Sunday, January 23, 2011

Characters: Assassin's Creed

Characters: Assassin's Creed

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    The Assassins 

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

"A small sacrifice to save many. It is necessary"

The player character of the first Assassins Creed game. After a horrible mistake that cost the Assassin order many lives, he has to redeem himself by assassinating nine key figures of the Holy Lands to end the Third Crusade.
  • Anti Hero: Type IV -> Type III.
  • Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: At first.
  • The Atoner: His primary role through the game. After he screwed up big time, he has to seek redemption by assassinating nine head figures of the Holy Lands.
  • Calling The Old Man Out: Does this to Al Mualim, when he turned out to be a manipulative and power hungry Templar.
  • Chaotic Neutral -> Neutral Good
  • The Combat Pragmatist: Remember, "everything is permitted" includes everything in combat.
  • Cradling Your Kill: He's quite fond of it.
  • The Determinator
  • Dude Wheres My Respect: Justified, since his very foolish actions in the beginning were the reason why he lost his rank and respect. He eventually earns it back.
  • Half Human Hybrid: It is heavily implied that Altaïr, just as everyone in his bloodline, has genetic material from one of "Those Who Came Before" somewhere in his DNA, which gives him his Eagle Vision ability.
  • The Hero
  • In The Hood
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: His preferred way to get information.
  • Jerkass: At first. He acted high and mighty and believed himself superior than others. He wised up during his journey when he witnessed what happens to those who let themselves be consumed by arrogance.
  • Master Swordsman
  • Memetic Badass: The fact that being hit at all causes desynchornization (meaning it didn't happen in the memories) has not gone unnoticed by fans.
  • Necessarily Evil: How he views his methods.
  • Nice Job Breaking It Hero: In the first minutes of the game, which his act of overconfident jerkassery costed Malik his arm and his brother's life, and then lead the Templars to Masyaf. Then later, near the end of the game, his successes gave Robert De Sable the means to unite the Crusaders and the Saracens against the Assassins.
    • And by killing his Templar targets, he gave Al Mualim the chance to take power. Altiar quickly put a stop to this, however.
  • One Man Army: For someone who is supposed to use stealth, he's one hell of a fighting machine.
  • Shut Up Hannibal: His response to those targets who try to justify their evil, or if they pull the Not So Different card on him.
  • Sympathy For The Devil: When he hears the motive of his targets from their mouths, he begins to question if they're as evil as Al Mualim claims they are. The only one who Altair didn't sympathize with was Majd Addin, who was a complete fuckhead.

Al Mualim

"I abide my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceive that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief. And he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow".

The Grand Master of the Assassin Order. He gives Altair the mission to assassinate nine corrupt head figures of the Holy Land as a way for him to earn his redemption.

Malik A-Sayf


A member of the Assassin Order. He holds a grudge against Altair because his foolishness costed Malik his arm and his brother's life. Since he can't use both arms to fight any more, he's promoted to Rafiq and placed in Jerusalem, leading the Assassins operating there.

    Crusaders 

Richard I Lionheart of England

"We enter this world kicking and screaming, violent and unstable. From birth, that permanent peace is impossible, though we all wish it".

King of England and leader of the Crusaders. He wants to "free" the Holy Lands from Saladin.
  • Enemy Mine: After Altair killed several of his lieutenants, he considered Robert's advice on allying with Saladin against the Assassins, their common enemy.
  • One Scene Wonder: He only appears twice in the game, and the last one is quite powerful.
  • Real Men Love Jesus
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: He turns out to be this. When Altair finally met him, he listened to Altair's claims of Robert's treason instead of just executing Altair, and then listened on Robert's denial. Unsure who to believe in, he let them fight a duel so that God would reveal the one who was telling the truth. After Altair won, he actually congratulated him and had a talk about the nature of war and peace. Even before the duel, he was considering an alliance with Saladin against the Assassins.

Robert de Sable


Grand Master of the Templar Order, and the Big Bad of the first game. His goal is to take over the world by using the Piece of Eden.
  • Arch Enemy: To Al Mualim and Altair.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: He's undoubtedly the most powerful fighter of all the characters. Expect the first minutes of the boss fight against him to be a total Curb Stomp Battle on his end.
  • Bald Of Evil
  • Batman Gambit: Pulled two of these. Expecting Altair to try to kill him, he made Majd Addin's funeral into a trap, placed the best soldiers and a female decoy dressed as him, and hoped they would distract and kill Altair while he himself would be at Arsuf, trying to form an alliance of the Crusaders and Sacarens against the Assassins by using Altair's successes to convince the leaders of both factions.
  • Big Bad
  • French Jerk
  • Knight Templar: Literally.
  • Scars Are Forever: As a cut scar on his bald head.
  • That One Boss
  • The Starscream: To Richard Lionheart. To Robert, the King is just a zealous fool who is responsible for the war and all its horrors, and so he plans to betray him just so that he can take over the Holy Lands and put a end to the war.
  • Treacherous Advisor: To Richard Lionheart
  • Utopia Justifies The Means
  • Well Intentioned Extremist: All the horrors he orders the Templars to commit are for the goal of world peace (or so he believes).
  • World Domination

Garnier de Naplouse

"Do you appease a crying child simply because he wails? 'But I want to play with fire, father.' What would you say? 'As you wish'? Ah... but then you'd answer for his burns".

Grand Master of The Knights Hospitallers . He performs medicinal experiments on his "patients" in his hospital within the poor district of Acre.

Sibrand


Grand Master of The Teutonic Knights. The deaths of his fellow Crusaders turned him into a paranoid wreck, attacking everything that even looked like an Assassin.
  • The Archer
  • Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Cool Helmet: Wears one kickass helmet.
  • Go Mad From The Revelation: When he found out the truth about the afterlife through the help of Piece of Eden, his mind snapped from the revelation, and he became extremely fearful of death.
  • Jerkass Woobie: You do have to feel sorry for the guy when he fearfully asks Altair not to kill him.
  • Kick The Dog: Executes a scholar on the open street because he thought he was a Assassin. He later spends his last minutes shooting birds.
  • Knight Templar: Literally
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: The Reveal about afterlife by the Piece of Eden has turned him into this. This makes him even more afraid of death.
  • Properly Paranoid: His paranoia might be over-the-top, but it's caused by his fear of the Assassins, who can appear from nowhere, kill him, and then disappear like ghosts. And with The Reveal of the afterlife on his mind, it's perfectly reasonable that he's scared shitless of everything white and hoody.
  • Utopia Justifies The Means
  • Well Intentioned Extremist
  • Villainous Breakdown: Damn! Just Damn! In the first scene he appears, he screams accusations and then kills a scholar, just because he wore clothes similar to those of the Assassins — which was part of the point of the Assassins wearing the iconic robes. When Altair was busy climbing up the ship Sibrand's in, he was busy shooting birds and screaming at his guards for not shooting them as well.
    • He thinks the birds are going to attack him.
      "Fine! If you will not lift a hand in defense of your master, I will take care of this heathen myself!"

William of Montferrat


Lord Of Acre under King Richard, he rules Acre with a iron fist. He force the starving people to leave their food for his troops, and then force his troops to spend hours of merciless training for the preparation of "The New World".
  • The Caligula
  • Face Death With Dignity
  • Historical Villain Upgrade: The real life William of Montferrat was a Benevolent Boss with A Father To His Men attitude and a loyal servent to King Richard. The fictional William of Montferrat is none of them.
    • Were it not for Assassin's Creed he may have very well been lost to obscurity, as originally the developers had chosen his son Conrad, who historically was killed by two Hashashin. When they learned that Conrad had not been killed that year but that William had been in Acre as of 1191 (and died around that time), they switched to William as the target.
  • Kick The Dog: Executes two poor peasants because they stold food.
  • Knight Templar: literally
  • Mean Brit/Evil Brit: YMMV on the evil part but he's still a mean SOB.
  • The Neidermeyer
  • The Starscream: To King Richard.
  • Well Intentioned Extremist: He actually believes he helps the people of Acre without realizing he makes their lives harder. He takes the people's food because it could be rationed properly in the future when "The New Order" comes, not knowing he just starves them to death.
  • Utopia Justifies The Means

    The Saracens 

Saladin


Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and leader of the Saracenic forces during the Third Crusade.
  • The Ghost: He never makes an appearance, only mentioned several times through the first game.

Majd Addin


Regent lord of Jerusalem, ruling in Saladin's absence. An power hungry tyrant, he holds mock trials in order to execute those who he claims to be "enemies of the state", but in reality they're just there to satisfy his bloodthirst.
  • A God Am I
  • Ask A Stupid Question: As mentioned on the main page, he asks Altair is he knows what it's like to hold a man's life in his hands, seeming unaware of his profession or even the situation he himself is now in.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking
  • The Caligula
  • Complete Monster: Unlike the rest of Altair's targets, he doesn't give a damn about peace or a better world. He just wants power, and he'll murder anyone to get it. All his mock trials were for his kicks. Altair felt pity for the others, but not this guy, and he was quite happy to ruin Majd Addin's funeral.
  • For The Evulz:
    "I killed them because I could. Because it was fun! Do you know what it feels like to determine another man's fate? And did you see the way the people cheered? The way they feared me? I was like a god"!
  • Knight Templar: Subverted. He's an actual member of The Knights Templar, but he doesn't have the same goals. A better world means nothing to him, only the rush of power and the kill.
  • Psycho For Hire
  • Screw The Rules I Make Them
  • Token Evil Teammate: While none of the Templars are angels, Majd Addin is the one who is a evil psychopath instead of a misguided idealist.
  • Utopia Justifies The Means: Averted. Utopia is the last thing he cares about.
  • Villain With Good Publicity

Abu'l Nuqoud


One of the richest noblemen in Damascus, he throws endless parties with the money of the people, leaving them poor and starving.
  • Ambiguously Gay: It's important to note that this is not simply a stock villainous trait he's given. It's rather integral to his character and one of the reasons he wants to bring about the New World. It's hard not to feel sympathy for him when he talks about how could he support a religion than called him a "monster."
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: Ironic, since this trope is the reason why he hates the other noblemen.
  • Face Death With Dignity
  • Fast Fat: For an overweight aristocrat, he can put up a hell of a chase. Thats why it's importent for the player to take him out in a quick surprise attack, or you'll chase him through the city and pretty soon you'll have the half of the city guard after you.
  • Fat Bastard
  • Kick The Dog: Poisons the wine and then orders archers to kill every guest who came to his party.
  • Knight Templar: literally
  • The Reason You Suck Speech: Delivers one to his party guests. During the party, he starts with a typical "welcome speech" before going this round. With it, he accuses the guests for their arrogance, their greed, their hatred for the Crusaders, their lack of love, compassion and mercy and their support to Saladin, which he claims are the reasons why the war still is ongoing.
  • Nice Hat: Nice turban, actually.
  • Not So Different: Tried to pull this card on Altair, but it obviously didn't work.
  • Wicked Cultured
  • Well Intentioned Extremist
  • Utopia Justifies The Means

Talal


Talal is a slave driver, operating in Jerusalem. He sends his men to kidnap random people from the streets and then delivers the prisoners to Acre, where Garnier De Naplouse then takes care of them.
  • Affably Evil: He tries to be polite when he tells about his motives to Altair. Even when he orders his men to kill Altair, he apologize to him first and mutters to himself why it always have to be violent outcomes of things.
  • The Archer
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Subverted. He runs while his men fights.
  • Face Death With Dignity
  • Fragile Speedster: He's a extremely fast runner and difficult to keep pace with, but as soon you do catch him, he'll fall with just one stab in the neck.
  • Informed Ability: Through the mission, you hear several times about how good Talal is with his bow but when you finally get to meet him, you don't see him take advantage of his skills, even when he has the chance to put an arrow through Altair's head. Instead he runs away while letting his henchmen do the shooting.
  • Knight Templar: literally
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: The Piece of Eden's reveal of the afterlife killed his belief in God, but yet he took it better than his fellow Templar, Sibrand. Subverted that despite having no faith in God, he tries to help people instead of destroying everything, but in his twisted ways.
  • Well Intentioned Extremist: He thinks he's freeing the people he kidnaps from the harsh life of the streets, not knowing that kidnapping people against their own will is not good.
  • Utopia Justifies The Means
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