In this section, we offer a concept art gallery of the main protagonists that appear in Assassin’s Creed Unity, arranged in an order that broadly reflects the chronology of the game.
Jacques de Molay
“Pope Clement, hear me! Before this year is out, you will answer for your crimes before God almighty. And you, King Philip, no punishment is too heinous for the great evil you have inflicted upon the Temple. I curse you! Curse you to the thirteenth generation of your blood! You shall be cursed!”
Charles Dorian
“Courage, my boy. You wait just here. I will return when this hand reaches the top. And there is to be no mischief!”
Arno Dorian
“The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.”
“Ideals too easily give way to dogma. Dogma becomes fanaticism.”
“No higher power sits in judgment of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins.”
“In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll.”
“We believe ourselves redeemers, avengers, saviors. We make war on those who oppose us, and they in turn make war on us. We dream of leaving our stamp upon the world even as we give our lives in a conflict that will be recorded in no history book. Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves.”
Élise de la Serre
“I know exactly who my father was, Arno. And I know who yours was. I suppose it was inevitable. You an Assassin, me a Templar...”
“You are not men with whom I would normally parlay, sir. But my father is dead, as are my allies within the Order. If I must turn to the Assassins for my revenge, so be it.”
“I’m willing to risk everything to put Germain down. If you don’t have the stomach for revenge... then I don’t need your help.”
François de la Serre
“So who or what will take its place? Another King? A counsel of capable men? A truce, then?”
“What knowledge could a king of the gutters offer us? The intrigues of rats?”
HONORÉ GABRIEL Riqueti de Mirabeau
“If you have orders to remove us from this hall, you must also get authority to use force, for we shall yield to nothing but bayonets!”
“For months, I have been wrangling the Brotherhood, the National Assembly, and the King. Taken all together they have the political acumen of an especially stupid village council.”
“Out of the dark, you come into the light. From the light, you will return to the dark. Are you prepared to travel the eagle’s path?”
Pierre Bellec
“What are you staring at, pisspot?”
“My grandmother hits harder than that and she’s Belgian!”
“Your father was an Assassin, Arno. He gave his life fighting for liberty for all mankind. Stick with me, and you might just live long enough to join the Brotherhood and honor his memory.”
“If you’d just see sense, we could take the Brotherhood to a height we’ve not seen in two hundred years!”
Charles Gabriel Sivert
“Good, good. This is our moment, my friend. Petty nobles are ripe enough fruits, but the Church has been leeching off the people for centuries. If we crack their vaults, the Grand Master cannot fail to recognize our work.”
Roi des Thunes
“My subjects have eyes everywhere, my lord. I offer their knowledge to the service of the Order.”
Chrétien Lafrenière
“Union, Strength, Virtue! Ready yourselves, brothers! Tonight, the Truth is on our side!”
“Brothers! Soon we will strike at the very heart of our hated enemies! They have hounded us for years, but no longer! With one stroke, we will save our Order, and rebuild our Nation!”
Marquis de Sade
“The good folk of Paris give more money to crippled beggars than whole ones. Le Roi des Thunes sees in that bit of trivia an opportunity to motivate his less-successful employees.”
“So young. And yet so serious. Well, best of luck to you.”
ALOYS LA TOUCHE
“His Grace doesn’t care about excuses. He cares about results. If you can’t make your quotas, he makes... adjustments.”
“Ah. That’s the thing about Assassins. Point them at a Templar conspiracy and they ask no questions. They go right for the killing. Predictable that way.”
“Hoarding food is no different than stealing it from the mouths of babes. Justice must be done. Justice prompt, severe, and inflexible. Bring up the condemned!”
Frédéric Rouille
“Now, here’s the thing. I can go on like this all day. But you... You’ve got an hour left in you. Two at most. Half if I bring out the sharp bits. So why not skip the endgame and go directly to mate? Tell me where it is and all this can be over.”
“You were right. King Louis has been talking to all sorts he shouldn’t have. Plotting against the Revolution out one side of his mouth while he promises to support the Constitution out the other.”
NAPOLEON Bonaparte
“Bonaparte is my name. Napoleon Bonaparte. Second Lieutenant of Artillery. For now.”
“You certainly don’t look like a blood-crazed revolutionary. The hood is a bit sinister though, if you don’t mind my saying.”
“Ah, the bane of generals and statesmen everywhere: an individualist. I know the feeling. Men like us have a great advantage over most in the Army, you see: we can think for ourselves.”
“Where the heart leads, a man must follow.”
François-Thomas Germain
“The Great Work requires patience, my friend. If Paris must suffer a while longer so the world might be remade, then so be it.”
“When our brother Templars see the old institutions crumble, they will adapt. They will retreat to the shadows and we will, at last, be the Secret Masters we were meant to be.”
“Through this Revolution a new order will be born, one that chains men with gold and silver.”
“This was the truth de Molay died for: the Divine Right of Kings is nothing but the reflection of sunlight upon gold. When the Crown and Church are ground to dust, we who control the gold will decide the future.”
Louis XVI
“I well know the power and authority which a fair King enjoys among a loyal people who support the principles of Monarchy. These principles have brought glory to France. I must and will constantly sustain them.”
“People, I die innocent. Gentlemen, I am innocent of everything I have been charged with. My wish and hope is that my blood may consolidate the well-being of the French people.”
MAXIMILIEN DE ROBESPIERRE
“It has been observed that in free countries crime was more rare and penal laws more gentle. All ideas hold together. Free countries are those where the rights of man are respected and where, consequently, the laws are just. Where they offend humanity by an excess of rigor this is a proof that the dignity of man is not known there, that that of the citizen doesn’t exist. It is a proof that the legislator is nothing but a master who commands slaves and who pitilessly punishes them according to his whim. I thus conclude that the death penalty should be abrogated.”
“Let us be generous toward those who are good, compassionate toward the unfortunate, inexorable toward the wicked.”