History Characters / AssassinsCreedOtherGroupsAndIndividuals

* BenevolentBoss: He has this reputation among his employees and on first meeting the PlayerCharacter and learning he's working on Edward Kenway lapses into a pirate imitation that is lame but makes him endearing. You can't help feel bad for [[spoiler:getting killed by Aiden Pierce in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.]]

** The hacking and puzzle changes which unlock lore, all of which initiated by a mysterious hacker who leaves notes behind. Are we talking about John from IT or good old Subject 16? [[spoiler:The fact that John suffers from PostHistoricalTrauma because of milennia of memories in his DNA only strengthens the bond]].

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:He's a Sage of Aita and Bartholomew Roberts]].

* ArcherArchetype: A master bowman.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He got to his position by being the strongest, and had no problems fighting alongside his men.

* BaldOfAwesome: Had not a hair on his head.
* CoolHelmet: Also had one of these.

* BadassBeard: It goes with his BadassMustache.

* BadassBeard: Wears a thick beard to go with his BadassMustache.

* {{Seer}}: He can see "beyond the corporal" and thus knew that Woodman survived after death, although he could not see him.

-->'''Voiced By:''' Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (English), Sergey Smirnov (Russian)

-->'''Voiced By:''' Cristina Rosato (English), Elena Chebaturkina (Russian)

-->'''Voiced By:''' Oliver Milburn (English), Denis Bespaly (Russian)

-->'''Voiced By:''' Cristina Rosato (English), Elena Chebaturkin (Russian)

-->'''Voiced By:''' Vincent Hoss-Desmarais

-->'''Voiced By:''' Cristina Rosato

-->'''Voiced By:''' Oliver Milburn

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Technically, since his worst actions were targeted towards the central villain faction of the series. It's worth noting that he was also one of the first to transform French administration from a charismatic authority to a bureaucratic Kingdom and also played a significant role in weakening the secular power of the Catholic state in spite of being a hard-ass and an anti-semite.

Aileen was a Abstergo Industries scientist in the early 1980's who developed the Surrogate Initiative, which allowed people to use the Animus to view other peoples' memories.

!! The Last Descendants

[[folder:In General]]

Six children brought together by Sebastian Monroe due to either Assassin heritage, Templar heritage, or both.

* KidHero: All of them are under 18.

[[folder:Owen Meyers]]
!!Owen Meyers
!!! Appears in: ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants''
* ChildhoodFriends: Friends with Javier from childhood.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:His growing trust in the Assassins is shattered once Isaiah "reveals" the Assassins may have framed his dad.]]
* ItsPersonal: Owen’s driving motive is an opportunity to use the Animus to find out what happened to his dad.
* MixedAncestry: His ancestors include the Chinese Assassin initiate Zhang Zhi and the Spanish conquistador Alfonso del Castillo.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Griffin sternly tells Owen off for not abiding to his plan.
* TheUnreveal: In regards to [[spoiler:why Owen’s dad was at the bank robbery and whether he killed the guard]].

[[folder:Javier Mondragón]]
!!Javier Mondragón
!!! Appears in: ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants''

* ApologyGift: Javier [[spoiler:breaks into a police warehouse to get evidence from the trial of Owen's dad]].
* AuraVision: Can use Eagle Vision, but his isn't as advanced as Owen's.
* ChildhoodFriends: Friends with Owen from childhood.
* ChildrenForcedToKill: [[spoiler:Although they all do some serious damage to guards, Javier kills Isaiah and is the only kid out of the six who is confirmed to have ever killed.]]
* ComingOutStory: Owen's distress about why Javier ditched him leads to Javier coming out as gay to explain what was happening in his life which didn't leave him the energy to help Owen.
* NeutralNoLonger: The only one out of the six who is confirmed to join a faction.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Griffin sternly tells Javier off for breaking into a police warehouse because he was bored.
* WhiteSheep: While descended from Cudgel and by extension Shay Cormac, a known Assassin turncoat, he ends up joining the Assassins.

[[folder:Grace Collins]]
!!Grace Collins
!!! Appears in: ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants''

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grace accepts the offer from Abstergo to provide a safe place for her brother and herself, she doesn't feel one side is more righteous than the other.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Out of the six of them, Grace is the most determined to keep her and her brother out of the Assassin-Templar war.

[[folder:David Collins]]
!!David Collins
!!! Appears in: ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants''

* CassandraTruth: No one believes David when he says [[spoiler:Isaiah authorized his goons to kill Owen and Javier.]]
* NiceGuy: Probably the kindest of the six kids, he doesn't engage in action and fights as much as the others.
* ObsessedWithFood: He's notably interested in the menu at the Aerie.

[[folder:Natalya Aliyev]]
!!Natalya Aliyev
!!! Appears in: ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants''

* DreadfulMusician: When she was younger her parents and grandparents wanted her to be musician, and had her take violin lessons, but she proved to have no aptitude for music and gave it up altogether.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: She's a direct descendant of the Italian singer Adelinda Patti, who historically had no children.
* MixedAncestry: Of Russian, Kazakh, and Mongolian descent.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sean Molloy]]
!!Sean Molloy
!!! Appears in: ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants''

* GameBreakingInjury: He used to be a high school football player before getting hit by a drunk driver rendered him a paraplegic.
* ShipTease: Develops a crush on Natalya due to the Bleeding Effect giving him his ancestor Tommy Greyling's feelings for Natalya's ancestor Adelinda Patti.

[[/folder]]

!!Other Individuals - Present

[[folder:Jot Soora]]
!!Jot Soora
!!!Appears in: ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman Brahman''

An engineer of the IT company Mysore Tech, he's engaged to Monima Das. He recently begins work on the Brahman V. R. console.

* TheEveryman: Unlike all the protagonists in the series so far - Desmond, Daniel Cross, Subject 16 - as well as the historical figures, Jot is a simple, ordinary middle-class guy with no real baggage in his past or great destiny. His entry into the conflict shows the Assassins and Templars from a decidedly darker light.
* FamousAncestor: He assumes that Arbaaz Mir is his ancestor. He realizes that its actually the mute sidekick Raza, a lower-caste shudra which greatly upsets him.
* TraumaCongaLine: Misery after misery gets piled on the poor guy.

[[folder:Monima Das]]
!!Monima Das
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman''

A glamorous Bollywood actress, model and style diva, Monima and Jot Soora are engaged but keep their relationship out of the public spotlight for the sake of both their careers.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She winds up killed.]]
* ElCidPloy: [[spoiler:After her death, Mysore use a few tricks to create a digital Monima to finish her last works.]]
* {{Expy}}: She resembles quite a few Bollywood actresses such as Aishwarya Rai or Priyanka Chopra.
* FamousAncestor: She's a descendant of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, one of the most famous of Indian rulers. She's also descended from Arbaaz Mir, and therefore likely also descended from Henry Green and Evie Frye.

[[folder:Ajay Rana]]
!!Ajay Rana
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman'', ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates''

The CEO of [=MysoreTech=], a Bangalore based IT company that has recently engaged in partnership with Abstergo Industries.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He is hinted to either be a Templar or their ally, giving what could be interpreted as subtle threats to Jot. At the Assassin hideout, a stolen [=MysoreTech=] computer can be seen connected to the Abstergo Cloud using Ajay's credentials, which identifies him as having "Agent" status. [[spoiler:''Rogue'' confirms his direct Templar affiliations.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Cultivates this image and pulls it off fairly well, playing squash with his employees in his downtime.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Has few reservations about marketing a product like Brahman V.R. which can potentially upload the memories of its users and ancestors on the Cloud database without their consent, giving Abstergo free reign to plunder their memories for their own uses.
* SmugSnake: Whether he's benevolent or not, he gives of this impression.

[[folder:André Bolden]]
!!André Bolden
!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: Templars'', ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedUprising''

A shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, brought in to Abstergo so they can analyze his genetic memories.

* BadassBookworm: He's pretty well-read, having knowledge of the works of Carl Jung, and he's a former soldier.
* {{Fanboy}}: He's got a fondness for ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* InSeriesNickname: Dre.
* LivingMacguffin: [[spoiler:Abstergo wish to use his genetic memories to find out what happened to his ancestor, Albert Bolden, who was last seen in 1927, as part of a plan to find the Koh-I-Noor Diamond. When it turns out he isn't related to Albert Bolden's ancestor Solomon "Solo" Bolden, he seems to have some connection to another [[InternalAffairs Black Cross]].]]
* MoralityPet: His common soldier background does a lot to bring out the better sides of [[TheAce Otso Berg]].
* NumberTwo: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Otso Berg in his role as the Black Cross, even making his suit for him.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Has PTSD as a result of some of the actions he took during the Vietnam War.
* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to one, brief exposure to the Animus, André - a seventy-two year old man with shell-shock - is able to effortlessly overpower two security guards.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: His role for [[spoiler:Berg as the Black Cross, when he's not using the suit himself]].

[[folder:Lisa Huang]]
!!Kō Risa / Lisa Huang
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun''

A young Japanese woman of Chinese descent from Yokohama and the descendant of legendary 15th century Assassin Shao Jun.
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* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Lisa protected her cousin Mari from her [[AbusiveParent abusive father]].
* ButNotTooForeign: Lisa is Chinese but has a Japanese birth name (Ko Risa) and she is from Yokohama, a major Japanese city that's not too far from Tokyo.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She couldn't control her violent impulses which got her repeatedly expelled from multiple schools.
* HairTriggerTemper: A rare heroic example. Lisa has a tendency to physically lash out and constantly get into fights with other people. In fact, she was sent to meet with Abstergo doctor Kaori Kagami to receive therapy to control her anger and rage.
* HeroicLineage: Lisa is the modern-day descendant of Shao Jun.
* HotBlooded: She can be quite rude if not outright violent towards her teachers. One argument with a friend even ended their relationship.
* InTheHood: While she is not an Assassin, Lisa does wear a hoodie.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child, Lisa was relatively happy in contrast to her relatively cold and withdrawn teenage self.
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[[folder:Erudito]]
!!Erudito Collective
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An enigmatic group opposing Abstergo, e-mailing both players of ''Project Legacy'' and Desmond in ''Brotherhood''. They're also present in the hacked versions of the ''III's'' Abstergo Videos and in ''Liberations'', where they help the player reveal the truth behind Aveline. They are further alluded to in the multiplayer section of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''

* TheCaper: Some members of the Erudito Collective participated in an online heist that "erased" $10 million from several banks, described as a "Houdini heist". Abstergo co-operated with the FBI and CSIS to track them down.
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%%%* DeadpanSnarker: Regarding Abstergo's attempts to stop them.
* {{Expy}}: Of Anonymous in that, they are both hacker groups that have a strong anti-authoritarian streak towards governments and corporations.
* {{Foil}}: To the Initiates, who are content to sit aside and observe and record events but not intervene, whereas Erudito are hacktivists who like to troll Abstergo and publicly humiliate them. [[spoiler:As of ''Black Flag'', the Initiates are still running while Erudito have suffered a setback]].
* FullCircleRevolution: Eventually some of their members get captured and some of them work for Abstergo now.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: They communicate solely through emails.
* IAmLegion: They are a collective of hackers attempting to unravel the lies of Abstergo.
* IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon: Their repeated pestering of Abstergo eventually led to a crackdown, and several of them were caught.
* MeaningfulName: Italian for "scholar" or "learned one."
* TheMole: It's suggested that some of the Erudito members who work for Abstergo are part of some scheme.
* PlayfulHacker: Most of the time.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Assuredly based on Anonymous.
* SeekerArchetype: They seek the truth.
* SpiritAdvisor: Well, ''virtual'' advisors.
* {{Troll}}: Seems to get a kick out of messing with Abstergo. In fact, they are basically the ''Assassin's Creed'' setting's version of Anonymous.
* WhatTheHellHero: In ''Project Legacy'', depending on your quiz answers.
* WildCard: While they oppose Abstergo, as far as we know they aren't aligned with the Assassins. In ''Brotherhood'', they give Desmond passwords to the other Assassins' email accounts so that he can monitor their exchanges on his own terms. In the ''Black Flag'' multiplayer, it's revealed that several of their members participated in a cybercrime that deleted $10 million in life savings, devolving into petty larceny. In ''Odyssey'', the Altair II team figure some hackers Berg has with him are Erudito.

[[folder:The Initiates]]
!!The Initiates

An enigmatic group who may or may not be related to Erudito who mainly monitor the Assassin-Templar conflict.

* AudienceSurrogate: In many ways, the Initiates are meant to represent the fanbase. They observe the Templar-Assassin war from a safe distance and make detailed records of the war's events, just like the fans writing detailed articles on the wiki. The real life version of their website is one of the biggest forums dedicated solely to the game franchise. [[spoiler:Shaun even hacks the website at one point and asks "us" to side with the Assassins.]]
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: End up on the receiving end after the Assassins decide to cut ties with them in order to stop them from being attacked by Abstergo.
* TheMole: The ''Altair II'' has an Initiates spy on board. It turns out there are ''two'' moles aboard the ship, Dr. Chiu and Eric Cooper.
* MysteriousBacker: They were formed by four unknown individuals who help direct the organization, and they receive funding from wealthy donors and other concerned people.
* WildCard: Are neither with the Assassins or the Templars, and spy on both.

[[folder:Instruments of the First Will]]
!!The Instruments of the First Will
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A cult of Those Who Came Before worshippers who serve Juno in the belief she will lead them into "the Grey".

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite their odd nature and generally crazy attitude, some of the Templar higher-ups are concerned that the Instruments might actually be using ''them'', instead of the other way around. [[spoiler:As shown in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate Syndicate]]'' with the use of the Shroud, [[ProperlyParanoid they are right]].]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler:''Uprising'' shows what happens when the Instruments go on the offensive. With Juno-given technological advancements, they're capable of killing Assassins and Templars alike in incredibly violent ways.]]
* {{Cult}}: One that worships [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the Isu]], in particular [[BigBad Juno]].
* OlderThanTheyThink: In-universe, it seems like they only formed in 2012, after Juno was released into the Grey. ''Syndicate'' reveals they've been around since at least World War I. [[spoiler: In ''Valhalla'', Shaun theorizes that they most likely spawned from the Order of the Ancients, the same Order that would go on to become the Knights Templar.]]
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:''Odyssey'' hints that after Juno's death in ''Uprising'', the remains of her cult are being hunted down by Abstergo.]]
* SigilSpam: Their 3 Juno image gets around. One even scrawls their symbol on the inside of a bathroom stall of Abstergo Entertainment.
* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler:According to ''Uprising'', there's a lot of the Instruments inside Abstergo.]]
* WildCard: As a cult that worships [[GreaterScopeVillain Juno]], they definitely play up this role to both the Assassins and the Templars.

[[folder:Elijah]]
!!Elijah
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedUprising''
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-->''"You see, Richmond, being a Sage means Aita, Isu scientist -- husband of Juno herself -- hid his memories in your DNA, and it has bubbled up to the surface. Aita does not care about you, and the surfacing of his memories drives most sages mad. Violet told me this, pretty gleefully. But what, Richmond -- and bear with me here as we run the hypothetical -- what if your brain was already somehow different? What if you'd already learned to ignore and control voices, visions, in your head? Well then, maybe you could push him down, just enough to access the things that he knows. And taking apart a lock like this would be like taking apart a duplo for him. What then, Richmond?"''

A Sage born in 2005, discovered by the Templars ten years later, and the son of Desmond Miles.

* AntiAntichrist: Despite being another of Aita's reincarnation, Elijah did not succumb to his belief. Instead, he manages to get the Instrument to kill each other and [[spoiler:aid Charlotte de la Cruz in killing his past life's lover.]]
* CreepyChild: Being a Sage helps. He's got no problem watching the Instruments kill lots of people.
* HeroicLineage: He's the descendant of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the Kenway family, and also his father Desmond Miles.
* UnevenHybrid: Even without being a Sage, he's got a lot of Isu DNA in him anyway, courtesy of his father. It's because of this he is able to easily stop Aita's memories and personality from taking over him.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** [[spoiler:The Instruments inducted him by murdering his mother. Not surprisingly, he turns out to hold a grudge over this, rejects Aita's influence, and helps kill Juno.]]
** [[spoiler:Unknowingly, he also avenged his father by helping Charlotte to kill Juno, who tricked Desmond into releasing her at the cost of his life]].

!!Other Individuals - Historical
[[folder:Adam and Eve]]
!!Adam and Eve
!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''

The first hybrids between humanity and Those Who Came Before. They were immune to the power of the Pieces of Eden and led a rebellion against the First Civilization, and are considered the forerunners to the Assassin Order.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Their son Cain would become the first Templar.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:Eve's Isu father, Phanes, had to give her up, because the other Isu were outraged at his producing a child with a human. They eventually found him and killed him.]]
* FamousAncestor: Clay Kaczmarek is their descendant. It is implied that Aveline is another, since she's able to access [[spoiler:the Prophecy Disk which requires some kind of DNA rapport]].
* FirstOfItsKind: [[spoiler:Eve is the first human/Isu hybrid of all.]]
* GreatEscape: The Truth puzzle shows them escaping from a forge or mine like area but not before stealing a Piece of Eden.
* GreaterScopeParagon: To the Assassins due to their role as leaders in the rebellion against the Isu.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Like all Assassins after them, they are part-Those Who Came Before, though perhaps to a greater degree than those that came afterwards since Clay's memories glimpsed in "The Truth" show them as being something above human.
* LaResistance: They formed the first of such kind against the First Civilization.
* LeParkour: Show these skills in the "The Truth" video.
* NoSell: They were immune to the Pieces of Eden, though the immunity went away with successive generations.
* RebelLeader: Eve was voted as the leader of the human faction in the war against the First Civilization.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Led the insurrection against the First Civilization. The ending of ''Liberation'' specifically mentions Eve as the leader of the rebellion.

[[folder:Alexander the Great]]
!!Alexander the Great
!!!Mentioned in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins''

Infamous conqueror of many countries, in the fourth century BCE. Was assassinated by the proto-Assassin Iltani, and buried in Alexandria. Wielded a Staff of Eden.

* BrokenBase: In-universe, when Aya and Bayek explore his tomb, Bayek (an Egyptian) is much less enamoured of his accomplishments than Aya (half-Greek).
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Or possibly downgrade, depending on how you look at it. The historical Alexander did all that he did ''without'' the help of an Isu-made artifact.
* MagicStaff: He possessed one of the Staffs of Eden, which was buried with him until a few hundred years later, when the Order of Ancients decided they ''really'' wanted it for themselves.

[[folder:Mark Antony]]
!!Mark Antony
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)''

A general in Julius Caesar's army, who became one of the ruling triumvirate of Rome after his assassination by the Hidden Ones, and hounded them out of the city.

* TheGhost: In ''Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Hidden Ones''. He's mentioned throughout, but doesn't make an appearance.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Marcus Antonius did become one of the ruling triumvirates after Caesar's assassination, along with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian, hunted down the Liberatores (Brutus included), and eventually started an affair with Cleopatra which ended with him being declared a traitor by Octavian, ending in Mark Antony's death in 31 BC when he lost the resulting civil war.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: To Amunet, in the ''Origins'' tie-in comic. He's less hostile toward her, his only target being Brutus.

[[folder:Jesus of Nazareth]]
!![[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus of Nazareth]]
!!!Mentioned in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla''
The son of God himself: A famous Galileean Judean preacher from Bethelem who practiced a form of Old Testament Judaism which would become Christianity. He possessed a Piece of Eden known as the Shroud and allegedly turned water into wine. He was betrayed by one of his disciples Judas Iscariot and was subsequently arrested by the Romans who would crucify him on Mount Golgotha in Jerusalem (located in present-day Israel).

* CrucifiedHeroShot: The TropeMaker himself.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The man who would inspire billions of people around the world to follow in his footsteps.
* MessianicArchetype: Again, he's the Trope Maker for this type of character to inherit his legacy and/or specific traits.
* OurFounder: Of Christianity. He's also the inspiration for [[spoiler:King Alfred the Great]] to reform the Order of the Ancients into the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ otherwise known as the Templars.

[[folder:Ghengis Khan]]
!![[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan Ghengis Khan]]
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed: Memories'', ''Assassin's Creed: Reflections''

The infamous Mongol conqueror who was born as Temujin, whose conquests were assisted through the use of a Sword of Eden. He was assassinated by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in 1227.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He got to his position by being the strongest, and had no problems fighting alongside his men.
* BadassBeard: It goes with his BadassMustache.
* BarbarianLonghair: Had quite the mane and happened to be from a culture considered "barbarous."
* {{BFS}}: His Sword of Eden was particularly large.
* BoomHeadshot: ''Reflections'' shows Darim killing him with a crossbow bolt to the head.
* BraidsOfBarbarism: Had braided hair and happened to be a Mongol, generally considered "barbarous".
* CoolSword: Hard to beat the coolness of a Sword of Eden.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In ''Assassin's Creed: Reflections'', as Darim prepares to kill him, Genghis Khan states that his descendants will make his legacy immortal.
* EvilOverlord: He and his descendants would end up controlling most of the known world at the time.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ghenghis Khan was the originator of the Mongol Empire, which at its xenith controlled lands from Korea to the gates of Vienna, the Balkans, and Russia.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Used a shield alongside his Sword of Eden.
* UnevenHybrid: Implied to have some degree of Isu ancestry, since those without First Civilization blood tend to go mad upon wielding Pieces of Eden, but he and his descendants could wield the Sword with no ill effects.

[[folder:Jochi Khan]]
!!Jochi Khan
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-->''"Am I not the eldest Khan? I will have more than a quartered empire."''

The eldest son of Ghenghis Khan by his wife Börte, and progenitor of the Golden Horde, he was assassinated by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in 1227 via the latter poisoning his waterskin.

* BaldOfAwesome: Had not a hair on his head.
* CoolHelmet: Also had one of these.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jochi Khan was the progenitor of the Golden Horde, who controlled lands from China and Turkmenistan to modern-day Russia and Ukraine via his son Batu Khan.
* NoRespectGuy: Despite his numerous battlefield victories, he was passed over regarding succession in favor of his younger brother Ögedei Khan.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: It remains unknown as to whether or not he was Ghenghis Khan's true son or the son of his enemy Chilger Bökh, who captured Börte as a spoil of war before she was visibly pregnant.
* TheUnfavorite: Felt this way due to the fact that despite his skill on the battlefield he was passed over for succession over the Mongol Empire.
* VillainsDyingGrace: Wishes Qulan Gal and Darim luck regarding killing his father, wishing to meet him again as an equal in the afterlife.

[[folder:Hülegü Khan]]
!!Hülegü Khan
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

-->''"I will burn your city, your land, your self."''

The grandson of Ghenghis Khan, he was responsible for the destruction of the Levantine Assassins via the siege of Maysaf in 1257. He was assassinated by Nergüi in 1265 in revenge for the siege.

* ArcherArchetype: A master bowman.
* AssassinOutclassin: Thwarted an assassination attempt by the Assassins, giving him more fuel to destroy the Levantine Assassins.
* BadassBeard: Wears a thick beard to go with his BadassMustache.
* BadassBoast: That as part of Ghenghis Khan's lineage his privilege is the ability to TakeOverTheWorld.
* CruelMercy: States that he'd leave Nergüi alive if he bested him just so he'd [[ForcedToWatch get to watch]] his people suffer at the hands of his forces.
* CoolHelmet: Wore a pretty awesome helmet.
* CoolSword: Wielded his grandfather's Sword of Eden.
* CycleOfRevenge: The Assassins killing Ghenghis Khan and trying to murder him led him to destroy Maysaf, only for Nergüi to kill him in retaliation.
* EvilOverlord: As he puts it himself:
--> "I am of the lineage of the Great Genghis Khan! Such a privilege comes with a charge; to see Mongolia spread as far as the eye can see, and to bring death upon all those who dare to oppose."
* TheGhost: Never shows up in person during ''The Secret Crusade.''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Hülegü Khan's forces are most infamously known for destroying the library of Baghdad in 1258, considered one of the greatest repositories of knowledge in the medieval world.
* {{Jerkass}}: Refers to Nergüi as having a name that "reeks of low blood" and happens to be very arrogant in general.
* PowerNullifier: The Sword of Eden allowed him to see through the Apple's illusions during the Seige of Maysaf.
* {{Revenge}}: Wanted revenge on the Assassins for killing his grandfather and trying to murder him.
* YouMonster: In response to the "low blood" comment Nergüi remarks that his name "reeks of the blood of all manner of men."

[[folder:King Philip IV]]
!! King Philip IV
!!! '''Appears in:''' ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity''

King of France between 1285-1314, Philip IV, "the Fair", was one of the greatest French monarchs and one of the worst enemies of the Templar Order.

* ColorCodedEyes: Very cold gray eyes. As noted in life, "He was neither beast nor man. He is a statue."
* CoolCrown: Sports one as he watches [[spoiler:Jacques de Molay]] burn.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Technically, since his worst actions were targeted towards the central villain faction of the series. It's worth noting that he was also one of the first to transform French administration from a charismatic authority to a bureaucratic Kingdom and also played a significant role in weakening the secular power of the Catholic state in spite of being a hard-ass and an anti-semite.
* ThePurge: He orders the mass execution of Templars by burning them at the stake, destroying their public role for good and driving them underground.

[[folder:Bombastus]]
!!Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bombastus_ac_9592.png]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy''

A Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He was an ally of the Assassin Order, having studied several Pieces of Eden for them, and was in possession one half of the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book of Abraham]], entitled "True Magic".

* BookBurning: After going insane, he accused the other doctors at the university in Basel of "unholy" practices and began burning books of all sorts.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Like most people who use one of the texts from the Book of Abraham, his interactions with the book eventually drove him insane.
* LackOfEmpathy: His rather dismissive treatment of his assistant Johan (who began to claw at his own head and babbled nonsense after apparently reading "something he should not have") indicates he has a major case of this trope.
* MadScientist: He doesn't seem particularly concerned about the potential negative effects of any experiment he does.
* PhilosophersStone: With the help of Giovanni Borgia, who is able to read the Book of Abraham and interpret it easier due to his First Civilization heritage, Bombastus discovered the formula to crate a Philosopher's Stone.
* TheProfessor: He is one of the top scientists the Assassins turn to for aid, even if he is bit eccentric.

[[folder:Takeda Shingen]]
!!UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

A daimyo of the Takeda clan and the wielder of a Sword of Eden, which he used in an attempt to gain control of Japan. He was assassinated by the Japanese Assassin Hattori Hanzo and Honda Tadakatsu in 1573.

* CoolSword: Wielded a Sword of Eden.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Takeda's semi-friendly rivalry with Kenshin was the stuff of legends.
* TheRival: To Templar UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin, who Hanzo also ended up killing.

[[folder:Oda Nobunaga]]
!!UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oda_nobunaga_acm.jpg]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

The initiator of the unification of Japan during the late 16th Century, he was allied with the Assassins until he managed to get his hands on Takeda Shingen's Sword of Eden, leading to his assassination by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in 1582 during the raid on Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto.

* CoolSword: Wielded a Sword of Eden that was originally Takeda Shingen's.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The historical Nobunaga was a man so vicious to his foes that he was often referred to as "the Demon King."
* PuppetKing: Was backed by the Assassins until he got his hands on a Sword of Eden, forcing them to assassinate him.

[[folder:Captain William Kidd]]
!!Captain William Kidd
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_kidd_ac_1683.jpg]]

A Scottish privateer, Captain William Kidd initially served the Crown by attacking ships in the Indian Ocean. He was later declared a pirate and a wanted man. He was eventually captured and hanged in London. Rumours of a treasure and its whereabouts continued for a hundred years until Connor Kenway recovered it in Oak Island during the American Revolution.
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* ApocalypticLog: The letters he gives to his friends shows his increasing fear and paranoia as he tries to escape the Templars.
* BadassNormal: Despite not being an Assassin, William Kidd manages to slay nine Templar soldiers who attacked him under British colours.
* CoolSword: He wielded a sawtooth cutlass that Connor later acquires from Cerros.
* DeflectorShields: He found a First Civilization Shard of Eden which gave him protection from gunfire, he later hid this when the Templars came after him.
* FamedInStory: Despite not appearing, he's famous enough in the 18th Century for his legend to endure in the Colonial Era. There is a popular song about him, "Captain Kidd" which is sung by the crew in ''Black Flag'' and his treasure is already regarded as a myth in Connor's time. Mary Read names herself James Kidd as a homage.
* FamousAncestor: Mary Read not only calls herself James Kidd but initially claims that she's William Kidd's illegitimate son. It's not true, but William Kidd is such a legend that it gets her much street cred among the Nassau crew.
* PosthumousCharacter: He doesn't appear but gets several mentions in ''Black Flag'' while his letters frames the Assassin Tomb quest in ''III'', though William Kidd was not in fact an Assassin.
* ProperlyParanoid: He hid his "treasure" in a sinkhole in Oak Island, the famous Money Pit. Then he scattered the keys to the treasure map among his associates, ensuring that no one person can get all of it at once.
* TreasureMap: He created one, splitting it in four pieces and scattering it across North America and the Caribbean.
* TrueCompanions: He gives bits of his treasure map to Abel Owens, Joseph Palmer, Lucky Lem and Hendrick van der Heul.
* VillainSong: The sea shanty "Captain Kidd" written after his death:
--> "My name was Captain Kidd
--> And God's laws I did forbid
--> And so wickedly I did
--> as I sailed, as I sailed."
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: PlayedWith. Robert Faulkner is disappointed that Connor only found a strange ring at Oak Island, clearly expecting large quantities of gold. However, Connor soon realizes its true potential and why the Templars wanted it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Emperor Meiji]]
!!Emperor Meiji
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Fragments - The Blade of Aizu''

The 122nd Emperor of Japan. Meiji would lead the country into an era of prosperity and modernization with the help of the Templars.
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* TheEmperor: It is in his title after all.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Meiji was the founder of the Empire of Japan who led the Imperial forces against the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Republic of Ezo during the Boshin War. He was also responsible for the Westernization of Japan from the construction of railroads to the introduction of a European-style military akin to Britain and Germany.
* PuppetKing: Ultimately, Meiji was little more than a pawn used by the Templars to spread their ideology across Japan by re-establishing their presence in the country after their gradual fall in the Sengoku period.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harry Houdini]]
!!Creator/HarryHoudini

A famous Hungarian Jewish-American magician and escapologist, with the secret behind his trick being the First Apple. He was murdered by the Templars to gain control of it.
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* MundaneUtility: He used an Apple of Eden, which can control minds, warp reality, and kill people to... perform magic tricks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mohandas Gandhi]]
!![[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]

The leader of the Indian Independence movement, Gandhi was murdered by the Templars for the Second Apple.
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* VelvetRevolution: Used his Apple to cause one.
[[/folder]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Marcus Antonius did become one of the ruling triumvirate after Caesar's assassination, along with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian, hunted down the liberatores (Brutus included), and eventually started an affair with Cleopatra which ended with him being declared a traitor by Octavian, ending in Mark Antony's death in 31 BC when he lost the resulting civil war.

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Fragments - The Blade from Aizu''

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Meiji was the founder of the Empire of Japan who led the Imperial forces against the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Republic of Ezo during the Boshin War. He was also responsible for the westernization of the country from the construction of railroads to the introduction of a European-style military akin to Britain and Germany.

The 122nd Emperor of Japan. Meiji would lead Japan into an era of prosperity and modernization with the help of the Templars.

* WorthlessTreasureTwist: PlayedWith. Robert Faulkner is disappointed that Connor only found a strange ring at Oak Island, clearly expecting large quantities of gold. However Connor soon realizes its true potential and why the Templars wanted it.

[[folder:Harry Houdini]]
!!Creator/HarryHoudini

A famous Hungarian Jewish-American magician and escapologist, with the secret behind his trick being the First Apple. He was murdered by the Templars to gain control of it.

* MundaneUtility: He used an Apple of Eden, which can control minds, warp reality, and kill people to... perform magic tricks.

* ObsessedWithFood: He’s notably interested in the menu at the Aerie.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Out of the six of them, Grace is most determined to keep her and her brother out of the Assassin-Templar war.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Javier.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:His growing trust in the Assassins is shattered once Isaiah “reveals” the Assassins may have framed his dad.]]

* ApologyGift: Javier [[spoiler:breaks into a police warehouse to get evidence from the trial of Owen’s dad]].
* ChildhoodFriends: With Owen.

* ComingOutStory: Owen’s distress about why Javier ditched him leads to Javier coming out to explain what was happening in his life which didn’t leave him the energy to help Owen.

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grace accepts the offer from Abstergo to provide a safe place for her brother and herself, she doesn’t feel one side is more righteous than the other.

* NiceGuy: Probably the kindest of the six kids, he doesn’t engage in action and fights as much as the others.

!!Other Individuals - Present

[[folder:Jot Soora]]
!!Jot Soora
!!!Appears in: ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman Brahman''

An engineer of the IT company Mysore Tech, he's engaged to Monima Das. He recently begins work on the Brahman V. R. console.
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* TheEveryman: Unlike all the protagonists in the series so far - Desmond, Daniel Cross, Subject 16 - as well as the historical figures, Jot is a simple, ordinary middle-class guy with no real baggage in his past or great destiny. His entry into the conflict shows the Assassins and Templars from a decidedly darker light.
* FamousAncestor: He assumes that Arbaaz Mir is his ancestor. He realizes that its actually the mute sidekick Raza, a lower-caste shudra which greatly upsets him.
* TraumaCongaLine: Misery after misery gets piled on the poor guy.

[[folder:Monima Das]]
!!Monima Das
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman''

A glamorous Bollywood actress, model and style diva, Monima and Jot Soora are engaged but keep their relationship out of the public spotlight for the sake of both their careers.
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* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She winds up killed.]]
* ElCidPloy: [[spoiler:After her death, Mysore use a few tricks to create a digital Monima to finish her last works.]]
* {{Expy}}: She resembles quite a few Bollywood actresses such as Aishwarya Rai or Priyanka Chopra.
* FamousAncestor: She's a descendant of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, one of the most famous of Indian rulers. She's also descended from Arbaaz Mir, and therefore likely also descended from Henry Green and Evie Frye.

[[folder:Ajay Rana]]
!!Ajay Rana
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman'', ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates''

The CEO of [=MysoreTech=], a Bangalore based IT company that has recently engaged in partnership with Abstergo Industries.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: He is hinted to either be a Templar or their ally, giving what could be interpreted as subtle threats to Jot. At the Assassin hideout, a stolen [=MysoreTech=] computer can be seen connected to the Abstergo Cloud using Ajay's credentials, which identifies him as having "Agent" status. [[spoiler:''Rogue'' confirms his direct Templar affiliations.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Cultivates this image and pulls it off fairly well, playing squash with his employees in his downtime.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Has few reservations about marketing a product like Brahman V.R. which can potentially upload the memories of its users and ancestors on the Cloud database without their consent, giving Abstergo free reign to plunder their memories for their own uses.
* SmugSnake: Whether he's benevolent or not, he gives of this impression.

[[folder:André Bolden]]
!!André Bolden
!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: Templars'', ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedUprising''

A shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, brought in to Abstergo so they can analyze his genetic memories.

* BadassBookworm: He's pretty well-read, having knowledge of the works of Carl Jung, and he's a former soldier.
* {{Fanboy}}: He's got a fondness for ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* InSeriesNickname: Dre.
* LivingMacguffin: [[spoiler:Abstergo wish to use his genetic memories to find out what happened to his ancestor, Albert Bolden, who was last seen in 1927, as part of a plan to find the Koh-I-Noor Diamond. When it turns out he isn't related to Albert Bolden's ancestor Solomon "Solo" Bolden, he seems to have some connection to another [[InternalAffairs Black Cross]].]]
* MoralityPet: His common soldier background does a lot to bring out the better sides of [[TheAce Otso Berg]].
* NumberTwo: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Otso Berg in his role as the Black Cross, even making his suit for him.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Has PTSD as a result of some of the actions he took during the Vietnam War.
* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to one, brief exposure to the Animus, André - a seventy-two year old man with shell-shock - is able to effortlessly overpower two security guards.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: His role for [[spoiler:Berg as the Black Cross, when he's not using the suit himself]].

[[folder:Lisa Huang]]
!!Kō Risa / Lisa Huang
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun''

A young Japanese woman of Chinese descent from Yokohama and the descendant of legendary 15th century Assassin Shao Jun.
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* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Lisa protected her cousin Mari from her [[AbusiveParent abusive father]].
* ButNotTooForeign: Lisa is Chinese but has a Japanese birth name (Ko Risa) and she is from Yokohama, a major Japanese city that's not too far from Tokyo.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She couldn't control her violent impulses which got her repeatedly expelled from multiple schools.
* HairTriggerTemper: A rare heroic example. Lisa has a tendency to physically lash out and constantly get into fights with other people. In fact, she was sent to meet with Abstergo doctor Kaori Kagami to receive therapy to control her anger and rage.
* HeroicLineage: Lisa is the modern-day descendant of Shao Jun.
* HotBlooded: She can be quite rude if not outright violent towards her teachers. One argument with a friend even ended their relationship.
* InTheHood: While she is not an Assassin, Lisa does wear a hoodie.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child, Lisa was relatively happy in contrast to her relatively cold and withdrawn teenage self.

[[folder:Erudito]]
!!Erudito Collective
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erudito.png]]

An enigmatic group opposing Abstergo, e-mailing both players of ''Project Legacy'' and Desmond in ''Brotherhood''. They're also present in the hacked versions of the ''III's'' Abstergo Videos and in ''Liberations'', where they help the player reveal the truth behind Aveline. They are further alluded to in the multiplayer section of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''

* TheCaper: Some members of the Erudito Collective participated in an online heist that "erased" $10 million from several banks, described as a "Houdini heist". Abstergo co-operated with the FBI and CSIS to track them down.
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%%%* DeadpanSnarker: Regarding Abstergo's attempts to stop them.
* {{Expy}}: Of Anonymous in that, they are both hacker groups that have a strong anti-authoritarian streak towards governments and corporations.
* {{Foil}}: To the Initiates, who are content to sit aside and observe and record events but not intervene, whereas Erudito are hacktivists who like to troll Abstergo and publicly humiliate them. [[spoiler:As of ''Black Flag'', the Initiates are still running while Erudito have suffered a setback]].
* FullCircleRevolution: Eventually some of their members get captured and some of them work for Abstergo now.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: They communicate solely through emails.
* IAmLegion: They are a collective of hackers attempting to unravel the lies of Abstergo.
* IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon: Their repeated pestering of Abstergo eventually led to a crackdown, and several of them were caught.
* MeaningfulName: Italian for "scholar" or "learned one."
* TheMole: It's suggested that some of the Erudito members who work for Abstergo are part of some scheme.
* PlayfulHacker: Most of the time.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Assuredly based on Anonymous.
* SeekerArchetype: They seek the truth.
* SpiritAdvisor: Well, ''virtual'' advisors.
* {{Troll}}: Seems to get a kick out of messing with Abstergo. In fact, they are basically the ''Assassin's Creed'' setting's version of Anonymous.
* WhatTheHellHero: In ''Project Legacy'', depending on your quiz answers.
* WildCard: While they oppose Abstergo, as far as we know they aren't aligned with the Assassins. In ''Brotherhood'', they give Desmond passwords to the other Assassins' email accounts so that he can monitor their exchanges on his own terms. In the ''Black Flag'' multiplayer, it's revealed that several of their members participated in a cybercrime that deleted $10 million in life savings, devolving into petty larceny. In ''Odyssey'', the Altair II team figure some hackers Berg has with him are Erudito.

[[folder:The Initiates]]
!!The Initiates

An enigmatic group who may or may not be related to Erudito who mainly monitor the Assassin-Templar conflict.

* AudienceSurrogate: In many ways, the Initiates are meant to represent the fanbase. They observe the Templar-Assassin war from a safe distance and make detailed records of the war's events, just like the fans writing detailed articles on the wiki. The real life version of their website is one of the biggest forums dedicated solely to the game franchise. [[spoiler:Shaun even hacks the website at one point and asks "us" to side with the Assassins.]]
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: End up on the receiving end after the Assassins decide to cut ties with them in order to stop them from being attacked by Abstergo.
* TheMole: The ''Altair II'' has an Initiates spy on board. It turns out there are ''two'' moles aboard the ship, Dr. Chiu and Eric Cooper.
* MysteriousBacker: They were formed by four unknown individuals who help direct the organization, and they receive funding from wealthy donors and other concerned people.
* WildCard: Are neither with the Assassins or the Templars, and spy on both.

[[folder:Instruments of the First Will]]
!!The Instruments of the First Will
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/instruments.png]]

A cult of Those Who Came Before worshippers who serve Juno in the belief she will lead them into "the Grey".
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite their odd nature and generally crazy attitude, some of the Templar higher-ups are concerned that the Instruments might actually be using ''them'', instead of the other way around. [[spoiler:As shown in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate Syndicate]]'' with the use of the Shroud, [[ProperlyParanoid they are right]].]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler:''Uprising'' shows what happens when the Instruments go on the offensive. With Juno-given technological advancements, they're capable of killing Assassins and Templars alike in incredibly violent ways.]]
* {{Cult}}: One that worships [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the Isu]], in particular [[BigBad Juno]].
* OlderThanTheyThink: In-universe, it seems like they only formed in 2012, after Juno was released into the Grey. ''Syndicate'' reveals they've been around since at least World War I. [[spoiler: In ''Valhalla'', Shaun theorizes that they most likely spawned from the Order of the Ancients, the same Order that would go on to become the Knights Templar.]]
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:''Odyssey'' hints that after Juno's death in ''Uprising'', the remains of her cult are being hunted down by Abstergo.]]
* SigilSpam: Their 3 Juno image gets around. One even scrawls their symbol on the inside of a bathroom stall of Abstergo Entertainment.
* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler:According to ''Uprising'', there's a lot of the Instruments inside Abstergo.]]
* WildCard: As a cult that worships [[GreaterScopeVillain Juno]], they definitely play up this role to both the Assassins and the Templars.

[[folder:Elijah]]
!!Elijah
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedUprising''
[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/acup_elijah.png]]
-->''"You see, Richmond, being a Sage means Aita, Isu scientist -- husband of Juno herself -- hid his memories in your DNA, and it has bubbled up to the surface. Aita does not care about you, and the surfacing of his memories drives most sages mad. Violet told me this, pretty gleefully. But what, Richmond -- and bear with me here as we run the hypothetical -- what if your brain was already somehow different? What if you'd already learned to ignore and control voices, visions, in your head? Well then, maybe you could push him down, just enough to access the things that he knows. And taking apart a lock like this would be like taking apart a duplo for him. What then, Richmond?"''

A Sage born in 2005, discovered by the Templars ten years later, and the son of Desmond Miles.

* AntiAntichrist: Despite being another of Aita's reincarnation, Elijah did not succumb to his belief. Instead, he manages to get the Instrument to kill each other and [[spoiler:aid Charlotte de la Cruz in killing his past life's lover.]]
* CreepyChild: Being a Sage helps. He's got no problem watching the Instruments kill lots of people.
* HeroicLineage: He's the descendant of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the Kenway family, and also his father Desmond Miles.
* UnevenHybrid: Even without being a Sage, he's got a lot of Isu DNA in him anyway, courtesy of his father. It's because of this he is able to easily stop Aita's memories and personality from taking over him.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** [[spoiler:The Instruments inducted him by murdering his mother. Not surprisingly, he turns out to hold a grudge over this, rejects Aita's influence, and helps kill Juno.]]
** [[spoiler:Unknowingly, he also avenged his father by helping Charlotte to kill Juno, who tricked Desmond into releasing her at the cost of his life]].

!!Other Individuals - Historical
[[folder:Adam and Eve]]
!!Adam and Eve
!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''

The first hybrids between humanity and Those Who Came Before. They were immune to the power of the Pieces of Eden and led a rebellion against the First Civilization, and are considered the forerunners to the Assassin Order.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Their son Cain would become the first Templar.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:Eve's Isu father, Phanes, had to give her up, because the other Isu were outraged at his producing a child with a human. They eventually found him and killed him.]]
* FamousAncestor: Clay Kaczmarek is their descendant. It is implied that Aveline is another, since she's able to access [[spoiler:the Prophecy Disk which requires some kind of DNA rapport]].
* FirstOfItsKind: [[spoiler:Eve is the first human/Isu hybrid of all.]]
* GreatEscape: The Truth puzzle shows them escaping from a forge or mine like area but not before stealing a Piece of Eden.
* GreaterScopeParagon: To the Assassins due to their role as leaders in the rebellion against the Isu.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Like all Assassins after them, they are part-Those Who Came Before, though perhaps to a greater degree than those that came afterwards since Clay's memories glimpsed in "The Truth" show them as being something above human.
* LaResistance: They formed the first of such kind against the First Civilization.
* LeParkour: Show these skills in the "The Truth" video.
* NoSell: They were immune to the Pieces of Eden, though the immunity went away with successive generations.
* RebelLeader: Eve was voted as the leader of the human faction in the war against the First Civilization.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Led the insurrection against the First Civilization. The ending of ''Liberation'' specifically mentions Eve as the leader of the rebellion.

[[folder:Alexander the Great]]
!!Alexander the Great
!!!Mentioned in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins''

Infamous conqueror of many countries, in the fourth century BCE. Was assassinated by the proto-Assassin Iltani, and buried in Alexandria. Wielded a Staff of Eden.

* BrokenBase: In-universe, when Aya and Bayek explore his tomb, Bayek (an Egyptian) is much less enamoured of his accomplishments than Aya (half-Greek).
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Or possibly downgrade, depending on how you look at it. The historical Alexander did all that he did ''without'' the help of an Isu-made artifact.
* MagicStaff: He possessed one of the Staffs of Eden, which was buried with him until a few hundred years later, when the Order of Ancients decided they ''really'' wanted it for themselves.

[[folder:Mark Antony]]
!!Mark Antony
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)''

A general in Julius Caesar's army, who became one of the ruling triumvirate of Rome after his assassination by the Hidden Ones, and hounded them out of the city.

* TheGhost: In ''Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Hidden Ones''. He's mentioned throughout, but doesn't make an appearance.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Marcus Antonius did become one of the ruling triumvirate after Caesar's assassination, along with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian, hunted down the liberatores (Brutus included), and eventually started an affair with Cleopatra which ended with him being declared a traitor by Octavian, ending in Mark Antony's death in 31 BC when he lost the resulting civil war.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: To Amunet, in the ''Origins'' tie-in comic. He's less hostile toward her, his only target being Brutus.

[[folder:Jesus of Nazareth]]
!![[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus of Nazareth]]
!!!Mentioned in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla''
The son of God himself: A famous Galileean Judean preacher from Bethelem who practiced a form of Old Testament Judaism which would become Christianity. He possessed a Piece of Eden known as the Shroud and allegedly turned water into wine. He was betrayed by one of his disciples Judas Iscariot and was subsequently arrested by the Romans who would crucify him on Mount Golgotha in Jerusalem (located in present-day Israel).

* CrucifiedHeroShot: The TropeMaker himself.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The man who would inspire billions of people around the world to follow in his footsteps.
* MessianicArchetype: Again, he's the Trope Maker for this type of character to inherit his legacy and/or specific traits.
* OurFounder: Of Christianity. He's also the inspiration for [[spoiler:King Alfred the Great]] to reform the Order of the Ancients into the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ otherwise known as the Templars.

[[folder:Ghengis Khan]]
!![[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan Ghengis Khan]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/genghis_khan_ac_3535.jpg]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed: Memories'', ''Assassin's Creed: Reflections''

The infamous Mongol conqueror who was born as Temujin, whose conquests were assisted through the use of a Sword of Eden. He was assassinated by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in 1227.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He got to his position by being the strongest, and had no problems fighting alongside his men.
* BadassBeard: It goes with his BadassMustache.
* BarbarianLonghair: Had quite the mane and happened to be from a culture considered "barbarous."
* {{BFS}}: His Sword of Eden was particularly large.
* BoomHeadshot: ''Reflections'' shows Darim killing him with a crossbow bolt to the head.
* BraidsOfBarbarism: Had braided hair and happened to be a Mongol, generally considered "barbarous".
* CoolSword: Hard to beat the coolness of a Sword of Eden.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In ''Assassin's Creed: Reflections'', as Darim prepares to kill him, Genghis Khan states that his descendants will make his legacy immortal.
* EvilOverlord: He and his descendants would end up controlling most of the known world at the time.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ghenghis Khan was the originator of the Mongol Empire, which at its xenith controlled lands from Korea to the gates of Vienna, the Balkans, and Russia.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Used a shield alongside his Sword of Eden.
* UnevenHybrid: Implied to have some degree of Isu ancestry, since those without First Civilization blood tend to go mad upon wielding Pieces of Eden, but he and his descendants could wield the Sword with no ill effects.

[[folder:Jochi Khan]]
!!Jochi Khan
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

-->''"Am I not the eldest Khan? I will have more than a quartered empire."''

The eldest son of Ghenghis Khan by his wife Börte, and progenitor of the Golden Horde, he was assassinated by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in 1227 via the latter poisoning his waterskin.

* BaldOfAwesome: Had not a hair on his head.
* CoolHelmet: Also had one of these.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jochi Khan was the progenitor of the Golden Horde, who controlled lands from China and Turkmenistan to modern-day Russia and Ukraine via his son Batu Khan.
* NoRespectGuy: Despite his numerous battlefield victories, he was passed over regarding succession in favor of his younger brother Ögedei Khan.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: It remains unknown as to whether or not he was Ghenghis Khan's true son or the son of his enemy Chilger Bökh, who captured Börte as a spoil of war before she was visibly pregnant.
* TheUnfavorite: Felt this way due to the fact that despite his skill on the battlefield he was passed over for succession over the Mongol Empire.
* VillainsDyingGrace: Wishes Qulan Gal and Darim luck regarding killing his father, wishing to meet him again as an equal in the afterlife.

[[folder:Hülegü Khan]]
!!Hülegü Khan
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

-->''"I will burn your city, your land, your self."''

The grandson of Ghenghis Khan, he was responsible for the destruction of the Levantine Assassins via the siege of Maysaf in 1257. He was assassinated by Nergüi in 1265 in revenge for the siege.

* ArcherArchetype: A master bowman.
* AssassinOutclassin: Thwarted an assassination attempt by the Assassins, giving him more fuel to destroy the Levantine Assassins.
* BadassBeard: Wears a thick beard to go with his BadassMustache.
* BadassBoast: That as part of Ghenghis Khan's lineage his privilege is the ability to TakeOverTheWorld.
* CruelMercy: States that he'd leave Nergüi alive if he bested him just so he'd [[ForcedToWatch get to watch]] his people suffer at the hands of his forces.
* CoolHelmet: Wore a pretty awesome helmet.
* CoolSword: Wielded his grandfather's Sword of Eden.
* CycleOfRevenge: The Assassins killing Ghenghis Khan and trying to murder him led him to destroy Maysaf, only for Nergüi to kill him in retaliation.
* EvilOverlord: As he puts it himself:
--> "I am of the lineage of the Great Genghis Khan! Such a privilege comes with a charge; to see Mongolia spread as far as the eye can see, and to bring death upon all those who dare to oppose."
* TheGhost: Never shows up in person during ''The Secret Crusade.''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Hülegü Khan's forces are most infamously known for destroying the library of Baghdad in 1258, considered one of the greatest repositories of knowledge in the medieval world.
* {{Jerkass}}: Refers to Nergüi as having a name that "reeks of low blood" and happens to be very arrogant in general.
* PowerNullifier: The Sword of Eden allowed him to see through the Apple's illusions during the Seige of Maysaf.
* {{Revenge}}: Wanted revenge on the Assassins for killing his grandfather and trying to murder him.
* YouMonster: In response to the "low blood" comment Nergüi remarks that his name "reeks of the blood of all manner of men."

[[folder:King Philip IV]]
!! King Philip IV
!!! '''Appears in:''' ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity''

King of France between 1285-1314, Philip IV, "the Fair", was one of the greatest French monarchs and one of the worst enemies of the Templar Order.

* ColorCodedEyes: Very cold gray eyes. As noted in life, "He was neither beast nor man. He is a statue."
* CoolCrown: Sports one as he watches [[spoiler:Jacques de Molay]] burn.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Technically, since his worst actions were targeted towards the central villain faction of the series. It's worth noting that he was also one of the first to transform French administration from a charismatic authority to a bureaucratic Kingdom and also played a significant role in weakening the secular power of the Catholic state in spite of being a hard-ass and an anti-semite.
* ThePurge: He orders the mass execution of Templars by burning them at the stake, destroying their public role for good and driving them underground.

[[folder:Bombastus]]
!!Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy''

A Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He was an ally of the Assassin Order, having studied several Pieces of Eden for them, and was in possession one half of the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book of Abraham]], entitled "True Magic".

* BookBurning: After going insane, he accused the other doctors at the university in Basel of "unholy" practices and began burning books of all sorts.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Like most people who use one of the texts from the Book of Abraham, his interactions with the book eventually drove him insane.
* LackOfEmpathy: His rather dismissive treatment of his assistant Johan (who began to claw at his own head and babbled nonsense after apparently reading "something he should not have") indicates he has a major case of this trope.
* MadScientist: He doesn't seem particularly concerned about the potential negative effects of any experiment he does.
* PhilosophersStone: With the help of Giovanni Borgia, who is able to read the Book of Abraham and interpret it easier due to his First Civilization heritage, Bombastus discovered the formula to crate a Philosopher's Stone.
* TheProfessor: He is one of the top scientists the Assassins turn to for aid, even if he is bit eccentric.

[[folder:Takeda Shingen]]
!!UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

A daimyo of the Takeda clan and the wielder of a Sword of Eden, which he used in an attempt to gain control of Japan. He was assassinated by the Japanese Assassin Hattori Hanzo and Honda Tadakatsu in 1573.

* CoolSword: Wielded a Sword of Eden.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Takeda's semi-friendly rivalry with Kenshin was the stuff of legends.
* TheRival: To Templar UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin, who Hanzo also ended up killing.

[[folder:Oda Nobunaga]]
!!UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

The initiator of the unification of Japan during the late 16th Century, he was allied with the Assassins until he managed to get his hands on Takeda Shingen's Sword of Eden, leading to his assassination by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in 1582 during the raid on Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto.

* CoolSword: Wielded a Sword of Eden that was originally Takeda Shingen's.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The historical Nobunaga was a man so vicious to his foes that he was often referred to as "the Demon King."
* PuppetKing: Was backed by the Assassins until he got his hands on a Sword of Eden, forcing them to assassinate him.

[[folder:Captain William Kidd]]
!!Captain William Kidd
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A Scottish privateer, Captain William Kidd initially served the Crown by attacking ships in the Indian Ocean. He was later declared a pirate and a wanted man. He was eventually captured and hanged in London. Rumours of a treasure and its whereabouts continued for a hundred years until Connor Kenway recovered it in Oak Island during the American Revolution.

* ApocalypticLog: The letters he gives to his friends shows his increasing fear and paranoia as he tries to escape the Templars.
* BadassNormal: Despite not being an Assassin, William Kidd manages to slay nine Templar soldiers who attacked him under British colours.
* CoolSword: He wielded a sawtooth cutlass that Connor later acquires from Cerros.
* DeflectorShields: He found a First Civilization Shard of Eden which gave him protection from gunfire, he later hid this when the Templars came after him.
* FamedInStory: Despite not appearing, he's famous enough in the 18th Century for his legend to endure in the Colonial Era. There is a popular song about him, "Captain Kidd" which is sung by the crew in ''Black Flag'' and his treasure is already regarded as a myth in Connor's time. Mary Read names herself James Kidd as a homage.
* FamousAncestor: Mary Read not only calls herself James Kidd but initially claims that she's William Kidd's illegitimate son. It's not true, but William Kidd is such a legend that it gets her much street cred among the Nassau crew.
* PosthumousCharacter: He doesn't appear but gets several mentions in ''Black Flag'' while his letters frames the Assassin Tomb quest in ''III'', though William Kidd was not in fact an Assassin.
* ProperlyParanoid: He hid his "treasure" in a sinkhole in Oak Island, the famous Money Pit. Then he scattered the keys to the treasure map among his associates, ensuring that no one person can get all of it at once.
* TreasureMap: He created one, splitting it in four pieces and scattering it across North America and the Caribbean.
* TrueCompanions: He gives bits of his treasure map to Abel Owens, Joseph Palmer, Lucky Lem and Hendrick van der Heul.
* VillainSong: The sea shanty "Captain Kidd" written after his death:
--> "My name was Captain Kidd
--> And God's laws I did forbid
--> And so wickedly I did
--> as I sailed, as I sailed."
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: PlayedWith. Robert Faulkner is disappointed that Connor only found a strange ring at Oak Island, clearly expecting large quantities of gold. However Connor soon realizes its true potential and why the Templars wanted it.

[[folder:Harry Houdini]]
!!Creator/HarryHoudini

A famous Hungarian Jewish-American magician and escapologist, with the secret behind his trick being the First Apple. He was murdered by the Templars to gain control of it.

* MundaneUtility: He used an Apple of Eden, which can control minds, warp reality, and kill people to... perform magic tricks.

[[folder:Mohandas Gandhi]]
!![[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]

The leader of the Indian Independence movement, Gandhi was murdered by the Templars for the Second Apple.

* VelvetRevolution: Used his Apple to cause one.

!!!Appears in: ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates'', ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]''

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Technically, since his worst actions were targeted towards the central villain faction of the series. He was also one of the first to transform French administration from a charismatic authority to a bureaucratic Kingdom and also played a significant role in weakening the secular power of the Catholic state in spite of being a hard-ass and an anti-semite, but h.