Aguilar de Nerha

Aguilar de Nerha is a posthumous protagonist of the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise.
He was a Master Assassin and later, Mentor of the Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins during the 15th and 16th centuries. He is an ancestor of Callum Lynch, who relived his genetic memories through the maternal line in 2016. 
He is portrayed by Michael Fassbender, who also portrays young Magneto in the X-Men movies.
==Biography==
===Early years===
Aguilar de Nerha was born in 1455 to two members of the Assassin Order. Despite this, he did not officially join with the Spanish Assassins until after his parents were burned at the stake as part of Tomás de Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition which in turn, part of Templar Order's campaign.
Aguilar was trained by Mentor Benedicto before being formally inducted into the Order in 1492. As part of his initiation, he had his ring-finger ceremonially amputated. During his training, Aguilar also grew close with his sparring partner, Maria, and the two began a romantic relationship.
===Rescuing the Prince===
Aguilar's first mission was to ensure the safety of Prince Ahmed of Granada, the son of Sultan Muhammad XII of Granada, whom the Templars were searching for as the bargaining chip to coerce Sultan to hand over the Apple of Eden they inew in his possession. Together with Maria, Benedicto, and a number of other Assassins, Aguilar ambushed a Templar force led by Ojeda - Torquemada's top enforcer - in a small Andalusian village where the Prince had been hiding.
Despite the Assassins being outnumbered and eventually overpowered, both Aguilar and Maria managed to escape the village with the Prince, though they were quickly pursued by Ojeda and his men. The pursuit lasted some time, but eventually Aguilar was cornered and imprisoned by the Templars.
===Escape through Seville===
Following their arrest, the surviving Assassins were transported to Seville, where they were denounced as heretics and sentenced to burn at the stake by Torquemada. In the presence of the king of Aragon and queen of Castille, Aguilar watched as Ojeda lit the pyre beneath Benedicto’s feet, burning him alive. Despite this however, Aguilar was able to escape his bonds and engaged the Templars as they closed in. He eventually managed to also free Maria and together, the two Assassins made their escape through the streets of Seville.
Once more pursued by Ojeda and his soldiers, this time across the rooftops of the city, the Assassins made their way to Seville Cathedral, which was under construction at the time. They managed to eliminate several of their Templar pursuers in the process, before finally making their escape by climbing the cathedral’s scaffolding and performing a Leap of Faith into the streets below.
===Retrieving the Apple===
On 2 January 1492, at the urging of the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze - who also happened to be in Spain at the time - Muhammad XII surrendered his capital, Granada, to Torquemada's forces. As the Templars entered the city both Aguilar and Maria made their way to the Sultan's palace, where they stood watch as the Sultan reluctantly handed over the Apple in exchange for his son's safety, before they made their move.
Dropping smoke bombs into the room, both Assassins quickly eliminated many of the Templars, before Aguilar captured Torquemada and claimed the Apple. Unfortunately for the Assassin however, Ojeda had managed to apprehend Aguilar’s lover, Maria. Ojeda promised to release his captive once Aguilar returned the Apple to Torquemada; Aguilar reluctantly agreed, but before he could act, he witnessed Maria take her own life with Ojeda's blade to prevent him from betraying the Creed to save her life.
Enraged by her death, Aguilar engaged Ojeda in combat but was gradually overcome by his opponent's sheer strength. It was only after he had been knocked to the ground that Aguilar managed to gain the upper hand, using his fallen lover and comrade's launchable Hidden Blade to attack Ojeda and render him defenseless to Aguilar's strikes. With Ojeda dead, a heavily wounded Aguilar was forced to make his escape through the tunnels beneath the palace as Torquemada opened the locked door of the room to the rest of his men.
Aguilar was eventually surrounded on one of the bridges leading from the city, but once more escaped by performing a Leap of Faith into the river far below.
===Securing the Apple and later years===
Following the events in Granada, Aguilar realized that the Apple would never be safe from the Templars if it remained in his possession. He made his way to Cadiz, where he charged Christopher Columbus, an ally of the Assassins in Spain, with protecting it.
Aguilar continued to serve the Assassins, eventually gaining the rank of Master Assassin. He later died in 1526, but not before having at least one child thus preserving his family's bloodline which continued to modern day.
===Legacy===
Aguilar's life was later reluctantly relived by his descendant Callum Lynch via. Animus 4.3 belonged to Abstergo Foundation under Sofia Rikkin's orders. After his first Animus session, he had trouble in synchronizing with memories of Aguilar he inherited within his genes that he suffered a form of Bleeding Effect in which Callum being haunted by the phantom of his ancestor in question, even fighting it at one point that he injured one of the facility's employees during his next Animus session. The ailment eventually mitigated completely, if not outright cured, afterwards, but Callum still reluctantly participated in Rikkins' schemes until he confronted his father Joseph about his supposed murder on his wife and Callum's mother Mary. Not believing what he heard at first, Callum eventually understood what Joseph truly felt at the time when he relived the part of Maria's sacrifice, one that unlike Mary's own in which Mary indeed forced Joseph's hand to kill herself so Templars won't capture her just as Maria killed herself so Aguilar won't have to break his oath just to save her life.
Moments before Animus 4.3 completely shut down during his third Animus session and the purge at Abstergo Foundation building began in response of its inmates' revolt, Callum meets phantoms of Aguilar once again, but this time it doesn't attack him. Instead, he, and the rest of Callum's ancestors and Mary in her Assassins garb inducted Callum, who had found the closure in his troubled past, into the Order, securing the man's place among his new friends Moussa and their fellow Assassin inmates.
==Trivia==
*Up until his subsequent appearances in Assassin's Creed: Rebellion, Assassin's Creed: Freerunners, and movie update of Assassin's Creed: Identity, Aguilar is the only assassin protagonist in the Assassin’s Creed series to be featured in a film, not a game.
**While his storyline, as well as. that of Callum Lynch and co., not necessarily connected toward other games given to his limited subsequent appearances, he still is an important character in the series. 
*As with the rest of his fellow members of Brotherhood of Assassins, Aguilar's initiation involved the amputation of one's ring finger despite Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's improvement on Hidden Blades' mechanism rendered such part of the practice obsolete and replaced by either branding or tattooing where said finger would be cut.
**Aguilar is however, the first Assassin shown to partake the Initiation into the Assassin Order which involved aforementioned updated practice on-screen.
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