Sword of Altaïr

Real life replica of Altair's sword

Altaïr has a personal sword that he uses throughout Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles, and Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines. The blade's hilt is shaped like an eagle's wings, while the blade itself is both long and agile, making it a light and deadly weapon. The sword is apparently the weapon of choice for the guards at Masyaf and an all metal variation is available as a weapon in Assassin's Creed II.

Availability

Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles

Altaïr acquires this sword from a wounded guard early in the game and keeps it through the entire story.

Assassin's Creed

Altaïr equipping his sword

Altaïr starts the game with the Syrian sword, which he is very skilled with until Al Mualim demotes him to Novice for breaking all three tenets of The Creed and decreases his skill greatly. During his progression back into the ranks, he uses this sword before he is given the Syrian sword back.

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines

Altaïr still possesses his sword during the events after Assassin's Creed Bloodlines. In fact, the sword(s) can be found hung in Kantara Castle Great Hall ('The Bull' stage), as ornaments. During the game this is the only sword that can be used. In the beginning it's attack power is quite low and enemies have to be hit with it for multiple times to be killed. The sword and other weapons of Altaïr, however, can be upgraded by collecting Templar coins and then use them to purchase upgrades in the upgrades menu (Main menu -> Upgrades). On maximum enemies still need to be hit multiple times, altough the number of hits needed to kill an enemy is smaller (for example: minimum 4 hits, maximum 2 hits).

Assassin's Creed II

Altaïr's sword is available when the Monteriggioni blacksmith is renovated for 45,000 florins after DNA Sequence 8. The sword is the most powerful melee weapon in the game, as all three stats are maxed out. It is interesting to note that the picture of the weapon's hilt in the blacksmith has a leather-wrapped hilt, however the weapon does not have this leather wrapping.

Ezio using his ancestor's sword

Trivia

• It is unknown why the sword is available from the Monteriggioni blacksmith since the sword (being Altaïr's personal weapon) should be more likely available once his armor was unlocked, however, a possible cause is that the sword could have been lost along with the Codex, found, and later sold off to the blacksmith.

• The sword in the game is shorter compared to the other longswords Ezio can use; the entire sword being only a little longer than the length of his arm. However, Altaïr's sword is the strongest weapon available.

• Strangely, Altaïr's sword is considered the best sword in the second game; in Assassin's Creed, the Syrian sword was the best sword; however, it is not impossible that Altaïr modified the sword using the apple, similar to his armor. This is also made further plausible as Altair uses this weapon in Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines as opposed to the Syrian Sword.

• It is interesting to note that in later memory sequences of Assassin's Creed II, if the player has the sword equipped, it is quite possible to be knocked away from Ezio by Brute guards.

• There is a glitch in the Xbox 360 and PS3 version which automatically replaces this sword with the "Common Sword" in Ezio's inventory. To fix this, you'll have to go to the weapon room in the Villa Auditore and equip Altaïr's sword again.
• Also, in Assassin's Creed, all of the Assassin Gaurds had the exact same sword.