Nasuverse character
Assassin
Japanese name:	アサシン
Franchise:	Fate
Appears in:	Fate/Zero
Voice actor:	Varies, Abe Sachie (Female), Kawamura Takuo (Sayid),
Character type:	Servant (Master: Kotomine Kirei)
Servant stats Spirit: Hassan-i Sabbah Japanese name of spirit: ハサン・サッバーフ Master: Kotomine Kirei Alignment: Lawful Evil N. Phantasm: B Strength: C Agility: A Mana: C Luck: E Endurance: D Class skills:   Presence Concealment A+ Personal skills:   Expert of Many Specializations A+   Librarian of Stored Knowledge C Noble Phantasms:   Zabaniya Anti-Unit (self) B+
Gender:	Varies
Height:	Varies
Weight:	Varies

Assassin is the Servant of Kotomine Kirei in the 4th Holy Grail War. His unique trait is the capability to manifest as multiple entities at once.

Contents 1 Appearance 2 Role 3 Abilities 4 True Identity 5 References

AppearanceEdit

The multiple bodies of Assassin can vary widely in age, gender, build, and style of dress, but in general, their hair appears purple, and their skin and clothing are nearly black. They wear the standard skull mask associated with the known Hassan of the other Grail Wars.

RoleEdit

The Assassins initially act as reconnaissance agents for Tokiomi and Kirei, after Gilgamesh "kills" one of them in full view of the other Masters -- a personality named Sayid,^[1] who possessed no specialization in any particular skill. This tactic successfully lead most of the Masters to believe that Kirei and Assassin had been defeated, and allowed the dozens of remaining Assassins to move freely without suspicion. Their continued existence, however, is discovered when Rider and Waver Velvet accidentally encounter three Assassins in Caster's lair.

The Assassins meet their end when they are sent to gauge Iskander's power levels. He complies by using his most powerful Noble Phantasm, "Ionioi Hetairoi: Army of the King", to massacre each and every one of the Assassins.

AbilitiesEdit

Unlike True Assassin, who was one entity, the Zabaniya of the Assassin of the 4th War permitted him to divide into up to 80 separate existences. This was not a result of modifying his flesh in the manner of the 18 Hassans that predated him. Rather, the multiple bodies he possessed as a servant came of intentionally fragmenting his psyche in life -- a sort of self-inflicted dissociative identity disorder intended to compartmentalize the various skill sets and knowledge he had accumulated during his lifetime; a total of 32 distinct specializations. Summoned by the Grail, he obtained the capacity to express each personality as a independent body, and to relegate individual tasks to the personalities best suited to them.

As the nature of the Assassin's Noble Phantasm is "division," the sum of his iterations did not exceed his original existence in strength or capacity; that is to say, each independent fragment was far weaker than his original whole -- and owing to the generally weak starting attributes of his class, he definitively became the weakest Servant of the 4th War. However, the class ability of Presence Concealment was shared across all bodies without degradation, effectively permitting him to serve as an "intelligence network" in his multiplicity.^[2]

True IdentityEdit

As with every legally summoned Assassin per the original, uncorrupted rules of Fuyuki Grail War, his identity is that of the legendary Persian "Old Man of the Mountain", Hassan-i-Sabah, the leader of al-Assasīn. Despite his possession of female personalities, his original existence is referred to with a masculine pronoun in quotation marks, which has been interpreted to suggest that he may have originally been physically male, at least.^[3] His wish to the Grail was ultimately "to be reconstituted as a complete personality."^[4]

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Jonnobi - 彼らのうちザイードと呼ばれる一体は言峰綺礼が敗退したと装うためギルガメッシュに倒され
2. ↑ Japanese Type-Moon Wiki - 自身を「分割」する為、個体数は増えても力の総量は同じである。従って分割すればするほど一個体の能力は落ちていくが、暗殺者クラスの固有スキルである「気配遮断」だけは衰えることが無く、これを最大限利用することで非常に優秀な《諜報組織》と化す。
3. ↑ Jonnobi - 『彼』という記述から生前は（というより肉体は）男性だったと思われる。
4. ↑ Jonnobi - 聖杯にかける願いは『統合された完璧な人格』。

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