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[[File:IF 7.png|thumb|250px|Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinating Carlo Grimaldi]]
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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 targets''' were individuals that the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]] – and in select instances, the [[Templars|Templar Order]] – deemed worthy of elimination. Over the [[Timeline|centuries]], the Assassins killed many individuals they believed to be corrupt and a danger to humanity, particularly Templars and their associates.


Below is a chronological list of notable victims, by faction and assassin responsible.
==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>


==Elimination by Assassins==
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>
===Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad===
Around the time of the [[Third Crusade]], [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] assassinated various individuals during his 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.
==Assassination techniques==
===Hidden Blade===
[[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"/>
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=
*[[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"/>
*[[Rashid ad-Din Sinan]]<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Emin]]<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[Fredrick|Frederick the Red]]<ref name="Bloodlines">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines]]</ref>
|-|
1192 – 1193=
*[[Moloch]] – 1192<ref name="Bloodlines"/>
*[[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=
*[[Swami]] – 1227<ref name="Revelations"/>
*[[Bayhas]] – 1247<ref name="Secret Crusade">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref>
*[[Abbas Sofian]] – 1247<ref name="Revelations"/>
</tabber>


===Ezio Auditore da Firenze===
====Other variations====
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.
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>


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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>
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 [[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>


===Edward Kenway===
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>
[[Edward Kenway]], father of [[Haytham Kenway]] and grandfather of [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]], assassinated several individuals during the [[Golden Age of Piracy]] in his quest for riches and glory, and later in service of the Assassin Order.


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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"/>
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 (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Black Flag'' novel]]</ref>
*[[Wilson]] – 1723<ref name="ACBFN"/>
</tabber>


===Aveline de Grandpré===
===Poison===
[[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]].
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>
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===
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>
Before, during, and after the events of the American Revolutionary War, the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton 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.
==High-profile assassinations==
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"/>


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According to the descriptions that accompanied the statues:
1774 – 1779=
*Qulan Gal [[Assassination of Genghis Khan|assassinated]] [[Genghis Khan]] with a [[bow]] and [[arrow]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[William Johnson]] – 1774<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
*Darius assassinated Xerxes I with a Hidden Blade.<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[John Pitcairn]] – 1775<ref name="AC3"/>
*Wei Yu assassinated [[Qin Shi Huang]] with a [[spear]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[Thomas Hickey]] – 1776<ref name="AC3"/>
*Amunet assassinated Cleopatra with an [[Snake|asp]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[Man O' War captain]] – 1776<ref name="AC3"/>
*Iltani assassinated Alexander the Great with poison.<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[Benjamin Church]] – 1778<ref name="AC3"/>
*Leonius assassinated [[Caligula]] with a [[Short blade|dagger]].<ref name="Sanctuary" />
*[[Nicholas Biddle]] – 1778<ref name="AC3"/>
|-|
1780 – 1782=
*Haytham Kenway – 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===
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>
Following the death of his adoptive father, the Templar Grand Master [[François de la Serre]], Arno 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>
1791 – 1794=
*[[Duchesneau]] – 1791<ref name="Unity">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref>
*[[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"/>
*[[Marie Lévesque]] – 1792<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Comte de Choisy]] – c. 1793<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Crimson Rose]] – 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"/>
*[[Andrés de Guzmán]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[François-Thomas Germain]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
|-|
1794 – 1800=
*[[Philippe Rose]] – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Royalist leader]] – 1800<ref name="Unity"/>
</tabber>
 
===Desmond Miles===
Following his kidnapping by [[Abstergo Industries]] and training with the Assassins, Desmond 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===
Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Assassin responsible:
 
<tabber>
BCE=
*[[Xerxes I of Persia]], by [[Darius]] – 456 BCE<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Alexander the Great]], by [[Iltani]] – 323 BCE<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Qin Shi Huang]], by [[Wei Yu]] – 210 BCE<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Gaius Julius Caesar]], by [[Marcus Junius Brutus]] and others – 44 BCE<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
*[[Cleopatra]], by [[Amunet]] – 30 BCE<ref name="AC2"/>
|-|
1st=
*[[Caligula]], by [[Leonius]] – 41<ref name="AC2"/>
|-|
3rd=
*[[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>
|-|
12th=
*[[Masun]], by Rashid ad-Din Sinan – 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"/>
*[[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]], by [[Li Tong]] – 1424<ref name="DYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy|Assassin's Creed: 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">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]</ref>
*[[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"/>
*[[Gao Feng]], by [[Shao Jun]] – 1526<ref name="China">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China]]''</ref>
*[[Ma Yongcheng]], by [[Wang Yangming]] – 1526<ref name="China"/>
*[[Yu Dayong]], by Shao Jun – 1526<ref name="China"/>
*[[The Viper]], by [[Giovanni Borgia]] – 1527<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Wei Bin]], by Shao Jun – 1529<ref name="China"/>
*[[Qiu Ju]], by Shao Jun – 1530<ref name="China"/>
*[[Zhang Yong]], by Shao Jun – 1532<ref name="China"/>
*[[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"/>
*[[Templar Admiral (1735)|Templar Admiral]], by [[Adéwalé]] – 1735<ref name="Freedom Cry">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' - ''[[Freedom Cry]]''</ref>
*[[Pierre, Marquis de Fayet]], by Adéwalé – 1737<ref name="Freedom Cry"/>
*[[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>
|-|
19th=
*[[Charles Leclerc]], by Eseosa – 1802<ref name="Letters"/>
*[[John Wilkes Booth]] – 1865<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Alexander II of Russia]] – 1881<ref name="ACTF1">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]] #1</ref><ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Alexander III of Russia]], by [[Nikolai Orelov]] – 1894 (of wounds sustained)<ref name="ACTF1"/>
|-|
20th=
*[[Dolinsky]] – 1908<ref name="ACTF2">''Assassin's Creed: The Fall #2</ref>
*[[Erich Albert]] – 1914<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Grigori Rasputin]] – 1916<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Khioniya Guseva]], by Nikolai Orelov – 1917<ref name="Project Legacy"/>
*[[Adolf Hitler]] – 1945<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Joseph Stalin]] – 1953<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[François Duvalier]] – 1971<ref name="AC2"/>
|-|
21st=
*[[Galina Voronina's sister]], by [[Galina Voronina]] – 2014<ref name="ACIS">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – Surveillance</ref>
*[[Galina Voronina's mother]], by Galina Voronina – 2014<ref name="ACIS"/>
</tabber>
 
==Elimination by 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, he later became the Grand Master of the Colonial Rite.
 
<tabber>
1747 – 1755=
*[[Juan Vedomir]] – 1747<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Miko]] – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Louis Mills]] – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Cutter]] – 1754<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Slater]] – 1754<ref name="Forsaken"/>
*[[Edward Braddock]] – 1755<ref name="AC3"/>
</tabber>
 
===Shay Cormac===
Formerly a member of the Colonial Assassins, Shay 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]] – 1758<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Hope Jensen]] – 1759<ref name="Rogue"/>
*[[Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye]] – 1760<ref name="Rogue"/>
|-|
1776=
*[[Charles Dorian]] – 1776<ref name="Rogue"/>
</tabber>
 
===Other Templars===
Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Templar responsible:
 
<tabber>
3rd=
*[[Lucius]], by Caïus Fulvus Vultur – 259<ref name="AC2A"/>
|-|
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"/>
*[[Girolamo Riario]], by [[Checco Orsi]] and [[Ludovico Orsi]] – 1488<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[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)]]''</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"/>
|-|
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 – 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)]]''</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"/>
*Élise de la Serre, by François-Thomas Germain – 1794<ref name="Unity"/>
*[[Bernard Ruddock]], by [[Frederick Weatherall]] – 1794<ref name="Unity novel"/>
|-|
19th=
*[[Ranjit Singh]], by [[Francis Cotton]] and [[William Hay Macnaghten]] – 1839<ref name="Brahman">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''</ref>
|-|
20th=
*[[Harry Houdini]] – 1926<ref name="Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' - [[Glyphs]]''</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"/>
*[[The Mentor (2000)|"The Mentor"]], by Daniel Cross – 2000<ref name="ACTF3">''Assassin's Creed: The Fall #3''</ref>
|-|
21st=
*[[Subject 15]] – 2010<ref>Abstergo Industries website - [[James Morse's email|James Morse's e-mail]]</ref>
*[[Hannah Mueller]], by Daniel Cross – 2011<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Janice]], by Daniel Cross – 2012<ref name="ACDF">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' - The Desmond Files</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 - New Employee Handbook]]''</ref>
*[[Victoria Bibeau]] – 2014<ref name="AE"/>
</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:
 
*[[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">''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood''</ref><ref name="Revelations" />
*Tomás de Torquemada – escaped from 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">''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood''</ref>
*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" />
 
==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:
 
*Rashid ad-Din Sinan, [[Fahd El Fehmi]], and [[Vahid Ahmedi]] – targeted by Haras, saved by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1189<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Richard I of England]] – targeted by William of Montferrat, saved by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1191<ref name="AC" />
*[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] – targeted by Francesco de' Pazzi, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1478<ref name="AC2" />
*[[Rosa]] and [[Ugo]] - targeted by Emilio Barbarigo's guards, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1480<ref name="AC2" />
*[[Bianca Riario]] and [[Ottaviano Riario]] – targeted by Ludovico and Checco Orsi, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1488<ref name="AC2" />
*[[Luis Santangel]], [[Raphael Sanchez]] and [[Christoffa Corombo]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1492<ref name="Discovery" />
*Claudia and Maria Auditore da Firenze - targeted by Cesare Borgia, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze - targeted by Cesare Borgia, saved by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1500<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Nicolaus Copernicus]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Desiderius Erasmus]] - targeted by Templars, saved by an Italian Assassin sent by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Prospero Colonna|Prospero]] and [[Fabrizio Colonna]]- targeted by Borgia guards and Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1500<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Pantasilea Baglioni]] - targeted by Baron Octavian de Valois, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Pietro Rossi]] – targeted by Micheletto Corella, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] – targeted by [[La Volpe]], saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503<ref name="Brotherhood" />
*[[Claudia Auditore da Firenze]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli, 1504<ref name="Brotherhood novel">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)]]''</ref>
*[[Suleiman I]] – targeted by [[Byzantine Templars]], saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze and [[Yusuf Tazim]], 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Pachomius I of Constantinople]] – targeted by Cyril of Rhodes, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*Manuel Palaiologos, Shahkulu, and Byzantine soldiers - targeted by Tarik Barleti and Janissaries, accidentally saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Dilara]] - targeted by Manuel Palaiologos and Shahkulu, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1511<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Janos]] and other Ottoman spies - targeted by Manuel Palaiologos and Shahkulu, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Dilara, 1512<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Sofia Sartor]] and [[Azize]] - targeted by Ahmet, saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1512<ref name="Revelations" />
*[[Shao Jun]] – targeted by Imperial soldiers, aided by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1524<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<ref name="ACBFN" />
*[[Ah Tabai]] – targeted by Duncan Walpole, indirectly saved by Edward Kenway, 1715<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Antó]] – targeted by Kenneth Abraham, saved by Edward Kenway, 1716<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Opía Apito]] – targeted by Lucia Márquez, saved by Edward Kenway, 1716<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Rhona Dinsmore]] – targeted by Hilary Flint, saved by Edward Kenway, 1717<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Upton Travers]] – targeted by Vance Travers and Jing Lang, saved by Edward Kenway, 1717<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Augustin Dieufort]] – targeted by Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, saved by Adéwalé, 1735<ref name="Freedom Cry" />
*[[Louis Godin]] – targeted by pirates, saved by Adéwalé, 1736<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<ref name="Rogue" />
*Ratonhnhaké:ton – targeted by Charles Lee, saved by Haytham Kenway, 1776<ref name="AC3" />
*George Washington – targeted by Thomas Hickey, saved by Ratonhnhaké:ton, 1776<ref name="AC3" />
*Benjamin Franklin – targeted by criminals, saved by Shay Cormac, 1776<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<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Théroigne de Méricourt]] – targeted by Templars, saved by Arno Dorian, in 1789 and 1792<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Georges Danton]] – targeted by Royalists, saved by Arno Dorian, 1792<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Didier Paton]] – targeted by [[Maximilien de Robespierre]], saved by Arno Dorian, 1794<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Léon]] – targeted by Philippe Rose, saved by Arno Dorian, 1794<ref name="Unity" />
*[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] – targeted by Royalists, saved by Arno Dorian, in 1795 and in 1800<ref name="Unity" />
*Lucy Stillman - targeted by Abstergo guards, saved by Warren Vidic, 2000s<ref name="AC" />
*[[William Miles]] – targeted by Daniel Cross and Warren Vidic, saved by Desmond Miles, 2012<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: Valhalla – Layla Hassan's personal files: "The Hidden Ones"
  5. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – A Brief History of the Hidden Ones
  6. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Layla Hassan's personal files – Files: "Session Report: SHastings"
  7. ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Overrun and Outnumbered
  8. ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – A Governor No More
  9. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Assassin Interceptions
  10. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Copernicus Conspiracy – False Censorship
  11. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – The Prince's Banquet
  12. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Legacy of the First Blade: Hunted – Shadow of a Legend
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – Aya
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Assassin's Creed II – Altaïr 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 Flag – Mister Walpole, I Presume?
  17. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Lessons 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: Unity – The Kingdom of Beggars
  22. ↑ Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India – Database: Iltani's Story 2
  23. ↑ Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India – Database: Iltani's Story 5
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic) – Issue #04
  25. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex: Page 6
  26. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex: Page 21
  27. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Contracts: London, England
  28. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Contracts: Barcelona, Spain
  29. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: Ending Isabella
  30. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars – Issue #3
  31. ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – The False Mackandal
  32. ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – Prélude to Rebellion
  33. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – By Invitation Only
  34. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Cable News
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 Assassin's Creed II – Floating conversations: "Unlocking Monteriggioni's Secrets"
  36. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Reflections – Issue #02
  37. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another
  38. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – Finale: Assassination
  39. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Pax Romana
  40. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone – Book 1
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