Prowler
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- "Running in the streets, bumping into people, the target is out of breath. He knows his pursuer is here somewhere, watching him, ready to take away his life. Suddenly, he stops and looks up. There, on the rooftops, the Prowler gazes down, smiling at him. It's already too late."
- ―Ubisoft Description
The Prowler (real name: Il Lupo) is a multiplayer character in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood who wields a switchblade, one that is similar to the hidden blade of the Assassins. Despite his similarity to the Assassins, the Prowler is, as all other multiplayer characters in Brotherhood, a Templar.
He makes an appearance in Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy as a creation of Baltasar de Silva, Cesare Borgia's master spy. After many hours of tracking and learning from the Assassins with Fiora Cavazza, Baltasar trained Il Lupo, a hitman who used the techniques and weapons of the Assassins. When Fiora betrayed all of Cesare's agents to the Assassins, she personally killed Il Lupo with a poisoned iron fan. She did so with a sense of urgency as Il Lupo was the last person who knew that Fiora had done possibly damaging things to the Assassins before she sought their aid.
Unique Moves
The Neck Breaker
The Prowler grabs his target from behind and swiftly maneuvers his hands around their neck. He then clutches the chin and neck, roughly pulling the head at a 90 degree angle and breaking the neck bone. The target then falls dead to the ground.
The Plunge of Death
The Prowler leaps from a rooftop above, onto the target, forcing them to the ground and plunging the blade into their skull. The target dies instantly.
Headache
The Prowler runs up behind his target and shoves his blade through the back of their head, killing them.
Customization
Like other multiplayer character, as the player progresses, the Prowler may be customized with different colors and gear.
Colors
The Prowler's first basic color consists of the one seen above, and the succeeding extra colors change the cape color to brown, red, then green. These extra colors affect his cape, and nothing else.
Gear
The Prowler's advanced gear consists of a pair of greaves on his forearms - one of which covers his switchblade - and plates of armor over the front of his boots. It also extends his blue button up shirt, and adds a new layer of clothing under his brown vest.
His superior gear consists of a golden clasp that joins his cape at the front, consisting of two golden Templar cross coins, as well as a longer shirt reaching to the middle of his thighs.
His elite gear changes the outline and Templar cross of his cape to gold and has golden embroidery around the edge of the hood and cape.
Gallery
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The Prowler's colors in Multiplayer. -
The Prowler's gear in Multiplayer.
Trivia
- The Prowler was previously known as the Hunter.
- A mysterious gray-robed identical character, previously nicknamed the "Hunter" and the "Female Hunter" has been spotted in several multiplayer images. Once an unknown character, she has now been identified as the Smuggler in one of her alternative outfits and colors.
- Plunge of Death, a special move used by both the Prowler and the Noble, is actually an Air Assassination, a move frequently used by the Assassin Order.
- The Prowler's cape and switchblade are both marked with a Knights Templar cross.
- His name, "Il Lupo," translates to "The Wolf," a name similar to La Volpe's.
- The cloak he wears resembles Maria Thorpe's cloak from Assassin's Creed II.
- Despite previously being mentioned to make an appearance in the single-player of Brotherhood, he is nowhere to be found.
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