As best as I can cobble together from the film, this is the background of Assassin’s Creed.
There are these assassins, and they have an initiation
creed:
Assassin: "Where other men blindly follow the truth, remember..."
Initiate: "Nothing is true."
Assassin: "Where other men are limited by morality or law, remember..."
Initiate: "Everything is permitted."
Assassin: "We work in the dark to serve the light. We are Assassins."
Yikes. (Anti-hero...check!) What is so important that they are permitted to do
anything immoral or illegal to serve this vague light?
Apparently, when Eve ate the apple, she exercised free will and as a result seeded the first sin into the world. Since then, everything has gone downhill:
violence, greed, poorly made movies, etc. The Templars at some point decided
that they would find the apple and genetically undo the damage that has been
done (apparently sin is biological). Sounds great, but that also means free will goes out the window as everybody
does what the Templars want them to do. The Assassins formed to stop the
Templars from doing this.
Fast forward five hundred years. The modern Templars are on the verge
of getting the apple. They have apparently captured all the modern Assassins and
managed, through some sci-fi wizardry, to find a way to send a modern
descendent of an Assassin back to relive the life of a former Assassin. By doing this, they will be
able to figure out where this elusive apple has been hidden for the past 500
years. One super naïve scientist,
Sophia, is convinced the Templars will use this power to bring worldwide peace by deleting the genetic basis of violence in everybody (hello, Nobel Peace Prize!). I don’t think it will give much away to say that
her plan is not the same as the other Templars.
