Ah Tabai

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'''Ah Tabai''' (1660s – unknown) was a [[Mayans|Mayan]] [[Assassins|Assassin]] during the early 18th century, and a [[Mentor]] operating in the [[Caribbean]].Two of his noteworthy students included [[Mary Read]] and [[Adéwalé]], both [[Piracy|pirates]] operating in the [[Caribbean]].

==Biography==
Born in the 1660's to the Assassin [[Bahlam]], Ah Tabai spent the entirety of his youth with the Assassins.

By 1717, he had risen to the rank of Mentor, and was present when Mary Read brought the pirate [[Edward Kenway]], who had killed the traitorous Assassin [[Duncan Walpole]] and stole his robes, to the Brotherhood base on [[Tulum]]. Tabai confronted the pirate for killing the Assassins sent after the [[Sages|Sage]] [[Bartholomew Roberts]] in [[Havana]], as well as completing Walpole's betrayal by handing over to the Templars the position of a number of Assassin bases in the Caribbean. However, Read noted that Kenway had "[[Eagle Vision|the Sense]]," and had met the Sage, for which Tabai asked if Kenway would recognize him. Read then took Kenway into a temple to test him and see if a bust of the Sage resembled Roberts.

By the time the two had returned, the village had already been seized by [[British Army|British soldiers]]. After Kenway worked to free both Assassins and his own crew, Tabai noted his noble actions, but remarked on his arrogance, stating that he had not earned the right to wear Assassin robes. Tabai declared Kenway absolved of his actions in Havana and elsewhere, though he would not be welcome in Tulum.

Ah Tabai next met Edward in [[Kingston]] in 1721, when he freed Edward from a {{Wiki|Gibbeting|gibbet}} before attempting to free Mary Read and [[Anne Bonny]] from prison. Though they successfully saved Anne together, Mary died, a result of sickness from her childbirth.

After drinking heavily to drown his sorrow at Mary's passing, Edward returned to Tulum at Adéwalé's request, where the latter criticized Edward's obsession with personal fame and glory, and lack of concern for anything else. Having come to terms with his flaws, Edward asked Ah Tabai to help him, as Mary's dying wish had been for Edward to make amends and join the Assassins.

Ah Tabai agreed, and the two briefly conversed about the principles of the Order, with Edward offering his perspective. Though admitting it was an undeveloped one, Ah Tabai nevertheless encouraged him that it was a significant step upward from the man he had met seven years before.

The two were, however, interrupted by a [[Spain|Spanish]] attack on the island, which Edward assisted in repelling. Following this, Ah Tabai assigned Edward three assassination targets - [[Woodes Rogers]], Bartholomew Roberts and the [[Templars|Templar]] [[Grand Master]], [[Laureano de Torres y Ayala]].

After Edward killed Torres in the [[Observatory]] in 1722, Ah Tabai congratulated before inserting the [[Crystal Skulls|crystal skull]] powering the Observatory back into place. He declared that the Observatory shall remain sealed until the next Sage is found. Edward then revealed that when he last arrived with Roberts, there were hundreds of [[blood vials]], and now they were all gone. He promised to help recover them, but only after he returned home to Bristol to his wife [[Caroline Scott|Caroline]]. Ah Tabai remorsefully gave Edward a letter which had arrived for him from [[United Kingdom|England]] a week prior.

Before leaving, Edward offered use of his base on [[Inagua|Great Inagua]] to Ah Tabai, despite his insistence that he believed, as [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] had, that the Order should decentralize and live with, rather than above, the people.

==Trivia==
*"Ah Tabai" is the name of a Mayan god of hunting and protector of animals.

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
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