Tabid Al-Nubi

Tabid Al-Nubi (Arabic: تبيض النبي) was a Hidden One from the Alamut Brotherhood who served as Rafiq of the bureau in Baghdad's Abbasiyah district during the 9th century.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Tabid Al-Nubi was born in the region of Nubia south of Egypt. As a youth, he was sent to Fustat by his father to study Islam. At the time, the city was abundant in corruption which led Tabid to join in revolting against the city rulers.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Fire and Wisdom The revolt failed and Tabid was left with chronic injuries which kept him from active duty.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Database: Tabid Al-Nubi Fleeing to Baghdad, he eventually came across the Hidden Ones, who recruited him into the brotherhood. 
===Activities in Alamut===
At the Hidden Ones' base of Alamut, Tabid aided the brotherhood's members with his vast knowledge, especially about toxins. At one point, he attempted to recreate the poison which Iltani, a legendary precursor to the Hidden Ones, had used to kill Alexander the Great based on historical records.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Taking Flight
In 862, Tabid became acquainted with a new Hidden One recruit, Basim Ibn Ishaq,Assassin's Creed: Mirage – A New Beginning who had inadvertently killed the caliph Al-Mutawakkil, a puppet of the Order of the Ancients, in Anbar.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – The Master Thief of Anbar Tabid was frustrated that, despite the caliph's death, the Order's influence in Baghdad had only grown stronger, but Basim advised him to trust Mentor Rayhan's judgement on the matter.
After Basim completed his training, Tabid was present for his initiation ceremony into the brotherhood. Shortly after Basim's initiation, the Hidden One Nur, who had been sent to Baghdad to investigate the Order's presence, returned to Alamut wounded upon being discovered and attacked by the Order. Rayhan subsequently decided to send Basim, Roshan and Fuladh Al Haami to Baghdad to continue Nur's investigation, with Tabid and other Hidden Ones set to follow suit shortly.
===Rafiq in Baghdad===
Following his arrival in Baghdad, Tabid helped Fuladh to set up a bureau in Abbasiyah before becoming its Rafiq to investigate the Order's activites in the district.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Branching Out He also sent Ahmad ibn Musa, who maintained a workshop at the House of Wisdom, a letter requesting his aid at the bureau, but received no response for over a week.
When Basim arrived at the Abbasiyah bureau, he found Tabid reading some of the court poet's, Arib Al-Ma'muniyya, work and remarked that he too was familiar with her poetry thanks to his visits to the House of Wisdom in his childhood. Tabid then revealed that the House of Wisdom was not what it had once been and that Ahmad had gone missing, prompting Basim to investigate the inventor's disappearance.
During his investigation, Basim found Ahmad and convinced him to return to the Abbasiyah bureau. However, he also learned of an Order member, "Al-Rabisu", who was using a device known as the Alruh to experiment on test subjects, driving them insane in the process.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Find the Missing Brother Reporting to Tabid at the bureau, Basim suspected Al-Rabisu's identity to be the scholar Fazil Fahim al-Kemsa. Tabid then informed him of a Great Symposium taking place at the House of Wisdom that night, which would likely be attended by his target.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Report to the Rafiq
After Basim infiltrated the symposium and assassinated Fazil, he returned to the Abbasiyah bureau and presented a feather dipped in Fazil's blood as proof of his death. Tabid congratulated him and asked Basim if he had found any evidence of Arib, who also attended the symposium, being involved with the Order's schemes. Basim claimed that he did not know for certain before both Hidden Ones returned to work.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – A Job Well Done
==Personality and traits==
From a young age, Tabid possessed a strong desire to fight for justice, as he chose to partake in Fustat's revolt against the city's corrupt leaders rather than focus on his studies. Even after the revolt failed and left Tabid severly injured, he remained undeterred in his goal, which eventually led him to join the Hidden Ones. Despite his injuries preventing him from performing any field work, he still sought to aid the brotherhood in the best way he could, with his vast knowledge and information gathering skills.
Among his fellow Hidden Ones, Tabid was regarded as an affable and larger-than-life Rafiq, though he could also be quite shy and modest as he did not enjoy talking about himself. He also notably possessed a major love of poetry, especially the works of the court poet Arib Al-Ma'muniyya, which he did not hesitate to recommend to others, like Ahmad ibn Musa and Basim.
==Trivia==
*Tabid (تبيض) is an Arabic name meaning "bleach", "spawn" or "etiolation", while Al-Nubi (النبي) can be translated to "the prophet".
==Gallery==
ACMir Taking Flight 14.png|Tabid and other Hidden Ones at Basim's initiation ceremony
ACMir Fire and Wisdom 2.png|Tabid telling Basim about Arib Al-Ma'muniyya's poetry
ACMir Report to the Rafiq 1.png|Tabid talking to one of his informers
ACMir A Job Well Done 5.png|Tabid talking to Ahmad ibn Musa at the Abbasiyah bureau
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage
==References==
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