Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple
Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple (Korean: 어쌔신 크리드 - 잊혀진 사원; RR: Eossaesin Keulideu - Ijhyeojin Sawon) is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon, written by ARC and illustrated by Tabii. It has been released digitally on the Webtoon platform, in both English and Korean, since 25 April 2023, and is intended to run for 150 episodes, with new episodes released weekly. SHYATAN, NOHT, and YEON have been responsible for adapting the webtoon into English. Forgotten Temple is a creative partnership between Webtoon and Ubisoft, and serves a continuation of the story of Edward Kenway, the protagonist of Ubisoft's 2013 video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Set primarily in 1725, the plot follows Edward's search for Pieces of Eden in Southeast Asia, where he crosses paths with new allies and enemies alike. The story also features modern-day segments centered around Edward's descendant Noa Kim, who discovers more about his family's history as he explores Edward's genetic memories. PlotSeason OneNoa Kim, a Korean-American college student, is abducted by Abstergo Industries during a trip to Macau, China, and forced to relive the memories of his ancestor Edward Kenway, an 18th-century Assassin. During his captivity, Noa slowly befriends Dr. Shimazu Sei, who explains to him Abstergo's true nature as a Templar front company and the Templars' long-standing conflict with the Assassins. While Noa becomes interested to learn more about the Assassins in the hopes of understanding his family's history and why his father mysteriously vanished during his childhood, Sei seeks to use Edward's memories to locate a Piece of Eden and ensure the well-being of her own family, the Shimazu clan. In 1725, Edward travels to Macau after being informed by the Assassins of a potential Precursor site in Southeast Asia. During his investigation, Edward befriends the Dutch navigator John Young and a Chinese laborer named Zhang, after protecting both of them from Shimazu ninja led by the Templar Shimazu Saito. Edward learns that John's late friend Hendrik had found a Piece of Eden in Angkor and documented his search in his personal sea log, which has been acquired by the businesswoman Madam Lee. After Saito steals Hendrik's sea log, Edward and Madam Lee form an alliance to recover the journal. In the process, Edward defends Madam Lee's company from her rivals Alan Jacob, Jan van Aert, and Master Sun, who are working together to sabotage her. Edward and Madam Lee's partnership eventually falls through, so the former opts to create his own organization, the Zhang Wei Union. In addition to John and Zhang, he also recruits the pirate captain Rupiya, the Korean engineer Yun Pyeong-Gyu, and the Chinese medic Xialun Qing, and secures a partnership with Jan and the Dutch East India Company. With the Zhang Wei Union firmly established, Edward sets out to recover Hendrik's sea log, which Saito entrusted to Master Sun. While infiltrating Sun's gambling ship, Edward encounters Saito and learns that she has been betrayed by her followers, including her old mentor Fuma Sukuna, who branded her a traitor to the Shimazu clan. Seeking revenge, Saito and Edward form a truce and come into conflict with a group of Chinese Assassins led by their Mentor, Xiao Han, who also seek Angkor's Piece of Eden, so that they could use it to overthrow the Qing dynasty. Edward and Saito ultimately lose Hendrik's sea log to Xiao Han, who kills Sun and forms an alliance with Madam Lee and Fuma Sukuna. In the present, Noa and Sei's attempts to trace Edward's footsteps are hindered by the Zhawang Corporation, the Zhang Wei Union's modern incarnation, which seeks to save Noa from Abstergo's captivity. While in Cebu, Philippines, Noa and Sei are attacked by the Assassin Nathan Zhang, whom the former fights off. However, before leaving, Nathan informs Noa that his father was also an Assassin and abandoned Noa to protect him from the Templars. Noa continues to explore the memories of Edward, who travels to the Philippines alongside his fellow Zhang Wei Union members and Jan van Aert. However, the group is arrested by the Spanish authorities and taken to Manila, due to Jan's alleged involvement in the assassination of Governor Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda. Edward and his allies escape after a monk starts a city-wide riot using a crescent amulet, revealed to be a Piece of Eden. Season TwoThe story of Forgotten Temple spans multiple locales across Asia, including (clockwise from upper left) Macau, China; Cebu City, Philippines; Yangon, Myanmar; and Angkor, Cambodia Edward and Saito try to retrieve the crescent amulet from the monk, but he uses the Piece of Eden's powers against them, causing Edward to begin experiencing visions of the future. The monk is eventually killed by Rajah, the leader of a Visayan resistance against the Spanish, who claims the amulet for himself. Edward, Saito, and the other Zhang Wei Union members escape Manila, parting ways with Jan, who asks them to reconvene in the Sultanate of Sulu. En route to Cebu, the Union members are attacked by Rajah's rebels, leaving them temporarily stranded on Monkey Island. They rescue a number of native villagers who have been brainwashed by Rajah with the crescent amulet, and destroy the resistance's fort on the island. They then travel to Cebu, where Rajah has already retrieved another sea log hidden by Hendrik in the Basilica del Santo Niño. Edward battles and eventually defeats Rajah at Fort San Pedro while Saito recovers the sea log. However, the pair are then confronted by Xiao Han and his Chinese Assassins, who steal the sea log while Edward and Saito escape with the crescent amulet. In the present, Abstergo discovers the amulet's location in the shipwreck of the SS Ourang Medan near the Strait of Malacca. Noa is sent to recover the Piece of Eden, but its powers negatively affect him, threatening his life. After the Templars order Noa's termination, Sei makes a deal with Nathan Zhang, who helps the pair and Sei's bodyguard Yuki escape with the amulet. Nathan takes the trio to Singapore, where Sei decides to relive Saito's memories in search of another Piece of Eden that could save Noa. With Edward corrupted by the crescent amulet, Saito assumes temporary command of the Zhang Wei Union and encounters a group of Japanese mercenaries led by Nagamasa, who were hired by Fuma Sukuna to hunt her. Saito is able to rally the mercenaries to her cause, and they help the Union members kill Sukuna and his men. Afterwards, the crew travels to Sulu to meet with Jan van Aert, only to be imprisoned due to a deal made by Jan with the Sultan, who desires the crescent amulet in their possession. They escape and try to recover the amulet, but are forced to fight Xiao Han and his Chinese Assassins, who tracked them to Sulu. After Edward hesitates to kill Xiao Han due to a vision of the future showing both his own and his son Haytham Kenway's deaths, Xiao Han seizes the amulet, inadvertently killing Xialun Qing in the process. The Union members escape Sulu and travel to Singapore to recover from their defeat, where Edward is reunited with his wife Tessa and daughter Jennifer. Tessa consoles Edward after he blames himself for leading his new companions astray, and warns him about a Templar plot against him that the Assassins have uncovered. Reinvigorated by the encounter with his family, Edward resumes his quest for the Pieces of Eden, sailing to Burma. In the present, Sei, Noa, Yuki, and Nathan also travel to Myanmar to recover the Piece of Eden housed in the Shwedagon Pagoda. While Yuki and Nathan fend off an attack by Abstergo, Sei and Noa are forced to confront their deepest fears and desires under the Piece of Eden's influence. Sei battles the guilt she feels for blindly serving Abstergo for years, while Noa is tempted by the artifact, which offers to tell him the truth about his father. Overcoming his desire to learn more about his family's past, Noa decides to start following his own path and retrieves the Piece of Eden before escaping with Sei, Yuki, and Nathan. The group later attempts to leave Myanmar by stealing a seaplane from Yangon's harbor, but they are again confronted by Abstergo. Yuki sacrifices herself to buy the others time to escape, and Sei is captured after using the crescent amulet to subdue the Abstergo agents and allow Noa and Nathan to flee with the second artifact. Following their successful retrieval of the second Piece of Eden, Edward and Saito are betrayed by John Young, who reveals himself as a Templar spy. Blaming Edward for Xialun's death and revealing that the Templars have promised him a way to resurrect Xialun if he helps them acquire the Pieces of Eden, John steals the second artifact and delivers it to Alan Jacob, the Grand Master of the Templar Order. After a failed attempt by the Zhang Wei Union to capture John and recover the artifact, Jan van Aert saves them from an ambush by Alan's East India Company fleet, which is forced to withdraw. Edward agrees to resume his partnership with Jan and recruits additional allies from among Batavia's pirates. In the present, Noa and Nathan are tracked down by Abstergo, but are saved by a group of Assassins sent by Claire Zhang, Nathan's sister and the Zhawang Corporation's director, as well as members of the DedSec hacking collective, which Nathan has ties to.[a] DedSec inform Noa that Sei has been taken to Abstergo's facility in Osaka, Japan, where her genetic memories helped the Templars track down the third Piece of Eden, buried with Saito. Noa rescues Sei and brings her to the Corporation's headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he resumes tracking Edward's memories. The Zhang Wei Union members and their allies sail to Indochina, reaching the mainland after fighting through both Madam Lee's and Alan Jacob's fleets. They then travel to Angkor to find the Forgotten Temple, which houses the third Piece of Eden, arriving at the same time as Madam Lee and Alan. Detecting intruders, the Temple activates an advanced security system, awakening giant stone guardians and creating a temporal anomaly that begins to merge the 18th and 21st centuries. In the present, the Abstergo forces who have reached the Temple are affected by the anomaly, which transforms anyone and anything into their past counterparts. To stop the anomaly from spreading and destroying the world, Noa, Sei, and Nathan travel to the Temple, which turns them into their respective ancestors: Edward, Saito, and John. The Temple also conjures apparitions of Madam Lee, Alan Jacob and their respective armies, who begin fighting each other and the stone guardians as they race to reach the Temple first. Nathan, overtaken by John's personality, steals the Piece of Eden in Noa's possession and manages to enter the Temple, at the same time as Xiao Han and his Chinese Assassins, who are wielding the crescent amulet. Meanwhile, a group of Abstergo operatives who are carrying the third Piece of Eden and are unaffected by the anomaly also manage to reach the Temple. Noa/Edward and Sei/Saito struggle against the stone guardians until they obtain enhanced weapons allowing them to fight the statues, and they enter the Temple shortly after the others. PublicationAssassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple was first announced alongside several other Assassin's Creed projects in April 2021.[1] Game Informer reported that the new webtoon would expand upon Edward Kenway's story following the events of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and be part of Ubisoft's new collection of 'Chronicles', new adventures featuring familiar characters.[2] On 12 April 2023, Ubisoft announced its collaboration with Korean art studio Redice Studio, which would be responsible for the publishing of Forgotten Temple. Planned to run for 150 episodes across three seasons, the series' first episode was released on the Webtoon platform on 25 April.[3] It was initially available in English, Korean, French, and Japanese, with more languages being added at a later time.[4] A trade paperback collecting the first seven episodes of Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple was published in France by Mana Books on 5 September 2024.[5] An English-language version will be released by Viz Media on 18 November 2025.[6] Four additional volumes have been since released in France, with the latest one set to be published on 16 October 2025.[7] Notes
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