Tripoli
Tripoli is the capital city of Libya.
History[edit | edit source]
Renaissance[edit | edit source]
In 1511, Tripoli had been conquered by the Spanish Army, led by Pedro Navarro. The Ottoman Assassins came seeking his expertise in weaponry and explosives,[1] and returned to investigate his apparent kidnapping.[2] After rescuing him from the Templars, Navarro revealed that the Templars in Tripoli were being commanded from Rhodes.[3]
The Assassins subsequently cut off the Templars' supply and communication lines,[3] and eventually expelled them from the city, allowing them to increase their own influence in the area by installing several Assassin Dens.[4] After learning that the Knights of St. John were fortifying their position in Tripoli by building new fortifications and castles, the Assassins infiltrated the workforce and modified the structures to allow the Brotherhood easy access to the buildings in the future.[5]
Ottoman era[edit | edit source]
In 1796, the United States and the Ottoman province of Tripoli signed a treaty, protecting Americans sailing in the Mediterranean Sea from their privateers. The treaty included a clause mentioning that religious differences between the two countries were no reason for them to go to war.[6]
In 1805, the Black Cross Solomon Bolden and his ally Jan van der Graff traveled to Tripoli, where they both sought to retrieve the Koh-i-Noor from Sultan Selim III's palace. At a tavern, the pair learned about a secret underground tunnel leading into the palace from Edmund, a marine deserter, and Ahkbar, a shady local. However, while making their way through the tunnel, Bolden and Graff were confronted by soldiers who killed the former and captured the latter after being informed of their intentions by Ahkbar, who was secretly an Assassin and agent of Selim.[7]
Graff was subsequently thrown into the same prison cell as Tavis Olier, the previous Black Cross who had been captured during his own mission to recover the Koh-i-Noor.[8] Over the following three years, Olier trained Graff to become the new Black Cross and, on 29 July 1808, the pair learned about Ahkbar's plans to assassinate the Sultan and steal the Koh-i-Noor. Olier sacrificed himself to allow Graff to escape the dungeon, and the latter confronted Ahkbar, who had poisoned Selim and retrieved the Koh-i-Noor. Overcoming the Piece of Eden's illusions, Graff killed Ahkbar, then deceived the Assassins who came for the artifact by handing them an empty box while he left with the Koh-i-Noor.[9]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed III (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Templars (first appearance)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Demolition Man, Part I"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Demolition Man, Part II"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "The Demolition Man, Part III"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense: "From The Ground Up"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Shaun Hastings' email: "American politics"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars – Issue #07
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars – Issue #08
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars – Issue #09
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