Gavin Banks

Gavin was a member of the Assassin Order, stationed on a boat named the Altaïr II roaming the Pacific Ocean. He kept in communication with Assassin teams that operated around the globe, and monitored their progress on a daily basis.

Biography

Roaming the seas

On September 10, 2012, Gavin was contacted by an Assassin operative who called him from a public phone in Brisbane, Australia. The caller told Gavin that it had been three days since he had last heard from his team, and that they had failed to report again. As Gavin was giving instructions to the caller to quickly pull out of the area, the telephone signal was interrupted. At some later point, Gavin himself confirmed that the whole team in Brisbane had been eliminated.

Two days later, on September 12, Gavin received a call from an operative named Janice, who was a part of an Assassin team in Whistler, Canada. During their conversation, Janice demanded that Gavin send additional manpower as she had only two operatives with her. He replied that he would see what he could do, but this proved to be a moot point when, at that moment, Templars led by Daniel Cross attacked the Whistler team.

Weeks later, on October 5, Gavin called William Miles via cellular phone. He updated William about the status of the Assassin teams in Brisbane, Osaka and Moscow. In turn, William, who was in Italy, briefly informed Gavin of the favorable progress the Assassins were seeing at his end.

Travelling in America

On 24 October, Gavin recieved a coded message from Adriano Maestranzi to head to New York and that William should be making contact with them soon. Two days later, Gavin met with William's team at an airport in Syracuse, New York, providing them with fake documents, allowing them safe passage into New York.

Gavin then began travelling around the United States, attempting to draw the Templars attention away from William's team. On 2 November, Gavin sent William a text from Stillwater, Oklahoma, informing him that the Templars had no clue where they were. The next day, he sent another text to William from New Orleans, updating William on the status of the Assassin team in Florence, which had lost a member.

Back at Sea

On 4 December at 6:09am, Gavin and his crew picked up William's team from Vitoria Bay, Brazil after they recovered a First Civilization artifact. Two days later, Gavin and the Altaïr II were in the South Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Brazil when he received a text message from William at 9:32pm thanking him for the ride and that his team had safely returned to the Grand Temple without the Templars following them.

On 6 December, Gavin sent a text message to William informing him that they had identified the Templar responsible for attacking the Florentine Assassins as Juhani Otso Berg, an ex-special forces soldier from Finland who became a mercenary a few years ago. He remarked that Berg was a serious threat, but that Adriano had managed to scar him before he died. William responded by thanking Gavin for the information and telling him they would on the watch for Berg.

On 19 December at 9:12pm, Gavin received a call from Harlan T. Cunningham, the only survivor of the Florentine Assassins. Gavin was relieved to learn Harlan had made it safely to a safe house in Vienna, Austria and expressed his sympathy regarding Adriano's death while also reassuring Harlan that it was not his fault the other Assassins had died. He then instructed him to go to Rotterdam and wait for further orders, but also asked him to take it easy until then.

Trivia

• He had known William Miles for many years, and affably called the Assassin leader "Bill", who in turn referred to him as "old friend."

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Initiates - Desmond Files