Warren Vidic

*"The human race calls out for direction! They want to know why they're here, what they're meant to do. Well, we're going to tell them. And once they understand how to live their lives, everything will be better."*
―Warren Vidic
Doctor **Warren Vidic** was a member of the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order and the Director of the Animus Project at Abstergo Industries. His latter position was acquired as the world's leading pioneer of research on genetic memory and the inventor of the Animus. For decades, he was in charge of finding new subjects for the Animus, through which he could explore their genetic memories to uncover vital intelligence on both the Assassins and the Pieces of Eden.

His advances in the realm of genetic memory, spanning from the 1970s to his death in 2012, was characterized by sabotage of competitors such as Aileen Bock of the Surrogate Initiative and coercion of individuals against their will to serve as his subjects for the Animus. Although he himself was designated as **Subject 2**, a vast majority of his subjects were obtained via abductions, most notably the Assassin descendants Daniel Cross, Clay Kaczmarek, and Desmond Miles.

For his part in twisting Cross into a sleeper agent, Warren was a major catalyst of the Great Purge of 2000, whereby the Assassins were almost annihilated across the world due to Cross's assassination of their leader, the Mentor, and his subsequent flight back to Abstergo with knowledge of their bases.

As one of the nine members of the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, Warren was party to the full extent of the Templars' plots for their New World Order, which they hoped to achieve by launching the Eye-Abstergo, a key component of the Akashic Satellite Plexus that would entail world domination. To that end, he was assigned the critical mission of locating a Piece of Eden to power the Eye-Abstergo especially in the aftermath of the Denver International Airport incident that destroyed the Apple of Eden 2.

In September 2012, after Clay Kaczmarek, known as Subject 16, was driven to suicide from the Bleeding Effect, Warren replaced him with Desmond Miles, the descendant of legendary Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. While he was able to force Desmond into reliving Altaïr's memories until he witnessed a map detailing the sites of Isu temples, he nevertheless allowed Desmond to be rescued by the Assassins in the hopes that his double agent Lucy Stillman could subsequently steal whatever Piece of Eden they discovered through Desmond's willful cooperation. Ultimately, this scheme, termed Project Siren, was foiled when Desmond killed Lucy while under the control of the Isu Juno just after he had acquired another Apple of Eden.

## Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Vidic was showed to have a great intelligence, being capable to plan Desmond Miles' kidnapping and manipulation to keep him in Abstergo for the Animus Project.

## Facilities

* **Abstergo Industries Rome Facility:** This was the headquarters of Abstergo Industries in Rome, Italy.

## Relationships

Allies* Abstergo Industries - Colleagues and Subordinates
	+ Aileen Bock † - Colleague
	+ Templar Order - Colleagues
		- William King Harvey † - Former Leader
		- Daniel Cross † - Apprentice and Former Subject
		- Juhani Otso Berg - Subject
		- Subject 15 † - Former Subject
		- Lucy Stillman † - Apprentice
		- Álvaro Gramática † - Rival and Successor
		- Alan Rikkin † - Colleague
	+ Zenia
	+ Nathalie Chapman †
	+ William Miles
	+ Mentor
	+ Clay Kaczmarek † - Former Subject
	+ Desmond Miles † - Former Subject and Killer
	+ Rebecca Crane
	+ Shaun Hastings

## Appearances

* *Assassin's Creed*

## Trivia

* An e-mail from Alan Rikkin confirmed that Warren was in possession of a Crystal Skull.
* In the *Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood* multiplayer, Warren features in the introductory video, and as the narrator for the training program.
* A letter within the Cluster puzzles, discussing the partial reproduction of the Pieces of Eden's mind control signal over a television network, was signed with the initials W.V.
* In *Assassin's Creed*, Warren Vidic has a pin on the left side of his coat that was identical to the cloak clasps worn by Robert de Sable in Jerusalem, featuring a variant of the Templar insignia.
* Vidic was part of the development team for Abstergo’s *Liberation* video game.