Database: Yusuf Tazim

Abstergo has some data on this guy, gathered a few years back. But there's not a lot about him in standard history books, which I'm sure he'd be happy to know. Yusuf Tazim was a Turk born in Bursa around 1467, but was raised in Constantinople from the age of eight by his mother. His father was an Assassin, and presumably that's how Yusuf became one too. But there's no mention of what happened to papa Tazim. Was he killed? Did he desert the family? Your guess is as good as mine.

By the time he was 17, Yusuf was well known around the city as a rabble rouser and a petty thief. But a chance meeting with the legendary Vizier Ishak Pasha changed all that. Ishak was an Assassin too, operating in the Sublime Porte right under Bayezid II's nose. It was Ishak who had defeated Vlad Tepes, and later brokered the tentative truce between the Ottomans and Assassins. By the late 1480s he was busy recruiting open-minded citizens of the Empire to his Order's cause. Yusuf was taken in with Ishak's charisma and easy manner of leading, and so joined the Assassins just before his 20th birthday.

From there, Yusuf's rise was swift and assured and by 1500 CE he had made quite a name for himself. In 1502, Yusuf met with a contingent of Venetian Assassins in Greece in a joint effort to steer the Ottoman-Venetian war to a peaceful end. These efforts appear to have paid off, for in 1503 the fighting stopped, ushering in a brief era of peace on the Ottoman Empire's western border.

Perhaps made complacent by the Assassins' successes in keeping the peace, Sultan Bayezid II grew soft in his final decade, preferring his mystical texts and alchemical experiments to governing. This suited the Assassins just fine, for a dull peace was preferable to endless war and Imperial expansion. But, following the earthquake in 1509, a new threat appeared in Constantinople - Templars fighting under the old Byzantine crest. Stirring from years of relative calm, Yusuf once again roused his Assassins to begin the long and difficult fight ahead.Abstergo 在前几年收集到一些关于这家伙的数据，但是在标准的历史教科书里可没有多少关于他的记录，我想他本人也会很高兴看到这种情形。尤瑟夫·塔齐姆是土耳其人，大约在 1467 年出生于布尔萨，但是八岁以后就由母亲在君士坦丁堡扶养长大。他的父亲是名刺客，这应该也是他会成为刺客的原因。但是关于老塔齐姆发生了什么事，无人知晓。是被杀了？还是抛弃了家人？我和你一样毫无头绪。

十七岁的时候，全城的人都知道尤瑟夫是名暴民煽动者和小偷了。不过因为偶然的机会，他与传奇人物伊沙克·巴夏见面而彻底改变了一切。伊沙克也是刺客，就在巴耶济德二世的庄严朴特中效命。打败弗拉德·采佩什的人正是伊沙克，也是他让奥斯曼人和刺客签订了和平条约。到了 1480 年代尾端，他忙着召募思想开放的帝国平民加入兄弟会。尤瑟夫被伊沙克的魅力和轻松的领导方式所吸引，因此在他二十岁生日前加入了刺客。

从那时候开始，尤瑟夫快速窜升，1500 年时已经建立了自己的名声。1502 年，尤瑟夫在希腊与威尼斯刺客的代表见面，合力将奥斯曼与威尼斯的战争导向和平的结局。这些努力似乎发生作用，因为在 1503 年时，战斗停止了，随即使奥斯曼帝国的西面边境进入一段短暂的和平时期。

或许是因为刺客组织成功地维持和平，以致于苏丹巴耶济德二世满足于现况，他最后在位的十年中变得软弱，沈溺于他的神秘文学和炼金实验而不理国事。这种情况对刺客兄弟会而言自然是好事，因为沈闷的和平总比无尽的战争和帝国扩张来得好。但是在 1509 年的地震发生后，君士坦丁堡出现新的威胁－圣殿骑士假借古拜占庭之名作乱。尤瑟夫从多年的相对平静中被惊动，再度兴起其刺客组织，开始对抗眼前漫长而困难的战斗。