Canadian Brotherhood of Assassins
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The Canadian Brotherhood of Assassins was the branch of Assassins located in Canada.
History[edit | edit source]
Early presence[edit | edit source]
In 1609, the French Assassin Margaux arrived in Labrador with the original Shroud of Eden after leaving France during the Labourd witch-hunt.[1]
Creation of a network[edit | edit source]
- Main article: American Brotherhood of Assassins
By 1740, the French Assassin Council tasked the French-Acadian Assassin John de la Tour to build an intelligence network in North America. During his mission, de la Tour came to suspect that the region housed numerous Isu artifacts and sites and made it his priority to find them before the Templars. While traveling in Norfolk, Virginia, de la Tour met the former West Indies Assassin Achilles Davenport, who had been tasked by his Mentor Ah Tabai to establish a new Brotherhood in North America. Even if the two did not like each other at first, they decided to work together.[2]
In May 1744, they went to Quebec in search of Mathieu Léveillé, a slave suspected of possessing valuable information regarding the Isu. However, the Assassins learned that Léveillé had passed away from an illness the year prior, but also discovered that the government had arranged a marriage between Mathieu and Angélique-Denise, though the ceremony never took place. As she was put up for slave auction, de la Tour bought the rights to Angélique-Denise and freed her. Achilles learned from her that Léveillé was able to share his Precursor knowledge before his death and that her chosen name was Abigail. Achilles later married her.[3]
In May 1745, the two Assassins and Abigail went to Louisbourg to locate the safe house of Nicolas Court, a Hermeticist who de la Tour believed possessed valuable information regarding Isu temples. When they arrived, they learned that the British were preparing to siege the city. To give time to the Davenports to find the safe house, de la Tour decided to engage the British troops, though not before bestowing upon Achilles his robes and the title of Mentor. While de la Tour died during the battle, Achilles and Abigail found the safe house, which contained only a note with the words "SEEK OUT THE SKY WOMAN".[4]
In 1746, Achilles officially founded the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins. While their headquarters was in Massachusetts, the Brotherhood expanded its reach to British and French Canada. They had allies among the French and the natives, even recruiting the French Naval commander Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye and the Wolastoqiyik warrior Kesegowaase into their ranks. The gang led by the Assassin Hope Jensen established one of its headquarters in Halifax, which served as a bureau for the Brotherhood in the region.[5]
Seven Years' War[edit | edit source]
In January 1752, de la Vérendrye, accompanied by the Assassins Liam O'Brien and Shay Cormac, went to meet the smuggler crew of the Morrigan in Port-Menier near Anticosti Island. While Liam and Shay were hunting, the Royal Navy attacked de la Vérendrye's ship, the Gerfaut, capturing his smuggler allies. After Liam and Shay returned, the latter got into a brief fight with de la Vérendrye before the three Assassins rescued the captive smugglers. Assuming command of the Morrigan, Shay then sailed to the Gerfaut's rescue, sinking the British ships attacking it. With that, the Assassins returned to the Davenport Homestead.[6]
In April, the three Assassins met again at Port la Joye on Prince Edward's Island. As the group was searching for the Voynich manuscript and a Precursor box that had been stolen by the Templars, they sailed to Anticosti Island to meet their ally, a French spy known as Le Chasseur, who informed them that Lawrence Washington had the artifacts.[7] Shay ultimately assassinated Washington in Mount Vernon three months later, but failed to recover the artifacts.[8]
By April 1754, the Assassins were searching for the Templar Samuel Smith, who had been given the Precursor box by Washington two years prior. Shay, Liam and de la Vérendrye met with Le Chasseur at St. John's, where the spy informed them that Smith's ship, the Equitas, had just returned from Europe. Before the Assassins left, Le Chasseur also gave Puckle guns to equip the Morrigan. With the guns, Shay, Liam and de la Vérendrye easily defeated the Equitas in battle, forcing Smith to beach his ship on Terra Nova, where Shay killed him and recovered the box.[9]
During the Seven Years' War, Shay, who had since betrayed the Assassins and allied with the Colonial Templars, prevented the Brotherhood from assassinating various targets. On the Île des Pins, he saved the British spy Randall Gordon from Assassin-affiliated gang members sent to kill him.[10] Similarly, in St. Anthony, Shay stopped the Assassins from killing their undercover agent Rachel Plourde, who was suspected of betrayal.[11] In Percé, the Brotherhood targeted the businessman David Borgen, who was providing goods to the Templars, but Shay protected him.[12] When their former supplier Philippe Beaubien began to work with the British, the Assassins tried to kill him to prevent him from divulging secret information, but Shay saved him.[13] In Le Bras-du-Seigneur, the hunter Conan Brown was targeted due to providing furs to the Templars and not the Brotherhood, but he too was protected by Shay.[14]
In June 1758, the West Indies Assassin Adéwalé supported the French Navy aboard the Experto Crede during the Siege of Louisbourg. Although he sent fireships on the Royal Navy, his tactics were foiled by Shay, who captained the HMS Pembroke. As his ship took damage, the Assassin was forced to retreat.[15]
Later, while refitting his ship on the Île des Pins, Adéwalé was targeted by Shay and the Colonial Templars' Grand Master Haytham Kenway, who used the Morrigan's armaments to damage the Experto Crede, forcing the Assassin to beach his ship in Vieille Carrière to save his crew. There, Adéwalé was confronted by Haytham, who distracted him long enough for Shay to sneak upon the Assassin and end his life.[16]
The Colonial Brotherhood's influence decreased as Shay took over their gang headquarters, including the one in Halifax, and captured various French forts for the British Army.[17] The Assassin ships the Storm Fortress, the Sceptre, and the Argonaut engaged the Morrigan in battle but were ultimately sunk by the Templar vessel.[18]
By 1760, Achilles Davenport, Liam O'Brien, and the Chevalier de la Vérendrye were the last high-ranking members of the Colonial Brotherhood. While Achilles and Liam launched an expedition to an Isu temple in the Arctic Ocean they had found, de la Vérendrye served as a distraction, leaving a false map in Anticosti's fort for the Templars.[19] In the North Atlantic sea, the Assassin ambushed the Morrigan with the Gerfaut but was ultimately killed by Shay.[20]
Not long after, Liam would perish during a confrontation with Shay inside the Arctic Temple, while Achilles was defeated by Haytham Kenway. At Shay's request, the Mentor was spared, so that he could warn other Assassins about the danger of the Seismic Temples, though the rest of the Brotherhood was not shown the same mercy.[21] Most of the Assassins in North America were wiped out by the Templars in a three-year-long purge, causing the Brotherhood's presence in Canada to fade for over a decade.[22]
American Revolution[edit | edit source]
During the American Revolution, the Assassins' presence in Canada rose again thanks to the Kanien'kehá:ka Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, Achilles Davenport's apprentice who worked to rebuild the Colonial Brotherhood. In 1774, when the Quebec Act passed, incorporating part of the Ohio territory to the Quebec Province, Ratonhnhaké:ton sent his Assassin apprentices to the region to prevent the Canadians from being hauled into a war they did not ask for.[23]
In 1775, with the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the Assassins operated during the Canadian campaign. When the Continental Army besieged Fort St-Jean, the Assassins prevented the British Major Guy Carleton from arriving to relieve the siege.[24] On 31 December, the Assassins stopped the attack on Quebec by the Continental troops of Richard Montgomery.[25] In June 1776, the Assassins protected the city of Trois-Rivières from the Continental forces of William Thompson who wanted to liberate the Province without the permission of its citizens.[26]
Later on, the Assassins began an investigation into the Templar influence in Quebec and Montreal, during which they found out that Montreal's harbor had fallen into Templar hands. The Assassins then made sure that the designers of the Templar plans were dealt with.[27][28]
In 1776, aboard the Aquila, Ratonhnhaké:ton and Robert Faulkner secured the trade routes to Louisbourg that were attacked by British privateers.[29] During these missions, the Assassins sank the Prospector and protected a fleet that destroyed a gunpowder stock.[30][31] That same year, the two Assassins sailed to the Northwest Passage to recover a part of William Kidd's treasure map. Ratonhnhaké:ton found the frozen Octavius, the ship of Hendrick van der Heul, and claimed the map just before the vessel sank in the cold water.[32]
Resistance against the Château Clique[edit | edit source]
By the 19th century, the Assassins were organized in their own Brotherhood in Canada. In 1832, the journalist and secret Assassin Ludger Duvernay posted several articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique, the leaders of the Templars at the time. The Assassins financed him, hoping to expose the government's connections to the Templars.[33]
A few weeks later, Duvernay was arrested and imprisoned on charges of spreading false information, and the Clique even rallied the public against him. However, the Assassins quickly freed Duvernay from jail. After his release, Duvernay founded the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, hoping to spiritually unify Quebec and gain independence from Canada.[33]
On 24 June 1834, Duvernay hosted a soirée for his secret society, the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, to rally against their enemies. However, a Templar agent infiltrated the party posing as a violist, and killed one of Duvernay's allies, only to be knocked out by Larose, one of Duvernay's associates.[34]
Modern times[edit | edit source]
By 2012, an Assassin cell led by Janice operated in Whistler. Sometime that year, Janice rescued activist Susan Drayton from police custody after she had been arrested for breaking into a water supply plant in Prince George and stealing a sample of New Fluoride. Janice convinced Susan to join the Assassins, telling her that she believed the Brotherhood should have a strong connection to nature.[35]
Later, Susan attempted to steal a ship, the Altaïr II, in order to chase Japanese whalers, but was stopped by Assassin Gavin Banks, who intended to make the ship a mobile headquarters for the Brotherhood, despite not knowing how to pilot a ship. Drayton and Banks came to an agreement to work together, with Drayton as the captain of the ship.[35]
On 12 September 2012, Janice called Gavin and requested more Assassins to assist her, since she had only two others in her cell. However, after Gavin promised Janice he would do what he could, a team of Templar agents led by Daniel Cross attacked the Assassins' hideout.[36]
Despite this, at least one of the Assassins survived and made contact with Adriano Maestranzi, the Assassin leader of a Florentine cell. In his correspondence with William Miles, which Maestranzi disguised with business terms, the survivor "left Whistler because he didn't want to be 'buried' in work there, like his colleagues."[37] Maestranzi e-mailed William again three days later, saying that the survivor's description of the man who led the Templar attack in Whistler fit that of "the guy who deceived a certain 'CEO' of [theirs], some 12 years ago", and that Maestranzi hoped to learn more during his meeting with the survivor the next day.[38]
Members[edit | edit source]
- 19th century
- Modern times
Allies and puppets[edit | edit source]
- American Revolution
- Clipper Wilkinson (Colonial Brotherhood)
- Deborah Carter (Colonial Brotherhood)
- Duncan Little (Colonial Brotherhood)
- Jacob Zenger (Colonial Brotherhood)
- Jamie Colley (Colonial Brotherhood)
- Ratonhnhaké:ton (Colonial Brotherhood)
- Stephane Chapheau (Colonial Brotherhood)
- 19th Century
- Modern times
- Gavin Banks (American Brotherhood)
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
- Assassin's Creed: Initiates
- Assassin's Creed III (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Identity (appears in deleted scene(s) only) (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed: Rogue
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