Nikolai Orelov

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{{Quote|My father wanted this life, Anna, not I. He came to this country with a dream and made the Narodnaya Volya his cause. I do not know if I have the strength to serve the Order of Assassins as he did.|Nikolai Orelov to [[Anna|his wife]].|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
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'''Nikolai Andreievich Orelov''' was a [[Russia]]n [[Assassins|Assassin]] who lived during the late 19th and early 20th century. A member of the [[Russian Assassins|Russian branch of the Assassin Order]], the [[Narodnaya Volya]], Nikolai was, notably, closely involved in the hunt for the Imperial Sceptre of the Royal family, which was secretly one of the [[Staves of Eden]].

Nikolai was responsible for several notorious events during his career as an Assassin. In 1888, when tasked when assassinating [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]], the fight that ensued between the two men accidentally caused the [[Borki train disaster]]. Twenty years later, in an attempt to retrieve the Imperial Sceptre from a facility in [[Tunguska]], Nikolai's failure to get the artifact out of the facility caused the object to explode when [[Nikola Tesla]] broadcasted a burst of electricity to it, resulting in a massive explosion known as the [[Tunguska explosion|Tunguska event]].

He was the great-grandfather of [[Daniel Cross]], an individual who would cause the [[fall of the Assassin Order]] generations later.

==Biography==
===Early life===
{{Quote|I see [Alek] in my dreams, Anna. He calls to me, pleading for me to help him. To save him from the gallows. And I cannot.|Nikolai, about his nightmares during his early life.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
Orelov was born in the latter half of the 19th century. His father, [[Andrei Orelov]], immigrated to Russia and became a devoted member of the Narodnaya Volya, a left-wing terrorist offspring of the [[Russian Assassins|Russian Assassin Brotherhood]]. He decided to raise Nikolai as an Assassin as well, and thus had him start his training at a young age. In the Assassin Order, he befriended [[Aleksandr Ulyanov]] and his younger brother, who would later go by the name [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref name="ACTF1">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #1</ref>

On May 20, 1887, Nikolai witnessed the execution of Aleksandr after the latter was captured during a failed assassination attempt on [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]]. As the rope was put around Aleksandr's neck, he pointed his finger towards Nikolai, meaning that he found Nikolai guilty for not rescuing him. This traumatic event caused Nikolai to have nightmares for the next year.<ref name="ACTF1" />

===Borki train disaster===
{{Quote|Russia will soon be strong and free from imperial rule, an example to the world. But I fear that I will fail our master again.|Nikolai about his mission to Crimea.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
[[File:ACTF_1_Legion_CPS_013.jpg|thumb|left|Nikolai rides for the Imperial train.]]
Sometime in 1888, Nikolai woke in bed after having another nightmare about the death of his close friend, Aleksandr Ulyanov. He confided in his wife, [[Anna Orelov|Anna]], that he felt deeply responsible for his death. She told him that Alek knew the risks when he joined the Brotherhood. Nikolai then confided in her that the [[Mentor]] had tasked him with assassinating Tsar Alexander III, an ally of the [[Templars|Templar Order]], in order to loosen the Templars' grip on the region. Anna wished him safety in his mission, for she needed him to help raise their child, with whom she was pregnant.<ref name="ACTF1"/>

Nikolai rode on horseback to Crimea in Ukraine the next morning, chasing the Imperial train. After infiltrating the train, Nikolai killed several patrolling [[guards]] and extorted information from another. Making his way to the royal carriage, Orelov burst through a door with his gun raised and was shocked to find the entire Royal family traveling, when he had been told only the Tsar was aboard. Alexander III attacked him from behind for threatening his family and the two fought. However, Nikolai managed to stab Alexander in the right kidney, though the Tsar was not seriously injured. During the fight between the two men, the train careered off the tracks and crashed.<ref name="ACTF1" />

[[File:Alexander's mercy.png|thumb|200px|Tsar Alexander III about to kill Nikolai.]]
Whilst Nikolai was recovering from the crash, Alexander III started beating Orelov down while taunting him about killing his loved ones. Alexander III then pulled out a [[Staves of Eden|Staff of Eden]] from a box among the remains of the dining cart and challenged the Assassin to kill him with it, throwing the Staff to him. Despite wielding the Staff and relying upon his Assassin training, Nikolai was defeated by the physically superior Alexander, but was spared death when the Tsar's children came into view. Nikolai fled to report his failure to the Order.<ref name="ACTF1" />

At some point within the next twenty years, Nikolai and Anna's child was somehow "lost", before or after it was born, causing Nikolai to become bitter and filled with anger, which caught the attention of his Brothers.<ref name="ACTF2">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #2</ref>

===Tunguska event===
{{Dialogue|First Assassin|Are Brother Orelov's methods always so... savage?|Second Assassin|He was a gentler man when I met him, years ago. Before they lost the child.|Nikolai's Assassin cohorts discuss his motives.}}
[[File:Orelov_&_Dolinsky_v.png|thumb|left|280px|Nikolai tortures Dolinsky.]]
In 1908, the Assassins captured a Templar named [[Dolinsky]] who was tortured by Orelov in order to reveal where the Staff of Eden had gone following his failure. Two other Assassins were present and one noted that his methods were extremely harsh, while the other replied that it was because Orelov had lost his child. Under threats to his family, Dolinsky revealed that the facility that housed the Staff was located in Siberia and Orelov set off for [[Tunguska]].<ref name="ACTF2" />

The Mentor requested that Nikolai and his fellow Assassins retrieved the Staff of Eden, which was being tested with electrical machines based upon designs stolen from their ally, [[Nikola Tesla]]. While approaching the facility, which had a Tesla coil built above it. Orelov explained to the others that Tesla stood ready with his teleforce weapon in [[United States|America]], ready to destroy the facility, and noted that they had to make haste to retrieve the object.<ref name="ACTF2" />

[[File:Nikolai_lying-The_Fall2.jpg|thumb|252px|Orelov, after the explosion at Tunguska.]]
Nikolai and his comrades stormed the facility, killing all of the Templar guards within. When Orelov reached the top, the Staff of Eden had been activated by the electrical current. He heard voices coming from it, saying things like "[[Rodrigo Borgia|Always the fighter]]," "[[Adam]], I have it," "Just like [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|your]] [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze|father]]," and "[[Eve]]." At that moment, the vengeful Tesla activated his weapon with the words "Rot in hell, [[Thomas Edison|Thomas]]," and the facility was destroyed while the Staff and the Assassins were still in it. Orelov was the only survivor, laying with his clothes in tatters, on the edge of the explosion mumbling that the Staff had been destroyed.<ref name="ACTF2" /> Nikolai returned home to Anna, "bleached and broken," who welcomed him with a look of horror and grief.<ref name="ACTF3">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #3</ref>

Nikolai and Anna had another child, a daughter, a few years afterwards.<ref name="ACTF3"/>

===Search for the shard===
{{Quote|I no longer consider myself a crusader for change, but I must find the splinter of the artifact. First, however, I need to learn more about it.|Nikolai's personal thoughts on the Shard, 1917.|Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy}}
[[File:Orelov_Rev_v.png|thumb|250px|left|Nicholas II watches as Orelov reaches for the fake Staff.]]
In 1917, Vladimir Lenin was leading a revolution against the Tsarist royal house. Lenin had personally sent a letter to Nikolai, asking for him to dispose of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]] and thus eliminate the last symbol of Imperialism. Nikolai did infiltrate Nicholas' residence, asking him for the location of the Staff, which he had spotted on a picture of the Tsar. Nicholas, threatened, brought Nikolai to the Staff, though Nikolai was quickly able to conclude that it was a fake. He said that the real Staff had a light shining from within and that when looked into it, one could see "the turn of the world and a glimpse of what lies beyond."<ref name="ACTF3"/>

He broke the fake Staff, proving it was indeed a replica. When Nicholas asked him to spare his family just like he spared his father's if he would kill him, he replied that he wouldn't kill him, saying that he did "not care any longer" and that he only wanted to make sure that the Staff was indeed destroyed. He did warn Nicholas that the next Assassin to come after him wouldn't be as objective as him, however.<ref name="ACTF3"/>

Nikolai proceeded to leave the building via a window, but not before hearing Nicholas confirm to him that [[Grigori Rasputin]] had worn a splinter around his neck, which was of the same material as the Staff, according to Nikolai's description.<ref name="ACTF3"/>

Traveling to [[Krasnoyarsk]], the aged Assassin scaled the walls of the city's asylum and broke into the cell holding [[Khioniya Guseva]], one of Grigori Rasputin's former disciples who had attempted to assassinate him. Nikolai offered to free Guseva in exchange for the information he sought, forcibly taking her by the hand and leading her from the building.<ref name="Erudito Industries">''[http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=128849663818621&sk=app_4949752878 Erudito Industries]''</ref>

[[File:PL-OMINOUS PROPHECY.jpg|thumb|250px|Orelov killing Khioniya Guseva.]]
After bribing a priest, the two took refuge in the city's Svyato-Troitsky Cathedral. Guseva then revealed the details of her attempt on Rasputin's life; how, despite her stabbing and mutilating him where he stood, Rasputin survived the attempt, thanks to his shard from the Staff. She then informed Nikolai that her facial wounds had been self-inflicted; her own hands, controlled by Rasputin and the shard. At her request, Nikolai then killed Guseva with his [[hidden blade]].<ref name="Erudito Industries"/>

Nikolai and two other men went to search for Rasputin's grave and upon finding it, dug him up. Examining the corpse, Nikolai searched for the splinter that Nicholas II had mentioned, finding is and then returning to Anna, who was waiting for him in their carriage.<ref name="ACTF3"/>

===Later life===
{{Quote|Whatever debt I owed my father and Alek has been paid. Tonight we start anew.|Nikolai about starting a new life with Anna.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
Some time after taking the splinter from Rasputin's corpse, Nikolai chose to retire and abruptly cut his ties with the Assassin Order. Along with [[Nikolai Orelov's daughter|their daughter]], Nikolai and Anna crossed Russia's borders and boarded a ship bound for the [[United States]], where they started a new life together and had another child some time later,<ref name="ACTF3"/> [http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Nikolai_Orelov%27s_son a son.] <ref name="ACTF2"/>

==Characteristics and personality==
{{Quote|I began as a crusader for change and now I am no better than a common grave-robber.|Nikolai Orelov to his wife, after recovering the shard of the Staff from Rasputin's grave.|Assassin's Creed: The Fall}}
[[File:NikolaiOrelov.png|thumb|150px|left|Nikolai with his family, on the boat to America.]]
At an early age, Nikolai was trained as an Assassin, though this was his father's choice, not his, and he sometimes showed disdain in his life as an Assassin. Nikolai also felt massive guilt from Aleksandr Ulyanov's death, which haunted him for over a year.<ref name="ACTF1"/> Though despairing in his life as a Assassin, Nikolai's personality went through a massive change after the death of his first child.<ref name="ACTF2"/>

Following the loss of his child, Nikolai became bitter and unflinching, no longer lamenting his role as an Assassin. Nikolai also became noticeably more heavy-handed in his actions as a result of his loss, showing little compassion or lenience towards Dolinsky, a Templar that had recently been captured, and even made threats against the man's innocent family in order to coerce some information from the man. During this interrogation, Nikolai's two Assassin counterparts remarked on how the death of Nikolai's child had driven him to become as "savage" as he was, and that before, he had been a gentler man.<ref name="ACTF2"/>

Orelov wore a large fur coat with the traditional Assassin's hood. He wielded one hidden blade, a [[dagger]], a [[wikipedia:Sabre|sabre]] and a [[wikipedia:Mosin–Nagant|rifle]]. He also wore a sash and a baldric with the [[Assassin insignia]] on it.

==Trivia==
*Nikolai's surname, Orelov, is not a Russian name; the closest match being "Orlov" (Оpлов), which means ''"сын орла"'' (syn orla), or "son of eagle." Other Assassins such as [[Aquilus]], [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] and [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] also contain references to eagles in their names.
*Nikolai's portrait is available as a patron image in [[Multiplayer/ACR|Assassin's Creed: Revelations Multiplayer]] after purchasing the [[Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack|Mediterranean Traveller Map pack]] DLC.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="160" position="center" bordersize="medium" captionalign="center">
Orelov rifle.png|Nikolai about to shoot the Royal family.
ACTF 2 Legion CPS 009.jpg|Nikolai before the Tunguska event.
ACTF 2 Legion CPS 023.jpg|Nikolai during the Tunguska event.
PL-SIBERIAN WINTER.jpg|Orelov on his road to Krasnoyarsk.
PL-THE ASYLUM.jpg|Nikolai before Guseva's prison.
Rasputin's Grave.png|Orelov searching Rasputin's body.
Orelov_&_Anna_v.png|Orelov shows his wife the shard of the Staff.
</gallery>

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Ippokratous

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[[File:Ipokratous.jpg|thumb|200px|Ippokratous]]
'''Ippokratous (Ih-poh-krah-tus)''' is a multiplayer map in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]] ''and a real life village located in the city of ''[[Rhodes]] .''
==''Architecture''==
The architecture in Ippokratous is fairly greek with a mix of turkish and arabic patterns trimming the buildings. It looks like a poor village with ruins and old greek temples.

==Source==
*===[http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/11/03/assassins-creed-revelations-multiplayer-showcase?objectid=93900 Assassin's Creed: Revelations Multiplayer Trailer]===
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