- "Look at you. You are a monster who wanted to create a monster out of me, and in a way you succeeded. Die knowing that you should always go too far, because that is where you will find the truth."
- ―Irina O'Reilly's final words to a wounded Marcelo Coraldi, August 10th, 1963.
Irina Anne ‘Irene’ O’Reilly (nee McCall) (1927 -2023) also known by her nickname The Crow, is a former British Master Assassin of the French Brotherhood from 1955 to 1990, serving as a bookkeeper and archivist under the leadership of French Assassin Mentor Isabelle Allard after being recruited by the former in 1955. As a member of the French Brotherhood, Irina managed the funds of the Brotherhood for many projects such as the restoration of Sainte-Chappelle and its bureau, as well as Cafe Theatre, and meticulously organized the Brotherhood’s archives, handling the writings and some relics of Master Assassins and Templars before her, such as Francois Charles Dorian, Alana Rose Dorian, Maria Williams, Quin Williams, Fulke, Haytham Kenway, and Shay Patrick Cormac. Irina was also known for deciphering the ancient Isu script, with help from the Italian Brotherhood. In 1961, Irina would enter the field, and successfully assassinate five high-ranking Templars, most notably Marie Arria and Marcelo Coraldi, with each Templar she assassinated killed creatively, earning her a reputation as an 'Abstergo Hunter' among people at Abstergo Industries. Her career in the field ended in 1973 when she sustained severe injuries in a car accident. She is of British, French, and Russian descent.
Early Life[]
Irina Anne McCall was born on May 25th, 1927, the only child born to Mikhail Sidorov, a Russian carpenter and Master Assassin who fled during the Russian Revolution, and Isanne McCall, an Anglo-French Master Assassin of the Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Irina was born with heterochromia iridum, which meant she was born with two different eye colors. Her left eye is dark brown and her right eye is green, which were her mother and father's respective eye colors. Irina excelled in elementary and secondary school studies, where math was her strongest subject. During her youth, she had a job delivering papers that she would later state as ‘boring’. When she was seven, her parents moved to Paris due to Isanne’s commitments within the Parisian Brotherhood. Irina would go to the same elementary and secondary as Isabelle Allard and Vivian Cadieux, but did not meet them during her time in school. During her time in school, Irina was often bullied, beaten up, and called names because of her heterochromia condition, often being called a 'freak' and a 'mutant'. Her mother Isanne was even told that she should 'lock her daughter up' in the High Royds Hospital due to her condition. Instead, the McCalls moved their family to Paris to be near her fellow Parisian Assassins.
Housefire and Return to England[]
In June of 1936, Irina was coming home from school to see a crowd of firetrucks surrounding her house. Much to her horror, it was her house that was on fire. Irina ran as quickly as she could, entering her burning house to look for her mother, inhaling quite a bit of smoke in the process. Irina collapsed into her father’s arms, coughing up a storm. In between coughs, Irina informed her father that Isanne was nowhere to be found. Irina and her father would stay with a neighbor until their house was rebuilt and while they awaited the news of what happened to Isanne. Around this time, Irina was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis, which was later revealed to be a misdiagnosis twenty-seven years later.
The papers revealed that Isanne McCall was brutally murdered and left for dead in an alleyway a few days later, and that the McCall residence was set ablaze to cover up the murder. Irina and her father mourned Isanne’s loss, laying her to rest in a small grave in Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Irina fell into a spell of depression after her mother died, and found work at a homeless shelter as a maid’s assistant on a volunteer basis with her aunt. After work, she would give some homeless people a small amount of money when she left. On her last day at the shelter (August 30th, 1939), Irina would give some money to and befriend a young woman with black hair who had just gotten into a verbal spat with the police. Unbeknownst to her, that young woman would later become her Mentor.
On September 1st, 1939, World War 2 broke out when Nazi Germany attacked Poland. Irina and her father began to hastily pack, as they were preparing to move back to Leeds. While they were packing, Irina noticed that her father had been exchanging correspondence with Alexandra Dorian, making mention of the name Stefan Klein, and noticed the insignia of the Assassins on the paper. On the way back to Leeds, Irina asked her father what really happened to her mother. Mikhail informed his daughter that Isanne was brutally tortured and beaten by Stefan Klein, a Nazi Assassin Hunter, and left her for dead as a message to the French Brotherhood, and that he succeeded in murdering Alexandra Dorian, Mentor of the Parisian Assassins, and that Olivier R. Abadie had taken over and went into hiding. Once they arrived in Leeds, Irina and her father settled in with Isanne’s mother, where her father informed her of the tragedy that befell Isanne. Irina continued her secondary schooling at Leeds Girls’ High School while her father taught her all about the history of the Assassin Brotherhood. After she completed her secondary schooling, Irina enrolled in the University of Leeds, where she enrolled in classes specific to accounting and history. She attended these classes, earning her bachelor’s degree in accounting and history in 1951.
Career as an Assassin[]
Return to Paris and Joining the Assassins[]
Once she finished earning her bachelor’s degree, Irina and her father moved back to Paris, where she enrolled at the University of Paris to earn her PhD in both accounting and history. In 1955, her father passed away from a sudden heart attack at the age of 66. Irina buried her father beside her mother inside Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Irina returned to her home and continued to mourn. A day later, she heard a knock on her door. Irina opened the door to see a short woman with long black hair, who introduced herself as Isabelle Andreu, Mentor of the French Brotherhood of Assassins. Irina welcomed her in for a cup of coffee, where they discussed the Assassins Brotherhood, Abstergo Industries, French politics, and Isabelle’s missing finger before Isabelle brought up Irina’s interest in banking and archiving, and that she could use someone of her talents within her Brotherhood. Irina informed Isabelle that she needed some time to think about it. Isabelle remembered Irina from her youth, and told her to think of this offer as a way of paying her back. Isabelle shook Irina’s hand and made her way out, telling her to come down to Cafe Theatre once she made up her mind.
French Assassin Cell c. 1960-61. L to R: Diane Laurent, Vivian Cadieux-Foden, Isabelle Andreu, and Irina O'Reilly.
After a few days of critical thinking, Irina decided that she wanted to continue her parent’s legacies and join the Brotherhood. She made her way down to Cafe Theatre in the early morning, where she found a bespectacled Isabelle enjoying her morning coffee. Isabelle invited Irina to sit down. Sipping on her coffee, Irina informed Isabelle that she wished to join Isabelle’s Brotherhood, but couldn’t do any fieldwork due to her lung condition. Isabelle understood what ailed Irina and once they were finished with their coffees, Isabelle led Irina down into the secret tunnel which led to the Brotherhood’s headquarters. Irina looked around to see that the headquarters were in severe disarray. Irina was briefly introduced to Isabelle’s husband Xavier and her second in command Vivian Cadieux-Foden, just as she was about to set out for Milan before making their way over to the room that was to be the archives.
Irina and Isabelle approached the archives room and were greeted by boxes upon boxes of books and scattered papers written by notable Assassins such as Elise de la Serre, Juliette Marie Dorian, Alana Rose Dorian, Francois Charles Dorian, Herve Quemar, Sophie Trenet, Quin Williams, Fulke, Haytham Kenway, and Maria Williams, along with some slabs of rock with mysterious writing on them. Irina thanked Isabelle for her opportunity and got right down to work on a job that would ultimately take her three years to finish, with Irina’s main focus on earning her PhD in accounting and history, which she would complete in early 1958. Once she earned her PhD in accounting, Isabelle put her in charge of the Brotherhood’s finances. Irina would also act as an informant and would also serve as the Brotherhood’s secretary, taking appointments for those who wish to speak with Isabelle or anyone within the Brotherhood.
Capture by Abstergo Industries[]
On the morning of June 5th, 1961, while she was enjoying her morning coffee, Abstergo agents broke into Cafe Theatre and forcibly restrained Irina and loaded her into the back of a van. They did this because they knew Vivian was away and that Isabelle never did much fieldwork, so she wouldn’t come for the weakest member of her council. Irina tried to resist, but was knocked unconscious for her efforts.
Irina awoke in an Abstergo facility, within a cell, wearing nothing but dirty, raggy clothing. Irina tried to ask her captives where she was, to which all they said was ‘Rome’ before slamming the port of her cell, leaving her in darkness until the next day.
Irina O'Reilly, May 1961.
The next day, she was taken to the medical wing under heavy security, where Abstergo agents hooked her up to several machines to keep track of her vitals and blood type. A few days later, she was strapped tightly to a chair where the doctors injected her with a drug they believed could ‘bring out the spirit inside her’ due to their belief of her being a sage. The drug failed, leaving Irina very sick for a few days. She would later be informed that she would be implanted with a chip that could activate in the presence of a Mentor, prompting her to kill them. The doctors once again strapped her to a chair and cut open her arms with sharp surgical scalpels to reveal muscle and veins just to draw blood, without anesthetic, causing Irina severe pain, where she described herself as 'screaming her throat raw'. Their operation was dubbed 'Operation Sage Blossom'. Before they could operate further, she was rescued by fellow Assassins Diane Laurent and Xavier Andreu, disguised as scientists, who smuggled her out of Abstergo’s Rome location and flew her out of Italy and back to France in a daring operation led by Isabelle from France, called ‘Operation Rabbit’s Foot’.
Back in France, Irina spoke with Isabelle, thanking her for sending French Assassins to free her from Abstergo’s holding. She would also inform her Mentor about what Abstergo threatened to do to the entirety of the Assassin Brotherhood, and that they should all be warned of Abstergo’s treachery. Isabelle informed Irina that she promised to make sure word reached the other Assassin cells, and said she would make a claim to the president of France to consider it a violation of her human rights.
Irina would take a sabbatical from her activities for a month before resuming them.
Entering the Field[]
Over the course of her month-long sabbatical, Irina visited a doctor to see if she still had chronic bronchitis as she wasn't displaying symptoms. It was later revealed that her diagnosis at youth was a misdiagnosis and that her bronchitis wasn't chronic. After hearing this, Irina rushed back to their headquarters to inform Isabelle of her news. Sitting down in her office, Irina informed her Mentor of the status of her ailment. Her reveal came as a shock for Isabelle, but was still hesitant about allowing the younger Assassin to enter the field. Irina said to Isabelle that she would do anything to get back at Marcelo Coraldi, the director of Operation Sage Blossom. Hearing all that she needed to hear, Isabelle decided to personally train Irina in freerunning and combat in order to enhance her skills as an Assassin. The training was rigorous and hard, but over the course of two years worth of Isabelle's training, Irina earned her Hidden Blade, and awaited her opportunity to assassinate Coraldi. While she waited, she applied for and successfully got a job at a banking firm in London in February 1963 as a financial advisor. Aside from her work life, she worked on improving her physique along with Isabelle.
Assassination of Marcelo Coraldi[]
A bloody Irina O'Reilly after her assassination of Marcelo Coraldi, August 1963.
- "Always go too far, because that's where you will find the truth."
- ―Irina reciting Albert Camus before giving Marcelo Coraldi his Last Rites, 1963
In August of 1963 while living in London, Irina received word from Isabelle and Lydia Frye that Marcelo Coraldi was traveling to London to attend a conference on Genetic Memory. Seeing that there was her opportunity, Irina discovered from Lydia that he was staying in a hotel in the heart of London and not accepting any visitors. Knowing this, Irina had to acquire a guise, taking that of Marie Arria, a doctor who operated on her arms, after knocking her out and taking her clothes. Irina unknowingly killed her, making this her first Asassination. She entered the hotel, putting in a brown contact lens to hide her heterochromia, taking the identity of Marie Arria. Finding out that he was staying on the fifth floor of the hotel in Room 514. Approaching the door, Irina put on her best Italian accent and to her surprise got in. Before he could get a word in, Irina grabbed Coraldi and threw him around the room several times, severely hurting him. Coraldi eventually got the upper hand, shattering a glass of wine over her face, which cut her open, causing the cut to bleed profusely. As he reached for a knife, Irina caught him by the wrist, disarming him and eventually backed him into the corner. He pleaded for his life. Irina removed her contact, revealing her heterochromia and pulled up her sleeve to reveal one of the scars on her arms, stating that he was responsible for nearly killing her and that he was a monster for attempting to turn her into a monster. Before he could say anything else, Irina plunged her Hidden Blade into his jugular. Marcelo Corvaldi was dead, and Irina left the room and hotel like nothing had happened, returning to France to inform Isabelle of her successes. Isabelle was present in London after the assassination, where she commended Irina of her success of her two successful assassinations over a cup of coffee.
Protest of 1964[]
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Irina during the protest. Note the long scars on her arms.
Irina, along with the other women in her cell, were disgusted with the way women were treated in the 1960's and wanted to make a statement for women's rights by staging a topless protest at Hotel de Ville in front of President de Gaulle, with the three women baring their chests to get the President's attention.
A day before the protest was about to happen, Irina was approached by Martina, stating that she wasn't going to go topless and just lead chants of protest. Irina originally didn't want to go topless, but changed her mind at Hotel de Ville, baring her chest alongside Isabelle and Vivian with a slogan of her own, much to their shock. As a result of this, Irina was tackled to the ground and forcibly arrested. She was charged with indecent exposure, plotting a protest, and participating in a protest. Irina was known for being defiant during her booking and sentencing. Irina was sentenced to an eight-month house arrest sentence, which she would serve back in the hometown of her birth, Leeds.
While serving her sentence in Leeds, Irina continued her work on translating the ancient Isu Script.
Irina's mugshot after being arrested for her role in the protest. This is one of the few photos of Irina with her hair down.
While serving her sentence, Irina was assaulted in her home by Martina Laurent, who slammed Irina's face and chin into her kitchen cupboards and countertops, and after a few direct punches to her face, Irina was left a bloody and unconscious mess in her own home. She would suffer a broken nose and jaw in her fight with Martina, and left in a comatose state for two weeks. Shortly after the attack, her husband called the emergency line and Irina was immediately transported to Leeds General Infirmary, where here jaw was wired shut to heal while she was comatose.
During her house arrest sentence, Irina would say that she believed that her mother would be proud of her for standing up for Women's Rights.
Work in Chile[]
Ever since Isabelle’s encounter with Martina Laurent, who had since defected to the Templars, Irina and Isabelle decided that Martina had to be dealt with, and began tracking her location. On September 8th, 1973, Irina, Vivian, and Isabelle discovered that she was in Santiago, Chile, with a large Templar presence. The three women traveled to Cuba, setting up base there, leaving their children to stay with good friend and ally Fidel Castro before traveling to Chile. Arriving on the 10th of September, Irina, Vivian, and Isabelle warned President Salvador Allende of the possibility of a coup in the coming days, and to be ready.
The next day, the two women were awoken by the sounds of gunfire and explosions in the streets. In a hurry, Irina and Isabelle rushed to the parliament buildings, picking up rifles they found on the roads. Arriving in Allende’s office, they were shocked to see that it was none other than Martina Laurent who had the President cornered, his own rifle in her hands. Isabelle ordered Martina to stand down and not shoot, for if she did, they would shoot. It wasn’t long before the cocking of rifles behind them. Martina turned around to look at Irina, Vivian, and Isabelle before shooting the President dead, and telling the Chilean soldiers to take the three women to the National Stadium to be tortured.
Inside the stadium, Isabelle, Vivian. and Irina endured some torture, enduring several beatings. Irina was personally tortured by Martina herself, who gloated about killing Allende with his own weapon and how powerless the WLF was to stop her while she verbally and physically abused her, hitting Irina hard in the chest and face. Martina informed her that she would be ‘loaded onto a helicopter’ along with Isabelle and Vivian for a ‘special surprise’. It was later revealed that Isabelle, Vivian, and Irina would have been tied up, loaded into a helicopter and thrown into the Pacific Ocean, but the three women escaped before Martina could act out on her wish. Though weakened and exhausted, the three women took a few dress shirts. They escaped the National Stadium under the cover of darkness, escaping through Bolivia and Brazil before eventually returning to Cuba, receiving medical attention before returning to France.
Upon their return to France, Isabelle and Irina never spoke of their experiences in person. Vivian would speak of her experiences in great detail throughout several speeches.
Car Accident of 1973[]
- "This 'Abstergo Hunter' among the French Assassins needs to be eliminated. She escaped Martina in Chile last month, but she will not be so lucky this time."
- ―Unknown Abstergo Agent, October 14th, 1973.
On October 15th, 1973, Irina and her husband Sebastian were driving back to their Paris home, when they were suddenly t-boned at an intersection by an unknown assailant, ramming their vehicle into a nearby building. Irina broke her right leg and arm in three separate places and cracked three ribs, as well as a hip flexor. Sebastian suffered a broken left arm and hip. Irina and Sebastian were immediately taken away to the hospital to receive emergency surgery. She would recover over the span of five weeks in the hospital. While she was recovering in the hospital, Isabelle and Vivian paid her a visit to inform her that she was run off the road by an employee of Abstergo Industries, and that there was malicious intent behind the attack for what she did to Marcelo Coraldi ten years earlier. Isabelle also informed Irina that the assailant was in police custody and that she and Vivian will keep up the archives and finances in her absence. After her five-week recovery, Irina returned to her duties, albeit with a hobble in her right leg whenever she walked.
Many Assassins within the Women's Liberation Front believe that the car accident was a deliberate act by Martina Laurent, now a Master Templar, to kill her former comrades, as they saw a woman who looked like her flee the scene, with the driver of the vehicle taking the fall instead of Martina.
Later Assassin Years and Retirement[]
In 1986, it was revealed that the French Assassin Brotherhood (under the leadership of Vivian Cadieux-Foden), would come under the leadership of an elusive figure known as the ‘Mentor’, which was a controversial move that disrupted several years of tradition within the Assassin Brotherhood. Among the French Brotherhood, they were incensed at this new change. Vivian and Isabelle retired from their careers as Assassins out of protest to the new change, returning to their previous lives. Irina would assist Valerie and Margaux in upkeeping the archives and make the transition into making the Saint-Chappelle hideout into a museum until her own retirement in early 1990, which would ultimately be achieved in 1995. Irina would also host tours of the building as well, up until the Great Purge of 2000.
Great Purge, Move to Canada, Later Years, and Death[]
On December 6th, the Great Assassin Purge began after Daniel Cross successfully assassinated the Mentor on behalf of Abstergo Industries. Several Abstergo agents were sent around to Assassin Cells around the world to eradicate Assassins and former Assassins alike. The Sainte-Chappelle hideout was destroyed, with only the archive sustaining minor damage. Isabelle, Vivian, and Irina met up in the basement of Vivian’s house to bid each other farewell amidst all the panic. Isabelle said she was going back to her home in Versailles, Vivian was going to relocate to Wigan outside of Manchester. Irina announced that she was going to move to Saskatoon to be with her daughter. Shortly after the meeting, Irina and her son Natasha flew out from Paris to Saskatoon on a private jet. Arriving at the airport in Saskatoon, Natasha and Irina met up with Eva, who drove them to her house in Sutherland. Upon arrival, Irina set up what she had recovered from the archives in her daughter’s basement. She would continue collecting all sorts of Assassin texts from various Brotherhoods worldwide, and give speeches to accounting and business students at the University of Saskatchewan. Irina would become an archivist at the University itself, from 2001 to 2010 before choosing to move out to Gimli, Manitoba to be closer to her daughter Eva. Upon her arrival in Gimli, she would be placed into the Betel Home Foundation and rely on a wheelchair for mobility. Later in her stay, she would befriend her rehabilitation assistant named Kerri Einarson, and would remark to both Kerri and her daughters Eva and Natasha about how much Kerri looked like Isabelle in her youth.
Irina would pass away quietly in her sleep in the early morning of February 14th, 2023. Her body was cremated in Gimli and her remains were interred with her husband Sebastian's ashes on the McCall family plot alongside her parents in Lawnswood Cemetery in Leeds. She was 95 years old. With Irina's death. no founding members of the Women's Liberation Front are no longer living.
Personal Life[]
Growing up, Irina was an extremely introverted child, and would frequently read several books, fiction, and nonfiction, analyzing key parts and writing them down on pieces of paper, and would show them to her parents, telling them about what she discovered. The precision of her analysis and the organization of her paperwork would help her greatly during her career as an Assassin.
She would become more extroverted once she met Isabelle and the women in her Brotherhood. Irina would often be known for her quick quips and sarcastic comebacks. Both Isabelle and Vivian dubbed her as a ‘total smartass.’
Irina was a super positive person, and always saw the positives in every scenario, no matter how dire the scenario was. It was a mindset of Irina’s that Isabelle admired, stating that ‘it was a quality that I wish I had.’
Irina, along with Vivian and Isabelle, traveled to Africa to provide food and water to villages in Niger, Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Congo in 1959. Their acts of humanitarianism earned them numerous awards, including recognition from the United Nations for their efforts in combating poverty in Africa.
Romantic Life[]
While in Paris, Irina got to know Sebastian O’Reilly, an Irishman who was attending the University of Paris to get his history PhD. Irina met him in 1955 and the pair immediately hit it off. They would chat with each other about topics such as politics and history, as well as their favorite coffee roast. After two years of dating, Sebastian proposed to Irina atop the Eiffel Tower, but due to the busy schedule of both their lives, they married on October 19th, 1961 in an intimate ceremony in their Paris home. Isabelle was her maid of honour, with Vivian serving as one of her bridesmaids. She took his name in marriage, becoming Irina O’Reilly. A year later, Irina gave birth to twin girls. Their first child was named Natasha Chloe O’Reilly. The second child, born six minutes later, was named Eva Michelle O’Reilly on September 28th, 1962. Sebastian would travel with Irina to Saskatoon after the events of the Great Purge. Neither would become Assassins, although they would help their mother with her archival business in France as well as Saskatoon. He would pass away in 2013 from natural causes, and Irina would hang on to his ashes until her passing in 2023.
Friendship with Isabelle Miranda Allard[]
Irina’s friendship with Isabelle Allard began when Irina, who was working at a homeless shelter with her aunt on a volunteer basis. On September 28th, 1939, while running an errand for her aunt, came across a heated young woman with long, black hair down to her waist, where she got into a spat with a police officer outside of the shelter. Annoyed and angered by the policeman’s conduct towards the young homeless woman, who according to Irina smelled of ‘a combination of ass and cigarette smoke’, she walked up to the unkempt woman after the policeman left and gave her five pounds, putting it into a can before her feet. The woman smiled and asked Irina for her name. Irina introduced herself and asked the homeless woman her name, to which she said Isabelle Miranda Allard. Isabelle thanked Irina for the five pounds and said she would ‘put the pounds to good use.’ Irina was called back to the shelter by her aunt disapprovingly as she strictly forbade Irina from helping out any homeless people outside of the shelter. This was the first meeting between Irina and the woman she would later call Mentor. At the time of the meeting, Irina was twelve years old and Isabelle was nineteen years old. Years later, Isabelle stated that she used the five pounds to ‘shower and get a haircut’ when she got to London after escaping France in 1940.
The next meeting between the two women would occur when Irina was mourning the loss of her father, and she received a knock on her door. Answering the door, she was greeted by a short woman with shoulder length black hair and glasses named Isabelle Andreu, who came to Irina with an offer. During this talk, Isabelle informed Irina that she was the homeless woman she had met before the outbreak of World War II. Shortly after, she informed Irina that their mothers were friends and that she saw a friend in Irina, and wished for her to join the rechristened French Brotherhood of Assassins as a bookkeeper, due to her knowledge with numbers. She informed Isabelle that she would think about it and let her know. Irina would show up at Cafe Theatre a day later, telling Isabelle she wanted to join the Brotherhood. At this moment, their friendship sparked.
During her time in the Brotherhood, Irina credits Isabelle for her entrance into the field and the motivation for her assassination of Marcelo Coraldi in 1963, as well as the confidence to be a part of the 1964 women’s rights protest. They would also be workout partners, assisting each other with workouts and sharing training tips with each other. Irina would name Isabelle the godmother of her twins, Natasha and Eva, who were born in 1962. Isabelle was also Irina’s maid of honor in October of 1961. Upon the opening of Avian Descent Wine & Spirits in July of 1966, Irina assisted Isabelle with the financial aspect of the business.
Upon the attempted assassination of Isabelle on August 9th, 1965, Vivian dropped off Isabelle’s son Alexandre and her daughter Valerie before departing for the hospital, looking after them for over five hours. Irina would visit a recovering Isabelle and assist her in the hospital. She would later help Isabelle during her recovery to get clean from abusing Hydrocodone, spending several weeks out at Isabelle’s cabin at Aix-Les-Bains to help her out with working out and regaining the physique Isabelle had before.
During her recovery, Isabelle credited Irina as ‘the woman who helped recover her spark in a time of great darkness.’
In 1973, while Irina was recovering from a broken arm, leg, and three cracked ribs, Isabelle, her daughter Margaux, and husband Edouard assisted with her and Sebastian’s recovery.
Isabelle has gone on record to say that Irina was a ‘total smartass’, and Irina has said that Isabelle was ‘the most sarcastic woman she has ever met.’
Weapons and Abilities[]
Due to her lung condition, Irina rarely participated in fieldwork, leaving it to Isabelle, Vivian, and Diane. But Irina does know how to handle herself in close-quarters combat and knows how to wield a Hidden Blade, thanks to the teaching of a multitude of close-quarter combat techniques from Isabelle herself. Irina would fully enter the field in 1961.
For fieldwork, Irina was equipped with a Hidden Blade, which she wore under her overcoat, and smoke bombs and throwing knives.
Irina also knows how to use pressure points in self-defense, and was known for even incapacitating Isabelle, Vivian, Diane, and Xavier during training sessions. A notable example of her knowledge of pressure points was in her fight with Master Templar Marcelo Coraldi, using the pressure point on his wrist to disarm him. On another occasion. she nearly broke Isabelle's right wrist during a demonstration in 1966.
Irina was known for her creative methods when it came to assassinations. When asked, Irina cited a text written by Alana Rose Dorian called Assassinations by Alternate Means, saying that Alana's book opened her eyes as to how one could easily take a life.
Assassination Targets[]
- Marie Arria (1963)
- Marcelo Coraldi (1963)
- Joseph McCoy (1967)
- Hannah Hart (1968)
- Eric Roy (1970)
- Martina Laurent (failed, 1973)
Written Works[]
- The Successes of Isabelle Allard during World War 2 (1960)
- The Marvels of Diane Laurent in Fascist Italy (1965)
- The Heroics of Vivian Cadieux-Foden in East Germany (1971)
- The Mysterious Language of The Ones Who Came Before (1975)
- Martina Laurent: The Traitor (1980)
Trivia[]
- Irina was ambidextrous. She could write with both her left and right hands.
- Irina had heterochromia iridum. Her left eye was brown and her right eye was light green.
- Upon meeting her, Vivian thought she was a Sage, due to her heterochromia iridum.
- Irina frequently wore dresses to casual events.
- When they were younger, Irina’s heterochromia iridum scared both Isabelle’s daughter Margaux and Vivian’s daughter Valerie.
- Irina could read 400 words per minute.
- Irina was one of the tallest members of Isabelle’s council, standing at 5’6. Diane Laurent stood at the same height.
- Irina could speak in English, Russian, and French.
- Isabelle often called Irina ‘Junior’, due to her being the youngest member of the council.
- Irina was a supporter of Leeds United FC.
- Irina and Vivian would frequently attend matches whenever the two of them were in Manchester, and would have a friendly rivalry between the two women, due to Vivian’s support of Manchester United.
- Irina’s favourite texts from the archives were ‘The Assassin Brotherhood: What is to be Done?’ by Quin Williams, “Pieces of Eden: What Do We Know?’, and “Assassinations by Alternate Means’ by Alana Rose Dorian, as well as the entire ‘Alanist Perspective’ Trilogy.
- Irina’s looks and appearance were inspired by Canadian curler Shannon Birchard.
- Artwork on this page is done by Timaeus, known as timayonnaise on Instagram, and Melanie L, known as i_am_the_vigilante on Instagram.