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Name: Faulkner Arlington
Born: October 25, 1435; Kent, England
Died: November 6, 1509; London, England (age 74)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Faulkner spent most of his early childhood as an orphaned urchin on the streets of Kent, barely having any memory of his parents at all. Instead he was raised by a small gang of older orphaned children that took him in as their family. They were poor and dirty and often mischievous, but they often did works of charity around town to earn at least a resemblance of a fair living. Half the town simply saw them as meddling kids, but others saw them as their local Robin Hoods, and that latter reputation was one Faulkner aspired to uphold into his early teens.

Things took a dark turn in the summer of 1450, however. England was being drowned in corruption by the idiotic and weak King Henry VI and his tyrannical wife Margaret of Anjou. The English people grew tired of the oppression, and a man named Jack Cade rallied an army of rebels from Kent to storm London and remove the king from his throne. Faulkner and his friends joined the rebellion, seeing it as a chance to do good on a nationwide scale, but the reality ended up being much much more grim. Despite the rebels killing a few corrupt officials, the effort was ultimately crushed by the royal guard. Faulkner’s entire gang was caught, and he was the only one to escape. He attempted to come back and rescue his friends, but he was too late. He watched their heads come off from the crowd, unable to do anything as the Lancaster queen simply stood there and had them murdered without a thought. Unable to cope with the feels of loss, anger, guilt, and fear, Faulkner ran away, far from London, swearing that if he ever returned, he would come back to stick a blade in every member of the corrupt House of Lancaster.

Faulkner ultimately stumbled into the Army, spending the next three years as a soldier under service of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, who much like him, had no love for the monarch’s corrupted court. Faulkner’s loyalty found him in the position of close advisor to the Duke of York, and the two often discussed the possibility of making the Duke king. They often dismissed these plans of usurpation, at least until 1453, when they were approached by a mysterious man in a white hood, who made an offer to join his Brotherhood in allegiance with the Duke of York’s cause. He explained that Henry VI, Queen Margaret, and her puppet Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, were all members of a corrupt Order known as the Templars seeking to control all of England with an iron fist, and that they needed to be overthrown. After long nights of questioning and debating, the Duke of York eventually agreed to take up arms in alliance with this “Assassin Brotherhood”, and Faulkner agreed.

Faulkner was tasked with attempting to assassinate the king so that the government would be weak enough to take. However, Faulkner’s attempt only resulted in Henry VI falling into a coma. The effect was the same nonetheless, and after the army of the Duke of York marched into London, he was given the title of Protector of the Realm and had Somerset locked in the Tower of London. For a while, it seemed things would go smoothly and painlessly, but when Henry woke up in 1455, things quickly fell apart. The Yorkist supporters were booted out of power and all the corrupt Templar officials returned to the scene. Seeing no other option but to go to war, the Duke of York and his Assassin allies marched against the Lancaster army in the Battle of St. Albans, marking the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. It was on this battleground that Faulkner first wielded a hidden blade, and first encountered a formidable Templar named Lovette Rudolph. He managed to fight her off and reach the Templar Somerset, whom he assassinated. As the battle closed and the Duke of York planned for the war ahead, the Assassins approached Faulkner and offered him an official place as a member of the Brotherhood. Faulkner didn't even blink as he readily accepted.

The battles raged over the next few years, with the Assassins backing the Yorkists and the Templars backing the Lancasters. Following the Battle of Ludford Bridge in 1459 and the Battle of Northampton in 1460, York marched into London demanding he be made king. Parliament ultimately agreed to a compromise where he is made Lord Protector instead, a position neither York or the Assassins are satisfied with, but they saw it as a fair launching point to the throne. However, a terrible blow came when Faulkner encountered the Templar Lovette again at the Battle of Wakefield, when she decapitated the Duke of York and sent the Assassins running. Faulkner was infuriated by this turn of events, but all hope was not lost. The Assassins were approached by York's son, Edward, and his ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. Together, they finally usurp Henry VI, and Edward takes the crown after his victory at the Battle of Towton.

The Templars finally outcasted and a fair king now on the throne, the reign of Edward IV looked to be a joyous one. Unfortunately, it would not last. Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville left Warwick feeling shunned, and many other acts or independence from the king made Warwick fearful of not being needed anymore. And so by the late 1460s, Warwick insighted rebellions through rumors and briberies. He captured the king in 1469, but quickly released him on threats from the Assassins. Warwick, losing all his support, was forced to flee to France, where he found allies in the exiled Templar Queen Margaret of Anjou. Together, they invaded England and put Henry back on the throne in 1470. Faulkner and Edward IV were forced to flee and regroup, much to their dismay, but they nonetheless came back in full force in March 1471. Henry was locked back up in the Tower of London, Faulkner killed Warwick at the Battle of Barnet, and later took the queen as a prisoner in the Battle of Tewkesbury, killing her son that same battle. Edward's throne was now entirely secure, and the last thread was tied up when Faulkner assassinated Henry VI in his own prison cell, securing the throne for the Yorkists once and for all.

The next 12 years were an era of relative peace, a collective sigh of relief for so many people, including Faulkner. But when Edward IV died in 1483, killed by the Templar Lovette, it was the perfect time for the Templars to drag themselves back into power. Faulkner rushed to his young son, now Edward V, and the new king’s uncle Anthony Woodville, to tell them the news. Faulkner told them they must ride with him to London immediately to get the boy coronated before evil slips in and takes advantage. Unfortunately, the road was not smooth. The Templars had found their newest pawn by playing into the insecurities of Edward IV’s snubbed brother, Richard, who had Woodville and Faulkner arrested on false charges and stole the young king. After months of imprisonment, Faulkner managed to escape and ride to London, and the state he saw the city in shook him to his core. Richard had locked the king and his brother up in the Tower of London, and crowned himself Richard III. Ruthless Templars by his side, he had become a vicious and paranoid tyrant who would turn on anyone that stood in his way. Faulkner attempted to rescue the princes in the Tower, but arrived too late due to intervention from Lovette. The Templars executed the boys, an act which seemed to shock Lovette, and Faulkner fled in tears. A broken and hopeless man, Faulkner returned to the streets of York and took up drinking.

A month later, Faulkner heard a knocking on the door of his abandoned shed, and he was unpleasantly surprised by the sight of Lovette. He pinned her to a wall with a blade to her throat before she could explain herself, and likely would've killed her outright had it not been for Edward's wife Elizabeth intervening. Suspicious but tamed, Faulkner heard their explanation. Lovette saw how corrupt her Order had become with the power trip that Richard III allowed them to bask in, and she alone sought an alliance with Faulkner as the only means of putting an end to it. The queen gave her consent to this plan, and planned to have her daughter married to Henry VI’s nephew named Henry Tudor, who had no love for the Templars. This would unite the families if Henry could claim the throne, and would mean an end to these bloody wars. Faulkner was hesitant, but he eventually gave in and strapped his hidden blade back on. August 1485 was the closing days of the conflict, and after many messy battles, it all came down to the Battle of Bosworth Field. The armies of Richard III and Henry Tudor clashed, and after a long and vicious fight, Faulkner and Lovette both had their blades embedded in Richard's flesh. The battle stopped, and the crown was handed over to Henry Tudor, the new king: Henry VII.

The houses of York and Lancaster were united at last under the House of Tudor, and England was finally able to breathe the air of peace. Faulkner slowly began to build a friendship with Lovette, who continued to identify herself as a Templar despite fighting against the rest of her corrupted kind. The two would eventually form a romance and have a son, who would choose to take his father's path in his older years. The last of the Templar army led by Lambert Simnel were crushed at the Battle of Stoke Field, and the usurper Perkin Warbeck was killed by Faulkner and Lovette in 1499. The final Templar with eyes on the throne was Richard III’s sister Margaret of York, whom Faulkner and Lovette killed in 1503 with the help of Italian Assassin recruits sent by the Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Those same recruits assisted Faulkner and Lovette in eliminating corrupt Templar spies from Henry VII’s Star Chamber that same year. The Assassins were awarded a permanent seat in the Chamber for their services.

Faulkner ultimately passed away peacefully in his home in 1509, during the beginning stages of the reign of Henry VII’s famous son, Henry VIII.

Faulkner is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.

Description

Name: Faulkner Arlington
Born: October 25, 1435; Kent, England
Died: November 6, 1509; London, England (age 74)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Faulkner spent most of his early childhood as an orphaned urchin on the streets of Kent, barely having any memory of his parents at all. Instead he was raised by a small gang of older orphaned children that took him in as their family. They were poor and dirty and often mischievous, but they often did works of charity around town to earn at least a resemblance of a fair living. Half the town simply saw them as meddling kids, but others saw them as their local Robin Hoods, and that latter reputation was one Faulkner aspired to uphold into his early teens.

Things took a dark turn in the summer of 1450, however. England was being drowned in corruption by the idiotic and weak King Henry VI and his tyrannical wife Margaret of Anjou. The English people grew tired of the oppression, and a man named Jack Cade rallied an army of rebels from Kent to storm London and remove the king from his throne. Faulkner and his friends joined the rebellion, seeing it as a chance to do good on a nationwide scale, but the reality ended up being much much more grim. Despite the rebels killing a few corrupt officials, the effort was ultimately crushed by the royal guard. Faulkner’s entire gang was caught, and he was the only one to escape. He attempted to come back and rescue his friends, but he was too late. He watched their heads come off from the crowd, unable to do anything as the Lancaster queen simply stood there and had them murdered without a thought. Unable to cope with the feels of loss, anger, guilt, and fear, Faulkner ran away, far from London, swearing that if he ever returned, he would come back to stick a blade in every member of the corrupt House of Lancaster.

Faulkner ultimately stumbled into the Army, spending the next three years as a soldier under service of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, who much like him, had no love for the monarch’s corrupted court. Faulkner’s loyalty found him in the position of close advisor to the Duke of York, and the two often discussed the possibility of making the Duke king. They often dismissed these plans of usurpation, at least until 1453, when they were approached by a mysterious man in a white hood, who made an offer to join his Brotherhood in allegiance with the Duke of York’s cause. He explained that Henry VI, Queen Margaret, and her puppet Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, were all members of a corrupt Order known as the Templars seeking to control all of England with an iron fist, and that they needed to be overthrown. After long nights of questioning and debating, the Duke of York eventually agreed to take up arms in alliance with this “Assassin Brotherhood”, and Faulkner agreed.

Faulkner was tasked with attempting to assassinate the king so that the government would be weak enough to take. However, Faulkner’s attempt only resulted in Henry VI falling into a coma. The effect was the same nonetheless, and after the army of the Duke of York marched into London, he was given the title of Protector of the Realm and had Somerset locked in the Tower of London. For a while, it seemed things would go smoothly and painlessly, but when Henry woke up in 1455, things quickly fell apart. The Yorkist supporters were booted out of power and all the corrupt Templar officials returned to the scene. Seeing no other option but to go to war, the Duke of York and his Assassin allies marched against the Lancaster army in the Battle of St. Albans, marking the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. It was on this battleground that Faulkner first wielded a hidden blade, and first encountered a formidable Templar named Lovette Rudolph. He managed to fight her off and reach the Templar Somerset, whom he assassinated. As the battle closed and the Duke of York planned for the war ahead, the Assassins approached Faulkner and offered him an official place as a member of the Brotherhood. Faulkner didn't even blink as he readily accepted.

The battles raged over the next few years, with the Assassins backing the Yorkists and the Templars backing the Lancasters. Following the Battle of Ludford Bridge in 1459 and the Battle of Northampton in 1460, York marched into London demanding he be made king. Parliament ultimately agreed to a compromise where he is made Lord Protector instead, a position neither York or the Assassins are satisfied with, but they saw it as a fair launching point to the throne. However, a terrible blow came when Faulkner encountered the Templar Lovette again at the Battle of Wakefield, when she decapitated the Duke of York and sent the Assassins running. Faulkner was infuriated by this turn of events, but all hope was not lost. The Assassins were approached by York's son, Edward, and his ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. Together, they finally usurp Henry VI, and Edward takes the crown after his victory at the Battle of Towton.

The Templars finally outcasted and a fair king now on the throne, the reign of Edward IV looked to be a joyous one. Unfortunately, it would not last. Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville left Warwick feeling shunned, and many other acts or independence from the king made Warwick fearful of not being needed anymore. And so by the late 1460s, Warwick insighted rebellions through rumors and briberies. He captured the king in 1469, but quickly released him on threats from the Assassins. Warwick, losing all his support, was forced to flee to France, where he found allies in the exiled Templar Queen Margaret of Anjou. Together, they invaded England and put Henry back on the throne in 1470. Faulkner and Edward IV were forced to flee and regroup, much to their dismay, but they nonetheless came back in full force in March 1471. Henry was locked back up in the Tower of London, Faulkner killed Warwick at the Battle of Barnet, and later took the queen as a prisoner in the Battle of Tewkesbury, killing her son that same battle. Edward's throne was now entirely secure, and the last thread was tied up when Faulkner assassinated Henry VI in his own prison cell, securing the throne for the Yorkists once and for all.

The next 12 years were an era of relative peace, a collective sigh of relief for so many people, including Faulkner. But when Edward IV died in 1483, killed by the Templar Lovette, it was the perfect time for the Templars to drag themselves back into power. Faulkner rushed to his young son, now Edward V, and the new king’s uncle Anthony Woodville, to tell them the news. Faulkner told them they must ride with him to London immediately to get the boy coronated before evil slips in and takes advantage. Unfortunately, the road was not smooth. The Templars had found their newest pawn by playing into the insecurities of Edward IV’s snubbed brother, Richard, who had Woodville and Faulkner arrested on false charges and stole the young king. After months of imprisonment, Faulkner managed to escape and ride to London, and the state he saw the city in shook him to his core. Richard had locked the king and his brother up in the Tower of London, and crowned himself Richard III. Ruthless Templars by his side, he had become a vicious and paranoid tyrant who would turn on anyone that stood in his way. Faulkner attempted to rescue the princes in the Tower, but arrived too late due to intervention from Lovette. The Templars executed the boys, an act which seemed to shock Lovette, and Faulkner fled in tears. A broken and hopeless man, Faulkner returned to the streets of York and took up drinking.

A month later, Faulkner heard a knocking on the door of his abandoned shed, and he was unpleasantly surprised by the sight of Lovette. He pinned her to a wall with a blade to her throat before she could explain herself, and likely would've killed her outright had it not been for Edward's wife Elizabeth intervening. Suspicious but tamed, Faulkner heard their explanation. Lovette saw how corrupt her Order had become with the power trip that Richard III allowed them to bask in, and she alone sought an alliance with Faulkner as the only means of putting an end to it. The queen gave her consent to this plan, and planned to have her daughter married to Henry VI’s nephew named Henry Tudor, who had no love for the Templars. This would unite the families if Henry could claim the throne, and would mean an end to these bloody wars. Faulkner was hesitant, but he eventually gave in and strapped his hidden blade back on. August 1485 was the closing days of the conflict, and after many messy battles, it all came down to the Battle of Bosworth Field. The armies of Richard III and Henry Tudor clashed, and after a long and vicious fight, Faulkner and Lovette both had their blades embedded in Richard's flesh. The battle stopped, and the crown was handed over to Henry Tudor, the new king: Henry VII.

The houses of York and Lancaster were united at last under the House of Tudor, and England was finally able to breathe the air of peace. Faulkner slowly began to build a friendship with Lovette, who continued to identify herself as a Templar despite fighting against the rest of her corrupted kind. The two would eventually form a romance and have a son, who would choose to take his father's path in his older years. The last of the Templar army led by Lambert Simnel were crushed at the Battle of Stoke Field, and the usurper Perkin Warbeck was killed by Faulkner and Lovette in 1499. The final Templar with eyes on the throne was Richard III’s sister Margaret of York, whom Faulkner and Lovette killed in 1503 with the help of Italian Assassin recruits sent by the Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Those same recruits assisted Faulkner and Lovette in eliminating corrupt Templar spies from Henry VII’s Star Chamber that same year. The Assassins were awarded a permanent seat in the Chamber for their services.

Faulkner ultimately passed away peacefully in his home in 1509, during the beginning stages of the reign of Henry VII’s famous son, Henry VIII.

Faulkner is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.