Arno Dorian

**Arno-Victor Dorian** (August 26, 1768 – 1855) was a French member of the Assassin Order in Paris during the French Revolution and a minor nobleman. The son of Charles Dorian and adoptive son of Francois de la Serre, he went on to fight for the Assassins against a rogue faction of Templars led by Francois-Thomas Germain alongside his childhood friend, the Templar Elise de la Serre. Dorian was also the owner of a Cafe Theatre in Ile de la Cite, Paris.

## Biography

Arno-Victor Dorian was born in Versailles Palace, Kingdom of France to the French nobleman Charles Dorian and an Austrian mother, Marie Dorian. He was well-educated but his father's involvement in the Assassin Order was kept secret from him; his mother fled the family when she found out. When he was 8 years old, he met Élise de la Serre, the daughter of the respected French nobleman Francois de la Serre, who also lived in Versailles.

He first met her when his father left Versailles on an important trip, exploring the palace with her (against his father's instructions). He chased her, and when she dared him to steal an apple in the garden (belonging to King Louis XVI of France), he did so, and hid from the guard. However, he saw groups of guards rushing into a hallway and people clamoring, with a French diplomat asking Benjamin Franklin not to see the act as a representation of French diplomacy. When Arno moved past the crowd to see what happened, he found his father dead, and Francois de la Serre told him to come with him.

Arno was raised with Elise and Francois as one of his wards, and got into trouble in gambling. Seven times, he was chased down by people for cheating, and he got into several fights. One time (1789), he fought with blacksmiths Hugo and Victor, who claimed that they won over Arno's father's watch in a game of Faro (Pharaoh). However, Arno stole it back and fled to the De la Serre mansion. There, Francois told him that Elise was going back to Versailles with them for a confirmation party, but  would leave for Paris the next morning.

On 5 May 1789, Arno was sent by the servant Olivier to brush the horse of De la Serre before he headed away. After De la Serre left, a man named Perrault told Arno that he had an urgent letter for Francois, so Arno volunteered to deliver it to him. He got a bird's eye view of the people below (after catching up to the wrong carriage), and found De la Serre at the Estates-General. He failed to find him there, so he decided to talk to him when he got back to the mansion. Dorian got into a fight with Hugo and Victor there, as they tailed him there from the mansion, and he managed to defeat them before escaping.

That night, he infiltrated Versailles Palace during Elise's confirmation party, avoiding the guards there. He met with Elise for a moment, but was forced to run when a man came knocking on her door. Arno found Francois in the garden and planned to give him the letter, but he saw him stabbed in the neck by two men, one of whom was Charles Gabriel Sivert. Sivert called the guards and Arno was arrested for "murdering" Francois, and was thrown in the Bastille. He was imprisoned next to an old man named Pierre Bellec, and one day, he fought with him when Bellec stole his father's watch. He defeated him and gained back the watch, but when Arno told Bellec to go back to his "crazy writings" (written on the walls), Bellec noticed that only members of the Assassins could see them. He told Arno that he could join the Assassins and avenge his father, and for the next two months, he trained Arno.

On 14 July 1789, taking advantage of the storming of the Bastille, the two escaped, and Arno was told by Bellec to meet him under the Sainte-Chappelle. Before he visited Bellec, he dropped by Elise, and tried to convince her that he had nothing to do with her father's death. She suspected that he did because his father was an assassin and she was a member of the Templar Order, and he left after swearing that he did not kill her father. Arno met with Bellec so after solving a puzzle in the Sainte-Chappelle, and he was inducted into the Assassin Order by Mentor Honore Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau and Master Assassins Sophie Trenet, Guillaume Beylier, and Herve Quemar, the leaders of the council in Paris.

Arno began his service to the Order by assisting Theroigne de Mericourt in leading the Women's March on Versailles in October 1789, being sent to keep the march peaceful (some Templars planned to make the march violent by killing some guards). He also had to protect Theroigne from powerful people who did not want the march to happen, and as they marched from the South Gate of Paris in Saint-Lambert to Versailles, he assassinated several thugs sent to kill Theroigne and her amazon. Arno also helped her in killing a few snipers that attempted to shoot her, spiking the cannon on the city walls, and getting rid of the last few thugs at the North Gate to Versailles. Having accomplished his goals, he helped Theroigne and the women of Paris continue their march all the way to Versailles, where they wanted to speak to the king.

His training exercise was to kill Arpinon in the Conciergerie after Sivert gave him a letter containing instructions for a meeting with a puppet of the Templars, Lord Guillaume de Roussel (4 January 1791). He killed three guards and cut out the alarm bell, and killed a guard near Arpinon after Bellec killed Arpinon with his hidden blades. Arno looted the instructions from him and the two made off to the Cafe Theatre. En route, Bellec and Arno bore witness to some "Patriots" (Extremists) bothering two men, and Bellec told him that he could not save everyone. However, Arno killed the three extremists and saved the two men. Later, while on the Pont Rouge, he killed two extremists and two guards (led by Theodore Roussel) that were having a faction fight, and he also killed a criminal that stole from a man on the Ile de la Cite.

When he headed to the Cafe Theatre, he was made its steward, and talked to Madame Charlotte Gouze, who told him that he could take the theatre's revenue. She also told him that if he improved the theater and expanded it into other districts, he would get more revenue. Dorian then headed over to the Assassin lair, where Mirabeau told him to kill Charles Gabriel Sivert, as Mirabeau vouched for Dorian, saying that he was ready for assassinating the Templar conspirators in the death of Francois de la Serre. Arno stopped by his house and read a September 1788 letter from Elise that told him that she missed him while she was in Strasbourg, and when he left, he stopped two criminals from robbing a man.

When he entered the cafe, Gouze told him that the Hebertistes (Les Actes de Apotres extremists) were burning several religious scrolls important to the Assassins, so he was told to meet her contact at the Place Dauphine to stop them. As he headed through the Ile de la Cite, he saw many large crowds burning effigies and rioting, and he had to kill some guards at the Palais de Justice in order to pass by. He headed to the contact and found out that they burn most of Monsiuer Deschamps' library, but he was able to collect three manuscripts before escaping the area. He got 500 francs for stopping the auto-da-fe, and helped the Cafe grow. He got 500 Livres later on for finishing five crowd events, all of them stopping criminals (including Thomas-Gerard Lavigne).

Arno headed to the Notre Dame Cathedral, where he met with Bellec. Bellec told him to search for opportunities in order to assassinate Sivert, who planned to meet with his henchman Duchesneau, who would meet him in the confession room and tell him about Lord Guillaume de Roussel's price for working with him. However, he found an open window on the side of the church and jumped off of a ropeline over the interior of the cathedral to stab Sivert with his hidden blades. He was surrounded by the Extremist guards, so he used smoke bmbs to escape them, and he escaped the cathedral. Sivert was dead, the first conspirator to be ended by Arno's hidden blades.

While in the Palais de Justice district, he stumbled upon Madame Tussaud, who wanted to make masks of famous guillotine victims. It was the only way for her to keep out of prison, and the National Assembly wanted her to make the masks for them. However, somebody stole the heads, so Arno had to steal them back and deliver them to Madame Tussaud. He set out to retrieve Olympe de Gouges, Jacques Hebert, and Jacques-Pierre Brissot's heads. He found Hebert's head at the Palais de Justice courtyard on a platform in front of a crowd, and stole a letter from M. Lemaitre to Captain LeNotre, telling him that he purchase two heads from his freind and kept them in the Conciergerie. He asassinated a guard in the Conciergerie and unlocked the two chests, taking Gouges' and Brissot's heads, and he reported back to Madame Tussaud. When he spoke to Tussaud, she said that she could make the masks and she would be safe, and Arno received 750 Francs as recompense for his work. With this money, he bought 5 lockpicks so that he could open chests.

He dropped by the cafe and renovated the halls, interior, and exterior, before collecting his 305 Florins in the chest. When he left, he achieved a viewpoint on the top of a church, and later saved a man from a few bullies by scaring them. At the Pont de la Tournelle, he killed two criminals attempting to rob a man there, and he crossed the bridge into the La Bievre district of Paris in the Saint-Marcel neighborhood, where he synchronized the area from a viewpoint at the top of a church. He purchased a scimitar in the neighborhood, upgrading his weapon. Later, he climbed up the Pantheon, which was just completed in construction (although construction works were still there). He also synchronized from a viewpoint in Saint-Jacques, mapping out the area for him, and did another synchronization in Sorbonne. When he headed to Luxembourg Gardens in Le Quartier Latin, he killed patriot Jean-Loup Jacquier after he killed Frenchman Emeric Pasteur in the streets. He synchronized the city from his viewpoint, exploring the whole area. He also renovated the Cafe du Quartier Latin for 1,500 Francs, taking over the social club.

He then headed to St.-Germain-des-Pres in Faubourg Saint-Germain, where he again synchronized his viewpoint. He did the same in Saint-Lambert in Les Invalides, and in the Invalides district of Les Invalides. Arno also headed to the National Assembly building and synchronized the viewpoint of Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin there. He fled over the Pont Royal into the Le Louvre district of Tuileries as guards pursued him, and he synchronized the viewpoint on the Tuileries Palace. When he headed to the Palais-Royal in the Vendome district of Le Louvre, he bore witness to the January 1791 Palais-Royal Riots and assassinated some extremists after they murdered a few men. He also saw some French civilians dragging away Benjamin Labrie, who was almost certainly going to die. Soon, he finished synchronizing all of the viewpoints in Paris, getting to know the whole city. He later renovated the Cafe de I'lle de la Cite for 500 Francs, forming a new social club with three floors. The people inside sung La Marsellaise, the anthem of the new Kingdom of the French, and the social club turned into a happy place that generated money for Arno.

 File:Le Roi des Thunes.jpg  Afterwards, he headed into the sewers of Paris to meet with the Master Assassins. Arno was told by Mirabeau that Sivert was dead, and Arno confirmed it. He then told Mirabeau that the accomplice of Sivert who delivered the killing blow to De la Serre was Le Roi des Thunes, "the King of Beggars", who was the leader of Le Cour des Miracles. Pierre Bellec gave him a phantom blade, a modest update from the traditional hidden blade that could fire crossblows. Mirabeau told him to go and kill Le Roi des Thunes in Le Cour des Miracles after finding out his secrets, so he headed to the slum to find him. While on his way, he stopped criminals from killing civilians a few times, and collected his Cafe Theatre payments.

He renovated the upper floors for 5,000 Florins, leaving him with only 107 F. He decided to do some work for Madame Gouze for more money, and he found out that informant Colette might be compromised near the Porte St. Denis while posing as a scullery maid. He had to find out if the innkeepers found out about her identity. He heard the male inkeeper ask the female innkeeper Azelma, and found out that she heard about a man named Renard, and heard them saying that they believed she was a spy. They regretted taking in orphans, and as the male inkeeper walked away, Arno killed him. He killed all of the guards in the inn before talking with Colette, and he told her to leave. Arno proceeded to escape the area, and he got 400 francs.

 File:La Touche.png  Then, he headed to La Cour de Miracles to find a Templar agent who knew the location of Le Roi des Thunes. Arno was warned about the mission, because two Assassins failed to find the King of Beggars, and one did not come back alive. He entered a room where he was a man's leg being sawed off, and a Templar agent named Aloys La Touche oversaw it. The man was amputated so that the people of Paris could pay him more as a donation. However, he was warned not to do anything by a man named Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, who told him that either way, the man lost a leg - he could scare away the Templars, or follow them back to their king. He followed the blood trail and tailed La Touche, and cornered him in a room. He shackled him to a wall and forced him to tell him where Le Roi des Thunes was, and found out that he was in the catacombs below the old church. He escaped the clinic, and set out to kill the King of Beggars.

When Arno arrived, he sat on a chimney overlooking Le Cour des Miracles. He saw a few guards at the entrance, so he would have to infiltrate the court. He also saw some men sitting over a vent and warming themselves, and overheard them discussing that if the vent was covered, the people below would suffocate on the steam, and it would be painful. He covered the vents after killing a few guards, and infiltrated the sewers after assisting some beggars in fighting off the guards. Arno searched for Le Roi des Thunes in the sewers, and found him in a main chamber. Aloys La Touche rushed into the room and told him that the Assassin was coming for him, and told him to muster the guard and hunt for the assassin while he sat down in his chair in the room.

While sneaking through the sewers, he found La Touche, who locked a grate door and ran away, warning Le Roi des Thunes that Arno was in the sewers as well. When he headed to the chair, he found one of Guillaume Beylier's dead apprentices, and Le Roi des Thunes shot at him with a musket from atop a tower. Arno climbed the tower, where he engaged the King of Beggars in a one-on-one duel. He stabbed Le Roi des Thunes in the groin with his hidden blades after impaling him thorugh the chest with a sword, killing him.

When he escaped, he pulled down some planks that formed a tunnel, and slid out of the tunnels as the rocks collapsed and forever blocked off the entrance to the Cour des Miracles. When he reached the ground, he spoke with the Marquis de Sade, who became the new Roi des Thunes of the Cour des Miracles, leaving the beggars of Paris. The Marquis de Sade told him that a silversmith named Francois-Thomas Germain made a pin that one of Le Roi des Thunes' followers gave him, which was the same one that was used to stab Francois de la Serre's throat. The shop was in Les Halles, so Arno set out to follow this lead and investigate the murder of De la Serre further.

Arno first headed to the Cafe Theatre, where he collected his 1,792 Francs in the chest there. He then headed to the underground entrance to the Assassin Den, where he reported the death of Le Roi des Thunes and gave Guillaume the pistol of his dead apprentice. Guillaume told Arno to keep it and put it to good use, and Arno thanked him. Arno told the two that Le Roi des Thunes and Sivert were part of a larger scheme to kill De la Serre, and he reported that Germain could be a possible Templar. He was told to find the silversmith and find out what part he played in the conspiracy. He spent much of his hard-earned money on more phantom blade darts and some medicine for getting into fights with patriots and other Templars.

Arno briefly returned to Versailles, where he synchronized the other viewpoint from the top of a church, discovering the other half of the town. He killed two criminals that murdered a man there, and headed back to the Ile-Saint-Louis in Paris through fast travelling. When he headed to Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Les Invalides, he saved a man from being injured by a criminal, and avenged the death of a citizen at the hands of two criminals.

 File:Francois-Thomas Germain.png  Later, he headed to Les Halles, where he located the silversmith's shop on 31 March 1791. He infiltrated the shop, having killed the several guards defending the front entrance and the balconies in the courtyard (Arno drove two brutes berserk with berserk darts). He encountered the silversmith in his office, and Germain told him that the thugs held him in his office as a prisoner for months. He promised to tell Arno all about the pin if he helped him to escape, so Arno and Francois-Thomas fought their way out. Arno killed two snipers and all of the guards of the shop, and he and Germain escaped to a private spot. Arno was told by Germain that he made the pin for a man called Chretien Lafreniere, and he said that it was a private contract. He also told Arno that he was a Templar, and he also found out about Germain's schemes and put him under house arrest. Arno found out that Lafreniere was talking about protecting the shipments at La Halle Aux Bles, so Arno decided to hunt him down and finish him off, and Germain escaped the scene at Arno's request.

 File:Chretien Lafreniere.png  When he arrived at La Halle Aux Bles to investigate Lafreniere's plot, Dorian saw a few guards defending the front of the hall. He infiltrated the hall and found out that Bavarian-imported guns were stored there, and while three guards fought under the effects of berserk darts, he found a book that showed where the Grand Master was. Arno threw a lantern at the gunpowder stored at the bottom of the hall, causing a chain reaction that set the place on fire, although only a few of the guards were killed (the rest escaped). The building exploded many times and set on fire, although Arno escaped in time. With Lafreniere's weapons destroyed, Arno had his address and began the search to hunt him down.

Arno found out that Grand Master Lafreniere of the Paris Rite was rallying his forces at the Cimetiere des Innocents, so he set out to assassinate him and end his plot. He rescued some gravediggers from guards, and stole some plans for the positions of Templar guards to fill later, when Lafreniere arrived. Arno laid down in a haystack and waited until night, when Lafreniere arrived with his guards in preparation for making a speech. Arno silently killed many guards as Lafreniere informed the men that the Assassins lurked in the shadows and the Jacobin Club was taking away the liberty of the French people in an inspiring speech. With help from the gravediggers, Arno killed all of the guards. A gravedigger wounded Lafreniere, and Arno finished him off. However, in Lafreniere's memories, he found out that it was Lafreniere who wrote the warning letter to Grand Master De la Serre the night that he was killed.

 File:Albert Celice.jpg  While he was in the Ventre de Paris neighborhood of Hotel de Ville, Arno saved Egide Beauvilliers from the guillotine, and helped a Duchess (the mother of lynched Frenchman Jean-Christophe Lussier) take a pendant from his neck as a memento and defended her as she headed back to her home. He killed a few extremists that attempted to murder her, and escorted her to her home, where she reached safety. Arno rescued Albert Celice from being guillotined after assassinating Captain Lucien Vandame, and he later heard from a man in the Ile de la Cite neighborhood of Cite that three fountains were cursed, making people fall to Satan. Arno set out to investigate the three fountains, but decided to save the job for later as he collected his Cafe Theatre money from the chest. He took the 1,792 Francs from the chest, and purchased a Sparth as a weapon.

He then returned to Cite and drank from one of the fountains, and heard a voice telling him that he could have anything he wished if he joined "him" (the Devil). When he investigated, he found out that it was a thug who used drugs in the water to create hallucinations - when the victim approached him, he would kill them and steal their money. However, Arno slew the thug and stole the note, and set out to go to the two other fountains. The second fountain that he drunk from led him to a tunnel on the wall that divided Ile de la Cite from the other Parisian islands, and he killed the three "devils" that tried to kill him. The final one led him into an ambush of two people, and when he killed them, he gained 1,200 francs. After finishing the Paris story, he headed to the den, where he informed the council of Lafreniere's death. When he arrived, he heard the council arguing, hearing that 400 armed noblemen were the only men that could prevent the king from being killed, with Lafayette stepping in to prevent the king from being killed. When Arno told the council that he killed Lafreniere, they were disgusted that he broke the creed by killing a Templar without their permission, and Arno told them that he was no longer certain of Lafreniere's motivations. He told him that Lafreniere had planned to strike l'Hotel de Beauvais (a club in the Marais, not one of the Assassin safehouses) that night, and when he asked for permission to investigate further, the council reluctantly agreed (at Mirabeau's request).

When he arrived that night, he found some guards there, and saw La Touche entering the building with a few other men. Arno tailed La Touche into the building, and found the Templars gathering in the ballroom. He overheard La Touche conversing with Marie Levesque and Frederic Rouille, informing them that Lafreniere was assassinated. He also saw Rouille interrogating a man on the location of something, and the man revealed that it was at the Palais du Luxembourg. Although the man answered the question, Rouille had him thrown out of a balcony. He then tailed the Templars to their meeting, where Rouille, La Touche, Levesque, Louis Michel Le Peletier, and the Templar Grand Master met. He found out that Elise was headed to a Templar ambush in the Temple district of Le Marais, so Arno rushed to the hotel where she was bound for. Arno reached l'Hotel Voysin, where he found her in the courtyard. The two escaped from the scene and navigated their way out of a maze, and also fled through the streets, killing pursuers and snipers. When they lost the pursuing Templars, Arno told her to meet him at the Cafe Theatre the next day to explain everything.

The next day, Arno met with Elise again. Out of leads, allies, and time, Elise was desperate to avenge the death of her father. Arno told Elise that he wanted to help her, but she said that she did not trust the Assassins. Arno pulled down his hood and asked her to trust him, and she agreed to hear the Brotherhood's offer. When he brought her into the den, everyone was cautious, not trusting her. However, Mirabeau knew that it would be valuable to have Francois de la Serre's daughter on the Assassins' side, and although Herve Quemar, Pierre Bellec, and the Asassin guards protested, Mirabeau said that the council would speak in private to discuss the matter.

Arno and Elise left the council and decided to talk, but when Arno mentioned that a silversmith named Francois-Thomas Germain lived on the Rue St. Antoine, Elise began to run there. Arno followed, telling her to wait for him, and when they reached the shop, Elise told Arno that Francois Germain was her father's lieutenant. She told him that he was cast out of the Templar Order when she was young for worshipping Jacques de Molay, and that he was supposedly dead. When they entered his workshop, nobody was there. Elise accidentally triggered a trap, and the two killed a few guards before they were able to investigate the office. When Elise kicked down the doors to one of his offices, they foiund a secret room. It contained Templar banners and his journal, and the two found out that it was Germain who killed her father. Arno told Elise to meet him at Mirabeau's estate when snipers opened fire on them, and Arno killed all five snipers. He proceeded to escape, and Arno had a new lead on the murder of Francois de la Serre: the Templar Grand Master was Francois-Thomas Germain, while La Touche and a few others were his minions.

Arno headed to Mirabeau's estate to inform him about the identity of Germain, but he found Elise standing beside Mirabeau's bed, where Mirabeau lay dead. Elise told him that she did not kill Mirabeau, and she told him not to tell the council, because they would suspect her first and last. Arno decided to find out what happened, so he investigated many clues around the room. He found a Templar pin under his pillow, and found out that it was a badge of office in addition to the weapon that killed Francois de la Serre. When he looked in the cabinet nearby, he found a cup with poison in it, and Elise identified the poison as aconite, a popular Templar poison. The final piece of evidence that he found was a guest book that said that Master Quemar was expected to come to the estate, so he decided to speak with Quemar. After collecting his Cafe Theatre income, he entered the Assassin Den and spoke with Quemar. He told him that Mirabeau was murdered, and Quemar said that he would summon the rest of the council. However, Arno told him to give him until the next morning to investigate further, and he told Quemar that he was poisoned with aconite. Quemar told him that any doctor could give aconite to people in a diluted form, but he knew an apothecary in Le Marais who did backroom deals with regular aconite. Arno traveled to Le Marais to find the shifty doctor and find out who bought the aconite. When he entered the apothecary, the doctor fled, so Arno met up with Elise and the two chaased the man. He succeeded in tackling him in a park, and he held him against a tree. The man told him that a hooded man bought the small quantity of the aconite, and found out that the second dose was to be delivered to another point. Arno found out that the killer was an Assassin, and the two decided to track down the killer.

Arno saved Pascal Boulle from being guillotined in Ventre de Paris before continuing the search for the murderer, and picked up the trail of the murderer in the courtyard of a church. The poison was to be delivered there, and he found the poison trail heading up the Sainte-Chappelle church. He told Elise to wait in the courtyard as he climbed the Sainte-Chappelle to encounter the killer of Mirabeau, and he climbed up to the balcony. He found Pierre Bellec there, and confronted him. Bellec revealed that he killed Mirabeau because peace with Templars was a fairy tale, and told him that the Assassins purged their own and grew stronger at Masyaf, Monteriggioni, and the American Colonies, rising anew and stronger than ever. Bellec said that the Assassins were mired in politics, and they were not a nation, but an army - and making peace with the enemy in the army was called treason. Bellec told Arno that they could work together, but Arno refused, and the two fought against each other in a final duel. They crashed through the balcony stained glass window and fell into the main room, and when Elise arrived, Pierre tried to shoot her. Arno shot Bellec's wrist with a phantom blade and cut him down with his pike, and stabbed him in the neck with his left hidden blade. In his memories, he saw Mirabeau get poisoned with the aconite by Bellec and also saw him saving his father from a Templar, but Arno knew that he had done the right thing. He left the church with Elise, having killed his first mentor.

On 10 August 1792, he collected the income from his chest (1,344 Francs) and spoke with the Assassin Council. Sophie Trenet told him that they had an assignment for them, and Herve Gourdel said that the mission that he was about to be sent on would be a punishment for the deaths of two Master Assassins. He was told that 20,000 armed citizens were besieging the Tuileries Palace after the Paris Commune declared that it was in open rebellion against the Kingdom of France, and that Mirabeau had some letters that he wrote to King Louis XVI of France. If anybody found out about Mirabeau's correspondence with the King, then the Templars would be in a position to purge the French Assassins across the country. Arno set out for the Tuileries Palace to destroy the letters before the Swiss Guard could be finally overwhelmed and the National Guard and mobs could enter the palace and find them. Arno found huge crowds gathering outside as rebels carried out mass executions of captured guards, and infiltrated the royal palace. He silently assassinated a few of the rebel guards in the palace while infiltrating Tuileries, and disguised himself as some rebel guards in order to pass by many of them. He succeeded in finding the king's office, but when he entered, he was held at gunpoint by an officer of the French Revolutionary Army. He was left alone when the man figured that he did not look like a crazed revolutionary, and the man told him that he was looking for state secrets, riches, and correspondence from the King. The man said that he believed that the King had a hidden vault where he stored secret items, and Arno found the Iron Cabinet, pulling a switch that activated an elevator. He found some letters from Mirabeau and threw them in the fire, destroying all evidence that Mirabeau was an ally of the king. He also found an elevator, and as the officer activated it, Arno killed all of the attacking guards that rushed into the room. Napoleon shot a guard dead before the two of them entered the elevator. They escaped just as Captain Frederic Rouille and his guards entered the room, and Arno told the officer that he needed to get back up to have him answer his questions. However, the officer told him that he would never find him that time, and would have to wait until later to kill him.

They entered the secret tunnel underneath the palace, and while they walked, the officer said that Arno could be a Marshal of France in ten years if he joined the French Army today. Arno refused, saying that he did not like taking orders, and Napoleon said that he was also an individualist, the bane of generals and wealthy people. The officer told Arno to look him up if he ever changed his mind, and introduced himself as Napoleon Bonaparte, a Second Lieutenant of Artillery. Arno introduced himself to Napoleon, and the two parted ways after blowing down a wall. Napoleon told Arno that in a few days, he might be able to arrange an introduction to Rouille for Arno, and they left.

While in Le Louvre, he bought a Le Patriote newspaper that reported that the French allies in Liege were defeated by the feudal tyrant Habsburgs again, reported Treasurer Jacques Necker's leaving of Paris in disgrace, the construction of the Pantheon for Mirabeau's funeral, and the acquittal of Lafayette as a royalist. Arno collected his Cafe Theatre income and purchased a Marksman's Musket as a firearm, and with his goals accomplished, he headed to Tuileries to meet with Napoleon. While in the Tuileries district, he saved Valery Bourbeau from the guillotine and avenged the murder of Antoine Dubos by killing his two murderers. For these fights, he used his musket as a melee weapon, killing the French guards and the extremists. He then headed over to the Cafe Theatre for his money, and proceeded to go on his way to speak with Napoleon.

While he did so, he read a Journal de Paris newspaper. It reported that there was an absurd story of a murderous Cour des Miracles giant named Giant Iscariotte; it also reported that executioner Sanson needed rags for cleaning up guillotines, the Legislative Assembly suspended the King and put him under heavy guard in the Temple; and a man named Chappe invented a new communication technology that could relay messages between Paris and Lille at an astonishing speed.

When Arno entered the office of Napoleon, Napoleon told him that Rouille had evaded his attempts to put him in a far-away garrison with help from friends in high places. Rouille planned to storm Le Grand Chatelet prison and execute prisoners there as a part of the September Massacres of 1792, and Arno told Napoleon to practice his speechmaking as he headed to the prison to slay Rouille. When he arrived, he saw a few guards being taken to their execution by some of Rouille's cronies, and also saw some of Rouille's cronies throwing guards off of watchtowers and taking them over. Arno succeeded in freeing the three captured guards, and told them to help in stopping the massacres of prisoners in the prison. He also freed some guards inside of the prison. Dorian distracted the guards through berserk darts, and he climbed to the roof, where he saw Rouille conversing with the warden. Dorian was able to wound Rouille with a Phantom Blade, and he finished him with a hidden blade to the chest. In his memories, he saw him being brushed aside by Mirabeau at the Tennis Court Oath and being welcomed into the Templar order by Germain, who gave him a Templar pin (Rouille might have joined the Assassins had it not been for Mirabeau's rudeness). He also saw Marie Levesque in the memories of Rouille, seeing her talking to Germain about having ships waiting at his dock only at his command. With Rouille dead, the September Massacres went on for only a week more, and Arno fled the Conciergerie prison.

Arno decided to head down to the Cafe Theatre, where he collected his income. He spent 15,000 Livres on the finishing touches to the theater, making it a huge building the size of an estate. After doing so, he headed to Ventre de Paris, where he avenged a guillotine victim by killing all of the guards. He proceeded to meet Elise in the area on October 31, 1792, while Paris was in the midst of a famine. Elise told him that Marie Levesque was responsible for the famine, as her family was affiliated with the Templar Order since the Third Crusade. Her ships were located at the Hotel de Ville docks, and while Elise looked for Marie, Arno looked for the boats. Arno tailed a grain barge to its destination near Tuileries, where he saw the captain speaking with Marie Levesque. Marie told him to make certain that one of the bags leaked, and the man confirmed that he had her instructions. Arno assassinated the captain and his men and took the instructions, without triggering any alarms. He then escaped the area, and met up with Elise again. The note said that they would meet at the Palais Luxembourg, and he told Elise about this. Elise told Arno that she would see that the grain was returned while Arno found Marie and killed her.

When Arno scouted out the Palais Luxembourg, he saw a man on a cart of fireworks being held at gunpoint by two men. He also saw Marie talking with a gentleman and told him that she would go to check on her husband, and he saw a man named Michel behind bars, telling his wife that he could get free if the guard in front of him was killed. There were 9 alarm bells, 47 entrances, and 60 guards in the palace, giving Arno many opportunities. Arno escorted the merchant and killed all of the guards near him, and the merchant promised him the firework show of a lifetime - not knowing that it was a distraction. Arno then set out to infiltrate the palace and rescue Thomas Levesque, who was being held as a prisoner. Arno climbed the walls and snuck through an open window, silently killing many guards. Arno impaled Marie through the chest with his pike and finished her with his hidden blades before escaping the palace, and in her memories, he saw her talking with Louis-Michel le Peletier, who was to see to the conviction of King Louis XVI of France. Arno scaled the palace walls and escaped, and after collecting his Cafe Theatre income, went to meet up with Elise.

When they rendezvoused, he saw Elise running, and she told him that she had no time to explain. They ran to a Montfolgiere balloon and cut the ropes loose, and Arno tried to follow Elise on the balloon as he ran through the rooftops. He eventually was able to jump aboard amidst sniper fire, and the two escaped the guards. The two escaped on the balloon as it crossed the Seine River, fleeing the French soldiers. Arno and Elise had a tender moment, as Arno asked her if things could ever go back to the way they were before. Elise said that after everything that happened and everything that was lost, things could never be the same. However, she said that going forward would not mean an ending, and the two kissed. Arno later went to sleep, and when he woke up, the balloon was crashed on the side of a river. Arno found a note from Elise that said that she had to run, but did not want to wake Arno. Arno woke up and told the people around him that surely somebody would collect the crashed balloon, and walked away.

On 20 January 1793, he headed to Tuileries, where he met with Elise and the Marquis de Sade. His goal was to find National Convention deputy Louis-Michel Le Peletier, who was part of Germain's plot, and interrogate him before killing him. De Sade told them that Le Peleteier had called for the death of the king only two years after trying to abolish the death penalty, and he found out that he enjoyed meals at a cafe in Le Palais Royal. Arno scouted the area out for opportunities, finding Le Peletier entering the cafe. Arno infiltrated the Palais Royal and stole some wine, which could come in handy. Distracting most of the guards by driving a brute berserk in the ground floor of the mansion, Arno silently killed a few guards on the second floor and went after Le Peletier. Arno kicked him in the chest, and he fell to the ground. Arno then stabbed him in the chest with his left hidden blade, killing him. In his memories, he found out that Le Peletier was the deciding 361st against 360 votes to sentence King Louis to death, and Germain said that he was going to witness the end of the tyranny at the execution. Arno escaped the Cafe Fevrier in the Palais Royal and fled to the execution of Louis XVI in Tuileries. Le Peletier had promised Germain a good seat in the stands to witness the end of the Bourbon monarchy, so Arno prepared to assassinate him and end his plots. He met with Elise there, and they headed to the Place de la Revolution, where the guillotining would take place.

Arno and Elise split up to cover more ground, and when Arno overlooked the guillotining, he saw Louis XVI in his carriage, being brought out for the execution. When he searched, he found Germain in the stands. He confronted him, and watched as Louis XVI was beheaded by guillotine. Germain ordered his men to kill Arno, and although Elise saved him, they were too late to kill Germain, who fled. Elise fled in hopes of killing Germain, but Arno had to follow her and kill the guards chasing her. Elise said that she was willing to risk anything to kill Germain, and she left Arno. Arno decided to debrief the Assassin Council, and Sophie confronted him about the execution of King Louis. They decided to kick him out of the brotherhood because others were meant to investigate the execution of King Louis, and because they believed that he was too concerned with private vendettas. His rank and title were stripped from him, and he was exiled from the Brotherhood of Paris, although he was the only one who knew what Germain was planning. The council said that their decisions were final, and he was given leave to go.

On June 4, 1793, Arno was hung over in Versailles, having been kicked out of the Assassins. He had just stolen wine from a bar after being kicked out, and carried it back to his palace in Versailles. When he arrived at the bar the next morning, he came to look for his father's watch. The bartender told him to ask the four men that he fought with for the locaton of the watch, and when he remembered his fight, he remembered that a Jacobin with a mustache had picked up his watch after throwing him onto the street. He encountered a man at the table and asked where his boss was, and he found out that they were at the palace after tackling him following a short chase. Arno headed over to the palace in search of his father's watch, and searched for the gang leader, while killing his minions. He killed the gang leader and searched his body for the watch, but it was nowhere to be found. Elise then found him and gave him his watch, and Elise told Arno that she wanted him to help her, as Paris was tearing itself apart. The guillotines were operating around the clock, and Elise wanted Arno to come with her back to Paris to stop Germain's plots from destroying the city. Arno agreed, and she secured transportation back to the city, although he had one thing left to do before hunting down Germain.

Arno overlooked an execution site in Paris, where he saw his old enemies Victor and Hugo being held in a cage, waiting to be beheaded. He saw La Touche on the guillotine giving a speech to the people, saying that parasites were bleeding Paris dry, and prepared to carry out the executions. Arno set out to finish what he had started, and assassinate La Touche. Arno decided to pretend that he was going up to the guillotine so that he could kill La Touche in front of the whole crowd. He stole the key after killing a man and entered the cage, pretending to be a prisoner. He told Victor and Hugo that being stupid meant that they did not deserve to die, and went first. He pretended to have his arms bound, and when he reached the platform for his execution, he stabbed La Touche in his chest with his hiden blades. La Touche was killed, and Arno fled the scene, having succeeded in his goals. In La Touche's memories, he saw him meeting a man named Maximilien Robespierre, who was the leader of the Paris Commune, as he would serve him as an agent. In order to find Germain, he would have to find Robespierre as well.

On June 8, 1794 at the Champ de Mars, Arno and Elise rode into Paris in hopes of finding Germain. Arno told Elise that Robespierre was the key to finding Germain, and Arno decided to discredit Robespierre and make him vulnerable in order to draw out the Grand Master. At the Festival of the Supreme Being, Arno and Elise entered the festival location, where many people gathered and danced, watched fireworks, and celebrated together. Robespierre was heavily-guarded, so Arno came up with a plan to discredit Robespierre. He infiltrated his tent after Robespierre left, while under the disguise of a member of the Swiss Guard. Arno found a letter to Robespierre from Germain that asked him to remake the work in Jacques de Molay's image, and he found a perfect piece of evidence to discredit Robespierre: a list of National Convention deputy names that he wanted to guillotine. Arno fled and spoke with Elise about the list of 50 names, and she said that she was going to do something to Robespierre's refreshments as Arno distracted the guards. Arno used berserk darts against the guards to let Elise put ergot in Robespierre's drink, making him have hallucinations and making him look insane. Arno planted letters on three opponents of Robespierre to warn them about Robespierre's madness, and when Robespierre stepped up to speak, the people with the letters realized that he was going to kill them. When Germain would abandon Robespierre because he was insane, they could focus on Germain and kill him.

Arno proceeded to meet with Elise again on July 27, 1794, and Elise told Arno that they may gave gone too far with discrediting Robespierre. The National Convention planned to take him to Luxembourg Prison and have him guillotined for his rants against the convention, and the Paris Commune was outlawed by the French government. Robespierre fled to the Hotel de Ville, guarded by Paris Commune thugs, so Arno and Elise had to infiltrate the hotel to find Robespierre. They heard a pamphleteer reading out a declaration of war on the Paris Commune and Robespierre, and that National Convention soldiers would be on their way to arrest Robespierre. Arno found Robespierre's brother jumping out a window in an attempt to escape, but he broke his legs. Arno snuck past the guards of the hotel and found Robespierre hiding in his office. When he refused to saw where Germain was, Elise shot him in the jaw with his pistol and told him to write it. Arno and Elise found out that Germain was in the Temple, and they fled the scene as National Convention soldiers entered the room and arrested Robespierre.

Setting out for the Temple, Arno and Elise had their final confrontation with Germain there, the same location that Jacques de Molay hid his powerful sword back in 1307. There were no weak spots in the fortress, so Arno would have to find a clever way to attack the Temple's 62-man garrison and slay Germain. Arno found Germain at the top of the Temple, and Germain disappeared after a blast of his special sword, the Sword of Eden that Jacques de Molay used. Arno entered the chamber in the sewers soon after, pursuing Jacques, and Arno and Elise rendezvoused, fighting Germain. While Elise distracted Germain by talking, Arno headed around him and attempted to assassinate him. He nearly succeeded, but was blasted back with his sword's powers. He wounded him many times, and one explosion caused Arno to be trapped under some heavy rock. Meanwhile, Elise rushed towards Germain to prevent him from escaping, and they fought together. Germain and Elise fought until Germain's sword exploded, killing Elise and mortally-wounding Germain. Arno finished off Germain with his hidden blades, and in his memories, he saw Germain having headaches from several mysterious visions in his minds, and another apparition of Germain spoke to Arno. He said that through Jacques de Molay's writings, he noticed that he was the same as him, and it would be his job to purge the Templars of decadence. He told Arno that it might not be him who would shepherd humanity into the right place, but somebody else, and told Arno to think of what he said whenever he thought of Elise. Arno shut Elise's eyes for her, and carried her body out of the Temple. Years later, Napoleon Bonaparte and Arno Dorian entered the Temple, where Arno found the skeleton of Germain. His skull was sealed away in the catacombs, along with thousands of others.

Arno decided to remain loyal to the Assassin cause, and decided to help them with more cooperative missions. On 29 July 1794, Arno met with Theroigne de Mericourt again, as she led a rally against the last members of the Jacobin Club outside of their hideout - Robespierre had been executed by guillotine the day before. The Jacobin leadership was attempting to flee Paris using underground tunnels in the catacombs, and Arno could not let them live to fight another day. He saved Theroigne from being whipped by the guards and assisted her in killing the Jacobin leaders as they fled in the tunnels, including club leader Benjamin Deschanel. The last of the Jacobins were slain, and the French Directory took power, ending the Reign of Terror at last.

Arno then decided to return to Madame Tussaud, who wanted him to assassinate the Sans-Culottes leader Jean Lessard, who was stalking her. Tussaud told him that Lessard was searching for her to kill her when she was not sent to the guillotine, and that his men were in her shop. Arno entered the shop and killed the three men, stealing a letter that told him that Lessard was going to her waxwork exhibition with a few men to exact his own measure of justice. Dorian looted a chest in the Palais de Justice part of the Ile de la Cite before heading to the exhibition to find Lessard and stop him. Arno tripped him and stabbed him in the chest with his hidden blades before escaping the area, and Tussaud gave him 400 livres. Arno then headed back to the Cafe Theatre, where he collected his 1,792 Livres and looked over his memento gallery. Among the items was Le Roi des Thunes' Templar pin used to kill Francois de la Serre, a miniature replica of a hot air balloon, some of Germain's silversmith works, the chalice used by Arno in his training to become an assassin, Elise's pistol, and busts of Elise and Bellec.

Arno traveled to Versailles soon after and looted a chest of 100 livres in the second floor of a craft workshop in the Saint-Louis (eastern half of Versailles) district. He killed two extremists upon entering Versailles in a double assassination so that he could proceed into the town without any problems. He avenged Alceste Bettencourt by killing the two criminals that stabbed him, and entered the third floor attic of a nearby craft workshop to loot a chest. After he finished looting a few chests, he decided to return to Paris to collect his income from the Cafe Theatre and resume his work.

Later in 1794, Arno found out that some thugs were attempting to rob the French monarchy's tomb in Saint-Denis, which was being looted by revolutionaries. Arno set out to put an end to their plans, and headed to the poor and dark neighborhood of Saint-Denis.

On December 24, 1800, Arno Dorian found out that there was a Chouan plot to assassinate Napoleon, who was now the First Consul of the French Consulate. Napoleon was riding in a carriage en route to an opera, and the Chouans planned to either kill him with snipers or shoot an improvised explosive device known as the "Infernal Machine" to blow up the carriage. Arno and other assassins succeeded in killing the snipers, but the Infernal Machine exploded, setting a few buildings on fire. Arno collected evidence leading to the Royalist leader, whom he assassinated, ending the plot.