Mentor (2000)

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{{Quote|No one ever gets to meet the '''Mentor'''. No one knows where he is or even what he looks like. Some of the guys think he's made up. '''Oz''', the Great and Powerful.|[[Hannah Mueller]].|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
{{Character Infobox
|name = Unknown
|image = MentorTheFall.png
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|birth =
|death = 6 November 2000<br>[[Dubai]], {{Wiki|United Arab Emirates}}
|period = [[Modern times]]
|faction = [[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''
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The '''Mentor''' (unknown - 2000), whose real name was unknown, served as the [[Mentor]] of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]]. An elderly man, the Mentor's years of service to the Assassin cause had imbued him with a worldly wisdom that allowed him to see the greater picture, and coordinate the activities of the Order.

To avoid the eyes of the Assassins' ancient enemies, the [[Templars]], the Mentor remained on the move, and frequently traveled between a number of offices across the world. Such was the Mentor's devotion to remaining undetected that he acquired an almost mythic reputation, and many of his fellow Assassins did not believe he truly existed.

While meeting with the up-and-coming Assassin, [[Daniel Cross]], at his facility in [[Dubai]], the Mentor was betrayed and killed by Daniel; a Templar sleeper agent who had been behaviorally conditioned to infiltrate the Assassin Order, and slay their leader.

==Biography==
===Guiding the Order===
{{Quote|I must always be three steps ahead of our enemies to ensure that power is '''balanced''' and not '''abused'''. [...] I must be everywhere at once, forever vigilant.|The Mentor.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}

The Mentor rose to his position some time prior to the year 2000. As the leader of the entire Order, the need for secrecy was his highest priority, and he thus led the Assassins from a distance.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #3</ref> Over time, he became something of a legendary figure to his followers, who, unsure of whether he even existed, likened their enigmatic leader to the fictional {{Wiki|Wizard of Oz (character)|Wizard of Oz}}.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #2">''Assassin's Creed: The Fall'' - Issue #2</ref>

The Mentor monitored the activities of different corporations and countries, and gathered the necessary intelligence to help history develop through free will, and not [[New World Order|force or dictation]]. His offices contained large libraries, as well as screens streaming news reports from around the world.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" /> He was once described to be a "strategic super-genius",<ref name="The Fall - Issue #2" /> as he could use this information to see the bigger picture, and direct the Assassins accordingly.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

As the world approached the dawn of the 21st century and a new millennium, the Mentor focused on the [[United States]] presidential election. With intelligence that the Templars planned to bring their puppet into office,<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" /> the Mentor began preparing countermeasures as early as 1997.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #2" />

===Daniel Cross===
{{Dialogue|Daniel|I feel like every step of my life has led me to this moment.|Mentor|We all have our purpose, Daniel. Yours is becoming clear to you. It's a very good thing you're on our side. You're very '''special'''.|Daniel meeting the Mentor.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
In 1998, the Mentor finally caught word of Daniel Cross, a young man with an unknown connection to the Assassins, and who was convinced he had "heard" the Mentor calling for Daniel to find him. This drove the young Assassin to seek out the Mentor, and receive some explanation of the constant [[Bleeding effect|visions]] he had of the [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]] of his great grandfather, [[Nikolai Orelov]].<ref name="The Fall - Issue #2" /> As Daniel described it, ''"I've seen how [[Humans|humanity]] began and I've seen our potential, but only '''he''' can unlock it."''<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

Over the next two years, Daniel visited the scattered Assassin camps all over the world, ignoring the others' insistence that his efforts to see the Mentor were futile. By 2000, the Mentor was impressed by Daniel's persistence, as well as interested in the visions he was having. He thus sent his men to retrieve Daniel, and bring him to his current residence in [[Dubai]].<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

[[File:ACF mentor daniel wake.png|thumb|250px|right|The Mentor rousing Daniel from his memories.]]
Though Daniel asked if the Mentor had called for him, the Mentor admitted that the voice Daniel had been hearing was "within", and not his own. He then told Daniel that he was eager to learn about him, since he seemed to be someone "of very unique value."<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

Wishing to see Daniel experience one of his visions, the Mentor instructed him to count down from 100 in [[Russia]]n, the language of his ancestor. Daniel obeyed, and the Mentor was fascinated to hear him relive another of Nikolai's memories.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

After Daniel's sense of the actual world returned, the Mentor showed him his offices. The two discussed the nature of the Assassins, and their role in the [[Modern Times|modern world]], with the Mentor explaining the responsibilities that came with his position.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

When the Mentor mentioned that one of his responsibilities was selecting a successor, Daniel was flattered, claiming that he was honored, and wouldn't let him down. The Mentor was amused at his assumption, and simply said that he had potential, but still had much to learn.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

===Assassination===
{{Quote|I thought you were better than this...|The Mentor's final words to Daniel.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}

[[File:DanielKillMentor.png|thumb|left|280px|Daniel killing the Mentor.]]
In the brief time they spent together, the Mentor decided to personally conduct Daniel's official [[initiation into the Assassin Order]]. However, when he presented the newly-inducted Assassin with his old, ceremonial [[Hidden Blade]], Daniel suddenly turned the [[Weapons|weapon]] on the Mentor himself, stabbing the Assassin leader in the throat.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

Unknown to either of the two, Daniel was a Templar sleeper agent,<ref name="Abstergo files">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' - [[Abstergo Files]]</ref> who had been subjected to behavioral conditioning designed to influence him to infiltrate the Assassins, seek out their leader, and kill him when given the chance.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

Confused and bleeding, the Mentor slumped to the floor of his office, realizing that the Templars were "smarter than we thought." After lamenting that he had thought Daniel to be better, the Mentor succumbed to his injuries.<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

==Personality and traits==
{{Quote|Give a man a chance to act '''honorably''', without '''manipulation''', and he usually will. For the sake of humanity, we '''have''' to believe that.|The Mentor.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}

[[File:ACF mentor book.png|thumb|250px|right|The Mentor in his Dubai office.]]
By the year 2000, the Mentor was an elderly man whose appearance was indicative of his years. His hair had grayed and his face was lined with wrinkles. He dressed in white, a color long associated with the Assassins.

Though he had been physically removed from the daily actions of the Assassins, the Mentor remained in possession of his ceremonial Hidden Blade, which he stored in a glass case within his Dubai office. The Mentor also kept at least one dog, which resembled a {{Wiki|German Shepherd}}.

The Mentor took pride in the legacy of the Assassin leaders that preceded him, and viewed his duties with solemnity and reverence. Since each Mentor trained their chosen successor, and imparted upon them their accumulated learnings, the Mentor described himself to be a "living conduit" of the Mentors before him, who possessed the "sum total of their experience and knowledge."

He held an understanding of human nature, and was aware of both genetic memory and the [[Animus|theoretical technology]] capable of accessing it. The Mentor also quickly recognized Daniel Cross' mysterious visions as an instance of the Bleeding effect.

The Mentor was an avid reader, and kept a substantial collection of books at his office in Dubai, including ''The Will of the Universe'' by {{Wiki|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky|K.E. Tsiolkovsky}}. He also elected to decorate the interior of his offices with several statues of notable figures from Assassin history; among them [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], [[Iltani]], and [[Marcus Junius Brutus]].<ref name="The Fall - Issue #3" />

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="left" position="center" widths="180">
ACF mentor daniel.png|The Mentor speaking with Daniel.
Fall 3 Mentor.png|The Mentor murdered.
</gallery>

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