{"id":169,"date":"2012-01-09T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2012-01-09T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:24:21","slug":"the-sartor-classics-i-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"The Sartor Classics I &#8211; Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Revelations<\/em>, old man Ezio falls for a book vendor named Sofia Sartor. Secrets necessary to the completion of his mission are hidden in books throughout the game world, books which Miss Sartor states are out of print and would be lost to human history without your aid.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right. A game which asks you to rescue old books. I think you can imagine my reaction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Assassins_Creed_Revelations_story_trailer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" title=\"ezio and sofia\" src=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Assassins_Creed_Revelations_story_trailer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Assassins_Creed_Revelations_story_trailer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Assassins_Creed_Revelations_story_trailer.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady, you can count me in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the collection grew, it became clear that the library would end up being a nice collection of classics from various countries. The <em>Iliad<\/em> and <em>Odyssey<\/em>. The <em>Aeneid<\/em>. <em>Canterbury Tales<\/em>. The <em>Arabian Nights<\/em>. The <em>Nibelungenlied<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And then a few pieces I had never heard of came about. The <em>Hanging Poems<\/em>. <em>Heimskringla<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Man, I should read this stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Enter Gutenberg.org and other such sites. Soon ye olde iPad\u2019s bookshelf was replete with these texts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/photo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/photo-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/photo-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/photo.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOVING IT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>You know what\u2019d be cool? If Ubisoft printed a collection of these. Like the Harvard Classics or the Loeb. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026with some kind of assassiny secret hidden in it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I had recently watched some crazytown fan movies. So much time and money spent on these labors of love. So why not try it myself?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Revelations, old man Ezio falls for a book vendor named Sofia Sartor. Secrets necessary to the completion of his mission are hidden in books throughout the game world, books which Miss Sartor states are out of print and would be lost to human history without your aid. That\u2019s right. A game which asks you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-book","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}