The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

During the assassination of Marco Barbaringo in my second playthrough I came across something I don't think anyone else has. Because Eagle's Bruise means no hidden blade (and to be more challenging, no fleeing from battle) I knocked out everyone on the boat and then proceeded to knock out the remaining guards at the party (this is where I was attacked by the menacing brute violinist, red). After finishing the dirty work I proceeded to exit the way I came in.

Altair's Chronicles | 1190 A.D
Altair, a young but experienced assassin returns home to his city from some work. He finds it under attack by Templars. In order to stop the attack, he fights back using his skills and in doing so kills a low-ranking officer of the Templar army. Al Mualim, his master, gives him the task of finding a very important object named the Chalice. It is able to unite all nations in favor of a single master, and must not fall into the hands of the enemy: thus it must be destroyed.

Throughout his investigation and adventures, Altair discovers that the Chalice is not an object, indeed it is a woman who he has an interest in: Adha. The Templars capture her, and put her on a ship. Altair fights his way to the ship and kills the Templar leader, Basilisk. However, Adha turns out to be on a different ship, and Altair vows to find her, no matter what it takes.

The first time Altair has seen the ferocity of the Templars, and the reason for having a Personal Vendetta against them in Assassin's Creed

In my second playthrough I started to pay closer attention to the timeline. Memory sequence 14 takes place in 1499, but if you remember the words of Machiavelli in "X marks the spot", he says that there are lands yet to be discovered. Now I instantly thought that this was rather conflictive because Cristopher Columbus "discovered" America in October of 1492 and then arriving in March of 1493.

Edit: I guess I was wrong because he could also be referring to Australia. Also, the europeans didn't came to realize that America was another continent until 1502.

(Also on the AC-maps forums)

So this is it, I've finally finished my first playthrough (blew me away, by the way) and I can finally get started on the Household Weapons playthrough.

Some basic rules:

Weapons: Broom, Fishing rod, Farmer's Hoe, Violin (during carnival), and if none of these is available, fists w/ cestus(only when previously mentioned weapons are completely unavailable)