Characters Of Assassin\'s Creed

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Characters in the Assassin's Creed series are Altair ibn La-Ahad, usually known by the mononym Altair, is an assassin who lived during the Crusades. His name is Arabic for 'The Flying One' or 'Bird of Prey' and is pronounced in three syllables. "Ibn La-Ahad" means "Son of no one." Altair is the greatest assassin to have ever lived. Ben Reeves of GameInformer adds that the "name of the top assassin...is also the name of a star in the constellation Aquila - Aquila being another name meaning eagle. Not coincidentally Ezio is the Italian form of a Greek name that also means "eagle." Altair is the great-great-great-grandfather of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and an ancestor of Desmond Miles.