Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Assassin's Creed character
First appearance	Assassin's Creed (2007)
Created by	Ubisoft
Voiced by	Philip Shahbaz (Assassin's Creed) Cas Anvar (Revelations)
Portrayed by	Francisco Randez

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (Arabic: الطائر ابن لا أحد‎‎, meaning "The Flying Eagle, Son of Nobody") is a fictional character in the Assassin's Creed series. He serves as the main protagonist of Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles and Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines. Altaïr also shares the role as protagonist in Assassin's Creed: Revelations with Ezio Auditore da Firenze and is playable once in Assassin's Creed II. He was generally well received by critics and gamers alike, although Philip Shahbaz's voice-over performance was widely derided.

Altaïr is an ancestor (on the maternal side) of Desmond Miles, a modern-day assassin. He killed his mentor, whom he called his second father, Al Mualim in September 1191 in Masyaf, after discovering his betrayal. Using the Apple of Eden he seemed to know the future, as he uses a small firearm to kill Abbas Sofian in 1247, long before guns were invented. He lived from 1165 to 1257, and his remains were found in the Masyaf castle library by the Florentine Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze in 1512. Though his face can be somewhat seen in the original Assassin's Creed, it is fully revealed in Assassin's Creed: Revelations when he is older.

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (1165–1257) was born to a Syrian-Muslim father, Umar Ibn-La'Ahad, and his wife, Maud, who died of complications during childbirth. Umer was later executed by the forces of Salah ad Din when he was revealed to have participated in a disastrous mission to assassinate the ruler, which resulted in Umar killing a nobleman who had caught him. He allowed himself to be executed and the last thing he heard was the voice of his son crying for him.

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