Assassin's Creed (8-Volume Set)

This boxed set is the simplified Chinese edition of the complete official novel series for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise, eight volumes in all, written by the British historian and fantasy novelist Oliver Bowden and published by New Star Press's "Illusion Library" imprint. The eight volumes are Renaissance, Secret Crusade, Brotherhood, Revelations, Forsaken, Black Flag, Unity, and Underworld. Each volume centers on one or two assassins or Templars, embedding the millennia-long conflict between the fictional Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar Order within real historical events. Renaissance, Brotherhood, and Revelations form the Ezio Auditore trilogy, moving from the Medici family and Leonardo da Vinci in Florence to Rome and Constantinople; Secret Crusade returns to the era of the Crusades, following the master assassin Altaïr and telling his story through the voice of Niccolò Polo, Marco Polo's father; Black Flag recounts Edward Kenway's life at sea during the golden age of Caribbean piracy; Forsaken tells of Haytham Kenway and his son Connor Kenway against the backdrop of the North American colonies and the American Revolutionary War; Unity is set in Paris around 1789; and Underworld, a prequel to Assassin's Creed Syndicate, takes place in London in 1862 and centers on the assassin Henry Green. The books do not require readers to have played the games; the historical, revenge, and conspiracy threads stand on their own, making them suitable for readers who enjoy historical adventure. For players, they fill in narrative details and inner lives beyond the games.