Medeya Voronina
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- "What happened to us? What happened to our future? What kind of world am I leaving to my twin girls?"
- ―Galina's mother on the deteriorating Russian Brotherhood, 1991.[src]
The mother of Galina Voronina (unknown – 20 March 2014) was a member of the Assassin Order, working as a scientist in a cell located in an old Assassin laboratory in Protvino outside of Moscow.
Biography
In 1977, while stealing animals from the Moscow zoo to use for testing, she witnessed a man being chased by Templar footsoldiers and decided to intervene. After having killed the men, she was surprised to find their quarry had been an American Assassin called William. As thanks, William gave her blueprints of the Animus, which he had stolen from Abstergo Industries, and asked her to construct the device before the Templars could. He then had her promise to keep him informed about their progress.[1]
As William made to leave, she asked him how she would be able to contact him. William responded by revealing he was to meet another Assassin cell within the city, surprising Galina's mother, who had been unaware of this. He then assured her he would know when she needed to find him, claiming he had "eyes and ears everywhere", before departing.[1]
Galina's mother was unable to understand what exactly she had been asked to build, and was hampered by a lack of resources in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Even after more than a decade, she and her allies understood very little about the Animus, with the few subjects that had used it emerging as madmen. As a result, most of her fellow Assassins failed to see the use of the project, desiring to either weaponize it or abandon it altogether.[2] Eventually, she used the Animus herself during the 2012 coronal mass ejection, once Juno was released. She began suffering from the Bleeding Effect, claiming to have talked to "Eve" during her Animus sessions. Galina's mother subsequently forced the other members of her cell to use the device, who in turn became just as deranged as she.[3] [4]
In late July 2013, after she had forced many most of her fellow Assassins into the Animus, they began amassing near it, seemingly waiting for something. It was then that she began to force her daughters into the Animus.[4]
In March 2014, her daughter Galina enlisted the help of Gavin Banks, Emmanuel Barraza and Emmett, Assassins from the Altair II, to assassinate her mother.[3] On 20 March, they entered the laboratory in Protvino, where Galina almost single-handedly killed all the remaining Russian Assassins. Her mother was strapped to the Animus, with images of Juno[5] appearing on monitors on a nearby wall. Galina then plunged her Hidden Blade into her mother's brain, killing her instantly. At the same moment, Juno screamed and disappeared from the monitors.[6]
Gallery
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Galina's mother meeting William in 1977
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Modern Times: "A Brash American"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Modern Times: "Post Soviet Science"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Meet Galina"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Modern Times: "Unexpected Dissolution"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates (Twitter) – "A monster in the machine."
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Matricide"