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{{Quote|Find them, kill them. In doing so, you will sow the seeds of peace.|Al Mualim conversing about assassination targets with Altaïr, 1191.|Assassin's Creed}}
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[[File:IF 7.png|thumb|250px|Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinating a target]]
{{Quote|Find them, kill them. In doing so, you will sow the seeds of peace.|Al Mualim conversing about assassination targets with Altaïr, 1191.|Assassin's Creed|Knowledge (Masun)}}
An '''assassination target''' is an individual marked for death. Over the [[Timeline|centuries]], political organizations like the [[Templars|Templar Order]] and most prominently the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]], have carried out innumerable assassinations of their enemies to advance their causes.
[[File:IF 7.png|thumb|250px|Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinating Carlo Grimaldi]]
An '''assassination''' is the targeted killing of an individual by a sudden or secret attack, often for political reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assassination|author=Merriam-Webster dictionary|title=Assassination}}</ref> Over the [[Timeline|centuries]], political organizations like the [[Templars|Templar Order]] and most prominently the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]] have carried out innumerable assassinations of their enemies to advance their causes. In the context of the Assassins, the term ''assassination'' has also been applied to techniques for killing a target stealthily in a hostile situation, regardless if they were the primary target of an operation.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref><ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>


Assassination has been the primary mode of operation for the Assassins since their inception as the [[Hidden Ones]], with their policy being to eliminate individuals they deem to be corrupt, tyrannical, and/or a threat to humanity in principle to secure the lives, welfare, and justice of innocent people.{{Fact|25 January 2020}} The centrality of assassination to their way of life is such that the English word for "assassin" is derived from their name.{{Fact|25 January 2020}} Nonetheless, their sworn enemies, the Templars, have also extensively employed assassinations throughout their long history of puppeting governments and paramilitary groups, and both factions have waged a [[Assassin-Templar War|shadow war]] of subterfuge, sabotage, and behind-the-scenes murder against one another for millennia.{{Fact|25 January 2020}}
==Background==
The term ''assassination'' comes from the word ''assassin'', which in turn comes from the Arabic word "[[wikt:Hashshashin|حشّاشين]]" (''ħashshāshīyīn''), or "Hash-Smokers". Historian [[Shaun Hastings]] argued that the [[Hidden Ones]] adopted the later name of Assassins as a mark of pride.<ref name="Hash">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]]: "The Hidden Ones"</ref> Both incarnations used [[Assassination contract|contracts]] to outline targets, explain the reasoning for their targeting and even to specify manner of death at times.<ref name = "Hidden Ones Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[A Brief History of the Hidden Ones]]</ref><ref name = "Old Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]] – Files: "Session Report: SHastings"</ref><ref name = "Black Flag Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Overrun and Outnumbered]]</ref>


Below is a chronological list of notable victims, by faction and assassin responsible.
Though precise in their methods, both sides of the [[Assassin-Templar War]] did not complete assassinations at times due to choice or circumstance. For example, the [[Louisiana Brotherhood of Assassins|Louisianan Assassin]] [[Aveline de Grandpré]] spared the life of [[Antonio de Ulloa]],<ref name = "Ulloa">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[A Governor No More]]</ref> and the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|Colonial Templar]] [[Shay Cormac]] would intercept Assassin contracts and prevent them from accomplishing their tasks.<ref name="Interception">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – Assassin Interceptions</ref> The [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] prevented the Templars from killing high profile people such as astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus]]<ref name="Copernicus">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]] – [[Copernicus Conspiracy]] –'' [[False Censorship]]</ref> and then-prince [[Suleiman I]].<ref name = "Suleiman">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[The Prince's Banquet]]</ref>


==Elimination by Assassins and Proto-Assassins==
==Assassination techniques==
===Kassandra of Sparta===
===Hidden Blade===
During the [[Peloponnesian War]], the ''[[Mercenary|misthios]]'' [[Kassandra]] carried out assassinations against the Proto-Templar organizations, namely the [[Cult of Kosmos]] and the [[Order of the Ancients]]. In addition, she also carried out assassination contracts and bounties to eliminate various targets.
[[File:Zw-codex-13.png|thumb|250px|Altaïr's codex on Hidden Blade assassinations]]
The first recorded use of the [[Hidden Blade]] was dated from the 5th century BCE, when [[Darius]] used it to assassinate King [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes I]] in [[Iran|Persia]].<ref name="Darius' Blade">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] – [[Legacy of the First Blade: Hunted]]'' [[Shadow of a Legend]]</ref> Centuries later, his Hidden Blade was passed on to [[Amunet|Aya]] by Queen [[Cleopatra]] of [[Egypt]], and she in turn gave it to her husband, the [[Medjay]] [[Bayek]] of [[Siwa]], to aid in their quest to [[Hunt for the Snake|eliminate]] the [[Order of the Ancients]] in Egypt.<ref name = "Bayek's Blade">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Aya (memory)|Aya]]</ref> The Hidden Blade would go on to become the signature weapon of the Hidden Ones, the organization co-founded by Bayek and Aya, and of their later incarnation, the Asassin Brotherhood, with virtually all of their field agents possessing one Hidden Blade.<ref name = "Page 13">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex]]: Page 13</ref>


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The [[Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins|Levantine Assassins]] [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] and [[Malik Al-Sayf]] worked to improve the methods of assassination using the Blade, three of which Altaïr documented in his [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex|codex]]: "from on high, from ledges, and from hiding places". These would later be dubbed "air assassinations",<ref name = "You'll Pay For This">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity companion app]]'' – Les Invalides: You'll Pay For This</ref> "ledge assassinations", and "hidden assassinations", respectively.<ref name = "Edward Tutorial">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Mister Walpole, I Presume?]]</ref> Altaïr himself described these methods as basic, though critical.<ref name = "Page 13"/> In the same codex page, he introduced another improvement: the addition of a second, identical Hidden Blade, to allow Assassins to dispatch two targets at once.<ref name = "Page 13"/> This method was called a "double assassination".<ref name= "AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> All of these techniques were taught to Assassin recruits,<ref name = "Shay Tutorial">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Lessons and Revelations]]</ref> and became recognizable to the Templars.<ref name = "Edward Tutorial"/>
|-|431 BCE - 430 BCE=
*[[Talos the Stone-Fist]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]''</ref>
*[[Cyclops of Kephallonia]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Hyrkanos the Cunning]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Elpenor]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Sotera]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Chimera]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Asterion]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Zoisme]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Okytos]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Nabis]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Poisoner]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Brison]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Master]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Hermippos]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Nyx the Shadow]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Hekate Witch]] - c. 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Pleistos]] - c. 430 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Dolops' Landlord]] - c. 430 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Chrysis]] - c. 430 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Stalker]] - c. 430 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Monger]] - c. 430 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Skylax]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Centaur of Euboea]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Sokos]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Midas]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Tisandros]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Polemion]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Podarkes]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Captain Diokles]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Belos]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Kodros]]<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Cerberus Brothers]]<ref name="ACOD"/>


|-|429 BCE – 422 BCE=
====Other variations====
*[[Machaon]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
During the [[Isu Era]], the [[Æsir]] [[Odin]] performed two unique assassination types in the dwarven realm of [[Svartálfaheimr]]: the "raven assassination" and the "teleport assassination", both of which were done with help of the [[Hugr-Rip]], a gauntlet Odin wore that allowed him to steal the powers of giant [[raven]]s and the ''[[jötnar]]''.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' - [[Gift to the God]]</ref>
*[[The Silver Griffin]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Polemon]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Harpalos]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Diona]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Melite]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Iobates]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Silanos]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Agis of the North]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH">''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'' – ''[[Legacy of the First Blade: Hunted]]''</ref>
*[[Gaia the Fist]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Theos the Stargazer]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Exadios the Backbreaker]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Bubares]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Phratagounè]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Hylas]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Echion]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Akantha]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Konon]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Timosa]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Pactyas (Ancients)]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[The Octopus]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Melanthos]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Mytilenian Shark]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[The Hydra]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Lesbos Mob Leader]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Iokaste]] - c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Keleas]] – c. 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Athenian Captain]] – c. 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Thalestris]] – c. 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Kallias]] – c. 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Sosipatros]] – c. 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Nesaia]] – c. 427 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Drakon]] – c. 427 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Astra]] – c. 427 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Deianeira]] – c. 427 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Pausanias of Sparta]] - c. 425 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Andras]] - c. 424 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Rhexenor]] - c. 424 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Swordfish]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Pallas the Silencer]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Exekias]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Phaelos]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Kleon]] - 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Atos the Beast Caller]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH">''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'' – ''[[Legacy of the First Blade: Shadow Heritage]]''</ref>
*[[Hirpes the Sordid]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Aias the Clean]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Proktos the Moon King]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Kephalon the Thinker]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Megakreon]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Sophos]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Augos]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Nestor]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Phila]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[The Immortals]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB">''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'' – ''[[Legacy of the First Blade: Bloodline]]''</ref>
*[[Harpagos]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Dimokrates]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Messenia Spartan Commander]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Artazostre]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Pithias]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Gaspar (Ancients)]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Gergis]] - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Amorges]] (with [[Darius]]) - c. 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
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===Bayek of Siwa and Aya of Alexandria===
Around the latter half of 1st century BCE, in Ancient [[Egypt]], the [[Hidden Ones]] [[Bayek]] of [[Siwa]] and [[Aya]] of [[Alexandria]], later Amunet, carried out assassinations to avenge their son [[Khemu]], and later for their duties as Hidden Ones.


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In the 5th century BCE, the ''[[Mercenary|misthios]]'' [[Kassandra]] used the [[Spear of Leonidas]] as a way to perform early assassinations, known as "stealth kills," in a similar fashion to the Hidden Blade. The spear, being an [[Piece of Eden|Isu artifact]], granted Kassandra a multitude of abilities, including "rush assassinations", in which Kassandra used her spear as a projectile and was teleported to her target.<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]''</ref>
|-|48 BCE – 47 BCE=
Bayek's targets:
*[[Rudjek]] – 48 BCE<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' [[The Heron Assassination]]</ref>
*[[Hypatos]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Homecoming (Origins)|Homecoming]]</ref>
*[[Medunamun]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The False Oracle]]</ref>
*[[Sophronios]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Birthright]]</ref>
*[[Gennadios]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Gennadios the Phylakitai]]</ref>
*[[The Outsider]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes">''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Phylakes' Prey]]</ref>
*[[Ptolemy's Fist]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[The Iron Ram]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[The Stranger]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[Ra's Mercy]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[The Hill]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[Bane of Hathor]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[Half Horn]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[The Iron Bull]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[The Galatian]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Phylakes" />
*[[Eudoros]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[End of the Snake]]</ref>
*[[Dymnos]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Weasel]]</ref>
*[[Sefetu]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Tax Master]]</ref>
*[[Taharqa]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Scarab's Lies]]</ref>
*[[Fat Homer]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Hungry River]]</ref>
*[[Prophet of Serqet]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Taste of her Sting]]</ref>
*[[Khaliset]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Hyena (memory)|The Hyena]]</ref>
*[[Gaia Afrania]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Mortem Romanum]]</ref>
*[[Hetepi]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Lizard's Face]]</ref>
*[[The Butcher]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Feeding Faiyum]]</ref>
*[[Melina the Hibiscus]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Sobek's Tears]]</ref>
*[[Sehetep]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Bad Faith]]</ref>
*[[Son of Ra]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Fires of Dionysias]]</ref>
*[[Berenike]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Crocodile's Jaws]]</ref>
*[[Venator]] – 48 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Way of the Gabiniani]]</ref>
*[[Pothinus]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Battle of the Nile]]</ref>
*[[Brutus Severus]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Carpe Diem]]</ref>
*[[Agrippa]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Playing with Fire]]</ref>
*[[Melitta]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[One Bad Apple]]</ref>
*[[Flavius Metellus]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[The Final Weighing]]</ref>
*[[Cassius Albus]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Founding Father]]</ref>
*[[Oidipous]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Cat and Mouse (Origins)|Cat and Mouse]]</ref>
*[[Leander (Cyrenean)|Leander]] – 47 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Absolute Power]]</ref>
Aya's targets:
*[[Actaeon]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Aya">''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Aya (memory)|Aya]]</ref>
*[[Ktesos]] – 48 BCE<ref name="Aya" />


|-|44 BCE – 30 BCE=
In the early 1510s, Ezio Auditore used a Hidden Blade variant known as the [[Hookblade]] in [[Constantinople]] and made use of [[zipline]]s to perform "zipline assassinations" on targets, where he would slide down the line using the blade's hook and launch himself at his target just before reaching the line's opposite end.<ref name = "ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>
Aya's targets:
*[[Lucius Septimius]] – 44 BCE<ref name="Fall of an Empire">''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – [[Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another]]</ref>
*[[Gaius Julius Caesar]]<ref name="Fall of an Empire" />, with [[Marcus Junius Brutus]], [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]], and others – 44 BCE<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Cleopatra]] – 30 BCE<ref name="AC2"/><ref>[[Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)|''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' comic]] – Issue #4</ref>
Bayek's targets:
*[[Adras]] – c. 38 BCE<ref name="Incoming Threat">''Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Hidden Ones'' – [[Incoming Threat]]</ref>
*[[Jibade]] – c. 38 BCE<ref name="Incoming Threat" />
*[[Tacito]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''[[The Hidden Ones (DLC)|The Hidden Ones]]'' – [[Where the Slaves Die]]</ref>
*[[Harwa]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones'' – [[The Killer Shadow]]</ref>
*[[Ptahmose]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones'' – [[The Setting Sun]]</ref>
*[[Ampelius]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones'' – [[The Walls of the Ruler]]</ref>
*[[Set (serial killer)]]  - 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones'' – [[Howls of the Dead]]</ref>
*[[Gaius Julius Rufio]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones'' – [[Sic Semper Tyrannis]]</ref>
*[[Gamilat]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Hidden Ones'' – [[The Greater Good]]</ref>
*[[Isidora]] – 38 BCE<ref name="CotP">''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''[[The Curse of the Pharaohs]]'' – [[The Curse of the Pharaohs (genetic memory)]]</ref>
*[[Tychon]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Curse of the Pharaohs'' – [[Unfair Trade]]</ref>
*[[Athames]] – 38 BCE<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' – ''The Curse of the Pharaohs'' – [[Unfair Trade]]</ref>
</tabber>


=== Eivor Varinsdottir ===
During the [[French Revolution]], the [[Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins|Parisian Brotherhood]] made use of the [[Phantom Blade]] to assassinate targets from afar via deadly bolts. The weapon could also be upgraded to shoot berserk bolts that caused targets to attack their allies and potentially eliminate each other.<ref name = "Dorian Phantom"/>
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===Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad===
Around the time of the [[Third Crusade]], [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] assassinated various individuals during his [[Quest for the Chalice|quest]] to find [[Adha|the Chalice]] in 1190. He later eliminated [[Hunt for the Nine|nine tyrannical public figures]] in an effort to restore [[Master Assassin|his lost rank]] and regain honor within the Assassin Order.


Following his ascension to [[Mentor]] of the Order, he carried out several assassinations to aid the [[Cypriot Resistance]] in 1192, and continued to eliminate notable targets throughout his life.
===Poison===
A slower method of assassination, but still widely used, was [[poison]]ing, which allowed elimination of targets without the use of force.<ref name = "Iltani's Assesment">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]'' – [[Database: Iltani's Story 2]]</ref> The [[Babylonian Brotherhood|Babylonian Assassin]] [[Iltani]] used poison against [[Alexander the Great]] in her quest to retrieve his [[Scepter of Alexander the Great|personal]] [[Staves of Eden|Staff of Eden]],<ref name = "Iltani's Poison">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]'' – [[Database: Iltani's Story 5]]</ref> and the [[Egyptian Brotherhood of Assassins|Egyptian Hidden One]] Amunet gave Cleopatra a vial of poison she used for her suicide.<ref name="Amunet">[[Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)|''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' (comic)]] – [[Assassin's Creed: Origins 4|Issue #04]]</ref>
[[File:AC2 Codex Poison Blade Schematic.png|thumb|left|250px|Altaïr's codex on poisons]]
At some point before 1191, the use of poison was forbidden among the Levantine Brotherhood, and it was not until Altaïr became a [[Mentor]] that the prohibition was lifted.<ref name = "Page 6">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex]]: Page 6</ref> In his codex, Altaïr reserved a section for instruction on how to construct an [[Poison Blade|alteration]] to the Hidden Blade that allowed the poisoning of targets, as well as instructions on how to distill the poison.<ref name = "Page 21">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex]]: Page 21</ref>


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Poison also allowed for many different approaches in an assassination. The method used in [[Margaret of York]]'s death, for example, was to separate the compounds of the poison into harmless ingredients which were administered through her food, makeup, and pillow.<ref name = "Margaret's Death">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' – [[Contracts (Project Legacy)|Contracts]]: London, England</ref> Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] was slowly poisoned through her food until she succumbed to the poison's effects.<ref name = "Isabella's Death PL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' – [[Contracts]]: Barcelona, Spain</ref><ref name = "Isabella's Death Initiates">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – [[Database: Ending Isabella]]</ref> The [[Black Cross]] [[Albert Bolden]] used a [[Templar pin]] with two types of poison: one that killed instantly and another that took one hour for its effect to take hold.<ref name = "Bolden's Poison">''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Templars 3|Issue #3]]</ref>
|-|1189 – 1190=
*[[Haras]] – 1189<ref name="Revelations">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>
*[[Tamir (1190)|Tamir of Damascus]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles">''[[Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles]]''</ref>
*[[Alaat]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>
*[[Firas]] –1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>
*[[Roland Napule]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>
*[[Master of the Tower's student|The Master's Student]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>
*[[Master of the Tower]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>
*[[Harash]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>
*[[Basilisk|Lord Basilisk]] – 1190<ref name="Chronicles"/>


|-|1191=
The Assassins and Templars made ample use of poisoned [[dart]]s in their arsenal, regardless of the method of delivery: Aveline de Grandpré used both a [[blowpipe]]<ref name = "Aveline Blowpipe">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' [[The False Mackandal]]</ref> and a [[parasol gun]],<ref name = "Aveline Parasol">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Prélude to Rebellion]]</ref> the Colonial Templar Shay Cormac used an [[air rifle]],<ref name = "Shay Rifle">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[By Invitation Only]]</ref> the French Assassin [[Arno Dorian]] used the Phantom Blade,<ref name = "Dorian Phantom">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[The Kingdom of Beggars]]</ref> and [[Jacob Frye|Jacob]] and [[Evie Frye]] used their [[Assassin Gauntlet]]s.<ref name = "Frye Gauntlet">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Cable News]]</ref>
*[[Tamir]]<ref name="AC">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>
*[[Garnier de Naplouse]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Talal]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Abu'l Nuqoud]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[William of Montferrat]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Majd Addin]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Sibrand]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Jubair al Hakim]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Robert de Sablé]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Al Mualim]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Emin]]<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Fredrick|Frederick the Red]]<ref name="Bloodlines">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines]]''</ref>


|-|1192 – 1193=
==High-profile assassinations==
*[[Moloch]] – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
In the 14th century, the Italian Assassin [[Domenico Auditore]] built a [[sanctuary]] beneath his [[Villa Auditore|villa]] in [[Monteriggioni]] and included seven statues to honor the memory of the Assassins "who guarded the freedom of humanity when it was most threatened". The seven individuals chosen to receive statues were [[Qulan Gal]], Darius, [[Wei Yu]], Amunet, Iltani, and [[Leonius]]—all of whom were thought to have performed high profile assassinations—and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Accompanying the statues were [[Assassin Seals|seals]] engraved with their famed weapons.<ref name="Sanctuary">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Floating conversations]]: "Unlocking Monteriggioni's Secrets"</ref> Although neither Qulan Gal nor Amunet were directly responsible for the assassinations attributed to them, they still played important roles in their targets' deaths.<ref name= "Qulan">''[[Assassin's Creed: Reflections]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Reflections 2|Issue #02]]</ref><ref name= "Amunet"/>
*[[Dark Oracle]] – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Telemachos]] – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Shalim]] – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Shahar]] – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Pirate Captain]] – 1193<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Armand Bouchart]] – 1193<ref name="Bloodlines"/>


|-|1227 – 1247=
According to the descriptions that accompanied the statues:
*[[Swami]] – 1227<ref name="Revelations"/>
*Qulan Gal [[Assassination of Genghis Khan|assassinated]] [[Genghis Khan]] with a [[bow]] and [[arrow]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[Bayhas]] – 1247<ref name="Secret Crusade">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref>
*Darius assassinated Xerxes I with a Hidden Blade.<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[Abbas Sofian]] – 1247<ref name="Revelations"/>
*Wei Yu assassinated [[Qin Shi Huang]] with a [[spear]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
</tabber>
*Amunet assassinated Cleopatra with an [[Snake|asp]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*Iltani assassinated Alexander the Great with poison.<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*Leonius assassinated [[Caligula]] with a [[Short blade|dagger]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />


===Ezio Auditore da Firenze===
Other notable assassinations were the [[Assassination of Julius Caesar|assassination]] of [[Gaius Julius Caesar|Julius Caesar]] engineered by the [[Roman Hidden Ones]],<ref name="Caesar">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another]]</ref> the assassination of [[An Lushan]] by [[Li E]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Dynasty]]'' – [[Finale: Assassination]]</ref> the assassination of [[Cesare Borgia]] by Ezio Auditore,<ref name="Cesare">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – [[Pax Romana]]</ref> and the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination]] of [[United States]] President [[John F. Kennedy]] by [[Boris Pash]] and the members of his extremist [[Assassin cell]] [[Bloodstone Unit]].<ref name="Bloodstone 1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone Book 1|Book 1]]</ref>
During the [[Renaissance]], the Assassin [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] eliminated various individuals in order to avenge the death of his family members, free the [[Spanish Assassins]], and liberate the [[Italy|Italian]] city-states – [[Florence]], [[San Gimignano]], [[Forlì]], [[Venice]] and [[Rome]] – as well as the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] city of [[Constantinople]] and [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] underground outpost of [[Derinkuyu]] from corruption.
 
<tabber>
|-|1476 – 1479=
*[[Uberto Alberti]] – 1476<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
*[[Vieri de' Pazzi]] – 1478<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Francesco de' Pazzi]] – 1478<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Antonio Maffei]] – 1478<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Francesco Salviati]] – 1479<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Bernardo Baroncelli]] – 1479<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Stefano da Bagnone]] – 1479<ref name="AC2"/>
 
|-|1480 – 1489=
*[[Jacopo de' Pazzi]] – 1480<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Emilio Barbarigo]] – 1485<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Carlo Grimaldi]] – 1485<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Marco Barbarigo]] – 1486<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Silvio Barbarigo]] – 1486<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Dante Moro]] – 1486<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Ludovico Orsi]] – 1488<ref name="AC2 - Forlì">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – ''[[Battle of Forlì (DLC)|Battle of Forlì]]''</ref>
*[[Checco Orsi]] – 1488<ref name="AC2 - Forlì"/>
 
|-|1490 – 1499=
*[[Gaspar Martínez]] – 1491<ref name="Discovery">''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]''</ref>
*[[Pedro Llorente]] – 1491<ref name="Discovery"/>
*[[Juan de Marillo]] – 1492<ref name="Discovery"/>
*[[Painter|The Painter]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – ''[[Bonfire of the Vanities (DLC)]]''</ref>
*[[Guard Captain|The Guard Captain]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Nobleman|The Nobleman]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Priest (Savonarola's lieutenant)|The Priest]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Merchant (Savonarola's lieutenant)|The Merchant]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Doctor (Savonarola's lieutenant)|The Doctor]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Farmer|The Farmer]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Condottiero|The Condottiero]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Preacher|The Preacher]] – 1497<ref name="Bonfire"/>
*[[Girolamo Savonarola]] – 1498<ref name="Bonfire"/>
 
|-|1500 – 1509=
*[[Il Carnefice]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>
*[[Iacopo de Grassi]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Belardino da Verona]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Prospero da Siena]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Valentino da Siena]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Tommaso di Viterbo]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Pietro da Siena]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Domenico da Padova]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Francesco da Velletri]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Master of the Sacred Palace]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Battista Borgia]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Malfatto]], via an [[Assassin apprentices|apprentice]] – 1502<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Silvestro Sabbatini]], via an apprentice – 1502<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Luigi Torcelli]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Juan Borgia the Elder]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Lanz]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Auguste Oberlin]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Ristoro]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Gaspar de la Croix]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Lia de Russo]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Donato Mancini]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Charles de la Motte]] – 1503<ref name="Memories">''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]''</ref>
*[[Antonio da Fiorentino]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Ferdinando di Napoli]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Ippolito di Foligno]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Octavian de Valois]] – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Ercole Massimo]] – 1506<ref name="Brotherhood - Da Vinci">''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – ''[[The Da Vinci Disappearance]]''</ref>
*[[Cesare Borgia]] – 1507<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
 
|-|1511 – 1512=
*[[Leandros]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Halim]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Vali cel Tradat]], via an Apprentice – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Cyril of Rhodes]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Mirela Djuric]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Georgios Kostas]], via an Apprentice – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Odai Dunqas]], via an Apprentice – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Damat Ali Pasha]], via an Apprentice – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Lysistrata]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Tarik Barleti]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Shahkulu]] – 1512<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Manuel Palaiologos]] – 1512<ref name="Revelations"/>
</tabber>
 
===Aguilar de Nerha===
During the [[Spanish Inquisition]], [[Aguilar de Nerha]] eliminated conspirators associated with the [[Templars|Knights Templar]].
 
<tabber>
|-|1492=
*[[Ramirez]]<ref name="ACFilm">''[[Assassin's Creed (film)]]''</ref>
*[[Ojeda]]<ref name="ACFilm"/>
</tabber>
 
===Shao Jun===
After the [[Great Rites Controversy]] which resulted in the decimation of the [[Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins|Chinese Brotherhood]] at the hands of the [[Eight Tigers]], [[Shao Jun]] assassinated the Templars responsible in a campaign to free [[China]] and restore the Chinese Assassins.
 
<tabber>
|-|1526 – 1532=
*[[Gao Feng]] – 1526<ref name="China">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China]]''</ref>
*[[Yu Dayong]] – 1526<ref name="China"/>
*[[Wei Bin]] – 1529<ref name="China"/>
*[[Qiu Ju]] – 1530<ref name="China"/>
*[[Zhang Yong]] – 1532<ref name="China"/>
</tabber>
 
===Edward Kenway===
[[Edward Kenway]] assassinated several individuals during the [[Golden Age of Piracy]] in his quest for riches and glory as a [[Piracy|pirate]], and later in service of the Assassin Order.
 
<tabber>
|-|1712 – 1719=
*[[Julian]] – 1712<ref name="ACBFN"/>
*[[Duncan Walpole]] – 1715<ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref>
*[[Julien du Casse]] – 1715<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Vargas]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Lucia Márquez]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Kenneth Abraham]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Juan Garcia]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Trevor]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Antonio Rueda]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Mancomb Seepgood]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Arispe]] – 1716<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Laurens Prins]] – 1717<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Hilary Flint]] – 1717<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Vance Travers]] – 1717<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Jing Lang]] – 1717<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Wyatt]] – 1718<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Peter Chamberlaine]] – 1718<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Josiah Burgess]] – 1719<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[John Cockram]] – 1719<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Benjamin Hornigold]] – 1719<ref name="AC4"/>
 
|-|1721 – 1723=
*[[Ruggiero Ferraro]] – 1721<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Bartholomew Roberts]] – 1722<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[El Tiburón]] – 1722<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Laureano de Torres y Ayala]] – 1722<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Emmett Scott]] – 1723<ref name="ACBFN">''[[Assassin's Creed: Black Flag]]''</ref>
*[[Wilson]] – 1723<ref name="ACBFN"/>
</tabber>
 
===Adéwalé===
During the early 18th century, [[Adéwalé]] served as quartermaster on Edward Kenway's ship before eventually joining the Assassin Brotherhood and assuming the captaincy of his own vessel.
 
In 1735, he briefly set aside his duties as an Assassin in order to aid the [[Maroon rebellion]] in [[Haiti|Saint Domingue]].
 
<tabber>
1735 – 1737=
*[[Templar Admiral (1735)|Templar Admiral]] – 1735<ref name="Freedom Cry">''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' – ''[[Freedom Cry]]''</ref>
*[[Pierre, Marquis de Fayet]]– 1737<ref name="Freedom Cry"/>
</tabber>
 
===Aveline de Grandpré===
[[Aveline de Grandpré]] assassinated various targets between the [[French and Indian War]] and [[American Revolutionary War]] in an effort to free [[New Orleans]] from Templar influence and liberate victims of the [[Slavery|slave trade]].
 
<tabber>
1765 – 1769=
*[[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]] – 1765<ref name="AC3L">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>
*[[Baptiste]] – 1766<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Ratel]] – 1768<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Reynaud]] – 1768<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[De Vandal]] – 1768<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]] – 1769<ref name="AC3L"/>
|-|
1771 – 1784=
*[[Salmon]] – 1771<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Marcantell]] – 1771<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Chapperon]] – 1771<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[De Chevallier]] – 1771<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Bouché]] – 1771<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Diego Vázquez]] – 1776<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[George Davidson]] – 1777<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Madeleine de L'Isle]] – 1777<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Edmund Judge]] – 1784<ref name="AC4"/>
</tabber>
 
===Ratonhnhaké:ton===
Before, during, and after the events of the American Revolutionary War, the Assassin [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]], son of the Templar [[Haytham Kenway]] and grandson of pirate turned Assassin Edward Kenway, eliminated various Templars in order to protect [[Kanien'kehá:ka|his tribe]] and further the pursuit of freedom for the citizens of the thirteen colonies of the [[United States]].
 
Following a meeting with [[George Washington]], Ratonhnhaké:ton found himself in an alternate reality created by an [[Apple of Eden 3|Apple of Eden]]. There, he assassinated several individuals while experiencing the alternate timeline.
 
<tabber>
|-|1774 – 1779=
*[[Templar emissary]] - 1773<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[William Johnson]] – 1774<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
*[[John Pitcairn]] – 1775<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Thomas Hickey]] – 1776<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Man O' War captain]] – 1776<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Benjamin Church]] – 1778<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Nicholas Biddle]] – 1778<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Kanen'tó:kon]] – 1778<ref name="AC3"/>
 
|-|1780 – 1782=
*Haytham Kenway – 1781<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[HMS Jersey captain]] – 1781<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Charles Lee]] – 1782<ref name="AC3"/>
 
|-|Alternate reality=
*[[Benedict Arnold]]<ref name="Infamy">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – ''[[The Tyranny of King Washington: The Infamy]]''</ref>
*[[Israel Putnam]]<ref name="Betrayal">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – ''[[The Tyranny of King Washington: The Betrayal]]''</ref>
*[[John Fitzwilliams]]<ref name="Redemption">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – ''[[The Tyranny of King Washington: The Redemption]]''</ref>
*George Washington<ref name="Redemption"/>
</tabber>
 
===Arno Dorian===
Following the death of his adoptive father, the Templar [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] [[François de la Serre]], [[Arno Dorian]] joined the Assassin Brotherhood and embarked on a quest to find the perpetrators of the murder and their motivations.
 
While pursuing his own agenda, Arno also undertook several missions in order to thwart the efforts of the Templars, who tried to take control of the [[French Revolution]].
 
<tabber>
|-|1789 – 1792=
*[[Giant Iscariotte]] – c. 1789<ref name="Unity">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref>
*[[Duchesneau]] – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Charles Gabriel Sivert]] – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Roi des Thunes]] – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Chrétien Lafrenière]] – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Pierre Bellec]] – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Flavigny]] – 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Comte de Gambais]]  – 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Vicomte de Gambais]]  – 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Frédéric Rouille]] – 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*Bear – c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*Snake – c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*Turtle – c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Renard]] – c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*Duc de Barrois– c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jacques]]– c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Alphonse]] - c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[L'Au]] – c. 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Marie Lévesque]] – 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
 
|-|1793 – 1800=
*[[Comte de Choisy]] – c. 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Crimson Rose]] – c. 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Grignon]] – c. 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Louis-Michel le Peletier]] – 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Aloys la Touche]] – 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Marcourt]] – 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jean Gilbert]] – 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jacques Roux]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jacques Roux's lieutenant]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jean Lessard]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Andrés de Guzmán]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[François-Thomas Germain]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Philippe Rose]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jean-Baptiste Rotondo]] – 1795<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[François-Joseph Carbon]] – 1800<ref name="Unity"/>
</tabber>
 
===Jacob and Evie Frye===
The twins [[Jacob Frye|Jacob]] and [[Evie Frye]] were active in [[London]] and its surrounding areas in 1868 as the [[Industrial Revolution]] reached its climax. There, they fought against the inequality and poverty engineered by the Templars, taking over organized crime in the city in an effort to destabilize the Templars' hold over it and stop them from acquiring a powerful [[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]]. 20 years later, after the incapacitation of her brother, Evie returned to London and was active in the hunt for [[Jack the Ripper]], a traitorous and gruesome Assassin turncoat.
 
<tabber>
|-|1868=
Jacob's targets:
*[[Rupert Ferris]]<ref name="Syndicate">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>
*[[John Elliotson]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Malcolm Millner]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Pearl Attaway]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Philip Twopenny]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Maxwell Roth]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
Evie's targets:
*[[David Brewster]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Lucy Thorne]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
Jacob and Evie's joint targets:
*[[Rexford Kaylock]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Argus Bartlett]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Rose Bartlett]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Phillip Beckenridge]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Thomas Blackroot]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Louis Blake]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Bloody Nora]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Wallace Bone]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[The Slaughterhouse Siblings|Charlie]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Eveline Dipper]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Tom Eccleston]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Martin Church]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Ada Cobleigh]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Clyde Cobleigh]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Edgar Collicott]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Harold Drake]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Francis Fletcher]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Josephine Fletcher]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Lilla Graves]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Beatrice Gribble]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Samuel Hargrave]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Kent Jekyll]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Raphael Jekyll]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Victor Lynch]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Peter Needham]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[The Slaughterhouse Siblings|"Big" Pete]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Myrtle Platt]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Octavia Plumb]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Cletus Strain]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Edith Swinebourne]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Crawford Starrick]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Henry Raymond]]<ref name="Dreadful Crimes">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – ''[[The Dreadful Crimes]]''</ref>
 
|-|1888=
Evie's targets:
*[[Simon Swins]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Moses Penning]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Remy Bowting]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Berty Lisrae]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Julian Cumberwhine]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Cedric Barkers]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[David Roaming]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Bruce Labott]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Aubrey King]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Olwyn Owers]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' – ''[[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]''</ref>
*[[John Billingsworth]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
*[[Jack the Ripper]]<ref name="Jack the Ripper"/>
</tabber>
 
===Lydia Frye===
During [[World War I]], [[Lydia Frye]] allied herself with [[Winston Churchill]] to take down a [[Germany|German]]-Templar spy network led by a [[Sages|Sage]].
 
<tabber>
|-|1916=
*[[Magpie]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Nurse (1916)|Nurse]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Nurse's accomplice]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
*[[Master Spy]]<ref name="Syndicate"/>
</tabber>
 
===Nikolai Orelov===
During the [[Russian Revolution]], [[Nikolai Orelov]] served his [[Russian Assassins|Order]] faithfully, rising to the rank of Master Assassin before growing disillusioned and leaving the order.
 
<tabber>
|-|1917 – 1926=
*[[Khioniya Guseva]] – 1917<ref name="Project Legacy">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]''</ref>
*[[Sergei]] – 1926<ref name="The Chain">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref>
</tabber>
 
===Desmond Miles===
Following his kidnapping by [[Abstergo Industries]] and training with the Assassins, [[Desmond Miles]] was forced by [[Juno]] to assassinate [[Lucy Stillman]] in the [[Colosseum Vault]] for her secret defection and betrayal. He later infiltrated the Abstergo Industries headquarters in Rome and assassinated two prominent members of their Order.
 
<tabber>
|-|2012=
*Lucy Stillman<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Daniel Cross]]<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Warren Vidic]]<ref name="AC3"/>
</tabber>
 
===Other Assassins and Proto-Assassins===
Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Assassin responsible:
 
<tabber>
|-|BCE=
*[[Xerxes I of Persia]], by [[Darius]] – 465 BCE<ref name="AC2"/><ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Amorges]], by Darius (with [[Kassandra]]) - 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
*[[Alexander the Great]], by [[Iltani]] – 323 BCE<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Qin Shi Huang]], by [[Wei Yu]] – 210 BCE<ref name="AC2"/>
 
|-|1st=
*[[Caligula]], by [[Leonius]] – 41<ref name="AC2"/>
 
|-|3rd=
*[[Titus (general)|Titus]], by [[Aquilus]] – 259<ref name="AC2A">''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]''</ref>
*[[Caius]], by Aquilus – 259<ref name="AC2A"/>
*[[Faustinus]], by Aquilus – 259<ref name="AC2A"/>
*[[Caïus Fulvus Vultur]], by Aquilus – 259<ref name="AC3A">''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]''</ref>
 
|-|10th=
*[[Olof Björnsson]] – 975<ref name="ACFG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]''</ref>
*[[Palnatoke]], by [[Thorvald Hjaltason]] – 984<ref name="ACFG"/>
*[[Eric the Victorious]]'s marshal, by Thorvald Hjaltason – 984<ref name="ACFG"/>
 
|-|12th=
*[[Masun]], by Al Mualim – 1191<ref name="AC"/>
 
|-|13th=
*[[Jochi Khan]], by [[Qulan Gal]] and [[Darim Ibn-La'Ahad]] – 1227<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Genghis Khan]], by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad – 1227<ref name="AC2"/><ref name="Secret Crusade"/>
*[[Chagatai Khan]], by Qulan Gal – 1241<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Ögedei Khan]], by [[Nergüi]] – 1241<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Möngke Khan]], by [[Zhang Zhi]] – 1259<ref name="ACTK">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants - Tomb of the Khan]]''</ref>
*[[Alexander Nevsky]], by Nergüi – 1263<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Hülegü Khan]], by Nergüi – 1265<ref name="Memories"/>
 
|-|14th=
*[[Benedict XI]], by [[Guillaume de Nogaret]] – 1304<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jacques de Molay's advisor]], by [[Thomas de Carneillon]] – 1307<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Bachir Al-Djallil]], by [[Numa Al'Khamsin]] – 1340<ref name="Hawk">''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]''</ref>
 
|-|15th=
*[[Yongle Emperor]], by [[Li Tong]] – 1424<ref name="DYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>
*[[Vlad Tepes]] – 1476<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Cem]] – 1495<ref name="Revelations novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]]</ref>
*[[Perotto Calderon]] – 1498<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Tomás de Torquemada]] – 1498<ref name="AC2"/>
 
|-|16th=
*[[Agostino Barbarigo]], by [[Tessa Varzi]] – 1501<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Cahin]] – 1503<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Caha]] – 1503<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Rocco Tiepolo]] – 1503<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Baltasar de Silva]] – 1503<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Margaret of York]], – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Isabella I of Castile]] – 1504<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Niccolò di Pitigliano]], by [[Francesco Vecellio]] – 1510<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Francisco]] – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Juan Ponce de León]] – 1521<ref name="DYL"/>
*[[Ma Yongcheng]], by [[Wang Yangming]] – 1526<ref name="China"/>
*[[The Viper]], by [[Giovanni Borgia]] – 1527<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Francisco Pizarro]] – 1541<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Mary I of England]] – 1558<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Jiajing Emperor]] – 1567<ref name="China"/>
*[[Mōri Motonari]], by [[Hattori Hanzō]] – 1571<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Uesugi Kenshin]], by Hattori Hanzō – 1578<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia]] – 1581<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Oda Nobunaga]], by [[Yamauchi Taka]] – 1582<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Mochizuki Chiyome]], by Hattori Hanzō – 1590s<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], by Yamauchi Taka – 1598<ref name="Memories"/>
*[[Shima Sakon]], by Yamauchi Taka – 1600<ref name="Memories"/>
 
|-|18th=
*[[Abel Bramah]], by [[Duncan Walpole]] – 1715<ref name="AC4"/>
*[[Nāder Shāh]], by [[Salah Bey]] – 1747<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Lawrence Washington]], by [[Shay Cormac]] – 1752<ref name="Rogue">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>
*[[Samuel Smith]], by Shay Cormac – 1754<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[James Wardrop]], by Shay Cormac – 1754<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[George Monro]], by [[Liam O'Brien]] – 1757<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Richard Montgomery]] – 1775<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Johann Rall]] – 1776<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Friedrich Baum]] – 1777<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Carl Emilius von Donop]] – 1777<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[George Dorrance]] – 1778<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[John Boyd]] – 1779<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Hugh Jackson]] – 1779<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Johann de Kalb]] – 1780<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Hector McNeill]] – 1781<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Jonathan Trumbull]] – 1785<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Arpinon]], by Pierre Bellec – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]], by Pierre Bellec – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Jeannot Bullet]], by [[Eseosa]] – 1791<ref name="Letters">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – [[Eseosa's Codex|Letters to the Dead]]</ref>
*[[Couillaud]] – c. 1791<ref name="UCA">[[Assassin's Creed: Unity companion app|''Assassin's Creed: Unity'' companion app]]</ref>
*[[Payen]] – c. 1791<ref name="UCA"/>
*[[Pierre Thibault]] – c. 1791<ref name="UCA"/>
 
|-|19th=
*[[Charles Leclerc]], by Eseosa – 1802<ref name="Letters"/>
*[[Solomon Bolden]], by [[Ahkbar]] – 1808<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]] #007''</ref>
*[[Selim III]], by Ahkbar – 1808<ref name="Templars009">''Assassin's Creed: Templars #009''</ref>
*[[Tjinder Dani]], by [[Arbaaz Mir]] – 1860<ref name="UW">''[[Assassin's Creed: Underworld]]''</ref>
*[[Robert Waugh]], by [[Ethan Frye]] – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*[[Hardy]], by Ethan Frye – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*[[Smith]], by Ethan Frye – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*[[Other Hardy]], by [[Jayadeep Mir]] – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*[[John Wilkes Booth]] – 1865<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Alexander II of Russia]], by [[Ignacy Hryniewiecki]]<ref>''Assassin's Creed: The Movie -
[[Who's In Your Blood?]]''</ref> and others – 1881<ref name="ACTF1">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]] #1''</ref><ref name="AC2"/>
 
|-|20th=
*[[Dolinsky]] - 1908<ref name="ACTF2">''Assassin's Creed: The Fall #2''</ref>
*[[Erich Albert]] – 1914<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Sun Yat-sen]] – 1925<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Templars #002''</ref>
*[[Otto Hammerstein]], by [[Julia Dusk]] – 1942<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies Volume 1: Die Glocke]]''</ref>
*[[Adolf Hitler]] – 1945<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Joseph Stalin]] – 1953<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[François Duvalier]] – 1971<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Mary Lynch]], by [[Joseph Lynch]] – 1986<ref name="ACFilm">
 
|-|21st=
*[[Avdotya Voronina]], by [[Galina Voronina]] – 2014<ref name="ACIS">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – Surveillance</ref>
*[[Medeya Voronina]], by Galina Voronina – 2014<ref name="ACIS"/>
*[[Isabelle Ardant]], by [[Shaun Hastings]] – 2015<ref name="Syndicate" />
*[[Brad]], by [[Charlotte de la Cruz]] - 2015<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]] #05''</ref>
*[[Didier Hawking]], by [[Joseph Laurier]] - 2015<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]] #05''</ref>
*[[Alan Rikkin]], by [[Callum Lynch]] – 2016<ref name="ACFilm" />
*[[Ortega Sanchez]], by [[Arend Schut-Cunningham]] and [[Kiyoshi Takakura]] – 2016<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]] #014''</ref>
*[[Thomas Adler]], by [[Florent Carpentier]] - 2017<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Conspirations]]''</ref>
*[[Jasdip Dhami]], by Galina Voronina - 2018<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]] #012''</ref>
*[[Juno]], by [[Charlotte de la Cruz]] - 2018<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]] #012''</ref>
*[[Fahad Khan]], by [[Aliyah Khan]] - 2019<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Gold]]''</ref>
</tabber>
 
==Elimination by Templars and Proto-Templars==
===Haytham Kenway===
Son of the Assassin Edward Kenway, Haytham was converted to the Templar cause at a young age by [[Reginald Birch]]. A member of the [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Rite]], he later became the Grand Master of the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|Colonial Rite]].
 
<tabber>
|-|1744 – 1758=
*[[Liverpool merchant]] – 1744<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Austrian prince]] – 1744<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Juan Vedomir]] – 1747<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Miko]] – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Louis Mills]] – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Cutter]] – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Silas Thatcher]] (assisted by Benjamin Church) – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Slater]] – 1754<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Edward Braddock]] – 1755<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[John Harrison]] – 1757<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Reginald Birch]] (assisted by [[Jennifer Scott]]) - 1757<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Adéwalé]] (assisted by [[Shay Cormac]]) - 1758<ref name="Rogue"/>
</tabber>
 
===Shay Cormac===
Formerly a member of the Colonial Assassins, [[Shay Cormac]] later became a famous Assassin hunter after he joined the Templar Order, pursuing his former Assassin brothers and sisters.
 
<tabber>
|-|1756 – 1760=
*[[Le Chasseur]] – 1756<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Kesegowaase]] – 1757<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Adéwalé]] (assisted by [[Haytham Kenway]]) – 1758<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Hope Jensen]] – 1759<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye]] – 1760<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Liam O'Brien]] – 1760<ref name="Rogue"/>
 
|-|1776=
*[[Charles Dorian]] – 1776<ref name="Rogue"/>
</tabber>
 
===Daniel Cross===
Brainwashed from an early age by the Templar-led Abstergo Industries, [[Daniel Cross]] served as a sleeper agent inside the Assassin Order and betrayed them leading to the [[Great Purge|decimation]] of the Assassins.
 
<tabber>
2010-2012=
*[[The Mentor (2000)|"The Mentor"]] – 2000<ref name="ACTF3">''Assassin's Creed: The Fall #3''</ref>
*[[Hannah Mueller]] – 2011<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Janice]] – 2012<ref name="ACDF">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' - The Desmond Files</ref>
</tabber>
 
===Other Templars and Proto-Templars===
Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Templar responsible:
 
<tabber>
5th BCE=
*[[Gyras]], by [[Megakreon]] and Order Guards - 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBSH"/>
*[[Natakas]], by [[Gergis]] and Order Guards - 422 BCE<ref name="LotFBB"/>
 
|-|1st BCE=
*[[Khemu]], by Flavius Metellus – 49 BCE<ref name="ACO">''Assassin's Creed: Origins''</ref>
*[[Shadya]], by Berenike – 48 BCE<ref name="ACO"/>
*[[Pompey]], by Lucius Septimius – 48 BCE<ref name="ACO"/>
*[[Apollodorus]], by Flavius Metellus and Lucius Septimius – 47 BCE<ref name="ACO"/>
*[[Hepzefa]], by Flavius Metellus and Lucius Septimius – 47 BCE<ref name="ACO"/>
 
|-|3rd=
*[[Lucius]], by Caïus Fulvus Vultur – 259<ref name="AC2A"/>
 
|-|8th=
*[[Yan Jiming]], by An Lushan – 756<ref name="ACD">''Assassin's Creed: Dynasty''</ref>
*[[Yan Gaoqing]], by An Lushan – 756<ref name="ACD"/>
 
|-|12th=
*[[Isaac Comnenus]], by Armand Bouchart – c. 1191<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Osman]], by Armand Bouchart – 1191<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Barnabas]], by [[Armand Bouchart's agent]] – 1191<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Demetris]], by Armand Bouchart's agent – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Alexander of Limassol]], by Armand Bouchart's agent – 1193<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
 
|-|14th=
*[[Dante Alighieri]] – 1321<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Marco Polo]] – 1324<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Al-Nasir Muhammad]], by [[Leila]] – 1341<ref name="ACEC">''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]''</ref>
*[[Numa Al'Khamsin]], by Leila - 1341<ref name="ACLeila">''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]''</ref>
 
|-|15th=
*[[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]], by [[Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani]], [[Gerolamo Olgiati]], [[Carlo Visconti]] – 1476<ref name="Lineage">''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''</ref>
*[[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]], [[Federico Auditore da Firenze]], [[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze]] – 1476<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Giuliano de' Medici]], by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli – 1478<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Giovanni Mocenigo]], by Carlo Grimaldi – 1485<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Maria (Assassin)|Maria]], by [[Ojeda]] – 1492<ref name="ACFilm"/>
*[[Juan Borgia the Younger]], by [[Fiora Cavazza]] – 1497<ref name="ACA"/>
*[[Mario Auditore]], by Cesare Borgia – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Ramiro d'Orco]] – 1500<ref name="ACA">''[[Assassin's Creed: Ascendance]]''</ref>
*[[Alfonso of Aragon]], by [[Micheletto Corella]] – 1500<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
 
|-|16th=
*[[Giulio Cesare da Varano]], by Micheletto Corella – 1502<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Astorre III Manfredi]], by Micheletto Corella – 1502<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Oliverotto da Fermo]], by Micheletto Corella – 1502<ref name="Brotherhood"/><ref name="ACA"/>
*[[Vitellozzo Vitelli]], by Micheletto Corella – 1502<ref name="Brotherhood"/><ref name="ACA"/>
*[[Francesco Troche]], by Micheletto Corella – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Rodrigo Borgia]], by Cesare Borgia – 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*Micheletto Corella, by Cesare Borgia – 1506<ref name="Brotherhood novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' novel]]</ref>
*[[Theodorus Komnenos]], by Odai Dunqas – 1511<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Yusuf Tazim]] – 1512<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Zhu Jiuyuan]] – 1524<ref name="China"/>
*[[Wang Yangming]], by [[Zhang Yong]] – 1529<ref name="China"/>
 
|-|17th=
*[[Bridget Bishop]], by [[William Stoughton]] and [[Samuel Parris]] – 1692<ref>''Assassin's Creed #001''</ref>
*[[Jennifer Querry]], by [[William Stoughton]] – 1692<ref>''Assassin's Creed #004''</ref>
 
|-|18th=
*[[Tom Cobleigh]], by Wilson – 1713<ref name="ACBFN"/>
*[[Samuel Bellamy]] – 1717<ref name="Pirates"/>
*[[Barnes]], by [[Christopher Condent]] – 1717<ref name="Pirates">''[[Assassin's Creed: Pirates]]''</ref>
*[[Howell Davis]] – 1719<ref name="AC4"/>
*Edward Kenway, by mercenaries in the employ of [[Reginald Birch]] – 1735<ref name="Forsaken">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forsaken]]''</ref>
*[[Jack Digweed]], by Reginald Birch – 1747<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Vendredi]], by Lawrence Washington – 1751<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Silas Thatcher]], by Benjamin Church (assisted by Haytham Kenway) – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[François Mackandal]] – 1758<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Philippe de Grandpré]], by Madeleine de L'Isle – 1776<ref name="AC3L"/>
*[[Lucio Albertine]] – 1788<ref name="Unity novel"/>
*[[Monica Albertine]] – 1788<ref name="Unity novel"/>
*[[May Carroll]], by [[Élise de la Serre]] – 1788<ref name="Unity novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Unity'' novel]]</ref>
*[[François de la Serre]], by Charles Gabriel Sivert and Le Roi des Thunes – 1789<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Hook]], by Élise de la Serre – 1789<ref name="Unity novel"/>
*[[Harvey]], by Élise de la Serre – 1789<ref name="Unity novel"/>
*[[Le Fanu]] – 1790<ref name="Unity novel"/>
*[[Brasseur]], by the Roi des Thunes – 1791<ref name="Unity"/>
*Élise de la Serre, by François-Thomas Germain – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Bernard Ruddock]], by [[Frederick Weatherall]] – 1794<ref name="Unity novel"/>
 
|-|19th=
*Ahkbar, by [[Jan van der Graff]] – 1808<ref name="Templars009"/>
*[[Ranjit Singh]], by [[Francis Cotton]] and [[William Hay Macnaghten]] – 1839<ref name="Brahman">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''</ref>
*[[Walter Lavelle]], by [[Cavanagh]] – 1850s<ref name="UW"/>
*[[Mrs. Waugh]] – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*[[Charles Pearson]], by Cavanagh – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*Cavanagh, by [[Marchant]] – 1862<ref name="UW"/>
*[[Abraham Lincoln]], by [[John Wilkes Booth]] – 1865<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Herbert]] – 1868<ref name = "Syndicate"/>
*[[Frank Morris]] – 1868<ref name = "Syndicate"/>
*[[Horace Greeley]] – 1872<ref name="Last Descendants – Locus">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus]]''</ref>
 
|-|20th=
*[[Nicholas II of Russia]] – 1918<ref name="Russia">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>
*Alexandra Feodorovna – 1918<ref name="Russia">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>
*Olga Nikolaevna of Russia – 1918<ref name="Russia">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>
*Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia – 1918<ref name="Russia">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>
*Maria Nikolaevna of Russia – 1918<ref name="Russia">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>
*Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia – 1918<ref name="Russia">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia]]''</ref>
*[[Harry Houdini]] – 1926<ref name="Glyphs">''Assassin's Creed II'' - [[Glyphs]]</ref>
*[[Thaddeus Gift]], by [[Albert Bolden]] – 1927<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Templars #001''</ref>
*[[Yuri Dolinsky]], by Albert Bolden – 1927<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed FCBD 2016 Edition]]''</ref>
*[[Henri Melville]], by Albert Bolden – 1927<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Templars #002''</ref>
*[[Fiery Crow]], by Albert Bolden – 1927<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Templars #003''</ref>
*[[Flowery Flag]], by Albert Bolden – 1927<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Templars #005''</ref>
*[[Mahatma Gandhi]] – 1948<ref name="Glyphs"/>
*[[Harry Dexter White]] – 1948<ref name="Brotherhood rifts">''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' – [[Rifts]]</ref>
*[[Jack Parsons]] – 1952<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Alan Turing]] – 1954<ref name="Brotherhood rifts"/>
*[[John F. Kennedy]], by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] – 1963<ref name="Glyphs"/>
 
|-|21st=
*[[Subject 15]] – 2010<ref>Abstergo Industries website - [[James Morse's email|James Morse's e-mail]]</ref>
*[[Siobhan Dhami]], by a special ops team led by [[Juhani Otso Berg]] – 2013<ref name="Brahman"/>
*[[Dinesh]], by a special ops team led by Juhani Otso Berg – 2013<ref name="Brahman"/>
*[[Robert Fraser]] – 2014<ref name="AE">''[[Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook]]''</ref>
*[[Arturo Viera]], by [[Whittaker]] – 2016<ref>''Assassin's Creed #009''</ref>
*[[Emir]], by Madrid facility's security – 2016<ref name="ACFilm"/>
*[[Joseph Lynch]], by Madrid facility's security – 2016<ref name="ACFilm"/>
*[[Nathan]], by Madrid facility's security – 2016<ref name="ACFilm"/>
*[[Yanmei]], by [[Isaiah]] – 2016<ref name="ACTK"/>
*[[Deanna Geary]], by Abstergo agents – 2017<ref name="ACO"/>
*[[Violet da Costa]], by Juhani Otso Berg - 2018<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]] #012''</ref>
</tabber>
 
==Survivors==
In carrying out their missions, some Assassins notably spared potential victims, or otherwise did not complete an assassination as directed. The following is a chronological list of targets known to have survived encounters with Assassin or Templar attackers:
*[[Nikolaos]] - spared by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Praxithea]] - spared by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Pratinos]] - spared by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Neokles]] - spared by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Lagos]] - spared by Kassandra (possibly), 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Bulis]] - spared by Kassandra, 424 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Alexios]] - spared by Kassandra, 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Aspasia]] - spared by Kassandra, 422 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Ptolemy XIII]] – spared by Aya, 47 BCE<ref name="ACO" />
*[[Maria Thorpe]] – spared by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1191<ref name="AC" />
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze – failed by Templars, during the 15th and the 16th centuries<ref name="AC2" /><ref name="Brotherhood"/><ref name="Revelations" />
*Tomás de Torquemada – escaped twice, from Aguilar de Nerha and Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1492<ref name="Discovery" />
*Rodrigo Borgia – spared by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1499<ref name="AC2" />
*Micheletto Corella – spared by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*Vali cel Tradat - escaped an attack from Ezio Auditore da Firenze and one of his recruits, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*Cyril of Rhodes - escaped an attack from Ezio Auditore da Firenze and one of his recruits, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*Lysistrata - escaped an attack from Ezio Auditore da Firenze and one of his recruits, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*Mirela Djuric - escaped an attack from Ezio Auditore da Firenze, one of his recruits, and a trio of Romani, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*Georgios Kostas - escaped an attack from Ezio Auditore da Firenze and one of his recruits, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*An unspecified Ottoman Assassin - survived an ambush by Georgios Kostas, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Charles Vane]] – spared by Edward Kenway, 1719<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Woodes Rogers]] – survived attack by Edward Kenway, 1721<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Matthew Hague]] – spared by Edward Kenway, 1723<ref name="ACBFN" />
*Shay Cormac – failed by Assassins, between 1756 and 1760<ref name="Rogue" />
*[[Achilles Davenport]] – spared by Haytham Kenway, 1760<ref name="Rogue" />
*[[Antonio de Ulloa]] – spared by Aveline de Grandpré, 1768<ref name="AC3L" />
*[[Agaté]] – spared by Aveline de Grandpré, 1777<ref name="AC3L" />
*Benedict Arnold – failed by Ratonhnhaké:ton and Assassin apprentices, in 1780 and 1781<ref name="AC3" />
*[[Benjamin Franklin]] – spared by Ratonhnhaké:ton, in an alternate reality.<ref name="Betrayal" />
*Roi des Thunes – escaped three assassination attempts, 1791<ref name="Unity" />
*Jacques Roux – escaped an assassination attempt by three Assassins, 1794<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Alexander Burnes]] – spared by [[Arbaaz Mir]], 1841<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]''</ref>
*[[Brinley Ellsworth]] - spared by Evie Frye on the orders of [[Duleep Singh]], 1868<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – [[The Last Maharaja]]''</ref>
*[[Alexander III of Russia]] - survived an assassination attempt by the Assassin Nikolai Orelov in 1888<ref name="ACTF1" />
 
==Interceptions==
On occasion, the Assassins and Templars saved individuals from being killed. The following is a list of targets, the individuals who wanted their death and the person that saved them:
*[[Artaxerxes I of Persia]], targeted by Darius, saved by Amorges, c. 465 BCE<ref name="LotFBH"/>
*[[Phoibe]], kidnapped by bandits, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Odessa]], captured by bandits, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Barnabas]], targeted by the Cyclops of Kephallonia, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Prexileos]] and [[Idyia]], targeted by [[The Dagger]], saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Metiochos]], targeted by fishermen, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*Phidias, targeted by Cultists, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Timoxenos]], targeted by Pleistos, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Damalis]], targeted by the Monger, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Gotarzes]], targeted by pirates, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Anaximander]], captured by Athenian soldiers, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Markos]], targeted by the Cerberus Brothers, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*Artaxerxes I of Persia, targeted by a Persian soldier, saved by Kassandra, 431 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*Aspasia, pursued by Athenian soldiers, saved by Kassandra, 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Eritha]], targeted by Diona, saved by Kassandra, 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Amara]], captured by Cultists, saved by Kassandra, 429 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Alkibiades]], targeted by Kallias, saved by Kassandra, 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*[[Philonoe]] and [[Niloxenos]], captured by Cultists, saved by Kassandra, 428 BCE<ref name="ACOD"/>
*Gupa – targeted by [[Taharqa]], saved by Bayek, 48 BCE
*[[Cleopatra]] – targeted by [[Venator]], saved by Bayek, 48 BCE
*Lucius Septimius - targeted by Bayek, saved by Julius Caesar and Flavius Metellus, 47 BCE
*Al Mualim, [[Fahd El Fehmi]], and [[Vahid Ahmedi]] – targeted by Haras, saved by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1189 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Richard I of England]] – targeted by William of Montferrat, saved by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1191 CE<ref name="AC" />
*[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] – targeted by Francesco de' Pazzi, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1478 CE<ref name="AC2" />
*[[Rosa]] and [[Ugo]] - targeted by Emilio Barbarigo's guards, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1480 CE<ref name="AC2" />
*[[Bianca Riario]] and [[Ottaviano Riario]] – targeted by Ludovico and Checco Orsi, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1488 CE<ref name="AC2" />
*[[Luis Santangel]], [[Raphael Sanchez]] and [[Christopher Columbus]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1492 CE<ref name="Discovery" />
*Claudia and Maria Auditore da Firenze - targeted by Cesare Borgia, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze - targeted by Cesare Borgia, saved by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1500 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Nicolaus Copernicus]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Desiderius Erasmus]] - targeted by Templars, saved by an Italian Assassin sent by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Prospero Colonna|Prospero]] and [[Fabrizio Colonna]]- targeted by Borgia guards and Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Pantasilea Baglioni]] - targeted by Baron Octavian de Valois, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Pietro Rossi]] – targeted by Micheletto Corella, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] – targeted by [[La Volpe]], saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503 CE<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Claudia Auditore da Firenze]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli, 1504 CE<ref name="Brotherhood novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' novel]]</ref>
*[[Suleiman I]] – targeted by [[Byzantine Templars]], saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze and [[Yusuf Tazim]], 1511 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Pachomius I of Constantinople]] – targeted by Cyril of Rhodes, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1511 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*Manuel Palaiologos, Shahkulu, and Byzantine soldiers - targeted by Tarik Barleti and Janissaries, accidentally saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1511 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Dilara]] - targeted by Manuel Palaiologos and Shahkulu, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1511 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Janos]] and other Ottoman spies - targeted by Manuel Palaiologos and Shahkulu, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Dilara, 1512 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Sofia Sartor]] and [[Azize]] - targeted by Ahmet, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1512 CE<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Shao Jun]] – targeted by Imperial soldiers, aided by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1524 CE<ref name="Embers">''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]''</ref>
*[[Bernard Kenway]] and [[Linette Kenway]] - targeted by Wilson, Tom Cobleigh and Julian, saved by Edward Kenway, 1712 CE<ref name="ACBFN" />
*[[Ah Tabai]] – targeted by Duncan Walpole, indirectly saved by Edward Kenway, 1715 CE<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Antó]] – targeted by Kenneth Abraham, saved by Edward Kenway, 1716 CE<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Opía Apito]] – targeted by Lucia Márquez, saved by Edward Kenway, 1716 CE<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Rhona Dinsmore]] – targeted by Hilary Flint, saved by Edward Kenway, 1717 CE<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Upton Travers]] – targeted by Vance Travers and Jing Lang, saved by Edward Kenway, 1717 CE<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Augustin Dieufort]] – targeted by Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, saved by Adéwalé, 1735 CE<ref name="Freedom Cry" />
*[[Louis Godin]] – targeted by pirates, saved by Adéwalé, 1736 CE<ref name="Freedom Cry" />
*Benjamin Church – targeted by Cutter, saved by Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee<ref name="AC3" />
*[[David Borgen]], [[Conan Brown]], [[Michael Crawley]], [[Randall Gordon]], [[Franklin Greear]], [[Maria Gurley]], [[Lewis Johnson]], [[Scott Lawson]], [[Philippe Beaubien]], [[Rachel Plourde]], [[Kelly Snider]] – targeted by Assassins, saved by Shay Cormac, between 1756 and 1760 CE<ref name="Rogue" />
*Ratonhnhaké:ton – targeted by Charles Lee, saved by Haytham Kenway, 1776 CE<ref name="AC3" />
*George Washington – targeted by Thomas Hickey, saved by Ratonhnhaké:ton, 1776 CE<ref name="AC3" />
*Benjamin Franklin – targeted by criminals, saved by Shay Cormac, 1776 CE<ref name="Rogue" />
*Benjamin Franklin and Kanen'tó:kon – targeted by Israel Putnam, saved by Ratonhnhaké:ton, in an alternate reality<ref name="Betrayal" />
*Élise de la Serre – targeted by Templars, saved by Arno Dorian, in 1791 CE<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Théroigne de Méricourt]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Arno Dorian, in 1789 and 1792 CE<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Georges Danton]] – targeted by Royalists, saved by Arno Dorian, 1792 CE<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Didier Paton]] – targeted by [[Maximilien de Robespierre]], saved by Arno Dorian, 1794 CE<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Léon]] – targeted by Philippe Rose, saved by Arno Dorian, 1794 CE<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] – targeted by Royalists, saved by Arno Dorian, in 1795 CE and in 1800 CE<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Hamid (Amritsar)|Hamid]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Arbaaz Mir, 1841 CE
*[[Pyara Kaur]] – targeted by William Sleeman, accidentally saved by Arbaaz Mir, 1841 CE
*[[Benjamin Disraeli]] and [[Mary Anne Disraeli]] – targeted by Blighters, saved by Jacob Frye, 1868 CE
*[[Karl Marx]] – targeted by Blighters, saved by Jacob Frye or Evie Frye, 1868 CE
*[[Charles Darwin]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Jacob Frye or Evie Frye, 1868 CE
*Bob – targeted by Blighters, saved by Jacob Frye, 1868 CE
*[[Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Nikolai Orelov, 1918 CE
*Lucy Stillman - targeted by Abstergo guards, saved by Warren Vidic, 2000s CE<ref name="AC" />
*[[William Miles]] – targeted by Daniel Cross and Warren Vidic, saved by Desmond Miles, 2012 CE<ref name="AC3" />


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"Find them, kill them. In doing so, you will sow the seeds of peace."
―Al Mualim conversing about assassination targets with Altaïr, 1191.[src]-[m]
Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinating Carlo Grimaldi

An assassination is the targeted killing of an individual by a sudden or secret attack, often for political reasons.[1] Over the centuries, political organizations like the Templar Order and most prominently the Assassin Brotherhood have carried out innumerable assassinations of their enemies to advance their causes. In the context of the Assassins, the term assassination has also been applied to techniques for killing a target stealthily in a hostile situation, regardless if they were the primary target of an operation.[2][3]

Background[edit | edit source]

The term assassination comes from the word assassin, which in turn comes from the Arabic word "حشّاشين" (ħashshāshīyīn), or "Hash-Smokers". Historian Shaun Hastings argued that the Hidden Ones adopted the later name of Assassins as a mark of pride.[4] Both incarnations used contracts to outline targets, explain the reasoning for their targeting and even to specify manner of death at times.[5][6][7]

Though precise in their methods, both sides of the Assassin-Templar War did not complete assassinations at times due to choice or circumstance. For example, the Louisianan Assassin Aveline de Grandpré spared the life of Antonio de Ulloa,[8] and the Colonial Templar Shay Cormac would intercept Assassin contracts and prevent them from accomplishing their tasks.[9] The Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore prevented the Templars from killing high profile people such as astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus[10] and then-prince Suleiman I.[11]

Assassination techniques[edit | edit source]

Hidden Blade[edit | edit source]

Altaïr's codex on Hidden Blade assassinations

The first recorded use of the Hidden Blade was dated from the 5th century BCE, when Darius used it to assassinate King Xerxes I in Persia.[12] Centuries later, his Hidden Blade was passed on to Aya by Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, and she in turn gave it to her husband, the Medjay Bayek of Siwa, to aid in their quest to eliminate the Order of the Ancients in Egypt.[13] The Hidden Blade would go on to become the signature weapon of the Hidden Ones, the organization co-founded by Bayek and Aya, and of their later incarnation, the Asassin Brotherhood, with virtually all of their field agents possessing one Hidden Blade.[14]

The Levantine Assassins Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Malik Al-Sayf worked to improve the methods of assassination using the Blade, three of which Altaïr documented in his codex: "from on high, from ledges, and from hiding places". These would later be dubbed "air assassinations",[15] "ledge assassinations", and "hidden assassinations", respectively.[16] Altaïr himself described these methods as basic, though critical.[14] In the same codex page, he introduced another improvement: the addition of a second, identical Hidden Blade, to allow Assassins to dispatch two targets at once.[14] This method was called a "double assassination".[2] All of these techniques were taught to Assassin recruits,[17] and became recognizable to the Templars.[16]

Other variations[edit | edit source]

During the Isu Era, the Æsir Odin performed two unique assassination types in the dwarven realm of Svartálfaheimr: the "raven assassination" and the "teleport assassination", both of which were done with help of the Hugr-Rip, a gauntlet Odin wore that allowed him to steal the powers of giant ravens and the jötnar.[18]

In the 5th century BCE, the misthios Kassandra used the Spear of Leonidas as a way to perform early assassinations, known as "stealth kills," in a similar fashion to the Hidden Blade. The spear, being an Isu artifact, granted Kassandra a multitude of abilities, including "rush assassinations", in which Kassandra used her spear as a projectile and was teleported to her target.[19]

In the early 1510s, Ezio Auditore used a Hidden Blade variant known as the Hookblade in Constantinople and made use of ziplines to perform "zipline assassinations" on targets, where he would slide down the line using the blade's hook and launch himself at his target just before reaching the line's opposite end.[20]

During the French Revolution, the Parisian Brotherhood made use of the Phantom Blade to assassinate targets from afar via deadly bolts. The weapon could also be upgraded to shoot berserk bolts that caused targets to attack their allies and potentially eliminate each other.[21]

Poison[edit | edit source]

A slower method of assassination, but still widely used, was poisoning, which allowed elimination of targets without the use of force.[22] The Babylonian Assassin Iltani used poison against Alexander the Great in her quest to retrieve his personal Staff of Eden,[23] and the Egyptian Hidden One Amunet gave Cleopatra a vial of poison she used for her suicide.[24]

Altaïr's codex on poisons

At some point before 1191, the use of poison was forbidden among the Levantine Brotherhood, and it was not until Altaïr became a Mentor that the prohibition was lifted.[25] In his codex, Altaïr reserved a section for instruction on how to construct an alteration to the Hidden Blade that allowed the poisoning of targets, as well as instructions on how to distill the poison.[26]

Poison also allowed for many different approaches in an assassination. The method used in Margaret of York's death, for example, was to separate the compounds of the poison into harmless ingredients which were administered through her food, makeup, and pillow.[27] Queen Isabella I of Castile was slowly poisoned through her food until she succumbed to the poison's effects.[28][29] The Black Cross Albert Bolden used a Templar pin with two types of poison: one that killed instantly and another that took one hour for its effect to take hold.[30]

The Assassins and Templars made ample use of poisoned darts in their arsenal, regardless of the method of delivery: Aveline de Grandpré used both a blowpipe[31] and a parasol gun,[32] the Colonial Templar Shay Cormac used an air rifle,[33] the French Assassin Arno Dorian used the Phantom Blade,[21] and Jacob and Evie Frye used their Assassin Gauntlets.[34]

High-profile assassinations[edit | edit source]

In the 14th century, the Italian Assassin Domenico Auditore built a sanctuary beneath his villa in Monteriggioni and included seven statues to honor the memory of the Assassins "who guarded the freedom of humanity when it was most threatened". The seven individuals chosen to receive statues were Qulan Gal, Darius, Wei Yu, Amunet, Iltani, and Leonius—all of whom were thought to have performed high profile assassinations—and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Accompanying the statues were seals engraved with their famed weapons.[35] Although neither Qulan Gal nor Amunet were directly responsible for the assassinations attributed to them, they still played important roles in their targets' deaths.[36][24]

According to the descriptions that accompanied the statues:

Other notable assassinations were the assassination of Julius Caesar engineered by the Roman Hidden Ones,[37] the assassination of An Lushan by Li E,[38] the assassination of Cesare Borgia by Ezio Auditore,[39] and the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy by Boris Pash and the members of his extremist Assassin cell Bloodstone Unit.[40]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Merriam-Webster dictionary. Assassination.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed II
  3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  4. Assassin's Creed: ValhallaLayla Hassan's personal files: "The Hidden Ones"
  5. Assassin's Creed: ValhallaA Brief History of the Hidden Ones
  6. Assassin's Creed: ValhallaLayla Hassan's personal files – Files: "Session Report: SHastings"
  7. Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagOverrun and Outnumbered
  8. Assassin's Creed III: LiberationA Governor No More
  9. Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Assassin Interceptions
  10. Assassin's Creed: BrotherhoodCopernicus Conspiracy False Censorship
  11. Assassin's Creed: RevelationsThe Prince's Banquet
  12. Assassin's Creed: OdysseyLegacy of the First Blade: HuntedShadow of a Legend
  13. Assassin's Creed: OriginsAya
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Assassin's Creed IIAltaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex: Page 13
  15. Assassin's Creed: Unity companion app – Les Invalides: You'll Pay For This
  16. 16.0 16.1 Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagMister Walpole, I Presume?
  17. Assassin's Creed: RogueLessons and Revelations
  18. Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - Gift to the God
  19. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
  20. Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  21. 21.0 21.1 Assassin's Creed: UnityThe Kingdom of Beggars
  22. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: IndiaDatabase: Iltani's Story 2
  23. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: IndiaDatabase: Iltani's Story 5
  24. 24.0 24.1 Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)Issue #04
  25. Assassin's Creed IIAltaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex: Page 6
  26. Assassin's Creed IIAltaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex: Page 21
  27. Assassin's Creed: Project LegacyContracts: London, England
  28. Assassin's Creed: Project LegacyContracts: Barcelona, Spain
  29. Assassin's Creed: InitiatesDatabase: Ending Isabella
  30. Assassin's Creed: TemplarsIssue #3
  31. Assassin's Creed III: LiberationThe False Mackandal
  32. Assassin's Creed III: LiberationPrélude to Rebellion
  33. Assassin's Creed: RogueBy Invitation Only
  34. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateCable News
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 Assassin's Creed IIFloating conversations: "Unlocking Monteriggioni's Secrets"
  36. Assassin's Creed: ReflectionsIssue #02
  37. Assassin's Creed: OriginsFall of an Empire, Rise of Another
  38. Assassin's Creed: DynastyFinale: Assassination
  39. Assassin's Creed: BrotherhoodPax Romana
  40. Assassin's Creed: BloodstoneBook 1

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