Achilles Davenport
- "In your haste to save the world, boy, take care you don't destroy it."
- ―Achilles to Connor.[src]
Achilles Davenport (1710 - 1781) was a Master Assassin and a Mentor for a span of time during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
Recruited in the mid 1730s, Achilles became the Mentor of the Colonial Brotherhood in 1746, as he had a gift for both recruitment and organization.[1] In 1763, he was tried by the Templar leaders after the branch was decimated to all but himself, during the aftermath of the French and Indian War. In a show of mercy, Achilles was allowed to live if he resigned his role as an Assassin and moved into the wilderness.[2]
By 1770, Achilles resided at the Davenport Homestead. In that same year, he reluctantly recruited Ratonhnhaké:ton into the Assassin Order, and acted as his mentor thereafter. He provided Ratonhnhaké:ton with advice, and cautioned the younger Assassin whenever his ambition led him astray.[1]
However, two years before the end of the American Revolutionary War, Achilles passed, presumably of old age. Close to his death, he urged Ratonhnhaké:ton to finish what he started, when the younger male expressed a hesitance at killing his own father due to their aligned beliefs.
Trivia
- Achilles was of British and Caribbean descent.
- The Davenport Homestead contained the graves of two family members; his wife Abigail and son Connor Davenport, who both died of typhoid fever shortly after the French and Indian War.[2]
- Accompanying this, for one Homestead memory, Achilles sends Connor to retrieve a painting of his family from New York, not long before he passes away. Connor then hangs this painting in the Davenport Manor after Achilles' death, as a sign of respect to his Mentor.
- Despite dying in 1781, Achilles could still be seen after the events of Assassin's Creed III, if any of the Homestead missions were uncompleted.
- Achilles' nickname "the Old Man on the Hill" is reminiscent of the moniker given to another Mentor in the Order, Rashid ad-Din Sinan: "the Old Man of the Mountain."
- Despite his nearly constant annoyance with Achilles, it is clear that Connor cared for him greatly, which could be seen at both his funeral and when Connor visits his grave. At his grave, Connor states that he misses him nearly as much as his mother, implying that he thought of Achilles as a father figure. In addition, he also promises that he would make Achilles proud.
Gallery
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Connor talking to Achilles. -
Achilles explaining the rope dart to Connor.
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