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.

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 re-established mad business 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".

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.