Theodore

Theodore (died 867) was the childhood tutor to Emperor Leo VI the Wise in Constantinople in the 9th century.
==Biography==
In 867, Theodore worked as the tutor to a young Leo,Assassin's Creed: The Golden City – Chapter 7 but had secret correspondences with the Order of the Ancients to kill Leo. After meeting with Ursina, a fortune teller and another Order ally, he aided in a plan to attack and even poison some guards in the children's wing of the imperial palace.Assassin's Creed: The Golden City – Chapter 22 While working, he soon began a relationship with Leo's nurse Anna and offered a new life away with her from the palace.Assassin's Creed: The Golden City – Chapter 14
The attack plan changed after Anna offered to bribe the Order's leader Isaac with a jeweled comb for Leo's life, inadvertently putting herself in harm's way. Days after the first attempt on Leo's lifeAssassin's Creed: The Golden City – Chapter 8 at night, the Order besieged the children's wing, with Theodore poisoning the guards and intending for Anna and Leo to be slain. However, the Varangian guard and Eagle Clan leader Thyra and her allies, the Hidden Ones Basim Ibn Ishaq and his acolyte Hytham, held their ground and defeated most of the Order's attackers.Assassin's Creed: The Golden City – Chapter 16
===Death===
Theodore's part was soon uncovered by Hytham's investigation due to his note to the Order,Assassin's Creed: The Golden City – Chapter 17 and as a result, his cooperation in the murder plot was brought before both Emperor Basil I and Empress Eudocia Ingerina. Theodore was immediately sentenced to execution for attempted regicide, and his death informally severed the alliance between the Order and Emperor Basil.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: The Golden City
==References==
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