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Ezio Auditore da Firenze  is a  fictional character  in the video game series  Assassin's Creed , where he serves as the  protagonist  of the series' games set during the  Italian Renaissance . His life and career as an  Assassin  are chronicled in  Assassin's Creed II ,  II: Discovery ,  Brotherhood , and  Revelations , as well as the animated short film  Embers . Furthermore, he appears as a  guest character  in the  fighting game   Soulcalibur V . Born into  Italian nobility , Ezio follows his family heritage as an assassin, after most of his immediate kin is killed during the  Pazzi conspiracy . His quest to track down those responsible for killing his family eventually sets him up against the villainous  Templar Order , led by the  House of Borgia . Spending years to fight against  Rodrigo  and  Cesare Borgia  and their henchmen, he eventually reest...

The Enchanted Rose is a mystical flower from the 1991 Disney animated film, Beauty and the Beast . It has since become the trademark symbol for the film. When the Beast was a human prince, an old beggar woman came to his castle requesting shelter from the bitter cold and offered to him this very rose. The prince sneered at the beautiful gift and turned the old woman away because of her haggard appearance. She warned him not to judge her based on appearance for true beauty was found within. When he did not heed her warning, she shed her false form, revealing herself to be an astonishingly beautiful enchantress who was testing his heart. She saw that there was no love in the prince's heart, and thus punished him by turning him into a beast, and all who dwelt within the castle into living objects, as well as cursing the castle itself and presumably the surrounding forest (filling it with vicious wolves as well). She left him the rose, promising him that it would bloom un...