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Assembling all twenty Glyphs unlocks "The Truth," a short video depicting a man and woman named Adam and Eve running through a futuristic setting called Eden. The video closes on a binary string that translates directly to the word EDEN.
One Glyph puzzle asks players to find the shared element across five famous paintings, including Atalanta and Hippomenes and The Fall, the answer being that each artwork secretly depicts an Apple of Eden.
Halo 3's viral marketing kicked off in a strange way: on June 11, 2007, Bungie.net's forums appeared to be 'hacked,' setting off months of clue-hunting as fans pieced together hidden servers that gradually revealed the final days of the Forerunners. The campaign, known as Iris, folded story lore directly into the game's real-world promotion.
Subject 16 hid twenty encoded Glyphs across the Animus recreation of Renaissance Italy, five in Florence, one in Monteriggioni, five in Tuscany, two in Romagna, and seven in Venice, each unlocking a fragment of the video known as "The Truth."
