- "They treat me like a human, Izzy. They actually respect me. They don’t hog the spotlight either. Sadly I can’t say the same about you, Izzy. Abstergo is the future, Allard, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it."
- ―Martina explaining her life at Abstergo and its future to Isabelle Allard, May 28th, 1968.
Martina Laurent (1927 - 2022), formerly known as Diane Martina Laurent, was a former Franco-Italian Master Assassin of the Italian and French Brotherhood of Assassins from 1944 to 1964, serving as a tech specialist in the French Brotherhood under French Assassin Mentor Isabelle Allard until moving back to Italy in 1965, she became an Assassin turncoat and joined the Templars as an employee at the Italian branch of Abstergo Industries, rising to the rank of Master Templar. As a tech specialist, Diane was responsible for intercepting messages from other Assassin Brotherhoods and tampering with Templar communications within Europe. As a Templar, she was responsible for calling hits on prominent Assassins. She was also known for her role in the Assassin mission ‘Operation Rabbit’s Foot.', and her role in the assassination attempt of former friend Isabelle Allard. Diane is of French and Italian descent.
Martina's body was frozen at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona until it was destroyed in the Assassin mission dubbed Operation Boomstick in late 2023.
Early Life and Assassin Career[]
Diane Martina Laurent was born in the early hours of February 9th, 1927 in Lyon, France to Martin Laurent, a hardware store manager, and his wife Francesca, who stayed at home to look after her newborn daughter. They would live in Forli for a few years so that Francesca could live closer to her family. Diane’s mother was a member of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. Diane’s parents separated when Diane was six, with her mother taking complete custody of her. Due to Diane’s parents not being able to afford elementary school due to their traveling cycle, Diane was homeschooled by her mother. During this time, Diane would tinker around with her mother’s telegraph machine. She would also begin to be educated about the Assassin Brotherhood at the age of ten, which is when they returned to Lyon. Diane would learn everything from Assassin theory, combat in all forms, freerunning, and stealth. Noticing that Diane was excelling at her studies, she was sent to law school at the age of 14 in 1939. It was here where she met Vivian Cadieux-Foden for the first time, although their interactions were limited at school. Diane was pulled out of school when World War 2 broke out.
WW2 and Mission in Italy[]
When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, Diane and her mother laid low as Vichy France was established as a German puppet state. Diane and her mother would work closely with the Free French Forces, where Diane would be used as a pickpocket to gain key documents useful to their cause and use her skills with a telegraph machine to eavesdrop on messages exchanged between the Nazis. She would do this over four years before her mother sent her to Milan to assist communist partisans to locate and kill Benito Mussolini, the former fascist dictator of Italy.
Just shy of her 20th birthday in 1945, Diane joined a group of communist partisans as they plotted the downfall of Benito Mussolini. Diane was responsible for locating Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci. Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle informed Diane that if Mussolini was captured, she would be rewarded by attending the execution, and pulling the trigger. After a couple of months, she succeeded in locating them by intercepting a telegram from one of Mussolini’s men. Diane informed Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle, telling him that they were near the village of Domo near Lake Como and that they should attack as soon as possible. Stelle heeded Diane’s word, and the two of them and a group of partisans set out to capture Mussolini, a task which they succeeded in doing. During the fighting, Stelle gave Diane a submachine gun.
The next day, a crowd gathered outside of the Villa Belmonte, waiting for Mussolini and Petacci to be brought to them. Diane made her way to the front, along with another partisan named Walter Audisio, upon seeing Mussolini’s bald head. Once Diane got to the front of the crowd, both she and Audisio shot Mussolini and Petacci respectively. She watched as the partisans loaded the bodies onto a truck and traveled to Milan. Diane herself traveled to Milan and watched the people and the partisans tie up Mussolini and his dead followers to a gas station roof from a distant rooftop. After the war, Diane helped the Italian Assassins back on their feet for a few years, living out of an apartment in Milan. When she finished assisting the Brotherhood, she went on a hiatus to focus on her personal life, abandoning law school. Upon her brief return to France, her mother bestowed upon her daughter the rank of Master Assassin. She would later return to Milan to be with her boyfriend Enrico.
Master Assassin Career[]
Joining the rechristened French Brotherhood[]
French Assassin Cell c. 1960-61. L to R: Diane Laurent, Vivian Cadieux-Foden, Isabelle Andreu, and Irina O'Reilly.
In July of 1955, Diane heard a knock on her apartment door in Milan. She opened the door and was greeted by Vivian Cadieux, a woman who went to law school within Lyon, and that she was here because she had a proposal. Sitting down with her in Diane’s living room, over a cup of coffee, Vivian informed Diane that she admired what she did in the downfall and execution of Mussolini, and for that, she extended an offer for Diane to join the French Brotherhood under Isabelle Andreu as a tech specialist. It was an offer she couldn’t refuse. A few days later, Diane and her family boarded a flight to Paris with Vivian, beginning her life anew as a member of the French Assassin Brotherhood. Upon her arrival in Paris, Vivian brought her to the Sainte-Chappelle bureau, where she met archivist and bookkeeper Irina McCall and Mentor Isabelle Andreu herself, describing Isabelle as ‘short but intimidating.’ Shortly after their arrival in Paris, Diane and her husband bought a house on Ile-de-la-Cite and set up her own temporary station within the bureau. She was also gifted her own Master Assassin outfit, which represented her Franco-Italian heritage.
With her work at a telegram company in Paris, Diane, along with her cohort Vivian with her job as a lawyer, through their jobs brought in a steady income for the Brotherhood, that helped their Assassin cell renovate the Cafe Theatre and restore the old Assassin bureau beneath Sainte-Chappelle, where they would carry out their operations. Diane was responsible for watching over the telegraph machines and intercepting messages from the Templars and reporting possible targets and threats to Isabelle, such as the breach of the Dorian Family Crypt. She would also be responsible for sending several messages to various Brotherhoods over the course of her career.
Diane in her Assassin Robes, 1960.
Taking on a role in the Field and Operation Rabbit's Foot[]
Diane began taking her place in the active field in 1961. The most prominent mission of her field career was the infiltration of the Abstergo Industries building in Rome to rescue Irina, who was captured by Abstergo in 1961 and subject to several examinations due to her heterochromia and their belief in her being a Sage. The operation was dubbed by Isabelle as ‘Operation Rabbit’s Foot’, and involved Diane and Xavier posing as scientists who were new to the company. Isabelle couldn’t send Vivian, due to her commitments in Germany. Isabelle couldn’t go herself due to her concussion history. Arriving in Italy, Diane and Xavier were placed on the same floor as Irina, much to their convenience. Waiting for a few days, they hatched their plan to disable the cameras on their wing, take out the security guards, and free Irina from her cell. Both Diane and Xavier were successful in taking out security guards along the way, while Diane made her way to the security camera room while Xavier carried on. Diane quietly took out the security guard in the security camera room and quickly disabled the cameras and rushed over to Xavier, who was having difficulty with the passcode to Irina’s room. Using her Eagle Vision, Diane inputted the correct code to open the door. Grabbing Irina, who looked rather ill, they told her that she was being rescued and to act like she was wounded. The only resistance they encountered was a security guard, who asked them where they were taking Irina, to which Diane replied that they were taking her to the doctor. He let them pass, but they snuck out a back exit to a vehicle they had called in earlier, barely just escaping by way of a smoke screen. The car transported them back to the airport, where they flew Irina out of Italy and back to France.
The next day, they arrived back at Isabelle’s place, showing her that they succeeded in their mission. Isabelle commended the two Assassins for their bravery and heroism and would make sure that other Assassin cells and the President would hear about their bravery. For their actions in the operation, Diane and Xavier received the Legion of Honour for their efforts.
Protest of 1964[]
Diane would play a minimal role in the famed Women's Rights protest in 1964, where Isabelle and Vivian bared their breasts to gain the attention of the president to gain more rights for women, an idea Diane originally suggested. Diane would lead in chants of protest alongside Irina, which led to all four women getting arrested. Diane would serve a five-month sentence, which ended in September 1964.
Angry after accusing Iher fellow cell mates of minimizing her role in the protest, Diane traveled out to Vivian's cabin at Ullswater in Cumbria, England, where Vivian was serving her sentence. She broke down Vivian's cabin door, catching Vivian off guard. She asked why Martina was in her cabin. ignoring her question, Martina grabbed Vivian's IV and pushed hard into it before ripping it out of Vivian's vein, causing her to scream in pain as blood spurted from her vein. While Vivian tended to her profusely bleeding arm, Martina grabbed a coffee mug and smashed it over Vivian's forehead, leaving a cut on her forehead. Martina then mounted Vivian and hurled several punches to her colleague's face, shattering Vivian's orbital and cheekbones, and leaving her laying unconscious in a pool of her own blood. This attack left Vivian in a comatose state for six weeks.
She then traveled to Leeds, where Irina O'Reilly was serving her sentence. She broke Irina's window to enter her house. Irina was completely taken by surprise when Martina slammed Irina's face into the kitchen cupboard, shattering her nose in the process. Martina did it a second time, slamming Irina's chin into the cupboard, breaking it. Martina would land several punches to Irina's face, leaving Irina's face covered in blood and unconscious in her own kitchen. Irina would be in a comatose state for two weeks after the assault.
Martina then traveled to Isabelle's cabin near Aix-les-Bains, where she was serving her sentence. Entering her cabin, she aggressively grabbed Isabelle and punched her in the gut and hard in the forehead, cutting her upper right forehead open, making her bleed hard way and mildly concussing her. Despite her wound bleeding down her face, Isabelle managed to knock Diane down with a right hook and told her to leave her cabin. Diane would later say in a meeting between the two women that she had no recollection of going to her cabin, and never intended to assault Isabelle. This was later proven to be a lie. Isabelle would need 12 stitches to close her wound. Despite patching things up, it has been said that Diane and Isabelle were never on speaking terms after the assault on Isabelle at her cabin, which was later proven to be true due to Diane's defection to Abstergo Industries.
Leaving the French Assassins[]
In 1964, Diane began to feel homesick, wanting to go back to Italy. Diane requested a meeting with Isabelle, where she stated her feelings and how she wanted to return to Milan with her family to continue the Assassin fight, and stated that she would still help the French Assassins. Annoyed that she was still serving her sentence, she would blame Isabelle for getting her into trouble with the law. After an altercation with Isabelle at her cabin, they had a meeting upon her return. Isabelle understood, and allowed for her to return to Italy, stating that it was a pleasure to work with her for the past nine years.
Joining the Templars and Early Templar Years[]
During her five-month house arrest sentence, Diane was approached by an agent from Abstergo Industries in Rome, who understood that she was frustrated with how Isabelle was leading the Assassins and how she was changing things. The agent informed Diane that there is a special position waiting for her at Abstergo, and all she had to do was move to back to Milan. Before she reacted, the agent pulled out an Abstergo Industries pin and placed it in her hand, smiling before he left. Diane smiled, and the next day her and her family were on a plane back to Milan. Diane had turned her back on the Assassins and joined their ideological enemies.
Attempted Assassination of Isabelle Allard[]
- "I have no sympathy for that woman, and she deserved what she got that day."
- ―Martina during an interview while in prison, September 1966.
A short while after starting with Abstergo, Diane was placed in charge of Alpha Team, the first paramilitary group in Abstergo's history, and her first task was the assassination of Isabelle Allard, the woman whom she had called Mentor a year prior. Diane immediately got down to work, entrusting Abstergo's lucrative spy network to track Isabelle's movements. Eventually, Diane found out that Isabelle was to speak at an anti-war rally in Paris on August 9th at 1 pm. Shortly after, Diane began searching for a gunman herself, offering a hefty prize for the gunman who would kill Isabelle. The gunman she chose was Henri Alhegeri, an ex-CIA agent living in Milan. He accepted Diane's offer of $50,000 and a Colt 45 Pistol, and she paid for his flight to Paris.
A few days later, she heard the news that Isabelle had survived and that Alhegeri had been detained in police custody, where he eventually escaped and with the help of Martina fled to Doha in Qatar to begin his life anew in hiding as a migrant worker. To her dismay, he was eventually tracked down in Doha by her former cohorts Edouard Docieux and Vivian Cadieux-Foden and sentenced to 35 years in the high-security wing of La Sante Prison in Paris for attempted murder and attempted assassination. Realizing her plan to assassinate Isabelle failed, Martina laid low and waited for another opportunity to strike at Isabelle. Journals revealed after her passing in 2022 is that if Alhegeri succeeded in killing Isabelle, Martina and Henri would have stuffed Isabelle's body in a barrel and throw it into Lake Mead in the United States after they had extracted some of Isabelle's vital tissues.
After a few months of hiding, Martina herself was caught and arrested in Nice, France and extradited back to Italy under charges of attempted murder, plotting an assassination attempt, and bribery. After a trial that lasted a month, Martina was convicted of plotting the assassination of Isabelle Allard and bribery, and sentenced to seven years in Regina Coeli prison in Rome on November 5th, 1965. In prison, Martina displayed exceptional behavior, complying with everything that was requested of her. On April 10th, 1968, which came to a shock to everyone, Martina was let out of prison on good behavior after serving just over two years. This has led to speculation that Abstergo campaigned for her release or that she bribed her way out of prison.
Confrontation with Isabelle in West Berlin[]
- "Thank you for the most generous gift, Izzy. Next time it’ll be your body."
- ―Martina after incapacitating Isabelle upon hearing footsteps, May 28th 1968.
Martina revealing her new allegiance to Isabelle, May 1968.
In 1967, Martina was tasked by members of the Inner Sanctum to acquire two vials of Isabelle Allard's blood. and was informed that Isabelle was basing herself out of West Berlin. Agreeing with the task before her, Martina traveled to West Berlin in May of 1968 and began scouring the city for any trace of Isabelle. She was informed by locals that Isabelle frequented a coffee shop called the Heart and Hand Cafe. Using her Eagle Vision, Martina found Isabelle at the cafe and informed an employee who was starting his shift that she urgently wished to speak with Isabelle. The employee went inside to inform Isabelle. When the employee was inside, Martina pulled her hood up and laid three pictures of prominent incidences in Isabelle's life in order to goad her to her location. Standing in an alleyway in wait, she listened as Isabelle got angry with her over Martina's role in the attempt on her life. This prompted Martina to reveal herself much to Isabelle's shock. Announcing that Abstergo wants Isabelle's blood, which led to a lengthy fight between the two women, a fight that Martina dominated up until she was thrown against a brick wall. Feigning being unconscious until Isabelle got close to her, Martina slammed her former Mentor's face into the brick wall, shattering her nose. While she was distracted, Martina managed to trap Isabelle in a reverse dragon sleeper, and managed to extract the two vials of blood from Isabelle's jugular, nearly blowing the vein in the process. Leaving an unconscious Isabelle where she lay, Martina quickly fled the scene upon hearing footsteps. She would later secure a flight back to Rome from West Berlin.
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Martina extracting blood from an incapacitated Isabelle, May 28th, 1968.
Upon her return to the Abstergo facility in Rome, Martina gave the vials of blood to a senior lab tech and his young intern, Warren Vidic. Their studies concluded that Isabelle's blood contained traces of the Isu Triple-Helix strands of DNA, which made up 0.5996% of Isabelle's DNA makeup. This was not revealed until 2017 before Martina's retirement.
Operation Blind Scorpion[]
Operation Blind Scorpion was a successful operation led by Abstergo Industries and funded by the Templar Order in order to acquire the DNA of three prominent individuals, namely Assassins Alana Rose Dorian and Isabelle Miranda Allard, and Master Templar Xavier Baudin. The brainchild of ex-Assassin Martina Laurent, the sole intention of the project was to study their genomes. It would later succeed in creating all three clones, combining Xavier’s genome with Alana’s and Isabelle’s, creating two Templar supersoldiers who work in the field as of January 2023.
It began when Martina Laurent, was excommunicated from the French Assassins under Isabelle Allard, and would later defect to Abstergo Industries, landing as the leader of Alpha Team, the first paramilitary squad in the history of Abstergo. Martina maintained an interest in genetics and wondered how Isabelle survived various ailments and how she recovered so quickly. With a severe disdain for Isabelle but wanting to study her genome, Martina tasked Henri Alhegeri, an ex-CIA operative turned Abstergo employee, with a hefty bribe to kill Isabelle. On August 9th 1965, he failed in his task, and both he and Martina were arrested and sentenced to 35 and 7 years in La Sante and Regina Coeli Prison, with Martina being let out on good behavior after two years. While she was in prison, Martina began drafting up the concept of creating supersoldiers from the DNA of three prominent people: Isabelle Allard, Alana Rose Dorian, and Xavier Baudin, but she needed DNA from them to extract their genome from to create clones. Once she was released from prison in 1967, Martina was informed that Abstergo had procured the DNA of Alana Rose Dorian after a raid on the Dorian Family Crypt, incapacitating Isabelle in the process. This led to Martina kicking Operation Blind Scorpion into action.
In 1967, while still in prison, Martina was tasked by members of the Inner Sanctum to acquire two vials of Isabelle Allard's blood. and was informed that Isabelle was basing herself out of West Berlin. Agreeing with the task before her, Martina traveled to West Berlin in May of 1968 and began scouring the city for any trace of Isabelle. She was informed by locals that Isabelle frequented a coffee shop called the Heart and Hand Cafe. Using her Eagle Vision, Martina found Isabelle at the cafe and informed an employee who was starting his shift that she urgently wished to speak with Isabelle. The employee went inside to inform Isabelle. When the employee was inside, Martina pulled her hood up and laid three pictures of prominent incidences in Isabelle's life in order to goad her to her location. Standing in an alleyway in wait, she listened as Isabelle got angry with her over Martina's role in the attempt on her life. This prompted Martina to reveal herself much to Isabelle's shock. Announcing that Abstergo wants Isabelle's blood, which led to a lengthy fight between the two women, a fight that Martina dominated up until she was thrown against a brick wall. Feigning being unconscious until Isabelle got close to her, Martina slammed her former Mentor's face into the brick wall, shattering her nose. While she was distracted, Martina managed to trap Isabelle in a reverse dragon sleeper and managed to extract the two vials of blood from Isabelle's jugular and a few eggs from her right ovary, nearly blowing the vein in the process. Leaving an unconscious Isabelle where she lay, Martina quickly fled the scene upon hearing footsteps. She would later secure a flight back to Rome from West Berlin.
Beginnings and Tests[]
Once Martina returned from Berlin in May of 1968, she and her team of scientists meticulously worked hard to extract genes from the samples and combine them with an enucleated egg, which would form fetuses containing the DNA of Alana Rose Dorian and Isabelle Miranda Allard. As the fetuses grew, Martina swapped them into capsules, and later into cylinder tanks when the clones reached adulthood, making sure they were fed and properly nourished while they remained in the tanks. After the clones were made, Martina continued to study the genetic patterns of Isabelle and Alana, writing down anything that piqued her interest, which included both women’s makeup of Isu triple helix DNA. Two clones down, one to go. The only fragment of DNA remaining was that of the enigmatic Xavier David Baudin.
On her 68th birthday in 1995, she stood in between the capsule tanks holding the suspended bodies of her Isabelle and Alana clones, citing it as her greatest accomplishment and later stating she wished for both of them to kill Isabelle and her family.
It was during this time that Martina announced the names of the clones. The Isabelle clone was coded as Agent I.M.A and named Delfina Francesca Connors and the Alana clone was coded as Agent A.R.D and named Hannah Roveena Belle, and they would be released once Xavier’s genome had been extracted from his DNA. From her hospital bed, she was informed that renowned Assassin Prudence had been mortally wounded, to which she reportedly smiled due to her inability to speak.
Acquiring Baudin's DNA[]
In June of 2020, the graves of Xavier Baudin and Maria Williams were ransacked by Abstergo scientists under the guise of creating a video game, although their real intention was to procure a sample of Xavier’s DNA so they could fulfill Martina’s lifelong dream to create supersoldiers of three legendary figures to create a new task force for Abstergo. Despite being retired for three years, a 93 year old Martina returned to the field as an overseer and watched as a successful genetic clone of Xavier Baudin was created. Plans to inject Delfina and Hannah with Xavier’s genome failed as the two additional samples went missing under mysterious circumstances. Martina would pass away days before the destruction of the lab the clone was in.
Later Templar Years[]
Travels to the United States[]
In the 1970s, Martina traveled to the United States to meet up with many renowned American Templars to play a role in the overthrow of democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende, who happened to be a Marxist. In 1973, Martina was sent down to the tumultuous region to help members of the military such as Augusto Pinochet to overthrow Allende. Playing a vital role in the fighting, Martina successfully shot and killed Allende with his own rifle after he gave his final speech to the Chilean people. Shortly after succeeding, Martina shook Pinochet's hand and wished him the best of luck as the new leader of Chile before flying back to the United States.
While In the United States, Martina traveled to the Alcor Cryonics facility in Arizona to have a tour there, and it was revealed to her that the remains of German Templar Stefan Klein were resting there, waiting to be resurrected at a later date. At that same tour, Martina was informed that there Alcor was working on developing a technology that could make a frozen person look youthful, thanks to a sample of Isabelle's blood that contained what they called a 'gene of youthfulness'. Amazed by the technology, Martina signed on to become a part of the program once she passed away.
Return to Rome[]
Martina would eventually sign on to become a part of the Animus Project in 1980 becoming the leader of Abstergo's Lineage Discovery and Acquisition, watching over Dr. Warren Vidic's handling of the project and reporting her discoveries back to CEO Alan Rikkin. Over the years she was responsible for orchestrating the kidnappings of various subjects such as subjects 1, 4 (Daniel Cross), 12, 16 (Clay Kaczmarek), and Subject 17 (Desmond Miles). She wished to kidnap the children of Isabelle and Irina McCall, but was unable to due to their extremely well-versed hiding skills.
Role in the Great Purge[]
On October 29th, 1999, Martina was present at Alcor to witness the resurrection of Stefan Klein, in preparation for an assault on the Assassins the likes of which the world had never seen. She was directly in charge of Klein and the unit that was tasked with destroying her former cell in Paris. Once the purge was underway, the squad was told to take important documents from their archives before destroying the archive. Only a few documents were taken, due to the archives being emptied out beforehand.
On September 10th, 2001, Martina ordered Stefan Klein to travel to Versailles in order to locate Isabelle and kill her, fulfilling the need for revenge that both of them desired so much. During his task, he encountered a woman he believed to be Isabelle, and viciously attacked her. It was later revealed to Martina that the woman Stefan had assaulted was actually Margaux, Isabelle's daughter, and that he was actually killed by 81-year-old Isabelle herself and that the body was burned just behind her vineyard. Foiled again, Martina waited for the next opportunity to strike at Isabelle, this time relocating to Abstergo's Madrid location.
Operation Mind Matter[]
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Isabelle's spirit as it appeared before Martina.
Isabelle Miranda Allard passed away at the age of 93 in 2013, and it was later discovered that her brain had been donated to Hotel-Dieu in Paris for concussion research. Still the head of the Lineage Discovery and Acquisition Department at the age of 86, Martina wished for Juhani Otso Berg to lead a break-in to retrieve Isabelle's brain in order for it to be studied. Without hesitation, Berg heeded Martina's wish and took a Sigma Team squad with him to Paris, in an operation they had dubbed Operation Mind Matter. With no bloodshed, the brain of Isabelle Allard was retrieved and brought back to the Madrid facility, where it was extensively studied by both Martina and Otso Berg over the course of four years. They relived pivotal memories in Isabelle's life, such as her living on the streets in 1939, her bloody battle with Stefan Klein in Stalingrad, his death at her hand, and the infamous protest in 1964 that led to Martina defecting to the Templars to begin with. The brain was later recovered by the Assassins Irene Allard, Anastasia Allard, and Celeste Williams, but not before Martina took a piece of Isabelle's brain, preserving it in a jar in formaldehyde, stating that 'Isabelle still has more secrets to reveal.' She would later step down from her post in 2017, at the age of 90. She would later state that she retired due to being plagued by the spirit of Isabelle, which would manifest at certain points of the day, in particular during the evening or whenever the slice of Isabelle's brain was nearby. Isabelle's spirit would appear, bleeding from each wound Martina had inflicted on her while she was alive, glaring angrily and shocking Martina before vanishing.
Post-Abstergo Years and Death[]
Martina Laurent would later return to Milan, where she would live out the rest of her days quietly in her home under the care of an elderly care assistant. On May 3rd, 2022, Martina contracted COVID-19, and six days later passed away on May 9th, 2022, at the age of 95, a day after Prudence Bythesea passed away in hospital after she was wounded by Hannah Roveena Belle (ARD). Coincidentally, Martina's death fell on what would have been Isabelle's 102nd birthday. A funeral was held in Verano Cemetery in Rome, with many Assassins who did not know of her turn to the Templars in the 60's such as Margaux Allard, Irene Allard , Anastasia and Meaghan Allard, and Harlan Baudin being in attendance. Shocked by the presence of Otso Berg at the funeral, Margaux and Harlan ordered all the Assassins present to leave the funeral out of fear of being spotted.
Shortly after the funeral, Berg retrieved Martina's body and arranged for it to be flown to the Alcor facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, where it arrived on May 15th. Martina Laurent's body is currently being preserved at the facility, with Abstergo scientists there working on a way to inject the 'youthful gene' that Isabelle possessed into Martina's genome if they succeed in resurrecting her.
Martina's Final Words[]
In August of 2023 during the raid on the Alcor Facility, Martina's body was successfully destroyed. Before it was destroyed, a written note was found in the pocket of her shirt. On the paper was an apology written by Martina to Isabelle, stating about her regret over her decision of joining the Templars and that she should have accepted Isabelle's evaluation of Martina's mental health. Irene later gave the letter to her mother Margaux, who read it and would later state that the apology had changed her opinion on Martina, and stated that Martina was severely misunderstood, comparing her to Xavier Baudin. Here was the final letter she ever wrote, addressed to Isabelle Miranda Allard:
May 7th, 2022.
Here I am, aged 95 and bedridden with Covid-19, hooked up to an oxygen tank. I feel as if my days are numbered now due to its severity. To say I deserve this fate is an understatement. Due to this, I feel like I must issue an apology, an apology that I should have said fifty-eight years ago.
I am sorry, Isabelle Miranda Allard.
I wish I could have apologized to you in person. I don’t know what I was under when I joined up with Abstergo, and when they first ordered me to kill you, I didn’t want to do it myself. I didn’t want to do it, period.
They wanted me to dissect you, Isabelle. Cut you open like a stuck pig. Like a Ripper victim. They wanted to strip you of your clothes, harvest all of your organs and throw out what remained into a barrel to sink and languish at the bottom of Lake Mead.
I should have listened to you when I had the chance, Isabelle. I should have trusted your evaluation of my mental health. It was the worst mistake of my ninety-five years on this earth.
I lived with the regret of my choices for fifty-eight years, and it is a burden I will be happy to let go of once I pass from this world. I was never a true Templar. I was a Templar in spite of you.
I know you passed from this world eight years ago, Isabelle. Your spirit has been present everywhere I go, bleeding from every wound I inflicted on you while we were alive, glaring in anger. Every time I saw you I wept. You were sending me a message.
Isabelle Miranda Allard, if there is another world after this one, I hope you will be there, so I can see you again and tell you how sorry I truly am.
Isabelle Miranda, I love you.
See you on the other side.
Diane Martina Laurent
Personal Life[]
Growing up, Diane was an extremely extroverted child despite being homeschooled. She would visit fellow children at the school playground near her house. As she grew up, this stuck with her, as she immediately got along with her fellow Assassins when she moved to Paris to work with the French Assassins.
Diane was an incredibly focused and determined individual, not wanting to be bothered when she was working on a select task, and wanting to get it finished immediately. There were instances where Diane would be focused on trying to intercept a message and Irina would interrupt her with a message from Isabelle, and Diane would unleash a swear-filled tirade towards her, which got her into trouble more than a few times with Isabelle. One of these tirades nearly forced Isabelle to expel Diane from the Brotherhood. Another tirade of Diane's led to a fight between her and Isabelle, with fists being thrown. The two women later mended their differences.
Despite her impulsiveness when it comes to getting tasks done, Diane was a really caring and understanding person. If she hurt any of her fellow Assassins in any way, Diane would take them aside and have a civil conversation with them, explaining her actions and apologizing if she was in the wrong. There were a few instances where Isabelle and Diane would get into arguments and shouting matches, which sometimes led to fistfights between the two women, with Vivian being the one to break them up.
It is widely speculated that Diane was diagnosed with ADHD, despite her feverish claims of her not having it. She was, however, diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder after bloodying Isabelle at her cabin. Upon her arrival to the Templars and Abstergo, she displayed none of these behaviours during her time there.
Relationships with Templars[]
Martina had a much better relationship with her Templar comrades, such as Otso Berg, Laetita England, Alan Rikkin, and Warren Vidic than she did with Isabelle and her Assassin cell, where Martina would say over the course of her career at Abstergo that she had more freedoms at Abstergo and they allowed her to be herself while working there.
Romantic Life[]
In 1950, Diane met Enrico Gorvaldi, a communist partisan, while living in Milan. The pair would meet whenever they could, whether for a cup of coffee or a walk through the city. After two years of dating, Enrico moved in with her, and a year later, he proposed to her in front of the Milan Cathedral. The couple would get married on October 10th, 1954 inside a small chapel in Milan. He would accompany Diane on her move to Paris a year later. On January 10th, 1956, Diane gave birth to a son they would name Niccolo Sebastian Gorvaldi. Enrico would pass away from bladder cancer at the age of 45 in 1963. Martina and Niccolo would move to Rome, and when Niccolo grew up, he found out who his mother was working for and wanted nothing do to with her. He is still alive today and works for a telecommunications company based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Conflicts with Isabelle[]
Diane’s conflict was well documented by Assassin Brotherhoods in Europe. Documents state that it was over three confrontations in the early 1960’s. The first two were verbal confrontations in Isabelle’s office, with Diane being overly critical of Isabelle’s handling of the Assassin Cell. Isabelle accepted the terms, and promised to create some reforms. This was in 1961. In 1963, shortly after Isabelle’s wedding, Diane confronted her again and called Isabelle out on her promise for new reforms, and to focus on the revolutionary aspect of Women’s Liberation struggle. This sewed the seeds for Isabelle’s now famed 1964 Women’s Rights protest that Diane played a minimal role in. Diane was outraged, and confronted Isabelle again in her cabin in Aix-les-Bains, stating that Isabelle was responsible for Diane serving a five month house arrest sentence, to which Isabelle retorted that it was Diane’s choice to join them in the protest, to which Diane shoved Isabelle against a wall and repeatedly punched her in the gut and in the head, cutting Isabelle open hard way with a cut on the side of her forehead, concussing her. Despite blood flowing from her open wound and feeling woozy, Isabelle managed to land a massive retaliating right hook, knocking Diane to the ground, and told her to ‘get the fuck out of her cabin’. Diane left Isabelle’s cabin, with no recollection of why she went out to Isabelle’s cabin.
Once Isabelle returned to Cafe Theatre, Isabelle sat down and talked with Diane, stating the injuries she had sustained at Diane’s hands diagnosed her with a concussion and had to receive 12 stitches to seal the cut. Diane apologized to Isabelle for her actions, and stated that she went out to her cabin to tell her that she was feeling homesick and wished to leave France to return to Italy. Isabelle agreed, but stated that before she left, she must undergo a mental health evaluation. Diane agreed, and underwent the evaluation, where Diane was diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IMD), which explained her violent outbursts towards Isabelle.
Weaponry and Talents[]
As an Assassin, Diane was well versed in all forms of combat, whether it be close quarters or ranged combat, but Diane’s specialty lay with tools and how they could be used to kill someone. She could quickly on the fly concoct a trap that could catch an enemy off guard or divert them away from their position.
It helped her out during pivotal missions such as Operation Rabbit’s Foot, where she used a specialty smoke screen that she created to divert Abstergo security guards as they loaded Irina into the vehicle for transport to the airport.
Upon her turn to Abstergo, Martina was trained in advanced martial arts and firearm use, employing the use of a reverse dragon sleeper, most notably using it against Isabelle to extract blood from her jugular.
Diane also possessed the sixth sense known as Eagle Vision and used it frequently in her missions.
Quotes about Isabelle[]
- "Isabelle’s body is vital to our cause, right down to her nipple. Any form of DNA we get from her will be a step to unlocking the basis of her genome"
- ―Martina Laurent’s Journal, August 5th, 1967
Trivia[]
- Diane never consumed alcohol or any drugs.
- Diane was known for her unique fashion sense.
- Diane was fluent in English, French, and Italian.
- Diane was bisexual.
- Politically, Diane was a devout leftist and staunchly antifascist. This would change upon joining Abstergo Industries, where she became more of a social conservative.
- She carried a picture of Isabelle in her wallet as a reminder to who her true enemy was.
- Diane’s looks and appearance are based on Swiss curler Silvana Tirinzoni.
- Artworks on this page were done by Timaeus (@timayonnaise on Instagram) and Melanie (@i_am_the_vigilante_).