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| {{Era|Assassins}}
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| [[File:Insignia 5.png|thumb|The Babylonian Assassin insignia]]
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| The '''Babylonian Brotherhood of Assassins'''<ref name="The Essential Guide">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]''</ref> was the branch of [[Assassins]] which operated from [[Babylonia]].
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| Although Babylonia had by then ceased to be a sovereign entity, its Assassin branch was still active when [[Middle East|western Asia]] fell to the {{wiki|Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonian Empire}} of [[Alexander the Great]]. One of its agents, [[Iltani]], set out to assassinate Alexander during his campaign in what is now modern-day [[Afghanistan]], but she was forced to withdraw when she found him too well-guarded in the citadel of [[Herat]]. As a result, she turned to an alchemist of the former {{wiki|Achaemenid Empire}} who provided her with a deadly but slow-acting [[poison]].<ref name="ACCI">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India]]''</ref> In 323 BCE,<ref name="The Essential Guide" /><ref name="Initiates">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>, Iltani succeeded killing Alexander with the poison<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> and retrieved his [[Staves of Eden|Staff of Eden]] that had been entrusted to him by the [[Templars]].<ref name="Initiates"/><ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref>
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{Assassins nav}}
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| [[Category:Assassin branches]]
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Revision as of 13:04, 12 September 2017
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