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Grappling hook
A grappling hook is a tool that consists of multiple hooks attached to a rope.
[expand a little on details?]
During the Third Crusade, the Assassins favored the device's versatility for their operations. Consequently in 1190, Rafik, the Keeper of Dasmascus gave a grappling hook to Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, suggesting that it would be useful should the young Assassin choose to travel by rooftop again. <-- inadequate ending for the sentence?
[it indeed proved useful in the slums because the buildings collapse?]
[when pursuing Fajera and the bridge collapsed Altaïr found it esp. useful for crossing the river ~ significant enough to mention?]
[he would continue to use it throughout his quest for the Chalice to swing himself across gaps he cannot jump]
[employed it as a way of pulling guards towards him. compare with Hookblade & rope dart?]
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Nazim
Nazim (unknown - 1190) was a Templar crossbowman that participated in the Third Crusade.
In 1190, he was stationed in Tyre as part of the defense force for the Templar hospital. Alongside two Hospitalier soldiers, he was guarding the interior of a restricted building when he encountered the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had trespassed en route to the hospital. Though unaware of Altaïr's affiliation, the Crusaders nevertheless moved to apprehend the intruder, decrying him as a "shameless thief." Nazim had barely just received the order to arm his crossbow when Altaïr overpowered his group and killed them.
Trivia
Because the video game's levels are designed with improbable architecture, it is impossible to determine the function of the building where Nazim is encountered. The interior of this building consists of naught but a few platforms suspended above a bottomless abyss with disconnected beams for navigation. One side of the building's façade resembles that of a typical church, at least with regards to buttresses and arched windows, the other side lacks these features, which are replaced instead by a large platform that protrudes out over the street.
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Templar Hospital
The Templar Hospital of Tyre was a medical facility that operated in the 12th century and came to double as a stronghold for the Knights Templar at the height of the Third Crusade.
History
Located near the harbor, the institution was shut down at some point prior to 1190. Around that year, the Crusaders reopened the complex under the command of the Templar doctor Roland Napule, in the process drastically bolstering the city's reinforcements.
Though ostensibly a hospital, the facility was in fact employed for much more nefarious purposes, particularly in light of the Templars' fervent pursuit for the keys to the Temple of the Sand. People suspect to knowledge of these keys were detained at the hospital and subjected to brutal interrogations. While these operations were by no means publicized, the local civilians nevertheless whispered rumors of the horrors committed within its walls.
These rumors eventually reached the ears of the Assassins, who sent an agent to investigate. The infiltrator failed to return, however, and the Assassins remained largely in the dark on the exact details of the Templars' operations.
A few months later, the Templars captured an elderly man that had visited the Temple of Sand. Certain that this man knew the whereabouts of a key to the Temple, Roland Napule began a fierce interrogation in the detention room. Erstwhile, he sent two Hospitalier soldiers to patrol the sewers, wary that it was a potential route for intruders.
Unbeknownst to the Templars, the young Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad had arrived in Tyre, having been instructed by Fajera to seek the old man for aid in his quest for the Chalice. Guided by the the Assassin Rafiq Hamid, Altaïr infiltrated the hospital through the very sewers that Roland had sought to secure.
Despite the hospital's stringent level of security, the Assassin ultimately navigated his way to the detention room without injury. Interrupting the interrogation, he killed Roland Napule and rescued the prisoner, who gave his key to the desert temple in gratitude.
Layout
Exterior
The hospital was a prominent
Subterranean levels
Underneath the hospital was a complex series of dungeons, furnace rooms, and finery forges.
Trivia
- As Altaïr infiltrates the hospital through the underground passageways, the main levels of the hospital are never actually explored in Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles.
Temple of Sand
The Temple of Sand, commonly referred to simply as the desert temple, was a legendary temple that lied in the desert east of the Dead Sea, rumored to harbor the Chalice, an ancient artifact similar to the Pieces of Eden thought to possess the power to unite all factions of the Third Crusade. By the time of that war, much of the site was submerged under the desert, though many of its ruins still protruded from the sands. Three keys were required to gain access to this temple.
History
As the vault for the elusive relic known as the Chalice, the temple became a critical target in the war between the Assassins and Templars in 1190. That year, the two factions embarked on a massive hunt for the keys to the temple, and among the Assassins, this quest was principally assigned to the elite agent Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Although the Mentor Rashid ad-Din Sinan had informed Altaïr that the Templars had already captured the Chalice, the Crusaders' desperate search for an entry into the temple implied otherwise.
An elderly man who had visited the temple was waylaid by Templars and detained at the Templar Hospital in Tyre where its commander, the doctor Roland Napule subjected him to gruesome torture for the keys. One had already passed into the hands of the Romani dancer Fajera, and another into the possession of Basilisk, himself, but this old man still held the remaining key. With the assassination of Roland, the man granted Altaïr with this key
The Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to the Temple of the Sand where he encountered Templar forces and fought his way to its antechamber, defeating the Axe Warrior.
There, he found an empty chest and Lord Basilisk, who hinted that the Chalice was in fact a woman. Basilisk taunted him, as Altaïr left and journeyed back to Tyre, before the temple collapsed.
Gallery
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The temple caves
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