User blog comment:Mr Ibn-La'Ahad/Who is your favourite AC character?/@comment-5579230-20121207170455/@comment-1153722-20121207230914

His father died when he was 10 and from then he was educated and trained by Reginald Birch... He never was an Assassin. It's like the relation between Giovanni and his sons; they never were Assassins, they were to be informed of their heritage and trained later.