Editing Faisal

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{{Spoilerhd|01 March 2023}}
'''Faisal''' was a member of the [[Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins]].<ref name = "Chapter 04">''[[Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book]]'' – Chapter 4: Deceiving the Assassins</ref> He was also one of the [[Sage]]s of the [[Isu]] [[Vejovis]].<ref name = "Chapter 06">''Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book'' – Chapter 6: Stopping the Cult</ref>

==Biography==
In 1189, [[Al Mualim]] tasked Faisal with flanking the oncoming [[Templars]] and causing panic, driving them from [[Masyaf]]. Faisal left, hearing Al Mualim shouting at the enemies below, and was joined by [[Rafee]], another Assassin, who asked if Faisal needed help with his task but was rejected. Faisal instead headed for the main entrance of Masyaf, sneaking past the Templars, intent on going to [[Damascus]] instead of completing his orders.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

At the gates, however, he saw a Templar abusing a woman and decided to intervene, throwing a knife into the man's back, killing him and allowing the woman to get away. Two other soldiers came for him and they fought, with Faisal holding his own until another Assassin, [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], appeared on horseback and struck down one of the Templars. In a moment of distraction, Faisal was wounded in the shin and fell to the ground in pain while Altaïr killed the other Templar. Altaïr dismounted and went to defend Masyaf, informing Faisal that he would live as he departed. Faisal took the opportunity to climb on the abandoned horse and ride toward Damascus.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

On the road to Damascus, Faisal stopped to allow his horse to drink from a stream but saw two Templars filling huge pots with water and loading them onto a carriage. Staying hidden, he followed the Templars to their next stop: an empty hole near a small tree. Realizing they were burying the water to allow further Templar forces to replish themselves on the route to Masyaf, Faisal struck down the Templars and broke the water pots. Finding a map with the locations of other such caches, Faisal noticed that he needed to sabotage only one of them to break the chain and make the Templars either not arrive at Masyaf at all or, at the very least, arrive weak enough to be easily cut down by the Assassin forces.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

Blending in with a group of [[scholar]]s, he made it inside Damascus, where he climbed a tower to get a better view of the city. Looking for "The Hideout", a supposed location where the Templars would hold weapons, including a collection of blades from Syria as well as a [[Vejovis' dagger|specific blade]], Faisal sketched some places on a map before taking a [[Leap of Faith]] onto a pile of leaves below.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

He walked the streets, avoiding Templars, until he came to a spire shaped building. Walking inside, he was greeted by a large Templar soldier, who asked if Faisal sought "The Hideout", because if he did, he had found [[The Hideout|him]]. The Hideout requested Faisal's help on smuggling a package out of Syria, giving him the item, an [[Isu]] blade, and telling him to head to [[Beirut]] and seek out a contact to ship it out of the port. The door suddenly opened, revealing Rafee, who questioned what Faisal was doing with a Templar, while The Hideout escaped through a fake wall. Thinking Faisal a traitor to the Brotherhood, Rafee said that they both knew what he had to do, but Faisal struck first, killing him. As Rafee lay dying, he forgave Faisal, acknowledging that his death might be necessary for their cause, to which Faisal responded by promising to make Rafee's death mean something and that what he was doing was for [[the Creed]]. Faisal then took a Templar cloak from the room, wearing it to blend in better, and left for Beirut.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

Outside the gates of Damascus, however, he was approached by The Hideout's contact, who would join Faisal on the trip to Beirut. This contact revealed that they would then give the blade to someone else to ship it to [[Constantinople]] but Faisal decided that he would make the voyage to Constantinople himself.<ref name = "Chapter 04"/>

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book]]''

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