Assad Kadar

= DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT INFO: =
DLC character comes with Assassin's Creed themed costumes for Alejandro Barragán (Aguilar de Nerha), Ignatius Meridius (Ezio Auditore), Red Axe (Connor) and Ousmane Kaba (Adéwalé). Also comes with a patch which allows you to fight against Roderick O'Hara in Story and Online modes for free if he's not yet downloaded.
= GAMEPLAY INFO: =
== Special Moves: ==
* Sand Whirl: HCF + S (He launches a small sand tornado from his scmitar, twirling it towards his opponent.)
* Crescent Slash: QCB + S (He does a downwards crescent slash to his opponent, similar to Eiji Kisaragi's Kasumi Kiri.)
* Assassin's Leap: Hold D for three seconds, U + S (He leaps to the "wall" and then bounces to his opponent's direction. Can be followed with either Scimitar's Path [S], a straight diving slash or Crescent Jihad [K], a downward crescent slash.)
* Desert Kick: HCB + K (He leaps towards his opponent and delivers three kicks towards his opponent. Can be performed in air too, where he only does the kicks downwards.)
== Spirit Summons: ==
* Fanged Desert: QCB + S and K (Pythosert cleaves the ground with his teeth and creates a sand trap that captures his opponent for ten seconds.)
* Elastic Tail: HCF + S and K (Pythosert elongates his tail and then traps his opponent, strangulating him/her three times before he gets off.)
== Limit Breaks: ==
* Sand Storm: HCFx2 + S (He launches a big sand tornado from his scimitar in slow speed, trapping his opponent to the point of flying him/her down.)
* Desert Kickstorm: HCBx2 + K (He leaps towards his opponent and delivers nine kicks towards his opponent without interruption before he finishes it with a kick that sends his opponent to the ground.)
* Way of the Assassin*: QCB, HCF + 3K (Assad prepares by focusing his scimitar and then generates a giant sand tornado where his opponent is located. Once it makes contact, the sand tornado starts to float him/her as he creates five sand-made swords, impaling his opponent. Then he jumps to his still airborne opponent and does a diagonal slash, knocking him/her down as the sand tornado dissipates after the strike, landing back to the ground while says "Too easy!".)
* = Requires the Maximum Brave Meter to perform
== Murder Acts: ==
* Arabian Execution: F, F, D, U + WS (Assad conjures five sand-made clones around him and then sends them towards his opponent, slashing him/her in the legs, arms and neck. Then, he slowly walks and impales his opponent's torso, ripping it from the rest of the body and then trows it off while the decapitated head and arms fall down alongside with the torso-less legs. Physical Murder. Medium distance.)
* Lethal Python: U, F, B, D + HK (Assad summons Pythosert and orders him to attack while he does a slash throat gesture as he says "No Mercy!". The python spirit enlarges his tail and grasps towards his opponent, then he opens his mouth and starts to eat him/her entirely, leaving only the dismembered arms and legs falling down. Spiritual Murder. Farther distance.)
= MISC.: =
* Voice Actor: Philip Shahbaz (English), Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), José Gilberto Vilchis (Latin American Spanish)
* Intro Sequence: The camera focuses on a sandstorm and then it dissipates as Assad shows up in a pose similar to Rain's MK 2011 intro as he says "You are stepping in my trap now!" before he goes to his fighting stance.
* Match Point Sequence: Assad crosses his arms and shakes his head in dissapointment as he says "You're not worth a darn heck!".
* Victory Sequence: Assad says "The Order of the Sand's creed is absolute... remember it!" and then leaps before he lands in a humongous sand mountain and crosses his arms. Pythosert shows up in the middle of the sand mountain.
* Stage: Assassin's Camp
* Rival: Roderick O'Hara
= STORY MODE: =
== Prologue: ==
(Shows the book in one page a drawing of Assad assuming an assassin stance, followed by his name below, and then in the other page, a series of texts will show up with the following prologue here.)
The word "Hashashin" historically refered to the Nizari, a secret order located in Persia around 1080 with their grandmaster Hassan-i Sabbah. As the time passes, the word now refers to hired killers responsible for the systematic elimination of opposing figures.
In another time, the Order of Sand is a group composed by the best Assassins of the Arabian Peninsula. One of most recognizable members of the group is Assad Kadar, a warrior who survived the harshest of the tests with a survival instinct.
Assad is aware that his people got expelled from the Spanish country during the Reconquest that happened years ago. By orders of his grandmaster, he decides to find the ones responsible for the mass deportation of his fellow Arabs from Spain.
== Stage 4 Interlude - VS. Alejandro Barragán ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place in Spanish Royal Throne. We see Alejandro conversing with the Royals.)
Alejandro: "Su majestad, ya tengo la autorización de visitar Tenochtitlan." (Translation: "Your majesty, I got the authorization to visit Tenochtitlan."
King Carlos I: "¡Excelente! ¡Empaque sus cosas de inmediato!" (Translation: "Excellent! Pack your stuff immediately!")
Alejandro: "¡Muchas gracias, su majestad!" (Translation: "Thank you very much, your majesty!")
(And just as Alejandro and the Conquerors are leaving the throne, the door is suddenly opened as we see Assad and the assassins of the Order arriving.)
Assad: "Sorry to say this, but you're not going anywhere."
Alejandro: "Why? I thought the Royal Crown expelled your people from my country."
Assad: "Except that what they did is anti-Islam!"
Alejandro: "Anti-Islam? What anti-Islam?"
Assad: "The mere fact the Christians won the Reconquest by forbidding the Islamic religion."
(The Assassins and Conquerors are starting to fight each other much to the dismay of the royals. Then, Alejandro challenges Assad and goes to his fighting stance.)
Alejandro: "I got an advice from you... leave this place now!"
Assad: "I'll never leave until this battle is finished, so-called Herald of Cortés!"
(Assad accepts his challenge and goes to his fighting stance.)
=== After Match Cutscene: ===
(The assassins start to surround the place so the Spainiard royals can't interfere with their business. Assad walks slowly to an unconscious but still talking Alejandro and appoints to the neck.)
Alejandro: "¡Os pagarais por este insulto!" (Translation: "You will pay for this insult!")
Assad: "Your people have no right to expel us... and by the word of the Order of the Sand, I'm going to execute you as a proof of what my mission represents!"
(Just as Assad is almost going to execute Alejandro, a messenger of the Order show up as he stops.)
Messenger: "Assad, we received a new mission from our grandmaster!"
Assad: "I'm just in the middle of an execution, comrade."
Messenger: "Save that later. The Deathopians are now preparing their invasion!"
(Assad stops appointing.)
Assad: "I spare you for now... I have other business to do."
Alejandro: "Okay! ¡Entiendo tu situación! (Translation: I understand your situation!)"
Assad: "Assassins, let's leave this place!"
Assassins: "Oh!"
(Assad and his assassins leave the throne room as Alejandro gets up while the camera focuses on the latter.)
Alejandro: "What a bothersome foe I fought."
Queen Isabel of Portugal: "¿Qué estaís esperando? Necesito el informe una vez que regreseis de su misión." (Translation: "What are you waiting? I need the inform once you return from your mission.")
Alejandro: "Como deseís, su majestad!" (Translation: "As you wish, your majesty!")
(Alejandro then leaves the throne room.)
== Fated Battle - VS. Roderick O'Hara ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place outside of Deathstructor's Castle, where we see dark brown mountains, a couple of bones and dark gray clouds that cover the entire sky, followed by lightning coming from said clouds.)
Assad: "Just as my fellow assassins told me, this place is filled with desolation."
(Just when Assad almost steps the bridge, lava starts to appear in front of him.)
????: "Nice try, fella!"
(Then Assad looks around and sees Roderick being the one who summoned the lava with the Tonfa-Hammer.)
Assad: "Back off! Strangers not affiliated with the Order are not allowed to pass!"
Roderick: "I have the right to stop the evil that is lurking there!"
Assad: "You better not interfere with my mission!"
Roderick: "In this case, I'm forbidding it!"
(Assad challenges Roderick and goes to his fighting stance.)
Assad: "What kind of ordinary man tries to interrupt me?"
Roderick: "The one with a weapon I made myself enough to defeat you!"
(Roderick accepts his challenge and goes to his fighting stance.)
== After Match Cutscene: ==
(Roderick is seen kneeling.)
Roderick: "I lost the battle! Why?"
Assad: "Your weapon may be unique, but you lack the conviction enough to wield it."
Roderick: "All the time I made it, only for me to fail the test."
Assad: "Tell me your profession in first place."
(Roderick gets up.)
Roderick: "You got it, fella. I'm a blacksmith, but not an ordinary one. I make innovative weapons, like the Tonfa-Hammer I'm wielding."
Assad: "Guess even normal people can be warriors too!"
Roderick: "That's the point why I made this weapon!"
Assad: "Just seeing you in action actually made me earn your respect!"
(Assad shakes hands with Roderick.)
Roderick: "Very well, I'm returning home to improve my weapon before I'm starting with the mass production."
Assad: "I wish you good luck, blacksmith. I got a skeletal lord to eradicate."
(Assad runs towards Deathstructor's castle.)
== Sub-Boss Cutscene: ==
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair as we hear his laugh as he sees Assad through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "So you have decided to fight me... However, this isn't going to happen soon."
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut to the castle with Assad walking towards, as a black energy teleports him to a platform in a cave with lava surrounding it.)
Assad: "Suspicious place... is it?"
(We hear an animal growl for a while. Then, an hybrid creature starts to land the ground with a huge shockwave.)
Mantigore: "Nobody's going to step Deathopia, mortal!"
Assad: "Mantigore, I heard from my ancestors you took this form back in Persia... or am I wrong?"
Mantigore: "No one tamed me since then, foolish Arabian!"
Assad: "This explains why everyone failed to link with you."
(Mantigore screams in front of Assad. The latter is now in his combat stance afterwards.)
Mantigore: "I don't serve the inferior species like mankind... and that includes you."
Assad: "I see that you're cynical... prepare to open your senses!"
== Final Boss Cutscene: ==
(Mantigore gets up easily.)
Mantigore: "Good stealth skills you have, mortal!"
Assad: "My assassination skills have no equal, Mantigore!"
Mantigore: "My time here is over... go to his throne room as I'm going to rest myself peacefully at my homeland."
(Mantigore's eyes start to close as his ethereal body starts to disappear in front of him.)
Assad: "Wadaeaan, Mantigore. You deserve a good rest in Jahannam."
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair, as he gets angry for Mantigore's vanishing, seeing through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "Why? An assassin just defeated Mantigore?" *laughs* "If you like to kill, you didn't see the true face of death!"
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball.  We cut back to the cave as Assad is feeling a strange sensation.)
Assad: "Hmph! Time to leave that place."
(Dark energies causes Assad to be teleported to Deathstructor's throne room, a place located in the top of the castle, decorated in dark fantasy architecture. Deathstructor is seen sitting in his black throne.)
Deathstructor: "I'm intrigued with your exploits, Assad!"
Assad: "Heh! So you're the big boss here?"
Deathstructor: "Of course I am! Deathstructor, future harbinger of the apocalypse, at your sight."
Assad: "No time for stupidities... my grandmaster ordered your eradication!"
Deathstructor: "Hah! You are an assassin, and you murder people in the name of your so-called "Allah", or what the non-muslims like to call "God"."
Assad: "I kill only those who are considered a threat, and that includes you... and don't insult Allah's name in vain!"
Deathstructor: "The reason why the Spainiards did the reconquest is because of their greedy kingdom trying to reclaim what it's theirs. As a matter of fact, you spill their blood and your order is no better that the people you hate."
(Assad realizes that his mission is all for naught and changed his mind.)
Assad: "In part you're right, but because I'm a realist. I swear to never kill the Spainiards again! You on the other hand..."
Deathstructor: "Better not interrupt my undead invasion or--"
Assad: "I will turn your bones into sand!"
(Deathstructor unearths his scythe, Black Cleaver, out of the ground and grabs it as he starts to walk outside of his throne to the square one in front of Assad.)
Deathstructor: "Just like I imaginated! You are defying me, Allah's bootlicker!"
Assad: "Enough of your insult against my Islamic belief, and because of that, you are finished!"
Deathstructor: "So be it! This room will be your last place to die at the hands of your future ruler!"
(Assad is now assuming in his combat stance.)
== Ending cutscene: ==
(Deathstructor is defeated, however he gets up easily.)
Deathstructor: "How a mere muslim like you dared to stop my invasion?"
Assad: "It's my duty as a member of the Order to assassinate the evils that lurk the shadows like you!"
Deathstructor: "In this case, you will be assassinated by me!"
(Deathstructor runs towards Assad and attempts to attack him, but is countered by his scimitar, impaling the skeletal ruler in the chest for five seconds and then pulls off. Deathstructor starts to feel that his ironic death is starting now.)
Deathstructor: "This is absurd! Do you realize I'm death personified?"
Assad: "My mission is finished! I must return to finish my pending conversation with a certain someone."
(Assad leaves the castle as the components of it are starting to fall while energy waves are starting to surround Deathstructor.)
Deathstructor: "Taba lak (Translation: Screw you), Assad Kadar!"
(The waves cause Deathstructor to explode into bones. We cut to Assad leaving the castle and summons Pythosert and stretches to help his owner as the Deathopian castle is falling into pieces. We cut later to the Assassin's Camp as Assad is seen with Alejandro as they are speaking again.)
Assad: "We met again, Alejandro Barragán."
Alejandro: "Are you finishing your pending order to off my people because of the Reconquest?"
Assad: "No... I want you to make a truce between our people!"
Alejandro: "A truce? Really!"
Assad: "We don't want more bloodsheed between both groups."
Alejandro: "So this means you're no longer planning to kill us?"
Assad: "Absolutely not... the Order has payed our debt with the Spainiards. In fact, Christians and Muslims should live in peace."
Alejandro: "Unfortunately, I got fired from the Spanish Crown's service and Cortés conquered Tenochtitlan as they planned."
Assad: *sighs* "I'm sorry for this unfortunate event to happen."
Alejandro: "But since then, I'm now a freelance warrior thanks to an advice from an old friend of mine."
(Then the Grandmaster of the Order shows up behind Assad, which turns around. He's described as an elderly Arabian man wearing a more regal beige and gold assassin outfit to distinguish himself from his pupils, including Assad himself.)
Assad: "What news do you have, Grandmaster?"
Grandmaster (voiced by Mark Hamill): "Assad Kadar, we have a new mission for you!"
Assad: "Tell me."
Grandmaster: "Hath-Shu, a corrupt former vizer from the pre-Islamic Egypt, has escaped from his sarcophagus and it's your duty to eliminate him before hell breaks loose. Do you accept the mission?"
Assad: "I accept!"
Grandmaster: "You never dissapoint me, Assad Kadar!"
(The grandmaster leaves the stage by summoning a sandstorm to teleport.)
Alejandro: "Well... it seems it's a farewell. Hope your mission will be a success."
Assad: "As-salamu alaikum (Translation: The peace be with you), Alejandro, and good luck with your journey to the freedom!"
Alejandro: "Back at you!"
(Alejandro summons Caballo Veloz and mounts on him as both leave the scene while Assad waves goodbye to his former enemy turned friend. We cut to Assad and his fellow assassins walking to the desert of the Arabian Penninsula.)
Assad (v/o): "We don't fear to the death... we eliminate those who threaten the safety of mankind... we hide from the public viewpoint to assure a better future for the world... we are the Order of the Sand."
(Assad and his fellow assassins run towards the camera as they are going to strike in front of the camera before the screen turns into sand which dissipates after ten seconds, turning the screen black.)
(Avril Lavigne's "Keep Holding On" starts playing as the credits which background is accompanied of a papyrus with ink-stained reflections of the Animal Spirits while the credits are rolling.)
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