Aguilar's Hidden Blades

Aguilar’s hidden blades were a pair of weapons use by the Spanish Assassin Aguilar de Nerha, and later his descendant Callum Lynch.

Design
Aguilar’s hidden blades were standard issue among the Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The left blade included a grappling hook mechanism that allowed him to save himself and Ahmed of Granada from falling to their deaths. Moorish detailing was engraved throughout the entirety of each blade.

Creation
Aguilar’s hidden blades were constructed specifically for the Assassin the night that he was inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood in 1492. Aguilar received his blades from his romantic partner María after having his ring finger ceremoniously severed.

Rescuing the Prince
Later, the Spanish Assassins tried to ensure the safety of Prince Ahmed of Granada, the son of Sultan Muhammad XII of Granada, whom the Templars, ordered by Tomás de Torquemada and led by Torquemada’s second-in-command Ojeda, were searching for in order to use as a ransom for the Apple of Eden they knew to be in the Sultan's possession. Together with María, their mentor Benedicto, and a number of other Assassins, Aguilar ambushed a Templar force led by Ojeda in a small Andalusian village where the Prince had been hiding.

Aguilar launched the ambush, killing one of Ojeda’s lieutenants from above. He used his hidden blades as his primary weapons, fighting against Ojeda’s men as they loaded the young Prince into a carriage. Aguilar and María hijacked the carriage, with María coaching. However, María was thrown from the carriage, forcing Aguilar to grab the boy and launch a grappling hook from his primary blade in order to prevent the two from falling off of a cliff to their deaths. This allowed Ojeda to capture Aguilar, María, Ahmed, and Benedicto.

Escape through Seville
Following their arrest, the surviving Assassins were transported to Seville, where they were denounced as heretics and sentenced to be burned at the stake by Torquemada. In the presence of the king of Aragon and Queen of Castilla  Aguilar watched as Ojeda lit the pyre beneath Benedicto’s feet, burning him alive. Despite this, however, Aguilar was able to escape his bonds and engaged the Templars as they closed in. He eventually managed to also free María and together, the two Assassins made their escape through the streets of Sevilla. They were unable to use their hidden blades, as they were confiscated by Inquisitor Templars.

Retrieving the Apple
Through unknown circumstances, Aguilar and Maria were able to reclaim their hidden blades. On 2 January 1492, at the urging of the Italian Assassin, Ezio Auditore da Firenze—who also happened to be in Spain at the time—Muhammad XII surrendered his capital, Granada, to Torquemada's forces. As the Templars entered the city both Aguilar and María made their way to the Sultan's palace, where they stood watch as the Sultan reluctantly handed over the Apple in exchange for his son's safety before they made their move.

Dropping smoke bombs into the room, both Assassins quickly eliminated many of the Templars, before Aguilar captured Torquemada and claimed the Apple, holding Tarquemada at blade-point. Unfortunately for the Assassin, however, Ojeda had managed to apprehend María. Ojeda promised to release his captive once Aguilar returned the Apple to Torquemada; Aguilar reluctantly agreed, but before he could act, he witnessed María take her own life with Ojeda's blade to prevent him from betraying the Creed to save her life.

Enraged, Aguilar attacked Ojeda, wounding Tarquemada, but was gradually overcome by his opponent's sheer strength. It was only after he had been knocked to the ground that Aguilar managed to gain the upper hand, using María's launchable Hidden Blade to attack Ojeda and render him defenseless to Aguilar's strikes. Aguilar killed Ojeda, driving both of his blades into the Templar’s throat. With Ojeda dead, a heavily wounded Aguilar was forced to make his escape through the tunnels beneath the palace as Torquemada opened the locked door of the room to the rest of his men.

When Aguilar died in 1526, his blades were buried with him. Centuries later, Abstergo-employed archaeologists claimed the blades from Aguilar’s tomb, with them later being given to Aguilar’s descendent Callum Lynch to increase his synchronization within the Animus.

After joining the Assassins, Callum used these blades to fight against his Templar captors.

Trivia

 * Despite the fact that Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad redesigned the Hidden Blade to eliminate the necessity of removing one's ring finger, Aguilar still undergoes the process per the traditionalist customs of the Spanish Brotherhood.

Appearances

 * Assassin's Creed: The Movie
 * Assassin's Creed: The Official Movie Novelization
 * Assassin's Creed: Rebellion