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Name: Einin O’Bradain
Born: April 2, 1852; New York City, New York
Died: April 6, 1917; New York City, New York (age 65)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: The eldest of six children born in the poor streets of New York City, Einin always had responsibility for others thrust upon her shoulders. Her parents were Irish immigrants who came over to the United States during the Irish Potato Famine in 1851. Hoping to find new freedoms and new jobs, they were instead met with discrimination and poverty. The “nicest” house they were able to afford was in the slums of New York, where gang violence was rampant in the shadows of the sparkling houses of rich tycoons that looked down upon them and brushed them aside. Einin’s parents were murdered by a local gang when she was only 8 years old, leaving her to raise her 5 brothers and sisters on her own. She worked several jobs to try and support her family, but when she was 10 she found a job that provided more payment than any before. She worked as a delivery girl for a hooded man named Varius, who was always brief but kind and gave her a relatively hefty amount for delivering letters across the city. She didn't ask questions, happy enough just to be able to support her siblings.

However, this perfect arrangement hit a bit of a snag in 1863, when pro-Confederate gangs rioted across New York City in response to a new draft, burning and pillaging it as if sending it into hell. Einin grabbed her siblings and frantically looked for a place to hide. Not knowing what else to do, she called out for the only person she was able to call a friend: Varius, and prayed he'd actually be helped. And by a miracle, she was. He came rushing out of the chaos and without saying much, he rushed them all to an underground cellar and told them to wait there until he came back. As always, Einin asked no questions and was just thankful for the charity. The chaos raged outside for three days, and the siblings stayed secure in the cellar eating Varius’s food until finally the noise calmed down and after another couple days, Varius returned. He was clearly beaten up but he seemed happy to see them safe and sound. He told them it was safe to come out and go home, but for the first time in the history of their relationship, Einin asked a question: who was their hero, truly? And true to the purity of her idol, he sat her down and told her the truth. He told her he was of an ancient Brotherhood known as the Assassins, a group dedicated to preserving goodwill and liberty for all humans. He explained that he was sworn to fight their enemies, the Templars, power-hungry people who purposefully started the Draft Riots in hopes of increasing the influence of the Confederate rebels and preserve the evil of slavery. He went on to explain that the local Templars were led by a man named William “Boss” Tweed, leader of the powerful Tammany Hall political machine, the kind of man that put Einin's family in the slums. Armed with this knowledge and seeing the threat the Templars not only presented to her family, but to the world, the young girl asked if she could join under Varius’s wing. After a bit of consideration, he agreed.

For the next few years, Varius trained Einin in the ways of the Assassins, their philosophy and history and fighting styles, everything. After the Civil War ended, the Templars in the North realized they couldn't rely on the South to come charging in to claim power for them, and so they shifted gears, infiltrating the cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant, who won the presidential election in 1869 with the help of the Piece of Eden given to him by Varius’s apprentice, Eliza, during the Battle of Gettysburg. Realizing their once great ally was now merely a puppet of Templar policy, the Assassins turned against him and tried to have his opponent Horace Greeley elected as his successor in 1872. The Templars killed Greeley, however, and Grant won re-election. Einin was tasked with assassinating Grant’s Templar backers, such as Congressman Oakes Ames, until he finally stepped down from office in 1877. His successor, Rutherford B. Hayes, was hardly a friend of the Templars though he did end Reconstruction in the South to prevent them from outwardly attacking him, and had more Assassins in his ear than Templars.

Hayes was succeeded by James A. Garfield in 1881, but Garfield was assassinated within a few months by an insane office seeker named Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau was put on trial and promptly killed by Einin as the Assassins deemed him too dangerous a man to be running around the country. The assassination of Garfield allowed for Chester Arthur to enter office, which his Templar backers like Roscoe Conkling saw as a grand opportunity. To their surprise though, Arthur abandoned the Templars once he entered office, and became a champion of reform alongside his Assassin allies. Einin herself would later assassinate Conkling in 1888. Arthur left office in 1885, and his successor Grover Cleveland made Einin shift her eyes to another old and giant enemy of hers: the rich tycoons that put her family into poverty. Cleveland was sympathetic to corporate Templars like John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, adding him to the list of men that Einin wasn't particularly fond of.

In her fight against the corporate monsters that ruled the Gilded Age with an iron fist, yet more weight was added to her shoulders when she met a brilliant Serbian scientist named Nikola Tesla, who came over to New York City in 1884, along with the powerful Apple of Eden that fueled most of his inventive genius. Tesla had originally been working for the Templar Thomas Edison, but his hatred of the man and his corporate ideals led him to quit and employ his skills with the Assassins in hopes of forming a better world. It was a constant struggle to ensure the Apple never fell into Templar hands, though one good thing to ease Einin's stress was the unique set of weapons and gear invented by Tesla just for her purposes. Things became a small bit easier when the Hoosier Assassin ally Benjamin Harrison became president in 1889, but Cleveland was elected president again in 1893 and the same struggle against corporate power rose again in full. To make matters worse, Thomas Edison was leading a smear campaign against Einin's good friend Tesla, culminating on a Templar raid on his home in 1894. Einin did her best to stop this, but the Apple tragically fell into Templar hands and was now used to carry out corporate manipulation instead of scientific advancement. Einin tried to hunt it down and reclaim it, but she found that Edison had passed it on to one of his employees, his fellow Templar Henry Ford, in 1896. Ford would hold on to the Apple for the next few decades, using it to trick his workers into believing they were getting more pay than they actually were in 1918 and then eventually passing it on to Adolf Hitler in 1933. With the Templars putting William McKinley in office in 1897, Einin felt bitterly hopeless for a long while. There was a small glimmer of happiness when she married a long time lover, a British immigrant named Albert Weatherworth, and had a son named Benjamin that same year.

And another chance at hope came in 1901, when an aged Einin helped anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinate McKinley and opened the doors for Theodore Roosevelt to become president, throwing a monkey wrench in Templar plans. A charismatic leader who ushered in reform for better conditions for working class Americans, Roosevelt openly welcomed Assassins like Einin into his offices, and over the next 8 years put policies in place that severely undermined the Templar agenda, at least in mainland America. Earning a staggering amount of trust from Einin, she had full confidence when he told her of his plans for a successor, his friend William Taft. However, when Taft took office in 1909, he proved to be the exact opposite of Roosevelt: quiet, depressed, and open to Templar influence. This was a whiplash for Einin and Roosevelt, who ran for office again in 1912 to try and bring his former ally down. The schism between the two ultimately led to Woodrow Wilson getting the presidency instead, however, though his was not one Einin would experience in full, as she passed away in 1917, just before the United States entered World War I.

Einin is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.

Description

Name: Einin O’Bradain
Born: April 2, 1852; New York City, New York
Died: April 6, 1917; New York City, New York (age 65)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: The eldest of six children born in the poor streets of New York City, Einin always had responsibility for others thrust upon her shoulders. Her parents were Irish immigrants who came over to the United States during the Irish Potato Famine in 1851. Hoping to find new freedoms and new jobs, they were instead met with discrimination and poverty. The “nicest” house they were able to afford was in the slums of New York, where gang violence was rampant in the shadows of the sparkling houses of rich tycoons that looked down upon them and brushed them aside. Einin’s parents were murdered by a local gang when she was only 8 years old, leaving her to raise her 5 brothers and sisters on her own. She worked several jobs to try and support her family, but when she was 10 she found a job that provided more payment than any before. She worked as a delivery girl for a hooded man named Varius, who was always brief but kind and gave her a relatively hefty amount for delivering letters across the city. She didn't ask questions, happy enough just to be able to support her siblings.

However, this perfect arrangement hit a bit of a snag in 1863, when pro-Confederate gangs rioted across New York City in response to a new draft, burning and pillaging it as if sending it into hell. Einin grabbed her siblings and frantically looked for a place to hide. Not knowing what else to do, she called out for the only person she was able to call a friend: Varius, and prayed he'd actually be helped. And by a miracle, she was. He came rushing out of the chaos and without saying much, he rushed them all to an underground cellar and told them to wait there until he came back. As always, Einin asked no questions and was just thankful for the charity. The chaos raged outside for three days, and the siblings stayed secure in the cellar eating Varius’s food until finally the noise calmed down and after another couple days, Varius returned. He was clearly beaten up but he seemed happy to see them safe and sound. He told them it was safe to come out and go home, but for the first time in the history of their relationship, Einin asked a question: who was their hero, truly? And true to the purity of her idol, he sat her down and told her the truth. He told her he was of an ancient Brotherhood known as the Assassins, a group dedicated to preserving goodwill and liberty for all humans. He explained that he was sworn to fight their enemies, the Templars, power-hungry people who purposefully started the Draft Riots in hopes of increasing the influence of the Confederate rebels and preserve the evil of slavery. He went on to explain that the local Templars were led by a man named William “Boss” Tweed, leader of the powerful Tammany Hall political machine, the kind of man that put Einin's family in the slums. Armed with this knowledge and seeing the threat the Templars not only presented to her family, but to the world, the young girl asked if she could join under Varius’s wing. After a bit of consideration, he agreed.

For the next few years, Varius trained Einin in the ways of the Assassins, their philosophy and history and fighting styles, everything. After the Civil War ended, the Templars in the North realized they couldn't rely on the South to come charging in to claim power for them, and so they shifted gears, infiltrating the cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant, who won the presidential election in 1869 with the help of the Piece of Eden given to him by Varius’s apprentice, Eliza, during the Battle of Gettysburg. Realizing their once great ally was now merely a puppet of Templar policy, the Assassins turned against him and tried to have his opponent Horace Greeley elected as his successor in 1872. The Templars killed Greeley, however, and Grant won re-election. Einin was tasked with assassinating Grant’s Templar backers, such as Congressman Oakes Ames, until he finally stepped down from office in 1877. His successor, Rutherford B. Hayes, was hardly a friend of the Templars though he did end Reconstruction in the South to prevent them from outwardly attacking him, and had more Assassins in his ear than Templars.

Hayes was succeeded by James A. Garfield in 1881, but Garfield was assassinated within a few months by an insane office seeker named Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau was put on trial and promptly killed by Einin as the Assassins deemed him too dangerous a man to be running around the country. The assassination of Garfield allowed for Chester Arthur to enter office, which his Templar backers like Roscoe Conkling saw as a grand opportunity. To their surprise though, Arthur abandoned the Templars once he entered office, and became a champion of reform alongside his Assassin allies. Einin herself would later assassinate Conkling in 1888. Arthur left office in 1885, and his successor Grover Cleveland made Einin shift her eyes to another old and giant enemy of hers: the rich tycoons that put her family into poverty. Cleveland was sympathetic to corporate Templars like John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, adding him to the list of men that Einin wasn't particularly fond of.

In her fight against the corporate monsters that ruled the Gilded Age with an iron fist, yet more weight was added to her shoulders when she met a brilliant Serbian scientist named Nikola Tesla, who came over to New York City in 1884, along with the powerful Apple of Eden that fueled most of his inventive genius. Tesla had originally been working for the Templar Thomas Edison, but his hatred of the man and his corporate ideals led him to quit and employ his skills with the Assassins in hopes of forming a better world. It was a constant struggle to ensure the Apple never fell into Templar hands, though one good thing to ease Einin's stress was the unique set of weapons and gear invented by Tesla just for her purposes. Things became a small bit easier when the Hoosier Assassin ally Benjamin Harrison became president in 1889, but Cleveland was elected president again in 1893 and the same struggle against corporate power rose again in full. To make matters worse, Thomas Edison was leading a smear campaign against Einin's good friend Tesla, culminating on a Templar raid on his home in 1894. Einin did her best to stop this, but the Apple tragically fell into Templar hands and was now used to carry out corporate manipulation instead of scientific advancement. Einin tried to hunt it down and reclaim it, but she found that Edison had passed it on to one of his employees, his fellow Templar Henry Ford, in 1896. Ford would hold on to the Apple for the next few decades, using it to trick his workers into believing they were getting more pay than they actually were in 1918 and then eventually passing it on to Adolf Hitler in 1933. With the Templars putting William McKinley in office in 1897, Einin felt bitterly hopeless for a long while. There was a small glimmer of happiness when she married a long time lover, a British immigrant named Albert Weatherworth, and had a son named Benjamin that same year.

And another chance at hope came in 1901, when an aged Einin helped anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinate McKinley and opened the doors for Theodore Roosevelt to become president, throwing a monkey wrench in Templar plans. A charismatic leader who ushered in reform for better conditions for working class Americans, Roosevelt openly welcomed Assassins like Einin into his offices, and over the next 8 years put policies in place that severely undermined the Templar agenda, at least in mainland America. Earning a staggering amount of trust from Einin, she had full confidence when he told her of his plans for a successor, his friend William Taft. However, when Taft took office in 1909, he proved to be the exact opposite of Roosevelt: quiet, depressed, and open to Templar influence. This was a whiplash for Einin and Roosevelt, who ran for office again in 1912 to try and bring his former ally down. The schism between the two ultimately led to Woodrow Wilson getting the presidency instead, however, though his was not one Einin would experience in full, as she passed away in 1917, just before the United States entered World War I.

Einin is an ancestor of Ava Arlie.