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EXTRAS: Mnemonic sets
The mnemonic sets were tools, made up of four components, that were available to the Project Legacy player / Recruit and had a direct impact on gameplay (for example, the temporary reduction of the resources' costs, the regeneration of all the action points and the redistribution of the skill points) and also were presented with a brief description which in some cases could imply plot contents. What follows shows the descriptions and the components of each mnemonic set.
ITALIAN WARS
CHAPTER 1
Currency
- Description: "All knowledge comes at a price."
- Components: Ducat, Florin, Teston, Denarius.
Italian States
- Description: "Italy's city-states were embroiled in conflict."
- Components: Venice, Naples, Florence, Rome.
Este Family
- Description: "Ancestral dynasty of many European royal houses."
- Components: Isabella d'Este, Ercole I D'Este, Alfonso I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
CHAPTER 2
Titian Paintings
- Description: "Master painter dubbed 'The Sun Amidst Small Stars.'"
- Components: Cain and Abel, Tarquin and Lucrezia, The Three Ages of Man, The Worship of Venus.
Visconti-Sforza Tarot
- Description: "We predict the future with an incomplete deck."
- Components: Il Diavolo, La Toree, Tre Di Spade, Fante Di Denari.
Gliphs
- Description: "Mankind has always sensed places of power."
- Components: Pyramids, Aztec Pyramid, All-Seeing Eye, Mountain Top.
Medici Family
- Description: A humanist Florentine dynasty rooted in banking.
- Components: Cosimo de' Medici, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, Lorenzo de' Medici, Piero I de' Medici.
CHAPTER 3
History
- Description: "Greatness is often rewarded with treachery."
- Components: Poison Seal, Serpent Seal, Dagger Seal, Bow Seal.
Royalty
- Description: "Individuals write history, not 'the people.'"
- Components: François Ier, Henry VIII, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Charles V.
Sforza Family
- Description: "A powerful condottieri dynasty based in Milan."
- Components: Giacomo Attendolo Sforza, Francesco I Sforza, Ludovico Sforza, Caterina Sforza.
Leonardo
- Description: "Leonardo was the definition of a Renaissance man."
- Components: Armored Car, Flying Machine, Helicopter, Machine Gun.
Intellectuals
- Description: "The Renaissance birthed great tinkers and thinkers."
- Components: Leon Battista Alberti, Niccolò Tartaglia, Leonardo da Vinci, Gerolamo Cardano.
Esplorers
- Description: "In the Age of Discovery, Europe mapped the world."
- Components: Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, Giovanni Caboto, Bartolomeu Dias.
Condottieri
- Description: "Italy's professional mercenary warlords."
- Components: Alberico da Barbiano, Giovanni Acuto, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere.
CHAPTER 4
Knights Templar
- Description: "Charitable knights of the Roman Catholic Church."
- Components: Hughes de Payens, Robert de Sablé, Phillipe de Plessis, Jacques de Molay.
Gods
- Description: "Humanity has always required faith to thrive."
- Components: Ares, Apollo, Zeus, Athena.
Composers
- Description: "Composers flourished during the Renaissance."
- Components: Vincenzo Galilei, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adrian Willaert, Josquin des Prez.
Orsini Family
- Description: "Illustrious Roman dynasty of princes."
- Components: Julius Caesar, Giacinto Bobone, Gentile Virginio Orsini, Niccolò di Pitigliano.
Borgia Family
- Description: "A morally bereft dynasty with strong church ties."
- Components: Cesare Borgia, Juan Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Rodrigo Borgia.
De Templo Cristi
- Description: "Symbols for a better human existence."
- Components: Sigillum Militum, Sigillum Militum Templi, S'Command Barbera, Secretum Templi.
PROMOTIONAL ITEMS
Auditore Trail
- Description: "Shadow dynasty that wrote history."
- Components: Florence, Forlì, Venice, Rome.
ROME
CHAPTER 1
Talking Statues
- Description: "Dissidents found voice through the voiceless."
- Components: Abate Luigi, Madama Lucrezia, Marforio, Pasquino.
Gods
- Description: "Only the names change."
- Components: Apollo, Jupiter, Mars, Minerva.
Martyrs
- Description: "Some actions transcend death."
- Components: Ignatius of Antioch, Saint Philomena, Saint Sebastian, Peter.
Games
- Description: "The mind must be trained."
- Components: Ludos Calculorum, Tali, Terni Lapilli, Tesserae.
Obelisks
- Description: "Colossal trophies or something more?"
- Components: Augustus, Psammetichus II, Ramses II, Thothmes IV.
Defeated
- Description: "How the mighty fell."
- Components: Cassivellaunus, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Vercingetorix.
Sacking Rome
- Description: "They have always wanted what was hers."
- Components: Alaric, Brennos, Charles V, Robert Guiscard.
CHAPTER 2
Rules
- Description: "Rome was never easily tamed."
- Components: Charlemagne, Charles V, Marcus Aurelius, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Popes
- Description: "Prophesized by the pious."
- Components: Bos Albanus in Portu, Fructus Iovis Iuvabit, Leo Florentinus, Miles in Bello.
Constellations
- Description: Fate written across the sky.
- Components: Capricornus, Leo, Scorpius, Taurus.
CHAPTER 3
Ptolemaic Dinasty
- Description: Followed the pharaohs' footsteps.
- Components: Caesarion, Cleopatra VII, Ptolemy I Soter, Ptolemy X.
Helms
- Description: "Bellona protects her own."
- Components: WWI, Legionnaire, Swiss Guard, Gladiator.
Papal Bulls
- Description: "Straight from the mouth of God."
- Components: Audita Tremendi, Exigit Sincerae Devotionis, Omne Datum Optimum, Romanus Pontifex.
Amanita Phalloides
- Description: "This dish of mushrooms changed the destiny of Europe."
- Components: Claudius, Charles VI, Clement VII, Natalia Naryshkina.
Writers
- Description: "Declared it so."
- Components: Boethius, Cato the Elder, Thomas Aquinas, Virgil.
Artists
- Description: "Held a different vision of the world."
- Components: Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael.
CHAPTER 4
Aztec Masks
- Description: "The faces that drove the nation."
- Components: Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuac, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc.
Human Sacrifice
- Description: "The ultimate offering."
- Components: Beheading, Cannibalism, Organ Removal, Mutilation.
Hernán Cortés
- Description: "Pride of Spain, conqueror of Mexico."
- Components: Carrack, Steed, Cannon, Blade.
Glyphs
- Description: "Few understand the true message."
- Components: Lorenz Attractor, Mandelbrot Set, Omega, Borromean Rings.
HOLIDAYS
Charles II of England
- Description: "A merry monarch, scandalous and poor."
- Components: Mary, Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Francesco de' Medici, Henry IV.
Campaign Medals
- Description: "Small tokens in recognition of great sacrifices."
- Components: 1914-15 Star, Croix de Guerre, Hindenburg Cross, Iron Crescent.
Shroud of Turin
- Description: "Greatest mystery, or clever hoax?"
- Components: Jesus of Nazareth, Jacques de Molay, Geoffroi de Charny, Cesare Borgia.
Mars Anomalies
- Description: "Looking for a needle in a haystack."
- Components: Sol 016, Sol 932, Sol 482, Sol 513.
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