player.
NAME/HANDLE:
Mil
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
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supernalprince
ARE YOU 16 OR OVER?:
26
CONTACT:
ᴘʟᴜʀᴋ ϟ ᴄʟᴏᴡʏᴀᴍᴍᴀ
ᴀɪᴍ ϟ sᴜᴘᴇʀɴᴀʟᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ
OTHER CHARACTERS:
n/a
character.
CHARACTER NAME: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
SERIES: Assassin's Creed
CANON POINT:
end of game ✘ before burning Rashid ad-Din Sinan's body.
AGE:
26
APPEARANCE:
✰ ✰ ✰
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY:
n/a
PERSONALITY:
Altaïr's personality significantly blossoms from the start of the game to the finish of the game, incredibly so to the point that other significant people in Altaïr's life have taken notice of this. Altaïr, at first, is incredibly stubborn, impetuous, selfish, ignorant to an extent, and a terrible team player. He had been groomed since childhood to be a perfect assassin and his cold attitude made it easy for him to put others aside himself so that he may climb the ranks, becoming a top assassin even. It was, however, his failure during a crucial mission that he had broken three golden rules of the Creed:
killing an innocent, and while Kadar Al-Sayf (Malik Al-Sayf's blood brother) favors the kill with a compliment expressing that Altaïr has good fortune with his blade, Altaïr snobbishly replies: Not fortune, skill. Watch a little longer and you might learn something. Malik tries to encourage a more righteous decision rather than slaying an innocent life and Altaïr brushes him off saying that the way he operates is better than that of the Creed.
Do not draw attention to yourself, this was done by leaving the body of the innocent slain and the body of a Templar slain for anyone to notice.
Do not compromise the brotherhood, further into the mission Altaïr spies Robert de Sable, a great enemy of the assassins and ascended toward him in hope to kill him. He fails in this and was left to live so that he may return to Masyaf and tell the Order of the failure of his mission. However Kadar and Malik were left with the enemy Templars and that caused Malik an impassable wound and Kadar his life.
Naturally, consequences ensue from Altaïr's terrible indiscretions such as (believed at the time) Altaïr's supposed leading Templars to the city of Masyaf after his failed mission in Jerusalem. Malik had luckily survived and returned to tell Al Mualim (the Creed's leader) of Altaïr's indiscretions and before Altaïr could be properly disciplined Masyaf underwent an attack from the Templars. Once the attack from the Templars was handled and security was once again brought to Masyaf, Al Mualim brought Altaïr before the brotherhood and publicly stabbed him in the stomach. Altaïr had passed out from the wound and when he came to Al Mualim stripped him from his rank and his possessions and offered him a chance for atonement. Altaïr took that opportunity, starting as a novice once again (quite the blow to his pride) and was given the mission to find the true traitor within the brotherhood who compromised the Masyaf fortress –– after finding out Masun's & Jamal's involvement in the Templar attack, Altaïr was rewarded with the return of his Hidden Blade and sword. From there Al Mualim compromised with Altaïr and offered nine names to assassinate in exchange for his own and Altaïr agreed to the penance.
Altaïr's life, from this point, begins anew for he is now stripped from entitlements, recommendations, and favor, instead he must start from scratch and prove his worth. This event significantly reshaped how Altaïr viewed himself as much as how others had viewed him. He no longer had the previous incentives to behave proudly, but humbly, he no longer had the right to claim great feats but hoped to aid in something grander, be a part of a movement that was not all together his own lead. This insight was difficult, of course, for Altaïr but he managed and no longer was he swift in his judgment but considerate and offered those whom he assassinated a chance for last words. Which was incredibly important in the reformation of his personality. To know why his enemies are his enemies, to know why they must die, to know why they were wrong and Altaïr was right, in a better sense, to take the lives of those whom were on his list. Was this for the greater good?––truly? Altaïr had a long time to consider these things and reflect on his past foolishness and discovered how incredibly small his mind was before his rebirth (so to say). Instead he now lives with the hope to not be great, to be known, to be infamous and praised, but he lives now so that others more innocent may have a better life.
Altaïr does not view himself innocent at all but an evil in a sense of necessity. There are forces greater than himself at work in the world and their influence over others are constraining, suffocating even, and his presence in this world is to remove the hand that strikes against those less able to protect themselves. But that does not make him good, for he still kills, and he justifies it best he can so that he does not kill needlessly. His ambition is not to be the monarch of Truth, but a man who would permit people to believe that they can find their own truths, form their own beliefs and follow those whom they want –– not those who corrupt them with monopolized ideals.
Altaïr had been in love once, before the events of Assassin's Creed game, in a small side-game called Altaïr's Chronicles, she is only mentioned briefly in Assassin's Creed & Assassin's Creed II. So despite his previous cold and emotionless demeanor Altaïr was able to feel a great attraction and emotion toward Adha, and even to the extent of saying this: "I had thought Adha would be the one to lead me to rest, that I might lay down my blade and live as a normal man. But now I know such dreams are best left to sleep.." This is important to consider in his personality because he had likely suffered a great heartbreak at the loss of Adha, as he had thought that this woman would be the one to free him of this life and gave him dream enough to have something normal with another person in this world. Then to see it stolen away by the very cycle of life he was groomed for: enemies, Templars, power, greed, blades, death, loss, Altaïr decides ultimately that the idea of love was better put aside than it was pursued. Thus Altaïr is still very cold toward the idea of any relationships, of any emotional attachment.
Considering Altaïr's relationships, he had known such failure in many of them. Al Mualim being more a father figure than his own natural father, Umar, had proved to be full of lies and deceit in the end and would have killed Altaïr if he had been able to. Al Mualim had watched Altaïr grow from a boy to a man, he had been the one to promote him to Master Assassin, as well as demote him after his failed mission. Further more, relationships in his childhood have ended terribly, as such the one with a close friend named Abbas. It was a cruel fate indeed that would have Abbas's father be the one that had given Altaïr's father's name to his torturers which resulted in Umar's execution by the Saracens. The only reason Altaïr found out about his father's death was because Ahmad Sofian, the Assassin who had been the tortured, came to Altaïr's quarters and apologized to Altaïr for his weakness in protecting Umar and then sought his penance by suicide in front of the eleven year old Altaïr. One relationship Altaïr was able to save, was that of Malik Al-Sayf and he did thus only by changing his selfish ways and indeed becoming Altaïr anew.
r e s o u r c e s:
✰ Altaïr wiki
✰ Masun wiki
✰ Saracens wiki
✰ Adha wiki
ABILITIES:
✰ Eagle Vision
A sixth sense that was created by the First Civilization. This gift allows him to instinctively sense how people and objects relate to him, through a manifested colored glow. Altaïr possessed this ability from an early age and others were aware of his gift and dubbed it "eagle vision" and he trained himself on this ability, perfecting it, so that in his later years he would be able to use it on his missions. It was also a key function in his last battle with Al Mualim as his mentor of old had used the power of the Apple to create phantoms of himself, and Altaïr was able to use Eagle Vision to find the True form of his mentor.
Further more: Jamal, during the beginning of the game, is seen with a red aura because he is in fact an enemy. Even unknown at the time, the Eagle Vision points out enemies who are yet discovered such as it had in this case of the traitor.
Red indicates enemies or spilled blood.
Blue indicates allies.
White indicates sources of information or hiding spots.
Gold indicates targets or any person of interest.
✰ Legendary fighting skills.
POSSESSIONS:
✰ Robes
✰ greaves
✰ shoes
✰ protective belt
✰ vambrace that conceals his Hidden Blade
✰ Hidden Blade ✪ ✪ ✪
✰ Longsword: Sword of Altaïr ✪
✰ Short blade ✪
✰ Throwing knives ✪ ✪
samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE:
✪ 001╰◈ v i d e o ☉ ɪᴛs ɴᴏᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏsᴛ ʙᴜᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴏᴜɴᴅ ◈╮
I have thought about all the things I have left behind, of all the things that I would have done, or perhaps all the things I would have obtained. It has been my error to think so much on possessions, that which I can hold, or may come to hold.
Instead I would know that what I left behind was an idea, a fundamental concept that my brothers will carry on what I had only just started. I have faith in them now, I think not to worry for the poison that may come, but to think of the remedy that will vanquish it.
More immediately: the ship's halls offer little room for traffic, and the quarters are so small I think my thoughts are not always my own but those whom share this space with myself. It is good, in the end, that I have not brought more than what I have on myself at the time of my abduction. I think not a breath more may fit here.
….
I miss the land…
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
How close will you let the enemy come before it's too close? Before it's too late? How close will you let yourself come before it's too much?–– will you bleed onto one another?
Far too many questions went unanswered and the ultimate pardon was given to an evil that bled lies and deceit into the Creed. There was no relief for those that were left over to clean up the broken pieces of their brotherhood, and every day a discomfort grew in Altaïr's heart. Could this happen again? Yes. The real question was how to deal with when it did happen, when treachery disrupted the order. Who to count on, who to trust, and who amongst them would be left with a seed of deceit growing within their heart at the fall at yet another member of their Creed.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, was not the first nor will he be the last to sacrifice himself and those around him for the pursuit of knowledge, of power.
An unsettled turn of his gut and Altaïr smoothed his three fingers down the bracer on his forearm, his thumb left to pet naught but air. His brows furrowed and he dragged the tip of his tongue across his teeth. He had thought about putting down his blade, once, and he was proven the folly of those ideas as his very reason for thought was killed by a blade herself. It was the dance he had known all of his life. Both of his parents were joined together even with the most unlikeliest backgrounds, they had made it work. And both perished as well, by the blade. He anticipated, since that day as a young boy, that he would grow old enough to find himself too slow to avoid the very blade that would slain him as well. He often thought of his parents, more so now that he was older, than he had as a boy. Perhaps it was because of Al Mualim that he thought of them more frequently, for the Old Man of the Mountain had grossly disappointed in the end.
Altaïr stood where Rashid had once stood, he had pressed down hard on the table with heavy palms where Rashid had once written his letters of secrecy on. The time now came to Altaïr to be the father of the assassin's, per say, he shouldered the honor to train, delegate, and bring order and peace to the world with one name whispered to the assassins whom he would send into that world.
And the apple, ever tempted him. Perhaps one more look would help guide him in the right direction, if he need find the path alone he would only ask of it north, south, west, or east. Chasing at the wind.
"I may not be able to cure this world of its corruption, Templars.. they are a faction most peril but they work not alone, for not all evil doers are Templars.." He mused to himself as he paced the stretch of the wooden table that was centered within the room surrounded with bookshelves and the destination of pigeons and their traveling information. This room held all the great leaders of the Creed, and now Altaïr uses it as they had. To learn of the growing evils of this world, to conjure remedies, and to give names to the spread of the illness.
He leaned forward and wrote a name on a small scroll, once the ink was dry he rolled the paper up and tied it to the leg of the carrier pigeon. "Be swift." The bird fidgeted in his hands as he transferred it from the cage to the window, then gave it freedom. "Go, and carry the burden for me to Jerusalem." He watched as the pigeon flew far and out of sight. "I will amend the world best I can, with the time I am given."
NAME/HANDLE:
Mil
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
supernalprinceARE YOU 16 OR OVER?:
26
CONTACT:
ᴘʟᴜʀᴋ ϟ ᴄʟᴏᴡʏᴀᴍᴍᴀ
ᴀɪᴍ ϟ sᴜᴘᴇʀɴᴀʟᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ
OTHER CHARACTERS:
n/a
character.
CHARACTER NAME: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
SERIES: Assassin's Creed
CANON POINT:
end of game ✘ before burning Rashid ad-Din Sinan's body.
AGE:
26
APPEARANCE:
✰ ✰ ✰
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY:
n/a
PERSONALITY:
killing an innocent, and while Kadar Al-Sayf (Malik Al-Sayf's blood brother) favors the kill with a compliment expressing that Altaïr has good fortune with his blade, Altaïr snobbishly replies: Not fortune, skill. Watch a little longer and you might learn something. Malik tries to encourage a more righteous decision rather than slaying an innocent life and Altaïr brushes him off saying that the way he operates is better than that of the Creed.
Do not draw attention to yourself, this was done by leaving the body of the innocent slain and the body of a Templar slain for anyone to notice.
Do not compromise the brotherhood, further into the mission Altaïr spies Robert de Sable, a great enemy of the assassins and ascended toward him in hope to kill him. He fails in this and was left to live so that he may return to Masyaf and tell the Order of the failure of his mission. However Kadar and Malik were left with the enemy Templars and that caused Malik an impassable wound and Kadar his life.
Naturally, consequences ensue from Altaïr's terrible indiscretions such as (believed at the time) Altaïr's supposed leading Templars to the city of Masyaf after his failed mission in Jerusalem. Malik had luckily survived and returned to tell Al Mualim (the Creed's leader) of Altaïr's indiscretions and before Altaïr could be properly disciplined Masyaf underwent an attack from the Templars. Once the attack from the Templars was handled and security was once again brought to Masyaf, Al Mualim brought Altaïr before the brotherhood and publicly stabbed him in the stomach. Altaïr had passed out from the wound and when he came to Al Mualim stripped him from his rank and his possessions and offered him a chance for atonement. Altaïr took that opportunity, starting as a novice once again (quite the blow to his pride) and was given the mission to find the true traitor within the brotherhood who compromised the Masyaf fortress –– after finding out Masun's & Jamal's involvement in the Templar attack, Altaïr was rewarded with the return of his Hidden Blade and sword. From there Al Mualim compromised with Altaïr and offered nine names to assassinate in exchange for his own and Altaïr agreed to the penance.
Altaïr's life, from this point, begins anew for he is now stripped from entitlements, recommendations, and favor, instead he must start from scratch and prove his worth. This event significantly reshaped how Altaïr viewed himself as much as how others had viewed him. He no longer had the previous incentives to behave proudly, but humbly, he no longer had the right to claim great feats but hoped to aid in something grander, be a part of a movement that was not all together his own lead. This insight was difficult, of course, for Altaïr but he managed and no longer was he swift in his judgment but considerate and offered those whom he assassinated a chance for last words. Which was incredibly important in the reformation of his personality. To know why his enemies are his enemies, to know why they must die, to know why they were wrong and Altaïr was right, in a better sense, to take the lives of those whom were on his list. Was this for the greater good?––truly? Altaïr had a long time to consider these things and reflect on his past foolishness and discovered how incredibly small his mind was before his rebirth (so to say). Instead he now lives with the hope to not be great, to be known, to be infamous and praised, but he lives now so that others more innocent may have a better life.
Altaïr does not view himself innocent at all but an evil in a sense of necessity. There are forces greater than himself at work in the world and their influence over others are constraining, suffocating even, and his presence in this world is to remove the hand that strikes against those less able to protect themselves. But that does not make him good, for he still kills, and he justifies it best he can so that he does not kill needlessly. His ambition is not to be the monarch of Truth, but a man who would permit people to believe that they can find their own truths, form their own beliefs and follow those whom they want –– not those who corrupt them with monopolized ideals.
Altaïr had been in love once, before the events of Assassin's Creed game, in a small side-game called Altaïr's Chronicles, she is only mentioned briefly in Assassin's Creed & Assassin's Creed II. So despite his previous cold and emotionless demeanor Altaïr was able to feel a great attraction and emotion toward Adha, and even to the extent of saying this: "I had thought Adha would be the one to lead me to rest, that I might lay down my blade and live as a normal man. But now I know such dreams are best left to sleep.." This is important to consider in his personality because he had likely suffered a great heartbreak at the loss of Adha, as he had thought that this woman would be the one to free him of this life and gave him dream enough to have something normal with another person in this world. Then to see it stolen away by the very cycle of life he was groomed for: enemies, Templars, power, greed, blades, death, loss, Altaïr decides ultimately that the idea of love was better put aside than it was pursued. Thus Altaïr is still very cold toward the idea of any relationships, of any emotional attachment.
Considering Altaïr's relationships, he had known such failure in many of them. Al Mualim being more a father figure than his own natural father, Umar, had proved to be full of lies and deceit in the end and would have killed Altaïr if he had been able to. Al Mualim had watched Altaïr grow from a boy to a man, he had been the one to promote him to Master Assassin, as well as demote him after his failed mission. Further more, relationships in his childhood have ended terribly, as such the one with a close friend named Abbas. It was a cruel fate indeed that would have Abbas's father be the one that had given Altaïr's father's name to his torturers which resulted in Umar's execution by the Saracens. The only reason Altaïr found out about his father's death was because Ahmad Sofian, the Assassin who had been the tortured, came to Altaïr's quarters and apologized to Altaïr for his weakness in protecting Umar and then sought his penance by suicide in front of the eleven year old Altaïr. One relationship Altaïr was able to save, was that of Malik Al-Sayf and he did thus only by changing his selfish ways and indeed becoming Altaïr anew.
Malik: "I do not accept your apology."
Altaïr: "I understand."
Malik: "No, you don't. I do not accept your apology, because you are not the same man who went with me into Solomon's Temple."
—Altaïr and Malik shortly before the funeral of Majd Addin.
r e s o u r c e s:
✰ Altaïr wiki
✰ Masun wiki
✰ Saracens wiki
✰ Adha wiki
ABILITIES:
✰ Eagle Vision
Further more: Jamal, during the beginning of the game, is seen with a red aura because he is in fact an enemy. Even unknown at the time, the Eagle Vision points out enemies who are yet discovered such as it had in this case of the traitor.
Red indicates enemies or spilled blood.
Blue indicates allies.
White indicates sources of information or hiding spots.
Gold indicates targets or any person of interest.
✰ Legendary fighting skills.
POSSESSIONS:
✰ Robes
✰ greaves
✰ shoes
✰ protective belt
✰ vambrace that conceals his Hidden Blade
✰ Hidden Blade ✪ ✪ ✪
✰ Longsword: Sword of Altaïr ✪
✰ Short blade ✪
✰ Throwing knives ✪ ✪
samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE:
I have thought about all the things I have left behind, of all the things that I would have done, or perhaps all the things I would have obtained. It has been my error to think so much on possessions, that which I can hold, or may come to hold.
Instead I would know that what I left behind was an idea, a fundamental concept that my brothers will carry on what I had only just started. I have faith in them now, I think not to worry for the poison that may come, but to think of the remedy that will vanquish it.
More immediately: the ship's halls offer little room for traffic, and the quarters are so small I think my thoughts are not always my own but those whom share this space with myself. It is good, in the end, that I have not brought more than what I have on myself at the time of my abduction. I think not a breath more may fit here.
….
I miss the land…
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
Far too many questions went unanswered and the ultimate pardon was given to an evil that bled lies and deceit into the Creed. There was no relief for those that were left over to clean up the broken pieces of their brotherhood, and every day a discomfort grew in Altaïr's heart. Could this happen again? Yes. The real question was how to deal with when it did happen, when treachery disrupted the order. Who to count on, who to trust, and who amongst them would be left with a seed of deceit growing within their heart at the fall at yet another member of their Creed.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, was not the first nor will he be the last to sacrifice himself and those around him for the pursuit of knowledge, of power.
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly.
I perceived that this also was a chasing at the wind.
For in much wisdom, is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
Nothing is true and that everything is permitted! I have found proof.
An unsettled turn of his gut and Altaïr smoothed his three fingers down the bracer on his forearm, his thumb left to pet naught but air. His brows furrowed and he dragged the tip of his tongue across his teeth. He had thought about putting down his blade, once, and he was proven the folly of those ideas as his very reason for thought was killed by a blade herself. It was the dance he had known all of his life. Both of his parents were joined together even with the most unlikeliest backgrounds, they had made it work. And both perished as well, by the blade. He anticipated, since that day as a young boy, that he would grow old enough to find himself too slow to avoid the very blade that would slain him as well. He often thought of his parents, more so now that he was older, than he had as a boy. Perhaps it was because of Al Mualim that he thought of them more frequently, for the Old Man of the Mountain had grossly disappointed in the end.
Altaïr stood where Rashid had once stood, he had pressed down hard on the table with heavy palms where Rashid had once written his letters of secrecy on. The time now came to Altaïr to be the father of the assassin's, per say, he shouldered the honor to train, delegate, and bring order and peace to the world with one name whispered to the assassins whom he would send into that world.
And the apple, ever tempted him. Perhaps one more look would help guide him in the right direction, if he need find the path alone he would only ask of it north, south, west, or east. Chasing at the wind.
"I may not be able to cure this world of its corruption, Templars.. they are a faction most peril but they work not alone, for not all evil doers are Templars.." He mused to himself as he paced the stretch of the wooden table that was centered within the room surrounded with bookshelves and the destination of pigeons and their traveling information. This room held all the great leaders of the Creed, and now Altaïr uses it as they had. To learn of the growing evils of this world, to conjure remedies, and to give names to the spread of the illness.
He leaned forward and wrote a name on a small scroll, once the ink was dry he rolled the paper up and tied it to the leg of the carrier pigeon. "Be swift." The bird fidgeted in his hands as he transferred it from the cage to the window, then gave it freedom. "Go, and carry the burden for me to Jerusalem." He watched as the pigeon flew far and out of sight. "I will amend the world best I can, with the time I am given."
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