Author's Note: Among the many flaws in Assassin's Creed: Unity's storytelling is, in my opinion, the removal of the classic "memory corridor" post-assassination conversations between the game's assassin and their Templar target. My goal with this series is to rectify that, and hopefully give Unity's Templars a bit more character as well as shine a bit more light on Arno's ideology compared to that of his adversaries. I hope you enjoy!


Shink. The hidden blade struck home, piercing the neck of Charles Gabriel Sivert. As he clutched at the wound and gasped for air, the Templar watched as the figure across from him lowered his hood. Sivert's eyes widened in recognition.

"You...?"

"Me," Arno Victor Dorian confirmed with an icy glare.

"But... to go to all this?" he floundered. "It was not personal, boy. You were merely a useful scapegoat, in the wrong place at the wrong time! You'd throw in with the Assassins just because you were framed?"

Arno grit his teeth in anger. "Is that what you think this is about?" he snarled. "You killed Monsieur De la Serre, a good and honest man!"

Sivert couldn't help but laugh at this revelation. "Well this is rich. An Assassin, seeking to avenge the murder of a Templar Grand Master? You understand nothing, boy. Not of who De la Serre was, nor of the cause you've joined."

"I understand he was the sort of man who would take in a scared orphaned boy and raise him as his own. And I understand that I can use the Assassins to bring you and your accomplice to justice."

Sivert merely shook his head with a bitter smile. "And what comes after that, hm? After you've hunted down the rest of us responsible, do you have any idea what would come next, any plan for the future?" Arno was silent, and Sivert chuckled. "I thought not. And in that regard... you fit the Assassins after all."

The light faded from Sivert's eyes, and his breathing stilled. Arno simply stared coldly at the murderer's corpse, before muttering, "Whatever future I may have had, you took away. Consider us even." He began to turn away, but as Sivert's body slumped to the ground Arno noticed a piece of paper sticking out of his pocket. Retrieving this paper, he unfolded it and read the following:

"My street rats will help smuggle the riches from the church through the catacombs and sewers. I hope this partnership will lift us to even greater heights than the De la Serre business."

-Le Roi des Thunes