''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China'' Chronicles: China is set in 16th-century
Imperial China, during the
Ming dynasty, and follows
Shao Jun, the Assassin introduced in the short film ''
Assassin's Creed: Embers''. In 1526, Shao Jun returns to China after a long journey to Europe, where she visited the retired Assassin Mentor
Ezio Auditore da Firenze and learned the key to liberating her people. Her mission is to eliminate the
Eight Tigers, a group of influential
Templars who rule China from the shadows, with the
Emperor as their puppet, and who oversaw the extermination of most of the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood. Shao Jun's first target is Gao Feng, the warden of a prison in the
Maijishan Grottoes, and in order to get close to him, she allows herself to be captured, along with a box given to her by Ezio, which is a Precursor artifact. After escaping and killing Gao Feng, Shao Jun travels to the port city of
Macau with fellow Assassin
Wang Yangming, who already killed another Tiger, Ma Yongcheng ("The Butcher"), in order to assassinate Yu Dayong ("The Slaver") and recover the Precursor box. Shao Jun succeeds, and escapes after the Templars set the port on fire in retaliation. In 1529, Shao Jun goes after Wei Bin ("The Snake"), the second-in-command of the Tigers, in
Nan'an. After killing him, however, she learns that the Tigers' leader, Zhang Yong, knows that Wang Yangming has the Precursor box and is hunting him down. Shao Jun tries to save Yangming, but arrives too late. In 1530, Shao Jun infiltrates the
Forbidden City to seek the help of
Empress Zhang, an old friend from during her years as a
concubine, only to discover that the Templars have forced the Empress to lure Shao Jun into a trap. Shao Jun forgives her, and escapes after killing the Tiger Qiu Ju ("The Demon"). In 1532, Shao Jun learns that Zhang Yong is plotting to maintain his grip on power by allowing the Mongols, led by
Altan Khan, to invade China. Shao Jun travels to the
Great Wall and prevents the Mongol invasion before facing Zhang Yong. He reveals that the Precursor box is no longer in China, as it has been given to his fellow Templars, and attempts to flee, but Shao Jun kills him. With the last Tiger eliminated, Shao Jun claims that her destiny is not to search for the box, but to stay in China and rebuild the Brotherhood. Years later, an elderly Shao Jun, now the Mentor of the Chinese Assassins, plots the assassination of the
Jiajing Emperor by sending him lethal mercury disguised as an elixir of life.
''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India'' Chronicles: India is set in 19th-century India, during the final years of the
Sikh Empire, and follows
Arbaaz Mir, the protagonist of the
graphic novel ''
Assassin's Creed: Brahman and father of Henry Green, a supporting character in Assassin's Creed Syndicate''. In 1841, following the assassination of Maharaja
Ranjit Singh two years prior and the recent passing of his son and successor
Kharak Singh, Templar agents within the
East India Company attempt to strengthen their control over the country during this period of political instability, as well as find more Precursor sites. Arbaaz managed to delay the Templars' plans by retrieving the
Koh-i-Noor diamond, a powerful Precursor artifact, but while Arbaaz is away visiting his lover, Princess Pyara Kaur, the Templars attack the Assassin headquarters in
Amritsar, stealing the Koh-i-Noor and capturing the Brotherhood's Mentor, Hamid. After interrogating a British officer for Hamid's whereabouts, Arbaaz infiltrates the Templars' headquarters and rescues his Mentor. Hamid reveals that the Templars' new leader,
William Sleeman, hopes to use the Precursor box to unravel the Koh-i-Noor's secrets, prompting Arbaaz to follow Sleeman and his men into an underground Precursor temple. After making his way past ancient death traps, Arbaaz confronts Sleeman, just as the latter unlocks a map showing the locations of other Precursor sites around the globe. Sleeman fires his gun at Arbaaz, who dodges the shot and lets it a Precursor structure, causing a chain reaction that results in the entire temple collapsing. Escaping back to the surface, Arbaaz reunites with Hamid and learns that the Templars are organizing an expedition to
Afghanistan, one of the locations shown on the map. Arbaaz travels to
Herat, where British forces have occupied the city's
citadel and are being besieged by the Afghans. Arbaaz opens the gates of the citadel to let the Afghans in and create a distraction, allowing him to explore the Precursor site underneath the citadel. He finds a pedestal, but before he can touch it, he is held at gunpoint and captured by Sleeman and the Templars. Arbaaz is taken to the
Katasraj Temple in
Punjab, Pakistan, where he escapes and discovers that Sleeman left the Koh-i-Noor and the Precursor box behind, to be guarded by his right-hand man,
Alexander Burnes. Arbaaz bests Burnes in combat, but chooses to spare his life; this earns him Burnes' respect, who orders his men to allow Arbaaz to leave with the diamond and the box. Arbaaz returns to Amritsar, only to learn from Hamid that the Templars have taken over the Maharaja's Summer Palace and are holding Pyara hostage. Arbaaz infiltrates the palace and confronts Sleeman, who orders him to hand over the Koh-i-Noor and the Precursor box while holding Pyara at knifepoint. Arbaaz tosses the artifacts into the air just as Pyara stabs Sleeman with her own knife, forcing him to let her go. After Arbaaz and Pyara escape to safety, the former reveals that he managed to grab the Koh-i-Noor in the confusion, but the box has been lost to the Templars. Some time later, Arbaaz gives the Koh-i-Noor to Ethan Frye, a British Assassin and the father of
Jacob and Evie Frye, for safekeeping.
''Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia'' Chronicles: Russia is set in early 20th-century
Soviet Russia, in the aftermath of the
October Revolution of 1917, and follows
Nikolai Orelov, the protagonist of the comic book ''
Assassin's Creed: The Fall and its graphic novel sequel, The Chain''. In 1918, Nikolai contemplates retiring from the Assassin Brotherhood and leaving the country with his family, but agrees to perform one final mission: to recover the Precursor box, which is believed to be in possession of the
Romanov family. On the night of 16–17 July, he travels to
Yekaterinburg and infiltrates the house where former Tsar
Nicholas II and his family are being held, only to witness their
execution at the hands of Templar agents within the
Red Army, who also seek the box. Nikolai discovers that the Tsar's youngest daughter,
Anastasia, survived the massacre and has the box, which somehow links her to Shao Jun, giving her the latter's memories and abilities, which she is unable to control. Taking pity on Anastasia, Nikolai decides to take her back to the Brotherhood in the hope that they could help her. Pursued by both the Templars and the
Bolsheviks, the two escape Yekaterinburg on a train headed to
Kazan, arriving there in September, in the midst of the Red Army's
attempt to retake the city. Nikolai leaves to find his old friend,
Leon Trotsky, only to discover that the latter, believing Anastasia to be too dangerous as a symbol to be left alive, has allied with the Templars. Trotsky betrays Nikolai to the Templars, who torture him for the location of Anastasia and the Precursor box. Anastasia manages to rescue Nikolai, and together they escape Kazan by stealing a boat. Nikolai and Anastasia arrive in
Moscow, where the two are separated upon meeting the other Assassins, who take Anastasia away to experiment on her and find a possible cure for her condition. Nikolai is instructed to return to the Assassins' bureau to make a report about his mission, but overhears two Assassins talking about how Anastasia is now a living Precursor artifact and that they must extract Shao Jun's memories from her, likely killing her in the process. Caring for Anastasia and enraged by the Assassins' lies, Nikolai decides to betray the Brotherhood to save the girl. After interrogating an Assassin, he learns that Anastasia was taken to the
Kremlin, and proceeds to make his away across the city while avoiding his former Assassin brothers, who now have orders to kill him. After infiltrating the facility where Anastasia is being kept, Nikolai rescues her and the two work together to escape back to the city. Once there, the Assassins try to kill them using a tank, but Nikolai is able to destroy it. Afterwards, Nikolai gives Anastasia false documents originally intended for his wife, providing her with a new identity,
Anna Anderson, and a means to leave the country unnoticed. The two part ways, with Anastasia planning to start a new life in
Germany and believing that she will be able to keep Shao Jun's memories under control.
Secret ending A secret ending can be unlocked in
Chronicles: Russia by inputting hidden codes found throughout all three games. The ending takes place in the modern day, where Templar agent Juhani Otso Berg meets up with the Head of Operations at Abstergo Industries, Laetitia England. Berg, who
has recently studied the memories of the Templar
Shay Cormac to learn more about the Precursor box, presents it to England, who instructs him to take it to Dr. Álvaro Gramática in secret. Gramática claims the box to be instrumental to the success of Abstergo's Phoenix Project. ==Development and release==