Assassin's Creed Game Guide

Jerusalem Assassination: Talal

The notable thing about the exterior of Jerusalem is the number of people leaving the city. As the city is soon to come under siege, they're perhaps the wisest of the bunch. Feel free to run them down with your horse; it's fun to play bowling with peons.

Talal dwells within the rich district of Jerusalem.

Investigation One: Northwestern Informer Assassination

Wander into the market and assassinate the two targets of the Informer. One of them is stationary while the other is mobile, but if you hit them from behind and run away, you should be fine as far as being detected goes. If you become observed, blend away as best you can.

Investigation Two: Eastern Interrogation

The barker near the city gates has some info for you: track him down and beat him to a pulp to learn that Talal keeps his slaves in a warehouse before shipping them off to Acre. It sounds as though he's in league with Garnier.

Investigation Three: Southern Pickpocketing

Picking this pocket will reveal the location of the guards in Talal's palace.

Investigation Four: Southeastern Pickpocketing

Pickpocket the man outside the temple to reveal where Talal will hide if he escapes from battle.

Investigation Five: Southeastern Informer

Another flag-running mission. There are eighteen flags this time around, and they should be run starting from the one on the wall near the informer. Follow the route and run well, and you should be able to get it done within a minute. The informer will tell you that Talal's bodyguards will sacrifice themselves if need be in order to buy him time to escape an attack.

Investigation Six: Northwestern Eavesdropping

You'll need to save the citizen near the exterior of the church here, then blend into Scholars and let them take you inside. Doing so will let you learn a critical piece of info: Talal is a master archer, and will attempt to hit you with a bow should you attack him.

Talal Assassination

Entrance

Talal makes his residence within a barbican in the northeastern corner of the Rich District. It's easiest to reach the barbican by approaching from the west, where there's a gap in the tall wall. You can stick to the rooftops, assassinate the archers as needed, and make your way to the northeastern corner of the barbican, which is apparently the only entrance.

Assassination

Talal is a trickster, and traps you when you enter the barbican. You can either choose to follow him immediately, or try and fight your way through his goons for a while before chasing him down. It's probably a bit easier to use counterattacks to thin the ranks of the soldiers before climbing the ladder and giving chase, but if you want to try escaping the warehouse immediately, do your best to get up the ladder, then jump across the two chandeliers to the other ladder that Talal escaped from.

When you reach the ladder and the roof of the barbican, freerun to where Talal waits for you, and have your hidden blade out and ready. As promised in your investigations, Talal will run from you when you catch him, and he's quite a speedy guy. If you attempt to sprint after him, you'll eventually wind up hitting someone and falling, letting him get a lead on you, but it's difficult for him to lose you entirely, thanks to the GPS marker that he has. If you did the smart thing, and saved all of the citizens in the district, then you should have a gang of Vigilantes in the middle of one of his routes. If you can stay on his tail until he hits the Vigilantes, they'll hold him, allowing you to quickly assassinate him. Otherwise, you'll probably have to try free-running behind him and attempting a difficult jump-and-assassinate maneuver as he runs from you.

When Talal is dead, quickly return to the bureau to get back to the real world.