Visayans

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Rajah leading his Visayan warriors to Fort San Pedro

The Visayans are an ethnolinguistic group native to southernmost islands of the Philippines. The language of the Visayans were of their native tongue. However, in modern times, they also speak in Tagalog and English as secondary languages.

History

Battle of Mactan

In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his men travelled to Mactan Island after securing the Crescent Piece of Eden from Cebu. There, they encountered with the native Visayans living there in order to secure another Piece of Eden from the chieftain Lapu-Lapu. On 27 April, Magellan's men fought against Lapu-Lapu and his people. With Lapu-Lapu gaining the upper hand by acquiring the crescent amulet, the chieftain swiftly and single-handledly killed all of Magellan's soldiers before personally executing Magellan himself. As a result, this led to a setback for the Spanish Empire to colonize the Philippines until 1565.

Rajah's rebellion

In 1725, in Manila, a group of Visayan resistance warriors were led by Rajah, a former Visayan slave for the Spanish who vowed vengeance against those invaded his land and wanted to secure the Pieces of Eden, of which he believed truly belonged to his people. Soon, during a riot in Manila, Rajah led his men and killed Spanish soldiers docked at a ship. Before long, he found the location of a monk, who acquired the crescent amulet.

Fortunately, they found the monk fighting against British Assassin Edward Kenway and Rajah took his opportunity to kill the monk and take back the amulet. Besting the injured Assassin, Rajah nearly killed him but Kenway escaped with the help from his ally Shimazu Saito. He and his fellow Visayans soon took their crusade towards Cebu but made a stop at Monkey Island, where they took over a local fort. However, they came across Kenway and his crew, the Zhang Wei Union, who stopped at the island and helped its native inhabitants, who were forcibly recruited to assist Rajah.

Rajah's following plan of taking over Kenway's flagship Fenghuang backfired when his men were taken down by the crew as his conquest of the fort was short-lived once the union freed Rajah's prisoners. Fortunately, they acquired ships from a group of Japanese soldiers, who tried to take the amulet but were unsuccessful. Arriving in Cebu, they infiltrated the Basilica del Santo Niño, where they killed all the priests and acquired a sea log, which depicted the locations of two other Pieces of Eden. When surrounded by Spanish soldiers, Rajah used the amulet to have them kill each other.

The rebellion's downfall

While Rajah sent his men to infiltrate Fort San Pedro, he and his men came across Kenway and the Spanish army again. There, Kenway's allies John Young and Rupiya sank Rajah's ships. Left to fend off the Spanish soldiers, the Visayans soon saw their comrades sent a signal of their takeover of the fort and escaped from the harbor.

With the fort's civilians aiding the Visayans inside, Rajah grew maddened from his losses and from his exposure to the amulet. He ordered his men to kill the civilians as he viewed them as traitors but his men refused. Thus, Rajah killed them and all of his men around him. He was soon found by Kenway and Saito, where the former fought against him while Saito sought the log.

Despite his use of the amulet, Rajah failed and was defeated by Kenway. When Kenway took the amulet, he saw a glimpse into Rajah's childhood and understood his cause but did not excuse his actions. While stating his actions were to free his people, Rajah was soon taken ahold by the neck with a rope dart from Chinese Assassin Mentor Xiao Han. Remorseful for not achieving his goals, Rajah was soon killed by the Chinese Mentor.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple