Hephaestus Email Network

The Hephaestus Email Network was an Internet email service used by the Assassin Order.
While staying in the Sanctuary of Monteriggioni, Desmond Miles, Lucy Stillman, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane exchanged several messages over the network. Lucy informed them regularly of their schedule and tasks for the week, and the others would exchange emails about various trivial topics, including buying food and going out into the town.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
The only outsiders who contacted them were Erudito, a mysterious user who simply informed Desmond of his teammates' email passwords, an Assassin only identified as William M., and another William M. who was actually Warren Vidic impersonating William to be able to converse with Lucy about Desmond's condition without alarming anyone else on the team. William contacted Shaun about the status of other Assassin teams. He also spoke briefly to Desmond himself, upon the recovery of the restored memories of 1506.
On 9 October 2012, Lucy Stillman called the office of Warren Vidic, pleading with him to allow Desmond to stay out of the Animus, as she feared another situation like Subject 16's. Following this, Warren sent Lucy an email under the guise of William M, confirming the suspicions that there was a false William emailing Lucy the entire duration of the team's time in Monteriggioni.Assassin's Creed: Initiates
William informed Desmond that his progress was being monitored by Rebecca, and advised him to tell as few people as possible of their findings. Once Desmond explored all the memories, he received another email from William, thanking him for his help, and requesting him not to disclose the information to either Shaun or Lucy, as their security and safety depended on it. Finally, he informed Desmond that they would meet soon.
The Assassins continued to use the Hephaestus Network after arriving at the Grand Temple. During this period, the First Civilization member Juno was able to communicate with Desmond via email, urging him to continue his efforts to find the Grand Temple Key, and showing her disgust with the human race.Assassin's Creed III
==Sanctuary Conversations==
===Desmond===
===Yogurt===
===Mp3 player===
===Eats===
===Bleeding Effect===
===Unmarked van===
===First update===
===No subject===
===Italian apes===
===Emergency===
===This afternoon===
===Animus===
===Question===
===Supplies===
===Second update===
===Drinking?===
===Relief===
===Misgivings===
===Weekly Schedules===
==Temple Conversations==
===Patch notes===
===Database===
===The mission===
===Juno sighting===
===Haytham's amulet===
===British dictionary===
===E-mail fix===
===Animus tolerance===
===Shaun's "charm"===
===Disappointed===
===William===
===New database entries===
===Connor's Piece of Eden===
===H e l l o===
===Connected===
===Haytham's blades===
===Improvements===
===Juno===
===Juno's warning===
===Inconvenience===
===Cold cave===
===Abstergo interference===
===Status===
===Hurry===
===Murderers===
===American politics===
===Humans===
===Don't worry===
===Absence===
===William's apology===
===Concerns===
===Juno's apology===
===Good news/bad news===
==Trivia==
*Hephaestus was the Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.
*Accessing Desmond's account will earn the player the "Mailer Daemon" achievement.
*The emails sent by William during the Da Vinci Disappearance memory sequence only appear during a playthrough of the game, and are accessible after the completion of Sequence 3. If the player has already completed the entire story, an alternative dialogue will occur when the DLC is accessed.
*Regarding the name "William M." which appeared as the sender in emails separately addressed to Lucy and Shaun, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem said in a podcast on 29 April 2012 that "the William M's are not necessarily the same."
*In Brotherhood, even though the team's passwords contained a varying amount of letters and numbers, each password would appear as eight characters when Desmond typed it into the computer.
*01001010010101010100111001001111 in translates to "Juno" in plain text.
==Gallery==
ACB Desmond Email.png|Desmond's mail
ACB Lucy Email.png|Lucy's mail
ACB Rebecca Email.png|Rebecca's mail
ACB Shaun Email.png|Shaun's mail
==References==
Category:Assassin Brotherhood