Assassin (Fate/Inferno)

## Class Skills

Presence Concealment
A+

## Personal Skills

Affection of the White Snake
EX

Animal Communication
EX

Eye of the Mind (False)
B

Protection from Wind
B

Shapeshift (Infiltration Specialization)
A

## Noble Phantasm

Zabaniya: Ichor of Reverie
Anti-Army
A

**Assassin** (アサシン, *Asashin*?) is the Assassin-class Servant of Seishirou Matou in the Third Holy Grail War of *Fate/Inferno*.

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's True Name is **Hassan-i-Sabbah**, one of the successive Hassan-i-Sabbah who served as the “*Old Man of the Mountain*”, the founder of the Assassins; during her lifetime, it is said that she is a master of animals who possessed the alias of the "**Hassan of Patience**" (忍耐のハサン, *Nintai no Hasan*?). However, the ancient goddess called her by the name of **Elena** (エレーナ, *Erēna*?).

#### History

From the second she left the womb, she had been hearing voices. They came from everywhere: from beneath the ground, from the air, from the grass, from the trees, and from the water. At first, she didn't understand what they were saying; of course, this was because she had not yet learned how to talk. It was only after she was taught how to speak that she finally understood where those voices were coming from. They were the animals of the land, sea, and air, and all of them were worshipping her birth as a "priestess" that could serve as an intermediary between themselves and the "gods", that is, humans (as in their eyes, humans are merely a higher order of beings that they cannot hope to match).

Born into the organization of assassins, she was trained on how to be a killer ever since she was able to speak and pick up a weapon. She was also taught in all the other arts that only a female assassin could do, beguiling targets with only the best of seductive wiles. She had already performed quite a number of jobs while also remaining pure in both body and heart as the animals would always look out for her, informing her on which of her targets she should prioritize killing instead of entertaining with her charms. Those animals go so far as to even attack her targets out of their own volition in their earnest hopes of helping their beloved priestess.

One day after she had successfully assassinated a target, she received a calling. From beneath the ground, a mellifluous voice whispered her name, "Elena, Elena, come and do my bidding." Her lifelong companions in the animals urged her to listen to the voice who revealed herself to be Ereshkigal, the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld. The goddess blessed the lost lamb, giving her a lifelong mission of escorting those being she put down with her blade to the goddess's domain, Kur. The goddess's blessing granted her a multitude of newfound abilities and she also receives personal attention from the goddess in the form of the most beautiful great white snake. Along with the animals, this great white snake would be her partner for the rest of her mortal life and there are an untold number of times in which people would attempt to kill the snake after hearing rumors of its powers.

Over her life, she has killed numerous people in all livelihoods, including but not limited to slaves, merchants, aristocrats, soldiers, nobles, and kings. Each and every time she killed, she would escort the soul to the land of her mistress and she would be rewarded for jobs well done. She continued this until she died of old age, while still looking like an unchanging child. She descended into the abyss below herself and began a new "life" as her mistress's eternal handmaiden.

### Appearance

Ever since forming a contract with the ancient goddess, Assassin has stopped aging. She still retains the body of the ten-year-old child she was when she first spoke with the goddess. Prior to her contract, she possessed brown hair and sea green eyes, however, after the contract was made and the uncountable affections she had received from the ancient goddess, her hair discolored to a pure white while her eyes now blazed crimson. Her normal outfit usually consists of a white one-piece dress and a black cloak covering her from head to toe.