- "These technological weapons of mass destruction and restoration were powerful enough to even make the Isu nervous of its capabilities. North nor the Assassins must be able acquire this artifact."
- ―Juhani Otso Berg, 2022
The Eden Engines are Pieces of Eden and weapons capable of mass destruction and creation. There are only three in existence, but when in close proximity and merged together the Eden Engine is capable of wiping out entire continents or terraforming, depending on the wielder's intent. While not as powerful alone, a singular Eden Engine was capable of causing a 9.2 magnitude earthquake.
The Eden Engines also granted access to the Nexus, however, the reasons as to why are unknown.
History[]
During the height of the Human-Isu War, plans to create a weapon that was capable of wiping humanity out in one fell swoop resulted in the creation of the Eden Engines. Using technology from the Seismic Temples, a team of Isu scientists created three Eden Engines that were powerful enough on their own, but when merged they were capable of great feats.
The proposed plan was to deploy these weapons on heavily human populated continents and wipe them out, either severely weaking human forces or eradicating them entirely before terraforming the destroyed continent to restore the land that was lost.
The Eden Engines were however rejected by other members of the Isu for a variety of reasons. The reasons being that it was untested and the risks were too high to deploy without any and the threat of dealing with the incoming first disaster was too pressing to potentially bombard habitable land.
Because of this, the Eden Engines were deemed too dangerous for both human and Isu control and thus were separated and hidden away in three vaults located in what would become the Americas.
By the common era, over a millennia after the Isu's extinction, knowledge of the Eden Engine's resurfaced through various Isu scripts recovered by the French Sage Stéphane D’aureville.
The Three Engines[]
Eden Engine #1[]
The first Eden Engine was located somewhere within what would be come to known as Canada in the seventeenth century by Stéphane D'aureville. After raiding numerous indigenous villages, having learned that some of these tribes had useful information on the location of these Engines.
Eventually, D'aureville indeed acquire the information on the location of one of the Eden Engines and managed to retrieve it, using it against the Assassin Ramona Lucia and the Cree warrior Küpeyakwüskonam who were also searching for the Eden Engines.
In the modern day, this same Eden Engine was discovered in Cuba, deactivated, by archeologists and put on display in the Municipal Museum Emilio Bacardi Moreau in Santiago de Cuba. Abstergo had been aware of its existence but believed it to be a deactivated Piece of Eden and thus did not see it as useful. However, after the Templar Leah Chavez learned of the existence of the Eden Engines through reliving Ramona's genetic memories, they moved to acquire the artifact but were met with contention by the Assassins Horatio Pierce, Meaghan Allard and Hayley Yasutake who also learned of their existence through Küpeyakwüskonam's genetic memories. As well as this, the reincarnation of Stéphane D'aureville, Kyle North and the Isu Shakuru were also involved in the skirmish.
The engagement ended with the Assassins retrieving the Eden Engine and escaping. Prior to parting ways, the Eden Engine was left in Allard's care by Pierce and Yasutake, believing it would be safer with her as the couple were high priority targets for Abstergo.
Eden Engine #2[]
The second Eden Engine was re-located in West Ontario near a Huron village in 1697 by both Küpeyakwüskonam and Ramona Lucia, as well as Stéphane D'aureville. The Assassin and her ally managed to retrieve the artifact from a small Isu temple where they were transferred into the Nexus upon touching it. There they are met by the Asgardian Isu Magni, who communed with the yet-to-be-born Horatio Pierce and Leah Chavez who would later on view the genetic memories of the Cree warrior and Assassin, respectively.
Upon exiting the temple, they were met by D'aureville armed with a Sword of Eden and engaged in a brief scuffle resulting in the defeat of both Küpeyakwüskonam and Ramona. Following this, D'aureville recovered the second Eden Engine and left his two adversaries to die via causing a small earthquake.
Eden Engine #3[]
Trivia[]
- The Eden Engines take inspiration from DC's Mother Boxes.