Remember that Clio has two eyes. Here are the era categories and geographical locations with which you will work (yes, I’ve changed a couple of them):
- 1500-1550 Rome –> Spain [Polishchuk, Hopson, Nelson]
- 1550-1600 Spain –> England [Togias, Barker, Charles]
- 1600-1650 England –> Netherlands [Patterson, Bradt, Beresford]
- 1650-1700 Netherlands –> France [Metz, Hashemzadeh, Graham]
- 1700-1750 France –> Austria [Kleinman, Kellogg, Bodine]
- 1750-1800 Austria –> Ireland/Scotland [Cato, Lovell, Balian]
- 1800-1850 Ireland/Scotland –> British Empire (you choose) [Medish, Moynihan, Gladstone]
- 1850-1900 British Empire –> Germany [Balaban, Ross, Ward]
- 1900-1950 Germany –> Soviet Union [Jalota, Pasco, Larreategui]
- 1950-2000 Soviet Union –> Any Balkan state (you choose) [Villenueve, O’Shea, Campbell]
I ask that each group post a comment below that will contain your storyline thoughts, however sketchy or vague, so other groups can get a sense of where the plot movement is headed.
While the work must be graphic, you may choose to use photos rather than draw your panels by hand; each is acceptable (there is even an Apple program that will create a cartoon format using photos). The following elements must be present in your final product:
- The inclusion of at least TWO historical persons
- The mention of at least two significant dates
- An excerpt from a primary source (the document will be mentioned or footnoted)
- The appearance of one technological or intellectual innovation that appeared during the assigned period.
- At least six panels, but you may certainly have more.
European History 
Hmm… so nothing has made an appearance here. Without some indication of your ‘stories’ it will be damn near impossible to fuse the thing into a single plot line. Please put your ideas down in a comment so the groups on either side of your era may better know how they can link in to your story. Otherwise we are going to have 10 entirely separate vignettes.
Here’s the starting name of the main character c. 1500:
Gasparo Guccio della Panicale
1500-1550 Rome –> Spain
When Charles V’s troops sack Rome in 1527, a member of the family overhears a discontented soldier describe how Spain is receiving an influx of wealth from somewhere called “the new world” (and how the soldier isn’t getting paid despite Spain’s riches.) Seeing Rome’s power decrease, the opportunistic family travels to Spain, where they hope to benefit from Potosi silver.
1600-1650 England–>Netherlands (Dutch colonies)
Two illegitimate sons, Wayne Beckham (of a blacksmith) and Wynstone Bouknight (of a noble family), arrive at the Southampton Dry Docks in 1628, meet each other, and conspire to take fake identites to secure passage on a Puritan ship bound for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. On board, they encounter an Irish, dwarf, stowaway and befriend each other. Due to the ineptitude of the ship captain, they mistakenly land in New Amsterdam, and upon arrival, all three are found out but escape into the nearby wilderness to avoid capture.
by Bradt, Patterson, and Beresford
Wayne Beckham is the son of the previous protagonist who decided to settle in the English countryside after all of his adventuring. Wayne Bouknight is also an illegitimate son (of royalty) and incredibly cynical and cunning. Both are born c. 1600. The two make their ways independently to Southhampton and work in the drydocks of the British navy producing frigates and the like. There they meet and become close friends, much like brothers. They learn about the fleet of John Winthrop’s journey to the Massachusetts Bay colony from other workers and passengers and decide to go to the New World (they have nothing to look forward to in England). Because of the selection process for entry, the two of them kill two other puritans planning to travel to the New World, take their place on one of the ships in the fleet called The White Rose, and in effect become impostors on board. While discussing their situation one night in the hold, they are overheard by an Irish Dwarf (seamus Fitzpatrick, who was a english noble’s dwarf). Both parties make a mutual agreement to not revel the whereabouts of the other. The dwarf will teach them how to read (a skill they never acquired) and beckham and bouknight will fetch food and maintain the stowaway. They become friends and continue across the ocean until their negligent captain accidentally loses track of the other ships in the fleet and they wind up Long Island Sound close to the New Amsterdam colony. While having a heated discussion about their plan of action, the three are found out to be impostors/stowaway and jump in to the Sound to avoid capture. Seamus begins to drown in the water and Bouknight, in a vein of redemption for his past evils, saves him at the last possible second and they all wind up washed ashore in an unfamiliar hostile territory…
Graham, Hashemzadeh, Metz (1650-1700, Netherlands (New Amsterdam) — France
The three wayfarers make their way into the wilderness and encounter a Native American huntress who lives among the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation. The blacksmith and the huntress fall in love and the huntress gives birth to a son. Immediately after the birth, an enraged bear rushes through the group’s camp and fire pit. The bear, with fur aflame, kills the Irish dwarf and the illegitimate English noble. In keeping with Native American custom, the mother names her son “Flaming Bear,” as the bear was one of the first things she saw after the birth. The boy is brought up as a European but taught the Native American art of the silent stalk and kill. At the time, the Iroquois at French were fighting what came to be known as the “Beaver Wars” over rights to the lucrative fur trade. When Flaming Bear is in his twenties, he witnesses a newly arrived contingent of French Navy troops, the Compaignies Frenches de la Marine, massacre an Indian village. Four years later, in 1687, during a harsh winter, Flaming Bear’s mother and father die from starvation; French troops had burned the Iroquois’ crops and left the tribes of the confederation unable to feed themselves. Filled with rage and without family, Flaming Bear seeks counsel in his tribe’s chief and medicine man, Crooked Spear. Assisted by Crooked Spear’s herb-concoctions, Flaming Bear enters a trance; he sees a bear, wreathed in fire, ripping through a French flag. Consequently, he decides to stow away on a French Navy ship bringing news to Paris and strike at the heart of French power. Upon his arrival in Paris, Flaming Bear trails the captain’s stagecoach to Versailles. After listening in on several meetings of the royalty, he kills a group of French nobles. His blood-thirst quenched, Flaming Bear flees into the gardens of Versailles.
Precocious W.H. Perkin discovers synthetic dye in 1856 in a rapidly industrializing Europe. His discovery will soon shake the entire international dye market. Soon, BASF–the first synthetic dye company–is founded in Germany. Simultaneously, halfway across the world, Bengali indigo farmers rise against their colonial oppressors. Our protagonist, George Pencharles, is a cut-throat, Calvinist merchant of the East India Company, just as his father had been. He buys the indigo cheap from the Bengali plantations and sells it to the vast European natural dye market. However, as Perkin makes his discovery, Bengali peasants rise against their oppressive colonial plantation owners; both of these developments threaten Pencharles’s livelihood. Out of work, George decides to join his competitors in Germany and convert his knowledge of natural indigo production into position and power within the synthetic industry. As Pencharles climbs the German corporate ladder he sinks to the depths of industrial espionage, willing to do whatever it takes to make it.
[Hank Balaban, Colin Ross, J Ward]
1700 – 1750 France to Austria Kleinman, Bodine, Kellogg
Our story begins in Paris in 1687 with Flaming Bear having just escaped from Versailles. He’s bloodied, but on his way out he encounters a member of the Austrian diplomatic delegation to Versailles, the Duke of Saalfelden, a relatively minor Austrian noble. The Duke recognizes that Flaming Bear has clearly just committed a murder and, more importantly, gotten away with it, and he decides to use the leverage of having caught Flaming Bear with blood on his hands to get Flaming Bear to join the Austrians. Flaming Bear, realizing he has nowhere else to turn, agrees. His particular skills (as a native American stalker) are quite valuable to the Duke’s entourage, so he remains with him. France and Austria go to war shortly thereafter with the beginning of the Nine-Year’s War. The Duke, with his family and entourage, are caught in Paris and put under house arrest by the French. The Duke, however, had recently acquired some intelligence that would be quite advantageous if it could be returned to Austria. As it turned out, the papers his agents had acquired detailing a French plan to assassinate the Emperor were false. Nevertheless, he believed they were true, and hatched a plot to escape France and travel across Europe back to Austria undetected. He could not bring his whole entourage, however. Flaming Bear’s stalker skills would be valuable in evading the French, making him a natural choice to accompany the Duke. Additionally, Flaming Bear had grown close to the Duke’s daughter and only legitimate child (his wife had remained in Austria when he had been sent to France, since they barely even spoke), Maria. Maria, born in 1667, was close to her father and had accompanied him to France. She was unmarried. The Duke brought her with him as he attempted to escape. The group of about 10 did not succeed in getting away; someone had tipped off the French. The Duke and most of his men are killed; only Maria and Flaming Bear escape. On their two-year journey across Europe on foot, they grow close. When they finally reach Austria in 1691 (the escape attempt was in ’89), they get married. Their son, Ulrich Goestchl von Saalfelden (Goestchl an Germanic derivation of Flaming Bear’s father’s name and von Saalfelden an inheritance of his mother), is born early the following year. His father joins the Austrian military and dies heroically at the battle of Oudenaarde in 1708, having attained the rank of Captain. Ulrich does not join the military like his father, but instead joins the court of Charles VI shortly after his ascension to the throne, in 1712. He is a shrewd diplomat, and he observes much of the intrigue surrounding the court during this time, including the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. In time, he becomes a trusted negotiator, and he often meets with foreign dignitaries before they meet with those higher up. He marries another minor Austrian noblesse, Katrina von Aberschwende in 1715, and has a single son, Albrecht Goestchl von Saalfelden, in 1720. Ulrich harbors a significant hatred of the French, due to his father and grandfather having died at their hands; he passes this hatred onto his son. By 1740, the 48 year old Ulrich is a key member of the court. When Charles VI dies, he serves Maria Theresa. He is sent to negotiate with the Saxons to make sure that they fulfill their obligations under the Pragmatic Sanction (which they recognized), but he is traveling through Silesia as Frederick II’s army advances south. He, realizing that they have violated the sanction, tries to argue with a Prussian cavalry commander; he is shot. Albrecht is left as his only heir, the Duke of Saalfelden, and he joins Maria Theresa’s court in 1740 (having grown up in it), nursing hatred for both the Prussians and the French.
1500-1550 Rome –> Spain [Hopson, Polishchuk, Nelson]
Gasparo Guccio della Panicale is an Italian, Catholic male who has made a small fortune through the silk trade. He is married to Lucrezia and has two children, a teenage daughter Isabel and a four-year-old son Sergio. Gasparo’s father was a moderately successful merchant who passed away several years before the story began. His mother is also deceased. Although Gasparo does not have noble blood, his profession allows him to interact with the nobility. He is what a modern reader would call upper-middle class.
The narrative begins with the Sack of Rome in 1527 (and ends later in the same year.) Gasparo is inspecting imported spices on the shore of the Tiber when, all of a sudden, he notices smoke rising from the center of the city. Fearing for his family, he runs through the streets of Rome, past mobilizing Swiss guards, foreign soldiers, and screaming civilians. When he finally arrives at his household, he finds that it has been raided and plundered during the chaos. To his dismay, all of his artwork, gold, and other valuables are gone. However, he doesn’t realize the extent of the devastation until he enters his atrium. There, he finds his son crying over the dead bodies of his wife and daughter. Charles V mutinous troops have reduced Gasparo, once a wealthy merchant, to nothing.
Gasparo then overhears two soldiers complaining outside that a kingdom receiving (supposedly) infinite amounts of gold from the “New World” should be able to pay its soldiers. This is the first Gasparo hears of the “New World.” It is all he needs to hear. The merchant recognizes that, in the wake of the sack, his niche in society will disappear as the demand for luxury goods decreases. Thus, after the commotion dies down, Gasparo uses his few remaining resources to board a ship to Seville with his son Sergio. Upon arrival, Gasparo sees Aztec gold being unloaded off of another vessel. As Gasparo enters the city, he recognizes that he has a chance, albeit a small one, to restore his livelihood.
Hans von Penkarl (Pencharles- germanified), is born in 1904 to a family of seven, he is the last male to be born. Though only in his early teens throughout the Great War, he is stunned by its carnage and strife; something changes deep within this privileged Jewish boy. By his early twenties Hans is fascinated by the writings of Marx and Engels, and amidst the terrible poverty of the Weimar Republic hyperinflation, he loses faith in western capitalism. He also sees the insidious nature of his father’s rise to prominence as very real example of the evil of capitalism. To him, communism is utopia. It isn’t until the appearance of the Nazi regime that Hans rejects the drudgery of a middle-management position at his father’s dye plant, now run by his chosen sons. He promptly moves to Soviet Union, in his mind a bastion of equality for all, where he joins the Red Party and rises through the ranks as WWII begins and later as Nazi Germany violates the non aggression pact with the Soviet Union. Hans is viewed as a valuable asset to the Kremlin, as opposed a potential threat. His faith in communism is absolute.
The name is easily changeable but we used one that would fit with our previous group’s surname.
1550-1600 Spain –> England [Togias, Barker, Charles]
Sergio Guccio della Panicale comes over from Spain in the entourage of Phillip II when he weds Mary Tudor in 1554. Sergio meets one of Mary’s attendants, Madeline, at Winchester Cathedral, falls in love, and the two soon marry. Sergio is a skilled tailor, and he opens a business and settles down in London with Madeline. A son, Phillip, is born to them in the summer of 1558. However, in the wake of Mary’s death and the new Acts of Supremacy, the family Catholicism lapses in 1559 and they convert to Anglicanism. Fast forward 29 years. Phillip has just returned from a brief stint in the English navy. Suffering from a severe case of ennui, he decides to become an actor and join the company of a young “upstart crow” named William Shakespeare who has been making waves in the London theatre scene. But, the theatre life gets the better of Phillip, and several years of debauchery and excess follow. After drinking infected rye beer, Phillip acquires egotism and falls into a crippling fever—one from which his fellow actors believe he will surely die. At the climax of his many hallucinations, Ignatius Loyola appears alongside Christ and they order him to turn his back on the Satan of Elizabethan England, return to his Catholic roots, and become a Jesuit. He miraculously recovers and transforms into a soldier of Christ, the vision having instilled him with a religious fervor the likes of which England has not yet seen. This rebirth brings with it a new mission: the assassination of Elizabeth Tudor. Over the years, he draws closer to the royal person, eliminating many agents of the state along the way, but when the Queen herself is finally within reach, he fails and is caught. Phillip is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Right before he loses consciousness, he recognizes a lover from his sordid theatre days in the crowd, and on her shoulder sits a young boy who somehow reminds Phillip of his father. Unbeknownst to Phillip, the boy is his son; the man that the boy thinks is his father, a Mr. John Beckham, is in fact a cuckold.
“ergotism” not “egotism”
Apologies
The narrative ends in 1599 in London.
1750-1800 Austria to Ireland: Aram, Ryan and Charles
The year was 1772, and Albrecht Goestchl von Saalfelden had dutifully served as Duke of Saalfelden for 32 years. Now 52 years old, Albrecht has had two children. His first son, Niklas, was well on his way to becoming Duke, however his second son, Heinrich, with almost no other option, decided to enter into service of the Empress Maria Theresa in the year 1769, still in the prime of his youth at age 24. Heinrich, an able-bodied, stealthy, smart, stalker type (he inherited much from Flaming Bear) was the perfect spy for Theresa, who, as Empress, had to observe all issues that arose in the Holy Roman Empire. Heinrich, now Theresa’s most trusted spy, and versed in 6 languages (German, French, English, Russian, Italian, and Greek) was trailing the Russian delegation that had come to Vienna to discuss the First Partition of Poland, so as to make sure they were not plotting behind Maria’s back. The delegation entered into the building in which they were staying, and Heinrich made sure not to lose sight or sound of the Russians. He climbed through an open window into a storage room adjacent to the delegation’s quarters. As he eavesdropped through the thin wall, he heard a serving maid enter the Russians’ quarters. The maid was ordered to retrieve vodka from the adjoining room (the room where Heinrich was hiding). Heinrich, knowing his discovery could mean the end of the negotiations for the partition of Poland, jumped into an empty chest and shut the lid. Waiting until the maid left, Heinrich quietly tried to open the lid. Unfortunately, he found it to be locked. With no other option, Heinrich decided to wait until his was discovered. However, Heinrich’s ill-fated mission took another turn for the worst, as the next morning, the Russians quickly concluded negotiations and left Vienna with haste for St. Petersburg, as they needed to travel over land. Heinrich, many hours later, in desperation, began to slam against the lid, but to no avail. His attempts at escape did not gone unheard however, and the Russians soon opened the chest with sabers drawn. Heinrich, learned in Russian, convinced the delegation he was simply a runaway servant, who was trying to escape the evil-clutches of his master. He explained his fluency in Russian as being a byproduct of his Russian mother. The Russians, though very skeptical, do not kill Heinrich right away, but they tied him up for the remainder of the trip. During his time as captive, Heinrich learned much about the Russian plans, and decided to escape at the first opportunity to present his intelligence work to the Empress. The opportunity arose during their last night on the road, when the delegation entered into an inn for the night. As they fall asleep, Heinrich attempted his escape, only to be foiled by the stable boy, who was feeding the horses when Heinrich tried to steal one. The next morning, Heinrich, under armed guard, and the rest of the group, reached St. Petersburg. The top-ranking official of the delegation, Vladimir Ivanovich Novikov decided that Heinrich, a very athletic looking man, would make a great servant for the official’s brother, Igor, a fur trader. With this, Heinrich was impressed into service on a Russian merchant vessel, traveling back and forth from St. Petersburg and London. For four years, Heinrich was forced to work as a slave on the vessel, but in 1776, he escaped in London. Knowing he cannot travel by sea, for fear of the Russians, Heinrich decided to head west, further into England, by land. After days of traveling and scrounging what food he could, Heinrich ended up in Newport, where he stumbled into a tavern, just for a place to sit. As he quietly sat in the corner, Heinrich could not help but overhear a loud, flashy ship Captain telling the story of how he had transported an entire forest worth of furs all the way to Vienna, fighting pirates, robbers and a dragon along the way. Believing he had found a way back to Austria, Heinrich befriended the Captain, John White. John promised to take Heinrich back to Vienna if only Heinrich will help him take a shipment of guns and ammo destined for the British troops garrisoned in the American colonies. In another twist of fate, John’s ship sank soon after leaving Newport, the victim of a horrendous storm the likes of which had not been seen in decades. Desperately holding onto a piece of the mast, Heinrich, the sole survivor, finally floated ashore in Southeastern Ireland near Waterford. As he landed, a rich Irish landholder/parliament member, named Aidan O’Brien gave him an ultimatum: serve me, or die. Heinrich chose to live and pledged himself to O’Brien. Years pass and Heinrich was assimilated into the Irish culture. He even married a woman named Erin O’Erin in 1785. By 1800, Heinrich and Aidan have become good friends. A kind, but strict lord, Aidan always treated Heinrich with respect and courteousness, even though Heinrich was his servant. Aidan had also gained much renown in Parliament, to the point where his vote influenced many other members’ votes. As such, the English have taken an interest in Aidan. An upcoming vote to determine if Ireland unites with Great Britain was set to occur during the summer, and Britain did not want to leave anything to chance. The English began to bribe Irish parliamentary members with titles and awards, if they voted for the unification. One such bribe was destined for Aidan, who had sent Heinrich to guide an English official, named Henry Morestead to Aidan’s manor. Morestead was visiting to negotiate the terms of Aidan’s bribe. After picking the Englishman up in Dublin, Heinrich and Morestead were waylaid by highway robbers near Waterford. Heinrich, now a loyal friend to Aidan, quickly gave his ring to Morestead and told him to ride to Waterford and ask for a woman named O’Erin, as she would know where to lead Morestead once he arrived. To give Morestead the time he needed to escape, Heinrich valiantly fought the robbers, but was killed in the effort.
The vote in 1800 was titled the Acts of Union and was passed in both Great Britain and Ireland.
Gladstone/Medish/Moynish, Ireland/Scotland to scome part of the British Empire, 1800-1850:
Erin sits at home, knitting, drinking whiskey, and growing more and more worried as her beloved Heinrich gets later and later for dinner. Her hands shaking too much to knit, she is left alone with her fears, which only grow more terrible as she descends ever further into that timeless Irish state: hammered. Her thoughts are interrupted by a knock at the door, causing her to leap out of her chair, faceplant, and slowly retrieve her awareness of time, space, and balance as she stumbles to her feet, then stumbles to the door. But on its other side, she finds not Heinrich, but a constable, who wastes no time in informing the poor lass of her poor husband’s demise. This is all to much for Erin, who—from shock or that third tumbler of whiskey or both—collapses and spends the night out cold on the floor of her wee Irish home.
She wakes the following morning to the terrible reality of 19th-century widowhood. Lacking both money and a means to get it, she turns to the good Lord for aid, stepping out into a misty Irish morn and winding through the streets of Dublin towards St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where she prays earnestly for divine aid and for a merciful end to her hangover. On her way out, she stops to gaze with frowning Irish eyes upon the grave of Jonathan Swift, recalling how Heinrich struggled through Swift’s A Tale of the Tub as part of his quest to reach the English fluency that always eluded him. Out of this flood of memories she plucks the Tale’s plot, featuring three sons progressing through life. If only she had a son! Such a provider could get a job and keep his poor widowed mother out of penury! As Erin leaves the Cathedral, she spies a young scamp pickpocketing his way through the crowd outside. She thinks the lad has been sent in answer to her prayers and takes him in as a son under an arrangement in which she provides the boy with a home while his odd jobs and petty thievery support them both. The boy’s name is Galvin Guthrie Payne O’Connell, and his mother figure contracts tuberculosis and dies in 1803. Without money or dependents, O’Connell enlists in the British army just as the War of the Third Coalition breaks out. At one point in the war, O’Connell serves under Arthur Wellesley in the Anglo-Russian expedition in northern Germany, then remains under Wellesley’s command throughout the Napoleonic Wars, becoming a favorite of his commander and serving with great distinction at the Battle of Waterloo.
The war over, O’Connell returns to Ireland, where he leads a noneventful life until, in 1829, he receives a message from Laoiseach Byrne, the same Irish politician his father Heinrich had once delivered a bribe to. Only this time, bribee has become briber: Byrne and a group of Irishmen have pooled a massive amount of money with which they will attempt to bribe the Prime Minister of Great Britain to pass the Roman Catholic Relief Act. The current Prime Minister just so happens to be Arthur Wellesley, and Byrne believes his bribe will be that much more influential if delivered by Wellesley’s old war buddy. A Catholic himself, O’Connell agrees to the scheme.
O’Connell delivers the bribe and Wellesley pushes the act through Parliament, but not before offering his old favorite a job. Arthur’s brother Richard Wellesley had served as Governor-General of India, and the latter’s connections in Calcutta fear a Russian invasion through Afghanistan. Since O’Connell had served alongside Russians in the War of the Third Coalition, he has intimate knowledge of the internal workings and tactical arrangements Russians employ, making him, in the eyes of Wellesley, uniquely suited to defend the crown in India.
O’Connell takes the offer, ships off, and becomes a pawn in the Great Game. In 1839, he takes part in the invasion of Afghanistan, and in 1842, he is one of two surviving Brits taken prisoner after William Elphinstone’s disastrous retreat back to India. O’Connell spends eight years rotting in an Afghan prison, then pulls a daring escape, and crosses the border into India disguised as a woman. 109 years later, the Dalai Lama’s advisers will repeat this story to their leader, inspiring His Holiness to reach Dharamshala in a similar way. Safely in British territory, O’Connell rents a room in the nearest town and settles into a deep sleep…
note: this was posted on time under the “assignment #1” post, but that was the wrong place, so it’s moving here now
Campbell, O’Shea, Villeneuve
While living happily and relatively prosperously under Communism in the Soviet Union, German immigrant Hans von Penkarl finds a Russian wife and has a daughter in 1950: Svetlana Hansovna Penkarl. Svetlana Hansovna is her father’s daughter and grows up a follower of his Communist ideology and Jewish faith. As a zealous young Communist, she lands a job as one of the youngest ever KGB agents at the age of 17. As she grows, however, she becomes acutely aware of the USSR’s state-sponsored antisemitism, and, despite her ties to Communism, determines that she must escape to a place where she can practice her religion openly. After she is caught trying to escape in the 1970 Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking attempt, the KGB leadership begins to see her as a potential threat and sends her on long-term assignment to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to undermine President Tito’s Non-Aligned Movement. However, she soon comes to embrace the Non-Aligned Movement, which she sees as capturing the true ideological heart of Communism that has been lost in the USSR. This, combined with Yugoslavia’s acceptance of Jews, leads to her decision to quit the KGB and sever all ties with the USSR in 1975, becoming a Yugoslavian. She lives happily in Yugoslavia until the early 90′s, when the country splinters along ethnic lines. Remembering how accepting the country was of her Jewish faith, she works throughout the Yugoslav Wars to promote tolerance of different religions and ethnicities, using the skills she learned during her time in the KGB. She meets with limited success, but is happy to see the wars end on any terms. She eventually settles in Belgrade, where she starts a foundation promoting ethnic tolerance in the Balkans in 2000.
They stole our story!
“the player controls his ancestor, a young, half-English, half-Mohawk man named Ratonhnhaké:ton, also known as Connor. Connor is caught up in the Assassin-Templar war when his Native American village is attacked by the Templars, causing the death of his mother. Connor’s Templar father, Haytham Kenway, is also playable at the start of the game. The story spans 30 years of Connor’s life, from 1753 to 1783. Boston and New York are cities that can be explored,[17] as well as the American Colonial Frontier, spanning forest, cliffs, rivers, Connor’s Mohawk village, and the settlements of Lexington, Concord and Charlestown. The player is able to hunt small and large game, and approximately one third of the story takes place in the Frontier.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_III
that IS your story – we aren’t doing graphic novel this year