The Dorian Family Archives is the Assassin archive belonging to the House of Dorian, known in the modern day as the Dorian Family, located in Paris, France. Built in 1905, the archive contains several documents pertaining to both lines of the Dorian Family in France and England.
1905-1954[]
The archives were started in 1905 by the retired Mentor Gabrielle Elise Dorian, who over the span of two years gathered documents pertaining to members of the Dorian Family, spending the next twenty years meticulously organizing them by the members of the family and the year the documents and photos were taken. She stepped down from being the archivist in 1929, putting her granddaughter Alexandra in charge of the archives. Her time as archivist came to an end in 1939 due to her murder by Stefan Klein, and was sealed by Annabelle Dorian shortly before the outbreak of World War Two. Since the archives were underground, the archives survived being damaged and remained untouched. Upon the end of the war, Olivier R. Abadie, Mentor of the Parisian Assassins, took charge of the archives until his passing in 1954.
After the war ended, the body of Alana Rose Dorian was transferred to a vault within the archive in an air-tight glass sarcophagus, where it remains to this day. The vault is dubbed The Vault of the Iron Rose, and houses various items belonging to Alana, such as weaponry, outfits, correspondences, and first drafts of all her writings.
1954-present[]
Shortly after Abadie’s death, Isabelle Allard, his adoptive daughter, became the Mentor of the Parisian Assassins and revitalized the Brotherhood, recruiting several Assassins from across Europe to join her cell. She recruited Irina McCall from England to manage the archives in 1955. As the years when on, Irina received documents pertaining to the Dorian Family and organized them in the same fashion as Gabrielle did, even ordering an expansion of the archive to its current size in 1970. During Irina’s time as the archivist, more documents from Juliette’s side of the family were added to the archive.
Irina stepped down as the archivist in October 2000 after forty-five years. Ten years after, all documents were uploaded to an internet archive, except for the Sage Journal written by Isabelle Allard, which remained under lock and key in the archive vault until July 2027. The archives are protected by an encrypted code.
The current archivists are Margaux Allard and Mariana O’Rourke, taking up ownership in 2000 and 2003 respectively, and are the only two people that hold keys to the building, which was underground.
Since the 1950’s, the Dorian Family Archive has become one of the most secure buildings in all of France.
Documents and Items in the Archive[]
Known Documents and Items in the Archives[]
- A transcript of Elise de la Serre’s banishment from the Templar Order
- Birth Records of each family member
- A transcript of Juliette’s departure to England
- Photos of a topless Alana Rose Dorian, Elise de la Serre, and Isabelle Allard
- Police documentation on Isabelle Allard from the 1964 protest
- A decree written by Juliette announcing the expulsion of the Carmichaels
- Translations of the Magas Codex and Altair’s codex into English, Welsh, French, and German by Alana Rose Dorian and Vienna Victoria Dorian
- The Sage Journal, a journal written by Isabelle Allard about her connection to Maria Williams.
- Apology letter from Alana to the Williams Family
- Photos of Isabelle Allard undergoing surgery, August 9th, 1965
- Letters written by Vienna Victoria Dorian and Cavan Samuel Richardson on the disposal of the Gauntlet of Eden
- Alana’s research on the Gauntlet of Eden
- Alana’s lost journal entry
- Poems written by Francois Charles Dorian
- Love letters exchanged between Isabelle Allard and Vivian Cadieux
- Correspondences between Arno Dorian and Napoleon Bonaparte
- Original copies of Alana Rose Dorian’s written works
- Playboy magazine from 1966 with Isabelle Allard in it.
- Handwritten letters by Ottoman Sultans Abdulaziz, Murad V, and Abdul Hamid II detailing how he wants Alana to join their harems, 1868 and 1876.
- The body of Alana Rose Dorian.
Documents and Items Allegedly held in the Archives[]
- Vials of blood belonging to Juliette Marie Dorian, Alana Rose Dorian, and Isabelle Allard
- Isabelle’s bloodstained shirt from when she got shot on August 9th, 1965.
- A Replica Piece of Eden
- The skulls of distant family members Rosa, the Venetian thief who worked with Ezio Auditore, and Hurrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent.
- Alana’s bloodstained clothing from the July Incident of 1903.