Grand Master of the Assassin Order

The title of Grand Master was the highest rank attainable within the Order of Assassins and granted the bearer full control over the Order. It was comparable to the Templar rank of the same name.

History

Middle ages

By 1191, the Order had located itself in the Kingdom of the Holy Land and the Grand Master had become an individual only known as "Al Mualim", who ruled from the Assassins' fortress in Masyaf. The following year, after the revelation of Al Mualim's membership within the Templar Order and subsequent death, the title was taken by his executioner, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.

Before Altaïr's death in 1257, he decided that the Order should be widespread all over the globe, and began to send the Assassins away from Masyaf. Various Assassins Guilds were founded, with each Assassin branch having their own Master Assassin as its head. With the Mongol attack on Masyaf in 1257, Masyaf was completely abandoned by the Assassins.

Modern times

By the 20th century, the title of Grand Master and Mentor had become one and the same, and the Order was once again led by one individual only.

The position of Grand Master still existed in modern times. During 1888, Nikolai Orelov, an Assassin during the Russian Revolution, receives his orders directly from "The Mentor".

A hundred years later, another Mentor was active in the Order, and still operated under the same name as his predecessors. In the year 1998, Daniel Cross began to seek him out after having a bizarre hallucination of Orelov. Eventually, he met the Mentor and assassinated him in his Dubai headquarters in 2000.

Known Grand Masters

• 
  Hassan-i Sabbah
  (1090 - 1124)
• Al Mualim[1] (? - 1191)
  Al Mualim
  (? - 1191)
• 
  Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
  (1191 - c. 1225; c. 1247 - 1257)
• 
  Malik Al-Sayf
  (c. 1217 - c. 1225) (de facto)
• Abbas Sofian[10] (c. 1225 - c. 1247)
  Abbas Sofian
  (c. 1225 - c. 1247)
• "The Mentor"[11] (? - 2000)
  "The Mentor"
  (? - 2000)