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Because I still wanna do ref sheets for all my unused OCs lol

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Name: Nesher Grant
Born: December 6, 1840; Richmond, Virginia
Died: May 21, 1920; Chicago, Illinois (age 79)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Nesher was born a to slaves on a Virginia plantation in 1840, and his life was dominated by torture because of it. His father was whipped and beaten to death when he was only four, and he was ripped away from his mother in 1850 when he was sold away to another plantation in Harper's Ferry. The white owners of the plantation were just as abusive as the old place, and as the months went by, Nesher only ever found two rays of light that kept him going: a shy slave girl named Rosie Todd, whom he fell in love with, and the plantation owner's son, Henry Lowell, who treated Nesher nicely in secret, almost like a brother. In 1852, Nesher had decided he had had enough abuse and planned to run away to the north. He tried to convince Rosie to go with him, but she told him she was too scared. With a sunken heart, he promised that he'd come back for her once he was able to, and he escaped the plantation late in the night under the cover of darkness. His escape was sloppy, and he needed help from Henry to get him passed the guards and dogs that were sent after him, but he ultimately managed to get out of Harper's Ferry unscathed. Nesher fled across the Ohio border and hitched a ride on the next train for Rochester, New York.

Upon arriving, he stumbled upon a man named Frederick Douglass, who was giving his famous “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” speech. Nesher later met up with Douglass in private, and the older man helped him settle in the North, finding him a stable home in Chicago, where Nesher spent the next few years. In 1858, Nesher attended one of the famous debates between Senators Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, and the following year, he met with Frederick Douglass again. Douglass was meeting with an abolitionist associate of his named John Brown, who was planning a raid on Harper's Ferry in hopes of freeing the slaves with armed revolt. Frederick disapproved of this idea, but Nesher was all for it, hoping that it would give him his chance to return and free his beloved Rosie. He joined Brown on his raid on October, and while the raid itself ended in disastrous failure, Nesher managed to find Rosie and flee back to Chicago with her. They met up with Frederick Douglass for aid, and Douglass later met with Nesher in private for a special offer. The older man admired Nesher’s spirit and thirst for freedom, and he told him of a special Brotherhood known as the Assassins, who were helping the abolitionist cause. Frederick offered Nesher a place in the Brotherhood, and he accepted. Douglass took Nesher to the local Assassin HQ, where he was surprised to find none other than his old friend, Henry Lowell, was a Master Assassin. The two were thrilled to see one another and to be in the same work, although Henry always seemed to have a sort of attitude, specifically towards the African American members of the Creed, that the other Assassins didn't take very kindly. Nonetheless, the Assassins all banded together to take down the Templars that were controlling the South and the slave trade that dominated it.

In 1860, Nesher was sent to South Carolina to infiltrate the Columbia Convention, where he discovered that the Templars were influencing South Carolina to secede from the Union in response to the election of Assassin ally Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. More and more states also began to secede in the following months due to Lincoln's anti-slavery policies, much to the Assassins’ dismay. Henry often expressed his own opinions differently, saying the states were just expressing their rights, though he was often forced to backpedal when the other Assassins, specifically Nesher, shot down what he was saying. In April 1861, Nesher was sent to defend Fort Sumter when Southern military forces attacked it. Nesher was forced to retreat when the rebels overwhelmed them and he returned to the Assassins with the dreadful news: the country was now at war with itself.

The Assassins soon rallied their support behind the Union while the Templars pulled the strings of the Southern rebels. Nesher was often sent down south to take out major Templar players. In July, he killed the Templar Francis Bartow at the First Battle of Bull Run, though he had to flee afterwards due to the rebel victory. He helped the Union score a victory in April 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh though when he killed the Templar Albert Sidney Johnston. Both Nesher and Henry were both sent to the Battle of Antietam in September, the bloodiest battle of the whole war, where Nesher killed the Templar Charles Tew. He also attempted to kill Master Templar Stonewall Jackson, but failed. He made up for this mistake later on when he mortally wounded the scoundrel at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.

Back in January, Nesher had met up with President Abraham Lincoln to discuss the recently issued Emancipation Proclamation. Nesher was annoyed that the border state slaves were left unfreed, but Lincoln assured him that it was for strategic reasons, and that slavery would be demolished completely once the war was over. Nesher reluctantly backed down, though he told Lincoln that he had to keep that promise or else he would personally come for his life. Lincoln agreed.

Nesher later travelled South Carolina again in June 1863 to help the Union forces along with famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman lead a raid on Combahee Ferry. Frederick Douglass had told him that the Assassins have discovered evidence of a traitor amongst their ranks, and so he had sent Nesher on the trail. Nesher met with a fellow Assassin named James David Spainhower during the Siege of Port Hudson, and the man told him that the Templars were rallying their spies to influence the goings on at the Siege of Vicksburg. And so Nesher travelled there to eliminate the Templar known as Isham Garrett, thus giving the Union army a great chance at winning. During the event, Nesher discovered that he might have a shot at taking out the Templar Grand Master, Robert E. Lee, at the Battle of Gettysburg. Not wanting to pass up an opportunity like that, he rode as fast as he could to the battlefield, where he confronted Lee, only to be stopped by the Assassin traitor. The traitor whom he was shocked and heartbroken to see was none other than Henry. Lee got away as Henry and Nesher drew their swords and began a brutal and bloody fight. Nesher questioned why Henry would do this to him, why he would side with slavers, and Henry finally gave in and revealed the cold truth: he didn't believe slaves deserved freedom due to his racist mentality. The only reason he was nice to Nesher as a child was because he saw him as a pet, not a brother. Nesher was heartbroken, and the brother vs. brother battle ultimately ended with Nesher ending Henry's life with his hidden blade. Even though the Union scored a major victory in that battle, Nesher walked away from the field with a heavy heart. He only stayed long enough to hear Lincoln give his famous Gettysburg Address.

After that, Nesher began his final showdown against the major Templar players. He killed Jeb Stuart at the Battle of Yellow Tavern in 1864, helped Union general William Tecumseh Sherman conquer Atlanta, and later confronted the rebel president Jefferson Davis and threatened to kill him if he didn't reveal Lee's plans. Davis gave the Assassin the info he needed, and Nesher travelled to the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. The Union scored their final major victory there when Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and the general convinced Nesher to spare Lee, since there was no reason anymore to fight. Nesher reluctantly agreed, though an eavesdropping revealed to him that the Templars still had one last dirty trick up their sleeves: to kill Abraham Lincoln. Nesher wasted no time. He rode as fast as he could to Ford's Theatre in Washington DC, but he was too late. Templar agent John Wilkes Booth had blasted a hole in Lincoln's skull just as Nesher arrived. The Templar escaped, and Lincoln died not long after. Nesher swore to bring justice down on Booth, and a few weeks later, he along with a team of Union soldiers and fellow Assassins, cornered Booth in a burning building and killed him for his crimes.

After the last bit of war had settled and the country began to recover, Nesher feared for the future. Even though the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, and thus outlawed slavery throughout the United States, Lincoln was no longer there to guide the process of recovery like the Assassins had hoped. Instead he was replaced by Andrew Johnson, a man much more susceptible to Templar influence. Reconstruction had begun in the South, but the Templars found many loopholes to keep their racist power, such as the Jim Crow laws that stained the land and made life miserable for African Americans. Nesher tried his hardest with the rest of the Assassins to combat this, all the way up to the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

Nesher himself eventually began to settle down with Rosie in Harlem, New York. They had their child, a son, in 1878, and years later, in 1900, their granddaughter Zipporah was born. Zipporah's father was tragically killed by a racist mob when she was a girl and her mother mysteriously disappeared as well, leaving the child to be raised by her grandparents. The family moved back to Chicago, and Zipporah spent the rest of her adolescence there. She and her friends became well-respected singers and performers in their little neighborhood, and Nesher always kept her away from any knowledge of the Assassins and Templars because he wanted her to keep her pleasant life. A monkey wrench got thrown into that plan in 1920, however. Nesher had discovered a Templar plot involving the Chicago gangs that were springing up in response to the prohibition of alcohol. He killed Templar gang leader James Colosimo in May, and the Templars shanked him in a dark alleyway not long after in retaliation. Zipporah stumbled across his bleeding body and screamed in terror as she tried to help him. He used his last dying breaths to tell her that something big was about to happen and that she needed to seek out the people with the symbol that hung on his necklace. He passed away before he could specify, and thus Zipporah began her own journey in the Assassins’ war against the Templars.

He is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.

Description
Because I still wanna do ref sheets for all my unused OCs lol

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Name: Nesher Grant
Born: December 6, 1840; Richmond, Virginia
Died: May 21, 1920; Chicago, Illinois (age 79)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Nesher was born a to slaves on a Virginia plantation in 1840, and his life was dominated by torture because of it. His father was whipped and beaten to death when he was only four, and he was ripped away from his mother in 1850 when he was sold away to another plantation in Harper's Ferry. The white owners of the plantation were just as abusive as the old place, and as the months went by, Nesher only ever found two rays of light that kept him going: a shy slave girl named Rosie Todd, whom he fell in love with, and the plantation owner's son, Henry Lowell, who treated Nesher nicely in secret, almost like a brother. In 1852, Nesher had decided he had had enough abuse and planned to run away to the north. He tried to convince Rosie to go with him, but she told him she was too scared. With a sunken heart, he promised that he'd come back for her once he was able to, and he escaped the plantation late in the night under the cover of darkness. His escape was sloppy, and he needed help from Henry to get him passed the guards and dogs that were sent after him, but he ultimately managed to get out of Harper's Ferry unscathed. Nesher fled across the Ohio border and hitched a ride on the next train for Rochester, New York.

Upon arriving, he stumbled upon a man named Frederick Douglass, who was giving his famous “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” speech. Nesher later met up with Douglass in private, and the older man helped him settle in the North, finding him a stable home in Chicago, where Nesher spent the next few years. In 1858, Nesher attended one of the famous debates between Senators Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, and the following year, he met with Frederick Douglass again. Douglass was meeting with an abolitionist associate of his named John Brown, who was planning a raid on Harper's Ferry in hopes of freeing the slaves with armed revolt. Frederick disapproved of this idea, but Nesher was all for it, hoping that it would give him his chance to return and free his beloved Rosie. He joined Brown on his raid on October, and while the raid itself ended in disastrous failure, Nesher managed to find Rosie and flee back to Chicago with her. They met up with Frederick Douglass for aid, and Douglass later met with Nesher in private for a special offer. The older man admired Nesher’s spirit and thirst for freedom, and he told him of a special Brotherhood known as the Assassins, who were helping the abolitionist cause. Frederick offered Nesher a place in the Brotherhood, and he accepted. Douglass took Nesher to the local Assassin HQ, where he was surprised to find none other than his old friend, Henry Lowell, was a Master Assassin. The two were thrilled to see one another and to be in the same work, although Henry always seemed to have a sort of attitude, specifically towards the African American members of the Creed, that the other Assassins didn't take very kindly. Nonetheless, the Assassins all banded together to take down the Templars that were controlling the South and the slave trade that dominated it.

In 1860, Nesher was sent to South Carolina to infiltrate the Columbia Convention, where he discovered that the Templars were influencing South Carolina to secede from the Union in response to the election of Assassin ally Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. More and more states also began to secede in the following months due to Lincoln's anti-slavery policies, much to the Assassins’ dismay. Henry often expressed his own opinions differently, saying the states were just expressing their rights, though he was often forced to backpedal when the other Assassins, specifically Nesher, shot down what he was saying. In April 1861, Nesher was sent to defend Fort Sumter when Southern military forces attacked it. Nesher was forced to retreat when the rebels overwhelmed them and he returned to the Assassins with the dreadful news: the country was now at war with itself.

The Assassins soon rallied their support behind the Union while the Templars pulled the strings of the Southern rebels. Nesher was often sent down south to take out major Templar players. In July, he killed the Templar Francis Bartow at the First Battle of Bull Run, though he had to flee afterwards due to the rebel victory. He helped the Union score a victory in April 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh though when he killed the Templar Albert Sidney Johnston. Both Nesher and Henry were both sent to the Battle of Antietam in September, the bloodiest battle of the whole war, where Nesher killed the Templar Charles Tew. He also attempted to kill Master Templar Stonewall Jackson, but failed. He made up for this mistake later on when he mortally wounded the scoundrel at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.

Back in January, Nesher had met up with President Abraham Lincoln to discuss the recently issued Emancipation Proclamation. Nesher was annoyed that the border state slaves were left unfreed, but Lincoln assured him that it was for strategic reasons, and that slavery would be demolished completely once the war was over. Nesher reluctantly backed down, though he told Lincoln that he had to keep that promise or else he would personally come for his life. Lincoln agreed.

Nesher later travelled South Carolina again in June 1863 to help the Union forces along with famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman lead a raid on Combahee Ferry. Frederick Douglass had told him that the Assassins have discovered evidence of a traitor amongst their ranks, and so he had sent Nesher on the trail. Nesher met with a fellow Assassin named James David Spainhower during the Siege of Port Hudson, and the man told him that the Templars were rallying their spies to influence the goings on at the Siege of Vicksburg. And so Nesher travelled there to eliminate the Templar known as Isham Garrett, thus giving the Union army a great chance at winning. During the event, Nesher discovered that he might have a shot at taking out the Templar Grand Master, Robert E. Lee, at the Battle of Gettysburg. Not wanting to pass up an opportunity like that, he rode as fast as he could to the battlefield, where he confronted Lee, only to be stopped by the Assassin traitor. The traitor whom he was shocked and heartbroken to see was none other than Henry. Lee got away as Henry and Nesher drew their swords and began a brutal and bloody fight. Nesher questioned why Henry would do this to him, why he would side with slavers, and Henry finally gave in and revealed the cold truth: he didn't believe slaves deserved freedom due to his racist mentality. The only reason he was nice to Nesher as a child was because he saw him as a pet, not a brother. Nesher was heartbroken, and the brother vs. brother battle ultimately ended with Nesher ending Henry's life with his hidden blade. Even though the Union scored a major victory in that battle, Nesher walked away from the field with a heavy heart. He only stayed long enough to hear Lincoln give his famous Gettysburg Address.

After that, Nesher began his final showdown against the major Templar players. He killed Jeb Stuart at the Battle of Yellow Tavern in 1864, helped Union general William Tecumseh Sherman conquer Atlanta, and later confronted the rebel president Jefferson Davis and threatened to kill him if he didn't reveal Lee's plans. Davis gave the Assassin the info he needed, and Nesher travelled to the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. The Union scored their final major victory there when Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and the general convinced Nesher to spare Lee, since there was no reason anymore to fight. Nesher reluctantly agreed, though an eavesdropping revealed to him that the Templars still had one last dirty trick up their sleeves: to kill Abraham Lincoln. Nesher wasted no time. He rode as fast as he could to Ford's Theatre in Washington DC, but he was too late. Templar agent John Wilkes Booth had blasted a hole in Lincoln's skull just as Nesher arrived. The Templar escaped, and Lincoln died not long after. Nesher swore to bring justice down on Booth, and a few weeks later, he along with a team of Union soldiers and fellow Assassins, cornered Booth in a burning building and killed him for his crimes.

After the last bit of war had settled and the country began to recover, Nesher feared for the future. Even though the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, and thus outlawed slavery throughout the United States, Lincoln was no longer there to guide the process of recovery like the Assassins had hoped. Instead he was replaced by Andrew Johnson, a man much more susceptible to Templar influence. Reconstruction had begun in the South, but the Templars found many loopholes to keep their racist power, such as the Jim Crow laws that stained the land and made life miserable for African Americans. Nesher tried his hardest with the rest of the Assassins to combat this, all the way up to the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

Nesher himself eventually began to settle down with Rosie in Harlem, New York. They had their child, a son, in 1878, and years later, in 1900, their granddaughter Zipporah was born. Zipporah's father was tragically killed by a racist mob when she was a girl and her mother mysteriously disappeared as well, leaving the child to be raised by her grandparents. The family moved back to Chicago, and Zipporah spent the rest of her adolescence there. She and her friends became well-respected singers and performers in their little neighborhood, and Nesher always kept her away from any knowledge of the Assassins and Templars because he wanted her to keep her pleasant life. A monkey wrench got thrown into that plan in 1920, however. Nesher had discovered a Templar plot involving the Chicago gangs that were springing up in response to the prohibition of alcohol. He killed Templar gang leader James Colosimo in May, and the Templars shanked him in a dark alleyway not long after in retaliation. Zipporah stumbled across his bleeding body and screamed in terror as she tried to help him. He used his last dying breaths to tell her that something big was about to happen and that she needed to seek out the people with the symbol that hung on his necklace. He passed away before he could specify, and thus Zipporah began her own journey in the Assassins’ war against the Templars.

He is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.