Buxar, 1528:
Farid Khan is a new recruit in the army of Jamal Khan, the Mughal governor of Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh). Young and promising, he is asked to oversee the repairs of a captured Rajput fort and its surrounding village: Bhangarh. He is shocked to see the death and decay in the village, haunted by a mysterious epidemic. Jamal asks him to kill the people, but his efforts are interrupted by a mysterious man infiltrating the camp. As this man silently eliminates the guards, Farid manages to catch up with him, just as he is about to spring an attack on Jamal. Farid prepares to give alarm, but watches as the hooded man expertly steals the keys to the fort from Jamal's person. Intrigued, Farid follows him and climbs up the fort ramparts, to the inner sanctum. The keys grant them audience into a secret hall, with strange golden letters on the wall. Meanwhile, Jamal raises alarm and surrounds the sanctum with the troops. The hooded man reaches the apex of the hall and removes a green glowing goblet. Jamal asks him to let go of it and charges in with the troops. This sets off numerous booby traps as the troops fall to freak deaths. The hooded man takes care of the rest. Jamal knocks the goblet off him and tries to escape with it. The hooded man follows him and is about to go for the kill, when Farid intercepts him and wrestles him down. The man almost gouges Farid's eye out with a blade hidden up his slave. He stresses upon how the goblet is an "instrument of Jannat" and must be retrieved at all costs. Farid lets him go, but it is too late He is surrounded by reinforcements and wounded severely. Farid pretends to go in for the kill, while secretly leading the man to relative safety. He treats the man's immediate wounds until he regains consciousness. The man expresses his gratitude and gives him his name: Hari Baaz. By the time Farid is back with medicines, the man is gone.
Few days later, Farid breaks into Jamal's quarters to see what else he is hiding and steals several obscure maps before leaving his services and Buxar forever.
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Assassin's Creed: Conquest
Historical FictionA secret order is plotting the demise of the Mughal Sultanate in India, but what are their true motives?And the ever watchful assassins must now play their hand, for India and the world. Who will be their pawn and how will he go down in history?
