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The 10 LEAST Historically Accurate Assassinations in Assassin's Creed
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12/7/2024
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Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're looking at which Assassin's Creed deaths took too
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many liberties with the truth.
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Robert de Sable, Assassin's Creed It's difficult to verify many of the events
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of the first Assassin's Creed game, but we do know some things for sure.
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Primarily, we know that Robert de Sable, the game's big villain, actually died in completely
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the wrong year.
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He died in 1193, not 1191, as the game would suggest.
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He actually wasn't even a Templar at all until 1192.
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And like with most Crusaders, we also don't know how he died specifically, nor how old
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he was, only that he likely died in battle.
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But this isn't Ubisoft being lazy.
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Their alternate history is thought through, with the game claiming that he died at the
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Battle of Arsuf in 1191, which ended in a victory for the Christians.
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Carlo Grimaldi, Assassin's Creed 2 This is the only entry on our list that concerns
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the assassination of a fictional character, but it's so outlandish that we had to include
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it.
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This is the infamous assassination mission where Ezio enlists the help of Leonardo da
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Vinci and his prototype flying machine.
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Avoiding archers and following the bonfires, he flies over Venice to infiltrate the Doge's
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palace from above, assassinating Grimaldi, who's himself successfully assassinated
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the current Doge.
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Ezio then goes on to assassinate many more important Venetian leaders, as this was a
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period when the Republic of Venice was in turmoil.
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But almost certainly, da Vinci's flying machines weren't involved in this.
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Not in the least because most of his designs wouldn't have worked.
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Mirabeau, Assassin's Creed Unity He's the leader of the Parisian Assassins,
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but was also a crucial and extremely popular figure during the French Revolution.
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At least until people found out he'd been secretly working for the King the entire time
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to try and implement a constitutional monarchy.
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In the game though, he's poisoned by Bellic after wanting to renew the truce between the
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Assassins and Templars.
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Arno and Bellic fight to the death following this betrayal, with Bellic viewing Mirabeau
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as a traitor.
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In real life, Mirabeau wasn't assassinated at all.
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He became increasingly ill because of pericarditis, caused by hard living in his younger days
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and died of natural causes in 1791.
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David Brewster, Assassin's Creed Syndicate He was an influential Scottish academic primarily
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concerned with early photography and invented the kaleidoscope.
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But in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, he's a Templar given the Apple of Eden, tasked
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with unraveling its secrets and learning how to use it.
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He's also Evie's first assassination target.
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While she successfully assassinates him, the consequence is that the Apple of Eden explodes,
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infuriating other Assassins.
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There isn't actually much information on how Brewster died, only that it was in 1868.
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But we sincerely doubt that anybody wanted to assassinate him or that his death caused
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a lab explosion.
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It's true though that he had a feud with Charles Darwin, since he didn't agree with
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the theory of evolution.
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William Johnson, Assassin's Creed III During the colonial period, William Johnson
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was a crucial part of Britain's military operations in the American frontier, and learned
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multiple Native American languages to serve as an envoy between British forces and indigenous
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people.
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In Assassin's Creed III, he's working with the Templars, and the Assassins and Native
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American tribes believe that Johnson is actually working against their interests.
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Connor assassinates him in his Grand Mansion, and Johnson says that he always intended to
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protect the tribes.
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In real life, Johnson simply died of a stroke, but that doesn't have the drama of an assassination.
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He also generally did protect Native tribes in reality, but at the same time, became very
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wealthy by doing so.
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The Earl of Cardigan, Assassin's Creed Syndicate
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Another bombastic assassination from Syndicate, this is one of the very last ones the Fry
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Twins are asked to pull off.
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Jacob sneaks into the House of Parliament, posing as Frederick Aberlein, and assassinates
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Cardigan in a secret meeting room.
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In real life, none of this happened.
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He didn't even die in London.
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He actually died of injuries sustained while falling off a horse in Northamptonshire.
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Interestingly, Cardigan is the last target, while Brewster is the first, suggesting that
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the entire events of Assassin's Creed Syndicate take place over only one month.
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Cesare Borgia, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
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He's a memorable villain and a worthy opponent for Ezio, fleeing Rome after his control of
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the city is weakened.
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In the game, Cesare remains a formidable soldier and commander until the very last, falling
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in battle to Ezio.
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But that's not how it happened in real life.
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He was increasingly ill during his later years, and slowly lost power following the death
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of his father.
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He did die in Navarre, Spain, as in the game, but not honorably during battle.
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He was actually ambushed by a group of enemy knights who brutally killed him, stripped
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him naked, and left him on the ground.
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Ezio didn't stoop that low in brotherhood, thankfully.
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Cesare was buried in Navarre, and his remains are still there to this day.
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Pericles, Assassin's Creed Odyssey
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Halfway through Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Athens is in the grip of its infamous
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and mysterious plague.
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The plague struck in 430 BC, and historians still disagree about exactly what the disease
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was.
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But tens of thousands of Athenians died, and among them was Pericles, the city's leader
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and well-respected statesman.
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In the game, Pericles does contract the plague and begin to grow weaker, but it's not what
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ultimately kills him.
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He ends up being assassinated by Deimos with the aim to destroy the Athenian state completely.
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In both versions, he wasn't alone in his death, and it's believed that his death
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did lead to Athens losing the Peloponnesian War overall.
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Charles Gabriel Sievert, Assassin's Creed Unity
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He's not that well known of a figure outside of France, but he was heavily involved in
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France's 18th century wars in the North Atlantic, which players of Assassin's Creed Rogue will
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be familiar with.
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He ended up retiring from the military and dying in 1791.
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In Unity, however, not only is Sievert a Templar, but he's extremely involved in the French
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Revolution.
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Bruno tracks him down to Notre Dame de Paris, and if you unlock the unique kill, stabs him
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in the head through the screen of the confessional.
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This absolutely didn't happen.
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Not in the least because Sievert didn't even die in Paris.
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He died in Versailles, miles away from Notre Dame.
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Charles the Fat, Assassin's Creed Valhalla
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In real life, Charles the Fat, who had no rightful heir, was ultimately deposed following
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long periods of sickness and weak rule, with various people vying for control of his empire.
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We don't actually know exactly how he was deposed, but he did die in January in the
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year 888 AD after less than seven years as Emperor.
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But though we don't know everything, the events of Assassin's Creed Valhalla are still
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largely inaccurate, because Eivor is given the choice of whether to kill or spare him
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after a boss fight.
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Though even if you do spare him, he still dies a few weeks later.
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Bizarrely, sparing Charles' life requires periodically setting him on fire and then
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locking him in a different room, which we doubt is even remotely realistic.
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Let us know in the comments which Assassin's Creed game you think had the most fun assassination
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missions.
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