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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 the 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 infiltrated within the Red Army, who also seek the box.

ok so the premise of most Assassin's Creed is that a spooky club secretly controls various empires and states through history, and the Assassins exist to kill them and grant agency back to normal people. But somehow the script is flipped when its the former aristocratic rulers of a country who's revolution the US Pentagon doesn't like, cool cool cool -- look at us, we're a slick little game studio in France, which is certainly not just a vestigial barony within the American Empire :france-cool: