[It is spoken with a bit of surprise, but he cannot fathom the betrayal felt by Altaïr upon his discovery of his own Mentor. To have hidden his true intentions the entire time and led others still through the Brotherhood...]
[Altaïr can acknowledge it calmly now; enough time has passed that the memory stirs regret more than any other emotion.]
It was the Apple, but I didn't know that until much later—I thought it merely a piece of silver when he first showed it to me. He revealed its true power when I confronted him, and it was a near thing that I survived that battle with my life, and not him.
[And it sounds it, at least, to Ezio. That itself is no small feat, to face a Mentor of the entire Brotherhood and not only accuse him of straying from their ways, but to face him and fight him after the revealing... Ezio has no words.
Only that Altaïr is an incredible man.]
When I had received all the pages of the Codex, on the back of them was a map- a map of the world, that you had drawn yourself. I did not believe there were so many lands outside our own but- being here has proved otherwise.
[Altaïr hasn't drawn that map, not yet, but he can easily picture it based on the many sketches he's made and on his own searing memories of a golden globe.]
That is when I first understood how much more of the world there must be, and how much of it I wanted to learn about. I'm glad that I'll be able to pass that much on, at least.
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[It is spoken with a bit of surprise, but he cannot fathom the betrayal felt by Altaïr upon his discovery of his own Mentor. To have hidden his true intentions the entire time and led others still through the Brotherhood...]
And the treasure-- was it the Apple?
[It's as good a guess as any.]
voice;
[Altaïr can acknowledge it calmly now; enough time has passed that the memory stirs regret more than any other emotion.]
It was the Apple, but I didn't know that until much later—I thought it merely a piece of silver when he first showed it to me. He revealed its true power when I confronted him, and it was a near thing that I survived that battle with my life, and not him.
That's when the Apple showed me the world.
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[And it sounds it, at least, to Ezio. That itself is no small feat, to face a Mentor of the entire Brotherhood and not only accuse him of straying from their ways, but to face him and fight him after the revealing... Ezio has no words.
Only that Altaïr is an incredible man.]
When I had received all the pages of the Codex, on the back of them was a map- a map of the world, that you had drawn yourself. I did not believe there were so many lands outside our own but- being here has proved otherwise.
voice;
That is when I first understood how much more of the world there must be, and how much of it I wanted to learn about. I'm glad that I'll be able to pass that much on, at least.