Temple of Pythagoras

The Temple of Pythagoras was an ancient temple built by the Pythagoreans, the followers of Pythagoras. It could be accessed through a hidden catacomb beneath Rome, and led to an Isu temple, the Pythagorean Vault. The catacomb also concealed an entrance to a place of the Templars who hiding the scrolls, manuscripts and the chest of the Hidden Blade that Pietro de Galencia stolen from Villa Auditore.
The Pythagoreans believed that the forces of nature could be translated into numbers, and that mathematics could allow man to harness nature's power. The temple was said to contain the Pythagorean Unifier, the perfect number that was coupled to everything in nature, and could open the minds of men.
==History==
===Hermeticists===
During his time at the Villa Auditore, Leonardo da Vinci researched about the Temple of Pythagoras, and discovered it to be within a hidden catacomb. He drew a map to the catacomb entrance, and used invisible ink to sketch the pieces of the map onto his paintings on the villa walls. However, when the city was attacked, the paintings fell into the hands of the Borgia family.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance – 
As Leonardo continued his research in Rome, he eventually came into contact with the Cult of Hermes, a secret Order that had counted Pythagoras among their numbers. Leonardo frequently visited the personal library of the Cult's leader, Ercole Massimo, in order to acquire even more information on the temple.
After years of exploring the hidden catacombs, Leonardo finally discovered the entrance to the temple itself. Because of this, he was kidnapped by the Hermeticists in 1506, who desired the location of the temple and the Pythagorean Unifier, in order to use it to "remake humanity." They brought the artist down into the catacombs, and began attempting to beat the answer out of him.
A friend of Leonardo's, the Assassin Ezio Auditore, managed to gather the villa paintings and follow the map to the catacombs. After Ezio rescued Leonardo from the cultists, Leonardo insisted that they needed to enter the temple, and destroy the perfect number, else they would risk "another madman discovering it."
The two ventured deeper to explore the Temple of Pythagoras, and passed through three chambers, which each represented an element; namely light, wind, and fire. Each chamber required an amount of free-running skill to traverse it, and activate the necessary mechanisms to open the door to the next room.
They eventually came upon the final chamber, a Vault with a strange pedestal at its center. When Ezio placed his hand over it, his DNA communed with the pedestal, and revealed the supposed perfect number, the coordinates 43 39 19N 75 27 42W.
Leonardo was devastated to realize that the number was meaningless, and Ezio coaxed him to simply leave the temple behind, as the message it held was not meant for them.
Leaving the temple, Leonardo was escorted by an assassin scout. After Ezio left, the assassin explored the catacombs and found a secluded tunnel that was blocked by thick grates and a metal door locked shut. Through the grates, he spotted several scrolls and manuscripts; but one little box caught his attention. It was a small chest that had the assassin's mark.Assassin's Creed: Identity - Niccolò Machiavelli's journal #4
The assassin report to Niccolò Machiavelli and Machiavelli send him and three more assassin apprentices to retrieve the chest. Unfortunately, the apprentices were killed by the Borgia agents. Later, Borgia agents transfer the chest to the Palatine Hill of Antico District. After midnight, Machiavelli sends another assassin to find the apprentices and he returned with the news that their death. Driven by rage, Machiavelli tasked Lo Sparviero to hunt down the agents and recover the chest.
===Giovanni Borgia===
Around the 1530s, the Assassin Giovanni Borgia discovered a map to the temple, and remembered that a member of his Order had visited it several years previously. Though he knew Ezio had not found anything, he was convinced that he needed to travel there.Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Divine Science: Chapter 1 – Maria Amiel
Giovanni and his wife Maria Amiel thus travelled to Rome, and went through the catacombs. Maria noted that it was the "strangest place [she had] ever visited", and that none had likely entered the temple in decades.
Just as Ezio had done, Giovanni easily activated each of the many mechanisms within the temple, as well as the strange pedestal within its vault. The vault caused Giovanni to fall unconscious, and he seemed to become possessed by an otherworldly being that called itself "Consus".
===William Miles===
After observing Ezio's and Leonardo's visit to the temple through the genetic memories of Desmond Miles, William Miles and Harlan Cunningham discovered the true meaning of the "perfect number." After processing the coordinates, they flew to Turin, New York and opened the Grand Temple.
==Behind the scenes==
Connecting the Grand Temple's coordinates with to the South and to the West, results in an almost perfect Pythagorean triangle.
==Gallery==
PTemple_Entrance.png|The door to the Temple of Pythagoras
PTemple_Entrance_Ezio_and_Leonardo.png|Leonardo opening the entrance
TToP 3.png|Ezio and Leonardo in the first chamber
TToP 4.png|The temple's second chamber
TToP 7.png|Ezio and Leonardo in the final chamber
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance 
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates 
*Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
*Assassin's Creed: Identity 
==References==
Category:Temples
Category:Landmarks in Rome