Summary
The colossalAssassin’s Creedseries has seen plenty of killings, with the Order of Assassins taking on historical villains and the Templar institution to bring down the evil overlords. Some of the targets that players have to kill seem to be loosely involved with the Templar plot, or are given time to become more empathetic as the story is fleshed out.
However, many of the killings seem deserved, with truly horrific characters being assassinated in acts of vengeance and justice. Here are the most deserving victims of the Assassins' Brotherhood.
1Silvestro Sabbatini
Slave Trader Templar
Silvestro worked forCesare Borgia as a part of the Templar Order. While in the Borgia’s employ, Sabbatini would traffic ordinary citizens in Rome, kidnapping them and selling them into slavery on other continents.
When Ezio worked to free a group of women and children who were sold into slavery, he encountered Silvestro Sabbatini and killed him. For working to force people into slavery and serving his Borgia masters, Silvestro definitely got what was coming to him.
2Cesare Borgia
Power Hungry Captain-General
The main antagonist ofAssassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Cesare takes advantage of Ezio’s unwillingness to go after meaningless revenge. Killing the population of Monteriggioni and sticking Mario Auditore’s head on a pike, Cesare consistently acted without conscience, only to further his own ambition.
Suppressing the Roman people, having an affair with his sister, killing his father, and having his armies kill countless innocents all add up to make a pretty deserving victim of the Brotherhood.
3Madeleine de L’Isle
Madeleine was a manipulative Templar who rose to the position of Master Templar using subtle plans and by exploiting most of those she came across.Hoping to bring her stepdaughter Avelineinto the order when she found that Aveline had become an assassin, she learned what she could to keep the Templars informed while setting up a huge network of slaves at Chichen Itza.
Madeleine successfully convinced her stepdaughter that she was freeing the slaves, and was slowly poisoning her husband the whole time, resulting in his death. Trying to convince Aveline that she cared for her in her last stand, she was killed by the girl she betrayed.
4Charles Lee
Briefly Grand Master of the Templars
A military man first and foremost, Charles Lee joined the Templar Order under the Grandmaster Haytham Kenway. Throughout his time in the military, he made many questionable decisions and provoked plenty of attacks, including the Boston Massacre alongside his Templar brothers.After a plot to kill George Washington went awry, Charles Lee served under the president, constantly posing a threat to his superior’s position.
When he was captured, he happily gave up information that he thought would result in further losses for Washington. When Haytham was killed by the assassin Connor Kenway, Lee became the Grand Master in his place and vowed to kill Connor and destroy his home and loved ones. Ruthless in his quest for power and frequently lashing out with violent outbursts, Charles Lee was certainly a fitting final kill in Connor’s quest for revenge.
5Gamilat
Making Innocents Into Martyrs
While he is mentioned in theAssassin’s Creed: Originsbase game, Gamilat’s first appearance is actually in theHidden OnesDLC. Leading an army in a fight against the Roman imperialization, Gamilat worked closely with the Hidden Ones - an early branch of the Assassin’s Brotherhood. Gamilat needed more people to join his cause due to their lack of numbers and had his men hide among ordinary people to cause huge skirmishes and the slaughter of civilians.
In his view, this created martyrs and caused more people to join the fight against the invaders. However, Gamilat was undeniably to blame for the deaths of large numbers of innocent people. When Bayek found out what Gamilat had been doing, he fought against the rebel, and with his last breath, Gamilat admitted that what he had done was evil and wished Bayek well.
6Crawford Starrick
Merciless Businessman
An industrial tycoon, Crawford Starrick was the main villain inAssassin’s Creed: Syndicate.In his youth, he learned to manipulate and control people and quickly became both a giant in the railroad business and the Grand Master of the British Templar order. He helped to mass-produce an addictive medicinal syrup that made people more impressionable and sick, pushing it out to the population of London to tighten his control.
He made getting his hands on the Shroud of Eden hidden in London his life’s work, planning to use it to influence the masses even more and become an unseen ruler of the British Empire. Unfortunately for him, the twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye killed him after he acquired the artifact.
7Jack The Ripper
Notorious Serial Killer
Crawford Starrick’s men killed Jack the Ripper’s mother in theAssassin’s Creeduniverse. He was abused in an Asylum, and when he left was quickly ushered into the Assassin’s Brotherhood. However, his twisted mentality led him to take over part of the Brotherhood from assassin Jacob Frye and rule over Whitechapel as a criminal overlord. Quickly plunging Whitechapel into filth, overseeing crime, sex work, and killings, Jack would kidnap innocents to use their wellbeing to blackmail anyone he chose.
While the first prostitutes that Jack killed were assassins in disguise, Jack then went on to become an infamous serial killer across the world for his repeated mutilation and murder of sex workers in London.Although he wanted to recruit Evie Frye, leading her to him meant that she had an opportunity to kill the madman and end his spree.
8Juan Borgia The Elder
Indulgent Borgia Banker
Juan served under his uncle’s rule, working alongside his cousin Cesare to take complete control of Rome. After he was put in charge of the finances of Rome, Juan would throw large parties at the expense of the Roman people. Part of the attack on Monteriggioni, Juan took Caterina Sforza captive and left with her in his control. His expensive tastes would lead Ezio to find him in Rome, where he was throwing an elegant pagan party where the guests could act debaucherous with little consequence.
Here, Juan strangled a courtesan purely to prove that he was powerful enough to do so in public without fear of punishment. Ezio assassinated him to take out the finances of the Borgias, but Juan is one of the few victims of the Brotherhood who died with no regret and a level of pride in what he accomplished in his lifetime.
9Il Carnefice
Executing With Pleasure and Pride
Perhaps one of the least established characters, who is given very little humanity, Il Carnefice is best described with a list of his crimes. Executing innocent people at the request of Cesare Borgia to keep the people of Rome frightened, he enjoyed every kill that he performed for his masters. He would leave victims hanging and threaten family members who interfered with their corpses with their own execution.
Ezio found “The Butcher” bragging about his kills and assassinated him before he could inflict more pain on the people of Rome. Tellingly, the Templars of Abstergo used a simulation of his memories in the Animus to train new soldiers to find pleasure in their killing.
10Francois-Thomas Germain
Templar Reformist
Francois-Thomas Germain used the French Revolution as a way to come down on the French people. The aim of the Templar Order was to cause as much anarchy as possible and force the people to never rise up again in the future. Tracking down a piece of Eden to secure his rule, he also went as far as to cut off the population of Paris from food so that they would execute the king.
He aimed to manipulate the direction that humanity as a whole traveled in. A master schemer, Germain faked his death beforeengineering his way to the top of the Templar organization. His plotting and his murder of Elise de la Serre eventually lead to his death at the hands of Elise’s lover, the assassin Arno Dorian. In his last moments, Germain told Arno that his plan had worked and the changes he had planned to enact were already taking place.
