Assassin's Creed | Who's The Saddest Assassin? 

Altair can't swim, I find this pretty sad honestly

Connor, no contest. He lost his mother and his village burned down, he had to kill his father, he had to bury his mentor, and even after all the work he does for the patriots they betray him too. That scene where he removes the hatchet still brings a tear to my eye. The next closest would be Arno then Altair

Desmond Miles. The true assassin who lived all of their lives and shared all their pain. The dude just wanted a normal life ended up being free for a while and then just gave up his life for the rest of humanity. He also shared all the emotions of the previous assassins and became one with them.

Bayek's sorrow can be seen when he speaks with random kids, the way he turns into a friendly man

Connor to me. His story is just so depressing. He grew up without a father, got beaten up by strangers as a kid, and watched his mother die and his village attacked (supposedly by Charles Lee). Juno then sent him on a path to becoming an Assassin so he could get revenge and protect his village. He leaves behind everything just to accomplish that and reaches out to Achilles to become an Assassin. He gets used by the patriots/Sons of Liberty because some of their goals align, and later finds out that Washington was responsible for the attack that killed his mother and many people of his tribe. He gets manipulated and used by his own father while Haytham tried to get Connor to join the Templars resulting in Connor having to kill his own father at the end. Connor was forced to kill his best friend after his friend was manipulated by Lee into attempting an attack on the patriots. Connor's relationship with his father figure, Achilles, was strained at the end because of Haytham and when they made up, Achilles dies not too long afterwards leaving Connor with the burden to rebuild the brotherhood and the task of killing his own father. After Connor kills Lee and accomplishes his mission, he's basically alone (aside from the people at his Homestead), his village had to move because their land was sold off by the very people he was helping, AND he find out he was manipulated by Juno the whole time. Everything Connor went through was for Desmond to find they key/amulet to open the Grand Temple to potentially set Juno free. That is just a depressing life. He was basically used and manipulated by everything and endured all of that just to set up events for his descendent in the future.

I’m gonna go with Connor, he went through a lot at a very young age, not to mention he carried the responsibility of saving his people, but we all knew how that went down, no one really ever understood him, even his best friend, whom he had to kill. Seriously, the composer did a great job with ‘Connor’s life’ soundtrack, the tone clearly shows the sadness

Connor, definitely. There’s the audio recording of Connor reading the ending of Forsaken. That what makes Connor the most depressing. I say Ezio and Arno are second Mother, Father, I am sorry. I have failed you both. I made a promise to protect our people. I thought…I thought if I could stop the templars-if I could keep the Revolution free from their influence-that those I supported would do what was right. They did-I suppose-do what was right… What was right for them. As for you, Father: I thought I might unite us, that we would forget the past and forge a better future. In time I believed you could be made to see the world as I did; to understand…but it was just a dream. This too, I should have known. Were we not meant to live in peace, then? Is that it? Are we born to argue? To fight? So many voices, each demanding something else… It has been hard at times, but never harder than today to see all I worked for; perverted, discarded, forgotten! You would say I have described the whole of history, Father. Are you smiling, then? Hoping I might speak the words you long to hear? To validate you? To say that all along, you were right? I will not. Even now, faced as I am with the truth of your cold words, I refuse, because I believe things can still change. I may never succeed-the Assassin's may struggle another thousand years in vain-but we will not stop! Compromise. That is what everyone has insisted upon. And so I have learned it. But differently than most, I think… I realize now that it will take time; that the road ahead is long, and shrouded in darkness. It is a road that will not always take me where I wish to go, and I doubt I will live to see its end. But I will travel down it nonetheless. For at my side walks hope. In the face of all that insists I turn back, I carry on. This… This is my compromise."

Ezio: “You killed your own father?” Connor: “I have to, he was a Templar.” Altair: “That’s rough, buddy.”

You forgot bellec!! He betrayed arno after he got him to the brotherhood, mentored him, been a friend of his father etc. So that betray really must have hurt too

Probably Bayek. Feels like a guy who hides it well but has immense grief for all he’s lost.

You also forgot that Abbas had Malik’s head cut off and showed it to Altair. Connor and Arno we can assume they had a happy ending since we know they were able to raise a family and have descendents but there was no happy ending for Altair. He pretty much lost everyone except Darim and saw everything he worked to rebuild crumble.

Edwards isnt the saddest story of them. But for some reason his story never fails to make me cry. He just wanted to give his wife a good life one they deserve. It wasnt what he should have done but he wanted to make her happy. He loses a bunch of new friends only to find out his wife died a long time ago. And he wasnt there to help raise their kid. Its not the saddest but it hits me hard as shit every time during that final cutscene especially with that song playing The parting glass.

Altair has the most tragic story out of every single one of the main characters combined . He saw the dad of his best friend slit his own throat in front of him at only 10 . He became enemies with his childhood friend as a cause of it and was forced to kill him . He never knew his mother who died at his childbirth . His father was murdered when he was 10. He was forced to kill his father figure mentor . He had to participate in constant global wars for decades (crusades , mongols , raiders). He accidentally killed his wife . He lost a son . He was betrayed by the Creed and was exiled for 20 years from his only home. He never had many choices in life due to him being born in the brotherhood . He was starting to lose his sanity while experimenting with the apple . He died alone but at least a legend . For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. He is the definition of sadness , one that reflects the true nature of an assassins life . People tend to forget the tragicness of his story because he rarely shows emotions but that was just due to much harsher times in 12th century and him carrying the burden of mentor at only 26 leaves little space for showing weaknesses in front of your people . His inner battle was constant and the biggest . He truly was depressed but hid it quite well .

I feel Arno was the saddest. Not because the cause of his suffering was worse than the others, but because he pretty much had no one to lean on. Bellec was someone he thought he trusted until he eventually had to put him down. The rest of the Paris council ousted him and Elise, for all of Arno's simping and making promises to each other to do things together, runs off to get herself killed. Ezio was fortunate enough to have met people who helped him grow into the old man who happily passed away with his family, but as far as we know Arno had pretty much no one left for him until the Dead Kings finale.

There is also another sad thing about Ezio: The death of Christina (which timeline wise happened in ac2 but the missions were playable in brotherhood (and essentially were triggered by interacting with women looking like Christina) which indicates that Ezio didn't want to remember her and her death etc because it is connected to too much pain since brotherhood takes place 10-15 years later. And Ezio also mentioned in revelations that he thought that he couldn't love anymore after Christina died and only felt love after knowing Sofia (so basically Ezio needed at least 10-15 years to get over her death and around 20 years to love someone like he did with her)

I’d say Connor as well. He went through a rough life and fought hard. Killing his father, losing his mother, his village left and had to kill his friend. It was not easy for him, especially losing Achilles too.

Connor's story was a sad one and his ending monologue was a bit sad as well but somewhat hopeful, wish we could see what happened next in his story. But we've been asking for the dream sequel for yrs so F knows if we're gonna get it

I’d say that Altair has the saddest story. He grew up never knowing his parents, his mother died during childbirth and his father was rarely part of his life due to his Assassin responsibilities. His father was captured by Saracen soldiers and executed, meanwhile the Assassin responsible for his fathers death (Ahmad Sofian) committed suicide right in front of Altair when he was 10 YEARS OLD, out of guilt. Altair created a very long rivalry with Abbas Sofian after telling him about his fathers suicide, which later caused him to usurp Altair of his power and kill his son Sef and wife Maria. Altair also had to kill the only father figure he ever had, Al Mualim, (who’s love was weak and dishonest) after discovering his traitorous plot. He never knew a true parents love, his best friend betrayed him and killed part of his family, and he was exposed to death as young as 10, in which he was probably more than scarred. To come home after years of fighting Ghengis Khan abroad, his whole village and brotherhood taken over by his friend, and even Malik was executed. Dude lost so much friends and family. I don’t think losing your son or being a simp is on par with that.

Achilles. He lost everything. His wife, son, friends, his sanity for quite some time, A freaking precursor box and manuscript, the brotherhood entirely, influence, reputation and his God damn ability to walk properly. The others could at least fight back or do something about the state they're in. Achilles was cornered ... or more like Iceberged and crippled for life.

Yes, I'd like to see this series cover all of the protagonists (Including Haytham) instead of just all the Assassin protagonists. Also, I don't understand your logic with excluding Shay bc he was an Assassin for a while.

I'd say arno was the saddest, I also feel like the loss of mirabu and facing bellec affected him as well. Not to mention he's the only assassin who got depressed enough to go into alcoholism

Connor absolutely. His people were effectively all wiped out, he had to kill his father and best friend and ended up fighting in a war for a cause that didn't really end up working out for him or his people the way he would have wanted. My favorite assassin because he overcame all that and still did his duty as an assassin. Connor is the definition of a badass

I think Jacob Frye is a very underrated character. I'm replaying Syndicate right now and it's actually a decent game, especially considering it has a lot of ways to play the game like Unity and Jacob easily goes through a lot of deceit and tricks as well as basically losing his student/son figure

A lot of people are talking about the amount of loss the characters experience, but not so much the quality of loss. It's one thing to lose a parent, sibling or friend, it's another thing entirely to lose a child. Someone you helped bring into this world. Someone who is half of you. Bayek is tormented not only by the loss of Khemu, but how he lost him. The icing on the cake? Aya was his rock through everything, then she leaves him. At least he starts the Hidden Ones to have some kind of companionship, but then he loses friends there too.

Great vid 👌 I agree with him being the "saddest" assassin but there's something about how Altairs wife and kid were killed that gets me.

I honestly think Arno, in dead king he literally went chasing after a random women thinking that his girlfriend was still alive, he lost his father twice and had to kill somone who was like a bestfriend to him.

Arno lost his 'only' family member lost his stepfather had to kill his mentor Always Drink Had to blame everything on himself Romeo and Juliet (imagine someone who you love dearly also loves you, and watch her/him pass away in front of you. And Afterward you cannot even find a single person to fill that void) In short, you can see that he is one of the saddest assassins because his whole story is filled with regret, sadness and loneliness. Because it's ironic that while Assassin's Creed Unity is the only Assassin's Creed game that allows co-op play with other Assassins, it's more likely that Arnold has actually never experienced any co-op missions with any other Assassins (other than his mentor) , because Arno is more likely to do things his way, no matter how his allies die in the mission, he will always blame himself and drink half to death. So while other assassins have experienced grief and regret, not as much as Arno, because he's always been in that state of being sorry for everything.

I love how charles gave respect to connor just 4 seconds before his death. Charles gave connor his drink with a smile like he is proud of connor

I think that it was Bayak because Bayak's best friend died to protect Siwa and his other friend joined the order of ancients plus he was seperated from his wife.

Man, I sure wish we had been able to get a story with Connor and Arno teaming up. They both had a stake in taking down Shay.

This I'd the episode I've been waiting for nice work Master Assassin

Well Connor still had the homestead which became his new family, Arno lost literally EVERYONE and thought it was his fault

I'm gonna go with Bayek due to his agile personality.

While there are a few Assassins here who are good contenders for this question, my vote ultimately goes to Connor. Right from the get-go, his life has been riddled with tragedy, from the watching of his mother, Ziio, being burned alive as a kid, to being forced to kill his father, Haytham, and childhood friend, Kanento:kon, to constantly being betrayed by those who he thought were his allies (shame on you, George Washington). And then of course, there's the death of the only man he viewed as a father figure, Achilles Davenport. Connor literally just walks up to him, only to discover that he's passed away and is now a lifeless body sitting in a chair. I mean, can you imagine? Walking up to someone with the intention of having a simple talk or asking a question, and then you find that they're just lying there dead? That has to hit hard. Seriously, man. Poor Connor just couldn't catch a break.

This video just reminded me how much I need to play through this series again

this channel made me like ac, great vid!

I really think edward kenway is the most saddest.... He saw all his friends die when he was ready to go home he found out his wife died....it is all this sadness that turned edward into a true assassin(its also the reason why i love ac4)..😅

I think you should include Desmond in these videos because he technically was an Assassin and had a great role to play so i think he has earned it.

Back with another great video

Love your video

I agree Connor he basically lost everything but nothing really changed in the end

Connor, who wanted to live a happy life but it never happened . He had no family except his mother even every person he trusted had bretayed him or died.

Your channel is sick bro ,just subbed

I'd say Arno. He hates himself throughout all of Unity because he puts the blame on himself for the death of his fathers. Bayek suffered a bigger shock but he was at least able to function, Arno had two depression episodes before he met Leon who saved him from himself

Can you do the funniest assassin

I liked playing odyssey though haha. It’s prolly cuz I was a huge Percy Jackson fan so exploring the Greek world was fun

i love these videos

God connor is such a well written character, not only is he the toughest assasin but also has the deepest backstory

Altair - Mom died giving birth to him - Dad executed - Sees dad's friend k|11 himself at 9 years old - Loses first love, Adha - Was used by Al Mualim for most of AC1 - Has to end the life of his own mentor - Has to see a civil war within the Levantine Brotherhood - Sees Malik's head which was severed by Abbas - Loses all the people he knew in the Bureaus - Sees his own wife die as a result of him using the Apple - Is exiled from Masyaf and the Brotherhood

Arno’s life is really sad… Lost his mother. Lost his father. Lost step father. Forced to kill his own mentor. Kicked out of Assassin’s brotherhood. Lost only thing he cared and all he had… Elise…

Yeah I would say Connor, you sense this tone throughout the whole game where you feel he does so much but doesn't seem to have anything shown for it, and everyone is essentially dead. The only redeeming feat is that you know he reestablishes the brotherhood and eventually finds someone to carry on the lineage that ultimately leads to Desmond so you know he found someone there...but it's sad that we don't get to see it.

Great video! Just an idea is may be you could include Adewale and Aveline. I just really like adewale in freedom cry.

Just coming right off the Ezio Trilogy with a more mature perspective now that im older. I think its actually Ezio who is the saddest. Even with some family up till Brotherhood he is considered "distant" he barley interacted with Claudia for 20 years! The Assassins we play, we don't get to see them as Elders, so we don't hear them look back on their entire life. It took Ezio till near the end of his life to realize what he had missed out on for himself, he knew he wouldn't have the time and regretted what he spent time on. But, in the end he realized that to be an Assassin requires self-sacrifice, pain and suffering to preserve love, liberty and time for others.

The saddest assassin in my opinion is Achilles, Although everyone suffered losses so we can't decide who lost the most, so the requirment would be who didn't achieve anything even after pain and loss of assassin's life, And Achilles is the only one who didn't achieved anything apart from training connor, so atleast he died with some peace in his heart.

These videos are very good

I think Shay should be included in these. He was an assassin for a while, and was at least directly related to the assassin-templar conflict, unlike Eivor and Kassandra, who were doing their own thing.

Kassandra has to be pretty sad she had to watch all her family and friends grow old and die then probably meet other people one being eivor also she knew she would out live them with the staff and having that dang staff talking to you for so many years would make you go mad. She was thrown off a mountain at a young age and thought her brother was dead for years plus she lost her husband and never got to watch her child grow up she also lost Phoebe who was like her sister and only friend she also lost Marco due to him growing old and he was like a dad in a way she also went to see dead Phoebe.

Connor I agree 100% however Arno had a sad life aswell if you think deeper into the dead kings dlc

Me personally just found this channel and already one of my favorites Also what about who's the smoothest assassin in terms of clean kills.

Connor, ezio and bayek of course. Love you man❤️

I think it would be better if these videos included Shay, Eivor and the demigods, mainly because they are protagonists too which fill the same role as the assassins, even if they aren’t actual assassins

Connor did had the saddest life in the games, but in the comics, he moved on and married a woman from another tribe and they had kids, so Connor lived happily ever after Edit: If Connor didn't had kids, then Desmond wouldn't find a way to save the world

The intro to this video is gold

Yes I would like to see a video with all the protagonist

Give me LEE

I love your channel brother, you are funny and I hope one day i will become a member of yours.

I would love to include shay, eivor ect because I love how you roast them lol

Bayek is the saddest for me. Other assassins have lost as much if not more than him but the voice acting for his character shows the most emotion out of all assassins creed characters.

Omg I love this video

I think a sleeper is Edward. He clearly had some childhood difficulties which I think is why he is so attracted to money, his wife left him and died when he was in the Caribbean. He saw nearly every fiend he had die either by his own hand or killed by empires.

Yes Master Assassin we would love for you to cover all the categories for all the Protagonist including the Playable side characters

See I love this channel but I love odyssey so I don’t know how to think abt this channel

Although he’s not an assasssin anymore I find Shay pretty sad and tragic. He blindly followed the brotherhood and because of that he’s feeling the guilt of killing thousands of people and the whole city and just as he warned others he got shot from the back. On top of that his old friend killed the guy who saved him so there are some conflicts within. Rogue was one hell of a game man, shame it was so short

Can you do a video on the most successful assassin (in terms of stopping the Templars and helping the creed) or even one for the modern day assassins

The saddest moment in AC was in AC2 when Ezio had to endure this painful reference from his uncle: ,,Its-a-me. Mario."

You should do who's the angriest assassin, like who was driven by anger, hatred and revenge

Conner and and Arno definitely went through it. Loosing who they lost. But with how attached you get Ezio and his family especially his brothers, when most his family is executed in front of him, his mother was abused and taken advantage of, watched his mentor Mario be executed. And entire life from teenager was pure dedication to the brotherhood.

Please do it for all of them with these exact video idea because it would definitely be evior or kassandra on the top of the list.

I'm playing my first AC game atm and almost finished the main story and after that gonna play the DLC's. I am talking about AC Origins. I absolutely love the game and mainly because of one thing: idk about the other assassin's, and it sounds like they had a very though time as well, but I somehow felt really bad for Bayek especially at times. Even some things that weren't even that close to Bayek like when Shadya died. I was really impressed by how the game managed to express Hotephres's pain so well

I agree 100% with this video

Connor has had one tragic and difficult life of an assassin really from losing his mentor who was actually father-figure to him to ending his own father life but Connor always pushed him to the limit and but has he stated “I made never succeed the assassin may struggle another thousand years in vain but we will not stop” but good thing is that Connor actually found happiness within his wife and his three kids who I hope with make appearance soon

The beauty of the assassins is that their grief becomes hope which becomes reality. There’s no real reason to fight over who’s who because Ezio,bayek, Conner etc can all be viewed as having the saddest stories, but they all Mai tired and became 1 man armys in the same ways. Every assassin would put up a good fight on another one (story protagonist)

Im gonna go Edward Kenway. He doesn't have a sad backstory but you can realise how sad his life was while playing ac black flag, he lost all of his friends and was forced to kill his former friends who betrayed him, he was also betrayed by his son as he died at the age of 42.

Left a disgusting amount of detail out of Altair's story, he without a doubt had the most tragic story.

Not only is Connor strong physically he is mentally strong being able to overcome everything he went through

Altair. He not only had to bury his son, but learned that his son was tricked into believing Altair ordered his death. And Altair could have saved his son, if he stayed in Masyaf. The saddness and regret must be overwhelming. He the Mentor of the Assassin's, their leader, and he wasn't there to stop them from executing his son. After him Bayek. Similar to Altair, but Bayek has bad fortune to blame, not his own wrong choices. After him Connor. Man got used by everyone he met and burred all the people he loved. If one of them was his child, I would put him first in this wicket suffering contest.

Bayek - maddest. Connor - saddest. PLEASE don’t start including demigods, master! I’ve been a subscriber since 20k. I love ur channel and you’ve made me an obsessed AC fan. I love every game except odyssey and Valhalla.

Altair is the saddest assassin a long life assassin until 90s and he overcome it all lost his mother at his birth lost his father to protect the brotherhood lost his friend out of jealousy lost his mentor his son and wife he even lost the brotherhood which he was worked for for 50 years and still going back to rebuild it and in the end nothing went good for him if ezio was the prophet he was the one who changed every assassin life from that point

You should do a video ranking each assissins attire

Bro u gotta make a vid that u tell us what kind of season of AC u would like to see in future. The time the events took a place. The personallity of the protagonist and what drives him to work for the assassin brotherhood. Make a story. Excite us!

I need to see all of them

Aveline Lost the step-mother who raised her AND her mentor at the end, along with all wealth she was destined for. She lost everything and was doomed to live her life in sacrifice.

You should do what ac protagonists have the most ladies that would be a legendary video

I love playing Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Rogue especially Rogue whenever you first start playing Rogue you get that nice soundtrack whenever the game first loads up

i think bayek is the saddest bcause death of his son hurt him so much that he had to kill 10 antagonists with different stories like hiena (her child also died). and bayek was betrayed by cezar and cleopatra. bayek's old friend was killed by septimius (hepzefa) and our lovely medjay was forced to break up with aya

You guys should look more into Altiar's story he watched his dad commit suicide infront of him and mum die. MA didn't really touch on it or he didn't know and MA if your readings this u should look more into it

The definition of sadness part actually made me check because it is true

Arno is slept on his story was so sad from his childhood to his ending with Elise it all hit so hard even Bellec

The Sad Things that happend to them Show their Character Development.

if kassandra was here, she'd win. shes endured what 2400 years of tradgedy, war, and loss of everyone she knew and loved. and she had to live knowing everyone she met would eventually die and that she'd outlive them. Also that odyssey joke was class, well done!