Genghis Khan

"A dark tide rises to the east – an army of such size and power that all the land is made quick to worry. Their leader is a man named Temujin, who has adopted the title Genghis Khan. He sweeps across the lands, conquering and subsuming all who stand in his way."

―Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, page 29.

Temüjin (c. 1162 – 1227), also known under the title Genghis Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire, which he ruled from 1206 until his death.

Utilizing a Sword of Eden, Genghis Khan established what would later become the largest contiguous empire in history.

Biography

By the year 1217, the Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, correctly suspected that Genghis Khan's rise to power was due in part to a Sword of Eden. Thus, Altaïr, his wife Maria, and his son Darim traveled to Mongolia intending to assassinate Khan and retrieve the Piece of Eden. In 1227, they located Genghis Khan in Xingqing around the time his forces were besieging the city; the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal shot Genghis Khan's horse with an arrow, dismounting the Mongol Emperor and providing Darim the chance to kill him with a crossbow bolt.

Genghis Khan's grandson, Hülegü Khan, later destroyed most of the Assassin strongholds in the Levant after a failed attempt on his life in 1256, effectively erasing the Levantine Assassins' power.

Trivia

• Rebecca Crane estimates that Genghis Khan likely has sixteen million living descendants.
• Genghis Khan is one of the most evil of men and women throughout history, known for his cruelty and sadistic torture of any among his enemies captured and then killed like the rest, sadistic pleasure in listening to their painful screams whilst watching them and listening to the sorrow and grief filled cries of their elders and siblings and women and children, and with his death as shown in the “Assassin’s Creed franchise” most especially had his reign of terror ended.
• Genghis Khan in the “Assassin’s Creed franchise” was killed by Darim Ibn La'Ahad with help from his and his parents’s allies amongst The Mongols known as Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal whilst in 1227. 1227 was in actual history the year of Genghis Khan’s death, yet rather than through being killed it is often debated over whether or not it was due to fatigue and injuries after he had fallen off a horse in the midst of a hunt or if he died of respiratory disease.

Gallery

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  Genghis Khan utilizing the Sword of Eden in combat
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  Genghis Khan leading his Mongol army
• Genghis Khan's last words
  Genghis Khan's last words
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  Potrait of Genghis Khan as shown in Who's In Your Blood?

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Memories
• Assassin's Creed: Reflections