and weight of both machines. After a week of trial and error the engineers complete this vehicle's construction and the weaponized devices are brought back under cover of night, to the Templar headquarters where the Grand Master and the other Templars unanimously approve of their design and objective. Each Templar vanguard is designated a weaponized-cart and are tasked with keeping it in working order until the final conflict.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">After the construction of the "cannon-cart" da Vinci brings in several more prototypes: a parachute, a manned flying-machine, a wheel-lock musket and a ground-assault war machine (a tank). The Templar Grand Master commissions that the designs for these "War Machines" be transported to their headquarters and that they be placed under heavy guard to prevent any spies from penetrating their [headquarters'] walls and acquiring them.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Da Vinci is also placed in Templar protection and begins assisting the Templar military engineers in constructing several of the war machine tanks, as well as a dozen muskets and parachutes, and several flying machines.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Templar Grand Master sees this arsenal as the first step in "purging the evil" from the Holy Land and divides his army into several primitive battle-groups: Air-men (several of which are paratroopers which would sneak behind enemy lines and parachute down to their enemy's castle and eliminate the guardsmen walking on the battlements. The others are assigned to follow in their flying machines the "billowing of the [paratrooper] sails from the mountain-tops" and to land inside the castle walls to cut off the enemy's retreat.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Machine-men are divided into two groups: the cannon-men and the tank-men. Both groups would utilize the steam-powered cannon-carts and the tanks. The cannon-carts would ride into battle with the Vanguards while the tanks would be brought in to fortify the following line of attack. Each officer commanding a tank was assigned one of the muskets also.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Men of Action: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Grand Master orders that the assigned men be departed to prepare for the final conflict in several days. The air-men depart in the middle of the night and ride towards the frigid mountains. Upon arrival, they unpack their flying machines and parachutes, and ready them for the final battle.

<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Final Battle: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The Grand Master explains that this is his [last] battle and that he will be leading the Vanguard. He commissions da Vinci for one last device: strong armor to wield several weapons. Da Vinci comes back with a design that would make the armor physically light, but dense enough to allow the carrying weight of several cannon-balls. The Templar Grand Master puts on the armor, which has no helmet but the Templar doesn't desire one either. He has a Claymore sword shouldered, a crossbow slung and a musket in his hands. Then, he mounts his horse and rides to the front of the Vanguard and as one, they leave the Templar headquarters' field of readiness and ride towards the mountains, where the enemy castle lies ready to wrested from their grasp.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">1769 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">George Washington discovers a map leading to some catacombs left behind by a race called the "Osirians." This map leads them to the town of Boston. After dispatching an embassy to England to secure permissions to search the regions and their refusal, Washington initiates the embargo of goods against Great Britain.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">A pair of imprisoned soldiers escapes from a fortress and inform Washington of a set of "moving blueprints" that the British military commander has secured in his office in Boston.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">16 April 1775 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Washington enlists the help of Paul Revere to put together a team of "cloaks" (spies) to infiltrate the British and secure these blueprints. Revere planned that the destruction of the storehouses housing the military supplies of the British as a distraction from his agents sneaking into Boston.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">As the distraction commences, the British military heads to Concord to defend their armories, the spies confiscate the blueprints and deliver them to Revere.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">18 April 1775 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">9:15-10:38 P.M. <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">  -Following the infiltration, the British commander begins preparing plans to invade Lexington. Paul Revere, knowing that the deployment of British troops on boats was to minimize the danger of confrontation, began warning patriots along the road about the impending arrival of the British.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">While on his journey, he is stopped by a patrol of British soldiers and interrogated at gunpoint regarding the theft of sensitive information from their commanders' headquarters. Revere uses deceit and informs them of the danger to approach Lexington. However, he is placed in a wagon and is delivered almost to the town when gunfire is heard as the signal to "alarm the country," following the ringing of bells and the death threats of Lexington's citizens the British sets Revere and several others free before retreating to inform their commanders.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Revere reunited with John Hancock and was informed that Washington had placed the blueprints in Hancock's personal trunk for protection. Preparing for war, Revere helps Hancock's family escape Lexington.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">19 April 1775 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Boston is assaulted by the militiamen led by George Washington to blockade the British Army garrison. The siege was a diversion planned by Washington to distract the British military from the real motive of this conflict: the search for the vault. Revere sent to study the only working powder mill in the colonies, actually was dispatched as the commander of a team commissioned by Washington to locate the entrance to the vault.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Revere's team locates the vault entrance but cannot open it because it requires a "key" that Washington has, so they return to Boston and are informed of the conflicts that are taking place and that Washington is attempting to hold off Bunker Hill from the British, and Revere rides out to assist him in defending it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">17 June 1775 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">On the battlefield, Revere assists Washington in the Battle of Bunker Hill, but are forced to retreat after the British manage to seize the high ground and it is at this point that Revere informs Washington of the need for a key to open the vault.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">November 1775 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">With the seasons changing, Washington fortifies the land, preparing his fortresses and outposts for conflict and sends Colonel Henry Knox to retrieve artillery that has been under guard since its capture at Fort Ticonderoga. Revere is sent to oversee their transportation across the frozen Hudson and Connecticut rivers and sees several pictographs beneath the ice. He departs the company and informs Washington, who is meeting with Benjamin Franklin regarding the images seen in the ice and the trio return to the place where the incident occurred and Washington is then surrounded by a bright golden-yellow light, engulfed by it. After a moment, the light fades and the images in the ice disappear.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Washington is weakened by the experience so Franklin and Revere return him to his estate when they are ambushed by several British Illuminati spies posing as American patriots. Revere orders Franklin to ride to the nearest fort to get help while Revere holds off these spies singlehandedly. In the skirmish, Revere becomes overwhelmed when Washington intervenes and in an act of supernatural power speaks a few words in an alien language and the Illuminati spies drop dead at his and Revere's feet.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Franklin returns to see Revere in shock and Washington in good spirits. After asking Revere why he is acting strangely Revere can only reply explaining that if Franklin saw what just happened there wouldn't be any way to describe it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">17 March 1776 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The British retreat after being bombarded mercilessly by the cannons retrieved by Colonel Knox. The British gather all of their people and supplies in Boston harbor, which is crowded with several hundred ships. After departing Washington tells Revere to get Benjamin Franklin and to meet him [Washington] outside the entrance to the uncovered vault.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">2 May 1776 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Washington and his pair of trusted friends arrive at the location of the vault and discover that Washington wasn't wearing a key that was needed to unlock the vault's entrance, but after being bestowed with this supernatural power became the key needed to open the vault. After touching a figureless marble stone on the ground, a rectangular tablet of marble lifts out of the earth with several rows of unknown hieroglyphs and images. Washington is able to translate the inscriptions and after reading them out loud in the same alien language, the tablet descends back into the earth, and a stairwell leading down into the earth appears.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">The trio makes their way down the staircase and into the vault where they find a wall lined with more engraved words and phrases. Washington translates them as well and the enormous door opens. They enter the vault, cylindrical in design and separated by several tall pillars of onyx laced with blue-white electric material. In the middle of the vault chamber is a round altar with a small glowing orb floating in the center.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Washington approaches it and after touching it, a gigantic holographic image of the Earth appears with dots marking several spots on several continents indicating the location of more vaults. Washington stiffens, and goes into a trance as the image is engraved onto his mind. After the transfer the holograph fades away and he falls to the ground unconscious.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Franklin and Revere return him to his home where he rests for several days. After awakening, he takes his bedside journal and draws the images of the Earth and the continents marked with vaults in it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">31 December 1781 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Franklin visits Washington in his estate where he gives Franklin the journal for safekeeping. He [Franklin] tells him of the protected journals of Marco Polo, his father and uncle locked away in the Catholic Church headquarters in Rome.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">Franklin explains that in 1759 he and his son while on their journey to Edinburgh Scotland also visited Rome to see the Church headquarters and to visit the land of the old prophets. While in Rome, Franklin was invited to the Church library to see firsthand their sacred texts, and after looking through several books he [Franklin] spots a volume of leather-bound books written by Marco Polo, his father and uncle. Franklin attempts to open one of them and is then politely asked to leave the library. When asked why the Church guards explain that there are some things that only the Pope is privy to, and then they are escorted to the street leaving Franklin to ponder over what the Pope is protecting.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;">Washington informs Franklin to protect the journal, and to hide it "with clues that will lead to its rediscovery when the time is right." So Franklin moves the encoded book to a stone box hidden in the floor of his house with instructions to store it in the secure underground vault of the soon to be built Capitol building in Washington D.C. <span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:Cambria,serif;">