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Name: Amalda Annabel
Born: December 25, 1499; Wittenberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died: April 19, 1585; Muttenz, Swiss Confederacy (age 85)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Amalda was born Christmas Day to a small German family in the city of Wittenberg. Her parents and older brother ran a printshop for the town, and as they were all devoutly Catholic, they encouraged her to participate in the activities of the church. She became a nun in her teenage years, and her perky attitude always lit up the town. However, that spunk was tarnished a bit when her older brother got drafted to go to war against the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Fearful he would not have the chance to be given his last rites if killed in battle, Amalda used all of the money she had managed to save up to purchase an indulgence for him from a preacher named Johann Tetzel. Her brother gave her a tearful goodbye as he took up his sword and headed east, and Amalda was left trying to survive off of the last scraps of money she had. Many others in town found themselves in this same predicament, and it caught the anger of a fanatic monk at the University of Wittenberg named Martin Luther. Luther protested against the indulgences that the church was selling, believing such a practice to be against the will of God, by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the All Saint's Church.

But for Amalda, the damage was already done. She got by well enough, and she mostly spent her time just waiting for her brother to come home, which he did in 1519. However, he was not the same man as he was when he left. He was frantic and constantly looking over his shoulder. The night he arrived, he babbled nonsense to Amalda about some sort of conspiracy he had discovered involving magic apples and ancient organizations. Amalda thought he had gone mad, but proof came to her in the black of night, when she was horrified to discover that her brother was lying dead in an alleyway, his throat cut. Mortified, Amalda’s only instinct was to run and scream for help. But she was stopped by a group of black-cloaked men with daggers. They very nearly killed her, and would have if it weren't for a man in a white hood who rescued her. He helped her flee the town and he took her to Basel, introducing himself as Desiderius Erasmus along the way. He took her to a small hideout in the city, where he told her that he was the Mentor of one of the organization her brother had mentioned: the Assassins, a group dedicated to defending free will from their enemies, the power hungry Templars who sought to bring the land to ruin. Amalda decided to join the Assassins when the offer was made, and one of her first kills was the Templar behind the overly-priced indulgences and her brother's murder, Johann Tetzel.

By 1521, Amalda had become a well-respected member of the Brotherhood and one of Erasmus’s favorite students. The Mentor often discussed the serious goings-on throughout Europe, particularly with the rising influence of Martin Luther. Luther had practically begun a full revolution against the Catholic Church, claiming that the pope and the entire Catholic ways was evil and overcomplicated. He argued that the Bible should be left for individuals to read instead of the church telling them how to interpret it. Such ideals sounded appealing to the Assassins, and Erasmus expressed a desire to cooperate with Luther. Though Pope Leo X was already on good terms with the Assassins thanks to his friendship with the retired Mentor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and thus Erasmus hoped to find a balanced compromise between Luther and the pope. He had Amalda oversee the Diet of Worms, where Luther was to plead his case to the church. Luther was shunned and excommunicated, and Luther was offered shelter from the papal guards by Franz von Sickingen. Luther denied his offer and fled elsewhere, though von Sickingen still offered him a role in a certain organization that would help him get his ideas off the ground. Amalda did some investigating, and discovered that von Sickingen and his companion Ulrich von Hutten were Templars, plotting to regain the power they had lost when the Borgia family collapsed. The two tried and failed to besiege a few major cities in 1523, and Amalda assassinated the both of them.

By 1524, Erasmus was lamenting the loss of any chance of cooperating with Luther, as the radical monk had fallen into Templar influence. He did not believe all humans should have the right to interpret scripture their own way, but instead that they should have the right to interpret it his way and only his way. Despite Luther's arrogant stance, many across the Holy Roman Empire did begin to interpret the Bible their own way after Luther published an edition in German instead of Latin. Many peasants believed that God did not want them to suffer and toil in poverty and serfdom, and they rose up in an open violent rebellion that came to be known as the German Peasant’s War. Amalda did her best to help out, even killing a noble known as Count Ludwig during the Siege of Weinsberg, but the rebellion was ultimately put down by Templar forces in 1525, much to the dismay of Amalda and the joy of Luther, who thought the peasants’ desire for freedom to be idiotic.

In 1527, Erasmus introduced Amalda to Lodovico Ariosto, Mentor of the Italian Assassins. They explained that the Templars have united the armies of the Habsburgs and their allies against Rome, and assigned Amalda to hurry down and do what she could to help. She stood with the Papal Guard as they defended Castel Sant’Angelo from the armies commanded by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, a Templar who fell to Amalda’s talons during the fight. She helped Pope Clement VII escape the fight and survive another day. Later, the Pope and Charles V would reconcile with one another and sign a peace treaty between their two sides. During the meeting, Amalda interrogated a Templar POW named Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Paul, who revealed the ultimate Templar plot to her: the chaos sprung up by the Protestant Reformation was all just a distraction for their Grand Master in the Ottoman Empire to find the Apple of Eden once held by the Levantine Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad and use it to take back control of Europe. Amalda spent the next few months doing everything she could to hunt down this mysterious Grand Master, and she eventually discovered that he was a general in Suleiman the Magnificent’s army. She rushed to the Siege of Vienna in 1529, and after dodging soldiers as best she could, she called for a personal meeting with Suleiman. Suleiman ordered his men to lower their weapons when he heard she was an Assassin, as he held a very friendly relationship with the Brotherhood and wanted to hear her out. She explained he had a Templar rat in his forces, and when she spotted the Grand Master amongst the soldiers, they fought in an epic battle that resulted in her enemy's death at her blade. She took his Apple of Eden, said a quick thank you to Suleiman, and returned to Europe victorious.

Over the next few years, Amalda continued to assist with the political and religious strifes going on throughout Europe. In 1534, she travelled to England when King Henry VIII began to split off from the Catholic Church when they refused to give him a divorce. After earning his trust and helping the issue of the Church of England's founding get stabilized, she ended up entrusting the Apple of Eden with him and his royal staff. She returned to Basel afterwards, where Erasmus passed away in 1536, passing the title of Mentor on to her. Amalda later visited Martin Luther I'm his deathbed in 1546, and the two exchanged some final words before he moved into the next life for his ultimate judgement. She found herself back in England in the 1550s, when she discovered that Mary I, a Templar agent, had secured the throne and was using the Apple of Eden to force her subjects back into Catholicism against their will. Amalda helped the English Assassins kill her in 1558 and put her sister, Elizabeth I, who kept the Apple of Eden safely out of the hands of the enemies of freedom and formed a strong friendship with the Assassin Brotherhood over her reign. Amalda returned to Switzerland soon after the ordeal, and remained there in most of her old age. She ended up bringing a prominent Swiss family from Muttenz into the folds of the Brotherhood, the Spaenhauers, who became extremely influential in the area and would carry on the Assassin tradition for generations onward. Amalda mentored the first member of the family to join, Arbogast Spaenhauer, until she passed away in her bed on April 19, 1585.
She is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.

Description

Name: Amalda Annabel
Born: December 25, 1499; Wittenberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died: April 19, 1585; Muttenz, Swiss Confederacy (age 85)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Amalda was born Christmas Day to a small German family in the city of Wittenberg. Her parents and older brother ran a printshop for the town, and as they were all devoutly Catholic, they encouraged her to participate in the activities of the church. She became a nun in her teenage years, and her perky attitude always lit up the town. However, that spunk was tarnished a bit when her older brother got drafted to go to war against the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Fearful he would not have the chance to be given his last rites if killed in battle, Amalda used all of the money she had managed to save up to purchase an indulgence for him from a preacher named Johann Tetzel. Her brother gave her a tearful goodbye as he took up his sword and headed east, and Amalda was left trying to survive off of the last scraps of money she had. Many others in town found themselves in this same predicament, and it caught the anger of a fanatic monk at the University of Wittenberg named Martin Luther. Luther protested against the indulgences that the church was selling, believing such a practice to be against the will of God, by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the All Saint's Church.

But for Amalda, the damage was already done. She got by well enough, and she mostly spent her time just waiting for her brother to come home, which he did in 1519. However, he was not the same man as he was when he left. He was frantic and constantly looking over his shoulder. The night he arrived, he babbled nonsense to Amalda about some sort of conspiracy he had discovered involving magic apples and ancient organizations. Amalda thought he had gone mad, but proof came to her in the black of night, when she was horrified to discover that her brother was lying dead in an alleyway, his throat cut. Mortified, Amalda’s only instinct was to run and scream for help. But she was stopped by a group of black-cloaked men with daggers. They very nearly killed her, and would have if it weren't for a man in a white hood who rescued her. He helped her flee the town and he took her to Basel, introducing himself as Desiderius Erasmus along the way. He took her to a small hideout in the city, where he told her that he was the Mentor of one of the organization her brother had mentioned: the Assassins, a group dedicated to defending free will from their enemies, the power hungry Templars who sought to bring the land to ruin. Amalda decided to join the Assassins when the offer was made, and one of her first kills was the Templar behind the overly-priced indulgences and her brother's murder, Johann Tetzel.

By 1521, Amalda had become a well-respected member of the Brotherhood and one of Erasmus’s favorite students. The Mentor often discussed the serious goings-on throughout Europe, particularly with the rising influence of Martin Luther. Luther had practically begun a full revolution against the Catholic Church, claiming that the pope and the entire Catholic ways was evil and overcomplicated. He argued that the Bible should be left for individuals to read instead of the church telling them how to interpret it. Such ideals sounded appealing to the Assassins, and Erasmus expressed a desire to cooperate with Luther. Though Pope Leo X was already on good terms with the Assassins thanks to his friendship with the retired Mentor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and thus Erasmus hoped to find a balanced compromise between Luther and the pope. He had Amalda oversee the Diet of Worms, where Luther was to plead his case to the church. Luther was shunned and excommunicated, and Luther was offered shelter from the papal guards by Franz von Sickingen. Luther denied his offer and fled elsewhere, though von Sickingen still offered him a role in a certain organization that would help him get his ideas off the ground. Amalda did some investigating, and discovered that von Sickingen and his companion Ulrich von Hutten were Templars, plotting to regain the power they had lost when the Borgia family collapsed. The two tried and failed to besiege a few major cities in 1523, and Amalda assassinated the both of them.

By 1524, Erasmus was lamenting the loss of any chance of cooperating with Luther, as the radical monk had fallen into Templar influence. He did not believe all humans should have the right to interpret scripture their own way, but instead that they should have the right to interpret it his way and only his way. Despite Luther's arrogant stance, many across the Holy Roman Empire did begin to interpret the Bible their own way after Luther published an edition in German instead of Latin. Many peasants believed that God did not want them to suffer and toil in poverty and serfdom, and they rose up in an open violent rebellion that came to be known as the German Peasant’s War. Amalda did her best to help out, even killing a noble known as Count Ludwig during the Siege of Weinsberg, but the rebellion was ultimately put down by Templar forces in 1525, much to the dismay of Amalda and the joy of Luther, who thought the peasants’ desire for freedom to be idiotic.

In 1527, Erasmus introduced Amalda to Lodovico Ariosto, Mentor of the Italian Assassins. They explained that the Templars have united the armies of the Habsburgs and their allies against Rome, and assigned Amalda to hurry down and do what she could to help. She stood with the Papal Guard as they defended Castel Sant’Angelo from the armies commanded by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, a Templar who fell to Amalda’s talons during the fight. She helped Pope Clement VII escape the fight and survive another day. Later, the Pope and Charles V would reconcile with one another and sign a peace treaty between their two sides. During the meeting, Amalda interrogated a Templar POW named Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Paul, who revealed the ultimate Templar plot to her: the chaos sprung up by the Protestant Reformation was all just a distraction for their Grand Master in the Ottoman Empire to find the Apple of Eden once held by the Levantine Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad and use it to take back control of Europe. Amalda spent the next few months doing everything she could to hunt down this mysterious Grand Master, and she eventually discovered that he was a general in Suleiman the Magnificent’s army. She rushed to the Siege of Vienna in 1529, and after dodging soldiers as best she could, she called for a personal meeting with Suleiman. Suleiman ordered his men to lower their weapons when he heard she was an Assassin, as he held a very friendly relationship with the Brotherhood and wanted to hear her out. She explained he had a Templar rat in his forces, and when she spotted the Grand Master amongst the soldiers, they fought in an epic battle that resulted in her enemy's death at her blade. She took his Apple of Eden, said a quick thank you to Suleiman, and returned to Europe victorious.

Over the next few years, Amalda continued to assist with the political and religious strifes going on throughout Europe. In 1534, she travelled to England when King Henry VIII began to split off from the Catholic Church when they refused to give him a divorce. After earning his trust and helping the issue of the Church of England's founding get stabilized, she ended up entrusting the Apple of Eden with him and his royal staff. She returned to Basel afterwards, where Erasmus passed away in 1536, passing the title of Mentor on to her. Amalda later visited Martin Luther I'm his deathbed in 1546, and the two exchanged some final words before he moved into the next life for his ultimate judgement. She found herself back in England in the 1550s, when she discovered that Mary I, a Templar agent, had secured the throne and was using the Apple of Eden to force her subjects back into Catholicism against their will. Amalda helped the English Assassins kill her in 1558 and put her sister, Elizabeth I, who kept the Apple of Eden safely out of the hands of the enemies of freedom and formed a strong friendship with the Assassin Brotherhood over her reign. Amalda returned to Switzerland soon after the ordeal, and remained there in most of her old age. She ended up bringing a prominent Swiss family from Muttenz into the folds of the Brotherhood, the Spaenhauers, who became extremely influential in the area and would carry on the Assassin tradition for generations onward. Amalda mentored the first member of the family to join, Arbogast Spaenhauer, until she passed away in her bed on April 19, 1585.
She is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.