Hello all, going to try to be as specific as I can here.
In the Assassin's Creed games, the central conflict of the series involves two groups — the Templars and the Assassins — which stretches back to essentially the dawn of man. Their struggle simply put is elitism vs egaltarianism. The Templars see themselves as enlightened and best fit to lead humanity and achieve peace, even if that's through subjugation and literal mind control, the assassins think people should be free, even if that means more chaos and violence as a result.
The conflict plays out across history, often focusing on artifacts called "pieces of eden" that take the form of some of history/myth's legendary and storied objects. Things like the Staff of Moses, Excalibur, the Ark of the Covenant, etc.
There is also an element of a precursor civilization that sort of set things in motion in the background.
What I am looking for are books/series that have similar plots that deal with long-running conflicts between two or more groups. Ideally they will involve historical mysteries and legendary artifacts but they don't HAVE to be set in the past, they should just deal with history in some sense.
I'm not looking for fantasy or anything that isn't set on Earth.
One series that has sort of fit this mold is James Rollins' Sigma Force books with its early conflicts between Sigma and the Guild playing out across modern day Earth but incorporating both science and historical mysteries.
Can anyone here recommend me anything that resembles what I've described? Thank you for your time and thoughts!
by atomicitalian
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da vinci code? angels and demons? both from dan brown ig they are not the most well written books but they are fun and thrilling like i couldnt put angels and demons down till it finished
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco