Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – Volume 1: Die Glocke

Assassin's Creed Conspiracies Volume 1: Die Glocke, is the first volume of Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies, a two-part story published in French by Les Deux Royaumes.
Following the end of the first cycle by Corbeyran and Defali, Die Glocke is written by Guillaume Dorison and illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Hostache, and was released in October 2016. It was published in English by Titan Comics in August 2018.
The story is set during World War II, featuring the race for the Atomic Bomb, and follows a new Assassin hero who influences the course of history in 1943.
==Synopsis==
New era - New adventure - New Assassin. Europe, World War II. On the sidelines of the race for the atomic bomb, discover the story of Eddie Gorm and his integration into the Assassin Brotherhood while he infiltrates the Templars to foil their plan to create a devastating weapon.
Eddie Gorm is the boss of the docks and his only obsession is to run his small business. For this, the docker does not shrink from anything: diversion of military rations, traffic of alcohol and settling of account in the district of the East End.
The war? The Nazis? This is the problem of others.
Except that when death knocks on his door, he has no choice: only man to save the world from atomic horror, Eddie finds himself propelled despite himself in the midst of a millennial conflict between the Order of Templars and the Brotherhood of Assassins.
==Plot Summary==
On 27 February, 1943, Eddie Gorm jumps down from a plane in Norway and travels towards the Vemork Hydroelectric Factory. There, he kills two guards and infiltrated the factory grounds. Taking a scientist hostage, Gorm makes his way towards the hidden chamber where he encounters a man who awaited him inside a meticulously built machine.
Three years earlier, on 7 September 1940, Eddie and his dock crew fight against Spencer and his men over the latter selling weapons illegally on Gorm's docks in the East End. After teaching Spencer a lesson, Gorm and his partner Stan talk about their business running dry as Stan books a meeting with a gangster named "Jack Turpin" and his right hand man Robert Burton. After their meeting, Gorm immediately rejects Turpin's proposal as he wanted to steer clear of any transactions between him and any gangsters part of the war, despite illegally selling weapons to the highest bidder.
Gorm returns home and meets with his niece and nephew, who said strangers came to see about him. Later, he talks with his sister-in-law, Maria, who convinced him to leave London for all of their well-beings. That night, Gorm goes to meet Stan, but is met by both Boris Pash and his lieutenant Julia Dusk. Despite a brief altercation, the three discuss the true nature of Mr. Turpin, who was actually a secret German spy named Otto Hammerstein and how he worked for Gero Kramer on the Uranprojekt, the Nazis' atomic bomb.
Although Gorm rejected Otto's offer, Pash and Dusk push for him to agree instead and become an undercover spy under Otto. Eddie rejects their offer but their meeting is cut short once bombs start to fall on London. While all three survive, Gorm went to check on his family but is too late as all of his family was killed by one of the first bombs. Eight days later, Pash and Dusk search for Gorm in an abandoned train station. There, they find a drunken Eddie and offer him a chance to spy once more. After a brief discussion, Gorm agrees to join Pash's mission.
Five days later, Eddie agrees to take a deal with Otto as he and his dock crew infiltrate a secret French Allied base with Otto. After the French officers are tied up, Gorm and his men stole the valuables while Otto interrogated the officers. However, Stan holds Otto at knifepoint after hearing about his ties with Germany. Gorm catches up with Otto and Stan as Hammerstein offers him a better stake if he saves his life. Reluctant and saddened, Eddie kills his partner and saves Otto as he gains his trust.
Two years later, in September 1942, Otto and Eddie are at a Nazi party in Berlin at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. While there, they meet with Josef Mengele, who stated that Kramer would like to meet Otto's protégé. Alone, Kramer met with Eddie as he is accused for being unfaithful to them due to his past military history. Gorm relieves the tension by stating that England let him to be dishonorably discharged and his brother to be killed in the . Satisfied, Kramer entrusts Eddie with protecting the Uranprojekts lead scientist, Werner Heisenberg.
Shortly afterwards, a drunken and enraged Eddie almost kills himself until he is visited by his handler Dusk. Dusk reminds him to continue the mission despite his moral beliefs. The next day, at the Kaiser-Wilhelmina Institute of Chemistry, Kramer gives a speech of the recent scientific accomplishments led by Heisenberg as Gorm and Hammerstein stood on the sidelines. As Otto states his passion of the atomic bomb achievement, Gorm becomes fed up and stabs him in the side. While the Nazis see the attack, Eddie holds Heisenberg hostage as he took him to interrogate in his lab.
There, Heisenberg admits that the Uranprojekt was a farce and that he was a puppet and that the real invention was Kramer's experiment called Die Glocke, which was funded by a company called Abstergo. Before he could react, Eddie was blindsided by Heisenberg with a flask as Otto and his men barged into the lab. Immediately, a smoke grenade comes through a window as Dusk enters to save Eddie. Within the madness, Otto is immediately killed by Gorm as he and Dusk escape. However, Dusk is hit by a bullet as they escape the institute.
Soon, Eddie carries an unconscious Julia down to the streets and is met by both Pask and Burton. As they all drive away, Eddie attacks Burton only to be halted by Pask, who tells him of Burton being an ally. At the abandoned bar El Dorado, while Burton aids Dusk, Pask informs Gorm on the ongoing battle against the Templars, who started every historical calamity up to and including the current war. Revealing himself and Burton as Assassins, Pask reveals Eddie's Assassin lineage while Eddie divulges Die Glockes location in Vemork, Norway. Seeing limited options, Gorm asks to be trained as an Assassin to stop Kramer.
Back at Vemork in 1943, Eddie and Gero begin to fight each other. After a lengthy fight, Gorm gains an upper hand until Kramer blocks his knife and chokes him into unconsciousness. Moments later, Gorm is hooked into the machine as Kramer looks over him. Kramer introduces both Die Glocke and its inventor, an alive Nikola Tesla. There, Kramer discusses Pash's duplicity as he informs Gorm of those who came before and their artifacts, the Pieces of Eden. Showing that Die Glocke is powered by an Apple of Eden, Kramer shows its power as he showcased his superhuman strength and regeneration from its use.
Explaining the Die Glocke as a time-distortion machine to go relive memories of the past, Kramer admits its use to establish a new world power over Europe, with him as the leader. With Gorm's lineage, Kramer activates the machine with Gorm inside, screaming.
In another time, a female scientist named Alice and her husband are having trouble with their Animus as they check on their patient, Maxime. Realizing the Animus malfunctioned at the same Eddie was in Die Glocke, both scientists realize that they must be more to the story due to Maxime being the grandson of Eddie Gorm. While Alice's husband sees Maxime wake up, Maxime states he is not Maxime but Eddie Gorm.
==Collections==
*Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – The Complete Collection
==Media==
===Editions===
*ISBN 9782918771524; 21 October 2016; Les Deux Royaumes; FR paperbackAmazon.com: Assassin's Creed: Conspirations, Tome 1: Die Glocke
*ISBN 9781785867194; 1 August 2018; Titan Comics; US paperbackAmazon.com: Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies Vol. 1 Die Glocke
*ASIN B07D334HPS; 8 August 2018; Titan Comics; US eBookAmazon.com: Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies #1 
==Gallery==
Assassin's Creed Conspirations Cover.jpg|French cover
==Trivia==
*"Die Glocke" (English: the bell) was a purported top secret Nazi technological device or secret weapon that was developed during the War.
==References==
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