Assassin’s Creed Mirage Guide – Assassinate Al-Ghul
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A Delicate Alliance |
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First Order |
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Route 1 – Rally The Workers |
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Route 2 – Use The Merchant |
A Delicate Alliance
With your notoriety down, it’s now time to regroup with Ali and the others. Of course, you can go and explore the city and complete contracts if you wish, but for this guide we’ll focus exclusively on the main missions for now.
Ali’s group is located at a watermill, just on the northern outskirts of town. If you head north, out of Baghdad, call your mount as you step out the gates for the next leg of the journey.
At this point, you can hold Square (X) if you wish and you’ll just gallop along the shortest path to your destination. Dismount when you reach the Water Mill and speak to Ali. You’ll find him just above one of the walls, rallying the rebels together.
A short cutscene will start when you reach Ali, and it’s clear there’s no love lost between him and Roshan either. Our target here is Al-ghul, who is currently arranging to bring in migrant laborers, and it seems he’s doing so by keeping everything under the table, thanks to using his alias, Mas’ood Al-Ya’qoob.
When Beshi shows up, things get a whole lot more interesting. When you’re ready to push on with the next leg of our journey, confirm as much to Rashon and follow her outside.
First Order
There’s a long period of following Roshan here, both on a mount and then on foot as you head out toward your destination. The place is chaotic but as Roshan says, where there’s chaos, there’s also opportunity. We need to find Mas’ood (Al-Ghul) in this cauldron of madness and take him out.
He’s holed up tight in his territory so we need to try and lure him out in order to assassinate him.
First thing’s first, scout the area and find ways to break in using your eagle. You’ll notice that to the north of the complex, there’s a secret entrance, which will give us our way into the Caravanserai.
Dive into the water just outside the cracked wall, swim through to the other side and take out the unaware guard leaning on the railing.
As mentioned before, the idea here is to lure Al-ghul out of hiding and there are basically two methods to do so. Whichever way you choose, it leads out to the same outcome, so we’ll break down both methods below:
Route 1 – Rally The Workers
Should you choose to rally the workers, head through the secret entrance mentioned above and turn left and then immediately to the right, through several doorways until you reach a man pacing back and forth worriedly.
You’ll find one of the men located on the other side of the courtyard; a man in black huddled over a table looking at documents.
He’ll offer up the details… for 15,000 coins. I think not! However, when he leaves you can actually sneak up from behind and pickpocket it from him. Once successful, return to the worker with the deed.
With Al-Ghul now exposed, there’s a great opportunity to head up top and take him out unawares. Head out the doorway and look for a lift that will take you up to the rooftop (pictured below).
Once at the top, take out the guard patrolling and move to the beam overlooking to the left.
Hang off the edge and stealth attack down, killing Ma’sood.
Route 2 – Use The Merchant
Should you choose to use the merchant, he can be found just outside the main gate leading into the Caravanserai. Speak to him and he’ll admit his wares are being inspected. If you choose to help, steal the goods for the merchant and it’ll lure Al-ghul out.
To make this happen, go through the secret entrance, take out the guards waiting nearby and pick up the merchant’s wares from the southwest corner of the area. It’s just behind a guard but killing him is tricky to do.
You can either lure him out with some whistling, or alternatively use a throwing knife to knock down a crate of spices up in the air to cause a big ruckus.Â
Alternatively, you can also pay a musician a Scholar Token to move all nearby guards to his position. Either method works and with the guards gone, move the chest all the way back to the merchant
Blend in with the merchants behind and follow. They’ll head to the centre of the Caravanserai, exposing Al Ghul. Once more, use the same method as above (the white lift leading to the rooftop) to get the jump on Al-ghul from above.
Alternatively you can take him out with a couple of throwing knives in the main courtyard but this is a riskier option and not recommended.
After The Action
Either way, with Mas’ood dead, use your Assassin Focus skill by pressing R3 to kill the two guards before you. Basim will notice Nehal in the distance during a cutscene, but Roshan will show and take you away.
She’ll also grant Basim a brief respite from the action to heal old wounds.
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