Assassin's Creed --- Brotherhood (Blog post #3)

Hello readers of my blog, it is high time I introduced the sequel to "Assassin's Creed --- Renaissance" to you. As you know in the previous post, Ezio is a hard-core assassin who makes it his mission to hunt down all of the templars. However, in 'Brotherhood', he decides that his foe, Cesare, was too strong as he had the French's and his aristocratic father's support to end the reign of the assassins. In order to counter this, Ezio builds up his own army, mainly people who were against Cesare and those who have been tortured by him. Also, he seeks help from people famously known in history (might be a little fake) like Niccolo Machiavelli (writer of "The Prince") and Leonardo Da Vinci.

In 'Brotherhood', Ezio starts on his journey to Monteriggioni, his uncle's fortress, to defend it from Cesare's all-out attack. However, they could not hold out and Ezio's uncle lost his life there. Determined to avenge his uncle, Ezio flees to Rome with his brotherhood, taking his family along as well. He then stayed there for a long time, spending his time thwarting Cesare's plans. Ezio was so close to capturing Cesare sometimes, but the main character just doesn't get to die so easily. After several confrontations, the assassins finally capture Cesare, only to let him escape after two years, while they were off guard. However, Ezio managed to use his piece of Eden to locate Cesare and his assistant, Micheletto, before trying to capture them once more. However, his ambushes on Micheletto always failed for the fact that Michelleto was well-trained. Finally, when the chance came, Ezio and Machiavelli took the chance to place bombs all over the military camp where Cesare was building up his army, delaying all his plans and actions. They then tailed Cesare to an inn, where they saw him kill his own assistant in cold blood for failing him. Finally, Ezio met Cesare in a final battle between both of them in a tall battlement where he and Casare fought to the death. He had the advantage of being much more highly skilled and experienced then Cesare, although he was sixteen years older (he was 46 by then). After engaging with Cesare in a long fight full of taunts, he finally injures Cesare and manages to throw him him down the battlement, leaving him to fate (he obviously died from falling from a few hundred feet). In the end, he, Leonardo and Machiavelli part to settle down with their own lives. Machiavelli's to write his book, "The Prince", Leonardo to invent and draw and him to carry on leading his brotherhood to eradicate the rest of the Templars, who just lost a worthy, ferocious and courageous leader.

(Anyone who wants to borrow this book can come to me... XD)

The Japanese Earthquake... (Blog post #2)

Personally, I feel that the earthquake in Japan was a real tragedy which caused many people grieve and suffering. Yes, I agree that they were extremely cruel back then during World War Two, but they have already paid the price for their commitments, two nuclear bombs razing two towns to the ground. However cruel they might be, the bombs had a greater effect on them then they did on us. It too punished the younger generations itself. The earthquake recently sparked off a heated discussion on various social networking sites. For example, some people truly pity the Japanese for having to go through such a disastrous phenomenon while others make crude comments like not being able to go on a holiday. Some people are donating money or helping them while others are busy praying that something worse happens. All in all, I feel that the Japanese really deserves to be pitied. A tsunami struck them little before the earthquake, followed by a great snow and nuclear reactor exploding. Are these just epic and sadistic coincidences or is there really a god up there punishing the Japanese for their evil deeds in the past?

Assassin's Creed --- Rennaisance (Blog post #1)

This is a new book I just read, and it is quite nice, since it is an adventure story with an awesome plot. This book is about an assassin, Ezio, whose family had been betrayed and exterminated by a traitor, who goes on a mission to kill those who betrayed his trust. In the meantime, he gets help from various people, whom he later knew were all assassins. The assassins were a small group of people, who were devoted to stopping the templars* from taking over the world. Only when Ezio was halfway through his mission than he realised that his life had a greater meaning than going around killing random people. He played an extremely important part in stopping the templars from gaining the pieces of Eden**, which they would use to overthrow the rule of every single leader of every state in Italy. His greatest mission was then to recover the pieces of Eden and keep them in safe hands. However, on his journey, he met with countless trials and tribulations but finally managed to succeed. This book has a sequel, , which I have not read yet.

*The Order of the Templars is an organisation trying to gain control of Italy and to get extreme power

**The pieces of Eden are extremely powerful items to be found and used only by two prophets of a specific generation

(Anyone who wants to borrow this book can come to me... XD)