Follow the Money

2011-07-26T03:00:13Z

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{{Memory Infobox
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|description = Follow [[Egidio Troche|Egidio]] as he delivers his payment to the [[Juan Borgia the Elder|Banker]].|undefined||undefined|undefined|undefined|undefined|appearance = undefined
|type = Main
|previous = [[Escape From Debt]]
|next = [[When In Rome]]
|ancestor = [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]
|location = [[Centro District]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]]|image = followmoneywatch.jpg|appearance = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''}}'''Follow The Money''' is a memory in [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'']].

==Desription==
[[Ezio]] gathers the 3,000 florins and hands them over to [[Egidio Troche]] to pay off his debt. Ezio reaches the place where Egidio meets the [[Juan Borgia the Elder|Banker]]'s men, and tails them to the [[Pantheon]]. As Egidio's money is taken into the Pantheon, Ezio enters the building through the roof, assassinating the [[guard]] that took the money and changing into his clothes. Coming back outside of the Pantheon dressed as the guard, Ezio orders the Banker's men not to kill Egidio and then prepares to follow the other guards to the Banker.

==Dialogue==
*'''Egidio''': ''I cannot believe you would just do this.''
*'''Ezio''': ''There is a condition.''
*'''Egidio''': ''I knew it.''
*'''Ezio''': ''Keep an eye on the politics of the city. I want you to report back to [[Maria Auditore|Maria]] at the [[Rosa in Fiore]] about targets who are helping the [[House of Borgia|Borgia]].''
*'''Egidio''': ''And what? You'll make them disappear? The pezzo di merda (piece of shit) may hate me, but he's still family. Va bene (okay), we go.''
*'''Ezio''': ''I will follow you to the Banker.''

Ezio meets Egidio Troche at the first meeting spot, where he eavesdrops on the conversation.

*'''Guard''': ''Egidio. It seems you are ready to die like a gentleman.''
*'''Egidio''': ''I have the money.''
*'''Guard''': ''Oh. That's different, then. The Banker will be pleased. You came alone?''
*'''Egidio''': ''Do you see anyone else here?''
*'''Guard''': ''Follow me, furbacchione (wise-ass).''

They begin to travel to the second meeting place. Ezio follows them, unnoticed.
[[File:Followmoney.jpg|thumb|230px|Egidio hands over the payment.]]
*'''Egidio''': ''Have you heard anything about my brother, [[Francesco Troche|Francesco]]?''
*'''Guard''': ''[[Cesare Borgia|Cesare]] is dealing with him.''
*'''Egidio''': ''I hope he is alright. So, what are you going to do with my money?''
*'''Guard''': ''The Banker likes to treat his friends well.''
*'''Egidio''': (sarcastically) ''How generous he is.''
*'''Guard''': ''What did you say?''
*'''Egidio''': ''Nothing.''

Ezio follows Egidio and the guards carrying the money chest to the Pantheon. Egidio and the guards go inside.

*'''Guard''': ''Egidio brought the money.''
*'''Luigi''': ''Well, well. The Banker has a special meeting planned. I will be delivering your payment. Give it here.'' (Egidio reluctantly hands the money chest over.)
*'''Luigi''': ''Hold him until I get back!''
*'''Ezio''': (to himself)'' I better not lose sight of the money.''

[[File:Pantheonwatch.jpg|thumb|230px|Ezio enters the [[Pantheon]]]]Ezio proceeds to search for a way inside. The conversation between Egidio and the guards continues.

*'''Egidio''': ''Why not release me? I have paid.''
*'''Guard''': ''He is counting the money. Until it is counted you cannot leave.''

Ezio accesses the inside of the Pantheon via the opening in the roof.

*'''Luigi''': ''Now to kill that Senator.''

Ezio quickly climbs down and kills Luigi as he counts the money. He then changes into the guard's [[Armor|armor]].
==Outcome==
Ezio disguises himself as Luigi and spares Egidio's life. He continues to deliver the money with the other guards.
==Trivia==
*To achieve full [[synchronization]], the player must not touch the ground while tailing Egidio and the Banker's men.

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Darim Ibn-La'Ahad

2011-07-25T01:26:43Z

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'''Darim Ibn-La'Ahad''' (born 1193) was a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]] and the first son of [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] and [[Maria Ibn-La'Ahad|Maria Thorpe]]. Later he became the brother of [[Sef Ibn-La'Ahad]], their second son.

==Biography==
===Early Life===
Darim was born in [[Masyaf]] in 1193, where he was raised by his parents, who trained him in the ways of the Assassins. Over time, Darim's skills with a [[crossbow]] placed him as an expert of the weapon.
===Journey to Mongolia===
By 1217, [[Genghis Khan|Genghis Khan's]] Mongolian Empire was expanding rapidly from the east and was slowing the expansion of the Assassin Order in that direction. In addition to this, Darim's father had believed that the Khan held a [[Piece of Eden]] known as [[The Sword]]. Thus, Darim and his parents left immediately to kill Khan, while his younger brother Sef remained in Masyaf to care for his wife and children and Altaïr's right-hand man, [[Malik Al-Sayf]], was placed in charge of the Order until their return.

As of early 1227, they had reached Mongolia and met with one of the local assassins, [[Qulan Gal]], who infiltrated Khan's camp with Altaïr, although Darim's now elderly father had lost much of his stealth in his old age and was detected by one of the guards, who was able to significantly injure the Assassin before Altaïr was saved by Qulan Gal. Qulan Gal then helped Altaïr to escape the camp and the Assassin's regrouped to formulate a new plan.

Realising the threat to his life, Genghis Khan tried to flee on horseback, although Qulan Gal had been expecting this and planned for him to do just that. The Mongolian Assassin then proceeded to shoot down Khan's horse, while Darim subsequently finished Khan himself with his crossbow. After ten years, the group had accomplished what they set out to do and Darim and his parents finally returned home.

===Return to Masyaf===
Later in 1227, Darim and his parents made it back to Masyaf only to be greeted by a former Assassin apprentice named [[Swami]]. Swami told them that the member of the Order who was supposed to greet the family upon their return home, [[Rauf]], had died of fever during their absence and that Malik had been arrested by the new leader of the Order, [[Abbas Sofian]] for unknown reasons. Swami then told Darim that his brother Sef had retreated with his family to [[Alamut]], at which point Altaïr urged him to retrieve his younger brother and return to Masyaf.
===Life in Alamut===
Some time after arriving in Alamut, he met with his sister-in-law and nieces, only to be told that Sef was dead, having been supposedly killed by Malik in 1225. At that point, Darim chose to stay in Alamut and later was joined by his father in 1227.

Altaïr told Darim that in Masyaf, Abbas had staged a coup in 1225 and taken over the Order, before framing Malik for Sef's murder, which Swami had committed. He said that he had successfully freed Malik, only for the man to be murdered by Swami shortly thereafter. After this, Altaïr and Maria had confronted Abbas, who made public Altaïr's infiltration of the prison, causing a decimation in the older Assassin's support. Demanding the [[Sixth Apple|Apple]] from him, Abbas sent Swami to retrieve it. Before Swami retrieved the Apple, he bragged to Altaïr that in Sef's final moments, Swami had told him that his father had ordered his execution. Altaïr's rage manifested itself in the Apple and when Swami touched it he went insane, mutilating himself first with his hands, then pulling out his knife and stabbing himself. However in his frenzy, he unknowingly killed Darim's mother, slitting her throat. Feeling insecure at the deaths of his youngest son and his wife, Altaïr fled instead of confronting Abbas.

Darim spent most of the next 20 years living with his father, sister-in-law and nieces, until eventually his sister-in-law took her daughters to live in Alexandria. Later, Darim himself was driven away from Alamut by his father's state of depression and his renewed obsession with the Apple. Darim departed to France and later England to warn of the advancing threat of the Mongol Empire.

===Later life===
Eventually, he returned to Masyaf in 1247 following his father's return to power as [[Grand Master of the Assassin Order|Grand Master]] of the Order. It is unknown whether his relations with his father were restored following this. Darim was present when Altaïr became a host to the [[Venice|Venetian]] explorers [[Niccolò Polo|Niccolò]] and [[Maffeo Polo]] in 1257 and when Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, attacked Masyaf later in the same year.

==Source==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''

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