| Kyle North | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Born |
12 August 1990 |
| Died | |
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| Affiliations |
Templars (until 2022) |
| Real-world information | |
| Appears in |
Assassin's Creed: Source (modern day) |
Kyle North (1990 - 2022) is a former mercenary and now a Master Templar and a former member of Sigma Team. He participated in the Animi Training Program in 2012 and was inducted into the Inner Sanctum in 2017.
In 2017, Abstergo discovered Kyle North's high count of Isu DNA and was able to access the genetic memories of Horatio Pierce's ancestors and was assigned to hunt down Pierce and Hayley Yasutake. After nearly being killed by Pierce, Kyle discovered that he was a reborn Isu, the reincarnation of the Isu scientist Pah.
North was a descendant of his incarnations, the Roman Hidden One Livius and the French Templar Stéphane D’aureville.
Biography[]
Early life[]
North was born in Oxford to an upper class family. From a young age he didn't fit in with the company his parents kept, nor did he find himself gravitating to the social circles he was raised around. Growing tired of the easy life, North want on to make his way in life independantly which led him to enlist in the British milirary at 18 years old.
Serving four tours, North eventually left the military at 20 and used what he had learned to become a mercenary. Over the next two years, North built himself a reputation in the underworld as an effective mercenary which would later garner the attention of Abstergo.
In 2012 he was approached by Warren Vidic and offered a chance to join the Animi Training Program which North accepted. North participated in the program although he did not gain entry into the Inner Sanctum, Abstergo was impressed enough with his skills and abilities that they deployed him onto Sigma Team under the leadership of Juhani Otso Berg.
Becoming a Templar[]
In 2017, North took part in a mission to detain and capture an Abstergo Entertainment intern; Horatio Pierce. A month later, Horatio Pierce and an Assassin Hayley Yasutake escaped Abstergo.
Alexandre Bacque had retrieved a blood sample from Pierce and were looking for individuals who would relive the genetic memories of Pierce's ancestors. North volunteered to do this and it was discovered that he had a high count of Isu DNA due to him being to able to access the genetic memories of Kenneth Ravensdale with no issues.
Because of this, Abstergo immediately made North a Master Templar, inducted him into the Inner Sanctum and gave him his own task force division to hunt down and kill Horatio Pierce, Hayley Yasutake and her team.
Hunt for Pierce[]
First Encounter[]
While reliving the genetic memories of Kenneth Ravensdale and his son, Osyka. North was pulled from the Animus, Bacque informed North that Abstergo had discovered the whereabouts of Pierce and Yautake. North gathered his team and headed to the coordinates in Minnesota.
North and his team tracked Pierce and Yasukate on a rooftop in the city. North ordered his team to flank them, which they did, Pierce and Yasukate fought the Abstergo agents which eventually led to North having to enter the fight. North attacks Yasutake, Yasutake proves a formidable opponent her speed and skill compensates for her lack of strength although North manages to knock her down, as he is about to kill her he is attacked by the younger Pierce. Pierce is efficient but his skills are sloppy, North can tell that Pierce is fresh from the Animus and is getting used to the Bleeding Effect, North managed to defeat Pierce although he was stabbed in the shoulder by Yasutake. The two escaped.
Upon returning to Abstergo in Ontario, Bacque was angered by his failure but stated he could not punish North due to him being an asset to reliving Pierce's ancestor's memories. North continued reliving Osyka's memories. Eventually, North came to the conclusion of Osyka's memories and witnessed the message that the Isu left for Horatio through the Choctaw Assassin. After sending the footage over to Abstergo researchers, it was deduced that Pierce and Yasutake would be going to Mexico.
Second Encounter[]
Gathering his team, North headed over to Mexico to engage the Assassins. There they would find the team, alongside Master Assassin Arnold Pierce, hidden, North gave the order to shoot the younger Pierce but he was saved by Arnold's keen awareness. Following their presence being alerted, an all our skirmish broke out between the two groups. North engaged both Yasutake and the older Pierce, handling the both of them without much difficulty until Horatio also joined in.
With Horatio now in the fray, North was overwhelmed before being pierced in the foot by the younger Assassin's hidden blade. Moments from being killed, he was saved by a member of his team whom grazed Horatio's shoulder with their rifle. Once again, the Assassins escaped North's grasp and locked the Temple behind them. Not believing himself to have a high enough Isu count, North didn't bother to try and open the Temple himself.
North returned to Ontario empty handed and was once more reprimanded by Bacque for his repeated failures.
Third Encounter[]
A few days later, North was granted the opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of his superiors when Pierce and Yasutake returned to the Abstergo facility in Montreal. Once again, he fought against the two Assassins, nearly killing Yasutake before fighting against Pierce in a one on one fight - utitlising the skills they had recovered from the echoes of past Assassins and Templars before them.
Their fight was brutal but once again, North was defeated by Pierce when the Assassin slashed at his throat with his hidden blade. Falling to the ground, North could feel the life slip from him as he desperately held onto his throat. During his dance between life and death, North saw images and heard voices from a life that wasn't his own. Believing it to be a side effect of the Bleeding Effect, North eventually succumbed to his injury.
Awakening[]
Discovery[]
Comatose and intensive care for four years, North had several dreams and nightmares of several lifetimes he did not recognise - including the lives of the Assassins and Templars he had experienced in the past. He was referred to as 'Pah' many times over the course of the lifetimes he experienced in his coma. Internally, North came to the realisation that he was a reborn Isu of the Isu scientist named Pah, which he had learned since joining the Inner Sanctum, and unbenknownst to him, acknowledging his status as a Sage allowed Pah's consciousness to begin to ovewrite North's.
Upon recovering from his coma in mid-2021, North fled the facility he was being treated at before the Templars were aware. North felt compelled to travel to a variety of different Isu landmarks, guided by the invasive memories he experienced. Using the knowledge he had gathered from his time as a Templar, North had an easy time of travelling to these locations. With each Isu landmark he visited, things began to become more clear to him as they triggered dormant memories of not only Pah's life but all the lives that proceeded to him. When he visited the Conservatory, North had a flashback of his life as the Roman Hidden One Livius inside the temple.
North discovered he was different from other Sages, Pah had altered Juno's reincarnation innovation which allowed him to reincarnate into a single bloodline and retain the memories of all of his past lives through genetic memory. With him being a Sage, North would not need use of an Animus to access the memories of his ancestors/past lives.
Accessing the memories of Pah, he also learned of his purpose and the plan that he and the Isu Shakuru had orchestrated. North discovered that Pah, alongside Shakuru and the Asgardian Isu Magni constructed a temple which would enable Shakuru and other Isu to undergo stasis and avoid the Great Catastrophe. Meanwhile, Pah would reincarnate as a human and re-awaken his lover and fellow Isu, and then re-conquer the world. Recalling the flashback of Livius, North then accessed his memories and learned of the confrontation Livius had with the Viking Hidden One Ari Einarrson, as well as what the Viking had told him moments before his death. Magni had somehow interfered with the Conservatory's access to the Stasis Chamber, which held Shakuru and the others, and only Ari knew how.
North knew what he needed to do, he needed to find Ari's descendants.
Searching for Ari's scions[]
Now in a time of great technological advance, as well as being a former member of Abstergo Industries, North was aware that the search for Einarrson's descendants wouldn't be too difficult.
In March 2022, North made his way to the nearest Abstergo facility, using his status as a Master Templar, he accessed the database and discovered one of Ari's descendants to be Jennifer Westwood while also learning she was the mother of Horatio Pierce, the Assassin who nearly killed him. Noting down her information, North stole an Animus Omega and immdeiately left the Abstergo facility before anyone noticed who he was.
North travelled to Vancouver, intercepting Westwood when she had returned home from work. North, lockpicking his way in, broke into her house and with some resistance from Westwood succeeded in kidnapping her, raving about his experiences as Livius and accused her of knowing "how to get inside [the Conservatory]". He also expressed that he was looking forward to killing Ari's descendant before leaving.
Violating Ari's memories[]
North took Westwood to Newfoundland and settled a temporary base close to where the Conservatory was located. With haste, North forced Westwood to begin reliving the Ari's memory of encountering Magni, however she was finding it difficult due to her lack of experience with an Animus as well as subconsciously rejecting the memories foreign to her own.
Frustrated at this, North wished to kill Jennifer but knew it would only set him back. North then placed her into an earlier memory, which would allow her to synchronize with Ari's life and access the memory that North needed to see. Much to North's frustration, Westwood's overall progression through Ari's genetic memories was slower than he anticipated. But he was well aware of what overexposure did to a user, and he needed her in the best condition possible to access the Viking's genetic memories due to his high concentration of Isu DNA.
Over the next few weeks, Westwood had made the necessary progress in Ari's life to access the memory North was looking for. From the feed that played concurrently with Westwood's Animus session, he discovered that Ari was a descendant of Magni and that Magni communed to him through the Nexus in 1003. Finally, North learned how Magni tampered with the Conservatory's Stasis access, by manipulating the DNA of his own lineage to be the only one's that were able to interact with the access console and open the Stasis chamber.
Reunited with Shakuru[]
Following this revelation, North forced. Westwood to continue reliving Ari's memories until the point he hid the Key that accessed the first entrance to the Conservatory. Once he had gotten the information needed, North's original plans to kill Westwood after she had synched with Ari had to be changed, as a descendant of Magni she would need to interact with the central console in the Conservatory to open the Stasis Chamber.
North brought Westwood with him to where Hilda's grave was located but discovered evidence that Hayley Yasutake's Assassin cell had beaten them to it. Upon discovering this, North rushed to the Conservatory and his suspicions were correct as the Conservatory's entryway had been opened. With Westwood, North made his way to the Stasis Chamber and found Yasutake, the Pierces, Jason Hart, and Erica Boyd.
Making his presence known to the group, North held Westwood hostage as to ensure they wouldn't try to attack him. He then went on to explain his plan, stating he'd waited a millennia to reunite with Shakuru - what was a few more moments? North first praised Magni posthumously, stating that locking the key within his bloodline was nothing short of genius. He continued to explain to the others the nature of the Conservatory and the plan that he and Shakuru had orchestrated prior to the Great Catastrophe.
He then gleefully found amusement in Magni's 'failure'. Bringing attention to Jennifer, he confessed the only reason that she was alive was due in part to needing her DNA to access the stasis chamber but now, she had no use to him. North aimed his gun toward Jennifer's temple, preparing to push the trigger but Hayley reacted quickly and hurled a throwing knife in the Sage's direction, knocking the gun from his hand.
Annoyed, North threw Jennifer toward the platform's ledge forcing Pierce and Yasutake to reach her before she fell. Utilising this distraction, North made his way toward the Stasis Chamber quickly despaching Hart and Boyd along the way, knocking them out. Pierce's father then engaged North to prevent him from reaching the stasis pods. The older Pierce proved himself to be an expert combatant, but was held back by his increasing age. Eventually, after a short lived engagement, North was able to fatally wound him while Horatio was helpless to stop him, echoing Livius' murder of Hilda while a helpless Ari could do nothing a millennia prior.
Distraught over his father, Pierce was too distracted to stop North from fulfilling his goal over several lifetimes. North reawakened Shakuru first, greeting his love with a kiss and reminding her that he kept his promise, before awakening the others. With the other Isu now conscious, they took notice of the grieving Pierce and found amusement in his plight, electing to ignore him now that their plan was successful and he was no longer a threat to them. North led Shakuru and the other Isu out of the Conservatory where Yasutake tried to stop them, however North quickly repelled her attack and knocked her out.
With the second phase of their plan completed, North and the others travelled to an unknown destination and would now begin to reclaim their ownership of the world.
Goal to reclaim the Earth[]
North led the others to one of his Isu temple hideouts, located off the grid and away from Abstergo's prying eyes. The Isu are still recovering from being in stasis, readjusting to their motor controls after not using them in millennia. Shakuru expresses her delight of being with North again, referring to him as Pah, before expressing sympathy for experiencing so many lifetimes and being away from his people for so long. North reminds her that he isn't the Pah she knew, assuring her that he still loved her deeply, but explains that the high amount of Isu genes allowed him to perfectly merge with Pah's memories and retain elements of his own personality. Shakuru seems disappointed by this, realising, North changes the subject and explains that once everyone has recuperated, they'll enact their plan.
Later on, North asks Shakuru what the next step of the plan was, wondering if they planned to use the Factory. Now having mostly recovered, Shakuru reveals to North that the Factory was too small a prize, she did not want to control the humans but instead wipe them out, then repopulate the planet with Isu. North finds interest in the plan, however, he questions how they would do that to which, gleefully, Shakuru responds that there is a lot he didn't know.
However, Shakuru would then go on to reveal the existence of Eden Engines to North and their relevance to their plans. Shakuru plans to destroy all of humanity by destroying a variety of continents with the Eden Engines before terraforming them back to habitable landmasses and rebuilding civilisation from there.
In May 2022, North discovers the location of an Eden Engine by hacking into an Abstergo server and uncovering the plan for Leah Chavez and Sigma Team to retrieve one in Cuba. Now recuperated, North takes Shakuru and the other Isu with him to Cuba in order to retrieve the Eden Engine for themselves. However, they find that the Templars have come into conflict with the Assassins who are also searching for it.
North and Shakuru encounter Horatio Pierce and Leah Chavez, engaging the both seperately. However, Shakuru is injured by Pierce forcing North to call a retreat and take Shakuru to safety. Horatio, Meaghan Allard and Hayley Yasutake are able to retrieve the Eden Engine and flee.
Recovering the Eden Engines[]
Upon returning to their hideout, North tends to Shakuru's injury at the hands of Pierce. Shakuru expresses her rage at Horatio and the humans calling them unruly and barbaric for daring to go against their masters. Following her rant, she demands that North kill Horatio should they encounter him once again which North agrees to. North then reveals to Shakuru that he may have encountered the Eden Engines in one of his prior lives, explaining that once he bore witness to the Eden Engine with his own eyes, it triggered a memory from the past, from his life as Stéphane D’aureville.
Recalling D'aureville's memories, North discovers that during his ancestor's lifetime he amassed a treasury of Isu artifacts and technology in hopes of opening the Conservatory and North proposes that they locate the hidden stash and use it in their inevitable re-encounter with the Assassins and Templars. As well as this, North further sifts through his past life's memories, trying to find a hint of where the Eden Engine is located now.
North manages to do so, accessing D'aureville's memory from when he was in the Isu temple at Pachena Bay when he was bombarded with the energy from the Eden Engines being separated. D'aureville witnessed the Eden Engine's past, present and future all at once, including the whereabouts of the three Eden Engines by 2022. North took Shakuru and the others to Ontario, to where the Cree warrior Küpeyakwüskonam buried the Eden Engine he had recovered.
Following this, he and the others located D'aureville's stash and recovered the Pieces of Eden there before making their way to France to recover the second Eden Engine.
Death[]
North and Shakuru successfully recover the second and prepare to leave but, North's unique Eagle Vision allows him to sense the oncoming presence of the Assassins and Templars. North orders the others to hide and remain hidden until his signal, believing that this was the perfect opportunity to end Pierce, Yasutake and Berg.
When they arrive, North and the other Isu use the energy stored in their Swords of Eden to eliminate Sigma Team bar Otso Berg. Making their presence known, North and Shakuru engage in a brief conversation with the Assassins and Templars revealing to them that he was able to locate the other two through D'aureville's memories. Shakuru then activates the Apple of Eden which she uses on the Assassins in an effort to make them kill themselves, however, due to Horatio's high concentration of Isu genes, he is able to resist its effects. Picking up a pistol from one of the dead Sigma Team members, he shoots at Shakuru but a Ring of Eden she is carrying prevents her from being shot, however, it was enough to break her concentration on the Apple. The others are broken from their compelling and are attacked by the Assassins and Templars.
During the skirmish, Horatio and Leah were able to remove an Eden Engine from North and Jason and Erica are able to recover it, fleeing toward Dupleix. North and Shakuru give chase. North and Shakuru corner Hart and Boyd at the subway station, he uses the Apple of Eden to force them to hand over the Eden Engine which they initially refused. Once they do Shakuru takes both Eden Engines and begins to fuse them together. Erica tells her that without the third, she will be unable to fully utilise the power of the Eden Engines. Shakuru agrees but states that once the fusion process is complete, she and North will be able to decimate humanity - it will only take a little longer.
Pierce, Yasutake and Hart arrive and resume their fight against the reborn Isu and his lover. Yasutake and Chavez manage to disarm both North and Shakuru of their Apples, and Hart and Boyd are able to kick them away, keeping them out of the Isu's grasp.
During this fight, the Eden Engine inches closer and closer to merging - Erica theorises that the energy generated from the complete union of the two Eden Engines was enough to completely wipe out France. North elects to stay behind to ensure that the Eden Engines unification is successful, hesitant at first Shakuru agrees and promises him that his sacrifice will not be in vain before quickly knocking down Hayley before preparing to flee. However, she is stopped by Leah with the Templar slicing at her throat with a knife, Shakuru drops to the floor, gargling on her own blood before dying. Enraged at the death of his lover, North attacks Leah but Horatio steps in, engaging him briefly once more before assassinating him, killing him for good. Watching as the reborn Isu dies, Horatio reminds him that that was for his father.
North's death marked the end of Pah's line of reborn Isu.
Personality and characteristics[]
Kyle North is a cold and hardened man. He makes little time for forming emotional attachments and focuses on the task at hand. North is also a determined individual and doesn't allow anything to stop him from achieving his goals whether they be enemies or allies.
When Pah's memories began to resurface during his coma, North's demeanour became unhinged as he struggled to deal with the memories of all of his previous incarnations. It took some time but as he progressively began to unlock Pah's memories, his high count of Isu genes allowed him to retain elements of his own personality merged with Pah's.
North remained the cold and stoic individual he once was, as well as retained his determined nature, as evidenced by his desire to find the descendants of Ari Einarrson and revive Shakuru. However, he adopted elements of Pah's hatred of humanity, even to the point he was disgust by his own human status. Pah's devotion and love for Shakuru also integrated itself into North's personality, as well as Pah's cunning.
The grudges of his past lives also passed themselves onto North, with Pah and Livius' respective intense hatred for Magni and Ari transfering to North.
Equipment and skills[]
As a former member of Sigma Team and a former mercenary. North possesses a diverse knowledge of melee and ranged combat, due to being trained in martial arts. After joining the Animi Training Program, through the Bleeding Effect his skills improved greatly. North is a profecient enough fighter to the point he was able to subdue the Assassins Horatio Pierce and Hayley Yasutake.
North also has a form of Eagle Vision.
Trivia[]
- Kyle is a unisex English-language given name, derived from the Scottish surname Kyle, which is itself from a placename (from the Scottish Gaelic caol "narrow, strait").
- Kyle stands at 6'2" and weighs 200lbs.
- It is hinted that Kyle North has both Assassin and Templar ancestry.
- It was revealed that the reasoning for Kyle's high Isu count was due in fact to his status as a reborn Isu.