Priest (Animi Avatar)

For other uses, see Priest (disambiguation). "Brother Ristoro vowed a life of piety and poverty, but practiced neither."

- Ubisoft Description

The Priest (real name: Brother Ristoro) is a multiplayer character available in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood who, despite his religious vows, was described as a paranoid and dangerous man. He uses a Holy Dagger as his weapon, which has a blade that is able to retract into the hilt.

Unique Moves
Sacrificial Strike (Low Profile, Back)

The Priest walks up to his target from behind and removes his holy dagger, before lifting his weapon up high and driving it down into the base of his victim's neck, causing them to go limp as their nervous system is punctured, and fall to the ground, slowly dying.

Harbouring Penance (Low Profile, Front ) 

The Priest casually walks up to his target, before stealthily removing his holy dagger and bending forward, thrusting the blade of his weapon upward into his victim's abdomen, through their ribcage and puncturing their heart, killing them instantly.

Paying Respects (High Profile, Front) 

The Priest runs up to his target and knees them forcefully in the stomach, winding them and causing them to bend forward as they try to regain air. He then removes his holy dagger and stabs downward, piercing the vertebrae at the base of the spine and sending his victim crumpling to the floor, heavily paralysed and bleeding out.

Kneel Down and Pray (High Profile, Back)

Similar to the Sacrificial Strike, the Priest knees the back of his target's legs, before removing his holy dagger one-handedly and stabbing it in between his victim's shoulder blades, piercing their nervous system and leaving them to die as they fall forward, paralysed.

Delivering Mass (Bench Kill)

The Priest walks up to his seated target and grabs them by the back of their head, before forcing it down so they are leaning forward, facing the floor. He then removes his holy dagger from its case and mercilessly stabs them in between their shoulder blades, paralysing them and sending them slumping to the floor, where they would die later from exsanguination (blood loss).

Judgement Upon High (Aerial Kill) 

The Priest leaps from above a rooftop, onto his target, before taking out his holy dagger. As he lands on the victim, he sinks the blade of his weapon into their upper back, before pulling his dagger out of his target's body and leaving them on the floor for dead.

Customization
Colors: Gear:
 * Basic: Pale White
 * Extra 1: Red
 * Extra 2: Blue
 * Extra 3: Green
 * Advanced: Added hood (not worn), given a black undershirt visible at neck, added gold trim around black stripe of top, bottom of robes are now black with gold trim, bottom now consists to two parts buttoned together.
 * Superior: The small wooden cross necklace is replaced with a larger golden cross necklace, embedded with 3 red rubies, the right arm has a shorter sleeve and an altered glove, and the clothing beneath the top is changed to black with golden trims to match the bottom of the robe, with the belt and left glove being given a gold trim.
 * Elite: Added a golden stole around shoulders that extends below the waist.

Trivia

 * While the Priest's picture shows him wielding a crucifix as a weapon, the Priest in-game actually uses a weapon similar to a gravity knife. This differs from the other characters, as their concept art shows them wielding their current weapons.
 * The Priest's Sacrificial Strike is reminiscent of human sacrificial rites throughout the ancient world, such as those of the Mayan and Aztecan cultures.
 * A similar move to the Sacrificial Strike is performed by Ezio Auditore if he attacks an unarmed enemy with a short blade.

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