Cairo

Cairo
Political information
Sovereign state	Egypt
Government	Fatimid Caliphate (969–1171) Ayyubid Sultanate (1171–1250) Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517) Ottoman Empire (1517–1914) Sultanate of Egypt (1914–1922) Republic of Egypt (1922–present)
Factions	Assassins Templars
Historical information
Founded by	Fatimid dynasty
Date founded	969
Additional information
Assassination targets	Albert Hawkins

Cairo, originally known as Fustat, is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle East and Africa.

History

Middle Ages

Abbassid period

During the early 9th century, Fustat was rife with corruption, so much so that the city's population eventually rebelled against its rulers. Tabid Al-Nubi, sent to Fustat to study by his father, was among those who partook in the revolt, although he was gravely injured in the process. The revolt ultimately failed and Tabid had to flee Fustat, making his way to Baghdad.

In 824, the master thief Dervis and his bookkeeper Roshan came to live in Fustat after their time in Karachi. Continuing their hustle of being a middleman of transporting valuable items and explosives, their work proved fruitful. However, one morning, Roshan was arrested under false charges of robbery. While in prison, she plotted her escape but caught the attention of a hostile prisoner she called "Black Eyes." Finding her way out and fighting off Black Eyes, Roshan was imprisoned again due to her hesitance in front of a hooded stranger. However, the stranger offered her freedom in exchange for a job. With limited choices, she accepted. Then, the stranger broke her out of the Fustat prison.

Heading to a tavern, the stranger introduced Roshan to a group of mercenaries he had assembled and proceeded to reveal the team's mission: to recover a case from the Martyrs of Agaunum, who were set to cross the Sinai. He then provided the mercenaries with weapons and rations and left alongside his apprentice while the group prepared themselves for their mission.

Ayyubid dynasty

The Assassin meeting with a Mamluk in Cairo

By the middle of the 13th century, both the Assassin Brotherhood and the Knights Templar were active in Cairo. In 1250, an Egyptian Assassin was tasked with delivering a Piece of Eden known as the Scepter of Aset to the Mamluks, who were rebelling against the ruling Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt. Despite being attacked by Templar knights, the Assassin ultimately managed to bring the Scepter to the Mamluks in Cairo, allowing them to succeed in their revolt and overthrow the Ayyubids, establishing the Bahri dynasty.

Bahri dynasty

In 1340, the Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad, prompting the Egyptian Brotherhood to send the Assassin Numa Al'Khamsin to recover the artifact. The following year, the Sultan was assassinated by Leila, one of his servants who had been recruited by the Templars. While attempting to escape the palace, Leila was captured by the guards and thrown in the dungeon.

Numa being imprisoned in Cairo

After retrieving the Scepter of Aset from the Templars, Numa returned to Cairo but refused to hand over the artifact until a new Sultan was appointed. Feeling insulted, the Mamluks imprisoned Numa in the same cell as Leila and, after becoming acquainted with each other, the two worked together to escape. Subsequently hiding out in a safehouse, Leila seduced Numa into a sexual encounter before the latter slipped away during the night, leaving a rose on the bed for Leila to find when she woke up.

Ottoman and British rule

In August 1794, the Assassin Arno Dorian sent an Apple of Eden he found in the Saint-Denis Temple to be safeguarded by the Mentor of the Assassins in Cairo.

In 1869, the Egyptian Brotherhood tasked the British Assassin Pierrette Arnaud to infiltrate the Khedivial Opera House and assassinate the Templar Albert Hawkins. Successful, she killed him and found out of his plan to bomb the khedive's box to scare his guest Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France. After discarding the body carefully with Egyptian Assassins Gamal Sabry and Safiya El-Nadi, Cairo's Assassin Council member Amira Benyamina assigned them to investigate Hawkinns' railroad line.

After finding and killing a group of Templars, including Armen Kazan, with the help of Pierrette's mentor Simeon Price, they regrouped back at the Assassin base in Cairo and tended to an injured Pierrette. Amira congratulated them on killing Kazan but tasked Pierrette and Simeon to find Art Hennighan and the Ankh, a Piece of Eden that Hennighan had taken from the cave at the end of the railroad.

Four years later, Pierrette returned to Cairo and followed a mission from Amira to investigate a Templar illegal art ring near the Suez Canal. From her findings, she uncovered a list of businesses affiliated with the Templars back in England.

Modern times

In January 2011, protests against Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak and his regime erupted across the country, with Cairo becoming a focal point of the revolution. Abstergo Industries employee Layla Hassan was among those who took part in the protests, including the Tahrir Square demonstrations in February.

In late 2012, William Miles, the leader of the Assassin Order, traveled to Cairo to obtain a power source for the Grand Temple from the Egyptian Museum and arrived there on 9 December. Two days later, William was captured by the Templars' Sigma Team led by Juhani Otso Berg, and brought to Abstergo's facility in Rome.

Gallery

An unnamed Assassin freerunning through Cairo, 1250

The Egyptian Museum

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (first mentioned and photo only)
• Assassin's Creed III (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr
• Assassin's Creed 6: Leila
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (mentioned and photo only)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot
• Echoes of History (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Mirage (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One (as Fustat)
• Animus Hub (mentioned in Database entry only)