Assassin's Creed (Les Deux Royaumes comics)

Assassin's Creed, also known as Assassin's Creed – Cycle 1 is a series of graphic novels consisting of six volumes, originally launched in French on 11 November 2009 by Ubisoft's publishing division, Les Deux Royaumes. It was later translated and published in English by Titan Books in 2012.
While the present events taking place in the series have been deemed as non-canon by Ubisoft, the past events featuring the Assassin ancestors are canon.
A second cycle to be published by Les Deux Royaumes was announced in 2016 with a different creative team.
==Series==
The series have been organized into two trilogies consisting of:
===The Ankh of Isis Trilogy===
Consisting of Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond, Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus, and Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter, The Ankh of Isis Trilogy is an alternate take on the story of Desmond Miles and his search for an ancient artifact, called the Ankh.
The first volume, Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond was primarily based on the story-lines of Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed II. The next two volumes, Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus and Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter shifted focus to a completely original story-line based on the titular characters, Aquilus and Accipiter, with elements from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood mixed in.
Title 	Publication date 	Hardcover
Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond 	11 November 2009 30 October 2012	Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy5 November 2013 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy
Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus 	12 November 2010 30 October 2012	Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy5 November 2013 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy
Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter	10 November 2011 30 October 2012	Assassin's Creed – The Ankh of Isis Trilogy5 November 2013 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy
===The Hawk Trilogy===
Consisting of Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk, Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr, and Assassin's Creed 6: Leila, the second trilogy in the series focused on two new characters, a new modern day Assassin by the name of Jonathan Hawk and his Egyptian ancestor, Numa Al'Khamsin.
The Hawk Trilogy centers around Jonathan Hawk, a member of the modern day Assassin cell based in London, who relives the memories of his Egyptian ancestor Numa Al'Khamsin, in order to locate the Scepter of Aset. In contrast to The Ankh of Isis Trilogy, The Hawk Trilogy offered a completely original modern day story, contradicting little established events from the games.
Title 	Publication date 	Hardcover
Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk 	16 November 2012 12 November 2013	Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy29 November 2016 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Hawk Trilogy
Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr	31 October 2013 18 November 2014 	Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy29 November 2016 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Hawk Trilogy
Assassin's Creed 6: Leila 	31 October 2014 17 November 2015 	Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy29 November 2016 BookDepository.com: Assassin's Creed: The Hawk Trilogy
==Trivia==
*While the first comic shared enough discrepancies with the games to suggest it was not canon to the series, the second comic, Aquilus was confirmed by Ubisoft to be part of the Assassin's Creed universe, both in the Universe video and in the Encyclopedia. However, the third comic, Accipiter did not seem to be part of the canon; while it had some similarities to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood it was a completely original story with no references to Ezio Auditore's time in Rome, and with the modern-day Assassins searching for the Ankh instead of the Apple of Eden.
*The events surrounding the Ankh are obliquely referenced in Assassin's Creed: Rogue which includes a nod to the comics' non-canon modern-day storyline.
*A major contradiction of the first comic was that Subject 16 was alive. Official guidebooks for Assassin's Creed stated that Abstergo's doctors "were too late to save him" after he cut a vein to produce the messages seen by Desmond Miles through Eagle Vision and it was explicitly stated by Alexandre Amancio that Subject 16 was physically dead. Lucy Stillman appeared to act uncaring towards him and was irritated by his presence later in the first comic, which contradicted greatly to the visible guilt and grief she showed about him during the games. While the original French edition of the first volume gave his name as "Michael", the English translation changed it to "Clay".
*Another point that differed from the games was that the Apples of Eden were called "Spheres".
*The drawings shown in Desmond's room bore no resemblance to those of the game.
*The progression into Assassin's Creed II's main events via the modern-day Assassins and Animus greatly differed, some characters being entirely omitted as of the first comic.
*There was also a contradiction in that Aquilus' memories were relived after his child's conception, even to the point of his own death — something that genetic memory constraints should not allow.
*Lucy is depicted as a very different character in this series than she is in the games. For instance, she showed a much colder side rather than the calm and empathetic personality that she displayed in the games - to the point that Desmond jokingly called her "Ice Queen", although she did lighten up as the series progressed, developing into a character much closer to that of the games. Her feelings for Desmond were also less ambiguous than they were in the games, with the two actually kissing at one point. Lucy was also shown to not be a Templar double agent like in the games and was, in fact, nearly killed while trying to protect Desmond when the Templars found them in Monteriggioni.
==Gallery==
Desmond Backcover.jpeg|Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond full cover.
Aquilus Backcover.jpeg|Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus full cover.
Accipiter Backcover.jpeg|Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter full cover.
Tome4hawk.jpg|Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk cover.
CakrCover.jpg|Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr cover.
Leilacover.jpg|Assassin's Creed 6: Leila cover.
Assassin's creed characters (French comics books) by Krystel.jpg|Concept art of Aquilus and Numa Al'Khamsin.
==References==
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