Pierre Bellec
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Pierre Bellec (1741 – 1791) was a French-Canadian Master Assassin, and a former colonial soldier, who was active during the French Revolution.
Biography
Early life
Born in New France and having discovered his Assassin lineage while partaking in the Seven Years' War as a corporal, Bellec was careful not to rise in the ranks, being more useful to the Brotherhood as a nondescript soldier. He came to France just in time to escape the purge of the Colonial Assassins, and trained many Assassins for the French Brotherhood, including Charles Dorian and the latter's son, Arno Dorian.
Although he was passionately loyal to the cause, his view on the Assassins' philosophy was rather simplistic, bordering on fanatical, refusing to allow peace with the Templars no matter what the cost. He also showed sympathies with the Jacobins.
Meeting Arno Dorian
Around 1789, Bellec began infiltrating prisons throughout France in search of mysterious glyphs. While imprisoned in the Bastille, a young man was thrown in his cell, accused of murder. While the young man slept, Bellec found Charles' watch on his person and realized he was Charles' son, Arno. When Arno awoke and discovered his watch missing, Bellec challenged him to duel him for it. The duel came to an abrupt end when Arno told Bellec to return to the glyphs in the corner. Bellec then realized that Arno possessed Eagle Vision to see them. He gave back Charles' watch to Arno, revealing that his father was an Assassin. He then spent two months training Arno in combat.
On July 14, the Bastille was stormed by revolutionaries, prompting Bellec and Arno to take the opportunity to escape. When they came to the edge of the battlements, Bellec gave Arno an amulet, saying it would lead him to the Assassins, before taking a leap of faith into the the moat below.
Sure enough, Arno found the Assassin headquarters underneath Sainte-Chapelle, against Bellec's expectations. After greeting the boy, he brought Arno before the Assassin Council and witnessed his initiation into the Brotherhood.
Poisoning of Mirabeau
His views on the Assassins led him to poisoning Mirabeau, the Mentor of the French Assassins in 1791, angered over his policies of maintaining a truce the Templars. Bellec pinned the blame on the Templar Élise de la Serre, daughter of the late Grand Master François de la Serre and the adopted sister of Arno Dorian.
Arno eventually tracked Bellec down to the Sainte-Chapelle, with Bellec attempting to explain that he was only following the examples of Assassins in Masyaf, Monteriggioni, and the Thirteen Colonies in purging the old order to rebuild it with greater strength and conviction. Bellec attempted to convince Arno to join his cause, but Arno refused, resulting in the two dueling until Arno emerged victorious.
Personality and characteristics
Bellec was a grizzled, and argumentative individual, known for possessing a rather crude sense of humor. He also refused to put up with any unreasonable behavior from his compatriots, such as Arno Dorian.
Bellec was very extreme in his methods, refusing to believe that the Assassins and Templars could ever achieve peace between their factions, without it implicitly meaning appeasing the enemy and thereby betraying the Brotherhood. His extremism culminated in poisoning of Mirabeau in order to prevent peace between the two factions. In contrast to this act of murder, he believed himself to be the successor of other Assassins who managed to rebuild the Brotherhood, such as Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and Connor.
Trivia
- According to Bellec, his grandmother was Belgian.
- Pierre is a French form of Peter.
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