Cain

Cain is the legendary forebear of the Templar Order. The oldest son of the Isu-human hybrids Adam and Eve, Cain founded the ideology that came to serve as the fundamental basis of the Templars and infamously killed his younger brother, Abel, to steal the Apple of Eden in his possession.
For these reasons, the cross symbol called the with which he was branded came to be adopted as the Templar insignia.Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #6: "Brothers"
==Biography==
Cain was the firstborn of Adam and Eve; both were hybrids born to the Isu and humans who served as the leaders of the Human-Isu War in 75,010 BCE.Assassin's Creed: Infographics
As he matured, Cain came to subscribe to a philosophy that humanity had to be brought under his absolute domination so that he might guide them to enlightenment, spawning a worldview that served as the blueprint to Templar political thought. Craving the Apple of Eden, Cain slew his younger brother Abel, and seized it from him.Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide As punishment, he was branded with a cross-shaped mark that from then on came to be known as the Mark of Cain.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey He later took the title of .
==Legacy==
Though his life faded away into mythology, notably within Christianity where he is said to have killed his brother out of pure jealousy, Cain's deeds continued to have profound, even calamitous, effects for the rest of human civilization.Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed IIAssassin's Creed IIIAssassin's Creed: Unity
The philosophy of Cain evolved to become the bedrock of Templar ideology and the very engine behind their millennia-long ambition to inaugurate a New World Order under their exclusive rule. His symbol with which he was branded was eventually adopted as the insignia of the Knights Templar. Some Templars of antiquity would call themselves the "Children of Cain".Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia
Through the Templars, Cain's legacy still reverberates across the fold of human history, even seventy-seven millennia after he lived and died, in the form of the shadow war for world domination against the Assassins who strive to prevent it.
In 1717, the Templar pirate Jing Lang references the story of Cain and Abel while talking to Vance Travers about the assassination of his brother, Upton.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – The Other Brother
His legend as the origin of the Templars remains a striking narrative for the Templars and Assassins alike. In 2012, the late Assassin Clay Kaczmarek shared the story of Cain and Abel in this context to his successor Desmond Miles via the Glyph messages he hid within the Animus data. Desmond later did in September of that year.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Desmond Files Desmond solved this puzzle, which was part of a set titled "Brothers" learning that Cain killed his brother to attain his Apple of Eden. Included within were paintings by , , , and Albrecht Dürer attached to text from adapted by 
==Gallery==
AC2_-_Cain_Slaying_Abel.jpg|Cain Slaying Abel by 
AC2_-_The_Murder_of_Abel.jpg|The Murder of Abel by 
AC2_-_Cain_and_Abel_(Manfredi).jpg|Cain and Abel by 
AC2_-_Cain_kills_Abel_(Durer).jpg|Cain Killing Abel by Albrecht Dürer
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 
*Who's In Your Blood? 
==References==
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