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1257

 * Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad starts sending Assassins away from Masyaf to various location around the world, realizing that Masyaf had become a beacon for their enemies and preferring to see the Assassin Order to be a widespread organization.
 * The Venetian explorers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo travel to Masyaf at the request of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, where they receive Assassin training from the Mentor Altaïr.
 * On 12 August, Hulagu Khan starts besieging the Levantine Assassins' headquarters of Masyaf castle.
 * Niccolò and Maffeo Polo are given Altaïr's Codex and the Masyaf Keys, and escape from Masyaf with the help of the Mentor Altaïr and his son Darim. The Polos lose the Codex to a Mongol attacking party while returning to their hometown of Constantinople.
 * Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad orders his son Darim and the remaining Assassin to leave Masyaf. Darim says farewell to his father before leaving for Alexandria, rejoining his former sister-in-law and her children. Altaïr locks himself up inside his library, hiding the Apple of Eden there and imprinting a sixth Memory Seal he had found before passing away on his throne.