It would be (cynical) if it were doctrine. I understand now that our creed does not commend us to be free - it commends us to be wise.Įzio Auditore da Firenze. laws arise not from divinity, but reason. The Anti-Nihilist: The Assassins 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted.'Īltaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.But by the same token they will (Usually) Never Hurt an Innocent and they also have genuinely good intentions. Anti-Hero: Theyre merciless and ruthless and will not hesitate to kill anyone affiliated with the Templars or people who they feel stand in the way of the greater good.Animal Motif: Eagles most prominently but birds in general, which they associate with flight, freedom and movement.In fact, their rivalry has spanned millennia touching nearly every corner of the globe throughout human history. Since they have the advantage over the Templars, they then split up to expand their influence, at which point the Templars are able to destroy the smaller, isolated cells all over again. Aesop Amnesia: The Assassins tend to operate in small, isolated cells that are systematically destroyed, leaving the Brotherhood to come Back from the Brink and rebuild their numbers and power in some region, usually thanks to the Player Character.Ever since the Great Purge at the turn of the millennium, the Assassins elected to adopt a model of leaderless resistance where there would be no single Mentor in charge of the group but rather decentralized individual cells working together in secret to bring down the Templars and Abstergo. They are engaged in a Forever War with the Templar Order over control of the Pieces of Eden and the latter's desire to establish a one-world government that would control everything, which they see as antithetical to the human value of free will. A secret society formed by Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya in 47 BCE during the final years of Ptolemaic Egypt and the Roman Republic after the death of their son Khemu at the hands of the Order of the Ancients, the Assassins are dedicating to protecting the innocent from tyrants and warmongering plutocrats for millennia.

The assassin brotherhood