Assassin's Creed Confession Reactions/Responses

The Best Assassin

Ok, so a word of warning, this is not about who was the best character of the franchise, this is discussing who was the best assassin in-universe. "Altaïr is the best assassin the brotherhood has ever had. And nothing anyone can say or do will convince me otherwise."

Bruh, you'll hear no argument from me. I'm not an Ezio fanboy, and while Connor remains my favorite protagonist, and I do think he has the potential to at least become on par should they ever give him a sequel, for now, yes, there's no legitimate argument for anyone being better as an assassin than Altaïr. Even with his arrogance, his story was the full embodiment of people becoming greater than how they start out, or when they're at their lowest point. He defended the importance of free will at a time when the assassins were more concerned with eliminating threats to their own cause without stopping to think on the true ramifications of what they did. Through his master, he uncovered the templars true goals for the world and reformed the brotherhood to stop them at all costs outside of abandoning the Creed's tenets after his master betrayed him. In his eighties he came back to reclaim the order from his fallen brother-in-arms who has long-since betrayed him. He turned the order of the assassins from an infringed and almost mythical organization into one of if not the most powerful forces against dogma and nationalism in the world.

His knowledge of the precursor race, the first civilization and its artifacts, inspired the likes of Ezio Auditore, Edward Kenway, and Evie Frye to perform deeper studies into the artifacts and history of the Isu, that the assassins might better understand their history and how to stop the templars from harnessing and abusing the power of what they left behind.

His disillusionment with the significance of life and liberty, for the innocent above all, along with his teachings against blindly following leaders inspired the likes of Adewalé, Aveline De Grandpré, Connor Kenway, Jacob Frye, and even Shay Cormac to free slaves, fight to protect the rights and liberties of the people regardless of race or religion, and to not be the puppets of their respective masters, even if they did not always end in success for the Assassins.

Bayek unwittingly stabbed his child in the heart, but then refused to take responsibility for, or even acknowledge his role in his son's death. Instead he constantly displaced blame onto his enemies while showing zero compassion or change of heart by their deaths whatsoever, all-the-while allowing for himself and his sociopathic wife to run around blindly killing any and all who could wield a sword but were not their allies while blatantly using the creed as an excuse for doing so. 

Arno at least tried to reason with his superiors on the needlessness of the nature of their operations and how Altaïr's reformation of the brotherhood was supposed to preclude the necessity for the cult-like nature of how Arno's brotherhood was still operating. However, any of his attempts to do so, along with his own reverence for innocent lives, were underscored by his blind devotion and misplaced romantic affection for his own adopted sister who was a templar, leading to him being cast out from the brotherhood before he could even have the chance to show them the errors of their ways.

So yeah, love him or hate him, Altaïr is unquestionably the best assassin within this universe both for his immense influence over the order since his reformation, along with all that he did to get it to that status.