Majd Addin
- "I killed them because I could. Because it was fun! Do you know what it feels like to determine another man's fate? And did you see the way the people cheered? The way they feared me? I was like a god!"
- ―Majd Addin
Majd Addin (مجد الدين) was the sixth person Al Mualim ordered Altaïr to assassinate. He was located in the poor district of Jerusalem, Israel.
The Executioner Regent of Old Jerusalem
- "Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's absense left the city without a proper leader and Majd Addin has appointed himself to play the role. Fear and intimidation get him what he wants. He has no reason to refuse the position."
- ―Malik describing Majd's power[src]
Majd Addin believed that others should either see the world the way he did, or die. He used fear and intimidation to keep the population of Jerusalem in check, and often issued strict, confusing edicts regarding the way people should conduct themselves. By doing this, he was also steadily reversing Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's long-standing policy of tolerance toward all races, religions, and creeds. Almost every day, mock trials were held for those he perceived to be enemies of the city, wherein he would either frame them or exaggerate their crimes. The punishment was always the same: death. In this way, he silenced anyone who would oppose him, and struck fear into the hearts of people considering doing the same. He spoke with an authoritative edge and insisted that he knew what was best for the people of the city. Despite this, he was a snake, who was not to be trusted.
Assassination
- "Jerusalem needs a new ruler"
- ―Altaïr about Majd's death.[src]
During one of his public executions, in which he was judging an alleged prostitute, a thief, a gambler and a heretic, who was the assassin that Altaïr was supposed to save. Majd began his speech about the prostitute, saying she had sold her body to several men and she defended herself by saying that she was only there because she had refused to lie with Addin, he then kills the woman saying that even when the death was coming she continued to lie. The second victim was the gambler, he was being accused of simply playing a game of chance, according to the victim, and Majd said simply that it wasn't sin that corrupted the city but the gambler, killing him immediately, after his brief speech. The third victim was being accused of stealing the gain of others and to gain support from the public, Majd convinced the crowd that everyone had been violated, the man, defending himself, said he had picked only one dinar fell to the floor, then Addin said that the crime would rise and begin to affect others more directly killing the accused immediately. Before the assassin could be judged, Altaïr stabbed Majd with the hidden blade. During Majd's dying moments, he told Altaïr the reason for his evil deeds, commenting that, while he joined the Templars to help them take control of Jerusalem, in reality, he simply wanted the power and fear such a position granted.
Final Words
Altaïr: Your work here is finished.
Majd: No! No! It had only just begun!
Altaïr: Tell me, what's your part in all this? Do you intend to defend yourself as the others have, and explain away your evil deeds?
Majd: The Brotherhood wanted the city: I wanted power. There was... an opportunity.
Altaïr: An opportunity to murder innocents!
Majd: Not so innocent! Dissident voices cut deep as steel. They disrupt order. In this, I do agree with the Brotherhood.
Altaïr: You'd kill people simply for believing differently from you?
Majd: Of course not! I killed them because I could! Because it was fun! Do you know what it feels like to determine another man's fate? And did you see the way the people cheered? The way they feared me? I was like a god! You'd have done the same if you could! Such power...
Altaïr: Once perhaps, but then I learned what becomes of those who lift themselves above others.
Majd: And what is that?
Altaïr: Here, let me show you! (stabs Majd in the neck with the Hidden Blade, killing him.)
Trivia
- Majd Addin ("glory of the faith") may be very loosely based on a man named Bahā' ad-Dīn ibn Shaddād ("splendor of the faith"), who was close to Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn, and who wrote a biography on the great Saracen military leader and sultan. Bahā' ad-Dīn was a jurist and a scholar, and Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn liked his writings so much that he befriended the man and made him the judge of his armies. Bahā' ad-Dīn did not proclaim himself the Regent of Jerusalem, however.
- In one of Altaïr's investigations, it is revealed that Majd Addin was once the scribe of the emir, wherein Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn was the Emir or Sultan at this time.
- Malik tells Altaïr that Majd Addin had "declared himself Regent in Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's absence." However, when eavesdropping on some civilians (particularly the father of one of those to be executed), it becomes clear that the people are under the impression that Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn himself had appointed Majd Addin as Regent.
- Interestingly, Majd Addin executes the Assassin in a far more brutal manner than he does the other three. He executes the the first two with a simple slash of his sword. He impales the third, and when he gets to the Assassin, he impales him and then shifts the blade around inside his body.
- Majd Addin is only one of two targets who needs two stabs of the hidden blade to die (one during gameplay, and another in the Animus scene). The other target is Checco Orsi, in Assassin's Creed II.
- If you let the other Assassin get executed, you slowly lose your sync bars until you die.
- Majd Addin is the only one of Altaïr's main Assassination Targets that does not show any remorse, or any belief that their actions were in service of the greater good.
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