Jupiter

Jupiter was an Isu scientist, Father of Understanding, and member of the Capitoline Triad. Alongside the Sacred Voice Minerva and the Mother of Wisdom Juno, he took charge of the gathering and testing of information within the Grand Temple, in order to circumvent the Great Catastrophe.
In 2012, through the Synch Nexus, Jupiter spoke with at least one descendant of both Isu and humans, Desmond Miles.
==Names==
Jupiter was known by many names both throughout and after his lifetime due to his long life and legacy as a god to humanity. His earliest known name was ,Assassin's Creed II – In Bocca Al Lupo but with the evolution of human religion, a number of distinct and sometimes contemporaneous appellations arose. The Greeks knew him in their mythology as Zeus, the "golden child atop Mount Olympos"Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis – Isu codex: "Various: A Tale of Brothers" who was head of the Twelve Gods; the later Romans echoed this by naming him Jupiter in their mythology, calling him the King of the Gods. In Norse mythology, Jupiter was known as , the king of Jötunheimr.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Database: Suttungr
==Mythology==
=== Greek mythology===
In time, Jupiter, like many of his fellow Isu, was upheld by humanity as a god. In Greek mythology, he was known as Zeus, born as the youngest son of the Titan Kronos and his wife Rhea. In fear of a prophecy foretelling his overthrow by his child, Kronos devoured all of his children, save for Zeus, who was hidden by Rhea.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Historical Locations – Naxos: Sanctuary of Mt. Zas 
In time, Zeus fulfilled the prophecy and cast Kronos out, creating a new world order with his siblings and other gods, settling on Mount Olympus with eleven other mightiest deities.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Torment of Hades – Layla Hassan's personal files: "Bios of the Gods: Hades"
Zeus is infamous for his various relationships with multiple individuals, divine and mortal alike. Via these unions, Zeus is considered to have fathered multiple heroes of Greek mythology, including Herakles, Perseus,Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – A Treasury of Legends as well as Greek deities, including Persephone, Dionysos, Charites, Ares, Eris, Hebe, Hephaistos, Pan, Apollo, and Artemis.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey To seduce the human woman Leda, Zeus disguised himself as a swan and made love to her in his swan-form. This union resulted in Leda producing issue; PolydeukesAssassin's Creed: Odyssey – Historical Locations – Lakonia: Altar of the Dioskouroi and Helen, though at the same time, produced heirs of her husband; Kastor and Klytaimnestra.
In one myth, Zeus united the 'Great Twins', Castor and Pollux, in immortality by turning them into the constellation , via which they later came to signify the astrological sign .Assassin's Creed: Pirates
In the myths Hephaistos was credited also as the acting midwife for Zeus when it had come the time for Athena to be born. With a labrys, Hephaistos cleaved Zeus' head open to free the goddess.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Labrys
===Roman mythology===
Jupiter, on one occasion, seduced the human woman Io, daughter of the of Argos, enveloping himself in a dark cloud to hid his affair from his wife, Juno.
==Biography==
===Isu Era===
During the Isu Era, Jupiter was considered the "golden child" amongst his siblings and resided on Mount Olympos. He shared a hostile relationship with his older brothers Hades and Poseidon, who ruled the realms of the Underworld and Atlantis, respectively.
According to one Atlantean myth, a matter which led Jupiter to personally visit Atlantis and reprimand Poseidon enraged the Trident King so much that he destroyed the very cycle in which the meeting had occurred and any further mentions of his sibling was considered taboo.
===Isolation in the Grand Temple===
Upon the outbreak of the Human-Isu War, Jupiter was one who chose to find a means of preventing the coming disaster. To that end, a number of Temples were built to research ways to avert disaster, with Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno taking on the responsibility of sorting and sampling the best possible solutions. The three convened in the Grand Temple, where all the findings from the lesser Temples were gathered, in order to select and test them.Assassin's Creed: Revelations – 
However, though they found each succeeding method to be more promising, each one of the methods failed. At some point, Aletheia spoke with Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, who were working on a seventh method to ensure the Isu's survival. Yet by that point, Jupiter and Minerva had their concerns about it, as this method involved uploading Isu DNA into a human host, similar to the fifth method.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Animus Anomalies Minerva worried that this would pollute the human genome, and thus the seventh method was ultimately abandoned.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – A Feast to Remember
Shortly thereafter, an Isu named Ægir lost a bet and sent a cauldron to Jupiter, but it got lost along the way. Much to Jupiter’s relief, the cauldron was recovered by the Norse Isu, Odin, as a peace treaty between the two factions of Greco-Roman and Asgardian Isu.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Lost Cauldron Delighted, Jupiter decided to hold a feast in celebration of the peace, and agreed to Odin’s suggestion to invite Minerva, his daughter. However, at some point during the feast, Aletheia’s lover Loki warned Jupiter of Odin's true intentions: to steal the seventh method for himself. Angered by this deception, Jupiter confronted Odin at the entrance of the Grand Temple and the two Isu fought in a duel. Odin ultimately won, and made his leave, but not before Jupiter warned him that he would ultimately still fail. After learning that Juno aided Odin in his scheme, Jupiter and Minerva stripped Juno of her title as "Mother of Wisdom" for her crimes.
===Great Catastrophe and aftermath===
Some time later, the First Disaster fell upon them, burning the Earth and wiping out nearly all members of the First Civilization. Jupiter stood up as one of the survivors alongside Minerva. Together, knowing that their end was near, they helped humanity rebuild their civilization, constructed a device to prevent another cataclysm from occurring millennia later and used the calculations to try and find the means to make future humans capable of finding it. Like what happened to all the remaining Isu, Jupiter eventually died and the makings of his life were passed down to myth.Assassin's Creed III – Modern day
==Legacy==
===The Vault===
In 1499, Minerva mentioned Jupiter in her warning to Desmond Miles, who she addressed through the Prophet, Ezio Auditore.Assassin's Creed II
===Synch Nexus===
In 2012, Jupiter spoke with Desmond, whom he referred to as "the Cipher", in the nexus of time. There, he told him of the Temples and of the First Disaster. In order to prevent the Second Disaster, Jupiter urged Desmond to seek out the Grand Temple and told him the means of opening the way.
===The Second Disaster===
Jupiter did not appear when Desmond entered the Grand Temple as the Second Disaster approached, as the Cipher conversed mostly with Juno. Jupiter's image was used by Juno when showing Desmond holographic projections of the Triad's proposed solutions to the First Disaster. Later, Minerva appeared and revealed that she and Jupiter imprisoned Juno and allowed the First Disaster to occur rather than allow her to enslave the Earth. Minerva also revealed that she and Jupiter (or Tinia, as she called him) spent many centuries following the First Disaster walking among humans trying to rekindle the spark of civilization.
==Personality and traits==
Jupiter as presented in Eivor's visions of Odin's memories as the King of Jötunheimr. Although he was their king, he did not take his duty as their king very seriously, since he was preoccupied with the possibilities of the oncoming cataclysm rather than the wars the Jötnar were engaged in. Like most of the Isu, he was prideful and almost always saw human beings as inferior beings. This was evident on how even in his realm, humans were still treated as second class citizens, with many wanting to flee to places like Asgard. However, during his battle with Odin, he stated that Odin has no right to gamble with humanity's fate.
Despite his scientific brilliance when compared to the other finest minds amongst the Isu, Jupiter does not display acute social intelligence and this, combined with his prideful nature, left him more vulnerable to being manipulated. An example of this was seen when Odin managed to manipulate Jupiter into letting his guard down around his Vault under the false pretense of an unconvincing diplomatic appliance. And were it not for Loki exposing Odin's intentions, Jupiter would have been none the wiser. Even with Loki's "aid", he still did not realize Loki was manipulating Jupiter into killing Odin, a fact which Odin pointed out to him after subduing Jupiter in a one-on-one battle.
===Skills and equipment===
In Eivor's visions of Odin's memories, Jupiter displayed a number of supernatural abilities. In addition to his superhuman strength and overbearing physical might, he displayed a variety of cryokinetic capabilities. Despite lacking any real combat skills, Jupiter's superior physical abilities allowed him to go one-on-one with a battle hardened Isu like Odin, even though Odin eventually won. Due to Jupiter's unnaturally greater might when compared to the other Isu, his physical blows were devastating and could also take a great deal of physical damage without slowing down, with Odin's success in their fight merely angering him further.
Jupiter's most noted ability in Eivor's visions was his diverse range of cryokinetic capabilities, which were focused through his sword and battle axe. Jupiter could summon hail storms, blasts of cryokinetic power, as well as generate a cryokinetic bliss which knocked out all of the heat within his area. Jupiter may have also held greater scholarly abilities than most of his race, as he was part of the Capitoline Triad, a group of brilliant Isu who were working hard to stop the oncoming cataclysm. 
==Legacy and influence==
===Greek culture===
Zeus' main emblem was lightning bolt, and in the 5th century BCE, a stylized version of it graced the banner of Elis as well as the drachmae. The god was also associated with the eagle, often standing for the god himself, or perched near him.
During the 5th century BCE, multiple locations related to the stories told of Zeus' life were named after him throughout the Peloponnese and the Aegean Sea.
Several statues of him also graced locations like Mount Ainos on the island of Kephallonia, though most notable among them was the statue made by the Athenian sculptor Phidias in Temple of Zeus within the Sanctuary of Olympia in Elis. The Spartan misthios Kassandra visited a number of them over the course of her journeys.
==Behind the scenes==
Jupiter, the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus, is a character first introduced in the 2011 game Assassin's Creed: Revelations, where he was voiced by the Canadian actor Tony Robinow. Jupiter appeared next in 2012's Assassin's Creed III, though in a non-speaking flashback. Robinow would not reprise his role until the 2020 game Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, where he voiced Jupiter's Norse analog of Suttungr.
Jupiter is also referred to as Tinia in the artbook for Revelations and the Revelations novel, as well as throughout Assassin's Creed III. Jupiter was first referred to as "Zeus" in Issue 26 of Assassin's Creed: The Official Collection.
In Assassin's Creed II, a statuette of Jupiter is among those that can be collected in Monteriggioni. It is paired with a statue of Minerva. The pair's description read "Here sits the king of all Olympus and beside him stands wisdom, to guide his rule." The statuette of Jupiter is based on , also called Zeus de Smyrne.
Jupiter's helmet resembles an eagle, his animal motif in Greco-Roman tradition and a common symbol of the Assassins.
In the Assassins Creed: Revelations novel, Jupiter refers to Minerva and Juno as his sisters. However, in Roman mythology, Minerva is his daughter while Juno is indeed his sister, whom he is married to. Similiarly in Greek mythology, Athena is his daughter while Hera is also his sister-wife.
Jupiter is briefly seen in the holographic projections inside the Grand Temple, which is shown to Desmond by Juno upon describing the six solutions that the Isu had worked on.
Tinia is one part of the Capitoline Triad that ruled over the Roman gods. The triad consisted of Tinia (Jupiter), Uni (Juno), and Merva/Mera (Minerva).
==Gallery==
Jupiter - Concept Art.png|Concept art of Jupiter
Jupiter in-game.jpg|Jupiter as seen within the Synch Nexus
Trio 1.png|Jupiter with Juno and Minerva
Miles-Jupiter.png|Jupiter with Desmond in the Synch Nexus
File:ACIII-RingOfEden 4.png|A projection of Jupiter seen in the Grand Temple
Statues3.png|The statuettes of Jupiter and Minerva in Monteriggioni
Statue of Zeus.png|Statue of Zeus within the Sanctuary of Olympia in Elis
Jupiter e io.jpg|Jupiter and Io by 
ACOd-muralZeusTyphon.jpg|A 5th century mural depicting Zeus defeating Typhon
ACOD Statue of Zeus - Kassandra and Barnabas.png|Kassandra and Barnabas visiting the Statue of Zeus within the Temple of Zeus
ACOD Lightning Zeus.jpg|The statue of Zeus on Mount Ainos, Kephallonia
ACOD Elis Symbol.PNG|The emblem of Elis: the stylized lightning bolt of Zeus
Olympians.jpg|Zeus (center) amongst the Greek pantheon
ACV DB Suttungr.PNG|Jupiter as Suttungr
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel
*Assassin's Creed III 
*Assassin's Creed: Pirates 
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 
*Assassin's Creed: Origins 
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 
**The Lost Tales of Greece 
**The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis 
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece 
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla 
**Dawn of Ragnarök 
**The Forgotten Saga 
*Echoes of History 
*The World of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Journey to the North – Logs and Files of a Hidden One 
*Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR 
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