Pyara Kaur

Pyara Kaur was the daughter of Maharaja Kharak Singh of the Sikh Empire and the granddaughter of the empire's founder, Ranjit Singh. She was married to the Assassin Arbaaz Mir, with whom she had a son, Jayadeep Mir. She is an ancestor of the Indian actress Monima Das.
==Biography==
===Meeting Arbaaz===
Living a life of luxury in the imperial palace of Amritsar since childhood, Pyara was renowned for her beauty and charm. She frequently took part in official ceremonies, right behind her grandfather, Maharaja Ranjit Singh. During one of these ceremonies in June 1839, she encountered Arbaaz Mir, who introduced himself as an emissary from Kashmir.Assassin's Creed: Brahman
Despite her reluctance, she allowed herself to be seduced by him, enticed by the forbidden nature of the situation. After their moment of intimacy in the gardens, Arbaaz left, as he was actually an Assassin that had come to steal the Koh-i-Noor. When her lover was later apprehended with a replica of the diamond in his possession, Pyara was deeply affected by his betrayal.
Feeling both great sadness and anger, Pyara was consoled by the young Raza Soora, who had happened upon her while fleeing the palace. Despite his loyalty to Arbaaz, Raza gave the princess the Koh-i-Noor to cheer her up. Pleased to have recuperated the precious jewel, Pyara decided to confront the Assassin and went to the dungeon where he was being held.
===The Koh-i-Noor===
In his cell, Arbaaz told Pyara that the British planned to poison her grandfather and take advantage of the absence of her uncles to seize power. Shocked, Pyara acquiesced to the Assassin's demands that she free him, though she made him promise to prevent her grandfather's assassination. Arbaaz agreed, but actually had no intention of aiding her, until the princess revealed she held the Koh-i-Noor in her possession, thus forcing the Assassin to keep his promise.
However, Arbaaz arrived too late to save the Maharaja, who had been poisoned by Francis Cotton, a Templar. Having heard the commotion that had erupted between the Assassin and the palace guards, who had been led to believe he was behind Ranjit Singh's murder, Pyara found her grandfather and tried to console him. When she revealed that she was in possession of the Koh-i-Noor, Ranjit Singh ordered her to flee India and hide the artifact somewhere far away, safe from the Templars.
Obeying her grandfather's dying wish, Pyara grabbed a robe to hide her appearance and attempted to flee the palace, but ran into Cotton, who mistook her for an Assassin and prepared to stab her. She was saved by Raza, who leapt upon the Templar and wounded him by scratching his face with his fingernails. However, the young boy was soon overpowered, leading Pyara to rescue him in turn by activating the Koh-i-Noor.
Pyara was soon overcome with the Piece of Eden's power, with a member of the First Civilization called Durga manifesting itself and using the princess to convey a message for humanity. Horrified at the appearance of this mysterious being, Cotton fired multiple shots at the Precursor, though upon striking the Koh-i-Noor with a bullet, the diamond shattered and severed Pyara's connection to the First Civilization woman. This released an energy wave of tremendous power, vaporizing everyone in the room save for Arbaaz, Raza and the princess herself.
===Relationship with Arbaaz===
For the following two years, Pyara and Arbaaz continued to maintain their relationship secret, with the Assassin often having to sneak into the Amritsar Palace to visit the princess.Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India – The Assassin's Heart After Arbaaz claimed the Koh-i-Noor, which had rebuilt itself, Pyara convinced him that keeping the artifact on him at all times was unwise, so the Assassin gave it to his Mentor, Hamid. However, in 1841, the Templars discovered the Indian Brotherhood's hideout and stole back the diamond, hoping to use a Precursor box to unravel its secrets.Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India – The Absent Handler
Pyara became caught in the conflict again when, following Arbaaz' retrieval of the Koh-i-Noor and the box from the Templars in Katasraj, the Master Templar William Sleeman seized Amritsar Palace and took Pyara hostage to exchange her for the artifacts. Upon learning the news from Hamid, Arbaaz rushed to the palace to rescue his lover, making his way past Sleeman's guards and eventually confronting the Templar in the palace's main chamber.Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India – The Rescue
After Arbaaz killed the last of Sleeman's guards, the Templar held Pyara at knifepoint in a desperate attempt to obtain the Koh-i-Noor and the box. As Arbaaz did as he was told and tossed the artifacts into the air, Pyara used her own concealed blade to stab Sleeman in his side, forcing him to let her go. Arbaaz and Pyara then escaped to safety, whereupon the former revealed that he had managed to retreive the Koh-i-Noor in the confusion, but the box was in Templar hands once again.
===A banished son===
By 1843, Pyara and Arbaaz were married and she gave birth to Arbaaz's child, naming him Jayadeep Mir. After Arbaaz began to train their son in 1847, Jayadeep displayed a tremendous potential as a future Assassin and the British Assassin Ethan Frye came to India to further push the training of the boy. However, after years of training and as he was about to leave for Britain in 1853, Ethan declared to his parents that despite Jayadeep's potential he would never be a true warrior because he lacked a killer instinct.Assassin's Creed: Underworld
In 1860, Ethan's judgement was confirmed when Jayadeep failed to assassinate his first target, unable to take a human life in cold blood. As a result, he was to be executed for incompetence, but thanks to Ethan he was instead secretly banished to England, to aid the Assassins there. Becoming a spy, Jayadeep posed as an Indian immigrant called Bharat Singh and worked on the construction dig of the world's first underground railway, in order to stop the Templars from acquiring an Apple of Eden buried there.
Unfortunately, Jayadeep failed again and in 1862, the Templars obtained the Apple while one of Jayadeep's closest friends, Maggie, was killed. Sinking into depression, Jayadeep refused to ever again take part in the affairs of the Assassins and withdrew from the world, living in seclusion in his alcove of the Thames Tunnel for a couple of years.
In 1865, warned by Ethan and George Westhouse of their son's whereabouts, Pyara and Arbaaz traveled to London and convinced Jayadeep to follow them to the Mirs' temporary apartments in Berkeley Square. As there were still tensions between the two Assassins, Pyara acted as a conduit between them, informing her son that they were not in England to bring him back home but to help him recover.
After some days with his family, Pyara invited her son on a walk during which she tried to push him to help Ethan. Bringing him to a curiosity-shop that the Mirs had bought for Jayadeep, she convinced him to build and oversee a network of informants for the British Brotherhood. She then gave him an Assassin outfit and his old confiscated Hidden Blade, also giving him a new alias, Henry Green, after an English name he liked and the color of the hat he was wearing at the time.
==Legacy==
Pyara eventually became an ancestor of the popular actress Monima Das. In 2013, Monima's fiancé Jot Soora became a target of the Templars and the Assassins when they mistakenly believed his DNA was the key to the lost knowledge of the Koh-i-Noor's location. After Jot lied that he was a descendant of Pyara and Arbaaz due to his insecurities over his actual ancestry, the Assassins abducted him and hooked him up to the Abstergo Industries prototype headset Brahman V.R. to relive Arbaaz's genetic memories and find the Koh-i-Noor.
When Jot failed to synchronize with Arbaaz's memories, the Assassins discovered the truth about Jot's ancestry, moments before Templar agents stormed their hideout, having traced the Brahman V.R.'s cloud signal. While Jot managed to escape and went back to Monima, both were later abducted by the Templars in a van. The Assassin Jasdip Dhami rescued Jot, but Monima perished when the van crashed into the Mithi River.
After being taken to another Assassin safehouse, a grieving Jot used the Brahman V.R. to relive Monima's memories, again alerting the Templars to his location, but also informing the Assassins that Monima was Pyara and Arbaaz's descendant that they had been looking for. After downloading Monima's memories onto Jot's phone and deleting them from Abstergo's cloud servers to make the trail look like a dead end, the Assassins sent Jot away moments before the Templars attacked again.
==Trivia==
*Pyara (प्यारा) is a Hindi word meaning 'sweet, lovely, dear, pretty'. Kaur (ਕੌਰ) is a Punjabi word actually meaning 'prince', but it has come to possess the colloquial meaning 'princess'.
*Pyara often practised magic tricks and, after meeting Arbaaz, began to carry a concealed blade for self-defense at all times, which she made good use of when she was taken hostage by William Sleeman.
*Historically, the only known child of Kharak Singh was his son .
*Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer for Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, has stated that Evie Frye, the wife of Pyara and Arbaaz Mir's only known child Jayadeep, is not an ancestor of Monima Das. from 1:11:42–1:11:48 This implies that either Jayadeep conceived a child with someone other than Evie, or that Pyara and Arbaaz had at least one other child, though there are currently no mentions of Jayadeep having any siblings in the franchise.
==Gallery==
;Assassin's Creed: Brahman
Pyara Kaur - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of Pyara
ACBM-Pyara Kaur.jpg|Pyara as she appears in Brahman
ACBH Pyara with Ranjit Singh.jpg|Pyara with her grandfather
ACBM-Arbaaz and Pyara garden.jpg|Pyara and Arbaaz in the palace gardens
ACBH Raza and Pyara Meet.jpg|Pyara meeting Raza
ACBH Angry Pyara.jpg|Pyara interrogating Arbaaz
ACBM-Arbaaz and Pyara prison.jpg|Pyara being kissed by Arbaaz upon freeing him
ACBH Pyara with Koh-i-Noor.jpg|Pyara activating the Koh-i-Noor
;Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India
ACC India Pyara Kaur Concept Sketches.jpg|Concept art of Pyara in Chronicles: India
ACC India Pyara Kaur Development.jpg|Development concept
ACC India Pyara Kaur Colour Variants.jpg|Pyara's color variants
ACC India DB Pyara Kaur.png|Pyara in the Helix database
ACCI Absent Handler (4).jpg|Pyara with Arbaaz in her bedroom
ACCI Rescue (6).jpg|Arbaaz and Pyara escaping from William Sleeman
ACCI Rescue (8).jpg|Arbaaz showing Pyara the Koh-i-Noor
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Brahman 
*Assassin's Creed: Syndicate 
*Assassin's Creed: Underworld
*Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India
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