Gavin Banks

Gavin aboard the Altaïr II

Gavin is a member of the Assassin Order, stationed on a boat named the Altair II, which roamed 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.

Traveling in America

On 24 October, Gavin received a coded message from Adriano Maestranzi, which instructed him to head to New York, and also that William should be making contact with the Order soon. Two days later, Gavin met with William's team at an airport in Syracuse, New York, where he provided them with fake documents, which allowed them safe passage into the state.

Gavin then began traveling 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 had recovered a First Civilization artifact. Two days later, Gavin and the Altaïr II were on the South Atlantic ocean, just off the coast of Brazil, when he received a text message from William at 9:32pm. In the message, William thanked Gavin for the ride, and also included 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 which informed him that the Assassin Order had identified the Templar responsible for initiating an attack on the Florentine Assassins as Juhani Otso Berg, an ex-special forces soldier from Finland who had become 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 told him that they would be 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. He also reassured Harlan that it was not his fault that the other Assassins had died, before Gavin then instructed the Assassin to go to Rotterdam and wait for further orders, but also asked him to take it easy until then.

On 20 December at 6:13pm, Gavin got a text from William that his team had found the Grand Temple Key and were heading back to the Grand Temple to open it. Gavin congratulated him and said that he would pass the news onto the other Assassins.

Trivia

• Gavin 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