Garnier de Naplouse
Garnier de Naplouse is the second Templar assigned by Al Mualim for Altaïr to assassinate. He is a doctor and Grand Master of the Knights Hospitalier in the city of Acre and a secret member of the Knights Templars. He is found in the city's poor district.
Description
Garnier de Naplouse was exiled from France for the cruel and inhumane treatment of his patients. He viewed them less as people, or more as test subjects. He later reestablished mad bussiness in the city of Acre where he treats his patients cruelly by conducting experiments on them, torturing them, and not allowing them leave (even going so far as having his men break their legs). In order to not draw attention to his acts he forcefully takes his patients from the surrounding cities of Jerusalem and Damascus with help of Talal, a fellow member of the Templars. He has been protected in Acre due to the amount of coin his family had donated towards the war effort.
Though claiming to be a man of knowledge, Garnier lacks ethics. He never sees the price of knowledge as too high, even if it must be paid with another man's blood.
Death
Garnier was assassinated within his Hospitalier Fortress by Altaïr while attending to his victims. During his monologue after his assassination, he speaks of how he was actually helping people. He claims that the people he took were among the poorest and most ill of the other cities, and that many have recovered and thanked him for his help. He says his methods were necessary to free people from the "prisons of their own minds". While leaning over one of his patients addressing his progress with him Garnier suddenly falls forward from the descending weight of an assassin and is killed from a Hidden Blade thrust to the left side of his neck (Altaïr waited atop the scaffolding within the Hospitalier as Garnier made his routine patient rounds observing his every move waiting for the opportune time to strike, finally Garnier positions himself over a patients bed that is located opposite a support beam above, quickly positioning himself to strike, Altaïr waits as Garnier begins to speak, then skilfully leaps from the beam with total accuracy down upon the unaware Grand Master using his body weight to force the unsuspecting Garnier down on to his stomach while slamming the Hidden Blade into his neck). Garniers death marks the second recent Major-Public Figure- assassination and is recorded as the first in Acre.
Trivia
- Garnier de Naplouse (also known as Garnier de Nablus) was a real-life leader of the Knights Hospitalier, who ruled from 1190 to 1192.