Granada War

"... and so, spurred by their desire to see the kingdom of España united by a single faith, the Inquisitors convinced the Queen and King to drive out the remaining Moors. This is why war rages here in Granada."

- Raphael Sánchez explaining the war to Ezio Auditore

The Granada War, conducted by the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon against the Emirate of Granada, was the last conflict between the Christian kingdoms and the Moors of Iberia. It saw the end of the centuries long period of Spanish history known as the Reconquista, as the Christians extinguished the last of the Muslim states in the peninsula in the hopes of unifying it under their religion.

Crippled by internecine conflicts, the Emirate of Granada rapidly collapsed under the advancing Christian forces, such that by 1491, its territory was reduced to only its capital city of Granada. Defeat by that point seemed inevitable, yet Emir Muhammad XII refused to surrender thanks to the machinations of one of his advisors, secretly a Templar spy.

The Templars dreamed of laying claim to the Americas long before its existence became known to the powers of the Old World. To this end, they aspired to prolong the war indefinitely as a means of exhausting the treasury of Castile and depriving the explorer Christopher Columbus his much needed funds for his own voyage across the Atlantic.

As a result, the Siege of Granada raged for eight months until the intervention of the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who rescued the emir from the trappings of the Templars and persuaded him to at last concede defeat.