Hamid (Amritsar)

This article is about the Mentor of the Indian Brotherhood. For other uses, see Hamid.

Hamid was the Mentor of the Indian Brotherhood of Assassins, headquartered in Amritsar during the 19th century.

Biography

Training Arbaaz Mir

During the Sikh Empire conquest of Kashmir in 1819, Hamid rescued a young Kashmiri named Arbaaz Mir from a meeting gone wrong and offered him a place among the Assassins. Though Arbaaz was initially deemed to be too reckless to become and Assassin, Hamid however saw the life and cunningness in him and trained him into the Order.^[1]

Hunt for the Koh-i-Noor

In late June 1839, Hamid sent Arbaaz to retrieve a document in First Civilization script about the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a powerful Piece of Eden. After explaining the diamond's legend to Arbaaz, Hamid revealed that the Koh-i-Noor was in the possession of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Amritsar, and that the British Templars were plotting to steal it; while Ranjit Singh had been the keeper of the diamond for nine years, his successors did not share his determination to it, which the Templars sought to exploit. Hamid tasked Arbaaz with protecting Ranjit Singh from the Templars, in order to keep the Piece of Eden out of their hands.^[2]

Arbaaz was ultimately successful in his mission, securing the Koh-i-Noor for the Assassins.^[2] After being told by his lover, Princess Pyara Kaur, that keeping the artifact on him at all times was unwise, Arbaaz gave it to Hamid for safekeeping.^[3]

However, in 1841, the Templars, now led by William Sleeman and Alexander Burnes, decided to resume their hunt for the Koh-i-Noor and managed to locate the Indian Brotherhood's headquarters in Amritsar. In the ensuing fight, the Templars stole back the Koh-i-Noor and badly wounded Hamid, taking both back to their base of operations in the city. There, Burnes unsuccessfully tried to interrogate Hamid to learn what he knew about the Koh-i-Noor, before Sleeman decided to instead use a Precursor box to unravel the diamond's secrets.^[3]

Shortly after the Templars left, Arbaaz, who had followed the blood trail left behind, infiltrated their headquarters to rescue his Mentor. Once they were safe, Hamid informed Arbaaz of the Templars' plans and directed him to a Precursor temple they had found, tasking his apprentice with recovering both the Koh-i-Noor and the box. While Arbaaz did as he was told, Hamid secretly followed Burnes and learned the Templars were organizing an expedition to Afghanistan.^[3]

After Arbaaz's confrontation with Sleeman inside the Precursor temple resulted in its destruction, Hamid, drawn by the commotion, arrived at the scene to find his apprentice, who had barely managed to escape the collapsing temple in time. Hamid briefly scolded Arbaaz for his recklessness, remarking that the temple was priceless, before the latter informed him of Sleeman using the Koh-i-Noor and the box to unlock a map highlighting various locations across the globe, including one in Afghanistan. After Hamid in turn revealed what he had learned, the two Assassins concluded the Templars were after a Precursor temple in Afghanistan, meaning Arbaaz would have to head there next.^[3]

Upon Arbaaz's return from Afghanistan, where he retrieved the Koh-i-Noor and the box from the Templars, he met with Hamid to tell him of his mission's success, only to be informed by the latter that Sleeman had taken over the Maharaja's summer palace and was holding Pyara hostage to exchange her for the lost artifacts. Hamid warned Arbaaz that he would likely be headed into a trap, but the latter nonetheless rushed to the palace in order to save his lover. While Arbaaz was ultimately successful in this endeavor, it came at the cost of the Precursor box, which fell back into the hands of the Templars.^[3]

Jayadeep Mir's exile

By 1860, Hamid was still the Mentor and in accordance with the strict rules of the Indian Brotherhood, ordered the execution of Arbaaz's son, Jayadeep Mir, for incompetence due to a failure of nerves during an assassination. However, Ethan Frye, the former mentor of Jayadeep, offered a banishment alternative to Arbaaz who in turn convinced the Mentor to exile his son to England, to help the weakened British Brotherhood there and atone for his failure.^[4]

Personality and characteristics

While being an Assassin and theoretically tasked to defend the innocents with no regard on their race or social statute, Hamid was not above beating his servants when they failed to reach the standards he had fixed. In 1839, his treatment of Raza Soora, one of his servants, was so harsh that Arbaaz Mir decided to purchase the mute young boy from his Mentor with the intent of freeing him later.^[2]