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Name: Priscilla Spainhower (née Abbott)
Born: November 22, 1823; Sumner County, Tennessee
Died: June 3, 1867; Worthington, Indiana (age 43)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Priscilla Abbott was born to a small farming family in the Tennessee frontier in 1823. However, financial opportunities prompted her family to move northward to Point Commerce, Indiana circa 1830. Settling down in their new home rather well, Priscilla quickly found good neighborhood friends and lived a happy life helping her family work on the farm. However, things became financially stressful for the Abbotts during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson. Jackson's infamous war against the Bank made life rather difficult for several families across the nation, especially when the Panic of 1837 hit years later. Priscilla helped her family struggle onwards through it all, doing what she could wherever she was able. And then around 1833, she met Aveza Bellamy.

Priscilla’s parents had contacted Aveza when things in Indiana got really desperate. Priscilla was sat down with the three and was told several secrets about the world, and herself. Aveza was an Assassin, as were Priscilla’s parents. They revealed to her that the Abbotts had been in the Brotherhood ever since her grandfather, Jack, had been recruited by Connor during the American Revolution. Priscilla also learned that Jackson and his followers were Templars, seeking to gain ultimate power no matter the cost. All the financial problems crippling the United States was because of their plots. Hearing this, Priscilla jumped at the chance to join the Assassins, and Aveza happily took her on as an apprentice.

Priscilla worked as hard as she could over the years to be a defender of liberty just as her mentor and parents had been. She helped Aveza influence the reform movements that began to spring up over the years, advocating for the rights of workers and women and slaves alike. She also worked to take down the reign of Jackson and his accolades. Life slowly began to improve by the early 1840s, with Jackson leaving office in 1837 and the Assassins slowly undoing the damage he caused.

Priscilla herself was able to start a family. She met a dashing man named Abraham Spainhower, an Assassin informant working as a grand master of a local freemason lodge. The two fell in love and eventually got married in a little log cabin in Point Commerce on May 5, 1842. They established their home in a house just over the hill toward the river on the old Ferry Road, and there they had their first child, James, on November 8, 1843. They would go on to have nine other children throughout their lives, some of which tragically did not make it to adulthood. Aveza came to visit her in June of 1845, giving her the key to a Precursor Temple and assigning her to guard it with her life.

In 1848, the family moved across Eel River to Worthington, Indiana where they lived in a large frame house. Priscilla continued her advocacy for the rights of America's minorities throughout the next two decades, despite the struggle getting more and more difficult and more and more violent as time went on. In July of that year, she travelled to Lowell, Massachusetts, where the factories were notorious for the mistreatment of the young women who worked there. Priscilla snuck into one of these factories and assassinated the Templar in charge, Benson Randolph, before making her escape to the next train to Seneca Falls, New York, where she hoped to meet up with her Mentor again, which she did during the famed women's rights convention that was held there. Priscilla gleefully reunited with Aveza after the convention, and while the two were catching up they noticed a mysterious Templar woman who was eavesdropping. The Assassins tailed her all the way to New York, where they snuck into the Templar hideout and discovered a meeting being held by Grand Master John C. Calhoun. Aveza and Priscilla were caught by Assassin-hunter Cudgel Cormac and in the ensuing brawl, Priscilla had the Temple Key snatched away from her. The Templars escaped and Priscilla felt the guilt of letting her Mentor down. Determined to get it back and redeem herself, Priscilla set out to find it and put it back in Assassin hands.

Aveza and Priscilla's first lead on the Key led them to the home of the Templar James B. Ray an ex-governor of Indiana who the Assassins believed to hold the Key. Priscilla snuck into the house disguised as a maid and assassinated the Templar in his bed, but unfortunately returned to her Mentor empty-handed as the Key had apparantly been passed on. Their hope was ignited again the next year, however, as their fellow Assassin Frederick Douglass gave them a lead on the Templar slaver Edward Brodess. Aveza and Priscilla travelled to Dorchester County, Maryland, where they snuck onto Brodess's plantation and spoke with one of the Templar's slaves, Harriet Tubman, whom they offered to help. Priscilla assassinated Brodess (who unfortunately did not hold the Key), and came back later to help Harriet escape Maryland and reach her freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. Aveza herself had to return to Canada that year in order to deal with political turmoil, but returned to help in the States as soon as she was able.

In March 1850, Priscilla and Aveza tracked down John C. Calhoun to the Old Brick Capitol building in Washington DC, only to find it was a trap set by Cudgel. Priscilla managed to break through to the Templar's good conscience though, and he agreed to join them to fight Calhoun in the Prophetstown Temple, where the Grand Master ultimately met his death at the end of Priscilla's blade. Prsicilla received instructions from the Precursor Gabriel to hide the Key where none would find it, and so she locked it away in a chamber underneath Indianapolis before wishing a goodbye to Cudgel.

When the Civil War broke out, her son James, a man with the same pride in his Assassin heritage that his mother had, enlisted in the Union army to fight the Confederate Templars and free the slaves. After years of heroics in the war, he was discharged on January 13, 1866, and he returned home to find Priscilla in failing health. Priscilla passed away in 1867, and it was a tragedy to all; to her husband, to her children, and to her mentor Aveza. However, she left a proud legacy that while forgotten in history books would continue to inspire several Assassins for years afterwards.

Decades later, her genetic memories would be relived by her descendant, Carter Spainhower.

Description
Name: Priscilla Spainhower (née Abbott)
Born: November 22, 1823; Sumner County, Tennessee
Died: June 3, 1867; Worthington, Indiana (age 43)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Priscilla Abbott was born to a small farming family in the Tennessee frontier in 1823. However, financial opportunities prompted her family to move northward to Point Commerce, Indiana circa 1830. Settling down in their new home rather well, Priscilla quickly found good neighborhood friends and lived a happy life helping her family work on the farm. However, things became financially stressful for the Abbotts during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson. Jackson's infamous war against the Bank made life rather difficult for several families across the nation, especially when the Panic of 1837 hit years later. Priscilla helped her family struggle onwards through it all, doing what she could wherever she was able. And then around 1833, she met Aveza Bellamy.

Priscilla’s parents had contacted Aveza when things in Indiana got really desperate. Priscilla was sat down with the three and was told several secrets about the world, and herself. Aveza was an Assassin, as were Priscilla’s parents. They revealed to her that the Abbotts had been in the Brotherhood ever since her grandfather, Jack, had been recruited by Connor during the American Revolution. Priscilla also learned that Jackson and his followers were Templars, seeking to gain ultimate power no matter the cost. All the financial problems crippling the United States was because of their plots. Hearing this, Priscilla jumped at the chance to join the Assassins, and Aveza happily took her on as an apprentice.

Priscilla worked as hard as she could over the years to be a defender of liberty just as her mentor and parents had been. She helped Aveza influence the reform movements that began to spring up over the years, advocating for the rights of workers and women and slaves alike. She also worked to take down the reign of Jackson and his accolades. Life slowly began to improve by the early 1840s, with Jackson leaving office in 1837 and the Assassins slowly undoing the damage he caused.

Priscilla herself was able to start a family. She met a dashing man named Abraham Spainhower, an Assassin informant working as a grand master of a local freemason lodge. The two fell in love and eventually got married in a little log cabin in Point Commerce on May 5, 1842. They established their home in a house just over the hill toward the river on the old Ferry Road, and there they had their first child, James, on November 8, 1843. They would go on to have nine other children throughout their lives, some of which tragically did not make it to adulthood. Aveza came to visit her in June of 1845, giving her the key to a Precursor Temple and assigning her to guard it with her life.

In 1848, the family moved across Eel River to Worthington, Indiana where they lived in a large frame house. Priscilla continued her advocacy for the rights of America's minorities throughout the next two decades, despite the struggle getting more and more difficult and more and more violent as time went on. In July of that year, she travelled to Lowell, Massachusetts, where the factories were notorious for the mistreatment of the young women who worked there. Priscilla snuck into one of these factories and assassinated the Templar in charge, Benson Randolph, before making her escape to the next train to Seneca Falls, New York, where she hoped to meet up with her Mentor again, which she did during the famed women's rights convention that was held there. Priscilla gleefully reunited with Aveza after the convention, and while the two were catching up they noticed a mysterious Templar woman who was eavesdropping. The Assassins tailed her all the way to New York, where they snuck into the Templar hideout and discovered a meeting being held by Grand Master John C. Calhoun. Aveza and Priscilla were caught by Assassin-hunter Cudgel Cormac and in the ensuing brawl, Priscilla had the Temple Key snatched away from her. The Templars escaped and Priscilla felt the guilt of letting her Mentor down. Determined to get it back and redeem herself, Priscilla set out to find it and put it back in Assassin hands.

Aveza and Priscilla's first lead on the Key led them to the home of the Templar James B. Ray an ex-governor of Indiana who the Assassins believed to hold the Key. Priscilla snuck into the house disguised as a maid and assassinated the Templar in his bed, but unfortunately returned to her Mentor empty-handed as the Key had apparantly been passed on. Their hope was ignited again the next year, however, as their fellow Assassin Frederick Douglass gave them a lead on the Templar slaver Edward Brodess. Aveza and Priscilla travelled to Dorchester County, Maryland, where they snuck onto Brodess's plantation and spoke with one of the Templar's slaves, Harriet Tubman, whom they offered to help. Priscilla assassinated Brodess (who unfortunately did not hold the Key), and came back later to help Harriet escape Maryland and reach her freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. Aveza herself had to return to Canada that year in order to deal with political turmoil, but returned to help in the States as soon as she was able.

In March 1850, Priscilla and Aveza tracked down John C. Calhoun to the Old Brick Capitol building in Washington DC, only to find it was a trap set by Cudgel. Priscilla managed to break through to the Templar's good conscience though, and he agreed to join them to fight Calhoun in the Prophetstown Temple, where the Grand Master ultimately met his death at the end of Priscilla's blade. Prsicilla received instructions from the Precursor Gabriel to hide the Key where none would find it, and so she locked it away in a chamber underneath Indianapolis before wishing a goodbye to Cudgel.

When the Civil War broke out, her son James, a man with the same pride in his Assassin heritage that his mother had, enlisted in the Union army to fight the Confederate Templars and free the slaves. After years of heroics in the war, he was discharged on January 13, 1866, and he returned home to find Priscilla in failing health. Priscilla passed away in 1867, and it was a tragedy to all; to her husband, to her children, and to her mentor Aveza. However, she left a proud legacy that while forgotten in history books would continue to inspire several Assassins for years afterwards.

Decades later, her genetic memories would be relived by her descendant, Carter Spainhower.