Natalya Aliyev
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Natalya Aliyev (born 2001) is an American teenager of Russian, Kazakh, and Mongolian descent, tracing her lineage back to the Italian opera singer Adelina Patti and the Mongolian Templar Bayan. In 2016, she was was part of a group of teenagers recruited by Sebastian Monroe to search for the pieces of the Trident of Eden, attracting the attention of both the Assassins and Templars.
Biography
Early life
At some point, Natalya's parents and grandparents wanted her to be a musician and paid the Russian violin professor Krupin to teach her. However, she was not a good musician and eventually abandoned music.[1]
Recruited by Monroe
In 2016, Sebastian Monroe contacted Natalya and offered her the chance to relive her grandparents' memories when they fled Soviet Kazakhstan. Later, she was brought to a warehouse with five other teenagers: Owen Meyers, Javier Mondragón, Sean Molloy, and the siblings Grace and David Collins.[1]
Monroe explained to them the conflict between the Assassins and the Templars, and the Pieces of Eden they fought over. He revealed that they were researching the Trident of Eden, and that each of the teenagers' ancestors had been in contact with one piece of the Trident. Finally, he explained that he wanted to retrieve it before the Assassins or Templars to hide it.[1]
To do so, Monroe put the teenagers in the Animus, where they experienced a simulation of the New York City draft riots in 1863. Natalya relived the memories of Adelina Patti and felt anxious when the latter sang before a large crowd. During the riots, Adelina was protected by Tommy Greyling, Sean's ancestor, and fell in love with him while, at the same time, Sean fell in love with Natalya.[1]
Once the group learned the location of the prong, an Abstergo strike team attacked the warehouse and kidnapped almost all the teenagers except for Owen and Javier, who fled on a bike. Natalya and the others were led to the Aerie and introduced to Dr. Victoria Bibeau. Then, they encountered Isaiah, who talked to them about Abstergo and the Templars' real goals of enforced peace. Natalya was the most distrustful of the Templars and isolated herself, ignoring Sean when he tried to speak to her. Victoria then came to the group and asked if they had ever wanted to go to China.[1]
Working for the Templars
Thanks to Abstergo convincing her parents to let Natalya perform memory research through the Animus, Natalya began experiencing the memories of her Mongolian ancestor, Bayan, in search of the second prong of the Trident of Eden. One day, while having breakfast, David informed everyone that he had overheard Isaiah placing a kill order on Owen and Javier, but no one believed him.[2]
Escape from the Aerie
As time went by, Natalya became more and more disaffected with the Templars' goals. Soon enough, Monroe caused a blackout in an attempt to rescue them. Natalya and David chose to leave, but Grace was separated from them and Sean decided to stay, having been seduced by the Templars' ideals. Separated from Monroe, they soon met up with Javier, who had joined the Assassins in a simultaneous rescue attempt. They managed to flee the Aerie in Isaiah's high-tech car and met up with the Assassin Griffin, though they were forced to leave Owen behind.[2]
Upon reaching Griffin's safehouse, Natalya sat down with David and Javier and recapped what each of them had been up to. During their conversation, Natalya learned that Owen's Chinese Assassin ancestor, Zhang Zhi, was the one Bayan had caught after the assassination of Möngke Khan.[2]
Griffin soon informed them that Isaiah was mounting an expedition to Mongolia and asked Natalya to re-enter the Animus to find the second prong's exact location. Natalya agreed on the condition that Griffin bring all of them to Mongolia. However, when Natalya began experiencing Bayan's induction into the Templar Order, she purposely desynchronized, which angered Griffin. Though Natalya protested that she didn't want any involvement in the Assassin-Templar war, Griffin stated that a side had to be chosen eventually and that her hesitancy would likely get her killed. The group then packed up for Mongolia, with Natalya promising to find the Khan's tomb once they got there.[2]
Tomb of the Khan
Natalya and her friends traveled to China via cargo plane, where they met the Assassin Yanmei, who provided a private jet for the journey to Mongolia, only to be shot down by the Templars. Surviving the crash, the Assassins confirmed the location of the Abstergo camp. As they made their way to the tomb on foot, David went towards the Abstergo camp, believing a series of lights were signalling him that Grace was there, after which the Templars began heading in the opposite direction of the tomb.[2]
Upon reaching the spot where Natalya had desynchronized, she still refused to give up the location of the tomb, refusing to trust the Assassins due to their absolute obedience to the Creed. However, Yanmei explained to her the three ironies of the Creed and that it did not command the Assassins to be obedient but to think for themselves. Natalya eventually led the Assassins to the tomb, but as they began digging, she tricked Javier into showing her how to operate his crossbow pistol and used it to incapacitate Griffin and Yanmei with sleep darts.[2]
Though stunned by Natalya's betrayal, Javier accepted that she was not yet ready to trust the Assassins and assisted her in the excavation. They were soon joined by Owen, Grace, David, and Monroe, who had just escaped the Templar camp, and they all began digging together. Unfortunately, just as they uncovered the tomb, Isaiah showed up and took them captive.[2]
As Isaiah entered the tomb, the Assassin regained consciousness and attacked, at which point Javier used a smoke bomb to cover his friends' escape. Unfortunately, Isaiah soon emerged from the tomb with the Fear prong and used its powers on everyone. He then fatally stabbed Yanmei when she tried to attack him, and declared that he was no longer a Templar before ordering his men to follow him, leaving Natalya, her friends, and the Assassins alone.[2]
Upon reaching the Abstergo camp, Natalya felt regret for not telling the Assassins the tomb's location earlier, but Griffin reminded her that people die in war and that Yanmei would've respected her principles. Soon after, Victoria arrived at the camp, having just learned of Isaiah's betrayal and that he was also in possession of the first prong of the Trident. When the Templars drew their weapons upon hearing that the Assassins were present, Natalya reasoned that the two sides needed to work together before Isaiah destroyed both Orders. In response, Victoria and Griffin agreed to a ceasefire until they defeated Isaiah and recovered the third prong, which Victoria believed to be in Scandinavia.[2]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods
References