Assassin's Creed: The Mentor's Legacy

Rashid Din Sinan as a young Assassin

* WARNING: This section will reveal an important plot twist in Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade. Turn away now if you do not wish to spoil the story.

The novel and game is set during the Third Crusade, Crusaders versus the Saracens, and follows Altair Ibn-La'Ahad on a redemption quest and afterwards. However, I believe that the story started with a different protagonist, in a different setting. The story should have started with the man who would later become Al Mualim(the Mentor), Rashid Din Sinan. His character is a good foil for Altair, Rashid is old and wise, where as Altair is young, brash, arrogant, and ignorant, however what Rashid needed was more development as a character and can give more context to why he betrayed the Assassin's Creed in order to control the Holy Land.

Altair himself should also show his support of the Assassins, by betraying them as well. What I mean by that is that Altair should take the Apple of Eden for himself and study what it has to show him. The Apple will show him Rashid's betrayal and will allow Altair to do what needs to be done. Though he would be an exile and traitor, he will show the Assassins and the rest of Masyaf  what truly had transpired, and he would be welcomed back with open arms and he himself become... Al Mualim Ibn-La'Ahad.

Altair Ibn-La'Ahad: Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood