Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins

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"As long as they still hold power in Spain, we will continue our fight. For the innocents. For peace and freedom. For the Creed!"

―The Spanish Assassins, on their fight against the Inquisition, 1498.

Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins
Organizational information
Leader's title	Mentor
Operational center	Barcelona Sierra de Cazorla
Locations	Spain

The Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins is the guild of Assassins operating in Spain, who, during the Renaissance and Reconquista, cultivated ties with the royal houses of Castile, Aragon, and the Emirate of Granada.

Much of their operations during the Renaissance revolved around vying for influence with the Christian monarchs against the Templars, resulting in several Assassins such as Raphael Sánchez and Luis de Santángel being appointed as prominent officials. The Templars in turn preyed on the religious zealotry of the Catholic Monarchs through the Spanish Inquisition, and at the peak of that institution, the Assassins across Spain were targeted as heretics. Thanks in part to the intervention of the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore, the Spanish Assassins survived the purge and became instrumental in putting an end to the Granada War and saving as many civilians as they could from the Inquisition.

Around the same time, the Assassins were also pivotal in securing the Genoese navigator Christoffa Corombo the sponsorship of Queen Isabella I of Castile, personally funding half of the expenses and thereby facilitating his explorations of the New World. The exposure of the continent to European powers would spark a frenzy by the Spanish Empire to conquer indigenous American empires such as the Inca and Aztecs, leading the Spanish Assassins to send secret agents with the conquistadors abroad to keep a watchful eye over their activities.

The Spanish Brotherhood was traditionalist in comparison to other branches, and by the 15th century, they still retained archaic practices such as the amputation of the whole ring finger as part of the induction ceremony, a sacrifice which the redesigning done on the Hidden Blade by the Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, made redundant.

By the early 20th century, the Spanish Assassins, like many of their brethren around the world, had adopted the system of decentralized cells. During the Spanish Civil War, one Assassin cell led by Ignacio Cardona fought alongside the Republicans. While based in Barcelona, the cell was infiltrated by Rufus Grosvenor, a rogue Templar and Instruments of the First Will member, who sought to use Cardona's DNA to unlock the power of the Koh-i-Noor. Grosvenor eventually managed to persuade most of the cell to join his cause, but Cardona worked alongside the former Black Cross Albert Bolden to thwart his schemes and recover the Koh-i-Noor.

History

Middle Ages

By the 9th century, the Hidden Ones had established a presence in the Iberian Peninsula, which at the time was primarily ruled by the Emirate of Córdoba. At some point before 870, the Moorish Hidden One Farid traveled to Francia, where he trained several apprentices of the local Brotherhood, including Oisel.

Spanish Inquisition

Aguilar de Nerha's induction into the Brotherhood

By the late 1480s, the Spanish Assassins had begun to be persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition, which branded them as heretics. Countless Assassins were captured and executed, including the parents of Aguilar de Nerha, who subsequently joined the Brotherhood. Though the Assassins initially declined training Aguilar, feeling he was too angry and vengeful, the Mentor Benedicto and the Master Assassin María saw something in him and convinced the rest of the Brotherhood to accept him.

In 1489, shortly after his induction, Aguilar was tasked to spy on a meeting between Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada, secretly a Master Templar, and his right-hand Ojeda. Learning the Templars had gained full control of the Inquisition's forces and were about to set a new plan in motion, Aguilar reported back to his fellow Assassins. Aguilar was then tasked with establishing a new Assassin headquarters in an abandoned fortress in the Sierra de Cazorla mountains and recruiting new members.

After setting up their base, Aguilar and his team of Assassins began investigating the Templars' plans. They killed a corrupt merchant, Hassan, and an Inquisition scribe, and attempted to eliminate Gustavo Ramírez, an Inquisitor working with the Templars to search for Pieces of Eden. However, Ramírez lured the Assassins into a trap at his stronghold and escaped.

The Assassins confronting Ojeda at the Monastery of St. Lucia

Later, the Assassins prevented the executions of innocent civilians in Zaragoza, and learned that Ramírez had retrieved a section of a Shattered Staff of Eden from St. Rafael Abbey. After assassinating Ramírez's lieutenant, Cadavid, the team learned that Ramírez was preparing to ship the Staff section from Sádaba Castle and infiltrated the stronghold. However, Ramírez managed to escape once again and delivered the Staff piece to Torquemada.

The Assassins eventually managed to retrieve a Staff section themselves from the Monastery of St. Lucia, where they briefly faced off against Ojeda. After entrusting the artifact to their scholar allies at the University of Salamanca, the Assassins could focus on fighting against the Inquisition. They sabotaged the Templars' siege of Fort Baza, but despite their efforts, the Inquisition's forces ultimately captured the fortress.

Recruiting Horacio de Heredia

Spanish Assassin: "Join our Brotherhood! We share the same goal, and we draw our strength in numbers. You have seen it at work."

Horacio: "You speak the truth, friends, and there is honor in your ways. Very well, my sword is yours!"

—Horacio agreeing to join the Assassins, 1489.

In 1489, the Spanish Assassins came upon a former Knight Hospitalier, Horacio de Heredia, whose family had been executed after they refused to support the Inquisition. Traveling to his former estate in Old Castile, the Assassins assisted Horacio in reclaiming the estate and brought him to their hideout in Sierra de Cazorla after he was heavily wounded.

While the knight recuperated, the Assassins assisted him in tracking down Bordingas, the Inquisition sergeant who had claimed the Heredia family's estate. Locating him at a slum, they eliminated him as well as the local slumlord Concha. Along the way, the Assassins learned that the sergeant was taking orders from Fort Alphonso, an Inquisition keep. There, they destroyed supply shipments to prepare their infiltration of the fort. In the same timeframe, they also recovered the Heredia family's riches that had been stolen by the Inquisitors and stashed in a remote abbey.

Fort Alphonso

Having weakened Fort Alphonso's defenses, the Assassins infiltrated the fort and killed the executioner Pedrosa and commandant Duran, who were responsible for executing Horacio's family. Grateful for the Assassins' help, Horacio decided to join the Brotherhood and assist in their fight against the Inquisition.

The Da Vinci paintings

"Da Vinci's paintings cannot stay in the Inquisition's hands! Captain Diego has given away each piece to his underlings, and they are now scattered across Spain. We must recover all the pieces so the set can finally be sold to finance our fight against the Templars."

―A Spanish Assassin on Leonardo's paintings, 1489.

That same year, the Spanish Thieves' Guild, who were allies of the Brotherhood, received a set of five paintings from Leonardo da Vinci, The Celestial Mysteries. The guild's leader, Lupo Gallego, gave the paintings to Jaime del Rada, a nobleman and business associate, hoping he could find a buyer for the art. However, the paintings were unintentionally gambled away when Jaime lost a game of cards to the Inquisition captain Diego de Burgos, who then split the art between his own underlings.

Ashamed of Jaime's error, Lupo called upon the Spanish Assassins' help to recover the art. With the assistance of Jaime, who wished to make up for his mistake, the Assassins infiltrated the abbey of Diego's personal confessor in Valencia and recovered the first painting. Next, they retrieved the second painting, which had been given to the slumlord Garcia Galindo in Murcia. The third and fourth paintings were in the possession of Diego's lieutenant Alfonso Cavallero in Toledo and the treasurer Cristoval de Merlo in Madrid, respectively, but the Assassins also recovered them with little difficulties.

Gabriel Dominico's mansion in Salamanca

To retrieve the final piece of art, which had been given to Diego's friend and weapon merchant, Gabriel Dominico, the Assassins infiltrated a heavily guarded mansion in Salamanca. Successful in their mission, the Assassins were able to sell all five paintings to finance their war against the Templars.

Enlisting aid from Italy

"I am a well connected man, Ezio, with a great number of friends. Sadly the Inquisition has made a recent habit of arresting them."

―Luis the Santángel informing Ezio Auditore of the Spanish Assassins' persecution, 1491.

In 1491, Tomás de Torquemada, influenced by Rodrigo Borgia, the Grand Master of the Italian Templars, ramped up his efforts to persecute the Spanish Assassins. At the same time, the Brotherhood found an ally in the navigator Christoffa Corombo and decided to finance his westward voyage to find the New World before the Templars. Luis de Santángel, an Assassin who worked as the finance minister of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, accompanied Christoffa to Venice, Italy, where the navigator was set to meet Rodrigo, who had offered to sponsor his voyage.

Luis meeting with Ezio and Antonio

Suspecting a trap, Luis enlisted the aid of the Italian Assassins Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Antonio de Magianis to protect Christoffa. After Ezio saved the navigator from the Templars' attempt on his life, Luis and Christoffa asked him to recover the latter's atlas, which had been stolen by Borgia guards. Ezio did so and, before Luis and Christoffa returned to Spain, Luis informed Ezio of the Spanish Brotherhood's plight in an attempt to convince him to lend his aid.

Ezio accepted and traveled to Spain, where he quickly became acquainted with Aguilar de Nerha and his team of Spanish Assassins operating in the south. Determined to uncover the link between Rodrigo Borgia and the Inquisition, Ezio traveled to Barcelona, where he discovered that most of the Spanish Assassins in the city had been arrested on Torquemada's orders. Ezio was ambushed himself by the Inquisition's forces, but was saved by the Spanish Assassin Raphael Sánchez, who informed him that Gaspar Martínez was the persecutor responsible for the Barcelonian Assassins' arrests.

After Ezio assassinated Martínez, who was unaware of his victims' Assassin affiliations and believed them to be simple heretics, he and Raphael planned to rescue another group of persecuted Assassins in Zaragoza. Although too late to save one of the Assassins, Ezio rescued the rest and killed the calificador Pedro Llorente, who also denied the Assassins' existence in his final moments.

Siege of Granada

"For many years, the Brotherhood has done everything in its power to protect Granada and the Apple of Eden that the Sultan holds for us. Despite our many sacrifices and efforts, the city has finally fallen to the Templar Order in the guise of the Spanish army, directed by Torquemada."

―Aguilar de Nerha in his journal, on the Fall of Granada, 1492.

Aside from their involvement with the Inquisition, the Templars also besieged Granada, as Tomás de Torquemada desired an Apple of Eden that the Spanish Assassins had entrusted to Sultan Muhammad XII. Aguilar de Nerha and his team of Assassins defended Granada and its citizens for months, sabotaging the enemy's supply line and eliminating a traitorous Royal Engineer who planned to meet with Ojeda and inform the Templars of a secret entrance into the city.

The Spanish Assassins preparing to rescue Prince Ahmed

In 1492, the Assassins learned of the Templars' intent to capture Muhammad's son, Prince Ahmed of Granada, and exchange him for the sultan's Apple. A group of Assassins including Aguilar, Benedicto, and María rode to stop the Templars from finding the sultan's son, but were unsuccessful and captured. Taken to Seville to be burnt at the stake, Aguilar and María managed to escape but Benedicto was killed, leaving the Spanish Assassins leaderless.

At the same time, Luis de Santángel, Raphael Sánchez, and Ezio Auditore sought to end the Granada War by convincing Muhammad XII to surrender to the Crown of Castile, in order to prevent further bloodshed. After Ezio assassinated a Templar spy who had been feeding false counsel to the sultan, the Assassins concluded that the Templars were trying to prolong the war to drain Castile's resources and prevent Queen Isabella I from sponsoring Christoffa Corombo's voyage.

Christoffa, Raphael, Luis, and Ezio at the Fall of Granada

When Muhammad XII was taken hostage by the Templars, Ezio saved the sultan and persuaded him to surrender. However, due to the Templars' interference, Granada's surrender did not go smoothly, with soldiers violently rampaging through the city and endangering civilians. The Assassins had to intervene, eliminating the soldiers to restore order.

Following Granada's surrender, Torquemada arranged a meeting with Muhammad XII to exchange his son for the Apple of Eden. Aguilar and María ambushed the meeting and succeeded in retrieving the Apple, but María was taken hostage by Ojeda. After María took her own life to prevent Aguilar from renouncing the Apple to save her, a vengeful Aguilar killed Ojeda and escaped with the artifact, later entrusting it to Christoffa, who vowed to take it to his grave.

Against the Assassins' expectations, the fall of Granada did not change Queen Isabella I's mind about sponsoring Christoffa's voyage, prompting the navigator to travel to France to accept an offer from King Louis XII instead. However, this turned out to be another Templar plot to have Christoffa killed. Fortunately, Ezio protected the navigator and persuaded him to return to Spain, while Luis de Santángel decided to personally provide half the funds, finally convincing the queen to sponsor the voyage.

After the fall of Granada, many allies of Muhammad XII joined the Spanish Brotherhood to fight the Templars, including Jariya al-Zakiyya, Shakir al-Zahid and Muza ben Abel Gazan.

Intervention in Italy

"We have received word from Master Auditore that the Templars have begun moving back to Florence. They have been strong-arming local merchants and officials. Those who resist have disappeared. At Ezio's behest, we travel to Florence, where our first task will be to thin the Templar presence in the streets. Perhaps our targets will leave some clue as to their origin or leadership."

―A Spanish Assassin, on their mission to Florence, 1493.

Ezio confronting Torquemada

After Christoffa Corombo successfully launched his voyage, Torquemada decided to retaliate against the Assassins by sending his men to arrest Luis de Santángel and Raphael Sánchez. However, Ezio protected them both, and later decided to finally assassinate Torquemada. During their confrontation, Torquemada denied any knowledge of the Assassins and managed to escape, leading Ezio to decide against pursuing him, believing Torquemada to merely be a puppet of the Templars.

Although Ezio's time helping the Spanish Assassins came to an end and he returned to Italy, he did not forget about the contacts he had cultivated during his time in Spain. In 1493, after finding evidence of a Templar resurgence in Florence, Ezio requested aid from the Spanish Brotherhood and other Assassin Guilds in Europe to put a stop to it.

A team of Spanish Assassins was sent to Florence, where they encountered the Venetian thief and Assassin Perina di Bastian, who had also answered Ezio's call for help. Working together, the Spanish Assassins and Perina investigated the mysterious abductions of Florentine citizens, eventually discovering the Templar Bonacolto Contarini to be behind them. After rescuing Perina's partner Corvo Antonelli, who had also been captured, he directed the group to Contarini's retainers.

Bonacolto Contarini's hideout

Eliminating the retainers, the Assassins discovered Contarini's whereabouts and proceeded to plan an assault on his stronghold. While Corvo staged a distraction, the Spanish Assassins and Perina infiltrated the keep and killed Contarini, liberating Florence from Templar influence.

A Brother's betrayal

"Alvarado is still out there. He cannot hide from us. We need to run him down before he can give the Staff's final piece to Torquemada."

―Aguilar, regarding Diego de Alvarado's betrayal, 1490s.

Back in Spain, Aguilar de Nerha had become the de facto Mentor of the Spanish Brotherhood, and he and his fellow Assassins resumed their hunt of Gustavo Ramírez. Learning Ramírez had traveled to northern Spain in search of the final piece of the Shattered Staff of Eden, the Assassins rescued Diego de Alvarado, the bureau leader in Burgos, who had been captured by the Templars.

Diego directed the Assassins to one of Ramírez's lieutenants, Chacon, from whom they learned that that another lieutenant, del Salto, had a villa in Léon. Infiltrating the villa, the Assassins found documents ordering the arrest of a sect of monks from the Asturias mountains, whom Ramírez suspected to be in possession of the Staff piece. The Assassins rescued the monks who, in gratitude, revealed that they had given the artifact to the nobleman Pedro Madruga.

Sobroso Castle

The Assassins infiltrated Pedro's former residence, Sobroso Castle, only to witness Diego hand the Staff section to the Templars, revealing that Diego had betrayed the Brotherhood and acted as a double agent. After escaping from Sobroso Castle, the Assassins tracked Diego to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where they hoped to eliminate him and recover the Staff piece. To their surprise, however, they witnessed Diego double-cross and kill Ramírez before escaping.

After Diego also stole the Staff section from the University of Salamanca, the Assassins found his hideout in the Spanish countryside. Avoiding Inquisition patrols, they infiltrated the hideout and assassinated the traitor, who with his dying breath revealed that he had already delivered all the Staff pieces to Tomás de Torquemada. Concerned about what the Grand Inquisitor might do with the power of the Staff, the Assassins spent the next several years trying to track him down.

The Ottoman Connection

"Niccolò Polo's journal, "The Secret Crusade", needs to be recovered from Inquisition hands! This journal not only contains details on Altaïr's life, but also hints to the whereabouts of the coveted Masyaf Keys. Following a lead provided by our Ottoman brethren, we will infiltrate an Inquisition villa in Ávila and find clues as to where the Inquisition trade deal with the Byzantine Rite will take place. This will eventually lead us to the journal itself."

―A Spanish Assassin on their mission, 1495.

In 1495, the Spanish Assassins cooperated with a team led by the Mentor of the Ottoman Brotherhood, Ishak Pasha, to recover Niccolò Polo's journal, which contained clues to the locations of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's fabled library and its keys. After discovering that the journal had fallen into the hands of Inquisition soldiers, who were planning to sell it to the Byzantine Templars, the Assassins infiltrated a castle in Segovia, where the exchange would take place.

The Inquisition's stronghold in Segovia

However, upon reaching the chest supposedly holding the journal, the Assassins found it to be empty, as the deal had already taken place. They were then ambushed by Inquisition soldiers, revealing that they had walked into a trap, though fortunately all the Assassins were able to escape with their lives. The Spanish and Ottoman Assassins then parted ways, both vowing to recover the journal in the future.

Defeating Torquemada

"Torquemada was the driving force behind the Inquisition, but he is not the only fanatic clergyman in Spain. I'm afraid Isabella will soon appoint a new Grand Inquisitor to take his place. A new puppet of the Templars."

―Beatriz de Navarrete, following Torquemada's demise, 1498.

By 1498, most Spanish Assassins had been killed by the Inquisition, and with the death of Luis de Santángel, the Assassins lost their influence over the Spanish royal family, leaving the Brotherhood in disarray. Despite this, the remaining Assassins managed to track Torquemada to the Real Monasterio de Santo Tomás. As the monastery was heavily guarded, they enlisted the aid of their mercenary contacts to storm it, securing their support after giving them rare Toledo swords stolen from a Royal Armory caravan.

On 16 September, while the mercenaries battled Torquemada's guards, the Assassins infiltrated the monastery and were confronted by a soldier made out of light. After defeating the hologram, they headed deeper into the tunnels underneath the monastery, which led to a Precursor site known as "the Forge". There, they confronted Torquemada, who revealed that he had used the Forge's technology to repair the Shattered Staff of Eden and create an army of holograms, with which he intended to conquer Spain.

Torquemada inside the Forge

Despite Torquemada wielding the Staff, the Assassins were ultimately able to kill him and defeat his holographic soldiers. Believing no human should ever possess such power, they then used the Forge's architecture to destroy the Staff, which also resulted in the vault's collapse. The Assassins were able to escape in time and returned to their headquarters to celebrate their victory. Aware that Torquemada's death would not stop the Inquisition, the Assassins pledged to continue their fight for peace and freedom, remaining steadfast in the name of their Creed.

Investigation in Granada

Spanish Assassin: "There is still much work to be done here. Your skills would be a great boon to the Spanish Brotherhood and Granada still bleeds."

Najma: "Yes. I think... my father would want that. Besides, you could use the help."

—Najma Alayza agreeing to join the Spanish Assassins, 1499.

In 1499, Aguilar sent a team of Assassins to Granada, which remained under the Inquisition's rule, to investigate rumors of civilians disappearing. During their search, the Spanish Assassins encountered Najma Alayza, a Libyan Assassin searching for her brother Ubayd, who had defected to the Templars and killed their father years prior. Joining forces, the Spanish Assassins and Najma rescued Assassin symphatizers captured by Ubayd and his Templar handler, Garza, and eventually confronted Ubayd, making him realize the Templars had deceived him and did not care about Granada's population.

Assassin symphatizers killed by Garza

When Ubayd rebelled against the Templars, Garza drew a knife and murdered him before escaping. However, he was soon tracked down and killed by the Assassins, after which Najma was invited to join the Spanish Brotherhood. Wishing to restore order to Granada, Najma gladly accepted the invite.

Age of Discovery

In the early 1500s, Ezio Auditore sent a number of Assassin recruits from Rome to reorganize the dwindling Spanish Brotherhood. Searching Luis de Santángel's room, the apprentices discovered his journal and learned that he had been slowly poisoning Queen Isabella after she began to be influenced by the Templars. The apprentices decided to finish what Luis had started, doubling the poison dosage to ensure the queen's death. With the help of one of the queen's servants, they administered the fatal dose in 1504.

By 1511, the Spanish Assassins had regrouped and occasionally received aid from Ottoman Assassins sent from Constantinople by Ezio. That year, the Spanish Assassins once again faced problems from the Inquisitors, who were now acting on the orders of Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. With the help of their Ottoman brethren, the Spanish Assassins eliminated the threat.

During the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish Assassin Don Gonzalo Pardo was sent to infiltrate the conquistador Francisco Pizarro's inner circle and prevent a potential massacre of the native Inca population. However, Don Gonzalo ultimately failed in his task when he arrived too late to save the life of Emperor Atahualpa in 1533.

Don Gonzalo saving Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui

By 1536, Don Gonzalo, still haunted by his failure, had become a large and bloated drunkard. Nevertheless, when a chasqui named Quila uncovered a plot to assassinate Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui, Don Gonzalo readily joined forces with her to prevent the plot. After saving the emperor's life and apprehending the traitor—the emperor's councillor Tuti Cusi—Don Gonzalo, having redeemed himself and regained his resolve, invited Quila to join the Assassins. Before parting ways, he handed Quila a quipu with his name, to show to the Brotherhood if she ever decided to accept his invite.

At some point before 1549, the Spanish Assassin Alvaro Catarribera was excommunicated from the Brotherhood after breaking the Creed by killing an innocent girl. Leaving Spain, he traveled to East Asia, where he learned of the Templars' plan to use the Jesuit mission to Japan to enter the country and spread their influence. Determined to stop them, Catarribera journeyed to Japan himself, using Francis Xavier's delegation as cover, and began laying the foundations for a new Assassin guild.

Age of Enlightenment

By the mid-18th century, the Spanish Brotherhood had allied themselves with the Spanish Crown anew. In 1748, Gaspar Velasquez, a Spanish shipbuilder, had begun the designs of a brig that would serve as the primary fleet of the Colonial Brotherhood. However, as he and his colleagues' work progressed, the British Templars posed an imminent threat to them. Gaspar decided to send the plans to the French Assassin Council in the hopes of completing the Aquila which was, by the following year, fully constructed and sent to the Colonial Brotherhood.

Spanish Civil War

"I'm an Assassin, yes. But I'm a Spaniard first. And while I'll happily sow these fields with Templar blood, any man who would oppress his fellows is fair game as far as I'm concerned."

―Ignacio Cardona to his fellow Republicans, 1937.

By the 20th century, the Spanish Assassins operated as individual cells spread across the country. During the Spanish Civil War, one cell consisting of four Assassins—Dwight Adams, Glaucia Acosta, Miguel Carasso, and their leader, Ignacio Cardona—fought alongside the Republicans, supporting Buenaventura Durruti. Even after Durruti's death in 1936, the Assassins continued their involvement in the war and, on 26 April 1937, witnessed the bombing of Guernica.

Cardona using the Koh-i-Noor

In May 1937, while camping in Barcelona, the cell was joined by a man claiming to be Norbert Clarke, a British Assassin sent as reinforcements. "Clarke" quickly integrated himself with the Spanish Assassins and, when internal fighting broke out between the anarchists and communists in the city, he suggested using the Koh-i-Noor, which he had on his person, to settle the conflict peacefully. However, as "Clarke" handed the Koh-i-Noor to Cardona, the Piece of Eden's powers nearly killed him, his fellow Assassins, and the civilians.

As Cardona passed out, the former Black Cross Albert Bolden, who had watched the scene unfold from a rooftop, decided to intervene. He attempted to kill "Clarke" and retrieve the Koh-i-Noor, but failed as they were both protected by the Spanish Assassins. Instead, Bolden resolved to take the unconscious Cardona and escape to safety.

When Cardona awoke some time later, Bolden explained to him that "Clarke" was in fact a rogue Templar, Rufus Grosvenor, who had stolen the Koh-i-Noor from Bolden after killing his family, convinced the real Clarke to take his life so he could impersonate him, and planned to use Cardona's DNA to unlock the Koh-i-Noor's power. Determined to warn his fellow Assassins about Grosvenor's true nature, Cardona decided to join forces with Bolden to stop the rogue Templar and recover the Koh-i-Noor.

Miguel and Dwight ambushing Cardona and Bolden

However, by the time Cardona and Bolden confronted the other Spanish Assassins, they had all been turned to Grosvenor's cause. In the resulting fight, Bolden managed to trick Miguel into stabbing Dwight, though both he and Cardona were eventually overpowered and captured. In a run-down church, Grosvenor gave Cardona one last opportunity to unlock the Koh-i-Noor's power, but the Assassin used the artifact to create bulls out of energy, which destroyed the church.

While Grosvenor and Glaucia survived the church's collapse and escaped, believing the Koh-i-Noor to have been destroyed, Bolden rescued Cardona from the rubble. The two then reflected on the war and on the Koh-i-Noor, which remained intact at the bottom of the church. Cardona and Bolden ultimately decided to leave the Piece of Eden there, training guardians to protect the site, and continued fighting together in the civil war before going their separate ways.

Members

Emirate of Córdoba

• Farid

Granada War

• Sayyid al-Abbas
• Muza ben Abel Gazan
• Najma Alayza (Libyan Brotherhood)
• Ubayd Alayza (defected)
• Diego de Alvarado (defected)
• Máximo Barrosa
• Benedicto (Mentor; until 1492)
• Georgios Cardoso
• Angela Carillo
• Luciano Cavazza (Italian Brotherhood)
• Luis Chico
• Andrea Cortés
• Flora de la Cruz
• Mayya al-Dabbaj
• Qasim al-Dani
• Jean Delacroix
• Gershon Deloya
• Jorge Díaz
• Gaspar Donoso
• Álvaro de Espinosa
• Mateo Galan
• Rosa Gallego
• Luisa Gallego

• Lupo Gallego
• Horacio de Heredia
• Hamid al-Jasur
• Baltasar de León
• Ysabel Lomelin
• Tereysa de Lyaño
• María
• Rodrigo de Mendoza
• Inigo Montañés
• Tariq al-Nasr
• Beatriz de Navarrete
• Aguilar de Nerha (Mentor; until 1526)
• Bartolomé Ortiz
• Alonso Pinto
• Jaime del Rada
• Constanza Ramos
• Raphael Sánchez
• Luis de Santángel
• Magdalena Suárez
• Faris al-Saffar
• Domingo De la Torre
• Shakir al-Zahid
• Jariya al-Zakiyya

Age of Discovery

• Alvaro Catarribera (Japanese Brotherhood)
• Gonzalo Pardo (Peruvian Brotherhood)

Age of Enlightenment

• Gaspar Velasquez

Spanish Civil War

• Glaucia Acosta (deserted)
• Dwight Adams (American Brotherhood)
• Miguel Carasso
• Ignacio Cardona
• Rosa Martinez

Allies and puppets

Granada War

• Corvo Antonelli (Italian Brotherhood)
• Claudia Auditore da Firenze (Italian Brotherhood)
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Italian Brotherhood)
• Mario Auditore (Italian Brotherhood)
• Perina di Bastian (Italian Brotherhood)
• Lucas Bellini (Italian Brotherhood)
• Luciano Cavazza (Italian Brotherhood)
• Christoffa Corombo
• Diego

• Ferdinand II of Aragon
• Isabella I of Castile
• Lorenzo de' Medici
• Girolamo Da Lucca (Italian Brotherhood)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian Brotherhood)
• Muhammad XII of Granada
• Ishak Pasha (Ottoman Brotherhood)
• Yusuf Tazim (Ottoman Brotherhood)
• Aleksei Zima (Ottoman Brotherhood)

Age of Enlightenment

• Achilles Davenport (Colonial Brotherhood)

Spanish Civil War

• Abdul Ortega
• Albert Bolden
• Norbert Clarke (British Brotherhood)

Behind the scenes

Despite keeping the Levantine Brotherhood's practice of amputating the ring finger, it is unknown whether or not the Spanish Brotherhood also kept the practice of performing a Leap of Faith as part of their initiation.

Gallery

A team of Spanish Assassins during the Reconquista

The Spanish Assassins' headquarters in Sierra de Cazorla

The Spanish Assassins led by Ignacio Cardona during the Spanish Civil War

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed II: Discovery (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed
• Assassin's Creed film
• Assassin's Creed: The Official Movie Novelization
• Assassin's Creed: Reflections
• Assassin's Creed: Uprising
• Assassin's Creed: Rebellion
  • Horacio's Retribution
  • The Art of the Heist
  • The Ottoman Connection
  • A War in the Shadows
  • Kinslayer
• Assassin's Creed: The Silk Road (indirect mention only)
• Assassin's Creed: Shadows (mentioned only)