Assassination
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Assassination targets were individuals that the Assassin Order – and in select instances, the Templar Order – deemed necessary of elimination.
History
Middle Ages
Around the time of the Third Crusade, the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad assassinated certain figures during his quest to find The Chalice:
Altaïr later assassinated nine tyrannical public figures in an effort to restore his lost rank and regain honor within the Assassin Order:
- Tamir
- Garnier de Naplouse
- Talal
- Abu'l Nuqoud
- William of Montferrat
- Majd Addin
- Sibrand
- Jubair al Hakim
- Maria Thorpe (spared)
- Robert de Sable[2]
Altaïr also had other targets:
- Haras[3]
- Rashid ad-Din Sinan[2]
- Frederick the Red
- Moloch
- Dark Oracle
- Shalim
- Shahar
- Pirate Captain
- Armand Bouchart[4]
- Swami
- Abbas Sofian[3]
These targets, apart from Haras, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Swami, and Abbas Sofian, were necessary to aid the Cypriot Resistance in the liberation of Cyprus.
Renaissance
During the Renaissance, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinated several noblemen in order to avenge the deaths of his family members, free the Spanish Assassins, complete his father's life's work, save the Italian cities of Florence, Venice and Rome from corruption, and to fulfill his destiny as an Assassin.
- Uberto Alberti
- Vieri de' Pazzi
- Francesco de' Pazzi
- Antonio Maffei
- Francesco Salviati
- Bernardo Baroncelli
- Stefano da Bagnone
- Jacopo de' Pazzi
- Emilio Barbarigo
- Carlo Grimaldi
- Marco Barbarigo
- Silvio Barbarigo
- Dante Moro[5]
- Ludovico Orsi
- Checco Orsi[6]
- Gaspar Martínez
- Pedro Llorente
- Juan de Marillo
- Tomás de Torquemada (escaped)[7]
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Rodrigo Borgia (spared)[5]
- Master of the Sacred Palace[9]
- Luigi Torcelli
- Juan Borgia the Elder
- Octavian de Valois
- Micheletto Corella (spared)[10]
- Ercole Massimo[11]
- Cesare Borgia[10]
Ezio also completed several Templar agent assassination assignments while liberating the city of Rome.
- Il Carnefice
- Malfatto, via an apprentice
- Silvestro Sabbatini, via an apprentice
- Lanz
- Gaspar de la Croix
- Lia de Russo
- Donato Mancini
- Auguste Oberlin
- Brother Ristoro[10]
Ezio assassinated several Templars and some noblemen in the cities of Masyaf, Constantinople, and Derinkuyu.
Ezio, with the aid of his Apprentices, also assassinated Templar agents in the city of Constantinople.
- Vali cel Tradat by an Apprentice
- Cyril of Rhodes
- Georgios Kostas by an Apprentice
- Odai Dunqas by an Apprentice
- Damat Ali Pasha by an Apprentice
- Mirela Djuric
- Lysistrata[3]
Colonial America
Haytham Kenway was responsible for the assassination of two English military operatives, as well as three men that opposed the Templars during the French and Indian War.
Aveline de Grandpré had seven targets between the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
- Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie
- Baptiste
- Antonio de Ulloa (spared)
- Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer
- Vásquez
- George Davidson
- Madeleine de l'Isle[13]
- Chapperon
Before, during, and after the events of the American Revolutionary War, the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton assassinated several men in order to protect his tribe and further the pursuit of freedom for the citizens of the thirteen British colonies of America.
- William Johnson
- John Pitcairn
- Thomas Hickey
- Man O' War captain
- Nicholas Biddle
- Benjamin Church
- Kanen'tó:kon
- Haytham Kenway
- Charles Lee[12]
Following a meeting with George Washington, Ratonhnhaké:ton found himself in an alternate reality created by an Apple of Eden. During the events contained within, he assassinated the following individuals:
- Benedict Arnold[14]
- Benjamin Franklin (spared)
- Israel Putnam[15]
- John Fitzwilliams
- George Washington[16]
Golden Age of Piracy
Edward Kenway, father of Haytham and grandfather of Ratonhnhaké:ton assassinated several men during the Golden Age of Piracy in his quests for riches and glory as well as some for a suit of armor.
- Duncan Walpole
- Julien du Casse
- Laurens Prins
- Peter Chamberlaine
- Charles Vane (spared)
- Josiah Burgess
- John Cockram
- Benjamin Hornigold
- Woodes Rogers (survived)
- Bartholomew Roberts
- El Tiburón
- Laureano de Torres y Ayala
- Jing Lang
- Lucia Marquez
- Hilary Flint
- Kenneth Abraham
Adéwalé, a member of the Assassin Order, also assassinated certain individuals.
Modern times
The Assassin Desmond Miles infiltrated the Templar company headquarters of Abstergo Industries in Rome, where he assassinated two members of their order. Before this, Desmond also killed an Assassin that had defected to the Templars, following the acquisition of the Apple of Eden in the Colosseum Vault.
References
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Assassin's Creed II
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II - Battle of Forlì (DLC)
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II - Bonfire of the Vanities (DLC)
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Copernicus Conspiracy
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - The Da Vinci Disappearance
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Assassin's Creed III
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington: The Infamy
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington: The Betrayal
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington: The Redemption