History Characters / AssassinsCreedOtherGroupsAndIndividuals

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The Templars are full of hatred for Philip IV. The real guy was a hard-ass and an anti-semite, but 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.

* EnemyMine: Was backed by the Assassins until he got his hands on a Sword of Eden, forcing them to assassinate him.

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue Rogue]]'''

!!!Appears in: ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Black Flag]]'', ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue Rogue]]''

!!!Appears in: ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Black Flag]]''

!!!Appears in: ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Black Flag]]''

!!!Appears in: ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Black Flag]]''

!!!Appears in: '''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue Rogue]]'''

!!!Appears in: ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Black Flag]]'', ''[[WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates Initiates]]'', ''[[spoiler:Videogame/WatchDogs]]''

!!!Appears in: ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman''

!!!Appears in: ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman'', ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates''

* 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 1. [[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.]]

!!!Appears in: ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedUprising''

!!!'''Main Game Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''

!!!Appears in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' (mentioned), ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' (mentioned)

!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)''

!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed:Memories'', ''Assassin's Creed: Reflections''

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

!!!Appears in: ''Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade'', ''Assassin's Creed: Memories''

!!! Appears in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity''

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

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

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.

!!!Appears in: ''ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman Brahman'', ''WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates Initiates''

A young Japanese woman of Chinese descent from Yokohama who is the descendant of legendary 15th century Assassin Shao Jun.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Assuredly based on Anonymous (see Expy).

* 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.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Assuredly based on Anonymous.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child, Lisa was relatively happy in contrast to her relatively cold and withdrawn teenage3 self.

!!!Appears in: ''[[ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman Brahman]]''

!!!Appears in: ''[[ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman Brahman]]''

!!!Appears in: ''[[ComicBook/AssassinsCreedBrahman Brahman]]'', ''[[WebSite/AssassinsCreedInitiates Initiates]]''

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

* HeroicLineage: He's the descendant of Altair ibn La Ahad, Ezio Auditore, the Kenway family, and also his father Desmond Miles.

* 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 1. [[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.]]

A cult of Juno worshippers who serve her in the belief she will lead them into "the Grey".

* 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 1.

* SigilSpam: Their image gets around. One even scrawls their symbol on the inside of a bathroom stall of Abstergo Entertainment.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Their son Cain would become the First Templar.

[[folder:Alexander the Great]]
!!Alexander the Great
!!!Appears in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' (mentioned), ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' (mentioned)

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]]
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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.

[[folder:Adam and Eve]]
!!Adam and Eve

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:Harry Houdini]]
!!Creator/HarryHoudini

A famous Hungarian-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]]

* LaResistance: They formed the first of such kind against the First Civilization.

!!Abstergo Industries

[[folder:In General]]
* BadBoss: As is typical with the Templars, being a lower level flunky for them sucks. Abstergo uses all manner of insane corporate loopholes that allow them to do whatever they like with their employees, and the Templar higher-ups make harsh demands of them that make no sense.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: They've got spy-tech just about damn near everywhere. One of the rifts in ''Brotherhood'' shows them listening in on phone conversations, and another has a man complaining about finding a hidden channel on his TV listing all his vital statistics. After a few minutes, Abstergo sends a man 'round to have a "talk" with him...
* ColorMotif: Grey, light or dark. Pretty much everything in the Abstergo compound in the first game is some variation of grey, contrasting against the generally brighter colors of the Levant.
* CorporateConspiracy: Abstergo combines this with AncientConspiracy by being the current public face of the Templars. They use their reputation and wealth to seek out and collect ancient artifacts known as Pieces of Eden with which they can conquer the world.
* MegaCorp: A pharmaceutical company on the surface, Abstergo functions as the modern day front for an AncientConspiracy. Lucy Stillman mentions that her inability to be taken seriously after she finished college — and thus her inability to find a job until she was approached by Abstergo — was likely a series of failures specifically designed by them so she would have nowhere else to go for employment. She further assures Desmond that while this may sound ridiculous, they can do it. They also trace Desmond via his motorcycle's registry, apparently without going through the police. This is taken even further in the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII sequel]], where through a series of mad revelations, you gradually find out that Abstergo, under one name or another, has been manufacturing all important technological or political progress for centuries.
* ResearchInc: Part of what they do to keep the Templars going.
* SigilSpam: They like putting their symbol on everything. Any building of theirs will have their three-sided symbol plastered all over the side.
* WrittenByTheWinners: Their entertainment industry, Abstergo Entertainment, is in charge of whitewashing the Templars and making the Assassins look like bad guys.
[[/folder]]

!!Abstergo Entertainment

Melanie is Project Supervisor of the Sample 17 product. In ''Rogue'', she is the new head of Abstergo Entertainment.

* BrokenBase: In-universe, when Aya and Bayek explore his tomb, Bayek (an Egyptian) is much less enamoured of his accomplishments than Aya (Greek).

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: To Aya/[[spoiler:Amunet]], in the ''Origins'' tie-in comic. He's less hostile toward her, his only target being Brutus.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Or possibly downgrade, depending on how you look at it. The historical Alexander did all that he did ''without'' the help of a Precursor made artefact.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: To Amunet, in the ''Origins'' tie-in comic. He's less hostile toward her, his only target being Brutus.

[[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.

* GratuitousFrench: Being French-Canadian (Québécois) himself, he will often speak in French. Most of the time is to let a [[ForeignCussWord local swear.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [=AC4=] doesn't reveal what exactly happened to him after he [[spoiler:got kidnapped in Chicago]].

* GratuitousFrench: Being Québécois himself, he will often speak in French. Most of the time is to let a [[ForeignCussWord local swear.]]

* PutOnABus: He disappears near the end of Black Flag, having evidently been kidnapped in Chicago. [[spoiler:VideoGame/WatchDogs reveals that he ended up as a target for one of the game's assassination missions. Scanning him with cTOS reveals that he was marked for death by the Assassins]].

* GratuitousFrench: Being Québécois himself, he will often speak in french. Most of the time is to let a [[ForeignCussWord local swear.]]

* 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 Chicago.]]

** [[spoiler:A mission in another Ubisoft game, VideoGame/WatchDogs, set in Chicago, reveals exactly what happened to him; protagonist Aiden Pearce was outsourced by the Assassins -- or someone else masquerading as them -- to take Garneau out.]]

* 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.

* 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.

** [[spoiler:Unknowingly, he also avenged his father by helping Charlotte to kill Juno, whom tricked Desmond into releasing her at the cost of his life]].

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

* UnevenHybrid: Implied, 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.

* CruelMercy: States that he'd leave Nergüi alive if he bested him just so he'd get to watch his people suffer at the hands of his forces.

* EnemyMine: Was backed by the Assassins until he got his hands on the Sword of Eden.

-->"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?"

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!! Hülegü Khan

[[folder:Layla Hassan]]
!!Layla Hassan
!!!Appears in: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' | ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' | ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Chantel Riley [[labelnote:Dubs]]Antje von der Ahe (German)[[/labelnote]]

-> '''Layla''': They know I don't work by the book.\\
'''Deanna''': Well this time, you lit the book on fire and then stomped on it!

An Egyptian-American Abstergo employee researching the memories of Bayek of Siwa.

* AmbiguouslyGay: She only describes Deanna as her best friend, but [[spoiler:while mourning her, she calls her "sweetheart" in a way that could be romantic or platonic]].
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: She acquires Aya's Hidden Blade and [[spoiler:uses it to deadly effect against Abstergo agents sent to silence her]].
* BrooklynRage: Lived in New York City until she was at least 16 years old and still has a New York accent, and after going under the Bleeding Effect, becomes quite the skilled warrior.
* CaptainOblivious: Despite gathering a huge amount of data on Abstergo over the years, and despite having some suspicions that there's something going on with them, she fails to put two and two together and realise they're a bunch of evil bastards.
* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:By Alethia, to be the next holder of the Staff of Hermes.]]
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Compared to Desmond, the Research Analyst, and Numbskull. They were all, to one extent or another, {{Vanilla Protagonist}}s who the player could identify with easily and step into their shoes. By contrast, Layla is a fully fleshed-out character with a proper arc and established personality.
* TheCorruptible: [[spoiler:Part of the ''Fate of Atlantis'' DLC is her and Alethia takes steps to make sure the Staff does not corrupt her the way it did Pythagoras.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything: How she [[spoiler:attaches Aya's Hidden Blade to her forearm in a hurry when Abstergo's Sigma Team shows up to kill her]]. It's one of the more sensible examples of this trope and works appropriately well.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: She's doing independent research on Bayek and Aya so that Abstergo will be forced to give her credit after she got none for being behind the design of the Animus 4.3. [[spoiler:On top of Abstergo murdering Deanna, it's also why she decides to go with William Miles in the ending.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Helped create the Animus 4.3 first seen in the movie, and personally designed the one used in ''Origins''. Not getting any credit for the former is what fuels her actions during the game. [[spoiler:The final Isu message suggests she might actually be able to build an Animus that can change the past.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:While she was at worst a PunchClockVillain, after putting a target on her back and killing her friend, Layla vows to get back at Abstergo by allying with William Miles and the Assassins.]]
* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Having to go through some of Deimos' memories does a serious number on her, made worse by the fact Layla ''cannot'' opt out of them, and not for lack of trying.]]
* {{Immortality}}: [[spoiler:Since the Eagle Bearer passes the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus on to her at the end of ''Odyssey'', it can be assumed that she now has the same immortality that they had because of it.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:During ''Fate of Atlantis'', she kills Victoria Biebeau in a momentary fit of rage brought on by the Staff. Once she comes to, she's horrified.]]
* OutOfFocus: Compared to Desmond, the last fully-fledged modern day protagonist before her, she has ''significantly'' less screentime in the games she's in, especially since the historical setting stories are expanded compared to earlier games.
* TheRedBaron: [[spoiler:Alethia addresses her as the Heir of Memories.]]
* SanitySlippage: While she hasn't broken yet, she does begin to suffer from the Bleeding Effect as a result of using the Animus, at one point referring to Deanna as Aya. [[spoiler:Later on, holding the Staff of Hermes starts to do a number on her self-restraint.]]
* TakeUpMySword: At the end of ''Odyssey,'' [[spoiler:she's given the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus by the Eagle Bearer]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Initially, with some of her team. A note on her laptop has her being informed that if she kills Victoria Biebau, she's out of a job.
* ThisCannotBe: At the end of ''Odyssey,'' she has this reaction [[spoiler:to the Eagle Bearer being alive and well in the present day after spending so much time as them in the Animus]].
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Origins'', she goes from a tech expert to able to slice up Abstergo's elite Sigma Team. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Odyssey'', she's capable of handing Otso Berg, one of the Templar's top killers, his ass on a platter.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Sophia Rikkin, who convinced her to work for Abstergo, and used Layla's ideas to improve the Animus, but then ignored her emails before point-blank refusing Layla's requests to actually work on the Animus personally. This seemed to end whatever friendship they had. [[spoiler:And if that didn't, then sending agents to murder Layla and Dee definitely did.]]
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: She needs to undergo the Bleeding Effect with the best freerunner in the franchise to learn how to climb a ledge that barely reaches up to her shoulders. At least she picks up the rest of his climbing skills as well while she's at it.
[[/folder]]

!!Abstergo Entertainment

[[folder:Research analyst]]
!!Research analyst
!!!Appears in: ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag Black Flag]]''

The protagonist of the modern segments as of Assassin's Creed IV, who works for Abstergo Entertainment.
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