Aveline de Grandpré

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"I seek liberty and freedom, not for myself, but for those whom such fundamental rights are denied. I am their shield, their sword, their only hope. The roads I travel are dark, but they bring me closer to the light."

―Aveline de Grandpré.

Aveline de Grandpré was an Assassin of French and African heritage, who lived in the area of New Orleans at the end of the French and Indian War. She was mentored by Agate, with whom she had a conflicting relationship.

Biography

Early Life

Aveline was born to a wealthy French merchant, Philippe de Grandpré, and an African placée bride by the name of Jeanne, and occupied a position of wealth and respect within the city.

In 1759, when Aveline was but a child, her mother, Jeanne, mysteriously vanished after she let go of her hand in pursuit of a loose chicken. After failing to catch the animal after chasing it for quite a distance, Aveline realized that she had stumbled across a slave auction. Shortly after observing the slave trader, she used the alleyways to evade the sight of the slavers surrounding the stage and seek out her mother, only to reach out and touch the wrong woman carrying the same parasol in an identical dress to her mother's. The mistake roused the attention of the city guards, and despite her cries for her mother, Aveline was pushed to the ground by the slavers, who had mistaken her for a slave child. Shortly afterwards, an escaped slave by the name of Agaté freed her from their possession, and became her mentor in the Assassin Order.

She was raised with care and privilege, even after her mother mysteriously vanished, and after her father had remarried with Madeleine de l'Isle. As she grew, she became an opponent of slavery, with her father's love, wealth and status protecting her from repercussions.

The Company Man

During a mission in 1777, while looking for the identity of "The Company Man", she encountered the Native American Assassin, Ratonhnhaké:ton.

Legacy

Her life was later used as a tool of propaganda by Abstergo Industries, which twisted and mounted her memories in order to show the Templars as a benevolent Order as opposed to a misguided Assassin's Brotherhood. But an unknown hacker managed to crack the code used by the Templars to show the truth to some viewers, by among others examples, revealing unsweetened memories of Aveline about the cruelty of de Ferrer against the slaves of the Chichen Itza camp or the additional memories of Madeleine assassination after the seemingly rallying of de Grandpré to the Templars.

Equipment and skills

Aveline was a skilled free-runner, who was able to navigate with ease through the urban cityscape and natural landscape, such as the Bayou.

Her fighting style included dual-wielding various weapons, including a whip, firearms, swords, knives, a blowpipe, a sugar-cane machete and Hidden Blades.

Aside from her weapons, Aveline possessed three disguises that she could make use of. Her Assassin outfit aided in combat and navigation, though it made her notorious, her Servant outfit allowed her to blend into the poorer masses of New Orleans and remain undetected, and finally, her Aristocrat outfit made Aveline highly noticeable, but it allowed her to use charm and bribery to achieve her goals. Along with her Aristocrat outfit came a parasol designed by her friend and ally, Gerald Blanc, that had the ability to shoot small projectiles from its tip.

Accompanying this, Aveline possessed the sixth sense casually referred to as Eagle Vision, allowing her to identify enemies, allies, hiding spots and targets of immediate importance.

Personality and characteristics

"I move unseen and strike when they least expect it. I am Aveline de Grandpré. I am an Assassin."

―Aveline.

As she grew, Aveline developed into a strong-willed young woman, who began to notice the contrasts within society; such as freedom and enslavement, or wealth and poverty. She was torn between the different values that she had inherited from her parents, and as such, she formed her own, which included a vehement stance against slavery.

As a consequence of her being pulled in either direction by the Assassins and Templars, she questioned whether fighting as an Assassin was the right thing to do or not. While in New York, she asked her fellow Assassin, Ratonhnhaké:ton if he ever questioned their ideals; he responded without taking side with either faction, but rather explained that he trusted in his own abilities to distinguish right from wrong.

Trivia

• Aveline is the first female protagonist in the Assassin's Creed series, and one of two playable characters to wear a hat instead of the symbolic white hood of the Assassins (the other being Haytham Kenway), though it retained a beak-shaped tip.
• "Aveline" is a name of French and Latin origin, presumably originating from the Germanic name "Avelina." In Latin, "Aveline" derives from the Latin "avis" or "bird".
• "Grandpré" is a French surname meaning "grand meadow."
• Aveline possessed a scar on her upper lip, identical to that of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and Desmond Miles, despite not having any known connections to them.
• While concept art depicts Aveline as having green eyes, they appear to be dark brown in the actual game.
• Unknown until the conclusion of the game, Aveline possessed an amulet identical to the key that the Assassin, Ratonhnhaké:ton, retrieved from Charles Lee and buried in the grave of his Mentor's son in 1783. It is unknown as to its location following the events of Liberation.
• It is implied that Aveline was a close descendant of Eve; after her stepmother, Madeleine de l'Isle, failed to activate a device left behind by Those Who Came Before using the amulet Aveline wore around her neck, she was successful in generating a hologram of The First Civilization's representatives: Juno, Minerva, and Jupiter, who spoke of Eve in their conversation before the hologram ended.

Gallery

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  Concept art of Aveline.
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  Aveline on a rooftop.
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  Aveline, bribing a guard using her Aristocrat outfit.
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  Aveline swimming underwater.
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  In-game image of Aveline fighting Spanish soldiers.
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  In-game image of Aveline in her Lady attire.
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  Early concept art of Aveline.
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  Aveline's Aristocrat outfit.
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  Aveline's Servant guise.

References

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