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Name: Lærke Ørn
Born: June 5, 1825; Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: March 21, 1909; Copenhagen, Denmark (age 83)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Lærke was the eldest daughter of a relatively wealthy Danish couple settled in the city of Copenhagen. Because of their status, Lærke grew up a cultured girl at the front of the fantastical movements of art and literature and philosophy of her day. She received private tutoring in all her subjects, and by the time she was 18, she was quite the cultured lady indeed. Around her 16th birthday though, she also began to receive a different kind of tutoring from her parents. They had sat her down in the living room of their home that day, and they revealed to her that there was another calling they had kept hidden from her until they thought she was ready. They told her they were Assassins, part of an ancient Brotherhood dedicated to protecting humanity and freewill from their enemies, the Templars. After a long night of questioning, Lærke made the choice to ease herself into this new role. And once she took to her new skills of fighting and philosophy, she excelled at it, reaching the rank of Master Assassin by her late twenties.

The 1840s proved to be an active decade for Lærke. While on the hand her high-classed connections brought her into contact with the intellectuals of the time such as philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and author Hans Christian Andersen, she also had radical political shifts within the government of Denmark to manage and route out Templar influence within. 1848 in particular was the year of liberal revolution across the continent, which the Templars desperately tried to combat in order to hold on to their control. Denmark's own king, Christian VIII, had caved on the demands for constitutional monarchy in his Norse lands back in 1814, but failed to enact such reforms in his homeland of Denmark due to the Templars, led by Grand Master Jacob Peter Mynster, playing up his own self-importance to him. Many of the Danish population were disgruntled at his stubbornness, and Lærke was assigned to assassinate the king in 1848 in order to make way for the constitutional movement to gain traction. This, as well as many inspiring victories against the Prussians during the First Schleswig War, helped lead to the creation of a new constitution and many reforms along with it, even the abolishment of Danish slave trade.

The Templars, now heavily weakened, were prime targets for Lærke and her fellow Assassins. She assassinated Grand Master Mynster in 1854, and did her best to influence the court of King Frederick VII in the favor of the Assassins’ goals. However, a new threat began to emerge after the death of the king in 1863. This brief power vacuum allowed for the Templars, who had turned to the Prussian government led by Otto von Bismarck as their new conquering force, to try and retake control. The Second Schleswig War erupted not long after as German forces fought to claim the Danish lands of Schleswig and Holstein for the Prussians and Austrians. Lærke took up arms in the conflict, and it was during this time that she met a Prussian Assassin named Vogel Falke, who became a dear friend to her. Even after the war ended in 1864, the two still continued to embark on many adventures together throughout Europe, eventually even falling in love and marrying.

Despite this brief moment of loving peace in their lives, things didn't get any easier in the fight against Bismarck and his Templars. Prussia went to war with Austria in 1866. Prussian victory led to Prussia gaining control over huge chunks of Austrian lands, making it the new dominant power in this newly formed German Empire that the Templars ran. The only power that stood in Bismarck’s way now was France. Vogel and Lærke rushed to help their French brothers defend their borders, but it proved futile. France suffered a major defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, and the German Empire was now firmly established as a force to be reckoned with.

Vogel was enraged, feeling this tyranny had gone too far. And so from then on he devoted all his time that wasn't already devoted to his family to bringing down Bismarck. In 1888, Vogel killed the traitorous emperor Wilhelm I so that their ally Frederick III could take the throne. His reign only lasted 4 months, however, as he died in June. Nonetheless it was a boost to Assassin morale. The Assassins manipulated the new emperor, Wilhelm II, into removing Bismarck from his position in 1890. A soured and broken man, Bismarck was confronted face to face with Vogel in 1898. The two exchanged bitter words, with Bismarck warning the younger Assassin that without the Templars, the world would fall into chaos within only 20 years. Vogel simply replied with the hopeful policy that the Assassins and humanity could overcome any scheme the powerful and oppressive throw their way, and then proceeded to assassinate the ex-chancellor.

Things calmed down, relatively speaking, after that. Lærke and Vogel finally got the chance to take a deep breath and settle down with their son Frederick in Copenhagen. Lærke was even given the joy of becoming a grandmother when her son's daughter, Augusta, was born near the turn of the century. In her old age, Lærke mainly confined to the simpler tasks of managing and teaching new recruits in the Danish Brotherhood, while mainly sticking to her books and family in her free time. She passed away peacefully in her sleep in her chair by the fireplace in 1909, with a book in her lap, and was followed in death by her husband in 1918.

Lærke is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.

Description

Name: Lærke Ørn
Born: June 5, 1825; Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: March 21, 1909; Copenhagen, Denmark (age 83)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Lærke was the eldest daughter of a relatively wealthy Danish couple settled in the city of Copenhagen. Because of their status, Lærke grew up a cultured girl at the front of the fantastical movements of art and literature and philosophy of her day. She received private tutoring in all her subjects, and by the time she was 18, she was quite the cultured lady indeed. Around her 16th birthday though, she also began to receive a different kind of tutoring from her parents. They had sat her down in the living room of their home that day, and they revealed to her that there was another calling they had kept hidden from her until they thought she was ready. They told her they were Assassins, part of an ancient Brotherhood dedicated to protecting humanity and freewill from their enemies, the Templars. After a long night of questioning, Lærke made the choice to ease herself into this new role. And once she took to her new skills of fighting and philosophy, she excelled at it, reaching the rank of Master Assassin by her late twenties.

The 1840s proved to be an active decade for Lærke. While on the hand her high-classed connections brought her into contact with the intellectuals of the time such as philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and author Hans Christian Andersen, she also had radical political shifts within the government of Denmark to manage and route out Templar influence within. 1848 in particular was the year of liberal revolution across the continent, which the Templars desperately tried to combat in order to hold on to their control. Denmark's own king, Christian VIII, had caved on the demands for constitutional monarchy in his Norse lands back in 1814, but failed to enact such reforms in his homeland of Denmark due to the Templars, led by Grand Master Jacob Peter Mynster, playing up his own self-importance to him. Many of the Danish population were disgruntled at his stubbornness, and Lærke was assigned to assassinate the king in 1848 in order to make way for the constitutional movement to gain traction. This, as well as many inspiring victories against the Prussians during the First Schleswig War, helped lead to the creation of a new constitution and many reforms along with it, even the abolishment of Danish slave trade.

The Templars, now heavily weakened, were prime targets for Lærke and her fellow Assassins. She assassinated Grand Master Mynster in 1854, and did her best to influence the court of King Frederick VII in the favor of the Assassins’ goals. However, a new threat began to emerge after the death of the king in 1863. This brief power vacuum allowed for the Templars, who had turned to the Prussian government led by Otto von Bismarck as their new conquering force, to try and retake control. The Second Schleswig War erupted not long after as German forces fought to claim the Danish lands of Schleswig and Holstein for the Prussians and Austrians. Lærke took up arms in the conflict, and it was during this time that she met a Prussian Assassin named Vogel Falke, who became a dear friend to her. Even after the war ended in 1864, the two still continued to embark on many adventures together throughout Europe, eventually even falling in love and marrying.

Despite this brief moment of loving peace in their lives, things didn't get any easier in the fight against Bismarck and his Templars. Prussia went to war with Austria in 1866. Prussian victory led to Prussia gaining control over huge chunks of Austrian lands, making it the new dominant power in this newly formed German Empire that the Templars ran. The only power that stood in Bismarck’s way now was France. Vogel and Lærke rushed to help their French brothers defend their borders, but it proved futile. France suffered a major defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, and the German Empire was now firmly established as a force to be reckoned with.

Vogel was enraged, feeling this tyranny had gone too far. And so from then on he devoted all his time that wasn't already devoted to his family to bringing down Bismarck. In 1888, Vogel killed the traitorous emperor Wilhelm I so that their ally Frederick III could take the throne. His reign only lasted 4 months, however, as he died in June. Nonetheless it was a boost to Assassin morale. The Assassins manipulated the new emperor, Wilhelm II, into removing Bismarck from his position in 1890. A soured and broken man, Bismarck was confronted face to face with Vogel in 1898. The two exchanged bitter words, with Bismarck warning the younger Assassin that without the Templars, the world would fall into chaos within only 20 years. Vogel simply replied with the hopeful policy that the Assassins and humanity could overcome any scheme the powerful and oppressive throw their way, and then proceeded to assassinate the ex-chancellor.

Things calmed down, relatively speaking, after that. Lærke and Vogel finally got the chance to take a deep breath and settle down with their son Frederick in Copenhagen. Lærke was even given the joy of becoming a grandmother when her son's daughter, Augusta, was born near the turn of the century. In her old age, Lærke mainly confined to the simpler tasks of managing and teaching new recruits in the Danish Brotherhood, while mainly sticking to her books and family in her free time. She passed away peacefully in her sleep in her chair by the fireplace in 1909, with a book in her lap, and was followed in death by her husband in 1918.

Lærke is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.