Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang, personal name Ying Zheng (259 BCE - 210 BCE) was the emperor of China and the founder of the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shi Huang was also the one who started great projects such as the Great Wall of China and the Mausoleum, which acted as his tomb, guarded by a life-sized Terracota Army. All of this was built by his own civilians and soldiers. Shi Huang controlled their minds with the Piece of Eden. It is unknown how he came in possession with the it, but they suspect that he took it from the Chinese Emperor Zhou when he conquered the Zhou dynasty. Many innocents were killed during his construction of the Great Wall of China. For breaking one of the three tenets of The Creed, the Assassin Order tried to poison him with mercury for years. But the Piece of Eden protected him from the poison.

Finally Qin Shi Huang was killed by Assassin Wei Yu, who stabbed him with a spear.

Trivia

 * Qin Shi Huang was the target of several assassination attempts in real life. When he was still King of Qin, Jing Ke tried to kill him with a dagger and the blind musician Gao Jianli also attempted to do so with lead pieces in his zhu instrument. As Emperor of Qin, Shi Huangdi was nearly killed by two men hired by Zhang Liang who threw a metal cone at his carriage. The Emperor reportedly died after swallowing mercury pills that were supposed to make him immortal in 210 BCE.