What is the name of the Assassin who stars in the first Assassin’s Creed game?

Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad is the Assassin who stars in the first Assassin’s Creed game.

Altaïr is a Syrian Assassin active during the Third Crusade, and his story forms the historical core of the 2007 game. At the beginning, he is a highly ranked but overconfident member of the Assassin Brotherhood. After a failed mission, he must rebuild his reputation by carrying out a series of investigations and assassinations.

His Arabic name is commonly rendered as Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad, meaning “Altaïr, son of no one.” The character later appears in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, which explores his life at several later stages.

Players sometimes confuse Altaïr with Ezio Auditore because both are major early protagonists. Ezio is the central character of the second game and its Renaissance-era sequels, while Altaïr belongs primarily to the original game’s Crusades setting.