Apple of Eden 1

Apple of Eden #1 was one of the Pieces of Eden, a piece of ancient and technologically advanced equipment created by the Isu to control humanity. It was the first among several other Apples of Eden and was relatively small compared to the other Apples. From the 3rd century until 1794, the Apple was housed within the Head of Saint Denis, a head-shaped lantern, granting it unique properties. 
==Owners ==
*Isu (? – ?)Assassin's Creed II
*Saint Denis of Paris (3rd century)Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Siege of Paris – Notes from Eivor's travels: "Ancient Stone Tablet 2"
*Saint Denis' successor (3rd century)
*Suger of Saint-Denis (c. 1140)Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings
*Arno Dorian (August 1794)
*Al Mualim (1794 – c. 1799)
*Napoleon Bonaparte (c. 1799 – ?)Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #2 "Sixty-four Squares"
*Harry Houdini (? – 1926)Assassin's Creed II - Glyph #3 "Descendants"
*Templars (1926 – ?)Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #9 "Hat-trick"
==History==
Like the other Apples, this Apple was created by the Isu to control the minds of their created slave race, humanity.Assassin's Creed III – Modern day At some point prior to the Great Catastrophe in 75,000 BCE,Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Timeline which resulted in the near-total extinction of the Isu,Assassin's Creed II – In Bocca al Lupo this particular Apple was locked away within a temple underneath the modern-day town of Saint-Denis, France.
===3rd century===
In the 3rd century, the Saint-Denis Temple was discovered by the bishop Saint Denis, who took the Apple and used it to convert the population of Lutetia to Christianity. After the saint was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually executed by the Romans, the Apple was retrieved by one of his successors, who used it to implant a false memory of Saint Denis walking with his decapitated head into the minds of the general populace. 
However, the Apple soon began to negatively influence the successor and he created the Head of Saint Denis to contain it. The Apple granted the lantern special powers, allowing it to burn indefinitely with no form of fuel and create terrifying illusions that could scare people to the point of death.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings – A Crown of Thorns Eventually realizing that the artifact's power was too great for any human to wield, the successor returned it to the temple where Saint Denis had first found it.
===12th century===
At some point during the 12th century, the Head of Saint Denis and the Apple were discovered by the abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, who used the knowledge he gained from the Apple to create the Eagle of Suger, a powerful sword. Moreover, his architectural redesign of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, generally considered to be the first church, also came from visions induced by the artifact.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings – Suger's Legacy
===18th century===
In August 1794, Napoleon Bonaparte employed a group of tomb raiders led by Philippe Rose to find the Saint-Denis Temple and the artifact stored within.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings – The Book Thief The former French Assassin Arno Dorian was able to access the temple ahead of the raiders and retrieve the Head of Saint Denis, using its power to repel the raiders and make his escape.
Unwilling to let the artifact fall into Napoleon's hands, Arno later removed the Apple from the lantern and passed it to a member of the French Brotherhood with instructions to deliver it to the Egyptian Assassin Al Mualim in Cairo. In 1798, Napoleon led an expedition to Egypt and returned home after acquiring the Apple, which allowed him to rise to power as First Consul and later Emperor of the French.
===19th and 20th centuries===
The next known owner of the Apple was Harry Houdini, a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist. He used the artifact to execute stunts that, even to this day, are considered impossible. While Houdini officially died from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in 1926, Clay Kaczmarek's Glyphs suggested that Houdini had been killed by Templar agents who wished to take possession of his Apple.
The Apple was later used in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy to cause the "Phantom on the Hill" effect. This created the illusion of a second gunman on the grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. The goal of this illusion was to make it more difficult to persecute the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald later on, and to disguise the true intentions of the Assassin-executed assassination from later investigations.Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone – Book 1
==Gallery==
ACU Sphere of Eden 2.png|Arno packing the Apple for its journey to Egypt
Glyph 2 2.png|Napoleon hiding the Apple under his vest
Glyph 3 2.png|Houdini using the Apple during an act
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings 
*Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide 
* Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Siege of Paris 
==References ==
Category:Apples of Eden