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{{ | {{Quote|My mentor, you are consumed by blood lust! We share a common goal: free the slaves, defeat our enemies, impose justice.|Aveline de Grandpré to Agaté, on the Louisiana Brotherhood's goals, 1768.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation|A Governor No More}} | ||
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|headquarters = [[De Grandpré warehouse]] | |founder = [[Agaté]] | ||
|leader = [[Mentor]] | |||
| | |headquarters = [[De Grandpré warehouse]], [[New Orleans]]<br>[[Agaté's Hut]], [[Louisiana Bayou]] | ||
|locations = [[Louisiana]] | |||
|related = [[Assassins]] | |||
|formed = 1759 | |formed = 1759 | ||
|notable = Agaté<br>[[Gérald Blanc]]<br>[[Aveline de Grandpré]]}} | |notable = Agaté<br>[[Gérald Blanc]]<br>[[Aveline de Grandpré]] | ||
The '''Assassin Brotherhood of New Orleans''' was a | }} | ||
The '''Louisiana Brotherhood of Assassins''', also known as the '''Assassin Brotherhood of New Orleans''', was the [[Assassin Guilds|guild]] of [[Assassins]] based in [[Louisiana]]. It was established in 1759, during Louisiana's rule by the [[Kingdom of France]], by [[Agaté]], a former member of the [[Saint-Domingue Brotherhood of Assassins|Saint-Domingue Brotherhood]] who survived his guild's collapse. | |||
During the 18th century, the Louisiana Brotherhood was relatively small-scale, consisting of Agaté and his two [[Assassin apprentice|apprentices]], [[Aveline de Grandpré]] and [[Gérald Blanc]]. With Agaté unable to set foot in [[New Orleans]] due to the risk of being recognized by the [[Templars]], he had Aveline and Gérald act as his agents in the city to sabotage the Templars' control, which strengthened during Louisiana's administration by [[Spain]] after the end of the [[Seven Years' War]]. | |||
In addition to fighting the Templars, the Louisianan Assassins sought to acquire the pieces of the [[Prophecy Disk]], an [[Isu]] [[Piece of Eden|artifact]] buried in [[Chichen Itza]], [[Mexico]], which was also desired by the Templars. Although successful in this endeavor, Aveline and Agaté started to grow apart due to the former's disobedience and the latter's secretive nature, culminating in a fight between pupil and Mentor after they both discovered the [[Louisiana Rite of the Templar Order|Louisiana Templars]] were led by Aveline's stepmother, [[Madeleine de L'Isle]]. | |||
Following Agaté's death at Aveline's hands, the latter surrendered the Prophecy Disk to Madeleine under the guise of switching allegiances to the Templars. With all leading members of the Louisiana Rite gathered at the [[Saint Louis Cathedral]] for Aveline's [[Initiation into the Templar Order|induction]] into the Order, the Assassin seized the opportunity to eliminate them, ridding New Orleans of Templar influence. | |||
Over the following years, Aveline continued to operate in Louisiana and the newly-established [[United States|United States of America]], assisting the [[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Assassin]] [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] in his mission to build up his own Brotherhood. By the 19th century, the Louisiana Brotherhood remained operational and several of its members participated in the [[American Civil War]]. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
=== | ===Establishment=== | ||
In 1758, after the execution of the [[ | In 1758, after the execution of the [[Saint-Domingue Brotherhood of Assassins|Saint-Domingue Brotherhood]]'s [[Mentor]], [[François Mackandal]], secretly engineered by the [[Templars|Templar]] [[Madeleine de L'Isle]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Numbskull's personal files]]: "Berg's Inspiration – Baptiste"</ref> the branch was nearly dissolved. In the wake of this defeat, one of Mackandal's apprentices, [[Agaté]], left [[Haiti|Saint-Domingue]] in pursuit of his former lover, [[Jeanne]],<ref name="Page 25" /> who had stolen an artifact known as the [[Heart of the Brotherhood]] from the Assassins.<ref name="Page 7">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Jeanne's diary pages]] – Page 7</ref> | ||
Agaté went to [[New Orleans]], where Jeanne lived with the [[France|French]] merchant [[Philippe de Grandpré]], who had purchased her years prior and made her his placée bride.<ref name="Page 13">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Jeanne's diary pages]] – Page 13</ref> To alleviate his company's financial problems, Philippe had also married Madeleine, who took an interest in Jeanne and the Heart.<ref name="Page 22">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Jeanne's diary pages]] – Page 22</ref> However, shortly after Agaté's arrival, he discovered that Jeanne had fled the city, manipulated by Madeleine.<ref name="Page 25">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Jeanne's diary pages]] – Page 25</ref><ref name="Only a Nightmare">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Only a Nightmare]]</ref> | |||
[[File: Key to the Problem 2.png|thumb|left|250px|Aveline and Gérald, the only two Assassins of New Orleans]] | |||
After Agaté learned that Jeanne had a daughter named [[Aveline de Grandpré|Aveline]] with Philippe, he decided to remain in New Orleans to watch over her. In 1759, he intervened after Aveline got into trouble for attempting to liberate a [[Slavery|slave]]. Impressed by the young girl's dedication to freedom and justice, Agaté took Aveline under his wing and, following a few months of intense training, inducted her into the Assassins. That same year, he recruited Aveline's childhood friend [[Gérald Blanc]] and trained him as a spy and information officer, officially founding the Louisiana Brotherhood as its Mentor.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref> | |||
===Louisiana | However, the Templars in New Orleans soon caught wind of Agaté's presence, forcing him to flee the city and hide in the [[Louisiana Bayou]].<ref name="The Loast Guide You">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Loas Guide You]]</ref> From there, he continued to direct Aveline and Gérald, who established a network of informants throughout New Orleans to uncover the Templars' schemes.<ref name="Only a Nightmare" /> | ||
===French and Spanish Louisiana=== | |||
====Investigating the disappearing slaves==== | |||
{{Quote|We have uncovered news of a plantation from which slaves are vanishing. The owners reported their escape, but our network can find no trace of them. If you don your slave guise, perhaps you can investigate this mystery from within.|Gérald in a letter to Aveline, 1765.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation|New Orleans by Night}} | |||
[[File:The Colony's Good 4.png|thumb|250px|Aveline with a dying Governor d'Abbadie]] | |||
In 1765, slaves in New Orleans began to disappear and Aveline investigated on the matter.<ref name="New Orleans by Night">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[New Orleans by Night]]</ref> Her search led her to [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]], a notable Templar who worked with the Governor of Louisiana, [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]]. Infiltrating the [[Governor's Mansion (New Orleans)|Governor's Mansion]], Aveline learned that d'Abbadie supplied slaves to a Templar known as the "Company Man" in exchange for the Order using their influence to keep Louisiana [[France|French]], in spite of the {{Wiki|Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris}} which declared that control of the colony was to be ceded to [[Spain]].<ref name="The Colony's Good">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Colony's Good]]</ref> | |||
After de Ferrer departed, Aveline killed d'Abbadie, temporarily ending Templar control over New Orleans.<ref name="The Colony's Good" /> She then chose to flee the city and hide in the bayou until the commotion caused by the governor's assassination died down.<ref name="The Escape">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Escape (Liberation)|The Escape]]</ref> | |||
====The Eve of Saint John==== | |||
{{Quote|Deep in the bayou, a dangerous imposter spreads real roots. He calls himself François Mackandal, my own mentor – the leader, the priest, the Brother, to whose cause I devoted my life. He was put to death by fire. I failed to prevent it. Who is this imposter, and what are his affiliations? This, you will need to uncover.|Agaté giving Aveline her mission, 1766.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation|The False Mackandal}} | |||
[[File: The False Mackandal 2.png|thumb|left|250px|Agaté giving Aveline a blowpipe]] | |||
In 1766, Agaté learned that a man impersonating François Mackandal was trying to take over the [[smuggling]] operations in the bayou, and sent Aveline to discover the impostor's identity and eliminate him.<ref name="The False Mackandal">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The False Mackandal]]</ref> During her investigation, Aveline saved the smugglers [[Élise Lafleur]] and [[Toussaint Roussillon]] who were attacked by [[Baptiste's followers|Mackandal's followers]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Meet the Smugglers]]</ref> With their help, she learned that the Mackandal impostor prepared a sacred ceremony on the Eve of Saint John.<ref name="The Second Camp">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Second Camp]]</ref> | |||
At the ceremony, Aveline discovered the false Mackandal to be [[Baptiste]], a former Assassin and brother-in-arms of Agaté, who had followed him to Louisiana and formed his own voodoo cult. Baptiste planned to poison the nobles of New Orleans to avenge the death of the slaves of Saint-Domingue, and also worked with de Ferrer to track down Agaté. Aveline ultimately killed Baptiste, who with his dying breath revealed his knowledge of her mother Jeanne and implied that Agaté was hiding certain secrets from her, shaking Aveline's trust in her Mentor.<ref name="Eve of Saint John">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Eve of Saint John]]</ref> | |||
====Louisiana Rebellion==== | |||
{{Quote|This is how you choose to prove your loyalty to me? By disobeying my direct order? By letting our enemy run free?|Agaté confronting Aveline after she spared Antonio de Ulloa, 1768.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation|A Governor No More}} | |||
By 1768, the Templar [[Antonio de Ulloa]] had been appointed the Spanish Governor of Louisiana and placed strict trade laws and restrictions over the colony that benefited the Templars' interests. This caused the {{Wiki|French Creoles}} to [[Louisiana Rebellion|rebel]] against the governor's rule.<ref name="Prelude to Rebellion">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Prélude to Rebellion]]</ref> Aveline, who continued to investigate the slaves' disappearances,<ref name="Vanishing Slaves">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Vanishing Slaves]]</ref><ref name="Storming the Fort">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Storming the Fort]]</ref> decided to take advantage of the chaos in New Orleans to get close to Ulloa and interrogate him for information on where the slaves were being sent.<ref name="In Vino Veritas"">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[In Vino Veritas]]</ref> | |||
[[File: In Vino Veritas 6.png|thumb|250px|Aveline and Gérald stealing a gunpowder carriage]] | |||
With Gérald's help, Aveline incited a massive riot to force Ulloa to leave his fort, [[La Balize]]. The two Assassins intercepted a [[gunpowder]] delivery, though the cart later ended up crashing into a winery,<ref name="In Vino Veritas" /> and Aveline sank one of the [[Spanish Navy]]'s ships.<ref name="Getting Ulloa's Attention">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Getting Ulloa's Attention]]</ref> These actions had the desired effect and Ulloa attempted to flee New Orleans to escape the rebellion.<ref name="A Governor No More">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[A Governor No More]]</ref> | |||
Learning about the governor's Templar affiliations, Agaté traveled to the city and instructed Aveline to kill Ulloa. However, his pupil disobeyed him and, after intercepting Ulloa's convoy, decided to spare the Templar's life when he informed her that the missing slaves were taken to a work camp in [[Chichen Itza]]. The governor also gave Aveline a lens used to decipher encoded Templar documents, and she warned him that his Templar colleagues would not be as merciful as her, causing Ulloa to resign from his position as governor.<ref name="A Governor No More" /> | |||
After Aveline informed Agaté of her decision to spare Ulloa, the Mentor was furious and forbade her from traveling to [[Mexico]].<ref name="A Governor No More" /> However, Aveline disobeyed him again and, after disguising herself as a slave and giving her weapons to Gérald, boarded a Templar ship bound for Chichen Itza.<ref name="Southbound">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Southbound]]</ref> | |||
====Search for the Prophecy Disk==== | |||
{{Dialogue2|Agaté|You should have left it where it lay. Do you have any idea of its purpose or power?|Aveline|I was hoping you could enlighten-|Had you not insisted on dredging it up, no one would need to know! Remove it from my sight.|Aveline and Agaté discussing the Prophecy Disk, 1771.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation|Power of Voodoo}} | |||
[[File: The Secret of the Cenote 6.png|thumb|left|250px|Aveline meeting her mother in Chichen Itza]] | |||
In 1769, Aveline reached Chichen Itza and found that the slaves worked and lived freely on the excavation site under the Templars' protection.<ref name="A New Life">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[A New Life]]</ref> Upon further investigation, however, she discovered that de Ferrer brutalized every worker that stepped out of line.<ref name="The Company Man">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Company Man]]</ref> As she continued to explore the camp, Aveline found clues that her mother Jeanne was there. In her [[Jeanne's diary pages|diary]], Aveline found a map of an [[Chichen Itza Temples|Isu temple]] underneath the dig site.<ref name="Trail of Truth">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Trail of Truth]]</ref> | |||
Entering the temple, the Assassin found a part of the [[Prophecy Disk]], a [[Piece of Eden]], moments before de Ferrer also accessed the temple by blowing up a wall, which destabilized the site. In the resulting fight, Aveline killed de Ferrer and his guards before escaping the collapsing temple. In the process, she ran into Jeanne, though her mother rejected her after discovering her daughter was an Assassin.<ref name="Secret of the Cenote">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Secret of the Cenote]]</ref> | |||
In 1771, Aveline returned to New Orleans and was informed by Gérald of a faction of rogue Spanish soldiers trying to take control of the Louisiana Bayou.<ref name="Prodigal Daughter">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Prodigal Daughter]]</ref> Through her investigation, Aveline discovered that a Templar named [[Diego Vázquez]] was responsible and decided to warn Agaté of the intrusion.<ref name="Rotten Barracks">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Rotten Barracks]]</ref> After a brief argument regarding Aveline's long absence from Louisiana, she showed her Mentor the piece of the Prophecy Disk she had found, only for Agaté to warn her to hide, claiming it would doom them.<ref name="Power of Voodoo">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Power of Voodoo]]</ref> | |||
[[File: Power of Voodoo 4.png|thumb|250px|Agaté explaining his plan to deal with Vázquez's men]] | |||
When Aveline told Agaté about Vázquez's plans, the Mentor revealed that he was already well-aware of them and that he had devised his own plan to deal with the Spanish troops. Aveline offered to assist him and poisoned the soldiers to make them believe they were under a voodoo curse.<ref name="Power of Voodoo" /> Later, with the help of the bayou's smugglers, Aveline stole supplies from Vázquez's ship and found a document containing orders to reclaim the worksite in Chichen Itza, leading the Assassin to hurriedly journey back to Mexico.<ref name="Stolen Goods">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Stolen Goods (Liberation)|Stolen Goods]]</ref> | |||
When she arrived in Chichen Itza in 1772, Aveline was reunited with her mother, who decided to help her find the second piece of the Prophecy Disk before the Templars. After retrieving the artifact from another Isu temple, Aveline invited her mother to return to New Orleans but Jeanne decided to stay to survey the community in Chichen Itza and protect the region from further Templar incursions. Aveline accepted her mother's choice, promised to remain in contact with her and returned to New Orleans.<ref name="Return to Mexico">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Return to Mexico]]</ref> | |||
====Hunting the Company Man==== | |||
{{Dialogue|Aveline|I was a child when you brought me into the Brotherhood and made me an Assassin. You pretended to protect me, to root out the enemy! And all along, my own stepmother, Madeleine, was the Company Man.|Agaté|Iniquity runs in the family.|Aveline revealing the Company Man's identity to Agaté, 1777.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation|Confronting Agaté}} | |||
In 1776, Aveline resumed her quest to uncover the identity of the "Company Man", the mysterious leader of the Louisiana Templars. With the [[American Revolutionary War|ongoing war]] between the [[United Kingdom|British Crown]] and its [[United States|colonies]] in the north, the Governor of Louisiana supplied the [[Patriots]] via the smugglers of the bayou. Diego Vázquez sent soldiers to attack the smugglers, but Aveline protected them.<ref name="Supplying the Revolution">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Supplying the Revolution]]</ref> | |||
[[File: A Fool's Errand 11.png|thumb|left|250px|Aveline with Ratonhnhaké:ton in New York]] | |||
Believing Vázquez to be the Company Man, Aveline later assassinated him at a soiree in New Orleans, only to discover that her assumption had been incorrect. Furthermore, she was informed that her father Philippe had succumbed to an apparent illness he had been battling for some time, leaving his business in Gérald's care while his [[De Grandpré Mansion|mansion]] was inherited by Madeleine.<ref name="The Last Dance">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[The Last Dance]]</ref> | |||
In 1777, Gérald learned with the help of the [[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Assassins]] that a [[Loyalists|Loyalist]] officer named Davidson worked for the Company Man. Traveling to [[New York]], Aveline worked with the Assassin [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] to infiltrate the fort where Davidson was hiding. Upon confronting the officer, Aveline was surprised to discover that he was [[George Davidson|George]],<ref name="A Fool's Errand">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[A Fool's Errand]]</ref> a slave she had helped flee Louisiana the year prior.<ref name="An Urgent Favor">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[An Urgent Favor]]</ref> George tried to escape, but Aveline shot the gunpowder in the back of his carriage, mortally wounding him.<ref name="A Fool's Errand" /> | |||
After George revealed the Company Man's identity to be Madeleine in his final moments, Aveline returned to New Orleans and confronted her stepmother, who admitted to knowing of Aveline's Assassin affiliations and grooming her to join the Templars. Aware of Aveline's growing distrust of Agaté, Madeleine asked her to kill her Mentor as a final test of loyalty before being [[Initiation into the Templar Order|inducted]] into the Order.<ref name="Abandoning Pretense">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Abandoning Pretense]]</ref> | |||
[[File: Confronting Agate 8.png|thumb|250px|Agaté committing suicide]] | |||
At Agaté's [[Agaté's Hut|hideout]] in the Louisiana Bayou, Aveline informed the Mentor of the Company Man's true identity, leading him to attack her, assuming that his pupil had betrayed him and the Brotherhood. Aveline reluctantly fought Agaté, who used hallucinogenic gases against her, and ultimately defeated him, but refused to take his life. In response, Agaté committed suicide by jumping from the top of his hideout, believing that the humiliation he had endured was a fate worse than death.<ref name="Confronting Agate">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Confronting Agaté]]</ref> | |||
Inside the [[Saint Louis Cathedral]], Aveline delivered Agaté's necklace to Madeleine as proof of his death, and also presented the two halves of the Prophecy Disk. Believing Aveline wished to pledge herself to the Templar [[New World Order|cause]], Madeleine welcomed her stepdaughter into the Order before the assembled Louisiana Rite.<ref name="Reconciliation">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Reconciliation]]</ref> She then tried to activate the Prophecy Disk and uncover the secrets it contained, but found that she was unable to do so due to lacking the final component: the Heart of the Brotherhood.<ref name="Erudito">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' – [[Erudito (memory)|Erudito]]</ref> | |||
[[File: Erudito 7.png|thumb|left|250px|Aveline dicovering the message of the Prophecy Disk]] | |||
At that moment, Aveline revealed her true intentions and killed Madeleine's guards before fighting and mortally wounding her stepmother. As she lay dying, Madeleine questioned why Aveline would turn on her, to which the Assassin revealed that she knew Madeleine was responsible for both her mother's abandonment and her father's poisoning. Although the Templar tried to justify that all of her actions had been in service of the greater good, Aveline saw through her act and claimed that she would never serve her.<ref name="Erudito" /> | |||
With Madeleine's death, the Louisiana Rite of the Templar Order was wiped out and Aveline inserted the Heart of the Brotherhood, which she had been carrying as a necklace, into the Prophecy Disk. The artifact displayed a holographic message depicting the election of [[Eve]] as the leader of the [[human]] rebellion during the [[Human-Isu War]], just as Gérald walked into the cathedral and witnessed the recording alongside Aveline. The two Assassins then declared that their work was done, having liberated New Orleans from Templar influence.<ref name="Erudito" /> | |||
====Later activities==== | |||
{{Quote|I have attempted to recruit Patience for the Brotherhood, but she will not allow me to approach her with help. Your name is legendary among the slaves, even as far North as Newport, I believe you will have more success. She was last seen on Goat Island. Start your search there, if you accept.|Ratonhnhaké:ton in his letter to Aveline, 1784.|Aveline (DLC)|The Rebel Camp}} | |||
[[File:The Tower 1.png|thumb|250px|Aveline with Patience Gibbs]] | |||
In 1784, Aveline was contacted by Ratonhnhaké:ton, who by this point was attempting to rebuild the Colonial Brotherhood. Having tracked an escaped slave by the name of [[Patience Gibbs]] to [[Newport]], [[Rhode Island]], Ratonhnhaké:ton unsuccessfully attempted to recruit her into his Brotherhood and asked for Aveline's assistance due to her legendary reputation among the slaves.<ref name="The Rebel Camp">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – ''[[Aveline (DLC)|Aveline]]'' – [[The Rebel Camp]]</ref> | |||
Accepting the mission, Aveline traveled to Newport and found that Patience had been captured by the Templar [[Edmund Judge]], who sought a [[Patience Gibbs' charm|charm]]—a Piece of Eden—in her possession.<ref name="The Rebel Camp" /> After saving Patience,<ref name="The Fort">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – ''[[Aveline (DLC)|Aveline]]'' – [[The Fort]]</ref> Aveline worked with her to infiltrate Judge's stronghold and retrieve the stolen charm. Aveline killed the Templar and Patience recovered the artifact, before the latter agreed to accompany the Assassin to the [[Davenport Homestead]] and join the Colonial Brotherhood.<ref name="The Tower">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – ''[[Aveline (DLC)|Aveline]]'' – [[The Tower]]</ref> | |||
At some point in the late 18th century, [[Hubert Marchand]] operated as a member of the Louisiana Brotherhood.<ref name="ACfilm">[[Assassin's Creed (film)|''Assassin's Creed'' film]]</ref> | |||
===American Civil War=== | |||
[[File:ACFilm Louisianan Assassins picture board.png|thumb|left|250px|Abstergo Madrid's collage of Callum's Louisianan Assassin ancestry]] | |||
Around the time of the [[American Civil War]], [[Callum Lynch]] had several Assassins ancestors from Louisiana who fought in the conflict.<ref name="ACfilm" /> | |||
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==Members== | ==Members== | ||
*Agaté | ;Colonial Era | ||
*[[Agaté]] {{c|[[Mentor]]; 1759 – 1777}} | |||
*[[Gérald Blanc]] | *[[Gérald Blanc]] | ||
*[[Aveline de Grandpré]] | *[[Aveline de Grandpré]] | ||
*[[Hubert Marchand]] | |||
===Allies and puppets=== | |||
;Colonial Era | |||
*[[Carlos Dominguez]] | *[[Carlos Dominguez]] | ||
*[[Houngan (San Danje)|Houngan]] | *[[Houngan (San Danje)|Houngan]] | ||
*[[Élise Lafleur]] | *[[Élise Lafleur]] | ||
*[[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] {{ | *[[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] {{c|[[Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Brotherhood]]}} | ||
*[[Roussillon]] | *[[Toussaint Roussillon]] | ||
==Appearances== | |||
*''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'' {{1st}} | |||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' {{Mdat}} | |||
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – ''[[Aveline (DLC)|Aveline]]'' | |||
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]'' | |||
*[[Assassin's Creed (film)|''Assassin's Creed'' film]] {{Mo}} | |||
*''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:14, 24 November 2025
The Louisiana Brotherhood of Assassins, also known as the Assassin Brotherhood of New Orleans, was the guild of Assassins based in Louisiana. It was established in 1759, during Louisiana's rule by the Kingdom of France, by Agaté, a former member of the Saint-Domingue Brotherhood who survived his guild's collapse.
During the 18th century, the Louisiana Brotherhood was relatively small-scale, consisting of Agaté and his two apprentices, Aveline de Grandpré and Gérald Blanc. With Agaté unable to set foot in New Orleans due to the risk of being recognized by the Templars, he had Aveline and Gérald act as his agents in the city to sabotage the Templars' control, which strengthened during Louisiana's administration by Spain after the end of the Seven Years' War.
In addition to fighting the Templars, the Louisianan Assassins sought to acquire the pieces of the Prophecy Disk, an Isu artifact buried in Chichen Itza, Mexico, which was also desired by the Templars. Although successful in this endeavor, Aveline and Agaté started to grow apart due to the former's disobedience and the latter's secretive nature, culminating in a fight between pupil and Mentor after they both discovered the Louisiana Templars were led by Aveline's stepmother, Madeleine de L'Isle.
Following Agaté's death at Aveline's hands, the latter surrendered the Prophecy Disk to Madeleine under the guise of switching allegiances to the Templars. With all leading members of the Louisiana Rite gathered at the Saint Louis Cathedral for Aveline's induction into the Order, the Assassin seized the opportunity to eliminate them, ridding New Orleans of Templar influence.
Over the following years, Aveline continued to operate in Louisiana and the newly-established United States of America, assisting the Colonial Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton in his mission to build up his own Brotherhood. By the 19th century, the Louisiana Brotherhood remained operational and several of its members participated in the American Civil War.
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Establishment[edit | edit source]
In 1758, after the execution of the Saint-Domingue Brotherhood's Mentor, François Mackandal, secretly engineered by the Templar Madeleine de L'Isle,[1] the branch was nearly dissolved. In the wake of this defeat, one of Mackandal's apprentices, Agaté, left Saint-Domingue in pursuit of his former lover, Jeanne,[2] who had stolen an artifact known as the Heart of the Brotherhood from the Assassins.[3]
Agaté went to New Orleans, where Jeanne lived with the French merchant Philippe de Grandpré, who had purchased her years prior and made her his placée bride.[4] To alleviate his company's financial problems, Philippe had also married Madeleine, who took an interest in Jeanne and the Heart.[5] However, shortly after Agaté's arrival, he discovered that Jeanne had fled the city, manipulated by Madeleine.[2][6]
After Agaté learned that Jeanne had a daughter named Aveline with Philippe, he decided to remain in New Orleans to watch over her. In 1759, he intervened after Aveline got into trouble for attempting to liberate a slave. Impressed by the young girl's dedication to freedom and justice, Agaté took Aveline under his wing and, following a few months of intense training, inducted her into the Assassins. That same year, he recruited Aveline's childhood friend Gérald Blanc and trained him as a spy and information officer, officially founding the Louisiana Brotherhood as its Mentor.[7]
However, the Templars in New Orleans soon caught wind of Agaté's presence, forcing him to flee the city and hide in the Louisiana Bayou.[8] From there, he continued to direct Aveline and Gérald, who established a network of informants throughout New Orleans to uncover the Templars' schemes.[6]
French and Spanish Louisiana[edit | edit source]
Investigating the disappearing slaves[edit | edit source]
In 1765, slaves in New Orleans began to disappear and Aveline investigated on the matter.[9] Her search led her to Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer, a notable Templar who worked with the Governor of Louisiana, Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie. Infiltrating the Governor's Mansion, Aveline learned that d'Abbadie supplied slaves to a Templar known as the "Company Man" in exchange for the Order using their influence to keep Louisiana French, in spite of the Treaty of Paris which declared that control of the colony was to be ceded to Spain.[10]
After de Ferrer departed, Aveline killed d'Abbadie, temporarily ending Templar control over New Orleans.[10] She then chose to flee the city and hide in the bayou until the commotion caused by the governor's assassination died down.[11]
The Eve of Saint John[edit | edit source]
- "Deep in the bayou, a dangerous imposter spreads real roots. He calls himself François Mackandal, my own mentor – the leader, the priest, the Brother, to whose cause I devoted my life. He was put to death by fire. I failed to prevent it. Who is this imposter, and what are his affiliations? This, you will need to uncover."
- ―Agaté giving Aveline her mission, 1766.[src]-[m]
In 1766, Agaté learned that a man impersonating François Mackandal was trying to take over the smuggling operations in the bayou, and sent Aveline to discover the impostor's identity and eliminate him.[12] During her investigation, Aveline saved the smugglers Élise Lafleur and Toussaint Roussillon who were attacked by Mackandal's followers.[13] With their help, she learned that the Mackandal impostor prepared a sacred ceremony on the Eve of Saint John.[14]
At the ceremony, Aveline discovered the false Mackandal to be Baptiste, a former Assassin and brother-in-arms of Agaté, who had followed him to Louisiana and formed his own voodoo cult. Baptiste planned to poison the nobles of New Orleans to avenge the death of the slaves of Saint-Domingue, and also worked with de Ferrer to track down Agaté. Aveline ultimately killed Baptiste, who with his dying breath revealed his knowledge of her mother Jeanne and implied that Agaté was hiding certain secrets from her, shaking Aveline's trust in her Mentor.[15]
Louisiana Rebellion[edit | edit source]
By 1768, the Templar Antonio de Ulloa had been appointed the Spanish Governor of Louisiana and placed strict trade laws and restrictions over the colony that benefited the Templars' interests. This caused the French Creoles to rebel against the governor's rule.[16] Aveline, who continued to investigate the slaves' disappearances,[17][18] decided to take advantage of the chaos in New Orleans to get close to Ulloa and interrogate him for information on where the slaves were being sent.[19]
With Gérald's help, Aveline incited a massive riot to force Ulloa to leave his fort, La Balize. The two Assassins intercepted a gunpowder delivery, though the cart later ended up crashing into a winery,[19] and Aveline sank one of the Spanish Navy's ships.[20] These actions had the desired effect and Ulloa attempted to flee New Orleans to escape the rebellion.[21]
Learning about the governor's Templar affiliations, Agaté traveled to the city and instructed Aveline to kill Ulloa. However, his pupil disobeyed him and, after intercepting Ulloa's convoy, decided to spare the Templar's life when he informed her that the missing slaves were taken to a work camp in Chichen Itza. The governor also gave Aveline a lens used to decipher encoded Templar documents, and she warned him that his Templar colleagues would not be as merciful as her, causing Ulloa to resign from his position as governor.[21]
After Aveline informed Agaté of her decision to spare Ulloa, the Mentor was furious and forbade her from traveling to Mexico.[21] However, Aveline disobeyed him again and, after disguising herself as a slave and giving her weapons to Gérald, boarded a Templar ship bound for Chichen Itza.[22]
Search for the Prophecy Disk[edit | edit source]
- Agaté: "You should have left it where it lay. Do you have any idea of its purpose or power?"
- Aveline: "I was hoping you could enlighten-"
- Agaté: "Had you not insisted on dredging it up, no one would need to know! Remove it from my sight."
- —Aveline and Agaté discussing the Prophecy Disk, 1771.[src]-[m]
In 1769, Aveline reached Chichen Itza and found that the slaves worked and lived freely on the excavation site under the Templars' protection.[23] Upon further investigation, however, she discovered that de Ferrer brutalized every worker that stepped out of line.[24] As she continued to explore the camp, Aveline found clues that her mother Jeanne was there. In her diary, Aveline found a map of an Isu temple underneath the dig site.[25]
Entering the temple, the Assassin found a part of the Prophecy Disk, a Piece of Eden, moments before de Ferrer also accessed the temple by blowing up a wall, which destabilized the site. In the resulting fight, Aveline killed de Ferrer and his guards before escaping the collapsing temple. In the process, she ran into Jeanne, though her mother rejected her after discovering her daughter was an Assassin.[26]
In 1771, Aveline returned to New Orleans and was informed by Gérald of a faction of rogue Spanish soldiers trying to take control of the Louisiana Bayou.[27] Through her investigation, Aveline discovered that a Templar named Diego Vázquez was responsible and decided to warn Agaté of the intrusion.[28] After a brief argument regarding Aveline's long absence from Louisiana, she showed her Mentor the piece of the Prophecy Disk she had found, only for Agaté to warn her to hide, claiming it would doom them.[29]
When Aveline told Agaté about Vázquez's plans, the Mentor revealed that he was already well-aware of them and that he had devised his own plan to deal with the Spanish troops. Aveline offered to assist him and poisoned the soldiers to make them believe they were under a voodoo curse.[29] Later, with the help of the bayou's smugglers, Aveline stole supplies from Vázquez's ship and found a document containing orders to reclaim the worksite in Chichen Itza, leading the Assassin to hurriedly journey back to Mexico.[30]
When she arrived in Chichen Itza in 1772, Aveline was reunited with her mother, who decided to help her find the second piece of the Prophecy Disk before the Templars. After retrieving the artifact from another Isu temple, Aveline invited her mother to return to New Orleans but Jeanne decided to stay to survey the community in Chichen Itza and protect the region from further Templar incursions. Aveline accepted her mother's choice, promised to remain in contact with her and returned to New Orleans.[31]
Hunting the Company Man[edit | edit source]
- Aveline: "I was a child when you brought me into the Brotherhood and made me an Assassin. You pretended to protect me, to root out the enemy! And all along, my own stepmother, Madeleine, was the Company Man."
- Agaté: "Iniquity runs in the family."
- —Aveline revealing the Company Man's identity to Agaté, 1777.[src]-[m]
In 1776, Aveline resumed her quest to uncover the identity of the "Company Man", the mysterious leader of the Louisiana Templars. With the ongoing war between the British Crown and its colonies in the north, the Governor of Louisiana supplied the Patriots via the smugglers of the bayou. Diego Vázquez sent soldiers to attack the smugglers, but Aveline protected them.[32]
Believing Vázquez to be the Company Man, Aveline later assassinated him at a soiree in New Orleans, only to discover that her assumption had been incorrect. Furthermore, she was informed that her father Philippe had succumbed to an apparent illness he had been battling for some time, leaving his business in Gérald's care while his mansion was inherited by Madeleine.[33]
In 1777, Gérald learned with the help of the Colonial Assassins that a Loyalist officer named Davidson worked for the Company Man. Traveling to New York, Aveline worked with the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton to infiltrate the fort where Davidson was hiding. Upon confronting the officer, Aveline was surprised to discover that he was George,[34] a slave she had helped flee Louisiana the year prior.[35] George tried to escape, but Aveline shot the gunpowder in the back of his carriage, mortally wounding him.[34]
After George revealed the Company Man's identity to be Madeleine in his final moments, Aveline returned to New Orleans and confronted her stepmother, who admitted to knowing of Aveline's Assassin affiliations and grooming her to join the Templars. Aware of Aveline's growing distrust of Agaté, Madeleine asked her to kill her Mentor as a final test of loyalty before being inducted into the Order.[36]
At Agaté's hideout in the Louisiana Bayou, Aveline informed the Mentor of the Company Man's true identity, leading him to attack her, assuming that his pupil had betrayed him and the Brotherhood. Aveline reluctantly fought Agaté, who used hallucinogenic gases against her, and ultimately defeated him, but refused to take his life. In response, Agaté committed suicide by jumping from the top of his hideout, believing that the humiliation he had endured was a fate worse than death.[37]
Inside the Saint Louis Cathedral, Aveline delivered Agaté's necklace to Madeleine as proof of his death, and also presented the two halves of the Prophecy Disk. Believing Aveline wished to pledge herself to the Templar cause, Madeleine welcomed her stepdaughter into the Order before the assembled Louisiana Rite.[38] She then tried to activate the Prophecy Disk and uncover the secrets it contained, but found that she was unable to do so due to lacking the final component: the Heart of the Brotherhood.[39]
At that moment, Aveline revealed her true intentions and killed Madeleine's guards before fighting and mortally wounding her stepmother. As she lay dying, Madeleine questioned why Aveline would turn on her, to which the Assassin revealed that she knew Madeleine was responsible for both her mother's abandonment and her father's poisoning. Although the Templar tried to justify that all of her actions had been in service of the greater good, Aveline saw through her act and claimed that she would never serve her.[39]
With Madeleine's death, the Louisiana Rite of the Templar Order was wiped out and Aveline inserted the Heart of the Brotherhood, which she had been carrying as a necklace, into the Prophecy Disk. The artifact displayed a holographic message depicting the election of Eve as the leader of the human rebellion during the Human-Isu War, just as Gérald walked into the cathedral and witnessed the recording alongside Aveline. The two Assassins then declared that their work was done, having liberated New Orleans from Templar influence.[39]
Later activities[edit | edit source]
- "I have attempted to recruit Patience for the Brotherhood, but she will not allow me to approach her with help. Your name is legendary among the slaves, even as far North as Newport, I believe you will have more success. She was last seen on Goat Island. Start your search there, if you accept."
- ―Ratonhnhaké:ton in his letter to Aveline, 1784.[src]-[m]
In 1784, Aveline was contacted by Ratonhnhaké:ton, who by this point was attempting to rebuild the Colonial Brotherhood. Having tracked an escaped slave by the name of Patience Gibbs to Newport, Rhode Island, Ratonhnhaké:ton unsuccessfully attempted to recruit her into his Brotherhood and asked for Aveline's assistance due to her legendary reputation among the slaves.[40]
Accepting the mission, Aveline traveled to Newport and found that Patience had been captured by the Templar Edmund Judge, who sought a charm—a Piece of Eden—in her possession.[40] After saving Patience,[41] Aveline worked with her to infiltrate Judge's stronghold and retrieve the stolen charm. Aveline killed the Templar and Patience recovered the artifact, before the latter agreed to accompany the Assassin to the Davenport Homestead and join the Colonial Brotherhood.[42]
At some point in the late 18th century, Hubert Marchand operated as a member of the Louisiana Brotherhood.[43]
American Civil War[edit | edit source]
Around the time of the American Civil War, Callum Lynch had several Assassins ancestors from Louisiana who fought in the conflict.[43]
Members[edit | edit source]
- Colonial Era
- Agaté (Mentor; 1759 – 1777)
- Gérald Blanc
- Aveline de Grandpré
- Hubert Marchand
Allies and puppets[edit | edit source]
- Colonial Era
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Aveline
- Assassin's Creed: Memories
- Assassin's Creed film (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game
References[edit | edit source]
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