# Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009)

> A Renaissance-era Assassin uncovers a murder conspiracy that reaches from Venice to the Vatican and becomes the hunted in the process.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/36812

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 3
- Episode runtime: 12 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: action, adventure
- Created by: Yves Simoneau
- Network: YouTube, Spike
- Cast: Romano Orzari, Manuel Tadros, Jesse Rath, Devon Bostick, Alex Ivanovici, Michel Perron, Arthur Grosser, Peter Miller
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587390/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, dark, propulsive, paranoid, brooding

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with a modest rating across three short films that serve as a prequel to the Assassin's Creed II video game.

## Synopsis

Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009) is a Canadian short-form action adventure series created by Yves Simoneau and produced by Ubisoft and Hybride Technologies. Set in fifteenth-century Italy, it follows the assassin Giovanni Auditore (Romano Orzari), who is sent to investigate the brutal murder of the Duke of Milan. Across three short episodes, each around twelve minutes long, he pulls at a thread that exposes the most powerful families of Italy and implicates Rodrigo Borgia (Manuel Tadros), Lorenzo Medici (Alex Ivanovici) and even Pope Sixtus IV (Arthur Grosser). The engine is simple and urgent: every step closer to the truth makes Giovanni a target, and he must expose the conspirators before he becomes one of their victims. The series is a single compact story rather than a serialized saga, offering a brisk, tense blend of stealth, political scheming and hidden-blade violence. Its tone is dark and propulsive, with shadowy Venetian and Roman streets carrying a sense of paranoia and dread. Fans of Assassin's Creed II, The Borgias and Castlevania will find resonance in its mix of video game lore and renaissance intrigue.

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