Creation of Mankind

The Isu are responsible for the creation of the human race. They’ve created Homo sapiens, designing them in their own likeness and image, yet stripped of their sixth sense and other characteristics, to insure they remain an inferior species and a docile workforce.

They also created Homo neanderthalensis. Unlike Homo sapiens, those were made as a military or an expeditionary force.

Pieces of Eden

The Pieces of Eden are high tech ancient artifacts that vary in their shape, size and purpose. They are often known to exhibit miraculous abilities comparable to magic. However, they’re not magic, but scientific devices which is far beyond our technological advancement level. Some of them are used as weapons, such as The Swords of Eden, others have controlling abilities like The Apples of Eden, while The Shrouds of Eden posses the ability to heal and even raise from the dead.

It is also known that Pieces of Eden can be used in conjunction with other P.O.E such as The Staff of Eden with The Apple, or the Koh-i-Noor diamond which, according to Durga, an Isu member can connect multiple P.O.E. together, for a purpose yet unknown.

Some of P.O.E. do not have one purpose or effect, that even The Isu themselves discovered their new purposes by chance, such as The Apple, which was discovered to have the ability to create things based on the collective thoughts of a group of people enthralled by its beam.

Shay Cormac discovered a different type of Pieces of Eden in Lisbon which had the ability to control seismic activity.

Abstergo Industries, along with Clay Kaczmarek, thoroughly studied history through genetic memory experiments in the Animus and have discovered that most legends and myths told throughout history are actually truly, with the part that is related to magic being actually an effect of one or more of the Pieces of Eden.

During the time when Isu members were desperately trying to find a solution to save the world from the cataclysm or to withstand it. One of the solution was to transfer the consciousness of Isu members to a stronger vessel/body which can withstand the harsh environment caused by the cataclysm. A process where one’s consciousness would be transferred to a machine and then a stronger vessel, with humans used as test subjects.

The first volunteer for the experiment was Juno’s own husband, Aita. He managed to successfully transfer himself into the stronger body, but in the process, his mind deteriorated, rendering him catatonic and unstable.

For months, he begged Juno to end his life. Until she eventually complied, under the condition that she uses his genetic code for a plan which she devised following her imprisonment into the Grand Temple.

She took his DNA code and transferred it to human subject who would carry it over generation, reincarnating him over and over, creating what is known as “A Sage”. The cycle of Sages continues to this day, where a person is born, bearing the genetic code of Aita, which eventually takes over the host’s consciousness to become Aita himself, with Aita’s original memories infusing within the Sage’s mind and whose personality fades and dominates at different points and situations.

Sages are distinguished with their Heterochromia, where each eye bears a different color than the other, or sometimes more than one color in the same iris.

These signs and distinctive characteristics vary from one Sage to another.

It must also be noted that Sages can appear at any point in history and two sages can still be born in the same era, even when both are still alive.

A war that involved Isu civilizations that took place sometime prior to the year 1923 IE (circa 75,383 BCE). This war lead to the creation of the Swords of Eden by Hephaestus, leading to numerous casualties. The exact motives and reasons for this war are unknown.

The War of Unification, resulted in many casualties and injuries to Isu warriors/soldiers, which influenced Consus -Hephaestus’ apprentice- to create The Shrouds of Eden to heal and presumably resurrect fallen warriors/soldiers.

According to Consus, an Isu scientist who’s responsible for the creation of the first Shroud of Eden for the purposes of healing, the creation of making took place after 1923 IE and before, 2296 IE (circa. 75,383 – 75,010 BCE), the latter being the date humanity started the rebellion against the Isu, lead by Eve.

Juno, an Isu member and a scientist, who grew to become one of the most pivotal members of her civilization, was born into the Illuminate Caste, in 2195 IE, in Feyan City.

After Adam and Eve, two Isu member who were the product of inbreeding between Isu and humans, leading them to be invulnerable to the effects of the Pieces of Eden, managed to escape from their masters with an Apple of Eden, started a series of events that lead to a full scale war between Humanity and Isu, which lasted for 10 years.

One of the known casualties of this war was Juno’s father, who was murdered by human rebels with a club, leading to Juno’s eternal hatred for humanity.

SOCIETY

The Isu follow a caste system, revealed by Juno during her conversations with the Initiate in the World War I simulation. Juno mention being born into the Illuminate Caste, and she was a scientist, suggesting that society was divided into classes whose descendants inherit the caste’s speciality/role in society.

ARCHITECTURE

The general aesthetics of their world resemble contemporary/futuristic designs by modern architects, with interiors being generally vast halls, concert walls, with distinctive blue-white lighting often emerging from the intersections between walls and floors. The dominate features are minimalism and vastness.

The exteriors either resemble the interiors, or follow a generally white and futuristic design.

It must also be noted that Isu sites around the globe often share a similar sense of design and architecture.

Abstergo Industries managed to capture a very short memory footage from John Standish, a modern day Sage who worked at Abstergo, also known as “John from IT”, which revealed a short sequence, showing Isu warriors, human rebels, and buildings of Sumerian, Babylonian and Ancient Egyptian architecture.

GOVERNMENT

Like the rest of Isu history, little is known about the type of government and world divisions of the Isu Era. However, judging by the architecture of various Isu sites around the globe, the similarities suggest that this world dominating civilization seem to have some sort of unified design, where their world might have had some sort of unified government and they all lived as one nation as a species rather than as divided into various countries, each with its own system, agenda and law.