Dervis

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"Anyone who works from the shadows does so only because they must."

―Dervis to Basim, 861.

Dervis was an Abbasid collector who lived in Baghdad during the 9th century. He was an old acquaintance of the Hidden One Roshan in their early years. By the time of the early 850s, he became an employer of Basim Ibn Ishaq when he worked as a street thief in 861.

Biography

Activities in Anbar

"Listen here, Basim. You want to keep working for me, you keep your head down and your mouth shut!"

―Dervis to Basim after the latter tried to flaunt his skills to Roshan, 861.

Prior to living in Baghdad, Dervis worked as a peddler in Anbar where he led a secret network of thieves which Basim was part of. He recruited many street urchins to perform tasks for him, many of whom he took great care of. By 861, Dervis began working alongside the Hidden Ones, liberators as he called it, helping them to procure items and information. For most of these tasks, he entrusted it to Basim, who was the most skilled in his network, and paid him for his services.

In December, Roshan, a Mentor of the Hidden Ones, asked Dervis to recover a shipping ledger containing clues to an artifact the Order of the Ancients sought after. He sent Basim to the nearby guarded-harbor to recover the ledger. When Basim returned, he approached Roshan directly, bragging about his own skills and asked to be recruited in her employment, though Roshan brushed him off. Having seen this, Dervis reprimanded Basim, reminding him to stay in his lane if he wished to continue working for him.

Later that night, Basim ignored Dervis and Roshan's reminders to pursue the artifact leads to the Winter Palace, where he killed the caliph Al-Mutawakkil in self-defense. This act provoked the wrath of the caliph's son Abu 'Abdallah, who sent the Caliphate Guard after Basim. This pulled in Dervis' network, whom the guards brutally executed and hanged on wooden poles as display. Dervis, however, survived the encounter and eventually moved to Baghdad, where he worked as a collector operating in the Harbiyah district's Dyeing Factory. There, he joined Ali ibn Muhammad's rebellion movement and worked as an informer for his men and the Hidden Ones.

Behind the scenes

Dervis is a character in Assassin's Creed: Mirage, where he was voiced by the Turkish actor Memet Ali Alabora.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Mirage (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One