AC Codex
Portrait of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Allegiance
The Brotherhood
Lived
1165 – 1257
Appears in
4 entries

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

The Eagle of Masyaf — the Creed's first great skeptic

The Brotherhood

Born to the Brotherhood and raised in its fortress, Altaïr was Masyaf's prodigy and its cautionary tale in one body: the finest blade of his generation, ruined for a season by the pride that came with it. The disaster at Solomon's Temple in 1191 stripped him to novice; the nine lives Al Mualim demanded as penance became, target by dying target, an education in doubt. What made him the Creed's true founder was not the killing but the writing — the Codex in which he interrogated every tenet he had inherited, turned the Apple of Eden into a subject of study rather than worship, and remade a warrior sect into a philosophy that could cross oceans and centuries.

The fate

Appearances · 4

  • AC: Altaïr's Chronicles1190 · protagonist

    Younger, prouder, and not yet humbled — the flaws of AC1 in the making

  • Assassin's Creed1191 · protagonist

    Master Assassin broken to novice — the Creed's proudest student and first great skeptic

  • AC: Bloodlines1191 · protagonist

    Weeks after Al Mualim's death — a new Mentor finishing the old war

  • AC Revelations1511–1512 · deuteragonist

    His last sixty years, relived through the Masyaf keys