Majd Addin
- "Do you know what it feels like to determine another man's fate?"
- ―Addin cheering as he died.
Majd Addin was the sixth person Al Mualim ordered Altaïr to publicly assassinate. He dwelled in the poor district of the city of Jerusalem.
The Executioner Regent of Old Jerusalem
Majd Addin believed you either see the world the way he did--or you die. He used fear and intimidation to keep the population of Jerusalem in check. He often issued strict, confusing edicts regarding the way people should conduct themselves, and he was also steadily reversing Salah al-Din's long-standing policy of tolerance toward all races, religions, and creeds. Almost every day, mock trials were held for those he percieved to be enemies of the city. He would either frame them or exaggerate their crimes. The punishment was always the same: death. In this way, he silenced anyone who would oppose him--and struck fear into the hearts of people considering doing the same. He spoke with an authorative edge and insisted he knew what was best for the people of the city. He was a snake and not to be trusted.
Death
Majd Addin was publicly assassinated by the silent assassin Altaïr. The assassin claimed his life during one of his public executions (as Majd Addin proceeded with lecturing the crowd, feeding his killer ego). In his dying moments, he gave Altaïr explanations and reasons for his evil deeds, commenting that while he joined the Templars to help them take control of Jerusalem, in reality, he simply wanted the power and fear such a position granted.
Final Words
Altaïr: Your work here is finished.
Majd: No! No! It had only just begun!
Altaïr: Tell me, what's your part in all this? Do you intend to defend yourself as the others have, and explain away your evil deeds?
Majd: The Brotherhood wanted the city: I wanted power. There was... an opportunity.
Altaïr: An opportunity to murder innocents!
Majd: Not so innocent! Dissident voices cut deep as steel. They disrupt order. In this, I do agree with the Brotherhood.
Altaïr: You'd kill people simply for believing differently from you?
Majd: Of course not! I killed them because I could! Because it was fun! Do you know what it feels like to determine another man's fate? And did you see the way the people cheered? The way they feared me? I was like a god! You'd have done the same if you could! Such power...
Altaïr: Once perhaps, but then I learned what becomes of those who lift themselves above others.
Majd: And what is that?
Altaïr: Here, let me show you! (stabs Majd in the neck with the Hidden Blade, killing him.)
Trivia
- Majd Addin (Glory of the Faith) may be very loosely based on a man named Bahā' ad-Dīn ibn Shaddād (splendor of the faith), who was close to Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Saladin) and wrote a biography of the great Saracen military leader and sultan. Bahā' ad-Dīn was a jurist and a scholar. Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn liked his writings so much that he befriended the man and made him the judge of his armies. Bahā' ad-Dīn did not proclaim himself the Regent of Jerusalem, however.
- In one of Altaïr's investigations, it is revealed that Majd Addin was once the scribe of the emir. Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn is the Emir or Sultan at this time. Malik tells Altaïr that Majd Addin has "declared himself Regent in Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's absence". However, when listening to the men during one of his eavesdropping investigations (the one man is the father of one of those to be executed), it becomes clear that the people are under the impression that Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn has appointed Majd Addin as Regent.
- Majd Addin is the only target who needs two stabs of the hidden blade to die, one when you kill him in the gameplay and another in the animus scene.
- If you let the other Assassin get executed, you slowly lose your sync bars until you die.
- Majd Addin is one of the only two targets that you stab with the Hidden Blade in the animus scene in the Assassin's Creed Universe. The other target being Checco Orsi, in Assassin's Creed II.
- Majd Addin is the only one of Altaïr's main Assassination Targets that doesn't show any remorse or belief that their actions were in service of the greater good.
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