Minerva

Athena (To the Greeks and Egyptians)

Saraswati (To the Hindus)

Minerva (To the Romans)

Sulis (To the Celts)

Sulis Minerva (To both the Celts and Romans)

Vör (To the Norse)

Gunnlöd (To the Norse)

## Personality traits

### Goals

Stop the Great Catastrophe (Failed)Prevent the Pieces of Eden from falling into human hands (Failed)

Prevent Juno from being released (Failed)

## Physical description

### Skin Color

Fair

**Minerva** was an Isu scientist and member of the Capitoline Trio.

## Biography

Minerva was an Isu scientist and warrior. Minerva was born in Eden, the capital of the Isu Empire, to a family of scientists and fighters. In her youth, Minerva had a custom armor made known as the Aegis which she used to put down rebellions against Eden’s rule. Minerva then retired from the army and left the Aegis to be used by the army. Minerva then became a scientist and became renowned for her work. Minerva and other scientists Juno and Jupiter discovered that a solar flare would make contact with the Earth and destroy it, so the trio told the leaders of the Sister Realms about the potential disaster. The Sister Realms and the trio of scientists then held a meeting in Atlantis to discuss what to do about the issue, however, only King Hades of the Underworld arrived and the envoys the other Kingdoms sent left due to tensions between the realms. Seeing that no other city of the Empire cared about the issue, Minerva and the others created the Capitoline Triad to find a solution. In 2296 of the Isu Era, Minerva visited Feyan to speak with Juno about potential solutions. While Minerva, Juno, and Saturn (Juno’s father) were discussing humanity, a human slave suddenly grabbed Saturn’s Scythe of Eden and stabbed him in the head, and attacked Juno. Juno then retaliated by grabbing the Koh-i-Noor and used it to kill all the humans in the area. This event was one of the leading causes of the Human-Isu War, however, both Minerva and Juno decided not to join the fighting. The trio then created various temples and vaults to research solutions and then created the Grand Temple in Eries and sealed themselves in with Aita, Juno’s husband and a great scientist in his own right. The group then attempted various methods to stop the catastrophe using a device known as the Eye to help them see the outcomes of their solutions using the Nexus. The group worked on six solutions however, the solutions either wouldn’t work, were considered impractical, or would take too long to complete. Minerva and Jupiter then discovered that Juno had ulterior motives and wanted to conquer humanity and keep them enslaved for all time. Minerva and Jupiter then imprisoned Juno’s consciousness in the Grey, the Grand Temple’s network, and continued to work on solutions and managed to complete a device that would protect the Earth from the solar flare, however, while the two were away, Juno tampered with the device so that she would be freed. Minerva discovered this and both she and Jupiter decided that the Isu would die out no matter what and that a majority of humanity would survive the disaster and as such it would be worse to prevent the disaster and free Juno than let it happen, while humanity would be able to rebuild. Minerva and Jupiter then hid in the Grand Temple and survived and then emerged from the temple and saw the destruction. Minerva and Jupiter then used the Eye and learned that another disaster would occur and that Juno had been using the Eye to orchestrate her release. The pair then destroyed the Eye and built another one to create messages to help prevent the disaster and Juno’s release. Minerva then spent the rest of her life attempting to prevent humanity from using the pieces of Eden for their protection and created the Ascendance Event to destroy the Trident of Eden. Minerva died at an unknown point, however by the end of her life she became revered as a goddess of wisdom, strategy, and weaving. In 1499 CE, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze entered a Vault underneath the Sistine Chapel and met a holographic message of Minerva who began speaking to Desmond Miles, Ezio’s descendant who was reliving Ezio’s memories in a device known as the Animus and explained the nature of the Isu to the bewilderment of Ezio who did not properly understand what was being said. Minerva’s hologram then disappeared after altering Ezio’s Apple of Eden, leaving Ezio confused, however, Desmond and his team understood her and left to find the Apple in 2012 CE Later in 2012 CE Desmond's team reached the Grand Temple and were about to activate the device to stop the second disaster under the guidance of Juno, however a holographic message of Minerva appeared and warned the team of Juno’s intentions and pleaded for them to not activate the device. Minerva and Juno then told Desmond that if he activated the device that humanity would be enslaved under Juno’s rule, but if he refrained then Desmond would be deified much like the Isu and history would repeat with the same situations happening. Desmond then concluded that humanity would be powerful enough to defeat Juno and as such he needed to activate the device and save humanity. Minerva’s hologram then disappeared and Desmond activated the device saving humanity but freeing Juno at the same time.

## Personality

Minerva was a genius scientist and expert tactician of the Isu. She was considered one of the greatest minds of the Isu Empire and was the unofficial leader of the Capitoline Trio. Unlike most of the Isu, Minerva did not see humans as lesser beings and believed that given time that they would develop to rival the Isu.

## Appearance

Minerva was a giant woman with fair skin, long brown hair, and brown eyes. In her youth as a warrior she wore a purple cloak, pants, and tunic with brown deerskin shoes. She had also shaved half her hair at this point of her life. As an adult scientist she typically wore white cloaks with no shoes and had a matching headdress. She was also wore the Aegis during her youth as a warrior.

## Powers, Skills, Abilities, and Techniques

### Powers

**Isu Physiology:** Because of status as an Isu, Minerva could achieve feats that no human would ever be able to do.

* **Superhuman Strength**: Minerva's strength was passed that which humans were able to conjure.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Minerva was faster than the ordinary human and this extended to her thoughts as she could process information faster than humans could.
* **Eagle Sense**: All Isu held the ability known as Eagle Sense, although they termed it as Knowledge. This sense gives the user the inherit knowledge of their surroundings as well as the intentions of those they see.

### Skills

**Expert Fighter**

**Expert Scientist**

## Locations

* Transitory
* Eden, Lower Africa, Isu Empire (Formerly)
* Grand Temple, Eries, North Atlantica, Isu Empire (Formerly)

## Trivia

* Although the name Minerva is the one she used while talking to Ezio and Desmond, It is not Minerva's true name. It is unknown what her true name is as it has been lost to time. It is likely that Minerva decided to use this name as it was the one that Ezio was most familiar with.