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A Crown of Thorns was a virtual representation of one of Arno Dorian's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.

Description[]

Arno entered the temple to retrieve the artifact.

Dialogue[]

Arno unlocked the temple door and entered the inner chamber.

  • Arno: Now for that artifact.

Captain Rose and his men appeared behind Arno.

  • Rose: Allow me.

Rose shot at Arno, who leapt into the water in a room below. In doing so, Arno dropped the key and his lantern.

  • Rose: What skill stealing the key. Much obliged!

Rose took out the key.

  • Raider 1: Should I notify the Commandant?
  • Rose: Tell him that I resign.

Rose and his men continued onwards, while Arno was left in the water below.

  • Arno: What now?

Above, Léon dropped Arno's lantern down to him.

  • Léon: To light your way!
  • Arno: Léon, how did you find me?
  • Léon: I know what I'm doing. All of France is counting on you.
  • Arno: Little man. Thank you. Now get out of sight, I mean it.
  • Léon: Why?
  • Arno: It's time to find out what's inside that temple.
  • Léon: And the (captain)?
  • Arno: He shall fall... for I am an Assassin.

On his way back up, Arno's lantern was spoiled by water, forcing him to refill it with oil.

  • Arno: (Shit.)

Arno reached the temple's inner chamber, while Rose and his men attempted to unlock the grate in front of the artifact.

  • Rose: Look around!
    What are we missing?
    A hundred Louis to the first man to solve the enigma.

Arno entered the room holding the artifact, the Head of Saint Denis.

  • Rose: How the devil do I get it? Open damn, you!
  • Arno: The artifact will never be yours.

Engaging Rose and his men in combat, Arno killed the captain. Through his memories, Arno saw Rose with Napoleon at the Siege of Toulon.

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Rose with Napoleon at the siege of Toulon

  • Rose: I have commandeered the artillery required to break the siege.

The vision changed to Rose speaking with a soldier.

  • Soldier: Steal the artifact, and your reward shall be far greater than anything Commandant Bonaparte has offered.
  • Rose: Where do I deliver it?
  • Soldier: To the lady Eve.

The vision ended. Using luminescent ink symbols on the floor, Arno lit four braziers in the correct order.

  • Arno: (Long live France.)

The Head's pedestal elevated to the top of the structure it was in, while more raiders attacked Arno.

  • Raider 2: Get him!
  • Raider 3: Steal the artifact!

Killing the raiders, Arno climbed to the top of the structure and retrieved the Head.

  • Arno: Now old friend, we shall see why they're after you.

Arno descended the structure and killed the raiders in his way with the Head.

  • Arno: What dark magic is this? That Commandant must never have it.

Arno escaped the temple. Having changed back to his old Assassin outfit, he gave Condorcet's manuscript to de Sade, as well as the coin securing him passage to Egypt. He then left again immediately. In the meantime, de Sade read the manuscript.

  • De Sade: Ah, dear Arno. Our hopes as to the condition of the human species may be reduced to three points...

Arno pulled an Apple of Eden out of the Head. Napoleon was pulled out of his carriage and arrested.

  • Soldier: Napoleon Bonaparte. You are under arrest for treason and deserting your post.

Arno then entered Léon's room with Madame Margot. Upon seeing him, Léon embraced Arno.

  • De Sade: ... The destruction of inequality between nations, the progress of equality in one and the same nation...
  • Assassin: Final passengers!

Arno put the Apple in a box, which he gave to an Assassin about to leave with his carriage.

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Arno placing the Apple in a box

The Assassin left with his carriage.

  • Assassin: Ha!
  • De Sade: ... and lastly, the real improvement of man.

Arno looked up at Léon.

Outcome[]

Arno retrieved the artifact beneath Saint-Denis. Upon inspection, he discovered that it held an Apple of Eden within, and had it sent to Egypt to keep it out of Napoleon's hands. In addition, he decided to stay in France, having lost his cynicism.

Trivia[]

  • No matter what outfit Arno is equipped with, he will always be shown wearing his default outfit in the ending cutscene, indicating his renewed dedication to the Brotherhood.

Gallery[]

References[]

Assassin's Creed: Unity memories
Main memories
Prologue
The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay
Sequence 1
Memories of Versailles - The Estates General - High Society
Sequence 2
Imprisoned - Rebirth
Sequence 3
Graduation - Confession - Fin de Siecle
Sequence 4
The Kingdom of Beggars - Le Roi Est Mort
Sequence 5
The Silversmith - La Halle aux Blés - The Prophet
Sequence 6
The Jacobin Club - Templar Ambush
Sequence 7
A Cautious Alliance - Meeting with Mirabeau - Confrontation - The Resistance
Sequence 8
The King's Correspondence - September Massacres
Sequence 9
Starving Times - Hoarders - The Escape
Sequence 10
A Dinner Engagement - The Execution
Sequence 11
Bottom of the Barrel - Rise of the Assassin - The Bastille
Sequence 12
The Supreme Being - The Fall of Robespierre - The Temple
Cooperative missions
Women's March - The Food Chain - The Austrian Conspiracy - Political Persecution - The Tournament - Heads Will Roll - Les Enragés - Danton's Sacrifice - Moving Mirabeau - Jacobin Raid - The Infernal Machine
Heists
Tithing Templars - Catacomb Raider - The Party Palace - Royals, Guns and Money - Smuggler's Paradise - Ancient History - It Belongs in a Museum
Paris stories
Tall, Dark Strangers - Flamel's Secret: The Monks - Flamel's Secret: Denis Molinier - Flamel's Secret: The Elixir of Life - Using the Ol' Noggins - Waxworks - Sewer Rat - À la Lanterne! - The Great Escapist - Critical Comedown - Scene Stealer - Devilishly Tricky - My Kingdom For Some Whores - De Sade's Reprieve - Sadistic Blackmail - The Cult of Baphomet - The Ritual of Baphomet - La Bande Noire - Iscariotte, the Giant - Headlining the Guillotine - A Fistful of Duelers - The League of the Crimson Rose - Return of the Crimson Rose - Crimson Sunset - Flying Boy - Carmalite Nuns - Stop the Presses! - Encyclopédie Diderot - Désirée Desired - Désirée Dismayed - Désirée Delighted - French Crown Jewels - Coat of Arms - Swiss Stash - Vicious Verses - Arm the People - "Escort" Mission - Cassini's Constellations - The Condorcet Method - A Romantic Stroll - Signaling Officer Murat - A Nice Chappe - Precious Correspondence - Constructing a "Close Shave" - Up in Arms - Marianne Returns Home - The Little Prince - Turtle, Snake, Bear, Paper, Scissors - Tapestry Thief - Cartouche's Memoirs
Café Théâtre missions
Explore the Café Théâtre - Auto-Da-Fé - Colette - Damsel in Seamstress - The Queen's Necklace - Foxy Renard
Social Club missions
Bridge Brigands - Marat's Missive - Let Them Eat Hay - Cat Food on a Hot Tin Roof - Hoarding Hostages - Café Procope - Roux's Remains - An Engaging Egyptologist - Artful Dodger - A Dramatic Exit - Breaking the Habit - Extortion Contortion - Chouan Riddles - Bara's Funeral - Retribution for a Rabble-Rouser - The Black Office - Betrayer of the Queen - Spiked Bourbon - Special Delivery - Smoky Yet Robust
Murder mysteries
Murder Foretold - Barber of Seville - The Body in the Brothel - Ancestral Vengeance - The Body Politic - Bones of Contention - The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat - Hot Chocolate to Die For - The Hand of Science - The Decapitated Warden - The Death of Philibert Aspairt - The Red Ghost of the Tuileries - Cut the Middle Man - A Dash of Poison
Nostradamus Enigmas
Mercurius - Venus - Terra - Mars - Jupiter - Saturnus - Aries - Taurus - Gemini - Cancer - Virgo - Leo - Libra - Scorpio - Sagittarius - Capricorn - Aquarius - Pisces
DLC
American Prisoner - The Chemical Revolution - Killed by Science
Dead Kings
Sequence 13
Buried Words - The Book Thief - A Shadow from the Past - Raising the Dead - Under Lock and Key - A Crown of Thorns
Cooperative and heist missions
Last Rites - Holy High Rollers
Stories of Franciade
Last Will - A Royal Hide - The Unopened Rose - The Eyes of the King
Murder mysteries
Blind Justice - Equal Justice
Suger's Legacy
I - Nativitatis Et Mortis - II - Morbum - III - Diabolus - IV - Natura - V - Crux - VI - Noctis - VII - Dies
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