Assassin (Fate/Zero)

Assassin is a fictional character from the Japanese visual novel "Fate/Zero" by TYPE-MOON and fellow developer Nitroplus.

Assassin serves as the Servant of Kirei Kotomine in the 4th Holy Grail War, his unique trait being that he can manifest as multiple entities at once.

ervant Status

Abilities

Unlike True Assassin, who was one entity, Assassin existed as nearly one hundred separate entities. His multiple bodies were the result of the original Hassan-i-Sabah intentionally fragmenting his psyche in life, a sort of self-inflicted dissociative identity disorder, to compartmentalize the various skill sets and knowledge he had accumulated during his lifetime. As a Servant, these multiple personalities are expressed in the form of multiple bodies, one for each distinct personality. Each personality in turn took on its own independent body as a Servant, with individual tasks relegated to the personality best suited for it.

* Presence Concealment:Rank: A+:Conceal one's presence as a Servant. At this point is possible to disappear completely, making almost impossible to spot him. However, once Assassin prepares himself to attack, the effectiveness of this skill will drop.

* Librarian of Stored Knowledge:Rank: C:Distributed processing of memory by multiple personalities. A successful LUC check will allow for clear memory recreation of knowledge, information perceived in the past even if hadn't been cognitively recognized at the time

* Expert of Many Specializations:Rank: A+:Proper usage of expert skills from arbitrary switching of multiple personalities. Tactics, academia, espionage, assassination, swindling, rhetoric, and some other total 32 specialist skills can be used at proficiency of B class or above.

Noble Phantasms

* Zabaniya: "Delusional Image":Rank: B+:Type: Anti-Unit (Self):By having a soul that, while being a single entity, is split into multiple parts. Division of its own spiritual body potential and physically manifestation of those parts as multiple Servants is possible. This ability allows for a maximum of 80 separate bodies to manifest. Generation of a self-ego that is unaware of itself (among the bodies) is also possible.

True Identity

True Assassin's identity is that of the legendary Persian "Old Man of the Mountain", Hassan-i-Sabah the leader of "al-Assasīn".

Role

The Assassins initially act as reconnaissance agents for Tokiomi and Kirei, after Gilgamesh "kills" one of them in full view of the other Masters. This tactic successfully lead most of the Masters to believe that Kirei and Assassin had been defeated, and allowed the dozens of remaining Assassins to move freely without suspicion. Their continued existence, however, is discovered when Rider and Waver Velvet accidentally encounter three Assassins in Caster's lair.

The Assassins meet their end when they are sent to gauge the power levels of the Rider-class Servant Iskander. He complies by using his most powerful Noble Phantasm, "Aionian Hetairoi: Army of the King", to massacre each and every one of the Assassins.