List of Assassin's Creed characters

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The Assassin's Creed media franchise, which primarily consists of a series of open-world action-adventure stealth video games published by Ubisoft, features an extensive cast of characters in its historical fiction and science fiction-based narratives. The series also encompasses a wide variety of media outside of video games, including novels, comic books, board games, animated films, a live-action film, and an upcoming television series for Netflix. The series features original characters intertwined with real-world historical events and figures, and is centered on a fictional millennia-old struggle for peace between the Assassin Brotherhood, inspired by the real-life Order of Assassins, fight for free will, and embody the concept of chaos; and the Templar Order, inspired by the real-life Knights Templar, desire peace through control, and embody the concept of order.

This article describes major historical and fictional characters of the series that appear in the video games and live-action film adaptation. Most video games in the Assassin's Creed series tend to feature standalone or self-contained stories told within a fictionalized version of real-world historical civilizations, with at least one lead character from that setting and time period; the vast majority of these characters are members of the Assassins or a related organization at one point in their lifetime. A convention established by the first game involves the player experiencing the lives of these characters as part of a simulation played by another in-game protagonist from the modern day era, using a technological device known as the Animus that is developed by Abstergo Industries, a corporate front of the Templar Order in the modern era.

The first five main series games feature Desmond Miles, a direct descendant of their respective lead characters who are members of familial lines that had sworn an allegiance to the Assassins, as the modern-day protagonist. Following the events of Assassin's Creed III, Abstergo develops a more advanced version of the Animus technology called the Helix, which is capable of exploring the genetic memories of any historical individual using their DNA samples without relying on the Animus user being a direct descendant of these individuals. From Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag to Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the player assumes control of an unnamed research analyst who works for the entertainment branch of Abstergo or the Brotherhood; the analyst is intended to be the embodiment of the player in the Assassin's Creed universe.^[1] From Assassin's Creed Origins to Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the protagonist is Layla Hassan, an ambitious former employee at Abstergo Industries who has developed a portable version of Animus technology, and is recruited into the Brotherhood of Assassins by William Miles, the father of Desmond Miles in Origins.

Desmond Miles saga[]

Characters of Assassin's Creed[]

Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad[]

Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad is a Syrian-born member of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins who serves as Mentor from 1191 until his death in 1257. During his tenure as Mentor and its brief interregnum, Altaïr makes several discoveries and inventions that greatly helps the Order's progression. Under his leadership the Levantine Assassins' spread their influence across the Old World, setting up many guilds in cities like Constantinople. With the Apple in hand, Altaïr changes the way members of his Order live their lives, writing the details in his fabled Codex for later generations of the Order to read. Throughout his travels, Altaïr strengthens his Order, stops various Templar plots over the years, and stops Genghis Khan's march. In 1257 Altaïr dies sitting quietly in his chair in his secret library in Masyaf, and is later found by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Altaïr is an ancestor to Desmond Miles through his maternal line. He is voiced by Philip Shahbaz in Assassin's Creed,^[2] and by Cas Anvar in Assassin's Creed Revelations.

Warren Vidic[]

Dr. Warren Vidic (voiced by Philip Proctor)^[2] is the head of the Abstergo's Animus project and a member of the inner sanctum of the Templar Order. In Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone, he is introduced to Abstergo Industries by William King Harvey, a CIA director and double agent for the Templar Order. He inherits the Bluebird project by Colonel Boris Pash, which is the precursor of the Animus project. As the head of research for Abstergo, Vidic is put in charge of the genetic memory research and the Animus project. As the one responsible for finding new subjects for the Animus, Warren has them explore their genetic memories, which he would then analyze to gain information on both the Assassins and the Pieces of Eden. As a high-ranking employee of Abstergo Industries, Warren is one of the few members of the Inner Sanctum, a group of Templars with full awareness of the Orders' plans for their New World. He plays an important role in those plans, being tasked with finding a Piece of Eden to power Eye-Abstergo, a satellite which uses the Piece of Eden's power to control humanity. He is killed by Desmond Miles in Assassin's Creed III. In Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, an e-mail sent by Abstergo Entertainment COO Olivier Garneau reveals that Warren had volunteered as Subject 2 for his Animus Project, where he relived the life of an ancestor in 18th-century Hungary and of one of Joan of Arc's executioners in 1431.

Lucy Stillman[]

Lucy Stillman (voiced by and modelled on Kristen Bell)^[2] (1988–2012) is a member of the Assassin Order and a genetic memory researcher for Abstergo Industries' Animus Project. During her infiltration of Abstergo, she reports on the company's recent activities to the Assassins. However, Lucy's lengthy separation from the Assassin Order and her distrust for William Miles leads her to defect to the Templar cause prior to 2011. When Desmond Miles is brought into Abstergo for testing, Warren instructs Lucy to earn Desmond's trust so that the Templars can find the Piece of Eden located within his memories and use it for their Eye-Abstergo satellite. As Desmond's condition begins to worsen, Warren and Lucy resort to more drastic measures, and formulate Project Siren. Lucy is ordered to take Desmond somewhere he would feel safe, and the two Templars orchestrate Desmond and her escape from Abstergo. Lucy carries out her orders and relocates Desmond to a hideout to join his fellow Assassins Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane. After a month and another relocation to the ruined Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni, the Assassin team discoveres the location of an Apple of Eden, which is inside the Colosseum Vault. When Desmond's hand makes contact with the Apple, his body is possessed by Juno, a member of the First Civilization. With her knowledge of Lucy's true allegiance, Juno forces Desmond to stab and kill Lucy with his Hidden Blade.

Abbas Sofian[]

Abbas Sofian (voiced by Nolan North in Assassin's Creed and by Yerman Gur in Assassin's Creed: Revelations) (1166–1247) is a Syrian Assassin during the Middle Ages, and the Mentor of the Levantine Assassins from 1227 until his death. His leadership over the Levantine Brotherhood shows a period of corruption and disregard for the Order's Creed, resulting in the decline of their castle in Masyaf and its villagers fearing and secretly loathing the Assassins. Raised as an Assassin from birth alongside Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, the two became best friends during their childhood. However, after Altaïr reveals to Abbas that his father, Ahmad Sofian, had killed himself instead of leaving the Order as Abbas had believed, he labels Altaïr a liar, and develops a lifelong hatred for him. After Altaïr kills their former Mentor, Rashid ad-Din Sinan (Al Mualim), Abbas stands against Altaïr, who wants to become the Order's new leader. He eventually repents and keeps a low profile during Altaïr's time as Mentor. When Altaïr and his family leave for Mongolia to deal with the threat presented by Genghis Khan, Abbas stages a secret coup d'état against the Order; kills Altaïr's younger son, Sef Ibn-La'Ahad; and frames Altaïr's best friend and right-hand man, Malik Al-Sayf, who is thrown into prison. With Sef and Malik out of the way, Abbas holds the most power over the Order, and he implements a council into the Brotherhood with himself as its head. Eventually, he disbands the council, usurping the title of Mentor, and becomes the sole leader of the Levantine Assassins. Under Abbas' leadership, the Order declines and becomes corrupt. Additionally, Abbas spends most of his time hiding in Masyaf's fortress, fearing for his life. After Altaïr returns from his exile, the Assassins join him again, and Abbas is killed by one of Altaïr's newest weapons.

Abu'l Nuqoud[]

Abu'l Nuqoud (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) is Damascus' Saracen merchant king. He invites many Damascan citizens to a grand party, where attendants receive goblets to get wine from a wine fountain he set up in the partying area.

Malik Al-Sayf[]

Malik Al-Sayf (1165–1228) is a member of the Assassin Brotherhood in Syria during the High Middle Ages. Trained from an early age in the ways of the Brotherhood, he attains a high rank by 1191.^[3] Raised to be an Assassin, Malik learns the fighting arts that strikes fear into the hearts of their enemies. He is an excellent swordsman, a devoted acolyte to the Creed, and a caring adult figure to his brother, Kadar. He is a rival of Altaïr, whom he often berates for disobeying the tenets of the Assassin's Creed.

In 1191, Altaïr, Malik, and Kadar go to Solomon's Temple to retrieve a relic.^[4] His jealousy turns into hatred when Altaïr ignores the tenets of the Creed, endangers his companions' lives during the events of Solomon's Temple, and subsequently botches a mission, which results in Kadar's death, and the injury and subsequent amputation of Malik's arm. Malik retrieves the Templar treasure that Altaïr failed to find and delivers it to Al Mualim. No longer able to operate as an Assassin, Malik is made the bureau leader of the Jerusalem Assassins. At first he is bitter towards Altaïr, but over time forgives him and acknowledges his own fault in his brother's death. When Altaïr returns to confront Al Mualim, Malik supports him, distracting the indoctrinated Assassins while Altaïr faces Al Mualim. After Al Mualim's death, Malik rushes to Altaïr's side as the piece of Eden is activated. Altaïr makes Malik his close second-in-command after becoming the Mentor. Malik is appointed as a temporary leader in Altaïr's absence, and sometime after this, Abbas Sofian imprisons him in Masyaf's dungeons for almost two years with false charges of murder, and has him beheaded when Altaïr returns from his quest across the Middle East.

In 1217 Sef ibn La'Ahad and Malik leave Masyaf to fight against Genghis Khan.^[5] He is not seen again for the rest of the series, but he is written off in Assassin's Creed II. Altaïr mentions his death at the hands of Abbas in Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Malik is voiced by Haaz Sleiman.^[2]

Kadar Al-Sayf[]

Kadar Al-Sayf is the brother of Malik Al-Sayf.^[6]

Maria Thorpe[]

Maria Thorpe (voiced by Eleanor Noble) (1160–1228) is an English noblewoman who becomes a Templar steward, and later the wife of Altaïr. As a child, Maria rejected the gender norms of her time, ultimately being disowned by her parents after annulling her arranged marriage. Seeking to fight in the Third Crusade, she disguises herself as a man and attempts to join the Templar order. The Templar master, Robert De Sablé, sees through her ruse, but is impressed by her determination and hires her as his steward. Robert deduces that Altaïr would come for him, so he has Maria serve as a decoy to buy him time. Although she expected Altaïr to kill her, he spares her instead, and warns her not to follow him. After Robert is assassinated, Maria becomes obsessed with revenge. She tracks Altaïr to Acre, but he bests her again and takes her prisoner. She escapes in an attempt to join the Templar's new leader, Armand Bouchart, but because of her failure to kill Altaïr, and her "miraculous" escape from him, he perceives her to be either incompetent or a traitor to the Order. He places a bounty on both her and Altaïr, forcing them to work together. They fall in love after Armand's defeat. Maria renounces the Templars and becomes Altaïr's wife, giving birth to two sons, Darim and Sef. Maria joins Altaïr and Darim in a mission to Mongolia to halt the advance of Genghis Khan. While they are away, Abbas murders Sef. Maria and Altaïr confront Abbas, and Maria is killed in the ensuing fight. Her last words to her husband are "Strength, Altaïr..."

Garnier de Naplouse[]

Garnier de Naplouse (voiced by Hubert Fielden) is a French nobleman and the tenth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitalier in Acre. He experiments on and tortures innocent people and lunatics he picks up off the streets of Acre, claiming they are his children and that he is helping them. He transformed Acre Fortress into a hospital and is killed by Altaïr inside it.

Ibn Jubayr[]

Ibn Jubayr (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) is a chief scholar of the Saracens in Damascus and leader of "The Illuminated". He plans to have all texts in Damascus burned, claiming that these texts lead people astray. He is killed by Altaïr during one of his public purges.

Al Mualim[]

Rashid ad-Din Sinan, commonly known as Al Mualim (Arabic: "The Teacher") (voiced by Peter Renaday)^[2] or The Old Man of the Mountain, is based on his real-life counterpart, the Iraqi-born Hashshashin leader in the Syrian town of Masyaf. He appears in Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade. He is the Assassin Mentor who secretly leads a double life as a Templar; he is a wizened old man whom Altaïr sees as a father figure. After Altaïr breaks all three tenets of the Assassin's Creed in one mission, Al Mualim reduces Altaïr to the rank of an initiate, and gives him a list of nine men to kill in order for Altaïr to redeem himself and bring an end to the Crusade. Altaïr kills "rival" members of the Templar Order so that Al Mualim can keep the Piece of Eden for himself. Altaïr assassinates the ninth target, Robert de Sablé, but with his dying breath, he tells Altaïr about Al Mualim's true plans. Altaïr returns to Masyaf to find that the citizens are being controlled by the Apple, wielded by Al Mualim. Al Mualim himself has broken all three tenets of the Creed, leading to a fight between himself and Altaïr, and after a lengthy battle Al Mualim is killed by Altaïr, who takes possession of The Apple.

Al Mualim returns in Assassin's Creed: Revelations in one of Altaïr's memories. In the memory, Altaïr burns Al Mualim's body on a pyre, ensuring that he can never return. It is a move that unnerves many of the other Assassins, but Altaïr is forgiven and accepted as the new master.

Richard the Lionheart[]

Richard I of England (voiced by Marcel Jeannin) (1157–1199), commonly known as Richard the Lionheart, is the King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He is the second monarch of the House of Plantagenet, the commander of the Crusader army during the Third Crusade, and is considered a great military leader and warrior. Upon his death, he is succeeded as King of England by his younger brother, John. Under Richard, the Crusaders eventually reach Arsuf, where they engage Saladin's army and are approached by Altaïr. Altaïr claims that Robert intends to betray the king, but Robert insists that Altaïr's story is a ruse to keep Richard from interfering in the Assassin's mission. Unsure on whom to believe, Richard leaves the decision in the hands of God, declaring that Robert and his Templars are to fight Altaïr in a trial by combat. Altaïr wins, and Richard accepts the Assassin's version of events.

Robert de Sablé[]

Robert de Sablé (voiced by Jean-Philippe Dandenaud) appears in Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade. He is a French lieutenant under Richard the Lionheart, and Grand Master of the Knights Templar during the Third Crusade. Born into a powerful family, Robert is immersed into nobility from birth, though events during his life are difficult to pin down; at some point he becomes lord and ruler of Briollay, France. Subsequently, he joins the Knights Templar and reigns as their Grand Master from 1191 to 1193. During the Third Crusade, Robert and the Knights Templar lay siege to the city of Acre and conquer it; throughout August 1191, they recapture many fortresses and cities along the Palestinian coast, which have been lost previously. Robert follows a goal similar to the Assassins (to end the war in the Holy Land). Al Mualim has no objections against him ending the Crusade, but is against the way Robert attempts to do so—the Assassins would have people find peace themselves, but the Templars would force their "peace" onto others and attempt to control them.

Sibrand[]

Sibrand (voiced by Arthur Holden) is a German Crusader and the first Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in Acre, who intends to have all ships submitted to him be used in a blockade against King Richard, but is killed on his personal ship by Altaïr.

William of Montferrat[]

William V, Marquess of Montferrat (voiced by Harry Standjofski), also known as Guglielmo V del Monferrato in Italy, is an Italian Crusader and Richard the Lionheart's regent in Acre. He plans to kill Richard and give Acre to his son Conrad of Montferrat, and makes his plans inside Acre's Citadel.

Characters of Assassin's Creed: Lineage, II and II: Discovery[]

Ezio Auditore da Firenze[]

Ezio Auditore da Firenze (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) (1459–1524) is an Italian nobleman from Florence during the Renaissance and unknown to most historians and philosophers, the Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, a title that he holds from 1503 to 1513. He dies in 1524 while sitting on a bench in a market. Moments before his death a mysterious man sits with him and tells him to stay strong. The man's identity remains unknown. He is an ancestor to William and Desmond Miles, and Clay Kaczmarek. Ezio appears in Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. He is the main character of the short Assassin's Creed: Embers.

Federico Auditore[]

Federico Auditore (voiced by Elias Toufexis^[7][8]) was a noble born in 1456. He is the older brother of the Auditore family.^[9] In 1475 he enters the Medici bank as a clerk, but in 1476 is removed from the bank's payroll (on 17 September 1475 a bag of gold florins went missing).^[10] He fights with Ezio against Vieri de Pazzi, visits a doctor to treat his wound, and races to the top of Santa Trinita.^[11] His father Giovanni and his brother Petruccio are captured and hanged at the Palazzo della Signoria in 1476 by Uberto Alberti and Rodrigo Borgia.^[12][13][14]

Federico Auditore is an original character.^[15] He is played by Jesse Rath in Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009).^[16]

Vieri de' Pazzi[]

Vieri de' Pazzi (1459–14 April 1478) is a nobleman and the youngest member of the Pazzi family. He spends his father's money frivolously on weaponry, exotic animals and clothes. Fiercely competitive, he hosts running races, boating and horseback riding, but all of them are rigged; when he loses, he invites the winner's entire family for a victory poisoned dinner.^[17] He is trained by his father, Francesco, and in 1474 works with him to take over Florence. On 14 April 1478 he is killed by Ezio.^[18]

Cristina Vespucci[]

Cristina Vespucci (voiced by Amber Goldfarb^[19]) (1459–1498) is a well-known Florentine beauty, and a favorite of painters; most notably Sandro Botticelli, who uses her as a model for several of his paintings. She is introduced in Assassin's Creed II, though most of her story is told during the "Repressed Memory Sequences" from Brotherhood. She is the cousin of the Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. She is Ezio's first love interest. When he has to leave for Monteriggioni, he asks Cristina to come with him, but she refuses, as she does not want to leave her family behind. Ezio accepts her decision and gives her a pendant to remember him. In 1478, Cristina marries Manfredo Soderini, more because of her father's will than her own. The day before their wedding, Ezio returns to Florence and visits Cristina, unaware of the direction her life has taken. Cristina tells Ezio she did not expect him to return and reveals her engagement. Even though he is heartbroken, Ezio appeals to Manfredo's conscience, and tells him to stop gambling and be a good husband. After Lorenzo de' Medici's death in 1494, Girolamo Savonarola takes control of Florence and starts the Falò delle vanità (Bonfire of the Vanities). Because of their rich fineries, the home of Cristina and Manfredo are attacked by Savonarola's fanatics. Ezio comes to her aid, but she is mortally wounded. Cristina shows him the pendant he gave her twenty-two years ago, and says she wished for another chance with him before dying in his arms.

Cristina Vespucci is based on real life historical figure Simonetta Vespucci.

Giovanni Auditore[]

Giovanni Auditore (3 May 1436 – 29 December 1476) is Ezio's father,^[20] and a banker, advisor, and nobleman who is a pivotal figure in Florentine banking. Giovanni oversees the Medici bank branches across Italy, and when Lorenzo was busy, he ran the bank. He extends his reach into the bank's international operations, and notices the problems with the Lyon bank, which Francesco Sassetti saves. In 1471 he secures the negotiations between the Pope and the Medici bank.^[21] The character is based on Giovanni Villani.^[22]

Claudia Auditore[]

Claudia Auditore (voiced by Angela Galuppo)^[23] (b. 1461) is a Flortentine Italian noblewoman during the Renaissance, and a member of the Assassin Order. She is Ezio's sister. In 1476, Claudia becomes the financial accountant of the town of Monteriggioni, which is under the leadership of her uncle, Mario Auditore. The town flourishes with Claudia's organization and the money made from Monteriggioni's shops and organizations. In January 1500, Monteriggioni is besieged and largely destroyed by the Borgia army commanded by Cesare Borgia, which leave the Auditores homeless. Going against Ezio's desire for them to return to their hometown of Florence, Claudia and Maria follow Ezio to Rome, where the former becomes the madame of the Rosa in Fiore, the city's most popular brothel. After proving herself to be a worthy fighter to her brother, Ezio inducts Claudia into the Order of Assassins. The following year, Claudia is captured by Borgia die-hards, and is subsequently saved by Ezio and Niccolò Machiavelli. During this time, she steps down as the madame, and stays in Florence with her friend Paola to recover until 1507. Claudia is given temporary control of the Italian Assassins in 1510 when her brother leaves on a journey to the Middle East to find Altaïr's library, which is said to be in Masyaf. She holds the position until her brother returnes in late 1512, after which Ezio resigns from the Order and assigns a successor.

Maria Auditore[]

Maria Auditore (1432–1504) is a writer and noble. She was born into the Mozzi, a powerful banking family. She is one of the most famous historical sources of the time period due to her multi-volume diary, which has been translated by several notable scholars and is on display in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. With funding from her parents, she opened up a bakery in the courtyard of her family palazzo, which she transformed into an artistic gathering place. In 1448, she meets Giovanni Auditore, and marries him in 1450.^[24]

Petruccio Auditore[]

Petruccio Auditore (1463 – 29 December 1476) is a student and noble, youngest of the Auditore family. In 1475 he is pulled from school due to illness and confined to a bed. It is probable that he eventually succumbed to the illness.^[25]

Annetta[]

Annetta (1457–1511) is the Auditore family's live-in servant.^[26]

Lorenzo de' Medici[]

Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as il Magnifico (the Magnificent) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets. His life coincided with the high point of the early Italian Renaissance; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. The fragile peace he helped maintain between the various Italian states collapsed with his death. Lorenzo de' Medici is buried next to his brother Giuliano in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

In the game, Lorenzo is secretly an ally of the Assassins, particularly the House of Auditore. Lorenzo works closely with Giovanni against the corrupt Borgia. After Giovanni's death, Lorenzo is saved by Ezio during the Pazzi conspiracy, which starts a long-term relationship between them, with Ezio carrying out several assassination contracts in cities for him.

Mario Auditore[]

Mario Auditore (19 March 1434 – 2 January 1500) is a condottiero and nobleman who stays at Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni and patrols the Tuscan countryside. In 1440 he starts his military career when he fights in the Battle of Anghiari: on an expedition to Monterchi with his father, he alerts Micheletto Attendolo to the surprise advance of Milanese troops. The attack is foiled and the Florentines win the battle. He then defends Monteriggioni's interests by derailing Florentine attempts to seize Tuscan territory.^[27]

After Giovanni's death, he brings his children to the Villa and teaches Ezio about the conflict between Assassins and Templars.^[28]

Paola[]

Paola (1438–after 1512) is the madame of La Rosa Colta. In 1446 she was orphaned when her parents were killed at sea, so she began her life of prostitution on the streets until 1454. In 1458 she is arrested for murdering a city guard, and Giovanni represented her in court, winning the case on a self-defence plea. She is released from prison and starts her own brothel to protect other unfortunate women of the street.^[29]

Uberto Alberti[]

A friend to the Auditore family,^[30] he is a self taught lawyer who arrests Giovanni, Federico, and Petruccio Auditore, and sentences them and Ezio to death.^[31] After the arrest, Ezio is sent by his father to find documents to give to Uberto to prove his innocence,^[32][33][34] but he betrays them.^[35] He is assassinated by Ezio Auditore at Santa Croce, Florence,^[35] in 1476.^[36] After his assassination, Ezio escapes with Maria and Claudia to Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni,^[37][38] which is owned by his uncle Mario.^[39]

Uberto is played by Michel Perron in Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009).^[40] His death is considered one of the most satisfying deaths in videogames.^[41]

Shaun Hastings[]

Shaun Hastings (voiced by and modelled on Danny Wallace)^[42] (b. 1985) is a cynical, condescending, and pessimistic member of the Assassin's team, specializing in research and information handling. Through conversations in Assassin's Creed II, Desmond learns that Shaun was interested in conspiracies from an early age, and developed a love of history. Although he is unaware of the existence of modern-day Templars and Assassins, Shaun realizes that there is some power struggle going on. Shaun attempts to tell others about his findings, not realizing that the Templars would try to silence him. Rebecca Crane "rescues" Shaun and recruits him into the Order. This is mentioned as being unconventional, as most Assassins are born into the Order, not recruited. In 2013, Shaun infiltrates Abstergo by working as a coffee vendor at their Entertainment subsidiary in Montreal to find out what happened to Desmond's body. A year later, Shaun (under the alias "Deacon") and Bishop enlist the help of a Helix player to locate the remains of a Sage during the French Revolution.

Rebecca Crane[]

Rebecca Crane (voiced by and modelled on Eliza Schneider)^[43] (b. 1984) is a member of the Assassin Brotherhood and the creator of the Animus 2.0, which she affectionately refers to as "Baby". She was a member of Lucy Stillman's team, which concentrated on acquiring an Apple of Eden before Abstergo Industries, and trained Desmond Miles through the use of the Bleeding Effect. She provides technical support for the other members of the Assassin Order alongside her fellow Assassin, Shaun. After Desmond's death, Rebecca works with Shaun to infiltrate Abstergo Entertainment as a courier. In 2015, Rebecca and Shaun head to London with fellow Assassin Galina Voronina to locate and extract the Shroud of Eden. Their efforts fail, and Rebecca is wounded when she takes a shot meant for Shaun. The trio manages to escape after Galina dispatches most of the Abstergo agents surrounding them.

Caterina Sforza[]

Caterina Sforza (1463–1509) was the Countess of Forlì and Imola, and the daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the Duke of Milan. She was engaged to Pope Sixtus IV's nephew, Girolamo Riario, at only 10 years of age, and consummated the marriage at 14.

As the countess of Forlì, she becomes a strong ally of the Assassin Order, meeting Ezio after her husband Girolamo traps her on a small island in Romagna. Eight years later, Caterina has the Orsi brothers kill her husband after finding out that he was working for the Templars and being a poor husband. Caterina offers to keep the Apple of Eden safe in Forlì, but she, Ezio, and Niccolò find the city taken by the Orsi brothers, who were hired by the Templars. Retaking the city, Ezio saves Caterina's children from the Orsi and kills them, though the Apple is taken from him by a mysterious monk. Caterina travels to the Italian Assassins' headquarters in Monteriggioni, requesting help against Cesare Borgia's army. Monteriggioni is besieged by Cesare the next day, causing the town to be destroyed and Caterina to be captured. The next year, Caterina is transported to the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome to be jailed. Ezio infiltrates the Castel to kill Cesare and Rodrigo Borgia, and frees Caterina with a key taken from Lucrezia Borgia after learning the two are absent. A few weeks later, Caterina returns to Florence to await the restoration of her lands.

Leonardo da Vinci[]

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (voiced by Carlos Ferro) (1452–1519), better known as Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath.

His lifelong friendship with Ezio begins when Maria has Ezio help Leonardo move some paintings from his new workshop. Leonardo comments that his current work lacks purpose, but Maria is confident that he will go on to do great things. After Ezio's father and brothers are murdered by Rodrigo Borgia's men, Ezio brings two objects from his father's study to Leonardo: a broken hidden blade and a page from the Codex written by Altaïr. Leonardo repairs the blade and deciphers the codex, fascinated by the technological secrets it alludes to. As Ezio continues his Assassin training, Leonardo makes several upgrades to Ezio's weapons and armor, including a poison blade, a gun, and a poison dart launcher. Some time after Ezio foils the Pazzi conspiracy, Leonardo receives a commission from a Venetian noble, prompting him to set up a new workshop in Venice. As Ezio had his own business in the city, he accompanies him. Leonardo develops an interest in flight, and invents an experimental flying machine, which Ezio uses on one of his missions. After seeing the Apple of Eden, Leonardo marvels at the futuristic visions it shows him. He then develops an interest in Pythagoras's findings, and is able to create a map leading to a temple built by his followers. Leonardo is blackmailed by Cesare into designing Templar war machines, but secretly continues to support Ezio until he is kidnapped by a third party, the Cult of Hermes, who want him to lead them to the Temple of Pythagoras. He is rescued by Ezio and explores the temple, fascinated by the numeric codes found within. Although Leonardo does not appear in Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the novelization describes him dying peacefully at his home in Amboise, with his friends (including Ezio, who is retired from the Assassins) at his side. In Assassin's Creed III, the Darvenport Homestead's residential carpenter obtain some of Leonardo's blueprints and, at Connor's request, builds a prototype replica of the original flying machine.

Alvise da Vilandino[]

Alvise da Vilandino (1441–1550s) is a Venetian baggage handler who enlists in the navy. In 1500 he is tasked with defending the fortress of Modon from the Turks. After a heavy night of drinking, he wakes to Turkish cannon fire bombarding the town. Panicking while running across the deck, he trips, hits his head, and drowns. He is accused of negligence by the ship's captain and erased from the logs of the navy.^[44]

Antonio de Magianis[]

Antonio de Magianis (born 1443) is the leader of the Gilda dei Ladri di Venezia. He was born at the very bottom of Venetian society, son of a cobbler, while his mother was a live-in maid for the Bellini family. He teaches himself to read and write between the apprenticeship sessions with his father, then applies to the University of Padua. He is denied due to his low social rank, and is denied by other schools in Italy. In 1469 he robs a noble Venetian estate owned by the rector of the University of Padua. He is incarcerated, but mysteriously escapes from prison.^[45]

Rosa[]

Rosa (born 1460) is a thief. As a child of an unknown Venetian nobleman and a prostitute, she grew up on her own in the streets of Venice. In 1475 she attempts to pickpocket the leader of the Venetian Thieves Guild, Antonio, and is caught, but he takes her on as a pupil.^[46]

Teodora Contanto[]

Teodora Contanto (b. 1450 – after 1516) is the madame of La Rosa della Virtù. Her parents owned a jewellery store, and she was apprenticed to her mother as a shop girl. On 26 November 1467 she engaged in adultery with a married man, and his wife alerted the Venetian courts, so her parents sent her to a nunnery to live the rest of her life in prayer and silence. In 1467 she entered Santa Maria degli Angeli, determined to do penance for her crime, but in 1473 she deserted the Church and abandoned her family name. That same year she opens La Rosa della Virtù, frequented by Pietro Bembo.^[47]

Alexander VI[]

Pope Alexander VI (voiced by Manuel Tadros) appears in Assassin's Creed: Lineage, Assassin's Creed II, and Assassin's Creed: Renaissance. Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (Italianized name) (January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503), born Roderic Llançol, later Roderic de Borja i Borja, was the leader of the Knights Templar during the Renaissance in Italy. He appears as a minor character in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which takes place in 1503, the last year of his papacy. He is killed by Cesare, who is poisoned by Rodrigo only seconds before.

Niccolò Machiavelli[]

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (voiced by Shawn Baichoo) (1469–1527) or simply Niccolò Machiavelli, is a supporting character in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. He is an Italian philosopher, writer, and member of the Assassin Order. With the Assassin Order, Niccolò primarily works with Ezio, and helps him with driving the Orsi brothers from Forlì and removing the monk Girolamo Savonarola from power in Florence to obtain the Apple of Eden from him. Two years later, Machiavelli becomes the leader of the Italian Assassins. Once again joined by Ezio, they fight against the corrupt Borgia family.

Girolamo Savonarola[]

Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) was a Dominican friar and the leader of Florence from 1494 to 1498.

In 1488, Girolamo manages to obtain an Apple of Eden. Recognizing its powers, he uses it to instigate the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence; hoping to cleanse the city of everything he regarded as evil, such as art and wealth.

Orsi Brothers[]

Checco (1458–7 July 1488) and Ludovico Orsi (1455–7 July 1488) start a successful money lending business, as they kill anyone who does not pay them back. Caterina hires them to murder Girolamo Riario. Rodrigo Borgia offers to pay them for the recapture of the Piece of Eden and Caterina's head, and they also kidnap her children.^[48]

Characters of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Revelations[]

Angelina Ceresa[]

Angelina Ceresa (died 2 January 1500) is an acquaintance of Claudia Auditore, who lived in Monteriggioni. On 1 January 1500 she and Ezio help prepare Claudia's birthday party in the Villa Auditore.^[49] The following day, Cesare's forces besiege Monteriggioni, She is killed and her head stuck upon the pike of a Borgia soldier's halberd.^[50]

Margherita dei Campi[]

Margherita dei Campi is a countess of Rome.^[51] She tends to Ezio's injuries after Niccolò takes him to Margherita's house in the northern Campagna District.^[52]

Jacopo de Grassi[]

Jacopo de Grassi is a high ranking Borgia guard in Rome and captain of one of the five Borgia towers that rule over the Centro District. In January 1500 he is killed by Ezio by throwing him into a scaffolding.^[53]

Followers of Romulus[]

The Followers of Romulus (Latin: Secta Luporum) are a pagan cult operating in several abandoned locations underneath Rome. They worship Romulus and believe he is part wolf and part man.^[54] The leaders of the cult are hired by the Borgia to influence the Followers into doing their bidding, which often ended in "sermons" and evocations of their god. They are mainly used to cause fear amongst civilians before being instructed to focus on the Assassins.^[55]

Fabio Orsini[]

Fabio Orsini (1476 – 29 December 1504) is a condottiero from the Orsini family. In 1494 he enters Montepulciano to help the Sienese. In 1498 he partners with Bartolomeo d'Alviano against the Savelli family, and seems to help his new in-laws when he marries Jeronima Borgia, Lucrezia's cousin, but in 1499, while Cesare was in Romagna, he frees a friend imprisoned in the Tor di Nona, and his father Paolo was killed by Cesare. He attacks Micheletto's army and loses, becoming an outlaw raiding the countryside and put on a list of bandits published by the Pope. He dies from a head wound after the battle of Garigliano in 1504.^[56]

Il Carnefice[]

Il Carnefice (1473 – January 1500) is an executioner allied to the Borgia. He considers himself as a twisted artist.^[57]

Juan Borgia The Elder[]

Juan Borgia The Elder (1446 – 1503) is one of Cesare's three generals who rule over Rome during the reign of Pope Alexander VI. He is the first Cardinal-nephew appointed by Alexander, and a member of the Roman Rite of the Templar Order. Often referred to as "the Banker", he handles Cesare's military funds and helps the Borgia's campaigns to subdue Italy for the Templars. He is killed by Ezio on his conclusion that in order for the Borgia empire to be brought down, the Assassin Order would cut off Cesare's funds, requiring "the Banker" to be located and killed. He is killed at a public party.

Malfatto[]

Malfatto (died 1502) is a masked doctor who preys on people living in Rome's poor district. In 1502 he is seen lurking outside the Rosa in Fiore.^[58]

Ercole Massimo[]

Ercole Massimo (1474–1506) is a Roman nobleman and member of the Massimo family, one of Rome's wealthiest and most ancient families. He is also the leader of the Cult of Hermes until his death. He appears in the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood: The Da Vinci Disappearance DLC, where after losing all five of the paintings, Ercole returns to the catacombs under Rome to interrogate Leonardo. Ezio kills him after Ercole suggests a civil solution and attempts to convince Ezio to join him.

Octavian de Valois[]

Octavian de Valois (1448 – August 1503) is a French general and Baron of Valois. In 1498 he is sent to the front of the ranks in Louis XII's Italian campaign after his cousin is crowned. In 1500 he marches into Rome with his men and is attacked by Bartolomeo d'Alviano.^[59]

Gaspar de la Croix[]

Gaspar de la Croix (1466 – August 1503) is a master weapons engineer and an expert marksman. Cesare makes use of his skill with a firearm to take down targets.^[60]

Lanz[]

Lanz (1480 – August 1503) is a Roman thief connected to a variety of domestic disturbances. He runs with the Cento Occhi gang.^[61]

Cesare Borgia[]

Cesare Borgia (voiced by Andreas Apergis) appears in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507) is the son of Rodrigo Borgia. After leading the army to many victories throughout Italy, Cesare becomes sadistic and develops a lust for conquest, planning to unify all of Italy and conquer all of Spain. Near the end of his life, he is imprisoned before escaping and raising an army for a last stand, before being thrown off a wall by Ezio to his death.

Lucrezia Borgia[]

Lucrezia Borgia (voiced by Liane Balaban) (April 18, 1480 – June 24, 1519) appears in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. She is the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia and the sister of Cesare Borgia. She is first seen in a portrait in Assassin's Creed II as a little girl with brown hair. She appears in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood as a woman, her hair now blonde. Lucrezia is shown to have incestuous affairs with both her father and her brother, the latter of whom tells her that she will be his queen. She secures political advantages for her family by marrying powerful nobles and then having them disgraced or killed soon thereafter. She grows tired of Cesare's womanizing ways and plans to leave the Vatican, but she still warns him of the poisoned apple he receives from Rodrigo. In turn, Cesare beats her until she reveals the Piece of Eden's location. Disillusioned by his actions, she helps Ezio find the Piece of Eden and left the Vatican behind. Her in-game portrait reveals that she and her husband flee Rome and relocate to Ferrara, where she encounters Ezio again in 1506 while he is looking for the first da Vinci painting, Annunciation.

Egidio Troche[]

Egidio Troche (b. 1436) is a Roman Senator during the Renaissance in Italy. His younger brother Francesco is a close confidant of Cesare, whom he dislikes. Egidio is rescued by Ezio from the debt with The Banker in return for some main Assassin targets within Rome.

Michelotto Corella[]

Michelotto Corella (c.1470–1506) is a Valencian condottiero, executioner, and a member of the Roman Rite of the Templar Order, as well as Cesare's personal bodyguard and assassin. In 1503, Ezio nearly assassinates him at the Colosseum in Rome during a play to rescue Pietro Rossi (Lucrezia's lover) and to gain information on Cesare's plans on attacking Romagna, though Ezio spares him. He was ultimately killed by Cesare in 1506.

La Volpe[]

Gilberto, known mainly as La Volpe (English: The Fox), is the leader of the Florentine and Roman thieves' guilds, and a member of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. Very little information is known about him. In 1478, La Volpe assists Ezio in locating an important Templar meeting, which results in Ezio preventing the Pazzi Conspiracy. Ten years later, La Volpe is in Venice, where the Assassins reclaim an Apple of Eden from Rodrigo. After the fall of Monteriggioni, La Volpe moves to Rome, where he fights the Borgia influence in the city. However, he refused to work with the Assassins because of his suspicions towards Niccolò. After Ezio helps save some of his thieves and provides evidence of the real traitor, La Volpe agrees to assist the Assassins again.

Clay Kaczmarek (Subject 16)[]

Clay Kaczmarek (voiced by Cam Clarke in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and by Graham Cuthbertson in Assassin's Creed: Revelations) (1982–2012) also known as Subject 16 of the Animus Project, is a member of the Assassin Brotherhood during the early 21st century. Born into a family of engineers, Clay faces psychological problems due to developmental disorders and his father's neglectful attitude, and runs into the Assassins while looking for acceptance. As a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, Clay's most important mission is to infiltrate Abstergo Industries as a subject of the Animus Project to obtain more information on the Animus. Labeled Subject 16, Clay is forced to relive the memories of his ancestors via his genetic memory. When Clay finds out that his teammate, Lucy Stillman—who infiltrated Abstergo years before and was tasked with getting Clay out of Abstergo safely—had abandoned their cause to join their enemies, the Templars, Clay spends days and hours of sessions inside the Animus. Since it leaves his mind incapable of separating his own personality from those of his ancestors', Clay becomes mentally unstable to the point that he commits suicide. After his alleged suicide, Clay continues to exist as an AI recreation of his personality within the Animus, and is able to manipulate much of the Animus' programming from within to help Desmond.

Sofia Sartor[]

Sofia Sartor (voiced by Anna Tuveri) (1476 – unknown) is a Venetian-Ottoman bookshop owner and a literary enthusiast. Although she was born in Constantinople, she was forced to leave for Venice when the Ottoman-Venetian war began in 1499. Sofia returned to her birthplace in 1507 to run a bookstore at the old Polo trading post. In 1511, she meets Ezio and marries him, bearing children.

Tarik Barleti[]

Tarik Barleti (voiced by JB Blanc) (1470–1511) is the captain of the Janissaries, the personal guard of the Ottoman Empire.^[62] Ezio believes Tarik to be a Templar because of his behavior and his sale of weapons to Manuel Palaiologos, a known Templar. Ezio acts on his theory and strikes Tarik down. In his final moments, Tarik reveals that he planned to attack Manuel's Byzantine Templars in Cappadocia. He makes a final request to Ezio to stop the Templars, which Ezio honors. Tarik is one of the few assassination targets that is unaffiliated with the Templars or Assassins.

Vali cel Tradat[]

Vali cel Tradat (d. 1511) is a Timoc noble, former Assassin and member of the Templar Order.^[63] Vali leaves the Assassins after they form a truce with the Ottomans, who had humiliated his people, conquered Podunavia, and murdered his secret idol Vlad Țepeș. Feeling betrayed, he joins the Templars for vengeance against the Assassins and Ottomans.

Yusuf Tazim[]

Yusuf Tazim (voiced by Chris Parson) is a character in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. He is an easygoing Master Assassin, and leader of the Ottoman Assassin Brotherhood, rising to the post sometime before 1511 AD, when he meets Ezio. He introduces Ezio to Constantinople and the Ottoman hookblade. Yusuf often talks with humor, poking fun at Ezio or at Italians in general. He is an expert at crafting bombs and at combat. When Ezio returns from Cappadocia, he finds Sofia's shop in ruins and Yusuf murdered by Ahmet, a note knifed to his back. The message on the note is never revealed. Tazim is voiced by Chris Parson in Revelations, and is portrayed by Matias Varela in the 2016 Assassin's Creed film.

Manuel Palaiologos[]

Manuel Palaiologos (voiced by Vlasta Vrána) (1454–1512) is the heir to the lost Byzantine Empire throne and nephew to Constantine XI. Manuel is a major Templar Leader and appears in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. He conspires to take back Constantinople with the help of Ahmet, heir to Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire. He is assassinated by Ezio in the Byzantine-controlled city of Cappadocia.

Piri Reis[]

Piri Reis (c. 1467 – c. 1554), born Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, was a famed admiral and cartographer. He is a member of the Assassin Order and serves the Assassins as a technician and intelligence gatherer, primarily providing them with materials and methods for crafting bombs. He is a trusted friend of the Turkish Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim, and also befriends Ezio.

Ahmet[]

Şehzade Ahmet (voiced by Tamer Hassan) appears in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Ahmet (1465–1512) was the eldest living son of Bayezid II and brother to Selim I. He sets up the unsuccessful ambush and capture of Prince Suleiman by Byzantine Templars, intending to have him rescued to make Ahmet appear to be a brave hero. His plans fail, but while Ezio is away in Cappadocia, Ahmet takes Sofia hostage and demands that Ezio exchange the Masyaf key for her. After the exchange, Ahmet flees the city and Ezio follows him with Sofia. After Ezio catches up with him, Ahmet's brother Selim arrives. Selim proclaims his authority as the new Sultan and kills his own brother by strangling him and then tossing him off a cliff.

Suleiman[]

Suleiman I (1494–1566) was the tenth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death. He was the son of Selim I. Suleiman becomes embroiled in the struggle between the Templars and Assassins during 1511. After a failed kidnap attempt by Byzantine Templars working for Manuel, Suleiman befriends Ezio, who encourages Suleiman's progressive attitude for peace in the Ottoman Empire.

Niccolò and Maffeo Polo[]

Niccolò and Maffeo Polo were the famous traveling merchants and explorers who were father and uncle to Marco Polo respectively. They have a minor appearance in the first game, but are seen chiefly in Assassin's Creed: Revelations when Ezio searches for their Constantinople trading post and relives the memories (1257) of La'Ahad embedded in the Masyaf keys.

Characters of Assassin's Creed: Embers[]

Flavia Auditore[]

Flavia Auditore (voiced by Angela Galuppo) is a character in the short-film Assassin's Creed: Embers. She is Ezio's daughter, and the next ancestor to Desmond Miles through that bloodline.^[64] She is with her mother in Florence when Ezio dies of a heart attack.

Marcello Auditore[]

Marcello Auditore (October 1514 – unknown) is Ezio and Sofia's son.

Characters of Assassin's Creed III[]

Haytham Kenway[]

Haytham E. Kenway (1725–1781) is a British Templar and the first Grand Master of the Templar Order's Colonial Rite, reigning from 1754 until his death. He is Edward Kenway's son, Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's father, and an ancestor to Desmond Miles, all of whom are members of the Assassin Order. He is the playable character in the first three sequences of Assassin's Creed III, and an antagonist in the second half of the story. He is also a key character in Assassin's Creed Rogue.^[65]

Haytham is sent to the American colonies by Grand Master Reginald Birch in 1754 to establish his own Templar group to rival the colonial Assassins and to search for clues about artifacts related to the First Civilization. He does not find them, but he recruits a small, dedicated band of Templars. He attempts to forge a relationship with the Kanien'kehá:ka in the frontier and with Kaniehtí:io, his brief lover. They raise their son, Connor.^[66]

He is assassinated by his son in 1781 while trying to save his Templar friend Charles Lee. He is voiced by actor Adrian Hough.^[67]

Ratonhnhaké:ton []

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton^[68] (alias: Connor; 1756 – unknown) is an Anglo-Kanienʼkehá꞉ka Assassin who struggles to protect the Haudenosaunee as he fights alongside the Patriots during the American Revolutionary War. He develops and maintains a strong working relationship with George Washington, which falls apart when he Washington is responsible for his mother's death. He is an ancestor of Desmond Miles through the paternal line. He appears as the protagonist in the second half of Assassin's Creed III, and as a supporting character in Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. He is voiced by Noah Watts.

Io꞉nhiòte[]

Io꞉nhiòte is Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's daughter. She is the youngest of his three children, and possesses the rare ability of Eagle Vision.^[69]

Daniel Cross[]

Daniel Cross (1974–2012) is a member of the Templar Order and a sleeper agent tasked to infiltrate the Assassin Brotherhood to assassinate its Mentor. He is the grandson of Innokenti Orelov and the great-grandson of Nikolai Orelov, a prominent member of the Russian Assassin Brotherhood. Daniel is responsible for the Great Purge of 2000, which almost kills the entire Assassin Brotherhood. Daniel is killed by Desmond Miles in Assassin's Creed III. He is voiced by Danny Blanco-Hall.

William Miles[]

William Miles (voiced by and modelled on John de Lancie) (b. 1948) is Desmond's father and de facto leader of the entire Assassin Order during the games' events, having risen to the position following the death of the Mentor in 2000. He raises Desmond in the ways of the Assassins, teaching him about the order and what they fight for. William's first appearance is in Revelations, where he talks with Rebecca and Shaun when Desmond is in the Animus Black room, explaining Desmond's importance to the Assassins on his ability to wield the Apple properly. He questions Rebecca and Shaun if Desmond and Lucy are close, and he feels sad about Lucy's death. He is the first person to greet Desmond after recovering from his coma. In Assassin's Creed III, William and his team arrive at the Grand Temple. He is captured by Abstergo agents in Egypt while attempting to retrieve a power cell needed to activate the Vault within the Grand Temple and is taken to their facility in Italy. Desmond infiltrates the facility, rescues William, and retrieves the power cell.

Achilles Davenport[]

Achilles Davenport: (voiced by Roger Aaron Brown) (1710–1781) is a Master Assassin and a Mentor for a span of time during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He appears in Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed: Rogue. Achilles, born in the Caribbean, is the last recruit of Mayan Grand Master Ah Tabai in the mid-1730s. He is the Mentor of the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins from 1746 until 1763. Achilles's tenure as leader of the Colonial Assassins strengthens the Brotherhood until 1763, when the Brotherhood collapses and disbands as a result of his mismanagement that very nearly destroyed the world. In Rogue, Haytham Kenway shoots Achilles in the leg as punishment for endangering innocents after his former student Shay Cormac convinces the latter to spare his life. Living in exile in his manor, Achilles abandons the Assassin ideology until he meets Ratonhnhaké꞉ton, whom he trains at the boy's behest. Achilles spends his final years guiding Ratonhnhaké꞉ton. In 1781 Achilles dies quietly in his sleep. When Ratonhnhaké꞉ton discovers his body, he also finds a note addressed to him in Achilles' handwriting: Achilles apologizes for never being able to say goodbye to Connor properly, and thanks him, expressing pride and gratitude in Connor for the community he has raised at the Homestead.

Kanenʼtó꞉kon[]

Kanenʼtó꞉kon (voiced by Akwiratékha Martin) (1756–1778) is a member of the Kanien'kehá:ka nation of the Mohawk Valley (where the Kanien'kehá:ka were also members of the Iroquois Confederacy) and a close childhood friend of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton. Although he initially advocates for the Kanien'kehá:ka to remain neutral in the American Revolutionary War, he and several other of his village's warriors believe that they can protect their people by siding with the British. He is manipulated by Charles Lee into believing that Ratonhnhaké꞉ton had joined George Washington in a campaign against the Mohawk people, prompting him to attack his former friend when he tries to intervene in a Mohawk ambush on colonial soldiers. Pinned to the ground and vulnerable to a lethal blow, Ratonhnhaké꞉ton is forced to stab Kanenʼtó꞉kon in the neck with his Hidden Blade, killing him.

Kaniehtí꞉io[]

Kaniehtí꞉io, or shortened to Ziio (informally) (voiced by Kaniehtiio Horn) (1731–1760), is a Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) clan woman, warrior, mother to Ratonhnhaké꞉ton, and an ancestor to Desmond Miles. Unlike her fellow villagers, who prefer to stay neutral to protect their sacred sanctuary, she fights settlers encroaching on her people's lands. She becomes allies with Haytham, who seeks access to the sanctuary. The two share a brief relationship, which results in Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's birth. When he is four, she dies in an attack on the village ordered by George Washington; Ratonhnhaké꞉ton grows up believing Haytham's subordinate Charles Lee is responsible, which sets him on the path to join the Assassins.

Oiá꞉ner[]

Oiá꞉ner is the Clan Mother of the Kanien'kehá:ka village of Kanatahséton.^[70] She and the other Kanien'kehá:ka in the village serve as protectors of the sacred ground on which both their village and the Grand Temple stood. Oiá꞉ner is also the keeper of the tribe's "Crystal Ball" (Piece of Eden). In 1769, Oiá꞉ner shows their Crystal Ball to Ratonhnhaké꞉ton when he returns from a hunt and allows him to interact with it. The Crystal Ball forces him into the Nexus, where he communicates with Juno and learns of his destiny with the Assassins. Many years later, she meets an adult Ratonhnhaké꞉ton and tells him of the whereabouts of Kanenʼtó꞉kon and other Kanien'kehá:ka men, who are attempting to attack the Continental soldiers. Sometime after Kanenʼtó꞉kon's death, Oiá꞉ner speaks with Ratonhnaké:ton, and reveals that she plans to move their people west to avoid the American Revolutionary War, like many of the other nations. After his unpleasant reaction, she tells him that she would do what was best for her people, and Ratonhnaké:ton leaves the village. On his return some years later, he finds the village deserted except for an old vagabond, who tells him that his people have already gone.

Reginald Birch[]

Reginald Birch (voiced by Gideon Emery) (1705–1757) is the Grand Master of the British Rite of the Templar Order and a successful English businessman. Reginald meets Haytham, the son of Birch's employer—Edward Kenway—at a young age. He recruites Haytham into the Templars after Edward dies, personally involving himself with the boy's training. In 1754, after Haytham retrieves the key to the undisclosed Grand Temple, Reginald secures passage to Boston for Haytham to find the First Civilization storehouse and establish a permanent Templar presence in British America. When Haytham discovers Reginald's involvement in the kidnapping of his half-sister, Jennifer Scott, and the murder of his father, he storms Reginald's chateau with Jim Logan and Jennifer. Afterwards, Birch is killed by Jennifer with a sword that Haytham had embedded into Birch's bedroom door.

Samuel Smythe[]

Samuel Smythe captains the Providence during Haytham's journey across the Atlantic Ocean.^[71]

Robert Faulkner[]

Robert Faulkner (voiced by Kevin McNally) (b. 1715) is an elderly sailor and Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's first mate aboard the Aquila. Although he is the fourth generation in his family to become a sailor, he is the first to be recruited into the Assassin Order.^[72] He starts off in the Royal Navy, but after finding that his career is stalling (partly due to his inability to purchase commissions), he goes to work for the United Company of Merchants.^[72]

In 1753, Faulkner disappears from the historical record, presumed dead—because he joined the Assassins as first mate of the flagship, the Aquila.^[72]

Faulkner is sought after as a mariner.^[72] He has a reputation for having a disciplined crew, avoiding trouble, and predicting the weather accurately.^[72]

Faulkner serves on the Aquila until it is nearly destroyed in 1768, always deferring when asked to become the captain—he never gives his reasons why.^[72]

Silas Thatcher[]

Silas Thatcher (1720–1754) is a high-ranking officer of the colonial militia and a prolific slave trader.^[73] He is responsible for the ransacking of Benjamin Church's house, and his subsequent interrogation alongside a man called "Cutter". However, shortly after he leaves, Haytham and Charles free their associate.^[74] Later, while posted at Southgate Fort in Boston, Silas receives deliveries of prisoners from Mohawk people, including Kaniehtí:io.^[75] In 1754, a convoy full of Mohawk tribespeople is commandeered by Haytham and his men as a means to enter the fortification. Shortly after discovering the ruse, Silas orders his men to fire on the Templars, but is cornered by Haytham and executed by Church as payback.

Kahionhaténion[]

Kahionhaténion is a Kanien'kehá:ka, born and raised in the village of Kanatahséton, as a warrior and a hunter during the American Revolutionary War. He is Teiowí:sonte's brother. Kahionhaténion defends Kanatahséton from an attack by Washington's troops; after the attack, Kahionhaténion and Teiowí:sonte recover Ratonhnhaké꞉ton from the village with the powers granted to them by the Red Willow. When Teiowí:sonte is captured by the Bluecoats while trying to free enslaved people from the frontier, Kahionhaténion asks Ratonhnhaké꞉ton to help him find and save his brother. He and his brother are killed in battle when Bluecoats follow Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's tracks back to the cave that the clan were hiding in.

Teiowí:sonte[]

Teiowí:sonte (voiced by Andreas Apergis) is a Kanien'kehá:ka warrior during the American Revolutionary War. He is the brother of Kahionhaténion. Teiowí:sonte is born and raised in the village of Kanatahséton as a warrior and a hunter.

Benjamin Franklin[]

Benjamin Franklin (voiced by Jim Ward) (17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790) was a Freemason, a noted polymath, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Benjamin wandered around Boston near his store, and was surprised to find Haytham Kenway offer a lending hand, as those living in Boston usually refused to be of any help, and correctly assumed that Kenway was new to Boston. Franklin then charged Kenway with the task of finding stolen pages of his Almanac. Haytham interacted with Franklin, where he proposed his idea of having an older woman as a lover would benefit lives, much to Haytham's amusement. In The Tyranny of King Washington, after gaining control over the area, King Washington put Franklin in charge of running Boston. While under Washington's control, Franklin was still hesitant of the King's decisions, claiming one such order to behead random civilians to be "rather harsh." After being freed from Washington's control by Ratonhnhaké꞉ton, Franklin sought to help the rebellion take down King Washington.

Charles Lee[]

Charles Lee (voiced by Neil Napier) (1732–1782) appears in Assassin's Creed III. He is a British-born soldier, and later, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War who allies himself with the Templar Order and its Grand Master, Haytham. It is implied that Lee sets fire to Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's village, killing his mother in the process where the then young Ratonhnhaké꞉ton' vowed to kill him. Many years later, during a meeting with George Washington, they meet again but fail to recognize him until he gets falsely arrested for counterfeiting along with a Templar called Thomas Hickey. Sarcastically congratulating him for tracking him down, he frames him^{[clarification needed]} for a Templar plot to kill George Washington, which is foiled when Washington is saved by Ratonhnhaké꞉ton'. He resides in Fort George for his "own protection" some years later, and is ordered to leave for Boston by Haytham shortly before the latter's death. Succeeding him as the next Grand Master, he vows to make his tormentor suffer, only to be chased by him into a half constructed ferry that is set alight, and is saved at the last minute when part of the ship collapses on the Assassin, wounding him in the hip. Using the opportunity to ask him why he continues to "fight after all his allies have abandoned him", he is told "because no one else will" before being shot in the side by him. He is tracked down by his pursuer to a tavern in Monmouth County, where they both share a bottle of whiskey before being fatally stabbed in the chest by the Assassin. The medallion (the key meant for Desmond) is taken from his body and, shortly afterwards, is buried in the grave of Connor Davenport, Achilles' son and the namesake of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton.

George Washington[]

George Washington (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes in Assassin's Creed III and by Tod Fennell in Assassin's Creed Rogue) (1732–1799) was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and served as the first President of the United States from 30 April 1789 to 4 March 1797.

During the war, he orders the burning of the neutral village of Kanatahséton. Ratonhnhaké꞉ton subsequently protects Washington from the Templar Charles Lee, who is angered that he had been passed over for the position. Although the Continental Army suffered many losses under Washington's command, Ratonhnhaké꞉ton and his apprentices' help win the army small victories. George falls out with Connor when the latter discovers he is responsible for the attack on his village, Kanatahséton, and signs for a second burning after Charles manipulates Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's people into siding with the Loyalists. However, the Assassins continue to aid Washington when necessary, such as during the investigation of the conspiracy at West Point. After the Continental Army emerges victorious against the British Army in 1781, Washington obtains an Apple of Eden. It gives him a nightmarish vision of what would happen if he were crowned king of the United States with its power in his possession, and he passes the Apple to Ratonhnhaké꞉ton for it to be disposed of.

John Pitcairn[]

John Pitcairn (voiced by Robert Lawrenson) (1722–1775) is a Scottish-born member of the Royal Marine Corps and the Templar Order. He is rescued by Haytham and Charles while he is being harassed by General Braddock. He is assassinated by Ratonhnhaké꞉ton during a battle between the Patriots and "Redcoats".

Marquis de Lafayette[]

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (voiced by Vince Corazza) (1757–1834) often known as Lafayette, is a French aristocrat and military officer born in south central France. During the American Revolutionary War, Lafayette serves as a Major-General in the Continental Army under George Washington. Blocked by British spies who learned of his support for the Patriots, Lafayette disguises himself as a woman to board a ship to America in 1777. He recounts this to Ratonhnhaké꞉ton' while camping in Valley Forge that winter. On June 28, 1778, Lafayette leads a battalion in the battle of Monmouth, when he is given strange orders by Charles Lee to advance into enemy lines without sufficient numbers. Ratonhnhaké꞉ton' deduces Lee is trying to make Washington appear incompetent. In 1781, Lafayette visits the Davenport Homestead to help Ratonhnhaké꞉ton' gather a fleet to breach Fort George in New York. After Ratonhnhaké꞉ton' gains the French Navy's support, Lafayette meets with him and Stephane Chapheau underground and shows them a tunnel into the military district, so Ratonhnhaké꞉ton' can assassinate Charles in the midst of the bombardment. After the war, Lafayette returns to France and takes part in the French Revolution, bringing democracy and radical national reform to France. He goes into exile because he advocates for a constitutional monarchy instead of the empire that had emerged from the chaos in France.

Samuel Adams[]

Samuel Adams (voiced by Mark Lindsay Chapman) (1722–1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, a Sons of Liberty Patriot and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

During the American Revolutionary War, Samuel meets and becomes a trusted associate of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's, after Achilles tells him to find Samuel on his first trip to Boston.

Thomas Jefferson[]

Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826) was one of the American Founding Fathers of the United States, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.

When Ratonhnhaké꞉ton crashes the Aquila into another ship off the shore of New York City, George travels to the docks to investigate the disturbance. Thomas seizes this opportunity to infiltrate Washington's fortress. He is later quickly overwhelmed and requires Ratonhnhaké꞉ton's assistance in order to retreat. Shaun claims Thomas advocated the castration of homosexuals; but he was liberalizing the law in Virginia, which previously punished anyone convicted of sodomy with death.

Edward Braddock[]

Edward Braddock (1695–1755), nicknamed the Bulldog by his soldiers, is a member of the Templar Order and a general in the British Army. He appears in Haytham's story in Assassin's Creed III, and participates in the plot to kill Edward Kenway and act as a friend and a mentor in the Dutch Campaign. During the French and Indian War, Braddock is the commander-in-chief for the thirteen colonies of British America. He had several soldiers under his command, including John Pitcairn and Charles Lee, whom he rarely saw due to their allegiance to the Templar cause. Over the course of the war, Braddock turns away from the Templar ideals and impedes the Order's goals in the colonies, much to the chagrin of the other members. Braddock is confronted by Haytham when the latter attempts to recruit John Pitcairn for the expedition to find a First Civilization storehouse. Braddock is killed by Haytham to gain Kaniehtí꞉io's trust. Haytham takes the Templar ring from Braddock's finger, which is later given to Charles upon the latter's initiation into the Templar Order.

William Johnson[]

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (voiced by Julian Casey) (1715–1774) is an Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire and a member of the Templar Order.

As a member of the Templars, William manages the land and property acquired by the Order's Colonial Rite. During a meeting with several clan leaders, he is assassinated by Ratonhnhaké꞉ton.

Nicholas Biddle[]

Nicholas Biddle (1750–1778) is one of the first five captains of the Continental Navy who later joins the Royal Navy. Due to his secret role as a Templar official and intervention in the Assassin ships' trades and factory prices, he is assassinated by Ratonhnhaké꞉ton in a battle with the HMS Yarmouth offshore Martha's Vineyard and sinks with his ship, the USS Randolph.

Israel Putnam[]

Israel Putnam (1718–1790), popularly known as "Old Put", was an American army general officer who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton helps him in the Bunker Hill battle by fighting John Pitcairn and fending off the naval ship attacks near Boston Harbour.

François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse[]

Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722–1788) was a French Naval career officer who rose to the rank of admiral. He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 in the last year of the American Revolutionary War.

He is assisted by Ratonhnhaké꞉ton and the Aquila at first in the battle who, with the Vengeur du Peuple and Saint-Esprit, brave British forces under Thomas Graves until reinforcements arrive.

Thomas Hickey[]

Thomas Hickey (d. 1776) was an Irish-born soldier in the British Army, serving in the French and Indian War, but later joined the Continental Army. He went to Colonial America in 1752 and was stationed in Boston.

He is assigned as an assistant to William Johnson, and joins the Order himself before being executed for "treachery". He and Haytham are recruits in the Order, looking for the precursor site at Ziio's village.

Miko[]

"Miko" (d. 1754) is the alias of the leader of the British Brotherhood of Assassins alongside Edward Kenway, and the holder of the Grand Temple Key. He is assassinated by Haytham for the key at the Royal Opera House.

Characters of Assassin's Creed III: Liberation[]

Aveline de Grandpré[]

Aveline de Grandpré is a Louisiana Creole Assassin who lives in New Orleans^[76] during the French and Indian War and the Spanish occupation in Louisiana in the middle of the 18th century.^[77][78] She is also involved in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.^[79] She is recruited by the Assassins in 1759^[76] to defend abused slaves, fight for freedom, and eliminate targets in New Orleans.^[79]

Antonio de Ulloa[]

Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) is a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator, and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. As a Templar, he is pursued by the Aveline during the Louisiana Rebellion, but is spared by Grandpré under the promise to go into exile.

Agaté[]

Agaté is a former slave who appears in Assassin's Creed III: Liberation as the leader of the local Brotherhood of Assassins cell in colonial French Louisiana, and primarily operates from his hideout in the Louisiana Bayou. Enslaved from a young age, Agaté comes into contact with revolutionary disruptor François Mackandal, who teaches him the ways of the Assassins. After his Mentor's death in 1758, Agaté travels to Louisiana, a marked man, and hides in the bayou. He subsequently recruits Aveline and Gérald Blanc, whom he trains to be his agents in New Orleans. Although Agaté cares for his students, he is secretive in his dealings with them. Due to Aveline's natural impulsiveness and disinclination to follow orders, Agaté clashes with her frequently and begins to doubt her loyalty to the cause. Over the years, their mutual distrust of each another cause them to grow apart. When Aveline returns to Agaté in 1777 to reveal the identity of the true leader of Louisiana's Templar Order, he attacks her, believing her to have betrayed the Assassins. She wins, causing Agaté, who is overwhelmed with humiliation, to leap to his death from the top of his treehouse.

Baptiste[]

Baptiste is a former Assassin and voodoo leader who poses as the deceased François Mackandal and operates in the Bayou surrounding New Orleans. Secretly working for the "Company Man" with Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer, Baptiste aspires to become a formal member of the Templar Order. He is also a personal enemy of Agaté. Sometime in 1765, "Mackandal" amasses a small following, though he sends a letter to one of his acolytes stating that he is "in want of nothing but more men to join his ranks" of his cult for a "sacred ceremony" on the Eve of Saint John. The letter is intercepted by the Aveline, shortly after she assassinates the troops at one of his bases, a wrecked ship in the marshlands, with the smuggler Élise Lafleur providing her with the information and transport to get there. Aveline and Élise locate Baptiste after she clears the man's second base, and spies on his conversation with de Ferrer, learning of his plans to poison the nobles of New Orleans. Aveline faces Baptiste in a showdown and is victorious.

He is portrayed by Michael K. Williams in the Assassin's Creed film.^[80]

Gérald Blanc[]

Gérald Blanc was an accountant living in New Orleans who is Aveline's confidante. At some point in his life, he is recruited into the Brotherhood of Assassins by Agaté.

Madeleine de L'Isle[]

Madeleine de L'Isle is the wife of Philippe Olivier de Grandpré, Aveline's stepmother who aids her efforts to discreetly liberate the slaves of New Orleans.

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Characters of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag[]

Edward James Kenway[]

Edward Kenway is a Welsh-born privateer-turned-pirate. He is Haytham's father, Ratonhnhaké꞉ton grandfather, and an ancestor of Desmond Miles. He is active in the Caribbean from 1715 to 1722 during the Golden Age of Piracy, and is known for commanding the brig named Jackdaw. Edward formally joins the Brotherhood of Assassins when he retires to London in 1722. He is voiced by actor Matt Ryan.^[81]

Adéwalé[]

Adéwalé is an Assassin of African descent who was born a slave on a sugar plantation in Trinidad and Tobago. He first appears in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag where he and Edward help each other escape from captivity, and aids Edward in stealing a Spanish brig. He serves as Edward Kenway's quartermaster aboard the stolen ship, renamed the Jackdaw, for several years before leaving to join the Assassins. In Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry he aids the Maroon rebellion on Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti), where he meets the future mother of his child. In Assassin's Creed Rogue he is killed by Shay Patrick Cormac. He appears in Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and Assassin's Creed Rogue. He is played by Tristan D. Lalla.

Duncan Walpole[]

Duncan Walpole is a member of the British Brotherhood of Assassins during the early 18th century. Duncan later defects and attempts to join the Templars of the West Indies, but is encountered and killed by Edward Kenway, who appropriates Walpole's costume and equipment, and learns about his dealings with Laureano de Torres y Ayala. Walpole is portrayed by Callum Turner in the 2016 Assassin's Creed film.

Julien du Casse[]

Julien du Casse is a French arms dealer and an experienced privateer and mercenary, and is designed to be the nephew of the real-life French privateer Jean-Baptiste Du Casse. He is a member of the Templar Order in the West Indies, and also serves as Laureano's hitman. He has a discreet hideout on Great Inagua where he carries out his affairs, which later comes into the possession of Edward Kenway after he is killed.

Charles Vane[]

Charles Vane was a British pirate captain.

In Black Flag, Vane is depicted as Edward's friend, and one of the founders of the pirate republic of Nassau. Edward is also marooned on the deserted island of Isla Providencia along with Vane, though the latter is driven mad with desperation and turns on his former friend before being disarmed and abandoned. He is voiced by Ralph Ineson.^[82]

Anne Bonny[]

Anne Bonny was a notorious female Irish pirate who operated in the West Indies. She, along with "Calico" Jack Rackham and Mary Read, raised a small crew to execute a series of swift robberies. However, the entire crew was later arrested by the British authorities a few months later and taken to Kingston for trial, though both her and Read were able to stay their execution by relying on the defense of pleading the belly.

In Black Flag she initially appears a young barmaid at the Old Avery tavern in Nassau. Anne successfully escapes prison with the help of Edward and the Assassin leader Ah Tabai. She becomes an associate of Edward's and joins his crew as quartermaster aboard the Jackdaw, replacing Adéwalé. When Edward leaves for England in October 1722, Anne decides to stay in the West Indies.

Bartholomew Roberts[]

Bartholomew Roberts (1682–1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships in the Caribbean and on the West African coast between 1719 and 1722.

In Black Flag he is depicted as a Sage, a reincarnation of the Isu Aita, who has a nihilistic worldview. He works with Edward to locate the fabled Observatory, an Isu facility designed for surveillance, but betrays him and turns him over to British authorities. He is killed by Kenway off the coast of Principé.

Benjamin Hornigold[]

Benjamin Hornigold (1680s–1719) was an English pirate from 1715 to 1718. In Black Flag, he serves as a mentor to Edward and as one of the founders of the Pirate Republic at Nassau. After Nassau is annexed by British forces, he joins the Templar Order.

Mary Read[]

Mary Read (c. 1685–1721) was a notable English female pirate known for posing as a man throughout her life in order to accomplish her goals. In Black Flag she is depicted as a member of the Assassin Order, trained by Ah Tabai. In order to further her exploits in the male-dominated world of piracy, she adopts the persona of James Kidd, an illegitimate son of William Kidd, a Scottish sailor who is tried by the British parliament and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. As James Kidd, she is recognized as one of the founders of the pirate-dominated Republic of Nassau. She later perishes in prison, her health severely deteriorated after giving birth to a child.

Blackbeard[]

Edward Thatch (1680–1718), better known by his alias Blackbeard, was a pirate captain who sailed the West Indies and the American colonies during the early 18th century, on a ship named the Queen Anne's Revenge. He is the namesake of a Black Flag multiplayer-focused DLC titled Blackbeard's Wrath, and is voiced by Mark Bonnar.

Jack Rackham[]

John "Jack" Rackham (1682–1720), more commonly known as Calico Jack, was a Jamaican-born British pirate who operated in the West Indies during the early 18th century. In Black Flag Rackham serves as quartermaster under Charles Vane, and later rallies enough support from the crew to depose him as captain in November 1718 and setting him and Edward adrift in a damaged sloop. Rackham returns to Nassau to accept the King's pardon, and returns to life as a pirate in August 1720. Together with Anne Bonny and Mary Read, they plunder and pillage the region for a few months before being arrested by the British authorities. Rackham is later tried and executed for piracy in Port Royal on 18 November 1720.

Laureano de Torres y Ayala[]

Laureano José de Torres Ayala a Duadros Castellanos, marqués de Casa Torres (1645–1722), often known as simply Laureano de Torres y Ayala, was the Spanish Governor of Florida from 1693 to 1699, Governor of Cuba on two occasions between 1707 and 1716. He appears in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag as the Grand Master of the Templar Order in the Caribbean, and serves as the game's primary antagonistic figure.

Stede Bonnet[]

Stede Bonnet (c. 1688–1718) was an early-18th-century Barbadian pirate of English descent who sailed the Eastern Seaboard of the Thirteen Colonies with his crew, and known for his brief association with Blackbeard. In Black Flag, Bonnet appears as one of Edward's recurring associates.

Woodes Rogers[]

Woodes Rogers (voiced by Shaun Dingwall) (c. 1679–1732) was an English privateer, and the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. In Black Flag he is depicted as a member of the Templar Order in the West Indies.

Lawrence Prince[]

Lawrence Prince (1630s–1715s) was a Dutch buccaneer, privateer, and an officer under Captain Sir Henry Morgan. He and John Morris led one of the columns against Panama in 1671. He is assassinated by Edward Kenway in his search for Bartholomew.

Characters of Assassin's Creed Rogue[]

Shay Patrick Cormac[]

Shay Patrick Cormac is the protagonist of Assassin's Creed Rogue, an Irish-American Assassin who defects to the Templar Order at the onset of Seven Years' War. He is responsible for facilitating the extermination of the Colonial Brotherhood in the following years and the murder of Arno Dorian's father at the Palace of Versailles. He is voiced by Canadian actor Steven Piovesan.

Juhani Otso Berg[]

Juhani Otso Berg is a member of the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order. He first appeared as a faceless playable character in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's and Assassin's Creed: Revelations' multiplayer modes before being fully realized and seen in Assassin's Creed Rogue. A former member of the Finnish Special Forces-turned-mercenary, Berg is approached by Warren in 2010 to join Abstergo, who in return provides cystic fibrosis treatment for his daughter. By 2012, Berg rises to the rank of Master Templar, joins the Inner Sanctum, and becomes the leader of Abstergo's elite commando unit, Sigma Team. Juhani captures William in Cairo during the events of Assassin's Creed III. He also oversees the genetic research of Shay's memories during Assassin's Creed Rogue alongside Templar colleagues Violet de Costa and Melanie Lemay before aiding the Abstergo search for the Shroud of Eden in 2015 during Assassin's Creed Syndicate. During his work for Abstergo he crosses paths with and fights Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, as well as Russian Master Assassin Galina Voronina.

Violet da Costa[]

Violet de Costa is a member of the Templar Order and Sigma Team's historical research specialist. She oversees the genetic research of Shay's memories during Assassin's Creed Rogue, guiding the researcher and inviting them to join the Templar Order at the game's conclusion. She later participates in the search for the Shroud of Eden in 2015, accompanying Juhani and Isabelle Ardant, and fighting off Shaun, Rebecca, and Galina who are also pursuing the shroud. Distracted by Juhani and the rest of Sigma Team, they^{[clarification needed]} are unable to stop Violet escaping with the Shroud. Violet is revealed to be a member of the Instruments of the First Will, a human cult devoted to returning humanity to obedience under the Isu, namely Juno. She is killed by Juhani for her betrayal during the fall of the Instruments of the First Will.

Liam O' Brien[]

Liam O'Brien (1726–1760) is a member of the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins operating in the British Colonies during the Seven Years' War. As a childhood friend of Shay, Liam is responsible for bringing Shay into the Brotherhood. In spite of Liam being a few years his elder, Shay forms a brotherly bond with him, even though Liam is wiser and more experienced. Liam is killed by Shay for a Precursor artifact when he joined the Templars.

Hope Jensen[]

Hope Jensen (1732–1759) is a member of the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins operating in North America during the Seven Years' War. Mentored by Achilles, she controls much of New York City's organized crime, providing her with an effective information network. She is killed by Shay.

Kesegowaase[]

Kesegowaase (1730–1757) is a Maliseet member of the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins. At a young age, he serves the French Army as a mercenary along with other members of his tribe. After meeting Achilles, he joins the Colonial Brotherhood. Through Kesegowaase, the Assassins gain allies within nearly every French-aligned tribe. After the outbreak of the French and Indian War, Achilles tasks Kesegowaase and Liam with eliminating George Monro, but as they fail to kill him in the Siege of Fort William Henry, he rallies his men and attacks Albany, New York. Liam kills George Monro, while Kesegowaase fights Shay and is killed.

Le Chasseur[]

Le Chasseur (d. 1756) is a French spy operating in New York and the North Atlantic during the Seven Years' War. He is also an ally of the Colonial Assassins, supplying them with intelligence he learned from his contacts. By 1756, he serves as the commander of Fort La Croix near Albany. He is tasked with delivering poisonous gases to the Assassin-allied gangs of New York City, where they would be used against colonial authorities. However, when the fort is attacked, he is killed by Shay.

James Cook[]

James Cook (1728–1779) was a captain in the British Royal Navy and master of HMS Pembroke. In the fictionalized version of the Seven Years' War depicted in Rogue, he provides assistance to Shay Cormac and Haytham Kenway during their campaigns against the French, and is oblivious to the existence of the Assassins and the Templars. He assists Shay in locating Chevalier de la Vérendrye, and is later promised sponsorship to fund his voyages to discover new lands by Haytham, ostensibly on behalf of the British government.

Lawrence Washington[]

Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) was a sailor of the Royal Navy and the older half-brother of George Washington. In Rogue, he is depicted as a high-ranking member of the Templar Order who helps establish the organization's presence at the Thirteen Colonies, and recovers an important artifact from a First Civilization Temple, the removal of which is supposedly responsible for setting off the 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake. Just before his murder during a garden party by Shay Cormac, he asks his Templar associates to keep his brother out of the Templar cause.

Chevalier de la Vérendrye[]

Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye (1717–1761), or simply Chevalier de la Vérendrye, was a French-Canadian explorer and trader. In Rogue he is presented as a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, who constantly behaves in a cantankerous and hostile manner towards Shay. Years later, he acts as a decoy to prevent the Templars from stopping Achilles and Liam from reaching a temple located in the Arctic region. Although he and his fleet ambush the Templars in a snowstorm, he is killed by Shay, who throws him overboard his ship.

George Monro[]

George Monro (1700–1757) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the British Army. In Rogue, he is presented as high-ranking member of the Templar Order who authorizes Shay's rescue from sea, and seeks his help in purging Assassin-allied gangs who terrorize New York. Shay repays the favor by assisting Monro in various activities, like reinforcing his troops in the aftermath of the Siege of Fort William Henry. Monro is killed by the Assassins, and his death motivates Shay to formally join the Templar Order.

Christopher Gist[]

Christopher Gist (1706–1759) was a British explorer, surveyor, and frontiersman. In Rogue, he is a member of the Templar Order who is rescued by Shay by George Monro's request, and later serves as Shay's first mate on his flagship The Morrigan.

James Wardrop[]

James Wardrop (c. 1705 – 1754) is a merchant, politician, and a member of the British Rite of the Templar Order in the years leading up to the Seven Years' War. Operating along the Thirteen Colonies, Wardrop is the custodian of the Precursor manuscript who translates it. He is found negotiating with fellow Templar William Johnson at the Albany Congress, and is killed by Shay for the script after the Assassins infiltrate Fort Frederick.

Samuel Smith[]

Samuel Smith (?–1754) was a member of the British Rite of the Templar Order, operating in and around Great Britain's Thirteen Colonies in the 18th century. He is the treasurer of the Templars in the colonies, and is tasked by Lawrence Washington to safeguard the mysterious artifact known as the Precursor box. After Shay assassinates Lawrence, Smith leaves for Europe, where he intends to activate the box with the help of the continent's various scientists, but they are unable to. Two years later on his return trip to America, he is killed by Shay for the box at Terra Nova where he had made an encampment with Wardrop.

Jack Weeks[]

Jack Weeks (1723-?) is an African-American member of the British and Colonial Rites of the Templar Order. Lawrence entrusts the Precursor artifacts to him, Smith, and Wardrop. They inform him that they are fully occupied with making the artifacts work. He escapes when Shay kills Lawrence, but later joins forces with him to raid and destroy factories, various gangs, and forts.

Characters of Assassin's Creed Unity[]

Arno Victor Dorian[]

Arno Victor Dorian is a French-Austrian Assassin who is the main protagonist of Assassin's Creed Unity, and the childhood friend of Élise de La Serre. He initially joins the Brotherhood of Assassins out of a self-centered desire to seek closure for the death of Elise's father and the man who raised him after he is orphaned as a child.^[83] Arno is fully customizable, and his weapons, clothing, and abilities can be changed.^[84] He is portrayed by Dan Jeannotte through performance capture.^[85] Arno makes a cameo appearance in the 2016 Assassin's Creed film, where he is revealed to be an ancestor of Callum Lynch.

Élise de La Serre[]

Élise de La Serre is a Templar during the French Revolution, and Arno's companion and lover. Élise meets Arno the day his father was killed. Her father, Grand Master de La Serre, takes Arno in and raises him as his ward, allowing Arno and Élise to grow up together. After her father's death she partially blames Arno, as he did not delivered the anonymous warning of the assassination, and they part on bitter terms. After Arno becomes an Assassin he finds out that the Templar who ordered Élise's father's murder also wants her dead. Arno protects Élise when they reunite. He helps her find François-Thomas Germain, the Templar Sage who wants to rebuild the Templar Order. During the final confrontation between Arno, Élise, and Germain, she is killed, devastating Arno.

François de la Serre[]

François de la Serre (1733–1789) is the Grand Master of the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order during the late 18th century. He is Élise's biological father, and Arno's adoptive father. He is a supporter of the absolutist monarchy of the Ancien Régime, and expels his lieutenant, François-Thomas Germain, from the Order for his radical ideas of unseating the aristocracy from power and giving it to the rising middle class. Germain considers de la Serre to be a complacent Grand Master who has forgotten the Templars' true goals, and has him killed in 1789 as part of a coup within the Order.

Pierre Bellec[]

Pierre Bellec (voiced by Anthony Lemke) (c. 1740–1791) is a French-Canadian Master Assassin and a former colonial soldier who is a veteran of the Seven Years' War, and was active during the French Revolution. At some point before the French Revolution, Bellec took a seat on the Assassin Council of the French Brotherhood. Arno Victor Dorian is his student.

Victor and Hugo[]

Victor and his brother Hugo are two blacksmiths living in Versailles during the late 18th century. The names of Victor and Hugo are a reference to the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. Hugo mentions to Arno that he and Victor were imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread.

Le Roi des Thunes[]

Le Roi des Thunes, or The King of Beggars, is the self-claimed king of the Cour des Miracles district. He forces the beggars of the district to pay him tributes, which are taken from rich people would pity them when they feign sickness. He tries to join the Templars under the command of de la Serre, but the latter rejects him, causing le Roi to make a vow to kill him. He is approached by Charles Gabriel Sivert, and joins the radical faction of the Templar order led by Germain. He murders de la Serre during the 1789 coup, and is assassinated by Arno two years later.

Aloys la Touche[]

Aloys la Touche is the right-hand man and enforcer of Le Roi des Thunes, tasked with collecting the tributes from the beggars and punishing the ones who cannot pay. He is also a Templar under Germain's command, and after Le Roi des Thunes is assassinated by Arno, la Touche is tasked by Templar Maximilien de Robespierre to lead his Reign of Terror in Versailles. He is assassinated by Arno during an execution mass in 1793.

Marie Lévesque[]

Marie Lévesque is a wealthy noble and one of Paris' main grain merchants. She is a Templar that supports Germain, and aids him in the coup against de la Serre. After Germain takes over, she is ordered to starve the people to make the revolution more violent and brutal. Her plans are discovered by Arno Dorian, who assassinates her during a lavish party in 1792.

Frédéric Rouille[]

Frédéric Rouille is a captain of the Paris military and a Templar supporter of Germain. He is a leading figure in the Tenth of August and September Massacres, where he is assassinated by Arno.

Olivier[]

Olivier is de la Serre's butler, and expresses sincere disdain for Arno.

Jean Lessard[]

Jean Lessard (d. 1794) is a Sans-culottes leader in Paris who is rejected by Marie Tussaud. During the revolution, Lessard tries to carry out his revenge against Tussaud, and sends his men to slay her. Tussaud escapes and sends Arno to eliminate Lessard.

Denis Molinier[]

Denis Molinier is a French alchemist and member of the French Templars, tasked with finding Nicolas Flamel's laboratory. Arno plots to find the lab before him, and steals one of his mechanisms, which open Flamel's lab. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards.

Marquis de Sade[]

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (voiced by Alex Ivanovici) (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), commonly known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and author famous for his libertine sexuality.

He becomes the new Roi des Thunes after his predecessor is assassinated by Arno in 1791. He was held prisoner in the Bastille for several years, but is transferred to another prison shortly before angry Parisians storm the stronghold. Three years later, as Arno and Élise hunt Louis-Michel le Peletier, the pair enlist de Sade's knowledge of Parisian politics to find le Peletier's whereabouts.

François-Thomas Germain[]

François-Thomas Germain (voiced by Julian Casey) (1726–1794) is a French silversmith, Sage, and Grand Master of the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order during the French Revolution. After experiencing visions of the First Civilization and reading the Codex Pater Intellectus, he takes it upon himself to reform the Order, which he believed had grown corrupt after aligning itself with the aristocracy for centuries. Inspired by Grand Master Jacques de Molay, Germain seeks to carry out the "Great Work" and create a capitalist society in which the Templars could more easily control the populace. De la Serre regards his ideas as being too radical, and exiles him from the Order. Germain turns de la Serre's advisors to his cause, forming a radical faction within the Templar Order. In 1789, he has de la Serre assassinated in the Palace of Versailles, taking most of the Order under his control. As the French Revolution breaks out, Germain and his followers exploit discontent with the monarchy and creates as much chaos as possible to crush the aristocracy and clergy, and instill fear in the populace of rising against the establishment again. The Templars hoard food and frame the royal family, eventually leading to the execution of King Louis XVI in 1793. Under the Templar Maximilien de Robespierre, the Reign of Terror brings the revolution to a violent and chaotic climax. Along the way, Élise opposes Germain. She and Arno eliminate Germain's followers and track him down to the Temple in 1794. After Germain kills Élise with a Sword of Eden, he is killed by Arno. In his final moments, Germain triggers a vision, telling arno that his goals of reforming society and the Templar Order have already succeeded, even if he would not live to see the changes

Honore Gabriel Riqueti[]

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (voiced by Harry Standjofski) (1749–1791), better known as simply Mirabeau, is a French statesman, author, Mentor of the Assassin Council of the French Brotherhood, and a leader of the French Revolution during its early stages. He criticizes France's arbitrary justice system and favors a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain, being a voice of moderation in the National Constituent Assembly. As Mentor of the Council and Brotherhood, Mirabeau seeks to establish peace with the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order and de la Serre, and inducts Arno Dorian into the Brotherhood. After a coup within the Templar Order, he is forced to give up on the truce until Élise offers to work with the Assassins in 1791. Unlike most of the council, he is eager to accept this offer. When he discovers that Mirabeau is a traitor to the Brotherhood, the Assassin Pierre Bellec poisons him. After his death, it is discovered that Mirabeau was serving King Louis XVI as an advisor in exchange for having his debts paid off. Public opinion turns against him, leading to his remains being moved away from the Panthéon. History views him as a complex man who is not easily understood. Pierre's decision to murder Mirabeau has also led subsequent Assassins to debate whether or not his attempts to reconcile with the Templars conflicted with the ideals of the Brotherhood.

Louis XVI[]

Louis XVI (born Louis Auguste de France, also known as Louis Capet) (1754–1793) was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution.

Maximilien Robespierre[]

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (voiced by Bruce Dunmore) (1758–1794), often known as simply Maximilien Robespierre or Robespierre, is a French lawyer, politician and member of the Templar Order. He is notable for starting the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution and abolishing slavery in France.

Napoléon Bonaparte[]

Napoléon Bonaparte (voiced by Brent Skagford) (1769–1821) was a French military and political leader of Corsican descent who ruled first as the First Consul of France from 1799 to 1804, then as emperor from 1804 to 1815. He rose to power amidst the chaos and political turmoil of the French Revolution.

He is an acquaintance to Arno.

Characters of Assassin's Creed Syndicate[]

Jacob Frye[]

Jacob Frye (b. 1847) is Evie's younger brother and a British Assassin active in Victorian London. Born at a time when the Assassin presence in London is virtually nonexistent, he and Evie fight to restore the Assassins to prominence in the city, crippling the Templar presence in the process. He appears in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and is voiced by Paul Amos.

Evie Frye[]

Evie Frye (b. 1847) is the Jacob's older sister and a British Assassin active in Victorian London. Born at a time when the Assassin presence in London is virtually nonexistent, she and Jacob fight to restore the Assassins to prominence in the city, crippling the Templar presence in the process. She appears in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and is voiced by Victoria Atkin.

The character attracted significant critical praise, and was regarded by several critics as one of the best characters in Assassin Creed franchise.^{[86][87][88][89][90]} CNET named Evie the 24th best female video game character of all time, characterizing her as a "likable, stealthy killer".^[91] Game Informer ranked her among the best female video games characters of 2015.^[92] Polygon also listed her among the best video game women of 2015.^[93] She was nominated at the 19th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Character",^[94] and won Best New Character at the 2015 Canadian Videogame Awards.^[95]

Galina Voronina[]

Galina Voronina is a Russian Master Assassin. Like Desmond, she acquires most of her abilities by reliving her ancestors' memories in the Animus and taking advantage of the Bleeding effect. She is forced into the Animus by her mother, and eventually contacts the Assassin Gavin Banks for help. She is able to escape, but her sister dies and her mother commits suicide. After her prolonged exposure to the Animus, her mental health is compromised; Rebecca admits to seeing Galina believing she was conversing with her dead sister. A skilled assassin, Galina engages and defeats an Abstergo Sigma Team during Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is about to kill Juhani, but is forced to cover Shaun and Rebecca's escape after the latter is shot.

Lydia Frye[]

Lydia Frye is a British Assassin operating in London during World War I, and is Jacob's granddaughter. She crosses paths with Winston Churchill and assassinates Templar agents attempting to prolong the war, one of whom was a Sage. She appears within the Helix missions in Assassin's Creed Syndicate.

Henry Green[]

Henry Green is the Indian-born leader of the British Assassins during the late 1860s. Born Jayadeep Mir, the son of Arbaaz Mir, he crosses paths with Evie and Jacob during their liberation of London in 1868, helping them in their final fight against Crawford Starrick and eventually marrys Evie. As a child in India, he was trained by the twins' father, Ethan Frye.

Crawford Starrick[]

Crawford Starrick (1827–1868) is the owner of Starrick Industries, and the Grand Master of the British Rite of the Templar Order by 1868. He appears in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. As an arrogant individual, he shows great disdain to those who tormented him and sees himself as a ruler among servants. Using his charm, he bends people to his will. After all the members of his inner circle are killed by Jacob and Evie, Crawford goes to the location of the Shroud of Eden, where he is killed by the twins.

Lucy Thorne[]

Lucy Thorne (1837–1868) is a Templar and Grand Master Starrick's second-in-command. She is also the Order's expert on Pieces of Eden, and is tasked with finding the legendary Shroud of Eden. After fellow Templar Pearl Attaway is killed by Jacob, Lucy chases the twins for revenge, only to be assassinated by Evie.

Maxwell Roth[]

Maxwell Roth (18??–1868) is the mastermind behind London's criminal underworld and one of Crawford's lieutenants. Although he is not a Templar, he trains several of Crawford's small-time gang leaders in return for a massive amount of money. After some of Crawford's lieutenants are killed, Maxwell proposes a partnership with Jacob's gang, betraying Crawford and helping Jacob's gangsters free the city. The partnership ends shortly after due to Maxwell's psychopathic behavior. When he intentionally burns down the Alhambra Music Hall, Jacob stabs him with his blade. In his final moments, Maxwell tells Jacob that he carried out the atrocities because he wanted and chose to do so.

Pearl Attaway[]

Pearl Attaway is the owner of Attaway transport and, like her cousin, Grand Master Crawford Starrick, is a member of the British Templars. Pearl is business rivals with Malcolm Millner, another Templar. Crawford initially chooses Malcolm as the man controlling the bus transport, due to tensions with Pearl, but after she cooperates with Jacob, who does not know that she was a Templar, Crawford gives control to her and they both orchestrate Malcolm's elimination. Jacob discovers Pearl's true colors and kills her in her train station.

Rupert Ferris[]

Rupert Ferris is the owner of Ferris Ironworks, a large steel-mill in the city of Croydon near London, effectively controlling the small city with his wealth. He is also one of Crawford's lieutenants. He is killed by Jacob Frye in his factory.

Philip Twopenny[]

Philip Twopenny is the governor of the Bank of England and a secret member of the Templar Order. He orchestrates various robberies within the bank to fund the Templars, and in one of the raids, he is assassinated by Jacob with the help of inspector Abberline.

Charles Darwin[]

Charles Darwin, born on 12 February 1809, was best known for his contributions and studies regarding the natural laws of evolution.^[96]

At some point, he meets Jacob and Evie.

Charles Dickens[]

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic. He meets Jacob and Evie, and asks for their help in solving crimes.

Karl Marx[]

Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German philosopher, economist, communist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He asks Jacob and Evie to expand his unionistic ideas to the people of London.

Arthur Conan Doyle[]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, famous for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. In 1868, as a young boy, his love for detective stories lead him to team up with the penny dreadful writer Henry Raymond, and Jacob and Evie to solve murders.

Alexander Graham Bell[]

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who was credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He was on friendly terms with Henry Green, who nicknamed him "Aleck".

Queen Victoria[]

Queen Victoria (1819–1901), born Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837, and Empress of India from 1876, until her death.

Duleep Singh[]

Duleep Singh (1838–1893), also known as Dalip Singh or the Black Prince of Perthshire, was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and the youngest son of Ranjit Singh, ruling from 1843 to 1846. He is an associate of, and great-uncle to the Assassin Henry Green.

Jack the Ripper[]

Jack, formerly known as Jack the Lad during his youth and widely feared as Jack the Ripper, was a member of the British Brotherhood of Assassins, active in the Whitechapel district of London up until 1888. Jack becomes infamous in 1888 following a series of gruesome murders of young women, who are fellow Assassins trying to stop his madness; these murders, in conjunction with Jack's control over London's criminal enterprise, threaten the existence of the Assassins in London. He is killed by Evie.

David Brewster[]

David Brewster is a scientist working on a Piece of Eden at the behest of the Templar Order. He is assassinated by Evie, and his experiments on the Piece of Eden grow unstable, resulting in an explosion that buries his underground laboratory.

John Elliotson[]

John Elliotson is a physician working in Lambeth Asylum and an associate of Crawford Starrick. Elliotson creates "Starrick's Soothing Syrup", a highly-addictive tonic made from opium and hallucinogens used to keep the working classes under control. He is assassinated by Jacob Frye, but his death floods the borough of Lambeth with counterfeit medicinal and sub-standard medical care.

James Brudenell[]

James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan is a member of the House of Lords who opposes Benjamin Disraeli and the Corrupt Practices Act as he tries to keep political power in the hands of the nobility.

Florence Nightingale[]

Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She is first encountered by Evie as the latter looks for help to treat Clara O'Dea.

Assassin's Creed Chronicles series[]

Characters of Assassin's Creed: China[]

Shao Jun[]

Shao Jun is a member of the Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins and an ancestor of Lin, an Abstergo Foundation test subject. She is a former concubine of the Zhengde Emperor, and is rescued by the Assassins after the emperor's death. As a result she devotes her life to the Creed. Shao Jun appears in Assassin's Creed: Embers and Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China. She is voiced by Angela Galuppo in Assassin's Creed: Embers, by Annabelle Galea in Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China, and is portrayed by Michelle H. Lin in the 2016 Assassin's Creed film.

Characters of Assassin's Creed: India[]

Arbaaz Mir[]

Arbaaz Mir (early 1800s – unknown) is a member of the Indian Brotherhood of Assassins during the 19th century, active during the time of the war between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company. Arbaaz is Jayadeep's father. He appears in Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, and is voiced by Johnny Neal.

Characters of Assassin's Creed: Russia[]

Nikolai Andreievich Orelov[]

Nikolai Andreievich Orelov (late 1800s–1928) is a member of the Russian Brotherhood of Assassins during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nikolai is notably involved in events such as the Borki train disaster and the Tunguska explosion, and spearheads the hunt for the Imperial Sceptre of the Russian royal family with aid from Nikola Tesla. He leaves the Brotherhood out of fear for his and his family's safety and is hunted down by Assassins working for the FBI after he kills one of them in a fit of paranoid madness after they attempt to convince him to return to the Brotherhood with his son, Innokenti. Orelov appears in Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia.

Layla Hassan trilogy[]

Characters of Assassin's Creed Origins[]

Bayek[]

Bayek of Siwa (portrayed by Abubakar Salim) is a Medjay and Assassin operating in the Ptolemaic Kingdom around 49 BCE, who appears in Assassin's Creed Origins.^[97] Bayek possesses a symbiotic relationship with the eagle, Senu, which allows him to see the world through its eyes—a more literal predecessor to the Eagle Vision of later Assassins.^[98][99] He is also regarded as the founder of the organized Assassin Order.^[100]

Aya[]

Aya of Alexandria, later known as Amunet, is a co-founder of the Hidden Ones, the precursors to the Assassin Brotherhood, and the Bayek's wife during the Hellenistic period of the Ptolemaic dynasty. On 12 August 30 BCE, Amunet infiltrates Cleopatra VII's palace, where she kills the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt with an asp. By the Renaissance, Amunet is respected as a great Assassin by the Assassin Brotherhood, and a statue of her is placed in the Assassin Sanctuary of Monteriggioni. Around this time, a shrine in her honor is created at the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, Italy, which is believed to be her actual burial site until her mummy is found in the same cave as Bayek's. It has since been confirmed that the sarcophagus in Venice does not contain Amunet's remains. Amunet is also the direct descendant of Kassandra, the canonical protagonist of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and her son Elpidios.^[101]

Cleopatra[]

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (69 BCE–12 August 30 BCE), commonly known as Cleopatra, is the last Egyptian pharaoh and a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. She initially shares power with her father, and later, her brothers, whom she marries. With the help of the Templars, she becomes the sole ruler of Egypt, and an ally of Julius Caesar. After Caesar's death, she allies herself with Mark Antony, with whom she has a relationship with. In 30 BCE, Antony commits suicide at the Battle of Actium, and Cleopatra is by Amunet with an asp.^[102]

Julius Caesar[]

Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BCE – 15 March 44 BCE), commonly known as Julius Caesar was a prominent general in the Roman army and a notable politician. He is killed for his Templar affiliations.

Ptolemy XIII[]

Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (62 BCE–47 BCE) was a pharaoh of Egypt and member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ruling alongside his older sister and wife Cleopatra VII from 51 BCE until his death.

Marcus Junius Brutus[]

Marcus Junius Brutus (early June 85 BCE– late October 42 BCE), more commonly known simply as Brutus, is a politician of the late Roman Republic, and a member of the Roman Republic and the Order of Assassins. Brutus is one of the masterminds behind the assassination conspiracy against Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. He is also the first known human to discover the Colosseum Vault.

Cassius[]

Gaius Cassius Longinus (c. 85 BCE – 3 October 42 BCE), commonly known as Cassius, is an Assassin, a Roman senator,^{[103][104][105][106]} and Brutus's brother-in-law. On 15 March 44 BCE, Cassius was part of the group Senators who stabbed Julius Caesar.

Characters of Assassin's Creed Odyssey[]

Alexios and Kassandra[]

Alexios and Kassandra are siblings, one of whom is chosen by the player to be the protagonist (referred to as the Eagle Bearer) of Assassin's Creed Odyssey. They are Spartan Greek mercenaries who are descended from King Leonidas of Sparta, and fight for both the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues during the Peloponnesian War. The sibling not chosen appears as a secondary character in the game known as Deimos. The Eagle Bearer eventually inherits the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus from Pythagoras, a powerful Isu artifact sought by Layla Hassan.

Barnabas[]

Barnabas is a Greek naval captain active during the Peloponnesian War. After he is rescued from the thug leader known as the Cyclops in Kephallonia by the Eagle Bearer, he offers the command of his ship, The Adrestia, and his crew.^[107] In his youth, Barnabas was a soldier before turning to commercial shipping for a livelihood. In this capacity, he developed a network of contacts throughout Greece, including local leaders and mercenaries, who becomes a primary source of information for the Eagle Bearer.

Herodotos[]

Herodotos (c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE), also spelled Herodotus, was one of the earliest Greek historians who hails from the island of Samos, off the coast of Anatolia. In Odyssey, Herodotos becomes a companion of the Eagle Bearer, and documents their ordeals during the Peloponnesian War. The record is lost to humanity until it is rediscovered by Layla Hassan.

King Leonidas of Sparta[]

Leonidas I (c. 540 BCE – 480 BCE) was a warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, best known for his involvement in the Battle of Thermopylae against the Persian Empire in 480 BCE. In Odyssey, Leonidas is a direct descendant of the Isu, and wielded an Isu spear, which was later passed down to his daughter and eventually the grandchild known as the Eagle Bearer.

Myrrine[]

Myrrine, also known as the Phoenix while in exile, is the wife of Nikolaos, the mother of Alexios and Kassandra, and the daughter of King Leonidas of Sparta. She gives her eldest child the broken Spear of Leonidas, an Isu artifact and the family heirloom which she had inherited after Leonidas' death.

Nikolaos[]

Nikolaos of Sparta, also known as the Wolf of Sparta, is a Spartan general and Myrrine's husband. Because of Myrinne's heritage, Nikolaos has high hopes for her children due to their grandfather's fame and valor. However, an Oracle prophesies the potential destruction of Sparta at the hands of Myrrine's youngest, infant child. After the apparent death of an Elder as a result of the elder child's actions, Nikolaos reluctantly stood by a death sentence ordered by the other Spartan leaders and personally attempts to carry it out, only for the child to survive the fall from Mount Taygetos, and, in exile, grow up to become a legendary mercenary.

Cult of Kosmos[]

The Cult of Kosmos, a secretive cabal operating throughout Ancient Greece and the surrounding regions, are the overarching antagonists of Odyssey. The Cult operates in branches comprising several Adepts, with each brand led by an individual dubbed as a Sage, who are often prominent members within various levels of society in the Classical Greek world. Like their Egyptian counterparts, the Order of the Ancients, and the modern day Templar Order, the Cult of Kosmos are not polytheistic, and have a deistic belief system. They manipulate the Greek world to maintain their power and wealth. Some members of the Cult idolize and worship the people within the Bloodline and truly believe that they are actual demigods, such as Deimos. The members of the Cult grow chaotic and greedy, and use the Chaos to earn massive amounts of profit and political power.

Darius[]

Artabanus, better known by his alias Darius, is a member of the Persian elite within the Achaemenid Empire, whose philosophy and combat tactics eventually form the basis of the Hidden Ones and its successor, the Brotherhood of Assassins. He is based on the historical figure Artabanus of Persia. In the 5th century BCE, the Order of the Ancients, an antecedent organization to the Templars, supports the reigns and regional conquests of the Achaemenid kings Darius I and his son Xerxes I. Using a newly created weapon known as the Hidden Blade, which becomes the Assassins' iconic signature weapon, Darius personally assassinates King Xerxes I and flees Persia with his surviving child afterwards. While the character is originally referenced and mentioned in Assassin's Creed II, Darius makes his first series appearance in the Assassin's Creed Odyssey's DLC pack, Legacy of the First Blade, where he encounters the Eagle Bearer. They work together to thwart the Order of the Ancients' activities in the Greek world, and Darius later becomes the father-in-law of the Eagle Bearer. By the ending of Legacy of the First Blade, Darius relocates to Egypt with his grandson Elpidios and raises him alone as the boy's guardian and mentor.

Characters of Assassin's Creed Valhalla[]

Eivor Varinsdottir[]

Eivor Varinsdottir (voiced by Cecilie Stenspil as a female and by Magnus Bruun as a male)^[108] is a Scandinavian Viking raider living in Norway around 873 AD. Alongside her adoptive brother, Sigurd Styrbjornsson, Eivor leads a group of Vikings to settle in England where they come into conflict with the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Over the course of their journey, they meet the Hidden Ones and join the fight against the Order of the Ancients. Within her body resides the reincarnated consciousness of the Isu ruler Odin.

Other characters in the Assassin's Creed series[]

Characters of Assassin's Creed (film)[]

After the sequel to Assassin's Creed was canceled, its narrative was continued in Assassin's Creed Origins and the Layla Hassan saga as a whole, with the inclusion of Marion Cotillard as Dr. Sofia Rikkin, an original character from the film, the film itself having continued Arno and Baptiste's storylines from Assassin's Creed Unity and Assassin's Creed III: Liberation respectively.

Callum Lynch[]

Callum Lynch (portrayed by Michael Fassbender)^{[109][110][111]} (b. 1979) is a descendant of Aguilar de Nerha, a Spanish Assassin. After being rescued from his own execution by Abstergo, he is placed in the Animus to relive the memories of Aguilar and find the Apple of Eden. After reconciling with his father, who murdered his mother to keep her out of Templar hands, he joins the Assassin Order, retrieves the Apple, and kills Alan Rikkin.

Aguilar de Nerha[]

Aguilar de Nerha (portrayed by Michael Fassbender) is a Spanish Assassin and ancestor to Callum Lynch. During the Spanish Inquisition, he attempts to protect the son of Sultan Muhammad XII of Granada, an ally of the Assassins who possessed an Apple of Eden. He manages to escape with the Apple and passes it on to Christopher Columbus for protection.

Alan Rikkin[]

Alan Rikkin (portrayed by Jeremy Irons^[112]) is the CEO of Abstergo. He sends several e-mails to Warren Vidic, one of which details several Pieces of Eden that they believe to be nothing more than mythical tales, including the Holy Grail. He appears in the Assassin's Creed film, where he seeks the Apple of Eden through Aguilar's memories. He eventually discovers the Apple in Christopher Columbus's tomb and attempts to perform a ritual to remove human free will, but he is assassinated by Callum, who recovers the Apple.

Sofia Rikkin[]

Sofia Rikkin (portrayed by Marion Cotillard^[113]) is a scientist and the head of the Abstergo Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Madrid. She is also Alan's daughter, and the two have a difficult relationship. In October 2016, Sofia comes into contact with Callum. During their time together the pair form a connection, but when Callum's escape from the Foundation leads to him killing Alan, she dedicates herself to chasing down her father's killer.

Maria[]

Maria (portrayed by Ariane Labed) is a member of the Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins during the 15th century, as well as a close ally of Master Assassin Aguilar de Nerha. In 1492, she and her fellow Assassins seek to prevent Prince Ahmed of Granada from being captured by the Templars, fearing that his father, Sultan Muhammad XII of Granada, would relinquish the Apple of Eden in his possession in exchange for his son's safety.

Alicia Vikander was originally considered for the role of Maria, but scheduling conflicts with Jason Bourne eventually caused the actress to drop out, with Ariane Labed being cast instead.^[114]

Tomás de Torquemada[]

Tomás de Torquemada (portrayed by Javier Gutiérrez^[115]) is a Spanish Dominican friar, the first Inquisitor General of Spain, and confessor to Isabella I of Castile. He is depicted as a high ranking member of the Spanish Rite of the Templar Order. Under the influence of Rodrigo Borgia, Grand Master of the Italian Templars and Papal candidate, Torquemada opposes the Spanish Assassin Brotherhood, and persecutes them as part of the Spanish Inquisition.

Isu (major characters)[]

Minerva[]

Minerva (voiced by Margaret Easley), also known as both Merva and Mera, is the first member of the Isu, otherwise known as the "First Civilization", introduced in the series. She is a member of the Capitoline Triad—a renowned scientific group–along with Juno and Jupiter. In Assassin's Creed II, Minerva appears to Ezio via a pre-recorded hologram inside the Vatican Vault in 1499. Knowing that Desmond will eventually relive Ezio's memories, Minerva uses the latter as a conduit to pass on her message. She explains that her kind are not gods, but a more advanced civilization whose technology was mistaken for magic. They engineered humans as slaves, but they rebelled. Minerva describes how war with humanity, combined with a devastating cataclysmic event, led to the downfall of their civilization and the extinction of their race. She correctly predicted that a second cataclysmic event would eventually occur, and she hid away the tools humanity would need to survive in several vaults around the world, devising a system by which they could communicate across time before they eventually died. She instructs Desmond to find the vaults, then disappears, leaving a confused Ezio in her wake.

In Assassin's Creed III, she projects herself through the past one last time and finds Desmond in the Vault. She warns him about Juno's power-hungry ambitions, hoping that he will decide not to save the world and keep Juno imprisoned. Juno turns the tables and forces Minerva to reveal Desmond's destiny and how his legacy will be manipulated if he allows the cataclysm to happen. During her own natural lifetime Minerva—known to adherents of Norse mythology as Gunlodr–met with the Isu leader Odin and played an unwitting part in his plot to survive the Great Catastrophe.

Juno[]

Juno (voiced by Nadia Verrucci), alternately known as Uni, is a member of the Capitoline Triad introduced in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Although she reiterates Minerva's warning to Desmond, she is far more hostile and contemptuous of humanity. After Desmond recovers an Apple of Eden hidden by Ezio in the Roman Colosseum, Juno takes control of Desmond, forces him to kill Lucy, and instructs him to find "the one who would accompany you through the gate". In Assassins Creed III, after Desmond kills Warren and Daniel, she takes the place of the modern-day main antagonist. It is revealed that Juno sought to conquer the rejuvenating world. When she tried to use Minerva's technology for her own ends, she was found and imprisoned in the Vault, with the other two members of the Triad hoping that she would fade away in time for the devices there to be activated safely. However, she endured, and she confronts Desmond and Minerva when the time comes to use the device. Juno spurs Minerva into showing the inevitable future if Desmond does not activate the device: humanity will start out well, and then sink back into their old ways and repeat the cycle all over again. Desmond decides to use the device, preventing the apocalypse, even though this would release Juno and cost him his life. Juno is released, and thanks Desmond's body before leaving her prison. She reappears later in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, where she ascends to leadership of the Instruments of the First Will, a sect of Isu worshippers who are loyal to her search for a way to restore her physical form. Juno is killed by Charlotte de la Cruz after briefly having attained a physical form. During her own natural lifetime Juno–known to adherents of Norse mythology as Hyrrokin–met with Odin and willingly aided him in his plot to survive the Great Catastrophe in exchange for assistance in restoring to life her lost love, Aita.

Jupiter[]

Jupiter (voiced by Peter Renaday), also known as Tinia, is a member of the Capitoline Triad. He appears to Desmond in Assassin's Creed: Revelations during the Nexus of Time. He elaborates more on the creation of the vaults, and shows the location of the central vault that contains all their accumulated knowledge. Although the humans tend to use his Roman name, Minerva refers to him by his Etruscan name, Tinia. During his own natural lifetime Jupiter–known to adherents of Norse mythology as Suttungr–led a faction of Isu that Norse mythology would come to know as the Jötunheimr, or "giants". At one point the Jotunheimr waged war with an opposing faction of Isu known as the Aesir, led by Odin. Despite this, Jupiter welcomed his Aesir counterpart during the latter's visit to his realm and hosted a feast in his honor.

Aita[]

Aita was Juno's husband who volunteered to be a test subject for one of the Capitoline Triad's attempts to preserve the First Civilization. The experiment that he took part in is left vague, but Juno suggests that it preserved his body at the cost of his mind. Juno euthanized him when his mind "became brittle". He appears in Black Flag as Bartholomew and John; Bartholomew is killed by Edward, while John commits suicide by forcing Abstergo security to shoot him; the latter's body is then taken by Abstergo to use in the Phoenix Project. Aita is subsequently reborn as the Sage in the form of Jacques de Molay and François-Thomas Germain in Assassin's Creed Unity, and an unnamed German spymaster working in London during the events of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. As Germain, he attempts to purge the Templar Order of complacency and restore its original purpose. As the German spymaster, his objectives are unknown, but as he is assassinated by Lydia Frye relatively quickly, it is noted that he was a particularly ineffective Sage. As the Sage, Aita is closely tied to the Instruments of the First Will, a cult worshipping Juno that believes humanity should be subservient to the Precursor race. Aita is the Etruscan name for Hades and Pluto.

Aletheia–known to adherents of Norse mythology as Angrboda–is an apparent sympathizer to the humans. She criticizes her fellow Isu for their treatment of their "useful apes", and reveals her disdain for their artifacts made to control the human populace. Trying to convince other Isu to join her cause, she praises the humans' achievements, among which includes the development of democracy and diplomacy. She implores the others to stop cowering before renouncing her position, not wanting to "be part of [their] exploitation" anymore. Before her death, she digitizes her consciousness into the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, wielded by the Isu known as Hermes, so that she can commune with Layla Hassan in the present.^[116] It is eventually revealed that Aletheia's actions are all part of a plot for her to reunite with her lover Loki, and to obtain vengeance against Odin for the imprisonment of their child Fenrir.

Odin, sometimes known as Havi, is an Isu ruler and leader of the Aesir, a nation of the Isu, in the years leading up to the Great Catastrophe. Introduced in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Odin is determined to avoid his own fated death during the Great Catastrophe, known to the Aesir as Ragnarök. Selfish and deceitful, but loyal, Odin's obsession with avoiding his fated death causes him to imprison Loki's son Fenrir, and betray his brother, Tyr. With Juno's assistance, Odin succeeds in finding a way for him and a few trusted warriros to survive Ragnarok by reincarnation. Odin is ultimately reincarnated in Eivor Varinsdottir, a Norse Viking raider who becomes embroiled in the Assassin–Templar conflict central to the series.

Tyr is an Isu member of the Aesir nation and close friend to Odin. Chief lawgiver of the Aesir, Tyr works tirelessly to keep the peace between Odin and Loki, the latter having betrayed the Aesir by fathering the child Fenrir with Aletheia. Tyr is betrayed by Odin during Fenrir's imprisonment, and loses an arm in the process, but he is among Odin's counted few to be reincarnated after Ragnarök. He is eventually reincarnated in Sigurd Styrbjornsson, the adopted brother of Eivor Varinsdottir.

Loki is an Isu member of the Aesir nation and Aletheia's lover. As Fenrir's father, he seeks vengeance against Odin for his son's imprisonment. After betraying Odin, Loki is forbidden from joining his fellow Aesir in reincarnating after Ragnarök, but he formulates a plan with Aletheia that will allow them both to survive the coming catastrophe. Loki reincarnates in the body of Basim Ibn Ishaq, a member of the Hidden Ones who retains all of Loki's memories. Basim seeks out his fellow reincarnated, locating Sigurd Styrbjornsson (who he initially believes to be Odin's reincarnation) in Constantinople before meeting Eivor Varinsdottir. Together, the three travel to England where Basim works to restore Sigurd's Isu memories before discovering the truth about Eivor and attacking them. Imprisoned by Eivor and Sigurd in an Isu simulation, Basim is freed by Layla Hassan in 2020 in return for assistance in repairing the global shield that protects the Earth.

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