Prologue
People have always talked about the End of the World. But they would either be shunned, or locked away. We have always wondered how we came into being, and some say it was an explosion that created everything, others say it was a divine being. But we know better. There was a race before us, and we call them the Ones Who Came Before. They were an advanced civilization, with technology beyond our dreams, but they were wiped out. But there are still places that they left behind, little pieces of tech we call Pieces of Eden. Some are still missing, others have been found, and nearly all of them are in the enemy's hands.
Who are we? We have been waging war for many years, long before the Crusades, and many years before the Egyptian civilization began. If you believe such things. I do. We are the Brotherhood of the Assassins. We work in the shadows so the light may prosper in the land. We live by the Creed, which consists of three simple tenants: stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent, blend with the crowd, and never compromise the Brotherhood. To disobey the Creed is to die.
Our enemy, the Templars, who seek nothing else but power. They won't stop until every living soul on Earth serves them. Literally. They are everywhere, hiding, but we always find them, and when we do, they die.
Hello. My name is Artemis. My parents named me after the goddess, hoping I would be strong, and brave as she was. And I have lived up to my name. I lived a modest life in the countryside of Scotland, and I lived there with my older brother, and my two younger sisters. We all lived in a small house, with three bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a backyard with a garden. Near out house was a wide open field, with rolling hills with tall grass and wild flowers that would sway in the breeze, and past those hills, was the forest, and past the forest was the road that lead to the city a few miles away where my dad worked. For the first five years of my life, my mom homeschooled me, then I went to the elementary school. Enough of all this background stuff, lets get to the actual story.