History Characters / AssassinsCreedHistoricalAssassins

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* BadassGrandpa: His assassinations of Alexander Nevsky and Hülegü Khan occurred in his 50s.

A Persian Assassin in the fifth century BCE who killed Xerxes the Great, who was supported by the Templars.

A Babylonian Assassin who lived during the fourth century BCE. She killed UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat with poison.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: According to ''Origins'' isn't actually a member of the Assassin order but was retroactively added to their ranks like Darius.

A Chinese Assassin who lived during the third century BC. He killed the Templar-supported Emperor [[UsefulNotes/QinShiHuangdi Qin Shi Huang]].

A Roman Senator and Assassin in the first century BCE, Brutus was assigned to plan the assassination of Consul UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, who was being manipulated by the Templars. Plagued by visions of a cavern throughout his life, he discovered them beneath Rome, which was the location of Juno's Temple.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Is given visions of the [[WhileRomeBurns Burning of Rome]] after discovering the Colosseum Vault.
* DrivenToSuicide: He killed himself after the Assassins were forced to leave Rome and his army was defeated. His fellow Assassins tried to use The Shroud to bring him back to life, but all it did was reanimate his body for a few minutes, with him saying nothing, before dying again.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The fact that he could interact with First Civilization technology indicates that he had traces of First Civilization DNA.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: ''Brotherhood'' and the wider lore wholeheartedly embrace the HollywoodHistory notion that Brutus killed Caesar to preserve the Roman Republic and prevent the Empire embracing the GoodRepublicEvilEmpire context. In truth, the Roman Republic was a corrupt oligarchy that brutally murdered reformers, Brutus himself as per Creator/{{Cicero}} was a corrupt LoanShark who extorted high interest loans from the poor and sent goons to torture them to make them pay up, and his assassination and betrayal of Caesar happened not because he was becoming a King but because his reforms, such as redistributing public land to veterans and other initiatives, were taking effect and becoming permanent.
* KnifeNut: The Dagger of Brutus, which he used to kill Caesar and was later recovered by Ezio Auditore.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He is horrified after killing Caesar, who had only stopped resisting the attack when he saw Brutus approaching. His shame caused him to hide away his armor and weapon in a secret vault under Rome.

A Egyptian Assassin who killed UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII in the first century BC.

* ActionGirl: Had no problems getting her hands dirty.
* AncientTomb: Her tomb was located in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, Italy.
* AnimalAssassin: Used an asp to kill Cleopatra.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: She killed Cleopatra with a snake.

* MeaningfulName: She shares a name with the Egyptian goddess of air and invisibility. The name means "the female hidden one" or "one who is hidden".
* ProfessionalKiller: Like most Assassins.

[[folder:Leonius]]
!!Leonius
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A Roman Assassin in the first century who killed Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}.

* AncientTomb: His tomb is located in the Santa Maria della Visitazione in Venice, Italy.
* InTheHood: How his statues depict him.
* KnifeNut: Was particularly skilled with knives.
* LongDeadBadass: Is long dead by Ezio's time.
* ProfessionalKiller: Like most Assassins.

!Post Classical Assassins

[[folder:Aquilus]]
!!Aquilus

A Gallo-Roman member of the Assassins who lived during the 3rd Century based in Lugdunum (modern day Lyon, France), who came in contact with one of the Ankhs, and the oldest known ancestor of Desmond Miles.

* DualWielding: His artwork depicts him using what appears to be a spatha and gladius in each hand.
* LongDeadBadass: As he happens to be Desmond's earliest known ancestor, this is a given.
* SlashedThroat: Gets his throat slit by Roman soldiers after they panic following Accipiter's attempt to rescue him.
* ThemeNaming: Aquilus is Latin for "eagle."

[[folder:Accipiter]]
!!Accipiter
!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus''

An Aleman Assassin and general who happened to be the cousin of Aquilus.
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* InTheHood: Like most Assassins he wore a hood.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Is very skilled with a bow.
* ThemeNaming: Accipiter is Latin for "hawk."
* ThickerThanWater: Despite being on opposite sides of the Roman-Alemanni conflict, he still looks after his cousin and even makes a deal with him to spare Lugdunum from getting sacked by his forces, as well as attempting to rescue him and his wife from the Romans.
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A Egyptian Assassin who killed UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII in the first century BC. [[spoiler:''Origins'' reveals her to be Aya]].

A Egyptian Assassin who killed UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII in the first century BC.

* YouNoTakeCandle: It takes him some time to get to grasps with Italian. It makes romance difficult when what he tries to take comes out mangled.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being saved by both Qulan Gal and Darim during their assassination of Ghenghis Khan, he isn't mentioned at all within ''The Secret Crusade'', though the second issue of ''Assassin's Creed: Reflections'' has him being rescued during

* IllKillYou: Said as much to Anto in a letter, if the other Assassin came anywhere near Saint-Domingue.

* NoSympathy: Shows none for anyone who doesn't share his views, whether they be Assassin or Templars.

* BrokenPedestal: Towards the French Assassins and the French Revolution, since Napoleon plans to renege on abolitionism and reinstitute slavery in the colonies(which he did do in other places, but not Haiti).
* FullCircleRevolution: Feels this way about the Haitian Revolution and the Assassin cause. Despite winning independence and ending slavery, the new Haiti still suffers from class divisions, Toussaint L'Ouverture is killed in France and Jean-Jacques Dessalines transforms the nation into a tyranny. In the end, Eseosa [[spoiler: visits Connor at the Davenport Homestead in 1804 at his invitation, vowing to return to get revenge on Dessalines[[note]]Dessalines would be assassinated in 1806, in the AC verse likely by Eseosa's hand.[[/note]].]]

* FullCircleRevolution: Feels this way about the Haitian Revolution and the Assassin cause. Despite winning independence and ending slavery, the new Haiti still suffers from class divisions, Toussaint L'Ouverture is killed in France and Jean-Jacques Dessalines transforms the nation into a tyranny. In the end, Eseosa [[spoiler: visits Connor at the Davenport Homestead in 1804 at his invitation, vowing to return to revenge on Dessalines[[note]]Dessalines would be assassinated in 1806, in the AC verse likely by Eseosa's hand.[[/note]].]]

* ItsPersonal: The Yongle Emperor was responsible for a purge that killed numerous Assassins, including her parents and Fang Xiaoru, the leader of the Chinese Brotherhood at the time.

* FamedInStory: She is regarded by the Assassin Order as one of their greatest members. The Mentor in 2000 even has a statue of her in his office. In one level of Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, as Arbaaz Mir is sneaking through Afghanistan, he can find hidden messages with Eagle Vision written by her as she plans to kill Alexander the Great.

[[folder: Darius]]

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[[folder: Wei Yu]]

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[[folder: Qulan Gal]]

!!!Appearances: ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

* TheApprentice: To Qulan Gal.

* BraidsOfBarbarism: His hair happens to be tied up in braids, and he happens to be a Mongol, who are often associated with barbarism.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being saved by both Qulan Gal and Darim during their assassination of Ghenghis Khan, he isn't mentioned at all within ''The Secret Crusade.''
* {{Revenge}}: Assassinated Hülegü Khan for the siege of Maysaf, and his original motivation for taking on the Mongol Empire was because his father died at the Battle of Kalka River in 1223 due to being conscripted by Genghis Khan.

[[folder: Dante Alighieri]]

[[folder: Marco Polo]]

[[folder: Domenico Auditore]]

[[folder: Lukas Zurburg]]

[[folder: Francois Mackandal]]

[[folder: Eseosa]]

[[folder: Ludger Duvernay]]

* CombatPragmatist: He likes [[IShallTauntYou taunting]] his adversaries to distract them.
* TookALevelInJerkass: ''Something'' happened in-between 1515 and 1516 that made Hiram suddenly become much worse, and turn against the Brotherhood. Not even the Assassins are sure what, but it involved Consus in some way.

A Roman Senator and Assassin in the first century BCE, Brutus was assigned to plan the assassination of Consul Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar, who was being manipulated by the Templars. Plagued by visions of a cavern throughout his life, he discovered them beneath Rome, which was the location of Juno's Temple.

* {{Revenge}}: Assassinated Hülegü Khan for the siege of Maysaf, and his original motivation for taking on the Mongol Empire.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He was the first user of the Assassins' iconic hidden blade.

* FamedInStory: She is regarded by the Assassin Order as one of their greatest members. The Mentor in 2000 even has a statue of her in his office. In one level of Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, as Arbaaz Mir is sneaking through Afghanistan, he can find hidden messages with eagle vision written by her as she plans to kill Alexander the Great.

This character page is for historical Assassins who don't fit into the time periods of the games or comics. [[Characters/AssassinsCreed Here's the main index]]. Said Assassins are listed in rough chronological order.

* HalfHumanHybrid: The fact that he could interact with First Civilization technology indicates that he has traces of First Civilization DNA.

* TakeThat: Ezio Auditore and Sofia discuss Literature/TheDivineComedy in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' with Ezio noting that the names cast in Hell are too specific and with Sofia telling him that it was his enemies.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Destroying the Templars public front simply ended up making them more powerful than ever.

An English Assassin who spent time in Italy during the early 1500s. Ancestor of Thomas Stoddard and Charlotte de la Cruz.

[[folder:Ishak Pasha]]
!!Ishak Pasha

An Ottoman general, stateman, Grand Vizier, and a secret Assassin responsible for the assassination of Templar [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] active during the reigns of Ottoman Emperors Mehmet II and Bayezid II. He was also responsible for brokering the peace between the Ottomans and Assassins during the early 16th Century. His armor was later recovered by Ezio under the Hagia Sophia during his visit to Constantinople, having been placed there by the Janissary Murat Bin Husn.

* CoolMask: His armor was equipped with one.
* FourStarBadass: Was an Ottoman General
* TheMentor: Was the Mentor of the Ottoman Assassins and recruited Yusuf Tazim into the Brotherhood.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died the same year Ezio assassinated Savonarola.

[[folder:Tokugawa Ieyasu]]
!!UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu
!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

A high ranking and secret member of the Japanese Assassins, and the third great unifier of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, who would rule Japan until the Meiji Restoration.

* CoolHelmet: Had one with the Assassin insiginia in the center, revealing his Assassin affiliations.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tokugawa Ieyasu is most famous for fully unifying Japan and forming the Tokugawa Shogunate.
* TheMentor: Considering the fact that both Hanzo and Taka took orders from him, it's very likely that he was the local Mentor of the Japanese Assassins.

[[folder:Hattori Hanzō]]
!!UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Mentor of the French Assassins, and a total {{Badass}}.

* {{Badass}}: So much so that he was considered one of the greatest samurai in Japan.

* {{Badass}}: In the resulting duel caused by Louis-Joseph d'Albert de Luynes misogynistic comments she managed to defeat him and three other Assassins, stabbing the former through the shoulder.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: His associations with the Assassins. Not much is known since he's a posthumous character but the real Guillaume while not without positive attributes issued laws to persecute French Jews and steal their property.

A Chinese Assassin who lived during the third century BC. He killed the Templar-supported Emperor [[QinShiHuangdi Qin Shi Huang]].