Umar had allowed himself to be captured to save the life of a fellow Assassin, Ahmad Sofian, who had also participated in the mission and had been forced to give up Umar's name. Altaïr lost his father at a young age, when the latter was executed by the forces of Saladin following a disastrous mission to assassinate the ruler. Alongside Ezio, he is typically considered the face of the franchise and one of its most popular characters, leading to several crossover appearances outside the Assassin's Creed series.Īltaïr was born on 11 January 1165 in Masyaf, Nizari state, to Umar Ibn-La'Ahad, an Arab Muslim Assassin, and his Christian wife, Maud, who died of complications during childbirth. However, some have criticized his lack of backstory in the first game, as well as Philip Shahbaz's vocal performance.
The character has been generally well received, with praise for Altaïr's skills as an Assassin and personal growth. Altaïr died in 1257 inside his library, which wouldn't be opened until centuries later, in 1512, by the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Near the end of his life, Altaïr ensured the Brotherhood's continued existence in secrecy by splitting it into several smaller guilds across the globe, and built a library underneath the Masyaf Castle to store his knowledge and his most powerful artifact: the Apple of Eden, which he had dedicated most of his life to protecting and studying. During his later journeys, he also made several important discoveries that would benefit future generations of Assassins and further establish Altaïr as a legendary figure in the history of the Brotherhood.
After being forced to kill Al Mualim for betraying the Assassins, Altaïr succeeded him and reformed the Brotherhood, seeing how corrupted it had become.
Altaïr was born to Assassin parents in 1165, a time when the Brotherhood did not operate in secrecy, and was raised and trained by the Assassins' leader, Al Mualim, after his parents' death. Within the series' alternate historical setting, Altaïr is a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, a fictional organization inspired by the Order of Assassins, depicted in the games as fighting against the Templar Order to safeguard peace and humanity's free will for most of recorded history. His later appearances include the spin-offs Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles and Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines, which also feature him as the protagonist, and the sequels Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Revelations, in which he is playable only during certain sequences. He first appears as the main playable character of the original Assassin's Creed game, which takes place during the Third Crusade in 1191. Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of AssassinsĪltaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad ( Arabic: الطائر ابن لا أحد, meaning "The Bird, Son of No One") is a fictional character in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed video game series.
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