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| {{Quote|I stand with those who stand with me. I lure my prey through the guise of a lady. I escape unnoticed through the veil of a slave. And though I may conceal my identity, one thing is certain: commit injustice in this world, and I'll send you to the next. I am Aveline de Grandpré, I am an Assassin, and I fight for liberation.|Aveline de Grandpré.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}} | | {{Youmay|the event|the [[September Massacres (memory)|memory]]}} |
| {{Character Infobox | | {{Quote|This is what happens when you give command of the government to half-starved lunatics, and command of the army to bloodthirsty savages.|Napoleon on the September Massacres, 1792.|Assassin's Creed: Unity}} |
| |image = ACAnniversary-Aveline Render.png | | {{Event |
| |birth = 20 June 1747<br>[[New Orleans]], {{Wiki|Louisiana (New France)|French Louisiana}} | | |prev = [[10 August]] |
| |death = | | |next = [[Execution of Louis XVI]] |
| |period = [[Louisiana Rebellion]] | | |image = [[File:ACU September Massacres 3.png|thumb|250px]] |
| |faction = [[Assassins]]
| | |name = September Massacres |
| |appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''<br>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
| | |timeframe = [[French Revolution]] |
| |voice = [[Amber Goldfarb]]}} | | |date = 2 – 7 September 1792 |
| '''Aveline de Grandpré''' (1747 - unknown) was an [[Assassins|Assassin]] of [[France|French]] and {{Wiki|Africa}}n heritage, who lived in the area of [[New Orleans]] during the middle of the 18th century. She is an ancestor to [[Paul Bellamy]]. | | |place = [[Paris]], [[France]] |
| | |outcome = *Between 1,200 and 1,400 prisoners were killed. |
| | |key = *[[National Guard (France)|National Guard]] |
| | *[[Assassins]] |
| | *[[Templars]] |
| | **[[Jacobins]] |
| | |participants = *[[Arno Dorian]] |
| | *[[Frédéric Rouille]]}} |
| | The '''September Massacres''' were a wave of killings that occurred across [[France]], though principally in [[Paris]], during the [[French Revolution]]. |
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| Born to the wealthy French merchant [[Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]] and an African slave by the name of [[Jeanne]], Aveline was raised in a comfortable and privileged environment. In 1759, after having lost sight of her mother, she mistook another woman to be her parent and reached out to her, attracting the attention of a group of [[Slavery|slavers]]. However, she was rescued by an Assassin called [[Agaté]], who recruited Aveline into the Assassin Brotherhood and became her [[Mentor]].
| | With the threat of foreign armies advancing upon them, the revolutionaries grew fearful that Paris' prison population could form a dangerous counter-revolutionary force if freed. Rallied by radicalists like [[Jean-Paul Marat]], they set out to pre-emptively eliminate any prisoner that showed even the slighest evidence of being against the revolution; ultimately, over a thousand people lost their lives in the massacres. |
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| ==Biography== | | ==Background== |
| ===Early life===
| | {{Quote|We need audacity, and yet more audacity, and always audacity, and France shall be saved!|[[Georges Danton]] in response to the Duke of Brunswick's invasion.|Assassin's Creed: Unity}} |
| {{Quote|On seeing her, he falls to his knees. He says he is ashamed. He begs forgiveness for keeping me enslaved all this time. He vows to grant us both our freedom.|Jeanne, reflecting in her diary about Philippe's reaction to the birth of his daughter Aveline.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}} | | In April 1792, France's [[Legislative Assembly]] declared war on [[Austria]], purportedly to "spread the Revolution", but actually to, among other things, distract the populace from its own economic problems. Initial engagements were not in France's favor, however, and the country ended up being invaded by the allied Austrian and Prussian forces under the [[Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel|Duke of Brunswick]].<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref> |
| Aveline was born in 1747 to Philippe Olivier de Grandpré, and his African {{Wiki|Plaçage|placée}} bride, Jeanne. Granted freedom along with her mother at birth, Aveline grew up in a caring and considerate environment, protected by her father's wealth and influence within the city. Although her father married [[Madeleine de L'Isle]] in 1752, Aveline and her mother Jeanne were allowed to stay at the de Grandpré mansion.<ref name="AC3L">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>
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| In 1759, whilst Aveline was accompanying her mother through the city, Jeanne mysteriously vanished after Aveline had let go of her hand in pursuit of a loose chicken. After failing to catch the animal despite chasing it for quite a distance, Aveline realized that she had stumbled across a slave auction. Shortly after observing the slave trader, Aveline used the alleyways to evade the sight of the slavers surrounding the stage and seek out her mother, only to reach out and touch the wrong woman, who had been dressed in the same attire as her mother.<ref name="AC3L"/>
| | Around the same time, the revolution took a radical turn with the storming of the [[Tuileries Palace]] on the [[10 August|10th of August]], leading to the arrest and imprisonment of King [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] and his family. Radicalists such as Marat subsequently began to incite hatred towards royalists, priests who had refused to accept the terms of the new constitution, and aristocrats, many of whom were sent to languish in Paris' prisons alongside common criminals and lunatics.<ref name="ACU"/><ref name="Ubi">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-GB/news/news_detail.aspx?c=tcm:154-176244-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32 The September Massacres - France's Most Horrible History]</ref> |
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| This mistake caught the attention of the city guards, and despite her cries for her mother, Aveline was pushed to the ground by the slavers, who had mistaken her for a slave child. Shortly afterwards, an escaped slave by the name of Agaté freed her from their possession, and recruited her into the Assassin Order, becoming her Mentor.<ref name="AC3L"/>
| | When the Duke of Brunswick secured victory at Verdun on 2 September, the revolutionaries panicked, believing Paris would be the next to fall, and decided to radically purge any and all opposition to their cause. Their paranoia led them to target the prisoners, whom they thought would join forces with the Prussian Army in an effort to restore the monarchy.<ref name="ACU"/> |
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| ===Assassination of Governor d'Abbadie=== | | ==Prison massacres== |
| {{Quote|The Order... is... the... future. The... the Templars will keep our colony... French.|Governor d'Abbadie's final words.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}} | | {{Quote|Look at these posh bastards. Bet they weren't fed on bread and water.|One of Rouille's guardsmen during their assault on the Grand Châtelet, 1792.|Assassin's Creed: Unity}} |
| In 1765, Aveline visited her father's warehouse, where she overheard him complaining to his employee, [[Gérald Blanc]], about disappearing shipments, and resolved to uncover the cause. After Gérald's meeting with her father's [[Gilbert-Antoine de Saint Maxent|businesspartner]] proved fruitless, Aveline decided to bribe her way aboard the ship from which the goods had disappeared and met the ship's captain, [[Carlos Dominguez]]. In her guise of a lady, Aveline easily charmed the captain and, while he was distracted, managed to slip away with some documents detailing the location of the shipment.<ref name="AC3L"/>
| | The bloodshed began at the [[Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés]], where 24 non-juring priests were dragged from their carriages and butchered as they were being transported to the prison de l'Abbaye. In the following days, the violence spread to other prisons, with makeshift courts being formed to judge whether or not the inmates were against the revolution.<ref name="Ubi"/> |
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| [[File:Aveline_in-game_screen.jpg|thumb|250px|Aveline meeting with Gérald in the warehouse]]
| | Those who were found to be "guilty" were immediately and brutally murdered; one notable case involved {{Wiki|Princess Marie Louise of Savoy}}, a close confidant of [[Marie Antoinette]], who was hacked to pieces by an angry mob. Her head was then placed on a pike and paraded around beneath her old friend's window at the [[Temple (Paris)|Temple]], though it is unknown if Marie Antoinette actually saw it.<ref name="Ubi"/> |
| Aveline later met with Gérald, who told her that some of the documents she had stolen mentioned the [[Templars|Templar]] [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]], who was present in Louisiana and working with it's French governor, [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]]. Intent on discovering what the two men were up to, Aveline infiltrated the governor's mansion during a social soirée.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| After eavesdropping on a meeting between the governor and de Ferrer, she discovered their deal to ensure d'Abaddie remained as governor, provided he smoothed the hand-over of the colony to the Templars and supplied de Ferrer with workers for a secret Templar operation in [[Mexico]]. Aveline subsequently assassinated the governor, who claimed in his final words that the Templars would keep the colony under French influence.<ref name="AC3L"/>
| | Despite the widespread violence, some prisoners managed to survive the ordeal, even if their dignity did not. Marie-Maurille de Sombreuil, the daughter of the former governor of [[Les Invalides (district)|Les Invalides]], supposedly drank the warm blood of aristocrats to prove her hatred of them, in an effort to save her father's life.<ref name="Ubi"/> |
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| ===Conflict in the Louisiana Bayou===
| | The [[Templars|Templar]] captain [[Frédéric Rouille]] participated in the massacres as well, marching on the [[Grand Châtelet]] with his men. Killing [[guards]] and prisoners alike, they took control of the prison, with Rouille taunting the captured prison warden by waving the head of his decapitated brother in front of him. However, the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Arno Dorian]] also infiltrated the Grand Châtelet and, after freeing the prison guards that had been taken captive, assassinated Rouille, putting an end to the Templar's cruelty.<ref name="ACU"/> |
| {{Quote|Deep in the bayou, a dangerous impostor spreads real roots [...] Who is this impostor, and what are his affiliations? This, you will need to uncover.|Agaté, informing Aveline of the arrival of an impostor in the bayou.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| [[File:AC3L-Servant_Guise.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Aveline in conversation with Élise and the witch doctor in San Danje]] | |
| The following year, Aveline received word from Agaté and travelled to his hideout in the [[Louisiana Bayou]] to meet him. There, she was informed that a man impersonating the deceased [[François Mackandal]], an Assassin and Mentor to Agaté, was trying to overtake smuggling operations in the Bayou. After receiving additional training in the use of the [[Blowpipe|blowpipe]], Aveline set out to uncover the imposter's identity and his affiliations.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| On the advice of Agaté, Aveline enlisted the help of the smugglers [[Roussillon]] and [[Élise Lafleur]] and began navigating the bayou in search of Mackandal's men. After eliminating both of his followers' encampments, Aveline and Élise uncovered a sacred ceremony being held by Mackandal on the Eve of Saint John, though the exact location remained unknown.<ref name="AC3L"/>
| | By the 7th of September, over a thousand people had been killed, most of them nobles, royalists and [[Switzerland|Swiss]] Guards, but also street children, common criminals and [[Courtesans|prostitutes]]; many of the victims ended up being buried in the [[Catacombs of Paris]].<ref name="ACU"/> |
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| With the help of a witch doctor from [[San Danje]], Aveline managed to track Mackandal down to Lake Pontchartrain, where she discovered that his real name was [[Baptiste]] and that he was in league with de Ferrer. She overheard his plans to poison the nobles of New Orleans, then force Agaté out of hiding and finally deliver him to de Ferrer, who promised Baptiste membership into the Templar Order in return.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| | | Although some deputies defended the massacres, claiming they were necessary, many Parisians remained deeply affected by the deeply violent acts that had been committed. In the provinces, people reacted with horror and disapproval to what had transpired in the capital, while potential opponents were frightened by what could happen to them.<ref name="ACU"/> |
| [[File:Liberationfaithfulacolyte.jpg|thumb|250px|Aveline facing Baptiste in the bayou]]
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| Aveline confronted Baptiste but was hit by his poison dart as she attempted to kill him. However, she managed to recover from the poison due to an antidote she had ingested beforehand, allowing her to overpower Baptiste's bodyguards and eventually, Baptiste himself. In his final words, he revealed that he had personally known both her mother Jeanne, and her Mentor, Agaté.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| Upon returning to Agaté, however, Aveline did not mention what she had discovered, as she did not fully trust her Mentor, given that he had kept this information hidden from her.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Louisiana Rebellion===
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| {{Quote|This Spanish "gouverneur" has placed so many restrictions on trade, even plantation owners are practically "begging" for an excuse to riot.|Gérald, about the laws implemented by Spanish governor Antonio de Ulloa.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| The same year, the Spanish governor and Templar adviser [[Antonio de Ulloa]] arrived in New Orleans. In 1768, he placed strict trade laws and restrictions over the colony in order to benefit the Templar Order. In response, French Creoles rebelled against de Ulloa's regime, creating unrest in New Orleans.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| [[File:AC3L-Aristocrat_Guise.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Aveline and the business rival]]
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| While on one of her trips to the warehouse, Aveline happened upon a scuffle between civilians and Spanish soldiers. Saving them from the better-armed soldiers, she learned of the vagrants and slaves that had been disappearing recently, but was unsure how to prove the involvement of the Spanish. Aveline then met with Gérald at the warehouse, where she received a special [[Parasol gun|parasol]] and was informed of a business rival, monsieur Bouché, that had been slandering the de Grandpré's reputation, impacting sales.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| After having dealt with the detractor, Aveline journeyed to the bayou to consult Élise, regarding the recent disappearances. Despite their efforts, they were unable to uncover where the slaves were going, though they did manage to confirm the Spanish were involved. Back in New Orleans, Aveline decided to go after governor de Ulloa, from whom the directive was most likely coming.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| [[File:AC3L_-_Aveline_and_Spanish_Ship.jpg|thumb|250px|The Spanish military vessel being destroyed]]
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| De Ulloa had taken shelter in {{Wiki|La Balize}} from the rebels, prompting Aveline to incite a massive riot and then destroy a military vessel of the Spanish fleet, in an effort to draw him out. With the Spanish governor preparing to leave La Balize, Agaté called Aveline to Saint Peter's Cemetery, where he gave her the order to kill de Ulloa, to prove her loyalty. With an elaborate ambush, Aveline managed to take out the envoy and, upon interrogating the governor, learned that the slaves taken from New Orleans were being transferred south, to Mexico.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| Against Agaté's orders, however, Aveline chose not to kill de Ulloa, allowing him to flee the city in return for a lens used to decipher encoded Templar documents, a map leading to the worksite at [[Chichen Itza]] and the promise of de Ulloa to go into exile. This merciful act continued to harm Aveline's already damaged relationship with her Mentor.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Journey to Chichen Itza===
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| {{Quote|You find pieces of the Prophecy Disk, saving me the effort... If you weren't my enemy, I would take you for my friend! Our aims must not be so different for all the help you give me.|De Ferrer, explaining the similarity of his and Aveline's goals.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| A year later, Aveline traveled to Chichen Itza, once again disobeying Agaté's explicit wishes, in order to unravel the mysteries of the slave trafficking operation. While there, she encountered [[Thérèse]], a slave Aveline had previously rescued from captivity, who, along with various other slaves, seemed perfectly happy to be working in Chichen Itza. Despite this, not all slaves were enthusiastic about their predicament, with a few even rebelling. Procuring a [[Whip|whip]] in the process, Aveline freed one such slave, who informed her that a woman named Jeanne was stationed in Chichen Itza.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| [[File:Avelinefirstcivilizationruins.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Aveline inside the First Civilization ruins]]
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| Convinced it was her mother, Aveline investigated and found evidence that her mother was indeed there. Among pages found from Jeanne's [[Jeanne's diary pages|diary]], Aveline discovered a map detailing the location of an ancient artifact deep within a cenote. With this in mind, Aveline navigated the underground cave system and uncovered ruins from the [[First Civilization]], unearthing a fragment of the [[Prophecy Disk]], a First Civilization artifact.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| Moments after obtaining the fragment, Aveline was met by de Ferrer, who had reached the ruins by blasting through a rock wall. Though she managed to kill him and his underlings, Aveline was unable to give him his last rites, with the cave rapidly collapsing due to de Ferrer's explosives, forcing Aveline to quickly make her escape. At the end of the tunnels, she found her mother, Jeanne. However, this reunion was short-lived, as Jeanne, realizing that Aveline was an Assassin, refused to disclose any information to her and fled the mines.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Tracking Vázquez===
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| {{Quote|I am aware. He bribes Spanish troops. But I already have plans to outwit them. I will use their superstition against them.|Agaté, on his plans to outsmart the Spanish soldiers in the bayou.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| After her escapades at Chichen Itza, Aveline returned to New Orleans in 1771 and continued her search for the identity of the Company Man. She spoke to [[Gérald Blanc]], fellow Assassin and trusted friend, who told her that someone was bribing Spanish soldiers.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| Upon investigating, Aveline discovered that a man by the name of [[Vázquez]] was using Spanish soldiers to seize control of the bayou. After uncovering Vázquez's plan to take control of smuggling operations within the bayou, Aveline feared he would eventually learn the location of Agaté's hideout. She hurried to her Mentor's hut and warned him of the danger. Under his instruction, Aveline followed Vázquez's soldiers to each voodoo checkpoint set up by Agaté, silently poisoning enough of the Spanish troops so that the rest believed they had fallen under a curse and fled the bayou as a result.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Return to Chichen Itza===
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| {{Quote|I traded one enemy for another. And they will not rest until they have what they seek.|Jeanne, on the Templars' pursuit of the Prophecy Disk.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| In 1772, Aveline returned to Chichen Itza to locate the second half of the Prophecy Disk. Upon arriving there, she made peace with her mother, who gave Aveline a map leading to a canoe that was left inside another cenote. Using it, Aveline navigated through the caves and came upon another chamber constructed by the First Civilization, where she acquired the final piece of the Prophecy Disk.
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| Afterwards, Aveline offered to take her mother back to New Orleans, but Jeanne decided it was best to stay behind and take care of the community in Chichen Itza, which was free of Templar influence, thanks to Aveline's intervention.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Aiding George Davidson===
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| {{Quote|Futile murder... beautiful death. She... will make you suffer.|Vázquez, on the identity of the Company Man.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| In 1773, Aveline's father fell ill, though she continued in her quest to uncover the identity of the Company Man, Louisiana's head Templar. At the request of Madeleine, her stepmother, Aveline helped a slave named [[George Davidson|George]] escape New Orleans and travel to the bayou. Upon arriving there, she asked if her smuggler allies could help provide George safe passage through the swamp, but Élise and Roussillon were already in the process of delivering supplies from the Spanish to [[United States|American]] [[Patriots]] fighting in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] and were facing opposition from rogue Spanish soldiers under the command of Vázquez.
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| [[File:AC3L-Aristocrat Dancing.jpg|250px|thumb|Aveline charming Vázquez at the governor's ball]]
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| However, with the aid of Aveline and George, the smugglers managed to hold back the Spanish troops and successfully reached their destination. There, Aveline asked the Patriots if they would allow George to accompany them to the North, to which they agreed and accepted him into their ranks.
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| From there, Aveline returned to New Orleans and attended a soirée, confident that Vázquez would be there. After locating the Templar, she charmed him and lured him to a quiet corner, where she assassinated him. However, to Aveline's surprise, Vázquez revealed that he was not the Company Man, and that Louisiana's head Templar was in fact a woman. That same night, her father passed away.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Journey to New York===
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| {{Quote|Who do you serve? And do you really think yourself free? "Charity should begin at himself," Miss Aveline.|Officer Davidson, about Aveline's position as an Assassin.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| In the winter of 1777, Aveline traveled to [[New York]] to locate a Templar named Officer Davidson, who was working for the Company Man. Upon arriving there, she encountered the Native American Assassin, [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]], also known by his adopted name of Connor.
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| [[File:AC3L SC Aveline and Connor LR.png|250px|thumb|Aveline and Connor in New York]]
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| Whilst Connor distracted Davidson's guards, Aveline infiltrated the fort where he was located and confronted the Templar. To her shock, Aveline discovered that his true identity was George, the slave she had helped flee north. After his attempted escape, which she foiled, Aveline finally uncovered the true identity of the Company Man from him: Madeleine de L'Isle, her stepmother.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Severing ties with Agaté===
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| {{Quote|Oh, what have I wrought? I should have stayed with your mother. You should have been my child. Raised as a daughter, not twisted into this... monster!|Agaté, reflecting on his relationship with Aveline's mother.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| Aveline returned to New Orleans and confronted Madeleine, who did not deny her accusations and admitted that she had known all along that Aveline was an Assassin. Furious, Aveline refused her order to stay and ran outside, only to face her guards. After a brief skirmish, Madeleine told Aveline that she'd be sacrificing herself for nothing.
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| Following this, Madeleine insisted that she genuinely loved her and that Aveline had been kept alive so far in order to eliminate the unethical elements of her Templar circle, an obvious ploy to persuade Aveline to join the Templars.
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| After this, Aveline made her way to the bayou and told Agaté of her situation. However, her Mentor could not accept his failure to protect his student, and, believing that Aveline had aligned herself with the Templars, attacked her. Even so, Aveline defeated him and chose to spare his life, but Agaté, unable to live with the humiliation, dove from the very top of his treehouse to his death.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ===Confrontation with Madeleine===
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| {{Quote|In the service of humanity! In Work, the purpose for which you were created. We were created! The highest purpose.|Madeleine, attempting to convince Aveline that the Templars' work benefited the greater good.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| Aveline made her way back to New Orleans and gave Agaté's necklace to Madeleine, as proof of his death, which she had obtained when she unsuccessfully attempted to save him. Madeleine then inducted Aveline into the Templar Order and took the two halves of the Prophecy Disk from her. However, upon the artifact failing to work as Madeleine had expected it to, she grew frustrated, allowing Aveline to strike, as her induction was merely a ruse to destroy the Templars from within.
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| Aveline assassinated all of the Templars present, leaving Madeleine for last. As she lay wounded, Madeleine asked Aveline why she would betray her as she had. Aveline coldly retorted that she had two parents whom she truly loved, and that Madeleine was not one of them. She then blamed her for killing her father with her "care" and her tonic, secretly {{Wiki|Digitalis|foxglove}}, for enslaving her mother, and for her intention of making Aveline a slave to the Templar cause.
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| To this, Madeleine insisted that it was for the greater good of humanity, as work had always been the "divine purpose" for which they had been created. In response, Aveline defiantly claimed that she would never be forced to serve another and assassinated Madeleine afterwards. Following this, she recovered the Prophecy Disk and used the [[Heart of the Brotherhood|necklace]] her mother had entrusted her with to activate it, which projected a hologram of beings from the First Civilization, who spoke about [[Eve]] briefly in a conversation before it ended.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ==Personality and characteristics==
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| {{Quote|I seek liberty and freedom, not for myself, but for those whom such fundamental rights are denied. I am their shield, their sword, their only hope. The roads I travel are dark, but they bring me closer to the light.|Aveline de Grandpré.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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| As she grew, Aveline developed into an independent and strong-willed woman, who was often torn about the values she had inherited from her parentage, which compelled her to form her own core beliefs. Since a young age, Aveline began to notice the contrasts in society – wealth and poverty, freedom and slavery – and as an Assassin, she firmly strived towards securing humanity's freedom and imposing justice.
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| As a consequence of her being pulled in either direction by the Assassins and Templars, she questioned whether fighting as an Assassin was the right thing to do or not. While in New York, she asked her fellow Assassin, Connor, if he ever questioned their ideals; he responded without taking side with either faction, but rather explained that he trusted in his own abilities to distinguish right from wrong.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ==Equipment and skills==
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| Aveline was a skilled [[Freerunning|free-runner]], who was able to navigate with ease through the urban cityscape and natural landscape, such as the Louisiana Bayou. Her fighting style included [[dual-wielding]] various weapons, including a whip, [[firearms]], [[Swords and maces|swords]], [[Short blades|knives]], a blowpipe, a [[Machete|sugar-cane machete]] and [[Hidden Blade]]s.
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| [[File:Aclslaveguise.jpg|thumb|250px|Aveline disguising herself as a slave]]
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| Aside from her weapons, Aveline possessed three distinct personas that she could make use of, composed of the Lady, Assassin, and Slave. Her Assassin outfit aided in combat and navigation, though it made her notorious; her Slave outfit allowed her to blend into the poorer masses of New Orleans and remain undetected, although she was weaker in combat; and finally, her Lady outfit allowed Aveline to use her charm and bribery to achieve her goals, although it limited her weaponry and prevented her from free-running.
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| Along with Aveline's Lady outfit was a parasol designed by her friend and ally, Gérald Blanc, that had the ability to shoot small poison darts from its tip, similar to her blowpipe. Accompanying this, Aveline possessed the sixth sense casually referred to as [[Eagle Vision]], allowing her to identify enemies, allies, targets, [[hiding spots]] and clues.<ref name="AC3L"/>
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| ==Trivia==
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| *Aveline possessed similar characteristics to [[Desmond Miles]] and his ancestors, [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] and [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], namely the same scar on their upper lip, and the ability to use Eagle Vision. Despite this, she had no known biological connection with him or his lineage.
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| *Aveline is the first female protagonist in the [[Assassin's Creed (series)|''Assassin's Creed'' series]] and one of two playable characters to have worn a hat instead of the symbolic white hood of the Assassins (the other being [[Haytham Kenway]]), though it retained a beak-shaped tip.
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| **However, an Assassin hood could purchased from [[tailors]] and equipped on Aveline's Assassin persona.
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| *The name Aveline is a diminutive form of the name Avila, itself from Germanic element ''avi'', the meaning of which is uncertain, but thought to be "desired." Similarity to the Latin ''avis'', "bird," is a coincidence. "Grandpré" is a name formed of the French words ''grand'', meaning "great", and ''pré'', meaning "meadow."
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| *While concept art depicts Aveline as having green eyes, they appear to be dark brown in ''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation''.
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| *The developers toyed with making Aveline [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]]'s love interest in ''[[The Tyranny of King Washington]]'', but the idea was dropped as the characters' motivations and personalities were considered to be too different.<ref>[http://raptr.com/UbiGabe/news/5125780515d40ed291/raptr-q-a-assassins-creed Raptr Q&A: ''Assassin's Creed III'' and ''The Tyranny of King Washington'']</ref>
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| *Aveline will be available for three PlayStation-exclusive missions in the upcoming ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''.<ref>[http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/06/11/e3-2013-assassins-creed-iv-watch-dogs-get-exclusive-ps3-ps4-content IGN: ''E3 2013 - Assassin's Creed IV gets exclusive PS3, PS4 content'']</ref>
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| ==Gallery== | | ==Gallery== |
| <gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180"> | | <gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180"> |
| Aveline pre-order concept.jpg|Early concept art of Aveline
| | CarmesMassacre.jpg|An illustration of the massacres outside the Carmes prison |
| Aveline_AC_LiberationA.jpg|Concept art of Aveline
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| AC3L-Aristocrat_Concept.jpg|Concept art of Aveline's Lady outfit
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| ACE-AvelineVoodoo.png|Concept art of the Bayou Hunter outfit
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| Game AC3L Aveline.jpg|Aveline on a rooftop
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| AC3L_Bribing.jpg|Aveline, bribing a guard using her Lady outfit
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| AC3L SC Aveline Diving.png|Aveline [[swimming]] underwater
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| Aveline in-game fight.jpg|An image of Aveline fighting Spanish soldiers
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| AC3L2.jpg|Aveline overlooking the city of New Orleans
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| AC3L-Aveline_&_Connor.jpg|Aveline and Connor
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| ACL SC SP 15 SD Bayou Alligator.jpg|Aveline wrestling an alligator
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| AC3L_Aristocrat_Aveline.png|A render of Aveline's Lady outfit
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| AC3L_Aveline_Servant_Render.png|A render of Aveline's Servant guise
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| AC4BF_Aveline.jpg|Promotional art of Aveline in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag''
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| BlackFlagScreenshots12.jpg|Aveline in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag''
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| AC4-Aveline.jpg|Aveline about to use her blowpipe in an underground tunnel
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| </gallery> | | </gallery> |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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An illustration of the massacres outside the Carmes prison