Assassin's Creed 2 Knowledge

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LORE Source

The Crashed Glider

After assassinating Carlo Grimaldi, heading to the Venice dock area lets players find Da Vinci's flying machine still lying wrecked where it crashed earlier in the story.

LORE Source

Carlo's Cowering Confession

If every guard in the Doge's Palace is pre-assassinated before confronting Carlo Grimaldi, he flees to the bottom of the Giants' Staircase and cowers, lip-syncing dialogue lifted straight from the game's original E3 demo.

LORE Source

"Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted"

One of the Glyph puzzles displays the Assassin creed itself, "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted," and is deliberately unsolvable in the traditional sense, there is no right or wrong answer, only the phrase itself.

FACT Source

Da Vinci's Inventions Were Never Actually Built

The flying machine and tank Ezio uses in-game were real Leonardo da Vinci designs, but neither was ever constructed in his lifetime, he reportedly worried about his blueprints falling into the wrong hands and included deliberate errors in his notes.