Southeast Asian Pieces of Eden

A set of three Pieces of Eden were located in Southeast Asia. The artifacts varied in shape, size, and the abilities they granted to wielders, but were all considered part of the same set.
==Owners==
;Complete set
*Isu (until c. 75,000 BCE)Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Timeline
;Crescent amulet
*Ferdinand Magellan (April 1521)
*Mad monk (until 1725)
*Rajah (1725)
*Edward Kenway (1725)
*Noa Kim (2023)
*Yuki (2023)
*Zhawang Corporation (2023 – present)
;Unknown Piece of Eden
*Lapu-Lapu (c. 1521)
==Usage==
The three Pieces of Eden that made up the set consisted of a crescent amulet, a sphere resembling an Apple, and a flower-shaped disk. At least one of the artifacts granted considerable physical strength, allowing the chief Lapu-Lapu to easily defeat an army of Spanish soldiers.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 41
The amulet, meanwhile, had a variety of powers, including mind control,Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 51 the ability to create illusions and resurrect the dead,Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 53 storing the wielder's memories,Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 71 and granting access to a form of calculations.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 56 These abilities came with a great risk, however, as long-time possession of the amulet could corrupt the wielder's mind.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 79
==History==
===Early history===
Created at some point during the Isu Era, knowledge of the set, its location, and its powers were lost following the Great Catastrophe in 75,000 BCE, which wiped out the Isu civilization.
===Age of Discovery===
By the early 16th century, two of the Pieces of Eden were located in the Philippines, with the crescent amulet hidden on the island of Cebu and another artifact in the possession of Lapu-Lapu, the chieftain of . In 1521, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived on Cebu to search for the amulet and converted the island's population to Christianity in the process.
After finding the Piece of Eden, Magellan was informed by Cebu's chieftain Rajah Humabon of the other two artifacts and attempted to seize the Piece of Eden in Lapu-Lapu's possession. However, Lapu-Lapu used the artifact's power to defeat the Spanish troops under Magellan's command and personally killed the explorer. With Magellan's death, knowledge of the set became lost once again for the next two centuries.
===Golden Age of Piracy===
By the early 18th century, one of the Pieces of Eden was rumored to be located in the former Khmer capital of Angkor. Investigating the legend, the Dutch navigator Hendrik learned about Magellan's own search for the artifacts from a monk at the Basilica del Santo Niño in Cebu, but the monk refused to disclose the fate of Magellan's "treasure" following the explorer's death.
Hendrik eventually found Angkor and its Piece of Eden, but could not retrieve it and was later killed in Macau in 1725.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 3 That year, various parties, including the Japanese Templars and the British Assassin Edward Kenway, sought to find Angkor and its "treasure", and used information from Hendrik's sea log to aid their search for the lost city.
====Struggle for the crescent amulet====
After being arrested in Manila while traveling to Cebu to investigate a lead they had found, Edward and the members of his Zhang Wei Union discovered that one of the Pieces of Eden, the crescent amulet, was in the city. It was wielded by a monk, who used it to control the masses and instigate a riot against the . Edward and his ally Shimazu Saito confronted the monk, who used the amulet's powers against them,Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 52 including resurrecting his followers after they were killed and conjuring illusions of himself and an oni to attack the pair.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 54
While Saito was eventually defeated, Edward overcame the artifact's powers, forcing the monk to flee. He tried to slow down the Assassin, using the amulet to tamper with his Eagle Vision and command several civilians to attack him, but was soon cornered. As Edward attempted to take away the amulet, the monk used the artifact on him,Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 55 causing Edward to experience several visions of the past and the future.
With Edward's body temporarily paralyzed, the monk tried to seize this opportunity to kill him, only to be struck by a spear thrown by Rajah, the leader of a resistance against the Spanish colonists. Finishing off the monk, Rajah claimed the amulet for himself, intending to use it to end the foreign occupation of his people's lands, while Edward was forced to flee alongside Saito.
During his brief occupation of Monkey Island, Rajah used the amulet to brainwash many of the natives and recruit them to his cause.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 63 He also used the artifact to empower his warriors and sent them to eliminate any "foreign trespassers" that set foot on the island, including the members of the Zhang Wei Union.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 59 However, Rajah's men were ultimately defeated by the Union, forcing the Visayan chief to leave the island and head to Cebu.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 64
In Cebu, Rajah retrieved one of Hendrik's sea logs, which had been hidden within Ferdinand Magellan's cross, and used the amulet to decipher its encrypted contents, learning the whereabouts of the other two Pieces of Eden.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 66 During his fight against Edward at Fort San Pedro, Rajah used the amulet to summon illusions of countless Filipino warriors that overwhelmed the Assassin.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 70 However, Edward used his Phantom Blade to separate Rajah from the artifact, taking it for himself, and escaped Cebu after fending off an attack by the Chinese Assassins Xiao Han, Liu Qing and Xue Yan, who sought the amulet for their own ends.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 73
===Modern times===
At some point following its recovery by Edward, the crescent amulet was disposed of in the sea near the , where it would remain for almost three centuries. In the 1940s, Abstergo Industries, the front company of the Templar Order, located the Piece of Eden and dispatched the SS Ourang Medan to recover it. However, the mission ended in failure when the ship and its entire crew mysteriously vanished.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 74
In 2023, the Templar Shimazu Sei re-discovered the amulet's location through the genetic memories of Edward relived by his descendant Noa Kim, who had been abducted by Abstergo. After Sei contacted her superiors to inform them of her discovery, they ordered Noa's termination, believing he had outlived his usefulness. However, Sei disagreed and secretly made a deal with the Assassin Nathan Zhang to ensure Noa's safety and that the amulet was kept out of Abstergo's hands.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 75
Noa and Sei's bodyguard Yuki were subsequently sent to recover the amulet and used a diving bell to descend to the Ourang Medans wreck. After becoming separated from Yuki during their search,Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 76 Noa found the amulet, but its powers and the Bleeding Effect that Noa was suffering from caused him to experience visions of Edward's memories. Overcoming the hallucinations, including an apparition of Bartholomew Roberts, Noa took the amulet and returned to Yuki.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 77
After using the amulet to repel a shark that attacked them, Noa began succumbing to its effects, leaving him in a weakened state, and was brought by Yuki to Sei, whereupon the amulet was placed in a briefcase.Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple – Episode 78 This briefcase was taken by Yuki when she, Noa and Sei later escaped from Abstergo with Nathan's help and traveled to a Zhawang Corporation safehouse in Singapore. There, while Noa recovered from the amulet's effects, Sei decided to track down another Piece of Eden that could cure him by reliving the memories of her ancestor Shimazu Saito.
==Gallery==
ACFT - Crescent Amulet.png|The crescent amulet
ACFT Lapu-Lapu holds Pieces of Eden.jpg|Lapu-Lapu wielding one of the Pieces of Eden
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple
==References==
Category:Pieces of Eden
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