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| {{Era|Assassins|AC1|Bloodlines|AC2|Discovery|Brotherhood|Revelations|Secret Crusade|Renaissance|Bbook|The Fall}}The title of '''Grand Master''' was the highest rank attainable within the [[Assassins|Order of Assassins]] and granted the bearer full control over the Order.<ref name="Assassin's Creed">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref> It was comparable to the [[Templars|Templar]] rank of the [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|same name]].
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| Upon being promoted, the Grand Master was from then on known as "'''the Mentor'''" by his fellow Assassins.<ref name="Assassin's Creed"/><ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref><ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Fall">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>
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| ==History==
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| ===Middle ages===
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| By 1191, the Order had located itself in the [[Kingdom|Kingdom of the Holy Land]] and the Grand Master had become an individual only known as "[[Al Mualim]]", who ruled from the Assassins' fortress in [[Masyaf]]. The following year, after the revelation of Al Mualim's membership within the Templar Order and subsequent death, the title was taken by his executioner, [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed II">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
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| Before Altaïr's death in 1257, he decided that the Order should be widespread all over the globe, and began to send the Assassins away from Masyaf. Various [[Assassins Guilds]] were founded, with each country getting their own Grand Master, or "Mentor". With the [[Fall of Masyaf|Mongol attack on Masyaf]] in 1257, Masyaf was completely abandoned by the Assassins.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref>
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| ===Renaissance===
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| ;Italy
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| Some time during the 15<sup>th</sup> century, [[Mario Auditore]] became the Order's Grand Master and based its headquarters in [[Monteriggioni]], which the [[House of Auditore|Auditore family]] had ruled over for centuries.
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| In January 1500, Mario was killed by [[Cesare Borgia]] after Monteriggioni was besieged. [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] became the ''de facto'' Grand Master and based the Order in [[Rome]], [[Italy]], the center of the Templars' power. During his time as the Grand Master he, secretly, assisted or saved Ezio Auditore on several occasions: Machiavelli saved Ezio from the country roadside after he collapsed due to the injuries he acquired during the siege of Monteriggioni. Machiavelli was also responsible for the explosion at the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]], which forced the guards to retreat, preventing Ezio from being entirely overwhelmed, additionally he had some mercenaries provide Ezio aid during the Passion Play disaster.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>
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| However, in 1503, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] was given the title of Grand Master after Machiavelli passed the position onto him, realizing that Ezio was a stronger leader who built the [[Rome Assassins Guild|Roman Assassins Guild]] from the ground up, he was actually the one ''leading'' the war against the Borgia in Rome, despite taking no credit, and that he would set a better example to the other members of the Order.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>
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| ===Modern times===
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| The position of Grand Master still existed in [[modern times]]. During 1888, [[Nikolai Orelov]], an Assassin during the [[Russian Revolution]], receives his orders directly from "The Mentor".
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| A hundred years later, another [[The Mentor (2000)|Mentor]] was active in the Order, and still operated under the same name as his predecessors. In the year 1998, [[Daniel Cross]] began to seek him out after having a [[bleeding effect|bizarre hallucination]] of Orelov. Eventually, he met the Mentor and assassinated him in his [[Dubai]] headquarters in 2000.
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| ==Known Grand Masters==
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| ===International===
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| <center><gallery captionalign="left" widths="168" spacing="small">
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| File:Hassan-i Sabbah.jpg|[[Hassan-i Sabbah]]<ref>[http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/File:AC_Timeline.jpg ''Assassin's Creed'' Timeline]</ref><br>(1090 - 1124)
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| File:Almualimrender1.png|[[Al Mualim]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed"/><br>(? - 1191)
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| File:ACR Altair Render2.png|[[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref><br>(1191 - c. 1225; c. 1247 - 1257)
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| Malik.png|[[Malik Al-Sayf]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" /><br> (c. 1217 - c. 1225) <small>(''de facto'')</small>
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| File:Abbasfull2.png|[[Abbas Sofian]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" /><br>(c. 1225 - c. 1247)
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| File:The Mentor.jpg|[[The Mentor (2000)|"The Mentor"]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: The Fall">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref><br>(? - 2000)
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| </gallery></center>
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| ===National===
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| ;Italy
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| <center><gallery captionalign="left" widths="168" spacing="small">
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| Char mario.png|[[Mario Auditore]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' novel]]</ref><br>(? - 1500)
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| Char machiavelli.png|[[Niccolò Machiavelli]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/><br>(1500 - 1503) <small>(''de facto'')</small>
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| Eziokopie.png|[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/><br>(1503 - 1524)
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| </gallery></center>
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| ;Constantinople
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| <center><gallery captionalign="left" widths="168" spacing="small">
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| Ref.jpg|[[Yusuf Tazim]]<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Revelations">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref><br>(circa 1511)
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| </gallery></center>
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| ==Notes and references==
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| {{reflist}}
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| [[Category:Assassin Order]] | |