Dual-wielding

Dual-wielding is an advanced form of combat, wherein one uses a pair of weapons in conjunction with one another. This is often to allow an easy shift between long and short-ranged attacks.
==History==
===Classical antiquity===
During the Peloponnesian War, the misthios Kassandra often dual-wielded her Spear of Leonidas alongside a short blade or a sword.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Aya, one of the founding members of the Hidden Ones, dual-wielded twin blades which she used in her quest for vengeance against the Order of the Ancients.Assassin's Creed: Origins
===Middle Ages===
In the 860s, the Hidden One Basim Ibn Ishaq wielded a sword and parrying dagger.Assassin's Creed: Mirage A few decades later, an older Basim restricted himself to using just a sword, but he met the Viking Eivor Varinsdottir who often used two axes in combat against Anglo-Saxons and other Norsefolk.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
In the High Middle Ages, most Levantine Assassins like Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad would only dual-wield throwing knives alongside a short blade.Assassin's Creed Unlike most of Altaïr's assigned Templar targets, the twin brothers Shahar and Shalim were adept at using rapiers and a parrying dagger in combat, though their skill could not save them from his superior swordsmanship.Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines – Assault (Shalim and Shahar)
During the Renaissance, Ezio Auditore and his Assassin apprentices were able to dual-wield multiple combinations of weapons. Other than the throwing knives and short blade pair, Ezio could wield the Hidden Gun with any primary, medium-ranged weapon—such as swords and blunt weapons—and poison darts with the Poison Blade. His recruits wielded their Hidden Gun with almost any other weapon.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood During his time in Constantinople, Ezio could also dual-wield a variety of bombs with his primary weapon.Assassin's Creed: Revelations
===Early modern period===
During the early 18th century, the pirate Edward Kenway dual-wielded Hidden Blades, two swords, rope darts, and multiple pistols.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag His former quartermaster Adéwalé would learn this skill and use it to great effect assisting the Maroon rebellion, wielding such weapons as swords, pistols, axes, machetes, and a blowpipe,Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry and maintained this ability until the end of his life.Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Bravado
During the Seven Years' War, the Assassin-turned-Templar Shay Cormac dual-wielded a sword and a dagger.Assassin's Creed: Rogue He was not the only Colonial Templar able to do this at the time, as Grand Master Haytham Kenway was also proficient in pairing his sword with a flintlock pistol or his own Hidden Blades.Assassin's Creed III
In the subsequent American Revolutionary War, both Haytham and his son Ratonhnhaké:ton would always dual-wield their weapons in combat, though unlike Haytham, Ratonhnhaké:ton possessed a large collection of swords, a tomahawk, and various other weaponry to use. Accompanying this, he often used his Hidden Blade with almost any other weapon, utilizing its pivot attachment for it to function as a dagger. He also carried two flintlock pistols, some of which possessed the capacity to fire multiple shots.
During the Louisiana Rebellion, Aveline de Grandpré dual-wielded her weapons in combat. The weapons she dual-wielded included a whip, firearms, swords, knives, a blowpipe, a machete, and Hidden Blades.Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Throughout the French Revolution and for some years after, Arno Dorian frequently dual-wielded his Phantom Blade with various swords and firearms at his disposal.Assassin's Creed: Unity
Only a few enemies, such as Papal Guards, Cesare Borgia, and the Janissaries, were able to dual-wield, typically using a pistol alongside a longsword in combat. Officers and Jägers would also dual-wield weapons in a similar manner.
==Gallery==
AC throwing knife dual.jpg|Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad using a short blade and throwing knife
Edward finishing an enemy.jpg|Edward Kenway using two swords
AC Rogue - Screenshot 02.jpg|Shay Cormac using a sword and short blade
ACLiberation3.jpg|Aveline de Grandpré using a Hidden Blade and a sugar cane machete
ACU-Ambush.jpg|Arno Dorian brandishing a cutlass and firing his Phantom Blade
==References==
Category:Skills
Category:Templar skills