Sophie Trenet

Arno: "The people are fighting for what is owed them. Liberté, égalité..."

Trenet: "If we danced about on a simple scale in need of balancing, you'd be right. But the truth is more complicated."

—Arno Dorian and Sophie Trenet discussing the French Revolution, 1792.

Sophie Trenet
Biographical information
Species	Human
Political information
Affiliations	Assassins Parisian Brotherhood

Sophie Trenet was a French Master Assassin and member of the Assassin Council that led the Parisian Brotherhood during the French Revolution. She was also a playwright, essayist, and pamphleteer who fought with passion for the freedom of the oppressed classes.

Biography

Under Mirabeau

Beylier: "The truce was with Grand Master de la Serre."

Trenet: "The man's been dead for two years! Whoever is in charge now, you can be certain they aren't sitting idle."

—Sophie Trenet and Guillaume Beylier on the Templars' activities, 1791.

Little is known of Trenet's early life and how she came to be an Assassin. By 1789, she had gained a position on the Assassin Council, which directed the Brotherhood's activities in Paris. With the approaching French Revolution, the council endeavored to keep the peace and decided to form a truce with the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order through their Grand Master François de la Serre to achieve this.

Although de la Serre was murdered shortly thereafter, the Council continued to operate under the assumption that the truce was being honored. On 25 July, Trenet was present during Arno Dorian's induction into the Brotherhood. Although she voiced her doubts at Dorian's guilt weighing on him to Pierre Bellec, he quashed her worries.

In early 1791, when Arno brought evidence that the Templar Charles Gabriel Sivert was extorting money from nobles for an unknown purpose, Trenet and the others realized their mistake at assuming the truce was held and gave Arno permission to track down de la Serre's killers. However, Arno's zeal in this matter caused him to pursue targets without the council's permission. Trenet and her fellow Council members were outraged at this, though Mirabeau managed to calm them down. Tensions worsened when Arno brought his Templar lover Élise de la Serre to the Assassin headquarters underneath the Sainte-Chapelle—Mirabeau saw in this an opportunity to renew the truce, but Trenet and the other council members opposed the idea.

Shortly thereafter, Pierre poisoned Mirabeau with aconite, viewing the push for peace as treason against the Assassin Order. Arno killed Pierre in a subsequent confrontation, leaving the council deprived of two of its members and so its leadership fell to Trenet.

Leading the council

"You've defied the orders of this Council repeatedly, pursued targets without sanction, and flouted our Creed at every step [...] In light of these actions, I find I have no choice but to call for a vote of expulsion."

―Trenet about to banish Arno from the Brotherhood of Paris, 1793.

Trenet tasking Arno with the destruction of Mirabeau's letters to the King

In the aftermath of Mirabeau's death, Trenet and the others uncovered his correspondences with King Louis XVI. To prevent copies of these letters from falling into the hands of the Templars, she sent Arno to the Tuileries Palace to find and destroy them. While he succeeded in this task, Arno continued to pursue François-Thomas Germain and his accomplices, which the council had expressly forbidden him from doing.

After the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, the council confronted Arno about his actions. Trenet lambasted him for his selfish reasons for joining the Brotherhood and the manner in which he repeatedly acted outside the tenets of the Creed, brashly killing targets without the council's consent. Though showing some reluctance, she nevertheless called for a vote of expulsion. With the approval of Hervé Quemar and Guillaume Beylier, she banished him from the Parisian Brotherhood. Arno would ultimately be welcomed back, however, after he later reformed and demonstrated true fidelity to the Creed. Decades later, Trenet played an important role in events that led to the rise of the French Second Republic in 1848.

Skills and equipment

Trenet could speak Arabic, as demonstrated when she conversed in it with Bellec during Arno's induction. Her outfit was identical to the robes worn by the Parisian Brotherhood's female members, albeit with different colors. Hers was unique in that she occasionally chose to sport a cape, though this was not a regular practice.

Behind the scenes

Sophie Trenet is a fictional character who appears in the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed: Unity, where she is voiced by the Canadian actor Mary Katherine Harvey. Sophie is a French variant of the Greek name Σοφια (Sophia), meaning "wisdom".

Gallery

Early concept art of Trenet

Trenet close-up

Trenet speaking to Bellec during Arno's induction

Trenet with her fellow council members

Trenet consulting Quemar regarding Arno's expulsion

The Assassin Council banishing Arno