Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad/Bio & Battles

Altair Ibn-La'Ahad was a highly revered member of the Levantine Assassins during the Third Crusades, and an ancestor of Desmond Miles. Altair was once an arrogant and brash Assassin, throwing aside the typical rules and suited them to his own liking. This was changed, however, when in an attempt to retrieve a mystical item from the Temple of Solomon was thwarted by Templar Robert de Sable, who then launched an attack on Masyaf and murdered Kadar Al-Sayf. Al Mualim pretended to murder Altair but really stripped him of all ranks and his weapons, making him little more than a novice. From there, Al Mualim assigned Altair to hunt down 9 Templars that continued to fuel the fires that kept the Crusades alive. Altair succeeded, in doing so discovering that Al Mualim himself was a Templar that wanted to be rid of his com Altair, after a lengthy battle, defeated his former Mentor in combat and ascended as Mentor of the Assassins.

From there, Altair completely revolutionized the way of the Assassin Order. Once a highly decorated group, the Assassins began to blend, shrouding themselves in secrecy and deception. Altair, as Mentor, kick-started the secretive style of the Assassins. During a mission with Chinese Assassins to halt advances of Genghis Khan, Altair's son was murdered by Abbas, a former friend. When Altair demanded to know why Abbas sent the former Mentor into exile for many years after killing his wife Maria Thorpe as well.

Altair hid in the desert for many years, slowly allowing the Apple of Eden he had taken from Al Mualim to give Altair knowledge in letting him return to Masyaf. Returning, he found that many  Assassins had begun to slouch about their duties and Creed, resorting even to petty theft and murder of those they were supposed to protect. Confronting Abbas one final time, Altair shot his former friend with a small hand-cannon in his hidden blade and consoled him as he died. Altair remained as Mentor for many years, before sending the Levantine Assassins out to join others to their cause. Being the only one left in the fort Masyaf, Altair died peacefully in his library and leaving his Apple for Ezio Auditore da Firenze to find.

Battle vs. Garret (Thief 1998) (by Death'sapprentice77)
Altair is wandering through the streets of Jerusalem amidst a crowd. An arrow whizzes past him striking the ground causing the crowd to go mad with panic. Altair looks up and sees that the shooter, Garret, is up on the roofs and Altair gives chase as Garret runs away. Altair Sees that Garret is within the range of his throwing knives and throws one but misses. Garret drops into the crowd and Altair looks around and catches Garret running into an alley. Altair draws his sword and walks into the alley.

Little does he know Garret is sneaking up on him with his Blackjack ready to strike. Fortunately for Altair, he hears his footsteps and whips around and strikes at Garret with the butt of his sword but Garret ducks and hits Altair in the gut with his Blackjack Altair backs off giving the thief enough time to draw Constantine&apos;s Sword and the two begin to trade off blows. Garret gets the upper hand and disarms Altair and Altair draws his short blade and slashes his arm causing Garret to drop his weapon and Garret Draws his dagger and stabs at Altair but he dodges and the two trade off blows and Garret slashes Altair&apos;s leg and arm causing him to scream in pain and drop the blade. Altair runs off and Garret pursues. Garret looks around in confusion and realizes he&apos;s lost him he passes by a stand unaware that Altair is hiding behind it. The assassin jumps out from behind the stand but Garret notices to late and Altair stabs him through the throat with his hidden blade. The thief slumps over dead and Altair runs off to retrieve his equipment and find his assassination target.

WINNER: ALTAIR

Expert's Opinion
The reason Altair won was because all of his weapons were designed to kill the hidden blade was designed to kill where as the Blackjack could only incapacitate.

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Battle vs. Karim (by SPARTAN 119)
Karim entered a room in the Ancient Persian temple known as the Forbidden City, to see a zombie wielding a European-style broadsword climb down a ladder at the other end of the the room. Karim raised his Ram Dao and charged at the "zombie".

But the "zombie" was not a zombie, but Middle Eastern Assassin named Altair Ibn La&apos;Ahad, looking like a zombie thanks to the blow to Karim&apos;s sanity delivered by the minions of the Ancients. Altair blocked the blow of from Karim&apos;s sword and countered with a strike that grazed Karim&apos;s arm.

The two warriors each took a powerful swing at each other at the same time, knocking each others weapons away. Karim drew his tulwar as the "zombie" that was actually Altair drew his short blade. The two weapons clashed for several seconds, Karim&apos;s sword grazed Altair, wounding him.

Altair jumped back, throwing three knives at Karim. Karim dodged two of the throwing knives and blocking the third with tulwar, before throwing a chakram at Altair, only for the bladed ring to miss and bounce off the stone wall.

Altair lunged at Karim with his short blade, knocking the tulwar out of Karim&apos;s hand. Karim grabbed a flaming torch and set fire to Altair&apos;s clothing, but he rolled away with amazing agility, extinguishing the flames as he went.

Altair threw another knife, hitting Karim in the thigh, wounding him, before Altair lunged at Karim, stabbing him the chest with his hidden blade. Karim fell to the floor, dead.

But it was not the end of for Karim. Altair stared in shock as a ghostly form of Karim rose from his body.

"I apologize for my actions in life. I was blinded by the darkness in this place", the ghost of Karim said.

"What do you mean, darkness that resides in this place", Altair asked.

"What I knew now in life, I have learned in death. An artifact of an ancient evil lies hidden in the temple, bringing insanity who visit and filling the temple with horrific creatures", Karim said, "It must never leave this place, but I need you&apos;re help to dispatch the creatures within... BEHIND YOU!".

Altair turned on the spot and picked up his sword from the floor as a creature with a praying-mantis-like stance, sword-like arms, and a head like a dogs, only it seemed to lack fur. The creature lunged at Altair, but he managed to impale it on his sword, killing it. Behind the creature, a pair of zombies advanced on Altair.

Altair drew his short blade and dual wielded it with his sword, slashing and thrusting at the zombies, cutting off limbs and heads. The zombies survived decapitation, but fell when their arms were severed. The zombies kept writhing on the floor, however, so Altair finished each of them with his hidden blade.

Suddenly, the ground shook as a giant monster broke down the wall to the room. The creature was about 10 feet tall, with three heads, and massive arms tipped in sharp claws. The creature fired a beam of energy, which Altair rolled out of the way of and dodged, before throwing two knives and one of Karim&apos;s chakrams at the creature, taking out each head, killing the beast.

In the next room was the chamber containing the artifact.

"This is where we part ways", Karim said, "I will continue to guard the artifact. You should leave this place, do not speak of it, for there are many who seek its location, for which to do evil".

Altair left the ghost of Karim in the chamber to guard the artifact, and began the trip out of the temple.

WINNER: ALTAIR

Expert's Opinion
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Battle vs. Aragorn (by Greenberet69)
In the land of Gondor at the White city known as Minas Tirith the High king of Gondor Aragorn II Elessar calmly sits on the throne when 4 soldiers of Gondor (2 regular infantry, and 2 tower guards) enter the room.

"My Lord we have reports that those strange men that we helped a couple of days ago are dead." One of the Gondor soldiers say

"How are they dead was word not sent out that these men meant us no harm." Aragorn said

"Yes sir but according to some villagers who were nearby when the men were killed they said that they saw 5 white robed strange men near them." The Gondor soldier said.

Meanwhile at the Gates of Minas Tirith two Gondor guards are on guard on the wall when one of them hears something and goes to investigate. He looks over the side of the wall and gets pulled down, the other Gondor soldier goes to investigate when he is struck in the throat by a knife. Just then a 4 Assassins scale over the wall and their leader the new Assassins Grandmaster Altair Ibn-La&apos;Ahad jumps down and pulls out his throwing knife from the dead soldier.

"Alright men remember why we are here." Altair says

"We are here to assassinate the king of this land for assisting the Templars Grandmaster." One of the Assassins say

"Right now lets go!" Altair says and the 5 Assassins perform a leap of faith into 5 haystacks below.

The Assassins walk up the the eight floors of Minas Tirith and arrive at the White Tree and see the Tower Guards all over the grounds, Altair signals his men and they prepare their weapons and silently walk to the Tower Guards. In the Throne Room Aragorn and his men are discussing the deaths of the strange men, when the door quickly opens up and a tower guard is seen running towards Aragorn yelling

"My King, My king were under attack, were under..."

The tower guard falls down dead with a knife through his throat and Aragorn and his men look up to see Altair and his 4 Assassins with their swords with blood and all of the soldiers outside dead. Aragorn and his men draw their weapons

"Who are you?" Aragorn asks

"My name is of no importance to you, you must die for helping the Templars." Altair says

"Listen stranger I don&apos;t know who these Templars are but I will defend myself if I have to." Aragorn says

Altair raises his hand and the Assassins take out their throwing knives and throw them at Aragorn and his men

"SHIELDS!" Aragorn says

and the Gondor soldiers raise their shields and the knives bounce right off of them.

"Protect the king!" one of the Tower Guards yell

The Gondor soldiers charge at the Assassins and Altair and his men charge at the Gondor soldiers and Aragorn. Aragorn runs back to the throne chair to get his weapons and while Altair and 3 of the Assassins engage the Gondor soldiers one of the other Assassins goes right by them and charges at Aragorn. Aragorn grabs his Bow and Arrow and fires at the Assassin but the Assassin dodges the arrow but Aragorn quickly looses another arrow and strikes the Assassin in the knee but it doesn&apos;t stop him. Aragorn grabs his sword Anduril and his Dagger and charges at the Assassin. The Assassin draws his sword but Aragorn is able to hit the sword up and stabs the Assassin in the chest. Altair meanwhile is engaging one of the Tower Guards and while the Tower Guard is able to keep Altair away with his spear but Altair dodges a jab with the spear, grabs it and follows with a stab to the neck with his Short Blade. The other Assassins and Gondor soldiers continue to fight, one of the Assassins fighting a regular Gondor infantry soldier strikes with his sword but is blocked by the Gondor soldiers shield but is able to dodge when the Gondor soldier tries to stab him and kicks the Gondor soldier back onto his back and tries to stab but is blocked again with the shield, the Assassin is able to hold the sword down with his foot and uses his other hand to sheath his Hidden Blade and the Gondor soldier stares in horror as he is stabbed in the neck by the Hidden Blade. One of the other Assassins is fighting a Tower Guard when the Tower Guard knocks back the Assassin with his shield and stabs the Assassin with his spear. Altair and his last two Assassins take retreat back outside and Aragorn and the Gondor soldiers follow and engage again. Aragorn duels with another Assassin and gains the upper hand when he kicks the Assassin&apos;s sword out of his hand and is able to slash across the Assassin and blood begins to cover his white cloak and the Assassin tosses a throwing knife at Aragorn who is able to parry it and retaliates by throwing his dagger at the Assassin and striking him in the heart. Altair and his Assassin fight together against the Gondor infantry soldier and Tower Guard but the Tower Guard is able to stab the Assassin with his spear injuring him and the Gondor infantry soldier finishes the Assassin off with a stab to the chest. Altair retreats back as Aragorn joins his men

"Give it up, your outnumbered 3 to 1." Aragorn says

"Trust me I&apos;ve been in worser situations then this and gotten out without a scratch" Altair says.

Altair charges at Aragorn and his men and the soldiers form a wall to protect Aragorn but Altair takes out his Short Blade and a Throwing knife and while he tosses the throwing knife at the Tower Guard striking him in the face and he is able to stab the leg of the Gondor Infantry soldier and follows up with a stab to the neck after getting behind him. Aragorn watches as the two bodies of the soldiers fall down with Altair not gaining a scratch. Aragorn prepares Anduril with Altair preparing his Sword and the two charge at each other and the two swords collide. Altair kicks Aragorn back to end the lock and charges at Aragorn who blocks a strike from Altair and headbutts him in the face and tries to stab Altair but Altair is able to dodge the stab and follows with a slash to Aragorn&apos;s leg which cuts him and sends Aragorn kneeling down but he quickly gets back up. Aragorn proceeds to cut Altair on the back but Altair resists the pain and the two lock swords again. They each try to gain the upper hand but neither of them give up their ground until Altair breaks the lock and starts running to the edge of the courtyard. Aragorn gives chase but before his eyes Altair performs a leap of faith at the end of the floor and looks down and to his amazement he sees as Altair falls to the level below and safetly land in a bail of haystacks and gets out with trouble. Aragorn goes down to the level that he saw Altair land in the haystack and starts walking through however the people of Gondor make it hard to see Altair who is actually behind Aragorn and uses his Eagle Vision to keep track of Aragorn. Aragorn notices a white robed person enter a nearby house and goes to investigate, when he gets inside Aragorn quickly stabs the white robed person and the person drops dead. Thinking it&apos;s Altair Aragorn removes the hood only to realize that it was actually one of the citizens and just as he gets up and turns around he is face to face with Altair who unsheaths his Hidden Blade and stabs Aragorn in the neck. Altair peacefully lowers Aragorn to the floor and closes the High King of Gondor&apos;s eyes to let him rest in peace. Altair then gets up and walks out of the house and leaves Middle-Earth and heads back to the Holy Lands.

Winner: Altair

Expert's Opinion
This was by far a very close match-up. Both of these warriors were master Swordsman but in the end it was Altair who won the day for having been trained since he was a kid, his mastery in Stealth and Tactics, his more well trained soldiers and his skills with the Hidden Blade.

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Battle vs. Prince Dastan (by Cfp3157)
''"Dastan. After your success in Alamut, I want you to lead the assault on a distant city called Jerusalem." said Sharaman as he walked through the city with Dastan. "With pleasure, my king." he replies. Dastan walks to his horse and leads his men to battle. He easily defeats the Sacrean defenders and kills their leader, Salahdin. Meanwhile....''

''Abbas Sofian runs into Altair's study. "My...Master." he says the last word with a grudge." The city of Jerusalem has been overtaken by fierce warriors. Salahdin was killed in the battle." Altair looks at Abbas. "I will take four fellow assassins and kill their leader. Be gone."''

The Battle:

Dastan: 12345

Altair: 12345

Dastan and four Persian soldiers are patrolling the city. Altair and four fellow assassins are watching from the rooftops. Altair raises his hand, and one assassin does a leap of faith to a pile of hay on the ground. Another two drop into the crowd below. Altair and the last assassin take the direct approach. "Please, leave this city at once." he yells at Dastan. "Says who?" he yells back. "The Assassins." Altair shouts as he throws a throwing knife into the throat iof the man beside Dastan.

Dastan: 1234

Altair: 12345

Before the two can advance, Dastan's archer shoots an arrow into the head of the assassin beside Altair.

Dastan: 1234

Altair: 1234

Before the archer can do any more damage, the assassin in the hay bale jumps from his cover and kills him with his Short Blade.

Dastan: 123

Altair: 1234

Dastan, who has been fighting another assassin, thinks their may be more assassins. He quickly thrusts the Sword of the Mighty Warrior into the chest of the assassin as he flees.

Dastan: 123

Altair: 123

Altair and his men take to the rooftops to follow the Persians. An assassin, not really thinking, sees a Persian and air assassinates him with his Hidden Blade. As he starts to get up, he sees Dastan's last soldier swing his Airyaman, decapitating the assassin.

Dastan: 12

Altair: 12

The two remaining assassins drop behind the Persians and close the eyes of their comrade. They then continue running. As they turn the corner, Altair quickly rolls under a swing from the Airyaman and slices the legs of the Persian soldier. He then finishes the kill with the Sword of Altair.

Dastan: 1

Altair: 12

Dastan dodges a swing from the assassin and thrusts the Dagger of Time into the his heart.

Dastan: 1

Altair: 1

The two legends draw their swords and fight like very skilled wild animals. Altair, thinking of something, parries a slash and moves in. Dastan, stunned, get a Hidden Blade to the throat. As he lays their and dies, he presses the button on the Dagger and goes back to the beginning of the dual. He now knows what Altair is going to do. As Altair moves in for the original kill strike, Dastan dodges the Hidden Blade and slashes Altair's throat with the Sword of the Mighty Warrior.

Dastan: 1

Altair:

The Prince raises his sword in the air and yells loudly in victory.

Expert's Opinion
The reason Dastan won was because of the fact that he could reverse time and counter Altair's initial kill blows. This allowed him to win every time. While Altair was a better warrior, he simply couldn't compete with that.

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