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Medeya Voronina

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{{Quote|What happened to us? What happened to our future? What kind of world am I leaving to my twin girls?|Voronina wondering about the fate of her Brotherhood, 1991.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
[[File:ACi-Matricide.jpg|250px|thumb|Galina and her mother]]
The '''mother''' of [[Galina Voronina]] (unknown – 20 March 2014) was a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]] and the [[Mentor]] of the [[Russian Assassins]], also working as a scientist in a cell located in an old Assassin laboratory in [[Protvino]], outside of [[Moscow]].

==Biography==
===Life in Protvino===
{{Quote|We had hoped to return to our roots, but now our own Mentor is dead. Suddenly, we are aimless, without vision. Without a strong leader, we are losing influence with our government, and funding is drying up.|Voronina, on the Brotherhood after Stalin's assassination, 1953.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
Living in one of the Assassin Science Cities, facilities provided by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] for research, Voronina saw the [[Russian Assassins|Russian Brotherhood]] struggle to regain its footing after the [[World War II|war]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s regime. Without their [[Mentor]], they were left aimless and started to lose influence in the government, as well as funding for their projects. In July 1953, Voronina found her mother's old journal and decided to write in it from then on.<ref name="ACI MT">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Modern Times</ref>

[[File:ABrashAmerican.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Voronina receiving schematics of the Animus from William]]
In 1977, while stealing animals from the Moscow zoo to use for testing, she witnessed a man being chased by [[Templars|Templar]] footsoldiers and decided to intervene. After having killed the men, she was surprised to find their quarry had been an [[United States|American]] Assassin called [[William Miles|William]]. As thanks, William gave her blueprints of the [[Animus]], which he had stolen from [[Abstergo Industries]], and asked her to construct the device before the Templars could. He then had her promise to keep him informed about their progress.<ref name="ACI MT"/>

As William made to leave, she asked him how she would be able to contact him. William told her they would use their present location, the footbridge between the zoo's old and new properties, as a meeting place, instructing her to come during full moon if she ever needed him. Still confused, Voronina asked him how he would know whether or not she had been there. William revealed there was another Assassin cell within the city, surprising the Russian Assassin, who had been unaware of this. As he was to meet said cell shortly, William then departed.<ref name="ACI MT"/>

Voronina was unable to understand what exactly she had been asked to build, and was hampered by a lack of resources in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Even after more than a decade, she and her allies understood very little about the Animus, with the few subjects that had used it emerging as madmen. As a result, most of her fellow Assassins failed to see the use of the project, desiring to either weaponize it or abandon it altogether. Not wanting to create even more victims, she chose to be the machine's sole test subject, causing her sanity to be slowly frayed away by the [[Bleeding Effect]].<ref name="ACI MT"/>

===Descent into madness===
{{Quote|One by one, she forces the last of us into her machine in her desperate quest to save us and our cause.|Avdotya Voronina, 2013.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
In late December 2012, a sudden power surge occurred while Voronina was in the Animus, causing her to experience a vision of [[Eve]], or so she thought. Believing it to be a sign, she redoubled her efforts and began forcing the remaining members of her cell into the machine. Her desperation pushed her to continue, disregarding the fact that one by one, she was driving her comrades insane. By late June 2013, her two daughters were the only sane individuals within the compound, with the maddened Assassins having been sealed away in another part of the facility.<ref name="ACI MT"/>

On the 28th of June, the deranged Assassins began amassing near the lab of Galina's mother, seemingly waiting for something. Simultaneously, the Russian government announced its plans to dissolve the Russian Academy of Sciences and take control of its remaining properties and facilities. Driven to despair, Galina's mother forced her daughters into the Animus, clinging to the hope that it might save their cause.<ref name="ACI MT"/> Out of the two, only Galina emerged relatively unscathed from the machine and would subsequently learn the skills of her ancestors through the Bleeding Effect.<ref name="ACI S">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Surveillance</ref>

Due to her brittle state of mind, Voronina was eventually possessed by [[Juno]], who had been lurking inside the facility's computer network ever since her release from the [[Grand Temple]]. At some point, her daughter Galina escaped the compound and managed to enlist the help of [[Gavin Banks]], [[Emmanuel Barraza]] and [[Emmett Leary]], Assassins from the ''[[Altaïr II]]'', asking them to assassinate her mother. On 20 March, they entered the laboratory in Protvino, where Galina almost single-handedly killed all the remaining Russian Assassins, among them her twin sister.<ref name="ACI S"/>

They then broke into Voronina's lab, finding her strapped to the Animus and babbling about a [[Aita|lost husband]] and [[the Grey]], while images of Juno<ref>[https://twitter.com/acinitiates/status/446662520221085696/photo/1 ''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' (Twitter) – "A monster in the machine."]</ref> appeared on monitors on a nearby wall. Voronina was subsequently put out of her misery when Galina plunged her [[Hidden Blade]] into her mother's brain. At the same time, Juno screamed and disappeared from the monitors.<ref name="ACI S"/>

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Galina Voronina's grandmother

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{{Quote|It's hard to believe that she was once so young and optimistic. I wonder if she would recognize the Brotherhood or the Academy today.|Galina Voronina's mother, upon finding her mother's journal, 1953|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
[[File:ACI-Assassin Science Cities.jpg|thumb|300px|Galina Voronina's grandmother (fourth from the right), December 1917]]
The '''grandmother''' of [[Galina Voronina]] was a member of the Russian Brotherhood of [[Assassins]], and the wife of fellow Assassin [[Sergei]].

She was recruited into the Brotherhood by her future husband in 1911. In December 1917, she and Sergei joined a community of scientists, revolutionaries and Assassins at a facility in [[Protvino]] provided by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]].

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*''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Modern Times: "Assassin Science Cities"
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Sergei

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{{Quote|You have seen things that no other man alive has seen, been given messages intended for the Order that must never fall into the hands of our enemies. Don't be so selfish.|Sergei to Nikolai after he refused to return to Russia, 1926.|Assassin's Creed: The Chain}}
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|image = ACTC-Sergei_Render.png|250px
|birth =
|death = January 1926 Near {{Wiki|Manchester, Connecticut|Manchester}}, [[Connecticut]], [[United States]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|Bureau of Investigation]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''}}
'''Sergei''' (unknown – 1926) was a member of the [[Russian Assassins|Russian Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]] and a scientist at an Assassin laboratory in [[Protvino]]. He was [[Galina Voronina]]'s grandfather.

==Biography==
===Assassin scientist===
In 1911, Sergei recruited a [[Galina Voronina's grandmother|woman]] into the Brotherhood, who later became his wife. In December 1917, they joined a community of scientists, revolutionaries, and Assassins at a facility in Protvino provided to the Brotherhood by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="ACI ASC">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Modern Times: "Assassin Science Cities"</ref>

In late 1918, he met with [[Nikolai Orelov]] in [[Moscow]], who had requested the Assassins to protect [[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna]] from the Templars. Informing Nikolai that he had to report to the local Assassin bureau, Sergei promised to bring Anastasia to meet their Mentor, but she instead ended up in captivity inside their hideout near {{Wiki|Spasskaya Tower}}.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>

===Tracking Orelov===
{{Quote|Under orders from our hidden leader, Sergei left our compound to hunt down Nikolai Orelov, the defector, and reclaim the Shard of Eden in his possession. It was a move born of desperation, and we have not heard from him in two years. I fear the worst.|Sergei's wife, 1928|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
In 1926, Sergei was tasked by the [[Mentor]] – hiding from persecution by the [[Templars|Templar]]-influenced [[Joseph Stalin|Stalinist]] regime – to track down [[Nikolai Orelov]], who had left the Brotherhood and fled [[Russia]] with his family, taking the shard of the [[Staves of Eden|Staff of Eden]] that was destroyed in the [[Tunguska explosion]] with him.<ref name="ACI FH">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Modern Times: "Fading Hope"</ref> Sergei tracked Nikolai down to [[Connecticut]] in the [[United States]] in January 1926, with help from Assassins within the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|Bureau of Investigation]].<ref name="ACTC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref>

Arriving at Nikolai's cabin in the woods, Sergei found his son [[Innokenti Orelov|Innokenti]] and asked where his father was. Hearing voices, Nikolai walked out of the cabin, and Sergei urged Nikolai to come back to Russia with him. Upon hearing Nikolai's refusal, Sergei expressed his disappointment at Nikolai's decision to keep the information from his vision at [[Tunguska]] to himself, stating that it must never fall into the hands of the Templars.<ref name="ACTC"/>

Sergei then grabbed Innokenti, calling Nikolai greedy for having taken the shard of the Staff with him, and wondered if the Assassins should not take something small in return, holding a knife up to Innokenti's face. He was taken off-guard when Nikolai disarmed him with a frying pan, and was knocked to the ground. He was then strangled to death by Nikolai, whilst futily attempting to stop his former comrade.<ref name="ACTC"/>

==Gallery==
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small" widths="240">
ACI-Assassin Science Cities.jpg|Photograph of inhabitants of the Protvino laboratory, December 1917
SergeiDeath.jpg|Sergei's death
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Avdotya Voronina

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[[File:ACI Galina Voronina & sister.png|thumb|250px|Galina consoling Avdotya]]
'''Avdotya Voronina'''<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref> (30 July 1983 – 20 March 2014) was a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]] and part of a cell operating from an Assassin Science City in [[Protvino]], [[Moscow]]. Born to an [[Galina Voronina's mother|Assassin scientist]], she was also the twin sister of [[Galina Voronina|Galina]], and granddaughter of [[Sergei]] and [[Galina Voronina's grandmother|another scientist]].<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>

In 2013, she began writing in her grandmother's [[Voronina journal|journal]], detailing the [[Russia]]n government's decision to dissolve the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], which the Assassins had long used as a cover for their operations. She also wrote about her mother's experiments with the [[Animus]] and how she and all other Assassins had gone insane from the [[Bleeding Effect]].<ref name="ACI"/>

Her mother eventually forced her to take Animus sessions as well, and she inevitably fell victim to the Bleeding Effect. On 20 March 2014, with the support of the crew of the ''[[Altaïr II]]'', Galina attacked the Protvino laboratory and killed all the Assassins present, including her sister.<ref name="ACI"/>

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Galina Voronina

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{{Quote|I went into it like everyone else and learned to fight from my ancestors. I just didn't go crazy.|Galina on her use of the Animus, 2014.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
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|image = ACS Galina Voronina render.png
|birth = 30 July 1983 [[Protvino]], [[Russia|Russian SFSR]], [[Russia|Soviet Union]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Assassins ]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice = [[Patricia Summersett]]}}
'''Galina Voronina''' (born 1983) is a [[Master Assassin]] of the [[Russian Assassins|Russian Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]]. She is also one of the daughters of an [[Galina Voronina's mother|Assassin scientist]] who succeeded in constructing her own [[Animus]] inside an old Assassin laboratory, located in [[Protvino]], [[Moscow]].

After gaining the assistance of [[Gavin Banks]] and his allies in 2014, Galina assassinated her mother, [[Avdotya Voronina|sister]] and former Assassin comrades, who had been driven insane through the [[Bleeding Effect]]. In doing so, she became the last of the Russian Assassins, leading her to later accept Gavin's offer to become part of the ''[[Altaïr II]]<nowiki>'</nowiki>''s crew.
==Biography==
===Early life===
{{Quote|What happened to us? What happened to our future? What kind of world am I leaving to my twin girls?|Galina's mother on the deteriorating Russian Brotherhood, 1991.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
Galina and her twin sister were born to an Assassin scientist who worked in one of the Assassin Science Cities, facilities that belonged to the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], but were used by the Assassins for research since the early 20th century. The twins grew up in one such compound, located in Protvino, Moscow, which served as their home and hideout. By 1991, it was the only Assassin Science City left, with the others having been eradicated by the nation's increasingly powerful [[Templars]].<ref name="ACI MT">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – "Modern Times"</ref>

Raised as Assassins, Galina and her sister bore witness to the [[Russian Assassins|Russian Brotherhood]]'s further decline, which their mother desperately tried to reverse by using the Animus she had built. The experiments, however, proved to be a disaster; the subjects were driven insane and subsequently sealed off in another section of the compound. Not wanting to create even more victims, the twins' mother chose to be the machine's sole test subject, causing her sanity to be slowly frayed away by the Bleeding Effect.<ref name="ACI MT" />

In December 2012, a sudden power surge caused the twins' mother to experience a vision of [[Eve]], which she took as a sign to redouble her efforts. While the Assassin scientist forced the remaining members of her cell into the Animus, Galina was told of an old Assassin meeting place, the footbridge that connected the old and new properties of the Moscow Zoo. On the instruction of her twin sister, who had learned of the location from their [[Voronina journal|grandmother's journal]], Galina began to visit the bridge every full moon, in the hopes that she could contact other Assassins.<ref name="ACI MT" />

[[File:ACi-Unexpected Dissolution.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Galina consoling her sister]]
On 28 June 2013, the Russian government announced its plans to put all of the Russian Academy of Sciences' remaining property and facilities under its control, putting the remaining Russian Assassins in danger. Both Galina and her twin sister, the last two sane individuals in the facility, were subsequently forced into the Animus.<ref name="ACI MT" /> However, unlike the others, Galina was able to remain mentally stable and used the Bleeding Effect to learn the techniques of her ancestors.<ref name="ACI S">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – "Surveillance"</ref>
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===Clearing the science city===
{{Quote|We have established contact with an Assassin in Moscow, Galina Voronina [...] She wants us to assassinate her mother, an Assassin scientist who went nuts.|An excerpt from Emmett's report, 2014.|Assassin's Creed: Initiates}}
Escaping the laboratory, Galina continued visiting the footbridge and eventually made contact with Gavin Banks, [[Emmett Leary]] and [[Emmanuel Barraza]], Assassins from the ''Altaïr II'', on 16 March 2014 in Moscow. She informed them of the Russian Brotherhood's situation, before asking them to assassinate her mother. Reconvening with the trio of Assassins two days later to discuss plans, she managed to convince Gavin into aiding her. During their meeting, Emmett attempted to explain to her that her mother could not have been speaking to Eve, as experiences in the Animus were purely passive, though Galina did not seem convinced.<ref name="ACI S" />

Accompanied by her new allies, Galina journeyed back to Protvino, which was crawling with deranged Assassins, and broke into the laboratory. Although she had requested the back-up of Gavin and his team, Galina hardly needed help, using her two [[Hidden Blade]]s to put their attackers, among them her twin sister, out of their misery.<ref name="ACI S" />

[[File:ACi-Matricide.jpg|thumb|250px|Galina mourning her mother's death]]
Eventually they found Galina's babbling mother strapped to the ancient Animus she had constructed, in a room filled with monitors. As Galina knelt down next to her mother, Emmett watched the screens, believing to see a [[Juno|face]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/acinitiates/status/446662520221085696/photo/1 ''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' (Twitter) - "A monster in the machine"]</ref> in them. When Galina ended her mother's life, the face cried out, before vanishing.<ref name="ACI S" />

Following the assassination of her mother, Galina was convinced by Gavin to join him aboard the ''Altaïr II'', as her Brotherhood had become practically non-existent. Traveling with him to [[St. Petersburg]], she met the rest of the [[Ships|ship]]'s crew on the 26th of March.<ref name="ACI S" />

===Back into the Brotherhood===
On 24 April, Galina, along with the rest of the ''Altaïr II''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew, was tasked with deciphering the riddles in [[William Miles]]' [[William Miles' Codex|codex]], in an effort to determine William's whereabouts. Eventually, they located a [[William's Secret Bunker|hidden cove]] in [[Norway]], where the ''Altaïr II'' docked on 1 May 2014.<ref name="ACI S" />

When [[Rebecca Crane]] began upgrading the systems on the ''Altaïr II'', she discovered that a spy on the ship was uploading reports to a database run by a group called the [[Initiates]]. Unlike the rest of the crew, Galina was above suspicion, since she had only been with them for roughly a month; too short a time to have planted the bugs used by the Initiates. While the others were confined to their quarters on the ship until they could be interrogated and cleared of suspicion, Galina stayed in the bunker.<ref name="ACI S" />

[[File:ACi-YourHumbledSpy.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Galina preparing to kill Stephanie]]
On 23 May, William finally gathered the crew members to announce the identity of the spy, naming [[Stephanie Chiu]] as the culprit. On William's command, Galina moved to kill Stephanie, but [[Eric Cooper]] intervened, revealing he was the spy instead. The two eventually confessed they worked together, with Eric writing the reports while Stephanie uploaded them to the Initiates database. William then revealed he had no intention of having them killed, as the Initiates appeared "fairly reasonable". Shaun then sent a video to the Initiates, offering them to join the Assassins.<ref name="ACI S" />

In October, an Assassin group led by Gavin Banks, Galina among them, attacked and destroyed the Abstergo facility in [[Paris]], which was dedicated to the research and study of the [[Sages|Sage]] [[John Standish]].<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref> She and [[Shaun Hastings]] personally confronted [[Álvaro Gramática]], with Galina attempting to kill the scientist with a grenade; however, Gramática survived thanks to the [[Shrouds of Eden|Shroud of Eden]] that he was wearing.<ref name="ACS">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>

After the attack, the Assassins were followed by Templar agent [[Juhani Otso Berg]] and his right hand, [[Sorkin]]. Galina faced Sorkin and overpowered him, stabbing Sorkin multiple times before the Assassins escaped with the ships that were waiting them.<ref name="ACRG" />

===Finding the Shroud===
{{Quote|Bishop tells me Otso Berg is here. I will kill him for you!|Galina to Shaun Hastings, 2015.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
In late October 2015, Galina was contacted by [[Bishop]], who asked her to meet up with [[Shaun Hastings]] and [[Rebecca Crane]] in [[London]] and help them locate a [[Shrouds of Eden|Shroud of Eden]]. Arriving at night, she snuck up on Shaun, who had been reminiscing about an [[Desmond Miles|old friend]], and made him jump. When Shaun recalled their mission in Paris, Galina teased him for "screaming like a baby". She then eagerly told him she would kill Berg.<ref name="ACS" />

[[File:ACS Stay With Me 2.png|thumb|250px|Galina with Rebecca and Shaun in the Buckingham Palace vault]]
Once the Shroud's location was found by an Assassin [[Helix initiate|initiate]], Galina, Shaun and Rebecca traveled to [[Buckingham Palace]]'s vault and immediately engaged Berg, [[Violet da Costa]] and [[Isabelle Ardant]], who had arrived there ahead of the Assassins. For a while, Galina and Berg were evenly matched, with Berg managing to break her Hidden Blades, though she eventually gained the upper hand and knocked him unconscious.<ref name="ACS" />

Just as she was about to kill Berg by delivering a deadly blow to his head, the rest of Sigma Team arrived, forcing her to abandon her target and take out the reinforcements, leaving Berg alive in the process. Once they had been dealt with, she returned to Shaun and Rebecca, with the latter having been shot during the struggle, and told them it was time to go.<ref name="ACS" />

===Recruiting de la Cruz===
{{Quote|We kill him. A traitor almost ended the Brotherhood... and now you want to open the door for another one to finish the job?|Galina voicing her doubts about Joseph to Xavier, 2015.|Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)}}
By late 2015, Galina was assigned to a new Assassin cell in [[California]], which was led by [[Xavier Chen]]. In September, a respected Assassin called [[Joseph Laurier]], who had been thought dead, resurfaced and appeared to be joining the Templars. However, he had simultaneously sent Xavier's cell a message, claiming he was actually trying to lure out one of the Templars' top agents by promising to help them find a [[Piece of Eden]] purportedly located in [[Salem]] at the time of the [[Salem witch trials|witch trials]].<ref name="AC Comic #1">''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]]'' #001</ref>

The group felt conflicted over whether or not to trust him; Xavier was inclined to believe Joseph, but Galina thought it better to kill him, wanting to avoid a repeat of the [[Daniel Cross]] debacle. To verify whether or not his story about the artifact was a set-up, the Assassins decided to search for an individual with the necessary [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]]. [[Kody]], the cell's technician, hacked [[Abstergo Industries]]' [[Helix]] databases and found [[Charlotte de la Cruz]], an employee at [[Malta Banking Corporation]] in [[San Diego]].<ref name="AC Comic #1" />

[[File:Galinaleaping.png|thumb|250px|Galina leaping out of Charlotte's apartment]]
Galina and Xavier then went to San Diego to recruit Charlotte, who was enthusiastic about the prospect of aiding the Brotherhood. Their meeting was interrupted, however, when a group of men sent by the Templars arrived at Charlotte's apartment and attacked them. The two Assassins managed to eliminate them, following which they took Charlotte to their hideout located near the [[Salton Sea]], where they put her in an Animus in order to relive the memories of her ancestor, [[Thomas Stoddard|Tom Stoddard]], an Assassin active during the witch trials.<ref name="AC Comic #1" />

However, Stoddard's ruthless nature clashed repeatedly with Charlotte's moral compass, causing the young woman to struggle with staying synchronized. As a result, Galina had little faith in their new recruit, which Chen objected to, leading the two to argue frequently.<ref name="AC Comic #2">''Assassin's Creed'' #002</ref> Later on, Kody informed Galina and Xavier of his discovery that the Templar [[Didier Hawking]], a "memory-hacking genius", was the one Joseph was supposedly trying to lure out.<ref name="AC Comic #3">''Assassin's Creed'' #003</ref>

[[File:ACComic Galina Punch.jpg|thumb|left|Galina punching Xavier]]
Deciding that finding answers in the past had become irrelevant, Galina ordered Kody to desynchronize Charlotte so they could move out and kill Joseph before he gave up the Brotherhood's secrets. When he hesitated, she moved forward and forcefully disconnected Charlotte herself. Xavier grabbed Galina by the shoulders in an attempt to intervene, but she retaliated by punching him and claiming he was a failure as a leader.<ref name="AC Comic #3" />

Charlotte interrupted, claiming she needed to go back, as [[Consus]] had said the mission was not yet finished. At the mention of the [[Isu|First Civilization]] being, Galina briefly hesitated, before reasserting that they needed to deal with Joseph. Xavier then drew a gun, threatening to shoot Galina if she prevented Charlotte from resynching with Stoddard's memories.<ref name="AC Comic #3" />

Before the situation could escalate any further, Kody intervened, informing his teammates that Charlotte could relive Stoddard's memories as they drove back to San Diego. Galina and Xavier complied and the group prepared to leave the Salton Sea hideout, with Galina setting the safe house on fire so any traces of their presence would be destroyed.<ref name="AC Comic #3" />

=== Confronting a traitor ===
Some hours later, as the group was arriving in San Diego, Charlotte finally discovered that Joseph's ancestor in Salem, [[Jennifer Querry]], died before witnessing the hiding place of the Piece of Eden, meaning Joseph had been telling the truth. After parking near the Templar safe house, Kody intended to hack into the building's security cameras, but instead found a file on Joseph that revealed Xavier had overseen the mission during which Joseph had disappeared. Galina scolded Xavier for risking their lives by attempting to make up for past mistakes. Despite the tension between them, Galina and Xavier headed out shortly thereafter to save Joseph.<ref name="AC Comic #4">''Assassin's Creed'' #004</ref>

Galina and Xavier found Joseph in a gym, where he confirmed her suspicions by lashing out at them. Galina struck back but he broke her leg, and then she watched as he and Xavier fell into the gym's pool, where Xavier was strangled and drowned to death. Joseph prepared to finish her off, but Charlotte appeared and leaped to her defense. Joseph tried to sway her to his side, detonating a bomb upstairs to prove he was still an Assassin, albeit a rogue one. He also claimed the Assassins had recruited Charlotte because she had precognitive powers. Abstergo burst in the room to kill Joseph, and Charlotte carried Galina out through an air vent. They came out in a maintenance room, where Charlotte discovered she had accidentally killed an asthmatic [[Brad|employee]] she'd bound and gagged to cover her intrusion.<ref name="AC Comic #5">''Assassin's Creed'' #005</ref>

Charlotte loaded Galina into their van. Galina ordered Kody inform Gavin and that a team be sent to Salem, but Charlotte told them it would be unnecessary, explaining she could tell from the powers Joseph had explained to her. As they drove away, Galina thanked Charlotte, but she was dejected after Xavier's death and her thoughtlessness that caused the death of Brad the employee.<ref name="AC Comic #5" />

=== Hunt in Mexico ===
Now in 2016, the Assassins fled to [[Mexico]], with the injured Galina assuming the role of leader and being adamant about the need to track down Joseph before anything else. Once in [[Mexico City]], they took a room in a motel and through some contacts with the local underground world, hired two discreet doctors to reset Galina's broken leg without asking questions. However, as the female doctor tended to Galina, the male, drew a pistol. Galina saw him, pulled out her own before him and shot the Templar agent to death. She then ordered Charlotte to grab his gun and aim it at the female doctor. The woman explained she knew nothing of her fellow doctor's motives, stating that he was new, and Galina knocked her out after Charlotte told her that she was telling the truth.<ref name="AC Comic #6">''Assassin's Creed'' #006</ref>

They moved to the opposite motel, as it would be the last place the Templars would expect. While watching if everyone was coming to their former room, Charlotte realized that Consus wanted her to find the hacker collective [[Erudito]] and began to look for them on the Darknet but Galina was skeptical. Later, while Galina was sleeping after taking morphine, Charlotte convinced Kody to place her back in the Animus, to relive the memories of [[Quila]], her Inca ancestor, whom she believed was the key to finding Erudito.<ref name="AC Comic #6" />

...

=== Working with Erudito ===
Some weeks later, Galina's team made a pact with [[Erudito]]; in exchange for Charlotte's help in order to learn more about an [[Isu]]an entity named [[Consus]], the collective of hackers would help them to find Joseph. After learning from Erudito that Joseph was in [[Somalia]], going by the name "Alan Wilde", and after Charlotte asked her to capture him alive because she had a hunch about him, Galina and some Erudito field agents left for Africa.<ref name="AC Comic #11">''Assassin's Creed'' #011</ref>

==Trivia==
*Galina is derived from the [[Greece|Ancient Greek]] ''galene'', meaning "calm". It is also used as a Russian variant of Helen, a Greek name that means "shining brightly". The root ''voron'' from her surname means "raven". Another possible origin of her surname is the Russian word ''vorona'', which means "crow".
*One short form of her name 'Galka,' translates to "jackdaw" in Russian, though it is considered a disrespectful form of the name Galina.
*Galina wears a pendant in the shape of the Russian Assassins' insignia.
*Notably, she is one of the few modern Assassins known to wield dual Hidden Blades.
*Rebecca Crane once caught Galina talking to herself during their time in Norway. Curious, the former asked her about it, only to find Galina saying that she was conversing with her dead sister.
*Galina had apparently made a name for herself among the Templars as she was refered to as legendary by the Templar Sanchez

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Galina Voronina with Hood - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of Galina with her hood
Galina Voronina without Hood - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of Galina without her hood
Galina Voronina.jpg|Galina in Moscow
ACi-TheLastScienceCity.jpg|Galina discussing plans with Gavin and Emmanuel
ACi-ANewDawnInMoscow.jpg|Galina being welcomed by the ''Altaïr II'''s crew
AC2015 Galinaintro.png|Galina as she appears in the comics
Galinathrowingknives.png|Galina using throwing knives
ACComic Galina Xavier.jpg|Galina criticizing Xavier
Galina Charlotte.jpg|Galina with Charlotte de la Cruz
ACS He Saved Us All 2.png|Galina reunited with Shaun
ACS Stay With Me 3.jpg|Galina fighting Berg
ACS Stay With Me 6.png|Galina preparing to finish Berg off
</gallery>

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