History Characters / AssassinsCreedICrusadersAndSaracens

* TheCynic: He doesn't have a very high opinion of human nature, and his views come very close to the Templars philosophy, although he is disgusted by their methods.

* TheGoodKing: Is one of the few leaders in history that had no allegiance to either the Assassins or Templars, and was honorable and straightforward in his goals. In the novelization, Altaïr quickly recognizes Richard as a good leader.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: He recruited everybody into the Templars, from Christians to Muslims to [[spoiler:Assassins]], and even had Maria as his right-hand woman. Notably, she lost all her status in the Templar Order after Robert was killed, indicating this acceptance of women was unique to him in the Templar Order at the time.

* JustYouAndMeAndMyGuards: Instead of fighting Altaïr directly in the TrialByCombat set up by King Richard in the end, he first sicks a TON of his men against him.

* ArcherArchetype: Averted, while he uses a bow he is not calm, methodical etc.

* ProperlyParanoid: His paranoia might be over-the-top, but it's caused by his fear of the Assassins, who really can appear from nowhere, kill him, and then disappear like ghosts... and by this point, have already done so to some of his close allies in spite of their security. Since he's an atheist and doesn't believe in the [[CessationOfExistence afterlife]], it's perfectly reasonable that he's scared shitless of everything white and hoody.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: When Altaïr arrives in Acre's middle district, he finds out that Sibrand has been commandeering all the docks and boats, violently if necessary. It turns out that this was to create a blockade by sea to prevent reinforcements from reaching either side of the Crusade and thus closing the war. [[spoiler:It would have also prevented anyone from stopping the Templars' plan to "free" the Holy Land from the "tyranny of faith".]]

* EvilBrit: Though even Altaïr begins to question the evil part, he's still [[MeanBrit a mean SOB.]] Though he sounds British, Montferrat is in Italy.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Richard clearly despise each other, and Richard suspects he is plotting something, but they still work together publicly for the good of the crusade. William intends to make sure that there is no place for Richard in the Templars OneWorldOrder.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: All that food stealing and brutal discipline is prep work for the Templar's "New World"; food rationing and discipline.

* AxCrazy: You get the idea that this guy is completely insane when he orders executions on random people [[ForTheEvulz just for simple kicks]] and [[AGodAmI to make himself feel like a god.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to his party guests. During the party, he starts with a typical "welcome speech" before going this route. With it, he accuses the guests for their arrogance, their greed, their hatred for the Crusaders, their lack of love, compassion and mercy and their support to Saladin, which he claims are the reasons why the war still is ongoing.

* VillainousGlutton: All that food and that big belly while he plots mass murder.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In his party speech he talks about this trope; how violent and divided the world currently is and how he's going to take drastic action to create a new world. Cue his party guests dying of poison.

* ArcherArchetype: One of his men says he killed a a whole band of bandits by himself just by running to high ground.

* DirtyCoward: This slave driver turns and runs at the first sign of trouble. He does it often enough that a civilian was able to mark the locations of his favorite hiding places.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: A shared belief with the other Templars is that a little DirtyBusiness now (in his case, kidnapping and slavery) is worth it to create a peaceful and orderly world. [[spoiler:However, the kidnapped people will go to Garnier so he can brainwash them into becoming loyal soldiers who obey the Templars.]]

* BadBoss: He executes one of his men for failing to deliver all of the weapons he needed and questioning his judgment, and then left the body in a fountain to send a message to his other subordinates:

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: If the end result is lasting world peace, then killing merchants and smiths who fail to meet their assigned goals is a small price to pay.

* ProperlyParanoid: His paranoia might be over-the-top, but it's caused by his fear of the Assassins, who can appear from nowhere, kill him, and then disappear like ghosts. Since he's an atheist and doesn't believe in the [[CessationOfExistence afterlife]], it's perfectly reasonable that he's scared shitless of everything white and hoody.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: When Altaïr arrives in Acre's middle district, he finds out that Sibrand has been commandeering all the docks and boats, violently if necessary. It turns out that this was to create a blockade by sea to prevent reinforcements from reaching either side of the crusade and thus closing the war. [[spoiler:It would have also prevented anyone from stopping the Templars' plan to "free" the Holy Land from the "tyranny of faith".]]

** In the first scene he appears, he screams accusations and then kills a scholar, just because he wore clothes similar to those of the Assassins -- which ''was'' part of the point of the Assassins wearing the iconic robes. When Altaïr was busy climbing up the ship Sibrand's in, he was busy shooting birds and screaming at his guards for not shooting them as well.
** He thinks the ''birds'' are going to ''attack'' him.

* TheStarscream: He was planning to King Richard, kill him, and hand Acre to "the people", by which, we can assume means "the Templars".

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He believes he helps the people of Acre without realizing he makes their lives harder. He takes the people's food because it could be rationed properly in the future when "The New Order" comes, not knowing he just starves them to death in the here and now.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to his party guests. During the party, he starts with a typical "welcome speech" before going this round. With it, he accuses the guests for their arrogance, their greed, their hatred for the Crusaders, their lack of love, compassion and mercy and their support to Saladin, which he claims are the reasons why the war still is ongoing.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He wears ''purple''; that was damn expensive in this time period.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Averted. He runs while his men fights. Supposedly it's because he is really good with a bow so he wants distance before shooting but gameplay wise he mostly flees and his arrows are as damaging as regular ones.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He thinks he's freeing the people he kidnaps from the harsh life of the streets, not knowing that kidnapping people against their own will is not good. It's possible that based on his knowledge of where the kidnapped are going he may not have known exactly what Garnier was doing with them.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He thinks that books hinder the people's individualism and that they just make them believe in false things without questioning them. He also believes that holy books such as Literature/TheBible and Literature/TheQuran are the reasons why the world is filled with war and hate. That's why he does everything in his power to burn those books so that they won't "infect people's minds."

* VillainHasAPoint: He justifies the book burning by saying that books are only as trustworthy as their authors and some authors may be incorrect, incomplete, or outright liars. He also says that "our ancestors wrote these books" is not an objective claim to their merit. However, burning all books indiscriminately and burning ''people'' who disagree is clearly crossing a line.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: When Altaïr arrives in Acre's middle district, he finds out that Sibrand has been commandeering all the docks and boats, violently if necessary. It turns out that this was to create a blockade to prevent reinforcements from reaching either side of the crusade and thus closing the war. [[spoiler:It would have also prevented anyone from stopping the Templars' plan to "free" the Holy Land from the "tyranny of faith".]]

* CulturePolice: He believes that the culture of the ancestors is outdated at best and deliberately misleading at worst. He is an extremely lethal example in that he burns another scholar when they protest the burning. [[spoiler:In reality, he likely did this to replace all texts with ones written by the Templars.]]

* TheGhost: He never makes an appearance, he is only mentioned several times in cutscenes through the first game and ''all the damn time'' by spokesmen who boast about his exploits in Damascus and Jerusalem.

* TheGhost: He never makes an appearance, he is only mentioned several times in cutscenes through the first game and ''all the damn time'' by town criers in Damascus and Jerusalem.

* KnightTemplar: Jubair's Templar-ism is probably the most true to the trope (aside from the [[spoiler:final villains]]). His belief that books are a tool to poison the mind and the destruction of such things will mean people will no longer be controlled by them falls into line with the notion that information begets manipulation (of course as true with the trope, Jubair's efforts only seek to manipulate in another way). [[spoiler:This becomes a form of hypocrisy since he had the books burned to have them replaced with ones written by the Templars as a way to control the masses.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: All the book burning is meant to create a world free of misleading information so that people can see the world as it truly is instead of how a long-dead author ''wants'' them to see it. [[spoiler:Then again, his true mission was to have all texts written by the Templars replace all books as a way to control the masses.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Averted. Utopia is the last thing he cares about.

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* FriendlyEnemy: He treats Altaïr rather politely upon meeting him, considering that Altaïr was responsible for the death of several of his top men. [[spoiler:He even has a philosophical discussion with Altaïr on the nature of mankind and lets him go after Altaïr exposes Robert's treachery and kills him]].

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An ambitious individual introduced in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', Haras was originally an Assassin apprentice, but he got dissatisfied with his slow progression through the Assassin ranks. He defected to the Templars in 1189, leading a sneak attack against Masyaf to capture and kill Al Mualim.

The Grand Master of the Templars after the death of Robert de Sablé, introduced in ''Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines''. He oversaw the withdrawal of the Templars from the Holy Land to the island of Cyprus, where he was pursued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.

A knight guard of the Templars tasked with training Templars at Limassol Castle on Cyprus. He was introduced in ''Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines''

A religious zealot associated with the Templars. He rules over a fiefdom in the city of Kyrenia on the island of Cyprus. He was introduced in ''Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines''.

The twin sons of Moloch. They were introduced in ''Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines''.

!!An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, aka Saladin

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-->'''Voiced By:''' Ammar Daraiseh

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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: A world without mental illness is certainly worth kidnapping, experimenting and breaking the legs of his patients, right? [[spoiler: His true goal however, was to brainwash enough people to create an army of completely obedient soldiers for the Templars.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: When Altaïr arrives in Acre's middle district, he finds out that Sibrand has been commandeering all the docks and boats, violently if necessary. It turns out that this was to create a blockade to prevent reinforcements from reaching either side of the crusade and thus closing the war. [[spoiler: It would have also prevented anyone from stopping the Templars' plan to "free" the Holy Land from the "tyranny of faith".]]

* TheCaligula: He rules over Acre with an iron fist, seizing food and supplies from them, while also executing thousands of prisoners of war. [[spoiler: His goal, however, was to store the food he stole for whenever there is a famine and he brutalized his soldiers (who are actually Garnier's brainwashed patients) as a way to train them.]]

* EatTheRich: The true purpose of his grand party; thinking that the Saracen nobles are just a bunch of greedy, selfish and hateful fanatics who do nothing but oppress and leech off the poor and the unfortunate, he uses his grand party as a trap in which he can kill all of them in one go. [[spoiler: He would then send the money to the Templars to finance their New World Order.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: A shared belief with the other Templars is that a little DirtyBusiness now (in his case, kidnapping and slavery) is worth it to create a peaceful and orderly world. [[spoiler: However, the kidnapped people will go to Garnier so he can brainwash them into becoming loyal soldiers who obey the Templars.]]

* ArmsDealer: A black market dealer in weapons and he sells to both sides of the Third Crusade. [[spoiler: This is because the brainwashed army that will work for the Templars will be composed of both Saracens and Crusaders alike.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: When Altaïr arrives in Acre's middle district, he finds out that Sibrand has been commandeering all the docks and boats, violently if necessary. It turns out that this was to create a blockade to prevent reinforcements from reaching either side of the crusade and thus closing the war. [[spoiler: It would have also prevented anyone from stopping the Templars plan to "free" the Holy Land from the "tyranny of faith".]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: When Altaïr arrives in Acre's middle district, he finds out that Sibrand has been commandeering all the docks and boats, violently if necessary. It turns out that this was to create a blockade to prevent reinforcements from reaching either side of the crusade and thus closing the war.

* KnightTemplar: Jubair's Templar-ism is probably the most true to the trope (aside from the [[spoiler:final villains]]). His belief that books are a tool to poison the mind and the destruction of such things will mean people will no longer be controlled by them falls into line with the notion that information begets manipulation (of course as true with the trope, Jubair's efforts only seek to manipulate in another way). [[spoiler:This becomes a form of hypocrisy since he most likely had the books burned to have them replaced with ones written by the Templars as a way to control the masses.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: All the book burning is meant to create a world free of misleading information so that people can see the world as it truly is instead of how a long-dead author ''wants'' them to see it. [[spoiler:Then again, it could be that his true mission was to have all texts written by the Templars replace all books as a way to control the masses.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: A world without mental illness is certainly worth kidnapping, experimenting and breaking the legs of his patients, right?

* TheCaligula: He rules over Acre with an iron fist, seizing food and supplies from them, while also executing thousands of prisoners of war.

* EatTheRich: The true purpose of his grand party; thinking that the Saracen nobles are just a bunch of greedy, selfish and hateful fanatics who do nothing but oppress and leech off the poor and the unfortunate, he uses his grand party as a trap in which he can kill all of them in one go. He would then send the money to the Templars to finance their New World Order.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: A shared belief with the other Templars is that a little DirtyBusiness now (in his case, kidnapping and slavery) is worth it to create a peaceful and orderly world.

* ArmsDealer: A black market dealer in weapons and he sells to both sides of the Third Crusade.

* WorldDomination: His ultimate plan is to put the entire world under Templar influence.

Jubair al Hakim is the head of The Illuminated and the Chief Scholar of Damascus. Despite that, he hates any book that exists, believing them to be the sources of all evil in the world, and so he and his men try to burn every book that exists in the city. [[spoiler: He most likely did this to replace all texts with ones written by the Templars.]]

* CulturePolice: He believes that the culture of the ancestors is outdated at best and deliberately misleading at worst. He is an extremely lethal example in that he burns another scholar when they protest the burning. [[spoiler: In reality, he likely did this to replace all texts with ones written by the Templars.]]

* KnightTemplar: Jubair's Templar-ism is probably the most true to the trope (aside from the [[spoiler:final villains]]). His belief that books are a tool to poison the mind and the destruction of such things will mean people will no longer be controlled by them falls into line with the notion that information begets manipulation (of course as true with the trope, Jubair's efforts only seek to manipulate in another way). [[spoiler: This becomes a form of hypocrisy since he most likely had the books burned to have them replaced with ones written by the Templars as a way to control the masses.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: All the book burning is meant to create a world free of misleading information so that people can see the world as it truly is instead of how a long-dead author ''wants'' them to see it. [[spoiler: Then again, it could be that his true mission was to have all texts written by the Templars replace all books as a way to control the masses.]]

* KnightTemplar: Like the others, he's working on the Templar goal of conquest of the Holy Land because only they can ensure peace.

* AGodAmI: Claims to be a god he's dying by Altaïr's hands, specifically that executing people and condemning them as sinners makes him feel like one.

* EatTheRich: The true purpose of his grand party; thinking that the Saracen nobles are just a bunch of greedy, selfish and hateful fanatics who do nothing but oppress and leech off the poor and the unfortunate, he uses his grand party as a trap in which he can kill all of them in one go.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: All the book burning is meant to create a world free of misleading information so that people can see the world as it truly is instead of how a long-dead author ''wants'' them to see it. [[spoilers: Then again, it could be that his true mission was to have all texts written by the Templars replace all books as a way to control the masses.]]

Jubair al Hakim is the head of The Illuminated and the Chief Scholar of Damascus. Despite that, he hates any book that exists, believing them to be the sources of all evil in the world, and so he and his men try to burn every book that exists in the city.

* CulturePolice: He believes that the culture of the ancestors is outdated at best and deliberately misleading at worst. He is an extremely lethal example in that he burns another scholar when they protest the burning.

* KnightTemplar: Jubair's Templar-ism is probably the most true to the trope (aside from the [[spoiler:final villains]]). His belief that books are a tool to poison the mind and the destruction of such things will mean people will no longer be controlled by them falls into line with the notion that information begets manipulation (of course as true with the trope, Jubair's efforts only seek to manipulate in another way).

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: All the book burning is meant to create a world free of misleading information so that people can see the world as it truly is instead of how a long-dead author ''wants'' them to see it.

The Grand Master of the Templar Order in the first game. His goal is to take over the world by using the Pieces of Eden.

Grand Master of UsefulNotes/TheKnightsHospitallers. He performs medicinal experiments on his "patients" in his hospital within the poor district of Acre.

Page for the Crusaders and Saracens of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Assassin's Creed]]''. Also serves for 12th/13th century characters who appeared for the first time in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' and ''Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines''.

[[folder:King Richard I Lionheart of England]]
!![[UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart King Richard I Lionheart of England]]

Page for the Crusaders and Saracens of ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Assassin's Creed]]''.

!!The Saracens