Baptiste
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Baptiste (1725 - 1766) was a former Assassin and voodoo leader, who, posing as the deceased François Mackandal, attempted to take control of the Louisiana Bayou and force the mentor of the Assassins, Agaté, out of hiding.
Biography
Early life
Baptiste was born in 1725 on a slave plantation in Saint-Domingue, where he met Agaté, Jeanne and an Assassin named François Mackandal. The latter took the three of them under his wing and taught them how to read and write, along with instructing Baptiste and Agaté how to craft poison and use weapons. In 1738, Baptiste and Agaté joined the Assassin Brotherhood and escaped the plantation with Mackandal, though they left Jeanne behind.
Baptiste and Agaté fought alongside Mackandal for many years, until a failed attempt to poison the colonists of Saint Domingue resulted in the death of Mackandal in 1758. Agaté left in search of Jeanne, with whom he had fell in love with. Baptiste, feeling betrayed, quit the Brotherhood and formed his own Maroon secret society. He adapted the teachings of Mackandal, but also developed the principles and core values to suit his own agenda.
Eve of Saint John
In 1766, Baptiste, pretending to be his deceased mentor François Mackandal, made a deal with the Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer to take control of smuggling operations within the bayou and force Agaté out of hiding, in return for membership into the Templar Order.
After gathering a small amount of followers, Baptiste sent a letter to one of his faithful acolytes, stating he was "in want of nothing but more men to join his ranks" in preparation for a "sacred ceremony" on the Eve of Saint John.
However, this letter was intercepted by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, who discovered it inside a wrecked ship in the marshlands after assassinating the troops at one of Baptiste's camps. With the aid of her smuggler ally Élise Lafleur, Aveline navigated her way to the location of the sacred ceremony.
Aveline and Élise located Baptiste after she had cleared the man's second base. Whilst spying on his conversation with de Ferrer, she learned of his aspirations to join the Templar Order, poison the nobles of New Orleans, force her mentor Agaté out of hiding. Following this, Aveline faced off against Baptiste in a showdown, proving victorious and defeating him, despite having been afflicted by a hallucinogenic drug by the voodoo leader; she had ingested an antidote beforehand in preparation to face him.
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