Anthony (Assassin)

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Anthony (born c. 1968) is the last surviving Assassin of a long-defunct Brotherhood cell based in Texas, United States. At some point, Anthony became a double agent, working secretly for the Templars and Abstergo, though his loyalty to the Templar cause is faulty, being driven by a desire for a world without the Assassin-Templar War. In 2016, with the Crew landing in the city of Houston for a mission to retrieve a Shard of Eden, Anthony began monitoring the group, planning to help them until he earned enough trust to exploit them and take the Sword of Mars for himself.

Biography

After the Crew was ambushed by over two dozen Abstergo agents at their motel, Anthony appeared and helped them deal with the soldiers before getting the group into his pickup truck and going full throttle towards the Mexico border, aiming for a small aerodrome near the Laguna Madre where he'd kept a working plane. After hours of driving and avoiding some Abstergo SUVs, they arrived at the airfield and escaped to England with the Shard of Eden in hand.

Watching over the Crew while they relived a few genetic memories searching for the Sword of Eden's location, Anthony managed to discover hints to it after hearing a prophecy given by Amelia Fairchild, leader of the Descendants of the Round Table during the Victorian era, interpreting that the pyramid mentioned was the stage at the Glastonbury Festival. Upon this discovery, Anthony stole the sword pommel from the group and fled their headquarters, but not without revealing their location to force of Abstergo agents. Anthony arrived at the festival and located the stone ring that had also been mentioned by Amelia, where he raised the pommel and caused it to resonate with the stones, revealing a holographic map guiding towards a temple submerged under the Avalon Marshes nearby. He reached the location and unsealed the temple but was chased by the Crew into the sword's chamber, where he was defeated.

Behind the scenes

When being introduced in the Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game, the sourcebook prompts a way to give Anthony a more involved background by making him the descendant of Mordred and plagued by portentous visions leading him to work with and later betray both the Assassins and the Templars in order to achieve his goals of an Avalon reborn.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History