Majd Addin
|
"Good work, if a little… unrefined." This article is being nominated for . If you wish to share your own opinion about this article, please read the instructions within the nomination page before voting. |
- "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[src]
Majd Addin was a Saracen, the regent of Jerusalem, and secretly a member of the Templar Order. He was the sixth individual Al Mualim ordered the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to assassinate. He was located in Jerusalem's poor district.
Biography
Rise to power
- "Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's absence left the city without a proper leader and Majd Addin has appointed himself to play the role."
- ―Malik describing Majd's power[src]
Majd Addin believed that others should see the world the way he did. Those that did not oblige to his views were sentenced to death. 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 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 trials would always result in death, causing people to drop the name "trials" and simply call them executions. In this way, he silenced anyone who would oppose him, and struck fear into the hearts of people who considered 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. At some point in his life, not only did Majd Addin become a secret member of the Templar Order, but also became aware of the Piece of Eden and its capabilities. He and nine other individuals closely guarded the secrets and intended to use the Apple to create a new world.
Death
- "Not so innocent! Dissident voices cut deep as steel. They disrupt order. In this, I do agree with the Brotherhood."
- ―Majd about the people he attempted to execute.[src]
During one of his public executions, he was judging an alleged prostitute, a thief, a gambler and a heretic. The heretic was in fact an Assassin, and Altaïr was tasked with killing Majd before the Assassin died. The father of one the men to be executed tried to stop the execution with a friend of his, but they were put down by an archer and a guard.
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, after which he killed the woman saying that even when the death was coming she continued to lie. The second victim was the gambler, who remarked that he was being accused simply because he played a game of chance. Majd told him 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 which had fallen to the floor. Majd Addin rebuked that the crime would rise and begin to affect others more directly, after which he he killed the third accused. 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. Afterwards, Altaïr smeared the feather he brought with his blood, and reported back to the bureau.
Personality
- "Fear and intimidation get him what he wants."
- ―Malik on Majd[src]
Majd Addin was a power hungry individual who thrived because of people fearing him. It was this lust for power that led him to become a member of the Knights Templar, who offered him power in exchange for his allegiance. He often conducted executions, because he felt that determining another man's fate gave him a god like status. A very proficient speaker, Majd Addin could manipulate the crowd with his words, often making them blindly believe that the executions he carried out were for the good of the city.
Dying at the age of 54, Majd Addin didn't claim that what he did was right, instead he confessed that he was doing it not to help his brethren but because it was fun and to gain power and fame, which he did over time. However, the power and fame were also the cause of his death.
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.
- 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.
- Majd Addin executes the Assassin in a far more brutal manner than he does the other three. He executes 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 requires 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.
Gallery
Source
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||