History Characters / AssassinsCreedIITheAssassins

* TheMentor: A strange combination of this and BoisterousBruiser.

* TheMentor: The first of several to Ezio, teaching him how to blend in crowds.

* [[TheSneakyGuy The Sneaky Girl]]: She teaches Ezio how to move silently in crowds and assassinate from them.

!!Other Italian Assassins

Ezio's little sister. After the remaining Auditores flee Firenze, she becomes Monteriggioni's bookkeeper, helping Ezio set up his business empire. [[spoiler: Come ''Brotherhood'' she takes a more direct stance in assisting her brother, managing a Roman brothel and joining the Assassins in full.]]

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: In Brotherhood, she takes on at least three Borgia guards and kills them without taking a scratch.]]

* TheMentor: The first of several to Ezio.

* TheDutifulSon: Family means a great deal to Ezio, and even in his early playboy phase, he's very obedient and deferential to them, even if they can be occasionally embarrassing. He's finally convinced to stay with the Assassins when Mario accuses him of walking away from his father's legacy and he persists in keeping contact and helping her mother to recover, never abandoning her even when Mario seems to have given up.

* TheParagon: He serves as this to the Assassins and Italy in his lifetime and years later. Indeed his actions are set to have brought about and spread TheRenaissance across Europe starting a GoldenAge. It can also be argued that his era was the GoldenAge for the Assassins as a whole.
* PatrickStewartSpeech : Gives two awesome speeches. One at the end of the ''Bonfire of the Vanities'' which is a WorldOfCardbordSpeech and another in his final letter to his wife Sofia, where he tells her that for all his life's troubles, he has nothing but love for her, her children, their brothers and "this vast world that gives us life".

** CulturedBadass: Loves his art and literature.

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: LeonardoDaVinci, Caterina Sforza, Niccolò Machiavelli... that's a handful of people he deals with ''on a daily basis''.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RogerCraigSmith

-->'''Voiced by:''' Ellen David

-->'''Voiced by:''' Elias Toufexis

* BlackCloak: Even during the day, she wears a black set of Assassin robes with a red inner layer.
** DarkIsNotEvil: Despite this, she is a nice person.
* BornIntoSlavery: She was born into being one of the Emperor's concubines. Her mentor saved her from [[SexSlave her]] [[ColdBloodedTorture fate]].

* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears a black set of Assassin robes, but she's a very nice person.
* FlechetteStorm: Keeps six throwing needles under bracers on her arms.
** NothingUpMySleeve: They were concealed under her sleeves.
** Keeping with the pointy-things theme, she also apparently designed [[spoiler: the rope dart]] that Connor uses in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'',

* DenyingTheDeadParentsSins: Subverted. After the initial shock, he accepts the fact that his father was indeed an assassin.

* HandsomeLech: Even during his 20-year RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he still tries to find time for the ladies and is pretty much confirmed to have bedded at least one countess in Forlì... until the Siege of Monteriggioni (begun while in bed with Caterina Sforza), after which he doesn't so much as look at a woman suggestively for the next three years. He eventually settled down with Sofia Sartor, whom he met in Constantinople, fathering Desmond's line in his fifties, though [[http://uk.gamespot.com/ps3/action/assassins-creed-revelations/video/6339000/assassins-creed-revelations-desmonds-ancestry-explained?hd=1 according to]] WordOfGod Ezio has fathered many illegitimate children in his lifetime.

* RedOniBlueOni : His CharacterDevelopment sees him going from a solid Red to his Uncle Mario to a Blue for the Brotherhood as a whole as well as Yusuf Tazim and even Machiavelli himself.
* RetiredBadass: By ''Embers''

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Sure is handy that he picked up French from a couple girls in Florence. Let him get past some guards thirty years later.

** Averted in "Brotherhood" when he [[spoiler:spares Micheletto in order to save the actor. Micheletto does not become a threat from that point on and is arrested off-screen according to his portrait, though his fate is unknown.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Do ''not'' bad-mouth or hurt his little sister.

[[folder: Bartolomeo d'Alviano]]
!!Bartolomeo d'Alviano
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[[caption-width-right:300:My Bianca hungers for more skulls to crush!]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Alex Ivanovici

Assassin and mercenary leader who Ezio rescues in Venice, later becoming a major ally during ''Brotherhood''.

* AttackAttackAttack: What most of his strategies boil down to. Ezio and his wife help him plan some more complex battle plans.

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[[folder: Niccolo Machiavelli]]
!!Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[HistoricalInJoke I intend to write]] [[Literature/ThePrince a book]] about you one day.]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Shawn Baichoo

Fellow Assassin, assisting Ezio during both the Battle of Forlì and the Bonfire of the Vanities and becoming his chief advisor during ''Brotherhood''.

* {{Badass}}
* TheCynic
* FashionableAsymmetry: His ''Brotherhood'' outfit's outermost garment is missing its right sleeve.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His explanation of his cynicism to Ezio is that he merely describes the conditions in Rome as they ''are''.
* KnightInSourArmor: The games don't even try to downplay the cynicism he was famous for in RealLife (i.e. destroy the enemy without mercy and hesitation), yet he fights against the Borgias' tyranny for the people of Rome.
* TheLancer: Willingly becomes this to Ezio during ''Brotherhood''.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Direct example. Ezio's actions tend to screw around with Machiavelli's rather cynical outlook. Eventually thanks to this, Machiavelli steps down as the Roman leader of the Assassins in favor of Ezio.
** [[HistoricalInJoke Funnily enough]], the game's events lead up to Machiavelli writing ''ThePrince'' - the ''actual'' book rather than TheThemeparkVersion, which has him note that yes, the support of the populace is one of the most crucial factors to rule a land and while if you have to choose between being loved or feared, being feared is the safer choice if you can't have both, though you absolutely have to avoid being ''hated''. One of their first conversations even has Machiavelli make an observation ("He who builds on the people is like an architect that builds on sand") that he will reject verbatim in ''The Prince''.
* TheMentor: Ezio's recruits are essentially handed off to Machiavelli for their initial training, and he was probably supervising them when they were not acting as Ezio's personal security detachment.
* TheMole: Suspected of being this by La Volpe -- hence his withholding of the Thieves' Guild's support -- and evidence seems to mount. [[spoiler:He's not. The Borgia guard he accepted a letter from was his own spy in the Borgia regime, who was killed by one of La Volpe's unwitting thieves. The actual mole, another thief, is found later.]]
** The suspicion isn't helped when he appears to have been ineffective of making progress against the Borgia -- having driven away the Thieves' Guild, unable to relieve the pressure on Bartolomeo's army, unable to get the madam of the Rosa in Fiore brothel to actually support the Assassins (a Database entry reveals that she was actually selling out the Assassins to the Church cardinals in the Borgias' pocket), being unaware that both [[spoiler:Caterina Sforza]] and [[spoiler:the Apple of Eden]] were held by the Templars, and otherwise being ''spectacularly'' unprepared for going after Cesare and Rodrigo Borgia. Not helped by the fact that Machiavelli, of all people, is about the'' worst ''person you want for a popular people's revolution.
* WhatTheHellHero: His reaction to Ezio sparing Rodrigo Borgia, causing him to temporarily [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandon Ezio and head to Rome]].
* WorthyOpponent: He gives some kudos to Cesare for how he manages to keep Rome under his iron-fisted rule. A nod to how historically he had good relations with the Borgia, and in particular seemed to admire Cesare in his writing.
** This ends up being part of what casts suspicion on him as TheMole.

[[folder: Antonio de Magianis]]
!!Antonio de Magianis
-->'''Voiced by:''' Carlo Mestroni

The leader of the Venetian Theives Guild and Assassin, he assisted Ezio in fighting the Templar presence in the city.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Leonardo does say "I've been seeing quite a bit of him lately- errr... as mutual friends...".
* [[BadassCape Badass Halfcape]]: Smaller than Ezio's though.
* BadassMustache
* LoveableRogue: He may be a thief, but he has a strict sense of honor and limits his targets to those who deserve it.
* SelfMadeMan: He was born at the bottom of Venetian society, but taught himself to read and write. He then attempted to go to university, but was denied several times due to his low social status. He then disappeared for several years before reemerging as the leader of the Venetian thieves and an Assassin, stealing from some of them men who had denied him access to university due to his class.

[[folder: Perotto Calderon]]
!!Perotto Calderon

A skilled Assassin assigned to spy on the Borgia by serving them as a courier. He is as a viewpoint character in ''Project Legacy''.

* ArcherArchetype: He is renowned for his skill with a bow, and is able to kill many Assassins with it before being killed.
* {{Badass}}: He is easily able to defeat dozens of Borgia guards and other Assassins on his own, while carrying a child, and is only eventually defeated due to his refusal to kill Francesco.
* TheMentor: To Francesco Vecellio. When Francesco joined the Assassins trying to kill Perotto, he allowed himself to be struck down, being unwilling to harm his student.
* TheMole
* PapaWolf: When his child with Lucrezia was born malformed and likely to die within days, Perotto abandoned the Creed and killed his fellow Assassins to find and use the Shroud of Eden to heal Giovanni.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Lucrezia.

[[folder: Giovanni Borgia]]
!!Giovanni Borgia

The bastard child of Perotto Calderon and Lucrezia Borgia in ''Project Legacy''. Was raised to be a prick by his uncle (posing as his father), but later switched sides. Later accompanies Hernan Cortez and his conquistadors to South America.
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* CameBackWrong: The Shroud saved him from death, but left him with severe Bleeding Effect-like symptoms, and "[[HearingVoices Consus]]."
* [[spoiler:HalfHumanHybrid: Giovanni was able to manifest Eagle Vision as a five-year-old child; due to this being strongly implied in ''[=AC2=]'' about Altaïr Ibn La'Ahad and his ancestors, it may be inferred about Giovanni and his father Perotto Calderon]].
* HearingVoices: At times, often in proximity to the Apple of Eden, he saw/heard "Consus," who would tend to give him advice relating to the use of Pieces of Eden, though Consus also interpreted a letter and guided him to joining the Assassins.
* InfantImmortality: All thanks to The Shroud of Eden.
* NamesTheSame: Shares the same first name as Ezio's father. Ironically, he ends up marrying a woman named Maria Amiel, who shares the same first name as Ezio's mother.
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* NaughtyNuns

* ActionGirl
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold

* [[TheSneakyGuy The Sneaky Girl]]

--->'''Duccio:''' ''[recognizes Ezio]'' Le diavolo in persona! ("The devil himself!")

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[[caption-width-right:238:I want to understand, like you do, to help my people.]]

* TheLancer: To Ezio during his stay in Rome.

[[folder: Giovanni Borgia]]
!!Giovanni Borgia

The bastard child of an Assassin and Lucrezia Borgia in ''Project Legacy''. Was raised to be a prick by his uncle (posing as his father), but later switched sides. Later accompanies Hernan Cortez and his conquistadors to South America.

* CameBackWrong: The Shroud saved him from death, but left him with severe Bleeding Effect-like symptoms, and "[[HearingVoices Consus]]."
* [[spoiler:HalfHumanHybrid: Giovanni was able to manifest Eagle Vision as a five-year-old child; due to this being strongly implied in ''[=AC2=]'' about Altaïr Ibn La'Ahad and his ancestors, it may be inferred about Giovanni and his father Perotto Calderon]].
* HearingVoices: At times, often in proximity to the Apple of Eden, he saw/heard "Consus," who would tend to give him advice relating to the use of Pieces of Eden, though Consus also interpreted a letter and guided him to joining the Assassins.
* InfantImmortality: All thanks to The Shroud of Eden.
* NamesTheSame: Shares the same first name as Ezio's father. Ironically, he ends up marrying a woman named Maria Amiel, who shares the same first name as Ezio's mother.

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[[caption-width-right:250:There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the way. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else.]]

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[[caption-width-right:238:I am Giovanni Auditore, and like my ancestors before me, I am an Assassin.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:Don't you recognize me? [[SuperMarioBros It'sa me, Mario!"]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:You here to look at the book?]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:My Bianca hungers for more skulls to crush!]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:They call me many things: Murderer, Tagliagole, Thief, But you may call me La Volpe.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:[[HistoricalInJoke I intend to write]] [[Literature/ThePrince a book]] about you one day.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:You are the man I've longed to meet. Renowned Master and Mentor, Ezio Auditore de la la la!]]

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