Piri Reis

Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri (1468 - 1555), more commonly known as Piri Reis, was a sea captain and cartographer. He was also secretly a Master Assassin who specialized in bomb crafting.

Early life
At one point during his mid-teen years, Piri traveled with his uncle Kemal Reis, a Turkish pirate who mainly roamed around the edges of the Ottoman Empire. Together, they turned their passion into a profession by joining Sultan Bayezid's navy some time during the 1490s.

Cartographer
After spending two decades traveling, Piri chose to make something more of his tranquil occupation, and thus became a cartographer. He established his own studio within the Grand Bazaar and began studying and drawing out the progress of other countries, and his maps were said to be "rendered in minute detail."

By 1511, Piri had developed into a master mapmaker, and had also become a Master Assassin in Constantinople's Assassins Guild, specializing in bomb-crafting. That same year, Ezio Auditore da Firenze visited Constantinople, and established contact with the Guild. Befriending him, Piri taught Ezio how to craft bombs.

Death
Piri Reis was publicly beheaded by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I.

Characteristics and personality
Piri was an intelligent and witty man, who would appear disgruntled if interrupted.

Trivia

 * In Assassin's Creed II: Discovery, Christoffa Corombo's atlas contains a Piri Reis map, which was rescued from Templar hands by Ezio.
 * In one of the contracts in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy, Piri is not portrayed as an Assassin. Instead, a group of Italian Assassins traveled to Constantinople and secretly stole some of Piri's maps, after which they founded an Assassins Guild in the city.