A thrilling story of a sibling bond tested by religious and
ideological conflict. The final novel in a trilogy from the iconic
Assassin's Creed universe.
Dive into the Inquisition and witch hunts in Renaissance France with
Assassin's Creed!
1609. The Inquisition is raging across Europe, massacring thousands of
men and women on charges of witchcraft. Raised in the Landes region of
France, Margaux and Ermeline, 16 and 17 years old, are initiated by
their adoptive mother Catherine into the practices of healing. While her
younger sister flourishes in this simple life, Ermeline dreams of
something more, of settling in town, far from the forests of south-west
France.
This peaceful life comes to an end when Catherine, denounced for
witchcraft by a patient, is taken to Bayonne with her eldest daughter by
Pierre de Lancre, a master inquisitor and Templar in search of an
ancient artefact. The two girls witness their mother being burned at the
stake: Ermeline as a hostage of the Templars, Margaux watching from
hiding. Distraught, Margaux is taken in by Nicodemus, an Assassin close
to Catherine, who will train her in the Creed, while the anger of the
French people ferments against the Inquisition.
Separated, the two sisters must mourn their happy youth, but also decide
which path to take and which destiny to join. Assassin or Templar? The
path of blood, or the path of the heart?
