François Mackandal

"François Mackandal, my own mentor – the leader, the priest, the Brother, to whose cause I devoted my life. He was put to death by fire. I failed to prevent it."

―Agaté about Mackandal.

François Mackandal (unknown – 1758) was a voodoo leader and the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood on Saint-Domingue. During his time as Mentor, he was a teacher to Agaté, who went to become the Mentor of the Assassins in Louisiana.

Biography

In 1732, François Mackandal met Agaté, Baptiste and Jeanne, who had all been transported to a plantation at Saint Domingue. Mackandal took all three under his wing and taught them to read and write, also instructing Agaté and Baptiste on how to craft poison and use weapons. In 1738, Agaté and Baptiste joined the Assassin Brotherhood and along with Mackandal, they escaped from Saint Domingue.

Mackandal fought with Agaté and Baptiste for many years, until a failed attempt to poison the colonists of Saint-Domingue resulted in his execution in 1758.

Legacy

In 1766 one of Mackandal's students Baptiste pretended to be him.  By 1776 Mackandal's role as mentor in Saint-Domingue was considered as a disgrace by Eseosa; who promised to make the order a thousand times better than Mackandal's.  Eseosa taking inspiration from Mackandal set up a vodou ceremony at Bois Caman to start a rebellion.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation

Assassin's creed initiates- letters to the dead.