File 0123994: Keith Kogane
Born: 23 October 1999. “The Farm.” Ha, Kurung Kumey, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Heritage: Korean, Indian.
Species: Human, Sage.
Affiliation: Abstergo, Assassins, Indian Brotherhood, Blade of Marmora. Weapon: Assasin gauntlet, (Hidden blade, rope launcher and poison darts) “white fang” a Sickle sword, “Deliverer” a silenced 10 mm gun.
Son of Master Assasin Kroila and Korean Templar ... I can’t see to find a name in the reports, but the idea is clear. I mean, The fruit of forbidden love? that must be rough.
His father disappeared when Keith was just a baby and his mother was killed in action, so he was raised by Thace, a family friend. He and his partner Ulaz lived and took care of Keith in the Farm, the little town completely habituated by assassins and their families. Apparently, they trained him since a young age in the Assassin’s ways and taught him everything about their history and creed, you know, like Christians do with their kids.
According to Thace and thanks to an interview I had with him, Keith was a pretty talented kid and assassin, his training was going wonderfully and he got big expectations in him but he never got to finish it since when he turned 6 years old, his father came back and not in a way Keith would have wanted. His father, alongside a group of Abstergo’s army, broke into the Farm and killed everyone on sight, taking every child they could back to their base.
Keith not only watched his friends and family died in front of his eyes, but he also was one of the kids who got captured and never got to live a normal life again. (Well as normal as an Assassin life could get - N.R) When they discovered that Keith was a sage, he spent more than a decade plug into the Animus so they could study his lineage. (Please check file 0421477 for more information about sages- N.R)
He was sixteen when he managed to escape with the help of an inside agent and an old face, Ulaz. But he didn’t have anywhere to go, the Brotherhood was gone, Thace and Ulaz couldn’t take him, he was in a foreign country... the list just goes and goes. Ulaz provides him with a small apartment of his property and he lived there a few months, trying to cope with the Bleeding effect and the loss of his people.
(Can a person really cope with the Bleeding effect? I heard that people became crazy because of it - N.R) Unable to live like nothing had happened, like his childhood didn’t revolve around a thousand of years war, he joined the Blades of Marmora a few months later for a recommendation of Ulaz and after completing the Trials he starts going into missions and climbing the rankings like no one has seen before. (Quick explanation, the Blades of Marmora are another group of Assassins who decided that the old ways had died and they needed to take a new approach, be more organize and be a close organization. - N.R)
At the age of nineteen, he already was a colonel and commanded his own battalion. He got clearance for a secret mission: infiltrate abstergo and free all subjects of the Animus. He performed it beautifully and even rescue several of his brothers, including master assassin Takashi Shirogane.
Takashi being something like a brother to Keith, convinced him to abandon the Blades and help him rebuilt the brotherhood. He was skeptical of it but one day on his slept he had a vision of Juno and knew that the destiny of the world depends on the assassin brotherhood being reformed.