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Kulpreet (died 1862) was a member of the Indian Brotherhood of Assassins.

Biography[]

Known as the best swordswoman of the Brotherhood, she was also married and had a son. Kulpreet worked with Ajay,[1] an Assassin who had a crush on her and with whom she worked as custodian of the Darkness, the subterranean headquarters of the Assassins in Amritsar.[2]

In 1860, she was chosen as the executioner of Jayadeep Mir, who had failed to kill Tjinder Dani due to a loss of nerve in what was perceived as a display of dangerous incompetence.[2] However, the sentence was secretly commuted into banishment, and Jayadeep left for England to work as an undercover agent for his former tutor, the British Assassin Ethan Frye.[3]

In 1862, the British Templar Cavanagh began to suspect that Bharat Singh, a young Indian man in his employ, was, in fact, Jayadeep, whom he heard of during his time in India.[4] Cavanagh, therefore, tasked the Indian Templars to capture Ajay and Kulpreet to learn the truth. Overwhelmed by their numbers, the two Assassins were knocked out and taken to a warehouse to be tortured for information on whether or not Jayadeep had been executed years earlier.[5]

Tied to a chair, Kulpreet still managed to subdue her would-be torturer and seize her Hidden Blade. However, outnumbered she realized that she would not be able to escape so decided to commit suicide. She activated her weapon's fail-safe and released the blade through the neck of the Templar she had bested and into her own eye, killing them both.[6]

Behind the scenes[]

According to Ubisoft Production Marketing employee Anouk Bachman,[7] the character of Kulpreet is named after Kulpreet Virdi, an Assassin's Creed fan, member of the Mentors Guild program, and later founder of the Assassin's Creed Sisterhood initiative, in honour of her strength of character.[8]

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. Assassin's Creed: Underworld – Chapter 41
  2. 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed: Underworld – Chapter 14
  3. Assassin's Creed: Underworld – Chapter 15
  4. Assassin's Creed: Underworld – Chapter 38
  5. Assassin's Creed: Underworld – Chapter 42
  6. Assassin's Creed: Underworld – Chapter 43
  7. Twitter Anouk (@valskuiken) on Twitter "Here's to Kulpreet, @kulpreetvirdi. someone so strong we named a character after her in an AC novel. pic.twitter.com/mKungQZ27G" (screenshot)
  8. Twitter Kulpreet Virdi (@kulpreetvirdi) on Twitter "OMG there's a female Indian assassin called KULPREET in @assassinscreed Underworld. I am DEAD. CRYING!! pic.twitter.com/L4cAIiC5lN" (screenshot)

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