Al Mualim

Rashid ad-Din Sinan, the historical Old Man of the Mountain, ruled Masyaf as the Brotherhood's wisest teacher — and secretly as the tenth Templar of the Solomon's Temple expedition, playing both orders to keep the Apple for himself. His genius was pedagogical: the nine-target penance he set Altaïr was real education, each dying Templar seeding the doubt that would eventually expose him. He believed the Apple could perfect a world too broken for freedom, and made his case in the most honest way available: an illusioned garden, a mind-controlled fortress, and a blade drawn against his best student.