Genghis Khan

"A dark tide rises to the east – an army of such size and power that all the land is made quick to worry. Their leader is a man named Temujin, who has adopted the title Genghis Khan. He sweeps across the lands, conquering and subsuming all who stand in his way."

―Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, page 29.^[src]

Genghis Khan (ᠴᠢᠩᠭᠢᠰᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ; c. 1162 – 1227), born Temüjin (ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠵᠢᠨ), was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which he ruled from 1206 until his death. Utilizing a Sword of Eden, Genghis Khan established what would later become the largest contiguous empire in history.^[1]

Biography[]

Early life[]

Temüjin was born circa 1162 in the Khentii Mountains within the territories of the Khamag Mongol, to Yesügei a chieftain of the Borjigin clan and his principal wife Hö'elün from the Olkhonud clan.^[2]

Rise to power[]

At a later point in his life, Temüjin obtained a Sword of Eden,^[1] and used its abilities to eventually found the Mongol Empire in 1206, ruling it as Genghis Khan.^[2]

By the year 1217, the Levantine Assassins' Mentor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad correctly suspected that Genghis Khan's rise to power was due in part to a Sword of Eden. Thus, Altaïr, his wife Maria, and his son Darim traveled to Mongolia intending to assassinate the Khan and retrieve the Piece of Eden.^[3]

By 1221, following a two year invasion,^[2] Genghis Khan had control of the Silk Road trade route, bringing it under one cohesive political environment.^[4]

Death[]

ACRef Darim assassinating Genghis Khan — Genghis Khan's last moments

In August 1227, Altaïr and his allies located Genghis Khan in Xingqing around the time his forces were besieging the city. After the Assassins set the Mongol camp ablaze with flaming arrows, the Khan fled on horseback, but was chased by Darim and the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal. The latter shot his horse with an arrow, dismounting the Khan and providing Darim the chance to kill him^[5] with a crossbow bolt.^[6]

Legacy[]

Genghis Khan's grandson, Hülegü Khan, later destroyed most of the Assassins' strongholds in the Levant after a failed attempt on his life in 1256, effectively erasing the Levantine Assassins' power.^[7]

After his death, a literary work on Genghis Khan and his family was written. A copy of the work was later purchased by Ezio Auditore in Constantinople in the 16th century.^[8]

In November 2013, Genghis Khan and the Mongol's conquest was discussed by Abstergo Entertainment employee Evan Dean as a possible new location for a future Animus project. However, his rambling quickly became heated and the Chief Creative Officer Olivier Garneau told Dean to take the discussion offline.^[9]

In 2016, Rebecca Crane estimated that Genghis Khan likely had sixteen million living descendants.^[10]