- "Juliette Marie. Alana Rose. Vienna Victoria. The names of three iconic women who led our Brotherhood out of England. Say what you will about them and their beliefs, they are responsible for revolutionizing the way we Assassins think and fight to this day."
- ―Lydia Frye on the Mentorship Dynasty to Irina McCall, April 1962.
The Mentorship of the British Brotherhood of Assassins under the House of Dorian, often called the Mentorship Dynasty and the Three Lionesses by fellow Assassins and critics, is the leadership of the British Brotherhood under three women from the Dorian Family of France from 1858 to 1932, a period of seventy-four years. Under their leadership, the British Brotherhood played pivotal roles in the rise of the Industrial Revolution, the American Civil War, the Liberation of London in 1868, the downfall of Jack the Ripper, World War I, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and the protection and surveillance of many Isu artifacts and writings from places all around the world. Each woman was known for implementing various aspects of socialism into the teachings of the Brotherhood during their leadership.
Pre-Dorian Leadership[]
Before the rise of the Dorian Family dynasty, the British Brotherhood of Assassins was led by Leonard Frye, the grandfather of Evie and Jacob Frye, who took up leadership in 1826, shortly after his wife gave birth to their son Ethan, at the suggestion of French Master Assassin and Councilwoman Elise de la Serre. Under his leadership, the British Brotherhood, which were stationed in Crawley and Luton, still experienced a lingering decline that haunted them since the death of Edward Kenway in 1735. The British Assassins stuck to a ‘wait and strike’ philosophy when it came to establishing a presence in London once more. During his leadership, Leonard took a struggling Juliette Marie Dorian as his apprentice after struggling to learn the ways of the Parisian Brotherhood. Their only success during this period was Juliette’s successful assassination of Templar Grand Master Robert Starrick in 1847, along with Templars Alfred Thorne and James Parker. Although a devastating blow to the British Templars, they still remained in control of London, as they replaced Robert Starrick with his ambitious nineteen-year-old son Crawford Starrick, who turned London into a fortress, making himself and the Templars known in British politics and the criminal underground. To make a statement of power, young Crawford Starrick had Frederick Ashland, Leonard Frye’s second in command in London, captured, tortured, and executed in cold blood in Devil’s Acre in retaliation for the death of his father. In the wake of his death, Leonard made his former apprentice and councilwoman Juliette his second in command, making Juliette the next in line to succeed him as Mentor of the British Assassins.
Juliette Marie Dorian (1858 - 1876)[]
Juliette Marie Dorian, the Matriarch, February 1858.
Upon Leonard Frye stepping down from the post of Mentor due to old age, Leonard named his second in command, Juliette Marie Dorian, his successor as Mentor. Juliette’s first three years as Mentor were primarily uneventful. The only major note was the unfortunate forced expulsion of the Carmichael Family from the British Brotherhood due to Alana making a falsified claim about the sexualities of Maria Williams and her friend/lover Imogen Carmichael, who was one of Juliette’s three apprentices. Although hesitant about the claim, Juliette decided to send the Carmichaels to Egypt, much to the chagrin of Maria and Imogen. Alana however did not escape punishment as she was barred from participating in fieldwork for three years and reduced to running errands for and with her mother. This decision strained relations between Juliette and Imogen, despite Juliette holding an incredible amount of respect for the young Assassin, where Imogen held a fair amount of disdain towards the British Mentor upon her transfer to Egypt.
In 1861, Juliette received letters from American Mentor Wilson Rutherford and Assassin ally Abraham Lincoln for assistance in taking the fight to the Confederate States, who had seceded from the Union. Agreeing to travel to Washington DC, Juliette, Samuel, and Alana left London, leaving Frederick Williams Sr in charge during her absence. Meeting up with her brother Francois, the siblings helped Lincoln behind the scenes with war strategy and maintaining resources. Francois would later go out west to assist with the Mississippi campaign, Juliette would enter the field and monitor the movements of Confederate general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, successfully assassinating him after his victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville under the cover of darkness on May 2nd, 1863. Shortly after this, Juliette and her family would return to Crawley, albeit briefly, as Juliette and her family returned to the United States to attend the 12-day funeral procession and successfully find and assassinate John Wilkes Booth with fellow Assassin Boston Corbett.
Shortly after her return to London, Juliette discussed with her Council the possibility of taking another shot at liberating London from the clutches of the Templars and the Blighters, a street gang affiliated with the Templars, due to constant letters pleading for aid from Henry Green, the lone Assassin in London. In 1868, Juliette proposed that they wait until Assassins such as her daughter Alana returned from abroad before making a move, that way they will have coverage in Crawley in the event of sending Assassins to London. This, however, changed when Jacob and Evie Frye disobeyed the orders of George Westhouse and traveled to London in order to meet up with Henry Green, greatly angering Juliette and her Council. She wrote to Alana, wishing for her to travel to London from Canada to assist the Fryes, also requesting the assistance of Maria Williams to travel to London as well. A few months later, Juliette was informed of the successes of the five Assassins during the Liberation of London. They would move the British Assassins to London fully in July of 1869.
In March of 1870, Juliette wished for Alana and Maria to travel to Scotland to investigate the existence of the Gauntlet of Eden, a mysterious Isu artifact. In August of 1870, Juliette sent the pair out to investigate the existence of a legendary Isu site in Norway called Yggdrasil. The two women traveled out on their own again, going to Jamacia without Juliette’s knowledge, and were both severely reprimanded before Alana left for Germany.
Juliette would step down as Mentor of the British Assassins in June of 1876, aged 68, passing on her post to her daughter, Alana Rose Dorian. Juliette would pass away in July of 1900 after a brief bout of pneumonia at the age of 92.
Juliette's Council[]
- Mentor: Juliette Marie Dorian
- Second in Command: Frederick Calhoun Williams Sr. (Until 1861)
- Peter Carmichael (until 1859)
- Shohreh Carmichael (until 1859)
- Samuel Marshall
- Cordelia Shaw
- George Westhouse
- Ethan Frye
- Cecily Frye
- Alana Rose Dorian
Apprentices[]
- Alana Rose Dorian
- Frederick Marshall Wiliams Jr.
- Maria Williams
- Caelan Morgan Williams
- Imogen Carmichael
- Vienna Victoria Dorian
- Cavan Samuel Richardson
Alana Rose Dorian (1876 - 1901, 1903)[]
Dame Alana Rose Dorian, the Revolutionary, October 1876.
Alana Rose Dorian’s time as Mentor began in July of 1876 upon her mother Juliette's retirement, and immediately began working to establish an Assassin presence outside of the English capital. Working closely with her Council, Alana established bureaus in cities such as Liverpool, Blackpool, Manchester, Farnborough, Leeds, Newcastle, and Southampton. At the start of her leadership, London was still recovering from the events of the Liberation of London eight years prior. Within the city, Alana personally oversaw the elimination of the Templar-backed Blighters, with many of them either being killed or locked up in prison, due to Alana’s connections with Inspector Frederick Abberline. Alana also saw to Assassins under her watch make sure the working class people were being properly compensated and paid for their labour, and providing for those who had fallen on unfortunate times, in particular Whitechapel.
In May of 1880, Alana and a handful of British Assassins assisted Marshall and Caelan Williams in assassinating Takara Robin Paige, Marshall’s wife who was later revealed to be a Templar. During this mission, after Marshall finished the deed, he turned around to criticize Alana and her mentorship, blaming her for letting Robin infiltrate the Brotherhood through her background checks, claiming that her ‘prideful half-assery’ would get them all killed, right in front of the British and Parisian Assassins. Not wanting to provoke a fight with a saddened Marshall, Alana ordered the Assassins to clean up the scene before leaving with Caelan. This incident would cause tension between Mentor and second-in-command.
In 1885, Alana, Vienna, Cavan, and Jacob Frye traveled to Saskatchewan to assist the Métis and Indigenous peoples in the North West Resistance, working aside the likes of Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, and Cree chiefs Big Bear and Poundmaker, playing pivotal roles in battles such as the Battle of Duck Lake, the Battle of Cut Knife, and the Battle of Fish Creek. The damaging of the steamer Northcote was an idea conceived by Alana to slow down the Canadian forces. They were eventually cornered in the town of Batoche and defeated in the four-day battle, with Alana getting shot in her left hip. Alana was transported to the Marr Residence, a field hospital in the small town of Saskatoon. After receiving emergency surgery to remove the bullet, Alana, Vienna, Cavan, and Jacob returned to London, despite the Canadian government calling for them to be hanged falling on deaf ears.
Sitting at her desk in her flat near Charing Cross Station in the Strand, Alana received a letter from fellow council member Jacob, that a new threat had usurped control of the Rooks from him and that he was fighting a malicious fiend named Jack the Ripper to get them back. Two days after the double murder of Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride happened, Alana made a trip to Jacob’s lodgings in the London borough of Whitechapel with her daughter Vienna to pay him a visit, but noticed the door was locked. Alana and Vienna returned to the Assassin Headquarters, feeling like a sinister presence was watching them as they made their way through Whitechapel while thinking that Jacob could have used some of his female recruits as bait to lure out the Ripper.
Alana wrote a letter to Evie, urging her to come back to London to help her locate Jacob and defeat Jack the Ripper. While Alana waited for Evie, Alana returned to London herself to see that the Metropolitan Police Service appointed Frederick Abberline, an ally of the Assassins who had earned the rank of Inspector, on the case to hunt down the Ripper. She returned to her flat and waited for Evie's arrival in London.
Evie returned to London from India a month later, much to the delight of Abberline and Alana. Accompanying Alana was her daughter Vienna. From there, Abberline informed Evie of the Ripper and that her and Alana may be the only two Assassins left in London, much to her shock. Alana and Abberline escorted her to the site of the first victim, Polly Nichols. After investigating the area thoroughly, Evie located the trajectory of a ring thrown not too far away from the tree. Alana dug it up to discover that it was an Assassin’s ring. The two Assassins held onto the ring and went on their way, where Alana informed Evie that Jacob could have put the women up to it. Evie scoffed at the idea at first, but she wouldn't be surprised if he did. Evie promised that she would bring it up to Abberline the next time she saw him.
Alana and Evie returned to Abberline, who handed them the key to Jacob’s lodgings. After a brief discussion the two of them visited the lodgings, and were horrified with what they saw inside. Jacob’s normally clean lodgings was bloody and messy. Alana and Evie split up to look for clues. Alana located a bloody letter written by the Ripper himself, which was the letter that was published by the newspapers, while Evie discovered several bloodstains and weapons of fear that Jacob had brought back from India. Alana stumbled across a photo of Evie, Henry and Jacob, with an apprentice of Jacob’s in front of the Temple of Kali. Alana informed Evie that they used to call the apprentice ‘Jack the Lad’, and he acted a lot like her brother. Evie realized that she had given Jacob a statue of Kali the Destroyer. Approaching the statue, she found a letter from him, directing the pair to an unfortunate woman named Nellie. Alana and Evie exited the building, while scaring away Rooks in the process. Alana and Evie asked several prostitutes where Nellie was, until one informed Evie that Nellie was on her way to see Lady O. Alana looked over to see Nellie getting shoved into a carriage against her will. Alana and Evie immediately gave chase, and followed the trail to the Kenway Mansion. Evie informed Alana that she will sneak in and rescue Nellie. Alana agreed and climbed to the roof to watch from above. After waiting for about a half an hour, Alana saw Evie charging out, heading for a carriage. Alana rushed down to join her comrade. The pair chased after the carriage, with Alana leaping onto the roof to kill the driver and bring the carriage to a stop. The Assassins readied their blades, anticipating that Lady O was inside, but instead they found Nellie, who informed her that Lady O had used her as a decoy, and fled to her mansion. Alana informed Evie to bring Lady O to an end, while she tended to business in the city.
Alana waited for Evie inside the Police Headquarters alongside Abberline, where she came in rather angry. Evie told Alana that she was successful in assassinating Owers, but Jack framed her for a massacre that was publicized in the papers by Weaversbrook Publishings. Alana broke up a fight between Abberline and Evie, where Abberline couldn’t cover them forever, and that he would arrest the both of them in the Ripper’s stead. Alana and Abberline tasked Evie with locating Weaversbrook when Vienna rushed in and informed that she heard word on the streets that Rooks were heading for Juliette’s flat near St. Paul’s cathedral. Alana accompanied her daughter to Juliette’s flat. Upon entry, Alana saw four Rooks corner her mother. Alana and Vienna assassinated the four Rooks, and asked her mother why the Rooks beset her. Juliette informed them that they were there because Jack wanted her dead due to her ties with Jacob. Juliette also informed the Assassins that Arthur Weaversbrook was publishing the letters, and asked the pair to find him and get some answers out of him. Traveling from her mother’s residence, they came across Rooks cornering the man. Using fear tactics to scare the Rooks, they met up with Evie talked to Weaversbrook, who informed them that he was publishing the letters due to the Ripper threatening his family by kidnapping his son. Alana informed him to stop publishing the letters, while Evie went to go rescue his son. Alana and Vienna returned to Juliette's flat. Upon returning from saving Weaversbrook‘s son, Evie returned to Juliette's flat informed Alana that she was traveling to Deptford to the prison hulk ships, with the hope of saving Jacob.
Shortly after Evie returned, Inspector Abberline informed Alana that the Ripper has struck again, this time taking the life of Mary Jane Kelly. Evie met Alana and Abberline at the site, and were greeted by the Ripper’s most brutal work. Evie was so appalled that she flew into a rage, having to be restrained by both Abberline and Alana. Abberline informed Evie once again that he couldn’t cover Evie and Alana forever, and told her again he would arrest both women instead of the Ripper if they didn't deliver his head on a platter. Evie agreed to look into the murder further while Alana returned to her flat in the Strand.
On her way back, Alana received word from bystanders that they saw someone who looked like Jack the Ripper skulking around Lambeth Asylum. In a hurry, Alana made her way over to the Asylum. As she was infiltrating the asylum, Alana overheard policemen saying that the Ripper was looking forward to killing his former nurse, doctor, and the asylum director. Alana activated her Eagle Vision, and spied Doctor Archer out in the courtyard. Evading the eyes of the police, Alana made her way over to the doctor, informing him that the Ripper was after him and told him to leave the premises. Not knowing what was going on. Archer left the asylum on Alana's orders. Returning her focus to the asylum, Alana climbed up the asylum's walls and entered the open window where she located the nurse through her Eagle Vision. Alana rushed over to the nurse, and discovered that it was her childhood friend Tessa Whitney. After a brief reunion, Alana escorted Tessa out the back of the building to a carriage on standby, and informed the driver to get her to her home safely. Alana returned to the asylum's interior to rescue Director Bradford, only to find that the Ripper had gotten to him first. Alana searched for the documents covering Jack's stay at the asylum, but failed to find them. Just as Alana was about to escape, she was beset upon by rabid criminals. Alana did all she could to fend them off, but when she was overwhelmed, she leaped out the broken window next to her and landed in the haystack, and exited the asylum, returning to the rooftop to meet up with Evie.
Alana joined up with Evie, and the pair carefully averted the eyes of the police as they carried out their infiltration. Upon entering the asylum, Evie and Alana were confronted by several patients, whom Alana and Evie had to knock out as they made their way through the asylum. Entering a room of slaughtered people, Alana and Evie found out that their prize was in the basement of the asylum. The pair rushed down to the dark and decrepit basement, where the two women were jumped by the Ripper. Evie was immediately thrown aside as the Ripper turned his focus to Alana, propping her up by her collar and pulling out his knife, holding it to her forehead. Jack asked Alana where her and Juliette were to rescue his mother from the Templars, an act that Jacob failed to do. Alana tried to explain to him before the Ripper ran his jagged blade across her forehead, causing a laceration on Alana to bleed. Wishing Alana a happy birthday, the Ripper threw Alana aside before he was blindsided by Evie, using her fear tactics on the Ripper before retreating into the shadows. The pain from Alana's forehead was so immense, but she continued to fight, distracting the Ripper while Evie landed the second strike. Evie handed Alana some Fear tools in order to combat the Ripper from the shadows. Alana landed the second strike on Jack, who used a Fear bomb of his own to vanish, letting more patients into the basement. Alana fended off the patients, killing some of them even though she didn't want to. Just as she finished them off, Evie landed the final strikes on Jack the Ripper. Alana helped Evie drag Jack's body into the room, looking back to see Jacob slouched in the corner. Alana set the body down while Evie tended to Jacob, just as Abberline entered the room, asking what happened in here. Evie said nothing happened, but Alana added that Jack the Ripper was dead and that nobody must know that Jack the Ripper was an Assassin. Abberline hesitated for a few moments, before hearing a fellow officer shout that journalists were arriving. Looking back at Alana and Evie, Abberline ordered the officer to get the journalists out. After the journalists left, Alana, Evie, and Abberline escorted Jacob under the cover of darkness back to Juliette's flat, where she took care of both Jacob and Alana's wounds.
Shortly after the fall of Jack the Ripper, Alana made personal visits to Doctor Archer and Tessa Whitney about the fact that Jack the Ripper's identity should never be revealed. Both Archer and Whitney promised Alana that they would not disclose the Ripper's identity for as long as they were alive.
Alana Rose Dorian would step down as Mentor in June of 1901, at the age of 60, and appoint her daughter Vienna as the next Mentor, and would briefly serve as co-Mentor alongside her daughter during the July Incident of 1903. After suffering severe injuries during her fight with Xavier Baudin, she would permanently retire from the Assassin Order at the age of 63. Alana Rose Dorian would pass away at the age of 100 in December of 1940 due to smoke inhalation from being trapped in Vienna's damaged house during the Liverpool Blitz.
Alana's Council[]
- Mentor: Alana Rose Dorian
- Second in Command: Frederick Marshall Williams Jr. (until May 1880).
- Second in Command: Abigail May Westhouse (May 1880 until 1901).
- Jacob Frye
- Evie Frye (Indian Brotherhood)
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ivan Walters
- Vienna Victoria Dorian
- Cavan Samuel Richardson
Apprentices[]
- Vienna Victoria Dorian
- Cavan Samuel Richardson
- Emmett Frye
- Sam Crowder
Vienna Victoria Dorian (1901 - 1932)[]
Vienna Victoria Dorian, the Redeemer, July 1901.
In July of 1901, Vienna Victoria Dorian was appointed to become the next Mentor of the British Assassins, a mantle both her grandmother Juliette and mother Alana had previously held, although her mother still had some control over the Brotherhood, serving as a co-Mentor alongside her daughter. Her first couple years in charge were lackluster and uneventful until the summer of 1903, when the Gauntlet, a powerful Piece of Eden, was stolen from the Sanctuary. Arriving at the Sanctuary in Crawley at around 1:30am on May 8th to investigate the problem, alongside Count Marshall Williams and fellow Master Assassins. Shortly after 2am, her mother showed up, curious as to what was going on with the Gauntlet. Vienna informed her mother that it was missing and that her, Marshall, and a group of a few more Assassins will hunt down the culprit and recover the Gauntlet. Her mother insisted that she be a part of this mission due to her lack of adventure since she retired two years prior. Vienna again informed her mother that she will handle it alongside Marshall and Valerie Williams. After Noah ushered her mother out of the sanctuary, Vienna returned to her Crawley flat and planned what was next for her and her group of Assassins.
The mission got put on hold for a couple months, due to a lack of evidence and the trail going cold. Suddenly, a knock came on her office door. Vienna got up to open the door and was greeted by the sullen appearance of Count Marshall Williams, who had a letter in his hand from his brother, Caelan. Vienna opened the letter and read the letter. She deduced that it was from the Gauntlet thief, and her mind immediately began to race at the fact that the thief himself could be in London or Crawley. Vienna began to rattle off several locations that Maria had an attachment to, much to the ire of Marshall, who blasted Vienna for not coming to the conclusion that the thief was luring them on a chase, criticizing her Mentorship skills. Ignoring Marshall's comments, Vienna decided to tag along with Marshall to go to Berkshire and Horsham before going to London. Valerie, Marshall's daughter, was to accompany them as well. Vienna rejected Valerie's company and informed the duo that she was going to investigate around Crawley before moving on to London.
After no luck in Crawley, she made her way back to London and immediately began their investigation. Upon arrival, Vienna took the time to read the letter she had received from her mother, which was to inform the younger Mentor that she had made her way to London to investigate herself as she was longing for the thrill of adventure once more. Vienna was a little annoyed, but she could understand why she did so. She figured she would go back to Jacob's lodgings and vent to the older Assassin about how she felt. On her way there, she bumped into Marshall and Valerie, who informed her that they were skunked in Horsham and Berkshire and returned to London to investigate the Williams Residence. Vienna agreed to accompany the pair there, asking them several times if her mother would be there, with Marshall reassuring that she would be. Arriving at the residence, the pair went upstairs to Maria's room to see that someone had gone through it already. Vienna saw that the only thing that wasn't destroyed was Maria's wedding dress. Marshall was informing Valerie that Maria got married at St. Paul's Cathedral, which Vienna boldly exclaimed that Maria and Erwin got married in the Cathedral. As they were preparing to leave, they were distracted by the door creaking open, followed by her mother barreling through the door. The trio crowded around the former Mentor, who informed everyone that she had just killed Xavier, and that he stole the Gauntlet. Marshall questioned Alana about it being Xavier. After Alana explained everything, Marshall still didn't believe them. Alana aggressively kicked him away before throwing the Gauntlet at him. Vienna crouched beside her as she began to sob. Through tears, Alana apologized to Vienna, telling her that she should have listened. Vienna accepted her mother's apology and forgave her of her mistake. The trio helped Alana to her feet and helped her out of the building, where they fetched a carriage to take back to Crawley.
Vienna would arrive at Alana's flat in Crawley three months later with Cavan to see their mother in a trance-like state, with the Gauntlet of Eden on her wrist. Just as Cavan placed his hand on his mother's shoulder, she came to, informing the two Assassins that by way of the Gauntlet, she saw a future where Maria was alive and one where Alana was happy. Changing the subject, Vienna informed her mother that she wanted to move the Assassins to her hometown of Liverpool, and extend the reach of the British Brotherhood to the north, which Alana approved. Shortly after, Marshall came to the flat with Valerie, insisting that she wanted to move the Assassins to Liverpool just so she could support Liverpool Football Club, and again insisted that she move them to Manchester, where the better football club was. A few laughs were held before Marshall supported Vienna's move to Liverpool, and would leave with the Dorian-Richardsons to Germany to meet with Caelan the next day. Vienna would eventually leave the Gauntlet in an Isu vault located outside of the town of Lebret in Saskatchewan, Canada.
A few weeks after the incident with Xavier, Alana traveled to Germany with Vienna and Cavan to meet up with Caelan and his children Quin and Grayson to inform the interim German Mentor about what had happened back in London. Discovering that it was Xavier who had been killed, Caelan unleashed all his fury on the former Mentor, saying that there could have been another way to save him and that she shouldn't have killed him. Vienna attempted to break it up, only to be stopped from doing so by Quin, who confronted Vienna by saying that she had no business intervening on their fight, and later criticize her skills as Mentor for failing to prevent her mother from confronting Xavier. Quin's comment visually angered Vienna, which led to the two butting foreheads and exchanging words, nearly getting into a full-scale fight, during which Vienna called Quin a hermit. The fight was eventually broken up by Cavan and Marshall. Alana and Caelan later mended their friendship, but Vienna and Quin parted ways with a severe dislike for each other. Vienna would begin the move to Liverpool upon their return from Germany. Shortly after their return from Germany, Alana agreed to fully step down from her role within the Brotherhood, passing on full control of the Brotherhood to Vienna. Cavan would join his sister's side as a member of her Council in 1907.
The Dorian-Richardsons smoothed over relations with the House of Williams, despite tensions between Vienna and Quin. Although there were tensions between Vienna and Quin, Vienna remained good friends with Valerie Williams.
In July of 1911, Vienna, Cavan, and Alana traveled to Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan, in order to bury the Gauntlet far away from England. Vienna would lay it to rest in an Isu vault outside of the town of Lebret. She would later write that she used the Gauntlet and witnessed what would have happened if Alana had accepted an invitation to the Ottoman Sultan’s Harem. She wrote that through the Gauntlet she witnessed her mother get strangled by the Sultan’s guards and later saw her mothers body, bloated and decomposed, with crows and vultures picking at her mother’s nude body. After this, Vienna barred her Assassins from using or even researching the Gauntlet, and those who did received strict punishments.
In March of 1913, Vienna carried out the assassination of American financier and Templar JP Morgan in Rome, by way of poisoning his food. Vienna was later quoted as saying that his assassination was what he deserved for his deliberate sabotage of Nikola Tesla’s revolutionary ideas.
In June of 1914, Europe was plunged into the depths of war as Gavrilo Princip, an assassin working for the Black Hand, shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. Vienna sensed that something big was going to happened, and the Archduke's assassination proved her suspicions. Realizing that Germany was attacking France, she thought that Erich Albert, a high-ranking German Templar could be within the ranks of the German Army. Vienna immediately tried to enlist, much like her brother Cavan, but was rejected due to her being a woman. In between attempting to serve again, Vienna escorted Alana to the town of Brighton so she could keep her mother safe from the chaos in London. Annoyed with the fact she couldn't enlist, Vienna returned to Liverpool. She cut her hair and disguised herself as a man named Eric Richardson, who was Cavan's older brother. Vienna was accepted into the ranks of the British Military as a medic alongside her brother Cavan in the British Expeditionary Force. Vienna was immediately thrust into action as a medic, where she was tasked with stitching up bayonet wounds and removing bullets from wounded men for the first few months of her time on the front lines. Vienna would write back to her mother and fellow Assassins in London, telling them about the horrors of trench warfare and life in the trenches.
On Christmas of 1914, Cavan had claimed he spotted Albert from afar during a temporary truce shared by the Allied and German soldiers. Navigating her way to the crowd and exchanging greetings with fellow soldiers while Cavan went to play football. Vienna approached Albert in a trench, and exchanged a ration with him, talking with each other about their lives in Germany and how meaningless the war was. All this changed when Vienna observed his Templar ring on his left hand. Confirming that she had her man, she flicked out her hidden blade behind her back and successfully assassinated Albert, taking his Templar ring as proof of her kill. After the truce ended, It was found out that Vienna was the one who killed Erich Albert during the truce. Despite being thanked for killing the general, Vienna was given a dishonorable discharge for her conduct and returned to England. Upon her return to England, she stopped in Brighton before returning to Liverpool to discuss her time in the trenches and experiences on the front lines with her mother and the Frye twins. She would return to Liverpool in January 1915 to lead the Assassins through the war.
In late August of 1915, Vienna received a letter from her husband Arnold, who was living in Istanbul, about how the Ottoman Government was rounding up ethnic Armenians in the city and throughout the Empire. Fearing for her husband's life, Vienna bid farewell to her mother and brother, which temporarily left Cavan in charge of the British Assassins. Arriving in Istanbul after a week-long journey, Vienna was greeted by an Armenian Assassin, Arto Malakian, who informed Vienna that he had something to show her out east. Approaching a stable, the two Assassins grabbed a horse each and began the long excursion out to the east. After a nine-hour journey, the two Assassins arrived at Lake Hazar. To Vienna's horror, she saw several thousand dead Armenians floating in the lake. Worried that her husband was among the dead, she activated her Eagle Vision, and was shocked to see that Arnold was among the dead floating in the lake. With tears flooding her eyes, she dashed down the mountainside and dove into the lake, swimming among the dead bodies to retrieve Arnold's body. Arriving on the shoreline, Vienna broke down into tears, caressing Arnold's body as she mourned. Vienna and Arto would later give him a proper burial in Istanbul. Returning to the Assassin Headquarters, the same one Ezio Auditore visited, Vienna began a several-month-long plan to bring the architects of the genocide of Armenians to justice. Despite Vienna leaving for Liverpool at the end of the year, the Armenian Assassins succeeded in bringing the perpetrators to justice in 1921 and 1922 in Berlin, Germany.
In August of 1916, Vienna caught wind of a possible German spy ring within the heart of London. With the intent of getting rid of this threat to Britain, Vienna tasked young Master Assassin Lydia Frye, her former apprentice, with traveling to London to bring an end to the spy ring. Despite Lydia's inexperience as a Master Assassin, Vienna had the utmost faith in Lydia because she played a role in training the young Assassin herself. Two months later, Lydia wrote to Vienna, saying that she succeeded in ridding London of the German spy ring with the help of the Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, and that she would like for her Mentor to come to London to discuss things with her in person. Vienna and Lydia would live in her mother's flat in the Strand for the brief time she stayed in London for the duration of the war. After the Armistice of 1918, Vienna was present in Paris with Lydia for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on the 28th of June 1919. Vienna wasn't pleased at all with the treaty, which blamed Germany entirely for the war, stating that the treaty was going to anger the German people and destroy their economy, as well as saying that Germany didn't start the war. Vienna stated that it was Austria-Hungary that started the war by their actions in Serbia.
Sitting in her office in Liverpool, an apprentice came to her with news out of Germany. It was a shocking fact that Xavier Baudin was still possibly alive. Curious, she traveled to Newcastle and boarded a cruise ship destined for Bremen. Upon traveling to the outskirts of the city to Osterholz Cemetery, she came upon a shocking revelation: Xavier's grave was empty. While she was investigating, a fellow German Assassin informed her that they have been tracking his whereabouts for years and that they believe he was out somewhere in Brittany in France. Following a few leads, she eventually learns through Xavier's children Elizabeth and Chase Baudin that he was living in a cottage along the coast. Traveling from Liverpool to France, Vienna eventually discovered a decrepit house along the coast. Prying open a window, she slipped inside and discovered she was in a study. She began to investigate until she heard footsteps. Quickly hiding beside the door, Vienna waited until the footsteps came towards her. Once they were near, Vienna grabbed the person's wrist and slammed them through the door. She had finally discovered Xavier Baudin, who was actually alive. Vienna and Xavier engaged in combat, where the two of them chastised each other until Xavier collapsed to the ground of a heart attack due to him being out of combat for so long. Quick on her feet, Vienna propped Xavier onto her shoulders, placed him in the back seat of his car, and drove him to the hospital.
Vienna would later visit Xavier in the hospital, much to the chagrin of Xavier's wife Avery. Vienna informed Xavier that she no longer desired to kill him, but wanted answers out of him, about her mother and the mysterious Gauntlet of Eden. Xavier informed Vienna that his mother, the famed Maria Williams, led a delusional and paranoid life due to her being in possession of the Gauntlet for five years, and that was why Alphonse Mulligan laid siege to their Bremen abode, killing her and raising him as his own, and that Alana had no idea how the Gauntlet truly worked back in the day. Vienna told Xavier that Alana could have handled the scenario better, and that her and Quin had come to the mutual understanding that Alana was too emotionally involved with the scenario and apologized to Xavier for being able to reason with her, to which Xavier said that it was fine and it is in the past. Xavier's doctor entered the room and began to examine him, where the extent of Xavier were revealed to her. By her mother's hand he had suffered several slashes and a punctured lung, and a deteriorating heart caused by hers. Commenting on his injuries earned her a verbal chastising from Avery, saying how a godmother could do such a heinous thing to her grandson, to which Xavier insisted for Avery to drop it. Vienna suggested using the Shroud of Eden, with both women insisting he use it. Xavier ultimately refused, choosing to live with his injuries. As she left, Xavier asked Vienna to train his children to the best of her ability and to not tell Alana that he was still alive, to which Vienna promised to adhere to his wishes before she left for Liverpool.
Vienna and her brother Cavan were responsible for training Elizabeth and Chase Baudin, who would go on to become prominent Assassins within the German Brotherhood, with Elizabeth going on to become Mentor.
Vienna’s British Assassins actively opposed Prohibition being enacted in England and supported the various suffragette movements that sprung up across the country.
With both Vienna and Cavan retiring from active Assassin duty in September of 1932 at the age of 66, a power vacuum opened up, with several Assassins wanting to take her place, due to Lillian and Joshua having commitments in Sweden and Italy respectively. Vienna and Cavan ultimately decided to merge the Canadian Brotherhood with the English Brotherhood, ending 74 years of Dorian family leadership. Vienna’s daughter Lillian did not want to take up the post of Mentor, as she had moved to Stockholm to be with her family. In November of 1932, Vienna appointed her former apprentice Lydia Frye to become the new Mentor of the British Assassins, making her the first Frye to take up the post of Mentor since her great great grandfather Leonard Frye in 1826.
Vienna Victoria Dorian would pass away in August of 1956 at the age of 90 from natural causes.
Vienna's Council[]
- Mentor: Vienna Victoria Dorian
- Second in Command: Valerie Williams
- Second in Command: Cavan Samuel Richardson
- Lydia Frye
- Sam Crowder
- Edward O’Brien
- Adam Gerrard
- Emily Lampard
Apprentices[]
- Lillian Elizabeth Petersson
- Lydia Frye
- Pierce Bythesea
- Elizabeth Baudin
- Chase Baudin
Tactics[]
Juliette Marie Dorian[]
Much like her Mentor before her, Juliette employed a ‘wait and see’ approach, which involved gathering as much intel and data on a target, such as their routine and location, before making a move.
Juliette also relied on diplomacy to secure alliances, the most notable example being Juliette securing an alliance with the Indian Brotherhood early on in her Mentorship. This would later be built upon by her successors in the future.
Alana Rose Dorian[]
The British Assassins under Alana were the most effective and efficient when it came to hiding in plain sight, often disguising themselves among the working classes and those less fortunate. Alana has even stated that a woman’s best weapon is her body, as anyone could be seduced and fooled into revealing secrets or even assassinating a target. This however has garnered considerable criticism, with people saying that Alana is objectifying women.
During Alana’s time as Mentor, the British Brotherhood employed the use of Fear tactics, using hallucinogenic bombs and spikes to scare and trap their enemies. This tactic was studied by every master assassin in Alana’s council.
Vienna Victoria Dorian[]
Vienna employed the use of certain revolutions to her advantage, seeing that war and revolution exposed Templars, making them prone targets. Vienna was also known for implementing techniques and philosophies that were central to her mother and grandmother, as well as the teachings of Quin Willams, especially when it came to discipline and combat. She also wasn’t afraid to delve into older techniques, such as poison, to assassinate her targets.
Vienna abandoned the use of Fear tactics in 1914, calling the tactics ‘outdated’.
Vienna was also very critical of her mother’s tactics, such as the method of a woman using her body to gain access to a target, calling it ‘an exploitation of a woman’s body by way of sexual means’, and that any Assassin who used this tactic would be severely punished.
Legacy[]
The British Brotherhood of Assassins under the Dorian Dynasty became one of the more prominent Assassin Brotherhoods throughout the later 1800’s to the mid 20th century, even surpassing that of France and Germany when it came to recruitment and training of new initiates. Brotherhoods commended Juliette and Alana around the world for how they adapted the British Assassins to the changing times during the Industrial Revolution and how they handled such missions such as the Liberation of London in 1868 and the fall of Jack the Ripper in 1888, and Vienna was commended for her roles in both Russian Revolutions, as well as World War I and the Russian Civil War. Leon Trotsky, leader of the Petrograd Soviet during the 1917 revolution, had close ties to Vienna, and she gave various impassioned speeches to the workers within the Soviet. He later said that ‘there would be no Soviet Union without myself, Lenin, and Vienna.’ Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, said that the Union could not have won the Civil War without Juliette’s wisdom. A statue of Juliette stands in the National Statutory Hall at the Capitol Building, representing the State of Virginia, replacing the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Some families, such as the prominent House of Williams of Germany and the Carmichaels both criticized their leadership. Quin Williams was highly against the concept of the Mentorship Dynasty, thinking that it led to obscures and limits a Brotherhood from exploring new possibilities as well as disrupting their ideology of Freedom if the title is only succeeded within the family. She would later say their practices were strict and unpolished, and called Alana a ‘stain on everything the Assassins stood for’, as well as an ‘authoritarian dictator who abused her time as Mentor and abused the Creed herself’ in an unpublished thesis on their leadership. She was also critical of how Juliette and Alana often interfered in Williams Family affairs without being asked.
Juliette was criticized for how she handled the Carmichael Crisis, saying that she believed what her daughter said about Maria and Imogen’s sexualities, yet condoning it behind the scenes.
Alana was heavily criticized for her lackadaisical approach to the Bremen Incident, where Templars launched an assault on the home of Maria Williams, an assault that cost Maria her life and Xavier’s recruitment into the Templar Order. This event strained relations between the Williams and Dorian Families and the British and German Brotherhoods.
Alana was also criticized for her series of Risque Photos, which depicted Alana in several states of undress and in the nude. Many people have said that Alana exposing herself in such a way violated the second tenant of the Creed and would expose the Assassins and their cause.
All three women were criticized for implementing their views of socialism into the British Brotherhood, saying that the British Assassins under the Mentorship Dynasty wasn’t for the people or the working class, but rather totalitarian and to make themselves look powerful towards other Brotherhoods.
Trivia[]
- Vienna was the longest-serving Mentor, serving for 31 years.
- Juliette was the shortest-serving Mentor, serving for only 18 years.
- Under their leadership, The British Assassins moved their main headquarters two times. From Crawley they moved to London in 1868 and to Liverpool in 1903.
- Juliette was the first to start the trend of having one’s firstborn child succeed as a mentor.
- All artworks on this page were painted by Timaeus (timayonnaise on Instagram, temeyes on Tumblr)